Zhang Yingxian lies in bed for more than a month. Although her injuries are not considered serious, she is a weak lady with a poor physical condition. In addition, she has a lot of bleeding and is in a bad mood, which is not conducive to the recovery of the wound. The medicines she used are also made of pieces of earth. As a result, this disease lasted for more than a month. During this period, the wound became suppurated, and it was inflammation, and she had a fever and talked nonsense. It was really not clear.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang did not have that kind of relationship between men and women, he did not ignore her and often came to pay attention to her injuries. This was also a matter of no choice. The temporary doctor was also a doctor, so he had to completely solve the problem of the injured.

The straw curtain hanging in the middle of the house was removed unknowingly. Because of Zhang Yingxian's injuries, Zhu Yuanzhang often had to lift the straw curtain to see her. After a while, whether it was Zhu Yuanzhang or Qiuye, they all felt that it was very troublesome to block a straw curtain in the house. Sometimes, even though they could clearly see her complexion from a distance, they would just lift the straw curtain and walk close. Is it troublesome?

One day, when Zhang Yingxian was still sleeping, the autumn leaves with quick hands and feet removed the straw curtain. When Zhang Yingxian woke up, she suddenly felt that it was much brighter. Her half of the cave was no longer as dark and cold as before, but warm sunshine shone in. It turned out that the straw curtain in the house was gone...

If it were Zhang Yingxian before the injury, she would have jumped up three feet tall and asked the maids to make up new ones. But now she has not focused on such trivial matters. She just murmured: "It turns out that the curtain is gone..." and then there was no further text. From then on, she never mentioned the straw curtain again.

After there was no curtain, some things were actually quite inconvenient. For example, once Qiuye helped her take off her clothes and wiped her body with a wet cloth. At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang came back to the cave. Without the straw curtain, Zhu Yuanzhang only needed to turn his head slightly to see her body like white jade. Zhang Yingxian wanted to grab the clothes to cover it, but she was surprised to find that Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes did not come to her at all. She was completely unattractive to him with bare body...

Zhang Yingxian's hand that went to grab the clothes couldn't help but hang down. She even gave in and thought: I won't hide it. If you don't believe me, you won't look at it!

She couldn't believe the facts. Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes never changed from beginning to end!

One day, a villager suddenly brought a big wooden barrel. It turned out that before joining the village, the villager was a cooper, and he passed down his ancestral skills as a hand-held bucket. He didn't expect to give it to him, but his wife gave him an opinion: "My sister-in-law was seriously injured and bedridden. She can't take a bath in the stream in the back mountain... Is it okay if you don't take a bath? The head of the family, please tie a bath bucket for your sister-in-law. Brother Zhu helped us so much, so we couldn't repay it. It's okay to tie a bucket and send it to you."

So, a large bucket half a person tall and ten feet in diameter was placed in front of Zhang Yingxian's bed.

Zhang Yingxian liked this big bucket very much. The cooper's wife just guessed her thoughts. She was bedridden for a month and couldn't take a bath. This was really a bit difficult for everyone. She felt that her hair had a bad smell, and her body was mixed with the smell of sweat and herbs. She couldn't even wipe it off with a wet cloth. She would be crazy if she didn't take a bath.

Zhang Yingxian quickly asked the maids to go to the stream in the back mountain to fetch water. A dozen maids ran a few circles, and everyone was panting. Only then did they fill the half-person-high wooden barrel with water, and then heated the water to mix it in, and put the water temperature to the right level. It took a lot of effort to help Qiuye lift her up from the bed, take off her clothes, and then slowly helped her to the edge of the bath barrel.

Zhang Yingxian was about to flip into the bucket and soak it... At this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang came back.

Zhang Yingxian thought he would have no interest in her like before, and she didn't even look at her. She did not hide her body and crawled into the bucket openly.

Suddenly, Zhu Yuanzhang spoke, "Don't enter the bucket, just stand outside and wash!"

Zhang Yingxian was shocked at first, and then she felt a sense of victory. Don’t you look at it? As a result, you were afraid that I would not see it after entering the wooden barrel, so you wanted me to stand outside and take a shower... I pretended not to look at it, hum, man!

As soon as she arrived here, she saw Zhu Yuanzhang turn his head and walk out of the cave again, saying as she walked: "I heard that the cooper gave you a bath bucket. I knew you were going to be stupid, so I quickly came back. There was a wound on my abdomen. Do you really want to soak in water? You are not looking for death like this! You can only bathe in the pot after two months of scarring. Now you can only shower. Let the maids use small buckets and spoons of water to wash you."

"Scared?" Zhang Yingxian was stunned. After a long time, the man told me not to get in the bucket. It was just that. Didn't he want me to stand outside and let him see it?

