Chapter 47: Burning the Grass House

Zhao Yu sat on the thin horse, and Leng Yuhu took the reins of the horse. This is the tidal flat of the Yellow River, overgrown with grass, patches of reeds, and some willow trees, swaying in the wind, desolate everywhere, not even a pedestrian. Unable to ask people for directions, Leng Yuhu led the horse along a deserted path towards the southeast.

Leng Yuhu walked away, thinking about the five boats he had just teased, and he couldn't help but feel secretly proud in his heart, and suddenly felt shocked: "Even if these five boats are ruthless, and their martial arts are not good, why should I play with them?" Leng Yuhu thought of this, and didn't dare to look up at Zhao Yu, he wondered in his heart: "Is it really as Zhang Jinhua said, I have love for her, so I try my best to show it in front of her? What kind of hero is playing five people who are not good at martial arts? Miss Zhao don't see me as a frivolous person." Ji'er thought again: "She is the daughter of Bingqing Yujie, I am a reckless character, how can I match her?" Besides, I said that I was protecting her to Jinan City and defecting to relatives, but in fact, all I thought about was some nonsense, isn't this a blasphemy of people's innocence?" Leng Yuhu had a lot of thoughts, looked forward and backward, and finally had to cut off his thoughts in his heart, raised his head, looked at the road ahead, and walked forward in great strides.

Zhao Yu sat on the thin horse, his face was blushing and simple, still thinking about the funny fight just now, and he couldn't help but want to laugh, where would he think of Leng Yuhu's thoughts at this time.

At this time, the sun was setting, the crows were flying, and Leng Yuhu and the two walked through the reed forest and walked into the dense willow forest. Zhao Yu raised his eyes and looked around, desolate everywhere, and said to Leng Yuhu: "Brother Tiger, why don't you even have a market town?"

Leng Yuhu said: "The Yellow River here is prone to flooding, and people have moved away. ”

The two of them walked a little further, and it was already dark. At this time, I saw a family on the side of the road, three houses, although it was a thatched roof, but the front of the house was cleaned up, the ground was flat, surrounded by willow trees and poplar trees, but it was also an elegant place. Leng Yuhu said to Zhao Yu: "It's late, stay here tonight, and you can get to Jinan City early tomorrow morning." ”

Zhao Yu dismounted. In front of the house, an old man was sitting on a stool mending a broken willow basket with wicker. Leng Yuhu stepped forward to say hello, saying that he wanted to stay at this place tonight.

The family had already had dinner, and the wife and daughter-in-law had gone to bed, and the old man remembered that a basket had been broken, so he sat at the door and mended the basket by the moonlight. The old man's slanted face, a little pig's liver, saw that the guests came to spend the night, turned his head and shouted to the house: "Old woman, there are guests coming." ”

The house agreed, and after a while, the lights were lit up in the house. The old man led Leng Yuhu and the two into the house and asked them to sit down, the tables and chairs in the house were neat, and the ground was clean. The old man asked, "You haven't had dinner yet, have you?"

"Nope. Uncle Trouble cooks a dinner, and he will be rewarded. ”

The old man said to the house, "Wife, it's time to cook." ”

Inside agreed.

The old man asked, "There is no one here for more than ten miles, where did the two guests come from?" and where are they going?"

Leng Yuhu said: "We are cousins, we are from the capital, my cousin is going to Jinan to join her relatives, and I will escort her." ”

The old man said, "You have gone in the wrong direction, go west tomorrow, and you will arrive in another hour and a half." ”

The host and guest sit in a room, gossip, and after a while, the meal is ready and brought to the table. Leng Yuhu ate two bowls of porridge, Zhao Yu ate half a bowl, and the old woman came out to clean up the dishes and chopsticks.

