"Boss, boss!" The man who "gambled" stammered and pleaded, "I have the silver, and I am afraid of robbery, and it is all stored in the money here...... Grace overnight, tomorrow the sun will come out......" As soon as he finished speaking, the sentry sentry grinned and said, "It's done! Go back, they stay...... Hey, hey, hey...... Bring money to ransom people tomorrow morning! Then I heard a group of people shouting and cheering: "Guo Tou'er Shengming!" You go back and get the money, and the women stay! "It doesn't matter if you don't send it tomorrow, it's the day after tomorrow!" "It's going to be the day after tomorrow!" ……

At this point, Yan Yan and the others have already understood that this defeated soldier not only extorted money in the name of catching and gambling, but also raped women from good families, which was ten times worse than that of bandits. Yan Yan didn't expect that the military discipline of Shandong Green Camp was corrupted to this point, listening to the obscene words and words next door to mock the woman, he was so angry that his head was faint for a while, his hands and feet were cold, and he was helpless when, he heard the merchant's woman cry "woo", and then the three women also handed a mournful and mournful, and the woman complained to her husband while crying: "You are a ...... who kills a thousand knives I said that my sister's family was poor in the city, so I would give her a few taels of silver to live in her house...... It's Wang Yan who rebelled against thieves and entered the city, is it so bad? It's a bandit kidnapping...... There's a rule, too...... You dead man, you have not accumulated virtue in eight lifetimes...... I say that I have long hair and short knowledge......" Yan Yan and a few people listened, and always felt that this man was a wreck, and when he was thinking about it, the man spoke again, and he no longer had the original pitiful cowardice:

"Sir!" The man said, "Where is it not a good acquaintance, why do you want to kill all people?" I, Qiao Jiarui, am not a nobody in Pingyi, the dead county lord Chen Ying is my cousin, and your Yanzhou Mansion Liu Xiyao Zhentai is my brother - if I am not an official relative, I will not leave Pingyi City! - In this way, I said that you can choose one of the two charters, and according to me, after the two are good, they will be friends. If you don't listen, you killed my family of five tonight, and that's my life. Just one sentence to persuade you, if you want to kill in one breath, don't stay, lest you invite trouble in the future! ”

His words were neither humble nor arrogant, nor hurried, and he spoke in a sound voice, as if he had suppressed the group of soldiers. After being silent for a while, I heard the surname Guo smile and said, "Is there still this hand, knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger?" The poor who are not afraid of debts, but the heroes who are afraid of debt collection. I don't force you, and there's no 'charter' – talk about it! Qiao Jiarui said: "One, I will write you an IOU of fifty taels, and let me go with my family." 21. I will stay as the leader, let my family go, and bring the silver tomorrow morning, which is also fifty taels. It is not easy for the brothers to maintain law and order here, and they want to play with women and make the silver go to Huacui Pavilion. If it's still not satisfactory, then I just said, listen to the order! ”

There was a sound of clothes, and these soldiers seemed to hesitate to exchange glances, and Guo Touer said: "Write a hundred taels, you walk." I'm not afraid that you'll fly into the sky - tell you, don't think about any fucking town support, Pingyi is bad, he will withdraw early! Lao Tzu works hard here, and there is no salary, don't make up your mind from you old wealth, let's drink the northwest wind? ”

This is also a truth, the four people in this room have been stunned, only to listen to the ink grinding next door and the pen Suo, Qiao Jiarui wrote according to the painting and pressed the handprint, and left with the footsteps of the family, still from a distance to hear the cry, the four people expected to be okay tonight, they were all relieved, just about to sleep again, that Guo Touer asked: "Have you collected it all?" Lao Wu, how many have you ordered? ”

"It's almost done. Even Qiao Jiarui's counted more than four hundred taels. The shrill voice laughed. Yan Yan only learned his surname Wu at this time, and listened to him say: "Some only stay for one night, like this—" He paused for a moment, and seemed to poke his finger into the east room, "so they were exempted. Your words have a bad reputation when they get out—" He was interrupted before he could finish his sentence: "! Do good, go to the temple! I just went to the account room to check, and there was no identity introduction, and there were more than 100 taels of silver stored in the cabinet - maybe it was a good guy and a bad guy! ”

The four people in this room suddenly felt nervous: This is about us! They were all lying in their clothes, but they all sat up in unison, and secretly the four pairs of eyes knew what to expect, and Wang Erlie commanded; "Little Renzi lights the fire and lights the lamp!" I heard the strange laugh of the surnamed Guo next door: "Ho! Twisting your waist with Lao Tzu? Before I could say anything, he said, 'Little Renzi, light the lamp'! - Check it out! ”

There was a sound on the bed in the room, and the sticks and knives touched Ding Zero, and then there was a sound of footsteps, and the door "slammed" shut, and the next door was not a few steps away, and the four people got out of bed, and saw the straw curtain "sigh" up, and five or six soldiers in numbered coats had broken in, and the wind that brought in blew the small oil lamp that had just been lit into darkness, and it was only after a few years that the light was restored. When Yan Yan looked at it, there were six people in the group, all of whom were very stout, only the leader Guo Tou'er was slightly thinner and shorter, and the other five were all carrying big blades, with a face full of flesh, a stick in one hand and a rope in the other, and they were all looking at Yan Yan viciously. Yan Yan panicked in his heart, and his hands clenched the cedar edge on the bed, forcing himself to calm his mind. Wang Erlie saw that the tall man with his head seemed to be about to pounce at any time, and his body stood up in front of Yan Yan, and asked, "What do you want?" ”

"I want to check on you!" A pair of eagle falcon triangular eyes surnamed Guo swept around and asked, "Where did you come from?" ”

"Beijing!" Wang Erlie spoke Liaodong dialect and said without tolerance.

