After the meal, the three of them took the official errand to clean up the inventory that had been exchanged this time.

Trading with the barbarians, the food is mainly meat and milk, but fortunately, it is cold now, and it is frozen into a quick freeze, and it can't be broken.

Lu Xu kept enough for a month's consumption in the county, and the rest of the fully loaded cars planned to go around the surrounding military camps, doing business while inspecting the territory for Yan Junqi.

If it goes well, they can also go to Beiguan County or Xifeng County again.

On this trip, Lu Xu plans to go for more than ten days, but if it snows, the time is not certain.

According to military households who have been living here for two or three years, it is not yet the coldest and the wind and snow are at its highest, and if you don't take advantage of this time to walk, it will only be more difficult to go out again.

Having decided to go out, they packed up and counted until midnight, packing up everything that was going to be shipped tomorrow.

Lu Xu said that he might go to Beiguan County, and Lu Zhou wrote the letter he wanted to send, as well as the excerpt that Yan Junqi wanted to send to the capital, and handed it to him in the morning, so that Beiguan County could deliver it to Crouching Tiger Pass, and then send it to Guannei.

was busy until the second half of the night, thinking that it would be several days to say goodbye, Lu Xu struggled for a long time, but still pulled Yan Junqi to save until dawn, and then hugged Yan Junqi, who was so sleepy that his eyelids were fighting, that he hurriedly slept for a while.

In the morning, when someone came to urge, Lu Xu defeated the sleeping god with perseverance, got up and dressed, and while wearing, he closed his eyes and raced against time to rest.

He didn't let Yan Junqi get up, he could rely on the carriage to make up for sleep on the road, Yan Junqi came with him, there were big and small things waiting for him to deal with, and before dark, there was almost no time to rest.

Yesterday was a busy day, worrying about the market during the day, and when they came back, they had to count and settle accounts, and then they tossed for half a night, Lu Xu himself was tired enough, let alone Yan Junqi.

Their family is all in the middle of the scholars, and their physical fitness is very good, which is far worse than him.

Lu Xu pressed Yan Junqi, who was struggling to get up, back to the quilt and kissed him, "You sleep for a while, I'll clean up and call you." ”

Yan Junqi said "Hmm", there was really no movement.

I don't know if I woke up or didn't wake up just now.

Lu Xu felt that such a Jun Qi was very cute, and couldn't help but gently pinch his face and tuck the corners of the quilt for him.

He came out, and was blown by the cold wind, and the man sobered up.

Lu Zhou, who was resting, had already arranged for them to load the car.

Lu Zhou: "Brother, why didn't you sleep a little longer?" ”

Lu Xu: "I'll sleep on the road, and their letters to Ah Hao have been written?" ”

Lu Zhou nodded and gave him the letter, and the envelope was stamped with the seal of the Prince's Mansion.

Lu Xu pinched a letter with a thickness comparable to a book, and was amazed, their family Lu Zhou really did what he said, and said that he wrote every day, even if it was not good to send letters to the customs in Beiting County, he was not tired for a day, and he was really writing every day.

"Although I can't send it once every five days, Ah Hao will definitely be moved when I receive it." Lu Xu patted him and put the letter away, "Wait until next year when our situation is better, and then we will take care of the station." ”

Lu Zhou: "Hmm! ”

The conditions are limited, and Ah Hao must be able to understand.

When it was almost finished, Yan Junqi dressed up and came out to see them off.

This time, Lu Xu had the Tiger Ben Army to protect the safety, so he simply threw the work of driving the carriage to others, and only brought the four officials who represented the county government and sent supplies to the towns, and the rest were all left to the county government.

Respectively, Lu Xu instructed Yan Junqi and Lu Zhou, "After we leave, you must pay attention to safety, lock the city gate when you should lock the city gate, find the tiger army when you should find the tiger army, and I will definitely come back before the next market." ”

Yan Junqi and Lu Zhou also told him to be careful on the road.

Lu Xu hugged them one by one, said goodbye to the officials and people who saw them off, and got into the carriage and set off for the town.

The towns outside the gate are sparse, and the nearest town to the county seat is also a day's distance, and when the county town has a market every five days, only they can go to the market, and other towns are too far away to risk going to the wasteland.

The last time they went to the market was on the day of the snow, and now that the snow has melted, the road is difficult to walk, and they have been nesting in their town for almost a month.

It doesn't matter if anything else, I'm afraid that someone in the family will get sick, and the town is shouting every day to pay attention to the elderly and children, they don't have a man in the town, so they have to go to the county seat to see a doctor.

In order to save warmth and firewood, they generally huddle all the family in one room.

On this day, the day was sunny, and the hostess took advantage of the warmth at noon to open the window for ventilation, and also took advantage of the good light to do some needlework.

A few children were picking up the grass roots to be ground today with a dustpan by the window.

The grass roots they dug were mixed with a bitter steamed bun, which was not picked clean last time, and the whole family ate bitter steamed buns for several days.

The youngest child was lying on the edge of the window and playing with the ice hanging on the windowsill.

When the neighbor's children saw this, she called them to go outside to skate, and the hostess heard the movement and told them to play.

"You are only allowed to skate in the middle of the village, you are not allowed to run far, you are not allowed to step on the snow, and you are not allowed to change your shoes when they are wet."

Although they are a town, the scale of their hometown is at most a village.

In the past few years, they have become familiar with each other, who is easy to get along with, who is unreasonable, and they are all clear, as long as they don't go to play with the children in the village who love to beat people, she also lets the children go out to breathe.

