jdhmnovel Chapter 236 The Ending Is Exhausting
Chapter 236 The Ending Is Exhausting
Bai Jingzhou had already gone with Bai Chong and Lin's father to treat the wounded. Bai Jingshan and other people who had some medical skills also went to help. Gu Wenxuan couldn't help, so she simply took out food, meat and vegetables, and asked the female family members to make a large and filling hot meal for everyone.
The patrol members who were used to being fed by her cheered, and the ordinary villagers who were enjoying this kind of treatment for the first time also smiled.
God knows how scared they were when those stragglers and refugees attacked the shelter.
They hid the elderly and children in their homes, while those who were strong and of the right age all mustered up their courage, gritted their teeth, and appeared under the high wall.
A large number of them were called over by the strong laborers from their own families who had joined the patrol team. They were not very willing at first, but they soon found that the patrol members would not let them do anything dangerous.
The tasks assigned to them, apart from boiling and carrying water, were to transport stones, arrows and other supplies for defending the city.
They don't even have to show their heads above the high walls. They just need to deliver the items to the designated location and the patrol team members will come and pick them up, ensuring their personal safety to the greatest extent possible.
It wasn't dangerous, it just required some effort, which quickly calmed everyone's panicked hearts.
After calming down, they witnessed with their own eyes that Gu Wenxuan, Bai Jingzhou, Fang Youfu and others were always at the forefront of the patrol team, facing the greatest difficulties and dangers.
These people realized later that the official was not in vain, as he not only contributed a lot of money, food, and medicine, but also never used their relatives as cannon fodder. They could be said to be the people who contributed the most in the entire shelter.
Thinking about it this way, everyone could immediately understand why those who joined the patrol team were all very convinced of Gu Wenxuan and the others.
What they didn't expect was that after the battle was over, Gu Wenxuan actually generously invited everyone to dinner.
It was clear that these people did not contribute much, but Gu Wenxuan had no intention of treating them differently.
Gu Wenxuan even generously asked people to call the elderly and children in their respective families.
The aroma of food soon floated into the air. The hot and fragrant bacon and dried vegetable toppings and the three-in-one noodles in hot soup tempted everyone's mouth and stomach.
Gu Wenxuan had people bring out enough food so that everyone didn't have to calculate how much they ate like before, and many people ate several bowls of food in succession.
The auntie who was in charge of cooking couldn't help but feel sorry for Gu Wenxuan's ingredients while scooping noodles and toppings for everyone. However, Gu Wenxuan always had a smile on her face. She held the bowl and slurped the noodles while letting the chefs take turns to eat first.
The aunts and sisters were so touched that they quickly ate two bowls of food and then started working busily again.
As for the doctors and the injured, Gu Wenxuan asked Fang Youfu to bring five buckets of noodles and two buckets of toppings. In addition, Gu Wenxuan asked one of her aunts to cook a large bucket of rice porridge specifically for the doctors and the injured.
After a simple dinner to celebrate the victory, the ordinary villagers happily returned to their own temporary homes after completing their cleanup work. The patrol team members who were not injured had to remain extremely alert to guard against sneak attacks by stragglers and vagrants at night.
Gu Wenxuan, who had made great contributions in the battle, did not go home. Instead, she took her team of dogs and patrolled the wall like a ghost every once in a while, listening carefully for any unusual noises outside the shelter.
With her and the dogs wandering back and forth from time to time, the patrolmen in charge of night patrol unconsciously tensed up their nerves. Not to mention taking a nap, they didn't even dare to chat with their companions.
It was not until the sky in the east began to lighten that Fang Youfu brought people to replace Gu Wenxuan, and only then did Gu Wenxuan yawn and return to her home.
When she returned, Bai Jingzhou, who was on the second half of the night shift to look after the injured, had not yet gone to bed. After handing the injured over to Lin's father who came to relieve him, Bai Jingzhou, with a haggard face, went to his doorstep to wait for Gu Wenxuan.
The two met briefly, and Bai Jingzhou took the lunch box and gave her a bowl of goat milk that his mother had heated up early in the morning.
Gu Wenxuan tested the temperature and found that the goat milk was already warm and not hot, so she simply drank it in one gulp.
Bai Jingzhou knew at a glance that she must be tired, thirsty and sleepy, so he quickly reached out and pulled her into his yard.
Because there were people looking for him or his father for a long time, there were ready-made tables and chairs in the small courtyard closest to the door of his house.
Pulling Gu Wenxuan to sit on the round stool, Bai Jingzhou took out a bowl of millet porridge, five meat buns, and a plate of pickled vegetables from the lunch box, "Eat it, and then you can go back to sleep."
Gu Wenxuan didn't bother to be polite with him. While telling Bai Jingzhou that she would send people out this afternoon to deal with the bodies left behind by the refugees and stragglers, she ate breakfast in big mouthfuls.
The warm breakfast was delicious and Gu Wenxuan finished everything Bai Jingzhou prepared in no time.
Bai Jingzhou sent her home and said, "I will arrange for the disposal of the body. You don't have to worry about it."
Gu Wenxuan yawned, "Then you must pay attention to safety."
Bai Jingzhou nodded vigorously, "Don't worry, I will."
Gu Wenxuan waved at him and said nothing more. Bai Jingzhou was just as smart and cautious as she was, so there was no need for her to keep nagging.
After sleeping until sunset, Gu Wenxuan finally got up. Li, who was heartbroken, heard the noise and hurriedly took the warm food in the pot to Gu Wenxuan.
Gu Wenxuan was not in a hurry to eat. After sleeping for a whole day, she wanted to simply wash up.
When Li heard her say that she wanted to wash her face and brush her teeth, she stood up and went to help her prepare all the necessary utensils.
Gu Wenxuan hurriedly stopped her and said, "I can do it myself."
She felt embarrassed to let an old lady serve her for such a thing.
After quickly washing her face and brushing her teeth, Gu Wenxuan sat back at the table, picked up her chopsticks and started eating.
Her grandmother prepared two thick stacks of pork and sauerkraut stuffed pancakes, a large pot of chicken stewed with dried mushrooms, a large plate of scrambled eggs with leeks, a small bowl of hot goat milk and two frozen pears soaked in cold water.
The food was really to Gu Wenxuan's liking. As she ate, she couldn't help but squint her eyes in happiness.
Gu Yongming just came home after finishing his work. He told Gu Wenxuan, "We have dug pits and buried all the bodies outside. We have also distributed all the useful things to the patrol members."
The purpose of digging a deep pit for burial was to prevent the corpse from rotting and causing epidemics, so Bai Jingzhou had carefully selected the place to bury the corpse.
As for what are the useful things, it is actually very simple. Apart from some scattered silver and copper coins, there are only the armor and weapons of those stragglers.