After a while, Wang Jinwu and several brothers returned with rice grain.

The rice and grain they brought with them along the way were not much, but except for the need to stay for three days, the rest was given to Li Hu. These rice grains are enough for Li Hu and others to eat a few meals, and if they save some mixed with wild vegetables or something, it is not a big problem to eat for a few more days.

As for Zhu Shencone's side, it is nothing, after passing Sheep's Head Mountain and continuing east, it will be two days at most to reach Zhao Village. It was enough for Zhu Shencone to keep himself for three days, and when he arrived in Zhao Village, eating would no longer be a problem.

When they saw the rice and grain sent, Li Hu and his group cheered, not only Li Hu, but everyone looked at Zhu Shencone with gratitude and admiration.

"Sixth Master, these people are from unknown origins, and they need to be more careful to ......." Wang Chuer reminded Zhu Shencone softly.

Zhu Shencone nodded slightly but didn't say anything, Wang Chuer was also kind, after all, Li Hu was still robbing them with people just now, but in a blink of an eye, Zhu Shencone not only spared Li Hu's life, but also gave him rice and silver money, and Wang Chuer's reminder was also normal.

However, Zhu Shencone knows in his heart, he is not a good person, will he be a good person who has the courage to sell illicit salt?

In the past two years, Zhu Shencone has been able to take the people of Wangjia Village to do such a business, in addition to relying on his brain, he also relies on the people and knives in his hands.

It's not for nothing to do this business and fight with people, even if it's human life, Zhu Shencone has a few in his hand, good men and women can't do this, sometimes ruthlessness is necessary.

If it was just an ordinary bandit, Zhu Shencone would kill him if he said he would kill it, even if his own people were killed or injured, Zhu Shencone would not be merciful.

But Li Hu and others are different, firstly, Zhu Shencone felt that Li Hu and others were different from real strongmen from the beginning, and they looked more like ordinary people. Second, Li Hu's martial arts surprised him very much, not only was he not weaker than himself, but also there was an obvious shadow of the army in his moves, which made Zhu Shencone very curious.

As for the third, it is Li Hu's righteous anger towards his brothers.

You must know that Wang Jinwu's knife had already reached Li Hu's neck at that time, and Li Hu not only begged for mercy at that time, but also begged Zhu Shencone to spare his brothers in exchange for his life.

Such a loving and righteous man made Zhu Shencone a little moved in his heart, and he also had a heart of love.

Since the smuggling of salt, Zhu Shencone has seen a lot of all kinds of people, some people don't look fierce and domineering, but when the sword is about to end, all kinds of ugliness are revealed, there are those who beg bitterly, there are those who cry bitterly, and there are even people who are scared of the two wars on the spot.

But it's the first time I've met someone like Li Hu, Zhu Shencone has always been good at recognizing people, and feels that Li Hu is different from others, even if he stopped them to go to the intersection and said that they would do a business without capital, Li Hu didn't do it directly, just made threats, but it was Wang Jinwu who really made the first move.

After learning the origin of Li Hu and his people, Zhu Shencone became even more interested in soliciting, it is more useful to keep such a person than to cut it directly.

This place in Sheepshead Mountain is also a necessary place for Zhu Shencone and others to walk through salt, and it is not a bad thing for Li Hu and others to be stationed here.

If Li Hu has a firm foothold here, he can help Zhu Shencone control the road of Sheepshead Mountain and at the same time serve as a transit station for salt in the future, so that no one else can walk on this road except Zhu Shencone in the future.

In addition, Zhu Shencone has been preparing for the future, Li Hu and others have nowhere to go, if they can be completely subdued, it will be a good thing for Zhu Shencone.

In addition to these, Zhu Shencone has other ideas, but it is too early to say.

Li Hu led everyone forward to thank Zhu Shencone again, Zhu Shencone and Yan Yuese let them get up and said a few beautiful words, which made Li Hu and the others even more grateful.

When the sky is approaching, Zhu Shencone and others will definitely not be able to get out of Sheep's Head Mountain today, Li Hu hesitated and invited Zhu Shencone and others to go to Laojun Temple to rest for one night, and tomorrow he will personally send Zhu Shencone out of Sheep's Head Mountain.

When he said this, Li Hu looked eager, and at the same time a little apprehensive, for fear that Zhu Shencone would open his mouth and refuse. But he didn't think about it, Zhu Shencone didn't think about it, and agreed to Li Hu's invitation with a smile, which made Li Hu instantly energetic and happy.

Li Hu's group opened the way in front, Zhu Shencone and Li Hu walked in the middle of the team, followed by Zhu Shencone's people.

It's not too far to go to Laojun Temple from here, but the mountain road is not very easy to walk, thanks to Li Hu and his people after settling down in Laojun Temple, the trail on the mountain was cleared, and it was not a problem to go all the way.

After walking for more than half an hour, I finally arrived at the place.

