When they got here, the coachmen refused to leave. After entering the valley entrance, they entered the Funiu Mountains. Although this valley entrance is the official road connecting Song County and Luo County, it is already an extremely dangerous place and must not be used again.
Go inside. Besides, Dong Zhao's family promised them that they only need to deliver the goods here. Going any further would be a joke with their lives.
Liang Qi did not insist. He had actually achieved his goal when he reached the mouth of the valley. Of course he hoped to go further in, but since the drivers were unwilling, he had no choice but to give up. He then ordered the drivers to unload the goods in the grass beside the road.
They were sent back to the ravine. Although the coachmen suspected that there was something wrong with this, they had received double the fare for this trip and did not want to cause more trouble. Furthermore, they were just unloading the goods here, and they might have asked someone else to
Even if someone who is not afraid of death comes to deliver the goods, we cannot just assume that there is something wrong with this person. To put it another step back, even if this person is a bandit in the mountains, if we help the bandits transport food, we will be beheaded.
. So no matter what aspect you look at, it’s better to just pretend to be confused and shut up.
After sending off the coachmen, Liang Qi hurried into the mountain, and finally rushed back to Luoyan Valley before noon, reporting the news to Gao Muqing and everyone in the village.
Gao Muqing was overjoyed when he saw Liang Qi coming back and heard his report. He did not blame Liang Qi for running to Hangzhou to meet Lin Jue. He immediately ordered that all men, women and children, except for those on guard, go to carry goods outside the valley.
After receiving the news, everyone cheered loudly and followed Liang Qi to the mouth of the valley. They carried all kinds of supplies up the mountain like ants. They were busy until the second watch, and they had nearly 30,000 stones of grain, thousands of quilts and cotton-padded clothes, and various supplies for the winter on the mountain.
The supplies were moved to a temporary settlement on the mountainside. Gao Muqing and Liang Qi immediately organized the distribution of supplies. Everyone was smiling and very busy.
The cottage where everyone on Guishan Island stayed was located on the hillside south of the mountain east of Luoyan Valley, hidden in an open space in the dense forest. When this place was captured, the original Luoyan Valley cottage was set on fire, so it could only be temporarily used.
Bamboos were cut down to build shelters as temporary shelters. However, due to the lack of materials and continuous battles, there was no planning and systematic construction. Now it is just a shack made of trees and covered with thatch.
and branches, it looks like a slum.
During this period of time, nearly 1,300 people and hundreds of soldiers and horses on Guishan Island suffered miserably in this environment. Located in the north, although it is not as cold as the land north of the Yellow River, it is
The temperature in the Funiu Mountains has long been unbearably cold. In the past month, not only did we have to face fierce enemy attacks every day, but we also had to endure the bone-chilling cold at night. The accommodation was simple, the bedding and cotton-padded clothes were missing, and the food was
Shortage, pressure and fear from the enemy's advance almost drove everyone to collapse.
Many people fled here from the distant Hongze Lake. They thought they could have a stable place to live like in the Funiu Mountains, but they didn't expect to find themselves in such a situation here. But even so, their persistence failed.
It has never changed. The harsh environment and situation have not broken their hearts. The people have organized spontaneously, digging grass roots, hunting prey and digging wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger. They want to reduce the burden of the village owners as much as possible, and they want to save the money.
Food was given to those who fought. Many people among the people also chose to participate in the battle. Although they did not have weapons or armor, they used stones and sticks to block the attacking enemies and did their part.
Throughout August, everyone experienced hellish ordeals. Hundreds of civilians died, and hundreds of soldiers died. At first, everyone would shed tears when people died. Later, they no longer shed tears.
After they died, they silently carried the body to be buried, and then continued to deal with the enemy. To put it mildly, this was strength. To put it poorly, they were actually numb.
In the camp where more than a thousand people gathered, the daily routine was dead silence. Almost no one spoke. During the day, people silently collected firewood and looked for food. At night, the camp was dark, and children were crying.
The sound was very weak. In the cold wind of the night, in the leaky shacks, people were huddled together, enduring hunger and cold, waiting for the next hopeless day.
However, tonight, there was a completely different scene in this camp. Beginning in the afternoon, men, women, old and young all went into battle and spent seven or eight hours transporting dozens of trucks of food and supplies to the village. After that, Dazhai
The Lord began to distribute food, cotton clothes and bedding, and even each person was given a large piece of fat meat. After that, the food on the campfire began to cook and the fragrance was flowing, and the fat of the pork was sizzling on the fire, and the air was filled with oil.
It is filled with the aroma of rice and white noodles, and the mouth-watering aroma of meat.
