Bianshanhan [farming]

It snowed heavily for two days, and Li Qingwen and others walked for two days against the wind and snow.The mountain wind screamed, the wolf howled strangely, looked up and couldn't see the way forward, looking back, there was only a vast expanse of white snow.

In the huge world, it seemed that there were only dozens of them left.

The snow stopped in the middle of the night, and the exiles woke up from the cold. They put branches on the blazing fire with their eyes half open, and suddenly saw pairs of green eyes outside, and they were frightened into a cold sweat.

I don't know when a pack of wolves surrounded the outside.

Everyone was called out, and fear and cold penetrated into the body along the cracks in the bones, making the teeth chatter uncontrollably.

With so many wolves staring at us outside, the fire cannot be stopped. After all the firewood collected yesterday was burned out, there was still no light in the dark sky.

After the leading guard nodded, the rack car near the snow shack was chopped off by an axe, and it was set on the fire.

Li Maoqun met wolves for the first time in such a big life. He only heard that these things come and go in packs. Lions and tigers will run away in fear when they encounter them. Frightened in his heart, he asked: "What if the wolves don't retreat? What about our things?" I'm afraid I can't hold on for a day or two if it's all burned..."

"Then it depends on fate." The leading guard looked outside and said, "If they never come across prey that is easier to catch than us, they will linger around, and they don't dare to pounce because they are afraid of our crowd. "

Li Qingwen glanced out, only to feel that his body was cold from the inside to the outside, and couldn't help shivering several times.

In order to keep warm, everyone slept close together. Li Qingwen leaned against Jiang Cong. When he shook, Jiang Cong noticed and glanced at him.

This kind of quiet confrontation was really suffocating, Li Qingwen asked in a low voice: "Brother Jiang, are you afraid?"

"Don't be afraid." Jiang Cong pressed the quilt on his head and said: "In the fight for life, timidity loses three points first. They are also flesh and blood, and they will die as well. Will fight for my life."

Li Qingwen nodded, "That's the truth."

He understands the truth, but he can't stop the shivering in his calf.

"Your elder brother and second elder brother said that you are the smartest." Jiang Cong said, "Sure enough."

Li Qingwen was praised, "When I was stupid, my family also thought I was good."

"The past is the past, and the present is the present." Jiang Cong looked at him and said, "You are a person with Su Hui, so naturally you entered the world later than ordinary people."

"What is Su Hui?" Li Qingwen asked.

"Su Hui is a person with innate wisdom." Jiang Cong showed his face slightly, "It is recorded in Buddhist scriptures that some people are born dull and dull, but they are actually born smarter and more open-minded than others. There are also some explanations that they have memories of previous lives. Talent will be revealed only when the right opportunity is given. There are also many rumors about this among the people, and I see you are like this.”

Li Qingwen's heart skipped a beat. This "innate wisdom" is quite similar to his experience... But why did Brother Jiang say that he is this kind of person? Did he misunderstand what he did?

"I feel like I'm no different from other people. Why does Big Brother Jiang say that?" Li Qingwen asked anxiously.

"Others are 13 years old and won't protect me to go to the border town regardless of the worry of life." Jiang Cong said in a deep voice.

"But you saved my life, shouldn't it be natural for me to repay you?" Li Qingwen asked back.

Jiang Cong didn't respond directly, but asked, "Your eldest brother and second brother are here, why do you still follow?"

"Because you saved my life, I should pay it back!" Li Qingwen blurted out.

Jiang Cong smiled, "You have such a heart at such a young age, it is already very incomparable."

Li Qingwen suddenly felt powerless, Jiang Cong praised him in the same tone as his father and brothers praised him, purely protecting the calf, he didn't need to ask! ! !

He was thinking about it when Jiang Cong dragged him in front of him, put his hand under the quilt, and pressed down on his trembling calf that was about to cramp.

Jiang Cong was young, but his palms were rough and strong. Li Qingwen immediately felt much better after rubbing and pressing twice.

Li Qingwen thought distractedly, if "Su Hui" could be understood and accepted by the world, wouldn't his experience not be so shocking? !

For a long time, Li Qingwen has been unable to tell his family about his true origin. He, who lives in the era of information explosion, cannot believe such unbelievable things. this?

More importantly, what he is afraid of is that he is a dove occupying the magpie's nest. Where is the real youngest son of the Li family?Did it not exist in the first place, or has it disappeared in this world...

Jiang Cong's words suddenly made him think of another possibility - after his death in the original world, his soul was called to this body, it may not be a coincidence, maybe he belonged here originally, but came later...

Thinking of this, the cloud that had been looming over his head dissipated, Li Qingwen took a big breath, feeling refreshed! !

In a good mood, he hugged Jiang Cong with his backhand and said sincerely, "Brother Jiang, you are my real brother!"

