Dihao's civilian life

In the afternoon, Feng Chuan went to Feng Yu's house with a large clay pot of fish sauce in his arms.Feng Yu's home is in the south of the city, and Feng Chuan crossed the stream that traverses the settlement. On the wooden bridge, he met many acquaintances and greeted them along the way.

Someone asked: "Xiao Chuan, when will you marry the Zhu family's daughter?"

Someone asked: "Give me a can of fish sauce, too, and I'll exchange it with you for rabbit meat."

Feng Chuan responded with a smile, he was in a good mood.Feng Chuan's fish sauce is very popular in the North District because of its freshness, good ingredients and unique flavor.Today, Feng Chuan is going to take this can of fish sauce and borrow a wooden cart for himself.

There are not many people who can make wheels in Yucheng, so there are few wooden carts. Only one of several families has a car.Feng Yu and Feng Chuan share the same family, and the two families are somewhat related by blood, the difference is that Feng Yu's family is engaged in farming.

Walking to the front of Feng Yu's house, Feng Chuan saw that there was only one Feng Yu in the yard, and he hesitated.Feng Yu was using a sieve to lift the chaff.After the rice has been pounded, the husks have to be blown away by the wind.Feng Yu is 17 years old, tall and thin, he has inherited his mother's naturally curly hair, and has a fair face.He is a diligent and honest young man, if he hadn't bumped into the "good thing" between him and Yu Zheng, Feng Chuan would have stepped forward to call him at this time, and he wouldn't be muttering in his heart.

"Xiao Chuan, what's the matter?" Putting down the sieve, Feng Yu still saw Feng Chuan, and greeted him to ask, very friendly.Feng Chuan entered the hospital carelessly, and said: "I want to borrow a car from your family, and it will take six or seven days."

"Let me ask my father, I don't think I need to use the car because of the slack season recently." After Feng Yu finished speaking, he wanted to enter the house. Feng Chuan called him: "This is the fish sauce that my father wants to give to your family. superior."

Feng Yu's father is a well-known slacker in the southern district. Feng Yu and his mother planted the fields at home, and he sleeps at home all day long.Originally, Fengyu's family had quite a lot of savings, so they didn't need their mother and son to suffer.

Feng Yu, who took the fish sauce and left, came out quickly and told Feng Chuan: "The car is behind the tree. You can see if you want to change the rope. The rope is a bit old. I'm afraid it will break on the way, and there is no rope to change." Chuan walked towards the back of the tree trunk and found the wooden cart leaning against the corner. Sure enough, the rope was worn out. Feng Chuan said, "It's okay, I'll replace it with a new one."

Feng Chuan led the car to say goodbye to Feng Yu, Feng Yu sent him out of the hospital, and said: "Thank you father for me, thank you for his fish sauce." Feng Chuan said: "No, the wooden cart has helped us a lot."

Dragging the wooden cart away, Feng Chuan thought, this man is really the most amiable person in the Feng family, how could he get together with Yu Zheng.

Returning from the South District to the North District, Fengchuan's trailer passed by Yu Su's house, and he dragged the car into the courtyard of Yu's house. Yu Su heard the noise outside and said with a smile, "I've packed everything."

It was only then that Feng Chuan noticed that there were several pieces of pottery piled up outside the small wooden house of his house, and the pottery was wrapped with straw bundles layer by layer, fearing that it would be bumped during transportation.These are the pottery that Yu Su wants to give to Jiaoshan's benefactor, and they are beautifully made.The pottery made by Yu Su is not only used at home, but also often given to others. These partners have pottery made by Yu Su in their homes, which are beautiful and durable.

The two loaded the pottery into the wooden cart, tied it up, and Feng Chuan pulled the cart away and went back to his own home.They will set off for Jiaoshan early in the morning. The wooden cart is not only used to transport Yusu's pottery, but also used to carry Feng Chuan's items.Feng Chuan's family is an ordinary family. They don't have shell coins, so they can only buy things by bartering.

Yesterday, Yu Su told his parents that he was going to Jiaoshan with Feng Chuan, but Yu's mother was against it at first, and she let go only after seeing her son having a hard day.But there is a request, let the son go to Luo Yuqiu, someone must follow him, and he is not allowed to go alone.Feng Chuan promised that he would never let Yu Su act alone, and would tie him to his belt.

