After some discussions, Xu Xin'an and Xu Sihu followed Xu Huaiqian back to Lutai Nanzhai.
Xu Huai used to be clumsy, but his mother was afraid that he would get into trouble and get lost, so she watched him closely. He was far less familiar with the peaks outside Yuhuang Ridge than Xu Xinan and the others.
Forget about Xu Xin'an, Xu Sihu and his father, who had died of illness long ago, were hunters in Nanzhai in their early years. They were good at walking and shooting, and he knew which places in the mountains were relatively easy to walk.
They still have to find shortcuts in the mountains to facilitate communication between the two. After all, not everyone can have the skills and strong physique like Xu Huai to travel in the deep mountains and old forests.
"There was originally a tree lying down here, you could step on it..."
Xu Sihu, who is only twenty-four years old this year, is tall and strong. He led Xu Huai and Xu Xin'an out of the bushes, but their way out was blocked by a deep ditch more than three feet wide.
The big tree that originally fell across the deep stream was washed away by a flash flood at some point, and they were blocked on one side of the deep stream.
Xu Huai looked down and saw that the chasm was seven or eight feet deep, very steep, the mud and rocks were slippery, and there was shallow water flowing at the bottom. There were many big trees on the left and right, and it seemed that he needed to get some axes to cut them over.
With limited manpower, it would be too time-consuming to build a wooden bridge, but it would be easy to cut down two or three large trees from the side and drag them to the stream to facilitate walking.
Apart from the fact that this deep ditch was not easy to bypass, the three of them groped their way through the bushes and grass. There were many steep slopes along the way, but they were not too high.
In the past, when Xu Sihu and the others went into the mountains for hunting, they could just slide down such a steep slope. In the future, if they want to make walking easier, they can just dig some stone steps. Even simpler, they can temporarily place simple bamboo and wooden ladders. Xu Xin'an, Xu Sihu and the others can think of these methods.
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Generally speaking, there is no road between Yuhuangling and Jinshuigou. The main reason is that not many people walked around in the past. However, it is not that difficult to open a small road for small groups to enter and exit.
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When Xu Huai, Xu Xin'an, and Xu Sihu arrived at Nanzhai, Xu Wuliang had already prepared axes, saws, fire breakers, etc. and an iron pot in advance, and was waiting in the forest outside the village. Xu Xin'an, Xu Sihu did not delay, and returned to Jinshuigou with these necessities.
go.
Xu Huaize and Xu Wuliang returned to their home in Nanzhai first.
Xu Huai and his father Xu Wuxuan had just returned to Tongbai Mountain and were relatively well off, so they ordered the courtyard to be divided into two parts: front and back.
Although it had been more than ten years, even if Xu Huai had not been in the village in the past two years, Su Di and her parents usually helped take care of it, and the yard was kept clean and did not look shabby.
Xu Wuliang's parents died young. When he returned to Tongbai Mountain from Jingsheng Army, there was no place to stand in Nanzhai, and the hut left by his parents collapsed, so he had to marry into Huaiyuan Town. This time, his family of three and Liu
Qiong'er all temporarily lived in Xu Huai's house.
Under the current situation, Liu Qiong'er would not dare to return to Huaiyuan Town, and Qin Zhai was left to Aunt Xu and Aunt Zhou to look after two women who didn't know why. She watched Xu Huai and Xu Wuliang come back, and Dan was in the west.
Xu Huai was waiting under the eaves of the wing and asked, "Where are you, Mr. Wang, are you really going to let go?"
"You have too much time to take care of yourself, how can you take care of too much?" Xu Huai said with a wry smile.
"How did you seduce me in Yuehong Mansion, and you forgot so quickly?" Liu Qiong'er asked.
"I'm not even sixteen years old yet, don't open your mouth to slander me," Xu Huai said.
