At one o'clock in the afternoon, Lu Yao and the others finished lunch at the house of a farmer on the side of the road, and continued to rush to Liang Hong's house without resting.

After nearly two hours of arduous trekking, the carriage stopped at the gate of a courtyard just after three o'clock in the afternoon. Since the entire courtyard wall and the house were covered with a thick layer of snow, it was impossible to see what the house was. Looking through the wooden courtyard gate, there are five or six houses lined up towards the road, but they are not high, and they should be tiled houses made of stones.

After fixing the wheels of the carriage with a wooden wedge placed under the carriage, the driver walked directly to the gate of the courtyard, opened the broken gong and shouted: "Hello guests!

After a while, a middle-aged man with a height of about 1.6 meters, wearing a fur hat, a leather jacket, and a pair of long leather gloves around his neck opened the courtyard door, slapped the snowflakes on his body, and asked in his hometown: "Huh? Why don't I know you? Driver, who are you looking for? Are you looking for a place to rest?"

"Uncle, let's look for Liang Hong, is he at home?" Lu Yao climbed out of the carriage and jumped out of the carriage and asked.

He has gone out to work, he has not been home for more than two years, and there is no news, and we have reported the disappearance to the higher authorities. Where are you from? Why don't you come in and have some hot tea?" asked the middle-aged man.

"Thank you, uncle, are you Liang Hong's family?" Lu Yao asked.

"Liang Hong doesn't live here, I'm his cousin, and I'm also the head of this village. ”

"Oh, hello village chief, where is Liang Hong's home? We want to go and see his family. Lu Yao said.

His family lives in the west of the village, and there is only one grandmother and one sister left in the family. They are very poor, and even the rice, flour, oil and salt they eat depend on our villagers to help, and they are poor households in our village. Are you still going? What is your relationship with Liang Hong?" asked the village chief with a puzzled expression.

"We are friends of Liang Hong, and we want to see his house. Lu Yao replied. Now he regrets coming here to find Liang Hong, he vaguely feels that this Liang Hong is probably not the fiancé of Liu Jing they are looking for. Now that you are here, you can't give up halfway, you have to go to Liang Hong's house to see what is going on.

"Then you keep walking a mile to the west of the village, and you see a grass house that is Liang Hong's house. It's snowing so hard now, and the snow on the road is too thick for me to send you through. The village chief said.

"Thank you, village chief, come in, it's too cold outside, let's go." After Lu Yao finished speaking, he immediately signaled to the driver to head to the west of the village. The village chief also turned and went into the courtyard, closed the courtyard door, and went back to the house.

The road in the village is very narrow, and there are uphill and downhill and steps, and the carriage cannot enter. The snow was so thick that it was enough for people to walk in, and we had to ride in. You all know how to ride horses, don't you?" asked the chauffeur with a white mist.

Lu Yao walked to the side of the carriage and asked loudly, "Big brother, Liu Jing, can you ride a horse?"

"I can ride a horse!" replied Lao Wu, who then got out of the carriage and jumped out of the carriage.

Then Liu Jing also got out of the carriage, and Lu Yao reached out and hugged her. She raised her right hand, which was covered with leather gloves, and held her hat and said, "I grew up on the prairie, and I was able to ride a horse alone when I was five years old." I just don't know if the horse pulling the cart recognizes it?"

"Don't worry, my horse's temperament is so good that I don't even recognize it. Wait a minute, I'll put the horse out and saddle it, and it will be all right soon. The driver said, and began to untie the ropes on the two horses, and Lu Yao helped together.

In a few moments, the saddles of the two tall horses were set. The driver and Lao Wu rode a horse to lead the way, and Lu Yao and Liu Jing followed behind on another horse, walking slowly towards Liang Hong's home.

Ten minutes later, the two horses stopped in front of a low house. Lu Yao and they looked at it for a while, only to see a black hole, like a doorway, and it was about to be covered by snow.

"Lu Yao, is this Liang Hong's house? The house is covered with snow, can there be people living in it?" asked Liu Jing, who had been lying on Lu Yao's back, in a low voice.

"What's the matter? I'm scared of you? There should be people living there, and you see there's a chimney on the roof, and it's still smoking." Liu Jing, if you really marry here, will you regret it?" Lu Yao asked with a smile.

"If that man is worthy of my marriage, no matter how small and dilapidated this house is, I will not regret it!" Liu Jing said firmly.

"Well, I'm sure you're such a woman. Okay, don't get off the horse first, I'll go down and take a look!" After Lu Yao finished speaking, after handing the reins to Liu Jing, he turned over and jumped off the horse, and then looked up at the driver and Lao Wu and said, "Master, big brother, don't you come down first, I'll go in and see what the situation is?"

"Young man, take my horsewhip, be careful that there are earth dogs in the house!" said the driver and threw the horsewhip in his hand directly to Lu Yao.

Lu Yao stretched out his hand and took it in his hand, and said gratefully: "Thank you, master!"

Just now, the master talked about the earth dog, which startled him. In his mind, he suddenly remembered the last time he was in the vegetable garden in the mountain behind the airport, he was driven down the ditch by several vicious dogs, and he still had palpitations.

He flailed his whip twice in the air, and walked his leg up to the door with his knee-deep snow.

He came to the door, used his hands and feet, and cleared the snow that had accumulated in the doorway, before raising his hand to knock on the broken wooden door.

After a minute, the wooden door slowly opened with a creak, and a small head wearing a woolen hat stuck out of the crack in the door, staring at a pair of big frightened eyes, the two little faces were a little purple and cracked, and the child with frostbite on his lips and nose looked at Lu Yao timidly.

"Little friend, is this Liang Hong's home?" Lu Yao put the horsewhip behind him, bent down and asked with a pleasant face.

"My eldest brother wasn't at home, he went out to work and didn't come back. The child replied in a whisper. The voice was thin, but crisp, and it was supposed to be a girl, about five or six years old.

"Little sister, I'm your eldest brother's friend, I came to see you, can I enter your house?" Lu Yao asked.

"Xiaohong, who is it?, is the uncle here to deliver food?" said an old woman's deep voice in the room.

"Grandma, not uncle, it's a friend of the eldest brother, who said he came to see us, and he wants to come into the house. The little girl turned her head and replied.

Her woolen and gloved hands were still tightly gripping the wooden door, and a gust of wind blew in, blowing up a black cloth nailed behind the door and covering her little head. She quickly raised her little hand, lifted the black cloth, and looked at Lu Yao vigilantly.