At night, Yu Su packed her things and put the items she wanted to carry into her backpack.This is a small hemp rucksack, which Yu Su sewed by herself today for this trip.Put a change of clothes and a wooden stick into the rucksack, Yu Su fastened the rucksack, and put it next to his side.He lay flat and fell asleep comfortably. In his dream, he returned to Jiaoshan.

In the early morning of the second day, Yu Su and Feng Chuan and his son went out together. They sailed to Du Ze for Renshui.On the boat, Yu Su was blowing the wind from the river and looking at the waters. After more than ten days, he came back.

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Si Hao woke up from discomfort, he felt as if someone was pulling his sleeve, and at the same time he heard Dahei's cry.Si Hao opened his eyes, and saw that the sky outside had already dawned, and Dahei was lying beside the grass-mud platform calling him, biting his sleeve with his teeth and tugging at him, trying to wake him up.

This dog is quite humane. It has been a long time since dawn, and the owner is still lying motionless. It feels uneasy, so it comes to disturb Sihao.

"Dahei." Si Hao's throat was completely hoarse, the fever made him unable to make a sound, and his throat was dry.

Hearing the owner's call, Dahei happily licked the owner's palm with his tongue. It seemed to be in good spirits, and it didn't get sick from the bite.

Si Hao sat up weakly, and stumbled to the fire pond. There was still some wild vegetable soup left over from the night before in the pottery. Si Hao picked it up and drank it with his head up, like drinking sweet honey. He didn't even waste the last drop of soup. , he was very thirsty.

The place where water is drawn for people to drink is in a small pool behind the wild Mapo forest. The water there is clear and clean, and Si Hao drinks it all the time. Although Si Hao is afraid of getting sick, he always boils it before drinking.

At this time, it was a bit reluctant for Si Hao to go down to Ye Muar to fetch water, but he needed water.Si Hao picked up the two bamboo tubes filled with water, and walked down the feather hill with weak legs, one foot deep and the other shallow, as if he was sleepwalking.

His head was heavy and heavy, he had a headache, his limbs were sore, and his mind was like a white reed by the lake, swaying in the wind, erratic and confused.Even so, Si Hao never lost his sanity, he forced himself to wake up, he walked slowly to the pool, grabbed the branches, and bent down to fetch water.

Both bamboo tubes were filled with water, Si Hao stood up the bamboo tubes and held them in his hands.Even though he was dying of thirst, he didn't touch the water in the bamboo tube at this time. Drinking uncooked water would probably cause diarrhea and even aggravate his condition.

Just like that, he walked back to Luoyu Hill with tired steps. On the mountain road, because of his sickness and unresponsiveness, Si Hao almost stepped on the ground, but he didn't panic, he reached for the trees to balance his body.He didn't roll down the steep path of Falling Feather Hill, but he splashed half of the bamboo tube's water.

These troubles and tribulations seemed nothing to Si Hao. Holding the bamboo tube, he slowly climbed up the Falling Feather Hill. There was no anger or sadness on his face. He seemed neither happy nor sad, and he endured it silently.

The pottery pot was placed on the firewood, and clear water was boiling inside the pottery pot. Under the fierce fire, a few small bubbles appeared in the water, indicating that it was about to boil.

Si Hao was sitting by the firepit, chewing the herbs he picked from the Falling Feather Hill, changing the medicine for himself.Yesterday, the bloody wound on my arm was swollen today, with yellow pus flowing out. The wound didn't look like it was going to heal, but it seemed to be getting worse.

After applying the herbal medicine and bandaging it up with great effort, Si Hao sat silently, drinking water silently.He knew he had to call for help, someone to come and heal his wounds.He has three choices, one is to wait for Shu to come over, and Shu will come here every five or six days, which is the order given by Muzheng; the other is to go through the woodland by himself to Muzheng's house; the third is to go Find Husou.

Si Hao decides to go to Hu Sou, and it may take two days for Shu to arrive, but to go to Muzheng's house. Given Si Hao's current situation, he can't move.Hu old man's house is close, just across a piece of woodland.

Before going out, Si Hao used corn flour and baked it against a stone slab to make cakes. He left a big black ration and took a piece of cake with him to satisfy his hunger on the road.These corns were the bag of corns left by Yu Su, which became Sihao's only rice grain at this time.

