Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 203
When the team went far away, Widow Chen finally dared to open the door, and hurriedly walked to her field with her two children. All the way, she kept recalling the simple and honest smile of the young soldier in her mind.

She always felt that what the old farmer said was wrong. The Qiuwu of the guarding army was not because the leader restrained the military discipline, but because the peasants and soldiers seemed to be a group of honest people.

But after thinking about it, Widow Chen couldn't believe it. How can a kind person be recruited by a rich family to be a guardian? If the guardian is not vicious, how can he deter the villagers in the village?
Widow Chen went to the farmland, and all her fields were planted with corn.

This new crop spread from Sunjiazhuang has been widely planted in the second prefecture of Denglai at this time. Although this crop requires a lot of water and fertilizer, it is a good man's grain. As long as you are willing to cultivate hard, there will always be two The harvest of Sanshi is twice as much as other grains.

As a widow, Widow Chen is no more lazy than men in the field, so although she will encounter some difficulties when farming, and she is far inferior to other men in doing heavy work, she brings her two children in the field every day. The field is busy and busy with a few acres of corn fields.

She was busy on the fields for half the morning, when suddenly she saw a fast horse walking back and forth among the mountains in the distance, and then beat the horse back.

Widow Chen's heart tightened, could this be the spy of the bandits?
She looked back towards the village, wondering if she should run back to the village first, but after thinking for a long time, she dared not enter the village alone, so she went to the field beside her and asked an old farmer next door: "Zhangzhang, you Did you see that horse from earlier?"

"What horse?" The old farmer was busy cultivating corn and did not hear the sound of the horse.

Widow Chen didn't dare to go back, so she could only work worryingly until noon. The daughter-in-law of the old man's family came to the field with porridge. Originally, their family didn't eat lunch, but Widow Chen sent food in the morning and begged them to give it at noon. Bring your own food, so the family brought lunch.

Of course, as a reward for helping Widow Chen cook, they could save a little food, so they simply cooked porridge, and the whole family had a meal for lunch.

When several people rested and drank porridge, they saw a group of guards coming from the village in the distance.

The officer pointed out the topography of the hill from a distance, and as soon as the dispatch was made, some soldiers ran across Widow Chen's field with their equipment and ambushed everywhere in front of them. crops.

Looking at these scenes, Widow Chen and the old farmer were a little stunned.

Why did this group of people chase after me even though I had already hid at the edge of the village?

The officer looked at Widow Chen and the others, and after two orders, a sergeant came towards them.

When they got closer, Widow Chen and the sergeant who came there were taken aback. It turned out that it was the young man who slept in front of her room in the morning.

The young man seemed a little nervous when he saw Widow Chen, he touched his head, and then pointed to the hill in front of him and said: "Our battalion commander got the news yesterday that a group of bandits is coming to rob Dawangzhuang today, that's why we did it yesterday." He came in a hurry."

"The bandits may attack the village from here, so we will come here to guard. You should wait for the villagers to go back to the village to hide, so as not to be injured in the battle."

After the sergeant finished speaking, Widow Chen also remembered the horse sentinel just now, but she was very reluctant to leave.

It's not that the bandits won't come, the key is that they are afraid that if these people fight in their fields, they will destroy the food they have worked so hard to grow.

The old farmer's mouth squirmed, as if he wanted to express his worries but didn't dare. The sergeant also knew what they were thinking, and quickly promised: "We will try our best to keep your family's crops."

When the old farmer heard what he said, although he didn't believe it, he had to obey and left.

But Widow Chen is unwilling to leave no matter what, the old farmer's family still has land elsewhere, even if the food here is damaged, there is still food to eat, and Widow Chen and her two children rely on this A few acres of land to live on, and now they are fighting on these acres of fields. If they destroy their own crops, they should go begging for food.

Widow Chen saw that the young sergeant was really kind and didn't hit her yet, so she had some expectations for him in her heart, and said bravely, "If I don't leave, I will start a war, and I will die in this field." What about the above?"

The sergeant looked at the comrades behind him who had already started to enter the preset position, and became very distressed: "Your father has already gone back, and if you don't follow, what's the matter with bringing two children here?"

Widow Chen said: "That's not my father. My father-in-law died and the family only had these few acres of Susukida. If all the crops on the field were knocked down, I... my baby and I would have no way out. If we die here, I will die." These crops must also be protected.”

When she said this, Widow Chen had tears in her eyes, and the two children burst into tears when they saw their mother was sad.

The sergeant saw her like this, his face froze, and he said distressedly: "Even so, what's the use of you staying here... I just got promoted to the platoon leader, the company commander wants me to persuade you to leave, if you don't persuade me to leave, I will definitely I'm going to eat and hang up."

Seeing her determined expression, the sergeant thought for a while and finally gritted his teeth: "Isn't it just a few acres of land? If you really have no food to eat after this battle, go to Sunjiazhuang to find me, and I will borrow food for you!"

"You lend me food?" Widow Chen never imagined that the sergeant came up with such a stupid way. After thinking about it, she knew that even if the peasants and soldiers in Sunjiazhuang were strictly disciplined, they definitely did not have such rules. This act must have been done by the sergeant himself. for.

Widow Chen couldn't help blushing: "You also have a family, how can you borrow food for me?"

"I don't have a family, even if I live alone in this village, there is enough food to eat."

"If you believe in me, go back quickly. If you just hide in the house and don't go out when the war starts, if the food is really destroyed, go to Sunjiazhuang to find me, Zhao Qi, and report my name. I have that servant to farm by myself." Tian, ​​even if I die in battle, there will be a surplus of money and food, you just ask the supervisory committee to pay the remaining money and food, it will be enough for you to live on."

That Zhao Qi was originally a bachelor who came down the Yinma River, he was very indifferent to matters of life and death, at this moment he just wanted to drive her away, so he spoke a little faster.

Widow Chen naturally knew what this man meant, she had a good impression of him in her heart, her lips squirmed for a long time before she mustered up the courage to point to a distant mountain depression and said: "I saw a horse walking between that mountain depressions earlier. Check it out, I'm afraid the bandits are coming from there."

"What!" Zhao Qi looked at the col pointed by Widow Chen and nodded, "It's really possible, I'm going to report to the company commander."

When he ran to a distance, he glanced at the beautiful little widow again, and said again: "You are pitiful, if we can't resist these bandits and are beaten into the village by them, you must close the door and protect yourself." Two children."

After saying a word, Zhao Qi hurriedly ran to report the situation of the battle. Widow Chen stared blankly at the burly man going away, her lips moved but she didn't say a word.

What a brave man...

(End of this chapter)