The fluttering snowflakes kept going, and Liu Cun carried the child on his back and pulled the woman who was frozen stiff like a puppet as hard as he could, and finally drilled out of the bare dense forest five miles wide when the sky was bright.

The woman's face had already been frozen to bruise, her thin and weak body couldn't help trembling, and her blurry eyes seemed to be able to close at any time, Liu Cun was anxious when he saw this, looking at a wisp of green smoke rising from the white sky and earth in front of him, gritted his teeth and suddenly picked up the woman who was about to fall, regardless of running onto the road, rushing to the wisp of green smoke three miles away in the southeast, but the child who was frozen on his back suddenly cried at this time.

Liu Cun, who was carrying one on his chest behind him, ran into the burned Zhuangzi in ruins, feeling that his whole body strength was almost exhausted, and he instinctively stumbled around between the two collapsed broken walls, walked into the mud house that was burned down in the depths of the manor, and put the woman who was frozen in his arms to the foot of the wall that was heated by the fire, shivered and untied the cold child behind him, and gently put it into the woman's arms for a while.

Looking at the child back in her arms, the woman who had been silent suddenly had strength, she slowly hugged her child, and rubbed her cold lips against the child's face, and after seeing the child open her eyes and cry again, the tears in her eyes finally rolled down.

Liu Cun, who was hobbling, brought a large pile of hay from outside, bent down and slowly spread it beside the woman, and then went out to pick up a pile of fragmented wood and two half-burned eaves wood that was still smoking, carefully erected it more than a meter in front of the woman, stuffed a handful of hay and carefully blew the fire, plus a few dry small logs, and then lay weakly on the ground full of soot, closed his eyes and gasped for breath.

After a crackling sound, orange flames flickered, and warm air soon filled the small space with no roof and only four charred black mud walls.

The child, who was gradually recovering, hugged his mother and cried quietly, and the tired mother tucked the child's legs into the dirty and thin clothes around her waist, and held the child's waving little hands tightly against her face.

The fire burned more and more, and the weeping child fell asleep again, and the unkempt mother freed her hand to brush away the messy hair that covered her face, and stared blankly at the strange man lying asleep beside the fire in front of her, her eyes full of sourness and gratitude.

After a while, there was the sound of wild dogs fighting outside, and Liu Cun, who had been sleeping for more than two hours, slowly opened his heavy eyelids, listened for a moment and slowly got up, bent down to the wall in front of him and slowly stretched out his head, carefully looking at the six wild dogs who were fighting to bite the corpse dozens of meters away.

Seeing the surrounding environment clearly, Liu Cun, whose eyes were green, picked up a thick piece of wood on the ground that had been buried by snowflakes, and walked towards the wild dogs competing for food without any scruples.

A group of hungry wild dogs seemed to sense the danger, and at the same time stopped biting, vigilantly staring at Liu Cun who was striding closer, and soon bared their teeth and let out a low roar, barking wildly at Liu Cun who was constantly approaching, without the slightest fear and escape.

At the critical moment, Liu Cun's footsteps were surprisingly steady, and when he was about five meters away from the dogs, the big hand holding half a piece of wood behind him suddenly swung out, and the two-foot-long arm-thick wood smashed into the largest black dog in front of him with the sound of breaking wind.

The attacked dogs barked wildly, and the black dog in the middle instinctively jumped sideways, but it was still a step too late, and the flying wood hit the shoulder armor of the black dog jumping, making a dull and penetrating impact sound, and the black dog that had just jumped up was knocked away by the powerful wood for several meters, and after landing, he screamed and rolled and struggled.

Under the sudden blow, the remaining wild dogs no longer had the courage to fight back, and in the blink of an eye, they all fled quickly with their tails between their legs.

Liu Cun, who succeeded in the blow, strode towards the black dog that was screaming incessantly and couldn't stand upright, picked up the piece of wood on the ground, and easily smashed the bridge of the black dog's nose.

Half an hour later, Liu Cun, who was walking heavily, carried the black dog that had cut off its head with a stone and stripped off its fur and internal organs, panting back to the fire in front of the mother and daughter, laboriously passing a wooden stick through the dog's body, and slowly roasting it beside the fire.

The woman holding the child stared blankly at Liu Cun, who was engrossed in the barbecue, and swallowed her saliva for a while, plucked up the courage to thank in a low voice: "The grace of the rescue of the father-in-law, the maid Lin is unforgettable!" ”

Liu Cun, who was in deep thought, suddenly came back to his senses, smiled bitterly, and once again set his eyes on the barbecue that was beginning to bubble with oil: "What are you going to do next?" ”

Lin Shi was silent for a long time, and lowered his head with a sad face: "Suddenly suffered a tragedy, there are no relatives, and the servant doesn't know where to go." ”

Liu Cun looked at Lin again: "There is no acquaintance around?" ”

Lin shook his head and said a sad word: "The maid is from Donglai, he lost his parents when he was eight years old, and was bought by his father-in-law from Laixi, and later became the concubine of the second master of the Lin family, and had a daughter four years ago, and now he is ...... Only my daughter remained. ”

Liu Cun, who had always been calm and unsmiling, was silent again, slowly turned the barbecue stick in his hand, and did not say a word to the woman for half an hour, until the meat was cooked and cooled down slightly, and then he put the roasted and browned dog meat on the hay in front of Lin Shi, and just wanted to tear off a dog leg to enjoy it himself, when he heard a crisp sound of stepping on a tree branch outside the door of the house.

