At home during the Spring Festival, for Lin Yanchao, except for necessary entertainment, he studied at home.

After the Cheng family gave a hundred taels, everyone laughed from ear to ear every day.

Yilin's plan is to buy more than a dozen acres of fertile land, or buy a ploughing cattle.

There are many people in Fujian and there is little land, and in the words of the local chronicles, it is expensive to sleep in the acre.

At present, it has been peaceful for several years, and one acre of good paddy field can be worth seven or eight taels of silver, and the semi-dry field on the side of the mountain can also have three or four taels of silver, and a ploughing ox is almost six or seven taels.

Buy a ten-acre paddy field and buy a ploughing cow, and this 100 taels is about the same. Everyone agrees with this opinion, hoarding land is a very simple concept, if you eat and drink and waste it, not to mention the family, others will also say that you are a loser.

After making up his mind, Lin Gaozhu asked the uncle and the third uncle to start this matter.

The Lin family's paddy field is close to the left, next to the aunt's house in the neighboring village, and there is an uncle's house in the same village who has five suits.

When the Lin family planned to buy land, the uncle's errand came down, and the Houguan County Ya Bing wrote a book, and the whole family was very happy when they heard the news. Although he is still outside the establishment and is not a member of the economic system, he is already an uncle, and the social status of the eldest mother has really improved.

Lin Yanchao originally thought that he could not take the imperial examination as an official, but later learned that this was a complete misunderstanding, not that the officials could not participate in the imperial examination, but that the officials did not need to participate in the imperial examination and already had the qualifications to be officials.

The Ming Dynasty did the official three ways, the Jinshi one way, the Kegong one way, the officials one way, the early Ming Dynasty to become a high-ranking official with the official background, innumerable, to the middle and late period, the dynasty attached importance to Kegong, only stipulated in the imperial history, the state and county officials, not selected from the officials. Later, there was a charter that paid tribute, was born as a clerk, and was not allowed to come out if he was not a great Zhuo.

However, as an official in the Yamen, the officials are completely several grades higher than the officials, and as a government officer, they are not allowed to participate in the imperial examination within three generations. After the uncle cried with joy, he held a banquet in the township, and also invited those fox friends and dog friends who were in the yamen to eat. The eldest mother also ran to her mother's house whenever she was free, showing off in front of her brothers and sisters, showing off too much, so that others saw the eldest lady and went to another road.

This was happy for several days, and the uncle went to the yamen on an errand, and after living in the officials' house, he faded away.

After the uncle got his wish, Lin Yanchao also let go of a matter, the academy started classes on the second day of February, and Lin Yanchao was going to study in the academy at that time.

A few days after the Shangyuan Festival, on this day, Lin Yanchao finished reading, just went to bed to rest, and slept soundly, when he suddenly heard the sound of gongs and drums outside, and the sound of dong dong.

"The Wokou are coming!"

"The Wokou are coming!"

Lin Yanchao slept in a daze, thinking to himself?

Wrong.

Lin Yanchao jumped up from the bed, got up from the small bed on the side, and said in a daze: "What's wrong with Brother Chao?" ”

Lin Yanchao immediately pushed open the window, but saw that several houses in the village had turned on the lights. The dogs in every village and every household barked wildly, and they seemed a little panicked.

The people on the dirt road in the village beat gongs and drums and shouted in panic: "The Japanese are coming!" The Woko are coming! ”

Bang!

The door opened, but a figure ran in, and without saying a word, he pulled Lin Yanchao.

"Chaoxiao, the widows are coming, run up the mountain." Although it was dim, this voice was not who the third uncle was.

The third uncle dragged Lin Yanchao hard, Lin Yanchao's panic at the beginning was in the past, and he shouted at the moment: "Third uncle, calm down." ”

The third uncle's teeth were cracking, obviously very scared.

Lin Gao was at the official office in Hongtang Market, and the uncle had just gone to Yamen yesterday. At present, there are three men at home, the third uncle, and Lin Yanchao.

Then there was a knock downstairs, and the panicked voice of the eldest lady came: "Is the widow coming?" ”

Suddenly, there was a cry, and then Lin Yanshou cried, "Mother, where are you?" Where are you? It's so dark, I'm so scared. ”

As he spoke, the footsteps outside sounded hurriedly, and someone shouted: "Run, the widows are all laps, let's go up the mountain, and we'll be fine." ”

Bandy? That's right, the Japanese are all water thieves, living in a small boat for a long time, and they have lap legs, but it doesn't mean that they can't go up the mountain. Lin Yanchao shook his head.

The sister-in-law suffered a big mess and was also at a loss.

"Let's go, it's too late!" The third uncle urged

Lin Yanchao said: "Third uncle, don't panic, we are remote here, the Japanese are not so fast, kill them, they want to loot, and they will go to the bustling market town first, so you pack up first, I will go to the dam to have a look, and come back immediately." ”

Lin Qianqian said hurriedly: "Yanchao, you are careful." ”

"Yes."

