Brother Xiaofu, what are we doing in Zhoucheng? Zheng Xiaoqi, who was drunk and red >in Huairong, >, walked out of the largest Sihai Restaurant in the city with a wine burp, and turned his head vaguely as he walked to Laifu who was facing the back, and asked, "Who are those Hu people just now?" A good amount of alcohol is that the smell on the body is really smoky." /

Zheng Xiaoqi has been wandering around in Huairong City with Laifu for several days, and when his uncle set off for Liuguan Village that day, Laifu, who was a personal follower, did not accompany him, but packed his bags and went to Huairong City, and called him when he left.

Among the three brothers of the Zheng family, Zheng Qi and Laifu are the closest, and he has the best relationship with Laifu, because his cousin Zheng Wu's official name also carries a blessing word, which is because Zheng Qi calls Laifu "Brother Xiaofu" every day, and now the Longmen County Ya has entered the right track, and there is nothing to do around the young lady, Zheng Qi simply followed Laifu to the state city.

In Zheng Qi's thoughts, since the uncle did not let Laifu accompany him but sent him here, there must be a big errand, but after arriving in Huairong, Laifu first took him to the place where he was to buy a few bright clothes at the clothing shop, and then he wore good clothes and messed around in the slightly larger inns and wine stores in the city.

It was also in this chaotic few days that Zheng Qi saw Laifu's usually unknown alternative skills, and the incarnation of Laifu in front of him became a self-cooked, Ren is a fierce stranger who has never seen him again, as long as he leans on it for a while, he can talk and laugh with people, if he gets together again to have a drink and drink tea or something, when he comes out, he will actually call his brother and brother affectionate.

In addition, what made Zheng Qi wonder was that Laifuhuo seemed to have clairvoyance and ears, and he knew many things that did not turn three times and two times, and it was clear that he was with him, but he had never heard of the things he said.

It's really tiring to string around in various inns every day, and it's easy to wait for the blessing to finally settle down when the strings are no longer stringed, Zheng Qi followed him and sank into the sea of wine and meat, and he has been a banquet guest for a few days, almost in the morning as soon as he woke up and began to drink, and after drinking at noon, he didn't wait for anyone to wake up and drink, and then drank again at night, although Zheng Qi was a bit of a greedy addict to alcohol like Zheng San and Zheng Wu, but it was really hard to hold it down like this, What's even worse is that almost all the guests invited to the banquet in Laifu these days are Hu people, these people don't drink when they are very strong, but once they drink too much and sweat and take off their coats outside, the strong body odor can't get out of the charcoal fire in the accord, and the more they smoke it, the more they smoke it, they don't dare to inhale it.

I only took a bath three times in my life, I was born once, I got married once, and I died once, when I first heard these Hu people talk about their customs seriously, Zheng Qi almost didn't spit it out after staying in Yangzhou, a water town in the south of the Yangtze River for a year or two, no wonder it tastes so good, and the roots are here.

In addition to this speechless custom, what also puzzled Zheng Qi was the identity of these people, but this was not their business, just looking at the casual Tang Yin of these Hu people and the quotations they came casually when they mentioned the goods on the market, no one knew that they must be businessmen who traveled all over the world, and Zheng Qi couldn't figure out what kind of people they were from.

Zheng Qi has been following his uncle to Longmen for some time, regardless of whether it is a barbarian Xi or a Khitan, and even the Wei people in the further north have seen it, and they can recognize it, and the reason is simple, these people from different tribes in the north have extremely obvious differences in style and dress, and some of them are still strange and ridiculous in the eyes of the Tang people who first saw them, and they can't forget it after seeing it.

But these people in front of them are very strange. Although at a glance, you can know that they are Hu people. But it's not any clan that Zheng Qi knows. However, what is even more strange is that in their physiognomy and clothing, they can find the shadows of the known tribes.

It's not a long time. But there are some special customs here, and Zheng Qi still knows the place. If you look at Hu Rendi's dress, no matter how weird and ridiculous it is, it must not be shown on your face at will. These regard this as an insult and are very violent. Every time you encounter such a situation, you often pull out and rush up with a scimitar to do it with you. No matter who wins or loses, in the end, after arriving at the Yamen, the Tang people don't want to take advantage of it. Similarly, taboos include unless they are unsolicited. It is best not to ask about their tribal origins.

