It is said that Luo Shuangchen took Zhang Pingluo and "Da Pozi" to meet an old man behind his ear in the "Mudanjiang Tavern" in a small village on the southern slope of the Harba Mountains. Luo Shuangchen pondered, on the surface, this kind of dilapidated country shop, few people come, business is not good, the store is old, and it is not normal to greet customers; On the contrary, this is the eyeliner post of the bandits in the mountains, for us who collect mountain goods in a foreign country, there is no big oil and water, so they don't like to take care of us, the more I think about it, the more confused I become, and I can't help but be angry, "Let's go, people don't like to take care of us, why provoke others, let's go-"

Luo Shuangchen stood up slowly, walked out, and kicked the stool on the side of his leg with a "pop" sound.

The three of them came out of the tavern and came to the crossroads, and saw a person from north to south, carrying a flat pole, hanging buckets left and right, and his voice was crisp and loud, "Hey, hey, hey, hey—"

Luo Shuangchen raised his eyes and looked, "What is 'Da Pozi' for?" ”

"Huh? It's a tofu seller. ”

"Oh, that's a tofu shop! These people have a good meal. Zhang Pingluo said.

"Da Pozi" said, "Look at me, you wait a minute. After saying that, he greeted the tofu seller.

I don't know what they talked about, after a while, "Da Pozi" came back, "Big brother, this old woman is the second family in the West Village, her surname is Fan, and the people in the village call her 'Aunt Fan', with a kind face, quite a simple person, I said that we are all from other countries to sell mountain goods in this generation, and let the bad guys rob them a while ago, and when I came here, I was unwilling to go back to my hometown empty-handed, so I thought of this generation to collect some mountain goods and bring them back." I haven't eaten for a few days, so bothering her to make us something to eat? , let's give more money, she agreed. ”

"That's great, Pingluo, hurry up and greet the brethren in the woods, and take off the 'black skin'." Luo Shuangchen instructed Zhang Pingluo.

Zhang Pingluo left in response.

Luo Shuangchen and "Da Pozi" followed Aunt Fan and walked towards the west of the village.

In a few moments, it arrived. This is a dilapidated blue brick house unlike other people's homes, with withered grass swaying on the roof, and broken doors and windows. Washed tofu buns hang from wooden poles in the yard.

"Two old guest house, please. Zhuanghu, don't dislike us. ”

It looks like a ruined house of a rich family. When I entered the house, there were two huge grinding discs in the middle of the hall that was originally paved with blue bricks, and they were put together on a stone platform.

Next to it is a piece of dried utensils for processing tofu. There is a cauldron in the corner with a wooden lid on it, and four large vasks next to it.

Aunt Fan brought a bench from the wall, "You two, please take a seat, the big brother said that you have dozens of people to eat, I thought, so that the tofu I made today can be eaten, and I won't sell it." My house is a little smaller, if you don't dislike it, you will settle for it. ”

"Auntie, how long have you been living in the village?" Luo Shuangchen took a bowl of water handed over by Aunt Fan.

"I, my husband's family originally lived in Fengtian Xiaobeiguan, my husband's family because of the lawsuit, so he took me and my daughter to flee to Wangqing County, how can it still be difficult to keep safe, the old man was arrested by others and returned to Fengtian, my daughter and I fled here in order to save our lives, this village is called Chiya River. When we got here, we didn't have much money to buy a house, so we had no choice but to live in the place where everyone in the village said 'haunted house', where the house was originally the house of a local rich man, and then I don't know why the whole family moved away, and the people in the village said that it was often haunted at night, and no one dared to come in. My mother and daughter were also homeless, so they had the courage to live in, many old people in the village persuaded us, I thought about it, the left and right are also wandering, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, this house is broken, but there are many empty houses, the yard can still grow vegetables and crops, at least to maintain life, plus I can make tofu, just live here for eight years, God bless, it's fine. If there are so many of you who don't have a place to spend the night, I have a house in my backyard where I put firewood, so you can rest for the night and get a little dirty. ”

"Then the relationship is good, we will give you some money, make us more food in the evening, everyone is hungry." Luo Shuangchen said humbly.

"Okay, they're all strangers, it's nothing." Aunt Fan said, then lifted the lid of the pot and scooped water into the pot, "Lannie - come out and make a fire for my mother." ”

"Here we come - tofu is selling too fast today!" During the answer, a girl of seventeen or eighteen lifted the curtain and walked out of the back room, but saw that this girl was tall, with a handsome face, a black braided hair hanging down behind her head, wearing a dark blue cloth gown, black trousers, and looking clean and fresh.

"Auntie, listen to your message like Liaoxi?" Luo Shuangchen asked.

"Well, my mother's house is in Chaoyang, this year, the war is in chaos, and the last time I went back to my parents' house was ten years ago. I don't know how my old father and brother are doing, hey, the world is impermanent. It can be seen from Aunt Fan's words that she is by no means an ordinary peasant woman.

"Auntie, didn't you hear me? My hometown is also in the sunrise! Luo Shuangchen said happily.

"Don't say it, it's indeed a familiar local accent." Aunt Fan is indeed very enthusiastic, so she is a lot less wary of Luo Shuangchen.

"Auntie, are there many mountain goods on this Harba Ridge?"

