In the cold wind in the mountains, a team of dozens of people is walking along the mountain road. Today's weather is particularly bad, the whole sky is leaden gray, it looks gloomy, and with such a strong wind, it is estimated that it will snow soon.

"My lord, it's getting dark now, and the weather is not good, it is estimated that there will be a heavy snowfall tonight, let's find a place to stay as soon as possible!" A burly man suggested to a young man in the middle of the line. The young man looked to be in his twenties, but he was noticeably more well-dressed than the others, and he was so handsome that he knew at first glance that he was the leader of the whole team.

I saw this handsome young man look up at the sky, and agreed with the burly man's suggestion: "Well, Xiao Wu, you can arrange it, see if there is a place to stay nearby, if you can't do it, you can only find a sheltered place to camp!" ”

"Yes, sir!" Xiao Wu agreed, and immediately ran to the front to find a place to live, but they were now in a barren mountain, and it didn't look like a place for people to live.

The people in this team are all from the Qi Palace, and the young man at the head is Li Su's eldest brother Xiao Lin, who was originally an official in Nugang, but this time he was transferred back as an immigration officer, and now he is mainly responsible for immigration issues in the Jianzhou area, and an immigration officer like him, a total of fifty people were sent out in the Qi Palace, and each of them was responsible for at least one state. Under these immigration officers, there are more than 10 to 20 squads in charge, which are assigned to their respective areas of responsibility and are responsible for persuading and organizing fugitives to Taiwan.

When Xiao Lin and their team walked all the way to the top of the mountain, the burly man named Xiao Wu climbed high and looked far away. He even took out a very valuable telescope, and finally let him find out. Not far away, halfway up the mountain, there is a black cave. And it doesn't look small, it should be enough for them to rest for the night.

Xiao Lin was also very happy when he learned that there was a cave below. He has a total of fifteen squads, distributed in various fugitive gathering areas around Jianzhou, and this team he leads is also one of the squads, in addition to being responsible for persuading and organizing the relocation of fugitives, he also has to count and estimate the number of fugitives in Jianzhou.

The sky was getting more and more gloomy, and Xiao Lin and the others were also worried that it would suddenly snow, so they all quickened their pace. I want to get to that cave as soon as possible. It is worth mentioning that Xiao Lin's team has a total of fifty-one people, including thirty guards and twenty officials in charge of immigration, all of whom are Xiao Lin's subordinates. And Xiao Wu is the general brought by Xiao Lin from home, who is not only brave, but also very loyal, and now serves as the commander of the entire team.

Anyone who has climbed the mountain knows it. In fact, it is far easier to go up the mountain than to go down, especially when the mountain road is not easy to walk, and it is even more fearful, for fear of accidentally rolling down. Now Xiao Lin, that's the case with them. Originally, as Xiao Lin, there were horses wherever he went, but unfortunately the mountain roads here were not horse-riding. It's good to be able to walk.

Xiao Lin has been a pampered young master since he was a child, although he has always liked to ride horses and shoot arrows since he was a child. The body is relatively healthy, but during the period of serving as an immigration officer. But he suffered a lot. Because the places where the fugitives live are generally very remote, most of them are mountainous areas, and some places do not even have roads, so they have to run around in the mountains to pass on the news of Taiwanese immigrants to one fugitive settlement after another.

It is precisely because of this that Xiao Lin is now darker and thinner than before, although he is still a very handsome young man, but the femininity on his body in the past is much less, but a little more masculine, which makes his whole person look much more sophisticated, not like a civil official, but a bit like a military general.

Xiao Lin endured the stinging pain under his feet, followed the team forward with a deep foot and a shallow foot, from the beginning of the mountain, he had a lot of blisters on his feet, and then although he was picked by a needle, but it still rose and fell, and every night before going to bed, he had to pick up the blisters. Now the feet on his feet are worn out again, and every step hurts his heart.

Finally came to the cave, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to go in to clean up and then have a good rest, but they didn't expect three people to suddenly rush out of the cave. The three men, one old and two young, looked to be fifty or sixty years old, with gray hair and beard, a big square face full of wrinkles, wearing a jacket made of animal skins, carrying a hunting bow on his back, and carrying a hunting fork in his hand, and it seemed that he should be an old hunter. As for the two young ones, they are dressed almost like the old hunters, and their appearance is also somewhat similar to the old hunters, they are both square faces, thin and tall, it seems that they should be father and son.

Seeing the three people rushing out, Xiao Wu and some of the guards in front of him immediately drew their knives and guarded, after all, not all of the fugitives were good people, and some of them were forced by life to do the business of robbing homes and houses, on the previous road, they had encountered some such fugitives, fortunately, Xiao Wu and they were all specially selected soldiers, so there was no danger.

