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Chapter 451: The torrent of fate, the strings of chaos

Wu Dynasty, Jinghan tenth year east, Shandong East Road, Yuying County.

Winter is deep, and heavy snow is falling, covering the inside and outside of the small county town with a blanket of snow. However, not many people in Yuying are interested in such a snow scene.

Except for some wealthy families in big cities or careless children, such heavy snow days are always the most difficult for ordinary people to endure. Especially after crossing the Qinling Mountains and the Huaihe River, every winter, It is not surprising that people accumulate firewood and often stay wrapped in quilts for a month or two, unwilling to get out of bed. Firstly, it is because the weather is too cold and there is nothing much to do in winter; secondly, it is because this time Not every household may have winter clothes. In many places, rural farmers may not even have basic warm clothes. When winter comes, the whole family can only wrap themselves in quilts and suffer. Every time they get out of bed, it is a torture. .

And some poor families who were in dire straits cut firewood and sold it everywhere in late autumn and early winter. In winter, they had no firewood to keep themselves warm. The charcoal seller was worried about the low price of charcoal and hoped that the weather would be cold. In the Wu Dynasty at this time, it was not What an anecdote. In this way, when winter comes, no people freeze to death on a large scale near big cities, so it can be considered a peaceful time. As for the frail old people, it is not a strange thing to survive the severe cold weather.

Of course, Yuying is not a big county, but after all, there is a dock on the bank of the Yellow River, where some wealthy families live. In such snowy weather, there are still some people who can go out. Among the county towns, there are several most beautiful places. Due to the cold weather, the business of good restaurants and teahouses has declined, but the business of brothels has been affected. Although it has been affected, the impact is not great. Many wealthy customers are willing to enjoy the warmth in these places, as It feels like going home. Some merchants who were stranded in Yuying due to the snow have nothing to do. They can only come to these places to hang out and have fun, turning short-term business into long-term business.

Chunxiang Pavilion, the best brothel in Yuying, is brightly lit every day. The brothel door is surrounded by thick cotton curtains. The best charcoal bars are burned inside, the singers sing with melodious voices, the snacks are delicious, and the brothel girls who accompany them are considerate. Fortunately, if you want to take a bath, there is hot water available at all times. Even though it costs a lot of money, wealthy households in the county and business travelers staying in Yuying are also willing to come here for recreation.

Of course, occasionally there will be some excitement to watch.

Just like this, a lively scene was taking place in Chunxiang Pavilion. A woman in a cotton-padded jacket led several big men to drag a drunken young man out of a woman's room in the building. The drinker The drunken young man refused to leave. The two sides almost started yelling at each other in the building.

Scenes like this kind of "catching an adulterer" are not uncommon in brothels. But to be honest, if it really breaks out, it means that the woman herself must have some background, and in the conversation between the two, others can also tell that the two parties are not husband and wife. People in the hall were watching the play with great interest and talking about it.

The drunken young man dragged the handrail downstairs. He struggled fiercely: "I am not your husband-in-law! I am not your husband-in-law! You are just my sister! Why do you care about my business! Why do you care about my business? !Let me go, I want to go back and drink!”

The man was acting recklessly and shouting out every plan. The woman walking in front was wearing a cotton-padded jacket. She was so bloated that she couldn't see much of her figure, but her face looked good. She was so angry that her eyes were trembling. She looked behind her. But he only said: "Drag him out!" The two accompanying men dragged the man and struggled all the way downstairs.

The man grabbed every thing he could grab, or simply lay down on the ground, struggling and shouting: "I won't leave! Why are you like this! I am your brother! The eldest brother is the father! Now I am the oldest in the family! You...

You lose money, sooner or later you will no longer belong to the Lou family, why do you care about my business! I want to marry you! I want to marry you - brothers, this is my sister, I want to marry her! Who will marry her today?

I'll pay for the drinks, and I'll marry her to whomever you want! Don't hold me back -"

These words made everyone in the building burst into laughter, and for a while some people started teasing her, but it seemed that this woman’s background was not simple. Someone in the building whispered to each other, saying that this woman was doing business out of town, and she was not the same as Yuying.

Chen Laohu, who is both black and white, has something to do with him. He has been stranded for several days. Shandong is a place where black and white are mixed. It is also because of Chen Laohu's background that this woman is able to arrest her like this in Chunxiang Pavilion.

people.