Lin looked around in horror, Liu Cun made a silent gesture to Lin, picked up a thick piece of wood and quietly went out.

Seeing Liu Cun's tall figure disappearing outside the wall, Lin Shi hugged the child in his arms tightly and didn't know what to do, and soon heard a young man's cry of pain outside the wall behind.

Liu Cun sat by the fire with his buttocks, reached out and tore off a large piece of fragrant front leg meat and stuffed it into Lin Shi's hand, then tore off a dog leg and threw it to the timid teenager behind him, and finally removed the other burnt dog leg and ate it as if no one was around.

The young man holding the hot dog leg walked to the fire in a few steps, and after a little hesitation, he sat on the ground and gnawed violently, and the little lady of the Lin family in the corner of the wall was relieved when she saw this, and tore out a small strip of dog meat and put it into her daughter's wriggling little mouth.

Liu Cun gnawed off half of the dog's leg, and found that the young man next to him only had a slippery bone left in his hand, but he was still greedily licking the few remaining tendons on the dog's bone, and couldn't help but ask sadly: "You haven't eaten for a few days?" ”

The young man raised his head, was stunned for a long time, and began to recall: "Five days ago, the well-wishers of the southern village gave a handful of wheat bran, and the next day it was eaten, and only the bark was eaten these days. ”

Liu Cun sighed, quickly ate the remaining dog meat in his hand, tore off the charred front leg of the dog from the haystack and handed it to the young man: "Eat, where is your home?" ”

The young man subconsciously took the dog meat, and looked blankly at Liu Cun who was adding firewood to the fire, and the light in his blue eyes dimmed: "The little one has no home, and I never know where my home is." ”

Liu Cun's hand that grabbed the firewood stopped for a moment, and quickly put the firewood on the fire: "What's your name?" ”

The young man grabbed the dog meat and replied, "The little one has no name." ”

Liu Cun shook his head slowly: "How old are you?" ”

"I don't know, the little one has been begging in this place since he was a child, some people say that the little one is fifteen, and some people say that the little one is fourteen." The teenager's voice grew lower.

Seeing this, Liu Cun didn't ask any more, went out and brought three stones to put next to the fire, went out again and found a rough clay pot full of gaps from the ruins in front of him, wiped it clean with snow repeatedly, filled it with a jar full of clean snow, and returned to the house and carefully set it up on the simple stove composed of three stones.

"Engong, the servant is full." Lin Shi put the large piece of dog meat that still had one front leg left next to Liu Cun.

Liu Cun only glanced at it, then turned to the fire and continued to be busy: "Keep it for the child, today I am lucky to hit a dog, and I am afraid I will not have such good luck tomorrow." ”

Lin Shi thought about it, and finally slowly took back the remaining dog meat, and bent down slightly sideways to thank Liu Cun.

The flames were blazing, and Liu Cun turned to the young man who was only concerned about gnawing meat: "Boy, how did you end up here?" ”

The young man hurriedly swallowed the last piece of meat in his mouth: "The small one was in Liuxiang in the east before, and the day before yesterday at noon came to this Zhuangzi to beg for food, but he couldn't get anything, and yesterday, the little one was too hungry, and quietly slipped into the grass pile behind here, and wanted to wait for it to be dark and no one, and quietly went to the horse pen to get some wheat bran or something to fill his stomach, but he didn't expect that it was just dark, and thousands of people outside rushed in to kill people, and set fire to them after killing people and grabbing things, and the small ones were frightened, hiding in the grass and not daring to move, and only crawled out quietly when there was no movement, and the whole Zhuangzi was burned, The horse pen is gone, I want to leave and I am worried that I will freeze to death outside in the dark, so I hid in this firewood room where the fire was extinguished, and I heard the movement in a daze, and hurriedly got up and hid behind, and then I saw you......"

"Willow Township to the east? How far is it from here? Liu Cun doesn't know what the names of the townships and villages on the ground in Jiaonan are now, after all, thousands of years have passed, and the vicissitudes of life have passed.