"Many, this ridge is rich in all kinds of mushrooms, as well as musk deer, muntjac, roe deer, badgers, bears. Pheasants are even more numerous. But in the past few years, the bandits in the mountains have been entrenched, and they are also very exploited, and the common people can't fight the beasts, so they can only rely on chopping some firewood, beating a few pheasants, and planting a few acres of thin fields under the mountain to make a living. It turns out that there is a big bandit in the Black Eagle Peak Dazhai on the mountain, what is the name of the 'Black Wind Lone Wolf' - Lang Sandao, he just never bullied the local people, specializing in robbing rich and unkind rich people and merchants, and people are also righteous, and later, I heard that his subordinates 'Golden Retriever Fox' killed Lang Sandao, and became the largest bandit leader on the Black Eagle Peak, this guy is extremely ugly and insidious, he and his men often go down the mountain to bully the people of our ten miles and eight villages, see what to rob, do not allow the people to go up the mountain to hunt, thieves are not things. ”

"It's just that they don't pay every time they come to eat tofu." Lanny, the girl who was squatting on the ground and burning the fire, also picked up the conversation.

"These people do things that hurt heaven and reason all day long. The people in the village dare to be angry but dare not speak. Aunt Fan nagged, "Listen to Aunt tell you, don't go anywhere tonight, live with me, don't go to other villages, there are no good mountain goods in the hands of the people, tomorrow morning as soon as the sky dawns, you should leave early, otherwise it will be difficult to get into trouble." ”

"Auntie, what's going on with that 'Mudanjiang Tavern'? It doesn't look like it's very popular? It's a mess in the storefront. ”

"What? Big brother - did you go to that 'Mudanjiang'? Lanny exclaimed.

"What's wrong?" Luo Shuangchen asked rhetorically.

"Big brother - that tavern is made for outsiders to see, no one goes anywhere to drink and eat on weekdays, it is the eyeliner arranged by the 'golden retriever fox' at the bottom of the mountain, there is an old man guarding it for a long time, and the other bandits are staring there in shifts, it's okay these guys are there to gamble, drink, and if there is no food to eat, let my mother send them tofu, and don't give money, and my mother doesn't want it, if you want me to say, just ask them for money, what's wrong with the bandits? Can bandits be lawless? It's really unreasonable, my mother always goes to deliver tofu alone, and she never lets me go out. No one has given me kung fu, I have to have kung fu to kill all these scumbags. As she spoke, she clenched her silver teeth and her eyes widened.

"I'm always afraid of provoking right and wrong, the widow Tian from the east of the village, who used to come to help our mother, was harmed by these guys last month, and the poor eldest sister of the Tian family was ashamed and hung herself at home." As she spoke, Aunt Fan's tears flowed, "Alas! In these days, the life of ordinary people is difficult! ”

Luo Shuangchen knew from the conversation with Aunt Fan's mother and daughter that this mother and daughter are kind people, and that "Mudanjiang" is really the secret whistle of Shanku, which is a bit similar to Shuibo Liangshan in "Water Margin", but unfortunately, they are not doing the right thing for heaven, but for the evil party.

After a period of busy work, Aunt Fan cooked a big pot of small rice and three pots of cabbage stewed tofu for Luo Shuangchen and these brothers, "This time I will let you all eat to your heart's content, I don't have anything to eat, but the tofu is not enough, and I will make it again." We are still old folks, don't be polite to Auntie, if you have the opportunity to come to this Harbaling in the future, you will go to Chiya River to see Auntie, and Auntie will give you stewed tofu. ”

While speaking, Zhang Pingluo brought the more than 80 brothers over, and everyone had a full meal in the firewood room in the backyard of Aunt Fan's house, without embellishment.

In the middle of the night, the snoring of the brothers came and went, and from time to time the miserable and terrifying cries of owls could be heard from the locust trees at the edge of the village.

Zhang Pingluo couldn't sleep, he didn't know what to do next, he also knew that Lu Li (Luo Shuangchen) was also thinking about how to smoothly enter the mountains and forests, and enter the Black Eagle Peak Village, Luo Shuangchen didn't speak, he didn't speak, he just sat in the corner and stared at the night sky blankly.

"Pingluo, Pingluo - who do you arrange for you to keep watch outside?" Luo Shuangchen asked.

"The big slope and the two pillars. One on the room and one at the door. "Zhang Pingluo has already arranged it.

"Okay, then, you stay with everyone, and I'll go out for a while."

"Brother, I'll go with you."

"No, you just stay here, I'll go back. So many people can't live without you. After speaking, Luo Shuangchen tiptoed and sneaked out of the firewood room.

But see, the moon is bright and the stars are thin, the autumn wind is blowing, and the quiet night in the mountain village is so peaceful.

Luo Shuangchen climbed over the wall and crossed the courtyard of Aunt Fan's house to the street, where the lights were turned off behind closed doors, and occasionally, dogs barked. His purpose is very clear, that is, "Mudanjiang Tavern".

When he hadn't reached the intersection of the street, he saw the candlelight dancing in the "Mudanjiang", and there were many people.

The wooden fence could not stop him, but the dim window paper illuminated the crossroads.

He squatted under the window, and heard the voices of several people, and the clear smell of wine wafted out of the window.

"I said second sister-in-law, your dish is getting more and more unpalatable, stew a rabbit, what kind of fish do you put in it? I ran from Dongshan to Nanpo today, tired to death, I was expecting to open meat well in you, what do you do? A male duck was noisy.

"Don't you say it, our family is still proud of this taste, don't you say what the rabbit stews tastes like? Rabbit fish stew is fish flavor. A gruff man shouted.

"Don't talk nonsense, this rabbit almost made people eat it today." This voice sounded like that of the old man behind his ears during the day, but it sounded like his ears were not back!

(End of chapter)