Chapter 279 No, No, No, You Think Too Much
Gu Xixi opened her eyes, looked at the darkness above, and said, "No."
"That group of people is nearing the end of their rope. If time wasn't urgent, they wouldn't have done something desperate like this."
"Plus, their people have already been cut down and beaten, I'm afraid there won't be many left."
"There are many experts inside and outside Huachidu Village, and the defense is tight."
"At times like this, as long as you and I are here, they won't risk confronting the village's secret guards head-on."
"As for burning the village, it would make too much noise. Not only would it trigger a counterattack from the nearby secret guards, it would also immediately attract the nearby Northwest garrison. If they really did that, the killers themselves wouldn't be able to survive."
He Jinglan breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good."
"In other words, we just need to let the killers come for us. They have limited strength and time now, so they don't have the time to enter the village to harm Aunt Zhang and the others."
"Besides, unless they are pushed into a corner, they won't dare to set fire to the village."
"Yes." Gu Xixi said calmly, "They will only keep a close eye on this farm, waiting for an opportunity to attack you and me."
She glanced at He Jinglan, "Are you scared?"
He Jinglan chuckled, "Tsk! Afraid? If I were afraid, I wouldn't be named He!"
"You asked me to stay with you at the farm last night. Did I stumble into anything?"
Gu Xixi also smiled, "Miss He is very heroic."
He Jinglan's face suddenly fell and she complained, "It's just too hot!"
"This place is far from being as cool as our home at night. The house is small and we can't open the doors and windows. It's so hot that I feel anxious!"
It was quiet late at night, the doors and windows of the small room were closed, and it was inevitable that it was stuffy lying inside the mosquito net.
Gu Xixi raised her hand and fanned herself to get the air flowing.
The two finally felt better.
Gu Xixi said, "There's nothing we can do. Your secret guards have already said that it's best to close the doors and windows. We, the people being protected, had better listen to their advice. If something really happens, we should stop holding people back."
"As the saying goes, a calm mind brings coolness. Stop tossing and turning. Try lying down with your eyes closed and concentrating. This is the outskirts of the city after all. It should be cooler in the second half of the night."
He Jinglan lay down as she was told, while Gu Xixi fanned herself intermittently.
After an unknown amount of time, both of them fell asleep...
The next morning, He Jinglan woke up. Before opening her eyes, she reached out and touched her side twice.
Not finding anyone, she was startled and sat up straight.
"Xixi! Gu Xixi!!!"
He Jinglan called out to Gu Xixi while quickly getting dressed and getting out of bed.
She opened the door and ran out. It was already bright outside.
He Jinglan saw Lao Li cleaning the area in front of the house and realized that nothing should happen, so she felt more relaxed.
"Uncle Li, what time is it now?"
Old Li smiled and replied, "Almost...it's past half past the hour."
He Jinglan felt a little embarrassed that she had slept in until this time!
"So where did you see Boss Gu go?"
Old Li pointed to the fields and said, "Boss Gu got up at dawn and said he wanted to hoe the fields and sow seeds."
"I said to ask the two brothers to help, but she refused, saying she could do it herself and asked everyone to just do their own job as before."
Old Li looked at He Jinglan with a smile, "There is water boiling on the stove, and there is the dry food made yesterday, and the mung bean and corn porridge cooked by Boss Gu. I will bring the water for the young lady to wash her face, and then serve the meal, how do you think?"
He Jinglan waved her hand, "No need, didn't Xixi say it's the same as before."
“I can do these things myself.”
She looked for Gu Xixi's figure across the field, and walked away in a hurry while talking.
Old Li looked at his eldest daughter's back with deep emotion, "The head of the family said that everything should be done by the eldest daughter."
"But it's really inconvenient for the young lady to not have a maid to serve her..."
In the past, when the eldest lady went out, she was accompanied by at least four maids and an old mother.
Now seeing that the eldest lady does everything by herself, Old Li doesn't know whether this is right or not.
The farm's land should have been deeply plowed after the harvest last season.
It was only after that that the northwest officially went into war with the imperial court, and there was no time to plant new crops here.
Gu Xixi marked out half an acre of land at the eastern end and just weeded out some weeds growing on the surface.
When He Jinglan ran closer, she saw Gu Xixi leaning on the hoe with one hand and looking around.
He Jinglan asked, "What are you looking at?"
Gu Xixi pointed to the designated area and said, "From here to here, build a rack and plant cucumbers. This side has enough sunlight and is not blocked, so plant watermelons. The area in the middle is where we plant tomatoes."
He Jinglan was amazed at Gu Xixi's mentality, "Our lives are both hanging by a thread, and you really want to farm."
Gu Xixi turned her head and looked at her, smiling, "The entire farm has been set up, what else can we do besides farming?"
"If the killer really rushes in, can you fight me or kill me?"
"Poison." He Jinglan said, "Didn't you bring a lot of poison?"
Gu Xixi said, "I kept some for self-defense, and gave the rest to your secret guards."
"Some of them have been taken to the agency, and the rest are temporarily kept in reserve."
He Jinglan thought about it and agreed, "It seems that the only thing we can do now is to farm."
"Where are the seeds? Give me some and I'll help you spread them."
Gu Xixi laughed, "How can seeds be scattered randomly?"
She pulled He Jinglan back, "Especially these three are hard-earned, they can't be wasted."
"It is best to promote germination and seedling cultivation first, and then transplant the grown seedlings into the soil, so that the survival rate is high."
He Jinglan nodded, not quite understanding, "Don't you still want to build a greenhouse?"
Gu Xixi said, "Well, let's take it step by step."
"Anyway, we are trapped here by ourselves, and we have to wait for someone to rescue us in the end."
He Jinglan was stunned and realized that she still knew too little.
She looked around hurriedly and lowered her voice, "Waiting for someone? Who?"
Gu Xixi stopped, leaned close to He Jinglan's ear and whispered a few words.
Then he pulled away and said, "I can't make too many arrangements in advance, and I also want to take a gamble."
"If our luck is too bad, we will have to escape on our own two feet. You should be mentally prepared."
He Jinglan's eyes sparkled with emotion, "Gu Xixi! I knew you were prepared. You wouldn't kill yourself on purpose!"
Gu Xixi coughed twice and said, "I've already said that we can only wait now. I'm not completely sure."
He Jinglan was full of confidence and fighting spirit, "So now we just live our lives as usual, farming, eating and drinking."
"Those people who were spying on us saw that we were not afraid at all. They wanted to force their way into the farm, but they had to consider whether it was a trap. This is a means of deception, right?"
"Xixi! You are so smart! You should have told me earlier so that I could cooperate with you!"
Gu Xixi forced a smile.
She didn't actually think that much about what kind of confusing means it was.
Before she left, she thought she had nothing to do anyway, so she took some seeds with her.
Sowing seeds early allows them to absorb more sunlight.
When winter comes, you can sit on the warm kang and eat a big, sweet and cool watermelon!
In Huachidu Village, a soldier in plain clothes knocked on the door of Gu Xixi's house...
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