Now, in addition to the sisters Wen Shu, Wen Tian and Wen Jiao, there are two new girls in the classroom.
Yingbao continued to stay with Wenshu, while Erni started over with the new students.
"Let's learn the complete recipes for women today." Mrs. Wen opened the book.
"Doctors in the world have "Specialized Prescriptions for Gynecology" and "Prescriptions for Childbirth" in the field of gynecology. The word "specialized" in "treatment" means specialization; the word "prescription" means love and respect. The art of medicine is difficult, and treating women is even more difficult..."
Yingbao and Wenshu listened attentively.
After the class was over, Mrs. Wen waved to Yingbao to go to the inner room to talk with her.
"Have you sold your golden ears?" asked Mrs. Wen.
Yingbao: "There are still twenty pounds."
Mrs. Wen: "Would you please sell it to me?"
Yingbao nodded. She had indeed left those golden ears for Madam Wen.
"I'll go to your house at noon." Mrs. Wen had not been to the Jiang family in Nanpo yet, so she went to look for the door.
"good."
After school at noon, Mrs. Wen and her daughter Wen Shu took Yingbao and Erni to Nanpo in a carriage and arrived at the door of Jiang Sanlang's house.
Mrs. Wen got out of the carriage and looked around.
There were three large blue brick and tiled houses facing north and south, standing side by side from east to west, each with a large courtyard.
There is a fruit orchard not far in front of the yard, and a little further away there is a large pond and a large well.
Further away there are large tracts of wild bamboo forests and fields.
Chunniang came out when she heard the sound, and seeing that it was Madam Wen and her daughter, she quickly invited them to sit inside.
Yingbao ran back to her room, quietly put out a few baskets of dried golden ears, and moved them to the main room.
These golden ears have been weighed and are exactly 20 kilograms. As for the remainder, Yingbao keeps it for herself.
Madam Wen asked the servants to move the silver from the carriage. Twenty kilograms of gold ears totaled two hundred and forty taels of silver, which was indeed a large sum of money.
Chunniang sent the silver to her daughter's room and asked her to keep it, then she came out to chat with Mrs. Wen.
At this moment, Jiang Sanlang hurried back home.
"Chun Niang, the village guards sent a message that a large group of bandits are coming towards us, and the village head asked us to hide all the property and food at home just in case."
Jiang Sanlang wiped his sweat and nodded to Madam Wen: "Mr. Wen, you guys should also be careful. It's best not to go out during this period."
Chunniang and Madam Wen were both surprised. "How many bandits are there? Can't even the garrison troops at the post station stop them?"
There is a garrison post every fifty miles on the official road, with at least one or two hundred guards stationed in it. How could they not stop a group of bandits
"It is said that there are a large number of bandits, no less than hundreds of them, they are armed and very brave, how can the few people in the post station stop them? Let Xiaojie and Xiaowu stay at home today. The school has already notified them that they don't have to go to school for the next two days."
After saying this, Jiang Sanlang hurried away to discuss countermeasures with his elder and second brothers.
Seeing this, Mrs. Wen stood up and said goodbye, taking her daughter back to the school.
Yingbao originally wanted to let Mrs. Wen and Sister Wen stay, but her home was too remote and not as safe as the village. At least there were more people in the village, so it should be safer.
After Madam Wen left, Chunniang went back to the room to pack up her valuables. She turned around and around with the silver in her arms, not knowing where to hide it. Finally, she gritted her teeth, pried open a few floor tiles in the corner of the room, dug deeper with a shovel, wrapped hundreds of taels of silver in old clothes, and buried it all in the ground.
After she put the floor tiles back in place, stepped on them again and again, and put a table on top of them, Chunniang felt relieved.
But there was still a lot of cotton and food at home with nowhere to store.
"Bao'er, Bao'er." Chunniang ran to her daughter's room, "Have you hidden all your money?"
Yingbao nodded, "They are all hidden. No one can find them."