The flour was coarsely ground, and Si Hao didn't have a stone mill to grind the noodles. The taste of the noodle cakes he made was extremely poor, but it could fill his stomach.

Si Hao walked down to Yuqiu, he folded a branch to use as a stick, and Dahei followed him down to Yuqiu.Seeing the pup behind him who was injured and unable to move easily, Si Hao stopped and ordered it: "Dahei, stay and watch the sheep."

"Woooo..."

Dahei seemed reluctant to give up, it followed Si Hao with small steps, Si Hao turned around and tried to push it away, so Dahei had to leave obediently to guard the flock.It is lying on the grass, as if you don't let me follow, so I don't want to go.

Si Hao left with his staff, a bamboo tube filled with water was tied to his staff, and he carried a painted pottery bead and three stone shell coins on his body. He left Falling Feather Hill and walked towards a woodland in the east.Husou's house is just behind the woodland, and beyond the woodland, a low beach near the tributary of Renshui is Gouwei Beach.

Starting in the morning, before noon, Si Hao walked to the door of Husou's house, he walked and rested all the way, if it was normal, he would come faster.

Husou's house is on a small mound. It is also a half-floor grass mud and wooden bone house. It is dilapidated and messy. Looking from a distance, it looks like a huge ant nest.It is easy to identify in the lush greenery.

When Si Hao arrived, Hu Sou was sitting at the door of his house tanning leather. He was a hunchbacked old man, and he should have been tall when he was young, because the hunchback didn't look short, but he had a tall frame.Hu Sou was accompanied by an old bald dog, Huan Tan, also a black dog.Dahei is probably its cub, but the maternity of Dahei is unknown, maybe it is a wild dog.

Tan found Si Hao first, and it was sick and blind, so it barked at Si Hao.Hu Sou raised his head and saw Si Hao walking towards him leaning on his staff, he hastily put down the tanned stone tool and got up to meet him.Si Hao, who appeared in front of Hu Sou, staggered, his face was pale, and he was sweating profusely. You didn't need to look carefully to find that his right arm was injured and bandaged.

"Injured by what?" Hu Sou helped Si Hao sit down, and asked while squatting aside.

"I was bitten by a wolf yesterday." Si Hao raised his injured arm and showed it to the old man, "Soldier Hu, since I was bitten, I have had a fever and felt dizzy."

Hu Sou unwrapped the bandage on his wounded arm, looked at Si Hao's wound, and pressed it again and again, his expression looked a little dignified, he didn't say anything, and Si Hao didn't ask.After a while, Hu Sou stood up and said to Si Hao, "Go inside and rest."

Si Hao swayed and stood up slowly. Hu Sou wanted to help him, but Si Hao refused to let him go to the house and lie down. He was already exhausted and just wanted to rest.

Touching the ground, it didn't take long for Si Hao to lose consciousness. When he regained consciousness, Hu Sou took his arm and was applying medicine to bandage it. gone."

Si Hao still had a fever, and responded in a daze.He also instinctively felt that he had to ask someone for help without delay, and this decisiveness saved him.

In the dark hut, the smell of medicine was strong. Husou was brewing the medicine. He poured out the medicine juice, brought the bowl over, put it beside Si Hao, and said, "Remember to drink it when it cools down a bit."

"Thank you Husou for saving me." Si Hao opened his tired eyes and thanked him hoarsely.

Hu Sou was indifferent and didn't respond. He watched Si Hao stand up silently and drink the medicinal soup.He seemed to be lost in thought, holding a long and thin leg, his thoughts drifted far away.Even though he is old, Husou's features are still clear, his clothes are ragged, but he has the air of a wise man.

After Si Hao drank the medicine, she fell into a drowsy sleep. This sleep was very long, from noon to night.

There are very few Hu clans in Rendi. Hu old man is an outsider, and he is a Hu man.

At the beginning, Muzheng took Si Hao to Hu Sou's house and entrusted Si Hao to Hu Sou, but Hu Sou was not willing at that time.Just one side, Husou could see that this young man had an extraordinary background, and he could also guess that his background was suspicious.

