The second time he came to Wei Zhuang, Xu Huang's whole mentality had undergone earth-shaking changes.
Looking at the military camp stationed outside Wei Zhuang, the big flag stood proudly outside the camp, and the "Sun" outlined in gold thread on the flag. Xu Huang just smiled indifferently, and then rode his horse and passed by with his head held high.
The gate of Weizhuang slowly opened. The guard guarding the door not only knew Xu Chu, but also knew Zheng Tou, who had been here many times.
Zhengtou also smiled and greeted everyone. These guards were once the owners of the Wei family. Just by chance, they practiced some kung fu and became Wei family's servants. Many of them even went up the mountain with Zhengtou when they were young. Where's the bird's nest?
"Brother Chengtou, you are here to help Second Master deliver a letter again." A young man stepped forward and said.
This man was Emiya's deputy. He had met him many times before, and they had become quite familiar with each other, and they would chat with each other from time to time.
Chengtou nodded and asked with a smile: "Is the Third Master not here?"
The young man said: "The third master has gone to the county government... Brother Chengtou, you have to dismount here. Please forgive me. The farm has its own rules. Don't worry, we will take good care of the horses."
Several people stood up and dismounted, and Xu Chu asked: "Do you have some free time now, Lord Wei? You asked me to wait for the message to be delivered, and I have something important to report."
The young man took the leading horse and frowned and said, "I don't know about that. Mr. Sun hasn't left yet. He should be in Dongyuan. I'll find someone to inform you. Brother Xu, please wait a moment."
"Thank you." Xu Chu and the others bowed their hands in greeting.
at this time.
A carriage was rolling in from Zhuangzi. The driver who was leading the horse couldn't help but slow down when he saw someone approaching the door.
Seeing the carriage, the guard at the door hurriedly pulled the first-class horse aside.
When the carriage passed the door, the curtains opened, and Sun Jian looked towards Xu Chu and the others.
Seeing Xu Huang, Sun Jian still had some impressions, but he didn't pay much attention. He was just stunned for a moment and then lowered the car curtain.
As the carriage moved away, Xu Chu turned around and said, "Is this Sun Polu? You're really brave!"
Xu Huang chuckled noncommittally.
Instead, he asked curiously: "Is this person very powerful?"
Xu Chu and Xu Huang looked at each other.
Is Sun Jian great?
Judging from his current achievements, he should be awesome.
But since ancient times, scholars have underestimated and slandered warriors, and the two of them were unwilling to admit that Sun Jian was better than them. If they had the chance... Of course, they were just thinking about it in their hearts, and they were not really arrogant.
The three of them met Wei Hao.
Following Wei Cheng's instructions, Xu Huang explained the movements of the Baibo Army and the possible chaos to Wei Hao in detail.
"... That's roughly it. The most critical thing at the moment is Xia County. The Baibo Army is likely to take action against Xia County. I also ask Wei Gong to make plans early. The Young Master also means the same. We cannot let the Baibo Army harm the villagers in Hedong, causing Hedong to suffer damage." Life is in ruins."
Wei Hao frowned, he didn't expect the situation to be so chaotic.
If the Baibo Army really wants to repeat the Yellow Turban Rebellion in Hedong, then Hedong will definitely become the next place of deep hope. The power of the aristocratic family will be crushed by the military commanders, and in the end the family will have to move south, gradually disappearing everyone.
Wei Hao clenched his fists unconsciously when he thought that the foundation his ancestors had worked so hard to build might be destroyed by his own hands.
The headquarters of the Wei family is in Hedong, and there are branches in almost every county in Hedong. It can be said that one move can affect the whole body.
In addition, the Wei family has many in-law families in Hedong, such as the Wang family in Taiyuan, the Pei family in Wenxi, the Xie family, etc.
If Bai Bojun really wants to take action against the aristocratic family, it is obvious that the Wei family cannot be immune from this.
When Wei Hao learned that Wei Cheng intended to protect the people of Hedong, his old eyes narrowed slightly.
He said: "You go back first and tell Chen'er that the family has its own way to deal with it so that he doesn't have to worry, but if it's a matter of life and death... forget it, that's all, you can leave first."
If life is at stake, just run away as far as you can with your wife.
Wei Hao originally wanted to say this, but after thinking about it, he decided to forget it. At that time, it seemed that there was no point in saying anything.
Xu Chu and the others didn't know why, so they could only retreat obediently.
After leaving Wei Zhuang.
Xu Huang frowned and said, "Do you think Duke Wei didn't understand what our young master meant?"
Xu Chu also frowned, scratched his nose and said, "Could it be that you are making the situation too pessimistic? I think the young master meant that he didn't take Bai Bojun seriously, but just now Wei Gong didn't seem to care about it. Think so."
