Liu Xu entered the village with the surname Cui Hanzi, and when the autumn wind blew, he was sweating profusely, and he couldn't help but feel a deep coolness on his body.

Just now, he ran all the way to survive, almost exhausting all of Liu Xu's physical strength, but now that he is safe, Liu Xu has almost collapsed. However, Liu Xu was self-reliant and self-supporting, and followed the man surnamed Cui into the village.

Entering the wall, Liu Xu saw that there were many houses behind the wall, and not far behind the house was a mountain, the ridge was densely covered with people, and the whole mountain behind the village seemed to be a huge quarry.

Liu Xu followed the man surnamed Cui into the house and sat down, Liu Xu hurriedly said: "Little brother Liu Xu, thank you Brother Cui for saving your life." ”

The man smiled and said: "It's a trivial matter, the three tigers of Qingfeng Mountain, my old Cui doesn't pay attention to it yet." Brother, are you really Cui Ye's sworn brother? Did you really kill the people on Qingfeng Mountain? ”

Liu Xu hurriedly replied: "Brother Cui is on top, the younger brother is indeed a righteous brother with Brother Cui Ye, and the younger brother of the old lady Cui also knows each other, and the jade pendant was given to the younger brother by the old lady Cui." However, the younger brother did not kill the people of Qingfeng Mountain, he was really tied up the mountain by the strongman of Qingfeng Mountain, and the killed black bull brother knew the younger brother in order to save the younger brother, and was killed by the one named Gu Laosi. ”

Thinking of Hei Niu's tragic death to save himself, Liu Xu couldn't help but choke a little. That time in Juxianglou, I just invited him to drink a meal, gave him a face, and promised not to sell wine in Juxianglou. I didn't expect him to really regard himself as a brother, and he died tragically to save himself. Thinking of this, Liu Xu secretly swore that he must make the Three Tigers of Qingfeng Mountain and Su Qingpin pay the price. After Liu Xu came to the Great Song Dynasty, he has always been kind to others, and at this time, for the first time in his heart, he had murderous intent towards the hated person.

The man surnamed Cui heard Liu Xu say that he and Cui Ye were righteous brothers, and immediately became respectful, and said loudly: "Liu Gongzi, don't call me Brother Cui, Cui Ye's son is the sixth uncle, if you want to talk about seniority, I have to call Liu Gongzi uncle, Liu Gongzi can just call me by my name, my big name is Cui Feng." ”

Liu Xu said in his heart: I didn't expect Cui Ye's seniority to be not low, I married him, and I had such a big nephew! But on the face, Liu Xu was not easy to take big, and hurriedly said: "Brother Cui, don't kill the younger brother, you are my life-saving benefactor, call the eldest brother by his name, how can this be made?" ”

Cui Feng smiled: "What's wrong with this, I met my sixth uncle Cui Ye, so I have to really see the courtesy." Liu Xu said in his heart: You are your own family, of course you have to call it that, I can compare Cui Ye more.

At the moment, Liu Xu just didn't allow it, and finally Cui Feng smiled heartily: "I am the group training envoy of this stone shed, you can call me Cui Tuan training envoy, save you awkwardness, I will call you Liu Erlang, don't Liu Gongzi, it seems to be a raw point, let's talk about it." Haha, I like people to call me a regimental training envoy, after all, I'm also an official. "It seems that Cui Feng likes the title of this regimental training envoy very much.

Cui Feng asked people to take some wound medicine and bandage Liu Xu's wounds, but fortunately, they were all skin injuries and there was no big problem.

The subordinate brought some food again, Liu Xu was really hungry, and he was not polite at the moment, chatting with Cui Feng while eating.

After chatting with the two, Liu Xu knew that this place was called the unloading stone shed, and the unloading stone ridge behind the cottage is now the largest quarry in Qingzhou.

Before the Song Dynasty, most of the houses and pavilions and various buildings were bamboo and wood structures. Bamboo-and-wood buildings are expensive, difficult to use for a long time, and prone to fire. In the Great Song Dynasty, the world was peaceful, the population increased, and the houses in the major cities gradually became denser, making it more difficult to prevent fire. During the Taizu period, there was a fire in Kaifeng, which burned down the houses of the two squares before it was extinguished, and countless gorgeous bamboo and wood mansions were destroyed by fire. So from then on, the Great Song Dynasty began to promote the construction of earth and stone structures. Nowadays, the people of the Great Song Dynasty have gradually accepted the construction of earth and stone structures, which are cheap to build, durable, and easy to fire resist. Subsequently, the demand for soil and stone in various parts of the Great Song Dynasty increased greatly, and where there were mountains, quarrying became an extremely profitable business.

