In the following days, Zhou Wuchang asked someone to buy some square stones, wood, bamboo, etc., and also customized the tiles for five rooms.
In less than ten days, these things were delivered one after another.
When the house was being built, labourers from the surrounding villages all came to help, and they could have a full meal at noon every day.
When the house was almost finished, a group of soldiers suddenly arrived. The leader had a scoundrel look on his face and shouted, "Who allowed you to build a house here?"
When the villagers saw that these people were from the nearby military settlement, they all became nervous and gradually stopped what they were doing.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Xiaodouzi, who was helping to move the tiles, immediately slipped back to the village and found Zhou Wuchang: "Master, the big official from the military settlement has brought people here and forbade us to build a house. You should go and take a look."
"Okay, lead the way." Zhou Wuchang stood up, hung the purple gold dagger around his waist, and then followed Xiaodouzi to Shiquan Mountain.
Yingbao and the eldest and second brothers hurried to catch up.
When we arrived at Shiquan Mountain, we saw thirty or forty villagers being driven aside by the soldiers. The captain was standing in front of the house, looking around with a greedy look on his face.
Zhou Wuchang walked over and asked the villagers: "Why did you stop the construction?"
Before the villagers could reply, the captain turned around, looked Zhou Wuchang up and down, and said contemptuously: "Who are you? How dare you disobey my order?"
Zhou Wuchang also looked at him: "You are not worthy of knowing who I am."
The captain was furious and drew his sword to chop at Zhou Wuchang.
Zhou Wuchang did not move, but several soldiers did. They immediately ran over to grab the captain and persuaded him, "General, calm down."
The captain was still jumping up and down, pointing his knife at Zhou Wuchang and shouting, "Where did this spy come from? I'm going to arrest you and interrogate you! You! You! And the rest of you! Go and capture him!"
The soldier was embarrassed and whispered, "General, please be patient. We haven't figured out his background yet. If he is from a noble family, it will be troublesome."
The captain shouted, "I don't care which family he is from. Once he arrives at my mountain, he must bow down before me!"
Zhou Wuchang smiled and asked loudly: "Where is your mountain gate?"
The captain was stunned for a moment, then he said angrily: "Fuck your mother! My mountain is..."
Before he could finish his words, he saw a flash before his eyes and saw Zhou Wuchang approaching him with a dagger stabbed into his chest.
Everyone was stunned.
The two soldiers who were originally holding the captain subconsciously took a few steps back, and saw the captain fall straight to the ground, dead.
"You! How dare you kill someone?" A soldier finally reacted and hurriedly drew his sword and pointed it at Zhou Wuchang.
Zhou Wuchang calmly took out a handkerchief, wiped the blood off the dagger, and said calmly: "You bully the people, block the road and kill merchants, you all deserve to die!"
The soldier shook his arms and turned to look at his companions, hoping they would come to help.
But the dozen or so comrades seemed to be frozen in place, not moving an inch.
"This man killed our captain general. What are you still standing there for? Come and catch him!" The soldier was the captain of the captain's personal guard. Seeing his immediate superior dead, he was shaking with panic.
If my superiors knew about this, the captain would die in front of me and my life would be in danger.
A few soldiers hesitated, took a few steps forward, and killed the captain of the guard with a single blow before he could react.
The villagers screamed in surprise, but they were secretly happy in their hearts.
Yingbao opened her eyes even wider, not understanding why these soldiers killed that man as well.
Senior Brother Zhou Hao still had that expressionless look on his face, as if he was used to it.
Zhang Min covered the little sister's eyes and whispered, "Don't look, don't look, those two are bad guys, Master didn't kill innocent people, don't be afraid."
Several soldiers suddenly knelt on one knee in front of Zhou Wuchang, clasping their hands together and saying, "Greetings, General!"
Zhou Wuchang glanced at them calmly and said, "I am no longer your general. From now on, you can call me Master Wuchang."
The soldier who killed the captain of the guards clasped his fists and said, "I am Zhu Sihu, the humble man, and I pay my respects to the general... Mr. Wuchang! I once fed the horses in your military tent."
Eight or nine soldiers also said: "We are all soldiers in your army."
When the other soldiers saw that the person who killed their captain was actually a former general, they could not help but shrink their necks and dared not say a word.
Zhou Wuchang glanced at them and said to Zhu Sihu, "I built this Taoist temple. The formalities are complete and I bought the land. You are not allowed to harass the people here in the future."
Zhu Sihu was ashamed and said quickly: "I won't dare to do it again."
Zhou Wuchang nodded and said, "Take the lieutenant back with you. If anyone asks, let him come to me. The purple gold sword in my hand was given by the emperor. I can kill corrupt officials and tyrants. Even if there is a rebellion among the soldiers, I will kill them first and report later. I will never show any mercy!"
"Yes! I will take the captain back now and report the truth." Zhu Sihu said.
The rest of the soldiers echoed.
Afterwards, a dozen soldiers carried the two bodies back to the barracks. Halfway through the journey, they informed each other and said that the captain, general, and his bodyguards encountered robbers, and were killed by the robbers, who also ran away.
Anyway, this is a very common thing. Which military camp doesn’t have deaths
Moreover, this captain was very arrogant in the army. Relying on the fact that his uncle was the commander-in-chief of the army, he never took his subordinates and other officers seriously, so it was not surprising that he made enemies with others.
Although these dozen people were his personal guards, they had never received any benefits in the army. Instead, the captain would whip them whenever he was unhappy and vent his anger on them like slaves.
Now, he was finally dead, and even the captain of the guard who was in charge of his property was dead.
After everyone discussed it, they decided to divide the captain's private property when they returned to prevent others from getting there first.
After more than ten days, the Taoist temple was finally completed and even the surrounding wall was built.
The three words "Impermanence View" are also engraved on the doorplate.
Yingbao and several of her fellow brothers moved into the Taoist temple, and she occupied a room all to herself.
The next day, Cuilan and Xiaodouzi were arranged by their father to live here, saying that the Taoist temple had just been built and needed to be popular.
Yingbao has been lying on the table on the kang these days, making up stories for the Fairy Cave and writing a heart-wrenching storybook about a fairy couple. When she and her master go to Jingzhou Prefecture, she will sell the storybook to the local storyteller.
Not only should everyone in the city know that there is a fairy cave in Zaoshu Village and that there is fairy water in the cave, but the story should also be told to the villagers so that they can remember it by heart.
Finally, after finishing writing, Yingbao said to Cuilan, "Cuilan, go back and call all the villagers here. I have something to tell you."
Cuilan pouted and didn't want to go.
She was living well here. The kang was heated and it was very warm. She could also eat two meals of white flour buns every day. She didn't want to go home.
Seeing that she was unhappy, Yingbao took out a piece of candy from her bag and said, "I'll ask my second brother to drive you back in a carriage. You can come back later."
"Okay." Cuilan smiled happily, took the candy, stuffed it into her mouth, and jumped off the kang.
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After watching Second Brother drive away, Yingbao quickly ran to the back of the house.
That’s right, the Stone Spring Cave is just ten feet behind the Taoist temple.
The sun is shining brightly now, it is noon, and the cave is still quite bright.
Yingbao took off her shoes and waded into the cave. She didn't dare go further inside, so she stopped at a relatively flat place and took out a chisel and two peonies from the cave.
He wielded a chisel to dig two holes and buried two very thick peonies with soil in the holes.
He poured the pupil spring water on the cave and cleared away the rubble so that there was nothing unusual inside the cave. Then he put away the chisel and other tools and waded out of the cave.
It is much warmer inside the cave than outside, so it is estimated that these two peonies can survive for a long time.