The children put on cotton-padded clothes, trousers and shoes. Liang Qi, who was careful, even added more than a hundred tiger-head cotton hats for hundreds of children to the shopping list. These children put on winter clothes to keep out the cold and started to have a bonfire in the open space.
They shuttled back and forth and made noise. The people sat around the bonfire, eating hot rice and steamed buns, and started laughing and talking among themselves.
The entire camp has changed from the dead silence before to full of life simply because of the arrival of this large amount of supplies. The arrival of this batch of supplies has completely changed everything here.
Gao Muqing has been busy with Liang Qi and a dozen other key members in the bamboo shed in the middle of the camp. Collecting registered materials, distributing these materials, as well as final cleaning and proper arrangement of storage and distribution rules are all necessary.
After distributing a batch of supplies, the remaining supplies were neatly stacked in the bamboo shed. A group of people were busy using bamboo and long grass to reinforce the shelter to prevent leakage and moisture. They were busy until the middle of the night.
Days later, Gao Muqing dragged her tired body towards her residence.
Gao Muqing's residence is in a small wooden house separated by bamboo fences on the east side of the camp. This is the residence of Gao Muqing and his more than 30 female guards. The place is extremely crude and cannot be compared to the one on Guishan Island.
Compared with his own small building, Gao Muqing no longer cares about this.
But today, the scene in this simple courtyard is indeed completely different. The lights in the wooden house where Gao Muqing lives in the middle are very bright, which is completely different from before. Since arriving here, in addition to the bonfire, the only thing used for lighting is pine Mingzi,
When the thing was lit in the room, it produced thick smoke and a pungent smell, and the brightness was not very high. But the light in the room in front of him was definitely not the light of Song Mingzi. This light was much brighter. Gao Muqing was strange
As soon as I walked into the room, I saw a beautiful silver-white three-pronged candlestick placed on the simple pine wood table. The three candles were burning brightly on the candlestick, making the eyes of the female guards in the room sparkle.
of.
"Where...where did the candles and candlesticks come from?" Gao Muqing was also in a very excited mood.
These past few months have been almost living in hell. Every day is like living in darkness. Every day I have to worry about life and death. It’s like living in a long period of suffering isolated from the world. Every day when I open my eyes, I see
The people around him were in ragged clothes, with yellow faces and thin muscles. All he could hear were lamentations and cries. Gao Muqing had almost forgotten what the world outside the mountain was like.
But now, seeing this beautiful silver candlestick and the bright candlelight, it's like suddenly coming from hell to the world, and I suddenly think of the colorful world outside the mountains. I think of everything besides the things in front of me.
Outside, there is another prosperous and exquisite human room.
"Master of the Dazhai, this was sent by Liang Qi's order. Liang Qi also sent us a lot of things, saying they were specially given to the Master of the Dazhai." The female bodyguard Chun Cao hurriedly stepped forward.
explained.
Gao Muqing frowned and said: "Specially for us? How is this possible? Where are the things? At this time, everything must be kept and distributed in a unified way, how can it be special? Why did he light three candles at once and almost blew out two of them?
, how can we be extravagant and wasteful now?"
"Master of the Dazhai, Liang Qi specifically explained that he was entrusted by others. Master of the Dazhai, come and see, there are many things here. We have all moved into your room." Chuncao said with a smile.
Gao Muqing was stunned and walked towards the bedroom on the east side. As soon as he entered the door, Gao Muqing's eyes lit up.
The room, which was originally a simple pinewood bed and a makeshift pinewood dresser, had completely changed at this moment. Pink curtains were hung on the bed, and several new and exquisite brocade quilts were neatly folded.
At the head of the bed, golden tent hooks hooked the curtain to both sides, with red tassels hanging from the bottom. In the corner of the curtain, there was a huge mahogany wooden box with exquisite lacquer patterns on it, which was very luxurious.
Looking at the originally empty dressing table, there is an exquisite bronze mirror placed on it, and a purple-red makeup box with a square shape on the table. Next to the dressing table, several new brocade cotton items are hung on a mahogany clothes hanger.
There are several shiny copper basins, copper slag buckets and other objects placed on the two spring stools next to it. In another corner, a hollow copper incense burner is emitting fragrance.
The room was still that low and simple room, but after putting these things in it, it suddenly became magnificent and looked like a lady's boudoir.
Gao Muqing was stunned for a long time and said blankly: "This... what is Liang Qi doing?"
"It's not Liang Qi. Liang Qi said that someone specially bought these things in Hangzhou and asked him to bring them all the way to the mountain. Hehe, Dazhai leader, you don't need me to tell you, you know who this is." Chuncao said with a smile.
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Gao Muqing didn't know what to feel in her heart. She slowly walked into this unfamiliar room, stood quietly for a moment, and said softly: "Where is Liang Qi? Go and ask him. I have something to ask him."
