"Hmph, you can't change your bandit temper" Shen Ling smiled.

Huo Dao smiled and said: "You are really born to be a woman of the swordsman family, and the red-hot soldering iron falls, even if you don't bite it."

"Hehe--- aren't you afraid of embarrassing you?" Shen Ling gasped in pain.

Back in the house, Huo Dao and Huo Nanzhi carefully smeared roe deer oil on her, which was a miracle medicine that not only relieved the pain of the burn, but also healed after three days.

As soon as Laba passes, entering the New Year, every household begins to be lively and slow to prepare for the New Year, the Yangge Festival and various sacrificial activities after the New Year. It was a matter between mother-in-law and aunt to go down to each tenant's house to settle a year's rent, settle a year's harvest, and cut jujube cakes and cut new ---clothes. As a man of the swordsman family, he gathered in groups of three or five, basking in the sun, smoking dry tobacco, and planning his work, trading after the beginning of spring.

Huo Dao is different, he doesn't like a few big men sitting cross-legged in a small square, under a tree, smoking a dry cigarette there. He only likes to drive horses to practice martial arts, practice those village bravery, or gallop a few laps among the horses at the Guanshan Horse Farm.

However, for a few days, he only had one thing in his heart, that is, Xu Cao, once in the Peach Blossom Forest Queen Mother Temple, a night raid on the military camp vaguely heard Xu Cao say, with a few boxes of treasures stolen from the Meihu ditch in exchange for a large number of arms, according to the time it was said that it would be handed over in three or five days, but now he has no clue. Maybe the handover place is at the pass, maybe not? Who is the one who came to the secret handover?

On the thirteenth day of the lunar month, Shen Ling and Huo Nanzhi were washing their faces and combing their faces, and they also deliberately took out alabaster to wipe their faces. Of course, today is the third day of the month. This gathering place of ten miles and eight towns to catch up with the market, naturally has ten miles of pavement street known as the dry wharf. On market days, people here will eat early, change into clean clothes, and the mothers-in-law and women will wash their faces and comb their hair with a basin of water, and then apply some makeup cream on their faces. Shouting three and drinking, calling friends, three or five in groups, walking together. On the winding mountain road, there are those who sit on the cart, those who lead donkeys, and those who pull sheep, the old men wear melon shell hats, the wives wear plackets, and the young girls and daughters-in-law hold hands. There are those who play oil-paper umbrellas, and there are those who wear straw hats. People in seven ditches and eight forks, like small streams, flock to a destination - Shilipu.

Huo Dao was impatient to be coaxed by the two, as long as he personally set up the carriage, waited outside the courtyard gate, and led them to the market together.

"Huh---", just as Huo Nanzhi and Shen Ling came out with a flower cloth bag on their backs, talking and laughing.

Without waiting for a dispute, a person ran in a panic, followed by a carriage with loess flying poplars, this person Huo Dao and Huo Nanzhi are naturally familiar, that is the uncle of the Gao family who has in-laws, Gao Mingshi's younger brother, Gao Minghao. These brothers have completely inherited their high-level character and regard themselves as elegant, but they are weak and weak, bullying the weak and fearing the hard.

Got home in the ancestral shade, inherited the ancestral weaving and dyeing cloth to visit the camp, Shilipu and Longxian average silk cloth village, Longxian is a wealthy family in Gaojiazhuang of the eight aqueducts for several generations, sitting on two or three thousand acres of land.

Gao Minghao is purely the kind of loser who regards himself as honest at home, travels all day long, visits the garden, sings in the hall, and goes to teahouses and brothels. It's the first time I've seen him so flustered.

Huo Dao was very disdainful of this loser's play. snorted coldly: "Mouse, bitten by a dog".

Gao Minghao took a few deep breaths and said: "It's worse than being bitten by a dog, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, this time you rely on you, help my Gao family."

Although Huo Nanzhi said that he had not yet married into the Gao family, he would be a family in the future, so he didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly asked: "Minghao, drink saliva in the room and speak slowly."

Gao Minghao walked into the courtyard in a few steps, was depressed, yawned a few times ago, sat down on the wooden board with a slump of buttocks, wiped his nose, and poured a few big mouthfuls of the teapot before saying: "Fuck, it's not that Xue Fat who is not a thing."

Huo Nanzhi boarded him up and said, "You said Xue Zhongxiong---Didn't I come forward to help you mediate last time?

To say, this Xue Zhongxiong is Gao Mingshi and Huo Nanzhi are private acquaintances. has been obsessed with Huo Nanzhi since he was a child, and he has not been able to marry a wife, threatening that Huo Nanzhi is not married, and he will not marry.

But although Xue Zhongxiong said that he grew up in a tenant family in Xuejiagou, he relied on his bravery, shrewdness, and not afraid of death. In his early years, he led the general brothers, and he made a lot of money, returned to his hometown to "glorify his ancestors", bought more than a dozen stores in a row in Shilipu, opened more than a dozen tobacco houses, teahouses, and restaurants, and also set up a foreign bank to operate business.

How he got rich, no one knows, only that he has been in the countryside for a few years and knows many characters, among whom one of them is the adjutant of the party commander is a brother who worships the son, and even Cai Jiu Poison has to give him three points. In a few years, he became the most powerful tyrant walking on the street.

Gao Minghao took a sip and scolded: "What's the matter, this fat man Xue promised to be good on the surface, this is good, it's not out of the moon yet, and he set up another plan to swallow our shops."

"Xue Fat Bear is playing, how can you say one thing and do another--- go, I happened to be on the street, help you ask him again" Huo Nanzhi squirted indignantly.

dragged Huo Dao into the carriage and urged him to gallop away for ten miles.

