Chapter 160 Wall
Ying Bao 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 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 before. 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 died down.
"What your sister lied to you was not stolen by a monkey at all." Wei Zhan was trying to make trouble.
Ying Bao: ...I really want to beat someone up.
Yuan Bao also came over and echoed: "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 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 more?"
"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 hiring people to do work, the wages are small and must provide the person 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 wall 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 higher 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 bandit attack, Dr. Zhang's neighbors all took refuge in her home, and she saved more than ten families with her family's efforts.
Therefore, 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 your shoulders."
Jiang Sanlang: "Hire a few carriages or mule carts when you come back. Don't try to save money. The sooner we come 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 walls of the Jiang family's three households were knocked 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 houses and put on tiles, dig foundations and build walls.
Not only had the original house been repaired, 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.
Watchtowers were also built at the four corners of the wall, which could 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 when the gate was installed, Ying Bao climbed up the fence from the courtyard stairs and walked around the fence.
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, but grandma pushed them up with a bamboo pole and beat them up, and then they came down reluctantly.
The day after the Jiang family's wall was built, I heard the villagers banging gongs and shouting, saying that the imperial army defeated the rebels and a large number of bandits fled in all directions, making the villagers be more vigilant to guard against sneak attacks by the bandits.
When Jiang Sanlang heard the message, he immediately sent people to inform each villager that they had better 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.
Nowadays, everyone is busy tidying up the house, and even the family school is 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's the master?" Ying Bao asked.
"It'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. 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, and 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.
Grandma rolled up the quilt on the bed again and tied it tightly with rope.
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 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: "Third aunt lives in Patriarch Chen's house."
Ying Bao 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 family, so she moved to her house."
In fact, it was his mother and third aunt who had a quarrel and had a quarrel that made third aunt move to Chen's house.
But how can I tell Yingbao about this?
Ying Bao led 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.
Chun Niang was not surprised when she saw her daughter fetching Mrs. Wen and others. She chatted with Xiao Zhen Niang for a while and then hurried to cook.
Now there are dozens of people in the family eating, and she and her elder sister-in-law and her second sister-in-law are so busy every day that they never touch the floor.
Lunch is rice, cabbage and tofu, cold courgette, fried leeks, and pickled pickles.
Afternoon is steamed buns, rice porridge, pickled vegetables, cold courgette and cabbage.
Although there was no meat or fishy taste, the food was full and the side dishes tasted good. The employees didn't care and worked right after the meal without taking any time off.
That night, a few vague torches circled the village and then headed towards the south slope.
Jiang Sanlang, who was standing on the sentry 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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