dragon?

Is the dragon hidden in the black mist the legendary dragon? No wonder its legend is so earth-shattering.

We talked for a while afterwards, but we were just venting our worries. Apart from venting our fears, it had no other practical significance. Until Yunwen and I finished our meal, they waited for me to tell them what we should do next.

"No matter how much we complain, what is coming will eventually come. Since it is coming, why not let the storm come even harder? Let's just face death with courage. We have already taken the necessary defensive measures against this evil spirit invasion. Next, we have no choice but to sit back and wait. We won't waste time on this. The hunting mark has been left on Yunwen's body, so we can't hide no matter where we run. There is basically no need to think about this option. So for now, there is only one thing we can do." I said.

"What is it?" Ling Shang asked.

"Live the rest of your days more meaningfully, and don't let yourself regret when danger comes," I said.

The two girls sighed at the same time, but nodded at the same time.

No matter what, everything is already like this, there is no point in thinking about it any further.

"Now listen to me, Yunwen, like we said this morning, you will be mainly responsible for the wedding. Let's complete it as soon as possible so that neither of us will have regrets. Lingshang, you have to work hard today. After the cold morning, you take Sanfu and the sheep to graze. Let them eat some grass. Don't let them starve. Yunwen, you are responsible for organizing and arranging all the procedures. After I finish watering the fields and cleaning the house, I will prepare for the construction of our ancestral hall and the visit to the tablets of the predecessors in Milongying so that we all have a witness." I said.

"The arrangement is very good, but what about the person upstairs?" Ling Shang asked.

"Bai Lu? She can't wake up for a while, and we can only feed her some water now. It seems that she can't help today. As for the wedding ceremony later, she probably can't attend it. But we can't protect ourselves now, and maybe we can't survive tomorrow, so how can we take care of her? If we spend time waiting for her, I'm afraid the time will definitely not be enough. All this is fate. What is meant to happen will happen, and what is not meant to happen will not happen." I said.

"To be honest, if she hadn't attracted the evil spirits and abused those witchcraft and sorcery arrays, the current situation would never have happened. Now that she has been in a coma and unable to participate, we can only blame her for having bad intentions and making a deal with the evil creatures." Yunwen said.

I sighed. Yunwen was telling the truth. Then everyone kept silent and agreed.

Everyone went to work. I simply watered the fields in the yard. Now the potatoes are almost grown, and it's time to harvest another batch. I thought that after this batch of harvest, I would no longer plant them in the inner yard. The soil on the slopes in the city is good, and the area is wide. There is a lot of space on the entire hillside. If I leave a special planting area there, it must be much more than the space in the inner yard. Then I can plant wheat and potatoes there, and I believe the harvest will be more next year.

Now some little hyenas will help their mothers or the female hyenas who take care of them to do some work. This can be regarded as a new labor force. By teaching them how to plant, they can be put to use. In the future, more people will make things easier, and large-scale planting will not be a problem. It's just that it will take another half a month for the potatoes to fully mature. These are all things that can be said after we can survive this disaster.

After watering, sweeping the floor and wiping the table, I went to check on Bailu again. Her condition still hadn't improved. She was still able to breathe but couldn't wake up. I could only feed her some more salt water, which she managed to swallow. She frowned slightly, and thinking that this great disaster was caused by the person in front of me, I couldn't help but sigh. I was looking forward to her waking up and her and her child being safe, but at the same time I felt that she should be punished more. I couldn't help feeling conflicted.

After waiting for a while, I went out. The hyena people outside were still working in an orderly manner. Some of them were idle that day. There was basically no point in guarding the city now, so I summoned the four male hyena people who were guarding the city back and prepared to start building the ancestral hall in the post station. Since red bricks were to be made, I went to the downstream part to dig up stream mud, and also went to the blacksmith shop to ask the two miners to collect some limestone.

