"Xiaoyue, why does this mutton cost three hundred catties? Don't we still have to buy pork, isn't it too much? Zhou Yu stared at the list, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that it was wrong.

"This meat, vegetables, or something is not only for our family, but also for the guys from Juxian Building, Juewei Fang, and Tianyu Villa, everyone has to come over. People are making money for you, and we can't treat others badly. After the last incident when Zhou Yu was tied up, Feng Yue gradually took charge of logistics management and officially became Zhou Yu's backyard supervisor.

"Or if you're thoughtful, then do what you want. By the way, are the red envelopes for the people in the village ready? Zhou Yu put the list aside, Feng Yue's ability became stronger and stronger, and he was more at ease when he got things done.

"Come on, Shui'er is carrying the girls' bags!" Feng Yue refilled a cup of hot tea for Zhou Yu and said.

Feng Yue's face was born white, and it became red when it was dyed by the snow, and the hot tea on a cold day was bubbling with wisps, as if she wanted to hide the beauty's face behind the white veil, but it added a bit of artistic conception of "still holding the pipa and half covering her face".

Zhou Yu took Feng Yue's hand and hugged her into his arms, since the business started, they hadn't been so comfortable for a long time.

"Xiaoyue, how much virtue do you say I have to accumulate in my last life to be able to marry you in this life?" Zhou Yu's voice was very soft, but full of love.

"Maybe we loved each other in our last life, but because one life is too short, we will continue to have a future in this life." Feng Yue's smile was shallow, but full of happiness.

Zhou Yu looked at her with some surprise, she didn't expect this girl to be able to say such a level of love words!

"Yes, a person's life is too short......" Zhou Yu hugged her tighter, and the faces of the two were pressed together, slowly feeling each other's temperature.

The sky is covered with fine snow, the stove in the house is blazing, and the maids are happily and closely preparing for the New Year. Zhou Yu sat in the courtyard with his beloved girl in his arms, feeling the fireworks in the world and enjoying the peaceful winter scenery together.

"Satsuki, have you ever heard a word?"

"What?"

"There are no mountains and no tombs, heaven and earth are together, but dare to be with the king."

"I haven't heard of it, what does that mean?"

"That is to say, unless the majestic mountains disappear and the heavens and the earth intersect and converge, I dare to abandon my affection for you." Zhou Yu said while holding Feng Yue's hand to warm her.

Snow is the crumbs of the heavens, the new clothes that the earth desires, and the romance of talented and beautiful women, and the confession of a snowy day is naturally particularly moving.

"Flim-mouthed ......" Feng Yue took a sip, then got up from Zhou Yu's body, kissed Zhou Yu lightly on the face, and entered the house without looking back.

She was afraid that her blushing would be too obvious and her smile would be too flamboyant, so that Zhou Yu would be a little unable to erase her face when she saw it.

This little beauty was quickly broken by a noise, and it was Feng Liang and others who came back from buying New Year's goods.

A few people who should have returned with a full load entered the door empty-handed, which was strange.

"What, what you bought was stolen? It can't all be stolen, can it? Could it be that he was robbed? In broad daylight, who dares to rob in Luozhou City? Zhou Yu looked at the somewhat lost faces of several people, and thought that something was lost.

"Why, where did you buy something? I went to the market with Erniu and Shui Ling, and before I could get there, I met two people who had fled from the famine, and I saw that they were pitiful, so I gave them a penny of silver. One of them said that his family was sick and had no money for treatment, and begged me to give him some more money. Hey, I'm still weird, you're not my relative, why should I give you money to heal? How unreasonable! Later, the two of them pulled me and I had to get the money, and I couldn't help it, so I kicked the man. Didn't you pinch it up, and you stabbed it all to the county office! The two people were the first to sue and insisted that I was the one who committed the murder in the street and beat the good people. It's really a poor mountain and a bad water, they should ask for food! Feng Liang was the only one of the three with a face full of anger.

"And then?" Zhou Yu asked.

