Chapter 371： life and death

The first month has passed in a blink of an eye.

Chen Zhao’s head has improved and there are basically no scars left.

Chu Man’s face was completely ruined.

A scar lay like a centipede on one side of his face, the tip of his nose was basically rotten, and his right ear was gone.

She is a little crazy. She laughs and laughs every day. She also chases Chen Zhao and Xu Bao and beats them violently.

 Chen Zhao was so troubled that he spent ten taels of silver to build two thatched houses in the market, and moved in with his eldest sister and younger brother.

When Chen Changping returned to the county to study, he did not take Chu Man away, but left her at home.

February 2, the dragon raises its head.

The spring rain was falling lightly, and the villagers stayed at home and did not want to go out.

Ying Bao was sitting on the kang teaching Niu Niu how to read when she suddenly heard someone running into the yard.

“Third brother! Third brother!”

The person who came was Chen Yin. He was soaked all over and shouted urgently: "No! The barbarians are coming here!"

Ying Bao's heart skipped a beat, and she immediately opened the window and looked outside.

Hearing the sound, Jiang Sanlang ran from the house to the corridor and asked, "What hit you here?"

Chen Yin wiped his face with his sleeves, "Li Zheng sent someone to inform us. Let's plan in advance. The people in the town are almost gone."

“How many people?” Jiang Sanlang asked with a frown.

"It is said that there are thousands of them. They come along the official road. They are all extremely ferocious and kill everyone on sight."

Chen Yin was extremely anxious: "Third brother, what should we do?"

Jiang Sanlang frowned and was thinking when he suddenly heard a voice: "Let all the young and strong men in the township gather together."

Zhou Wuchang slowly came out of the side room and said to Jiang Sanlang: "You have people go and notify the village chiefs and ask them to gather all the villagers here."

Jiang Sanlang did not hesitate, "Okay."

Turning to Chen Yin, he said: "Ask a few people to notify the surrounding villages and ask them to come to Dongchen Village."

Chen Yin: “What if they refuse to come?”

After all, no one wants to give up their home.

“Tell them, if they don’t come, life or death will be their fate.” Master Zhou said.

Chen Yin responded, turned around and ran into the rain curtain.

Ying Bao thought for a moment, grabbed Niu Niu with one hand, and tried to take her into the cave, but failed.

She was really sure this time that no one except the five members of her family could enter the cave.

Yingbao asked Niuniu to sit on the kang and jumped down to find A Niang.

Chunniang was also packing her things. She asked her to put the soft boxes and cages directly into the cave, as well as the bedding and clothes.

As for the furniture, etc., they cannot be moved for the time being.

Because Master Zhou and his disciples are still at home.

A few hours later, more than a thousand villagers gathered in Dongchen Village carrying fine food.

The old, weak, women and children were placed in the school and the textile workshop of Jiang Sanlang's family, while the young and strong were ready with hoes, irons, forks and poles in their hands.

This time Master Zhou personally took action to explain to this group of villagers how to deal with the enemy.

On the second day, there were shouts of beatings and killings.

Ying Bao wanted to go out and take a look, but was hugged tightly by Chun Niang and couldn't take a step.

 Wei Zhan, Wen Hengyin's tiger son Jiang Wu and others were also detained at home and were not allowed to go out.

Mrs. Wen, Li Xu's mother and son, Mrs. Wang, and the patriarch's family, including the Master's family, were also sitting at Jiang's house, quietly listening to what was going on outside.

A few hours later, wounded people were sent to Jiang's house one after another and asked Yingbao to treat them.

Yingbao didn't have any secrets. He treated serious injuries first and then applied medicine to minor injuries.

In this defensive battle, thanks to the command of Master Zhou, the Daijin soldiers were eliminated one by one. Fortunately, these Jin soldiers underestimated the enemy and took small groups to each village to collect food and property. As a result, they were killed by the villagers led by Zhou Wuchang.

