One master and two servants returned to the inn where they stayed, but they were stunned all of a sudden.

Their luggage was piled up at the gate, and they were swept away.

The guard Cao Biao was furious, turned over and dismounted, and rushed to the door of the inn. Holding his hand on the hilt of the knife, he stared viciously at the innkeeper and a few juniors who were standing at the door, trembling.

"What do you want to do?"

The boss's voice was crying: "Guest officer, small shop, small shop can't accommodate three people, please stay elsewhere." ”

With a choking sound, Cao Biao's knife was already half pulled out.

"Boss, did we miss your money?" Behind Cao Biao, Cao Zhang's questioning voice came.

"Not bad, not bad!" The boss shook his head repeatedly.

"In that case, why did you drive us away?" Cao Zhang asked softly.

"Cao Langjun, I, I really don't dare to stay with you anymore, please have mercy on me and go elsewhere!" The boss's legs were weak, and he actually knelt on the ground, and as the boss knelt down, several juniors behind him also knelt down.

"What is this for?" Cao Zhang was taken aback.

"Cao Langjun, if you don't leave, my inn won't be able to open, my family, and these boys, all point to this inn to make money to support their families!" The boss kowtowed repeatedly.

Cao Zhangleng was stunned for a long time, seemed to understand something, shook his head, and said: "Boss, it's late tonight, please let us stay overnight today, tomorrow morning, we'll leave, okay?" ”

The boss didn't speak, just kowtowed, only a few times, and the snow in front of him was knocked out of a big nest, revealing the ice below, he still knocked continuously, and there was a faint blood stain on the snow.

"That's it, let's go." Cao Zhang was helpless and waved his hand, and Cao Biao and Cao Bao behind him stepped forward hatefully, lifted their luggage, and buckled them on the horse's back.

Seeing the backs of the three of them in the distance, the innkeeper gratefully kowtowed a few more times, and then hurriedly returned to the store and closed the door tightly.

"Childe!" Cao Biao said.

"I know what you're going to say." Cao Zhang said: "Of course someone threatened them. ”

"I know, it's just Childe, I'm thinking, since I can threaten this family, I'm only afraid of other inns?" Cao Biao said.

"Try it!" Cao Zhang tightened his cloak and frowned.

As Cao Biao expected, in the middle of the night, in the cold wind, they walked through more than a dozen inns in Fenyin City, and none of them were willing to stay with them.

Standing in the darkness of the night, the cold wind unscrupulously drilled inward from all the places where they could burrow, and the snowflakes in the sky turned into snow seeds, and the icy drizzle made their bodies even cooler in the sound of the rattle.

"Childe, go to the official office!" Cao Biao said: "They don't dare to refuse your son." ”

"They dare!" Cao Zhang suddenly sneered: "What don't they dare. But if you want to force me to leave in this way, I really won't go. ”

"Childe, where are we going now?" Cao Bao asked.

"Just go find a sheltered place." Cao Zhang said.

The three of them went all the way to the south of the city, surrounded the three war horses, unsaddled the saddle, let Cao Zhang sit on it, and turned out a blanket from the luggage, wrapped Cao Zhang, and then together with Cao Bao, found some dead branches and wooden planks or something piled together, shook the fire, and finally lit it, the three masters and servants sat together in the cold wind, and used the weak temperature of the fire to compete with the cold wind.

With a rooster crow, Cao Zhang woke up excitedly, the whole person seemed to be frozen, and the sound of bones rubbing could be heard as soon as he moved, and the whole person seemed to fall into an ice cellar.

Cao Biao and Cao Bao also woke up at the same time, the bodies of these two people were much better than Cao Zhang, they jumped up, the two of them moved together, kneading for Cao Zhang, and after a while, Cao Zhang felt a little more comfortable and stood up on the support of the two.

"I only know today what it feels like to be homeless in the cold winter!" Cao Zhang kept stomping his feet, swallowing off the ice ballast on the sole of his shoes, and sighed.

Cao Biao and Cao Bao quickly put the horse back on the saddle and said, "Son, go find a breakfast shop first and drink some hot soup to warm your stomach." ”

"Let's go!" Cao Zhang didn't get on the horse, but led the horse and walked forward along the street.

The sky is getting brighter, and the streets are gradually becoming lively, more and more pedestrians appear on the streets, everyone sees Cao Zhang, the three of them are like seeing ghosts, they have avoided both sides, and the three of them walk on the street, straight like a flood beast.

This situation made Cao Zhang more and more angry.

On one side of the street, a cart was pushing and selling steaming cooking cakes along the street, Cao Biao was overjoyed when he saw this, strode forward, took out a handful of copper coins from his arms, and said; "Old man, come to the door for a cookcake, is there any hot soup?"

The old man who sold cooking cakes looked at Cao Biao directly, and then looked at Cao Zhang and Cao Bao behind him, and suddenly let out an exclamation, bowed, turned around and pulled the car away.

