Falling asleep too late, and his mind was consumed a lot, Chu Fan made an exception and did not get up early in the morning for a walk.

When the window paper was white, he was still half-asleep.

Birds chirped in the treetops, flapping their wings and circling, and the last row landed on the eaves, and the low-hanging little melons stared at the kitchen of Shi Meng's house next door, where the smell of fragrant fireworks came out.

The little girl Yingying and the little man Shi Tai are addicted to feeding the birds, and they like to eat half of it and deliberately sprinkle half of it. The birds took the smoke of Shi Meng's house as a signal to start the meal, calling friends and chattering, so lively.

Sister-in-law Shi was still heartbroken at first, but when she saw that Chu Fan was also smiling and messing around with the two little guys, she didn't care.

There was a crisp and pleasant jingling sound from the west wing, and it must be that Chu Ling had begun to count the copper coins again.

When she was in Lujiabao, the little girl didn't dream of beautiful shoes and flowers. If she were given a choice between having a full meal and owning a copper coin, she would not hesitate to choose the latter.

The reason is simple, she kicks the shuttlecock well. But the bottom plate inside the chicken feather shuttlecock is ground out of stone chips, which is heavy, hard and irregular. His feet hurt so much that he couldn't float up and fell down like a stone.

Poor.

Too poor.

She doesn't have copper plates.

Uncle Cang once gave two pieces, but they were confiscated by his sister-in-law when he took them home.

Ah Fan also has no copper plates, and diligently helps Gardenia's sister grind stones. Carefully select the most beautiful and patiently grind them into thin discs. It's a pity that it's still too heavy, and it can't be punched in the middle, and it will break when it hits.

Therefore, the little girl's shuttlecock is particularly cold, that is, a rag wraps a small stone chip, and a few chicken feathers are tied on it.

Half a month ago, Chu Fan specially asked Shi Meng to exchange a large amount of brand-new money for her.

Since then, Chu Ling has a new habit, counting money.

Count when you're happy, and count when you're unhappy. Counting and counting, the girl smiled.

The strange thing is that she has good materials and good materials, but she never makes shuttlecocks again. I knew that the gold and silver dollars were much more valuable, but I didn't have any interest in them, so I didn't want to give them to her. I like the new copper coins that are round and round in Huangcancan, which are specially packed in a small red lacquer box and rest next to the pillow.

Hearing Chu Fan yawning, Chu Ling immediately put down the tinkling "toy" and walked through the hall into the east wing.

"Brother......

The little girl used to have yellow hair, a thin body, and a dark complexion. After only one month of recuperation, just like the shriveled grass of barren land is moistened with nutrients and rain and dew, it immediately rises a little, slightly thin but not skinny, the hair turns blue, and the skin is delicate as porcelain, showing a bit of enchanting.

She used to be a little black charcoal, a yellow-haired girl, but now she is about to bleach. Chu Fan is also a lot whiter, even stronger than the perennial wind and frost and sun catcher, often jokingly calling Chu Ling, himself, and Shi Meng the three blacks in the family, small black, big black, and old black. According to this trend, the little black will become the little white, the big black will become the big white, the old black, the old black.

Seeing Chu Ling driving straight to the couch, Chu Fan shook his head helplessly and said:

"Oh, girl. Teacher Li Su didn't teach you that you have to knock on the door before entering someone else's room?"

Chu Ling blinked innocently, pursed his mouth, twisted his small body around, and replied:

"Well, the teacher didn't teach...... Besides, the door of your room is not closed. ”

Chu Fan was stunned for a moment, and said in his heart that the women of this world are particular about their actions and can't make a sound, and they don't smile and don't show their teeth, so they may not have such a request. I didn't close the door because I was worried that she would be scared at night, and when she grew up, she couldn't help but pay attention to it.

