The first month of the year passed in a flash.
Chen Zhao's brain condition has improved and there are basically no scars left.
Chu Man's face was completely ruined.
There was a scar like a centipede on one side of his face, the tip of his nose was basically rotten, and his right ear was gone.
She was a little crazy, crying and laughing every day, and chasing Chen Zhao and Xu Bao and beating them up.
Chen Zhao was fed up with the problem, so he spent ten taels of silver to build two thatched huts in the market and moved in with his elder sister and younger brother.
When Chen Changping returned to the county school, he did not take Chu Man with him, but left her at home.
On February 2, the dragon raises its head.
The spring rain was falling finely and densely, and the villagers stayed at home and didn't want to go out.
Yingbao was sitting on the kang teaching Niuniu to read when she suddenly heard someone running into the yard.
"Third brother! Third brother!"
The man who came was Chen Yin. He was soaked all over and shouted anxiously: "Oh no! The barbarians are coming here soon!"
Yingbao's heart skipped a beat and she immediately opened the window and looked outside.
Jiang Sanlang heard the noise and ran out of the house to the corridor and asked, "What hit us here?"
Chen Yin wiped his face with his sleeve. "The head of the village sent someone to inform us to make plans in advance. Almost all the people in the town have fled."
"How many people?" Jiang Sanlang asked with a frown.
"It is said that there are several thousand of them, coming along the official road. They are all extremely cruel and will kill anyone they see."
Chen Yin was extremely anxious: "Third brother, what should we do?"
Jiang Sanlang frowned and was thinking when he suddenly heard a voice: "Gather all the young and strong men in the village."
Zhou Wuchang slowly came out of the side room and said to Jiang Sanlang, "Send someone to notify the village chiefs of each village and ask them to gather all the villagers here."
Jiang Sanlang didn't hesitate, "Okay."
He turned to Chen Yin and said, "Tell a few people to notify the surrounding villages and ask them to come to Dongchen Village."
Chen Yin: "What if they don't want to come?"
After all, no one wants to give up their home.
"Tell them that if they don't come, their life or death will be determined by fate," said Master Zhou.
Chen Yin responded, turned around and ran into the rain.
Yingbao pondered for a moment, grabbed Niuniu with one hand, and tried to bring her into the cave, but failed.
This time she was really sure that no one except the five members of her family could enter the cave.
Yingbao asked Niuniu to sit on the kang and she jumped down to find A Niang.
Chunniang was also packing up her things. She asked her daughter to put the boxes and valuables into the cave, and also asked her daughter to put away the bedding and clothes.
As for the furniture and other things, they cannot be moved for the time being.
Because Master Zhou and his disciples are still at home.
A few hours later, more than a thousand villagers gathered in Dongchen Village with their valuables and food.
The elderly, the weak, women and children were placed in the school and Jiang Sanlang's textile workshop, while the young and strong were ready with hoes, iron forks, and carrying poles.
This time, Master Zhou personally stepped in to explain to the villagers how to deal with the enemy.
The next day, shouts of fighting and killing were heard.
Yingbao wanted to go out and take a look, but Chunniang held her so tightly that she couldn't move a step.
Wei Zhan, Wen Hengyin, Hu Zi, Jiang Wu and others were also detained at home and were not allowed to go out.
Madam Wen, Li Xu's mother and son, Madam Wang, the clan leader's family, including the Master's family, were also sitting in the Jiang's house, listening quietly to the noise outside.
A few hours later, more and more wounded people were sent to the Jiang family and asked Yingbao to treat them.
Yingbao did not hide anything and treated the seriously injured first, then applied medicine to the minor injuries.
Fortunately, Master Zhou was in command during this defense battle, and the Jin soldiers were eliminated one by one.
Fortunately, these Jin soldiers underestimated the enemy and sent small teams to various villages to collect food and property. As a result, they were killed by the villagers led by Zhou Wuchang.
