Chapter 33: The Hu Cavalry Retreats, the Tenants
Just as Yang Zhengshan expected, three days later, Yangjia Village received news that all the Hu cavalry in Anning County had retreated.

For a moment, the entire Yangjia Village was filled with cheers.

The tension and anxiety were swept away, replaced by a relaxed atmosphere.

Even Yang Zhengshan felt relieved.

To be honest, he was under a lot of pressure during this period.

The lives and deaths of nearly a thousand villagers in Yangjia Village rested on his shoulders, making him unable to sleep well, for fear that the Hu cavalry would break into the village at night.

Fortunately, everything is over now.

"it is finally over!"

Yang Zhengxiang came to the Yang family and said with joy.

"Yes, it's finally over!" Yang Zhengshan was relieved, "But we still have a lot to do!"

Many of their previous preparations were not used, such as the supplies that had been transported to the mountains in advance, which they still had to bring back.

Yang Zhengshan didn't think this was a waste of time. To be honest, he was very happy that Yangjia Village was not forced to hide in the mountains.

Don't think that hiding in the mountains will make everything worry-free. Hiding in the mountains means that they have abandoned Yangjia Village. And moving all the family members into the mountains also involves great risks.

Therefore, Yang Zhengshan would rather waste all the previous preparations than let the villagers of Yangjia Village hide in the mountains.

Besides this, there is another matter that needs to be put on the agenda.

That is spring ploughing.

It is now March. According to the season in Anning County, spring ploughing usually takes place from the end of March to April.

After the heavy snow, the weather warms up and people should prepare for spring ploughing.

The spring plowing here is different from that in the past. In the past, large machinery was available and dozens of acres of land could be plowed in an hour. But here, it is considered good if one acre of land can be plowed in a day.

Speaking of which, Yang Zhengshan has always been worried that the spring plowing would be delayed due to the entry of the Hu cavalry. He just bought a hundred acres of land before the New Year, and when giving New Year gifts during the Spring Festival, he also asked the Lu family to help him find a few tenants. If the Hu cavalry cannot retreat before the spring plowing, then the hundred acres of land he bought will probably be abandoned for a year.

Fortunately, the Hu cavalry retreated.

Yang Zhengxiang talked with Yang Zhengshan for a while, and then went to prepare for the funeral of those young and strong men who died in the battle.

Their bodies have been lying there for more than ten days, and the funeral must be prepared as soon as possible.

All members of the Yang clan were buried in the cemetery on the back mountain. After learning that the Hu cavalry had retreated, Yangjia Village was busy for two days before completing the funeral.

Because the body had been there for too long and the situation was still unclear, the funeral was very simple.

As time passed, the frozen earth gradually thawed, the cold north gradually faded away, and Yangjia Village also came out of its sad mood.

It was as if the whole world came alive from silence.

People were now moving around in the originally empty countryside. The peddlers who went door to door came to Yangjia Village, the people hiding in the mountains returned home, and the runners from the county government walked out of the county town and began to persuade farmers.

It seemed that everything had returned to normal, but Yang Zhengshan knew that the invasion of the Hu tribe was a great disaster for the people in the northern border.

Anning County is more than 300 miles away from the border, and many villages have been looted by the Hu people, not to mention the people living near the border.

Moreover, the matter is not over yet. If the Hu people can enter the country once, they can enter the country twice. Darong has suffered such a big loss, and they probably will not let it go.

It can be predicted that the northeastern border, which has been stable for twenty years, will no longer be stable in the next few years.

This time the Hu tribe’s entry into the country was just the beginning, representing the rise of the Hu tribe in the East China Sea again and that Dayong’s northeastern border was no longer stable.

But these have nothing to do with Yang Zhengshan. He is just a commoner now and cannot change anything. He can only go with the flow.

That day, Yang Zhengshan went to Jiangjia Village to see Yang Yunyan. After the adopted daughter came back from the mountains, the fetus was a little unstable, and the Jiang family hired a doctor for her, but Yang Zhengshan was worried and went to the county town to invite Song Yuanbo himself.

Song Yuanbo was the best doctor in Anning County. Yang Zhengshan spent two taels of silver to invite him to see a patient.

This was only because Song Yuanbo took advantage of the fact that the old man had sold him old mountain ginseng before, otherwise the old man would not have come to see the patient.

"The eldest girl has a good foundation. Although she has a little miscarriage, it's not a big deal. Two doses of miscarriage-maintaining medicine will be enough!"

Jiang family, Song Yuanbo said after taking Yang Yunyan's pulse.

All the girls in the Yang family practiced martial arts, and Yang Yunyan was no exception. Although Yang Yunyan's martial arts skills were mediocre, her physique was much better than that of other girls.

Yang Zhengshan was relieved. "That's good, Brother Jiang. Let Jiang He go to the county town to buy medicine this afternoon."

"Okay, okay!" Jiang Cheng naturally had no reason to refuse.

Jiang Cheng is now somewhat in awe of his father-in-law Yang Zhengshan. Although he is older than Yang Zhengshan, he has no right to put on airs in front of Yang Zhengshan.

Not to mention that Yang Zhengshan had saved the Jiang family before, the fact that the Jiang family was able to hide in the mountains this time was also an advantage for Yangjia Village.

The place where they temporarily stayed in the mountains and the supplies they consumed were all prepared by Yangjia Village in advance.

"Take good care of yourself. I have something to do at home, so I'll go back first!" Yang Zhengshan said softly to Yang Yunyan.

Perhaps even Yang Zhengshan did not notice that he was becoming more and more kind and gentle to the children coming to the Yang family.

He looks a bit like an old father.

People's mentality will change with the environment.

At the beginning, Yang Zhengshan felt uncomfortable looking at his children and grandchildren, but now he has truly integrated into the Yang family and regards everyone in the Yang family as his own relatives.

Care for children and love grandchildren.

A lively and good young man turned into an old father and a good grandfather.

The key is that Yang Zhengshan has not yet noticed the change in his mentality.

"Dad, I'm fine, you can go back soon!" Yang Yunyan said happily.

"Well, you should have a good rest!"

Afterwards, Yang Zhengshan took Song Yuanbo away from the Jiang family. Jiang Cheng wanted to invite him to have dinner, but he refused.

He didn't lie, there really was something waiting for him at home.

After returning to the Yang family, Yang Zhengshan first arranged for Yang Mingzhi to drive a ox cart to send Song Yuanbo back to the county town, and then took Yang Mingcheng to the west end of the village.

Yesterday, Lu Wenchun sent him four tenants. These four tenants will live in Yangjia Village and farm for Yang Zhengshan in the future.

There were no extra houses for them to live in Yangjia Village, so Yang Zhengshan asked Yang Zhengxiang to arrange a piece of wasteland for them so that they could build their own houses.

Now the house has not been built yet, so they can only live in tents on the wasteland.

They need to build the house themselves, but Yang Zhengshan needs to pay the workers, so the house built will naturally belong to Yang Zhengshan.

Of course, the house they built was not a good one, it was just an adobe house. Yang Zhengshan only allocated them a piece of land and made some minor plans, and they had to build the rest by themselves.

He came here today just to take these tenants to divide the farmland.

There were four tenant households with a total of twenty-eight people. Excluding the old, the weak and the young, there were sixteen people who could go to the fields to farm.

The tenants' lives became even more difficult. These four tenants used to farm in Qinghe Town. Generally speaking, they were unwilling to move to Yangjia Village. Only after Yang Zhengshan gave them a 10% rent did they agree to come.

(End of this chapter)