The undulating Taihang Mountains pass from south to north, it is already snowy, after the first heavy snowfall, it snows for several days in a row, the whole north becomes white and pure, covering up the residual blood and dirt on the earth, between the mountains and forests covered in silver, occasionally there is no way to bear the weight of the snow, it falls down in a slump, the alert wild wolf is dragging a prey to let go of the wolf's kiss, raise his head and shake his ears, look far away, on the winding mountain road, a fast horse gallops by.

After that, we turned around and headed for Kamiya-gun.

The scam of hoarding grain in November, Li Ru, Wang Lie and others are actually within the controllable range, the local merchants and gentry are not greatly damaged, and the Su family and the Zhen family of Jizhou in Shanggu County have joined forces to almost pit the other three state vendors, large households, and small households who work alone, and the means used may be more intense, but the benefits received are often huge, and the status of commerce and trade is completely stable in the heart of the Wolf King of the North.

Of course, at the beginning of the middle of the government, there were also people who opposed this, Bing Yuan slapped the table and scolded Li Ru at that time: "The big households are pitted, they can stand it, and the small households are so rich, they are too ruthless, how can you let others live in the future?!" What a bastard! Short-sighted! ”

In fact, the reason for Bing Yuan's scolding, Li Ru and the others also knew, and they once thought of changing the way, after all, the food obtained by this method is just a drop in the barrel, not to mention that if it is used once this time, others will have to take precautions next time, but Shanggu County does not have too many choices at the moment, and after this month, they will start preparing to attack Youzhou and the two states, and there is not much time left for their group of people.

As for the things that will kill people, this kind of thing is unavoidable, because the price of grain has fallen sharply, and the price of cattle and sheep has climbed, so that most of the small families who have come to Shanggu County to take a risk have suffered, and when the first snow of winter comes, there are always some people who have no time to rush back to the county to be blocked in the mountains or in the wilderness, or live slowly on a little dry food, and after eating, gnaw tree bark and dig grass roots to eat their stomachs. More directly, the family was captured by bandits and killed in the deep mountains and forests where no one passed.

But these things don't matter anymore, and the whole thing falls with this heavy snowfall. At present, there is still a discussion about the hoarding of grain in the city, but the people are most enthusiastic about the issue of the New Year, and there are still a few days left in December, and every household in the city sticks peach charms, and the lanterns show the excitement of the New Year.

On the long street, steaming food stalls, vendors rubbing their hands to greet passers-by, people buying New Year's goods to choose from various shops, children on the side of the road from time to time to chase each other, throwing a pinched snow ball at each other, quieter piled up a small snowman under the eaves of the street, and then was trampled by the troublesome companions, all of them made a playful laugh at the crying children, attracting the nearby women who were sweeping the snow to wave a broom to intimidate and scold.

With the prosperity of trade in the Northland, the population is also increasing, disturbing the crowded streets, four thickly dressed figures are coming out of a liquor store, the leader of the woman is wrapped in a cloth scabbard in her hand, her bare palms are red and swollen from the cold, her face is covered with a veil, and there is a solemn aura when she walks.

"Captain....Chief..... what are we going to do here..... it's too cold in the north, so let's just drop back to the shop." A slightly short woman held a weapon, kept rubbing her arms, accustomed to the climate of the Central Plains, and suddenly experienced the dry and cold temperature in the north, which made her unbearable.

"That's going to have to endure, maybe we'll have to stay here for .....a long time in the future." On the other side, there were some older women, with a good appearance, but their arms were thicker than ordinary people, and the third woman with a knife on her back nodded while eating the food she had just brought out of the wine shop: "It's very good here, except that it's a little colder in winter, and there is a lot of meat, and it's very cheap......"

The other two female guards rolled their eyes at her: "You know how to eat." ”

"Let's go down that street."

The figure walking in front whispered to the three people behind him, her expression could not be seen in the veil, and the direction she pointed to was only half a street away from the largest mansion in the city, and the four of them had been in Shanggu County for a month, and they had witnessed the grain hoarding pit in the north to deceive the grain of many foreign gentry and clans, and was originally excited to look forward to the heavy snow falling, Ren Hongchang became a little confused, and even a little hesitant, sometimes standing at the end of the street and looking at the heroic mansion from a distance, but he didn't know what he should do next, and the coils on his body were almost exhausted.