What a child, he forgot about the danger outside, and was so happy after being praised... Jiang Cong thought to himself, and hugged him a little tighter.

The solid wood cut from the car was forbidden to be burned until dawn.

After dawn, the wolves retreated, and everyone came out tremblingly to load their cars and drive on the road. The wolves did not disperse, but followed them from a distance, from the wilderness plain to the dense forest.

The weather was so cold that the trees in the dense forest were cracked and crackled.

The guards held bows and arrows in their hands, and were vigilant against the wolves. The exiles were also divided into weapons. Many of them had been soldiers for many years, and they were much stronger than these guards in terms of skill.

Jiang Cong got the heaviest bow and arrow. Li Qingwen tried to pull it, but the bow only slightly bent.

After getting the bow and arrow, Jiang Cong shot three roe deer before the wolves hunted them down. Xu realized that these prey were not easy to provoke, and the wolves left without a sound.

After being tense for several days, everyone was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief this time. They ate a delicious meal of roe deer meat and walked on the snow.

There is no shortage of wood in the forest, but it is much more dangerous than the plains. They saw a black bear, and the black bear turned away as soon as it showed its shadow. They don't know whether it was the noisy bear bells that played a role, or they were frightened by so many people.

The leading old guard said that thanks to the fact that it is winter, when the weather is warm, there are more wild animals in the dense forest than now.

Compared with the beasts that come and go from time to time, the cold is the most tormenting. Many of Jiang Liping and the others had frostbitten hands and feet, which was very painful.

Li Qingzhuo rubbed their frostbite with snow, and wrapped them with a cloth smeared with ointment when they were severe. He made a leather tube from the roe deer skin with the minced meat on it, and put it on his legs or hands.

After passing through the dense forest, they finally arrived at a post station. This post station was newly built. There were originally more than 20 people, but now there are only a dozen left.

Li Qingwen was lying on the kang and hadn't warmed up for a long time. Jiang Cong rubbed his hands and feet, and he wanted to rub Jiang Cong too, but his whole body was boring. Scratching it was no different from scratching it.

In such weather, Li Qingzhuo really caught the cold, at first he just had a runny nose, then he started coughing, and his body became hot in the middle of the night.

He had prepared the medicine for himself a long time ago. Li Qingrui spent half the night in the stove of the post station, and made two days of soup. Much faster.

This kind of medicine will inevitably be weaker, but in the current situation, it is also a helpless move.

Although the journey was earlier than before, the snowy ground was difficult to walk. These days, the schedule slowed down, and I didn't dare to stay at the post station for a long time, and left at dawn.

After walking for these days, the food in the car was consumed a lot, and when there was an empty seat, Li Qingzhuo lay down on the car with several layers of mattresses under him, and quilts covering his body and head.

As they walked, many people couldn't bear it any longer, crying and cursing hysterically, and would rather die than leave.

Li Qingrui listened to the old guard's words, and the wine he bought in Yuanbei City came in handy. Everyone took a few sips of spirits, no matter how cold it was outside, at least it would be warm inside.

The big guys pushed enough cars on this road, and they inevitably got stuck in the potholes, so they asked people to walk in front to explore the way.

Jiang Cong's wound was recovering at an astonishing speed after he didn't need to drain the pus. If Li Qingzhuo hadn't insisted, he would have thrown away his crutches and walked.

He walked in the front, as if unaffected by the thick snow under his feet, leaving deep and clear footprints for the people and vehicles behind to walk.

In the past, Jiang Cong's savior was only mentioned by Meng and his family. This time, seeing the occasional sharpness in his eyes, Li Qingwen understood why he dared to confront so many gangsters.

Li Qingwen originally hid behind his elder brother to avoid the wind, but the snow under his feet had been trampled flat by the people in front, so he didn't need to exert so much effort to walk, as he walked, somehow he came to the front.

He wanted to walk side by side with Jiang Cong, but before he could take even two steps, his feet went limp, his body plummeted, and he sank straight into the snow pit, leaving only his upper body exposed.

Li Qingwen screamed, struggled a bit, and his body sank, Jiang Cong turned around, grabbed his shoulders, pulled him out of the snow like a carrot, and at the same time gave a warning to the back.

The snow was very dry and loose. Jiang Cong patted it twice, and the snow on Li Qingwen's body fell off.

"Go behind me." Jiang Cong covered his face, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed. Because of breathing, his eyelashes were covered with a thick layer of hoarfrost, and his voice was muffled.

Li Qingwen didn't dare to wander off again this time, and obediently followed behind, stepping on Jiang Cong's footprints.

Seeing the cooking smoke from a distance, the long and slow road finally came to an end. Everyone cheered and shouted: "We are almost there, we are almost there!!"

Li Qingzhuo in the car couldn't help getting up and taking a look. His body was still sore and limp, so he lay back down again.

