In addition to the wolf, the more than ten men also hunted some pheasants and hares, Liu Wei picked up Tang Ji and followed them all the way in the direction of Tao Hu's previous fingers.

In this group of men, there are many words about Tao Hu, and Liu Wei has never seen him idle along the way. From the conversation between this group of men and Tao Hu, Liu Wei heard that Tao Hu was the leader of this group of men.

He was very puzzled how a person like Tao Hu, who had no city government at all, could convince the public and become the leader of this group of strong men.

After walking about two pillars of incense, Liu Wei saw a small river ditch appear in front of him.

It's not so much a ditch as a stream. The ravine was not wide, only an adult had taken two steps wide, and the banks of the ravines were littered with rubble, and it was a little awkward to step on them.

On the other side of the ditch, a village can be faintly seen, and from a distance, the houses in the village can be seen from the color of the houses, all of which are made of turf, and the walls are made of mud.

On the opposite riverbank, five or six village women who were washing clothes saw this group of villagers, stopped what they were doing, stood up straight and waved to them.

One of them, who looked to be about thirteen or fourteen years old, threw her clothes into the basin and ran after them with water.

"Brother, are you here?" The girl ran to Tao Hu, looked at Liu Wei and Tang Ji who were following behind everyone, and asked Tao Hu a question.

The little girl who ran to Tao Hu was wearing a dark blue coat, which had probably been worn for many years, and was a little whitish and had many patches on it.

She is long, although she is not very old, she is about the same height as Liu Wei. The hair is slightly messy and fluffy, and a wooden hairpin is stuck in the hair. The little girl's skin is slightly dark and yellowish, and her body is very thin, giving people a feeling of malnutrition after not eating enough for a long time, but her facial features are very symbolic, as long as she is a little plump, she is definitely a beautiful embryo.

Raising his eyes and looking across the riverbank, not only the little girl in front of him, but also the women on the other side of the riverbank who stopped their work and were looking at them were all yellow-skinned, and they couldn't even find a slightly plump one.

"yes!" Tao Hu nodded and said to the girl: "Today's hunting, I happened to see the two of them surrounded by wolves in a tree, and I couldn't bear to see them stay in the mountains to eat wolves, insects, tigers and leopards, so I took them to the village for one night. ”

The little girl nodded, glanced at Liu Wei and Tang Ji again, and said to Tao Hu: "Brother, you take the guests back first, I still have two clothes here, and I will go back after washing." ”

"Hmm!" Tao Hu responded, turned back to Liu Wei and Tang Ji and said, "You have to wade across the river, the river is a little cold, you two bear with it." ”

Watching the villagers walking in front wading into the river, Liu Wei turned his head and said to Tang Ji beside him: "The river is biting, your daughter's family will definitely not be able to stand this cold, I will carry you." ”

"The husband is a noble body, how dare the concubine ask the husband to carry it?" Liu Wei said that he wanted to carry her across the river, which startled Tang Ji, she quickly shook her head, and refused with a panicked face.

The men had already gone down the river, Liu Wei reached out and patted Tang Ji's buttocks gently, bowed down, turned his head and said to Tang Ji, who was still stunned and at a loss: "Come up, lie on my back, haven't you been happy to wade across the river yet?" ”

Although she and Liu Wei have fled from Luoyang now, in Tang Ji's heart, Liu Wei is still the emperor, and he stepped on Liu Wei's shoulder on the tree before, which was a last resort, and as for Liu Wei to cross the river on his back, it was an unforgivable trespass for Tang Ji.

When Liu Wei urged a few more times, Tang Ji fell helplessly on his back.

The river was cold and biting, and the men seemed to be used to wading through here, and when Liu Wei's feet stepped into the riverbed, he couldn't help but shiver.

Liu Wei crossed the river with Tang Ji on his back, and the men walking in front just glanced back at him and didn't ask anything. But the village women who were washing clothes on the bank of the river stopped what they were doing, and stood there looking at Liu Wei one by one, with some envy and jealousy in their eyes.

The hands that were on Tang Ji's buttocks were propped up, and Liu Wei followed the men walking in front and waded towards the other side of the river.

After crossing the river, about four or five miles away, Liu Wei saw some farmland, which was bare and had not yet produced crops, probably because it had not rained for a long time, and although the soil in the fields had been turned over, it was still very dry.

"Isn't there a field of crops here? How do you still go into the mountains to hunt? After passing through the farmland, Liu Wei looked back at the cracked field and asked Tao Hu beside him.

"It's almost heavenly!" Tao Hu turned his head to look at the farmland behind him, sighed, and said to Liu Wei: "If God opens his eyes and gives more rain, the village will have some surplus grain, if it is as dry as this year, I am afraid that by autumn, it will not even be enough to pay the rent." The men had to go into the mountains to hunt, and most of the rations were given to me and others, and most of the others were not satisfied. ”

"There is a ditch four or five miles away, why don't you take river water for irrigation?" Four or five miles away from the farmland is the ditch they just passed, but the distance is a little farther, and there are many small stones on the ground, it is not easy to rely on manpower to get water, but Liu Wei is still a little puzzled that the villagers do not need to take water resources so well, and asked Tao Hu again.