The old man's house has three rooms, one on the east side has been changed to two small rooms, the old man and his wife live in half of the room, and the other half is the kitchen, the middle is the guest house, and the west house is the room of the son and son-in-law. Two guests came tonight, the old man came back from the outside with some wheat stalks, spread them in the hall, let Leng Yuhu sleep on it, the old man's son was not at home, the old man arranged for Zhao Yu and his daughter-in-law to sleep in the west room.

Calvary settled.

It was already the second half of the night, Leng Yuhu suddenly heard footsteps coming towards him in the distance, woke up suddenly, sat up suddenly, quietly came to the back of the door, looked out from the crack in the door, the night was dark, and a back walked out of the fence. Leng Yuhu opened the door softly and walked out, his skinny horse still eating night grass under the willow tree. Leng Yuhu took advantage of the cover of the long grass and quickly caught up with the black shadow.

Leng Yuhu hid in the dense grass and observed the night walker. There were five of them, and they were talking together.

"Do you see clearly?"

"I saw clearly, the man was asleep in the hall, and the woman was sleeping in the same bed with my mother-in-law. ”

When Leng Yuhu heard this voice, it was like the accent of Zhouzi surnamed He, could it be that he turned around and turned to his house, and met these five Zhouzi again, and saw what they did?

It turned out that the boat surnamed He could not rob during the day, and at night he hid in a place to gamble, and in the second half of the night, when he lost everything, he walked home, walked to the front of the house, and saw a horse tied under the willow tree, and he immediately recognized it as a thin horse of the boatman during the day, and did not expect them to live in his own house again. He hurriedly ran to tell the other four people, and the five of them came to the door of the house surnamed He together, and discussed together how to make money and kill people.

"Even if he falls asleep and we go in and he wakes up, we still can't beat him. ”

"We set fire to them. ”

"It's a good plan. ”

"No, that woman is pretty, I still want her. "It's the voice of the surname He.

"Forget it, we got his silver, you want beautiful girls, a lot. ”

The Zhouzi surnamed He said: "This woman doesn't want it, but what about my house?"

"Hehe, how much is your grass house worth? ”

The surnamed He said: "Is it possible to burn my father and mother to death, I'll call them out." ”

"Be quiet, don't wake those two. ”

Leng Yuhu reached out and grabbed a handful of pebbles from the ground, ran back quietly, and went into the house to lie on the straw pile. I heard the footsteps of the person surnamed He outside and walked to the east room, and heard him whisper through the window: "Dad, mother......"

His mother woke up and said, "Son, where did you run and come back in the middle of the night?"

The surnamed He said: "You speak softly, you come to the window, I will tell you." ”

After a burst of rustling sounds, his mother came to the window, and the person surnamed He whispered to her: "You and your father come out of the hall quietly, don't wake up the guest." ”

The old couple came to the hall according to their words, saw that Leng Yuhu was asleep, and quietly pulled out the latch, walked out of the gate, and listened to the footsteps until they walked outside the fence door.

After a while, the voice of the old woman sounded at the back door of the west room: "Daughter-in-law, get up quickly." ”

The daughter-in-law slept hazy: "What are you doing in the middle of the night?"

"You eat thinly, afraid that you will wet the bed. ”

"When did I wet the bed?" said the daughter-in-law's voice.

"You'd better get up and pee. If you wet the bed, your son will come back with a good meal. ”

The daughter-in-law was sleeping in a daze, and when she heard that she was going to be beaten, she had to fumble her way up to get up, open the back door, and walk out. The whole family left the hut.

After a while, I heard Zhao Yu's voice: "Brother Hu, are you awake?"

Leng Yuhu said: "I didn't sleep, I sat in the hall." ”

It turned out that Zhao Yu was not used to sleeping with living people, this night, the daughter-in-law of the He family was not honest when she slept, she kept grinding her teeth in the first half of the night, farting at night, and stinking, and in the second half of the night, she was snoring loudly, pulling the sky and the earth, so that Zhao Yu couldn't sleep over and over. When I finally fell asleep in a hazy mood, and heard the old woman shouting for her daughter-in-law to pee, I suddenly didn't feel sleepy.