"Fifth brother, I also want to go to the third sister's house."

The little sister saw that Luo Feng had brought out the big dark horse, so she quietly put down the matter at hand, went around to the gate and waited for Luo Feng to beg to go together.

"Little clever ghost, do you think you didn't see that sneaky appearance just now? My mother has already seen your little thoughts, but she didn't say anything, let's go. ”

The little sister stuck out her tongue with an excited face. A ten-year-old girl, who spends her days either doing housework or pulling weeds, is naturally happy to have a rare opportunity to go out as a guest.

"Get on the horse!" Luo Feng picked up the little sister and sat on the white hoof.

"Ah, brother, it's so tall." Sitting on the horse, the little sister was a little panicked, she was still the first time to know the horse.

"Don't be afraid, my brother is watching from the side, you see that the white hoof is very tame."

After all, this horse is ten years old, and has always been a puller in the past, so he has a very gentle temper, and the little sister sits on its back, and it only nods.

Luo Feng didn't know how to ride a horse himself, so he led the horse and walked in front.

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It has entered autumn, but the weather is still as hot as midsummer, and it is said that there are eighteen autumn tigers after the beginning of autumn, and the bride Luo Lian'er sits in her own courtyard while drying medicinal herbs while wiping her sweat.

This weather, morning and evening, is a little cold, but the day is hot and annoying, the heat penetrates to the bones, and the body sweats sticky and greasy after a few casual movements.

Newlywed Yan'er, but her husband didn't have time to stay at home, the day before yesterday, Changxiang was accompanying Zhao San, the county Hucao's helper, to come to the house, and asked their family to hand over five deer skins and ten pheasant feathers before winter.

The husband took out the family's home-brewed Baiguo wine to entertain him, and took out the smoked rabbit meat and dried fish at home to entertain him.

However, the requirements must be handed over to the county government before the winter, otherwise they will bear the consequences.

In recent years, not only has the labor been prosperous, but the taxes have also been tightened, and there are many various apportionments in the local yamen, and the people who can't hand it over will be caught in the county yamen and put in a flail to show their weight.

The first time it was flailed for one day, and the second time it was not handed in, it was necessary to beat the board first and then flail it for three days.

Everyone calls it bamboo shoot fried meat and tiger flail, ordinary people can not hold up several times, to the third time not only to be boarded, wear flail, and even have to stand in the cage, the cage is extremely narrow, people are locked in it, crouched and can not bend and stretch, no one can stand in the cage for more than three days and still alive.

Although Zhao San was just a helper of Hu Cao in the county ya, no one dared to question his words.

Scarface is a hunter, and he usually has to hand over some prey bones, bones, fur, etc. to the yamen, but now at this time, he asks for two deer skins, five rabbit skins and five pheasant feathers, which really makes Scarface embarrassed.

In order not to eat fried meat with bamboo shoots and wear tiger shackles, he went up the mountain on the third day of his wedding.

It often takes several days to go home, stay overnight and hurry into the mountains, but after such a long time, only five rabbit skins have been gathered.

Two deer skins, only one deer was hunted and one skin was obtained.

And the five pheasant feathers that were requested have not been collected yet.

Deer are hard to find, and pheasant feathers are hard to find.

Pheasant feathers are only available to those male pheasants, and the pheasant feathers required by the yamen also have a length standard, which must be available to those big wild roosters, and only one such feather can be taken from a pheasant.

And such a large wild rooster is the most difficult to hunt.

It is also difficult to hunt and want to buy and hand in the task, because he is not the only one who has obtained such a task, many hunters have obtained the task spread by the county, and now not only a deer skin is hard to find, but also a pheasant feather is also hard to find, and the mountains are full of hunters who go into the mountains to hunt.

Seeing that there is not much time left before winter, the deer and pheasants are even more difficult to hunt, and Luo Lian'er is also secretly worried about her husband.

