Liu Ce looked at the green eyes and couldn't help but give Chen Xiaobei a thumbs up.
"Brother Xiaobei, you are the only one who dares to grow vegetables during this period of time."
Chen Xiaobei, if you were to be born in my country and world in the 21st century, with plastic greenhouses everywhere and verdant green in winter, you would be envious to death.
But these words are meaningless now, so he can only smile and cup his hands, "I still need Butler Lao Liu to help water the vegetables. When the vegetables grow, I promise to provide free food to Liu Mansion."
Liu Ce laughed loudly and waved his hands, "We should do the work, but it's not okay to provide food for free. If my lady finds out, she won't scold me like a bitch."
While joking, Chen Xiaobei demonstrated the key points of watering to Liu Ce one by one. Although Liu Ce had never done farm work, he was very smart and knew it at a glance. After watching Chen Xiaobei teach two Long vegetables, he said happily
, "Groom, please go and get busy. Just leave this matter to us."
After sending Chen Xiaobei away, Liu Ce asked everyone to get to work quickly.
While everyone was busy, Liu Ziming quickly came to Liu Ce and whispered, "Steward Liu, it seems there is someone over there."
Liu Ce pretended to be nonchalant and secretly looked in the direction Liu Ziming said. Sure enough, there were branches shaking in a bush in the distance, and it seemed that there were several figures vaguely visible.
Liu Ce frowned. There were the remnants of Zhu Meng's troops on the mountain. If there were people here, it was probably the remnant soldiers who had come down the mountain.
Thinking of this, he whispered to Liu Ziming, "There is only one road down the mountain from here. Take a few people back and squat on the roadside to check the situation. If there are few people, just arrest them. If there are too many people, just arrest them."
Ask with two tongues."
Liu Ziming took the order and left.
After waiting for about half an hour, Liu Ziming came back.
"Butler Liu, we have captured three of them. They are all Zhu Meng's men. They got separated on the mountain and came here by mistake."
Of course, the three of them did not pose much of a threat, but this made Liu Ce wary. He thought for a moment, handed over the work in hand to Liu Ziming, and hurried back to the village to see Liu Rumei.
"Miss, we were helping Chen Xiaobei water vegetables just now, and we caught three of Zhu Meng's men who came down from the mountain."
"According to them, they got lost in the mountains and got there by mistake and were caught by us."
Hearing this, Liu Rumei also frowned slightly, "According to Shen Qiang, there are about five thousand people on the mountain. Zhu Ting brought two thousand. If we continue to walk more, there must be at least a thousand more people on the mountain.
"
After saying that, he raised his head and looked at the majestic Qingniu Mountain in front of him.
"But there are thousands of forked roads in the huge Qingniu Mountain, and we can't search every corner."
Liu Ce also sighed, "Yeah, the people on the mountain are all soldiers from other places. It would be good if we could get down the mountain by accident like the three of them. But if we get lost in the mountain, we will eventually freeze to death and starve."
Death is probably entirely possible."
Of course Liu Rumei understood what Liu Ce meant, and he sighed.
"Yeah, if they stay in the mountains and get so hungry that they go crazy, they can do anything."
"In this way, you can take five hundred people up the mountain tomorrow, bring more supplies, and light more fires at night. When they see the light of the fire, they may look for it and come over."
Liu Ce nodded. In this era, this is the only way. No matter what, Zhu Meng's men are also the army of their Dacang Kingdom. They can't just leave so many people on the mountain.
Moreover, being in the mountains is also a great hidden danger to Hetou Village.
As the sun set, Hu Fan left Hetou Village drunkenly. He took Chen Xiaobei's hand and said repeatedly, "Brother Xiaobei, you must keep your word and deliver fish and apples to the county tomorrow."
After seeing Hu Fan off, Chen Xiaobei turned his head, his face no longer filled with joy.
While it was getting dark, he quickly called the people with umbrella nets in the village to go fishing in the river. After all, there were only a few fish in his fish tank. If he sent them to the county town tomorrow, there wouldn't be enough to sell them.
As for Apple, we have to wait for Chen Dachun and others.
It was not until dark that Chen Dachun and the others finally came back, with everyone's faces beaming with joy.
Seeing Chen Xiaobei, Chen Dachun shouted from afar, "Brother Xiaobei, we are back."
When Chen Xiaobei nodded and came back, he was relieved. At this moment, he saw Chen Yangzhi walking forward quickly.
"Brother Xiaobei has an unexpected harvest today."
"We picked fruits there and captured a few prisoners. They were all Zhu Meng's men who got separated and were bumped into by us."
After saying this, he pointed to the back and saw that at the end of the team, several people were tied together with their heads lowered, standing there without saying a word.
Seeing this scene, Chen Xiaobei's heart skipped a beat.
I was careless, I was too careless.
Fortunately, people like Yang Chun and Yang Zhi followed Chen Dayong and the others today. Otherwise, it's really hard to say what would happen if these village guards met these three people.
Suppressing the panic in his heart, Chen Xiaobei asked Yang Zhi to take the prisoner over and take care of it personally. After everything was arranged, he turned around and went to find Liu Rumei.
Liu Rumei saw that Chen Xiaobei was so anxious, but she acted very calmly. She poured a cup of tea and put it in front of Chen Xiaobei, "Brother Xiaobei, don't be impatient when something happens. Speak slowly."
"Chen Dachun and the others just went up the mountain and met three of Zhu Meng's subordinates. They captured them and brought them back."
Upon hearing this, Liu Rumei frowned. I thought it was just a coincidence that Liu Ce and the others met in the afternoon, but Chen Dachun and the others also met when they went up the mountain, which shows that there are many Zhu Meng soldiers scattered on the mountain.
If this is the case, just relying on Liu Ce to lead people up the mountain to light a fire and summon them will probably have little effect, and many soldiers may have been scattered at the foot of the mountain.
"Brother Xiaobei, I won't hide it from you. Liu Ce and the others also arrested a few people near the foot of the mountain in the afternoon. I think many soldiers on the mountain may have come down the mountain. We need to be more vigilant about this."
Chen Xiaobei thought for a while and came up with an idea, "Can we let these captured soldiers go up the mountain again to find their companions?"
Liu Rumei's eyes lit up when she heard this, "This is a good idea. I'll do it."
"No, let's go together and convince these soldiers to go up the mountain as quickly as possible."
Chen Xiaobei and Liu Rumei came together to see the captured prisoners.
These soldiers obviously knew Liu Rumei and fell to their knees, kowtowing and begging for mercy.
Liu Rumei sighed, "I don't want to kill you, I just want to discuss something with you."
Upon hearing what he said, several soldiers rushed to agree, "Miss Liu, please give us your orders as long as we can do it."
Liu Rumei nodded, "There should be many of your companions on the mountain."