What the hell am I doing.......

Walking through the streets with snow and snow, Ren Hongchang glanced back at the three women behind him, pointed to the New Year's goods sold on both sides, whispering and laughing, the pedestrians behind the street market suddenly surged and separated, and when she looked at it, a galloping war horse had come from a distance, passed by them, and turned to the mansion on the other side at the next corner.

"Let's go, let's go over there." Ren Hongchang glanced at the disappeared knight, probably because there was some kind of information transmission or something, and he didn't care, and around, in the crowd coming and going, there was an endless stream of noise, and his eyes swept over the four women from time to time, and then moved away.

In the distance, the galloping war horse stopped in front of the mansion, the knight panted and quickly walked into the courtyard with the news of coming from the south, outside the main hall of the front yard, Dian Wei pulled several generals around a round table to drink wine and eat meat, "Lao Wen, I Dian Wei is a rough person, I usually call other generals like this, you are new to the city, don't be in a hurry to make meritorious contributions, then Guo Yan was powerful back then, right?" Great Sima! It's not that I have a chance after a year or two under the command of my father-in-law. ”

"I'm not!" Li Ke raised his head, his mouth full of greasy.

Dian Wei picked up the whole chicken and threw it to him: "Eat chicken, eat chicken, and you can't stop your mouth." ”

On the other side, Wen Chou, Jiao Touch, and Zhang Nan seemed restrained, and after being put under the command of Gongsun Zhi, although they still led their original troops, they had no war, and second, they practiced in the army all day, and they were somewhat irritable.

"General Dian is really a man of good words....." Wen Chou took the wine and saluted, touched it, and drank it all in one gulp: "...... just don't know, how long will the lord talk to the generals, why don't I go back with Zhang Nan and them first, and wait for the lord to have time, and then come over to bother." ”

Dian Wei was about to speak, and a figure turned out from under the eaves of the porch in front of him, and walked quickly towards this side, Li Ke patted the table: "I'll go, don't eat too fast, leave me some." After speaking, he greeted the dusty knight, and after a few words of conversation and took the cloth, he turned back to the eaves, and raised his hand to the eunuch who had been standing still at the door: "Steward, you take this, it's over there." ”

Only then did the figure that remained motionless open his eyes, took the plain silk without saying a word, looked at it, and walked into the house. At this time, the generals of Zhao Yun, Tian Yu, Zhao Zhao, Yan Rou, Gao Sheng and other armies in the room gathered inside for a meeting, and half of the process was gone, and now they were only mentioning other things.

"..... I have gone to Yanmen County Xu Rong, Guo Yan two generals, after the beginning of the spring divided into two ways of soldiers and horses to take Taiyuan County, the Xiliang army is good at tackling fortifications, but also good at field battles, if this performance is good, may be transferred back, become one of the main forces. Now there are more and more independent soldiers and horses in Shanggu County, the number of soldiers has been controlled, and the pressure on the military workshop is also very great, because the number of craftsmen to make weapons and armor is not large, and it will take a certain amount of time to equip all the armies....."

The brazier surrounded a circle of generals, and when Gongsun Zhi was talking to everyone on the fire, Jian Shuo came in with a piece of information, whispered a few words, and handed Su Silk over. Gongsun Zhi glanced at it, and suddenly smiled on his face, and then smiled at the generals who looked at him.

"Haha....see that he Cao Cao doesn't come to the north to buy cow tendon animal skins, this next fire will burn the inventory, see what he will do next." Gao Sheng took off the round hat on his head, touched his bald head, and laughed to pass on the information.

"Cao Cao has always been cautious, and Yun feels that Brother Han's fire should not be burned clean."

"Rou agrees with General Zhao's opinion, but no matter what, it is still good for us to burn some of it."

"...... Xu Du is so crazy now, the arsenal was burned, and he also took a strategist named Jia Xu, this person seems to be very familiar......."

