There were too many eels dug, Jiang Liping and Hu Lichuan carried a few baskets and sent two jars of syrup to Zhou Fengnian.

When I came back, I carried a few jars of wine.

Alcohol is a rare and good thing in the border towns. Drinking to keep out the cold will not make you feel so uncomfortable outside, but you can't buy it around, and it is difficult to transport it. Even for officers and soldiers in the army, it is difficult to drink some alcohol.

Of course, old Xingtou's private connection with the kitchen is not counted.

The wine jar was placed on the kang, and some people who liked to drink gathered around. They all looked drunk and intoxicated when they smelled it, and praised Zhou Fengnian for his generosity.

Li Qingwen didn't understand the attraction of wine to them at all, and said: "I really like it so much, we can make wine. We harvested a lot of sorghum this year, and my father said that next year we don't have to worry about being hungry."

Everyone was taken aback, "Do you know how to make wine?"

"No." Li Qingwen said: "You can learn from others."

This year's harvest is good, Jiang Cong and the others left enough to eat after handing in the sorghum. The sorghum on his property has not yet been de-grained, and it is estimated that there will be more than 1 catties.

Anyone who has ever been hungry has the idea of ​​stockpiling food, and no matter how much they store, they feel that there is not enough food. Just in case, the food will not be moved easily, unless next year and the next year are good years, and there is too much food to put down.

But if you really like it, you can take out some food to reward it, after all, you have worked so hard for so long.

"When will it be?!" Those who like to drink hold their heads, "I think those are too far away, I can't see or touch them, and what I have right now is the most real."

Just as they were discussing how to drink the wine, a drum sounded outside, which was an order to summon.

This was the first time Li Qingwen heard this voice, seeing Jiang Liping and the others' serious expressions made his heart ache.

Jiang Cong and the others went out immediately. Li Qingwen originally wanted to follow, but he stopped him, "Wait here."

Li Qingwen stood anxiously at the door, watching more and more people gather in the open space. Someone seemed to be talking, but he couldn't hear it because they were too far away.

After waiting for a long time, the people gathered suddenly dispersed, Jiang Liping and the others ran back quickly and said, "It's okay, General Lin is organizing a hunt. We will go together and set off tomorrow."

Although it took a night before they left, they had to pack up now. This time the hunt was huge, and they didn't know how long they would stay outside, so they had to weigh their luggage carefully.

Li Qingwen asked the others what they brought, and wanted to put everything on for Jiang Cong, but Li Qinghong reminded him, "Don't make trouble for Brother Jiang."

After careful consideration, Li Qingwen only put on hemostatic medicine, which is the most useful when he is easy to get injured while hunting.

Jiang Cong and the others had been on patrol before, so they generally knew what to take, and they were busy but not chaotic.

Li Qingwen and the others were extremely busy.

Take the cured meat outside and put it in a pot to stew. After it is cooked, let it cool, cut it into slices and distribute it to them. When time is tight outside, just heat it up and eat it.

Li Maoxian put the fried sorghum rice in his pocket. If he couldn't make a fire, he could eat it directly.

When they came this time, they bought some bolts of the cheapest burlap, which are now in use.

Li Qingwen cut out coarse cloth and animal skins, gesturing to Jiang Cong's height, and sewed a crude sleeping bag.Although this sleeping bag is ugly, it is made of a lot of materials. The coarse cloth is almost made of fur, and the head and feet that are most afraid of the cold are sewn with soft and warm rabbit fur.

No matter how tightly wrapped the quilt is, it will be ventilated, and the sleeping bag has two layers of stitches, so it is guaranteed not to infuse the wind.

After it was done, Li Qingwen asked Jiang Cong to try it out. Jiang Cong only went in for a while and then came out, saying, "I'm afraid I'm going to sweat if I lie down for a while."

Others saw it and thought it was good, so they came to try it one after another, and then they all wanted to sew one. A group of men began to work with thin needles.

Thanks to their hard work in hunting, they saved a lot of fur, otherwise this time it might not be enough.

This night, everyone was telling each other, those who left told them to be careful in the camp and try not to wander around, and those who stayed here told them to be careful in everything.