The western part of Qingzhou is mountainous, and the bluestone on the mountain is not only beautiful, but also solid and durable, so it is a good place to build a quarry. This Shijiling quarry is the largest quarry in the whole Qingzhou, and it can also be regarded as one of the largest quarries in the entire Jingdong East Road. The Quarry is led by the state and jointly run by the four major families of Cui, Ren, Zhong and Tang Qingzhou, and there are as many as three or four thousand coolies in quarrying alone. Of course, the wages here are also quite high, as much as 100 wen a day, you must know that the salary of four times a month, it is difficult to get it for working in the city.

In order to maintain the safety of the quarry, the state specially approved the establishment of a regiment to train the township soldiers in the western mountainous area of Qingzhou to protect the quarry. Of course, with the strict control of the military generals and officers of the Great Song Dynasty, the regimental training can be established on the unloading stone ridge, and the four major families must have exerted a lot of strength in the state. Cui Feng's regiment training, although it is the surname of the township army militia, but it has the support of the four major families, the equipment is not bad, there are a lot of bows, arrows and spears, and the combat effectiveness is stronger than that of the local Xiang army.

Cui Feng's regimental training envoy, to be precise, should be called the capital regimental training envoy, but he is just a very small official, and he only has a capital of men and horses, which is different from the state regimental training envoy in Qingzhou. Qingzhou Prefecture Regiment Training Envoy, the full name should be called Qingzhou Prefecture Regiment Training Guarding and Capturing Envoy, although the rank is not low at this time, theoretically there is the authority to be in charge of the training of the Quanzhou Township Corps, which is already a fictitious position. In later generations, Su Shi served as the training envoy of the Huangzhou regiment. However, Cui Feng is in this barren mountain and wilderness, and he is not afraid of others saying that he is arrogant, and he is ashamed to save the word "Cui Tuan", and he likes others to call him Cui Tuanlian, and the Tuan Lian is also a Tuanlian.

Cui Feng's regiment trained troops and was stationed in the stone unloading shed. The unloading stone mountain is stacked with heavy rocks, the peaks and peaks are verdant, the mountains are connected with the mountains, the mountains are continuous, and the mountains are connected by the mountains and mountains. The four families of the Dumping Ridge Quarry mainly mine stone in the East Ridge and the West Ridge of the Dumping Ridge. The unloading stone shed is under the north ridge of the unloading stone mountain, when the north-south road under the mountain. Ping said to protect the unloading stone ridge quarry, and is also responsible for protecting the convoy of stone transport.

Of course, the strongmen on the mountains everywhere rarely come to rob their convoys transporting stones, one is that Cui Feng's regiment is strong in training, a few points stronger than the local Xiang army, and the other is that it is useless for them to rob the stones, and the mountains are full of stones, unless their heads are kicked by donkeys, they will risk offending the four major families to rob the stones that are useless to them. Therefore, Cui Feng's regimental training is mainly responsible for protecting the people in the Quarry of Unloading Stone Ridge and preventing the strongmen in the surrounding mountains from extorting or something.

Liu Xu heard Cui Feng say this, and learned about the training of the stone sheds and villages, and felt a little relieved. Liu Xu, the military system of the Great Song Dynasty, now also generally understands that the strength of the capital is only 100 people, and he originally saw that the defense of the unloading stone shed was not manpowered, and he was really a little worried that the bandits on Qingfeng Mountain would come to attack the unloading stone shed village to arrest him, after all, the bandits on Qingfeng Mountain are said to have two or three hundred. Listening to Cui Feng talk about the specific situation, Liu Xu felt a lot more settled.

Cui Feng patted his chest and told Liu Xu to rest assured, if the bandits of Qingfeng Mountain dared to come to find trouble, they would be kept so that they would not return. No matter how they are, they can be regarded as officers and soldiers, and they can still be afraid of those strong bandits. Cui Feng asked Liu Xu to rest here first, and he sent someone to inform him of Cui Ye's sixth uncle and inform him of the news that Liu Xu was unloading the stone shed.

Liu Xu said in his heart: Just now outside the gate of the village, you almost let the Three Tigers arrest me, if I didn't have something to do with your Cui family, it is estimated that you, the official army, would have let the bandits arrest me.

But fortunately, it's okay now, Liu Xu doesn't care about it, after all, if someone has nothing to do with him, it is also a headache to offend a bunch of troublesome bandits for a stranger.

Liu Xu saw that Cui Feng said it was refreshing, and his heart was also settled.

Cui Feng asked Liu Xu to take him to rest.

Liu Xu was also tired, he was strong and self-supporting just now, and he was happy to hear that Cui Feng let him go to rest first.

followed Cui Feng's subordinates to a room in the back of the cottage, didn't think about anything, and fell asleep.