Wang Dou stood up and said, "Xiuniang, why are you here?" ”

Xie Xiuniang saw that the people around her were looking at her and laughing, she was a little shy and uneasy, looked at her shoes and whispered: "Brother, you haven't been back to the village for many days, and my mother is worried, so I told Xiuniang to come to visit." ”

He said repeatedly: "Hurry up, little lady, please sit down, it's such a cold day, you have to drink some hot soup to warm up your body." ”

He shouted and asked his mother-in-law Liu to quickly add a pair of chopsticks over.

Liu trotted over, holding a soup bucket in her hand, she poured a bowl of hot soup, and smiled at Xie Xiuniang: "It's freezing this day, little lady, please drink some hot soup to warm up." ”

Xie Xiuniang saw that so many people were flattering her, knowing that it was all because of Wang Dou, she was proud and nervous in her heart, and she was even more afraid that she would behave inappropriately and let others gossip behind her back, she took the soup bowl, thanked her softly, and drank it in small sips.

Wang Dou ate in a big gulp and persuaded Xie Xiuniang to eat more, Xie Xiuniang ate, just nodding constantly.

After everyone had eaten, Wang Dou continued to lead everyone to work, and Xie Xiuniang whispered to Wang Dou that she also wanted to help.

Wang Dou thought about giving her a hoe, letting her follow behind him, and asking her to pay attention not to be too tired, Xie Xiuniang happily agreed.

At the end of the evening, Xie Xiuniang and Wang Dou went back together, Wang Dou asked about the things in the village, Xie Xiuniang said that the village is calm and nothing at the moment, and she wants to stay in Jingbian Fort to see if she can help Wang Dou do something, and said that her mother also said the same.

Wang Dou smiled, and let Xie Xiuniang stay, and let her live in the original room of Jingbiandun.

……

The next day, Xie Xiuniang also went to work with Wang Dou, and the surrounding military households had already spread the relationship between Wang Dou and Xie Xiuniang, this is the future mother of Jingbian Fort, many military households came to salute respectfully, called the little lady, and Xie Xiuniang returned the salute one by one.

After that, Xie Xiuniang lived in the fort for a few days, and every day she went out early and returned late with Wang Dou, working together. ”

She walked away slowly, her voice lingering to the side, and finally inaudible.

Watching her small figure disappear, Wang Dou stayed for a long time, and finally called Tao over and asked her to take care of Xie Xiuniang.

Tao said: "Wang Tou just rest assured, I will definitely take care of the little lady." ”

Wang Dou let out a long sigh, maybe his attitude was too blunt just now, and this little girl just wanted to do something for herself.

……

On the second day, Xie Xiuniang returned to Xinzhuang, and Wang Dou asked Tao to accompany her back.

According to Zhong Rong's statistical records, a total of 1,163 acres of land were reclaimed, more than three miles of canals were dredged, and five irrigation wells were excavated.

Afterwards, after Wang Dou's Jingbian Fort was handed over for filing, not to mention that Zhang Gui was surprised, even Du Zhen of the Tuntian affairs in the Shunxiangbao Management Office was also very surprised, and the defense officer Xu Zhongjun was also very happy when he learned about it, it seems that he let Wang Dou go to Tuntian that day, which is really a good choice.

Wang Dou is also proud in his heart, he can be said to have overcome all kinds of difficulties for this Tunbao, so that he has the current achievement, and he is completely proud of it. At this time, Han Chao and others also came back from Shunxiang Fort, and after many days of hard work, they finally collected enough stone for the buildings in the fort, as for the stone for the foundation of the outer city wall, it will have to wait for next year to continue to work hard.

However, in this kind of weather, of course Wang Dou can't let Han Chao and them continue to do it, look at Han Chao, everyone is black and thin, Wang Dou told Han Chao and others to rest well.

Xu Zhongjun was thinking about when he would go to Jingbian Fort to inspect and reiterate his support for Wang Dou. On Wang Dou's side, he had already started to be busy with another thing.

……

"Brother, you're doing a good job in Tunbao, it's really impressive."

In Dongjiazhuang, Zhang Gui sighed, and then said: "Say, what is the matter with your brother coming to me, my brother knows that you have always been on the Three Treasures Hall for nothing." ”

"I'm asking for something."

Wang Dou smiled slightly, hugged his fists and said: "The younger brother came today to ask the elder brother to support some sword equipment, you also know, my Tunbao start-up, I don't have the equipment to defend myself." ”

Zhang Gui stroked the short beard on his lips, muttered for a long time, and said, "Okay, I still have some spears and guns in my warehouse, so I'll give you cheaper." ”

Wang Dou said: "Thank you, brother." ”

Wang Dou went to the barn with Hongqiu, and there were some ordnance piled up in it, mostly knives and guns and three-eyed guns, Wang Dou asked, "Aren't there any birds, bows and arrows?" ”

Hongqiu's head shook like a rattle.

Wang Dou thought about it, it is difficult for archers to train, and now the quality of the Daming Bird Gun is also worrying, and it is not bad to have a knife and a gun and a three-eyed gun for the time being.

He picked up a spear and looked at it, the gun was about a zhang long, the head of the spear was made of iron, shaped like a duck's beak, a typical Ming standard spear, but unfortunately the preservation of this batch of spears was not very good, the spear head was rusty, and those three-eyed guns were also rusty.

Wang Dou sighed, such a weapon, such a quality is really not good, in the end he chose thirty eye-catching spears and ten three-eyed guns, the price of the waist knife was given up by him because of the high price, but fortunately, there was still a batch of captured gold waist knives in his castle that could be used.

In addition to these weapons, Wang Dou also spent forty taels of silver to buy more than 300 catties of pig iron.