In the early morning of the next day, when the sun had not woken up and the sky was still very dark, a group of eight people and five donkeys walked out of the west gate of Liujia Village. The mountain road is difficult to walk, and everyone has to rush back to the village by tonight, so go out as soon as possible. A person in the front, in his thirties, square face and round ears, thick eyebrows and big eyes, slightly bearded, this person's name is Liu Jianghe, is the second uncle of Shuanghu, originally he was not called Liu Jianghe, but called Liu Erwa, when the second baby was only five or six years old, the village came by chance to a fortune teller, looked at the face of the little second baby and said okay, the second baby and his mother, that is, the grandmother of the double tiger heard the heart happy, so he invited the unkempt and tattered fortune teller to eat a chicken leg that originally belonged to the second baby, and drank three bowls of home-brewed fruit wine——This fruit wine can only be drunk during the New Year's Festival, the fortune teller eats and drinks well and wants to pat his ass and leave, but the second baby is his mother, the grandmother of the double tiger must ask him to give the second baby a good name, and I don't know if the Taoist priest is nonsense, saying that this child's life is water-based, and he can hand over the big luck when he encounters water, so he took the name of this Liu Jianghe, there is a river and a river, isn't there water, originally the second baby and his mother heard that there is more water in the sea, and wanted to change it to Liu Jianghai, but the Taoist priest listened to it but even said that he couldn't, saying that the sea is unfathomable, and it is dangerous, and ordinary people dare not take this name, for fear that a bad name is too big, but it will harm the child's life and so onWhen the second baby heard this, she quickly stopped thinking about changing it to the sea, and the second baby became a river. Later, the second baby grew up, smart and sensible, early to share the burden of the family, since the teenage years with the adults out of the village to buy goods, long knowledge, people have become very capable, the village people are praised, now everyone out of the village to buy things mostly by him to lead the team, more than a dozen people, less also have to eight or nine young hunters with weapons, this time is the least, but things are not a lot at all, the five donkeys on the back of the things are full, the fur is the most, followed by the village homemade bacon, and then in the mountains after picking dried mushrooms, there are four bear legs。

Shuanghu followed behind his second uncle, and then behind him was Uncle Yan and Tianxing, Uncle Yan was smoking a cigarette while walking, only he and Cao'er Ye didn't have to lead the donkey to drive away, Cao'er followed the mountain, and Ye Zi also followed beside her - she had to take a good look at her bear paws, and Erniu walked last. The light was unclear and the mountain path was difficult, so each of the eight people walked slowly with a torch.

Because the mountain road is not easy to walk, everyone doesn't laugh, say a few words in the middle, and pay attention to where to be, be careful of falling, walk slowly and so on, the itinerary seems dull, which makes Ye Zi feel very unhappy, very regretful to come out, from time to time whispering complaints, dare not be loud - because I had a guarantee with Uncle Jiang He before I came, I am not afraid of hard work, I can't complain.

The sun had already risen in the sky, and it was almost hour, and Ye Zi complained again: "It's so difficult to walk, my feet are sore when I walk!! Cao'er said: "Don't let you come, you have to come, see if you come next time!" Come on, I'll pull you away." “

Erniu said in the back: "Xiao Yezi, this time I know that everyone didn't lie to you, let's see if you will be crooked next time!" Ye Zi turned around and made a grimace at Erniu: "I'm willing, I want you to take care of it?!" Erniu turned his head and ignored her.

Dashan said to Cao'er: "Bear with me a little longer, after crossing this mountain, the road will be easy to walk." Cao'er nodded and smiled sweetly at him.

Ye Zi was unhappy when he heard this: "Da Benshan, you will also deceive my sister, it is all mountain roads, how can you walk ahead." “

Tianxing heard it in front, turned back to Ye Zi and said, "Ye Zi, Brother Dashan didn't lie to you, the road ahead is indeed very easy to walk." ”

Cao'er listened, and glanced at Dashan, and the two of them were full of smiles.

Ye Zi muttered, "I really can't stand you two!!"

After turning over the hill and standing on a high place, the grass and leaves saw that there was a smooth mountain road with a width of one zhang paved on the mountain, but unfortunately it was only paved halfway up the mountain.