It's not easy to ask. These people themselves don't say it. Since then, Zheng Qi has been holding back doubts in his heart for several days. I didn't ask until today.

Across the void, he arched his hand and said goodbye to those Hu people and merchants, and then Laifu heard this question. Pulling Zheng Qidi's arm, he walked down the steps quickly. "A little quiet. These Hu people are more troublesome than. Maybe a wrong sentence will provoke their taboo. Especially the group of our banquets is a group of girls."

"Huh. Brother Xiaofu, you are still afraid of women." Hangover plus new drunk. After the wind blew, Zheng Xiaoqi completely dizzed the vegetable ground, waved his hand with a smirk, and said arrogantly: "That's what the girls are." When you make a fuss, you step forward and slap you twice, and you will be honest immediately. And they were convinced. I'm afraid of a ball! Say. Who the hell are these? ”。

Rifle laughed "sneering" when he heard this. "What was the name of that singer just now? No one has yet sat down in your arms. Look at you, you can't bend your waist anymore. The little chicken has not even touched the meat, and the little chicken is a big-headed eagle."

As soon as he heard this, Zheng Xiaoqi, who was full of wine, was about to grin with his teeth and claws, and Laifu immediately regretted it when he saw this, what kind of woman did he fight with this little drunken chicken, and he didn't think he was drunk and crazy?

Laifu pressed Zheng Xiaoqi's arm with one hand, and grabbed his shoulder with the other hand, and held Zheng Xiaoqi tightly, who was jumping around, "Okay, my seventh brother,

Is it not possible to do it if the dust roots of the flowers do not fall? Brother, I obey you, and I obey you very much."

"That's right", Zheng Xiaoqi, whose fragile self-esteem finally made up for it, stopped jumping, "Brother Xiaofu, you say, what tribe are those girls from?" ”。

"If you can't drink it, drink less, and a group of nine surnamed miscellaneous Hu are still so really turning over day by day", Zheng Xiaoqi has become like this, if he doesn't say that he can really shout on the street, he complained and scolded Hou Fu could only whisper helplessly: "These people are all from that tribe, and that tribe doesn't recognize them."

"What...... What does it mean? Zheng Xiaoqi is already a complete big tongue.

"These people are Xi Man, Khitan, Mur Wei, plus the Hu people who wandered from Anxi and made it together, who the hell knows what kind of clan they are", after replying angrily, Lai Fute Teer said in an aggravated tone, "Xiao Qi, my brother can tell you, when I am with these people again, you don't even mention these things, the most shameful thing about the nine surnamed Zahu is their origin, and this is what they are most taboo about."

"It turned out to be a group of mongrels", Zheng Xiaoqi's laughter attracted sideways glances from passers-by on both sides, but fortunately, Laifu quickly covered his mouth with his hand, so he didn't let him say anything more exciting.

Laifu didn't expect that good wine could also drink, Zheng Qi was so virtuous after getting drunk, and suddenly he had no intention of walking back slowly, so he reached out and summoned a pedestrian and pushed and dragged it to the car.

It wasn't until he sat down on his feet that Laifu breathed a sigh of relief, and although Zheng Qi, who had no choice but to drink completely, didn't say much, the taste of the exhalation in his mouth was really bad, and at this time, Laifu didn't care about the cold, and reached out to open the curtain of the walking car.

After walking a short distance, Laifu heard the sound of horses' hooves in front of him, apparently someone was walking quickly in the city, such a situation is rare, and when he looked at it, he knew that there was a rough embroidery tube on his back, and a small red flag was inserted on the tube.

"Xing Tou'er, Xing Tou'er, ...... here", after Laifu went out of the car window and shouted twice, Xing Gong of Yali in Longmen County saw him, and immediately turned his horse and leaned over.

"Stop", stopped his feet, and Laifu asked Xing Gongcha, who was leaning over on the horse, "What's so urgent?" Can my senior officials go back to the government? ”。

Usually in the yamen string out and string in, Xing Gongcha naturally recognized Tang Chengdi's personal body and long-term follower, "The county lord set off to return to the yamen yesterday morning, this time if you don't use a car and go faster on horseback, you can go back to the city tomorrow when it gets dark." I was ordered by my lord to come to the state government to deliver the official document requesting relief."