"Fuck, it's the one who put the plague! At the beginning, he was not beaten to death by the lord, but he had already seen Cao Cao's face, and now he dared to jump out and fall into the hands of Zhu Gongdao, and it is estimated that he will suffer. ”

Tian Yu frowned, a little worried: "Leader Han is still in Xudu, will he be found out by Cao Cao's people if he continues like this?" ”

"Let the country relax, Han Long's guy and I are not two days a day, bold and careful, and we don't drag our feet in doing things." While everyone was laughing, Gongsun Zhi glanced at Tian Yu over there, "..... and this guy has always been good at disguise, except for the Luoyang ......"

"Master!"

Jian Shuo hurriedly interjected and interrupted Gongsun Zhi's next words, after all, the real Liu Xie died in the hands of Han Long, and Gongsun Zhi was also the one who killed the king, so he changed the topic: "...... Recently, someone from below came to report that in the past month around the mansion, people have often looked around and asked the owner to show them. ”

Gongsun Zhi threw a piece of wood into the brazier: "Kill." ”..

"Yes."

Jian Shuo bowed in response, nodded politely to the generals, and walked out. Gongsun Zhi patted the dust on his hands, and said to Tian Yu nearby: "After Youzhou is taken, you are a veritable Youzhou assassin history, and you will have to carry the affairs over there, and prevent the two directions of Liaodong and Jizhou, can you do it?" ”

"Yu will not disappoint the lord." Tian Yu got up and gave his hand.

Gao Sheng slapped his thigh on the other side: "This is like words, I see you on weekdays, it's too unpleasant, but today is still a little manly, come to my residence at night and drink together." ”

Over there, the young man with a serious expression couldn't help but laugh when he was stared at by everyone.

At this time, the wind and snow outside began to fall again.

*************

Somewhere in the city, Ren Hongchang walked through an alley with his sisters, walked a few more steps, stopped abruptly, noticed something with his head slightly sideways, and whispered to the female guard beside him, and then the four of them sharpened their eyes, moved their hands slowly, and pressed on the head of the knife.

The moment the snowflakes fell on their shoulders, more than a dozen pairs of feet rushed wildly.

"Let's go!" Ren Hongchang pinched the scabbard, snorted softly, and took his sister to drill into a nearby alley, with a bang, someone flashed out from the mouth of the alley, and the woman who came directly pulled out the seven-star knife and fought with the other party, and a few more people rushed out and were stopped by three other women.

"Don't get entangled, go this way!"

Ren Hongchang leaned against the wall to dodge the slashing knife, and when he turned around, the door of a family in the alley opened, and a man saw the blade cut down against the tip of his nose, so frightened that the whole person was stunned and motionless, and his slender figure turned and stopped, and kicked down the water tank placed at the door to stop the attacking attacker.

"I just bought it—" The man shouted as he came to his senses, clutching the broken water tank.

On the other side, Ren Hongchang rushed towards another alley with the sisters who had escaped and converged, and seeing that the pursuers behind him had not turned this side, he pointed to a slightly lower courtyard wall not far away, "Go up with your hands." ”

In the courtyard, a girl is sweeping the snow on the stone steps, wearing several layers of thick winter clothes in the courtyard, wrapped like a ball-like boy with a red face and dancing a wooden weapon longer than him, humming and shouting, as if fighting bad guys, the girl sweeping the snow looked up at him, and was about to continue sweeping, but suddenly stopped.

On the other side of the courtyard wall, four figures with swords and soldiers fell down and landed in the courtyard.

Boom!

The wooden soldiers were stuck in the snow, and the little man wearing a tiger's head and round hat stared at them: "Where did you come from, thieves, look at my hands..... don't ......?"

The girl rushed over, stretched out her hand to cover the child's mouth, and dragged her under the eaves.

"It turned out to be two small children, and it scared me." A waitress stood up and patted her chest, staring at her sister and brother under the eaves opposite, and said, "What about your family?" ”

Someone next to him interrupted: "Say more, control it first, and then release them when the pursuers leave." ”

While speaking, there was a sound of footsteps coming this way, and the four of them were about to make a move, when the girl under the eaves opposite the courtyard took a step back with the boy in her arms, and the door next to it suddenly opened, and a low voice like a lion and tiger was like a strong wind.

"Who's going to control a certain child—"

The four women shuddered as if they were being targeted by a beast. In the line of sight, a tall and majestic body walked out, with a black tight robe, a puff collar around its neck, and a majestic and majestic face.

"Wen ..... Wenhou ......"