Cao'er asked Dashan: "Who paved this road?!" Before Dashan could speak, Erniu hurriedly said: "Of course, the old man Dong of Dong Jiaji let people pave it, but this old man Dong died early, and this road was not paved." “

Ye Zi asked curiously, "I don't know what this old man Dong is going to do when he paves this mountain road?!"

Erniu said: "Who knows this." “

Ye Zi glanced back at him and said, "Of course you don't know, I didn't ask you, big stupid cow!"

Dashan said with a smile: "I heard Uncle Jiang He say this, I heard that this old man Dong was originally a guy in a restaurant, and later made a fortune because of collecting furs in the mountains, but in the past, because the mountain road was difficult to walk, a very good brother who partnered with him fell down the mountain and died, so he swore that if he had money in the future, he must build a road out, so that everyone can go into the mountains to buy things There is no longer any danger, and then Dong Laozi died of illness, and his son- Now that Mr. Dong is in charge of the house, he feels that it is too expensive to build a mountain road, so this road is not paved again. ”

"Why do you need them to enter the mountain again, waiting for us to come to the door automatically. Erniu said.

At the end of the day, the group finally came to the west intersection of Dongjiaji, which has been out of the mountain, and when there are still three or four miles away from the city gate, it is already flat land in four miles, and there are patches of crops on both sides of the road, and people who are busy turning the ground and sowing seeds in the field are everywhere.

Walking to the front, grass, leaves, and double tigers are the first time to see such a tall doorway, the wall of the stone pile is more than a zhang high, the wall is so flat, the road surface at the door is so smooth and white, from time to time there are three or three people in and out of the doorway, there are four strong men in one dress at the door - holding a long stick, a blue shirt and a black cloth hat, but at this time the four people are leaning on the wall next to the doorway, the long stick in their hands or holding their hands or leaning on the shoulder socket, laughing in pairs.

When the four of them saw a group of people coming, they immediately came to their senses, and they all stood up straight, and a person from the north came forward, wanting to interrogate, but when they looked at Liu Jianghe who was walking in front, they immediately smiled and said: "It turned out to be Brother Jianghe, I don't know what good things to sell this time." “

Liu Jianghe said with a smile: "Most of the goods this time are sheepskin, deerskin, rabbit skin, and a few fox skins, I don't know what fur the sixth brother wants." Ma Lao Liu looked at it and asked, "How many sheepskins do you have this time?"

Liu Jianghe calculated in his heart and said, "There are about thirty of them." “

Ma Lao Liu smiled: "There are so many, can you sell a few of my brother's photos?"

Liu Jianghe said: "Look at what the sixth brother said, you want a few pieces to be completed, this time there is no mine of my own, I am not good at being in charge, if it is my own own, I will give the sixth brother a full one." ”

Ma Lao Liu smiled and said: "How can we take advantage of my brother, let's go, let's talk at the door." “

Everyone came to the side of the doorway, Ma Lao Liu went to say a few words to the other three, asked them if they wanted to buy sheepskins or something, and then the four of them walked together to pick up sheepskins, Ma Lao Liu first picked a black sheepskin, and then pushed with Liu Jianghe, paid 20 yuan, he saw that the three people were still there slowly picking, so he shouted at them: "Hurry up, it's not a mother-in-law who gave birth to a baby, and let people go into the city to do business." When the three of them heard this, they quickly chose a similar sheepskin, and they all paid twenty yuan.

Entering the city gate, everyone saw two two-story buildings standing on the north and south sides of the central avenue not far in front, and saw the stalls of steamed buns and fried pancakes on both sides of the road from time to time, the buns were white, the scallion pancakes were golden and yellow, Ye Zi couldn't imagine that this bun could be so good-looking, the scallion pancakes could be so fragrant, and there were some unknown pastry stalls, and the things placed made Ye Zi swallow saliva when he saw it, and the most annoying thing was that his stomach was growling, and none of these people heard it. Aggrieved, Ye Zi let her sister drag forward.

Ye Zi was still walking forward, and suddenly hit his head on a person, and when he looked up, he saw that he had hit Dashan, who looked at her with a smile and said to her, "Xiao Yezi, are you hungry?"

