Chapter 138： Rogue bandits are coming

Now in addition to sisters Wen Shu, Wen Tian and Wen Jiao, there are two new little girls in the classroom.

Yingbao continues to be with Wen Shu, while Erni is re-initiating with the new students.

“Let’s learn a complete set of good prescriptions for women today.” Mrs. Wen opened the book.

"The doctors of the world, in the field of gynecology, have "Special Treatment Prescriptions for Women" and "Yanbao Prescriptions". Treatment is based on "special", so why specialize in it? Prescriptions are based on "prescription", which is why they love it most. It is difficult to master the art of medicine, and it is especially difficult to treat women..."

Ying Bao and Wen Shu listened carefully.

At the end of the class, Mrs. Wen beckoned Yingbao to follow her to the inner room to talk.

“Have your golden ears been sold?” Mrs. Wen asked.

Yingbao: "There are still twenty kilograms left."

Mrs. Wen: “Can you sell it to me?”

Yingbao nodded. She indeed left those golden ears to Mrs. Wen.

"I'll go to your house at noon." Mrs. Wen had not been to Jiang's house in Nanpo yet, so she happened to go to find the door.

"good."

After school was over at noon, Mrs. Wen and her daughter Wen Shu took Yingbao Erni to Nanpo in a carriage and arrived at the door of Jiang Sanlang's house.

Mrs. Wen got out of the carriage and looked around.

I saw three large blue-brick houses facing south, standing side by side from east to west, each with a large yard.

There are fruit trees not far in front of the yard, and a large pond and a well further away.

Further away, there are large wild bamboo forests and fields.

Chun Niang heard the sound and came out. When she saw it was Mrs. Wen and her daughter, she quickly invited them to sit in the room.

Yingbao ran back to his house, quietly put out a few baskets of dried golden fungus, and moved them to the main room.

These golden ears have been weighed, and they are exactly twenty pounds. As for the fraction, Yingbao keeps it for himself.

Mrs. Wen asked the servant to carry the silver from the carriage. Twenty pounds of gold ears totaled two hundred and forty taels of silver, which was really a lot of money.

Chunniang sent the money to her daughter's room and asked her to keep it, and then went out to chat with Mrs. Wen.

At this moment, Jiang Sanlang hurried home.

"Chun Niang, there is news from the villagers that a large group of bandits are coming towards us. Li Zheng asked us to hide all the property and food at home, just in case."

Jiang Sanlang wiped his sweat and nodded to Mrs. Wen: "Mr. Wen, you should also be careful. It's best not to go out at this time."

Chunniang and Mrs. Wen were both surprised, "How many bandits are there? Can't even stop the garrison at the post station?"

There are garrison stations every fifty miles along the official road, with at least one or two hundred guards stationed inside. How could they not stop a group of bandits?

"It is said that there are many rogue bandits, no less than hundreds of them. They have weapons in their hands, and they are all very brave. How can the small number of people in the post pavilion stop them. Let Xiaojie and Xiaowu stay at home today, and the school has already The notice has been issued and you don’t have to go to school for the next two days.”

After Jiang Sanlang finished speaking, he hurried away and went to discuss countermeasures with his eldest and second brothers.

Upon seeing this, Mrs. Wen stood up to say goodbye and took her daughter back to the school.

Yingbao originally wanted Mrs. Wen and Sister Wen to stay, but her home was too remote and not as safe as the village. At least there were a large number of people in the village, so it should be safer.

After Mrs. Wen left, Chun Niang went back to the house to clean up her belongings. She walked around with the silver in her arms, not knowing where to hide it. Finally, she gritted her teeth and pried off a few floor tiles in the corner of the room, dug deep with a shovel, and collected hundreds of taels of silver. The old clothes were wrapped up and buried in the ground.

He then restored the floor tiles, stepped on them again and again, and moved a table to put them on top. Only then did Chun Niang feel relieved.

But there is still a lot of cotton and food at home and nowhere to hide it.

"Bao'er, Bao'er." Chun Niang ran to her daughter's room, "Have you hidden all your money?"

Ying Bao nodded, "They are all hidden, no one can find them."

