"The two adults don't know anything...... The land and seeds here are a little different from the place down the mountain, and even if winter is about to start now, we can harvest the grain again. ”

Han Da Shune's face could not hide the look of pride.

"Two adults, don't underestimate this last grain cut before winter, this extra collection is enough for many people in the village to barely survive in winter!"

As soon as these words came out, Li Zhao nodded quite approvingly on the side.

It is no wonder that Han Dashu is so proud, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and the water. At this time, there were basically no people farming in the land of Youzhou, and they all relied on the grain saved in the past three seasons to prepare for the winter.

And at this time, Yanmen Village can harvest grain again, as Han Dashu said, it can save many people, sometimes just a mouthful of rice, a mouthful of rice, this person is as tenacious as that mustard survived.

"That's right......"

Han Dashu seemed to remember something, a trace of anger flashed on Mu Ne's face, his breathing gradually became heavier, he took a few steps closer to Li Xian and the others, and said with righteous indignation:

"Back to the two or five hundred lords, the villain was sleeping sweetly last night, but I don't know who is knocking on the door outside the door, and the knock is earth-shattering, and it knocks on my door into a big hole!"

When he said this, his expression became a little apprehensive and uneasy.

"But when I got up and opened the door, there was no one outside, only an empty street and darkness as far as the eye could see......

"My lord, do you think that murderer will start acting again?"

Han Dashu raised his face and looked at Li Xian with a hopeful gaze.

In his worldview, a two-five hundred lord is already the kind of high-ranking official who is unattainable, and such a powerful big man should be able to solve the murderous maniac.

Hearing this, Li Xian's eyes were a little complicated, he looked up and down at the wooden-looking man in front of him, and asked, "Are you sure someone knocked on your door last night, are you okay?"

"Yes, I was so frightened that I stood motionless in the doorway...... As a result, I came back to my senses and found that there was nothing wrong with me, and I hope that the adults can catch the thief as soon as possible, so that the people in our village will be frightened sooner or later. ”

Li Xian nodded and said, "Hmm...... It's okay, let's go!"

"The villain went first. ”

Just as Han Dashu was about to pick up the sickle and bamboo basket and leave, Li Zhao, who was standing behind Li Xian, suddenly asked, "By the way...... I heard that Han Yi was sick and died, is this true?"

Han Dashu's reaction was very strange, his expression was a little nervous, he looked left and right, there were no other villagers around, and whispered to the two:

"You can't say this casually in the village, everyone knows that Han Yi's child is the heart of the village chief, if he listens to others, he may cause some trouble at that time. ”

Okay, we got it. Li Xian replied.

"Adults, the little ones are gone. ”

Watching Han Dashu's figure drift away, Li Xian asked Li Zhao, "When you came here before, didn't you see this Han Yi? What kind of person do you think Han Ming is?"

He knew in his heart that if the dog had seen Han Yi, he would tell him as early as after the conversation with Old Man Wu, so the focus of his question was the last one.

"No, at that time, the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce and the Four Seas Gang had just collapsed, there were a lot of things, I came in a hurry, I left in a hurry, and I left after the business was settled, in fact, if it wasn't for this incident in Yanmen Village, it would have been just an ordinary cooperative relationship. ”

Li Zhao answered the first question first, then frowned slightly, and a vague figure began to quietly emerge in his mind, it was an old cheek with old age spots.

"He is an old man who is dedicated to his children. ”

After being silent for a while, Li Zhao raised his head and said to Li Xian, although it was something that happened a few months ago, once he recalled it, the scene of that day was repeated in front of him like a screen.

Before he came to Yanmen Village, he had already inquired about the information, and knew that Han Ming's most important thing was his children. Prescribe the right medicine, when the two sides were talking, he took out a few spirit fruits, and its effect is very helpful for people who are weak and sick.

It is all thanks to these spirit fruits, and the cooperation was determined at the beginning of the negotiation process, and the rest of the time was more about negotiating new cooperation content and direction.

After listening to Li Zhao's impression of Han Ming, Li Xian touched the stubble on his chin and said thoughtfully:

It seems that this Han village chief really loves his children. ”

The two of them walked as they talked, and before they knew it, they had already circled more than half of the village, and their current location was in a corner of the village, the whole street was paved with bluestone slabs, and there were small courtyards or small wooden houses on both sides.

Li Zhao muttered, "Something is wrong......"

He turned his head to look left and right, and found that the street was eerily quiet, and only the cold wind blew through it, and it seemed to be silent, not at all like a village.

