Li Zongliang's face sank like water, and he was silent for a long time before he whispered: "Shui Sheng and I went around to the northwest of Zhengcheng, walked for more than 20 miles, and were stopped by officers and soldiers, and went around for more than 10 miles to the west, but we still couldn't get around, and there were officers and soldiers everywhere inside and outside the city. ”

"For a while, I won't be able to pass South Vietnam, so I'm afraid I'll have to delay here for a while." Wei Shuisheng continued, Li Erhuai added firewood to the fire, and nodded nonchalantly: "You discuss this matter, I will listen to the eldest brother." ”

Li Zonggui turned his head to look at the flickering faces under the firelight, silent and did not speak, Li Xiaoqi squeezed between Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng, holding his cheeks, and sighed: "In addition to us, there are fifteen mouths here, I asked again today, except for three or four who worked when building houses for neighbors in the countryside, they barely know a little craft, and they don't know anything except planting crops!" ”

Li Zonggui laughed: "It's not that you don't know anything, weaving baskets, playing straw shoes, repairing houses, repairing farming, feeding mules and waiting for livestock, they are all good hands, and they are not craftsmen." ”

"Even if you have craftsmanship, this soldier is in chaos, and you can't make money, tomorrow morning I and Shui Sheng will go into the city again, and take the big green mule with us, if it sells well, maybe it can be sold for hundreds of taels of silver, just buy coarse grain, and it can last for a while." Li Zongliang held a long wooden stick, while dialing the fire, he said in a low voice, Li Xiaoqi tilted his head to look at him, then turned his head to look at Wei Shuisheng, and said seriously: "There are so many people, you can't just eat and not work, this idle man has to raise the dead, I have been thinking about it for a day, you listen, this mountain is full of wolf howling••••••

"There are also wild boars, wild dogs, tigers, roe deer, deer, pheasants, and birds. Li Erhuai turned his head to correct Li Xiaomi, Li Xiaomian glanced at him, and then said: "The two wolf skins given by Mr. Fan were sold for nearly one or two silver, I think, just let them go up the mountain to fight wolves, or go to a few more people, fight tigers, tiger skins must be more valuable!" ”

The firewood in Li Erhuai's hand fell on the fire with a smile, smashing sparks, Wei Shuisheng hurriedly helped Li Erhuai set up the bonfire that was knocked down, Li Zonggui sat on the wooden pier, smiled and shrugged his shoulders, looked at Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng and said: "Big brother, Brother Shuisheng, you don't know, this whole day, Xiao Mi is thinking about how to call these fifteen people, even the one who broke her leg, she is not ready to let the family be idle, where, the total number of ideas I have fought is: take it out to carry work, weave baskets and shoes to sell, pick herbs, go to the bottom of the mountain to open up wasteland and farm, hunting, What else, little one? ”

"I don't have an idea that works!" Li Xiaoqi spread his hands and said: "Let's carry the work, the eldest brother said just now, there are many people in Zhengcheng who carry the work, but they don't carry it alive, do you weave baskets and shoes, Brother Erhuai said, people use their own weaving, who will take the money to buy this?" Picking herbs, firstly, the heavy snow covers the mountains, and secondly, no one knows herbs, how to pick them? Farming is too slow, and when the food is planted, people will starve to death several times, so hunting is the best way! ”

"Hunting? What to fight? Those people, will they be trapped, or will they be trapped? Accusing them of beating wolves? The wolf beat them almost as well, and the wolf is smarter than man! Li Erhuai said unceremoniously, Wei Shuisheng nodded while laughing: "Erhuai is right, they are all honest villagers, you see, you can still fall into a ball when you run down the mountain yesterday, how to hunt?" Hunting doesn't depend on the number of people. ”

"Alas!" Li Xiaoqi sighed heavily, and turned his head to look at Li Zongliang: "Then the eldest brother will teach them to practice kung fu first, and then go hunting after practicing kung fu!" Anyway, you can't be idle! Something is going to happen! ”

"Xiao Mi's words are right, it's better to teach them to practice kung fu first, and if something happens in the future, they can also have a share of self-preservation." Wei Shuisheng agreed, Li Zongliang also agreed, raised his hand and rubbed Li Xiaoyi's head, turned his head to look at Li Erhuai and ordered: "Tomorrow Shui Sheng and I will go to the city, as soon as the morning dawns, you will tell them to get up, run up and down the mountain twice, and then come back and then tie up the horse, and then eat after half an hour." ”

"Don't worry, eldest brother, I'm the best at this, in previous years, at home, the master didn't praise me less, saying that I was better than what he brought!" Li Erhuai agreed with great interest, Li Xiaoqi took Li Zongliang's arm and begged: "Big brother, take me to the city tomorrow, I want to go to Zhengcheng to see the excitement, and also, the mule is sold, don't keep the car, it's useless to keep it, sell it together, and also, the broken leg in the house, or take it to the city tomorrow, find someone to pick him up, it's been broken for a few days, and if you don't pick it up, you will be crippled, if you are crippled, you will have to keep it for nothing." ”

"Hmm." Li Zongliang nodded and agreed: "Tomorrow I will bring Zhang Tiemu, and I will pick a few more powerful ones to bring, and we will buy more food to carry back this trip." ”

