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"Third brother, you go and have a rest. It's nothing." Xu Er said to his younger brother.

"Okay, second brother, you should go to bed early. I'll go out and work first." With that, Xu San slipped away.

Xu Er didn't know whether to laugh or cry when he saw his younger brother's appearance.

Although their lives are a bit poor, the family lives in harmony and supports each other.

After today's accident, the villagers are finally not so worried this time. They only go out in groups of three or four. Women and children are not allowed to go out. If they go out, they need to be accompanied by an adult man.

Wei Ci sent people down the mountain to inquire about the situation. Most of the villagers living at the foot of the mountain left for unknown reasons. The rest did not dare to stay in the village anymore and hid in the nearby mountains and forests.

It's just that these people are not as bold as they are. They don't dare to enter the deep mountains and only dare to live on the edge of the outer mountains.

"Did you find out about the movements of the barbarian soldiers?" Wei Ci asked.

"Not yet. We don't dare to go down the mountain rashly for fear of disturbing the nearby mountain people."

Wei Ci frowned, this was not good, these barbarian soldiers didn't know what they were doing. "

"Master, you don't have to worry. Our people are stationed nearby and will not let them get close to the foot of the mountain easily. If there is any abnormal movement, we will rush to support immediately.

"Don't worry, we are already close to the mountains. There is heavy snow right now and the road is blocked. Barbarians are not stupid and will not go up the mountain easily. Ordinary people will not come here easily if they don't have food and warm clothes."

"Wei Yi, please pay attention to the movements at the foot of the mountain at any time, and notify me in time if there is any situation."

"it is good."

"In addition, send people to set some traps on the way up the mountain. I doubt our place will be safe for long."

"Yes." Wei Ci gave a few more instructions before letting him retreat.

After Wei Yi went out, Wei Ci sat on a chair and fell into deep thought.

Weiyi and the others have stayed with him in the army for so long and fought so many battles, large and small.

When it comes to setting up traps, he can definitely do a good job. Currently, traps are made from local materials, usually using wooden mechanisms.

The weather in the mountains is very strange. When the sun comes out, the temperature rises, and when the sun sets, it quickly drops to below zero.

In general, the temperature was still rising slowly, and the old trees in the forest were secretly sprouting new shoots. Shen Nan knew that spring was really coming this time.

Because there is no sunlight all year round, there are especially many rotten trees in the forest.

She led the villagers and her men to pick up several baskets of fungus in the forest, weighing about twenty kilograms of fresh fungus. In addition to the fungus picked up nearby by the villagers, it weighed forty or fifty kilograms.

They took advantage of the good weather during the day to dry all the fungus. After drying, a total of ten kilograms of fungus emerged.

In normal times, so much dried fungus could be sold for more than ten taels of silver, but now that there is war and chaos outside, these things in the hands of the villagers are nothing more than something to fill their stomachs.

Putting these things in their hands would be a waste, so they might as well give them all to the Shen family.

The Shen family couldn't finish ten pounds of fungus. Shen Nan put everything in the space and took it out to eat when needed.

She put all the money she earned from opening a shop into the space.

Half is exchanged for the balance of the space mall, and the other half is still the money of this era, but in the form of banknotes.

Generally speaking, war will cause the currency to depreciate or even lose its role as currency. This is why people prefer silver or gold.

Most people don't like to exchange silver money into banknotes, unless they need to move and do so for the convenience of travel.

This was true in peaceful times, but now with frequent wars, even silver is likely to depreciate, let alone banknotes.

Throughout the ages, the most valuable thing is gold.

However, poor people do not have the ability to obtain gold, which is why the small peasant economy always suffers from wars.

But this situation does not exist here at all. Even if the country's bank does not accept cash checks later, she can exchange all the banknotes into the balance of the space and use it to purchase things, and the effect will be the same.

"Master, another group of people came to the village today. Judging from their appearance, they don't look like regular troops, nor are they barbarians from the West.

They pulled over a dozen carriages and unloaded boxes of goods from the carriages. I didn’t know what was in them. I looked at them and saw that they numbered over a hundred people.

They lived in the houses of the villagers. Our house and Uncle Song’s house had the most people living there. "

"This is a bit strange. The world is so chaotic right now. They dare to live in our village openly. I'm afraid they don't have the confidence to live here."

"I have no way of finding out their details for the time being. I have sent people to monitor their every move. If there is any movement from them, I will come back and notify my master immediately."

"Look carefully to see if they have harmed the refugees, and what the refugees' reactions are."

"Yes, master."

No one knows the origins of this group of people, or whether they are good or bad.

Now that the other party has settled in the village at the foot of the mountain, everyone in the camp is in panic, fearing that one day they will have a fit and all come up the mountain. If they go deeper into the mountain, they will be able to see traces of their group.

They entered the deep mountains, and it only lasted more than 20 days. Logically speaking, no one would choose to go into the mountains to search for mountains in this kind of weather.

Not only is the harvest small, but it is also a waste of manpower and material resources. Basically no one is willing to do such a thankless task.

But for the sake of everyone's safety, the villagers spontaneously formed a patrol team to take care of the safety around the camp, while Wei Ci and Song Hexuan's people patrolled the outside of Wangshan Mountain, forming the first line of defense.

Another three days passed in such busyness.

Today is the 23rd of the first lunar month, March [-]rd in the Gregorian calendar.

As soon as the sun came up this morning, everyone felt that the cotton-padded clothes on their bodies were thick and stuffy. As they walked, thin beads of sweat continued to form on their backs, which could not be seen through the cotton-padded clothes.

"Oh, why is it so hot today?" Wang Cuihua unbuttoned her cotton-padded coat irritably, pulled out the underwear tied into her pants, and let it breathe, so the flush on her face was not so obvious. .

According to past conditions, it was the coldest in the morning. They had to put on three or four pieces of clothing, plus a thick cotton coat to avoid freezing. They even had to put on three pairs of pants to barely resist the cold in the mountains. .

"Does this need to be said? Of course it's the beginning of spring. I'm afraid you haven't stayed in the mountains for too long and you'll be back home as you live longer." Her man joked.

"Oh, you will die if you don't speak!" Wang Cuihua rolled her eyes at him, then unbuttoned her clothes and took off her two inner clothes.