Chapter 15: Brother? Sister?
Before looking for people, you must first occupy a territory, and Python Village is the boundary that Huo Wu is optimistic about.
The name of the python head village is python head, and it is not on the edge of the black python mountain, but in the depths of the black python mountain. The mountain where it is located looks like an entrenched python probe from a distance, so it is named Python Mountain.
This walk is another half a day's work, and it will be dusk before arriving at the foot of Python Mountain.
Huo Wu didn't delay any longer, and drove the mule cart up the mountain directly.
Halfway up the mountain, there are two outposts made of bamboo towers.
There was a whistle on it that came out, and looked at the two mule carts angrily: "Why are you here again?" Our eldest said, don't think about beautiful things, our eldest lady will recruit a son-in-law at the end of the month, and she will not marry! β
Huo Wu raised his head and said, "Niece Ma is going to call her son-in-law?" Then my uncle, I was just in time, just in time to give a dowry. The little brother went to pass a word, and said that Huo Lao Wu was here! β
"You weren't sent by Python King's Village?"
"What is Python King Village? I haven't heard of it, and I'm not qualified to let Lao Tzu run errands! β
The whistle was half-convinced, but he did not dare to make up his mind, and told people to trot into the stockade to spread the word.
After two quarters of an hour, I heard the sound of footsteps "stamping", from far and near.
"Fifth brother, is the fifth brother here?" With a loud voice, a tall and burly man walked quickly.
"Sixth!" Huo Wu also had joy on his face and greeted him.
"Hahaha! What a fifth brother! What a fifth brother! β
Old friends reunited after a long absence, and laughed.
Huo Bao and the others had already gotten out of the carriage and waited by Huo Wu's side.
When the man saw a few small ones, he grinned more and more, and his eyes stopped for a while on Huo Bao and Niu Qing, who were good-looking.
"Fifth brother, who are these little brothers?"
Huo Wuyi introduced.
When he heard that Huo Bao was only thirteen years old, the man showed a little regret in his eyes, and asked a few more words to his cheap cousin Niu Qing.
But the closest one is still Huo Bao.
It doesn't seem to be fake, but it seems that Huo Bao is really treated as a nephew.
Huo Bao couldn't help but wonder in his heart, looking at the appearance of these old brothers, it didn't look like face.
But my dad came up the mountain to grab the land, which doesn't seem to be kind.
The group went up to the stockade on the top of the mountain, the villagers had been opened, and a long-faced young man took people to wait at the gate of the village.
After seeing Huo Wu, the long-faced young man greeted him: "Fifth uncle! β
"Huh?! Is this a foal? It was so high back then, and it's so big! Remember your fifth uncle? β
"I brought a lot of five uncles back then, why don't you remember?" This person didn't see it, and directly helped Huo Wu's arm, revealing a little closeness.
"I heard that you want to recruit a son-in-law, okay, it's time for our little foal to go out, and the fifth uncle will add makeup to you!"
Huo Baoyuan listened carefully to the young man's words, wanting to see if the father and son of the owner of the village were really close to his father, but he was startled when he heard this.
This is not the son of the owner of the village, but the "eldest lady" in the village?
Big tall, big long face, and that ...... Flat chest, duck voice, and I don't know if it's a big name or a small name, where does it look like a woman?
When it comes to family affairs, this foal is not shy, and said happily: "It just so happens that the fifth uncle came over, and he palmed his eyes well, my father is lame, and he loves the little white face!" β
"Don't we just want a handsome little grandson!" The owner of the horse village muttered and pulled Huo Bao: "Look at the little treasure of your fifth uncle's family, how good it looks, it makes people happy when they see it!" β
Ma Juzi glanced at Huo Bao and was a little uneasy: "Fifth uncle, this is biological, not brought by the uncle?" Fourteen, five, right? The age is not right! β
"What are you talking about?! This is the only son of your fifth uncle, only thirteen! The owner of the horse village slapped the back of his daughter's head and scolded with a smile.
Ma Zizi patted Huo Bao's shoulder and said, "That's really my brother!" In the future, you have to practice hard with me, and you can't be as thin as a chick! β
Huo Bao smiled and didn't answer.
This foal has a lot of strength, and I am afraid that it will not be able to stand on its feet.
Is this "dismounting"? Or is it really close?
Ma Zizi blinked his eyes and said with a smile: "My brother smiled, this is looking at me and kissing me!" β
Whether it was greetings or intimacy, everyone entered the stockade.
It is said to be a cottage, similar to the village. They are all stone houses one by one, and the difference from ordinary villages is that there is no courtyard wall, only there is a uniform half-high wall outside the wall.
There is no need to count them, just look at the appearance of the edge, you can see that there are really many stone houses, but some of them are desolate and uninhabited, and there do not seem to be many houses that live there.