"I'll go too!" Li Zonggui also said excitedly, Li Zongliang turned his head to look at Li Erhuai, Li Erhuai waved his hand: "Go, go, I'll watch them practice." ”

The next day, as soon as it was dawn, Li Xiaoqi got up with a yawn, and Sister Zhang had already boiled a pot of hot water for her, put a bowl in a large bowl, and brought the rest in a clay basin: "Erhuai said, you have to wash your face with hot water, and you have to rub your teeth." ”

Sister Zhang smiled, stood next to her with her hands pricked, watched Li Xiaoqi rinse her mouth slowly, wiped her teeth with a small piece of cotton cloth, and then carefully washed her face, shaking her head and laughing while watching: "You are like a villager, you are more exquisite than everyone else!" ”

"Eldest sister has seen everyone's girlfriends?" Li Xiaoqi took out the balsam from the purse on his waist, picked it out and rubbed it on his face, and asked Sister Zhang with a smile, Sister Zhang shook her head: "We are all villagers, where have we seen everyone's girlfriends!" ”

"Then how does the eldest sister know that I am more exquisite than everyone else? The eldest sister doesn't know how to rub her teeth, how to wash her face, and how to pay attention to the law. ”

Sister Zhang opened her mouth for a moment, blinked her eyes, patted the front of her clothes and laughed: "No wonder your second brother said that you are a difficult one, a ghost and a ghost, it's true!" ”

Li Xiaoqi tilted her head, looked Sister Zhang up and down, her eyebrows slowly raised, and then slowly fell, hehe smiled and didn't answer again.

Li Xiaoqi ate a bowl of hot porridge slowly, Li Zonggui and others had already set up the car, Li Zongliang took out Zhang Shikan with a broken leg from the house, Zhang Shikan cried a handful of snot and tears, grateful and didn't know what to say, Wei Shuisheng and Zhang Tiemu held hands one by one, lifted the car curtain, and put Shikan on the car, Li Xiaoqi jumped in front of the carriage and sat down with his legs, Li Zonggui led Daqing to walk the mule, Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng followed, Zhang Tiemu and Zhang Xingwang, Zhang Dazhuang, Sun Yushan followed behind the car, and set off to Zhengcheng.

Walked for a long time, before the beginning of the afternoon, the group entered the gate of Zhengcheng, first inquired and found the best bone-setting doctor in the city, took Shikan to pick up the bones, this leg was broken for several days, the doctor had to go down with a palm, first opened it and then re-connected, only to catch Shikan screamed for a while, crying without a human voice, Li Xiaoqi didn't dare to listen but wanted to see how the doctor picked up the bones, covered his ears and stretched his neck, his eyes were wrong to look at the excitement, the doctor took the bones, tied Shikan's legs with wooden boards, prescribed medicine, and explained the usage in detail, Zhang Tiemu carried the sweaty Shikan out of the medical hall, found a big car shop near the city gate and put down the Shikan, leaving Zhang Xingwang to look at him, and the rest of the people led the mule cart and went to the mule and horse market to sell mules and carts.

Li Xiaoqi pulled Li Zonggui, two steps behind, and said in a low voice: "Let's go shopping elsewhere?" It's best to go to the yamen gate, in case there is no notice at the city gate, anyway, they sell mules and carts to buy food, and they don't need us, let's go shopping, and wait for them at the big cart shop. ”

Li Zonggui hurriedly nodded and agreed, and the two stepped forward to talk to Li Zongliang, left a few people, found someone to inquire about the location, walked through the streets and alleys, and looked for the Zhengcheng Mansion to see the movement.

As the saying goes, 'Yamen has a good landscape since ancient times', this Zhengcheng Yamen, naturally it is also the most lively and prosperous place in the whole Zhengcheng, facing the Yamen, is a wide street, the east is a two-story wine shop, although it is hung under the guise of a wine shop, but Li Xiaoqi and Li Zonggui agreed that this is at most a passable tea shop, far from the wine shop, opposite the tea shop is a family medical hall, next to the medical hall is a big pharmacy, next to the pharmacy, is a pawnshop, and then in the past, it is a family tea shop.

The two walked all the way to the entrance of the yamen, stood in front of the eight-character wall, looked up at the various notices posted all over the wall, the notices were blown by the wind, revealing the words written on the eight-character wall, Li Xiaoqi hurriedly stretched out his hand to lift the notice, tilted his head and looked at the words written below, 'Don't do wrong', and was about to lift it to look at other words, a servant in the yamen raised his voice and reprimanded: "Hey! That kid, looking for a fight? Is that notice you can pull off?! ”

Li Zonggui hurriedly pulled Li Xiaoqi back two steps, and arched his hand at the yamen with a smile, to show that he heard the reprimand, and the two looked at it for a while before turning around and leaving the eight-character wall. Li Xiaoqi pulled Li Zonggui and said in a low voice: "Let's go and ask if there is a mansion for sale here, that thing has to be seen, it is the most useful." ”

Li Zonggui frowned, he didn't understand how Xiao Qi would be interested in such a thing, she loved to look at this thing in Changfeng Building, it was all about officials, what did it have to do with them? See what those do?