Delong

It has just entered the twelfth lunar month, and the cold wind is biting, and the entire river system in Hebei is frozen. In the past, although this situation would inhibit agricultural and cultural activities, it would inexplicably make business activities a little more active, because it is easy to cross the state. Counties, avoiding checkpoints... However, it cannot be said that there is no commercial activity in Hebei this winter, but most of the powerful manors and caravans of aristocratic families are eligible to enjoy this convenience.

This also caused a strange traffic situation on the lifeless Hebei Plain.

Either it is a large convoy with hundreds of people at every turn, or it is empty and empty.

However, these are meaningless to some specific groups of people living in Gaojibo - these people are the remnants of the Gaojibo rebels, most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, supplemented by some women.

With this kind of personnel composition, as early as when the strong men left, they were already very difficult.And as winter deepens, the severe cold comes, and even the freezing begins, it will be a matter of life and death.

"What should I do?"

"What should I do? It's freezing, I can't open the ice, I can't get water plants, I'm afraid I'm going to starve.

"Who is on duty at night? Why don't you be serious, chewing hundreds of bites..."

"It's not just chewing, there's no water... What should adults and children do if they don't have hot soup?"

"Why do you guys complain like this? I also want to pick shrimp from aquatic plants to eat and drink water. How can I not be serious? I didn't sleep all night last night. I got up on time and beat ice four times. It was dawn at five o'clock It just stopped, who would have thought it would still be sealed..."

"Don't blame Zhao Erniang...it's too cold today."

"If you don't blame her, who do you blame? Can it be someone else's business?"

"Then what should I do? Kill her to pay for it?"

"How dare you let her pay for her life? What is paying for her life? Human life is so cheap... If you don't have it, you won't.

"It's all the men in the family messing around. They insisted on coming out to rebel. They rebelled for two years, and they looked at the end of the mountain. This time, going out is probably a death... It's better to apply for the Eastern Expedition back then. He died outside, and I died in it." Stay safe at home!"

"Cry! What's the use of crying?"

"What's the use then?"

"Looking for Elder Sister Cao..."

"Elder Sister Cao can't do it either, it's Ms. Dou."

"Didn't Miss Dou go hunting in the depths of the lake yesterday? Did you come back?"

"I don't know, I have to ask."

"The little girl is back."

In the midst of the chaos, a middle-aged woman in unlined clothes suddenly came out from a leeward hut in the distance. This person's face was weathered and her hands were covered with chilblains. The other party is not too old, but around thirty. "

Set fire to the big kang in the back... There is no firewood, no matter how many reeds there are, it can't help but burn, the fire has just been cut off... Come here right away.

"Miss Cao."

"Sister Dou."

When everyone saw the visitor, they greeted them one after another.

And that elder sister Cao came to her and comforted the weeping woman again: "Sanmei, don't panic, I know you are still worried about Xiao Gao, but listening to the situation, the rebels still won in the southeast, but I can't come back for a while because of the government...you have to think about the good, and we will meet again sooner or later."

Although the weeping woman stopped her tears, she still shook her head again and again: "Even if we come back, we will all freeze to death or starve to death here. Will we get the bones back when we meet?"

...

Sister Cao still wanted to persuade her, but the weeping woman covered her face with one hand and ran away with a broken pot in the other.

Sister Cao was helpless, so she went to pull another hand: "Sister Sun, I know your child coughed all night yesterday, it is really important, my young lady went out yesterday and got lucky, and brought back two rabbits, seven or eight crows, you Help me deal with it later, and for the other centimeters, leave a bird for your child, add some hot soup, and make up for it..."

The man felt embarrassed when he heard this, but he still nodded heavily when he thought of the child.

"Second Sister Zhao." Seeing that the two who complained the most had been somewhat comforted, Eldest Sister Cao came to comfort the night watcher again.

"It's really not the price's fault. It's my fault. I don't have a measure of the weather. It's so cold. It's still a rule to make ice four times a night... Fortunately, my mother is back, and today's affairs will not be delayed. We will change it later. That is, no matter who is on duty at night, dawn

Just call me to come over, I will continue to pound until everyone gets up to get water. "

"Thank you, Sister Cao, for taking care of me. I am indeed wrong this time."

Zhao Erniang, who almost got into a catastrophe, also heaved a sigh of relief.