"Where? Do? ”

"Go to Zaozhuang and procure coal for the Ministry of Internal Affairs!"

"The Ministry of Internal Affairs? What does the Ministry of Internal Affairs do? I haven't heard of this yamen, I just heard that there is a Shuntian Mansion! ”

"The Internal Affairs Mansion is a little bigger than the Shuntian Mansion, a little smaller than the Governor's Yamen, and it is specially for the emperor to run errands, haven't you heard that your character is too small!"

The surnamed Guo was choked by Wang Erlie, and said with a smile: "This year, there are many adults who eat melons!" The day before yesterday, we found a little hairy child, and he was stunned and said that he was the follower of Fu Siye! The butcher said that he was a brother with us Liu Zhentai! If you ask again, maybe you even have someone pretending to be Emperor Qianlong! He even teased and sarcastic, and the soldiers who came with him laughed, and the surnamed Guo changed his face and asked:

"If you come to Zaozhuang, why don't you go to Weishan Lake? Don't know that Pingyi is fighting? ”

"I don't know. Our cousin is in Pingyi, and he can't go to Weishan Lake. ”

Guo Tou'er used his mouth to nun the people, and asked, "What are they doing?" "This is our young owner, Shi Wuye, the two of them are family members, and I am the master of the bookkeeper." Wang Erlie said, "Our goods are delayed in Pingyi, and the top is in a hurry, and Ming'er has to rush to Pingyi!" Guo Tou'er snorted, stepped on the broken stool with a fist, crooked his eyes and squinted to look at Lu Hui'er, who was bluffed and disfigured, and looked at the sperm of the person standing next to Yan Yan, Gege smiled, and said: "You are so difficult to shave your head!" Is it a thorn? What about your introduction? Even if it's the Ministry of Internal Affairs, there should always be a certificate, right? ”

"The introduction is in the package, and there is a coil, for fear of putting it here to make someone hack or steal it, and it is stored in the store." Wang Erlie frowned and said, "I'm going to take the lead, the shopkeeper said that he would stay overnight and leave, and he didn't need to register—you can call him and ask him." "Lao Tzu has no kung fu!" Guo Tou'er put away a sinister smile, stood up straight, raised his hand to designate Lu Hui'er, and said, "The Qingping world is bright and clear, why do women dress up as men?" Brethren, do you say that this person is suspicious? ”

"Suspicious!"

The soldiers raised their voices and shouted in unison. Even the soldiers who didn't come next door shouted. "It's so suspicious!" Guo Tou'er said, "Take us to the house for trial!" You are an iron rooster, I have steel pliers, I can't pluck your hair if I don't believe it! A few soldiers shouted, "Go, all over!" ”

"Slow!" Yan Yan, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, suddenly waved his hand and said loudly, "Who are you?" Do you have a synopsis primer? The collection of money and grain is the business of the magistrate, and the green battalion soldiers have this right? You are bold! You're worse than a bandit! Guo Tou'er came over, grinned, and stared at Yan Yan as if he was looking at something rare, and his body was so stinking with a mouthful of wine, "What, the master is a bandit?" Bandits are bandits, who will give them food and drink if they are not bandits? You ignorant little rabbit, t-"

He stretched out his hand to grab the collar of Yan Yan, the sperm on the side no longer dared to endure it, and did not dare to violate the ban of Yan Yan not to kill, stretched out his left hand on his cheek, and his right arm quickly went out of his palm into Guo Touer's arms, only one shock, that Guo Tou'er did not finish half a sentence "Mom" screamed, the paper harrier generally "floated" backwards, "tom" smashed the whole body on the reed wall, smashed the reed fence to a pulp, the person was already next door, the house suddenly mud and fur knots flew wildly, and the dust and mist splashed rose into the air.

At this moment, even the next door was in chaos, and there was a rumbling sound between shouting and scolding, shouting: "There are thieves! "The robbers have come down the mountain!" Some of them drew their swords and held sticks, and some of them fled from their holes, and some of them went through their holes...... The surname Guo touched his head somewhere, and he shook his head with a knife in one hand and swayed back with the top of his head in the other, pointing at Yan Yan and shouting: "They are all thieves, brothers, there are many of us, please reward them for taking them!" Immediately, I heard the big gong outside the store sifting all over the street: "Light the lantern and put the torch, the evil tiger villagers took the thief and sacrificed the village god-" Suddenly the street was also lively, and the strong men of all households greeted, shouting and shouting "protect the village", shouting and scolding, and gradually approached, the chickens and dogs barked as if the village was full of people boiling.

