Chapter 327： too old

Yingbao was speechless.

Half a year ago, it was estimated that the county magistrate had just taken office and was unable to take care of matters here.

She walked slowly with Youyou and her brother to a place near the market outside the village. There were indeed a few saponaria trees missing in this tree wall.

However, after the saponaria tree was cut in half, young shoots sprouted from the remaining half, so it must be possible to save it.

When no one is around, you can water it with Pupil Spring to make it grow branches as quickly as possible.

In fact, the honey locust trees surrounding the village are not completely closed. There are roads in several places.

For example, there are two roads leading to Xichen Village and two roads leading to the farmland. There is also the road leading to the outside of the village, that is, the road near the market. It is very wide, and it is more than enough for two carriages to sit side by side. .

Ying Bao frowned and thought, how could we build several gates in a short time and block all these passages?

Suddenly, so many refugees came outside, and there may be many more refugees coming in a steady stream. There is no guarantee that there are not murderous gangsters among these people.

It is really common for people to kill several people in desperate situations in order to survive.

As long as the refugees have killed one person, they may kill two or three people in the future. In their eyes, human life is no different than that of pigs and dogs.

If these people entered the village one day and killed unsuspecting villagers, then my father would be the first to be blamed by the county government.

No, Dad must ventilate the people in the village and make them more vigilant. It is best to block several roads around the village at night and send people to guard them in turns.

When the siblings came back from a long walk, they saw Master and Disciple Zhou Wuchang coming out for a walk after eating.

"Master, let me take you to see my fruit forest." Yingbao walked over with a smile, patted the big deer following him, and introduced: "This is the deer I raised, and its name is Youyou. Those little deer behind are all its children. ”

Zhou Wuchang looked at the big deer, then at the herd of deer, and nodded: "Deer are auspicious things. If your village can live in peace with the herd of deer, you are also a kind person."

Zhang Min took advantage of the opportunity and said, "Junior sister, can you give me one? You can also sell one."

Yingbao nodded: "Okay, I'll fetch whichever one you like. I'll make it clear first that you can't kill it for meat."

There are also people in the village who buy deer as pets for their children. If you see any family killing the deer they bought, they will be despised by everyone.

“I don’t eat meat.” Zhang Min said with a smile: “We have the Eight Precepts and cannot eat meat. Don’t you know, little junior sister?”

Zhou Hao glanced at his junior brother lightly, but he didn't try to discredit him after all.

Yingbao was used to hearing what his second senior brother said, so he didn't care and used bean sprouts to attract a half-grown young deer.

This young deer is much bigger than Youyou was back then, and is not afraid of people. It rubbed its head against Yingbao affectionately, and then against Zhang Min.

Zhang Min was so excited that he touched the deer's head and back and couldn't put it down. "I have decided to call it Eryou from now on!"

Jiang Wu blinked and asked, "Ouch? Brother, the name you gave me is really unpleasant."

Zhang Min laughed and said: "Eryou means the second one, not ouch."

Jiang Wu's face twitched, he glanced at Xiaolu with sympathy, and muttered: "Your master seems to be unreliable. You should seek more blessings from now on."

“Little brother, what are you talking about?” Zhang Min touched the deer, tilted his head and looked at the little boy with a smile.

“I didn’t say anything.” Jiang Wu ran away quickly.

When the deer saw the little master running away, they quickly chased after him, including the little one.

Yingbao took his master and his senior brother to his orchard, picked a bunch of lychees from the tree, distributed them to his master and his senior brother, peeled and ate the lychees while walking, and took them around the village.

Nowadays, fruit trees and grapes are planted in the yards and front doors of every household in the village, and the vegetable gardens in front of the homes are also filled with various vegetables.

These vegetable seeds were all brought back by Yingbao from various places. On the bamboo fence of the vegetable garden, there are bunches of large gourds, each one as big as a washbasin.

Of course, there are also small ones, not much bigger than the palm of your hand, which are picked by the villagers, dried and then painted with cinnabar, which can be hung around the waist to ward off evil spirits.

Zhou Wuchang took a leisurely stroll in the courtyard, ignoring the scorching sun. He looked around the entire village, and then said to Ying Bao: "Your village is very good, rich and stable."

Yingbao nodded: "Our village is the best village. My father said that he will expand the village in the future and dig more canals."

Zhou Wuchang shook his head: "Actually, the village at the foot of the mountain is also very good. As long as the river is cleaned up and two drainage channels are dug, no matter how much water flows upstream, it will be diverted here and the village will no longer be hit by floods."

Ying Bao opened her mouth wide, "How long does it take to clear the river? Digging drainage channels is also a big project, and it won't be completed in a few years."

Of course, if all the laborers from the county come to dig, it may be completed in two or three months.

Zhou Wuchang sighed: "Indeed, but your village can pay laborers to do it."

ˆ Yingbao：······

Is what Master said human language?

Let their village pay laborers to dig ditches? Maybe it will waste people and money, and it will be thankless.

Hey, it would be great if Wu Daozi was still the magistrate of this county. When the time comes, I can go to him to make suggestions and ask him to order workers to clean up the river and dig two more canals.

But then again, every year workers have a lot of work to do, and even if they say it themselves, it is probably useless.

Zhou Wuchang and his apprentice finally finished visiting the place, and then returned to Jiang's house and rested in the room arranged by Jiang Sanlang.

Seeing that there was no one around, Zhou Hao quietly said to his master: "Master, burying things here may make people more convincing."

Zhou Wuchang lay on the bed and fell asleep, and said calmly: "We will talk about this later."

He had to ensure that nothing went wrong and he couldn't harm his young apprentice.

In fact, the auspicious appearance of this place is most suitable for that matter, but if you fail, not only will you die, but everyone here will probably die.

Forget it, let’s find a place in the wilderness. At worst, we’ll get a few more strange phenomena.

In the next few days, Zhou Wuchang did not let his two younger apprentices accompany him. He only took his older apprentice for a casual walk outside the village. He found a wild bamboo forest and stayed there for a long time.

Ying Bao was sparring with his second senior brother in the martial arts training ground in the school.

Zhang Min has never learned to fight, but he is always knocked down by his junior sister who is a head shorter than him.

He refused to accept it and turned around to pester Zhang Meng to become a disciple: "Master Zhang, we were a family five hundred years ago. You can't ignore it."

Zhang Meng did not dare to accept Master Zhou as his apprentice casually, so he could only find reasons to refuse: "No, you are too old and have missed the period of martial arts training."

"What? You said I'm old?" Zhang Min looked in disbelief: "I'm only fourteen this year, and you actually said I'm old? Master, how old are you this year?"

Zhang Meng：······

Other children in the martial arts training ground covered their mouths and laughed.

Finally, Zhang Min was invited out of the martial arts training ground by Master Zhang Meng.

He had no choice but to squat outside the fence of the martial arts training ground with a look of resentment on his face and peek at the students practicing martial arts.

Yingbao came up behind him and patted him on the shoulder: "Second senior brother, my mother fried the sesame seeds and they are very fragrant. Let's go back and eat the sesame paste with sugar."

As soon as Zhang Min heard that there was something delicious to eat, he immediately became energetic and followed his junior sister to eat the legendary sesame paste.