Nothing was said all night.

The next day, everyone got up early, cooked on the stove, and made three pots full of thick porridge.

In addition to Huo Wu and Shi with a pot, Niu Dalang also carried a pot on his back, but it was useless yesterday.

The three sons of the stone and the tiger and leopard brothers and the Niu family are either young and strong, or they are teenagers who can eat, compared with last night's gruel, and then eat today's thick porridge, they are all extremely satisfied.

It's Niuniu and Little Stool, two children, who have been hungry all night, and they don't need to be coaxed and persuaded by anyone, so they can't raise their heads when they eat.

Uncle Huo and Aunt Huo Liu, seeing that everyone was eating happily, their appetites improved a lot, and they drank half a bowl of porridge.

Huo Wu, Huo Bao and his son, not to mention, unceremoniously occupied a pot of porridge alone.

Sleep well and eat well.

has a destination again, and everyone in Nanshan Village does not see the sadness of yesterday, and they all look good in spirit.

Jia Yuan was surprised by Huo Bao's amount of food, and also paid attention to everyone, and felt more and more that his guess was right, this Huo family had the support to move south, but it was orderly and not embarrassed.

Before leaving, Huo Wu instructed Huo Bao and Niu Qing to explore the road first.

"They are all smarter, they hide when there are more people, and they talk less clichés; When you meet someone who dares to do it, don't shrink back, people who lose Lao Tzu! ”

The two of them answered.

The rest of the crowd packed up their things and set off.

Huo Baoqiang took the first step to put his own pot on his back, refusing to let his father suffer. Dad didn't cough last night, but in the end, he was recovering from a serious illness and was walking again.

In the eyes of others, he only regarded his son as filial piety, and he was reluctant to carry a dozen pounds of iron pot on his father's back.

Huo Wu knew that his son was still carrying seventy-two catties of purple gold on his back, which was the rations of the father and son, and the ten catties of millet were also carried on his son's back.

The son has filial piety, but the father also feels sorry for his son.

It's just that without waiting for Huo Wu to say anything, Huo Bao has already taken the first step.

The two teenagers of the Jia family, Niu Niu, and the little stool also followed behind with small tails.

"Brother Huo eats so much, when will I be able to eat like this!" Jia Daishan's eyes were full of adoration.

Huo Bao took a look, has anyone envied the rice bucket these years?

"I wanted to learn archery from Uncle Shi, but Uncle Shi thought I was weak and said that he would teach me when I could eat three bowls of rice in one meal."

Jia Daishan was not idle, and Baba's general said the reason.

"Learn archery, won't your father send you to school?"

"I sent it, but I picked up the book and my head hurt, I haven't recognized the whole word for two years, my father said that I was a follower! Hee-hee, my uncle said that my father was stupid when he was a child! ”

"Second brother, what are you talking about!" Jia Shanhua saw that his cousin was getting more and more unlooking, and when he talked about the elders, he was busy drinking.

Jia Daishan stuck out his tongue, and said with a little pride: "My eldest brother is a good student, one of the best in the family studies, and he passed the children's examination last year, if there is a college examination last year, my eldest brother will be a showman!"

"Second brother!" Jia Daihua is obviously an honest child, and he can't stand his cousin's praise, and his little face is red.

Huo Bao looked at Jia Daihua and praised sincerely: "It seems that Brother Daihua's knowledge is solid, otherwise the respected teacher will not allow you to end." At the age of twelve, he passed the county examination and the government examination, and if he was in the north, he would be a prodigy who attracted attention; It is Jinling, a prosperous and wealthy place with a prosperous literary style, and it is not bad to think about it. ”

"I don't deserve Brother Huo's praise, it's just luck, when does Brother Huo plan to end up?"

"I had no intention of starting a career, and after two years of random reading, I threw it away."

“……”

Jia Daihua was embarrassed and didn't know how to answer for a while.

