"Hahaha, fluffy and shining." The gruff general laughed. Then he jumped off the horse: "Lord Chu, the last general Xue Hu, who is responsible for guarding the pass, has not been able to meet him from afar, please forgive me." ”

"It's okay, it's okay to eat the king, and the matter of loyalty to the king is just like this." Chu He didn't care.

"Haha, Lord Chu is really bold." General Xue Hu glanced at the sky: "Lord Chu, it's getting late, I have set up a banquet in the village, my lord, please here!" ”

Let's say it, General Xue Hu led the way straight ahead and walked towards the Xiongzhai on the opposite bank.

Chu He frowned slightly, his trip was to hunt down the Black Heaven Demon God, and he didn't want to participate in such a banquet.

"My lord, follow the local customs. What's more, sharpening knives without mistakenly chopping firewood, we have a good relationship with this General Xue Hu, so that we can be like a fish in water here. Otherwise, if there is a disturbance in such a place, we are afraid that we will not be able to move an inch. Lin Lao persuaded on the side.

"The head of the earth? Hum! This seat is the head snake of the earth! Chu He snorted coldly: "Okay, just look at what kind of medicine is hidden in his gourd!" ”

The Black Armor Army followed General Xue Hu across a pontoon bridge made of boats, tree trunks, straw and mud, and headed for the stockade on the other side of the river.

Along the way, General Xue Hu was triumphant: "Everyone, you see that my Shanyang Village, high on the bank of the river, backed by rolling hills, can be attacked, retreated can be defended, and hold this place, as solid as a rock......"

Song Nian fixed his eyes and looked up, and sure enough, looking up from the bottom of the mountain, this village was tall and majestic, standing tall and tall into the clouds. Although the village is only three or four meters high, but counting the cliffs next to the wall, it is more than 30 meters high, in this era, it has belonged to the height that the ladder is far from being able to erect.

The only way to attack the stockade was to go around the river bank and up the hill from behind the stockade.

But in this way, on the steep and tortuous zigzag route, the guards of the village were repeatedly baptized with bows and arrows. It can really be described as a one-man affair, and it is impossible to open it.

Song Nian couldn't help but sigh: "To build such a large village, the treasury must spend a lot of money." ”

Seeing Song Nian withdraw the money as soon as he opened his mouth, even Zhang Heiniu felt a little embarrassed. Lord Song is good at everything, except for liking to dissect dead people, that is...... I like to talk about money too much.

General Xue Hu's eyes lit up, and he laughed and said, "He is worthy of being Lord Chu's proud subordinate." ”

He pointed to the Shanyang Xiongzhai with a whip: "I will be stationed here for more than ten years, and every year I will levy the people to strengthen this village, and expand dozens of forts nearby, which is impregnable!" ”

"Levy and send people to build this place every year? Aren't the people? Can the casualties be severe? Chu He frowned. In such a precipitous place to strengthen the fortress, but also to build a fortress, I am afraid that there will be heavy casualties.

"Hmph, these foolish women can understand everything! Just levy it! When I meet that disobedient person, I am not good-tempered! Besides, these people, when they come to me, although they will inevitably fall to death and freeze to death every year, at least I still care about them to eat! But even so, people run away every year! This is to blame me for using some thunderous means! ”

Xue Hu pointed to a few cage baskets hanging on the wall of the village: "Have you seen it, you cut off your head every year, every year, it's really dead!" ”

Looking at the heads stacked in the basket, Song Nian frowned slightly, but this era is already ignorant, and it is already the limit that she can affect several people around her.

Not to mention...... It's not necessarily a good thing for her to sell that kind of thought.

Song Nian sighed and stopped thinking about it.

The group entered the village in silence, and the black-armored sergeants camped under the village.

The wall was built very strongly, and General Xue Hu proudly told everyone how much rice soup was added to this rammed earth wall, how much precious wood was used in that arrow tower, and how many people died when they dug the ground to take stones......

When he arrived at Xue Hu's Tiger Hall, the bookkeeper beside Xue Hu whispered a few words.

Xue Hu seemed to realize that he was wrong, so he laughed and said: "Everyone, I, Xue Hu, am a rough person, I only know how to be loyal to the monarch and serve the country, if you say something that everyone doesn't like, forgive your sins." ”

The bookkeeper also grovelled and smiled: "Ladies and gentlemen, please take a seat, my General Xue has put a lot of thought into entertaining you." ”

At this time, there were also many side generals in the hall who were sitting with them, and they were also sitting neatly in the hall, and when they saw everyone coming in, they got up together, and the battle armor on their bodies clanged.

Chu He sat down first, and Song Nian and the others also took their seats.

Lin Lao twisted the table top behind him, and there was sand hidden on the slippery tabletop.

"What can be entertained in such a bitter cold place?" Lin Lao's whispering seemed to be heard by the bookkeeper.

I saw that the bookkeeper clapped his hands gently, and the petite maids brought up seven or eight food boxes one after another.

Song Nian was stunned.

This food box is black and red, full of luxury, and it is the Chu Feng lacquerware that is popular in the south of the Yangtze River.

She knew this thing, in addition to seeing a lot in the museum in her previous life, but also because there was also a lacquer bowl with black on the outside and red on the inside, and her father's baby was not good.

These petite maids skillfully opened the food box.

There are four tiers in this food box.

The first layer is all kinds of "dishes".

Watching food, as the name suggests, is a dish that can only be seen but not eaten.

Flowers carved with onions from the Western Regions.

A phoenix carved from turnips.

Vivid faces

……

The second layer is all kinds of dim sum.

Mille-feuille cake, osmanthus cake, water chestnut cake, cloud slice......

The third layer, cold dishes.

White chopped chicken, beef chiba, vegetarian chicken......

On the fourth floor, the side is hot dishes.

Squirrel carp, lion's head, honey square, snail shrimp......

Then several servants carried a charcoal brazier, on which a copper basin was assumed, and it was slightly steaming.

Song Nian looked at the shape and almost thought it was a hot pot, but when he saw the wine jug on the copper basin, he understood the utensils for warming wine.

A woman dressed in Suya silk clothes, holding a guzheng in her arms, walked in softly, sat down in a corner of the lobby, plucked the strings gently, and sang clearly.

A song of Wu Nong's soft words made several border army generals who accompanied the guests around shake their heads and shook their heads, as if they were fascinated.

Then several servants carried a charcoal brazier, on which a copper basin was assumed, and it was slightly steaming.

Song Nian looked at the shape and almost thought it was a hot pot, but when he saw the wine jug on the copper basin, he realized that it was a vessel for warming wine.

A woman dressed in Suya silk clothes, holding a guzheng in her arms, walked in softly, sat down in a corner of the lobby, plucked the strings gently, and sang clearly.

A song of Wu Nong's soft words made several border army generals who accompanied the guests around shake their heads and shook their heads, as if they were fascinated.

There were also those maids, wandering on both sides of the long table, pouring wine for everyone.

Song Nian was stunned, if it weren't for this bleak cold wind, she once felt that she was in the land of fireworks in the south of the Yangtze River, rather than outside the bitter cold.