The next day, a group of people went out with their bags on their backs.The horses neighed, and the camp was in a hurry.

Li Qingwen and others came out to see each other off, but they didn't dare to get too close.The first time I saw General Lin Tanlin, everyone was a little surprised. The man sitting on the horse was very young, white and clean, and looked more majestic than Zhou Fengnian when he was sullen, but he was completely different from the tall man with a bushy beard in his imagination. different.

After the start order was issued, the horses were in front, the sledges were behind, and they moved forward with the falling snow.

When their shadows were no longer visible, Li Qingwen and the others ran back with their cold hands shrunk.

Guo Dayong and the others didn't know the dangers of hunting, and envied Jiang Cong and the others, while Li Qingwen was a little restless.

The last time he went out hunting with Lu Gang, he didn't go far and caused so many troubles. This time, General Lin led the people, and it seemed that he would go a long way, so don't encounter any danger.

Thinking of this, Li Qingwen sat at the table with a book in his hand, unable to read it for a long time, Li Maoxian saw that he was absent-minded, and said: "Zai'er, take a rest if you are not in the mood."

After sitting on the kang for a while, Li Qingwen went out again, and went to the stables, which were mostly empty, and Lao Xingtou was not here.

When he went to Wozi in the south, the women left by the Sun family were even more distraught than him. They were even more worried. The men of the Sun family were all scholars. If they stayed outside for a long time in such weather, they might be frozen to death, not to mention hunting wild animals. .

Li Qingwen comforted them, and when he was about to leave, Sun Yonghao's sister stopped him and took out a thick stack of paper and a handwritten book, "I heard that you are also learning to read and write, use these."

After Li Qingwen thanked her, he walked aimlessly around the camp, looking at the stone wall in the distance, thinking that if a beast rushed in at this moment, there would be nothing to stop it.

He was thinking about it, but he didn't realize that a person in the distance was staring at him for a long time.

Sensing someone approaching, Li Qingwen raised his head, and there was a woman in a red fox fur robe standing in front of him.The woman is neat and tidy, with a wooden hairpin stuck in her temples, her facial features are ordinary, but her apricot eyes are very beautiful.

This person was very unfamiliar, Li Qingwen had never seen him before, he had met the Sun family, and the Qian family had traveled with them all the way, and none of them had such a face, and Lao Xingtou said that there were no women in the camp.

Who is this person?

No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like an exile who just arrived...

Li Qingwen felt suspicious, the woman suddenly smiled, and said, "Little brother, I'm not a new exile, I'm just a doctor."

Unexpectedly, the person he met for the first time could see through what he was thinking. Li Qingwen suddenly felt powerless, and twitched the corner of his mouth, "But I haven't heard of you."

The woman seemed to find him interesting, and looked at the changing expression on Li Qingwen's face, "Then have you heard of Lu Gang?"

Upon hearing this name, Li Qingwen's face drooped, "You saved him?"

The woman nodded generously, "His brains have been photographed. Without me, I wouldn't be able to live now."

Li Qingwen frowned slightly. He heard that it was an imperial doctor who saved Lu Gang. This woman...

"My father used to work in the Imperial Hospital. I studied medicine with my father since I was a child. I have learned from my ears and eyes that my medical skills are pretty good." Before he could ask, the woman took the initiative to say.

Li Qingwen immediately remained expressionless, and being guessed one after another was not an interesting experience.

Although he tried his best not to show any expression on his face, he was still a little annoyed.

Without this person, that scourge would have died long ago...

Li Qingwen thought to himself, you saved one of them, but you killed a group of exiles.

"I know he's not a good guy." The woman suddenly moved closer, "But if I don't save him, I might not be able to survive."

Li Qingwen was taken aback for a moment, wondering what the relationship between Lu Gang's life and death had to do with this person in front of him.

"I'm Zhou Yao from Anyang Pass." The woman smiled at him.

Li Qingwen subconsciously reported his name. He didn't detect any malice from this person, and said, "You are a woman, don't show your face in the camp, this is not a very safe place."

