Yingbao was speechless.
Half a year ago, the county magistrate had probably just taken office and was not able to take care of things here.
She walked slowly with Youyou and her brother and came to a place near the market outside the village. There were indeed a few fewer soapberry trees along the wall of trees.
However, after the soapberry tree was cut in half, new buds sprouted from the remaining half, so it should be possible to save it.
When no one is around, I water it with the pupil spring water so that it can grow branches as quickly as possible.
In fact, the soapberry trees surrounding the village are not completely enclosed, and there are roads in several places.
For example, there are two roads leading to Xichen Village and the other leading to the farmland. There is also a road leading out of the village, which is close to the market. It is very wide and can easily accommodate two carriages side by side.
Yingbao frowned and thought, how can she build a few gates in a short time to block these passages
There are so many refugees suddenly coming outside, and there may be many more refugees coming in continuously. There is no guarantee that there are no murderers among these people.
When people are in desperate situations, it is very common for them to kill a few people in order to survive.
If the refugees kill one person, they may kill two or three more people in the future. In their eyes, human life is no different from that of pigs and dogs.
If these people sneak into the village one day and kill the unsuspecting villagers, my father will be the first to be blamed by the county government.
No, I must let my dad inform the villagers and let them be vigilant. It would be best to block several roads around the village at night and then send people to guard them in shifts.
After the brother and sister walked around for a long time, they came back and saw Master Zhou Wuchang and his apprentice coming out for a stroll after dinner.
"Master, I'll take you to see my orchard." Ying Bao walked over with a smile, patted the big deer that followed closely behind her, and introduced: "This is the deer I raised, named Youyou, and the fawns behind are all its children."
Zhou Wuchang looked at the big deer, then at the herd of deer, and nodded: "Deer are auspicious creatures. Your village can live in peace with the deer, and you are all kind people."
Zhang Min took the opportunity to say, "Junior sister, can you give me one? Or you can sell me one."
Yingbao nodded: "Okay, I'll take whichever one you like. But first, please make it clear that you can't kill it and eat its meat."
There are also people in the village who buy deer as pets for their children. If anyone is seen killing a deer they bought, they will be despised by everyone.
"I don't eat meat." Zhang Min said with a smile: "We have Bajie, who cannot eat meat. Little Junior Sister, don't you know?"
Zhou Hao glanced at his junior fellow apprentice indifferently, but didn't ruin his show.
Yingbao was used to Second Brother's misspoken words, so she didn't care and used bean sprouts to attract a half-grown fawn.
This young deer is much bigger than Youyou was when he was young. He is not afraid of people and rubs his head against Yingbao and Zhang Min affectionately.
Zhang Min was so excited that he touched the deer's head and back, and couldn't let it go. "I've decided, I'll call it Eryo from now on!"
Jiang Wu blinked and asked, "Hey, brother? The name you gave is really ugly."
Zhang Min laughed and said, "Eryo means Yoyo, not Ouch."
Jiang Wu's face twitched, and he looked at the little deer with sympathy, muttering, "Your master doesn't seem to be reliable, so you'll just have to fend for yourself in the future."
"What are you saying, little brother?" Zhang Min stroked the little deer, tilted his head and looked at the little boy with a smile.
"Nothing." Jiang Wu ran away.
When the deer saw their little master running away, they quickly chased after him, including the second deer.
Yingbao brought her master and senior brothers to her own orchard, picked a bag of lychees from the trees, shared them with her master and senior brothers, peeled the lychees and ate them as they walked, and then took them around the village.
Nowadays, fruit trees and grapes are planted in the yards and doorsteps of every household in the village, and the vegetable gardens in front of the doors are also planted with various vegetables.
These vegetable seeds were brought back by Yingbao from various places.
And on the bamboo fence of the vegetable garden, there are bunches of large gourds, each as big as a washbasin.
Of course, there are also small ones, not much bigger than the palm, which are picked by the villagers, dried, coated with cinnabar, and hung around the waist to ward off evil spirits.
Zhou Wuchang strolled leisurely in the garden, ignoring the scorching sun, and toured the entire village. Then he said to Ying Bao: "Your village is very good, prosperous and stable."
Yingbao nodded: "Our village is the best village. My father said that he would expand the village and dig more canals in the future."
Zhou Wuchang shook his head: "In fact, the village at the foot of the mountain is also very good. As long as the river is cleaned up and two drainage channels are dug, no matter how much water there is upstream, it will be diverted here, and the village will no longer be affected by floods."
Yingbao opened her mouth wide, "How long of a river do we need to clear? Digging a drainage canal is also a big project, it will take several years to complete."
Of course, if laborers from the entire county were asked to come and dig, it might be completed in two or three months.
Zhou Wuchang sighed: "Indeed, but your village can pay workers to do it."
Sakura:...
Is what the master said human language
Let their village spend money to hire workers to dig canals? It might be a waste of money and time, and a thankless job.
Oh, it would be great if Wu Daozi was still the county magistrate. Then I could go to him and give him some suggestions, asking him to order the workers to clean up the river and dig two canals.
But then again, workers have endless work to do every year, so even if you ask for it yourself, it probably won't be of any use.
Zhou Wuchang and his apprentice finally finished touring the place and then returned to the Jiang family to rest in the room arranged by Jiang Sanlang.
Seeing that there was no one around, Zhou Hao quietly said to his master: "Master, burying the things here may make people more convinced."
Zhou Wuchang was lying on the bed, dozing off, and said calmly, "We'll talk about this later."
He had to ensure that nothing went wrong and not let his young disciple get involved.
In fact, the auspicious appearance of this place is most suitable for that matter, but if you fail, not only will you die, but everyone here will probably be doomed.
Forget it, let’s find a deserted place. At worst, we can create a few more strange visions.
In the following days, Zhou Wuchang did not allow his two younger disciples to accompany him, and only took his older disciple for a walk outside the village. They found a wild bamboo forest and stayed there for a long time.
Yingbao practiced with his second senior brother in the martial arts training ground in the academy.
Zhang Min had never learned any fighting skills, but he was always knocked down by his junior sister who was a head shorter than him.
He refused to accept it and turned around to pester Zhang Meng to become his disciple: "Master Zhang, we have been a family for five hundred years. You can't just stand by and watch me die."
Zhang Meng didn't dare to accept Master Zhou as his apprentice casually, so he could only find an excuse to refuse: "No, you are too old and have missed the period of martial arts training."
"What? You said I'm old?" Zhang Min looked incredulous. "I'm only fourteen, and you said I'm old? Master, how old are you this year?"
Zhang Meng:...
The other children in the martial arts training ground covered their mouths and laughed.
Finally, Zhang Min was asked to leave the martial arts training ground by Master Zhang Meng.
He had no choice but to squat outside the fence of the martial arts training ground and peek at the students practicing martial arts with a resentful look on his face.
Yingbao came up behind him and patted his shoulder: "Second Brother, my mother fried some sesame seeds, they are so delicious, let's go back and have some sugar sesame paste."
When Zhang Min heard that there was something delicious to eat, he immediately became excited and followed his junior sister to eat the legendary sesame paste.