The young man calculated for a moment: "It took more than two hours for the little one to walk slowly, I'm afraid fifteen miles." ”

Liu Cun nodded: "What is the place to go further east from Liuxiang?" ”

"Twenty miles further east is Lu Township, Lu Township's collection is very large, there are more than 300 households, the largest family is surnamed Lu, he is literate, is a Qiang Fu, everyone calls him Mr. Lu Er, but I don't know if he has been burned now." After the young man finished speaking, he lowered his head again, carefully examining the dog bones in his hand that he was reluctant to throw away.

Liu Cun thought about it for a long time, and turned to the Lin family, who was holding his daughter and shaking gently: "It seems that the radius is not restless, it is better to hide here for two days first, this place has just been burned, it is estimated that no one will come, and I will look around later, it is estimated that I can find something to eat, as long as we don't run around, it should be fine, it is freezing now, and it is snowing, I have to find something warm for you to wear, otherwise I will definitely not be able to go." ”

Lin nodded meekly: "Everything is subject to Engong's arrangement." ”

Liu Cun turned to the young man: "Boy, do you know where there are wild vegetables nearby?" ”

The young man reluctantly threw down the smooth bones in his hand, sucked on the oily fingers and replied vaguely: "There are a lot of people digging wild vegetables these days, and I am afraid that there is nothing left around, and it is estimated that on the edge of the swamp three or four miles to the south, there are some delicious tender grass roots, but there is no way." ”

"It's okay, I'll look for it in the burned house in front of me later, to see if there are any tools that can be used, but unfortunately there is no salt, I can deal with it in three days, and it won't work for a long time, I have to find a way."

Liu Cun stood up after speaking, went out for a long time, and finally only took back two small pottery bowls that had been scrubbed clean with snow, reached into the clay pot with boiling water, scooped up a bowl of steaming boiling water and handed it to the mother and daughter on the side, and then scooped a full bowl and handed it to the young man with dirty hands on the side.

After drinking two bowls of hot boiling water, Liu Cun exhaled the white mist, picked up the pottery bowl that was extremely rough in workmanship and firing, and carefully examined it, and finally shook his head again and again and put it aside with disdain.

Lin was deeply surprised by Liu Cun's behavior, gently put his sleeping daughter on the haystack, picked up the small pottery bowl and looked at it for a while, hesitated for a while, and finally explained to Liu Cun in a low voice: "Engong I'm afraid I don't know, such a delicate pottery bowl is rare, the entire Langya country can only be burned out by the Xu family pottery workshop in the south of Kaiyang Wangcheng, such a bowl is at least two hundred yuan, ordinary people can't afford it, and the maid will be careful to collect it later, and then take it out, it's difficult to find a pottery bowl now." ”

Liu Cun was stunned, and after a while, he remembered that it was now the era of circulating five baht coins, and it was not easy to fire good pottery, let alone porcelain, so he quickly reacted when he thought about it, and asked Lin Shi with great interest: "Does Langya have a workshop for burning black pottery and white pottery?" ”

"There is one, the pottery workshop of the Mijia family in the East China Sea can fire exquisite white pottery, the whole Xuzhou and even the imperial city of Luoyang like to use the white pottery of the Mijia pottery workshop, but the white pottery of the Mijia family seen by the maid is not white enough, some are blue, some are yellow, I heard that after all, it is not as delicate and lustrous as the pottery of Ruzhou." Lin's husband's family is a well-known merchant family in the Langya area, and after a long period of hearing and seeing, she is more aware of the items in circulation nowadays.

Liu Cun picked up the small pottery bowl again and turned it half a circle, flicked it with his fingers, shook his head and asked in a low voice: "If you burn a pottery bowl that is smoother and more rounded than this, and make a pleasant buzzing sound with a flick of your fingers, and then carve flowers and plants or poems, calligraphy and painting or something on it, how much can it be sold for?" ”

The little lady of the Lin family looked at Liu Cun in disbelief, and saw that Liu Cun didn't look like a lie, so she pondered for a long time and had to answer truthfully: "If someone really burns the pottery bowl that Engong said, I'm afraid it will be famous, as for the value, the maid really doesn't dare to say, it's just that the pottery bowl and maid that Engong said have never seen it, and I have never heard anyone say it, I'm afraid it can only be seen in the palace." ”

Liu Cun nodded slightly, put down the pottery bowl and stopped talking, turned his head and found that the young man was staring blankly at the high-top land shoes and torn trouser legs on his feet, and couldn't help but sigh faintly, just as he wanted to take off his wet shoes and dry them slowly, he heard a loud horse neighing outside.

Lin Shi and the young man were suddenly terrified, Liu Cun had already jumped up and rushed out of the door, and was shocked to see more than fifty men holding knives and guns with yellow scarves in their hands outflanking them.

The leading yellow turban man rode a blue horse, with a messy beard on his face, and saw Liu Cun who seemed to be stunned from a distance, he laughed and rode his horse closer, raised the halberd in his hand and pointed at Liu Cun, and more than fifty yellow turban men on both sides suddenly screamed, raised their knives and guns and quickly surrounded the tall Liu Cun.

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