It was dark, and dense snow fell from the sky.

The cold wind is like a knife that cuts through a person's face.

Zhou Kaili was in the snow, his legs were already unconscious, and he comforted his wife on the back frame behind him softly: "Ah Zhen, you insist on holding on." ”

As he spoke, he walked towards the feather room with a paper lantern lit in front of the door.

Just pinching a few copper plates in his purse, he was a little timid in the end.

"Hmmm......"

There was a faint response from his wife behind him, and Zhou Kai gently lifted his back shelf, relaxing his shoulders that were strangled by hemp rope and stuck in the flesh.

When I stepped into the courtyard, the conversation inside became louder.

Cheerful voices could be heard from afar, with occasional laughter.

The door was not closed, but a thick curtain hung to keep out the wind.

Zhou Kai stretched out his hand, opened the thick curtain, and stepped in, and the hot air mixed with the smell of human sweat and wine in the room hit his face.

The chill on his body subsided slightly, and his frozen face and hands began to grow, as if a small needle was pricking.

The room was very lively, and in the middle of it was a huge, stone-built stove, and there was a raging fire burning in it, and if you looked closely, it was charcoal.

Several men wrapped in robes were sitting around the fireside, discussing something loudly, and a stoneware cup was placed in front of them.

Hearing the sound at the door, someone looked up, then lowered his head again, and took a small sip of tea.

A lean man got up and greeted him: "Are you going to spend the night?" ”

The man had a large protruding scar on his face, extending from his closed right eye to the corner of his lip, and it was evident that the scar had almost split his head in half.

But what really scared Zhou Kai was the temperament of this man.

Temperament is a very mysterious thing.

The person in front of him, Zhou Kai could see the traces of the military at a glance, just like the soldiers in Lingzhi City who straightened their backs and looked like pine trees.

Out of this era, the people's fear of soldiers, Zhou Kai unconsciously bent his waist and whispered: "Yes, yes." ”

The man with the scar on his face was not tall and strong, but his eyes were sharp, and his intact left eye looked up and down.

Seeing the woman's bun exposed in the quilt roll on Zhou Kai's back frame, he relaxed a little.

"Shake the snow in front of the door, don't get the floor wet." After instructing, he walked to a table with a paper book and sat down.

Zhou Kaiji hurriedly went out of the door, shook off the snow on himself and his wife, and then returned to the warm room and stood in front of the man.

"Take out the rune letter." As he said this, the man struggled to pick up a strange-looking pen with his left hand.

Only then did Zhou Kai notice that the man's right hand was missing three fingers, and half of the palm had been cut off, leaving only the ring finger and tail finger.

Noticing Zhou Kai's gaze, the man didn't care, but raised his hand proudly: "This is a military merit medal." ”

No matter how kind he behaved, Zhou Kai didn't dare to talk to him, but just handed over the talisman with a flattering smile.

The men were wounded and retired soldiers in the army, worried that these soldiers would leave the army, take the pension and indulge and squander, and finally end up in a bleak night, Gongsun Yan properly arranged work for them.

He couldn't tell again how he was injured and made meritorious contributions, and he was a little regretful, and asked Zhou Kailai what Lingzhi was doing, holding a pen awkwardly in his left hand, and wrote a few crooked words on the booklet seriously.

"There are only two grades in the chicken feather room, and the men's and women's rooms of the Chase shop are the same." The man paused and looked at the quilt roll that Zhou Kai was carrying behind him, "Your wife is sick, and according to the rules, she can't live in the Chase Shop, because the immune disease spreads, so you can only live in a small single room in the backyard." ”

At first glance, when he heard that he could spend the night with a single article, Zhou was happy, and when he heard the man's words, his joy disappeared again, and he asked carefully: "I don't know the price of a single room?" ”

The man had dealt with too many people, and knowing Zhou Kai's concerns, he waved his hand and said: "Don't worry, the chicken feather room was originally set up by Yan Niangzi to worry that the homeless people in the city would freeze to death, not for money, even if it is a small single room, it only needs three documents." ”

Zhou Kaimeng breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good, thank you!" ”

After accepting the three coins that Zhou Kai took out, the man led him inside.

The layout at the back is very simple, there is a passage through the back door, and there are rooms on both sides.

It's a cramped space, and it's a lot warmer.

Zhou Kai couldn't help but reach out and touch the wall, and the earthen wall exuded warmth.

"This ...... It's warm. He whispered to his wife behind him.

The man who led the way had sharp ears, and not only heard it, but also replied proudly: "Of course it's warm, this is a wall of fire." ”

"Wall of Fire?" Zhou Kai was surprised, "Is it the kind of fire wall of a big family?" ”

"That's right!" Men like to see others who don't know and then look surprised.

A place where a penny can live overnight can actually use a fire wall, which makes Zhou Kai very incomprehensible: "This costs too much." ”

Where are they worthy of such a Qianshou Li Shu.

As he spoke, the door of the room next to him creaked open, and a hunchbacked rickety man came out, carrying a trouser belt in one hand, as if he was going to the thatched house.

Following the crack in the door, Zhou Kai saw that the room was covered with chicken feathers.

Several people were sleeping in boxes covered with chicken feathers, snoring like thunder.

"Okay, a lot of chicken feathers." Zhou Kai stammered.

In this era, it is not bad to have two chickens in a family, when has he ever seen such a room full of chicken feathers.

Hearing his emotion, the man who came out with his pants raised his head and smiled, revealing his missing teeth due to malnutrition: "Otherwise, why is it called a chicken feather room?" ”

He was dirty, he could smell the stench from afar when he smiled, and he was slick and cunning.

"Although the chicken feathers stink, with the wall of fire, it is warm and unchangeable."

The man who led the way waved his hand in front of him: "Come on, you still said that others, I told you to pay attention to hygiene in a good time, and it stinks like something." ”

"The dirty and smelly recruiters in the city who are slightly higher will not pick you first, do you really plan to be a homeless beggar for the rest of your life?"

Men retired from the army, accustomed to the health regulations of the army, and always scolded twice when they saw these dirty and unmotivated.

The man with the trouser belt is poor and divided, who doesn't know that these fighting men who have retired from the army have the support of the government.

He laughed twice and slipped along the wall: "I was thinking, with this last year, my mother would not freeze to death on the street." ”

The man scolded him: "Even if you had this last year, you can't afford to live without Yan Niangzi's subsidy, what do you want to do." ”

"I remember to get up early tomorrow morning to participate in the fundraiser, the snow is crushing the house, and I need labor."

"Got it!" The man's answer came from afar.

Zhou Kai looked at the strange scene in front of him and their strange conversations, and was in a trance for a while.

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The chicken feather house is a copy of the Qing Dynasty.

Happy Yang Yang (ó_ò. Yesterday I had an itchy throat and a headache, and today my tongue started to numb......

Ladies and gentlemen, please take care of your health