All things grow in the fragrance of ten miles.

The village stands by the water, and the Shili River flows through from west to east. Chenjia Village is on the side of the Shili River. The riverside is surrounded by green grass and trees, and the land is fertile. Some military and civilians' fields are located in it.

Unfortunately, the weather is abnormal in recent years and disasters continue. The water level of Shili River has dropped a lot, revealing many river beaches. Not far from the river banks on both sides, there are large areas of dry land. When the breeze blows, a piece of dust will be rolled up.

"Young Master, it's noon, it's time to have a meal!"

A girl with big arms and round waist leaned at the door of the cottage, showing a flattering smile at him. Her name is Chen Yinhua, the daughter of Chen Family Village. She has a wide face and a wide nose, dark skin, but a rosy complexion.

It is not easy to eat so well in the countryside of the border. Since the village chief Chen Youfu lost a bet with him last month, he asked his daughter to come and serve him for a month.

Fang Jingnan turned a blind eye to her flattery. Although Chen Yinhua was a young girl of sixteen or seventeen years old, her youth was amazing. The village girl was really not related to her beauty. She also had to go to the fields to work during the busy farming season.

"Let's go!" Fang Jingnan smiled politely.

Chenjia Village is a Minhu Village next to Datong Town, Jiubian, and Yungang Fort.

When I moved from the big locust tree in my early years, there were hundreds of households. In recent years, many families fled and fled. Now there are less than a hundred households in Chenjia Village, and three or four hundred Dingkou.

Chen Yinhua's father Chen Youfu is the village chief of the Chenjia Village, and his ancestors have been the village chief for several generations. 70% of the land in the village belongs to their family, and there is no doubt that the richest man in the village.

There is only one serious road in the village, less than half a mile long, and Chen Youfu's home is at the east end of the village.

There is a century-old tree in front of the house. During the slack farming season, villagers gather there to chat, which is also where the village publishes important news.

Fang Jingnan followed Chen Yinhua to her house. When she met an acquaintance on the roadside, she would greet her warmly, which shows that she was quite kind-hearted. You should know that most of the villagers here are their tenants.

The aroma of the meal floated out very far away. Fang Jingnan touched her stomach. She was very hungry these days. The villagers usually only ate two meals in the morning and evening, and did not eat at noon.

Fang Jingnan was naturally not used to it and asked for extra meals at noon. Chen Youfu, who lost, had to give him a month of food and drink.

The old rich man Chen’s house is a small courtyard with two entrances, with a large front and a small back, with a total of eight or nine rooms.

The house is not big, but it has been wrapped in bricks. In some years, the brick walls are covered with mottled traces, and there are several damaged corners that have not been repaired.

It can be seen that this rich man lives a very good life.

"Have you seen beggars, but have you seen such a shameless person who is reincarnated by starving ghosts?"

In front of Chen Youfu's house, a stout man squatted on the stone steps, curled his lips, looking dissatisfied.

The man who said sarcastic words are Chen Shancai. The word "Cai" is the metaphor for the word "Yicai". He is Chen Yinhua's second brother. Chen Yinhua also has a eldest brother named Chen Shanhe. It is said that his martial arts are extraordinary and he went to Zhenhebao thirty miles north of the north.

Nowadays, men are not in the army. With the foundation of the Chen family, they still went there for some reason.

"It turns out it's Young Master Chen Second. I'm sorry, I'm really afraid of being hungry, not intentionally wasting it." Fang Jingnan didn't care and walked past him with a chuckling.

Chen Shancai was deliberately looking for trouble, and stood up suddenly and stepped in front of Fang Jingnan.

But before he could rude, Chen Yinhua was unhappy. She walked up and pushed Chen Shancai away from the road, shouting: "Second brother, what are you doing? Be careful I will tell my father."

Chen Shancai was originally feeling uneasy, and he was pushed by Yinhua when he was drunk and pushed.

Fang Jingnan didn't say anything, but this huge and powerful man seemed vicious, couldn't help but shrugging his shoulders, as if he was about to cry.

After seeing this, Fang Jingnan couldn't help but sigh: "The huge Chenjia Village belongs to your family. Just add one more meal every day, so it's not like this!"

"If you eat corn bran like us, how can you take care of it if you add two more meals. But you eat like this," Chen Shancai really choked out, "Jinshan is gone."

"Ah, it's Brother Jing Nan who is here!"

Just as he was talking, an old man in his fifties and strong body walked out, holding a plate of fried eggs with chopped green onions.

He is the master of Chenjia Village, and the village chief Chen Youfu.

Seeing that his father was coming, Chen Shancai didn't dare to speak out, and turned his head quietly and left.

Holding Fang Jingnan's arm affectionately, Chen Youfu said, "Don't pay attention to this coward. With your ability, my brother, what's the point of eating and drinking more? Let's have a drink."

The furniture inside the house reflects a look of the rich man.

There is a wooden table next to it, with several porcelains from the front dynasty on it, and there is a stand for guests to clean in the corner of the door. There is a clean hand towel on the stand, and the copper basin contains clean river water.

A little girl twisted her hand towel and bent over and handed it to Fang Jingnan respectfully.

Fang Jingnan took the towel and said, "Thank you!"

The little maid blushed when she blushed. Her conscience was evident. Fang Jingnan had no other intentions about this maid. Ming people are now very short, men are 1.6 meters tall, and women are about 1.5 meters tall. This little girl slave is as thin as a mate and malnourished.