In fact, she collected all the valuable items such as silver into the cave, and also collected several bags of grain. Even if the bandits came, as long as her family lived well, they would have food to eat.

"That's good." Chun Niang found the two sons again and asked them to stay with their sister and not to go out.

Then she went to the kitchen to knead dough and prepare steamed buns. She wants to make more steamed buns and pancakes to prevent the whole family from having nothing to eat while hiding from the bandits.

Ying Bao was not idle either. He collected all the inconspicuous things at home into the cave, such as some cotton clothes, quilts, etc., as well as some cotton and cotton seeds.

Not all of them, maybe a few that are invisible to parents.

The two younger brothers had no sense of urgency at all. They ran wildly in and out of the courtyard with the two puppies, and even went to play football with Wei Zhan Yuanbao Huzi and the others.

In the evening, Jiang Sanlang did not come back. He and some villagers were organized into a temporary village guard team and patrolled around the village all night.

Ying Bao couldn't sleep well that night, so he went into the cave to count his money.

From last year to this year, she has saved more than 400 taels of silver and a small basket of scattered copper coins.

With such a huge sum of money, no matter what happens in the future, I and my family will not go hungry.

She remembered that the next few years seemed to be uneventful, with frequent rebellions occurring in various places, and the imperial court constantly sending troops to quell the rebellions.

The common people are the most unlucky. Not only do they have to contribute money, but they also have to contribute efforts.

Chuanhe Town is a remote place. Although it has not been harassed by the rebels, the imperial court has not given up its servitude to this mountain village. After the flood, the people there have not yet recovered, and the imperial court's recruitment order was issued there.

At this moment, the rogue bandits were moving from Zhouhe County to Qinchuan County, sweeping through countless villages along the way.

If the number of rogue bandits snowballs, the court will definitely send troops to clear them out.

By then Chuanhe Town will become a battlefield, and I guess I won’t be able to stay in the village any longer.

In my previous life, I was just an ignorant child and didn't know how the bandits in Zhouhe County were eliminated. However, in the later period, refugees with their families entered the village one after another, asked for food and then left. It was very miserable.

After tidying up the cave, Ying Bao fell asleep.

Early the next morning, suddenly some villagers were beating gongs and shouting throughout the village: "The bandits are less than twenty miles away from us, everyone should hide quickly!"

His shout alarmed everyone.

Someone went to Muramasa's house to ask about the situation, and found that the Muramasa family was packing things in a mess.

“Sanshu Chen, what should we do?” asked the villager.

Chen Sanyou didn't know what to do. He thought for a moment and said, "Why don't we all go into the mountains and transport all the food at home? Then we can bring it back when the bandits leave. If you have a cellar at home, you can also transport the food that cannot be transported away." Hide them in cellars, and drive the pigs, cattle and sheep into the mountains.”

“This is the only way.” The villagers ran away quickly and went home to hide the food.

Jiang Sanlang also got the news and hurried home to inform his family. "Everyone in the village is preparing to enter Beishan. How about we go to Beishan too?"

Beishan has lush forests and a vast territory, so villagers hiding deep in the mountains are difficult to find.

On the south slope, there are fewer trees and more wild bamboo forests. However, the bamboo forests are too dense and people and animals cannot enter at all.

Chun Niang frowned, "What should we do with our food and cotton when we go to Beishan?"

There is so much grain and cotton stored at home that it is impossible to transport them all, should we just give up?

Jiang Sanlang sighed, "It's all you can bring, that's all."

The rogue bandits were only about twenty miles away from them, and they were probably not even twenty miles away at this moment. They could arrive in less than two hours.

Since their small village is very close to the official road, bandits raiding along the road will definitely enter the village to plunder.

With a team of hundreds of people, it shouldn’t be too easy to massacre an entire village.

“Dad, let’s go to the wild bamboo forest in front.” Ying Bao said, “You can hide in the wild bamboo forest.”

The wild bamboo forest on the south **** is very large. She and Chu Chu cut down some bamboos a while ago, and the whole family can hide in it for more than ten days without any problem.

The prerequisite is that the bandit did not realize that there was someone hiding inside.

Thanks to Bai Yu Jiawen for the reward, and thanks to Xu Gengen for the reward.