One group of Jin soldiers ran to Dongchen Village. As a result, Jiang Sanlang and his brothers led hundreds of old and weak villagers with hoes and carrying poles and rushed forward to wipe out this group of nearly 100 people.
After a day and night of fierce fighting, the surviving Jin soldiers fled from Chuanhe Town in a hurry.
Just when they thought they had escaped, a strong force suddenly appeared in front of them and stopped them.
Hundreds of strong soldiers versus hundreds of weak soldiers, the result is predictable.
Just like that, this enemy group of more than 3,000 people was completely wiped out.
Zhou Wuchang also confiscated hundreds of war horses and thousands of weapons and bows and arrows.
They also collected a lot of gold, silver, jewelry and food, which were probably obtained by looting the villages in Daqian along the way.
The villagers returned with their spoils, and everyone was delighted.
What the villagers didn't know was that Zhou Wuchang secretly sent away all the undamaged horses and weapons, leaving only gold, silver, jewelry and food.
Two months passed in a blink of an eye, and news came from the capital that the emperor asked Master Pei to perform a ritual to invite the heavenly soldiers and generals to repel the enemy. However, not only did the heavenly soldiers and generals not come, they also let the barbarians into the city.
In the end, the emperor, empress, members of the royal family, certain high-ranking officials and their families were all abducted by the barbarians.
Immediately afterwards, King Dai ascended the throne in Shu and changed the country's name to Zhou.
At the same time, the book in Yingbao's mind suddenly moved.
Lines of words appeared in her mind.
"In March of the first year of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the emperor moved the capital to Yuzhou. In April of the same year, Jingzhou fell. In May, Luzhou fell..."
Yingbao was startled and immediately found a pen and paper to write down this passage, and then gave it to her master Zhou Wuchang.
He is so capable, he will definitely find a way to inform Jingzhou and Luzhou.
It is only March now, and there are still two months before Luzhou falls. It will definitely be in time.
Zhou Wuchang took the divination paper brought by his young apprentice, looked at it for a while, and said nothing.
But he and his eldest disciple said goodbye and left the next day without saying where they were going.
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At the end of March, the Jiang family started to hold wedding ceremonies again.
Dani is already seventeen years old and is about to get married.
Since it was a daughter's wedding, the Jiang family did not hold a grand ceremony, but only invited their own relatives to come and have a feast.
Looking at her eldest cousin who was sitting on the kang in a wedding dress, Yingbao felt a little dazed.
At this time in the previous life, my eldest cousin had already married into a poor family and did not live a good life.
Now, my eldest cousin has married the gentle and refined Zhang Shaodong, and the Zhang family is much better off than the farmers.
Second aunt used fine cotton thread to open the face of sister Dani, that is, to wring out the sweat hair on her face, forehead and mouth.
After kneading the dough, she patted cold water on her face, then wiped it dry, covered it with scented powder, drew beautiful eyebrows on it, and pasted a golden flower on her forehead.
The lip balm was also made by my second aunt-in-law, and it is bright red.
With her hair combed into a high bun, and wearing a green wedding dress with hundreds of patterns, and a pair of peony bat shoes on her feet, Dani seemed to have instantly become a different person, dazzlingly beautiful.
Seeing Yingbao staring at Dani, Yanru smiled and said, "What are you looking at? Do you want to be a bride too?"
Yingbao quickly shook her head: "No."
Erni laughed and said, "Of course there is. Look, your eyes are on my eldest sister."
Yingbao rubbed her eyes subconsciously and snorted: "No, I'm just worried about you."
Erni is already fifteen years old, and she is neither too high nor too low, so she scared away several matchmakers.
"Why are you so anxious for me?" Erni glared at her little cousin: "When you marry me, you can talk about your in-laws, humph!"
Yingbao blinked: "Are you serious? Anyone who lies is a puppy."
In fact, she didn't want her second sister Ni to get married early. It was really heartbreaking that the sisters separated one after another as they grew up.