Zhou Yao nodded, "It's cold outside, I'm going back, if you have nothing to do, you can come to me in the future, I will live in the small house in front..."

Looking in the direction of her finger, Li Qingwen said hello, and the two turned and walked away.

When Li Qingwen was talking to Zhou Yao, Li Qinghong and others were watching at the door, waiting for him to come back before asking who that person was.

Li Qingwen responded truthfully, everyone was surprised, it was the first time to see a woman become a doctor, and she was so powerful!

Li Qingfeng was riding around on Tianzao. He had just seen those officers and soldiers riding horses.

Li Qingwen was not idle at night when the pine light was lit, and he shaved sorghum heads with the others.

Old Xingtou came back after dark, ate something casually, wiped his mouth, and said to them: "Do you know why this hunt is so big?"

Everyone shook their heads. Li Qingwen looked up at him while scraping sorghum tassels.

"Because we have to pay the earth tribute to the imperial court," said Old Xingtou, "I heard that the amount is not small, so General Lin will bring so many people out this time."

Li Qingwen was a little puzzled, "Although our place is called a border city, we don't even have a city wall. Why do we have to pay tribute to the imperial court?"

"The higher-ups don't think so much." Old Xingtou said: "They only know that our place is big, and..."

Old Xingtou lowered his voice and whispered: "I heard that the birthday gift sent by General Lin to the capital was a bit eye-catching, and someone in the court played it, and then the imperial decree to pay the tribute came down..."

Li Qingwen: "..."

Is this the fire at the city gate and the fish in the pond?

From this point of view, hunting every year will be indispensable in the future, and officers and soldiers can be rotated, and exiles are considered unlucky.

Seeing Li Qingwen startled, Old Xingtou said again: "You don't have to worry about Jiang Cong and the others, those boys are stronger than officers and soldiers, they will be fine. If you are lucky enough to make meritorious service in front of General Lin, life will be better in the future."

Thinking of Zhou Yao whom he met during the day, Li Qingwen asked him if he knew this person.

Old Xingtou was lying on the kang, turned his head and said: "I heard that she is the girl of the imperial doctor Zhou. She is very skilled in medicine. Their family has been exiled for many years. No matter how good they are, they can only suffer in this place."

"However, it would be nice if she stayed here." Old Xingtou said again: "If there is any injury, someone can take a look at it, or just work hard."

Guo Dayong and others nodded repeatedly after hearing this, but they were just worried that if they were really going to get sick, they would be willing to give them a doctor.

The hands hurt from scraping, Li Qingwen stopped, it was getting late, everyone was going to rest.

Lying on the kang, he touched the book under the pillow, took it out and looked at it, and it turned out to be a book from the Law of Daliang.

I thought the handwritten book given by the Sun family would be a collection of poetry or something, but I didn't expect it to be this.

Thinking that Jiang Cong and the others would be exonerated according to the law of the dynasty, Li Qingwen got up, sat under the lamp and began to watch.

Although the content of this booklet was obscure, he read it bit by bit, but was disappointed. These were only records of how some folk cases were convicted and sentencing, and did not involve Jiang Cong and the others.

The smell of burning pine mushrooms was a bit strong, and Li Qingwen's nose couldn't breathe from the smoke, and he was called several times by the third brother, and finally he closed the book and lay back on the kang again.

The leather curtains tightly blocked the windows, kept the cold wind out, and also blocked the moonlight.

After lying down for a long time, Li Qingwen didn't fall asleep, thinking about making money.

The border town has vast land, and more fields will be opened next year, and the seeds he brought will be planted...

On the way back last time, Li Qingwen and Li Qingzhuo had earnestly consulted on the method of concocting medicinal materials. It may not be that simple to plant them, and they should encounter various troubles. You have to do everything to know.

Also, next year he has to plant trees on the way to the birch forest, so that he won't get lost when it snows heavily in the future, and those Ganoderma lucidum and pine nuts have to be picked...

Although he slept late, Li Qingwen woke up around the same time the next day.

There was sorghum rice porridge in the pot, and he ate a big bowl. He was still wondering if he should go to Sun's house to ask if there was anything else in the Daliang law book, when suddenly there was a voice calling for help from outside.