"Brother, your sister is getting married, and we can't control it..."

"But it is indeed a bit bad for a sister to care about her brother's affairs, haha..."

Ordinary women would inevitably feel embarrassed when they were teased like this. Although the woman in front of her seemed to have seen big events, she was gritting her teeth and her eyes were red. She went downstairs and put a banknote in the old madam's hand and said:

Accusation. The shouts of the man behind him became more intense.

"I don't want to leave...did you hear me! Lou Shuwan! You have gone crazy - I am the smartest! Let me go back to drink! I won't come with you! You walk on your Yangguan Road, and I'll cross my single-plank bridge!

You madman! You think you’re powerful just because you kill... don’t you? You haven’t understood yet..."

"Say it louder!" What the man said seemed to be something like "kill someone", and the woman suddenly turned around and shouted. Although everyone was slightly stunned when they heard this kind of thing, they were not surprised.

Surprisingly, let alone the fact that the man did not explain clearly, even if he did explain it clearly, given the mixed situation of black and white in Shandong, it would be impossible for someone to have a relationship with Chen Laohu. But after hearing this sentence, he

No one was joking anymore. Business travelers came and went in this area. There were martial arts heroes and green forest criminals. They gathered and dispersed. After a few days, they would be forgotten.

After walking out of Chunxiang Pavilion, wind and snow hit her face. The woman wiped the tears on her face and walked in front. The man behind struggled all the way, saying that she was not from Lou's family. When they came to the roadside where two carriages stopped,

, the woman suddenly turned back.

"Yes! I'm not a member of the Lou family! But you are! Look at what you, a member of the Lou family, look like now! You are the last man in the Lou family, what do you look like now?"

The people here now are the Lou family brothers and sisters who were displaced after the destruction of Hangzhou.

"Me?" His sister scolded him harshly. The swaying Lou Shuheng tried his best to stand still, and waved away the man who was pulling and supporting him. He smiled crazily, "I am a smart person! This is what I am like.

Because I am a smart person! I have to...have a good life and enjoy myself in time! You...you are the madman! Lou Shuwan. Look what you are doing..."

In the wind and snow, Lou Shuwan looked at him and said word by word: "I am letting the Lou family stand up! I... am preparing for the revenge of father and eldest brother..."

"Hahahaha, revenge." Lou Shuheng was shaking and laughing. Then he shook his head, "You want revenge, but I don't want it! You madman... You haven't seen it clearly yet. You can't take revenge at all, even if you didn't see it in Hangzhou.

It’s clear. It’s time to see it clearly now! What’s the point of revenge? Everyone in Liangshan is dead! You want to take revenge. Why... do you think you are powerful just because you killed your husband? You... you just killed

You just killed your husband, and you don't care about him at all. I can see clearly. Why don't you kill me..."

Lou Shuheng's voice gradually became lowered. Lou Shuwan stood there and stared at him, her eyes filled with blood, and she gritted her teeth and said, "If you hadn't been my brother, I would have killed you long ago..."

"Haha, yes. I'm sorry for you. Neither he nor I can feel sorry for you. When I was fleeing, I was obsessed and I was about to starve to death. I was obsessed. I shouldn't trade you for it.

grain……"

"you shut up!"

"Oh." Lou Shuheng smiled nervously, "If you don't like it, I won't say anything. But... I can see clearly, Lou Shuwan, you can't avenge this, and I don't want to avenge you, because in your heart there is no...

…”

"Shut up!"

"You just don't have it in your heart..."

"Shut up--"

With a slap in the face, Lou Shuheng staggered two steps to the side and sat on the ground beside the wheels of the carriage. He laughed, took out a wine bottle hidden in his sleeve, and opened it.

When he wanted to drink, Lou Shuwan rushed over and kicked him in the heart, and then kicked him in the hand.

"No more drinking, brother——"

She rushed up and punched and kicked Lou Shuheng. She was wearing thick clothes in winter, so Lou Shuwan didn't have much strength. She hit Lou Shuheng for a while, but she just kicked his wine bottle away.

, just messing up his clothes. Lou Shuheng was like a dead pig now. He was not afraid of boiling water. After being beaten for a while, he laughed at him smelling of alcohol. Lou Shuwan stood there and looked at him for a moment, and finally gave the order

The person next to him said: "Take him back to the inn."

