The wall is not very high for now, but it is long, enclosing the entire compound and the farm in the middle.
There were people building a wall up there. After looking around for a long time, she still couldn't see the entrance. When Xie Yu asked, she realized what her father was looking for. She couldn't help but covered her mouth and laughed, "Dad, don't look for it. It's not there."
"No?" Xie Quan said, "Then how did you get in later?"
Xie Yu explained, "You can climb up to the top of the wall from the inside, but there is no way out from the outside. You can only enter and exit through the secret passage."
"What secret passage?" Xie Quan felt it was inappropriate as soon as he asked, "There's no need to tell me about this. It's a secret, right?"
Xie Yu shook his head. "No need to keep it secret. Everyone who works here knows where it is. Even if outsiders know where the secret passage is, they may not dare to go there."
And what really needs to be kept secret is not the secret passage.
"What is that?"
Xie Yu chuckled and took Xie Quan back to the small courtyard with two rooms. The two of them moved the straw from the cowshed away, and there was an entrance underneath.
They walked along a long tunnel along the entrance and saw a light. They stuck their heads out and saw that it was a well. Fortunately, it was a dry well. They climbed up along the hanging rope and soon climbed out of the well.
"Sister Song took me through this before. She said that if we encounter any danger, we should come in from here. Once in, we can push the stones in to block it, and people outside will not be able to come in." Xie Yu said.
After coming out, I saw a lot of mud bricks and red bricks stacked on the inner wall. Looking to the north, Liu Xue, Liu Youfu, Ren Dahai, Ma Yong, and Wu Datou were practicing archery in the open space.
"The front used to be a playground," Xie Yu introduced. "It wasn't this big originally. When the wall was built, it occupied a lot of cotton fields. Later, Sister Song leveled all the cotton fields and made a big playground. The farmhands would practice archery here during their breaks."
Further ahead was a large courtyard. Xie Yu came in and greeted Tang. The front yard was full of bamboos. Granny Lan and Granny Xi were sitting in the yard cutting bamboos. Dao Xiaoyi ran in, greeted a few people, then ran to the top of a wall carrying a bundle of bamboos.
"What are you doing?" Xie Quan asked.
Tang explained casually, "We practice our aim with the flying spear. We don't have the fist and kick skills like Master Duan and his men, but we still have enough strength. As long as we practice our aim well, we can kill two people with a stone."
What he said made sense, and Xie Quan was speechless.
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