dognovel Chapter 830 Who's Climbing the Wall!
Chapter 830 Who's Climbing the Wall!
In her mother's words, Sun Laolai was, after all, her biological father.
If the clan elders were to expel Sun Laolai from Fushan Town because of her words, it would be a serious matter.
It was inevitable that old scoundrel Sun would die outside.
At that time, the villagers will inevitably think that Maisui is cold-blooded.
Having lived in the village for so many years, Mai Sui Niang knows best how sharp-tongued the villagers are.
For the sake of her daughter's future reputation, she insisted on suppressing the matter.
Maisui's mother even secretly guessed that it wasn't unseen in the village that Sun Laolai had seen him selling goods on the main street.
However, exposing Sun the lazybones and kicking him out was a thankless task.
That's why no one has ever mentioned it.
Seeing that her mother absolutely refused, Mai Sui had no choice but to give up.
When it comes to selling firewood, Mai Sui is determined to follow Lu Qingqing's example.
No matter what her mother said, she refused to sell any firewood from the house.
Since the firewood was all collected by Maisui beforehand, Maisui's mother couldn't force her to sell it, so she kept it.
As for grain, their family only had some with chaff attached.
Someone like Wang Fugui would absolutely refuse to eat something that irritates the throat!
In this way, Mai Sui's family managed to save all their firewood and grain.
Two days later, it seemed that the Wu family had also discovered that the villagers were being lax in their duties.
He brought his two sons and rushed to find Lu Qingqing.
His words were filled with tension and panic.
After all that talk, it all boils down to one thing.
If those merchants really manage to break in, the two families must unite as one.
After Manager Wu left, Old Man Zhuang looked at the huge pile of things that he had insisted on leaving behind.
I have a deeper understanding of what Lu Qingqing said before.
A few days later, in the evening, it got very cold.
After finishing their meal, Lu Qingqing and Qin Lang went back to their room early.
Tonight, it's Old Zhuang and Sun Yue's turn to be on duty, so they plan to take advantage of the rest time to do more work.
After lighting the stove and furnace connected to the kang (a heated brick bed), the two of them slipped into the space.
The large pieces of pork from the pig that was slaughtered earlier have already been cut up.
The only tedious part is dealing with the internal organs.
These days, the two of them would take some time each night to go into the space.
Besides feeding livestock, the main task is to clean pigs' internal organs.
Among them, those plump pig intestines are particularly troublesome to clean.
There are many things that can deodorize when cleaning the intestines in modern times.
But in this dynasty, the most commonly used substance is wood ash.
Actually, flour can also be used.
But Lu Qingqing witnessed too many people starving to death on her journey to escape famine.
She simply couldn't accept the idea of using grain to clean pig intestines.
Therefore, in the past few days, she and Qin Lang have been collecting the ashes left after burning firewood.
After removing the feces from the intestines, rinse the pig intestines with clean water first, and then scrub them with wood ash.
These days, there are no rubber gloves.
The two had no choice but to take direct action.
Several times, Lu Qingqing felt that it was better not to eat the pig intestines!
Seeing Qin Lang persisting in his work, she couldn't very well be a deserter, so she had no choice but to grit her teeth and continue.
If you asked her to describe the cleaning process, the only word that comes to mind is "horrific".
Well, every time they finished washing, the two of them reeked of pig manure from head to toe.
Among these, the hands are of paramount importance!
Every time we finish, we have to do a thorough cleaning.
Today, taking advantage of having some extra time, the two of them worked a little longer.
They worked until almost midnight before stopping.
The two, who had worked all night, fell asleep right next to each other on the kang (a heated brick bed).
While I was half asleep, I heard Sun Yue shouting at the top of her lungs.
"Who's climbing the wall?!"
This shout startled Lu Qingqing from her sleep.
When he came to his senses, Qin Lang was already getting dressed.
The two hurriedly dressed, grabbed their weapons, and opened the door.
Fortunately, after the door froze, they used strips of cloth to seal all the gaps in the door frame.
This time, there were no problems when opening the door.
As soon as I stepped out of the house, I saw Sun Yue standing in the courtyard with a lantern in her hand.
When she saw the two of them come out, she ran over as if they were her saviors.
"Qingqing, I came out to add charcoal to the horses and heard someone climbing our courtyard wall."
After that shout, the people outside seemed to have run away in fright!
Lu Qingqing didn't have time to say anything more and quickly ran towards the wall.
After climbing the ladder, I looked out.
The night outside was quite dark, but you could vaguely see someone running in the distance.
Without hesitation, Lu Qingqing called out to those behind her:
"Sun Yue, start banging the gong!"
Upon hearing the instruction, Sun Yue quickly went back into the house, retrieved the gong, and began to strike it with a clanging sound.
The sound of gongs woke up the entire village.
At this moment, at the Wu shopkeeper's house behind.
Shopkeeper Wu was awakened by the urgent sound of a gong. Before he could even get dressed, he heard footsteps outside the door.
Immediately following was the sound of knocking on the door.
He felt a chill run down his spine. "Who is it?!"
After he shouted that, there was a moment of silence outside the door.
Immediately afterwards, they started kicking the door open.
Manager Wu's heart skipped a beat. Oh no, those merchants really came to rob us.
He quickly grabbed his clothes and put them on, while simultaneously jumping off the kang (a heated brick bed) and moving things to block the door.
"Wife, come quickly, come with me and help me move the vat over there!"
At this moment, the people outside heard the noise and knew they were awake, so they kicked the door harder and harder.
Manager Wu moved things in the dark, bumping and knocking several times, but he didn't care about the pain at all.
He was afraid his sons would hear the noise and come out, so he didn't forget to shout while moving things.
"Make sure the doors are firmly blocked; the villagers will come to rescue us!"
In the east room, when Wu's eldest son was about to rush out to save his parents, his wife held him back tightly.
Only after hearing his father's words did he calm down.
The eldest daughter-in-law was afraid that the bandits would come and rob their house, so she grabbed her husband and tried to move things to block the door.
The second son in the west wing also woke up and hurriedly moved things to block the door.
The first to finish blocking the gate in the entire courtyard were the shopkeeper and his wife, who were the first to get up.
The two moved all the large items in the house that could block the door behind the door.
At this moment, the elderly couple leaned against the cabinet, feeling as if their hearts were about to jump out of their throats.
Manager Wu forced himself to calm down, remembered the gong he had prepared earlier, and staggered to the kang (a heated brick bed) to get it.
"Clang clang clang clang!"
After he knocked, his eldest and youngest sons in the two rooms next door also reacted.
The three of them each took a gong and started banging it hard.
In the front room, Lu Qingqing heard the noise and knew that Manager Wu's house had probably been burgled.
She looked at Sun Yue and Old Man Zhuang, who seemed somewhat flustered, and instructed them:
"After we go out, lock the gate."
Go back inside and barricade the door.
If anything happens, just strike the gong to the rhythm I taught you, understand?
Seeing that the two nodded in unison, he slung his bow and arrows over his shoulder, took his long sword, and went out the door.
She had already asked Manager Wu about the number of people in this group of merchants.
If we don't fight them all at once while the villagers are still able to fight, it will be really difficult to fight them later when they are all killed by this group!
After they left the house, the two ran along the wall, one in front of the other, towards Manager Wu's house at the back.