Chapter 005: Little Firewood
Hou Jun has been uneasy in his heart since the charcoal fire was pulled away by Luo Quan, just like a friend who had just met for a short time suddenly had to go separately and go out for a long time. Fortunately, www.biquge.info has already said that it is only a temporary loan, and maybe the high pastor will come back in a day or two. Just as he was thinking, he heard the sound of horses' hooves in the village, Hou Jun looked out through the gap in the newly built barrier, and he saw two officials who had galloped past from outside the village not long ago, and a young man in a dark green official robe was riding on a charcoal fire behind him.
The charcoal fire was fiery red, the four black hooves reflected the white snow and were particularly eye-catching, and with the green robe of the person on the horse, there was an indescribable heroic posture, and an inexplicable sense of jealousy arose. I saw that the charcoal fire ran to the entrance of the village, and "clicked" and turned around twice, as if he was extremely reluctant to go out of this far door. The young man on the horse was a little impatient, and Hou Jun couldn't see his face clearly during the roundabout, only to see him wave the whip in his hand and whip it on the body of the charcoal fire. The charcoal fire neighed, spread its four hooves, and in an instant caught up with the two horses in front of it, and after three of them rode it, the road fell silent.
Hou Jun thought in his heart that the age of this senior deputy pastoral supervisor was indeed not very old, only about twenty years old, and he couldn't imagine that he was already an official of the seventh grade, you know, the parents of a county, who manage a hundred miles of land, with more than 1,000 households and a population of more than 10,000, are only a seven-grade, and a head who raises horses has such a high salary, and the empire's attention to horse politics is really conceivable.
Just thinking about it, two more people galloped out of the village, one was Luo Quan, riding a mule, and the other was not very good-looking, although half of his face was covered with a scarf, but Lei Gongzui's high cheekbones were still unobstructed, riding a horse, this person was the Luo steward. When the two arrived at the entrance of the village, Luo Quan pointed at the person towards the residence of Hou Jun and Liu, and Steward Luo was obviously not very interested in sitting on the horse, and the few whips that were whipped by Yue Mu Jian in the morning were originally separated by thick clothes and pants, and it was not painful, but in the last stroke, the whip was slightly brought to the face, and he really dared not speak angrily, and he didn't want the affected area to be swollen and high, like a purple snake crawling out of the neckline, stopping on his face, and being blown by the cold wind and painful.
After Gao Mujian woke up, he didn't know what Yue and Lu said to him, and when he went out, Steward Luo came up and asked if he wanted to follow, Gao Mujian looked at the bruises on his face, and scolded angrily, "What are you doing here, not going to a banquet!" The words seem to be very dissatisfied with the other two colleagues who retreated when they encountered something, but it is not easy to say it clearly, and they are angry with their minions.
And Lord Yue, this Lord Yue Qinghe, for the first time in the racecourse, did official business, Deputy Pastoral Supervisor Lu originally planned to invite three or two friends to drink and enjoy the snow at home in the county seat, so it was not easy to put down his face and leave, so he had to stay in the field and make a group of herdsmen turn around. Steward Luo looked at himself here and it was redundant, a bad one to get the whip of Lord Yue again, not to mention the humiliation, the master has also gone to Xizhou, think about it is better to smear the soles of his feet, and just entered the village on a horse, Luo Quan came up, Steward Luo was quite satisfied with Luo Quan's eyes, and had the heart to take him to Liuzhong County for a trip, so that he could see what the prosperous world was, and he would be so determined to be on his own feet in the future. So the two hit it off, Luo Quan rode the mule with the help of his head, and the two went on the road.
Go to Liuzhong County, go out of the village to the southwest, and go to the direction of Xizhou is just the opposite, the city is the traffic artery of the ancient Central Plains to the Western Regions (in the southwest of Shanshan, Xinjiang Lukeqin), the land is fertile, the water and grass are abundant, and the Eastern Han Dynasty has the long history of the Western Regions to reside here. Erluo chatted as he walked, Steward Luo was for show, Luo was all for stammering, and at the same time tried to find out as much as possible about the details of the senior deputy shepherd who only sought one side. Unconsciously the two of them actually had the intention of seeing each other, about an hour, in front of the terrain sank, the yellow sand receded, a wide corridor to the northeast and southwest came into view, it was planted without soil, water did not raise waves, a gray city wall appeared in the forest in the distance, shrouded by a dense fog, Luo Quan's mood was swaying, as if he had returned to his hometown in Yangzhou.
Steward Luo pointed with his hand, "That is the county seat of Liuzhong."
