Rebirth Farmer Yaomei

Chapter 319
Ning Wan only stopped at Zhizhou Mansion for a while before leaving.

As for Mrs. Zhizhou's words, it's okay for her to have heard it, and she didn't take it to heart at all.

Zhizhou is a native of eastern Zhejiang. He was named on the gold list in the cold window of ten years. He has been promoted step by step since he was a small county magistrate.However, it is impossible for Commander Zhou to communicate with barbarians!The Zhou family has been military generals in Liaodong for several generations, and they have blood feuds with the barbarians. What's the benefit of getting through with the barbarians?Let the third-rank commander not do it, go to the desert to graze?

Both sides use Tongyi to attack each other, but they are actually talking nonsense with their eyes wide open!In order to attack each other, they have already ignored everything!
On the other hand, Tieshi's words are fair to her. When guarding Anping City this time, Commander Zhou and Zhizhou both committed serious crimes. It will be breached within a few days.

Now that Mrs. Zhizhou has lost her husband, she is so sad that she has lost her sense of proportion. Persuasion is not enough. I hope that other people will not be confused when they see her attitude of wanting to ease civil and military relations, and can focus on resettling the people and rebuilding Anping Let's go up.

Then Ning Wan went to Lu's house.

Tie Shi and himself both worked hard from scratch, and they didn't have any connections, especially in Anpingwei, only the Lu family could be regarded as an official family with whom they had a good friendship.Ning Wan wanted to help Tieshi to defend Anping City well, so she had to discuss with the female family members of the Lu family and ask them for help.

Because Ning Wan had sent someone to deliver a message earlier, when she arrived at the gate of Lu's house, there were mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law waiting for her. Before entering the inner courtyard, Mrs. Lu and Mrs. Lu came out to welcome her.In fact, it’s not that long since the last time we met, but after this war, it’s different, as if it’s been a lifetime, Mrs. Lu wept without paying attention to the greetings: “I don’t want to see you again, when barbarians entered the city that day , our family is the first to bear the brunt, and when we run for our lives in panic, we must die!"

Like Ning Wan, who experienced life and death, she was also filled with emotions, and she took Mrs. Lu's hand and comforted her, "It's okay, it's over, and it won't happen again!" Then she said to Mrs. Lu: "I heard The old lady and the wives are all safe, so I breathed a sigh of relief."

"Thanks to my daughter-in-law, the old lady and I were able to survive!" Mrs. Lu and his daughter-in-law each took Mrs. Lu's hand, "It's cold outside, come in and talk, the old lady wants to see you too."

The official office where the Lu family lives now was originally where the father-in-law lived when he was working as a commander. After the Lu family moved in, it was renovated and it was very luxurious and elegant.But now a few places have been destroyed, and they haven't been repaired for a while, just like that. Mrs. Lu pointed it out to her, "The barbarians are so bad, they just rob what they can't take away, and return what they can't take away." Slashing wildly with knives! They have only stopped in Anpingwei for a few hours, and if the city is really broken, I don’t know what will happen!"

Ning Wan naturally agreed very much, "Our Lu family's house outside the city has also entered the barbarians. It's the same situation, and we haven't had time to clean it up yet. Fortunately, the ancestral hall was rebuilt from an old house, and it looks unremarkable. They didn't Go in. The most pitiful thing is the houses outside Hutai City. The barbarian army has been stationed there for more than two months. It is lucky that the houses are still left, and most of them have been burned to the ground. "

Everyone scolded the barbarians and entered the main room. When Mrs. Lu saw Ning Wan, she waved and smiled: "Mrs. Lu, come to me quickly, let's talk together." After asking a few words of comfort, she couldn't help but He also talked about that day in Anping City.

"I've lived at such an old age, and I've seen a lot of strange things, but I never thought that Anping City would be broken!" Mrs. Lu said with emotion, "We were at home that day, and we heard a loud noise outside. , the roof was so shaken that dust fell from the roof, scaring me so much that I almost died."

Mrs. Lu also said: "Who knew there was a fireworks workshop under the western wall? Another section of the city wall was blown down. Anpingwei, which is as strong as the acropolis, was broken like this."

Mrs. Lu said: "At that time, I heard shouts of 'the city is broken!' everywhere on the street, and we could hear it clearly in the inner courtyard. We were so scared that our feet went limp."

