The groom was kidnapped on the wedding day? Fine! I'll marry someone else.

Under Xu Yu's curious gaze, Jiang Yi told her: "No."

Then he explained: "It's just to make them feel a sense of crisis."

Xu Yu: “…”

Several men sitting next to them couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Zhu Juncheng and Xu Yu said, "Sister-in-law, let me tell you, our boss is a master at manipulating people's minds. When he led us on missions, many times we didn't even have to do anything ourselves. We just changed the enemy's mindset and won."

Xu Yu couldn't help laughing out loud.

She looked at Jiang Yi, who had a calm face, and praised him, "Brother Yi, you are really amazing."

Jiang Yi didn't respond to her and just buried his head in eating.

But the tips of his ears turned red.

Xu Yu glanced at the tip of his ear, smiled and did not expose them, but asked them to talk more.

A group of people started talking one after another.

Jiang Yi didn't try to stop them, but when they said something excessive, he warned them with a light look.

"Sister-in-law, you don't know. Although the boss doesn't talk much, he has a lot of ideas. When we were on the border and didn't have enough food or warm clothes, he sent a few people to hang out with the enemy. When they started shooting, we went over with a legitimate reason and took away all their food and clothes."

"Also, those people have run out of food, so they must go hunting in the mountains. We'll just follow them, and when they're done hunting, we'll take care of them, and then we'll get a lot of prey without any effort."

"Also, one of our men was seriously injured, but we didn't have any anti-inflammatory or anesthetic drugs. So the boss took a few people to the enemy garrison's medical team to get some."

Hearing this, Xu Yu subconsciously asked Jiang Yi: "Brother Yi, how did you get it?"

You have to know that anti-inflammatory drugs and anesthetics are the most scarce medical drugs in this era. No matter which unit it is, they attach great importance to them. But Jiang Yi actually went to get them with only a few people.

These people didn't say anything about the danger involved.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Yi said it so calmly: "Our ancestors left us many strategies, and we can get it by just using a few of them."

Xu Yu: “…”

Xu Jianping, who was sitting next to him, couldn't help but give him a thumbs up.

……

After dinner, Jiang Yi and his friends really went to Jiang Laoer's house to collect debts.

Xu Yu and Xu Jianping would definitely go along to watch the fun.

When a group of people arrived at Jiang Laoer's house, they saw that the door was locked.

The yard was also cleaned up cleanly, obviously because they were afraid that Jiang Yi and his men would come and leave nothing behind.

It was pitch black inside the house. If Jiang Yi's house was not located on a higher ground than Jiang Laoer's, and their movements could be seen at any time, everyone would have thought they had run away.

When Jiang Yi and his companions reached the gate of Jiang Laoer's house, one of them, a particularly burly man with a rough voice, knocked on the door: "Open the door! We know you are home! Return the money quickly!"

"puff……"

Xu Jianping, who was following behind, whispered to Xu Yu, "Sister, do you think our group looks a bit like bandits right now?"

Xu Yu said to him, "What bandit? We are here to collect debts with a clear conscience. We owe you money and you must pay it back. No one can accuse us of anything wrong."

After the man called, Jiang Laoer's family still did not open the door.

It actually attracted the neighbors nearby.

Then Xu Yu and the others saw Jiang Yi whisper a few words into Zhu Juncheng's ear.

Then Zhu Juncheng shouted, "When your family borrowed money from our eldest family, they said they would pay it back after Jiang Wei got married. Now it's been almost two months, you should pay it back. If our eldest family doesn't need the money urgently, it's fine, but they need it for the wedding banquet."

"They say that those who stand in the way of marriage will be struck by lightning. Jiang Wei wasn't married to begin with. If you don't pay back the money you borrowed from the old family, they won't be able to hold the wedding banquet."

"Are you guys deliberately not wanting the eldest family to hold a wedding banquet to marry my sister-in-law? Jiang Wei is heartless and ungrateful, but it turns out that the top beam is crooked and the bottom beam is crooked!"

"People like this should be reported and have them all arrested!"

"Isn't it capitalism to have such corrupt ideas?"

"Boss, why don't we just report them."

……

Zhu Juncheng's voice became louder and louder, and others would occasionally echo him.

More and more villagers are watching.

The sound of people pointing and talking got louder.

Jiang Laoer and his group, who had been hiding at home with the door closed, finally couldn't hold it anymore.

At this time, they opened the door a crack, and saw Jiang Lao Er standing there, angry, anxious and afraid, asking Jiang Yi: "What do you want?"

Jiang Yi said simply: "Pay back the money."

"We have no money!"

Zhu Juncheng: "If you don't have any, then sell the valuables in your house for money."

Jiang Laoer's eyes popped out. He didn't expect this group of people to be so cruel.