Cao Biao's hand holding the copper coin was still stretched out in the air, and the people watched with amazement as the old man disappeared around the corner of the street at a speed inappropriate for his age.

The three of them continued on their way.

A woman sells soup cakes at a small stall.

Seeing the three of them coming, the people who were still sitting on the small stool and eating soup cakes were scattered in an instant. Seeing Cao Biao striding over, the woman actually knelt on the ground with a pop and kowtowed again and again.

This situation made Cao Zhang sigh, led the horse, and continued to walk forward silently.

Everywhere the three of them went, the shops closed one after another, and some of the little two, who were still shouting outside, immediately turned around and slipped into the store, running faster than a mouse.

With the sound of the door panel being reinstalled, Cao Zhang's fists clenched tighter and tighter, and his face turned red.

"Childe, what should I do?" Cao Biao returned to Cao Zhang's side dejectedly.

"Sect thief! Sure enough, they are all thieves! Cao Zhang jumped out from between his teeth word by word: "Li Xiang is right, if these people are not removed, how can this world be good?" How can this people live a life of good health? ”

"Childe, they deserve to die, but we don't have a place to live now, and we don't have anyone to sell food, what should we do?" Cao Biao said.

"Childe, or let's go back to Taiyuan City. Where, it can't be like here, right? Cao Bao said.

"Go, go, I'm throwing in the towel." Cao Zhang said angrily: "I won't go, I must not go like this." Xue Jun inevitably underestimated me too much, so could he make me succumb? My father said that in his early years, when he followed King Li Jun to fight the world, he climbed the ice and snow, and suffered all kinds of hardships, and now I can also experience such a taste. Cao Biao, you go out of the city to find food, no matter what it is, as long as you can eat. Cao Bao, you go to the city to find out if there are any abandoned houses and abandoned gardens. ”

"Childe, it's okay for us to suffer a little, but this, how can you get by on such a day?" Cao Biao persuaded: "A gentleman takes revenge, ten years is not too late, there is always a time to settle accounts with them, why care about the momentary anger?" ”

"As long as I'm still in Fenyin, I haven't lost, and if I leave, I'll give up all my efforts." Cao Zhang's strength was attacked, "If I don't leave, I will stay in this Fenyin City, he Xue has the ability, so he will kill me." ”

Cao Biao and Cao Bao are people who have followed Cao Zhang for many years, but they also know the virtue of this little master, and when they see Cao Zhang's current appearance, they don't say anything more, one gets on the horse and gallops out of the city, and the other goes to the city to find a place to settle down.

Cao Zhang didn't wander around anymore, anyway, no matter where he went, he would close the door and close the door, he simply led the horse to the yamen of Fenyin County, but he didn't enter the yamen, just leaned on the horse-tethered stake at the door, and looked coldly at the two officials guarding the door.

The gate of the county government is always closed.

"Hedong, it's not the Hedong of the imperial court!" Cao Zhang sighed.

Or in the eyes of Han Qi and others, Hedong is naturally the Hedong of the imperial court, but it is by no means Li Ze's Hedong.

Unlike other places, Li Ze can use force to subdue, and if he is not convinced, he will use a knife to speak, but in Hedong, this is not possible, because now they are nominally under the banner of the imperial court, and above the surface, they can't see any disobedience. In addition to not implementing Li Ze's most basic land policy, Li Ze really couldn't find anything else wrong.

They also paid taxes to the court, and although the number was smaller, they did pay.

The policy of the imperial court also said on the surface that it would be implemented, but when and how it would be implemented was not followed.

And Li Ze was indeed powerless for Hedong for a while. Unless he and Han Qi and Li Cunzhong completely turn their faces, but that is obviously not in line with the overall interests, and it will be very harmful to the overall situation.

"How is that boy and brother Cao Zhang?" In the warm room, Xue Jun slowly shook the warm wine, and asked the other person in the hall with a smile.

"The head of the family, Cao Zhang is really a donkey, not only did he not leave, but he even let one of his subordinates go out of the city to hunt, and the other found an abandoned house in the city, and actually lived in it."

Xue Jun was stunned, and then sneered again: "Find an opportunity, when they are not there, set the abandoned house on fire." ”

"Yes!"

"Where else is there such a place in the city, I will go and raze it."

"Yes!"

"Also, the guy who went out of the city, sent someone to beat him, and whatever food he found, he robbed it all."

"Master, this, isn't it right?"

"Out of the city, who didn't? What does it have to do with us? There are thieves in Hedong, and the suppression of thieves is also a matter of the government and the garrison, so he can go and complain to General Li Cunzhong! Xue Jun sneered. Just don't break people. ”

"Understood."

"Tough donkey? I'd like to see how long you can fight? Xue Jun drank all the wine in the cup.