Hua Lao Hu is the man who stopped the Ou family's carriage on the road that day and provoked trouble.

It is said that he was arrested by Zhao Mingtao's soldiers that day and locked up in prison for more than 40 days. Because he was the leader of the group of displaced people, and he was the target of the key treatment. The government had intended to deter him and some so-called homeless leaders by first putting him in a cage and parading them through the streets, and then whipping them.

He was very proficient, and when he was parade on the street, he saw Ou Qingjin, who was going to the hot spring village, passing by, and he didn't know where he knew Ou Qingjin's name, so he shouted Ou Qingjin's name for help.

Ou Qing resented him for being unreasonable and arrogant that day, which scared Xia Ruixi, and he didn't want to pay attention to him, but he said loudly: "I heard that there is a fourth young man in the Ou family in Xijing, and at the age of five, he knew how to take out his monthly money to cook porridge and give alms to the victims. Are you actually a villain who will be revenged? ”

Ou Qingjin's servant was furious when he heard this, and took the whip to whip him, but he didn't avoid it, and laughed and said: "If you want to say where I did wrong, it's just that I didn't fall into the grass, kill and rob, just blackmail a few money and food to eat and eat in a petty fight." ”

Ou Qingjin was moved when he heard this, and felt that he was also a man with a true temperament, so he came forward to let him go, gave him dozens of big money, and asked him to buy something to eat and leave quickly.

Who knew that he would refuse to leave, and he would follow Ou Qingjin alive and dead, saying something: "You saved my life today, and I should spend ten years to repay you." I don't like to owe people a favor, whether you want it or not, I have to follow you. I won't serve people, I won't please people, but I'll be more willing to risk my life than the nurses you have hired. Ten years later, I won't have to rush you, I'll go myself. ”

Everyone else thought that he must be a liar or a scoundrel, with bad intentions, and persuaded Ou Qing to drive him away.

Although it is not ruled out that he wanted to find a way for himself to find a way to live and found this excuse to rely on the Ou family, Ou Qingjin secretly liked his unpretentious, rough, and arrogant character. Therefore, they did not say that they should follow him, nor did they drive him away, but in short, they did not exist as if he did not exist.

Hua Laohu was very self-conscious, others rode horses and he walked, but he rushed to the hot spring village only an hour later than them. When he went, Zhuangzi had just finished eating, and no one beckoned him to eat, so he went to the kitchen by himself, found a big bowl, and scooped up all the leftovers in the pot and ate it. Putting down the bowl and going to fetch water, using the largest bucket, walking like a fly, quickly filling the large water tank in the kitchen. He also helped the cook boil water, wash the dishes, and choose vegetables, saying that he did not eat in vain.

Then he followed what he saw others do, and when no one arranged for him to sleep, he went to sleep in the haystack in the stable, and when it was dawn he went to fetch a bucket of cold water and washed his face, and went to work in the same field, with great strength, one for several.

But what really made Ou Qing make up his mind to keep him was his performance when the victims went to steal the seeds in the field at night to eat.

In order to prevent the seeds in the field from being cut down and eaten by the hungry victims, the harvest of the year will be delayed, and everyone will go hungry. The peasants of Xijing spontaneously organized, each armed with a large stick two feet long, and every night they took turns to patrol the field, and when they saw someone digging the seeds in the field, they would send out a signal, and if they caught someone, they would beat them to death. In order to ensure the local spring ploughing and harvest, Yin of Xijing Prefecture also turned a blind eye to these behaviors, and the people did not raise officials and did not report them, so everyone should not know.

Ou Qingjin also persuaded him several times, saying that as long as it is stopped, it can play a deterrent role, and there is no need to fight to the death, but in the end, this is a struggle for survival, and his words will not work at all.

Forget it if you steal a little bit and cheat a little, but cutting seeds is going to kill people, and the tenant farmers hate these strangers who don't leave them a way to live, so they will kill them and bury them in the wilderness, if you don't say it, I won't say it, anyway, the government doesn't know.

Probably because there were too many mosquitoes and fleas in the stables, the flower tiger also followed the tenant farmers to the night patrol. If he followed the tenant farmers to fight those homeless people to the death in order to stay for himself, Ou Qingjin would not be able to tolerate him no matter what. How can a person who can attack his fellow countrymen in order to have a place for himself to have a place to live?

Hua Lao Hu used an unexpected method.

That night someone went to steal the seeds, and a child was bitten on the thigh by the patrol dog, a well-known vicious dog in the hot springs, almost half a man tall, huge, and short-tempered. It bites the person and does not let go, biting the child and throwing it around in a frenzy.

The child's voice was hoarse and numb to let it be shaken like a lump of wood, the child's mother wept bitterly, her fellow villagers did not dare to move for fear of being bitten, and the patrol team held their hands to watch the joke.

Hua Lao Hu didn't say a word, stepped forward, grabbed the back of the dog's neck, and beckoned to the dog with his iron bowl-like fist. He was so strong that the vicious dog was a little dizzy from the beating, so he let go of the child, bared his teeth and barked at him, and pounced on him in turn.

