Bianshanhan [farming]

The walls of the new house will be built up in the camp, and the loggers have finally returned.

Jiang Cong rode at the front, and when he saw it from a distance, Li Qingwen threw the shovel and ran over, happily asking them if the journey was going well.

Jiang Cong got off his horse, and while answering, stretched out his hand to remove the mud from his head.

Li Qingwen hugged Tianzao's neck and wanted to say a few words, probably because he disliked his dirty body, Tianzao kept backing away, looking pitiful as he struggled desperately, Li Qingwen still ruthlessly rubbed the mud on his body to smooth it on the fur.

Of course, at night, he had to carry the hot water from the slope to the stable to clean the sweet dates from head to toe.

As soon as the manpower came back, Li Qingwen, Li Qingfeng, Ma Yongjiang and others were all right. They stood by and watched as they continued to build adobe, and then trimmed the wood and put it on the beam.

It took two days to seal the roof of the new house, Li Qingwen immediately cooked a few tables of dishes, Jiang Liping invited the people who helped a while ago, and everyone sat together lively.

After Li Maoqun learned how to make wine, he brewed more than a dozen jars of sorghum. According to Lao Sun and the others, the taste is not bad at all, but they have no choice. .

I heard that the wine koji is freshly made here, and it is not very good, so it is difficult to drink.

Li Qingwen didn't understand why it was so hard to drink it.

Although the wine was not good, the distilled fish that Li Qingwen took out from the wine jar was loved by everyone.

The jujube red fish has the aroma of wine, and it tastes good after steaming.

In fact, distiller's lees fish needs a lot of seasonings. Li Qingwen didn't have so many things on hand, so he made a simple version, thinking that he would think about improving it when he was free in the future.

Li Maoqun was not frustrated because of this. His master said that the method of making wine is similar, and the wine will taste better if it is replaced with good koji.

He thought, as long as he studies hard, he will be able to make good wine sooner or later.

Thinking about it carefully, he is the only one who knows how to make wine in several nearby villages. Li Maoqun couldn't help laughing when he didn't expect to be able to learn this skill in his 30s.

Li Qingwen couldn't help but look at him a few more times. He remembered that Uncle Maoqun frowned and had a sullen face all day long. When he arrived in the border town, he not only liked to talk, but also laughed a lot.

He did not suffer in vain on the road.

Everyone was talking happily, and Sun Yonghao was very envious, saying that their family will also build a house next year, and the cellar is too narrow.

Yes, the Sun family came to the border town one step earlier than Jiang Liping and the others, and they still have no house to live in.

In the first year, I was physically and mentally exhausted because of the field work, and because I didn't have enough food, I naturally couldn't care about other things.There will be no help in farming this year, but apart from the female relatives, there are not enough manpower, and they don't know how to build a house, so they have been living in the cellar where the Li family has built a kang and a fire wall.

Jiang Liping and the others all said that next year they would find time to help build it, and Sun Yonghao happily poured them wine and thanked them first.

After talking, laughing and having a meal, everyone dispersed, and when nothing happened for a while, some people said to go to the river to take a bath.

Li Qingwen also wanted to take a bath, but he didn't want to go to the river, and he was no longer a child. He really couldn't imagine the scene of a group of big men taking a bath together naked, so he wanted to boil a pot of water and prepare to wipe himself in the house.

He thought it was good, but just as the water was boiling, all the people who went to the river came back, and the hair of the whole group was wet. This, is this finished? !

Li Qingwen was shocked at their speed, and the others also stared at him, "I said why I didn't see Xiao Zai'er just now, so I didn't go, Jiang Cong was washed for nothing, and he had to be given by Xiao Zai'er as soon as he lay on the kang." Dirty."

"Who made the two of them sleep together all the time? It's okay to be cold in winter, and they are also crowded together in hot weather!"

"I wash in the house." Li Qingwen said.

Everyone laughed, "You're a kid, why are you being so coy, why don't you let us see you washing in the house."

