Chapter 160： wall

Yingbao quickly coaxed her: "If you don't see it, then you can see it. Maybe a monkey stole it."

In fact, there are no monkeys in this mountainous area, but there are wild boars, roe deer, and wolves.

It’s just that they are rarely seen during the day. These beasts will stay away as long as they see adults.

But it is very dangerous for children. In the eyes of wild boars and wolves, children are equivalent to easy-to-kill cubs.

“Uh... was it really stolen by a monkey?” Jiang Wu had seen monkeys. In the market, there are often performers leading monkeys to beg for food.

Those little monkeys wearing little red shirts can not only do somersaults, but also nod and bow to people.

Jiang Wu sobbed, wiped his eyes and stopped.

“What your sister lied to you was not stolen by a monkey at all.” Wei Zhan was trying to make trouble.

Yingbao: ...I really want to beat someone up.

Yuan Bao also came over to agree: "We don't have monkeys here. Some thief must have stolen it."

Huzi nodded heavily: "Yes!"

Ying Bao glared at them and pulled her brother, who was about to cry again, out of the bamboo forest.

Back home, Yingbao told her two younger brothers a story about a crybaby who turned into a sweetheart.

In the evening, while eating, Jiang Sanlang discussed with his eldest and second brothers about going out to buy food. "There is no banditry over there in Pingjiang County. We have to go buy some food and come back early."

Jiang Dalang: "Our family should have enough food, why do we need to buy it?"

“It’s not our family, it’s the people in the village who want to buy it.” Jiang Erlang said.

Jiang Sanlang: "Not only the villagers have to buy, but our family also has to buy. Although the food at home is enough, the walls of our houses and ours need to be repaired. I want to go to the outer village to invite more people to come over and repair the walls and houses as soon as possible." "

When you hire people to do work, the wages are small and you must provide them with two meals a day.

Jiang Sanlang took a sip of porridge and pickled cabbage with chopsticks. "Then we will build and raise the courtyard walls of our three houses again, and bury broken porcelain pieces on top. No matter when the bandits come again, we can still resist them."

Since the village wall project requires a large amount of work, we should first build a high wall for our own courtyard.

 Doctor Zhang’s house in the town has a courtyard wall that is more than ten feet high, which cannot be climbed by anyone else. In addition, the door of her house is thick, and the bandits cannot break it open.

During this banditry, Dr. Zhang's neighbors all took refuge in her home, and she saved more than ten families with her family's efforts.

So, this courtyard wall must not be careless.

"Well, find a few people to go to Pingjiang County together." Jiang Dalang said: "I'm afraid it will take more than ten days just to carry it on our shoulders."

Jiang Sanlang: "Hire a few carriages or mule carts when you come back. Don't try to save money. The sooner we get back, the safer it will be."

“Okay, I’ll listen to you.” Jiang Dalang nodded.

Early the next morning, Jiang Dalang and several villagers set out to Pingjiang County to buy grain.

Jiang Sanlang went to a neighboring village to hire people and hired dozens of villagers who were proficient in building houses.

Dozens of people worked together to mix mud and make adobe bricks, and all the courtyard walls of the three households of the Jiang family were torn down and rebuilt.

Old man Jiang went out to buy wood and bamboo, and went to the brick kiln to order a lot of bricks and tiles.

Within two days, all the bricks, tiles, wood, bamboo, etc. were delivered, and even new doors and windows were delivered.

Then they began to build the house and put on tiles, dig the foundations of the walls and build the walls.

Not only did the original house be repaired, Jiang Sanlang's family also built several side houses.

The wall, which is two feet high and more than half a foot wide, completely surrounds the houses and yards of the three families of the Jiang family.

There are also sentry towers built at the four corners of the wall, which can accommodate three people standing inside to shoot arrows at the same time.

From a distance, this wall looks like a small square city wall, tall and solid, full of security.

After the wall was built, Jiang Sanlang immediately had two heavy doors installed.

There is only one gate, which can allow carriages to enter and exit. After entering the gate, you can see three courtyard gates side by side.