Later, for some reason, Husou still taught Si Hao how to live in Jiaoshan and how to herd herds.What he said was terse, but everything was useful.Si Hao learned quickly, which showed his intelligence, and also showed his forbearance in dealing with tribulations.

Hu Sou guessed Si Hao's identity to some extent, because Hu Sou was not an ordinary shepherd either.He could recognize the ornaments hanging around Si Hao's neck, they were definitely not stones, but jade.Si Hao always hid his accessories very well, but one time when he went into the water to catch fish, the accessories fell off his collar and was caught by the old man.

On this jade pendant, there is a pattern engraved on it. Hu Sou thinks that it is probably a family emblem, a pattern of a flower pedicle.This is a family emblem, the family emblem of the Luosi family who once ruled the empire.Of course, Hu Sou had no chance to see it clearly, and he didn't want to see it clearly.For a long time, there has been a legend that Emperor Xiang had a posthumous son who was still alive, and Husou had also heard of this legend.

The young man lying on the ground fell into a deep sleep. He didn't sleep well at first, and he was still babbling, but gradually the medicine took effect, he breathed evenly, and fell asleep peacefully.Hu Sou stretched out his hand to cover Si Hao's forehead, and the fever subsided.After all, you are young, in good health, and get sick quickly.

When Si Hao woke up at night, he was hungry. After waking up, he found that his headache was gone and his fever was gone. His whole body seemed to be more comfortable than ever before, but his stomach was rumbling.Si Hao smelled the aroma of rice porridge, and he saw Hu Sou cooking soup.

"Eat." Hu Sou filled a bowl and handed it to Si Hao.

"Thank you." Si Hao sat upright, took the bowl, and ate it slowly.

Hu Sou has a son and a daughter. He has a bad relationship with his son and his daughter-in-law. Although his son is also herding, the two families live far away.Husou's daughter married to Gouweitan, and occasionally she would visit Husou and send some rice.This old man, accompanied by an old dog, lived a lonely and poor life on weekdays.

Hu Sou is not a shepherd slave, he has been herding herds in Jiaoshan all his life, and has some prestige among the herdsmen, even Muzheng respects him a little.

"Husou, I'm going to Gouweitan to buy spears tomorrow." After Si Hao finished eating a bowl of vegetable soup, he put another bowl in the pottery cauldron, and there was still more than half of the vegetable soup in the cauldron. It was obvious that Husou made more for him. .

"Bring me a piece of leather, and exchange some noodles." Hu Sou dispatched this young man with quick legs and feet, but he was not ambiguous at all.

Hu Sou used a trap to catch a deer. The meat was used to make dried meat, the bones were used to make utensils, and the skin was the most valuable. After tanning, he took it to Gouweitan, where he could exchange it for many things.

Si Hao responded well, and he took out a painted pottery bead and handed it to Hu Sou. Hu Sou looked at it and said, "One of the colorful beads in Yucheng can be exchanged for two bags of noodles."

"I want to exchange it with a craftsman for a bronze spear. Is that enough?" Si Hao asked. He didn't know much about the local barter methods. There are many valuable things in Jiaoshan, but they are not valuable in Renyi, so Si Hao didn't know about colored beads. Value in Dogtail Beach.

"If it's an old spear, he might replace it with you." Hu old man didn't ask Si Hao where the colored pottery beads came from, he thought it was not surprising that Si Hao had them.

Si Hao thought, then use a stone shell coin to exchange for another, the stone spear almost killed him, and there are many wild animals in Jiaoshan, so it can't be like this anymore.Although using Shibei coins, there are certain risks.Shell coins are currency, and it is impossible for nobles and merchants to carry them, and Si Hao is a shepherd.

On the second day, Si Hao took Husou's deerskin and charcoal to Gouwei Beach.Bringing charcoal means Husou, who said that this place used to go to Gouwei Beach, where there were many snakes in the grass.Although Tan is an old dog, he is very brave. When he was young, he even fought a bear.

One person and one dog, continue to move eastward, and come to Gouwei Beach not far away.

Gouweitan is the only settlement in Jiaoshan. There are more than 30 households living here. Like Nanhuan in Yudi, it is a mixed residence. There are Yu people, Ren people, and Yan people.One hundred and eighty years ago, Jiaoshan was often haunted by Qiong people, and when it was not so safe, people had already lived in Gouwei Beach.