Seeing that he was about to suffer a big loss, the sperm was so anxious that he was sweating all over, and seeing Wang Erlie twisting his brows and thinking of his own ideas, Yan Yan was still calm, and shouted with a white face: "Call them here, call them all here, dare to rebel?!" Hui'er was still busy kneeling on the kang and dragging her luggage to pull her luggage. The human sperm heard it clearly, and the soldiers outside had already run around the house, and they were really anxious, so they jumped on the bed, took out the short gun that Qianlong gave to Yan Yan and the string of guns like a yellow snake from the luggage belt, held it to Yan Yan in a pocket, and said hurriedly: "This is not as good as Huanghua Town, thirty-six plans - go!" The master took this, the two of them followed, and I broke off - there is one who stops, let go of mercy, and fire at his head! That Guo Tou'er was still standing at the mouth of the reed hole, watching them busy in a daze, and only then did he wake up, stomp his feet and pull his throat, and shouted with all his strength: "Block the door!" Dog's Day is leaving! ”

"Bang!"

A crisp sound silenced Guo Tou'er, and also covered the voices of people inside and outside the house - it was Yan Yan who shot at Guo Tou'er, and even he himself was frightened: After he was seven years old, he and his brother and brother shot every day, hunting every autumn, shooting wolves and leopards nine out of ten. But it was the first time to shoot at someone, and there was no accuracy in the panic, and the bullet hit Guo Tou'er's feet, and a flower burst on the ground and jumped up again, hitting Guo Tou'er's palm, and blood immediately flowed. Guo Touer was also stunned: What kind of gun is this? There is only one child, can you still hurt people if you jump on the ground? - No need to twist a little!

At this moment, while everyone inside and outside was stunned, the sperm rushed to Guo Tou'er's side with an arrow, clamped him with one arm, compared the dagger to his neck with one hand, dragged away, and kicked down the grass curtain at the door, and saw more than a dozen torches in the courtyard shining brightly, and more than 40 soldiers still opened their mouths and stared at the door of the house - with a little effort under their armpits, Guo Tou'er's purple head was swollen and his face was hard to breathe. The human sperm tiger stood at the door with a murderous face and shouted: "Get out of the way, let us walk!" Whoever dares to move, I will kill him with a little force! A big man seemed to be the deputy leader, and stammered, "Good man!" Which...... Which mountain? Dare to commit a crime in this village! Let's get out of the way...... You put people down......"

"Fart! Do you know the rules? Move! The human sperm shouted, "Go outside the village and release the people!" ”

Soldiers, you look at me, I look at you, and look at Guo Tou'er, as if waiting for him to speak, but Guo Tou'er was really caught by sperm, and he could only hold his breath and earn his life, his eyes were round, he couldn't say a word, and his crab-like hands and feet were pierced and his body couldn't move. When the stalemate moved, the officers and soldiers softened, slowly, it seemed to be a little lazy and flashed a wide opening, and the human sperm let Wang Erlie and Hui'er go forward, and the guns followed, and he was at the back, dragging the half-dead Guo Touer out of the store. At this time, three or four hundred people outside the store gathered, and the lanterns and torches were shining.

About two miles away from the Evil Tiger Village, we have arrived at the Surabaya River. There is no bridge here, and the official road is submerged under shallow water, and next to it is a step-by-step river crossing stone. The dark river is wrapped in broken ice and snow and flows from among the rocks. When the officers and soldiers saw them stepping on rocks and crossing the river, some people shouted: "Hey! Hero, if you talk about it, it's time to let us go! "The sperm knows that once Guo Tou'er is released, the officers and soldiers will pounce on him like wasps and chase after him. He turned his face and said to Yan Yan: "Men go first!" I'll go into the mountains for a while, and as soon as I get into the mountains, they won't dare to chase them! Yan Yan muttered and asked, "That'...... What about you? ”

"Hey, at this time, my master is still such a mother-in-law! What am I? The human sperm stomped his feet and said, "You just have to go, I can get out, and I can find you!" I'll leave in half an hour! ”

What else did Yan Yan say, Wang Erlie pulled his shirt beside him and said, "Fifteenth Master, this is his messenger, otherwise let me stay!" Yan Yan was speechless, took Hui'er's hand and jumped step by step, and disappeared into the darkness.

This is a hundred-mile canyon at the southern foot of Mengshan Mountain, the north mountain goes straight to the top of Guimeng, the south mountain is the holy water valley, thousands of ravines and ravines are vertical and horizontal, and below is the Sihe River. The three of them crossed the river for five miles and went down the official road, anxious like a fish that slipped through the net, busy like a lost dog, and went to the mountain when they saw the road. Gao Yi and one low foot stepped on the path between the rocks for two hours, and then Yan Yan stopped, wiped the sweat on the top of his forehead and said in shock: "It doesn't matter, Hui'er has already broken her foot, let's talk about it." So they sat down on a stone by the side of the path, but they were silent for a moment.