"Alright, alright...... In the future, remember that you can knock on the door frame even if the door is not closed. ”

"Well, people know. As far as my brother has a lot of rules...... I'll help you wash your face with hot water. ”

Chu Fan got up, for fear of seeing the tooth marks on his left palm bitten by Yan Wan'er, turned his back to the little girl to straighten up his clothes, and said:

"My brother has good arms and legs, I don't want you to get it. You go out first, huh...... Let's go and help Sister-in-law Shi light the fire. ”

"The teacher is helping out in the stove house...... Brother, tell you a big strange thing. ”

"Ah, what else do you have to do?"

"Hee-hee, it's not me, it's the teacher. The judge's clothes she ordered yesterday couldn't be found in the same box of rouge, and she was scared enough. You don't come back, we didn't sleep in the middle of the night......"

Chu Fan walked out with a weak heart and said:

"Ah, this...... If you can't find it, buy it again...... You're still laughing!"

Chu Ling paused, jumped up and down like a plaster, and said:

"Brother, it's true. No outsiders were here yesterday, and I saw the tailor bring it to me. The teacher said that he couldn't take Yingying to repay his vows today, and he had to make a new order. Brother Shi said that in the future, everyone should pay attention to safety, fire prevention and theft prevention......"

"Well, that's, that'......"

Chu Fan drove Chu Ling to sleep with Li Su last night, of course, because it was not safe for the little girl to sleep alone in a big house, on the other hand, he wanted to alleviate her resistance to Li Su, but he didn't expect that neither of them slept well.

The little girl may feel that her brother is about to be divided, and she is full of vigilance about the beautiful teacher entering her yard. Even the study is the initiative to run over, and I am not afraid of the two children making noise. Well, fire and burglar prevention...... Teacher Fang.

"Girl, didn't you also make a wish in the Mountain Temple, did you realize it? Do you want my brother to help you reshape the golden body of the Mountain God and install his arms and legs?"

"I don't want you to help...... My brother is so stupid, he can only pay back his own wish......"

Chu Ling rolled his eyes.

......

Shi Meng was promoted to the head of the big catcher, and today he was in his new position, and he was busy until more than eleven o'clock, and he ate lunch and breakfast as a meal.

In the afternoon, he and Chu Fan went to Yunsheng Carriage and Horse Store to borrow a horse.

In fact, Chu Fan is a white servant, and it doesn't matter if Shi Meng helps him call the horses of the county government to capture the house. But right now, Dian Shi Yan Wei is staring like a black-eyed chicken, and there is really no need to take advantage of this little advantage.

Chu Fan rushed back to Shanyin County, Linshui County, and needed a good horse to walk, and the two were ready to go to Yunxi Horse Farm in the countryside of the Southern District to choose.

Maps belong to strategic materials and are not available to ordinary people. According to everyone's story, Chu Fan pieced together a general topography map in his mind.

Cangbo originally said that he would arrive at Cangnan County eight hundred miles south from Lujiabao, and after Cangnan County, he would arrive at Yaoping, a border town bordering Ji State, but he was actually wrong. To be precise, it should be to the southeast, and the distance is not 800 miles.

Chu Fan took the little girl over the mountains and mountains and went straight to the south, and came to Qingyun County.

Six hundred miles northwest of Qingyun County will be Li Su's hometown, Yunmengguo.

Yunxi Racecourse is located in the easterly direction of the southern district of Yangwu County.

Prepare your horses there, and if you don't return to the county seat, turn northeast, and pass through the deserted battlefield of twenty years ago, you will arrive at the straight road built for war between Cangnan County and Linshui County. Hurry up, and you will be able to rush to Shanyin County tomorrow morning.

The townships and towns in the southern district of Yangwu County are depressed.

More than ten miles out of the city, you can still see villages, and the road is lined with harvested rice fields. The rice stubble was neat and straight, standing upright, like a short soldier under review.

Sorghum and corn are ripe, and the fragrance is overflowing.

Sometimes you can see a pile of cotton, and the oval cotton fruit blooms, revealing the cotton wool, which is as white as a small cloud. The women were busy picking with dustpans. Although autumn is crisp, it rarely rains. But in case of a rain, the cotton fruit is very easy to mold when it gets wet, so it can only be helpless.

