Yingbao quickly coaxed: "If you don't see it, then you can see it. Maybe a monkey stole it."
In fact, there are no monkeys in that mountainous area, but there are wild boars and roe deer, and there are quite a few wolves.
It is rare to see them in Hongtian, and those beasts will avoid adults whenever they see them.
But encountering children is very dangerous. In the eyes of wild boars and wolves, children are equivalent to cubs that are easy to kill.
"Uh... Is it true that monkeys stole it?" Jiang Wu had seen monkeys before. In the market, there were 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 died down.
"What my sister lied to me was not stolen by a monkey." Wei Zhan was making trouble.
Yingbao:...I really want to beat someone up.
Yuan Bao also came over to agree: "We don't have monkeys there, so 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 how a crybaby 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 are no bandits 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 are begging to buy, but our family also needs to buy. Although the food at home is not enough, the walls of our houses and his house need to be repaired. He wants to go to other villages to invite more people to come over and repair the walls and houses as soon as possible."
Repair it properly."
When hiring people to do work, the wages are small and must provide the person with two meals a month.
Jiang Sanlang took a sip of porridge, picked up some beetroot with chopsticks, and said, "Then we will build and raise the courtyard wall of our three houses again, and bury broken porcelain pieces in the heads. I don't know when the bandits will come again, but we can still resist them."
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Since the village wall project requires a large amount of work, we should first build a higher wall for our own courtyard.
Doctor Zhang's house in the town does not have the kind of courtyard wall that is more than ten feet high, so that no one can come in. In addition, the door of her house is thick, and the bandits cannot break it.
During that banditry, Dr. Zhang's neighbors all took refuge in her home, and she saved more than ten families with her family's efforts.
Therefore, the 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 your shoulders."
Jiang Sanlang: "Hire a few carriages or mule carts when we come back. I'm not trying to save money. The sooner we get back, the safer it will be."
"Okay, listen to me." 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 Yidongzi hired dozens of villagers who were proficient in building houses.
Dozens of people worked together to mix mud and adobe, and all the 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 then 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 the new doors and windows were delivered.
Then they began to build the house with tiles, dig the foundations and build the walls.
Not only the original house was repaired, but Jiang Sanlang's family also built several side houses.
The wall, which was two feet high and more than half a foot wide, completely surrounded the houses and yards of the three families of the Jiang family.
There are 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 Yuanji's perspective, the wall was 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 a gate that can allow carriages to enter and exit. After entering the gate, you 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 the gate was installed, Yingbao climbed up the stairs from outside the courtyard to the fence and walked around the fence.
The sentry tower is very well built, and you can see far away from there.
There are many villagers 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 were also running on the wall, laughing and jumping around on their heads. Grandma picked them up with a bamboo pole and gave them a good beating. Then they reluctantly came back to the east.
The day after the Jiang family's wall was built, I heard the villagers banging gongs and shouting, saying that the imperial army had defeated the rebels and a large number of bandits fled in all directions, so that the villagers in each village should be more vigilant to guard against sneak attacks by the anti-Yi bandits.
When Jiang Sanlang heard the message, he immediately sent people to notify each villager, asking them to get together in the morning to take precautions.
Ying Bao rode Youyou secretly to the mountains and went to the village school to find Mrs. Wen and Sister Wen.
At that time, everyone was tidying up the house, and even the family school was closed. Mrs. Wen gave Yingbao homework and asked her to study at home.
"Master! Sister Wen!" Ying Bao came from Lubei in the east and ran into the school.
Wen Shu came out of the house, holding a book in his lap. "Why am I here, Yingbao?"
"Where's the master?" Ying Bao asked.
"It's in the house, let me come in." Wen Shu led Yingbao into the house.
Yingbao didn't waste any time, and directly pulled Xiao Zhenniang and said: "Master, follow him to Nanpo quickly. The villagers say there will be bandits making trouble, and his father told the villagers to get together in the morning."
Xiao Zhenniang also heard the message from the countryman and was worried about what to do. Since the young apprentice asked them to go to Nanpo, she was pregnant with him.
"Okay, let him pack a few things first."
Xiao Zhenniang said to her daughter again: "I'll pack my things and take them with me too."
"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 little master pack the clothes.
Wen Shu didn't have many things, so he just packed two packages and they were gone.
Grandma rolled up the quilts on the bed and tied them tightly with ropes.
Wen Fu bought a wheelbarrow from somewhere, piled the family's grain bags, bedding and other items on the wheelbarrow and pushed it away.
Xiao Zhenniang and her daughter's nanny carried a package and set off with Yingbao.
Yingbao didn't see Mrs. Wen San and asked curiously: "Where is Mrs. Lin?"
Wen Shu whispered: "Third aunt lives in Patriarch Chen's house."
Yingbao was confused.
That Wen Tian caused Patriarch Chen's grandson to break his leg, yet he actually accepted her to live in his home?
Wen Shu saw Ying Bao's confusion and said, "The third aunt got along very well with the daughter-in-law of the eldest daughter of the Chen clan, so she moved to her house."
In fact, there was a quarrel between my mother and the third aunt, and they had a big quarrel before the third aunt moved to Chen's house.
But how can I tell Yingbao about that?
Ying Bao took Wen Shu and Master back home and settled them in her room.
Anyway, her kang is very big, so sleeping four or five people won’t be a problem.
As for Wen Fu, he was arranged to live in a newly built side house.
When Chun Niang saw that her daughter had brought Mrs. Wen and others, she was not surprised. She chatted with Xiao Zhenniang for a while and then hurried to cook.
There are dozens of people in Ruming's family having meals, and she and her elder sister-in-law and her second sister-in-law go there every month without touching the ground.
Lunch includes rice, red cabbage and tofu, cold courgette, fried leeks, and pickled pickles.
Dongshangfu steamed buns, rice porridge, pickled vegetables, cold courgette and red cabbage.
Although there was no meaty taste, the food was full and the side dishes tasted good. The employees did not care and worked 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 sentry tower, saw that scene and immediately ordered the villagers to pick up their bows and arrows and squat on the wall to prepare for the attack.
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