noffsinger Chapter 228 The whole village retreats 1
Chapter 228 The whole village retreats 1
Facts have proved that the father and son of the Lin family are indeed extremely rare good teachers of this era who have no prejudice against their students. Among all their students, in addition to Bai Jingzhou and other boys who have the hope of becoming an official through imperial examinations, their favorite is Bai Jingxin, who is also very smart but has no hope of becoming an official through imperial examinations.
Father Lin sighed more than once, "What a pity! If girls could also pass the imperial examination and become officials, this child would definitely have a bright future."
Gu Wenxuan overheard him say this and immediately smiled and replied to Lin's father, "Even if she can't pass the imperial examination and become an official, she will still have a bright future."
She had long been aware of Bai Jingxin's intelligence and had always focused on developing her personal abilities.
Bai Jingxin didn't like practicing martial arts, so Gu Wenxuan didn't force her to become a martial arts master. Instead, she planned to train Bai Jingxin to be her right-hand man.
But her cultural level was very limited, so what she could teach Bai Jingxin was only some basic knowledge about how to behave in society and manage business.
Unlike the Lin father and son, they not only have many shining points in character, temperament, and interpersonal relationships, but are also knowledgeable and experienced, worthy of their students' serious study.
About half a month after the Lin family arrived in Baijia Village, the winter solstice arrived during the Chinese New Year.
This day marks the beginning of the "Nine Cold Days" and is also the day when dumplings are eaten.
Although the situation outside was tense, Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou had prepared early and there was no shortage of food at home.
At the request of Gu Wenxuan's four siblings, Li brought her two daughters-in-law and prepared white flour dumplings stuffed with sauerkraut and pork belly, as well as four dishes: stewed tofu with minced meat, stewed chicken with mushrooms, scrambled eggs with black fungus, and fish ball and spinach soup.
The fruit after the meal was Gu Wenxuan's favorite frozen pear. After she was full, she walked around the open space in the house, slurping her food with a look of satisfaction. She had no idea that while she was eating and drinking, Bai Jingzhou had led his team to fight off a wave of refugees who were targeting their Baijia Village.
The patrol team's captain, deputy captain, and team leader are required to assign two people every day to be responsible for the village's defense affairs. Today's daytime shift happens to be Bai Jingzhou's.
He had planned to go home and have lunch with his family after patrolling around the village, but unexpectedly, a group of refugees took advantage of the moment when smoke from cooking fires rose in the village and surrounded Baijia Village.
Bai Jingzhou reacted quickly and almost immediately used the sound of a gong to dispatch the patrol team members to their positions.
Considering that the time chosen by that group of people was really annoying, Bai Jingzhou showed off his archery skills.
The patrolmen opened their eyes wide when they saw that every arrow he shot down a refugee who was rushing forward.
Fortunately, the long-term training paid off. These people did not worry about Bai Jingzhou's archery skills at this critical moment, but worked together to drive away the group of refugees first.
While watching everyone clean up the mess, Bai Jingzhou asked Bai Jingshan who followed him everywhere, "Do you know what to say when you go back?"
Bai Jingshan hesitated for a moment, "Did I drive them away?"
Bai Jingzhou gave him a look of disdain that said "Why are you so overestimating yourself?"
Bai Jingshan, "...We are lucky. There are not many refugees here, and we have the dogs to help us?"
Bai Jingzhou nodded, "Okay, let's put it this way."
Bai Jingshan: "...Okay."
Although he didn't understand why Bai Jingzhou had to pretend to be weak in front of Gu Wenxuan, Bai Jingzhou was very kind to his family, and he couldn't really expose Bai Jingzhou in front of Gu Wenxuan. So... just don't understand but respect.
He reminded Bai Jingzhou, "So many people saw you shooting arrows. Sister Wenxuan should hear about it from other people soon, right?"
Bai Jingzhou didn't care. "Isn't it natural that I am better at archery than the villagers? As long as you guys who practice martial arts with me don't praise me, your sister Wenxuan won't take it seriously."
Bai Jingshan glanced at him and said, "You practice martial arts under Sister Wenxuan's nose every day. How could she not know how capable you are?"
Bai Jingzhou corrected him, "I was practicing boxing and swordsmanship under her nose."
Bai Jingshan: ...Okay, he doesn’t really understand it anyway.
Bai Jingshan, who was completely confused, did not dwell on this matter for too long, because on the third day after the winter solstice, Baijia Village encountered the worst situation that Gu Wenxuan and others had previously predicted.
The group of refugees who were previously driven away by Bai Jingzhou and others gathered more refugees to attack Baijia Village.
After receiving the news, Gu Wenxuan immediately arranged for her parents and Bai Lizheng to organize the villagers to retreat to Jiajia Village.
Her father was worried about her and wanted to stay in the village to help her, but Gu Wenxuan suddenly used her position as patrol captain to pressure him, "This is an order, please execute it immediately!"
Gu Yongming had served in the army, so he knew that this was not a good time to argue with Gu Wenxuan about whether her decision was right or wrong. He could only suppress his deep worries and lead his men to retreat with Jia Guizhi.
They took away two teams of patrol members, who were responsible for escorting ordinary villagers in the village under their leadership.
When the gong sounded, the villagers of Baijia Village, who had already been instructed by the head of the village to be ready for this day, rushed out of their homes one after another.
Bai Jingzhou's parents were also among those who retreated. They took Bai Jingzhou's grandparents, younger brothers and sisters, the families of Bai Jingzhou's eldest and second uncles, and the relatives who came to seek refuge with their three families, and quickly retreated to the end of the village with the crowd.
Seeing from afar that Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan were rushing towards the village entrance where the most refugees were, Bai Chong and Ning Cuizhi were worried, but they did not suggest staying to fight the enemy together like Gu Yongming did.
Both of them knew very well that even though they had learned some Kung Fu, they would be of little use when the time came.
In addition, unlike other families, they only needed to take money, food, clothing, bedding and other necessities. As a doctor, Bai Chong also had to take a large amount of medicinal materials with him.
At this time, Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou's strategy of having three burrows seemed very foresighted. They transferred most of the supplies to the small valley and Jiajia Village in advance, so that the things their family had to take with them at this moment were not as many as those that Bai Lizheng's family had to take with them.
Yes, as the richest family in the village, Bai Lizheng's family had to bring a lot of things.
In addition to his family, there were more than 20 households, including several village elders, who also directly dispatched several ox carts.
Some villagers were envious, some were jealous, and some were shameless and asked to ride on the ox carts of these families, but these families all refused.