As he spoke, the young man stabbed at Tai Shi Ci, but fortunately Tai Shi Ci reacted quickly, dodged the tip of the spear, and grabbed the shaft of the spear.

The young man pulled violently, Tai Shici let go, and the young man suddenly fell on his ass.

Liu Ping stepped forward and arched his hand: "This big brother, you misunderstood, we are from Yanzhou, not thieves." ”

The young man sat on the ground and looked at the three of them carefully, and saw that they did not look like thieves in appearance and dress.

He stood up, patted the dust on his body, and said angrily, "Then what are you doing kicking the door of my house?" ”

Liu Ping glared at Tai Shici, and smiled dryly at the young man: "It's us Meng Lang, let this guy fix the gate of your house in a while."

We are here from Yanzhou to collect medicine, can we borrow your firewood house for a night, and we will be rewarded when we leave. ”

Liu Ping didn't want to make a noise, so he acted very well.

The young man looked at him politely, and then looked at the three people, one was polite and polite, like a rich young master, one was like a bookkeeper, and the other was a thug.

"You can live in the firewood house if you want, and you don't need any reward, but I can tell you in advance that there have been bandits here recently, so you better get out of here quickly."

"Bandits?" Tai Shi Ci hadn't been happy for a long time, and when he heard that there were bandits, he suddenly became interested: "I'm the one who specializes in killing bandits, how many people are there?" The bandit can't help but fight? ”

"I've never seen you talk so much," the young man said, "The biggest bandit here is more than 100 people, led by Zhou Cang, whose arms are infinitely strong and can tear people alive."

He also has a general named Pei Yuanshao, who is also an outstanding martial artist, and no one dares to provoke him. ”

The young man said and glanced at Tai Shici: "A thug like you will bully and bully us ordinary people, if you really want to meet King Pei Dawang that week, you can run faster than anyone else." ”

Zhang Liao held back a smile in the back, raised his thumb and said, "Well, you see that people are quite accurate, he is such a person." ”

Tai Shi rolled up his sleeves angrily and said angrily: "That's right! ”

Liu Ping waved his hand at the two of them, signaling them to stop making trouble, and said to the young man: "When we were in Yanzhou, we heard that now Dongguan County is eating relief, and the bandits are still coming to rob it?" ”

The young man gritted his teeth and said: "If you don't say that the bandits have lost their conscience, now the relief food distributed by every family is used to save lives, and they also come to rob it, rob women if they have no food and money, and several villages around it have been robbed by them, and now it is probably our turn to Yueshan Village." ”

Zhou Cang and Pei Yuanshao were both generals of the Yellow Turban Army, and after the failure of the Yellow Turban Uprising, they led more than 100 troops to fall into the grass.

They don't have any military discipline at all, so they don't care what kind of relief food they don't have, they grab it first to support themselves, and of course they will take the sheep when they meet a rather beautiful woman.

Liu Ping arched his hand at the young man and said, "I have been taught, and I will live in your firewood room tonight." ”

He came to the iron ore mine, and the bandits led by Zhou Cang didn't pay attention to it.

If the bandits don't come, after he returns, he will suggest that Xiahou Yuan send troops to clear them.

If the bandits come, Tai Shici and Zhang Liao can beat Zhou Cang, as for Pei Yuanshao's level, to put it mildly, these two can really beat ten.

After resting, they were ready to cook.

None of them had ever done it, and in the end, Tai Shici clumsily washed the rice and boiled it in the pot casually.

It's really a bit difficult for him to let his hands that specialize in killing people cook.

"This pot stove is not easy to use, otherwise I can cook a good porridge with excellent aromas," Tai Shici forcibly made a reason for himself.

"Okay, don't brag, it's good to be cooked," Liu Ping looked at the pot and didn't have much appetite.

He regretted it a little, he knew that he would have brought a concubine, so that he would not lose his stomach.

Although the cooking technology of this era is far inferior to that of later generations, in his previous capacity, pure natural vegetables and wild meat were enough, and he was not wronged much.

Although Liu Ping didn't want to eat it, the smell of the rice attracted the young man.

Although the staple food of this era is still dominated by grains, there are also high and low grains.

The most delicious staple food is rice, but ordinary people are not blessed.

The staple food of the toiling masses is wheat, the lowest of the five grains.

The reason for its low price is that the wheat is good and the yield is high, which is suitable for planting in the north.

Second, at this time, the wheat, as the ration of ordinary people, was steamed in a pot together with the shell, skin, and wheat bran, and made into "wheat rice", which naturally tasted very poor.

The young man could not imagine that he could smell the smell of rice in his own home, so he followed it and found it.

He was followed by a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl, who was very pretty, and did not look like an ordinary peasant girl.

"This is rice you are eating?" The young man asked, leaning at the door frame.

"Would you like a bowl?" Liu Ping saw that the two of them had been licking his lips and knew that he was hungry.

Even if Yanzhou distributes relief food to Dongguan County, it cannot guarantee that everyone can eat enough, and it is good to be half-full.

It is even more unlikely that rice will be sent.

Knowing that they are hungry, he still boils rice at his house, which seems to be immoral.

"This ......" The young man hesitated, as if he was embarrassed.

Tai Shi Cisai gave him a porcelain bowl and said, "Serve it yourself." ”

The young man didn't expect them to be so generous, so he immediately expressed his gratitude, and served a bowl for the little girl to drink first, and then another bowl for himself.

After eating the soft mouths of others, the young people began to talk together.

It turned out that his name was Yang Xing, and he had an old mother and a widowed sister with a niece at home.

His brother-in-law used to be a minor official in Dongguan County, but he was killed by the rebels two years ago, and his sister couldn't stay at her mother-in-law's house, so she could only take her daughter back to her parents' house to live.

His niece, the little girl next to her, has been better educated since she was a child.

Now she is slim and versatile, and she is a well-known handsome girl in these four miles and eight towns.

In this troubled world, it is not a good thing for women to have this kind of reputation, either by the powerful or by the gangsters.

Of course, it's better to be targeted by the powerful, but it will be troublesome if you are worried about the bad guys.

Yang Xing was the only man in his family, and the bandits had been so rampant recently, he felt that the bandits would definitely have heard of his niece's reputation, so he was so nervous at first.

At the mention of this, the little girl trembled with fear, as if she could foresee the bandits coming to rob her.

"In this world, it's just a lack of livelihood," Zhang Liao drank a big mouthful of porridge with hatred.

After all, he was a person who had been the Taishou of the Northland, and he was indignant at the current situation of the people.

Although Tai Shici was very arrogant, he was quite chivalrous, and said to the little girl with a smile: "Don't worry, with our brothers here, the king of heaven and Lao Tzu will not snatch you away when he comes." ”

The little girl smiled miserably, took out a pair of scissors from her arms and raised them: "No one can snatch me away." ”

It seems that she has been prepared for a long time, even if she commits suicide, she cannot be robbed by the bandits.

Yang Xing sighed and said: "Your kindness and I have received it, this is the life of our family, and when the time comes, I will fight with the bandits, you don't need to take your life." ”