Li Qingwen said: "Then I'll fetch water."

Someone came up to pull Li Qingwen's clothes, saying that he wanted to see what was different about him, why he was hiding and not showing.

Li Qingwen was so tired these days that his hands and legs were weak, how could he resist these people, crying for help miserably.

Li Qingfeng couldn't understand his resistance at all, and said beside him: "Zai'er, show them!"

Li Qingwen was about to cry, and called "Brother", before Jiang Cong entered the room, the troublemakers immediately released Li Qingwen.

Li Qingwen rushed out of the house in a flash, finally saw his backer outside, and immediately jumped on him, the clothes Jiang Cong had just changed were covered in mud.

Jiang Cong took the man aside, and before he could ask, Li Qingwen explained the matter in an aggrieved manner.

Jiang Cong held back his laughter and said a few words of comfort. According to what Li Qingwen said, he went into the house with a piece of coarse cloth and hung it on the wooden shed, and then scooped the warm water from the pot into a basin and brought it out.

One side is a wall, the other side is a wooden shed, and a piece of coarse cloth is used to block it, and a simple bathroom will be fine.

Hearing the unscrupulous laughter coming from the room, Li Qingwen felt ashamed and angry, but he had no time to get angry, so he quickly took off his clothes and started to scrub.

One corner of the coarse cloth was hung on the shed, and the other corner was in Jiang Cong's hands. With his back on his back, he knew Li Qingwen was in a hurry when he heard the movement behind him, and said, "Don't worry, wash slowly, they won't bother you. you."

Li Qingwen pursed his lips, "Brother, you can wash it later, can the river be cleaned?"

Jiang Cong used to bathe in the river too, so he said, "Okay."

After listening to Jiang Cong's words, Li Qingwen finally stopped being busy. He washed everything below his hair, and his body felt refreshed immediately.

After he finished washing and getting dressed, Jiang Cong loosened the coarse cloth.

He scooped up a basin of water from the pot again. Jiang Cong put the basin on the wooden plinth and asked Li Qingwen to bend down. After soaking his hair, he began to rub it with both hands.

Li Qingwen is not used to washing long hair so far. It is very painful every time I wash it. Every time I miss the short hair in my previous life, I have no choice but to wash it roughly at home. He washes.

Jiang Cong washes his hair very well every time, neither heavy nor light, Li Qingwen can't help but want him to rub it for a while.

After cleaning Li Qingwen from head to toe, Jiang Cong took a bath again. This time Li Qingwen helped him pull the coarse curtain, opening and closing his mouth non-stop, talking about things these days.

Listening to him, Jiang Cong slowed down even more.

They didn't go back to the house together until it was dark and their hair and bodies were completely dry.

The big guys already knew what they were doing outside, but when they came back, they were teased again.

Now Li Qingwen wouldn't be afraid of them. He rested his head on Jiang Cong's lap and knocked his teeth against these people.

Those people couldn't say enough, and they didn't dare to do anything. Li Qingwen kept laughing to himself, and let Jiang Cong play with his hair.

I thought I could rest for a few days this time, but soon the superior came down with an order, saying that they should go out for inspection with the officers and soldiers.

Generally, convicts don't have to do this job, because Jiang Liping and the others spent a long time on patrol in winter, missed the spring plowing, and were spared this year's work and food, so they had such an extra job.

The inspection at this time is similar to the inspection in winter. They all ride horses along a fixed place to check, and they can come back if they find nothing suspicious.

The difference is that the weather is better now, you don't have to be cold, you may encounter more wild animals, and you must be careful of wild animals when you travel.

After everyone sighed and sighed, they didn't dare to delay packing their things, they only said that there should be no trouble this time, go early and return early, so as not to delay the autumn harvest.

They didn't hunt much this year, but they ate very badly. The meat they saved was gone, but there was still a lot of oil squeezed out. Li Qingwen cooked a pot for them to make fried noodles with oil.