"Got it, A-Niang." The eldest son jumped out of bed first, then hugged the younger son down, and asked the two younger sisters, "Erya, Sanya, will you go?" ”

The two female dolls looked at her, and the hostess took the unfinished grass roots aside, "You two should go too, don't run far." ”

"Hmm!"

The children cheered, held hands and ran away.

The hostess saw the two children together, and they all smiled and shook their heads.

That is, the children can still be so happy in this ice and snow.

The man chopped the firewood and carried the firewood into the house, and when he saw that the children were not there, he asked, "Where are the dolls?" Going out? ”

"I'm going to skate with the neighbors, so let's get some more firewood, and when the dolls come back, it'll be hot."

The man added firewood to the charcoal brazier, "It's not bad, your hands are cold when you do your work." ”

After listening to this, the hostess laughed, and ironed with her heart, "I think these two days are good, if they discuss going to the county to catch the market again, let's go and buy two catties of tofu." ”

"Hmm."

She embroiders well, and her husband weaves straw sandals well, so he can carry them to the county to change something.

Her brother-in-law was on an errand in the Tiger Ben Army, only came back to live for two days a month, he was good at riding and shooting, often went out on patrol, occasionally hunted rabbits, foxes or something, the meat was left in the army to eat, the skin could be taken home, get together, catch up with the Tiger Ben Army who went to Beiguan County to run an errand, and asked the other party to take the county seat to find a merchant to exchange some food for back.

Thanks to this capable little brother-in-law, their family is a well-off family in the town.

The only thing I am worried about is finding a daughter-in-law for my brother-in-law.

Their hometown is poor, the husband's family has three brothers and one sister, the younger sister died before she grew up, the old man is gone, and the uncle also died in battle. The two brothers were the only ones left in the house.

A few years ago, the uncle and brother-in-law were on the battlefield, her husband was honest, and the family relied on the two of them to work hard, raise children, take care of the elderly, in order to treat the elderly, the family's savings were also spent, the field was sold, borrowed money from her mother's family, and her brother and sister-in-law who borrowed it were also annoyed and no longer had dealings with her family.

The two of them worked day and night, and they only had enough food and clothing.

Later, the war ended, the little uncle was clever, survived from the battlefield, and mixed a small leader, their family came to the northwest as a military household can share more than a dozen acres of land than others, they discussed with the couple, and then sacrificed their ancestors at home, sold the house and the last bit of land, paid off the debt, and moved to the outside of the border with the children.

The days in the northwest are far from being as easy as imagined, but fortunately, the family can be reunited, and the children are healthy.

The two of them were discussing in a low voice waiting for the little uncle to come back and lead him to see which girl, and the children who had just run out to play hurriedly ran back again, "Daddy, Daddy! A lot of people came from the north! ”

The eldest son added: "It's a soldier! It's all soldiers, on horseback, a lot of people! ”

The adult hurriedly asked, "Where is the soldier?" Ours or barbarians? ”

Eldest son: "Our soldiers! ”

The adults breathed a sigh of relief and put down their work and went out to see.

Sure enough, a large group of tiger troops came from the direction of the county seat.

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Chapter 289: Patrol

Lu Xu and his entourage were very conspicuous in the white wilderness, they saw the town, and all the residents in the town naturally saw them early.

When they arrived, the whole town gathered at the entrance, looking at them curiously.

Young Li Zheng stood at the front and asked curiously, "Are you passing by?" ”

Occasionally, when the Tiger Army was heading south, they would stop here to ask for some water.

Lu Xu sat in the carriage and looked at him curiously, "Are you Lizheng?" ”

The young Li Zheng was stunned when he heard the sound, and turned around with his crutches, only then did he notice the young man who was protected by the Tiger Ben Army in the middle, and nodded: "Exactly." ”

Lu Xu looked at his crutches and asked, "Wounded soldiers?" ”

Li Zheng: "I'm no longer a soldier, is this adult ......?" ”

The sitting posture and the dress don't look like a tiger army.

Lu Xu: "I am a family member of Yan County Commander, temporarily acting as the county lieutenant, and I am here to do business with you." ”

Li Zheng listened to it for a while, family? Acting county lieutenant?

Lu Xu pointed to the earth-stone fence about a meter high around the town and asked, "What is this for?" Stumbling horses? ”

Lizheng: "Exactly. ”

Lu Xu: "Does it work?" ”

Li Zheng said bluntly: "I don't know, I haven't used it yet." ”

Lu Xu laughed.

He didn't ask why he didn't just repair the city wall, poor, let alone this small town, the wall of their county seat is only two meters high, and it took Zhang County Ling three years of hard work to build.

He is a small man, and it is already remarkable that he can mobilize townspeople from all over the world to build such a wall.

Lu Xu jumped out of the car and praised with great appreciation: "You are so amazing, what is your name?" ”

The tough guy was inexplicable, and he was praised by Lu Xu so much that he had goosebumps all over his body, "The villain Lu Dahei." ”

Lu Xu subconsciously looked at him, he looked a little dark.

Lu Xu: "How many families are there in the town, but there are sick, lonely widows, and people who can't eat?" ”

Hearing him ask this, Lu Dahei felt a little more comfortable, and said proudly: "Tell my lord, our military households in Dingwu Town used to be poor families, and everyone worked together, and none of them were hungry by themselves. ”

Lu Xuwaner, "Very good! Attaboy! Do you lack anything to survive the winter? Does anyone want to change things to buy something? I brought a lot of daily necessities, meat, milk, some food, and cloth. ”

When the people standing behind Lu Dahei heard this, their eyes lit up.