Especially Jiang Yi, who was standing outside the door, looked like an evil spirit squatting to take his life. No one else in the house dared to come out, and he also stood out with shaking legs and trembling.

He didn't dare to use his elder status to pressure him, let alone throw a tantrum. He asked timidly, "How about you give us a few more days, and then we... we can pay back the fifty yuan first?"

"How many days?"

"You...before you got married."

Jiang Yi stopped talking and just looked at him.

Even though it was moonlight, Jiang Lao Er felt cold all over and his legs were shaking even more violently.

Just when he was about to give up, Jiang Yi said, "Okay, pay me fifty yuan when my house is finished, and pay the rest as soon as possible."

"well!"

Jiang Yi turned around and said to the group of people, "Let's go."

A group of people came in a mighty procession, and then left in a mighty procession.

The onlookers only started pointing and talking about Jiang Laoer's house after Jiang Yi and his friends left.

When Jiang Yi and his companions were about to go home, they heard ghosts howling and cursing at Jiang Wei from Jiang Laoer's house.

But no one sympathized with them.

……

For the next two days, Xu Yu and Xu Jianping were busy with their own things in the morning and came to Jiang Yi's house in the afternoon.

It turns out that houses can be built faster when there are more people.

In three days, everything from changing the foundation to building the walls of the five houses was completed.

The house will then be left for a few days until the loess and sand used to build the walls are dried.

On the fourth day, Xu Yu and his friends went into the mountains.

They plan to stay in there for three days before coming out.

The fourteen-person herb-collecting team is no exaggeration, especially since twelve of them are serving soldiers or veterans.

They spent nearly half a day trekking through mountains and rivers.

There were some cliff sections that Xu Yu and Dr. Huang couldn't climb up at all, so Jiang Yi tied Xu Yu to his back with vines and carried him on his back, and Dr. Huang was also carried by another person.

It was not until around three o'clock in the afternoon that everyone stopped in a valley.

The valley is very large and there is a stream running through the middle of it.

The stream meanders and twists, no one knows where it comes from or where it goes.

Looking around, there are towering trees everywhere, as well as many dead trees that have died of old age or been knocked down by natural disasters and are now covered with mosses, ferns and fungi.

Nameless flowers bloom in the valley in the wind.

Small animals were running around among the tree trunks, and many of them were squatting by the stream drinking water.

The whole picture is like a paradise on earth.

Jiang Yi said, "Today we will collect herbs near this area and dry them on the big rocks. We will go deeper tomorrow to take a look."

Xu Yu was still looking around, and she had already seen several precious medicinal herbs that had become extinct in later generations.

Doctor Huang also saw it. Without saying a word, he went to one of the herbs, squatted down and picked it carefully.

Xu Yu nodded to Jiang Yi and said, "There are many herbs here. I will teach you how to pick different herbs later."

"can."

Then Xu Yu took everyone to look around. Even though the herbs were not too precious, she demonstrated them once before letting everyone pick them separately.

Jiang Yi followed Xu Yu.

Every time Xu Yu saw a medicinal herb, he would tell him about its medicinal properties and what medicine it could be combined with to achieve the greatest effect.

Jiang Yi listened carefully, and later he suddenly realized that many of the medicines Xu Yu told him could save their lives during marches and battles.

It was not until dark that the sounds of many animals were heard in the valley, and then a group of people gathered back. They lit a fire in a natural stone cave near the river, and roasted the steamed buns they brought and the small animals they had killed.

After dinner, Jiang Yi assigned the task of keeping watch. Xu Yu and Dr. Huang discussed how to preserve some medicinal materials, and also prepared some medicinal juices and liquids that were useful in Senshan.

After Xu Yu and Dr. Huang prepared the medicine to repel poisonous insects and snakes on the spot, they sprinkled it at the entrance of the cave.

It was late at night before everyone went to rest.

It was not known whether these people did it intentionally or deliberately, but they all stayed away from Xu Yu and Jiang Yi.

Someone else deliberately said, "It's very cold in this deep forest at night. We are used to it and can handle it. Sister-in-law, you'd better stay close to the boss, otherwise you will be woken up by the cold in the middle of the night."

Then someone said, "Don't be embarrassed, we won't even look at yours."

Xu Yu: “…”

Jiang Yi: "..."

Xu Yu looked at Jiang Yi with sparkling eyes.

Jiang Yi took out a military coat from his backpack, sat on the hay they had laid out in advance, looked up at Xu Yu, and raised his arm towards her.

Xu Yu raised the corner of his mouth, went over and sat next to him, then leaned into his arms.

Jiang Yi threw his military coat over her, covering her entire body, so that no one else could see even if they wanted to peek.