The officers and soldiers at the foot of the mountain must have a good rest today, drive away the fatigue of trekking in the mountains for a long time, and will launch an offensive the next day. Zhu Yuanzhang also decided to let the soldiers rest well, regain their energy, and defend first. Although doing so will give the officers and soldiers a chance to breathe, Zhu Yuanzhang knew that the officers and soldiers were still at a disadvantage in terms of physical strength.

They walked in the rugged forest for more than half a month, and they had to keep nervous about traps and hidden arrows. The fatigue in both mental and physical aspects could not be recovered by resting for a day or two. On their side, there were only 35 soldiers as tired as officers and soldiers, but other soldiers were waiting leisurely, following Saburo desperately to practice using wooden and rock-rolling stones. They didn't consume much physical strength and were fully prepared for defense. No matter how they looked, they took advantage of themselves.

In this case, as long as you do not make mistakes, do not take the initiative, and do not do stupid things to fight for defeat, you can be invincible.

Although Wang Er still wanted to attack, he always obeyed Brother Zhu. Since he said he would keep it first, Wang Er had no objection. He laughed strangely and said, "Then I've gone back to take a shower and go to bed... I haven't taken a shower for more than half a month. Look at my body smelling... Hahaha... Brother Zhu, you should go back and rest as well, you are tired enough."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and waved his hand to let Wang Er go, but he still didn't rush to go back. He dragged his tired body and walked around the village for a long time, carefully checking every key point of defense. All the military supplies, such as rolling wood, rocks, and bows and arrows, must be sure to be of great or detailed.

In his previous life, Zhu Yuanzhang was a person who had to take care of everything. He had to deal with countless political affairs every day, big and small matters and trivial matters, so he was nicknamed "model worker Zhu Yuanzhang" by later generations. In this life, although Wang Er, the desperate Sanlang, Li Chujiu and others around him were very loyal to him, he was not capable enough, and he could not leave the matter to these people to handle, so he had to take care of everything himself.

And his attitude of doing things personally falls into the eyes of his subordinates, and he feels that it is particularly reliable. You should know that young people are prone to making a mistake, that is, they are too ambitious, do not do small things, and it is difficult to accomplish big things. Once young people are in a high position, they like to hand over errands to others, and then they are blinded by the people below because of insufficient experience.

For example, in later generations, young people always fantasized about making big money by doing business, but when they really gave them some money to do business, they were often lazy to manage everything and handed over all the things to the employees they hired to be fully responsible. As a result, the business became worse and worse, and eventually closed the door at a loss. If these young people could do things seriously and meticulously like Zhu Yuanzhang and practiced it in person, perhaps their small business would become big business, rather than closing down.

A diligent manager can often lead a whole team. Zhu Yuanzhang's seriousness and responsibility brought huge positive energy to the village. Even though the soldiers had prepared sufficient supplies, they saw the leader coming to ask in person, and they couldn't help but go to the cliff behind and carry some stones to pile them in front of the mountain.

Everyone was full of energy. A young man smiled at Zhu Yuanzhang and said, "Brother Zhu, don't worry, we will definitely defend the parody. You said that if you lose this battle, you will die, and the men, women, young and old in the parody will die. We don't want to die here! Even if we die, our newly married wife cannot die. She already has my son in her belly. No matter what we say, we have to keep the parody."

"Just blow!" The companion next to him laughed: "Your wife has only been through three days, and you know she has your son? A fool."

"I have worked hard for three nights. I said she was pregnant, so she must have gotten pregnant."

"I'm crazy about my son?"

"Ha ha!"

The soldiers were generally optimistic, but Zhu Yuanzhang could still hear a trace of disconfidence and fear from their jokes. It was too difficult for ordinary people to be enemies with officers and soldiers! This psychological hurdle is very difficult to overcome. This problem cannot be compensated by language or material things. It can only allow them to experience a beautiful victory in person, which will eliminate their fear of officers and soldiers.

After checking every corner of the village, Zhu Yuanzhang was quite satisfied with the preparation of defensive materials. He couldn't help but think: After all, Sanlang has died once and has learned to do things safely. It seems that the defense matter can be left to him with confidence in the future.

It was already late at this time, and a red sun in the west was slowly falling behind the mountains. Zhu Yuanzhang dragged his extremely tired body and slowly walked towards his cave. When he walked into the cave, Zhang Yingxian had already put down the blade of the blade in the middle of the house, and there was no light inside the house, and it was pitch black.

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned and looked for a change of clothes in the dark in the house. He planned to take a bath in the stream beside the mountain. When he was in charge of the Ma family, he could ask Qiuye to bring a wooden bucket full of water to the house for him to take a bath, but the supplies in the mountains are scarce, so the wooden bucket that can be used for bathing does not exist, so he could only wash next to the stream beside the mountain.