"Although we were so frightened that our feet went limp, you didn't call everyone together to leave the mansion together!" Mrs. Lu also had lingering fears, "If it wasn't for that, we might have been hacked to death in the mansion by barbarians. "That day the barbarians didn't have time to occupy the whole city, but the Lu Mansion was right next to the main road where the barbarians entered the city from the damaged city wall, so the casualties were particularly heavy in this area. When Ning Wan came over, she saw that several families were holding funerals .

There were also other wives and grandmas from the Lu family interjecting, and Ning Wan heard everyone talking about the situation that day vividly. At that time, Director Lu and the men of the Lu family were all on the city wall. Immediately and decisively took a large group of grandma, mother-in-law, aunts, uncles, sister-in-laws, sons, daughters, servants, etc. out of the mansion, and then escaped for their lives.

Mrs. Lu said: "That day I wanted to stay at home and die, so I had to go out anyway. But when I went out, I didn't know where to go. I was at a loss. Fortunately, your father-in-law passed by with his soldiers. He told us to go to the commander's mansion quickly, and we went there as promised, and nothing happened just now."

Mrs. Lu and Mrs. Lu also said: "Old Commander Lu deserves to be a famous general in those days. At that time, everyone was in chaos, but he remained calm as usual. General Iron Stone came to the rescue!"

Everyone admired, "Thanks to the father and son of the Lu family for Anpingwei this time!" They also envied Hutai for keeping the city, and praised: "Fortunately, there is General Tieshi, and the people have followed suit, so they don't have to suffer!"

Ning Wan couldn't help but be humble, so she also told her own situation, and said: "Hutai City is small, but it is united as a city. Although the barbarians attacked fiercely for more than ten days, they returned in vain. She didn't say much about Iron Stone Instead, he talked about County Magistrate Qian, Mrs. Qian and the many things I did to help defend the city and labor the army."

It's okay for others to hear it, but only Madam Lu Shao couldn't help being very surprised, "Mrs. Qian, the magistrate of Qian County, is a person who doesn't know much about affairs, but now she has such skills!" Big, it is inevitable to hear and see some people and things in the county magistrate's mansion, and they look down on them in private.

In fact, Ning Wan also thought so before. County Magistrate Qian and his wife were indeed not smart and capable people, but now she understood better than Anpingwei, "But they really put their heart into it! Those days when County Magistrate Qian Leading people to clean up the city walls, the official robes were so dirty that they couldn't see their true colors, and their voice was hoarse; Madam Qian was the same. Tea."

Mrs. Lu said, "Look at the two of us in Anpingwei. The barbarians are under the city. The commander and Zhizhou didn't go about their business, but fought instead."

Most of the men in the Lu family were in the army, so the women said: "Commander Zhou is very hateful, but there is a fireworks workshop under the city wall, and the barbarians did not dismantle it in time when they attacked the city. It is Zhizhou's fault after all. It's not a pity to be killed!"

Ning Wan waved her hand and said, "I went to the magistrate's mansion earlier to burn a stick of incense. No matter what, the people are gone, and it's useless to talk about it. Now I'm here to see everyone, and I want to ask for your help. I do something for Anpingwei."

Just now everyone heard how the women in Hutai County took over from the men to take care of everything in the city, and they were already moved, and now that Ning Wan's status is different, everyone should naturally accept her proposal. Those who agree, don't even need to discuss with the men, just laughed and said: "Mrs. Lu told us to obey naturally, and our whole family can go to battle if there is anything!"

Ning Wan thanked with a smile, and said again: "Don't dare to work old lady, I have the cheek to borrow young lady to help, aunts and sisters who are free, please go with them, as for those who need to pull the tiger's skin to pull the banner When it’s time, please ask Mrs. Lu to come forward and give a shout, I think there will be nothing impossible!"

Everyone laughed, "Madam Lu is so funny, we naturally obey."

Ning Wanwan asked Mrs. Lu to take her to visit the family members of the military attache in Anpingwei, "Commander Zhou, who is writing and defending himself behind closed doors, doesn't matter, and there is another commander who will be involved. The four commanders are familiar with me. I only have more contacts with Xu's family, but I don't know others well, so I need you to introduce them."