In the evening, the group finally arrived at the border town.

At the end of the road, there were two simple stone houses on the left and right sides. The soldiers inside ran out when they heard the movement, looked at the exiles as if they were seeing something strange, and after reading the officers' documents and guides, they let them go.

The so-called border town is just a title, and there is no such thing as a city. The soldiers' camps are all freshly built mud houses.The exiles followed the guards and soldiers to the only place that looked wide, and the people inside counted the number of people according to the paperwork, and then stamped the guards, and the escort was over.

Here, Jiang Cong and Jiang Liping were removed from their shackles, and were warned to run away and punished for disobeying orders.

Unlike the guards who came with them, the exiles did not have a special residence and were led to an earth cave not far away.

The earth cave was not big, and it couldn't accommodate so many people. The soldiers who led the way ignored it. It was freezing early here, and the place where they lived was built quickly, and the life and death of the exiles had nothing to do with them.

Seeing the animal and human feces in the cave, Jiang Liping twisted his face, pulled the soldier, and said, "Little brother, is there no place for people to live except here?"

"Who are you calling? I don't have a sinner brother like you!" The soldier raised his eyelids and gave him a sideways glance, then snorted, "Besides this, there is also a stable. If you don't want to stay there, you can go there. Anyway, you will have to shovel manure every day for feeding. horse."

Jiang Liping was blocked by a single sentence. Seeing that the soldiers looked impatient, everyone didn't say any more, and bent over and went inside.

After entering more than 20 people, the inside was full, and the people inside came out again. Li Qingrui caught up with the soldier just now and stuffed some money. The soldier said: "Who knows that there are so many of you, there is no room for you to live. You live here." If you don’t open it, share half of it and go to the stables, although the taste there is not very good, it’s better than being cold outside.”

Having had enough of the cold all the way, Li Qingrui and Jiang Cong followed to the stable. It was indeed much more spacious than the cave, and the smell of horse manure was not so strong in winter.

After exchanging wine and roe deer skins for the two houses given up by the horse feeders, the group finally had a temporary place to stay.

After unloading the car, everyone piled their luggage and clothes in the corner of the house, and sat down on the dry pine grass without any effort.

This is the place where livestock fodder and sundries are piled up. The lower half is built with stones and the upper part is made of planks. Although it is ventilated, it is much better than sleeping in the snow.

Li Qingzhuo leaned on a corner sheltered from the wind, and a fire was lit next to it. Li Qingrui and Jiang Cong took a break and went out to dig soil. Pour water and mud, and smear the leaking places with hay and mud.

After being airtight, the house was still cold. Li Maoqun said to build a kang, because a fire can’t warm so many people, and there are still several months of winter, so it’s not an option to endure it like this.

There is no kang in Hongzhou at all, and many people were puzzled when they heard this. Jiang Cong and Jiang Liping traveled to the north a lot, and they knew the benefits of this thing, so they immediately started to prepare.

Seeing them busy in the cold wind, the old soldiers who fed the horses hiccupped and went back to continue drinking.

Soon, the task of feeding the horses and shoveling manure was assigned. Jiang Liping took half of the people to work in the stables, and Jiang Cong and Li Qingrui made adobe together.

In this kind of weather, digging soil and drying billets are the most difficult. There is no way, we can’t be frozen every day.

The river had been frozen for a long time, and people and horses had to drink water every day. In some places, a fire was set up every day, and the ice layer was thinner, but it took a little effort to get it open.

Li Qingwen followed Jiang Liping and the others to fetch water. When he saw the shadows of fish downstream from the water hole, his mouth was about to drool. He loved fish most, but he hadn't even smelled fish in the past few months.

Needless to say, the journey to the north was life-threatening. When we were in Yangshu Village, there was no river within a hundred miles, and of course there would be no fish.

He wished Jiang Liping could see how he jumped into the ice hole to catch fish, and he yelled when he went back, and then everyone knew it, and joked: "If you love fish so much, you should have gone to see you Brother Jiang, we are everywhere in Hongzhou It’s a river, fish are easy to catch, and he can control your fish to eat.”

Jiang Liping came in with the smell of cow dung, and said: "It's not too late, there are so many fish in the river, let Brother Jiang catch them, and let's get some meat."

"Don't!" Li Qingwen hurriedly stopped it. In such a cold day, falling into an ice hole is not a joke. You can't risk yourself for the sake of your appetite.

After talking about it, everyone was busy making adobes. Li Qingwen thought it was over, but he didn't expect Jiang Cong to bring back several big fish the next day.

In addition to the fish, Jiang Cong also had a frozen, hard net in his hand. Li Qingwen was no stranger to this net. When he woke up in the middle of the night last night, he saw Jiang Cong making hemp rope by the fire, but he didn't expect it to be used to catch fish.