Lou Shuheng was taken into a carriage. When the carriage was about to drive, Lou Shuwan raised her face and said, "Brother, let's talk when we get back."

Lou Shuheng's head was drooped at the carriage window, and he whispered in a daze: "I still want to go to Chunxiang Pavilion..."

The carriage left. Lou Shuwan stood for a while, then stretched out his hand to press his forehead. When he turned around, he saw the wine bottle that had been knocked into the snow, so he walked over and picked it up. A lot of the wine inside had been spilled.

, but after all, she still had it. She stood, raised the wine bottle and drank a few sips for herself, with a hint of blush on her face. She said to the remaining followers around her: "Let's go... we're going to take the Tiger King's wine."

Once things are done... after they are done, everything will be fine..."

The group of people walked towards the remaining carriage. When the carriage started, they were in a small village not far outside Yuying County. In the dim woodshed, a pair of eyes looked up at the snow falling from the window. The eyes belonged to a tall man.

The man with a broad frame was slovenly and extremely thin. He was lying in a messy pile of firewood. Half of his face was scarred and half of his appearance had been destroyed. Therefore, no one could see it anymore...

The brand of sinner tattooed on that cheek.

Not far away, by the stove, a modestly dressed peasant woman coaxed her two-year-old child in her hands while adding firewood to the stove to add some warmth.

She was talking nonchalantly: "... I picked you up because you were tall. Even if you are not a strong man, you can still help with some things when you are healthy. Who knew that I would spend so much effort to cure you?

, you have become a fool, alas... You lose money, if you keep doing this, I will drive you away next spring... What you do is always looking at the window, I know, you are cold, right, I will help you get it later

Block something..."

She is a widow in this village, with some beauty. When her husband's family was alive, her family was relatively well off, but since her husband's death, everything has taken a turn for the worse.

A few months ago, she rescued a man who was washed up on the shore. It looked like he had wounds from swords and bullets. She thought carefully that instead of letting the things left by her husband's family be divided by other relatives, it would be better to get them nearby.

She was a strong man, so she worked hard to cure the other party. Who would have thought that after the cure, the man would remain silent all day long, not saying a word, and not resisting when being beaten and scolded, which made her feel that the deal was really not worth it, but the weather was getting colder.

After getting up, she couldn't just kick out a fool like this, so she had to put him in this woodshed. To a certain extent, she was letting him fend for himself.

However, such things actually brought her a lot of trouble. Things in her husband's family belong to her husband's family after all. In the past, if some relatives wanted to take over, they had to hide it. At this time, she took in a man who came to her door these days.

There were more people gossiping and they became more confident, which often caused her to quarrel with each other.

During the quarrel, the man would be in the woodshed, listening quietly. When the widow came back after the quarrel, she would complain to him for a while: "If it weren't for the cold weather, I would have kicked you out..."

When spring comes next year, there is a silent farmer in the village who has half of his face injured. Because he is tall and has many scars on his body, although the people in the village gradually know that he is easy to bully, no one really wants to bully him.

He went too far, and many people thought that he might have some background - maybe he was the mountain king of a certain mountain. This kind of thing doesn't matter here, but few people have the intention to report it to the official.

When he went to the fields to farm, the widow with her children would bring things over and sometimes look at them on the edge of the fields. There was a lot of gossip in the village, and she was not afraid of being ugly. She had a fierce personality and would occasionally quarrel with others. When she stayed at her husband's house

The things left behind were gradually divided up, and the two of them slept on the same bed. That was what happened in the autumn of the next year...

The trajectories of fate are like countless random strings, which sometimes intersect. After they are separated, it is unknown when or even whether they will intersect again. In early December of the tenth year of Jing Han, Su Wenyu and Wang Shanyue left Shandong and returned to Bianliang.

.The experience of managing the camp for several months made Su Wenyu undergo an unspeakable baptism. At this time, his whole temperament changed. As for Wang Shanyue, he had some friction with Zhujiazhuang recently, and even

Yu Lingde and Zhu Biao gave him a good beating.

The reason is that he became the third party in the marriage between Hu Sanniang and Zhu Biao...

After beating him, Zhu Biao asked him to tell Ning Yi: "After the New Year, I will go to the capital."

At this time, the capital city is approaching the New Year and is bustling... (To be continued)


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