At this time Mrs. Lu has led Mrs. Lu back to her yard, and asked people to take out the clothes outside the door to change, and said: "Commander Anping Weisun, since when the barbarians entered the city, they fled the city with their small soldiers and horses. I haven’t come back yet, and the mansion is empty, so we don’t need to go there, just go to the mansion of the four commanders and magistrates.”

Ning Wan visited one by one, contacted several wives, and then persuaded everyone to go to see Mrs. Zhou Pan. Among the Anping Wei civil officials, the Zhizhou is the state judge, and he is also a sixth-rank official from the imperial court. Now Xin Zhizhou has not sent yet. He is taking over all the affairs of Zhizhou government.However, although she had a heart to reconcile, she sat in the state judge's house for a long while and said a few words, but the words were not congenial, and the scene soon became cold, and Ning Wan had no choice but to leave.

Everyone went back to Lu's house again. It turned out that Ning Wan's current residence was too small, so she borrowed a room from Lu's house as a conference hall. Just before they came out, Mrs. Lu ordered her servants to clean it up.

When we arrived at the meeting hall, because they were all wives of military officers, they were all members of the same family. Everyone complained: "I really can't understand the face of Mrs. Zhou Judgment. When the city was broken, the yamen of civil officials were all on the east side. Yun, I endured it for a while longer, and General Tie Shi Tie came in time and beheaded Harlang with a knife, and drove the barbarians away, otherwise she would have lost her life. Now it is said that the general should protect everyone, not at all. Thank you so much, it's really ungrateful!"

"I don't like her arrogant demeanor the most. She is an official of the imperial court. Who is more noble than the other? Obviously, the official rank of her home state is lower than that of our master!"

There was a lot of grievances between the two sides, so Ning Wan smiled and said, "What she said is not bad, Tie Shi came to save Anping out of his duty. Besides, Mrs. Zhou agreed to donate money to do things with us after all."

"Donation? She only donated ten taels of silver, so it's no shame!"

Ning Wan took the lead in donating 1000 taels, the female family members of the Lu family pooled in 500 taels, and the four wives of the commander Tongzhi donated 200 taels each, so Ning Wan laughed, "Maybe it's just that the family is not rich, anyway, we already have 2000 taels." If you have two more silver, you will draw up a regulation, so that you can care for the dead, resettle the people, and comfort the army."

Mrs. Lu saw that Mrs. Lu was so magnanimous, so it was not good to say that Zhou Juan's family was not poor at all, so she asked someone to prepare a pen and ink, "We were all women in the inner house, and we didn't have much knowledge, but Mrs. Lu was in Hutai. The county then assisted General Tieshi to defend the city. He is a heroine, and we all admire it. Now please give me instructions, and I will record it."

"If we talk about heroines, Mrs. Yang from Chen Baihu's family is the one, and I'm far behind!" Ning Wan laughed, "It's just about handling all kinds of affairs. Which of you wives and wives in charge of the family is not as capable as me? Passed by Hutai once, and it’s not easy to give way at this time, so I just came out to make arrangements! Please help with your heart, after all, Anping is different from Hutai.”

The words made everyone feel comfortable, so Ning Wan was the main one, and everyone was the shop. After a while, he listed a few things that needed to be done urgently, and then discussed how to do them.

Seeing that the sky was getting dusk, Mrs. Lu said: "We have been busy all day without stopping, even when we came home at noon, we didn't prepare first, we just passed on something to eat, why don't I be the host at night, it's also the first time one thing!"

Ning Wan waved her hands and said with a smile: "It's fine if you do something, but what we agreed on will be done today, so we boiled ginger tea and sent it to the city wall, and then we'll have dinner later."

After hearing this, everyone clapped their hands and said, "The first thing we did when we opened the sect was to express condolences to the sergeants. That's very good!" After finishing speaking, they stopped eating and went out to find a teahouse to rent. Now the business in the teahouse is bleak Hearing that they were very willing, and the price was not high, everyone simply rented their buddies, and immediately sent people to buy ginger and brown sugar to boil, and then sent them to the city in large teapots and tea bowls from the teahouse.

The first to be sent was the area around the west city wall, where Tieshi led troops to build the city today.It was freezing cold in Liaodong at this time, and it was impossible to really start construction. We had to clear away the surrounding broken bricks and stones, and then erected two rows of tall wooden boards, filling them with mud bricks mixed with water like rammed earth.In such weather, the muddy water freezes in a short while, and then it is rammed upwards.