"What's wrong?"

"The number of people is wrong!"

A word woke up the person in the dream, Li Xian pondered twice, and then suddenly realized it.

Yes, the number is not right!

According to the intelligence, the permanent population of Yanmen Village is at least about 200 people, which is not small, but when they walked around, they found that the population of this village is far less than the intelligence suggests.

Along the way, most of them are scattered villagers or groups of children, excluding the villagers who go out to work, even if they are doubled, there are only about 100 people.

So where did the remaining hundred go?

Li Zhao raised his head slightly to look at Li Xian and said, "Young Master......"

Li Xian nodded, he understood what the dog meant. A pair of tiger eyes suddenly became a little deep, as if dyed with a layer of ghostly light.

The tremendous power of his mind swept over the houses on both sides of the street, and everything in the house was reflected in his heart lake.

After only a moment's effort, Li Xian's brows tightened together, and he said: "There are traces of people living in the houses on both sides of this street, and there are food and clothes in them, but ...... At least for a while no one lived,

"The tables were dusty, and the beams were covered with cobwebs. ”

"Young master, it seems that we ......"

Li Zhao stopped halfway through his sentence.

At this moment, they saw a boy no more than five or six years old rushing past them with a rattan ball, and at the same time, anxious shouts sounded from behind.

"Huzi...... Don't run so fast, what if you fall!"

The two of them turned their heads to look, and a woman in the distance supported the old woman to follow behind, and shouted anxiously: "Huzi, you run so fast, grandma and grandma can't keep up with you." ”

Then, I heard the words of concern coming from her mouth: "Mother, slow down...... You're already in bad health, you're coughing, it's about to be winter, how cold is this weather,

"You don't have to go out and walk twice. “

The old woman saw that she was old last year, with a rickety figure and gray hair, but she was in good spirits, and her thin and wrinkled hand patted her daughter-in-law's hand, and said with emotion:

"Thank you...... Orchid, I just want to play with Huzi for a while. ”

Han Lanhua understood in her heart that her mother-in-law just wanted to accompany her great-grandson for a while while she was still alive, and the words in her mouth seemed to blame and comfort:

"Mother...... Don't worry, you, you will definitely live a long life, maybe you can wait until the tiger grows up and marries a daughter-in-law, and then there will be three generations in the same house!"

Han Lanhua's words are true, in ancient times, they got married early, and there were no longer a few people who became fathers at the age of twelve or thirteen.

This sentence really said that the old lady's heart was slight, and she smiled all of a sudden, her dry lips were happy, and there were not a few teeth left in it, but it seemed a little kind.

The two talked, looking like their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were harmonious, and when they walked in front of Li Xian and the others, they suddenly found the two adults in front of them.

Han Lanhua was a little frightened in her heart, afraid of colliding with the nobles, and was about to squat down to salute, but was stopped by a pair of big hands, but the words in her mouth did not stop, with imitation and uneasiness, she said: "I have seen two or five hundred masters, and I have seen Young Master Zhao." “

"It's okay...... Go ahead, the family is still waiting for you. ”

Li Xian didn't say much, so he got out of the way, and it turned out that at the gate of a small courtyard on the street in the distance, there was a couple and a tiger who had just kicked the rattan ball.

It seemed to be a family, and they looked at this side with worried and anxious eyes.

"Thank you, sir......"

Han Lanhua nodded gratefully, and then helped her mother-in-law to walk to a family of three, and after a while, there was a burst of laughter at the door of the small courtyard, and then the five of them entered the small courtyard.

Li Xian, who was looking at all this, slowly retracted the gentle smile on the corner of his mouth, thought about it, and said, "It seems that it's time to visit this Han Ming, who has not seen anyone but only heard his name, Village Chief Han." ”

Hanfu.

There were also a few slaves in the mansion, not from the village, but from the village, who had been sold here since childhood.

Along the way, Li Xian observed the decoration of the mansion, and the lights were displayed everywhere, and the red lanterns were pasted with the word Xi, and it seemed that even the air was filled with a festive atmosphere.

In addition, there are many rockeries, but there are not many expensive decorations, compared to the mansions he has seen and lived, it can be called simple and unpretentious.

The two of them went to the main hall under the leadership of Han.

"Please wait, two adults, the old man will come over soon...... The old woman went down first to prepare some pastries for the adults. Han bowed and turned to leave.

Li Xian stood with his hands in his hands, while Li Zhao sat on the chair, his slender fingers tapping the armrest, not knowing what he was thinking.

