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Da Kui took the guards to find a farmer casually, only saying that he was passing by, and the mountain people were simple and did not doubt it. Originally, Da Kui looked honest, and he really looked like a farmer if he didn't do it, but now that he has changed the clothes of the people, if he says that he is not an ordinary person, it is estimated that no one will believe it.

The Zhuang family did not entertain guests from afar, just a plate of green vegetables and a few sweet potato cakes, plus a bowl of mushy porridge per person, the first chaos in the world. Da Kui was naturally not hungry when he ate and drank all the way, but he starved the guard Xiao Liuzi and devoured his own share. Da Kui also gave his share to Xiao Liuzi, and Xiao Liuzi replied with a mouthful of thanks: "It's still the fifth brother who loves his brother, so thank you to the fifth brother." "Forget it, bury your head in the food, and ignore the others.

Da Kui didn't mind, and chatted with the family casually, only to learn that the family has a total of two people, and the farmer and his mother-in-law are all farming at home, and only one daughter has married to another village. Listening to this peasant man talk about his family background, Da Kui was not only suspicious in his heart. It seems that these two people are only in their thirties, and even if they have children, they should not be very old, why did they get married so early? Da Kui's guard, Xiao Liuzi, is a fine person, so he naturally senses the abnormality in it. Da Kui didn't want to ask, but Xiao Liuzi put down the dishes and chopsticks and asked about the original.

The man replied with some twist: "Countrymen get married early, I married my son at seventeen, and I became a father at eighteen." The child couldn't keep it when he was older, so he got married last winter. ”

After hearing this, Da Kui nodded and said, "Yes, if it weren't for the bad year, I would have started a family a long time ago." ”

The man was not only a little surprised when he heard this, but asked carefully: "I'm afraid the eldest brother is almost forty, right?"

Da Kui pretended to be down and sighed: "Who doesn't say yes, I only care about my livelihood in the northeast and west, and I don't have time to go home and say a daughter-in-law." ”

According to custom, women and children are not allowed to eat together when someone comes to the house, but in the countryside there are many rules that do not pay attention to these rules. The man's wife finished her work in front of the pot stove and added another dish, which turned out to be a meat dish. Da Kui looked at it carefully, but what was served was a plate of squeezed burnt grasshoppers. Da Kui knew in his heart that after years of military disasters and locust plagues, the common people had nothing to make ends meet, so they squeezed the grasshoppers with vegetable oil. This thing is also delicious, I remember that when I was a child, Da Kui's mother used to make grasshoppers for Da Kui. Seeing things and thinking about people, Da Kui was not only sad.

After dinner, Da Kui and Xiao Liuzi slept in the side room of this farmer. There was nothing to say all night, and as soon as the chicken crowed early the next morning, the man's daughter-in-law got up, first boiled the pig food and then went to feed the pigs. Who would have thought that when they first arrived at the door of the side room, they found that the man named Xiao Liuzi was actually sleeping in front of the door of the side room with a flat shoulder.

In the end, it was a peasant girl, who saw something strange and hurriedly put down the pig food bucket and went back to the house, and after a while, she pulled her own man out to see the excitement.

The man is also a straightforward person, and he walked in front of Xiao Liuzi in a few steps and was just about to wake him up, but before the man approached, Xiao Liuzi had already opened his eyes and stood up.

"Oh, I said big brother, you just squatted outside the door all night?" the man asked.

Xiao Liuzi put down his flat shoulder and stretched, and then smiled: "It's okay, I'm used to it." He smiled at the man, and then continued: "Brother Lao borrows me a wooden basin to use, I'll go fetch some water, and after a while, my brother should wash up after he gets up." Who knew that the voice fell, and the wooden door behind him 'creaked' open.

Da Kui shouted as he walked out: "Where are there so many rules when you go out, don't wash it." Saying that, Mei Mei stretched out when she walked to the courtyard, and then looked at the two farmers standing in the courtyard, not only smiled: "Disturb all night, let's go." Thank you both for your hospitality. As he spoke, Da Kui took out the money bag from his bosom and touched the smallest ingot of silver.

The peasant man was nothing, but his daughter-in-law's eyes lit up when she saw the silver. It's no wonder that the poor are afraid. How can anyone be silent when they see silver?

Seeing this, Da Kui couldn't help but smile and said: "This is one or two pieces of silver, and the right to make a lodging fund is the god of war to break the heavens and read the full text." As he spoke, he handed over the small piece of silver, but the man did not move, but his daughter-in-law hurriedly stepped forward to take the silver. Da Kui didn't mind, and instructed Xiao Liuzi: "Pack up, it's time for us to hit the road." ”

Xiao Liuzi answered and went to the inner room to pick up the burden and went out with Da Kui, and the man and his daughter-in-law were naturally sent to the door.

Da Kui untied the reins on the stake in front of the door and led his mule, then turned around and asked, "Brother, how far west can you get to Pillow Township?"

The man still didn't speak, and his daughter-in-law was very quick to get the silver, and hurriedly stepped forward to respond: "There is a threshing floor seven or eight miles away, and there are dozens of families nearby, and that is the pillow ......." Before he finished speaking, the man next to him hurriedly reached out to pull his daughter-in-law's sleeve, and his daughter-in-law realized that it was too late, so she had to finish speaking: "It's here!"

Da Kui was not surprised, smiled and turned over the mule, and then arched his hand and said, "Thank you, farewell!"

When Da Kui and the others had just walked away, the man not only complained to his daughter-in-law, but said, "Why do you say everything? These two people don't look like good people!"