When Ning Wan and the others arrived, the gap had already been rammed to half the height of the city wall. Compared with the city wall covered with bricks, the new wall frozen with mud and water was much rougher and ugly, but it was a city wall after all, and it was very strong enough to hold the city wall. Re-enclosed to protect Anpingwei.And because this method is really amazing, many people stood aside to watch the excitement and applaud.

These ladies couldn't help but open their eyes when they got close. Dozens of cauldrons were set up under the west city wall, boiling hot water, and the steam was dense, as if a thick fog had descended.Tiishi asked everyone to mix the remnants of the city wall that had been blown down with hot water and put them into baskets evenly. Before the muddy water froze, the baskets were transported to the remnant wall and the soil was thrown into the wooden boards.The soldiers lined up in a long line and trotted to fill the gaps in the city wall with mud and water, seeing the rise there little by little.

Ning Wan exclaimed, "You really have a way!"

Tie Shi smiled, "Although I came up with this method yesterday, it didn't go well at first, and it's getting better now, and you just came over to see it."

Ning Wan then asked: "It looks like the work will be finished tomorrow?"

"No! It will be finished today!"

"That's good, everyone can sleep soundly after the work is finished!" Ning Wan said, sending ginger tea over, "Let's drink a bowl of tea before working!"

Tie Shi took the tea and didn't drink it. He just held the tea bowl and laughed, and then whispered to his wife, "You're so talented. You managed to get a detachment of women out in just half a day!"

Ning Wan snorted triumphantly at him, "As long as you repair the city wall when you arrive, I can't do anything?" She turned her head and poured tea for everyone.It was the first time for the generals of Anpingwei to receive such concern. After receiving the tea from these officials' wives, they were all very grateful, bowed and saluted again and again, and even the wives were moved, "These generals really don't care. Easy, we are still defending the city and repairing the wall outside in such a cold day, we just made some hot tea and sent it, now that you thank us, we should thank you!"

Anping City is quite large in scale, and there are many soldiers in the city. After everyone sent a round of tea, it was already dusk. The servants carried lanterns, and the long shadows were blurred.These ladies seldom worked so hard, they were all sore and limp when they came out of the teahouse, Mrs. Lu gave way: "The family has already prepared a banquet, why don't you use some before going home."

Mrs. Xu commanded Tongzhi to wave her hands and said: "I can't do it, why don't I want to eat delicacies from mountains and seas, I just want to go home and lie down and rest my feet." The other people also meant the same thing.

Ning Wan pointed to a wonton stand by the roadside and said with a smile: "Although I'm tired, I'm still hungry. Instead of making trouble with the family when we go back, why don't we just eat here." As he spoke, he arrived at the wonton stand.

Everyone was actually tired, hungry and cold, so they sat on the stall and ate regardless of master and servant. After a bowl of hot wontons came down, they felt comfortable all over. Mrs. Lu said, "I think I ate these wontons." Live the best!"

Everyone agreed, "It's really good. I haven't eaten the food at the stall before, but it's still so delicious!" They all laughed and said: "Then you pay the bill, and it's still your treat."

Mrs. Lu nodded and said: "That's natural, let's talk about it first."

It's just that when it was time to get the money, she didn't go out with the money.In fact, it's not just her, it's the same with others. The female relatives of rich families seldom go out, and they don't know how to carry money with them. Even the servants who follow are not prepared in advance.Only Mrs. Xu, who is in charge of accounting now, has money with her, but the money she brings is the bank notes donated by everyone just now. Where can I find a wonton stall?Mrs. Lu Shao gave the gilt-copper peony-pattern hand stove in her hand to the stall owner, "I can exchange it for a few taels of silver at any pawn shop." More than twenty bowls of wontons can't be used for a tael of silver.

Everyone stopped them, "Just ask someone to go back and pick it up, just wait a little longer." The stall owner also refused to ask, "Madam, can you still send me money? Just send someone to deliver it later."

Mrs. Lu refused, "Everyone is very tired, let's rest when we go back. Besides, I exchanged this hand stove for wontons to invite everyone, in fact, I want to pass on a good story!"

Everyone laughed until their stomachs hurt, but they also agreed, "Today is tiring, but it is interesting. If it can really make a good story, I must tell my children and grandchildren when I am old!"

(End of this chapter)