Infrastructure masters in the red building

Chapter 162

Jia Fang didn't know that someone was watching. He just concentrated on surveying the terrain on the right bank of Qingfang River, marking out a moderately sized, flat area suitable for construction.

This area happened to include the locations of sugar mills and textile factories, but most of the bee farms were outside the city.

But for bees, I am afraid that the countryside full of flowers and trees is suitable for them, but it will cause trouble in the city.

Jia Fang marked the key positions one by one with an iron drill, and Gui Xiaxue came to help him mark them with lime.

Suddenly, a shout was heard.The two turned their heads in surprise, only to see a large group of people rushing down from the Qingfang Bridge.The leader is none other than Wang Erlang.

"Master Jia, Teacher Gui, are you all right?" Wang Erlang rushed up, ignoring everything else, and looked around to see if Jia Fang was okay.

"Nothing!" Jia Fang held the iron braze in one hand and said, "What's wrong?"

"Someone saw a beam of light on the other side of the river just now. It seemed that there was some kind of weapon reflected in the sun, and it flashed. The brothers were worried, so they rushed over."

Only then did Jia Fang realize what kind of dangerous situation he was in just now, and he and Gui Xiaxue glanced at each other, their faces turned pale.

Here, Wang Erlang's inspection team has rushed to the hillside where the flash was just spotted, to check for bandit spies.Earlier, Jia Fang did not let the inspection team also invest in the construction of the project. This decision seems quite wise.

Soon, someone from the inspection team reported that they had found footprints on the hillside and had followed the footprints to chase after them.

Wang Erlang said bitterly: "Three or six copper rings, how could they come back so quickly?"

Gui Xiaxue was also worried: "Zifang, if these spies escape, they will know that we are building a wall. How can we rush to kill us before our wall is finished?"

Jia Fang has a different judgment: "Not necessarily!"

He said: "These should be the bandits who harassed Taoyuan and Wuning earlier. They dared to spy here during the day, and they came and went like the wind. They should be quite familiar with the path."

"The rest of the bandits have to come from Yongning Prefecture, and it will take at least three to five days on the road. These small bandits will at least wait until they meet with the brigade before they have the opportunity to report that we have built the city wall. The bandits of the brigade The main target should be Wu Yuan. When they adjust and turn to Taoyuan, it will be at least two days later."

"Don't panic, everyone, proceed as planned."

When Jia Fang said this, he didn't know what to do.But now he and the entire Taoyuan Village had no way out, so he could only grit his teeth and hold his breath to finish building the entire wall.If you give up halfway and choose to quit Taoyuan at this time, the blow to morale will be devastating.

Sure enough, after listening to Jia Fang's explanation, everyone seemed to be a little more relaxed, and the inspection team immediately went back to appease the villagers.The inspectors who went to follow up earlier had come back at this time and reported to Wang Erlang and Jia Fang that the man had slipped too fast and could not catch up.

Jia Fang told the two inspection captains, Wang Erlang and Zhao Wuguang: "You two, take all the team members back and rest together in the office building area. Everyone, distribute weapons, eat two full meals, and sleep well. , recharge your batteries."

The construction of the city depends on the villagers, but the subsequent defense depends on these inspectors.

Both Wang Erlang and Zhao Wuguang agreed, and they really took everyone back.They didn't forget to ask Jia Fang and Gui Xiaxue to cross the Qingfang River as soon as possible and return to the relatively safe area on the left bank.

Gui Xiaxue tugged at the corner of Jia Fang's clothes: "Tell me, was it the bandit who was closer to us just now, or Wang Erlang and the others who were closer to us."

This is exactly what Jia Fang wondered.Assuming that when the villagers saw the light of the sword just now, it was the time when the spies from Tonghuan Sanliu drew their swords and were about to kill them, but if they rushed with all their strength at that time, they would definitely be able to feel Jia Fang and Gui's death one step earlier than the inspection team. Ya Xue's side.

If that's the case, Jia Fang and Gui Xiaxue's force values ​​are not high, and they will only be slaughtered by others.

So what stopped the bandits, tripped them on the hillside, and didn't dare to rush down like this?

Jia Fang looked at Gui Xiaxue's sly smile and knew that the other party already had the answer.