He was stir frying as usual, but Li Qingwen accidentally burned his hand, and he burned it three times in a row. It wasn't serious, but he felt a little panicked.

He doesn't believe in things that don't exist, but at this juncture, he can't help thinking about things.

Before he was about to set off, he said something that might disturb people's hearts, so he held back and said in his heart that he should not think about it.

No matter how hard he pressed, Jiang Cong still saw something was wrong.

"Worried?" Jiang Cong touched his forehead and said, "Brother will be more careful."

Li Qingwen nodded. He put his forehead on Jiang Cong's hand, rubbed it, and said in a muffled voice, "Run if you have something to do. Anyway, you are not officers and soldiers, you are not counted as deserters, and you will not be punished."

Jiang Cong held his head and did not let go, and said yes with a smile.

Fearing that his hands would be sore, Li Qingwen moved his head and sat up straight.

Looking up at Jiang Cong's bright eyes, Li Qingwen thought for a while, then climbed to the edge of the kang, took out a leather bag from the cage and put it in Jiang Cong's hand.

Jiang Cong lowered his head and knew what was in it just by looking at it. The bag was originally his, but it was given to Li Qingwen, and it returned to him after going around.

This thing was distributed uniformly when he was a soldier in the government. After he gave it to Li Qingwen, he went back and got another copy.

He emptied out the contents, inspected it, and refilled it, as before.

Maybe because of Jiang Cong's words, Li Qingwen was able to fall asleep tonight.

Early the next morning, Jiang Cong and others set off together with the officers and soldiers. This time Li Qingfeng went out for Ma Yongjiang, because the wild animals were very fat this season.

Li Qingwen couldn't persuade his little brother, so he could only tell him to be careful over and over again.

After they left, Li Qingwen went back to the house and sat on the edge of the kang without moving for a long time.

Seeing that he was not in good spirits, Zhou Yao felt his pulse, and told him not to think about anything, because he is young, and he lives like an old man.

In the future, it will still be that sun, and it will still be so vicious.

Soon, the second trip started. Once Jiang Cong and the others left, only Li Qingwen, Li Maoqun, Ma Yongjiang, Liu brothers and Zhou Yao were left.

Without saying a word, Li Maoqun and the Liu brothers started to work while yelling at the animals.

It's just that their three plow sticks waded dozens of ridges in half a day, and walked on thousands of acres of land, which was so small that it made people want to cry.

Li Qingwen and Ma Yongjiang bit the bullet and harnessed the animal. Ma Yongjiang thought he could do it, but he broke more than a dozen sorghum with a plow stick, so he didn't dare to try again.

Li Qingwen didn't know how either, he was about to try it out when Chen Wen came, knowing that they were gone now, he took off his coat, rolled up his sleeves and took the plow stick.

The kitchen staff asked Li Qingwen and Ma Yongjiang to cook, and they went to the ground.

When they arrived at the kitchen, Ma Yongjiang and Li Qingwen gritted their teeth as they looked at the piles of bowls and basins that were taller than people.

Zhou Fengnian didn't come, so he asked his bodyguards to bring a few officers and soldiers over to help. He stumbled and worked for a few days, no matter whether it was good or bad, it was finally finished.

Li Qingwen was a little embarrassed, so he worked in the kitchen for a few more days, shaking with his arms hanging down his sides, and he was praised by everyone in the kitchen.According to them, when they first came to the kitchen, they were so tired that they cried in the middle of the night, and Li Qingwen was lucky to be able to survive these days.

Li Qingwen couldn't stop laughing wryly. He didn't know how many times he had cried in his heart. Not only did he cry, but he also wanted to hang himself. He was so tired...

In the past, he only thought that preparing meals for dozens of people every day was a hard job, and he had to cook food for thousands of people all of a sudden.

For this reason, he admired the people in the kitchen even more. In the future, any officer and soldier would talk about the food in the kitchen, and he would definitely drag him over to cook for a few days.