Fang Jingnan has no intention of discrimination against others, but if he wants to treat her as a bed warmer, he will definitely not agree. Moreover, Fang Jingnan knew that this old man Chen was so straightforward to admit defeat, so he sent his daughter to serve him, and he was also thinking of hiring a son-in-law to come to his house.

Of course, Fang Jingnan would not tell the truth. In this year, the sky is big and the earth is big and the belly is the biggest.

There are four dishes and soups on the table that make the rich man's son feel distressed, namely: fried yellow croaker, fried eggs with chopped green onion, leek meatballs, soy sauce tofu, and stewed chicken soup with mushrooms.

When ordinary households cook this table of dishes, they went bankrupt directly. Chen Youfu actually felt so painful. He only had to eat with him, and his children didn't let him serve, for fear that he wouldn't have enough food.

Fang Jingnan did not drink alcohol, ate the dishes, squeezing the strongly peeled noodles in the bowl, and the pink and white noodles were covered with a layer of golden sesame oil. She looked at the cold flowers and swallowed their saliva, thinking that she should have gone out with her second brother, but she was invisible.

A large bowl of noodles with a knife is cut into pieces and eat it cleanly, and there is no drop of water left.

Fang Jingnan patted her round belly, pointed to the dozen packed grain steamed buns on the table, and said, "Silk flowers, bring them steamed buns, let's go and digest food."

There is a Dun Fort several miles away from Chenjia Village, with several military soldiers inside. The end of the world is approaching, and Fang Jingnan feels guilty if he doesn’t have any force.

Chen Yinhua was used to Fang Jingnan's food and taking it, and even felt a little happy on her face. She picked up the cloth bag and walked away.

Fang Jingnan smiled knowingly and stalked with big strides. When he arrived at the door, he remembered something and turned his head and said, "Mr. Chen, you don't need to prepare dinner, I'll have to eat outside."

"Okay," Chen Youfu's face filled with smiles, "You're busy first, let's kill the pig tomorrow and stew the pig's trotters for you."

"Oh, this is so polite."

"What's the point, eating and drinking is what it means."

"Well, remember to use soybeans to slowly stuff them. I like to eat something that is a little bit bad."

"Okay!"

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Datong Town is one of the important towns on the nine borders of the Ming Dynasty.

It was under its jurisdiction of four roads and eight roads. The Ming court spent millions of taels of silver to build seventy-two forts along the Great Wall to strictly guard against the nomadic peoples in the north.

But unfortunately, just last year, in July of the seventh year of Chongzhen, the Later Jin broke through the pass and entered, burned, killed and looted, and no matter how many fortresses were, they could not protect the poor people.

Yungang Fort, one of the 72 Forts in Datong, belongs to Datong Zuowei Road North West Road.

The land was built in the 37th year of Jiajing, and the second year of Wanli (1574) was built. The circumference of the fortress wall was 1 mile and 4 minutes, 3 zhang and 5 feet high, and 8 fire road piers under it.

Chenjia Village and Yungang Fort are across the river. Crossing the Shili River, the fortress is located within two miles.

Last year, when the Jin Dynasty broke through the pass, Chen Youfu took his tenants to give him 100 taels of silver and hid in the fort to take refuge.

Silver is a valuable item. Although during this period, a large amount of silver flowed in the south of the Ming Dynasty every year, causing inflation, one hundred taels of silver was not a small amount. It could not be saved for three years by relying on the commission in the field.

With such behavior, Chen Youfu was the only one within a radius of hundreds of miles.

Afterwards, many people said that he was stupid, and the tenant was not a slave, so he would look for it again if he was gone. Who would plant the land for? There were many people who had no food to eat these days.

When Fang Jingnan heard about this, he looked at the rich man Chen with a different look. The end of the world is approaching, and having a group of close neighbors who are grateful to you is definitely a great fortune.

Fang Jingnan also understood that force is an important force.

"Brother Tiezhu, I'm here, come out and welcome you quickly."

Anmindun is one of the eight fire road piers under Yungang Fort. It has a small flag stationed to defend it all year round. If an enemy invades, it will ignite the beacon fire inside the piers and spread to all directions.

Meng Tiezhu is the small flag in the Dunli, a strong northern man. Last year, when Yinhua hid in Yungang Castle with her father, Meng Tiezhu's small flag also shrank and retreated into the fort.

I don’t know why the two met, but after a few months, they were quite familiar with each other.

After Fang Jingnan learned about this relationship, he coaxed Yinhua to introduce his relationship. After a few days, Fang Jingnan wanted to communicate with each other and soon became familiar with this straightforward northern man.

But today it seemed that something was wrong. When he heard Fang Jingnan's shouting, Meng Tiezhu did not come out with a smile as before, patted his shoulder and said, "The little brother is here."

The fire road pier is quiet, with occasional sighs.

Fang Jingnan walked into the gate of the pun and looked inside. It seemed that everyone in the pun was there. Meng Tiezhu squatted beside him with a bitter face. On a straw mat in the corner, a man with wounds on his back was lying on a straw mat in the corner.

Fang Jingnan also knew this man, named Leng Li, one of the guards in Dun.

At this moment, he was a little confused. The flesh and blood on his back were obviously whipped out. He applied some plant leaves to stop bleeding, mixed with the smell of blood and blood, and smelled bad.
Chapter completed!