"Lianniang, Scar'er hasn't come back yet?" A woman's voice came from the house, this is Lian'er's mother-in-law, who is now sick and bedridden, and usually has to take care of her, eating, drinking, and Lazar.

The father-in-law was bitten to death by a leopard in the early years of hunting in the mountains, so he picked up a few bones, and the scar on her husband's face was also bitten that time, when the father and son went into the mountains to hunt and encountered a hungry leopard, and finally her father-in-law fought hard, but only let his son escape.

Husband Zhao Jia'er originally had three elder brothers, but he had already split up and passed away. The three sisters are also married, and the family is not having a good time, so it is rare to come back.

"Mother, I haven't come back yet, it's been three days since I entered the mountain this time, and I estimate that I should come back today and tomorrow."

"It looks like it's not long before the winter, but now the deer and pheasants are getting harder and harder to hunt, and I don't know how to survive this winter, I heard the neighbor's fifth mother-in-law say yesterday that if you can't hand in the task this year, you will be arrested and go to Hebei to dig a canal." The mother-in-law sighed as she spoke.

Lianniang's face was also gloomy when she heard this, her fifth brother went to Hebei to dig a canal after entering the summer, and then he hasn't added it yet, Xiao Wu has just turned sixteen, so young to go to such a far away place to do service, I don't know if it's okay now.

Just as I was thinking about it, I heard someone knocking on the door outside.

"Third sister, third sister, are you at home?"

As soon as Lianniang heard this voice, she knew that it was the youngest fifth sister in the family who was coming, and she hurriedly put down what she was doing, "Little sister, why are you here, but what's going on at home?" ”

Quickly stepped forward to open the firewood door of the small courtyard, only to see that in addition to the little sister, there was also a man leading a horse outside the door.

"Sister, I haven't seen you for three months, don't you recognize my brother?"

Luo Feng greeted with a smile.

Luo Lian'er was still stunned, the young man in front of her was indeed her fifth brother, but he looked a little different, standing straight and neatly dressed, especially with an indescribable feeling in his eyes.

In an instant, she felt that this younger brother had grown up.

"You're back?"

"Well, I just came back yesterday, and the eight people from the village have all returned."

"It's good to come back, it's good to come back." Luo Lian'er hurriedly looked her brother up and down, for fear that her brother was missing a piece.

"Sister, I came in a hurry, and I didn't bring anything, so I brought three buckets of corn grains."

This was brought by Luo's mother when Luo Feng came, and there was no way at home, the Zhao family agreed to marry their daughter when they came out of Sandousu, and now the family situation is better, Luo's mother asked Luo Feng to bring Sandousu to the third daughter's house to see her.

"What does that mean?" Luo Lian'er was a little puzzled.

"Sister, look at this big black horse, this is what the fifth brother just bought, and it cost ten yuan." The fifth sister said as if offering a treasure on the side.

Luo Lian'er looked at the horse and was surprised, her younger brother actually bought a horse, ten yuan?

"Brother, what's the matter with this horse?"

Luo Feng smiled and simply told him how he met a thief on his way home, how he met his cousin Qin Qiong, and how he captured the thief and saved the county order's daughter, and finally got a reward.

"Oh my God, it's all true?"

"Well, it's all true, the reward I got this time and the thank you gift from the county order's daughter added up to dozens of white dollars, and the county order also asked me to go to the yamen to catch fast, and the fast shift is making up and catching fast, and I'll report it in a few days."

Luo Lian'er was like a dream, she couldn't imagine that the fifth brother would come back, and there would be such an opportunity.

"Third sister, I have discussed with my mother and sister-in-law, when you get married, our family can't help it, let you go out empty-handed, I really owe you, and now the family situation is better, so we decided to make up a dowry for you, and make up a dowry for you and the fourth sister, what do you need, we will procure it according to your needs."

Luo Lian'er opened her mouth wide, she didn't know what to say!