I saw the broken walls and dilapidated roofs of Laojun Temple from afar, and looked over, just as Li Hu said, there were many people in Laojun Temple who were busy working, most of these people were old women, women and children, and there were only a dozen young and strong people.

Seeing Li Hu and them coming back, the people left behind in Laojun Temple were very happy to come to greet them, but when they saw Zhu Shencone and a group of them following behind, these people instantly showed a panicked look on their faces.

However, someone soon explained to them what was going on, and when they learned of the consequences, everyone relieved their hearts and stepped forward to salute Zhu Shencone respectfully, thanking Zhu Shencone for his kindness.

Li Hu pointed around and introduced, and then invited Zhu Shencone to sit in the temple, Zhu Shencone looked left and right and nodded with a smile, and asked Wang Chuer and the others to directly find an open space to temporarily camp and rest, and greeted his cousin Wang Jinwu, and the two followed Li Hu towards the temple.

Laojun Temple is a Taoist temple for some years, this place is remote, before the temple Zhu did not know where to go, there was no incense for a long time, and I don't know when it fell into such a dilapidated state.

The whole temple is not large, the area is just like a courtyard, and most of the earthen walls around it have collapsed, and even the main hall is dilapidated.

Thanks to Li Hu and the others who came here, they repaired it a little, otherwise in two years, I am afraid that this place will not even look like it.

Laojun Temple is just a small temple, there is only one main hall and two side halls, now there are people living here, the main hall is the clay sculpture of Laojun in the Taiqing Hall has disappeared, I don't know whether Li Hu moved away or disappeared when he came, the bricks and tiles on the top of the hall are much less, and the breaches are temporarily covered with straw mat branches, which is barely liveable.

As the leading boss, the main hall is Li Hu's residence, not only Li Hu but also his family and brothers.

After entering the inside, Li Hu personally took a few simple wooden stools, wiped them twice with his cuffs and asked Zhu Shencone to sit, Zhu Shencone was not polite, sat down directly, and then looked around.

"It's broken like this, can you still live here?"

"It's better than having nowhere to go, and I'll fix it up in a while, and then figure it out after this winter." Li Hu said with a wry smile, it's hard to live in this world! What's more, they finally have a place to stay, and it's good to have such a place.

"That's just as well." Zhu Shencone nodded, the winter in the north is very difficult, and Li Hu and they have a population of more than 100, if they sleep in the open air, I am afraid that they will not be able to survive a few, and they can have this place to live, although it is broken, it is better than nothing.

"Sixth Master, please use tea." At this time, a teenager came over with a bowl of tea.

After saying thank you, Zhu Shencone took the tea bowl, this is just an ordinary coarse porcelain bowl, and the edges have been broken a lot, and the tea in it is not a good tea, not even serious tea, smelling the taste, and then looking at the floating leaves, Zhu Shencone recognized that this was tea made from persimmon leaves in the mountains.

Zhu Shencone didn't pay attention to it, he raised his hand and took a sip, the tea was very bitter in the mouth, but he didn't care at all, and only after taking another sip did he put the tea bowl aside.

Seeing Zhu Shencone drinking tea generously, the young man's expression was full of joy and admiration.

"This is Xiao'er Li You, You'er, your father and I can come back alive today thanks to the mercy of the sixth master's subordinates, and he didn't kowtow to the sixth master?" Li Hu pointed at the young man.

No wonder Zhu Shencone felt that this young man and Li Hu's face was somewhat similar, it turned out that he was Li Hu's son.

Li You looks like he is twelve or thirteen years old, but he is not short, but he has lost some weight, and there are two more points of delicacy in his eyebrows that Li Hu does not have.

"Li You Xie Sixth Master's subordinates are merciful, Sixth Master's great kindness, Li You will definitely repay it!" Without saying a word, Li You knelt down at Zhu Shencone and kowtowed three times in a row, this kid was still sincere, the bluestone slab with his head on the ground slammed, Zhu Shencone didn't react for a while, and when he got up to stop him, Li You had already kowtowed his head.

Zhu Shencone hurriedly pulled Li You up, shook his head and smiled bitterly at Li Hu: "There's no need for this, I have already said it before, and I won't mention the past anymore." ”

"This can't be done!" Li Hu Zhengse said: "The sixth master not only ignored the past suspicions, but also left money and food for me and others, such a great kindness is difficult to repay even if I die." What's the point of asking my boy to kowtow to you? As long as the sixth master says a word, it will not be a problem for me to go up the knife mountain and go down to the sea of fire! ”

"To put it mildly, since acquaintance is fate, I always like to meet good men, not to mention that Brother Tiger has also fought with the Mongols at the border. Even if he falls to this point today, what Brother Tiger has done can be called resounding! Since everyone understands that they are brothers, there is no need to be polite, no need to be polite, no need to be polite ....... ”

Zhu Shencone said this, but he was happy in his heart. I didn't misread Li Hu, this is indeed a man with affection, and he didn't do anything wrong to let Li Hu go today.