"Later? That must have found out the truth! There are many partners of our Juxian Building in that area, and several shopkeepers can prove for me that those two people pestered me first. When Lord Fan heard this, he became angry on the spot and put the two people in prison. Bah! If you want me to say that these two people are Diao Min, I kindly gave the money, but they will take revenge, it's really hateful......" Feng Liang was still constantly telling the anger in his heart, but Zhou Yu interrupted him.

"Okay, my good big brother, you dissipate your anger! Come on, pour a cup of herbal tea for the master and go to the fire! Zhou Yu said and pushed Feng Liang into the house.

"What kind of herbal tea to drink on a cold day, the tea should be hot......" Feng Liang muttered, but still entered the house.

Just listening to his one-sided words, Zhou Yu was really not sure what the situation was, so he turned around and asked He Shuiling and Li Erniu: "What's going on?" ”

Or He Shuiling spoke first: "Xianggong, in fact, there is no problem with what the eldest brother said, it is true that those two people did not do it right first, usually we give money to the beggars, even if it is a penny or two, they are not too little; But for the two today, the eldest brother gave them a penny of silver, so he insisted on pulling the eldest brother and not letting them go. ”

"I heard that the eldest brother said that one of their family members is sick and has no money to treat it?"

"I didn't see it when I was sick, those two looked quite normal, and their strength was not small, and the eldest brother's clothes were almost torn by them."

As he was talking, a maid came in and reported: "Uncle, there are two beggars outside the door, saying that they are members of the beggar gang." ”

"Shui Ling, Er Niu, you go in first, I'll go see what's going on." Zhou Yu left a word and walked to the door.

"Two brothers, what are you doing in the cold house? Come in and talk! Zhou Yu invited the two of them into the door.

But the two beggar disciples were unmoved, but stood on the spot and bowed, and the leader said: "Shopkeeper Zhou, we are all asking for food, and it will be a little unreasonable to enter your mansion." A few days ago, you gave us 500 quilts and 500 long jackets for the beggars, and I thank you for the brothers in the gang! If it weren't for these things, the gang wouldn't have been able to tell how many people would have died! Your great kindness, our beggars have written it down! ”

"Everyone is a son and daughter of the rivers and lakes, and it is natural to help each other, so why do you need to say thank you? It's cold outside, so the two brothers should come in and talk! Zhou Yu invited again.

But the leader stretched out his palm, rejected Zhou Yu's invitation again, and said: "The two of us came today, mainly for the morning when Zhou's shopkeeper's uncle was blocked on the street, Elder Jiang was very angry when he learned about this, and now the identities of those two people have been figured out by our beggar gang, and they are all victims who escaped from Xigou Village." These people are begging in Luozhou City and nearby towns and villages, but they don't want to bump into the relatives of Zhou's shopkeeper today, as long as you open your mouth, our beggar gang will send someone to arrest his whole family and hand it over to you! ”

Zhou Yu was shocked when he heard his words, and he didn't want the beggars to do things with such a fierce side, but he still said with a smile on his face: "There is no need to arrest people, if it is convenient, please ask your brother to tell me the address of their family." ”

"Since Shopkeeper Zhou wants to take action in person, then our beggar gang will not trespass, and their family lives in the Sanli Temple outside the East City Gate."

"Thank you for telling me, and invite my brother to come in and have a glass of water and wine!" This is the third time that Zhou Yu has been invited.

"Xie Zhou's shopkeeper is good, you don't have to eat the wine, if there is anything to use our beggars in the future, you just open your mouth, and we will leave!" They didn't end up getting in.

"A little heart, please two brothers smile!" Zhou Yu took out two coins of silver and put them in the hands of the two of them.

After thanking the two again, they left, and Zhou Yu stood at the door for a while, and called Li Erniu out again.

"Master, what's wrong?" Li Erniu looked at Zhou Yu's somewhat worried face and asked.

"Go and bring the wind here, and by the way, tell your sister, don't wait for me for lunch."

"Where are you going?"

"East of the city, Sanli Temple."

"Why do you want to go to that place all of a sudden?"

"Go see some acquaintances."