Cotton should not be spun, or it should not be the inner core of the cotton jacket quilt. Cotton cloth is inexpensive and is only worn by people with lower ribas. And the poor wear it for a long time, and even from father to son, son to grandson, the consumption is not large. Therefore, cotton is indispensable, but not much is planted.

In fact, Chu Fan likes coarse cotton and linen, and doesn't like bright silk and satin. It's slippery and greasy, and it's not comfortable to fit snugly.

The two rode side by side, and after twenty miles out of the city, they rarely saw pedestrians and peasants.

On the way, Chu Fan told Shi Meng that Niu Ding was dead.

Shi Meng was startled, opened his mouth but was silent. In principle, if Chu Fan doesn't say it, he won't ask.

Chu Fan continued, I didn't kill it, and I don't know who killed it, maybe it wasn't killed by people......

Hearing this, Shi Meng replied:

"I'm going to tell you about this later. Last night, I saw the judge haunting Yishan, and in the morning, a splash came to report to the official, saying that Niu Ding was dead. Zhang Biao was anxious to investigate, and I also took a look. The doors and windows are wide open, the ground is dry and hard, and there are no footprints to be seen. Niu Ding's whole body except for the two whips on his face that was pulled out by you, and the black bruises left by Zhang Biao's fists and feet on the two ribs of his chest, there were no other scars, and he smiled very strangely. The silver needle probed the throat, but no poison was detected.

Everyone was in an uproar, saying that he had done bad things, and his soul was taken away by the judge. Some people speculate whether you were beaten violently by you and Zhang Biao, and died of a recurrence of the old disease. Yan Wei hates Zhang Biao now, but he doesn't hate me anymore, he wants to deal with the sick foot of the case, but he has no focus. Because when Niu Ding left the county office last night, he was still alive. Yan Wei proposed to disembowel the autopsy, but Niu Ding's sister was not allowed to live or die......"

"Hehe, the wind is blowing, blowing a pool of autumn water. I don't think the autopsy will be famous. Even if Yan Wei wanted to make trouble, there was still a Li Wen on top of his head. As for saying that Niu Ding was detained by the judge, it is really possible. The southern district is under Zhang Biao's control, and it was his brother-in-law who died, so Brother Meng must not meddle in this case. In addition, the land of Yishan is a bit evil, so don't go again, and don't even stop passing by. ”

"Good. ”

"Hmm...... Do you know who Hu Er is?"

Hearing this, Shi Meng was shocked, and reined in the horse and asked:

"Xiaolang, you, how did you know this name?"

The two brothers and sisters in Chu Fan's family, according to custom, should be called Da Lang to be polite. But as soon as he heard others call him "Da Lang", he remembered the unlucky guy Wu Da Lang, who was poisoned by his glamorous wife Pan Jinlian in the end, with a black line on his face. Later, he was called "Xiaolang", and he felt similar to "Little Brother", and he gladly accepted it with a sense of intimacy.

Seeing the drastic change in Shi Meng's face, Chu Fan thought to himself that this Hu Er was really not simple. He also reined in his horse, looked at the sunny field, and said slowly:

"Last night, I secretly took the judge's uniform that Li Su was going to repay, don't tell her, I'm going to teach Niu Ding a lesson. When the guy saw it, he was really shocked, and died after a while of gibberish. Before he died, he asked, Judge, where is Hu Er?"

What the!

As a martial artist at the third peak of the Mud Embryo Realm, the big head of the knife licking blood, Shi Meng screamed in surprise, and his body trembled suddenly. Looking left and right, his left hand subconsciously pressed on the handle of the knife, and his right hand involuntarily tightened the reins, causing the yellow horse to spin around.

Chu Fan watched quietly, wondering and curious.

The name Hu Er is not a big person, how can Shi Meng be surprised and scared like this?

Shi Meng finally straightened the horse's head, gasped for a few breaths before regaining his composure, and said:

"Hu Er died five years ago and was buried on the righteous mountain behind the cow house. ”