Saying that, Lin Yanchao ran out of the door, ran to the top of the embankment in three steps and two steps, looked into the distance, and lit a beacon fire along the bank of the Minshui River, two places, three places, five or six places, and the fire was raging, and it could be seen clearly in the night sky. Lin Yanchao knew that this nearest place was a chimney in the direction of the downstream salt warehouse, and when he looked back, the beacon fires in the upstream direction were lit one after another.

The scene of a flint star alliance shows that there are really Japanese criminals, and it is not a small Japanese coward, but a large group of Japanese cowards.

At the beginning, Fujian governor Tan Lun set up a small Chengshui village at the mouth of the Minshui River, and there were two guerrillas in Haitan and Hutong, and there were dozens of interception villages and defense villages to guard the main water and land roads to prevent the Japanese from sneaking into the country. At the second day of the Spring and Autumn Period, the Constitutional Division patrolled the Kaidao and the Coastal Defense Museum, and sent the navy to patrol the sea in a building ship to prepare for the Japanese invaders.

Therefore, when a small group of Japanese robbers comes, it is also normal that they do not need to light the chimney, but this time the chimney is lit, indicating that a large group of Japanese robbers have invaded Minshui and are going up the river. This is a war, this scene made Lin Yanchao, who was born in a peaceful and prosperous era, not prepared at all.

He is just a scholar, he just wants to follow the steps and change the fate of himself and his family through the imperial examination, as for the war, he has never thought about it.

There are people everywhere, go up the mountain to take refuge, this is the old rule, but does it work? Lin Yanchao remembered that when he was five or six years old, his parents were found and killed by the Japanese when they were hiding in the mountains.

As the old saying goes, small chaos avoids the city, and big chaos avoids the countryside.

During the Jiajing period when the Japanese were the most serious, Ningde, Fuqing, Yongfu, Lianjiang and other county towns were attacked by the Japanese invaders, and there were also attacks on the provincial capitals.

Therefore, the Japanese do not dare to fight the idea of the provincial capital now, but will harm the countryside around the provincial capital, so it is more dangerous to hide in the mountains.

The chimneys in front of them are still burning, and they are getting brighter and brighter, and the Japanese should not be so quick to kill, so it is better to hide in the city. So after Lin Yanchao made up his mind, he ran home, but saw that the family had already cleaned up.

At the moment, the third uncle took a hoe to defend himself, and Lin Yanchao and Lin Yanshou also took a sickle in their hands.

Lin Yanshou still cried, Lin Yanchao shouted: "Cousin, you are the man in the family, don't be a mother-in-law, is it possible that the widow is here, and you still want your mother to block it for you?" ”

Lin Yanshou was drunk by Lin Yanchao, and then he stopped crying.

Lin Yanchao said: "The Japanese are not so soon, let's take the official road, go directly to Hongtang Town, and find grandpa, he will settle us, even if it doesn't work, he will arrange for one of our boats to enter the city." ”

The third uncle hurriedly said, "Why don't we go to the mountain?" What should the official road do if it encounters a Japanese robber? ”

Lin Yanchao said: "There is no grain and rice to eat on the mountain, if the Japanese invaders have been looting for a long time, we will starve to death if we are not found." Entering the city now takes a little risk, but you don't have to worry about being scared later. ”

Everyone felt that Lin Yanchao was reasonable, and they agreed immediately. At that moment, the third uncle went out with the family.

At this time, the village chief was organizing the villagers at the entrance of the village to prepare to retreat to the mountain, and when he heard that Lin Yanchao was going to avoid entering the city, he said, "Why don't you go up the mountain?" In the past, when the Japanese came, I hid like this. ”

Lin Yanchao said: "The village chief's mountain is not very peaceful, the west peak, the east Qiling, the flood is a small hill that can't hide people, if the widows really go into the mountain to search, it's useless for us to hide." ”

The village chief listened: "You are right, it is not good to hide in the mountains, eggs cannot be put in one basket, is there anyone willing to go to the city together?" ”

"We have relatives in the city, let's go together!"

Five or six families responded together. The village chief said: "Everyone walks together, and everyone takes care of them on the road." ”

Lin Yanchao nodded and said, "Let's go to the city together, the village chief!" ”

The village chief shook his head and said, "There must always be someone watching here, maybe the widows will just leave after a while." Alas, if it wasn't for your father who led away the Japanese invaders, I would have died a long time ago, and I didn't think that at my age, I would have to suffer this crime. ”

Lin Yanchao's eyes turned red when he heard this, and said, "Village Chief, I'll leave first, take care!" ”

At the moment, Lin Yanchao and his party of more than 40 people walked out of the official road, and there were gradually more people, all of whom were heading east to the city.

Before the family arrived at Hongtang Town, they heard the front say: "It's broken, it's broken, the officers and soldiers have sealed the bridge, how is this good?"

Lin Yanchao said in his heart This is terrible, Hongshan Bridge is the only land route to the provincial capital, if you seal yourself, how can you get there. At present, he can only take one step at a time, Lin Yanchao rushed to the official office of the river berth, and found Lin Gaozhu first.