The distance between the fence gate and the courtyard gate is three feet, which does not affect the lighting and feng shui of the courtyard gate.

On the day after the gate was installed, Yingbao climbed up the stairs from the courtyard to the wall and walked around the wall.

The sentry tower is very well built, and you can see far away from here. There are busy villagers all around, those who chop bamboo, those who make adobe, and the children step on the mud and mud with their bare feet.

Yuan Bao, Huzi Wei Zhan and several other children also ran up the fence, jumping up and down laughing and joking. Grandma pushed them up with a bamboo pole and gave them a good beating. Only then did they come down reluctantly.

On the second day after the Jiang family wall was built, I heard villagers banging gongs and shouting, saying that the imperial army had defeated the rebels and a large number of bandits fled in all directions, which made the villagers in each village be more vigilant to guard against sneak attacks by the bandits.

When Jiang Sanlang heard the message, he immediately sent people to notify the villagers, asking them to get together at night to take precautions.

Yingbao rode Youyou down the mountain secretly and went to the village school to find Mrs. Wen and Sister Wen.

Everyone is busy tidying up the house these days, and even family schools are closed. Mrs. Wen gives Yingbao homework and lets her study at home.

"Master! Sister Wen!" Ying Bao got off the deer's back and ran into the school.

Wen Shu came out of the house with a book in his hand. "Ying Bao, why are you here?"

“Where is the master?” Yingbao asked.

"He's in the house, come in." Wen Shu led Ying Bao into the house.

Yingbao didn't waste any time, and directly pulled Xiao Zhenniang and said, "Master, come with me to Nanpo quickly. The villagers say there will be bandits making trouble, and my father told the villagers to get together at night."

Xiao Zhenniang also heard the message from the countryman and was worried about what to do. Since her young apprentice asked them to go to Nanpo, she was getting what she wanted.

“Okay, let me clean up first.”

Xiao Zhenniang said to her daughter again: "You also go and pack your things and take them with you."

"Yeah." Wen Shu nodded and took Ying Bao to the next room.

Grandma and Wen Shu lived in the same room, so she quickly helped the young master pack the clothes.

Wen Shu didn’t have many things, he only packed two packages and they were gone.

Mammy rolled up the quilt on the bed and tied it tightly with a rope.

Wen Fu bought a wheelbarrow from somewhere. He piled the family's grain bags, bedding and other items on the wheelbarrow and pushed it away.

Xiao Zhenniang and her daughter's nanny only carried a parcel and set off with Yingbao.

Yingbao didn't see Mrs. Wen San and asked curiously: "Where is Mrs. Lin?"

Wen Shu whispered: "The third aunt lives in the Chen clan leader's house."

Yingbao was confused.

That Wen Tian caused Patriarch Chen’s grandson to break his leg, but he actually accepted her to live in his home?

Wen Shu noticed Ying Bao's confusion and said, "The third aunt got along very well with the daughter-in-law of the patriarch of the Chen family, so she moved to her house."

Actually, it was because my mother and the third aunt had a quarrel and had a quarrel that the third aunt moved to Chen's house.

But how can I tell Yingbao about this?

Ying Bao took Wen Shu and Master back home and settled them in his house.

Anyway, her kang is very big, so it won’t be a problem to sleep four or five people.

As for Wen Fu, he was arranged to live in a newly built side house.

Chunniang was not surprised when she saw her daughter fetching Mrs. Wen and others. She chatted with Xiao Zhenniang for a while and hurried to cook.

Now there are dozens of people eating at home, and she and her elder sister-in-law and her second sister-in-law are so busy every day that their feet never touch the floor.

Lunch at noon is rice, cabbage and tofu, cold courgette, fried leeks, and pickled pickles.

At noon, there are steamed buns, rice porridge, pickled vegetables, cold courgette and cabbage.

Although there is no meaty taste, the food is full and the side dishes taste good. The employees don't care about it and work right after the meal without taking any time off.

That night, a few faint torches circled the village and then headed towards the south slope.

Jiang Sanlang, who was standing on the guard tower, saw this scene and immediately ordered the villagers to pick up their bows and arrows and squat on the wall to prepare.

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