The refugees in Huairong City who came to beg for food were more than one day a day, this was all seen by Laifu with his own eyes, and he nodded when he heard this, "The people from Wende County and Jinshan County who came to report for food two days ago arrived, and now they are living in the Shun guest inn opposite the state government and are sitting and waiting in the state warehouse, the people from Yongxing, Huai'an, and > Sichuan counties are only afraid that they are also on the road, Xing Tou'er, you have to go quickly, how much grain can the state warehouse have?" Don't let the bunnies get cleaned up first."

As soon as he heard the news, Xing Gongcha, who had been traveling for more than a day, looked solemn, didn't say a word, waved his hand and rode away with a horse's belly, and passers-by avoided both sides after seeing the small red flag behind him.

"I also live in the Shun guest inn, and come to me after sending the official document", after shouting at Lao Xing's back, Laifu stepped on the pedal on the car, "Go".

After returning to the Shun guest inn for a while, Laifu called a few handymen in the inn to return Zheng Qijia to the room and settle him, and he arrived at the wine shop on the left side of the inn without delay.

As soon as Laifu sat down, he didn't hear what he called, and a little second boy who ran the hall came over with a pot of hot Sanle pulp, and Laifu asked quietly while receiving the wine: "What's the movement?" ”。

"Didn't those nine surnamed Hu follow the guest master to eat and drink? No one has come back yet."

"I'm not asking about them, the two in Wende and Jinshan County."

"The Huang Lushi from the Yamen of Jinshan County didn't show up at noon, and called a little Sixi in the room, along with two singers. The Fang Judge Division of Wende County is feasting in the Accord in the back."

"Who's invited?".

"Zhou Yacang Cao sentenced Si Ning Mingyuan", the little two who ran the hall spoke very quickly, "Don't worry, the little Accord who led them to is the brother of the Gu family who is responsible for taking care of it, and the news will come back in a while."

"Hmm", Laifu lowered his head and picked up the three pulp, and Xiao Er immediately turned around and left with the red paint tray.

After waiting for two more pillars of incense, Laifu saw Ning Mingyuan walking out from the direction of Accord with a black ugly fat man with swollen fish eyes, "It's really dry and cold this day, Xiao Er, send me this hot wine to the No. 3 upper room, plus a few snacks and snacks to send it together", after witnessing Ning Mingyuan and the two of them leaving the wine shop, Laifu got up with a shout and returned to the back guest room from the side door.

As soon as he returned to the room with his front feet, a little er in a handyman uniform walked in with a tray in the back.

After closing the door, Fu asked directly, "What did you say inside?" ”。

Unexpectedly, this little two didn't speak, put down the tray and stretched out his hand to gesture two fingers.

"Oh, what kind of news, you dare to ask for two pieces of money", seeing him so blessed, not only was he not annoyed, but he was quite excited, and he took out a two-run flying ticket from his sleeve without refuting the price at all and threw it over, and the sound of clanging bells followed, which was an extra reward of more than a dozen pieces of scattered treasures.

"Say".

"Thank you", the little second-hand quickly put away the money and put it in his arms, and patted it on his chest

"There are less than three percent of the grain in the state official's warehouse, and Yu Mingyuan is going to find An Beijia and Niu Thorn Shi to bring up the relief grain first."

Less than 30% of the food is in stock? As soon as he heard this, he was first happy, and then he was a little anxious, and he was happy that Niu Zude had a big mistake, and this news was definitely useful. In a hurry, the weather is dry like this, and there is only such a little grain in the state treasury, what can the big officials do? At this point, the grain stock is still being targeted.

If you want to say that it is not easy to keep up with the head yamen to ask for things like this, who does not want the six counties under the jurisdiction of > Prefecture, in this case, even if it is an official business, it is necessary to carry out activities, not to mention that the people of the county record to join the army to handle this matter, even if Wende County is almost good, there is also a judge, Longmen is good, the poorest only came to a tolerance, and he can't speak when he walks in the state ya, what can he do? The high-ranking official, who has always been shrewd, doesn't know what to think this time.