Ye Zi nodded at him pitifully, Cao'er looked at her and comforted her: "It's good to endure it a little longer, don't you see that everyone hasn't eaten, just go eat after a while, ha!"

Dashan touched her head and said to her, "Ye Zi endure it for a while, Brother Dashan will take you to eat delicious food, okay?"

Ye Zi was originally very impatient with Dashan's behavior of touching his head, but when he heard him say that he was going to take himself to eat something delicious, he ignored it, and just nodded and said okay.

At this time, Ye Zicai heard Uncle Yan talking to Uncle Jianghe, but everyone stopped between two high-rise buildings at this time, the plaque of the building in the south of the road said "Songfeng Restaurant", and the one in the north of the road was "Dongjia Warehouse".

I don't know what Uncle Yan said to Liu Jianghe, after speaking, he himself entered the Songfeng Restaurant, and Liu Jianghe explained a few words to everyone, let everyone wait in place, he entered the Dong family store, after a while, he walked out with a short-bearded middle-aged fat man in his forties, and the fat man led everyone from the alley on the west side of the warehouse into the backyard, and the fat man took a few people in the yard to count the things, and then wrote them down in an account book one by one, after finishing things, the short-bearded fat man said to Liu Jianghe: " You big guys must be hungry, please go to the front restaurant to eat, by the way, Brother Liu, I don't know what you want to buy this time?"

Liu Jianghe turned around and asked, "Do you have anything in particular to buy?" Ye Zi really wanted to say that he wanted to eat the oil cake and meat buns he saw just now, but he was embarrassed to say, looking at Erniu licking his lips from time to time, Shuanghu was Mu Mu was dumbfounded, Brother Dashan, Brother Tianxing, and Sister didn't say a word, not to mention how depressed he was, although Da Benshan told himself that he would take himself to eat delicious, but who knows what he can take himself to eat.

When Liu Jianghe saw it, he smiled and said, "The daily use of the four families is good, Zhao is the shopkeeper." ”

Shopkeeper Zhao said with a smile: "In this way, if the big guy comes over from time to time, the things will probably be ready." ”

Liu Jianghe said politely: "Then thank you Zhao shopkeeper." “

Shopkeeper Zhao said: "Brother Liu doesn't have to be polite, you are friends of Hu Ye, Hu Ye is kind to me, these are what I should do." ”

Separated from the shopkeeper Zhao, Liu Jianghe took the big guy to Songfeng Restaurant, Ye Zi looked at the big plaque in the restaurant, and asked Dashan: "Da Benshan, we don't really want to eat here, right?"

Cao'er also looked at Dashan with a little curiosity, and Dashan said with a smile: "Of course I ate here, didn't Shopkeeper Zhao already say it just now." ”

Ye Zi smiled and said, "I thought people were just polite to us?"

Shuanghu said: "I also thought so, I don't know if the food here is as delicious as my mother's cooking." ”

The two floors of Songfeng Restaurant are private rooms in the southeast and west, and the counter is facing the door, and a staircase to the west of the counter connects to the second floor.

Everyone was walking inside, and a handsome young man of sixteen or seventeen stepped forward and greeted, "Mr. Liu, please go this way." After speaking, he led everyone to the innermost private room on the west side, which seemed to be familiar, and entered the room, where there was a large black octagonal table in the middle of the private room, on which were placed five small plates of different styles of snacks. After filling everyone with tea, the little guy said that he asked everyone to wait for a while, and the wine and food would be ready immediately, and then went out lightly, and closed the door gently.

The leaves, the grass, and the two tigers were all a little nervous by the little guy's carefulness, and after seeing him go out, they didn't dare to make a sound. Dashan brought a plate of brown pastry with slightly flat cubes to the grass and leaves, and said, "If you are hungry, eat some snacks first, the dishes may have to wait a while." As soon as Ye Zi heard this, he first picked up a piece and took a bite, and in this big mouthful, a piece of pastry was almost stuffed into his mouth, and Cao'er saw it, patted her, and said, "You can't eat slowly, and no one will rob you." ”

Before he could swallow it, he stuffed the rest of his hand into his mouth, picked up a piece from the plate, and said excitedly: "Sister, this snack is delicious, why don't you eat it?" Seeing that my sister still didn't eat it, Ye Zi suddenly realized, and said angrily: "I know, it must have been eaten for you by Da Benshan before, hmph, sister, you didn't say to leave some for me." ”

Cao'er was embarrassed when she heard this, and said angrily: "What's the matter, don't talk nonsense, Brother Dashan has never given me this."