Since ancient times, this has been an important place for soldiers, and it is a pass for the exchange and circulation of commerce and trade between many provinces. However, at this time, Shilipu was far from being as prosperous as it was back then, with dozens of bandits on Guanshan and Wushan Mountain, and warlords rampant and tyrannical, and the people were struggling to make a living.

Shilipu is half-hidden in the endless beach valley at the foot of Guan Mountain on the north side of the three-mile peach blossom forest in the trough, and it is also the location of Badu Town.

From Ganquan Village to Shilipu, it takes an hour to drive a horse-drawn carriage to arrive. Outside the bazaar were the cattle trading grounds, those who sold mules and horses, donkeys and cattle and sheep and pigs.

Only after crossing a stone bridge can you enter the ten-mile shop. A long smooth bluestone street, witnessing its glory, after hundreds of years of wind and rain, although some dilapidated, but well preserved, the block is vertical and horizontal, the shops are numerous, the architectural style is very different, restaurants, hotels, restaurants, grain stores, pharmacies, commercial houses, silk and satin villages, tailor shops, gold and silver jewelry department, iron equipment department --- blend into it. However, at this time, the most eye-catching and fiery ones are the smoke house, the gambling house and the Qinglou teahouse---

Gao Minghao led, the carriage stopped in front of the door of a teahouse, the attic on the second floor facing the street, the decoration is new, the carved beams and painted pillars are a little elegant, the gatehouse is hung high, Qingyun Teahouse four big characters. This is also the teahouse that Xue Zhongxiong just ordered at a low price, as for what means to use, it is unclear.

Gao Minghao hurriedly ushered in and said: "Fat Xue is listening to the play."

Huo Nanzhi flew down and walked away, and before he reached Xue Fat, he shouted at the entrance: "Xue Fat, get out of ---."

Huo Dao smiled, this sister is really anxious, just listening to Gao Minghao's words, she asked the teacher to ask for the guilt. I had to step in later.

I saw a person attached to the railing on the second floor, tall, stout and powerful, but in a few years, he was full of wealth, wearing a silk cotton coat, big loose pants and coats, his hair was combed back, and his bulging face was even more oily and shiny, and he was rich. However, his eyes shone with shrewdness and domineering.

Bending down to look at it, he showed a look of excitement on his face, and exclaimed, "Nanzhi, it's you, --- rare guest."

A few steps from the second floor, greeted with a courteous smile: "No, it's a distinguished guest, as soon as you come, I will have a lot of --- here."

Huo Nanzhi glanced at it, snorted coldly, and scolded: "You person, how can you rebel, don't use your tricks to fool me."

Xue Zhongxiong looked at Huo Nanzhi with enthusiastic eyes, his Adam's apple kept squirming, swallowing saliva, his face was full of smiles, he was courteous, and he was even more enthusiastic and polite to Huo Nanzhi, without his usual domineering atmosphere. Haha laughed and said: "Nanzhi--- as soon as you come to split your head and cover your face, I will be confused ---."

Stretched out his hand and pointed to the tea and said with a smile: "Look, how about the teahouse under my new plate?

Without waiting for Huo Nanzhi to agree, he directly took Huo Nanzhi's hand and was about to step forward.

Huo Nanzhi shook it vigorously and snorted, "Take your paws away---", and squeezed his eyes slightly.

Xue Zhongxiong found that Huo Dao, who came in from outside the door, greeted him as if he was a relative, gave him a hug directly, patted Huo Dao's shoulder and said with a smile: "Brother, when did you come back, why don't you say a word in advance, I will set up a banquet for you to catch the wind."

Huo Dao pushed his hand and said lukewarmly: "We don't know each other that well---."

"Haha--- it's okay, sooner or later it's all a family" Xue Zhongxiong's face was really thick. hurriedly said: "Here, then drink a cup of tea first and speak slowly."

Led up to the private room on the second floor, it was only when he found that Huo Dao was followed by a woman, a graceful and graceful woman who rarely had that fashionable companion on the Loess Plateau, of course, his eyes had been falling on Huo Nanzhi from the beginning of entering the door, and others seemed to be unable to enter his eyes.

Please: "Nanzhi, who is this?"

Huo Nanzhi was not used to his being so affectionate, of course, because her favorite brother was here, she sneered: "Fat Xue, don't call him so affectionate--- we are not so familiar."

is to say in passing: "She is my brother Shen Ling."

took the initiative to introduce it, and said that it was not familiar, whether it was cooked or uncooked, Huo Dao couldn't understand it for a while. Looking at the looks of the two of them, it's not as simple as two or three years of private acquaintance with classmates.

Xue Fatzi praised a few words first, and then brought everyone a cup of high-quality fragrant tea, and put five or six colors of refreshments. He sat next to Huo Nanzhi and said: "Nanzhi, I guess you won't come to see it, this is my new teahouse, I will never say anything about it."

Huo Nanzhi couldn't find Gao Minghao to follow him in a blink of an eye, maybe he was afraid of the tyrant of the eight aqueducts. Just said: "Are you eyeing the Gao family's store again?"

Xue Zhongxiong patted his head and said with a smile: "You said this--- then I really want to tell you about it---."

However, he hurriedly stood up and said, "Wait a minute, Camp Commander Xu is still sitting in another private room, I will go over and explain a few times, and then come over to accompany you."

Hurriedly slipped away. Huo Dao has zero water, Gao Minghao is not a good bird in his heart, except for eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, why don't you do anything else, what do you eat, what is not a loser, asked: "Sister, can you believe the words of the mouse?"