Chongzhen Undergraduates

Although the hunchback looks ugly, he is a good hand on mountain roads. He can move quickly in the woods with his waist bent, and he is more flexible than ordinary people in drilling around.

It has already entered the twelfth lunar month, and there have been several snowfalls in the mountains, covering the top of the mountain with white caps. From a distance, the whole mountain is black and white.The black ones are the woods, and the white ones are the snow on the rocks.

A snow-white line blocked the mountainside in a zigzag shape. It was the mountain road out of the mountain, which had been covered by snow.

Laifu packed his hunting knife and a soft bow, and was going to find a sunny day to go around and see if he could shoot a muntjac to entertain the guests.In the snowy mountains, when the weather is good, wild animals like to come out to look for food.

The muntjac is a wild deer, this thing is not uncommon in the mountains of Shangluo, Liu Yinglong went to the mountains with the adults to fight when he was a child.

Of course, the people picked up by the hunchback were Zhu Youjian and his party, there were more than 20 people in total.And the location of Huilongshan is already the northernmost location that Li Laiheng and Zhu Youjian agreed to reach.It is more than 100 miles away from Shangjin, and if you go north, it is really a dragon pool and a tiger den.

And the hunchback is going to pick up a group of distinguished guests today, this is a message from a few days ago.The mountain roads that have been snowed are not easy to walk, and someone needs to show the way.

"Brother, I'm leaving!" The hunchback woke up early.It is very bright outside on a snowy night, and the people in the house early in the morning will be irradiated by the dazzling white light outside the window so that they can’t sleep well. The usual ambient light is completely different.

"Well, go early and come back early. Don't run too fast, wrap more asparagus on your feet to prevent slipping." Laifu told his younger brother, he was afraid that the hunchback would slip on the snowy road.If you slide on this mountain, you may fall into the ditch and die.The asparagus wraps around the shoes, just like putting snow chains on the wheels of later generations, a purely rustic method that city people don't understand.

Tuozi was very lucky, and found Li Laiheng and the others after walking more than 20 miles. After all, they were all familiar contact points and knew the way.

"Tuozi, have you remarried?" Li Laiheng joked as soon as he saw the tuozi.

"Brother Laiheng made fun of me. Since the good times in Henan, my mother-in-law ran back to Henan and never came back. There are no people fleeing famine in this mountain, only girls who marry outside, and no mother-in-law. into the mountains."

Geographical dominance is a curious phenomenon.During the Taiping era, people rushed to the plains because the grain output was high there.Just like after the opening up in later generations, a large number of migrant workers went to the coast, just to earn more money.

Once in a year of turmoil or famine, people on the plains will flee to the mountains desperately, just like two momos can exchange a daughter-in-law.If you were born in the mountains in later generations, many people would not be able to marry a daughter-in-law, and if you were born in an urban village in a first- and second-tier city, even if you don’t go to work, the demolition alone will be enough for you to live your whole life.

Tuozi has experienced the life of the "rich second generation" who eats steamed buns, and also experienced the days of poverty in the mountains.

Zhu Youjian must admit: reincarnation is also a technical job!Sometimes, life is better or worse, it has nothing to do with whether you work hard or not.

252: The Mountain

When walking on mountain roads, a uniform speed is the most suitable speed. It seems unhurried, as long as your legs move at a constant speed, you will not be too tired, and you can keep moving forward.

In this respect, these people are used to it.Everyone has been wandering in the mountains for several days, and they are already familiar with the life in the mountains.

"Humpty, how many people do you have now?"

"There are more than a dozen households in the upper and lower valleys, with thirty or forty people. There are five people in our family alone, my brother-in-law and a niece, and I have a boy."

The hunchback was a little proud when he said it, what a great thing it is to have a handle.

"Are there Tazi soldiers active in this area?" This was the first time Zhu Youjian spoke to the hunchback, and he had already explained before departure that he could only pretend to be an ordinary soldier, and he was also the oldest among the group.

"It's outside the mountain, but it hasn't appeared in this area yet. I heard that the Tartars have already gone to Shanyang County and arrested many people."

The hunchback is not stupid, he has already seen that among this group of people, the oldest official is also the biggest.Even the Leghorn brothers, whom he admired in one respect, respected this man.

"Have any other strangers been here? Men and women."

"No, except for some men coming in in this mountain, I haven't seen a strange woman for several years."

It's really not easy to walk in the snow, and it takes almost half a day to go back and forth forty or fifty miles.When Shen Shi was approaching, they were almost there at last. They only needed to turn over the hill in front, and the Tuozi's house was behind the hill.

"It's almost there, let's take a rest here, and we'll be there in one breath." The hunchback seemed to have smelled the aroma of food at home, and he knew that there would be a delicious dinner later today.

"Woof..." There was a rapid dog barking from the foot of the mountain, and a ephedra shadow was looming in the distance, and in the distance, it was just a small yellow dot.

Zhu Youjian took a look through the binoculars, and it turned out to be a mountain dog.The mountain dog is not easy to pick, and only a real mountain dog can be raised out of about a dozen dogs.Good quality dogs do not just rely on training, but need talent.