Tianxing brought a plate of dim sum that was as round as a cake to Shuanghu, and there were black sesame seeds sticking to it, and said, "Come, Shuanghu, is this dim sum delicious?" Shuanghu looked at his uncle Liu Jianghe, and Liu Jianghe smiled: "Eat." Hearing this, Shuanghu picked up a piece and ate it with relish.

Ye Zi asked her sister while eating: "Da Benshan hasn't eaten this, so what delicious food has he given you?"

Cao'er said, "I haven't given anything!!"

Ye Zi said: "You don't deceive people, last time I came to Dongjiaji, he also brought you a roast chicken!!"

Cao'er said: "Haven't you also eaten the roast chicken? I mean, you have also eaten everything that Brother Dashan gave." ”

Ye Zi smiled and said, "Who knows if Da Ben Mountain has secretly given you anything else." ”

Seeing Ye Zi messing around like this, Liu Jianghe, Tianxing, Dashan and Erniu couldn't help but smile, and Shuanghu was eating snacks while looking at everyone.

Erniu smiled and said to Yezi: "Little Yezi, don't blame Sister Cao'er, my brother really won't secretly give anything to Sister Cao'er, if there are any good things, he will only give them to Sister Cao'er openly, God, you said that I was right." ”

Tianxing nodded and said: "Well, yes, just by the fact that every time you return to the village from hunting, Brother Dashan will send you prey first, you can see that he will not hide it." ”

Ye Zi blinked his big black eyes, turned his head and asked Liu Jianghe: "Uncle Jianghe, do you think Da Benshan will do bad things secretly?"

As soon as Cao'er heard this, she knew that she was going to change her mind elsewhere, and hurriedly said to Liu Jianghe: "Uncle Jianghe, if you ignore her, she will only be naughty and make trouble, and she will not speak seriously." ”

Ye Zi said: "Why can't I speak seriously, what I said is the truth, when Da Ben Mountain's skin was not as thick as it is now, every time I look for you, I first ask me to pass on the word, Da Ben Mountain, you are not allowed to deny it, in the past, you could still take sugar gourd, sesame oil cake, begonia fruit, sweet pear and boiled eggs or something for me to eat, since you have a thick skin, you will no longer pay attention to me, and you will not bring me delicious food." ”

Dashan really couldn't cry or laugh when she heard it, God knows, every time this little girl changes her tricks to ask for something to eat, if she doesn't give it, she will use Cao'er to say bad things about herself to threaten him.

Liu Jianghe said with a smile: "Ye Zi, listen to Uncle Jianghe, eat less snacks, otherwise the vegetables will come up after a while, and your little belly will not be able to make room, then you will regret it." ”

Drinking a saliva of water - this water is actually bitter, I haven't drunk tea, Ye Zi is wondering why this water is so unpleasant, hearing this, she hesitated, but she rolled her dark eyes and immediately reacted, jumped up, pulled all the three plates of dim sum to herself, and then put them in her pocket piece by piece, and finally filled all the dim sum, raised her head and saw that Shuanghu was still eating, so she smiled and said to Shuanghu: "Brother Huzi, let's listen to Uncle Jiang He, don't eat dim sum, ha, come and give me the dim sum, I'll help you bring it back." When Shuanghu heard that, he actually handed over the dim sum very obediently, Liu Jianghe saw it, and could only sigh that his nephew was too honest, and the others were also helpless, Erniu said with a look of hatred that iron is not steel: "Silly Shuanghu, Xiao Yezi is an iron rooster, you gave her a snack, and I want to return it to you, dream about you, hey!!!!"