Once the sweat on the body, the first one is to feel the strange cold and unbearable, at this time to pay attention, the three of them know that they have drilled into a mountain pass, the stars in the sky are covered by a thin cloud, the chaos can be seen that the east wall and the west wall are mountains, although it is not a steep cliff, standing high under the purple ochre sky, there is a feeling that people are breathless, the mountains are full of miscellaneous trees of the Hessian forest, look at the scenery of pine, cypress, oak and poplar of all colors, the wind in the mountain is like a frost, a burst of blowing, hit the hands of the wooden face stiff and cold, The roaring pine waves were surging in the dark, and the old branches of the trees were shaking wildly overhead, making a frightening creaking sound. Wang Erlie saw that he was sitting like a stone man, Hui'er hugged her chest and shrunk her neck and trembled, and the sound of shaking her teeth was repeated. After thinking about the idea, he asked Hui'er: "We haven't lost our customs documents, right?" ”

"No, I didn't lose it," Hui'er said, "I didn't have time to sew my shoes, I ...... in my gown."

"Where's the Lord's seal?"

"It's so cool—I'm in my underwear......"

"Do you have any money?"

…………

After a while, Hui'er replied, "A little ...... It's a hairpin that the fifteenth master rewarded me in Huanghua Town, can ...... Can you change two hangings......" Yan Yan thought to herself, listening to Hui'er speak, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart, and she pursed her lips when she wanted to speak. Wang Erlie said: "Two hangings are not a small amount, but there is no pawnshop in this deep mountain and old forest to exchange money......" Seeing that Yan Yan had been sitting silently, he warmed his hands and asked, "Fifteenth master, are you tired?" It's cold here, can you barely go again? ”

"It's also cold and tired. But I have a fox fur vest inside, and I can still hold it up. Yan Yan's voice looked a little melancholy in the night, "I think about Ama Eniang for a while, Jinan for a while, and I want to be cold and hungry for a while." The light is bizarre and unpredictable, a bit like a play, and I don't believe it's real. Wang Erlie said with a smile: "The Caiyun Pavilion turned into nothingness with a flick of his fingers. It is truly a miracle in the world to be tortured like this as you...... I thought I was frightened in Huanghua Town, and there would be no more such a thing, but there was still a Evil Tiger Village! Don't talk about the great truth that Mencius said, 'Heaven will descend on the people'. In my same year, Zheng Banqiao gave me a painting that read, 'Suffering is a blessing', which is intriguing. If you can't read it in books, you can sharpen it at home, and I'm afraid this knowledge is more useful. Yan Yan nodded yes and said with a smile: "I've seen that character, this is an interesting person." Huang Ama asked the brothers to send envoys, and there was also a meaning of sharpening in it-" He was about to go on, and Hui'er suddenly exclaimed: "There are wolves!" Suddenly threw himself into Yan Yan's arms, shrunk under his armpits and trembled!

Wang Erlie and Yan Yan jumped up as if someone had lifted the machine spring, and Yan Yan was already holding a gun. Looking in the direction of Hui'er's finger, but on the downhill road, there was a swarthy guy squirming, about five feet away from people, the size of a calf, and his movements did not seem to be very dexterous, because the mountain pass was against the wind, the animal did not hear anyone on the slope talking, the wolf wolf was inferior and went up a few steps, and stood vigilantly, a pair of eyes the size of a wine glass were yellow and green, the ground was slightly glowing, and he looked at this side without moving. Hui'er's eyes were sharp, and she said in a low voice: "It's a leopard, I don't know what it is in its mouth, it's an elk?" Is it a sheep? I can't see ...... clearly" Wang Erlie also said in a low voice: "The fifteenth master, don't be busy firing...... Watch him move and then talk ......"

The three of them were sweaty, and they looked at each other with the leopard, and there was enough time for a bag of cigarettes, and the beast purred in his throat, flicked its black tail, and reluctantly turned sideways and jumped into the hazel bushes, and with a loud noise, went away. Wang Erlie increased the amount with his hand and said, "It's so dangerous! Hui'er also said: "God! This is the mountain god who protects our fifteenth master...... Amitabha, Nan no Guanyin Bodhisattva Niangniang ......"