Gui Xiaxue took a few steps forward and said with a smile, "Look, what does this piece look like?"

"What does it look like?" Jia Fang looked around.

In the distance are the burnt houses of the sugar mill and Jinhua, and nearby is an open space, with several circles drawn with lime on the ground, and the iron rods he left behind are still inserted on the ground.

"Like...a maze?" Jia Fang could only think of this.

Gui Xiaxue originally wanted to talk about formations such as the Bagua formation, but after hearing what Jia Fang said, he also felt that it made sense.

Jia Fang looked around, said "ha", and said, "I have an idea."

If it's too late to build an urn city, then it's okay to build a visual maze that can scare the bandits away like just now!

In the Grand View Garden, Jia She also let out a "ha" and clapped his hands together: "That's it!"

After he made his decision, he still forgot to mutter: "Third brother, it's really not that I cut corners, but that the three days are too tight, and it is absolutely impossible to build a perfect rock pile."

In the past twelve hours, Jia Amnesty had gone all over the business houses he was familiar with, and no one could get him enough lake stones in such a short period of time.

So far, Jia Amnesty has still used his father-in-law's relationship, and finally got two pieces that are in good shape.But it's not enough to pile up a whole mountain of rocks.

Coincidentally, a batch of flowers and trees ordered by Jia Fang in the Grand View Garden arrived.Jia Amnesty came up with the idea of ​​Huamu.

Shuangwen happened to go out to deliver a letter to Baigongfang. When he just came back, he saw Jia She commanding in front of the Grand View Garden where Cuizhang should have been: "Cypress tree, I said that cypress tree, come here a little bit, A little more—"

"This holly, move forward, move forward - here, this is here, yes!"

Take a look at the double text: this...

Seeing Jia Amnesty, she hurriedly saluted and called out, "Master, it's hard work!"

Jia Amnesty didn't see Shuangwen, and said casually, "You're not working hard." Turning around and seeing Shuangwen, he almost immediately jumped away.It is estimated that Jia Amnesty left a serious psychological shadow when he and his wife had a conflict because of Shuangwen last time.

"Master, this is, do you use flowers and trees instead of Cuizhang?" Shuangwen didn't care. Jia She was not even a passer-by in her life. On the contrary, she was very grateful to Jia She and his wife because they didn't take her in and let her After arriving at Jia Fang's courtyard, every day has been fulfilling since then.

Jia She then nodded embarrassingly, scratched the back of his head and said, "It's not that I don't want to build a mountain of rocks for the third child, but it may not be too difficult for him. Three days, three days... have you heard of it?" ?”

Just as Jia Fang predicted, Jia Amnesty's execution ability is super strong, and his management is also very good.Most of the materials needed were ordered on the first day, three batches of workers were recruited, and three shifts fell to the ground to rush to work.

The job of building the courtyard wall for the Grand View Garden is also an assembly line job.Dig the foundation of the wall, lay the bricks of the brick, pile the pattern of the hollowed out pattern, polish the sand, and powder the wall.At a glance, you can have a panoramic view of the entire operation process of building the courtyard wall.Judging from the current speed of advancement, within three days, Jia Amnesty could really repair the walls of the entire garden for Jia Fang.

But Cuizhang is quite difficult.Jia She couldn't even find all the materials, and he didn't have the time to invite everyone who piled up the rocks to come to design. If that's the case, the day lily will be cold when Cuizhang designs it.

But Jia She has his own theory: "The so-called Cuizhang is just to make the garden look winding and unpredictable. In addition, it is also to block the sight, so as not to have a full view of the garden when entering the garden. People look at it completely. If we have lake stones, we can use lake stones. Now that we don’t have lake stones, we can do it with some flowers and trees.”

"Although I don't understand why the third child must pile up a green peak within three days. But in these three days, I will first use flowers and trees and the only two lake stones to pile up a rough one for him. The scenery that obscures the line of sight comes out. Leave the rest for now, and wait for the third child to come back and let him pile stones to play by himself."

Hearing what Jia She said was reasonable, Shuangwen saluted Jia She again, and said softly, "Thank you for thinking about it, sir."

But Jia She jumped to the side again and said loudly: "Don't—don't be polite, don't let my wife see..."