After the trip, Li Qingwen went to see the sorghum ears and pods with the Liu family brothers. Hearing that they could almost harvest in September, he couldn't help worrying, fearing that the border town would cool down early and these crops would suffer.

Worrying is nothing but worrying, Li Qingwen was still thinking about what his father said, and suppressed these useless thoughts.

Now he only hopes that the soybeans and sorghum will mature one after another, so that the harvesting time can be staggered, otherwise the harvesting of these fields at the same time may cost them half their lives.

The newly built house has not yet closed the windows, and now the door is wide open, and it is drying and ventilating. This year's grain will be packed here.

Last year, Li Qingwen only ate a few bags of the grain harvested in his [-] mu of land, and he was supposed to take it out to dry at this time, but he couldn't move, so he could only untie a bag occasionally to see if there was mold or something inside.

He didn't even have to go to inspect the food, the Liu family brothers would go and touch it every three days or so.

These two people used to suffer from hunger more than the people here, so they also paid special attention to the food in this room.

Other exiles in the border city are also looking forward to this year's harvest, which is the only hope they can see.

One late night in August, several fast horses hurried back to the camp holding torches, and the officers and soldiers in distress were just going out to inspect.

Lin Tan and Zhou Fengnian, who had already fallen asleep, were woken up when they heard the escaped officers and soldiers report that they had encountered Puju people. All of them were captured, but they were rescued by others.

Zhou Fengnian frowned, but Lin Tan slapped the table fiercely, ordered soldiers immediately, and set off overnight.

Zhou Fengnian felt that he should be well-prepared, interrogate carefully, and leave in the daytime, but he didn't say anything. He knew that Lin Tan had long been looking forward to making military achievements, and he had been waiting for almost two years.

The movement of the officers and soldiers was too great, the horses neighed continuously, Li Qingwen was awakened, put on his clothes and came out.

Hundreds of torches were lit in the camp, officers and soldiers rode horses, and the darkness was overwhelming.

Seeing this posture, Li Qingwen knew that something had happened, and felt terrified, so he immediately ran to the camp.

The other exiles were also woken up. They looked outside, panicked, and they didn't dare to make a sound, and they didn't dare to come out to ask, for fear of being hurt.

Taking advantage of the surrounding light, Li Qingwen wanted to find Zhou Yao and then Zhou Fengnian.

He hadn't run far when he saw Zhou Congxin and Zhou Congwang approaching holding torches, and they dragged Li Qingwen back into the house.

Li Maoxian, Ma Yongjiang and the Li family brothers all came over and looked at the two of them anxiously.

"I know you will panic when you hear the noise." Zhou Cong said: "My lord told us to come and tell that the people who went to inspect were arrested by Puju people. Jiang Cong and the others were clever and escaped in the chaos. Don't worry. The camp is honestly waiting."

Li Qingwen's beating heart did not slow down, he asked: "Then why didn't my brother and little fourth brother come back?"

"Because Hu Lichuan and five other people are still in the hands of the Puju people, Jiang Cong and the others want to save people." Zhou Congxin said with a serious face, "After the accident, they have been following the Puju people, and rescued several people in the middle of the night. An officer and soldier. The officers and soldiers were specially asked to report back, and they left marks along the road, and General Lin Tan will lead his troops to chase them tonight."

Li Qingwen sat on the edge of the kang slumped, he didn't think about it for a while, but he didn't expect that something really happened.

Zhou Congwang comforted: "You don't have to worry too much. Since they can rescue our officers and soldiers from the enemy, they must have a way to avoid being caught."

The two told him that he had something to come to find them, and they must not sneak out by themselves.

Li Qingwen knew that it was useless for him to be anxious here, so he forced himself to calm down, thanked the two people, and told them that he would definitely stay in the camp and not run around.

Just as the camp in the border town was preparing to march at night, Jiang Liping and others were discussing countermeasures in the cave.