Experienced hunters can pick out dogs that are suitable for training from a litter of puppies. As for the rest, they can only be kept as guards.Many bosses in later generations don't understand this, thinking that as long as it is a Tibetan Mastiff breed, it must be valuable.In fact, the real value is the selected dog.

The real mountain dogs are picked out, and then hunters often take them into the mountains.Because the characteristics of Huishan are the sense of smell and running speed, it is said that the most powerful Huishan can track the beasts that passed by three days ago.It is more sensitive to the beasts passing by recently.

There are not many mountains in Shaanxi, and the fine dogs in Guanzhong are the real hounds, and they were the royal hounds of the Qin, Han, and Tang dynasties.There are more mountains in the north and east of Sichuan, and Linshui dogs are more famous.

"Rhubarb!" The hunchback also heard the sound of the dog, and stood tall on a big rock and roared from a distance.People in the mountains can't get good names, so they usually call them casually.

Then everyone watched the yellow dot grow rapidly.In fact, this dog is not big in size. Compared with some famous large dog breeds in later generations, it is considered small.

Da Huang ran to a place twenty steps away from the team and paused, then looked warily at most of the strangers in front of him.Then he yelled at the hunchback a few times, and approached the hunchback tentatively.It didn't rush forward to have fun with its master, but kept a little

The distance, until the hunchback came forward, it howled in a low voice around the hunchback.

"What's the matter?" The hunchback found that Da Huang didn't wag his tail today, which was a bit abnormal.Rhubarb's tail is always dragging, and he is a little restless.This is what dogs show when they encounter a situation that they cannot solve.

"Maybe there is a situation. Is there a wild beast in front?" Zhu Youjian is also a little experienced. He raised a scorpion when he was a child.

"Quick, go up the mountain ridge in front and have a look." After Li Laiheng finished speaking, he ran quickly, and he had already rowed along the snow to a dozen steps away.

Li Laiheng, who was too fast, crashed into a tree not far away, only the hunchback kept jumping on the snow like a rubber ball.Zhu Youjian and the others couldn't even increase their speed. Walking on such a snowy mountain, going down the mountain is more dangerous than going up.

After turning over the mountain ridge, thick smoke billowed everywhere in the valley, drifting southeast along the north wind, and several houses were burning with fire.In the telescope, it seems that two or three mountain ridges can be seen, a large group of black spots are moving westward, the distance is too far.

"Something happened at the foot of the mountain, the hunchback is going to save people first." Li Laiheng was waiting on the ridge of the mountain until Zhu You checked them, the hunchback and Rhubarb had already disappeared.

"Let's stop going down and chase west." Zhu Youjian made a quick decision, and he was still worried about another person.

"Shanyang is more than 20 miles to the west, and the Tartars are going down the mountain, and they have gone for more than ten miles. I'm afraid we won't be able to catch up." Ji Biao said, pointing to the shadow in the distance.

"If you can't catch up, you have to catch up. Even if you go to Shanyang at night, you have to find out first." Zhu Youjian was anxious, and he wanted to catch up now to have a look.

......

When everyone caught up with the hunchback, it was already dark.The hunchback was hiding among the rocks on the river beach outside Shanyang County with a caged rhubarb.

A few hundred steps away, there was a chaotic camp where thousands of people were guarded, crying loudly.The corpses of dozens of old people were being thrown into the river by the golden soldiers, and the younger ones were all strung together with ropes, and a group of golden soldiers kept beating these people.

"The dog bastards actually killed everyone who couldn't move. It's more poisonous than us rushing into the army!" Li Laiheng spat, quite contemptuously. Li Zicheng came out as a cadre for such things.At most, he would leave the old man behind instead of killing him directly.

"Did you see your brother and the others?" Zhu Youjian came to the hunchback, suddenly he didn't know how to comfort the man.

"They snatched all the people and food, and burned the rest. My son can't be found." The hunchback's greatest hope is that son. Facing a strong enemy, he looks a little cowardly now. I just want to get my son back.

Zhu Youjian saw through the binoculars that three Tartar soldiers were besieging a man. The man was very stubborn and kept resisting.But no matter how hard he resisted, he could not escape the call of the club and the whip.

"It's Brother Laifu." Li Laiheng also saw it and recognized the person who was beaten.

"General, we can't save you. Our manpower is too small. There are almost 500 Tartar soldiers here, and we only have more than 20. Once we are discovered, we will not be able to leave." Ji Biao went around Zhu Youjian, helplessly Shake your head.

"Can't you go to the camp?" Zhu Youjian was a little unwilling, he wanted to go to the camp to find it.

"No, as long as there is chaos in the camp, the Tartars will definitely massacre. This is not a military camp in Haizhou. People's lives are worthless."

It is impossible to sneak into the camp like Haizhou.It is too difficult to find someone in a camp with thousands of people, not to mention that the only people who know Xiong Lijing are Ji Biao and Zhu Youjian.Tartars are not officers and soldiers, as long as there is a camp scream, they will definitely kill people directly with a knife.

"No, I have to go in and look for it tonight." Zhu Youjian said recklessly.