One of the Jin soldiers ran to Dongchen Village, but Brother Jiang Sanlang and hundreds of old and weak villagers rushed up with hoes and poles and wiped out the nearly a hundred troops.

After a day and night of fierce fighting, the surviving Jin soldiers ran wildly and fled Chuanhe Town.

Just when they thought they had escaped, a strong soldier suddenly appeared in front of them and Duotou stopped them.

Hundreds of strong soldiers faced off against hundreds of disabled soldiers, and the result can be imagined.

In this way, the enemy bandits of more than 3,000 people were completely wiped out.

Zhou Wuchang also confiscated hundreds of war horses and thousands of weapons, bows and arrows.

They also collected a lot of gold, silver, jewelry and food, probably from plundering villages in Daqian along the way.

The villagers returned with the spoils of war and everyone rejoiced.

What the villagers didn't know was that Zhou Wuchang secretly sent away all the undamaged horses and weapons, leaving only gold, silver, jewelry and food.

Two months passed in the blink of an eye, and news came from the capital. The emperor asked Pei Tianshi to do something, and asked the heavenly soldiers and generals to repel the enemy invaders. As a result, not only were the heavenly soldiers and generals not invited, but the barbarians were also allowed to enter the city.

In the end, the emperor, queen, members of the royal family, some high-ranking officials and their family members were all kidnapped by the barbarians.

Shortly afterwards, King Dai ascended the throne in Shu and changed the name of the country to Zhou.

At the same time, the book in Ying Bao's mind suddenly moved.

Lines of words appeared in her mind.

"In March of the first year of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the emperor moved the capital to Yuzhou. In April of the same year, Jingzhou fell. In May, Luzhou fell..."

Yingbao was so excited that she immediately found a pen and paper to write down this paragraph, and then gave it to Master Zhou Wuchang.

He is so capable, he will definitely find ways to inform Jingzhou and Luzhou.

 It is only March, and there are still two months until Luzhou falls, so we will definitely be able to do so in time. ,

Zhou Wuchang took the divination from his young apprentice and looked at it for a while without saying anything.

It's just that he and his eldest disciple said goodbye and left the next day, without saying where they were going.

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At the end of March, the Jiang family started to hold wedding events again.

Dani is seventeen years old and is getting married.

Since she was a married woman, the Jiang family did not make any big arrangements and just invited their relatives over for a banquet.

Looking at the elder cousin sitting on the kang in a wedding dress, Ying Bao felt a little dazed.

At this time in the previous life, the eldest cousin had already married into a poor family, and her life was not easy.

And now, the eldest cousin is married to the gentle Zhang Shaodong, and the Zhang family's life is much better than that of the farmer's family.

Second aunt used thin cotton thread to open Sister Dani's face, that is, to twist out the hair on her face, forehead and mouth.

After twisting the face, apply cold water on her face, wipe it dry, cover it with fragrant powder, draw beautiful eyebrows, and put a golden flower on her forehead.

The lipstick was also made by Er Auntie herself, and it was bright and fiery red.

With her hair combed into a high bun, wearing a green Baizi wedding dress, and a pair of peony bat shoes on her feet, Dani seemed to have changed into a different person in an instant, her beauty was dazzling.

Seeing Ying Bao looking straight at Dani, Yan Ru smiled and said, "What are you looking at? Do you also want to be the bride?"

Ying Bao quickly shook his head: "No."

Er Ni smiled and said: "There must be, look at your eyes falling on the eldest sister."

Ying Bao subconsciously rubbed her eyes and snorted: "No, I'm worried for you."

Ernie is already fifteen, and she can’t do anything good at a high level or a low level, scaring even the matchmakers away.

“Why are you so anxious on my behalf?” Erni glared at her little cousin angrily: “Whenever you marry me, you can talk about your husband’s family, huh!”

Yingbao blinked: "Are you serious? Whoever is lying is a puppy."

She actually didn’t want Sister Erni to get married early. The sisters separated one after another as they grew up, which was really heartbreaking.