A few days ago, they followed the officers and soldiers to patrol the northern forest. From a distance, they saw birds flying in the forest, pheasants and rabbits fleeing in panic, and suddenly felt a little strange.

If it was just ferocious beasts running rampant in the forest, they wouldn't have been in such a mess for so long. What they are doing now is very similar to when they hunted last year...

Just as they were discussing whether to retreat and avoid, or to advance to investigate, their figures had already fallen into the eyes of the falcons looking down from the sky.

Jiang Cong was naturally sensitive to visible objects, and when he sensed the falcon eagle's approach, he became alert.

Seeing the falcon hovering in the air and flying back to the forest, he said that there must be people in the forest, and they should retreat immediately.

But the leading officers and soldiers didn't want to just return without success. He felt that everyone was too timid, so he insisted on going into the forest to investigate.

Jiang Cong and the others should have obeyed his orders, but they had no choice but to follow.

The moment they stepped into the forest, they fell into a trap.

Jiang Cong knew that he couldn't persuade the leading officers and soldiers. When he realized something was wrong, he immediately called Jiang Liping and others to leave the place where they stayed overnight in the middle of the night.

Hu Lichuan and the others were very close to the officers and soldiers, and they almost woke up the officers and soldiers when they called them, and their snoring was so loud that they had no choice but to give up first.

After all, they don't know whether it is really possible to be attacked, everything is just speculation.

After leaving, they didn't go far, and crouched in a hiding place.

I waited from late at night until it was almost dawn, I thought it was a false alarm, but at this moment, footsteps sounded all around.

There should be hundreds of people in all directions.

There are too many people on the other side, even if they catch them by surprise, they may not be able to escape.

Jiang Cong heard the bright chirping of eagles in the distance, and said softly, "Besides these, there are people."

Jiang Liping glanced at him, and said in a breathy voice: "Hide, don't make a sound."

Everyone's hairs stood on end, subconsciously holding their breath.

Li Qingfeng hid under the vines, he watched two men with knives pass by.

There were more than a dozen soldiers passing by their hiding place, but they were not found. They surrounded and tied up the sleeping officers and soldiers, Hu Lichuan and others.

Jiang Liping and the others remained motionless and kept watching.

After Gao Yubao woke up, he found that after he was arrested, he was still looking around, "Who are you? What are you doing kidnapping us? What about Jiang Cong and the boss..."

He was still yelling the names of Jiang Cong and Jiang Liping, but Hu Lichuan stomped on him hard, and then he closed his mouth.

But these people couldn't understand what they said, so they didn't know that there were still fish that slipped through the net, so they just pushed and pushed them away.

After these people were taken away, Jiang Liping and the others came out. Jiang Cong looked at the direction in which they disappeared and said, "Puju people."

Old Sun said: "It seems that they are dressed like the rumored Puju people, but there should be other tribes in this forest, is it the same as the last time Liu and they met, is it a misunderstanding? "

The power that used to occupy this land is powerful, and the north and south have been separated for hundreds of years. The tribes and small countries in the north are very strange to Daliang. I only read some things about Puju in the travel notes, but I don’t know what they are like there.

In the past when Daliang's northbound troops were attacked, it was said that Puju people were among them, but they met face to face at that time. After General Lin Tan led his troops to station, there was no sign of Puju people.

"It's not wrong." Jiang Cong said, "They're speaking the language of ordinary people."

"You, what are you, can you understand?" Jiang Liping looked at him in surprise.

After finishing speaking, he took another breath, "You didn't listen to what Old Zhong said, did you? He doesn't have a single word of truth out of his mouth. How dare you believe him?"

Lao Zhong is also a soldier of Hongzhou, but from another battalion. That person likes to brag the most, saying how much meritorious service he has made in the war before, and if he was not injured, he would definitely be able to become an official.

What he talked about the most was that when he was young in Beifang, he lost his way once in the mountains, and met a beautiful woman like a fairy, who threw herself on him and wanted to marry him...