The old hunter was also very nervous when he saw so many people on the other side, and there were also many guards with knives, but he still spoke: "We are the hunters in the neighborhood, who are you and why did you come here?" ”

Seeing that there were only three people on the other side, and they didn't look like robbers, Xiao Lin asked Xiao Wu to put down the knife, and then stepped forward and said: "Hello old man, we are officials of the Qi Palace, and this time we entered the mountain to find fugitives, I heard that there are many fugitives in this mountain, so we came here." ”

Xiao Lin knew as soon as he saw the other party's appearance that these hunters must also be fugitives, and he came for them, so he didn't hide it at all, and directly told the purpose of his coming.

However, after hearing Xiao Lin's words, the old hunter immediately showed an unfriendly attitude and said, "You are from the government, do you want to arrest the fugitives and send them back to their hometowns?" ”

Xiao Lin guessed that the other party would have this reaction, they had met many times along the way, so he was not in a hurry, but patiently explained his identity to the other party, and also explained Taiwan's immigration treatment in great detail, and finally took out the notice stamped with the seal of the Jianzhou Mansion, which finally made the other party suspicious, although he had not completely let down his vigilance, but his attitude was much better than just now, at least the old hunter showed a smile and welcomed them into the cave.

Entering the cave, Xiao Lin and they found that this cave is indeed a good place, the whole cave is not too deep, only a few tens of meters, but in the innermost, it suddenly turned a corner, inside is a place similar to the hall, there are obvious traces of repair around this hall, and there are a lot of firewood stored, it seems that the old hunters should often live in it, in addition, the wind can't blow in here, and you can't see it outside when you light a fire inside, it is indeed a good place to camp.

The old hunter said that after Xiao Lin sat down, he said with a smile: "This cave is where our father and son rest when they go out hunting, so we have prepared some things, if the adults don't dislike it, then rest here, I will let the children boil water for the adults to cook!" ”

"The old man doesn't have to be polite, we all bring dry food, but we need to borrow your firewood to boil some hot water for cooking!" As soon as Xiao Lin heard the old hunter's words, he immediately spoke. He knew that these fugitives usually didn't even have enough to eat, so how could they have extra food to greet them, so he refused the other party's kindness to cook. And the old hunter really didn't have any food in the cave, and he was just polite just now, but now he heard Xiao Lin say this, so he didn't insist anymore, but just asked his two sons to help very enthusiastically.

Taking this opportunity, Xiao Lin took a look at the cave, and found that in the innermost part of the cave, there were several beddings, and on the wall there were several animal flesh frozen into popsicles, as well as dry and hard animal skins. In addition, Xiao Lin also saw that there was an iron pot and a few broken bowls on a piece of bluestone, the pot was steaming, it looked black, and I didn't know what it was, and there were also small half bowls of pickles, as well as three black and gray nests, but they had not been passive, and it seemed that the father and son were preparing to eat.

The people brought by Xiao Lin were all accustomed to spending the night in the wilderness, so they all carried a lot of dry food on their backs, and now there was firewood in the cave, and under the leadership of the old hunter's son, they also took a lot of water from the stream not far from the cave. Because the old hunters only have one pot here, and there is their rice in it, Xiao Lin and they can't borrow it. But it doesn't matter, Xiao Wu's guards are wearing military helmets, and they are cleaned by the water, which is a good iron pot.

After this period of experience, Xiao Lin has long been accustomed to this kind of wild life, and he doesn't have any shelves, so he also helps, they are carrying some military food, such as the kind of jack cake like a brick, they have a lot on them, as long as they knock a small piece from the top, and then put it in a pot to cook, they can quickly boil into a pot of soup with a strange taste, but it is extremely nutritious.

After the soup was cooked, Xiao Wu took out the dough cake from the bag, and then put it on the fire to heat it, and took out a few tubes of bamboo tubes, which were canned food, which they learned from the army, and ordinary people who want to go out will open the cans of the glass bottle and put it in the bamboo tube, so they don't have to worry about breaking the glass bottle. However, this method can only be used in the cold winter, if it is changed in other seasons, the contents of the bamboo tube will stink in a few days.

The old hunter saw that Xiao Lin and they quickly prepared the meal, and everything they had never seen before, especially when they smelled the fragrance of the food, and then looked at the black nest they ate, the hunter father and son were a little gloomy. But at this time, Xiao Lin said with a smile: "Old man, thank you for letting us live here, if you don't dislike it, please come and eat with us with the two eldest brothers, and I also have a few questions I want to ask." (To be continued.) )