Liu Qiong'er glared at Xu Huai with her beautiful eyes and said: "There is no way out for being a bandit. Your father was able to get clean and return to his hometown only if he met such a noble man as Wang Xiaocheng. You really don't expect Wang Chen to have such a good life."
The day of comeback?”
"No hope." Xu Huai said angrily.
According to the short written memory of later generations, Wang Zhen's death in an encounter with bandits did not cause any shock. This is enough to prove from the side the difficulty of Wang Zhen's comeback - the emperor did not miss him at all.
Xu Huai had no high hopes for Wang Zhen's comeback, but Liu Qiong'er definitely didn't think so.
In the past few years in Yuehong Mansion, Liu Qiong'er could be said to have been well-dressed and well-fed, and she had redeemed herself. Naturally, there would be changes, but she did not dare to imagine that a woman like her, who had no power to restrain a chicken and a coveted appearance, would follow her.
What kind of good fate awaits you if you fall into a trap and become a bandit?
She is looking forward to Wang Zhen's comeback.
Liu Qiong'er said seductively: "Even if you don't expect anything, many soldiers have no hope in their hearts. Are you really willing to follow you and capture the bandits without any other ideas in your mind?"
"..." Xu Huai patted his head, looked at Liu Qiong'er and said, "You are really a female Zhuge, I didn't even think of this!"
Being a bandit is by no means a romantic affair involving a big bowl of wine and a big mouthful of meat.
The soldiers are not vicious lawbreakers, they are just ordinary people who care about their families. It may be okay for them to settle down in Jinshagou for ten and a half months, but it will be hard to say after three to five months.
Xu Huai could also see that this was also the issue that Xu Wujiang was most worried about, and the others were secondary.
No matter how promising Wang Xun's comeback is, there is nothing that can grab people's attention right now, nothing more than this.
If a person has no hope, what is the difference between him and a salted fish?
He used this reason to deceive Liu Qiong'er before, but he didn't think of it now, and Liu Qiong'er had to remind him.
However, if they want to use Wang Zhen's comeback to stir people's hearts, they must first ensure that Wang Zhen does not die in Huaiyuan. This horse has come around again!
"Brother Wu Liang!"
At this moment, someone looked over from outside the bamboo fence and called Xu Wuliang.
The family here in Lutai Nanzhai is settled down, with Su Di and Xu Wuliang in charge.
Su Di and her father, Su Laochang, have been farming in the Yuhuangling sharecropping field for many years. They have been plowing and plowing the land for many years. They are no different from the villagers in Tongbai Mountain. However, perhaps because they were forced to flee from famine in the early years, there are some
He has a lot of experience and knowledge, and he is very powerful in martial arts. He is good at boxing and stick kung fu, and he has a high prestige among the villagers with a foreign surname.
With Su Di, Xu Wuliang, Su Laochang and others in charge of things in front, Xu Huai was responsible for pretending to be an idiot.
When he had nothing to do, he went to take a walk in front of the yard of Xu Zhongyu, the head of the Nanzhai household, and asked him not to come out to restrain Su Di and the others, so that he could escape and go to Jinshagou to contact Xu Wujiang and the others.
Xu Huai saw that the visitor was Xu Guanshan, Xu Xin'an's father, standing silently under the eaves of the west wing.
"Guan Shan, what do you need from me?" Xu Wuliang walked out of the house and waved to Xu Guanshan to come into the yard to talk.
Xu Guanshan walked in and glanced at Xu Huai and Liu Qiong'er with some hesitation.
Liu Qiong'er turned around and walked back into the house. Xu Guanshan then spoke to Xu Wuliang: "These people have all moved to Nanzhai, but the fields cultivated by the tenants are very scattered. We can't tell everyone not to go to the fields. You
What should we do about this?"
Except for Xu Wujiang, who bought more than ten acres of thin farmland in the past few years and had some family capital, many of the soldiers were poor and broke.
