Chen Feiyan's family worked together and quickly built a tunnel that was two meters deep, two meters wide and more than 40 meters long.

Building such a long tunnel takes a lot of time and effort, and the family is busy from morning to night. Just do it after eating.

Chen Feiyan felt as if she had lost weight due to exhaustion.

Just when Chen Feiyan's family was extremely busy, they had already sent troops to attack the Northern Grassland Empire in the south. They sent nearly 30 troops, divided into three armies in the east, middle and west, to attack the Da Zhu Kingdom in the south fiercely.

Suddenly, the places where these armies passed were devastated and turned into scorched earth.

The bodies of the brutally murdered men, women, and children were scattered in the mud pits.

The tigers, leopards, and jackals that had not eaten in the mountains and forests in winter now smelled the smell of blood. They came out of the forest one by one and ate only the bones of the scattered corpses.

It started to snow heavily that day.

In order to return all the books he had read, memorized, and copied at home, after Chen Yixuan greeted his wife a few times, he took his eldest son to drive the donkey cart and quickly rushed to the county town.

At one or two o'clock in the morning, their father and son went out. At five or six o'clock in the morning, before dawn, he rushed to the county seat.

At this time, he was still thinking that when he returned the book to his Zhang family cousin, he would definitely take his eldest son for a nice walk around the county town.

His wife told him last night that she wanted to eat pork belly, steamed pork, braised pig trotters made in the city...

He also knew that she was reluctant to spend money to buy it. After all, the meat sold in the city was more delicious.

Those expensive seasonings are not available to ordinary people.

For those who specialize in restaurants and businesses in the city, a pot of brine can be used for decades.

They also say that the longer the brine is marinated, the better the taste and the more aromatic it will be.

Put a piece of meat in and cook it for a few days, and the taste will be amazing.

Just when Chen Yixuan was thinking about whether he should buy a pound of braised pork or half a pound of braised pork for his wife, he heard the sound of horse hooves suddenly appearing a few kilometers behind him. .

Chen Yixuan thought of his daughter-in-law, who had been telling him recently that there might be an invasion of foreign enemies in their place, and there might be three thieves and bandits. Without thinking, Chen Yixuan quickened his pace and hurried to Zhang's house.

The Zhang family lives in the inner city of the county.

The walls there are very thick and very high.

In the past few years, Zhang Mansion has been serving as the county lieutenant and garrison in the city.

I know that their city has never been peaceful. Every few years, ten years or even decades, banditry will occur here.

Every time those people smashed, looted, burned, killed, injured, and looted, a large number of people in the county would die.

Among the common people, there are ordinary households, rich households, and poor households.

Just because there are so many casualties every year, the Zhang family builds the walls of their mansion high and dense. Moreover, their home has more than ten tunnels and interior walls.

After Chen Yixuan entered the Zhang family, he told his cousin all his worries.

When Zhang Jiqing saw his cousin saying these words, he became alert.

"Cousin, did you hear everything just now?"

"Of course, I won't hear the sound of horse hooves wrong. Cousin, we have to..."

When Zhang Jiqing heard this, he took action.

"Cousin, I will tell my father now!"

……

Just as Zhang Mansion was getting into action, the people in the county seemed to have heard the news that bandits were coming. I thought this bandit was coming, and everyone was very scared.

"Quick, quick, close the door!"

The county seat is divided into outer city and inner city.

The two gates of the inner city were the first to be closed.

The dozen or so soldiers guarding the city gate in the outer city noticed from a distance that groups of large troops were rushing towards this direction. They were frightened and trembled, so they closed the heavy city gate.

As for the people who were lining up outside the city to enter the city, seeing that something was going wrong, they rushed towards the city one by one.

"It's not good, it's not good, there are thieves coming, there are thieves coming, bandits are coming to kill us!"

Hearing the desperate cries of those men, women, old and young, the people hiding in their houses in the city all turned pale and trembled.

“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuah, what should I do now that I’m in charge? I don’t know how many bandits will come this time. Can our city be defended?”

"How do I know if I can hold it? Anyway, I only know that if our city gate is broken once, no one in our city can escape!"

At this moment, County Magistrate Zhao in the yamen heard that a group of bandits on horseback were coming. His face was calm, but his hands were trembling.

Their place has a lot of people but little land, and it's a land of poor mountains and rivers. Many poor people have no way to survive, so they run to the mountains to become bandits.

This happens to them every few years, and it makes his head feel big.

Nearly half of the two hundred yamen servants in his yamen are all members of the Zhao clan.

Ask them to fight against those bandits and thieves. If they lose arms and legs, why aren't their relatives and clansmen allowed to look for him?

By that time, I don’t know how much it will cost in terms of medical expenses, pension expenses, etc.

Over the years, County Magistrate Zhao has racked his brains in order to make his family more prosperous and allow those tribesmen to live a stable life.

Now that banditry has appeared in the city again, after thinking about it, he took out a red lottery ticket and wrote a white list. After asking his master's clerk to check it carefully, he decided to draw three people from each household in the county. They asked them to bring their own weapons and form a city defense team.

In this way, all risks are shared, and the Zhao clan can be safe and stable.

……

There was news that Zhang Jiqing's family would be leaving soon. When he knew that every household would have three boys, he smiled and told his cousin Chen Yixuan.

"Cousin, the banditry problem this year should not be serious. In previous years, our county was like this. Three men were assigned from each household to bring their own weapons and fight against the bandits."

When Chen Yixuan heard this, he always felt uneasy.

The movement he heard before was clearly not something that dozens of gangsters could make.

Even a team of several hundred people would not be able to make such a big movement.

Just as he was thinking about this, he suddenly heard someone in the city shouting loudly: "It's the murderers from the north who are coming!"

"No, no, no, all the Huns soldiers from the north have come to us!"

Knowing that it was a foreign invasion, Magistrate Zhao couldn't sit still.

How is this possible? They haven't fought a major war here for more than ten years. Why are they here this year?

Knowing that every time these barbarians conquered a city, they would kill all the people in the city. Magistrate Zhao could only prepare for the worst.

"Quick, quick, call all the reputable people in the city for me. I have something important to discuss with them!"


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