Chapter 46: Troubles
(Pig's feet can't be beaten like this all the time, you always have to take a breath and lay the foundation, even if it's a donkey, you have to take a breath, don't you!) So don't worry, big guys, when it's time to fight, it's inevitable! )
Fan Yutong slowly paced in the back village of the lotus village, walked to a cliff and looked around, although the snow has stopped, but the mountains and forests near and far are shrouded in a layer of plain white, although the air is cold but it is also very fresh, standing here to enjoy the snow is a good enjoyment, and standing behind him are two healthy women in the Xingtian Army, one is to monitor her movements, not to let her escape again, and the other is ordered by Xiao Tianjian to take care of her daily life, two healthy women follow her from afar, and do not interfere with her actions, let her enjoy the snow in the back mountain.
Since she was kidnapped by Xiao Tianjian, she hadn't seen Xiao Tianjian a few times, and she always vaguely felt that Xiao Tianjian was a little evasive about seeing her, which made her a little curious about Xiao Tianjian.
And Xiao Tianjian's attitude towards her completely overturned her understanding of the word robber, although the people of the Xingtianjun bear the official name of their robbers, but they do not have a fierce and vicious feeling, nor do they excessively restrict her freedom, lock her in a cellar or a small black house, but allow her to move freely within a certain range of the village, and even some irrelevant matters within the Xingtianjun are also allowed to inquire, and the bandit leader Xiao Tianjian does not have the slightest misdemeanor towards her, every time he sees her, is polite, and there is no trace of tyranny on his body at all.
Judging from her contact with the people in the Xingtian Army during this time, the people here are not that simple fear of Xiao Tianjian, but more like respect from the heart, and Xiao Tianjian rarely has a commanding attitude towards these people under him, as long as he is fine, he always has a kind face, and the corners of his mouth always have a faint smile.
This situation made Fan Yutong have a lot of changes in her opinion of Xiao Tianjian, and it also made her even more incomprehensible to this robber head, in her impression, all kinds of rumors describe these robber leaders as fierce and vicious, all of them are some demons who eat people and do not spit out bones, but this image can't be put on the head of this bandit leader Xiao Tianjian.
It has been more than a month since she was tied up, and Fan Yutong has already recovered from the initial state of nervousness and despair, but she enjoys this life a little, although the food here is very simple, it can be said that it is rough, at the beginning she was very unaccustomed to eating and couldn't swallow, but here, every time everyone eats, they have to chant and thank Xiao Tianjian, saying that this is given to them by their general, if it weren't for Xiao Tianjian, they would have starved to death in the wilderness.
At first, when someone saw Fan Yutong thinking that these meals were shoddy, they also reprimanded her, saying that this kind of food was already so good for them that it was heavenly, even their generals, they ate the same as them, and there was nothing better than what they ate. Like the most ordinary soldiers under his command, squatting on the ground, casually breaking two branches, and then pulling the rice and eating, this scene gave Fan Yutong a great impact, she believed that what the people who took care of her were true, Xiao Tianjian, the bandit leader, was indeed different, and her life here, and someone to take care of her, was already treated more favorably than Xiao Tianjian himself, just like that, Fan Yutong began to adapt to the food here, and no longer picky.
Although she is just a meat ticket here, but when she gets used to the life here, Fan Yutong no longer has the initial feeling of being frightened, but enjoys the current life a little, although it is not absolutely free here, but compared to when she was at home, she was always locked in the courtyard of the deep house, and she was surrounded by a group of old mothers around her all day long, but she was much freer, and getting along with the people here also made her feel very comfortable, Don't worry about her father asking her to marry this or that official or the young masters who are traveling with her all day long.
Thinking that her father has been planning all day long in the past two years, to set a family affair for her, Fan Yutong has a little headache, Fan Yutong is not interested in marrying those officials or the children of rich families, in her eyes, those young masters, in addition to eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, will have nothing to do every day after reading a few days of books, and they will have nothing to drag a few sour sentences of poetry every day, and go to Fireworks Willow Lane, there are few who are a little positive at all, Fan Yutong has also read a lot of books, and he doesn't look down on these people at all, So no matter what kind of family affairs her father proposed to her, she was rejected by her, and resolutely refused to marry such a gentleman.