"Then what should we do?" Chengtou added in a confused voice.
The three of them looked at each other, not knowing what to say for a moment, so they could only go back and report to Wei Cheng in detail.
In fact, what the three of them didn't know was that Wei Hao triggered Beloved's passive. He doted on Wei Cheng too much and didn't want to put Wei Cheng in danger.
Three people rode horses in the wilderness, bringing up billowing smoke.
When we first arrived at the official road, we saw about two to three hundred people in front of us walking hard on the official road.
Hearing the sound of horse hooves behind them, those people gave way.
Xu Chu and the other three didn't pay attention and rode through the middle.
At this moment, a childish voice in the crowd shouted: "Mom, dad, this is the uncle, the kind uncle who gave me the steamed buns!"
Xu Huang was stunned for a moment, feeling that the voice sounded familiar. He couldn't help but look back and was stunned when he saw a little girl approaching him.
"Xu~"
Seeing Xu Huang stop his horse, Xu Chu and Chengtou also pulled the reins and looked back curiously at Xu Huang.
At this time, a shining bald head popped up from the side and shouted: "Two brave men, what a coincidence."
Xu Chu looked at the man, a look of surprise flashed in his eyes, and he frowned and said, "Are you...from the Jiaolong Gang?"
Among the crowd, an old man stood up, bowed his hands respectfully to Xu and Chu, and said, "You two strong men, you are well."
Zhengtou asked doubtfully: "You two know them?"
Xu Chu pointed at Hua Cun, the big boss with his head shrunk behind his bald head, and said, "Have you forgotten, the ones who made trouble the day before yesterday?"
He looked towards Hua Cun, frowned for a moment, and said angrily: "Hey, it turns out it's you."
Hua Cun nodded awkwardly and walked behind the old man.
The old man cupped his hands and said, "Forgive me, strong man. A few children are ignorant and have offended noble people. I will make amends for them."
Gu'ao
When Cheng Tou saw that he was old and couldn't stand still, he saluted him, but it was hard to say anything, "Forget it, forget it, old man, don't do this."
Over there, Xu Huang jumped off the horse, touched the little girl's head, took out a few steamed buns from the baggage on the horse, distributed them to the children who were gathered around, then raised his head and asked the adults : "Why are you here?"
The children's parents expressed their gratitude one after another, and one of the women said: "We have no choice but to do it. After you left yesterday, some officials and soldiers came to our village and said they wanted to recruit young men to dig some kind of mine. Silver carp and the others didn't agree, so they started fighting with each other."
"Oh?" Xu Huang frowned slightly.
One woman said angrily: "They claim to be from the Baibo Army and say that if we don't obey, they will massacre the village. I can't tolerate them. My head will be dragged away to the army without his life, and then he will take my son away."
I won’t live anymore.”
"Yes, we beat them away, but we were afraid of offending the Baibo Army. In the end, we had no other choice, so we decided to join you!"
Bald-headed Peipianpian walked up to Xu Huang and watched eagerly as the children gnawed on the steamed buns, with saliva dripping from their mouths and then being sucked back.
"Trust us?"
"this……"
Xu Huang looked at Xu Chu, both of them looked confused.
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The construction of Haojia Village is still in full swing.
Hao Dadao would go to the shabby room from time to time in the past few days, mainly to ask Wei Cheng for some professional metallurgical skills.
Don't ask why Wei Cheng suddenly became an expert in smelting. In fact, he only found out after he took the time to return to modern times and searched Baidu on his mobile phone.
Hao Dadao didn't take it seriously at first, but after trying the metallurgical formula provided by Wei Cheng, the hardness and toughness of the wrought iron he obtained were greatly improved, and he was immediately shocked.
I have to sigh, I am from a good family and I know everything. This iron-making recipe is even better than the recipe from the imperial weapons workshop... Hao Dadao was once recruited to make ordnance.
, understand more or less.
At this time, the arsenal next to the brick factory had already been completed, and dozens of people were working tirelessly to hammer the hot iron slabs.
Wei Cheng gave them another task today, to create a building material called nails.
It wasn't that Wei Cheng didn't want to use mortise and tenon structures to build houses, or that people in the village didn't understand what mortise and tenon structures were. It was just that building houses with mortise and tenon structures was too slow. Winter was about to come, and Wei Cheng couldn't afford to wait.
It's so good to use nails. Let's just build the house first, and then we will promote the ancient architecture. There are many opportunities, so don't rush it.
