The carriage rolled away, leaving only the two of them bitter in their hearts, but Gu Qiluo didn't know about this situation at all, she had just noticed that Zeng Yuan's eyes at the apricot blossom were full of affection, and she had the intention to make fun of the apricot blossom, but in front of Ying Feihong and the spring breeze, it was difficult to say, and the apricot blossom skin was also thin.

Although she can't say it, the second grandmother has already begun to plan for the future of these two people, and she is thinking about Xinghua getting married, how much dowry should she give her? Zeng Yuan has followed him for so many days, and he will be his spokesperson outside in the future, needless to say, he has worked hard, and Xinghua is treated as his sister, and this dowry can't be thin. Well, Xinghua and Zeng Yuan are going to bear fruit, but why hasn't Chunyu moved at all? In theory, she is only one year younger than Xinghua, but I don't see who she is interested in at all, really, this child is too heartless......

Thinking so crankily, I don't know how long it was bumpy, and suddenly the carriage stopped, and then Xiao Jiangbei opened the curtain and said to Gu Qiluo: "There is a village in front, about dozens of families, and it happens to be noon, let's start distributing food here, and have lunch by the way." ”

"What's going on? Give food to others and then eat it yourself? Gu Qiluo said with a smile, and was about to stand up, but as soon as she moved, she sat down again with an "ouch", she was surprised: "What did you say?" Why do my bones hurt all over my body? ”

Ying Feihong and Zhong Chunfeng looked at her like monsters, and Ying Feihong said with admiration: "Grandma is really a heroine among women, and this snowy road is difficult." After this morning, our bones are almost scattered, and I dare not stand up immediately. You got up suddenly, it's no wonder that it doesn't hurt, hurry up and move around, don't twist your waist. ”

"I was so focused on thinking about it that I forgot about it." Gu Qiluo grinned, Xiao Jiangbei also hurriedly entered the car to help her massage her lower limbs, and then the group slowly moved out.

Stand on the wheels. I saw that the four fields were white, about a mile away, as if there was a village hidden in the woods. At this time, it was noon, and most of the beams of the dozens of houses were smoking, and Zhong Chunfeng muttered, "Huh? Who said they were out of food, didn't they have something to eat? ”

"There's something. But I don't know what to eat. Gu Qiluo knew that the problem of "hating the poor" of this goods had come again. Ignoring it, he grabbed Xiao Jiangbei's hand and jumped out of the car, to tell the truth, Gu Qiluo is most dissatisfied with the road conditions in this era, from the Guannei to the capital, the official road is quite flat, and the road outside the Guanbei is not very good, and the potholes are called a difficult walk. But you can also run a carriage anyway, but in this remote place. The road leading to the village was not even accessible to the carriage, which made her worried, and she could not carry a bag of grain into the village alone.

"Come in and find them, and come out and carry them." Xiao Jiangbei said lightly, someone had already entered the village, and after a while, a large number of people ran out, looking very excited, but Gu Qiluo always felt that something was wrong, and looked at it again: Okay, they are all women, children, old and young, and there is not a single young and strong man.

"What's going on? You guys...... Why don't you even have a man here? ”

An old man with a gray beard came forward to greet Xiao Jiangbei Gu Qiluo, and everyone else hid next to him, looking a little stage frightened, but when he heard Chunyu's words, a few seven or eight-year-old boys stood up, patted their chests and said, "Why not?" Aren't we men? ”

"Go, go, the hair hasn't grown yet, pretending to be a man." Zhong Chunfeng waved his hand to drive away, but he heard the boys say unconvinced: "Although we are small, it is not difficult to carry forty or fifty pounds of things into the village in one go." After speaking, his eyes looked like the bags of rice and noodles on a dozen carriages behind.

The old village chief drove the boys back, and then said to Xiao Jiangbei: "Returning to the chief soldier, the men in our village have gone hunting, this day is freezing, there is no food in the village, and there is a lot of game in the governor's mansion this autumn, so there is not much stock in the village, and if you don't hunt, everyone in the village will starve to death." ”

"Is there such a strict zhòng? Is there still smoke in your village, when we don't see it? Zhong Chunfeng still asked in the end, but saw that the old village chief said gloomily: "I can't fake it at this time, Gongzi can go in and have a look, we can't help it, it's all boiled bark, grass roots and animal bones, those edible bones have been eaten, and the rest of these are too hard, but they are boiled with water, so you can chew some slag down." ”

"Alas! What a life it was? Gu Qiluo was about to tear down when he heard this, but looking at the people in this village, there was no resentment, and his face was not numb by the hardships of life, and there were still some people talking in a whisper, and he could hear that some people were not very friendly to themselves at first, but when someone told him that this was Xiao Zongbing and Zongbing's wife, his attitude immediately changed one hundred and eighty degrees, Gu Qiluo had previously paid for people within a radius of several hundred miles to repair their houses for the winter, and this village had also received her favor, So I know that she is different from the wolf-like governor's palace.