Although there is a false alarm, but it is not suitable to stay here, seeing that the sky is darker, it is almost dawn, even the big stones on the road are difficult to distinguish, and the downhill road is extremely difficult to walk, the three people Wang Erlie is in front, Yan Yan is in the middle and pulls Hui'er, holding hands and groping step by step, hearing the rooster crowing in front, they are all relieved, this is not far from the village. Unconsciously, the sky has dawned, three people out of a sweat, under the faint dawn can see clearly, still in the mountains and thickets, the steep road down the mountain nest across a small village, there can only be eight or nine households, are firewood huts, along the mountain is lined up, behind the house is layers of terraces, in front of the house a diameter path winds to the snake to the bottom of the mountain, not in the mist and clouds, look around, three people are standing on the frozen solid ice, chessboard-like boundary, rice stubble in the ice slightly exposed - it turned out to be a rice field in the high mountainside - Looking back at the road, but seeing strange rocks and thorns and hazel reckless cover, it is a stone path built according to the mountain flood drainage road, and it stretches straight to the peak like a ladder...... I can't help but secretly wonder, how did you get here last night? …… It seemed that it was only in a trance, and the sky was already bright. Wang Erlie felt that the light was fast, and only after judging the situation did he understand that this village was extremely high, with an open mountain pass in the east, and a gentle mountain beam between the north and south peaks in the west. Seeing the big willows in front of the gate of the earthen wall, the straw stacks on the empty field, the stone grinding plate and the well mortars are all available, lying quietly in the thin light, it is very quiet and peaceful. Wang Erlie couldn't help but secretly think: This is a good place to study, and just as he was about to speak, Yan Yan smiled and said: "Another village, a good place to go!" Hui'er looked at the two of them, Wang Erlie's sauce-colored robe and gown were all torn triangular openings, one on the left and one on the right, and the rags were floating all over his body as he spoke. Yan Yan is also a general description, the hair on the braid is stained with grass knots, the bullet strip tied around the waist is half hanging and dangling, and there is a thin blood mark on the cheek. Both of them are disgraced and unaware. Hui'er was just about to laugh, and immediately thought of herself, when she looked down, there was a big hole in the corner of her pants, and her cotton shoes were also blooming, so she was busy touching the placket, and the customs documents were still there, so she was relieved, she rubbed her face, squatted down and slapped the dust on her body for Yanyan, and picked the crochet in her hair, and said: "Master Wang is also cleaning up, there is coal on this mountain!" Why do you make yourself like a stove king? As he spoke, he glanced at Yan Yan again, lowered his head and smiled. Yan Yan and Wang Erlie paid attention to each other at this time, and they both covered their mouths and smiled, but they had nothing to "clean up", they only rubbed their faces with their sleeves and slapped the dust with grass and dirt. Hearing the movement in the village, Yan Yan smiled and said, "The most important thing now is to have a full meal, rest, and figure out where we are." I'm hungry these days! Wang Erlie said: "There are people over there who come out to fetch water, and there is cooking smoke and food in the village." Fifteenth master, let's beg for food! Hui'er pointed to the family at the intersection of the mountain and said, "I can see clearly, the smoke of that family is early." Just go to his house, if there is any danger, it will be easier to escape. She tucked the gun into the placket and tied it on the belt for Yan Yan, and said: "Master tucked the gun into the robe, so when people go in, they will be scared when they see you, but how is it good?" ”

After cleaning up for a while, Hui'er looked still unfounded, but there was nothing to do, so she just said: "It's easy to get a needle and a wire when you enter someone's house - take advantage of the lack of people, let's call the door." After that, the three of them walked towards the village, and they saw the scorching red sun rising on the ground, and the pickled egg yolk was like being supported by the sea of clouds, and the faint sun was reflected, and there was a slight warmth. The well in the village was close to the west of the rice field, and two people were slowly drawing water with a bucket on a flat pole, and when they heard the barking of dogs, they only watched from a distance for a while, and then lowered their heads to fetch water, but no one came to talk. They cautiously walked through the rice fields, stepped on the ice on the pond and went ashore, and went to the first house in the east, where the gate was made of wattle firewood, and the courtyard wall was also made of firewood, and they patted it lightly twice, and even the wall shook for a while, and then they heard a goose cry in the courtyard, "Oh-oh-oh——! A loud voice came, and an old lady's voice asked through the door, "Who is it?" ”

"We're passing." Hui'er glanced at Wang Erlie and replied, "I met the robber of Dao'er at night...... Flee here. Lady is fine, leave us for a meal......" The old lady inside did not answer, but a child shouted in a very loud and high-pitched voice: "Mother! It's passing! I'm going to eat at our house! Only then did the three of them know that the old lady was listening, and they heard the old lady cough and say, "Who is carrying the aisle of the house?" Stones, open the door to the guests! The little stone promised to jump out, and only opened the door after blowing the goose, but it was a little trick of seven or eight years old, wrapped in a big cotton jacket, and looked at the two men and one woman in front of him with a blink of eyes on the "sky kicking" on his head, and after a while, he turned around and shouted: "They came from the cool breeze!" I really met the king of the mountain! He opened the door cheerfully and said, "Come in." The old lady was choosing vegetables at the door of the house, and she had already stood up, looked at the three of them, and said, "Sit down in the hall." The water was already boiling, and the stones were used to make tea for the grandfathers. His grandfather went to fetch water, and he will come back to cook in a while...... Alas...... It's not easy to go out...... It's not forced to die, who wants to walk in the cool breeze at night? It's not easy......" chattered, and the three of them sat down, still choosing dried vegetables.

This is three low thatched houses, all stacked with slabs, the mud skin is tightly sealed, because the morning sun, and at the entrance of the village, does not seem narrow and dark, the wide courtyard even the chicken coop goose house cowshed is made of stone, the wall is stacked high are firewood, swept a grass knot is gone, the soft sunlight almost from the east flat into the house, the stone table, the stone pier, the stone god case, the stone shrine, quietly bask there, as soon as you sit down, you feel solid and peaceful. Seeing that the stone was busy adding firewood and water to the east stove, Yan Yan asked, "What is the old man's surname?" ”

"What?"

