"Mother, you kid follow me, see if I don't beat you to death!" Hearing this, Hupo was furious, and he raised his right hand through gritted teeth.

"Ouch... Spare your life, brother! Zhou Yi hurriedly covered his head with both hands, and shrank into the corner.

"Who told you to stalk me?"

In his memory, Zhou Yi is a small character in the casino, specializing in deceiving people outside, entering the casino to play, he earns a small rake, and is considered a casino broker.

He and Ling Hupo are young in the village, and their parents are all brothers, and they grew up wearing open pants together, and they usually have a very iron relationship.

In the Northland, as long as it is a hunter's family, the family is relatively well-off, well-fed and warmly dressed, and the family can often smell the smell of meat.

But it was this old iron who tricked Linghupo into the casino, and the family's large amount of money was lost by him.

It turned out that there were two horses locked up in the stables in the courtyard, and they were also pulled to pay off the debt.

"Oooh... I said... Said..."Zhou Yi stood up tremblingly, thinking to himself that this thin body could not resist this guy's punch.

"I heard that you beat Mo Dalang last night?" He digressed from the topic, a little flattering to lick his face.

"Don't talk nonsense, tell me quickly, who called you?"

When Ling Gupo thought that it was this guy who made the original owner lose his family property, kill his parents, beat and scold Xiuniang, and became an unfilial descendant in the eyes of the villagers, he couldn't wait to abolish him with three fists and two feet.

"Oops... Don't get angry... I said, I said, it's a lame man. Zhou Yi finally told the truth.

Lame?

Come to think of it.

This lame man is the owner of the casino in Border Wolf Tooth Town.

He was a border soldier, a centurion, who was wounded and amputated in a battle, so he opened a casino in the military fort.

This person is ruthless and kills people without blinking.

"Why is the lame man staring at me, I don't owe him gambling debts, hum!"

"You don't owe, but your father owes."

"My dad?" Ling Hupo's eyes widened and he scolded angrily:

"Did you take the wrong medicine, or did you have itchy skin? How could my father be in gambling debt, you dare to talk nonsense and ruin my father's reputation?! ”

"It's really your father, for Xiu Niang, he paid back half of the hunting, and later... After... Half is still owed. Zhou Yi trembled.

Fox Po fell into memories.

When he was in the casino of Wolf's Tooth Town, he bet on Xiuniang and lost, and the lame man sent someone to the house to prepare to take Xiuniang away, but his father knelt down to intercede and promised him to pay off the gambling debts.

But later...

"How much is missing?"

"It's two bucks off." Zhou Yi stretched out two fingers.

Linghu Po stood silently.

This is a confused account, and he can't remember how much he has repaid and how much he still owes.

Even if it is not paid off, it will not be much, but the casino is a usury, and these two pieces of money are two taels of silver, which is a large amount nowadays.

"You go back and tell the lame master, saying that I will come to the door in person in three days and pay off the gambling debts."

"Three days?" Zhou Yi asked suspiciously, staring at the small cloth bag in Ling Hupo's hand with two eyes.

"Stop staring, get out!" Fox Po was annoyed.

"Good!" Zhou Yi was so frightened that he smeared oil on the soles of his feet, and ran away with a smoke.

Looking at the background that was gradually moving away, Ling Hupo's mood suddenly fell to a low point, and the joy just now was long gone.

He pushed the door into the courtyard and found Xiuniang squatting on the ground, her head buried in her knees, whimpering and crying.

The two of them had a conversation at the gate of the courtyard, and she heard it clearly.

The days were just showing signs of improvement, and the result was a blow to the head.

"Don't cry, it's all my sins, and I'll find a way to pay it back." Linghu Po helped Xiuniang into the house, and then handed her the cloth bag containing the money.

"Here are ninety copper coins, you find a place to hide them, and give the Mo family's ten copper coins first, just looking for the Yao family... I'm afraid it's inconvenient. ”

"It's okay, I'm very familiar with his family, and she gave me the seed on credit."

Xiuniang wiped away her tears with her sleeve, "It's the lame master's two taels of silver, how can we pay it back?" Three days? The remaining eighty yuan is far from enough, and it is almost the end of the year, and the annual tax of the two of us..."

She looked at Ling Hupo with red and swollen eyes, from the bottom of her heart, she had regarded him as the head of the family, the backbone of the heart.

In the fragments of Linghupo's mind, at the end of each year, the government will send people to collect taxes, according to the head of the household registration.

Orion's poll tax is on the upper side, consistent for men and semi-coherent for women.

If you don't pay your taxes, you have to do hard labor or go to jail.

"Starting tomorrow, I will also go up to the mountains to chop firewood to sell and earn some copper money."

"Listen to me." Ling Hupo sighed, "You just stay in the house, pack up the house and sew winter clothes, I will go into the mountains to hunt at noon, this time I have to go for a few days, you can help me prepare some dry food or something." ”

"Oh, I see."

Xiuniang is still a little uneasy, after all, the two add up, and they are three and a half copper coins, which is undoubtedly a huge amount for them at the moment.

Ling Hupo only felt that the fate of the two seemed to be tied more and more tightly.

Between him and Xiuniang, there is no love, but they live together by accident and are tied together.

He came through time, and she was picked up.

Therefore, they must be in the same boat to tide over the difficulties.

Of course, as a man, he has to take on this responsibility.

The two of them went their separate ways.

Xiuniang was busy in the kitchen, opening the meal in advance, preparing Wowotou and half a roast chicken, and also filled a skin bag of strong soju and a shabby cotton clothes.

Linghu Po mainly inspects tools such as iron bows, bowstrings, arrows, and hunting knives, and this time brings longer ropes.

There is a big hunt, and in the end the prey is tied up and dragged back.

Everything was ready, and the meal was started early.

In Xiuniang's advice, Linghu Po embarked on a big hunting journey.

This time, he has to go into the deep mountains and old forests, which will be risky.

……

It was getting late, and it was pitch black.

Linghu Po dragged his prey with a rope, a large roe deer, a wild goat, and several hares and pheasants in the basket.

After a long day of climbing the mountains, my body was quite tired, but I still couldn't find the cave, the campsite where the old hunters lived.

It's dark, I can't find it anymore, and the temperature is dropping.

In the early winter, after the sun sets, the mountains are cold and windy, and there is no place to block the wind and build bonfires, and people are frozen.

On the other side of the valley, he finally found a leeward place, under a large rock, to roost for the night.

He laid down his prey, then gathered around the dry branches, trees, as many as he could, and quickly built a bonfire.

Open the nest head prepared by Xiuniang, there is half a roast chicken, and then the sour soju, and start eating.

When he had eaten and drunk, he put on his spare tattered cotton clothes, wrapped them in a stinking leather jacket, and fell asleep by the campfire.

He didn't know how long he slept, but he was awakened by the sound of a breathing and heavy panting.

When he opened his eyes, he was stunned.

Twenty or thirty meters away, more than 20 pairs of green eyes...

Oh, it's a pack of wolves!