The old village chief strongly invited them into the village, Gu Qiluo ordered people to distribute the food, and those little boys really took the lead, not only boys, but also some old women also helped, and there were stronger women who could carry more than 100 catties of rice, and their combat effectiveness was staggering.

Coming to the village, the old village chief pointed to a few stone houses in the east of the village and said to Xiao Jiangbei: "There are not many thatched houses in our village, since we got your money, most of them have bought food and bedding, only these few are built stone houses, and fortunately, otherwise there will be a lot of snow this winter, especially this heavy snowfall, if the thatched houses have collapsed long ago, and people have to be buried. We can't help it. This year, I lost those beddings, and no one has died yet. ”

Sure enough, all the food in the village is bark, grass, roots, and animal bones, and now that there is rice and noodles, the old village chief and others hurriedly collected the meat of all the families in the village, and there were three or five catties in total, and they made it together with rice, entertaining Xiao Jiangbei and others, but everyone looked at the situation in the village, and they all felt heavy, how could they be embarrassed to eat their food? But just eat two bites and get it.

Because they still have to hurry, so Xiao Jiangbei and the others are about to leave, the old village chief learned that they have to go to the front to help others, very moved and admired, and said to Xiao Jiangbei: "The people on our side can't afford to raise a carriage, and in winter, they all use dogs to pull sleds back and forth, which is lighter than a carriage and goes fast, adults see if it's useful?" If it helps, I'll give you all the sleds and dogs in the village. ”

After Xiao Jiangbei came to Liaodong, he had also heard of this dog sled, Gu Qiluo had been famous for this special mode of transportation for a long time in modern times, Ying Feihong Zhong Chunfeng had never heard of it, and others were also very curious, and after seeing the old village chief demonstrate, they all said that this was indeed much more convenient than a carriage, but unfortunately there were not many of them, so there was no way to get so much food, but everyone still asked for a few, and everyone felt that if people sat on it, it was probably more comfortable than taking a carriage.

The dog sled is indeed a novelty, at first everyone was enthusiastic, even Xiao Jiangbei couldn't help but sit with Gu Qiluo for a while, but in less than half a day, Zhong Chunfeng couldn't stand it anymore, and said with bruised lips: "Although the bones are not guilty, but this is so cold that people can't stand it, I'd better go back to the carriage, I'd rather the bones fall apart than freeze into ice cubes." ”

With him taking the lead, other people who insisted on it also stopped doing it, and got into the carriage one after another, Xiao Jiangbei and his own soldiers also got on the horse and left, so those sleds still made grain carts, and they could put two or three hundred catties of rice grain.

I walked for two days in a row, helped four or five villages, and finally arrived at the foot of Changbai Mountain that night, this is because the snow has not melted, and it has not frozen into ice, otherwise it will not be able to reach it in two days.

There are several villages at the foot of Changbai Mountain, I heard that Xiao Zongbing and his wife, who funded their silver money in winter, arrived in person and wanted to send them rice and grain for the New Year, so all men, women and children came, these villages are no different from the villages along the road, the young and strong men all went to hunt in the deep mountains and old forests, and some old and weak women and children were left to guard the door, Xiao Jiangbei and others The unexpected arrival was like a fairy descending to earth, so that these people almost fainted with joy.

Because of Tang Wannian's rampant conquest, the Jurchens and various ethnic tribes have a hateful attitude towards the real Daxia people, otherwise the friction here in Liaodong will not escalate year by year. However, for Xiao Jiangbei and Gu Qiluo, this group of people are extremely grateful, they have never seen those officials come to ask them for prey, fur, silver, firewood, and charcoal, and they can't scrape the ground, but they have never seen anyone willing to take out money to help them repair their houses, buy them bedding, buy rice and grain, and now seeing that the New Year of Daxia is coming, they actually braved the heavy snow to come to deliver food, which is what officials should do? Even the gods they believe in have never seen such goodness.

When they arrived here, there was no need to rush to hurry again, anyway, no matter how they rushed, it was impossible to return to the General Military Mansion for Chinese New Year's Eve, so Xiao Jiangbei and the others stayed in one of the villages, and in the evening, the leader of the Jurchen tribe who got the news, Yan Ming, and the leaders of the tribes of various tribes came, they were shocked by Xiao Jiangbei's actions, and knew that Mrs. Hou Ye was also there, so they visited one after another and said many words of gratitude. He also ordered someone to slaughter the cattle and sheep he brought over, and to entertain Xiao Jiangbei and his party well.

When night fell, although the weather was bitterly cold, a bonfire was lit on the snow, the aroma of roast sheep was overflowing, and people of all sizes were laughing and singing loudly. Xiao Jiangbei and Gu Qiluo, Zhong Chunfeng, Ying Feihong and others were together, silently looking at this group of old and young: they are so easy to satisfy, as long as they have a full meal, they can bloom the happiest smile. (To be continued......)