As soon as Fang sat down, a rush of footsteps was heard outside the house.

The person who came walked into the main hall with the light of day, walked in with a faint sweat on his old cheeks, came to Li Xian, and immediately bent down and said:

"Han Ming, the grass people, has seen two or five hundred masters. ”

"Get up, sit!"

Li Xian sat down at the top of the throne with a golden sword, not treating himself as an outsider at all, as if he was the owner of this mansion and Han Ming was the guest.

"Master Xie......"

Han Ming sat down with some trepidation.

"Village Chief Han, have any villagers from outside come to Yanmen Village recently? For example, from the villagers near Yuanye County. ”

Li Xian's majestic voice sounded.

Han Ming immediately frowned, without the slightest hesitation, and replied:

"If you go back to the adult, we say that Yanmen Village is not big, and it is not small, but if there are outsiders in the village, we will know it as soon as possible.

"And unless it's an adult in the government, we don't usually let outsiders into the village. ”

The corners of Li Xian's mouth pulled out a trace of coldness, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he stared at him: "I believe that if there are people living in every part of this village, then you can know about it as soon as outsiders come in."

"It stands to reason that there should be at least about 200 people in Yanmen Village, why did I only see a maximum of 100 people today.

"Village Chief Han, you tell the general, where are the other hundred villagers in your village?"

But at this moment, what surprised Li Xian was Han Ming's reaction, he looked very surprised, frowned and asked, "If you go back to two or five hundred masters, the population of Yanmen Village has always been around one hundred and fifty people. ”

But as soon as he raised his head, he saw Li Xian's sharp eyes, and he said in a cold tone: "Village Chief Han, in such a big village, you told me that there are only one hundred and fifty villagers?"

Li Xian squinted his eyes slightly, dyed with a faint layer of ghostly light, and asked in a cold voice: "Then let me ask you...... What's the matter with so many empty houses in the village, but no one lives in them, but there are a bunch of clothes?"

Han Ming looked at those cold eyes, and subconsciously gasped a breath of cold air, but what was inhaled into his lungs was not cold air, but a sticky smell of blood, and this contrast almost made him vomit on the spot.

I just felt the pain of my head exploding.

He knelt directly on the ground and said categorically: "General, what the grass people said is absolutely not a lie, up and down Yanmen Village, the little old man remembers it clearly, there are only one hundred and fifty people, and this is still counted as men, women and children!"

Hearing this, Li Xian frowned deeply.

What Han Ming said didn't seem to be fake, and it didn't look like he was lying, his momentum just now was enough to scare a person's courage.

"Is there a problem with words? Or is there a problem with people?"

His temperament doesn't like to be passive, he has always liked to take the initiative, so he chooses to take radical measures, just like he once dealt with Liang Kuan.

The power of the mind!

Outside, a breeze is about to rise.

"Ahem, ahem, ahem......"

A violent cough accompanied the sound of footsteps.

Li Xian thought about it for a while, and finally withdrew the power of his mind.

After a while, a thin figure walked in, he saw Han Ming kneeling on the ground, shouted Dad, and hurriedly walked over to help Han Ming.

It's just that when someone approached, Li Xian's nose unconsciously twitched twice, it was a smell that he would never be unfamiliar with, although it was extremely light.

His eyes suddenly became different, and he looked at the thin man in front of him, who should be Han Ming's son, Han Yi.

With thin arms, thin legs, and a pale face, even if he helped Han Ming, the old man, it was extremely difficult, but Li Xian noticed the strangest point.

That is Han Yi's eyes, even if he speaks and acts, it shows that he cares about his father, but it is too incongruous. It's like a dummy is playing, it's too empty and monotonous, without the slightest emotion in his eyes.

Especially when Han Yi glared at himself angrily, he wanted to speak but coughed because he was too excited.

The weirdness is too strong!

"General...... Little Lao'er really didn't lie to you!"

At this time, Han Ming, who stood up, still looked like he was convincing in words.

Li Xian looked at the two fathers and sons, the coldness on the corner of his mouth turned into a gentle smile, and nodded: "Okay...... Ben will know, this time it is really troublesome for Village Chief Han.

"Ben will still have important things to do, so I will leave first. ”

After speaking, regardless of Han Yi, who was glaring at him, and Han Ming, who had always been humble, he strode away.

Li Zhao followed.

The heavy footsteps became farther and farther away, and the rich expressions of the father and son who stayed in the main hall gradually converged until they turned into cold, stiff faces, but their pupils were full of numbness and coldness.