Last night, the children of the Huo family all practiced martial arts, only this Si Swenwen sat on the side and did not move, and he talked like this, and he also knew how to take the imperial examination.

"Brother Huo doesn't like to read either, it's really good, do you want to learn archery from Uncle Shi? Uncle Shi can pull a stone bow, and then we will be brothers! Jia Daishan's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he came over.

"Uncle Bao is a wrestler, and he can pull two stone bows in the future!" Niuniu felt that Uncle Xiaobao was underestimated, and couldn't help but speak.

"Haha, do you know what a wrestler is? It's not a lot of strength or a wrestler, you have to have the power of a bull to be called a wrestler, and the power of a bull is 500 catties! In the barracks, Lux started as a tun chief! ”

"Uncle Bao is a wrestler, I saw it, Uncle Bao like Uncle Niu Qing lifted it up and threw it away!" Niu Niu said loudly.

She also saw Uncle Bao slap those bad guys down with a quick turn to kill the pig, but the sixth aunt had already quietly instructed her not to talk about those bad guys in front of others.

"Brother Huo is so powerful?! Uncle Shi is right, the amount of food is strong, and the amount of food is big. Does that tiger also have the strength to take a handle, look at him and eat three bowls in the morning! ”

"Well, it's not just the tiger, the stone is not small."

"Your family is really powerful, so much strength!"

"My father told my second uncle that the grandfather of the Huo family is a wrestler and can shoot a two-stone bow...... The children and grandchildren of the Huo family followed Mrs. Huo, and they all had the strength to do it, and it was useless for others to envy them! The little stool didn't interject for a long time, and couldn't help but learn his tongue: "I also said that Uncle Xiaobao is not a human ......"

Well?

Everyone looked at the small stool in unison.

Niuniu couldn't help but pout: "Uncle Niu said bad things about Uncle Bao, bad!" ”

"My dad didn't say anything bad about Uncle Xiaobao! My father said that Uncle Xiaobao is a star, reincarnated into your Huo family, and said that your Huo family's ancestral grave is smoking! ”

Childish words, people can't help but laugh when they hear it, but no one takes it to heart.

After walking for five or six miles, the two small ones couldn't walk, so Huo Bao stopped and waited for the people behind to follow.

At this moment, the two of them hurriedly turned back, and their faces were not good-looking.

"You can't take the official road anymore, the officers and soldiers are setting up cards in front of them and looting money!"

"I heard that someone in Quyang County opened the city gate last night and greeted the white-shirted army, and the people in Quyang County ran out, and those officers and soldiers seemed to be stopping those who went out of the city, all of them were carried and stayed, and they had to collect additional road money, and many people even stripped their shirts; For those who enter the city, they have also searched for it, and they also need the passage money, but it doesn't look so ruthless. ”

"How many people does Luka have?" Huo Wu asked.

"Not much, we counted from afar, there were only a dozen, but they all brought knives, and no one dared not give them." Huo Bao replied.

Yesterday, the people in Nanshan Village had just personally learned about the brutality of officers and soldiers, and they were all carrying the matter of "killing officers and soldiers" on their backs.

Jia Yuan's eyes moved slightly, and he didn't raise any objections.

So they got off the official road and went south along the forest path.

Huo Bao and Niu Qing led the way, and among the others, Huo Wu and Huo Bao and his son postponed.

"Do you hear anything?" Huo Wu asked his son in a low voice.

"The roadblocks are not like those set up by officers and soldiers, most of them are set up by white-shirted soldiers and soldiers, for money, and also to be a 'lesson from the past', to intimidate people who have not left the city not to go out of the city."

"Your father and I have been traveling south and north for more than ten years, and I have seen a lot of demons and monsters, so I have this bit of knowledge, Xiaobao's eyesight is no worse than your father and me. Our old Huo family, I'm afraid it's not really the ancestral tomb that is smoking! ”

"Second Uncle Jia...... I should have heard that. ”

The three members of the Jia family are innocent gentry children, they hid from the white-shirted army last night, and when they encountered an official card, they could give up some tolls and go straight on the avenue, but Jia Yuan chose to detour with everyone.