While speaking, a young lady in leather armor, who was only about fifteen or sixteen years old, came running from behind, came and looked into the pool, then smiled, and drew out a sword, and then only With a flick of the shore, a crimson qi adhered to it, and a layer of hot air instantly rose around it.

After waiting for a while, he plunged the sword into the ice layer below, but it sank easily like a knife cutting tofu.

Obviously, this young lady is a master at cultivating Lihuo Zhenqi, and she is already a master of strange scriptures at a young age.

The existence of such a pair of mother and daughter is probably the biggest guarantee for this group of people to survive until now.

Over there, the ice layer was opened, the aquatic plants were hit, and Ms. Dou brought back the prey. Today, she can survive again, but Ms. Dou and Sister Cao, after a long busy day, did not finally have the opportunity to go outside until noon. Beside the reeds, they spoke to each other in private.

"We're running out of salt."

Sister Cao, that is, Mrs. Dou, Dou Lide's continuation, and Cao Chen's younger sister, looked at the young lady in front of her and spoke seriously, but it was as if she was explaining business.

"I'll go out for a while." Dou Xiaoniang, the only blood relative who survived the incident of Dou Lide's extermination because of the rebellion, only responded lightly.

Obviously, but also easy to understand, there is a slight estrangement between the mother and daughter in theory, after all, it has only been more than a year since the two became so-called mother and daughter.

Moreover, in terms of role division, the two of them are not so much mother and daughter as the cooperative leaders of this team of the elderly, the weak, the sick and the disabled.

"That's how it is," Mrs. Cao hesitated for a moment, and continued, "I thought about it, and I can't go on like this. Twenty or thirty people have already died. Let's not say the end of the mountain. If it continues to be so cold, Or suddenly there is a heavy snowfall, and I can't hold it at all..."

"I'll go to the surrounding cities to inquire about my father's whereabouts."

Dou Xiaoniang was obviously forced to mature prematurely by life, so she spoke immediately.

"If you can't find out, you have to rob a big family and get some decent food and winter clothes to put in the past. Madam Cao must use the name of exposing the stronghold to prevent the other party from doing robbery, but this time she didn't say anything.

...

After all, they really had nowhere to go.

In this way, Dou Xiaoniang bid farewell to everyone in the afternoon, left the stronghold in a hurry, and went to the periphery.

First of all, of course, I went to the nearest Zhangnan. I took some coarse salt easily that night, but I didn't find out about my father among the people. It was just a rumor that day that the rebel army had won the battle in the southeast, and Dou Lide's reward was still high. It has increased, but it is very difficult for the common people below to live. Who has the heart to find out what role Dou Lide played in it, and where is it now?
At this time, Dou Xiaoniang was a little entangled. She intended to take the risk of hijacking a county magistrate, county magistrate, etc., to ask about the specific situation, but when she thought of Gaojibo's situation, she was the same as the former Yu County magistrate. The county lord is determined to deal with the bandits, but he also knows that once he does this, he will inevitably attract a big report from the government. He is afraid that it will not end well, so he is a little discouraged.

What's more, at this time, the priority should be to obtain food and winter clothes to help the people in Gaojibo.

However, even if she turned to this idea, she was also a little frustrated, because the risk of looting in Zhangnan County is also huge... Dou Lide rebelled in Gaojibo for almost two years, and Zhangnan is a fellow of the village, who doesn't know who? ?Including her Dou Xiaoniang's ability and name, I am afraid that everyone knows it.What's more terrible is that when looting in the city, if the government seals the door and sends county soldiers to surround it, how can she get the goods out by herself?
After thinking for a long time, she finally decided to go out of the city and follow the official road to the south towards Pingyuan County next door. She was not planning to go to Pingyuan to plunder, but said that there was a crossroad on the official road ahead.

It is an important commercial road, but I am going to see if there is a convoy of rich people on the road, so as to rob... It is best to rob a foreigner's car and livestock, and drive directly into Gaojibo.

Thinking about it, I did it. I spent the night in the city. Early the next morning, Dou Xiaoniang easily left the city with half a bag of coarse salt on her back. She wanted to find a mule or something on the way, but after walking a few villages, they were all dilapidated. Unbearable, the rare livestock are raised by the owner as treasure
He really couldn't bear to do it, so he simply walked forward with dozens of catties of salt on his back and a military sword hanging on his shoulders.