Originally, in this era, the marriage of children is the order of their parents, and the words of the matchmaker have the final say, but their Fan family has only one daughter like her, in her marriage, her father Fan Yaoshan also attaches great importance to it, after all, Fan Yaoshan is now old, after giving birth to her, his wives and concubines have never given birth to a boy and a half girl, and there is no way to spoil her, plus Fan Yaoshan is also not hopeful about having another son, and now he seems to have made up his mind to recruit a suitable son-in-law, turned around and handed over the huge property of his Fan family to his daughter to take care of, so he was much more cautious in finding a husband for Fan Yutong, but he didn't dare to force Fan Yutong to marry too much.
However, seeing that Fan Yutong is getting bigger and bigger, Fan Yaoshan has obviously been a little anxious in the past two years, this time he said that he was sending her to Nanjing, in fact, he still wanted to find a suitable family for her in the south, which made Fan Yutong a little reluctant, in her opinion, although the life of her parents is very important, but at least she must find a man who pleases her eyes to marry, if it is not as good as she wants, she would rather never marry, and guard her father to take care of her father's business and be an old girl, which is better than marrying a gentleman.
So when she got used to this kind of life here, she was secretly glad that she didn't have to worry about it anymore in a short period of time.
Thinking of this, Fan Yutong turned his mind here again, another thing that surprised Fan Yutong was that as soon as Xiao Tianjian led his troops to Yangcheng, he successively uprooted several local poles, and removed several scourges for the local area for many years, and the whole army stopped. Obviously, this Xiao Tianjian and his Xingtian Army are going to be entrenched here for a long time.
And the style of action of the Xingtian Army is also completely different from ordinary poles, they rarely harass the local people, they think about the people everywhere, they have formed a very self-disciplined habit from top to bottom, and the relationship with the local people is quite good, and I heard that as soon as Xiao Tianjian arrived here, he began to divide the land for those landless people and let them farm, this kind of thing is unimaginable in her opinion, what does this Xiao Tianjian want to do? Why did they behave differently from the robbers?
Fan Yutong has been thinking about these things all the time, and at the beginning, he couldn't figure out whether Xiao Tianjian was a good person or a bad person, on the one hand, he was a robber leader, and he was doing things of robbing homes and kidnapping tickets for extortion, and he couldn't get along with the rich and landlords, on the other hand, he was so generous to ordinary people and poor people, thinking about them everywhere, all kinds of things were superimposed, and now Fan Yutong came to such a conclusion, that is, this guy surnamed Xiao is definitely not an ordinary person, This person must be a person with great ambitions, otherwise he would not be so deliberate to do these things that have nothing to do with robbers, and faintly, Fan Yutong also felt that this guy surnamed Xiao was a very ambitious person, if he was allowed to run it like this, this Xingtian army would become a strong rival of the imperial court.
Standing next to the cliff in the back mountain, while admiring the snow, Fan Yutong was still thinking about this guy surnamed Xiao, and suddenly she thought that she had been here for so long, why did this guy surnamed Xiao not ask for a ransom from her father, how long did this guy want to keep her here? Wasn't he kidnapping himself to extort a large ransom from her father? And she also believes that as long as Xiao Tianjian sends someone to send a letter to her father Fan Yaoshan, and says a random number, it is estimated that her father will never hesitate, and will pay a ransom to ransom her back immediately.
But now it's been so long, and the guy surnamed Xiao left her here, but didn't mention it at all, what is the idea? Thinking of this, Fan Yutong was a little nervous, and couldn't guess what this guy wanted to do.
Just when Fan Yutong was absentmindedly admiring the snowy scene in front of her, she heard the two healthy women behind her suddenly say, "Slave maid to the general!" ”
Immediately afterwards, a rich and magnetic male voice came: "No need to be polite, you can stand down for the time being!" I have something I want to discuss with Miss Fan alone! ”
The two healthy women agreed, and immediately walked into the distance, Fan Yutong slowly turned around, pulled the fur shawl draped on his body, wrapped his body tightly, and looked at the guy who came over.
Xiao Tianjian is still wearing his decent cotton armor made for him by Fan Ling'er, with a wide belt with a cowhide copper buckle around his waist, with a Yanling waist knife, and a red tasseled felt hat on his head, under the brim is his angular face with a beard, and a thick cloak behind his back.
Fan Yutong didn't know why, her heart trembled, but her face still showed a cold look, and she continued to look at Xiao Tianjian coldly with her faint eyes, and sneered at Xiao Tianjian and teased: "Do you remember that Master Xiao has such a meat ticket as me?" Why did you suddenly think of the little girl? ”