Then I started to use charcoal to mark the specific length and width on the ground on the vacant west side of the post station, and then began the construction sequence. I dug a big hole, used wooden buckets to bring up buckets of clay from the stream and poured them into the hole, then poured in water. I went down and stepped on it back and forth to cook it, and let the hyena people watch me operate.

After they understood, they followed my instructions and began to step on the bricks for me. At the same time, I took out the template I used to make red bricks, which was 30cm long, 15cm wide, and two knuckles high, about 2 to 3 centimeters. These hyena people used to be wall builders and were familiar with the process. The next ones also basically understood how to operate it, so they began to use the template to make shapes, and then placed them near the fire to bake.

Not long after, the two miners, perhaps called by Yunwen specifically, came over. After they came back from mining, they gave the limestone to me and left. They probably collected three or four limestones near the rock area, all of which were quite large and enough for temporary use.

So the four hyena people were divided into two groups, one group with two people, one was responsible for getting red bricks and the other was responsible for getting cement, and the other group was specifically responsible for building the wall. They used a separate iron bucket for cement, which was left over from the previous building of the city wall. I asked them to get it specially, throw two red bricks into the iron bucket, pour water into the bucket, and immediately the water began to boil and bubble. Then they dug up some yellow soil and poured it into it, stirring it back and forth, and it became cement. The people in charge of cement immediately understood it.

The cement was a little faster, so the one who had prepared the cement also started to help with the red bricks. We then started to stack the red bricks that were to be used. The three of us were very efficient. We laid a layer of cement on top of the red bricks, then applied more cement, and then laid more red bricks, stacking them layer by layer, getting higher and higher.

Since the ancestral hall was not intended to be too large, I measured it with my feet. It is six steps long, with an average of 75 cm per step, so about 4.5 meters long. It is four steps wide, about 3 meters wide, so it is 13.5 square meters in total. I think its height is about 2.1 meters, which is much smaller than the city wall. From this point of view, with so many people, it should be completed in half a day.

Everything was going on in an orderly manner, baking red bricks, mixing cement, and building the walls, step by step. Everyone became more and more skilled, and the miners would continue to supply limestone, so there was never a shortage of labor and materials. Everyone worked on and off from early morning until the sun was about to set in the afternoon, and the house was basically taken shape, in the form of a rough shell.

However, the cement floor will not be paved for the time being, because it will not dry in a short time. But this place will be used tonight, so there is no need to finish it completely. I followed the hyena man to carry the extra desks placed in the cave in the warehouse on the hillside and carried them back to the ancestral hall. Then I chopped the wood with an axe, then continued to saw it neatly with a saw, and trimmed it with a knife.

Then I used a dagger to carve them one by one and wrote words on them. I wrote "The spirit tablet of Li Mufeng, the founder of Milong Camp" and then made another one with "The spirit tablets of all the predecessors in Milong Camp" written on it. They were all placed on the altar. A wooden brick was specially placed under the spirit tablet of predecessor Li Mufeng to make the difference in height. After it was done, I went to find some loess to fill the floor a little and make it level. Then I found some wooden boards and some useless clothes and fabrics.

This way, you won’t get your clothes dirty when you kneel down.

Not long after, Yunwen brought the hyena people up. I went out to see, and saw that willow branches and flowers were inserted in the doors of all the hyena people's earthen houses, but they were all daisies and other flowers. There were not so many flowers in this season, but now with Yunwen's arrangement, every household has these.

Now there are flowers at the door of our house. The basket in Yunwen's hand is full of flower petals. Before entering the courtyard, she smiled at me at my door, and then scattered flower petals all over the road. For a moment, the fragrance was strong and refreshing. Yunwen herself was wearing a flower crown, like an elf in the forest, and I couldn't take my eyes off her.

She looked at the newly built ancestral hall in front of her and stood there for a moment. After entering, she knelt there and kowtowed repeatedly, muttering something. However, looking at her serious expression, I had forgotten what she said. I guess it was just some words of gratitude.