Not to mention, in the morning, when she got on the official road and lingered at the intersection for less than an hour, she came across a convoy, but she didn't dare to loot it—it was Qinghe Cui's convoy. Forty chariots, not to mention that there must be Cui's masters of Wenxiu in the formation, and not to mention the steel crossbows that must be hidden in the chariot, just fifty or sixty riders on the periphery are enough to make people powerless.

In this case, it's fine not to hide.

So Xiaoniang Dou bypassed the caravan, and continued to search between the three forks in the east, west and south, and then suddenly saw a suitable target on the road to the east of Changhe - four or five cars, seven or eight riders, a few The coachman, the two elders are in charge, the flag should be Changle Feng's team.

The so-called everywhere is suitable.

However, Dou Xiaoniang knew that robbing would take a lot of energy, so she turned back first, hid at the side of the crossroads, lit a fire beside the reeds with her true energy, baked a cooking cake stolen from the city, and drank some After boiling the water, he took advantage of the opportunity to wipe his face with plant ashes, then took a bag of salt and sat down at the intersection, waiting for the car to come.

...

In the afternoon, there was little smoke and dust in the distance, and Dou Xiaoniang really waited until the convoy came slowly from the east.

The team members are not fools, but when they arrived first, they saw a young lady with pot ashes on her face, she was wearing thin clothes, and she was just sitting on the side of the road to shelter from the wind, so she turned back directly.

Frankly speaking, this made Dou Xiaoniang a little shaken, because the other party did not verbally tease or come down to take advantage, which is already remarkable.

And after a while, the convoy arrived. Thinking of those people in Gaojibo, Ms. Dou sighed, turned to the road abruptly with a sword in her hand, and then raised the sword to face each other, but her words were crisp:
"People from the Feng family in Changle, listen up. The world is in an emergency. Leave a car, a horse, dry food and winter clothes, and let you go. In the future, when my elder sister Cao becomes rich, I will return it to you."

The convoy stopped abruptly, and all the guards looked at each other, and they couldn't help laughing loudly after realizing what was going on.Only one head and one tail are two old people who are in charge of appearance, looking at each other with their hands together, their complexions are not good.

Seeing this shape, Dou Xiaoniang also laughed, and wanted to show her true energy to scare these people.

But at this time, the old Duguan who came from the rear of the car suddenly paced over, causing the knights to be silent, and turned around the guards. Immediately, under the guards of the knights, this person folded his hands and frowned and asked:
"You little girl... how come you want to come out to rob in broad daylight?"

"You old man lived such a long life for nothing." Seeing this, Dou Xiaoniang sneered for a moment.

"In this place in Hebei, who has a knife in his hand and doesn't want to plunder? Before, the officers and soldiers in Hejian robbed the entire city and town. You came from Changhe in the east, didn't you see it?"

The old man was taken aback, and then he was a little ashamed.

"The same goes for the rebel army, and now the rebel army has gone to the southeast to do great things, otherwise there will be looting everywhere." Dou Xiaoniang continued to sigh.

"The people left behind, if they weren't cold, hungry and weak, they would have to come out to rob every family. If they didn't rob, they wouldn't be able to survive... I still have some strength, so naturally I want to come out to rob."

"You want a carload of winter clothes and food..." The old man unexpectedly didn't argue with the obviously phony opponent, but sighed and continued to ask.

"But there are many women and children behind? A group of women and children, can you come out to do activities alone?"

Dou Xiaoniang was silent for a moment, and she showed her true energy in her hands. Under the red light, her face became serious: "That's me alone is enough!"

The knights were amazed for a moment, and the old Duguan was also dragged back. Someone in the rear convoy immediately went to pull out the steel crossbow, but was stopped by the old Duguan who was dragged back. The latter just turned around and asked:
"You young lady is so capable, why can't you be rich, and you only need food and winter clothes?"

"Naturally." Dou Xiaoniang answered boldly.

The old man paused, and answered seriously: "To tell you the truth, we are not delivering goods, but a convoy for visiting relatives. If you want gold and silver, you do have some, and you have a few calligraphy and paintings, but the food is really gone. Only them Dry food and drinking water for several people. As for winter clothes, fur, and cloth, there is nothing. If you insist, I am afraid we will have to take it off with you... God is so
We can't stand the cold, and I can't make the guard and driver undress.If you don't believe me, you can search by yourself. "

...

Dou Xiaoniang was stunned when she heard the words, and felt depressed for a while, the crimson Qi on the edge of the sword in her hand was weakened by three points.

