Chapter 383 County Magistrate Wu is here
If the wound is shallow, it will heal in about seven days if you stop bleeding and disinfect, eat a light diet and have a good rest. If the wound is deep, it will take about ten days.
By the third day of the first lunar month, a small number of the injured people in the village had recovered, as long as they did not do heavy physical work that would affect the wound.
The three families of Zhao, Sun, and Fan, who had broken their legs, still could not recover. It would take a hundred days for the injured bones to heal. Most of them could only rest in bed, fearing that the bones would not be dislocated and they would be disabled.
From the first to the third day of the first lunar month, the people in the village were not idle.
The strong men brought stones back from the mountains, basket by basket, and placed them all on the embankment.
At this moment, they were really glad that the waterproof embankment was not demolished. In order to stabilize it, they specially reinforced it with wood. It was convenient to go up and down along the wood, and it could also block the baskets and baskets, so it would not be unstable.
However, the embankment made of sacks would become narrow immediately after putting other things on it, which was too obvious, so the men allocated more people to speed up the construction of two watchtowers.
There is also a thatched roof on the watchtower, so there is no need to worry about rain. In addition to the front, there are straw curtains on the left, right and back, which can be put down at night or when the wind is strong. With the two thick quilts sent by Shuiqing, the guards can be kept warm.
On the first day of the new year, the old village chief took the village's crop growers to check the fields. Although the potatoes were not fully grown, the big ones were as big as fists. Each family first dug a few hundred kilograms and took them home, and each family sent a basket to the front of the book house as a night meal for the guards and patrols - the fire in front of the book house is now burning all day, just right for roasting potatoes.
The watchtower was built next to the embankment, which is not only convenient for guarding, but also can be used to store and supply weapons such as lime powder, stones, medicinal powder and pepper water.
Zhang Xiaocao and several aunts with quick hands and feet and strong strength made ladders.
Although there were a lot of protections outside the wall, we were afraid that someone would sneak over to remove the bamboo sticks and climb in, so we made wooden and bamboo ladders and arranged one person to watch at a distance. As long as we didn't let those people get close to remove the protections, it would be fine!
With the protections, they couldn't forcefully climb over the wall.
This kind of work was not difficult. The people assigned were only boys and girls who were only twelve or thirteen years old. In order to prevent them from panicking, they were also assigned a woman who was injured and couldn't use much strength.
Li Tiantian, Xu Ting and several other girls were packing lime powder in bags.
I bought thousands of kilograms of it and piled it in the room next to the library. It was originally used to paint the walls of the library to make it bright and clean. Later, I found that it could be used as a weapon and piled it all up. It weighed several thousand kilograms.
It was originally packed in sacks, which were too big and heavy to carry, so it was divided into small bags and small baskets so that everyone could carry it.
Weapons, food, personnel arrangements... After everything was in place, Shui Qing felt a little relieved.
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A large number of people arrived earlier than expected.
I thought it would be the afternoon of the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, but they arrived before noon.
Shuiqing stood on the hillside and looked at the mighty troops coming from afar with a telescope, and then handed it to Fan Jin beside him.
"It's still several miles away, let's go over and get ready."
Fan Jin looked at the small people in the telescope and the surrounding scenery. It was indeed several miles away, and he was amazed at the magic of the mall again.
Shuiqing said that the night vision device last time could see about 300 meters, but this time it could see several miles away. However, the night vision device can see people at night, which is really amazing.
He replied: "Okay, let's bring some more potatoes over?"
Although he didn't grow potatoes at home, Shuiqing shared the potato seeds with the villagers in a 4:6 ratio. After they harvested two days ago, they first sent a batch to them to taste, so now their potatoes are the most in the whole village.
This is only the first batch, and there are already more than a thousand kilograms. The potatoes planted by Feng Damancang and others in the reclaimed land can also be eaten, and they don't need to share them.
So they can't eat all the potatoes at home, they can't eat them at all.
Shui Qing ordered without hesitation: "Bring more and use the oxcart to carry them.
These people may not go back at noon, so we may only have potatoes for lunch."
Fortunately, potatoes have just been harvested and are in the tasting stage. We are not tired of them yet. However, in today's situation, it is enough to fill our stomachs. It is not important whether we are tired of them or not!
"Okay, I will load the car, you go first." Fan Jin replied in a gentle voice.
Shui Qing went to the book house first and took a look around. Seeing that everyone was more nervous and dedicated than her, she was very satisfied.
After a long time, Fan Xiaoliu on the observation tower shouted: "Everyone, look, is there anyone coming over there?"
Xu Laosan on another observation tower immediately stood up, squinted his eyes and looked for a long time, and quickly struck the gong.
With just a heavy sound, it was like cold water entering a hot oil pan, and the village exploded!
The crowd rushed out from each household. Although there were many people, they were not noisy.
This was stipulated by Shui Qing before. No loud noises were allowed, otherwise no orders could be heard clearly.
Shui Qing shouted loudly: "Don't panic, everyone, take your positions as agreed before!"
Fan Jin was pulling hundreds of kilograms of fresh potatoes with his ox at this moment. Shui Qing told Wang Guifen in the crowd: "Sister Guifen, you boil or steam these potatoes and distribute them to everyone at noon.
Everyone just guards the place you are responsible for!"
"Hey, good!"
The crowd dispersed with a clamor, and each ran towards the previously agreed position.
Wang Guifen took over the rope of the ox cart, led the ox to pull the potatoes to the temporary stove in front of the library, and called Zhang Chunhua to unload the goods.
He then said to Granny Xu and the others, "Granny Xu, let's steam potatoes, which are clean and convenient to eat. Cook egg drop soup in another large iron pot and add more salt!"
Cooking porridge is too slow. There are so many of them. When can they get a bowl? Egg drop soup is fast. It takes less than an incense stick of water to cook a pot. It is put in a wooden barrel, equipped with a ladle and a bowl. Everyone can scoop and drink it by themselves, and they can also add salt and water.
Granny Xu and other old women felt their heartbeats were strong, and they quickly suppressed them and began to prepare food.
They can't panic, they still have to provide food and drink for the whole village! Only when they are full can they have the strength to deal with those evil people!
County Magistrate Wu led a large group of people over. He sat in the carriage. When he saw the carriage stopped steadily, he told the servant of the carriage that he had arrived, lifted the curtain and stuck his head out. When he saw the thick gate, high walls, and two watchtowers, his brows furrowed deeply.
It's a small village, but it's quite complete. No wonder Zhu Lao Da's hundreds of people were defeated here.
No wonder a small mountain village could cut off his biggest source of wealth!
He waved to the leader, Captain Sun, who was sitting on a tall horse. Captain Sun immediately rode forward, dismounted and waited for instructions.
"Tell these unruly people to open the door quickly."