It was obvious that it was not true. Zhu Yuanzhang had already walked out of the cave and didn't even look back.

Zhang Yingxian widened her beautiful eyes and stood by the wooden barrel, and was stunned: "Why did this person force me to be her wife in the village? What am I here for?"

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In the more than a month when Zhang Yingxian was injured, there were also considerable changes in the village. The weapons collected from the officers and soldiers last time had been distributed to the soldiers. The old team and the second team, who had the strongest combat power, have now used serious weapons and no longer used sharpened wooden sticks. Their spears had iron spear tips, and a small number of soldiers even used slabs.

Everyone must be unfamiliar with this word, but if you look at this idiom - "Go back in a miserable state", everyone will suddenly realize it.

The sling is a spear in the era of cold weapons in China. The difference between it and ordinary spear is that it stretches out two ears at the bottom of the spear tip, making the spear tip look like a cross-shaped one. In fact, this weapon has not been adopted by the army since the Han Dynasty. However, due to the chaos in the late Ming Dynasty, soldiers often made some strange weapons to use by themselves, so a small number of slings fell into Zhu Yuanzhang.

This weapon is actually more useful than a spear, and the most important thing is the two extra ears.

Generally speaking, it is enough to stab a certain depth to stab a person. However, on the battlefield, since both sides approach each other and the spear stabs, it is easy to stab the other party in a heart-warming way, pierce the chest and the back. Although this looks great, it is actually not good, because after the spear pierces the other party, it will be difficult to pull out again. How far does a spear that is several meters long have to retreat to pull it out?

Therefore, when using a spear, you only need to stab the opponent's body a small piece. To a fatal level, stop moving forward and quickly pull out and stab a spear... The two extra ears of such a weapon, such as a squid (cross gun), can ensure that the spear does not penetrate through after stabbing the opponent to death. Only stab to a certain depth and stop.

This weapon can be said to be an authentic weapon, and it is completely different from the sharpened wooden stick.

After these spears and horns were equipped with the first team and the second team, Zhu Yuanzhang's army quality once again increased. Because he defeated the officers and soldiers, the morale of the soldiers in the village was also very high. Everyone had great expectations for the future. Some of them were brave enough to even fantasize about rushing out of Huanglong Mountain and occupying the city one day.

Inspired by this spirit, the soldiers worked very hard, practiced martial arts diligently, and listened to orders with great enthusiasm.

After being imprisoned for more than half a month, the more than fifty officers and soldiers captured by them surrendered one after another and agreed to become bandits. In fact, this was also expected by Zhu Yuanzhang. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the loyalty of officers and soldiers to the court was actually very low. Not to mention that a large number of officers and soldiers surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, just say that before the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, the military households of the Ming Dynasty were actually fleeing. As the saying goes, good men do not serve as soldiers. The status of the military households in the Ming Dynasty was too low and their lives were too hard. Many military households chose to escape, and would rather be refugees than officers and soldiers.

In this environment, it would be strange if these officers and soldiers do not surrender. It is impossible to choose to die rather than surrender in order to maintain the status of an officer and soldier who is not very good?

Zhu Yuanzhang, who had seen the changes in the world in the sky and the kingdom was overthrown, knew deeply that things like patriotism education were all empty. If you want a person to fight for you, it was nothing more than coercion and temptation. The so-called coercion means to fight with survival as the premise. For example, the soldiers in his hands are rebelled because they can't survive. As for temptation, they are actually giving them a better life. In order to protect what they currently have, they will sacrifice their lives and shed their blood.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the problem of soldiers' loyalty and general defection was not solved by patriotic education, but should improve the status of soldiers and give them more favorable treatment, so that they feel that they are not only fighting for the country but the people, but most importantly, they are also fighting for themselves, so that they can truly exert their combat effectiveness.

Zhu Yuanzhang planned to reuse these surrendered officers and soldiers in the future. They were at least stronger than a group of refugees. However, they had just surrendered and could not handle the heavy responsibility.

These fifty officers and soldiers were separated by Zhu Yuanzhang and organized into more than fifty groups from the first team to the eighth team, so that they could not form a joint relationship with each other. The next step was to slowly influence them and let them feel that living in the village is happier than under the rule of the court... Only in this way can they truly become their own people.

One day more than a month later, the sentry guarding the gate of the village suddenly started shouting: "Brother Wang is back...Brother Wang is back..."

The person who heard the sentry shouting lay down to the edge of the cliff and saw that King Baishui was dragging a big wild boar with his hands, hanging a human head with his left waist and a bar knife with his right waist. He walked up the path up the mountain slowly.
Chapter completed!