Seeing this, the old man over there was inexplicably depressed, because he... or Feng Wuyi had already seen that the other party was indeed forced by a group of old and weak women and children to come out to rob. Not the so-called strongman who loots goods.

Thinking that he was decades before the emperor, he did not know how many documents about thieves he wrote on weekdays, and how many thieves were killed because of his writing, but after decades of returning to his hometown, he witnessed the official thieves with his own eyes. Fighting, thousands of miles away, only then do you know what a "thief" is?!
It turned out that the thief was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl who only wanted food and winter clothes;

It turned out that the thief was a local young man who was robbed and almost taken away when he was passing the long river;

It turned out that the thieves were all the people in his village who used to keep themselves safe...but because of his will, they became thieves.

It is true that Feng Wuyi did not bring winter clothes, but he did bring a lot of spare food, but he was greatly stimulated when he passed the long river a few days ago, so he distributed as much food as possible.

It was the first time that he personally experienced the countryside swept by war disasters, instead of watching in cities, military tents, and palaces.

"Give me the mule cart in the back." On the other side, Dou Xiaoniang was stunned for a long time before she spoke, but she couldn't say any more tough words to this old man. It was not so much a robbery, but a pleading attitude. "Is there horse food on it? It's okay. Mule meat is also edible."

Feng Wuyi stared at Zheng, nodded, and asked someone to let the mule cart out.

This is really interesting for the robbed and robbed.

But at this time, the expressions of the group of reluctant knights suddenly changed. Dou Xiaoniang heard the movement, and when she turned around for a while, her expression also changed—without him, under the winter sun in the afternoon, behind her was the official road facing west. There was a lot of smoke and dust, and the speed was extremely fast, as if a large group of knights were rushing here from west to east.

"Let's go!" Feng Wuyi immediately waved.

"Give me the car!" Unexpectedly, Xiaoniang Dou actually messed up, not only that, but at the end of the sentence, she actually began to cry.

In fact, in the final analysis, Dou Lide's daughter is only a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl. If the whole family hadn't been killed by the court more than a year ago, she almost escaped alone, otherwise she would still be at an innocent age... I have already accumulated countless things, and now I am in such a situation, even the last chance is about to be lost, and I feel a little bit overwhelmed.

Seeing this, Feng Wuyi really couldn't bear it, he gritted his teeth, and ordered the servant: "Leave her out, no matter who it is, if you make troubles, report my name and don't tell the matter!

Although the guards were helpless, they had already known the identity of their master in Ande City, so how dare they speak up, they just nodded indiscriminately.

However, Qingqi galloped and came as soon as it was said. Dou Xiaoniang just got into the mule cart and just drove out of the team, the western brigade of knights had already arrived.

However, these knights carrying the official flag of Wu'an County didn't care about the Changle Feng's convoy at all, let alone realize that there was a treacherous robbery incident here, and they were only the leaders. Gently arching his hands, he easily drove across the crossroads, turned south and walked.

...

And just when everyone thought that the matter was about to be exposed, the forty or fifty riders suddenly stopped two to three hundred steps south of the official road, and then turned back to surround the convoy.

"Don't worry, you are so loyal, I will try my best to help you stop these evil-minded officers and soldiers." Dou Xiaoniang actually talked about loyalty at this time. "These officers and soldiers have never followed the rules when they rob in private. They can also rob any rich family and messengers from other states and counties, and even kill them to silence them."

Feng Wuyi sighed, but instead smiled wryly: "Don't panic, little lady, I'll try first and see if I can scare them away, if it really doesn't work, you've escaped yourself, just treat me as what I deserve."

Up to now, after experiencing the An De-Changhe incident, Feng Wuyi also knows that it is really possible for the officers and soldiers to kill people in the official way for a little money.

However, when these knights from Wu'an County came to the front, before Feng Wuyi and his attendants could open their mouths, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old man with a long soldier
Xuan Ang young man came out more and more, pointing at Dou Xiaoniang to laugh, but it was Guanlong accent: "Look, I am not wrong, right? This girl is wearing thin clothes,

Still painted with black ash, but sitting on Changle Feng’s mule cart, leading a cart of horse fodder alone... Isn’t it strange? Miss, who are you? Could it be that you are a robber?”

When Dou Xiaoniang saw the posture of an older official and soldier, she naturally provoked her anger. In addition, she was surrounded again, and she screamed on the spot. She also raised her sword and asked back:
"Who are you? Dare to ask me?"