The two of them hit the horse into the city, Luo Quan saw that although the streets in the city were not very wide, but the shops on both sides were next to each other, cloth shops, grain shops, silk villages, jade shops, restaurants, tea shops, brothels and many more, and further on, there were post houses, county offices, and behind was an official house, Steward Luo took Luo Quan, and went around to an alley, the two walked to the head of a door, knocked on the door for a long time, and then an old mother came to open the door, Steward Luo thought she opened the door late, and her mouth couldn't stop counting, and the old woman just asked, "What about the son, why didn't you come back?" "Steward Luo also ignored her, the courtyard sat north and faced south, the main room was one, the left and right wings were one each, there was a horse tether behind the gate, the whole yard was deserted, it seemed that only the old mother was at home, "Lord Gao's room, mine, hers," Steward Luo simply pointed to him. Looking at Luo Quan, he seemed to have questions, and said, "Rented," Luo Quanxin said, this senior pastoral supervisor is only about twenty years old, judging from Steward Luo's attitude towards the old woman, she must not be the master, then, this tall man lives here alone, it is not very normal.
Steward Luo seemed to be in a hurry to do something, hurriedly returned to his room, changed into clean clothes, took out a handful of silver and a few copper coins from a box under the bed and put them in his arms, and said to Luo Quan, "Let's go, the master will take you to Lehe Lehe." The two of them left their mother, went out of the alley one after the other, turned down the street, and walked towards the most lively building not far away. From a distance, I saw a black plaque with gold characters in front of the door, "Huangcui Building".
Not to mention that the Luo housekeeper took Luo Quan, to the largest green building in Liuzhong City to have a leisure, at the entrance of the village, Hou Jun tilted his head to look at himself and Liu's busy work for a morning, and felt that it was passable, in the place where the thorny barrier faced the village road, they built a small gatehouse, which was also taken from the branches cut on the hillside, last night's strong wind uprooted a lot of trees, this is not lacking, the small gatehouse is in the shape of an umbrella, top above the chaimen, Hou Jun added two iron rings on the side of the door, and borrowed an iron lock from the old man in the village, In this way, Liu just locked the door when he went out with him.
Liu boiled some water on the stove that was re-erected in the courtyard, and planned to wash the clothes on the two of them, but Hou Jun said twice by Liu, he never changed his clothes, in fact, in the package in the shack, he had a change of clothes pants, but he didn't want Liu to do these things, she was used to pampering, and she didn't do this rough work, Hou Jun felt that she was a little bullying her. Liu's urgency was urgent, first said no, no, look at the empty slip back to the shack, hurriedly find the package, and wanted to take out clean clothes to change, Liu's didn't know what to do, and he also came in after him, and happened to see Hou Jun's body wearing only a pair of obscene pants.
Hou Jun's body is a typical martial arts person's characteristics, medium stature, not the kind of tall and stout type, but strong, strong and flexible, with developed muscles in the limbs, especially in the chest and abdomen, etc., with his movements, the muscles seem to be about to break free from the skin and jump out, Liu Shi saw it, stunned for a while, neither advance, nor retreat, and there was a burst of fever on his face. Speaking from the heart, since she entered the mansion of the Guogong Mansion, she has never looked at Hou Junzheng, when he came to the house, he was still young, and he was only thirteen years old when he left the house, who knew that in this short period of four or five years, there would be such a big change, that strange feeling made her heart beat suddenly, and she felt that from now on, like duckweed in a wave, that little fragile root system finally caught the real soil.
Hou Jun didn't notice the expression on Liu's face, the weather was a little cold, he "hissed" in his mouth and inhaled the cold air, and quickly found out the clothes, which was a set of burlap white clothes and pants, Liu came back to his senses, reached out to pick it up, and wanted to say, "I'll wash it", but Hou Jun meant to wash it himself, and he didn't want to hand over the old clothes and pants to her.
Hou Jun's sturdy physique, how could the Liu family resist, he stumbled under his feet, lost his center of gravity all of a sudden, fell back with an "oops", and subconsciously reached out to grab Hou Jun in front of him. Hou Jun saw that he had bumped into Liu's, hurriedly threw away the clothes in his hand, and went to help her, thinking that he was dressed in inches, a little inappropriate, and let go of his hand as soon as he touched it, at this time Liu's only grabbed one of Hou Jun's fingers, Hou Jun was in pain, and the two of them rolled out of the shack at once. Falling out like this, Hou Jun was bound to fall on Liu's body, and in a hurry, Hou Jun hugged Liu's body with both hands and made a hard effort, flipped her over, and the two of them fell to the cold snow at once.
