Peaceful and beautiful days are always short-lived, time flies by, and in the blink of an eye, the end of the year is reached.

In the early morning of this day, Su Xiu still ran in the morning as always, but the slight difference from before was that Su Xiu was no longer wearing a white brocade robe, but a black mink.

The weather in Yanzhou is quite distinct, and the temperature in winter can be about minus 20 degrees.

Su Xiu slowly ran along both sides of the glacier that had frozen into ice.

There are a few children on the frozen river, skating on the ice carefree, you chase me, and have a great time.

Towards the end of the year, every door was replaced with a brand new red lantern, like an apple cut by a knife.

Some families even posted new couplets early.

In winter, the sky is usually very late.

Su Xiu had been running for nearly an hour, and the sky was a little cloudy, and it gradually turned out to be white.

Everywhere along the river, smoke slowly floated from the chimney.

This smoke is not for cooking, the winter morning is extremely cold, ordinary people have to get up early to burn the kang.

Otherwise, because the temperature outside the house is too low, it can even freeze to death the people in the house.

Su Xiu Xiaocang went home and gently pushed open the brand-new wooden door.

This wooden door is a mahogany door that the master said when he came last time that he had lost his identity as a county order, and he had to pay out of his own pocket to change a mahogany door.

Of course, after that, he naturally gave him this money.

Entering this cold courtyard, Su Xiu hurriedly got up, lit the fire, led the stove, cooked, etc.

After talking about everything, Su Xiu brought a bowl of porridge and a plate of small pickles and put them on the table.

The temperature in the house is gradually increasing due to the fire.

While Su Xiu drank porridge from this pickle, he recalled the days when Yuan Xiang was there.

If he was there, he wouldn't have to do these trivial things, and he would be able to make it a lot easier.

While thinking wildly, he quickly finished the porridge in the bowl, and after drinking, he casually put the porridge bowl in the wooden basin beside him.

Because it was winter and the weather was too cold, Su Xiu had saved up his rice bowl for three or five days every time, and then washed it with hot water one less time.

After all, washing dishes every day, Su Xiu himself didn't want to waste time on these trivial matters.

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps outside.

The visitor was wrapped in a thick jacket, wearing a thick cotton hat on his head, his nose was red from the cold, and his small eyes were closed even smaller because of the cold wind.

"My lord, your morning running habit has been the same for decades." After the man took in the valve, a lewd voice came.

Su Xiu looked at the master who came home early in the morning and asked, "Come here so early, what's the matter?" ”

The master arched his hand and said: Disturb the adults so early, forgive the sins. ”

After a polite red tape between the two, the master put his eyes on the wooden basin on the shelf at the kitchen door that could hold two days' rice bowls.

"My lord, I told you to find a maid to take care of your daily life, why don't you agree."

"Why do I have to let others serve me, it's good to never sleep lately?"

"My lord, this can't be better, at the end of the year, there are more people buying New Year's goods, especially glass, which is in short supply."

"Well, that's good."

Su Xiu looked at the scene of the cold wind howling outside the window.

The master smiled and handed over an account book and said: "It's the end of the year, this is the account book of our Fengqi County for a year, you see, this year's taxes, you are about to catch up with the county guard, and the assassin will definitely be impressed by you." ”

Su Xiu took the account book and flipped through it casually.

The master is still conservative, and this surplus is enough to top the three or five years of ordinary counties.

Although the surplus is sufficient, if you want to say that this Yanzhou Thorn Shi likes me, Su Xiu doesn't have this dream.

"Okay, I'll leave from now on, during the time I'm gone, you're in charge of all the trivial matters in the county."

The master arched his hand and said, "Don't worry." ”

After that, he sent the master away, and at noon, Su Xiu went to the horse farm and picked a good horse to replace his feet.

All the way, in the evening, I finally arrived in Yanzhou.

In Yanzhou, the towering city gate is about dozens of zhang high, and the city wall is about ten meters thick.

From a distance, you can see the deep moat of the high city, and the moat surrounded by four rivers next to the city is like a soldier guarding this Yanzhou city.

Su Xiu stood outside the city and sighed, it is worthy of being one of the big cities in Kyushu, it looks like it is indeed magnificent.

Entering the city, the whole Yanzhou City is full of traffic, the roads extend in all directions, there are bursts of noise in the air, and this street is full of market atmosphere.

Su Xiu slowly walked towards the post house.

The street here looks like there are few businesses around, and it should be very clean.

But now it suddenly became lively, and a group of people gathered in front of a store, forming a large circle of dense layers.

The people outside the circle also had different clothes and appearances, and they squeezed to the front with great effort.

A man in front of him was beating an old man violently, and shouted while beating: "Bastard, what are you betting on if you don't have money, what are you betting?" Is it easy to deceive when Lao Tzu? ”

After a punch and kick, the old man vomited blood, and he was already out of breath and out of breath.

Seeing that the old man was gradually losing his sense of resistance, the man reached out and snatched the title deed from the old man's arms.

With the old man's hand, he took the blood that the old man himself spit out and pressed it on the contract paper.

The burly man raised his waist and shouted at the people around him: "See! This is the end of not paying back the money, don't gamble if you don't have money, if you lose the bet, you have to consider yourself unlucky, and you will give me a little bit of tricks in the future, don't feel uncomfortable in our casino. ”

It's open up again, and this Chase gambling house is really lawless in Yanzhou.

Wang Er of Fengqi County still cares about a little face, although he is also bullying the market, he does not dare to beat people to death.

The Datong in Yanzhou City really regards human life as a mustard, and life is thinner than paper to describe the people in Yanzhou, which is really accurate.

Looking at the lively people on the side, they dodged the fierce eyes of the men one by one.

A few people whispered below.

"The people at this Chase casino are really overbearing."

"That's right, what a good old man here, he was actually like this."

"Hey, who let him gamble, and got into trouble, get through this group of plague gods."

"Now it's getting harder and harder for us people in Yanzhou City to live."

"Hey, who says it's not, last month, my relatives went to Jingzhou again."

"Hmph, this Yanzhou assassin is rich and unkind, and he also collects such a high amount of water to collect people, which actually makes the major gambling houses so domineering."

"The world is going down, let's bear with it, hey."

Su Xiu looked at this admiration and was heartbroken.

This Yanzhou thorn history is really damned, it is so fishy and meaty.

Emperor Chu is even more hateful, allowing such a guy to be the party to the disaster.