His daughter-in-law was stupid and hurriedly asked, "How do you know?"

The man said angrily: "How can anyone who passes by give a silver tael when he makes a move?" You see that their bodies are stronger than mine, and they look like people who have practiced martial arts. What are they doing in Pillow Township?"

The daughter-in-law still didn't know what to do, so she asked stupidly, "What are you going to do?"

The man was so anxious that he said hurriedly: "Recently, there has been a shortage of soldiers, and I heard that there are still bandits in the east. These two people must have come to step on the point, if it is really a bandit, wouldn't it harm the villagers. Hearing what the man said, his daughter-in-law was also anxious and hurriedly asked for countermeasures.

The man thought for a while and then said: "I didn't look right last night, the mule rider looked like a common man, and when he spoke, he was respectful to him." And this morning, the burden-bearer slept at the door of the side room. I wondered if the mule rider was at least a farmer. ”

"Ahh

The man stomped his feet and gritted his teeth and said, "I'll go to the township first and deliver a letter to the township." Go from house to house, and tell the villagers to hide in the mountains, for they are going to be robbed here!" he said, turning and entering the courtyard, and after a few steps to the root of the fence, he picked up an axe for chopping wood and was about to leave.

His daughter-in-law told her at the door: "Father, you have to be careful." ”

"Got it. As he said this, the man had already run far away, and in a moment he turned into a path.

Da Kui rode the head of the mule, and Xiao Liuzi followed closely behind with the burden. The two of them walked seven or eight miles to the west, and at this moment it was already dawn, riding on the mule, and from a distance, there was a threshing floor in the distance, and dozens of families were scattered around. This place should be regarded as a small village, and it is also a good place to go by the mountain and the water.

"But it's counted, the adults asked someone to be an official but wasted many Zhou Zhang. Xiao Liuzi stretched out his sleeve and wiped his sweat as he spoke.

Da Kui sighed: "If it is decided today, the Ming Dynasty needs to be virtuous and virtuous to come out to be an official, if it is appointed at will and does not ask about virtue, wouldn't it be a hardship for the people?"

Xiao Liuzi not only smiled: "Adults have the people of the world in mind, and I, a soldier, can't compare to the anti-terrorism brigade." ”

Da Kui turned his head to look at Xiao Liuzi, who was strong and dignified, and if it was a peaceful year, he would be full of wives and children. He first followed Marshal Xu Da to fight in the east and west, and later became Marshal Xu's bodyguard because of his skills. Now he was ordered by the marshal to escort himself back to Shandong to take up his post, and he worked hard and suffered a lot along the way.

"Little Liuzi, where is your home?" Da Kui was speechless.

Xiao Liuzi replied as he walked: "Coincidentally, I am half a fellow villager with adults, and I am from Yanzhou Mansion. ”

"Oh, it seems that you and I are very destined. When I go back and write a letter with Marshal Xu, you can stay with me. Da Kui paid attention to Xiao Liuzi's expression as he walked. It can be seen that Xiao Liuzi is unwilling.

"A good man with three gangs, I am a big person, if there are not a few helpers, it is really a bit of a hurry. Look at the moment, I don't have enough manpower. "What Da Kui means is that the people who met and saw along the way have just settled down, and many things need to be done by the government. Master Feng, Ou Dazhui, and Brother Meng stayed in Zhangjiazhuang. Now that the governor of Pingyang Mansion has been beheaded, and he is going to come out to hire someone to be an official, it is an indisputable fact that he is overstretched.

Xiao Liuzi didn't speak, just lowered his head and followed the mule. What he wanted in his heart was naturally to return to the army and follow the command of Generalissimo Xu, even if the horse leather shroud in a hundred battles was to repay Marshal Xu Da's kindness.

Luohua is intentionally ruthless, and Da Kui does not force it. Seeing that he had entered the village, there was no one to see.

Da Kui got off the mule on the threshing floor, handed the reins to Xiao Liuzi, and walked towards the village by himself. Obviously, there is cow and sheep dung on the road in the village, and it seems that the time is not long, why is there no one in sight?

I walked to the door of a house at random, only to find that the courtyard door was closed. Da Kui stretched out his hand and pushed, but the door bolt was put on from the inside.

Da Kui was not only curious, but climbed to the door and looked in through the crack in the door. I saw that there were a few chickens eating in the yard, and the grain on the ground was still there, so it should be someone. It's not too abrupt when he first arrives, so Da Kui straightens up and goes to another house. Xiao Liuzi carried the burden in one hand and the mule in the other, and followed Da Kui to the next family.

At this time, two heads poked out of the grass on the side of the road when they entered the village, and they saw every move of Da Kui and the others.

"See, these two people are sneaking around, and they really don't seem to be good people. ”

The other nodded and said, "Well, ask the villagers to copy the guys, let these two people go over first, and then hand them over to Zhao Baozheng for careful interrogation." ”......。

Da Kui and the others walked three houses in succession, and the door of the courtyard was bolted from the inside, but no one was ever seen. Da Kui couldn't help but be anxious in his heart, and when he walked to the door and looked at it again, he was still tied to the door, not only reached out to slap the door, but also shouted: "Is anyone at home?"

Unexpectedly, as soon as the words fell, there was movement behind him. Looking back, I saw a large group of villagers rushing out of the left and right alleys, all armed with sticks and flat poles, and even more with hoes and sickles. This group of villagers shouted as if they had seen enemies of life and death, and rushed towards Da Kui and the others.