"Uncle village chief, we saw it clearly. They were cutting down trees on the mountain and picking up large rocks. They were working on the flat land outside the mountain."

After Tang Qiyue and his friends entered the mountain last night, Village Chief Fu sent two smart young men from the village to follow them and keep an eye on what they were doing.

I thought they would leave after two nights' rest, but who knew they would build a cabin on the mountain? Isn't this courting death? There are so many wild animals on the mountain, including giant insects and wolves.

"What should I do? These people want to occupy the mountain, right?" Seeing that Fu Cunjiu didn't speak for a long time, the young man became anxious and scratched his ears and cheeks in discomfort.

Village Chief Fu sighed and said, "Since they dare to live in the mountains, we can't stop them. As long as these people behave themselves and don't come to our village, it will be fine." There was nothing he, the village chief, could do about it.

“But…” The young man felt that their village was at the foot of the mountain, and they were the only village nearby, so the mountain belonged to them.

Now Tang Qiyue and his men have occupied the mountain and built wooden houses. Isn't this robbing them? How can they accept this?

Village Chief Fu interrupted him and said, "Listen to me and go back and rest." He meant that there was no need to keep an eye on Tang Qiyue and the others anymore.

Tang Qiyue knew very well that there were two tails hiding, but since they didn't come up to cause trouble, she pretended to know nothing.

The appearance of the wooden house was drawn by Tang Qiuyue combining the appearance of modern houses and ancient wooden houses, and asked Xu Fang and others to build it. Although it is a bit complicated, it is definitely more sturdy and windproof than other wooden houses.

The first wooden house was completed half a month later. During this period, Tang Qiuyue went to the town twice. There were many more unfamiliar faces in the town, and the lobby of the herbal medicine shop was crowded with people every day.

There was also an old doctor who noticed that many people were infected with the disease, which scared everyone in the town. Suddenly, more and more people were afraid to go out, and the town became much more depressed.

Upon learning of the spread of the epidemic, the city government, which was not far from Linjiang Town, immediately dispatched soldiers and doctors who had experience in epidemics to treat the disease. However, more and more people and refugees were infected, and the situation became serious and out of control.

Tang Qiyue had a bad feeling when he heard the news. Linjiang Town was completely closed and no one was allowed to enter or leave. So where else could the refugees heading here go?

Turn back? Impossible! So...

Tang Qiyue ran back to the mountain and saw familiar faces. They were Uncle He and his men who had chased after them a few days ago. However, there were fewer people, only about sixty people left.

They were sitting not far from where the wooden house was being built, staring at Tang Qiyue and the others as they were building the second wooden house in confusion.

Uncle He is not a fool. As soon as he saw the wooden house, he knew that Tang Qiyue and the others were going to live here for a long time. He immediately gathered the people around him, selected a location, cut down trees and built the wooden house.

Tang Qiyue saw this but did not stop them. As long as they didn't get in front of her, she wouldn't care what they did.

When the second wooden house was just built, the hot sun had completely disappeared, and the sky remained cold for several days, becoming so dark that it seemed as if a downpour would occur at any time.

In addition to Uncle He and his group, there were many refugees who came to the mountain. They came in groups of three or four and were unable to build wooden houses, so they could only find a place to rest.

Fifty kilograms of cotton have all been made into cotton-padded jackets by Mrs. Lin and Aunt Fang, with two sets left for each of them. In addition to making clothes and linings with the cloth they brought back, Tang Qiuyue gave the rest to Mrs. Lin and others to make cloth masks.

If you are going out, just put two in your pocket and don't take them off no matter if you are talking or doing anything else. As for eating, try to come back hungry.

Fortunately, except for her, no one in the family went down the mountain.

...

As night fell, Tang Qiyue was helping Zhao Bao walk when she saw Uncle He running over in a hurry. He frowned and hugged Zhao Bao into his arms and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Miss Tang." Uncle He's face became even darker in the dark night. He rubbed his hands and said, "Don't you know that you can't enter or leave Linjiang Town, and you can't go to the next prefecture city? That's why we built a wooden house here."

Uncle He became afraid whenever he thought of the news that the villagers he sent out had inquired about in Linjiang Town. If he had not gone up the mountain and met Tang Qiyue, they would probably have been isolated in a deserted village by the soldiers guarding the town.

"What do you want to say?" Tang Qiyue asked back with a calm expression.

When Tang San saw someone questioning his daughter, he immediately rushed over and said, "Is this true? Didn't you go and check it out? Do we want to live in a wooden house instead of a cave?"

"That's right! If we can't get into the town, do we have to live in the cave forever? There are people of all ages, it's very convenient there."

Granny Mo waved her cane. "Hurry up and leave, you have bad intentions." They still remembered that someone almost stole their food in the middle of the night.

Uncle He left with an embarrassed look on his face. When his eyes suddenly caught a glimpse of the unfinished cotton that Aunt Fang and the others had worked on not far away, his eyebrows jumped and he left in a hurry.

After returning to the place where he built the wooden house, Uncle He gathered everyone together. After asking, he found out that everyone only had a few taels of silver. He could only ask those with more money to contribute one tael of silver, and those with less money to contribute a hundred coins. Then he arranged for everyone to find a way to go to Linjiang Town to buy cotton and warm clothes.

But his idea was doomed to fail. Linjiang Town was no longer accessible. They could only go back and go to the nearest provincial capital, but it would take half a month to walk there.

Uncle He was very worried because he didn't buy any cotton or warm clothes. The weather was getting colder and colder, how would they survive?

The weather was getting worse and worse, and they had only built two wooden houses, which was far from enough. Tang Qiyue had no choice but to ask Xu Fang to find strong refugees to help and provide them with lunch.

The lunch was not very rich, but Tang Qiyue still gave everyone two steamed buns and a bowl of brown rice porridge with more rice and less water. Seeing that many people ate one steamed bun and left one, she pretended not to see it.

After finding twenty refugees to help, the construction of the wooden houses was much faster. Seven days later, the second wooden house was completed. Tang Qiyue, Lin, Aunt Fang, and their daughter Tang Shuyao lived in one house, and the remaining house was occupied by Tang Laosan and Xie Changjin.

The wooden house was built in a hurry and there was no one who knew how to make a kang, so Tang Qiyue used the remaining wood to build a large bed that was big enough to accommodate seven or eight people lying down.

Seeing Tang Qiyue and the others moving into the wooden house, Uncle He slapped his thigh and regretted it. If he had not offended these people, wouldn't he be able to move into this wooden house?

Regret!

That night, snowflakes began to fall from the sky, getting heavier and heavier, and the coldness in the air became more and more biting.

It was early August and the snow fell heavily all night long.

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