"I don't know what the girl is called?" Sister Hu closed the door and led Du Yunnuan to the house.

Du Yunnuan said softly, "My surname is Du." ”

"It turned out to be Miss Du, the room we have prepared for you, this is it."

Sister Hu took out the fire fold and lit the oil lamp on the table, just as Du Yunnuan entered the house and untied the cloak on her body that was even wrapped around her head, she noticed Du Yunnuan's appearance, and exclaimed in surprise.

Du Yunnuan subconsciously looked over.

"The girl is so pretty!"

Du Yunnuan also saw the appearance of this Sister Hu clearly, to be honest, if Yan Tingfeng hadn't called her Sister Hu, Du Yunnuan would have recognized her as a man.

After all, even if this eldest sister is a head taller than her, her body is also very stout, and her voice is a little thick, which is far from the woman in Du Yunnuan's impression.

Now in the dim light of the oil lamp, Du Yunnuan can also see the appearance of this Sister Hu, and at this glance, she knows that Sister Hu is really a woman, but she has lived in the Northland all the year round, her complexion is dark and rough, her voice is also rough, and the tall figure of the Northland people is customary, which makes her mistaken.

However, he was suddenly praised so bluntly, Du Yunnuan's face was dyed crimson, and he saluted Sister Hu, and was very grateful in his words, "Sister Hu, I'm going to bother me during this time." ”

Sister Hu almost couldn't help but stretch out her hand and touch Du Yunnuan's face, but when she thought that this was the little girl sent by the third master personally, she couldn't be the girl who was put on the tip of her heart, so she still didn't want to scare people.

"It's not early, Miss Du should rest early."

Du Yunnuan responded.

Sister Hu gave a few more commands, and personally helped Du Yunnuan make the bed, and then turned around and left.

The north is all burning kang here, especially in this day when the snow has not melted away after the snow, not burning the kang for heating can really freeze a piece of people, when Du Yunnuan entered the bed, the kang was still very warm, she relaxed her spirit, she thought she would not be able to sleep, who knew that she would sleep until dawn.

When Du Yunnuan wrapped herself tightly and went out, Sister Hu happened to be in the yard, so she said hello to Du Yunnuan, "Miss Du, it's early." ”

"Sister Hu is early."

Two children ran out of the house, both of them were boys, and suddenly saw Du Yunnuan and paused, "Mother, who is this sister?" ”

Du Yunnuan just wanted to say that she was not a sister, but when she saw that the children who were so old were taller than her, she couldn't say this immediately.

At this moment, another little girl came out of the kitchen, well, taller than Du Yunnuan, "Second brother, don't shout, this is Miss Du......"

Du Yunnuan hurriedly spoke, "Don't be so polite, my surname is Du, you can call me Miss Du." ”

Sister Hu looked at Du Yunnuan and smiled, "The third master insists on calling me eldest sister, I originally wanted to treat you as a sister, but I see that you are younger than my daughter." ”

Du Yunnuan smiled embarrassedly, "Sister Hu, I'll be fifteen soon." ”

Sister Hu has three children, the eldest is a daughter, named Hu Mei, thirteen years old, and the two sons are younger, Hu Jun is ten years old, and Hu Zheng is only six years old.

"I heard Ah Hui mention you Miss Du, Ah Hui came to greet me in the morning, I must take care of you."

Du Yunnuan's eyes widened, "Ah Hui is...... Brother Hu? ”

"Hu Hui's kid, you should have seen it with the third master."

"I've seen it, it turns out that Sister Hu is the sister of Brother Hu Hui."

Sister Hu also smiled heartily, "Miss Du, hurry up and go wash up, I'll put breakfast in the pot." ”

Du Yunnuan didn't delay any longer, and after washing up, Hu Mei took out the still warm breakfast from the pot, it was a bowl of relatively thick paste, Du Yunnuan noticed that when Hu Mei took out this bowl of mush, she subconsciously swallowed her saliva.

The excitement and joy of seeing Yan Tingfeng yesterday instantly cooled down.

It's not just the soldiers who don't have food here, but also the common people.

Hu Mei ran out after bringing breakfast to Du Yunnuan, Du Yunnuan didn't even have time to call her, sighed in her heart, Du Yunnuan ate breakfast first, and then went to wash the dishes and chopsticks with cold water and put them in the cupboard, and then went out of the kitchen.

Hu Zheng was probing his brain at the gate, and when he saw Du Yunnuan, he retracted his head, and after a while, Sister Hu walked out of the house, "Miss Du, come into the house and sit." ”

"On this cold day, there is nothing to do, and during the day, I just hide in the house to talk and do the work in my hands."

Du Yunnuan deliberately tried it, followed Sister Hu's words, and followed her into the house.

Then Sister Hu closed the door.

After the door is closed, the room is relatively dim, and it is impossible to light an oil lamp all the time, not to mention that kerosene is actually a relatively important strategic material, which is particularly precious in the north and cannot be wasted at will.

"Sister Hu, if I remember correctly, is it almost the New Year? No...... Prepared? ”

Sister Hu didn't answer Du Yunnuan's clear gaze, but asked casually, "Miss Du doesn't seem to be from the Northland?" ”

Du Yunnuan nodded, "Before I came here, I lived in Chixia, which is the Chixia town where the Chixia Academy is located, in Zhejiang Province, and my hometown is in central Jiangsu. ”

Sister Hu smiled heartily, "That's not in Jiangnan, it's also close to Jiangnan." ”

Then the smile on her face fell, "The war in the north has been too long, and there are dozens of families in our town, most of them are family members of the army, and there are very few real locals, who have either fled or died." ”

The topic suddenly became heavy.

"Ten years? Or how long? I forgot that the war never stopped, and a little rest for a year or two would be a good thing. ”

Du Yunnuan also had a general understanding of the war situation in the north, the continuous war had made it almost ten houses and nine empty houses, and there were no ordinary people in the stone city where Yan Tingfeng's hundreds of thousands of troops were stationed.

And there are about seven or eight more cities from Stone Town to Dijing, and in the two cities near Stone Town, there are basically not people who have anything to do with the soldiers in the army, some of their ancestors have been here for generations, their sons and grandsons have joined the army, and some would rather accompany their sons and husbands in the most dangerous places than stay in distant hometowns and miss them.

This also made all the soldiers guarding Stone Town tense the strings, if you tell them that behind them is the imperial capital of the Great Xiao Dynasty, the center of a country, and it must not fall, maybe many people have no concept in their hearts, after all, not everyone is fighting here with the belief of protecting the country, and more people are forced to stand on this blood-stained land.

But if they were told that they could not hold it, the iron hooves of the Tartars would step on the corpses of their loved ones, and they would fight to defend the city.