Jia She's avoiding suspicion was exaggerated, Shuang Wen couldn't help covering his mouth and laughing, and silently backed away, leaving all the affairs to Jia She to lead.She couldn't help but think, in fact, these brothers in the Rong Mansion seem to be quite friendly, but they are different from the ones passed down by the servants of the mansion earlier...

After Jia She's design, the "winding path leading to seclusion" at the main entrance of the Grand View Garden is composed of uneven flowers and trees.

In the distance is a pair of ancient cypresses and sycamore trees moved from other places, nearby are small trees such as peach and apricot, and further ahead are lower shrubs, with a small nursery mixed with holly, It is peony and peony.A thin path is paved with pebbles between the flower beds, extending to the depths of the flowers and trees.

The most surprising thing about this "Cuizhang" is the arrangement to block the view: as long as you stand in front of Cuizhang, no matter from which direction you can see the panorama of the Grand View Garden, you can occasionally see a corner of the white wall, several black tiles, But it makes the garden even more fascinating.

What's especially unique is that there is an area left among the green peaks for Jia Fang to stack lake stones in the future.Just imagine a little, imagine a protruding lake rock, although not very high but dangerous and rugged, standing at the entrance of the Grand View Garden, with a winding path—it must lead to the scenic spot.

Shuangwen looked at Jia Shewu standing in front of Cuizhang, sitting and looking to the right, constantly instructing the craftsmen to adjust the flowers and trees in the Cuizhang area, thinking that Mr. Jia's vision is really good, and the person he invited has really good taste, It is also necessary to think about everything carefully, so that the project with such a tight schedule can be properly managed.

For a moment she was worried again.

The last time I saw a lot of people transporting weapons to Daoxiang Village, but they disappeared when they were transported to Daoxiang Village.

Shuangwen knew that Jia Fang's Daoxiang Village was somewhat secretive, but after transporting weapons there, it was obvious that Jia Fang had encountered a war, and he might still face a certain degree of danger.

By the way, what happened to Jia Fang?

Jia Fang said "Ah Chirp" three times, sneezed three times, and couldn't help asking: "Who is talking about me?"

At this moment, he is still on the right bank of the Qingfang River, and in front of him is the planned satellite city "Qingfang City" of Taoyuan Village.

At this time, all the Ye Bu Shou in Taoyuan Village and Wuyuan County had dispersed. As soon as they found the bandits, they would immediately send out smoke signals and send them all the way to Taoyuan and Wuyuan to know.

Now the vicinity of Taoyuan Village is still quiet, and the bandits who stepped on the plate once did not come again.But Jia was confident: it was coming soon, and there were thousands of people, the kind who vowed to smash Taoyuanzhai to the ground.

But the "Qingfang City" in front of him didn't have the appearance of a "city".

Within the boundary of Qingfang City circled by Jia Fang, there are several "fence"-like cement slabs standing - they are actually part of the future city wall.But now it is deliberately made intermittent.On the other side of these cement slabs, the line of sight will be blocked, and it will be impossible to see the whole picture of Qingfang Bridge and Taoyuan Village.

Surprisingly, that's not all.

Gui Xiaxue pasted a piece of paper on each concrete slab, and there was a ghostly symbol on the paper.Jia Fang asked him what it was, and Gui Xiaxue smiled and said, "It's as urgent as a law!"

Jia Fang: ...

"Don't lie to me, I've seen what a man in a hurry like a law looks like." Jia Fang retorted speechlessly.When he was in the boat hall in the Li Palace outside the capital, he had indeed seen the Taoist talisman order.

Gui Xiaxue laughed, "It's those bandits who coaxed you, not you."

Jia Fang thought for a moment: That's right.

"But the ones you drew on the ground, why do I think they are more ghostly symbols than ghost symbols?" Gui Xiaxue asked with a smile.

Jia Fang then provoked him: "You have the ability to walk along the passages marked by these white lines to see if you can get out. Don't cross the line and cross to other paths, it will be considered a foul for you."

In advance, Jia Fang used lime to draw a line of white boundaries on the ground, drawing a path, extending from between the towering concrete walls to Qingfang Bridge.