The two of them only felt that the world was silent all of a sudden, Hou Jun hugged Liu's soft waist, felt her full body trembling slightly, and the hands that were grasping her back unconsciously let go, and stroked her back twice, and then let go. He is a newborn calf, he doesn't know what it's like, and for a while, there is a hot current under the dantian that is not under his control and is surging and conflicting, Liu Shi couldn't imagine that Hou Jun's body reacted in such an instant, and he hurriedly got up and sorted out his messy hair.
Hou Jun said repeatedly, "This, it's all my fault." ”
At this moment, a woman's voice outside the chai gate laughed and said, "In broad daylight, do you cross the door and dig gold or silver in the ground?" ”
Liu Shi hurriedly opened the door, regardless of Hou Jun's nakedness, and said to the daughter-in-law of the village family, "It's not what you think at all", but his face was red.
"Isn't it? So what's your blushing about? I'm not an unmarried, can I still bluff you? At this time, Hou Jun had already rushed into the shack, and when he heard the words, he slapped his two big mouths fiercely, as if he had done an unforgivable mistake, and tears flowed out uncontrollably.
He knew very well that the two of them were purely unintentional just now, but even an unintentional mistake would hurt people, and in addition, Hou Jun thought that he would hurt one person, no, it was two, a man, a father and a younger brother. Although they are no longer alive, although he loves and hates them, he feels that he owes them both at the same time, so he is determined that no matter what happens and changes in the future, he should take care of the Liu family.
The village girl said, "Okay, okay, I won't tease you, don't cry." It turned out that since she saw Liu's, she was attracted by her glamorous appearance and dignified and demure temperament, this village girl, grew up in a closed mountain village, has seen very little of the world, and there is no partner who can talk about women's thoughts, she feels that Liu's first arrival, it is an opportunity to make in-depth friends, if the two become good sisters, the future may not be as boring as before. Therefore, she took advantage of the fact that the two men in the family were out and would not come back for a while, and thought that since the Liu family came here, it had been windy and snowy, and the house had fallen down again, and her body must not be refreshing, so she took it upon herself to take out the big wooden barrel that she usually bathes, boiled a pot full of hot water, and then ran over to ask the Liu family to come over to take a bath.
Liu knew her intention, and also felt that he had not combed or washed in the past two days, and his body was a little greasy, but he felt that he had only known each other for two days and had only seen each other, so it was not appropriate to go to the other party's house.
But Hou Jun didn't seem to see it, and said to the village aunt as soon as he opened his mouth, "Well, what you saw just now was her", he pointed at Liu's, "I want to wash my clothes, and I will take it off..." ”
"Okay, okay, I promise, I won't tell you about today's events, you two, it's really interesting, he will never be so polite when I wash my man's clothes, hey, I said you are so humble when you sleep at night?"
Saying that, the village aunt couldn't help but say, pulled the Liu family and left.
Liu's went for most of the day, and when he came back, his hair was still wet, revealing a faint fragrance that Hou Jun loved to smell, and when he looked at Hou Jun, Liu seemed to remember what the two of them had fallen just now, but his face was much calmer. She also brought back a bag of steamed buns, which were actually filled with mutton, and Liu said that the snowstorm had frozen one of the village aunt's lambs to death, as well as a small pot of soju.
It was getting late, the charcoal fire was not at home, the small firewood door was closed, the two didn't know what to say, to fill the long night that was coming, there were more than a dozen buns, the two sat in the shack, the ground was covered with quilts, the two were eating buns, Hou Jun had never drunk, from childhood to adulthood. Liu said that it was for the cold, and said that he drank two sips first, so Hou Jun also drank it. As if attached, the wind really rose outside, and the chaimen whistled.
The conditions of the shacks are simple, and counting a set of bedding given by the village girl, they can only lay one on the ground and one for each person. When he slept until midnight, Hou Jun was woken up by freezing, and saw that Liu Xu had drunk wine and did not move at all, which was very different from the horizontal and vertical tremors on his body. But listening to her breathing, it didn't seem to be very smooth, and secretly stretched out the back of his hand, and before he touched her forehead, he felt the hot heat. He thought about it, lifted the quilt on his body, and added it to Liu's body. Then he got into it himself, and Liu was wearing pajamas, and his body was hot.
Hou Jun rubbed his hands, put his body on Liu's back, the two of them leaned against each other, he passed one arm under Liu's neck, and then put his arms together and held Liu's in his arms, Liu just snorted lightly, and leaned into his arms. This time he was no longer trembling, his heart was clear and unfazed. In the dream, both his father and his younger brother appeared, and he noticed that his father was no longer as tired of him as before, and the hatred for his father that had accumulated in his heart for more than ten years also disappeared little by little in his calm breathing.
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