"What's your last name?" Hui'er said loudly.

"Oh...... My surname is Shi, Shi Wang's family. His grandfather's name is Shi Zhuzhu...... Fetched water and went. I'll be back in a minute. ”

"How old are you?" Hui'er asked loudly again.

Now the old lady heard it clearly, sighed "sigh", and said, "Ninety-nine! Damn, the coffin boards are rotten, and the grave is dug up...... Old immortal, old immortal...... The older you get, the more immortal you are, the king of Hades doesn't accept it, alas, ......" The three of them looked at each other in amazement, this Shi Wang clan can't live eighty, and I can't imagine such a long life! Xiao Shi took a bowl of tea with a big tea bowl and said with a smile: "Wild tea, made of yellow celery leaves in the mountains, drink it—don't listen to my wife, she is one hundred and eleven years old this year!" If you ask again next year, she will still be 'ninety-nine'! ”

The three of them couldn't help but look at each other in shock, but no one believed it. Wang Erlie counted his fingers and asked loudly, "Wu Sangui, do you know?" "Wu Sangui? Know, know—the way. The old lady squeezed her sunken cheeks, carefully pinched off a wild vegetable root, and muttered in her mouth, "And Geng (Jingzhong) Wang Ye Shang (gratifying) Wang Ye, what is the opposite!" There are soldiers all over the world, and one acre of land has to pay five buckets of military rations...... I was seventeen and had just come out of the cabinet...... His grandfather hasn't been born yet...... The world was not good, a pound of salt required a bucket of rice, and the tofu rose to seven yuan. I only ate a pound of tofu during confinement, and I didn't have brown sugar...... Iniquity...... I lived to be ninety-nine years old, and I never lived that ......."

- She was talking about the "Rebellion of the Three Feudatories" at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China. This is indeed an old man who is more than 110 years old, the incident is remembered, the years are chaotic, and he still stubbornly thinks that he is "ninety-nine" - the folk are also a little taboo, and the three of them can't help but laugh when they hear her talk about "early years". While she was talking, Hui'er looked for a stone to ask for a needle and thread to stand behind Yan Yan and mend her clothes.

After a while, Grandpa Stone also returned. He himself did not carry water, and was followed by a middle-aged man in his forties, with a burden of water on his shoulders. This old man looks to be in his sixties, not tall, looking honest and strong, the aisle is slamming on the stone floor, and the small stones are jumping up to meet him and shouting "Seventh Uncle", helping to lift the cylinder cover, and shouting: "Master, there is a visitor-come at night in the cool breeze!" The old bolt only smiled at the three of them, but said to the middle-aged man: "Shan Wazi, when you pass through your fourth aunt's house, you will say that there is a guest, and ask her to make a few pancakes and send them over." Tell the second brother of the stone, the wife has a guest here, she wants to grind rice, and the donkey can't go down the mountain to carry salt, so let's go down the mountain tomorrow! The middle-aged man poured water into the tank, promised in his mouth, smiled at the three of them, and went. Only then did the old bolt pillar say: "The bucket accidentally dehooked, and there was ice on the side of the well, so I asked his seventh uncle to help him fish it up." Alas...... I'm running out of use. ”

While talking, the old man brought out the rice, which was boiled and sticky corn porridge with soybeans, red pepper sauerkraut, salted soybeans, salted red and white radish, fried dried beans, all of which were served in a surprisingly large old coarse porcelain bowl. Although it is a mountain farmer's coarse rice, it is also dazzling, and it is steaming. The three of them ran around all night in fright, and they were already hungry, and their eyes were on fire when they looked at this meal. At one time, I saw a middle-aged woman coming over with a stack of pancakes, and the burnt yellow and fragrant ones were even more sultry, but they were all reserved to take the identity of guests. But the old bolt pillar was not accustomed to hospitality, and when he saw that the woman was leaving, he said, "His fourth aunt, you can also come and sit." I, I had to hurry up the mountain, and there were clamps up and down the mountain[1]

This! The woman was not polite, and the family often sat down, and said with a smile: "The third brother is like this, and he sweats when he sees the living." Come! Like your own family, you can't eat enough to blame yourself - ancestor, you still blindly carrots? The bread I baked with green onion flowers is fragrant! Get one? As she spoke, the old lady pushed the pancakes away and said, "Leave me alone!" Yan Yan took the cake and rolled the green onion, smeared the sauce like Hui'er, took a bite, and praised: "Fragrant!" Sure enough, it's good! The fourth aunt smiled and said, "Sure enough—it turns out that this cake is called 'sure enough' in your piece—this name is really pompous!" Everyone laughed.