In fact, she put all the valuables such as silver into the cave, and also put in several bags of food. Even if bandits came, as long as her family members were alive and well, they would have food to eat.
"That's good." Chunniang brought her two sons back and asked them to stay with their sister and not to go out.
Then she went to the kitchen to knead dough and prepare to steam buns.
She wanted to make more steamed buns and pancakes to prevent her family from having nothing to eat while hiding from the bandits.
Yingbao was not idle either. She collected all the inconspicuous things in the house into the cave, such as some cotton-padded clothes and quilts, as well as some cotton and cotton seeds.
I don’t collect all of it, just some of it, within the range that my parents can’t see.
The two younger brothers didn't feel any sense of urgency at all. They ran around the yard with the two puppies, and even played football with Wei Zhan, Yuanbao, Huzi and others.
In the evening, Jiang Sanlang did not come back. He and some villagers were incorporated into the village's temporary guard team and patrolled the village all night.
Yingbao couldn't sleep well that night, so she went into the cave to count the silver.
From last year to this year, she has saved more than four hundred taels of silver, as well as a small basket of loose copper coins.
With such a huge sum of money, no matter what happens in the future, my family and I will never go hungry.
She remembered that the next few years seemed to be uneasy, with frequent rebellions in various places and the court constantly sending troops to suppress them.
The common people are the most unfortunate. Not only do they have to pay money, but they also have to contribute manpower and effort.
Chuanhe Town is a remote place. Although it has not been harassed by the rebels, the imperial court has not given up on enslaving this mountain village. After the flood, before people have recovered, the imperial court's conscription order was issued.
At this moment, the bandits were fleeing from Zhouhe County to Qinchuan County, and they had swept through countless villages along the way.
If the number of bandits continues to grow like a snowball, the imperial court will definitely send troops to clear them out.
By then, Chuanhe Town will become a battlefield, and I probably won’t be able to stay in the village anymore.
In my previous life, I was just an ignorant child and had no idea how the bandits in Zhouhe County were eliminated. But later on, refugees with their families entered the village, asked for food and left, and they looked very miserable.
After tidying up the cave, Yingbao fell asleep.
Early the next morning, villagers suddenly started beating gongs and shouting throughout the village: "The bandits are less than 20 miles away from us. Let's hide!"
His shout startled everyone.
Someone ran to Muramasa's house to ask what was going on, and found that Muramasa's family was packing up their things in a mess.
"Uncle Chen, what should we do?" asked the villagers.
Chen Sanyou didn't know what to do. He thought for a moment and said, "Why don't we go into the mountains and transport all the food from our homes into the mountains, and then bring it back after the bandits leave. If you have a cellar at home, you can also hide the food that can't be transported into the cellar, and drive the pigs, cattle and sheep into the mountains."
"This is the only way." The villagers ran away quickly and went home to hide the food.
Jiang Sanlang also got the news and hurried home to inform his family. "Everyone in the village is preparing to go to Beishan, why don't we go to Beishan too?"
Beishan is densely forested and covers a vast area, so it is difficult for villagers to be found if they hide in the deep mountains.
There are fewer trees on the south slope, but there are more wild bamboo forests. However, the bamboo forests are too dense and people and animals cannot enter at all.
Chunniang frowned, "What about our food and cotton in Beishan?"
There is so much grain and cotton stored at home, it is impossible to transport them all away. Should we just give up
Jiang Sanlang sighed, "I'll take as much as I can, that's all I can do."
The bandits were only twenty miles away from them, but now it was estimated that they were less than twenty miles away, and they would arrive in less than two hours.
However, their small village is very close to the official road. The bandits will raid along the way and will definitely enter the village to loot.
It would be very easy for a group of hundreds of people to massacre an entire village.
"Dad, why don't we go to the wild bamboo forest ahead." Ying Bao said, "We can hide in the wild bamboo forest."
The wild bamboo forest on the south slope is very large. She and Chuchu had cut some bamboos a while ago, so it would be no problem for her family to hide in it for ten days.
The premise is that the bandits did not discover that there were people hiding inside.