Just as he was looking for clothes in the dark, Zhang Yingxian was lying on the bed in the other half of the cave, holding Qiuye's arm tightly with both hands, and not daring to breathe heavily, but Zhu Ba walked to the cave on her side.

Zhang Yingxian was obviously used to living in the cave with Zhu Bafen, and rarely asked Qiuye to come and live with him. Why did he suddenly become nervous again? It turned out that he was influenced by the people in the village who were eager to marry a daughter. Since the news of the officers and soldiers coming, the young men and women in the village were eager to get married. The men wanted to leave some blood for themselves before the war came. Under this premise, Zhang Yingxian began to feel unsafe again.

Zhu Ba is also a 20-year-old man. He has not gotten married and has no children. Will he also want to leave his bloodline for himself before the war comes? Zhang Yingxian couldn't help but think like this. The more he thinks like this, the more he is afraid! So he called Qiuye to sleep with him. The heart that had already been relieved was raised to his throat again.

Only on the other side of the straw curtain was the slight sound of Zhu Ba searching for something. After a while, the sound stopped. He seemed to have found what he wanted, and the footsteps went out of the cave again.

"He's gone? Huh!" Zhang Yingxian breathed a sigh of relief: "Qiuye, go and see what he was looking for just now, I'm afraid..."

Qiuye obediently climbed up from Zhang Yingxian's bed, lifted the straw curtain and walked to Zhu Yuanzhang's side. After a long time, he came back and whispered to Zhang Yingxian: "He took away a set of clothes to change! I think... Brother Zhu went to take a shower."

"Take a bath?" Zhang Yingxian was shocked: "Why did he take a bath? Is this... going to come to me..."

"Miss, don't think about it..." Qiuye quickly comforted: "He has worked hard outside for more than half a month and played hide-and-seek with the officers and soldiers. He must be dirty. It's normal to take a shower. After being together for so long, don't you know what Brother Zhu is like?"

"If he is really good, how could he rob me to be the wife of the village?" Zhang Yingxian said bitterly: "When the officers and soldiers are coming, maybe I will be rescued tomorrow. If something happens at this time... that would be really unfair!"

"Don't worry, no! If something really happens, I will definitely protect the lady." Qiuye said seriously. She suddenly lowered her voice, blushed, and said in a very subtle voice: "I asked Aunt Li a few days ago, and she told me... After a man did that, he would be soft for a long time and could not do it again... If Brother Zhu wanted to touch the lady and the maid would serve him first, he would not touch the lady. Even if he wanted to touch it, he would not have the strength to do it."

Zhang Yingxian shook Qiuye's hand: "I'm all up to you! If I can escape this time, I will promote you to be a big maid after I go back! Leave all the maids in the family to you."

Qiuye sighed: "Miss, don't say such things, it's up to me to protect you."

The two women spoke carefully for a while, and only heard footsteps coming from the cave, Zhu Yuanzhang was back.

Zhang Yingxian's nerves suddenly collapsed again, and her whole body became stiff. Qiuye also listened nervously. After hearing Zhu Yuanzhang walked into the room, he murmured: "There are some clothes that are dirty enough. I'll ask Qiuye to wash them tomorrow."

"It's the clothes I changed..." Qiuye whispered.

"Um!"

Zhu Yuanzhang did not light the lamp, and the room was still dark. He was a very saving man. The mountains were not rich in supplies. When he could not light the lamp, he would save the lamp oil. He only heard his footsteps heading towards the bed, and both women breathed a sigh of relief.

Suddenly, the footsteps stopped. Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to have thought of something and was suddenly in the room. Zhang Yingxian's heart, which had just been relieved, suddenly grabbed it tightly again.

The footsteps rang again, this time they were actually coming towards the direction of the grass curtain. Zhang Yingxian was shocked and said anxiously in Qiuye's ear: "No, he is coming to us..."

"Miss... don't be afraid... maid... maid is here!" Qiuye also became nervous. She actually didn't mind dedicating herself to Zhu Ba because she really loved him, but... she was also worried that Zhu Ba didn't want her, but insisted on Zhang Yingxian. At that time, she didn't know what she would feel.

Zhu Ba's footsteps stopped on the other side of the straw curtain...

Zhang Ying's heart was raised to her throat. She could almost imagine that the next scene was when the man lifted the straw curtain with his hand and walked over with a lewd smile. If Qiuye could not protect her, she would not do anything except crying!

"Qiuye, take off your clothes quickly!" Zhang Yingxian ordered in a low voice: "Take off your underwear and bellyband. If he comes over, you immediately put it in his arms so that he has no time to notice me..."
Chapter completed!