Those with no strong labor force mostly weave cloth and pick mulberries; those with strong labor force cultivate the fields under the name of the wealthy tenants; some also work part-time and long-term labor for the wealthy family or their own family.
In short, with only the small amount of salary from the military soldiers, the family can't have a full stomach, and it is impossible to have leisure time to wait for support.
Now Su Di, Xu Wuliang and the others have moved all the small families to Nanzhai to have a reunion. This is an easy thing to do. Poor families are broken down and there is no need to pay attention to it. It is enough to free up a few thatched huts and tile houses, but no one is called during the day.
It will be difficult to do the work.
The most important thing is that the fields near Nanzhai are sparse and barren. Many families in Nanzhai have to go to the Qingliuzhai in the north to cultivate the land on both sides of the ridge, which is quite far away.
"I know. I'll go find Su Laochang later and ask him and Di Niang what they think about this matter,"
Xu Wuliang first dismissed Xu Guanshan, and after he left, he looked at Xu Huai who was sitting on the mud and said,
"This is a problem - Xu Wufu, Xu Heng and his son have not made any movements today, but they must be holding back the bad news, fearing that they will run over and cause trouble while the family is out working in the village."
Xu Huai knocked on the door, pushed open the ajar door, and saw Liu Qiong'er standing on the inside of the door, listening, and said, "Have you figured out anything?"
Although Xu Huaiqiang dragged her into right and wrong, she still had resentment in her heart, and she knew Xu Huai's true face best, but Liu Qiong'er had been in the Yuehong Mansion for many years, and had been in the dust for a long time, and she had no problem "flirting" with Xu Huai.
"Pretty" means that she thinks she is older than him from the bottom of her heart.
In front of Xu Wuliang, Liu Qiong'er still maintained a dignified posture, fearing that her background would be underestimated:
"The common people work hard to have enough food and clothing. For those who are used to working, if they are asked to stay in Nanzhai for three to five days, there is no problem. But after seven or eight days, how can they still sit still? I was too hasty before and did not think carefully.
, but it was not impossible to remedy the situation. Xu Huai took the sheep and took a lot of gold and silver from Deng Gui. He removed all the fields farmed by small families outside Nanzhai and replaced them with fields near Nanzhai, or in Nanzhai.
Just find a livelihood nearby that can make your family happy, or even directly organize people to reclaim wasteland to keep the family busy! Of course, the rich families of the Xu family basically follow the lead of Xu Wu Fuma, this is called family
If we talk separately, we will inevitably be pushed back, so you should take the lead in promoting this!"
"..." Xu Wuliang looked at Xu Huai hesitantly. Liu Qiong'er's idea sounded good, but Xu Huai got the gold and silver from Deng Gui. In his opinion, it belonged to Xu Huai.
make a decision.
"Uncle Wu Liang, please leave the gold and silver to Miss Liu to take care of later. Whatever Aunt Seventeen needs, take it from Miss Liu..." Xu Huai said to Xu Wuliang.
After sneaking into Deng Gui's house to read the secret letter the day before yesterday, he went directly out of the military camp to see Liu Qiong'er and Xu Wuliang, and handed the small bag of gold and silver to Xu Wuliang to help him keep it.
Unless he abandons others and flies away now, at this juncture, money is just an external thing.
At the same time, he also felt that Liu Qiong'er should be given something to do.
"Well, then I'll go talk to Mr. Su about this right now!"
When Xu Huai said this, Xu Wuliang came down, went back to the house, took the bag of gold and silver from his mother-in-law Ge Shi, and handed it to Liu Qiong'er. He also took the shoulder knife and went to Su Laochang and Su Di to discuss these matters.
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Xu Wujiang has limited savings over the years. Today, after spending dozens of dollars, Su Di's pocket is empty. There are still many things to do next. How can he survive without money and food? Even in Xu Wu's conscience, these gold and silver
They all belong to Xu Huai, but it's nothing to borrow temporarily. All you need to do is keep the accounts clear.