"Carrying water to water the ground?" As soon as Liu Wei's words fell, Tao Hu turned his head to look at him with a puzzled expression, and said with a funny expression: "Relying on manpower to carry water, you can't water two points of land a day, the whole village has more than 100 strong laborers, and there are a lot of people, but the land to be watered is one or two hundred acres, and it takes half an hour to pick up a trip to water, and two buckets of water are poured into the ground, and even the ground can't be wet." On weekdays, the only way to do this is to let the women and children in the village go to the river to fetch some water, and the harvest is pitiful. Guarding these fields that are uncertain whether they can catch grain, it is better to go into the forest to hunt, if you are lucky, you can also bump into deer and boars, catch one or two, it is enough for the people in the village to eat for a few days, although most people can't eat enough but not starve to death, the fur of wild beasts can also be taken to the market town to exchange for some copper coins, and by the end of the year can also pay the taxes levied by the imperial court, if the whole village is delayed in this field, let alone eat, even the taxes can not be afforded. ”

Tao Hu obviously didn't understand the meaning of Liu's words, maybe he didn't know what other way to easily and quickly lead the water to the distant fields besides carrying water.

Liu Wei didn't say anything more, but followed everyone with a somewhat solemn expression and continued to walk towards the village.

After walking a few steps, he heard a scream of "oops" behind him, and quickly turned his head, only to see a little girl who was about the same age as Tao Hu's sister and was also thin lying on the ground, not far in front of the little girl, a wooden barrel was lying on the ground, and the soil next to the wooden barrel was wet with water.

"Sanni, you have to be careful when you walk. If you break the bucket, your father's temper will not spare you. Several men who walked in front of Liu Wei also turned around, and when they saw the little girl fall to the ground, they did not step forward to help, but a man walking beside Tao Hu shouted at the little girl.

It may have been a heavy fall, and the little girl's movements seemed a little sluggish when she got up, but she didn't care whether her body was broken, and she didn't respond to the man's words, but looked at the wooden barrel on the ground very distressedly, and then glanced at the field on the side, and then limped towards the small river with the wooden barrel.

Looking at the thin back of the little girl's departure, Liu Wei's brows furrowed slightly. The little girl was thin, at most as tall as his chest, and he had no idea that such a thin girl would have to carry a heavy barrel to water the cracked fields.

After entering the village, the prey was picked up by some old people and women who came out, and the villagers who came out were all skinny, and most of the clothes on their bodies were covered with thick patches.

Helped Tang Ji to follow behind Tao Hu and walked towards Tao Hu's house. After walking a few steps, Liu Wei turned around and glanced at the strong man who was fighting the wolf.

The strong man did not speak, and after the old men and women of the village poured out, he threw the dead wolf to the ground and turned around and walked towards a detached adobe house.

The other houses in the village are connected by two or three rooms, and although they are all adobe walls and thatched roofs, the space is not too small. But the room where the strong man lived was only a very small adobe room, Liu Wei roughly estimated that such a room, at most, three or four people sleeped, were crowded, and I really didn't understand why the strong man didn't make the house bigger.

"The guests should not get too close to Yuanfu." Finding that Liu Wei was very interested in the strong man, Tao Hu turned his head to look at the hut where the strong man lived, and said to him: "Three years ago, he came to the village with an injured woman, but the woman was too seriously injured and died in a few days. ”

"Punch a boar to death?" As soon as Tao Hu's words fell, Liu Wei gasped, and a sentence came out in shock.

He has received rigorous training, and there are also a few punches on his fists and feet, if it is the body of his previous life, a fist pierces through two or three wooden doors stacked together, it is no pressure for him, but he twisted a wild boar and beat him to death, Liu Wei thought that he couldn't do it, and he couldn't help but be surprised.

"Although Yuanfu has a strange temperament, he doesn't provoke others, and the guests just don't need to pay attention to him." Tao Hu nodded, and led Liu Wei and Tang Ji to the outside of the three adobe houses.

Walking closer to the house, Liu Wei found that the three adobe houses were all a little crooked, and there was a large crack in the wall, the widest crack, and a small arm like Tang Ji could definitely be stuffed into it.

Entering the house, Liu Biao found that Tao Hu's home was empty, and there were some farm tools in the room facing the door, and as for other furniture, there was nothing available.

"The guests are resting here, I will go to help the villagers take care of the prey first, and call the two of you to eat later." Sending Liu Wei and Tang Ji into the room on the left hand, Tao Hu arched his hand at them, and after an explanation, he turned around and walked out of the room.

The window of the room was a small square with five or six crooked wooden sticks in the middle.

Standing at the window, Liu Wei saw a group of old and young people in the village busy cleaning up the prey brought back by Tao Hu and others. This time they brought back a lot of prey, and the villagers who collected the prey were laughing loudly while washing and peeling pheasants and hares.

But he didn't see the man named "Yuanfu" come out again.