Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 45 Not receiving good intentions, the master sneered and said chillingly
Zhou Tong pointed at Sun Xin and said, "Sun Xin, your elder brother is now serving as a soldier in Dengzhou, and he is quite promising. I think his whipping method is very good, but your hand is much more unfamiliar. , I often want to remind you a little bit, this time you don't want to be playful, just follow me to Wangjiazhuang to be a coach, you know!"

Sun Xin made a mistake.He knew that his skill was much worse than that of his elder brother Sun Li. Sun Li had discussed with him many times how to improve it, but with Sun Li's vision, he couldn't figure out where else he could practice. The two discussed for a long time They all believe that this is not something that can be researched in a day or two.

But now that the master has spoken this time, Sun Xin knows that if he is with Zhou Tong, he will definitely guide him carefully, and has even come up with a set of training methods to make up for his own shortcomings. Definitely increased.

But now that his Zhuangzi has just opened, and all the development is on his own shoulders, how can he have so much time to go to Wangjiazhuang with Zhou Tong as a coach?

What's more, he knows that his talent is limited, and he can't match Sun Li's level when he reaches the highest level, but even if Zhu Biao, who can fight Hua Rong for thirty rounds, will be shot down by himself, his legs will be killed. He was limping, times had changed, and Sun Xin felt that it would be better to think about remodeling the firecracker if it was just for self-protection. It was really not worthwhile for him to spend a year learning martial arts.

Sun Li knew from a glance at Sun Xin that his younger brother was unwilling, so he hurriedly gave Sun Xin a wink to tell him not to demolish Zhou Tong in public.

After chatting with a group of teachers and brothers for a while, Sun Xin found an opportunity to come to Zhou Tong. First, he expressed his gratitude to Zhou Tong for his kindness very frankly, and then tactfully told Zhou Tong that he married Hu Sanniang. Busy with the farm work in the village, there is really no way to get away and go to Wangjiazhuang.

Zhou Tong was surprised when he heard that Sun Xin married the daughter of Hujiazhuang in Dulonggang. He understood what Sun Xin meant, but his expression was still not good.

He snorted coldly: "So you plan to plant some fields on Zhuangzi all your life? Do you never want to be diligent after practicing the whip technique like this?"

Sun Xin hurriedly said: "I also want to live my life first, so that I can have a future. I also invite Master to go to Zhuangzi to enjoy the blessings."

Zhou Tong was dissatisfied and said, "Since you don't like the old man's stuff, how can I have the face to go to Guizhuang to eat? As for getting rich, hehe, go back and ask your father-in-law Hu Taigong, if there is no pair of double swords, he can build it." Hu Family Manor? I haven’t heard of anyone who became powerful by farming the land!”

Zhou Tong is a person who cares about face. If he hadn't pointed out that Sun Xin went to Wangjiazhuang to be a coach in front of everyone, now Sun Xin explained it, maybe his master would understand, but now that he said this, Sun Xin asked him to say it again. Taking it back, Zhou Tong will only be more unhappy because Sun Xin brushed his face.

Sun Xin knew that he couldn't say any more.He silently retreated to the corner, and when Zhou Tong let the disciples leave, he left with Sun Li with a sullen head.

After leaving Dengzhou City, Sun Xin went back to Shili Pai to rest for a night, and then he went to Dulonggang with Hu Sanniang.

Seeing that the end of the new year is approaching, many farmers in Dulonggang with their hometowns in other places have saved some money and food during this year, and most of them want to go home for the New Year.The Hu family will arrange a meal for the family's farmer at the end of each new year. Taigong Hu specially invited his new son-in-law to come to the farm for dinner this year.

As soon as Sun Xin arrived at Hu's manor, he was dragged into the room by Mrs. Hu to talk, causing Hu Cai who was sitting outside to rub his hands secretly and said to Hu Cheng: "I also just came back from a trip these few days, why didn't Daddy disappear?" What's the matter with asking him to come in first, while I'm going to chatter in the room?"

Hu Cheng irritatedly said: "Stop talking, it's almost New Year's Eve, don't make trouble."

On the other side, Sun Xin and Hu Taigong entered, and Hu Taigong asked Sun Xin, "Has your Zhuangzi started to build a market?"

"The construction started a few days ago. I found the three craftsmen that my father said. I plan to repair the watchtower first."

"Build towers first without building walls?"

Sun Xin took the tea and drew a market street on the table, and then drew two circles at both ends of the street.

"These two places built watchtowers with shooting weapons on them. If someone comes to rob this market, they will be within range when they walk along the street. As long as the watchtowers are not captured, no one will be able to rob the market. "

After Sun Xin learned about the method of repairing the market in Zhuangzi in recent years, he realized that the trading place was basically built in the wall of Zhuangzi in these years, and the main purpose was to protect the street from robbery.

But the old rural streets in Sun Xin's previous life were not like this in his memory.

The village he was born in in his previous life was also an ancient village that existed in the late Qing Dynasty. There was no city wall on the old market street in that village, only two blockhouses were built at both ends of the market street.

These two blockhouses are one end at the other. As long as muskets are placed on top of this kind of bunker called "Black Building", anyone who robs in the market street will be within the range of muskets.

This kind of black building was the main defensive building in Shandong and Hebei where I lived in my previous life, and it was still in use until the Anti-Japanese War.

The two half-collapsed black buildings in Sun Xin's previous life village are also county-level cultural relics protection buildings, and the black buildings are full of mottled bullet holes.

It is said that the village protection group spontaneously organized by the villagers relied on these two black buildings to deal with the bandits who came to rob them. After several days of fierce fighting, hundreds of bandits suffered several losses under the obstruction of these two black buildings. After being able to succeed, and after dozens of lives were lost, the nearby bandits did not dare to take Zhuangzi's idea for several years.

Since then, the surrounding villages have followed suit and built black buildings.

Later, the bandit leader voted for Little Japan as a puppet army, took mortars and went down to the village to kill the members of the militia, and even blew up the two black buildings. After that, the village became a place where these two dogs came and went at will. .

Since this kind of defense is combined with firearms with a longer range, even robbers equipped with repeating guns can be repelled, let alone the cold weapons armed these days.

But after hearing Sun Xin's words, Hu Taigong, who had never seen this kind of defense method, frowned: "Is this too childish? The market is so long, might it be necessary to use heavy arrows on the watchtower? Ordinary archers shoot The heavy arrows will lose their aim with only a hundred arrows, how many crossbowmen can stand on a watchtower? How to deal with the enemy coming too much?"

Sun Xin understood that Taigong Hu did not know that he had such equipment as muskets. Looking at this kind of defense with a cold weapon thinking must feel very unreliable, but he didn't want to expose his equipment advantages so quickly, so he didn't have so many in his hands. For the funds, he can only build these two watchtowers for the time being. After he has money, he will slowly build the wall, and it will not be a matter of a day or two.

Taigong Hu nodded his head in agreement.

(End of this chapter)