"Oh......" Li Erniu didn't quite understand what Zhou Yu meant, but he still brought the horse here.

After Zhou Yu left, Li Erniu conveyed Zhou Yu's words to Feng Yue.

"Three Mile Temple? What acquaintances does he have in that kind of place? It's strange, it's very ......," Feng Yue was also confused after hearing this.

……

Since learning to ride a horse, Zhou Yu's travel efficiency has improved a lot. But it's a pity that horses are not allowed to run wild in the city, and Zhou Yu can only "drive" at a low speed to the east city gate.

Sanli Temple, a long-abandoned mountain temple, there is not even a single statue of a god in the temple, except for a house full of dust and some straw, there is nothing else. Not only that, but due to disrepair, the roof tiles have been broken a little, and the windows are also broken, and now they can neither shelter from the rain nor the cold. This is the temporary home of the wanderer, and the rice stalks spread on the ground, I don't know how many people have spent one difficult night after another on this table.

Zhou Yu came to the outside of the temple, tied the chasing wind, and stepped forward to knock on the temple door.

"Big brother and second brother!" A little girl's voice rang out from within.

The tattered door opened, and a little girl with a dirty face and a few single clothes stood inside, but when she saw a stranger standing outside the door, the little girl suddenly became vigilant.

"Who are you? What about the eldest brother and the second brother? The little girl looked like she was in her teens, with yellow face and thin muscles, and she didn't know how many full meals she had eaten. She was well-behaved, her whip was delicately combed, and her colorful shoes looked out of place with her shabby clothes.

"I'm Lang Zhong invited by your brother, I don't know which one is the patient?" Zhou Yu lied.

The little girl glanced at her, and then ran into the house, shouting as she ran: "Mother, the eldest brother and the second brother have invited Langzhong!" The excitement in the words could not be concealed.

Zhou Yu followed her into the temple, only to see a middle-aged woman lying on the straw, covered with a not very thick quilt, her face was like lime, her eyes were weakly closed, her shape was like a withered tree, and her face seemed to be so barren that only a piece of skin remained, and the outline of the frontal bone and jaw angle was clearly visible. To put it mildly, the person in this picture is already a bit like a "zombie". But she was alive, and although her breath was a little faint, she was undoubtedly a living person.

Listening to the little girl's cry, the woman slowly opened her eyes, her lips slightly purple from the cold, as if she wanted to say something

Seeing this, Zhou Yu preemptively spoke: "Don't talk yet, let me take the pulse for you." ”

Zhou Yu put his fingers on the woman's veins, but the expression on his face became heavier and heavier.

Her pulse was too weak, and in addition to some diseases she had contracted herself, the prolonged starvation had overdrawn her body. It will be as little as a day or two, or as many as three or five days, and she will die.

Such a distressing news, but Zhou Yu didn't know how to speak, the girl in front of him, who was only a teenager, looked forward to him like a sharp sword against his throat, so that he didn't have the courage to tell the truth.

He took out two steamed buns from his arms and handed them to the little girl. I bought it on the way, thinking that there would be hungry people here, and I could also give them a cushion for their stomachs. The woman's eyes were full of gratitude, and the little girl took the steamed bun and did not eat it herself, but tore it into small pieces and fed it to the woman.

The reality seemed even worse than he had imagined.

"Little sister, I know about this disease, but I have to go to my senior brother, go to his house to get a pharmacy, you take care of your mother here, and wait for me to come back!" Zhou Yu lied to her and said.

"Okay, I'll wait for you!" The little girl, who thought that her mother was saved, laughed happily, and didn't even bother to eat steamed buns, but just hugged the woman tightly.

When Zhou Yu left, he left his long jacket to the girl, her clothes were too thin to withstand the cold of this winter.

Zhou Yu untied the horse rope, turned over on the horse, and went straight to Luozhou City. He didn't want to go to any senior brother's house, and he didn't have any senior brother, his destination was actually Yongping County.

Zhou Yu, who left in a hurry, didn't notice that a small crack opened in the door of Sanli Temple, and a small figure wearing a long coat that didn't fit well quietly watched him leave inside......