The people in the house ran out together, and Li Qingfeng was the fastest. When Li Qingwen ran to the river, he saw Li Maoqun dragging a woman who was completely soaked and passed out to the bank.

It was a member of the Qian family who called for help, and Li Qingwen vaguely remembered that someone called her Du Sanniang as she was in her forties.

Du Sanniang looked at the woman lying on the ground, and cried: "You, why are you so stupid, it's not you who deserve to die, it's the bastard who suffered a thousand knives... It doesn't matter if you die, you don't have to suffer... "

"She's not dead yet." Li Qingwen put his finger under the unconscious woman's nose, took off his outer leather robe, covered it, and pressed hard on the woman's abdomen, but he didn't see any spit water, so he must have passed out from the cold.

"Hurry up and take him back!" Li Maoxian and the others hurriedly said, "Maoqun, go back and change your clothes."

"No way!" Du Sanniang wiped her tears and said, "She won't survive even if she goes back..."

"Then what should I do?" Someone was anxious, "Why can't we just watch people die?!"

At this time, a voice came from behind, "Bring her to me!"

Li Qingwen turned his head, saw Zhou Yao standing on the slope, remembered her identity, and immediately responded, Li Qingfeng and Li Qinghong started to lift her up.

Du Sanniang knelt down on the ground and cried, "It's a crime, it's a crime!"

People carried them to Zhou Yao's residence, Li Qingwen and the others were locked outside, and Zhou Yao went in to rescue her.

Guo Dayong and the others saw that they couldn't help here, so they went back.Li Qingwen was fine, waiting outside.

Not long after, the door opened, Zhou Yao poked her head out, and said, "It's lucky that I only choked on a little water, but I was froze, and my head injury was serious, and I started to have a fever, can I get over it?" It depends on her life."

Li Qingwen was very surprised, "You can heal such a serious injury, but there is nothing you can do about fever?"

"If you don't take medicine for fever, it will be fatal." Zhou Yao said.

"You don't have any medicine?" Li Qinghong blurted out in surprise.

Zhou Yao responded even more simply, "No."

Li Qingwen said: "Yes, yes, I'll go back and get it."

They brought a lot of medicines, but there were a few of them, they were all prepared for emergencies, Li Qingwen took three packs first, Zhou Yao took the medicine packs without opening them, just smelled them with her nose, and said: "It works. "

She waved Li Qingwen and others to go back, and she would take care of this person.

Li Qingwen also knew that the two women were in the house, and it was inconvenient for them to enter, so he said "hard work" and left.

I was busy saving people just now, and I don't know why the woman jumped into the river. After returning, Lao Xingtou was talking about it.

"That woman is the daughter-in-law of the Qian family. It stands to reason that all the men in the exiles have to go hunting. There is a boy in the Qian family who doesn't want to suffer, so he saves Yin Zi from this job because he wants to ask for a leg injury. This is a matter for officers and soldiers. I can't make up my mind, there is a general who always says that he can help with this, but the money is kept, and women also want to..."

Hearing that the man sent his daughter-in-law to someone else because he didn't want to go hunting, everyone yelled at the beast and lost their conscience.

"That woman is also staunch. After knowing that she was cheated, she hit the wall on the spot, and the blood splashed on the boss's face..." Old Xingtou sighed: "The boy was beaten with a stick, so he doesn't have to go hunting anymore. I just don’t know if I can survive. The woman was so desperate that she didn’t die. No, she jumped into the river again.”

Before Li Maoqun recovered, he sighed while trembling, "In the morning, when I went to fetch water, she was standing there. I was still wondering why I didn't bring a bucket to fetch water. Then the older man yelled, she So I jumped into the river suddenly, luckily her clothes were so sloppy, I grabbed the straps, otherwise I fell into the water, I couldn't save her..."

Unexpectedly, there are so many things in a falling water, and everyone is amazed.

Some people also said that this woman's life is hard, but she will be relieved if she really dies. Now she has annoyed her husband's family and officers and soldiers, and she can't go back. How can she live here alone?

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