The others were not angry, just watched the battle of one man and one dog, and finally he simply knocked out the teeth of the vicious dog, lifted the two hind legs of the vicious dog and tore it violently, and even tore the dog in half.

The dog's blood splashed his face, and he didn't care, he slammed the dog's corpse on the ground, and said viciously: "In the future, all the land of the Ou family will be managed by Lao Tzu, who dares to dig seeds again, and do this desperate thing that loses his conscience and cuts off people's lives, Lao Tzu will tear it up!" Whoever wants to be unconvinced, let them come to me the flower tiger of the whole state! ”

He pointed to the group of people: "You are also miserable people, you have fled to other people's land, you can rob a little, steal a little, cheat a little, how can you do this kind of thing of cutting off children and grandchildren?" Do you have to be happy if you can't survive, and people will drive you out with big sticks, so that you can't get a little food, and you can't get a little bark into your stomach? ”

Then he did something that stunned the tenant farmers, and he made a fire in the field, skinned the dog, and roasted it to eat. When he was roasting, he took out a small packet of salt from his bosom and smeared it, and the meat was fragrant, and the people present were invited to eat it, and he ran to borrow money from someone to treat the child's wounds. People didn't want to borrow, but they were afraid of him and had to borrow.

The flower tigers in Quanzhou are about to be very famous, anyway, no one has gone to the Ou family's field to dig seeds since then, and even stealing rarely happens.

After Ou Qingjin heard about it, he asked people to return the money he borrowed, and lost other people's dogs, which was equivalent to acquiescing to him staying. Since then, he has been more active, asking people to borrow an old horse, and from time to time he will go to the fields for a run, which saves everyone a lot of effort.

Hua Laohu officially stayed, but he never claimed to be a minion, and when he talked to Ou Qingjin, he would call him four young at most, and the others would still be you, me.

Others said that he didn't know humility, and he glared at him: "Lao Tzu is to repay his kindness, and he also eats by his own labor, and he is not a slave of any family." They all called him young master, listen to him, what else should I do? ”

After listening to what happened, Xia Ruixi said: "Listening to what you say, his temperament is somewhat similar to Wang Zhou's. She is also unwilling to eat and live with us for nothing, and she is also unwilling to join the slavery. I asked her to help me make the baby's little clothes and quilts, and pay her for the work. It's just that this flower tiger has such a violent temperament, and I don't know if it's good to get along with? "If he only listens to Ou Qingjin, but refuses to listen to her, it will be a trouble.

Ou Qing said solemnly: "If you don't like him, I'll ask him not to appear in front of you as much as possible, so that he won't scare you." ”

Xia Ruixi shook his head: "No need, I'm not afraid of him." By the way, now the family is cutting the population, selling a lot of people, and there are fewer people serving in each house and courtyard, and even the Qiao Niang in our yard has been transferred to the outer courtyard as an errand. In my opinion, the Wang Zhou family and Hua Laohu added to our yard, you have to take out some additional money and hand it over to the account room, so as to save others from gossiping. When you have dinner tonight, remember to say it in front of your brother and sister-in-law. ”

Ou Qing responded and rubbed his forehead: "I'm so tired, can you rub it for me?" "If you can't eat meat, you can always drink some soup, right?

Not to mention that the little couple was in the house, but said that Tuan'er was outside, and exaggerated with Chun'er Liang'er to describe the situation when Hua Lao Hu arrived in the kitchen and ate the wind and gobbling up.

"Two sisters, you didn't see it. The big soup bowl with noodles in which the porter eats noodles is filled with spiky food, and he pours it into his mouth without blinking an eye, and he doesn't chew it, and I only see his Adam's apple move, and a big bowl goes down. He also said that he was only half full, and said that our bowl was so small, and three bowls were only one bowl at home, and he only ate two bowls at home. Oh my god, half a meal is enough for me to eat three meals, enough for you to eat for two days. is the old Yuntou who drives the car, and he is recognized as eating the most in our house, but he doesn't eat as much. ”

Chun'er quipped, "Are you exaggerating?" A big soup bowl with a spiky meal that you pour into your mouth at once? He's a big mouth? ”

Liang'er also smiled: "You have to ask him, is the bowl at home as big as a pig food bowl?" He ate so hard that he scared people to death. Thinking of being scared half to death by this person that day, he couldn't help but say hatefully: "It's no different from a pig." ”

Tuan'er hehehefor for a long time, before he said: "What a pig, a pig, it's ugly to death, and I don't look at what kind of people we are, it's almost the same as gluttony." ”

"Yo? Small, still dragged with me? I'll just say pig, what are you going to do? Have you forgotten when you were almost scared to cry by him? Liang'er crossed his waist and was about to pull Tuan'er's ears.

Tuan'er screamed softly, covered his ears and ran away.

Xia Ruixi heard it funny, and said to Ou Qing: "Remember to pay double when you pay for the meal, so that the third sister-in-law will shout that the family is poor." ”

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