Zhou Fei is a native of Liaocheng, Bozhou, he killed Wang Deli, after escaping from Guantao County, he stole a horse in a mule and horse shop in the county, and galloped all the way to Bozhou, he knew very well that once Tian Xu learned that he had escaped, he would definitely send someone to Liaocheng's home to arrest his wife and children.

Two days later, he rushed to Liaocheng's house, fortunately, Tian Xu's people had not yet arrived, he immediately asked his wife to pack up her clothes, hire an ox cart, and leave his hometown with a pair of children overnight, and go straight to Beizhou.

"Husband, what happened?" On the ox cart, his wife Yang asked in shock.

"Tian Xu wants to kill me, my men are all dead, only I escaped." Zhou Fei sighed and said.

"What then?" His wife, Yang, was suddenly a little panicked.

Of course Zhou Fei will not go to Tian Yue to complain, he knows very well that he is killing himself, Tian Xu can find an excuse to frame himself for colluding with the Jin army, and he will die without a place to die, now the Wei State is still the world of the Tian family, and he can only survive if he escapes from the Wei State first.

"Let's go to Beizhou, cross the Yongji Canal and go to Qinghe County, which belongs to the Jin Kingdom, and we will be safe after crossing the river."

"But we don't have a house over there, we don't have land, how can we live?"

Zhou Fei groaned and said, "I still have a sum of money in my hand, which should be able to settle down the three of you, mother and son." ”

Zhou Fei still had an ingot of fifty taels of silver in his arms, which Tian Xu rewarded him and his subordinates with tea and wine money, and before he could distribute it to his subordinates, they had an accident in Guantao County.

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If you don't take a detour to Weizhou, it's not far from Bozhou to Beizhou, and it's a day's journey.

The reason why Zhou Fei wanted to cross the border from Beizhou was because he had come to Beizhou a month in advance to investigate the situation and find out the law of patrolling, he knew the situation here very well, and he knew how to go to Jin.

Before the Wei and Jin dynasties, they signed a transit agreement for business and study, and the two sides were not allowed to block businessmen who went to each other to do business, nor did they prevent scholars from going to each other to study, participate in imperial examinations, and so on.

But Tian Yue is also very aware of the attraction of the Jin Kingdom to ordinary people, the low tax burden and the low price of coarse cloth and salt grain, just with these two items, I don't know how many people want to go to the Jin Kingdom to live.

In order to prevent the loss of population, Tian Yue deployed a patrol of 20,000 people along the long border to stop the people who were smuggling to the Jin Kingdom.

The regular border crossing checkpoints are also closely checked, only merchants and scholars are allowed to cross the border, and other ordinary people are not allowed to cross the border, and women, children and the elderly are not allowed to cross the border.

But where there is demand, there is interest, and it is the strict control of the Wei army that makes many people see the way to make money.

At night, Zhou Fei found a man named Ma Qing in the village of Yonglin in the east of the canal, who was originally a fisherman on the Yongji canal, and after the Wei and Jin dynasties drew the border, he soon found a way to make money, and used his fishing boat to send the stowaways to the other side.

"Let's talk about it first, Wuguan Lao Qian Du is one person."

Ma Qing glanced at Zhou Fei's pair of children, the little lady was about five or six years old, and Xiaolang was about three years old, and said: "The two of them can be counted as one, a total of fifteen yuan, pay first and then leave." ”

Zhou Fei put a heavy package on the table, which was five yuan, and he put his wife on the table with a bead the size of a little finger.

Ma Qing nodded a little copper coin, and then checked the gold hairpin, "This seems to be less than one or two." ”

"A bead on it alone costs ten taels of silver." Zhou Fei said coldly.

Ma Qing grinned, "Brother, it's not that I'm black-hearted, thirty soldiers died not long ago, and now the investigation is very strict, we will kill the smugglers if we catch them, we are taking risks with our heads, and now we only dare to go out in the middle of the night, and the price will definitely rise." ”

"And now?"

Ma Qing put away the copper coins and gold hairpins, stretched out his hand and picked up the boat, "Let's go!" I'll send your family across the river. ”

The fishing boat was behind the house, and a small river led directly to the Yongji Canal, Zhou Fei asked his wife and daughter to sit in the boatshed, and he squatted on the bow of the boat with a horizontal knife in his hand, vigilantly watching the surrounding situation.

Ma Qing, a boatman, was experienced and knew the rules of the patrol well, so he crossed the estuary between the two patrols and sailed straight to the opposite bank.

The Yongji Canal is about fifty zhang wide, and the water is good and you can swim directly over, Ma Qing saw Zhou Fei squatting on the bow of the boat like a leopard, holding a horizontal knife in his hand, a pair of eyes with cold light flashing, murderous, and paying attention to the surrounding movements.

It seems that this person is ruthless, I don't know how many people he has killed, Ma Qing is secretly afraid in his heart, fortunately he didn't make it difficult for him, otherwise his life would not be saved today.