After a few sentences of slander in his heart, he temporarily suppressed this head and asked Xiao Er: "Where is the Changping grain in the official warehouse?" ”。

Xiao Er's voice became lower and lower, and he looked at the door as he spoke, "I have already pulled it away, I heard Yu Mingyuan say that this was still a few months ago, where is it?" Yu Mingyuan didn't say this, and the villain didn't know either."

"Who pulled it away? But under the orders of Lord Thorn Shi? ”。

"Yu Mingyuan didn't say if it was ordered by Lord Assassin Shi, only mentioned that the operator was the chief butler of the Assassin Mansion", at this point, Xiao Er picked up the tray that had been emptied, "Master Ke, I have said it all knowingly, and the little one should go."

"You just told the truth?".

Hearing the grievances on Xiao Er's face, "The little lands rely on this to eat, no matter whether he stays in him or not, as long as people talk in the Accord, the little landers have a way to listen, what they just said is what they heard with their own ears, and if the guest master doesn't believe the little ones, there is no way."

"I'm just asking casually", Rifle smiled and nodded, "Well, go ahead, there's news to report to me, I can't treat you badly".

After Xiao Er left, Laifu stood alone in the house for a while, and then went to the next room to look at Zheng Qi, and saw that he was sleeping soundly with a loud snoring, so he didn't call him, shook his head and walked out of the inn to the state official warehouse.

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The sky is blue, the wilderness is vast, the wind blows the grass and sees the cattle and sheep. These three sentences in the Beidi folk song "Elechuan" during the Six Dynasties were the best description of the life scene of the Xi people in the Longmen grassland, but at present, the beautiful scenery of the grass waves and sheep like clouds in the song can no longer be seen.

This year's drought is too long and too severe, the last grass that should grow in the pasture in the season has not grown at all, and the buds have been gnawed up by the livestock, so not only the livestock that should be saving fat for the winter have not grown fat~, but the grass that the herdsmen should have stockpiled for the snow season has also disappeared.

Since then, the weather has been cold day by day, the snow has never fallen, although there is no worry about the snow disaster in previous years, but the Xi people on the grassland not only did not relax, but the brows became more and more wrinkled, the livestock became thinner and thinner, and the food prepared for them at home became less and less. The fat that should have grown up and lost weight like this, even if they can get enough to eat, how can these skinny and crooked animals survive the severe cold for three or nine days?

The grassland was miserable, especially when many cattle and sheep in the household pen began to die of cold and starvation in herds, a restless atmosphere began to brew, many strong herdsmen rummaged out the machete hidden at the bottom of the box, tightly protected with cooked butter on the edge of the livestock pen silently sharpened, the women were tearful to pick up the longbow that men usually use, it should be tight, more importantly, the preparation of arrows is much more than usual, in addition to the good horse that men often ride these days have to be carefully cared for, Even if other animals starved to death, they did not dare to lose it, but the lives of men on the battlefield were tied to horses.

On the dry and bald Longmen grassland, the people of Xi were silently doing this, and at the same time they invariably set their eyes on the northeast corner of the grassland, which was not only the most abundant place for water and grass on this grassland, but also the place where the patriarch set up his tent.

Around the huge felt tent where the patriarch Tuyezhuo could accommodate twenty or thirty people to feast and drink, there were some small leather tents dotted around, and in addition to the noble wizards and clan elders, the rest were Tuyezhuo's wives and concubines.

The location of these small tents is by no means arbitrary, and its distance from the tent is also marked by the intimacy between the owner of the tent and the patriarch, in short, the closer it is to the tent, the more favored it is in front of the patriarch, and vice versa.

At this moment, in a leather tent farthest away from the big tent, Tu Yehei, the former head of the Shuntian Warehouse in Longmen County, sat cross-legged by the fire, staring at the raging cow dung fire in the pond, oh, no, it should be said to be contemplation.

Suddenly, the light of the fire was deflected, and the dark leather tent suddenly lit up, and an unobstructed cold wind on the grassland came in like a knife, and suddenly shivered Tu Yeji woke up from his sitting, and when he saw the tall figure standing at the door of the leather tent, his heart, which had been cold for a long time, suddenly became hot, and he involuntarily stood up and blurted out: "Father......."

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At the same time, in the State Assassin's Mansion, Niu Zude was slapping the ugly face of the big housekeeper in his mansion heavily, "Bastard, such a big matter can only be decided by you, a slave?" ”。