After getting the nails, Wu Santong and others discovered for the first time that building a house could be so easy. All they had to do was cut and plan the wood according to specifications, and then connect it with nails. With this, the speed of building houses and towers increased.
A lot.
As a result, the demand for nails skyrocketed.
In addition to supervising the quality of the houses, Hao Dadao also takes time to keep an eye on the progress of the arsenal.
Wei Cheng suggested that he hand over the supervision of the house to someone else. Hao Dadao also felt that he was gradually unable to do what he wanted, so he finally suggested that Hao Sanzhu be the supervisor.
Wei Cheng nodded in agreement. Hao Sanzhu and Aunt Manhua are both well-educated people, including Xiaohua. Their family belongs to the type of people who work diligently and meticulously, so they are very suitable for this type of coordinating work.
The two found Hao Sanzhu.
When he learned that he was to be responsible for house construction, Hao Sanzhu refused at first because he felt that he could not take on such a big responsibility.
Furthermore, he had been isolated by the villagers before because of his tendency to brag too much. Now that he has returned to the village, he just wants to blend in with everyone. As for being a leader, he never dares to think about it.
However, what he didn't expect was that when they learned that he was asked to supervise the work, not only did Wei Cheng and Hao Dadao agree, but even the people in the village also stood up and said good things about him.
"I think Uncle Sanzhu can do it. Uncle Sanzhu is serious about his work, but his mouth is too bad."
"Well, that's right. Everything about Sanzhu is good, but that mouth is particularly annoying."
"Forget it, forget it, let Sanzhu be the supervisor. There is no more suitable candidate than him in the main village."
Hao Sanzhu is about to cry. Are you willing or unwilling? Can you be so harsh on others?
Later, when I thought about it carefully, I realized that I was like this in the past. It turned out that it felt really uncomfortable to be left out... Wait, my dear, it turns out you were just cursing me in a roundabout way.
The people in the village were happily addicted to it, and Hao Sanzhu also successfully became the supervisor, mainly responsible for following up on the progress and quality of the houses.
Many years later, Hao Sanzhu stood in front of the palace gate and looked at his life's masterpiece. He never thought that his life would take such a wonderful turn today...
Withered vines and old trees, dim crows.
The sun sets in the west.
Xu and Chu, who were supposed to be able to return in the afternoon, finally appeared at the foot of the mountain at this time.
The three of them looked at each other with wry smiles on each other's faces.
On the top of the mountain, the villagers who were about to lower the lift platform inadvertently glanced behind the three of them, and their movements stopped instantly.
The villager in charge of the alert shouted: "Everyone be on alert."
He even went to ring the alarm bell.
The leader at the foot of the mountain hurriedly shouted: "Heizi, it's us."
Heizi shouted: "I know if you are being held hostage, I will call someone to come over and help you."
Zhengtou shouted angrily: "No, you misunderstood, we are fine."
Heizi was stunned for a moment, then pointed at more and more people behind the three of them, "Then who are they?"
Not long after, Wei Cheng came to the lift platform after receiving the news.
Xu Chu and the others have already climbed to the top of the cliff, accompanied by an old man.
When he saw Wei Cheng, the old man saluted respectfully: "I have met the young master."
Wei Cheng looked at the villagers gathered at the foot of the mountain, frowned and said, "What is this, old man?"
Xu Chu briefly talked about the Jiaolong Gang's desire to defect to Wei Cheng, then pointed at the old man and said: "They were targeted by the Baibo Army and wanted to drag the men in the village to mine. After driving away the Baibo Army, they
After escaping and having no way out, he thought of us."
"This..." Wei Cheng looked at the hundreds of densely packed heads at the foot of the mountain. At one time, they were as big as one head or two.
Seeing this, the old man hurriedly knelt down to Wei Cheng and begged: "Young Master is so kind and virtuous, please save us."
Everyone at the bottom of the mountain knelt down with a roar, shouting in unison: "Young Master is so kind and kind, please save us."
Wei Cheng looked at this scene and felt indescribably uncomfortable in his heart. First, he felt pity for their hard life, and second, he felt helpless at being chased away. If he refused directly, wouldn't it be a bit too unkind?
Wei Cheng sighed deeply and said bluntly: "I got up to speak first... To be honest, I can accept you, but you must listen to me in everything from now on. If you can't do it, don't blame me for turning your back on me."
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The old man hesitated for a moment, but then he remembered that winter was about to begin, and if there was no shelter, many people would die, so he finally gritted his teeth and said: "Please rest assured, Sir, since we have made plans to seek refuge, we will follow your lead and be determined."
I dare not disobey the young master."
Wei Teng nodded slightly and said immediately: "The first order is for everyone to go to the creek to the east and wash themselves clean."