"Jia Er is an understanding person, I passed by Jinling in my early years, and heard that there is a big local Jia family, with 10,000 acres of fertile land at home, and there are several officials. I just don't know if Jia Er and the Jia family are of the same clan or the same surname. ”

"When they are of the same clan, the two younger ones are studying in the clan."

"The eldest grandson of the long house has set a merchant girl, and there is no one to go out, and it is estimated that it is a distant branch that cannot be touched."

Although this path is remote, it has not been a few miles before an accident occurs.

From afar, Huo Bao heard someone shouting in front of him: "Robbery!" ”

The father and son glanced at each other and hurriedly ran forward.

The children's arm-thick saplings were used as barricades, and six or seven people in tattered clothes, with yellow faces and thin muscles, holding hoes, kitchen knives, and sticks as weapons, all looked like hell.

The path was crooked, and these people shouted at Huo Bao and Niu Qing who led the way, but they didn't expect a bunch of people to follow out behind them.

These people were so frightened that they shrank their heads, and they were trembling when they held kitchen knives, and they didn't tremble again when they saw that the old people and children accounted for half of them.

"Boss, they have iron pots!"

"Two iron pots!"

"Three, that kid is also carrying it."

These people were emboldened by the iron pot and bluffed.

"Robbery, leave the iron pot quickly, no, keep two mouthfuls!" The kid with the kitchen knife was the one who shouted robbery just now, wielding the kitchen knife to make a threatening gesture.

Just these few dishes, everyone can't cry or laugh, they are just two small ones, and they only have curiosity on their faces, not fear.

Everyone in Nanshan Village looked at Huo Wu.

"Da Lang, the stone, you six go up and try."

Everyone didn't even get on the luggage they were carrying, so they rushed up.

Niu Dalang was the oldest, and the Yanling knife he was wrapped around was like a stick, and he went directly to the kid with the kitchen knife.

The kid was so frightened that he took a few steps back, but he was still caught up, and he was stunned with a stick.

Except for Niu Erlang, the others have all killed people yesterday, and everyone has been killed, so beating people is naturally a piece of cake.

There is no discipline, just strength and the momentum of the tiger out of the cage, it is an overwhelming victory.

In a few moments, several new robbers were lying on the ground

"Ouch, ouch......"

"Woo ......"

"How do you beat people?"

It's not like a robbery, it's like being robbed.

Huo Wu stepped forward to pick up the kitchen knife of the leader and patted it in the palm of his hand: "Which village?" ”

"Tian ...... The ...... of Tianjiazhuang"

"Lingshui County, why did you come to Quyang?"

"The county magistrate knew that the Buddhist soldiers were going to fight Lingshui, and he was afraid that he would not be able to defend it, so he sent troops into the village, burned the house, regardless of men, women and children, and went to the city gate to make a meat wall, and a few of us were afraid of death, so we ran out, and we were in a hurry, carrying rations, not bringing a pot, and eating raw rice for four days......"

"The White Shirts occupied Lingshui three days ago."

"Huh?! Yes! Great, we can go home, we can go home! The man jumped three feet high.

"Huh! You were afraid of the whiteshirts just after making a meat wall, why aren't you afraid of it now? ”

"Afraid? The Buddhist soldiers did not hurt the people...... It is not the Buddhist soldiers who are afraid of the first, but they are afraid that the county soldiers will not be able to defeat the Buddhist soldiers, and they will use our heads to fill the number. ”

“……”

There is no way to want an iron pot, but Huo Wu also pointed out a clear way for these people.

"A few villages to the north are empty, if you want the iron pot, you can pry it yourself!"

"Hey, thank you, big brother, you're such a good person!" The boy rejoiced.

“……”