In the middle of the village, there is a big house on a stone foundation, which is the Juyi Hall.
In addition to the two masters of the horse village, there are four leaders in the village, all of whom are the little brothers of the owner of the horse village in his early years.
Huo Wuda sat on the head of the master of the horse village, looked at a few heads, and also smiled on his face: "You bastard boys, now you also have a look!" β
"Fifth Master!"
"The fifth master is here!"
"It's the fifth master!"
The closeness of the Ma family's father and daughter, and the respect of the leaders do not seem to be fake, and Huo Bao is secretly surprised.
Several bosses have begun to sue Huo Wu.
"The fifth master, the eighth master is not kind, he committed something in the south, was wanted by the government, and went into the mountains to defect to the sixth master. Our sixth master kindly kept him for ten years, and let him be the second master, he kidnapped half of the people to start a new stove, and our sixth master didn't care about him, and now he is starting to worry about our industry again! β
"Yes, I also kidnapped Lin Junshi!"
"The old thing surnamed Lin is not a good bird either! If it weren't for our sixth master, their grandfather and grandson would have died a long time ago! Good food and good food are offered, and the little cub is like his own child, but he has raised his sin! β
"The eighth master is also yin, and he still has the face to talk to the little cub of the Lin family and the relatives of the young master! What a big face! β
After listening to it for a while, Huo Bao understood the cause and effect.
The military division of Nalin is the military division before the python village, and there is a grandson who is the child son-in-law of the owner of the horse village; "Eighth Master" is an old friend of the owner of the village, and later defected to become the second master of the village.
Three years ago, the "Eighth Master" abducted Lin Jun's grandson and most of the population of Python Village to start a new stove, that is, the Python King Village mentioned by the previous whistle, and also expanded and annexed the territory, and now he wants to take advantage of the marriage contract between the Lin family boy and the foal to annex the Python Village.
The owner of the horse village refused to marry his daughter, so he announced that he wanted to recruit a son-in-law.
"Old Five", "Old Six", "Old Eight"?
This sounds like a ranking, is it all based on the rankings of each family, or is there a total ranking?
Huo Bao thought of this inexplicably, if it is really the general ranking, where did the top four go? What about the seventh? Is there a Lao Jiu?
Huo Xiaoba went to see his father, Huo Wu had already frowned and said, "The old man is naΓ―ve, when will he play such a hearty eye?" Was it the old guy surnamed Lin who picked it up? β
"It's not surnamed Lin, it's the seventh one behind!" The owner of the horse village said in a sullen voice: "I knew earlier that the eighth had hooked up with people outside, and the money and food were not worried, and I don't know where to attract a lot of young people, but I don't know what the way is, I got the news a few days ago, the python king village has a 'distinguished guest', the eighth is called 'seventh brother', and he also pulls and pulls to let the boss be the position, who else can there be besides the seventh?" This black python mountain is broken, but it is the boundary of our brother's pension, it is nothing if the eighth child wants to toss, and it is not a big deal to want the two families to be one, and he should not talk about his foal, there is no such thing as an uncle! β
"I thought it was a big Buddha who was making the wind and rain, it turned out to be Xue Biao's kid! That kid has a black heart, a few days ago he was raided Jinling's lair, but he didn't expect to hide here, it seems that he has long been thinking about the territory of Black Python Mountain! Huo Wu said, with a little anger: "Send someone to send a letter over, just say that I, Huo Lao Wu, are here, and invite him to eat and drink!" I want to see how bold he is! β
The whole Python Village was Huo Wu who wanted to open his eyes for himself, and his face was full of gratitude.
Huo Bao saw that his father was really annoyed.
This is the territory that Daddy looks at, and someone has targeted it first, so it's no wonder if it's not annoying.
*
Twenty miles away, Python King Village.
A team of mule carts boarded the car, each loaded with grain, followed by a few young men. Some have solemn faces, others are fearful and hesitant.
As the cottage door opened, two young men who followed the car stopped and made a fuss.
"This is not Changzhou? Where the hell is this? β
"The proprietor's gangster!"
"Hulala" came out with a dozen men with big knives, and directly surrounded the mule carts. The two young men who made trouble before were directly dragged out and beaten up on their heads and faces.
Silent.
The convoy was then pulled into the stockade.
In the village, on a dirt slope, Du Laoba looked at the grain on the mule cart and touched his belly: "it, the brothers can eat it openly!" β
An elegant old man next to him twitched the corners of his mouth, touched his beard and did not speak.
On the other side, the Jinyi man looked at the dense houses in the village and smiled: "If the food is enough, the manpower will increase, and this place will become more and more insufficient." It's not an outsider, it's better to discuss with the sixth brother earlier, and the two families cooperate with one family, which is a cheap thing for two sides......"