He said that the woman was from Puyu and understood Daliang's language. They had lived in the mountains for several years and had two children.

In fact, Lao Zhong's family was poor and he was a bachelor in his 40s and [-]s.His hand was also seriously injured. If it wasn't for the help of an old friend from the past, he wouldn't be able to be a handyman.

Everyone knows that he likes to daydream and doesn't like to listen to his nonsense, so Jiang Cong just listened quietly to what he said, never refuted or exposed, and occasionally asked him a few words.

Therefore, Lao Zhong especially liked talking to Jiang Cong.

The man had nothing wrong with him other than talking big, and everyone didn't think much of him. He would sometimes tease him, no matter what he said, he wouldn't take it seriously, but he didn't expect that Jiang Cong not only listened, but also believed it. His nonsense!

Without waiting for Jiang Liping and the others to say anything, Jiang Cong said: "I heard them say, 'These, people from Daliang, go back, the prince, go hunting'. The pattern embroidered on their cuffs is a kind of flower. Old Zhong said that it can only be said in a common sentence. The growing flowers, he painted on the ground for me, like this one, it shouldn't be a coincidence."

Hearing his words, everyone was stunned. They always thought that Lao Zhong was talking nonsense. It turned out that the nonsense words he said were not made up at will, they were really common words.

They didn't trust Lao Zhong, but they trusted Jiang Cong. Jiang Cong said so, so it shouldn't be wrong.

Fearing that Hu Lichuan and the others would be taken away, Jiang Liping and the others did not dare to ask any further questions, so they quickly packed up their things and followed them from afar.

There are many people on the other side, it is best for them to leave and go back to rescue soldiers.

But the horses were all taken away by those people. If they really wanted to go back to the camp, then Hu Lichuan and the others might be taken back to Puju.

Since you can't go back, you have to bite the bullet and chase these people, secretly rescue people or take away the horses, so as to have a chance.

They were also very courageous, dozens of people dared to chase hundreds of people, but luckily, these people were very careless after they captured the prisoners, and they relaxed when they slept out that night.

Jiang Cong and the others rescued more than a dozen people in the dark. If it wasn't for the startled neighing of the horse whose reins had been picked off, and those people suddenly woke up, they could have rescued more people.

After realizing that the prisoner had been rescued, the Puju people wanted to chase after him, but were scared off by Jiang Cong's two arrows.

Those who were rescued were officers and soldiers. Jiang Liping asked them to go back to rescue soldiers, and these people stayed behind to continue to harass.

Jiang Cong also asked Li Qingfeng to go back with him. Now that those people already know about them, they are likely to round up them instead, which will definitely be more dangerous.

Li Qingfeng has been the most courageous in the village since he was a child. He was startled by the enemies who suddenly surrounded him at first, and he chased after him vigorously, unwilling to go back.

The officers and soldiers who were still in shock immediately rode back to the camp, and Jiang Liping and others saw the enemy in the forest.

During the day they followed from a distance, and at night they asked Jiang Cong to shoot cold arrows at the place where the Puju people were staying. They didn't dare to hurt anyone, for fear that they would provoke those people and the captives would suffer.

Those people might be annoyed by the disturbance, and turned around to catch them. Jiang Cong and the others were really afraid that they would leave without looking back, so they were happy to deal with them.

These people were obviously only assigned to arrest people. If they reconciled with the rest of them, neither Jiang Cong nor Jiang Liping would dare to act rashly.

At this moment, the reason why they hid in the cave was mainly to guard against the falcon in the sky.

That thing flies high, can see far away, can avoid trees, and can see the trace of prey.

Now everyone is thankful that it is not winter, otherwise the snow will leave obvious traces, and without the cover of thick branches and leaves in the forest, it would be difficult for them to hide.

"Can you shoot that thing down from the sky?" Jiang Liping asked.

Jiang Cong said: "The flying is too high, if it is lower, we can try."

This falcon eagle should have been strictly trained to be able to find people and send letters, which made them very embarrassed.