The young man smiled, and cupped his hands at the other party as if he was amused: "My name is Su Jingfang, and I am a team leader in Wu'an County."

Then this person bowed his hands to the "Old Duguan" again: "Old Duguan, although I have a Guanlong accent, I am a native of Xindu. It's just that my father was moved to Kansai after he congealed alchemy. We are from the same hometown. You If there is any difficulty, tell me, and I will deal with it properly."

Dou Xiaoniang was so angry when she saw that the other party ignored her.

On the other hand, Feng Wuyi was stunned, thinking of something, he waved his hand to comfort Xiaoniang Dou, and at the same time he calmly twisted his beard: "The Su family who moved the letter, the Ningdan at that time... your father is Su Mu?"

Su Jingfang was slightly taken aback, immediately dismounted, and saluted earnestly again: "Yes! Is it actually an old elder?

"Forget it." Feng Wuyi received a salute frankly. "This old man is actually Feng Wuyi. Your father visited me when he entered the Western Capital. Did your Su family take advantage of the chaos and come back? Did you stay in Wu'an?"

"Yes." Su Jing's face changed slightly, and he was serious. "The current situation was turbulent, and my father wanted to return to his hometown. As a result, when he transferred from Taiyuan, he traveled to Wu'an and met his teacher as the county guard in Wu'an County. It's there...it's because I was ordered to be the support of the envoys in the county when I came out this time."

Feng Wuyi was completely relieved to see the other party being polite... Although he knew that it was illegal for the other party's family to come back while taking advantage of the chaos, but at this moment he just wanted to get rid of the other party, so how could he say more?
However, as the saying goes, a wave of ups and downs rises again, Feng Wuyi just wanted to speak, but the people around him became serious and vigilant - Wuhe, the intersection, the only south side where no one came, was also full of smoke and dust,
Forty or fifty riders are approaching quickly.

...

Su Jingfang laughed dryly: "It may be that we are going to meet them...but it may not be other officers and soldiers. Anyway, at this time of year, the brigade of bandits are all in the southeast, across the Zhangshui River, so they cannot come to this place.

Feng Wuyi was in a state of confusion, he just nodded indiscriminately, and Dou Xiaoniang, who was covered in ashes in the car, almost cried again... It was just a robbery, why is it so difficult?
But after a while, as the knights from the south approached, those Wu'an knights shouted one after another, because the opposite side was also flying the command flag of Wu'an County.

But for some reason, Su Jingfang, who had said before that he might be the one to pick him up, was caught off guard.

Both sides are under the banner of Wu'an County, so they naturally meet directly.

And then, unexpectedly, the two sides were a little wary, and it wasn't until Yiqi came out wearing a veiled hat that the atmosphere on both sides eased:

"Is it Xiao Su? Your master asked you to pick me up? How do you know I'm coming back from here?
Listening to the voice, it was actually a woman, and the voice was clear and pleasant.

"Master, Master really asked me to respond." Su Jingfang didn't dare to be negligent, and directly bowed to the end in front of the horse, calling her "Master..." From this meaning, the so-called envoy was actually the wife of Li Ding, the prefect of Wu'an County. "Let's just turn west here... and this one is..."

"Not going west." Mrs. Li nodded first, then shook her head, interrupting her directly. "Let's go north to do something first."

This seems strange... If you don't go to Wu'an, where will you go north? Could it be to Xindu?
Just as Su Jingfang was about to ask, unexpectedly, an imposing man riding from the south suddenly spoke and pointed at Dou Xiaoniang who was sitting on the mule cart:

"Mrs. Zhang, isn't it strange that this young lady is wearing thin clothes and painted black and gray, but she is sitting on the mule cart of the Feng family in Changle, leading a load of horse fodder alone, and she is still crying? Isn't it strange? Miss, are you Who is it? Could it be that he is a robber? Listen to me, he has been robbed, he was discovered, and he will be killed and executed... No, you are driving the car like this, are you going to the north? Is it chicken?"

Miss Dou this time
He didn't say anything, just clenched the military sword in his hand.

As a result, when the man saw this, he laughed and said, "If Gao Jibo came out, would he recognize a big sister named Cao Xi? A young lady named Dou? And a sister-in-law from the Gao family? Someone gave these people Each pulled two feet of red-headed rope, and asked me to bring it."

Dou Xiaoniang turned her head, her face was already spent.

Su Jingfang, on the other hand, just bowed his head and drew a circle with his feet beside Feng Wuyi.

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