He quickened the speed of the row, and in less than a moment the fishing boat was on the opposite shore.

Zhou Fei carried the burden on his back, he and his wife held a child and went directly to the shore, Ma Qing did not dare to stay, and immediately sailed the fishing boat into the center of the river.

"Daddy, where are we going?" The daughter whispered by her arms around her father's neck.

Zhou Fei pointed to the outline of the city in the distance and smiled: "Let's go to that county seat!" ”

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After dawn, Zhou Fei took his family into Qinghe County, he first settled his wife and children in an inn, and then went to the cabinet to exchange change, and exchanged a big ingot of fifty taels of silver for forty taels of broken silver and ten copper coins.

He then rented a small courtyard in an alley, the rent in Qinghe County is very cheap, one acre of yard, five or six houses, a month is always money, Zhou Fei forgot, this is because of the old money is cheap, if it is a small money in the past, the rent of a month should be at least three times, in fact, it is not cheap.

He paid half a year's rent, and the family settled down.

Zhou Fei sat in the yard, watching his wife busy cooking, he was thinking about what he could do in the future?

He didn't want to join the army anymore, but he didn't have any other skills except for his excellent martial arts.

"Husband, the prices here are really cheap!"

His wife Yang said with a smile: "I went to buy rice just now, and the flour was only 30 wen a bucket, and I heard that a bucket of salt was only 140 wen, which is much cheaper than our Liaocheng." ”

"The price of salt and rice in the Jin Kingdom is officially controlled, and it has always been not expensive, so I came to the Jin Kingdom and did not go to the Central Plains, the prices in the Central Plains are scary, and they are more expensive than Liaocheng."

"Husband, if we really can't find something to do, let's go to the countryside and farm! I heard that the tenant rent of the official land here is only 30% of the harvest, and it is also tax-free. ”

"Your husband is a martial artist, how can he not find something to do?"

Zhou Fei smiled and comforted his wife, he suddenly remembered that when he exchanged silver, the cabinet shop seemed to be recruiting guards, hey! That's a good job.

After lunch, Zhou Fei came to the cabinet shop, he looked up at the sign, which said 'Baoju Cabinet Fang', and a piece of paper was pasted next to the door, which read: Gao Feng recruits guards.

Zhou Fei walked into the door of the cabinet, the guy still remembered him, and said with a smile: "Does this master still have big silver to exchange?" ”

Zhou Fei shook his head, "I saw a recruiting guard posted at the door, I want to try." ”

"This strong man is still literate?"

The shopkeeper walked out of the back room with a smile, he looked at Zhou Fei, and saw that he was burly and extremely majestic, so he nodded, "Let's go to the backyard to try martial arts, come with me!" ”

Zhou Fei followed the shopkeeper to the backyard, only to see that the backyard was quite large, and four guards dressed in black were sitting under the tree to rest, and they saw that the shopkeeper brought in a big black man, so they knew that they were here to recruit guards.

Four guards surrounded him, and the shopkeeper pointed to a stone lock and said to Zhou Fei: "Lift it up, walk to the opposite wall, and then walk back, the first level will be qualified." ”

Zhou Fei stepped forward to try the stone lock, only sixty catties, he simply grabbed the two stone locks, his arms struggled, and he actually lifted the two stone locks weighing sixty catties together, and everyone around was stunned.

Zhou Fei strode to the opposite wall, touched the wall with his feet, turned around and walked back, gently put down the stone lock, his face was not red, his heart was not beating, the shopkeeper was dumbfounded, and he gave a thumbs up and praised: "The first level is qualified!" ”

"You only need to beat any of the four of them in the second level, and you're fully qualified."

The four guards were all eager to try, Zhou Fei shook his head, "I never fight alone, the four of you can go together!" ”

The four guards were immediately enraged, and they came up with their wrists pinched, "Boy, it's too arrogant!" Since you want to fight in groups, then we will fulfill you. ”

They came to the middle of the courtyard, the four of them put on a posture and rushed up together, only to see Zhou Fei rushing up like a black panther, the speed was incomparably fast, and in the blink of an eye, the four guards were knocked to the ground by him, covering their arms and moaning in pain.

The shopkeeper was dumbfounded, and Zhou Fei stepped forward and asked, "May I ask the shopkeeper, is this okay?" ”

The shopkeeper woke up and hurriedly asked, "Are they injured?" ”

"I'm not hurt, I'm measured, just rest a little bit."

The four guards stood up in embarrassment, and one of them asked with a bitter face, "Shopkeeper, where did you find this leopard, it's terrifying!" ”

The shopkeeper was overjoyed, he finally recruited a powerful guy, and he was literate, and literate samurai were simply rare.

He happily said to Zhou Fei: "You are qualified, from today onwards, you will be their leader, and your monthly salary will be ten yuan, and if you go out to guard, your monthly salary will be doubled." ”

Zhou Fei also breathed a long sigh of relief in his heart, ten times the money he used to have, and it was still old money, and he could finally support his family by his own ability.

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