"Dead stupid cow, I want you to be nosy, Brother Huzi, don't listen to him, after we go back, we will eat, and we won't give it to him." Ye Zi said while carrying the snack, and glanced at the two cows fiercely. As he was talking, the door of the house was pushed open, and the little two walked in just now, followed by a few people, each of whom was neat and tidy in green shirts and black cloth boots, with a tray in his hand, and on the tray were various dishes served in different pottery bowls. Xiao Er set up the dishes and said to Liu Jianghe politely: "Mr. Liu, Master Yan invites Young Master Tianxing to go for a while." Liu Jianghe nodded and said to Tianxing: "Tianxing, Uncle Yan asked you to go over, go quickly." Tianxing agreed and said to Dashan: "Brother Dashan, I'll go for a while." The mountain said, "Go ahead." ”

"Everyone, please use it slowly, if you need anything, please feel free to ask. After saying hello, Xiao Er walked out with Tianxing.

The two of them came to the hall and were about to go to the second floor, and just after going up a few stairs, they heard a person talking overhead, with a clear and crisp voice: "Mr. Liu, in my opinion, Hu Ye has no intention of leaving the Dong family, what should we do next, should we go back to Lushui Villa, or talk to Hu Ye again?" Hearing this, Tianxing listened attentively.

I only heard a middle-aged man say: "Hu Ye is an extraordinary person, with both ability and political integrity, and he is in a small Dongjiazhuang, which is really a pearl, I really don't want to see such a talent buried for life, I must think of a way to succeed." ”

Tianxing raised his head and saw two people walking slowly down from the upper floor, the young one had straight and long eyebrows, a pair of slightly flattened eyes parallel to the eyebrows, flat and neat, high nose bridge, like a knife-like face, the waist was straight, holding a five-foot long sword, heroic and compelling, the middle-aged man next to him had two sideburns and a lock of white hair hanging down to the shoulders, compared with the black hair at one end, it was particularly conspicuous, the eyebrows were frowning, and the eyes were slightly narrowed.

When the young man saw Tianxing looking over, he looked at Tianxing deeply, and Tianxing's heart couldn't help but tighten—there are people in the world who have such eyes—it's like a sharp sword.

Xiao Er said to the two: "The two masters go slowly!" Tianxing also nodded to the two of them.

The middle-aged man just glanced at Tianxing, and the young man also nodded to Tianxing, and the two went downstairs and walked to the gate, and the young man looked back at Tianxing, who had reached the second floor, before leaving with the middle-aged man. The middle-aged man asked, "What's the matter, Zanshan, is there anything wrong with that descendant?"

The young man said: "It's nothing, it's just that I didn't expect that the little Dong Jiaji would have such a young master!"

"Oh, young masters?" Well, I'm afraid it's not under Xiao Yong. ”

The middle-aged man couldn't help but be moved when he heard this, and after a while, he asked, "Then what do you think of that old Mr. Yan?"

The young man said, "It's a normal feeling." The middle-aged man breathed a sigh of relief when he heard it, but after hearing the next sentence, his heart was raised

I only heard the young man say: "That old gentleman Yan, behaving like an ordinary person, if it wasn't for Mr. mentioning it, after a while, I am afraid that I will forget about this person." In my opinion, if he is not good at disguising himself, he is far superior to me."

The middle-aged man smiled and said, "In this way, we really can't judge!"

The young man raised his eyebrows and said, "If you want to try his skills, what's so difficult about it, just find someone to try." ”

After speaking, the two looked at each other and smiled.

Tianxing followed Xiao Er to the second floor, walked into a room facing west in the north, there was a black wooden sign at the door, with the word "One" written on it, and when he entered the house, Xiao Er said to a middle-aged man in a cyan robe: "Master Hu, Master Tianxing has arrived, and the little one retreats first." The middle-aged man nodded and did not speak, and Xiao Er bowed and exited the room. Tianxing glanced at it, this person had a light blue square scarf on his head, thick eyebrows and deep eyes, a black beard hanging down to his chest, and he was meticulously dressed, looking like he was in his fifties.

Uncle Yan and the middle-aged man sat on the east side of the square table, there were two pairs of chopsticks on the north and south sides of the table, as if they had not moved, when Tianxing came in, the two seemed to be smiling and saying something, after the door opened, both of them looked at him, especially the middle-aged man in black robe, who looked at Tianxing a little uncomfortable.