So everyone talked and laughed while eating, and also lost the fourth aunt, who was capable and quick to speak, and with small stones, the table was full of excitement. Gossip asked, only to know that this village is called Liangfengkou, nine families are surnamed Shi, Shiwang is the ancestor of this village, by each family in turn to provide food, clothes and utensils are the ancestral hall to raise her. Going down the Shili Mountain Road from the cool breeze mouth, there are two villages along the way that are all descendants of the Shi family, and they have to honor the old lady if they have fresh food and prey. Because the mountain is too high, the government levies only the first two Shijia villages, and there is no such thing as levying taxes at Liangfengkou, and the fourth aunt said: "I just got married, and I cried all day long, saying that this is not touching the world and not touching the ground, and it is counted as eight lifetimes of blood mold." Later, I looked, there is no captain and no chief, there is no food to rent in the middle of the night, there is no house to open the tile to ask for accounts, plant vegetables and eat vegetables and grow grain to eat grain, there is a mill house for rice, a stone press house can make oil, and there is nothing lacking except for carrying salt down the mountain! - My brother came up to take a look, and said where to find a good place? I went down the mountain with the antlers and tiger bones, and I watched him go, crying and crying and remembering his words, and laughing again! She sighed again, "Ah...... I just miss my father and my mother, and I also want to go to the market and watch a play or something......" Shi Xuanzhu listened to her chatter, pouted hard while picking up the rice at the bottom of the bowl: "Be content!" Yan Yan just laughed, reserved but did not hesitate to drink porridge, ate pancakes and wotou, sandwiched beans and radishes, and only felt that everything was good. Wang Erlie asked about the situation on the cottage here, and asked how far the county seat was.

"Look-" The fourth aunt pointed to the distance with hazelwood chopsticks, "that is Guimeng Ding'er, below is the mountain temple, and further south is Pingyi City." I heard the merchant Dan'er say that the master of Gong Zhai took the wrong medicine and rebelled, and there was a man named Wang or something, who was a military advisor and took Pingyi City. Yan Yan asked, "How far is Pingyi?" "Ten miles down the mountain, ten miles up the mountain, twenty miles." The fourth aunt said, "There is also a village above the cool breeze. There is also a village at that Shengshuiyu, and there are only 100 people, and they often beat us here. I heard that all the villages have closed the villages and closed the mountains, and at this time, they are afraid that they will recruit officers and soldiers to fight, and they will not rob the road, why did you encounter it? Yan Yan smiled but did not answer, and asked: "You are so close to the cottage, don't the kings come to rob?" Stone said loudly, "They won't rob us, but give me jelly beans to eat!" The old bolt pillar said: "People pay attention to a rabbit and don't eat the grass next to the nest." Those are all poor people, who resist rent at the bottom of the mountain or steal people and rob people, and the government can't stay up the mountain......" "Yes." The fourth aunt said, "The rules on this road are that robbing money and not killing people." The old wealth at the bottom of the mountain is afraid of them, and if there is a ticket to go up the mountain, those who would rather die than have a penny will tear up the ticket. Not to mention bandits, it's still a person, even the tigers and leopards on this mountain, if they have a bite to eat, they can easily not hurt people. I've seen it a few times, with a rabbit in its mouth, and when I look at you a few times, I dodge it like a cat and a mouse - we have to let a sheep out at night in our village, and the big animal comes and takes it away, and it doesn't hurt anyone! ”

Yan Yan had eaten his fill, put down the bowl and sighed, "This village is interesting. Harsh government is fiercer than a tiger - the aunt can be regarded as a footnote to the "Book of Rites". Wang Erlie wiped his mouth and smiled: "It's good, it's good, the court won't be able to collect money and grain in this way." Although Liang Garden is beautiful, it is not a place to stay for a long time. When we're full, let's go down the mountain! Hui'er plucked the hairpin on her head and held it to Shi Wang's family, and said loudly with a smile: "Old birthday star! This honors you for your old age! Shi Wang took it, squinted at it, and returned it to Hui'er, saying, "You don't need money to eat!" The bolt also said: "Don't want money." He got up and took off the spear hanging on the wall and said, "I went up the mountain." The fourth aunt said: "You are the victims, who have we become when you take the money?" The merchant who came up in this village sells a needle and thread brain or something, buys goods or not, we are all customers! Wang Erlie saw the stone dripping and looked at the silver hairpin with a pair of eyes, and said with a smile: "If you don't accept it, the stone will be accepted!" If you don't want to, bring us some food down the mountain, and you will be able to accept your affection. He took the hairpin and stuffed it into the stone's hand. The stone looked at the rare little hand for a long time, put it on the stone table, and said loudly: "In the autumn, my father took me to the set, and I saw this thing in the Evil Tiger Village!" My father said, wait for me to marry my daughter-in-law and buy it for me! When everyone laughed, the stone jumped up and jumped out, shouting, "I'll go and prepare the donkey, and go to the mill to grind rice!" ”

