Splint Ridge, located in Yongbei County, is the north-south traffic artery connecting Jiangmifeng and Gangyao Town. In the early years, this splint ridge was not called splint ridge at all, because of the growth of cold onions, it was named cold green ridge. Down the sunny slope of this cold green ridge is the birch river, which is self-evidently a color of birch trees. The birch trees are densely covered with the sky, especially in late autumn, the white trunk and red leaves, red and white are extraordinarily beautiful!

Down the birch river, go down more than ten miles along the gangliangzi is the sheep grass ditch. The ditch fork has perennial flowing water, the surface water is sufficient, rich in hash ants, roe deer, wild wolves, rabbits, foxes, otters, yellow pines, soil balls, snakes, wild gaya fish, green linzi fish, loach hooks, white tickets and boat nail fish, crickets are drilled into the cracks of the stones. There are monkey heads, hazel mushrooms, elm mushrooms, fungus, pine mushrooms and countless wild vegetables on the mountain.

At the foot of the mountain lives a family surnamed Yu, an old couple, and five children in the family, living by farming and sheep grass all year round, because there are many children, and there is no other income, so the family is very poor. Every year is not good at other livelihoods, as the children get older and older, life is tight, and several children have never studied. The eldest and youngest children have long hair this year, each of them is not two or three years old, next to each other is born like a wild boar, the children's clothes are made of cotton in winter, and they are dismantled in summer and then made single clothes, the eldest is worn to the second, the second is small to the third, sewing and mending will be on, all of them are drip and pull the summer does not cover the body, and the winter does not protect against the cold. Although all of them are black and not slippery, they are very sturdy. Steamed a pot of sticky bean buns, brought to the table, and before the old couple came to the table, the brothers snatched it up, and the straight old couple knocked on the door with a spoon and scolded: "Oh my God! What kind of sins did we do in our lives! After giving birth to so many ghosts, why can't the plague kill you all? "At night, several children are huddled together, from the big to the small, the round and sloppy, fat dun dun is also very cute.

Gossip aside, don't look at this place is a little remote, but because it is located at the throat of traffic, the south and north to collect mountain goods, leather businessmen, dumping cattle hawkers, and the market dealers are also endless. From south to north, most of the time I walked here was noon, and I was forced to find a home to rest. This is also a business opportunity, but the Yu family does not have such conditions. In the col in front of the ridge not far from Lao Yu's home, a family surnamed Guo recently came from Shandong to the east of the Guandong, the man was called Guo Laogui, pushing the old mother with a wheelbarrow, and the daughter-in-law led the daughter to settle down in the Nanshan col and set up camp. Mrs. Guo is not an idle person, and soon she saw a business opportunity.

Mrs. Guo asked her son to build a shack on the cold green ridge, and used her own skills to open a Guo Ji pancake shop with local materials. Using newly picked mushrooms, fish and shrimp in the water, and scallion rolls and pancakes, the past vendors can have a full meal without spending much money, and everyone is happy! In this way, one to ten, ten to hundred, people in the past have consciously rushed here to rest their feet. Business is booming day by day, and Guo Laogui's daughter-in-law is also able to speak well, work neatly and neatly, and treat people and things generously and decently. Guo Laogui's daughter, called Jin Zhi, is naturally smart and clever, and is sixteen or seventeen years old. The two big eyes of the water spirit flickered and shrewd. She speaks like a swallow, smiles like a silver bell, has a slender waist, and walks lightly. Serving tea and pouring water to the guests, it looks like it has won the praise of past merchants!

Since Guo Laogui opened this shop on the ridge, but let the old Yu family have a long hair to worry about, he has nothing to do, so he found a reason to come to this shop to help do this and that, after a long time, Guo Laogui and his family will see the clues, although it is said that the long-haired child also has a big waist and a round tiger's back, but because he has not read a book, and has lived in the mountains for a long time, it is inevitable that he will be a little wooden and late.

Therefore, Guo Laogui and his family sent Mrs. Guo and Jin Zhi to his cousin's house in Toudaogou. Don't give Jin Zhi and Long Hair a chance to be alone anymore.

In this birch river and sheep grass ditch, up and down dozens of miles of radius, a total of less than fifty or sixty households, and they are all distributed in various gangliang ditch forks, between the neighbors, there is no big thing, everyone is not walking around. Settle with each other, work at sunrise, rest at sunset, plant in spring and harvest in autumn, and live an ordinary life.

The north side of the cold green ridge is the Bai family oil mill, the old Bai family, the family is big, the old brother is three, the young brother is three, the door is divided, the family has lived here for a long time, the field is bought and sold, the long and short work, the housekeeper, the mother-in-law, the old mother has hundreds of people. Each door and household bring their families and mouths, forming a street, also called Baijia Street.

But not long ago, a family surnamed Ma moved between Baijiajie and Hanliangling, who is said to be the homestay of a certain senior member of the state capital, who came here to cut charcoal and plant ginseng. All the necessary materials are allocated by the state government, and all the products and receipts are handed over to the imperial court, so how can ordinary people imagine the situation of business.

This Bai family has long been the famous master of this hundred and eighty miles, the Ma family has come to rob the Bai family's color, the Ma family has many employees, and the wages are also affordable, and many employees have quit their jobs and run to the Ma family. The rest of the Ma family is also safe, but the third young master of the Bai family is not a forgiving master. He is usually idle, eating, drinking, prostituting, gambling, and sampling, and the affairs of the family are handled by the eldest brother and the second brother. Seeing that the eldest brother and the second brother swallowed his anger, let this craftsman lose and his wages rose, he couldn't bear this breath! The ghost heart and eyes are total, the hard ones can't do it, and the soft ones don't eat it! Thinking and pondering, he remembered a person, who said, who did he think of?

Bai Sanye thought about it, he remembered Liu Siye in the ditch where he used to set up a gambling game together, this Liu Siye is a leather merchant, because of business contacts, he is often familiar with the Sha family brothers in Jilin Cattle and Horse Shops. And the Nasha family and the Hou Mansion on Ula Street are all for Cixi Lafayette to take care of the Ouchi warehouse, the relationship is wide, the roots are hard, how can the Ma family be compared? Thinking of this, Bai Sanye, secretly happy alone, said to leave, and when he got to Liu Siye, he would coo, and the three stinkers would catch up with Zhuge Liang!

Bai Sanye, after thinking about it, informed the two elder brothers, and then withdrew some money from the clan cabinet, not saying the use. Prepare the horses, hang two barrels of oil on the saddle bridge, and come straight to the house of Liu Siye in the head ditch!