After Xiao Er went out, the black-robed man stood up, walked to Tianxing's side, took his hand and walked to the table, pulled a chair, let Tianxing sit beside him, looked at it for a while, and said to Uncle Yan with a smile: "I really didn't expect Tianxing to grow so big in a blink of an eye." Hearing this, Tianxing was shocked and didn't squeak.

Uncle Yan said: "Yes, after all, it is nineteen years. ”

Uncle Yan then said to Tian Xing: "Fortunately, this is Hu Ye, and the people in our village have been able to live better thanks to Hu Ye's help over the years." ”

Tianxing heard this, and hurriedly stood up and saluted the middle-aged man: "Thank you Master Hu, Master Hu is really our great benefactor in Liujia Village, please accept the boy's worship." As he spoke, he left the chair and bowed, Hu Ye stretched out his right hand against Tianxing's shoulder socket, and with only one belt, Tianxing's body couldn't help but stand upright - master, definitely a master - Tianxing was shocked.

Hu Ye pulled Tianxing to sit on the chair again, and said to him with a smile: "Tianxing, don't be so polite, this is what I should do, by the way, you haven't eaten anything down there, come, hurry up and eat, you have to go back after noon, you don't have the strength to eat on the way." As he spoke, he sandwiched a piece of pheasant meat in Tianxing's bowl, and Uncle Yan also urged: "Hu Ye is right, we have to leave before the time, fortunately, you can eat it quickly." Tianxing nodded in agreement, and sat there to eat by himself, but Hu Ye leaned into Uncle Yan's ear and whispered something, only heard a little sound slightly, and couldn't hear it clearly, while Uncle Yan nodded occasionally. Tianxing ate a meal full of questions, but outsiders were on the side, and Tianxing couldn't ask Uncle Yan directly what was going on.

Look at the less than a quarter of an hour, Tianxing is already full at this time, Hu Ye asked if he is full, Tianxing agreed, Hu Ye said to Uncle Yan: "Brother Yan, let's set it in three days, three days later, you come to Tianfeng Restaurant in Xifeng Town to find me, I will wait for you there." ”

Uncle Yan said: "Okay, then Brother Hu, Tianxing and I will leave first." After saying goodbye, Uncle Yan left with Tianxing. Descending to the second floor, the little second one hurriedly ran over and said, "Two, Mr. Liu, they have already left first, and I specially asked the little one to tell them, saying that they are waiting for the two masters at the east gate of the city." ”

"Thank you for the message. With that, the two of them walked out.

The two rushed to the east gate and saw Liu Jianghe talking to Ma Lao Liu, while Dashan and them were waiting a little farther away from the door. Seeing that Uncle Yan and Tianxing arrived, Liu Jianghe quit Ma Lao Liu, and the three of them and others gathered together to check whether the goods were tied firmly, and when it was over, everyone immediately began to hurry, and everyone was quite interested, especially Ye Zi, who talked excitedly along the way. I don't know the time of the return trip, unconsciously, the sun has begun to sink into the West Mountain, and the evening smoke in Liujia Village has also entered everyone's sight, a cheerful journey is about to come to an end, the day's busyness will also end in this red sunset, and God also knows that a road of his own is about to begin.

Three days later, Uncle Yan left Liujia Village with Tianxing, and in the following time, the three of Dashan Erniu and Shuanghu formed a hunting team with ten other people in the village, and entered the mountain together every day. This team is also favored by the whole village, because there has never been a hunting team in this area of Heiyunling that compares with this team in terms of number and strength. Among them are Liu Tianlai, who is the best at tracking prey in the village, 30 years old and 7 feet tall, and Liu Monkey, who is good at climbing, formerly known as Liu Dali, also called Liu Hu'er, because he has a beard when he was a child, and his height is also 7 feet, and his age is 25; There is also Liu Dayong, who is experienced and extremely familiar with the terrain in the mountains, 42 years old, seven and a half feet tall, and Dashan, a recognized hunter in the village.

On this day, the group left the village early, Liu Dayong was the oldest and most experienced, so naturally he was the leader. Everyone followed him, and at the head of the team was Liu Dayong's hunting dog "Xiaobai", in fact, this dog is not particularly white, it should be said that it is light