At the moment, the fourth aunt and Hui'er are brushing the dishes and pots, Yan Yan and Wang Erlie are planning in a low voice, Liangfengkou Village is only five miles away from the Liangfengding bandit village, no matter what, it is not a safe place, it looks like the situation Fukangan has been on the top of the turtle, the sperm is separated for a while, and it is difficult to contact Fukangan, the bandits here close the mountain, it is just the meaning of waiting and seeing, Fukangan can not beat the turtle top in a war, the bandits will coax a rebellion, it is very dangerous. I talked to the fourth aunt a few words, knowing that the officials and soldiers on the edge of the city were just shrinking, and they did not dare to abandon the camp and escape, and there was a small post station in the official pavilion ten miles down the mountain, so I made up my mind to go down the mountain to contact Fukangan, and to mediate and dispatch in the hidden section near the county seat. As he was talking, Xiao Shi ran and jumped back and said: "The fourth grandfather also went up the mountain, saying that there was a wild boar caught in the palm nest, and only one leg was clamped, I am afraid that it will break free, and the adults will go up!" The fourth aunt said through the door: "The ready-made rice in the milling house, you go over and put the donkey on it, and I will go over immediately." Wang Erlie and the others felt that it was inconvenient to talk here, so they got up and said, "We are also idle, just go with the stones." ”

The mill house is behind the Shiwang family's house, built according to the mountain, and it is also a stone wall and grass roof, Wang Erlie and Yan Yan discussed things in a low voice all the way, followed the stone in, and the donkey was already tied to the door. The little stone was a quick one, and he didn't wait for Wang Hao and the others to do it, but led the donkey and put on the pole, and the two helped spread the rice, and it stopped in an hour. But it's weird, let the little stone whip and beat the stomach and legs, the two of them shouted and shouted beside them, the beast twisted its neck and kicked its legs to struggle its body, dead or alive just refused to turn in circles, the three of them were so tired that they were panting heavily, staring at nothing to do. The fourth aunt and Hui'er came with a dustpan and a pocket, and the fourth aunt smiled: "Why don't you blindfold your eyes?" Blindfolded it and left. Yan Yan and Wang Erlie couldn't help but be surprised: What kind of Tao is this? Seeing that the stone's little hands were blindfolded, he hesitated and also blindfolded his hands with his hands.

But I couldn't hear the sound of the donkey pushing and grinding, only the two women were gegegehehehe...... As if laughing unstoppable, the two of them put down their hands, only to see the fourth aunt bending over with a dustpan, laughing so much that she lost her eyes, Hui'er squatted on the ground with a cloth bag in her hand and smiled softly, she couldn't even breathe, and it took a long time for Hui'er to change her breath, pointing to the donkey and saying, "The fourth aunt is talking about donkeys...... Cover the donkey's eyes before turning the mill! The two of them just realized that they couldn't help laughing out loud......

In addition to a small bag of rice, there is also a cloth bag, air-dried mutton, walnuts, mountain dates, and Codonopsis astragalus also stuffed a big bag, and the small stone moved a deer antler from the fourth aunt's house, and a small bag of musk, and also stuffed a bulging bag with a badger skin bag, the old lady Shi was still chattering: "You don't have a coil, what is this enough to do......" The three people excused, and saw that the mountain trail was crawling all over the sweat and came up alone, a small beige flag was inserted obliquely at the back of his neck, a gong was hung in his waist, and he struck the gong at one end and the other end, shouting in his mouth: "Huang family - dart letter over the mountain!" Worship the green forest - a hero, Gong San is a blind man - rebellion, the heavenly soldiers conquest - bandits. From the bandits—the calamity is full of evil, and the return is obedient—and hereby beckons, and I respectfully advise—the brothers, don't lose—a thousand lifetime opportunities—" The footsteps followed the gong and shouted slogans, and hurried past the door, without talking to anyone, and gradually went away again.

"This is the famous Huang Tianba's dart head, who sent a letter to the master of the cottage." The fourth aunt saw the three of them stunned, and said with a smile, "Wang Lun rebelled the year before last, and he also shouted like this. He went up the mountain like this, and the mountain masters would not harm his life......" Yan Yan was secretly happy when he heard this.

So the three of them resigned from the Shi family. Wang Erlie carried the bag of rice, Hui'er carried the walnut dates, and Yan Yan couldn't say that the master was on the shelf, so he hung a badger skin bag rope on his shoulder, and walked down the mountain step by step. After five or seven miles of scenery, no one comes and goes on the mountain road, turns a long downhill, faces the northeast slope of the two villages, only a pond in the middle, there are Qingtang tile houses in the village, there are also pigsty-like low dark earthen thatched huts, it is already rich and poor at a glance, asked people, sure enough, they are the descendants of the ancestors of the cool breeze, looking for people to beg for saliva to drink, men and women have a pair of black eyes and good beads staring, for fear that people will take the sheep and steal the leftovers of the stove house...... Then turn the corner and go to the southeast, all the way are gently sloped terraces, the road is mixed with muddy water on the cow dung and donkey dung, and the pigs and sheep in the field are crooked, which has become noisy and dirty. Because it is a downhill road from the cool breeze mouth, out of Shijia Village, the three of them feel that their legs are soft and their feet and necks are sore, looking at the sun It is not yet noon, and there is still five miles of road to the official pavilion in front. I walked another way and asked people, but I still said "five miles". Yan Yan brought the least things, and he couldn't bear it, so he sat on the dirt ridge on the side of the road, and said stupidly: "Five miles, five miles!" If you ask further, it's still 'five miles'! Wang Erlie knew that this elder brother had a temper, and just said "It's okay to rest", Hui'er pointed to the front and said, "Who is that?" ”

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Clips, traps set in traps to catch prey.