This is actually the labyrinth that was later popular in Western classical gardens.When Jia Fang was in school, when he heard boring lessons, he often designed one in his notebook and gave it to his classmates to explain after class.It seems that it can often stump students.

Gui Xiaxue was dubious: "Is this difficult? Wait for me to come and try."

He really only walked along the path drawn by Jia Fang, and when he saw a fork in the road, he chose a turn at random, but after turning around, he turned back to the starting point.

Jia Fang showed a smug smile.Seeing his smiling face, Gui Xiaxue immediately wrinkled his nose in disbelief: "I don't believe it!"

The next second, Gui Xiaxue rushed into the maze again, turned around for a long time, and finally came back to Jia Fang, this time he said a little dejectedly: "According to the path you drew, will you never get out?"

An inspection team next to him who was in charge of protecting Jia Fang and Gui Xiaxue couldn't help laughing and said, "Teacher Gui, if you don't look at the line drawn underground and just raise your head, won't you be able to walk out?"

Gui Xiaxue shook his head: "No, that would be meaningless."

Jia reassuredly thought: It's at this juncture, and he still insists on finding the solution to the maze. This guy is really heartless to the extreme.

He had no choice but to call Gui Xiaxue over, and taught him face to face, explaining the basic rules of walking the maze.Gui Xiaxue only listened to it once and memorized it, and then tried it according to the rules. After a while, he turned out from the exit leading to Qingfang River, waved to Jia Fang and shouted loudly: "Look, look at me, look at me!" I'm coming out!"

Jia Fang looked at Gui Xiaxue's joyful look, propped his chin with his hands, and imagined the scene of the bandits coming here - he thought, if the bandits were all as heartless as Gui Xiaxue, seeing It would really be a waste of all his efforts to rush straight to this weird Qingfang City regardless.

This kind of maze painted on the surface is really difficult to work, but as long as the bandits come here and see these cement pillars in strange positions and the "urgent as a law" on the cement pillars, they can feel a little If you are in awe, see this weird labyrinth on the ground again, where you can never find the exit...

"Go and get some white linen from the villagers' homes, cut it into the shape of a prayer flag, and nail it to the studs of these concrete pillars." Jia Fang continued to order.

When I was young, white linen was really sent over, and the villagers in the village asked Jia Fang anything and everything, as long as he asked, there was nothing they couldn't do.

The white linen cloth was hung with concrete pillars, and the atmosphere was even more different.This future "satellite city" now looks like a strange Taoist formation.

It's best to wait until the bandits come, when the weather is cloudy, with a little wind, or a little mist, this Qingfang City can become a veritable "maze" and "demon city" to temporarily confuse the invading enemy.

I hope this can make the inspectors in charge of guarding this section of the Qingfang River a little more relaxed——Jia Anxin thought to himself.

Just as he was finishing the last bit of arrangement, he suddenly saw smoke rising in the distance—yellow smoke.This proves that the bandits are advancing on the road here, but they don't seem to be in a hurry to attack.

This means that within six to twelve hours, the Bandits will arrive at Taoyuan Village.

It's time to test the new Taoyuan again.

Tonghuan Sanliu returned to the big camp with the two younger ones, and when he saw the superior, he immediately told him what he had seen and heard in Taoyuan Village.

When the superiors heard that Taoyuan Village was building fortifications, they were very surprised and asked, "Are you sure, they are building a large row of...fences?"

Tonghuan Sanliu nodded, and clumsily grabbed the pen and paper prepared by the "Military Advisor", and drew the shape of those blue-gray "fences".

"This one is one by one, with criss-crossed teeth..." The above was very puzzled after reading the masterpiece of Tonghuan Sanliu, and couldn't see why.Unexpectedly, the two boys who came back with Tonghuan Sanliu pointed to the painting on the paper, and said tremblingly, "Ghost... the gate of hell..."

This time the whole big tent was startled, everyone looked at Tonghuan and the others in shock.

"Gate of hell?" The military division's voice was a little trembling.

"Yes... yes, there is a large formation outside, it is Zhuge... Zhuge Wuhou's gossip formation..."

"If you enter through the door of life, you can still come out. If you go through the door of death, then..."

Two and a half older children, talking and talking, scared themselves to tears.