The soil here is fertile, suitable for flat terrain, suitable for fishing and farming, thus becoming a good place to live.Most of the local residents are fishing and part-farming, and some people make pottery, forging or leather for a living.The shepherds in Jiaoshan often go to Gouwei Beach to prepare the utensils needed for life, so this place is the most lively place in Jiaoshan.

The first time Si Hao went to Gouwei Beach, Hu Sou took him there.Under the guidance of Hu Sou, he exchanged a few poultry eggs and two goat horns for pottery and grain; The coins were exchanged for a pair of sheepskin shoes.The leather maker, who wanted to barter with him, was amazed at his wealth.

Si Hao, who grew up in Renyi, thinks that stone shell coins are relatively common, because in currency, it is second to sea shell coins and jade shell coins.However, Jiaoshan is a place far away from the city, and here are stone shell coins, which are very rare for ordinary people.Because of this negligence, Si Hao never dared to use his stone shell coins again.Coming to Jiaoshan from Renyi, Si Hao brought a lot of money with him, but it was almost useless.

This time, Si Hao's face was thin and haggard, and his left arm was wrapped with a cloth strip, looking sick.Behind him was a bald old dog, looking very down and out.

The people in Gouweitan were not friendly towards the shepherd in Jiaoshan, just like that, at most they took a second look at this sick young man, and then went to work on their own.

Si Hao went straight to the foundry craftsman's house. He first took out painted pottery beads and asked the craftsman if he would exchange him for a bronze spear, but the craftsman ignored him.Even in Renyi, bronze wares are also expensive. There are few copper mines in Renyi, and Renren's ability to mine them is relatively insufficient, and most of them are obtained through trade.

As Husou said, a painted pottery bead really cannot be exchanged, so Si Hao took out the stone shell coin.He did not forget to say, "This is a gift from a man named Yu who saved his life. It can be exchanged for a spear."

The craftsman took the stone shell coin, held it in front of his eyes with his thick fingers, and said to Si Hao, "Add the beads too."

It's a robbery, but Jiaoshan is the only one who can forge bronze spears, and this person can raise the price by sitting on the ground.

"I have a piece of deerskin here, and I want to exchange the beads for rice." Si Hao took out a piece of deerskin from his bosom and gave it to the craftsman. One piece of deerskin plus one stone shell coin, Si Hao guessed it would be enough.

Sure enough, the craftsman looked at the leather and thought it was good, so he put away the leather and gave Si Hao a bronze spear.

Holding the spear in his hand, Si Hao lightly rubbed the blade of the spear with his thumb, cutting a shallow cut, quite sharp.The workmanship of this spear is not very good, it is naturally incomparable with Ren Yi's, but in Jiaoshan, it is the best weapon.

Holding on to the spear, Si Hao left the craftsman's house, and went to find someone nearby to exchange rice.

To exchange rice grains, one had to go door to door to ask. When asked if a household had grains in stock, Si Hao followed the housewife to look at the rice grains in the storage warehouse.The newly harvested corn is plump, and Si Hao is still satisfied.The housewife is strong enough to carry a pottery jar containing rice, and she goes to the stone mill to grind the rice into powder.

The grinding process was slow, Si Hao could only wait.Si Hao sat in the yard of this family for a while, got up and looked around, he saw a rough pottery kettle placed on the chicken coop made by the woman's house, there was a big gap in the mouth of the pottery pot, and there was a hole on the buttocks. It was all soot, obviously used for cooking, but old and chaffed.

In the end, Si Hao carried two small bags of noodles on his shoulders, held a bronze spear with an old pottery cauldron hanging on the handle, and left Gouweitan like this.He asked the woman for the pottery cauldron, but the woman said it was just a piece of broken pottery, so take it away if you want it.

One painted pottery bead can be exchanged for two large bags of noodles, and Si Hao, who had injured his arm, couldn't lift it, so he made an appointment with the woman's family to pick up the rest of the food on the next trip.

Returning to Husou's house from Gouweipo at noon, Si Hao poured a bag and a half of noodles into Husou's earthen pot, leaving only half a bag for himself.He bid farewell to Hu Sou, and Hu Sou looked at his heroic appearance holding the bronze spear, and said to him: "Don't think you have a sharp weapon, so you go to fight bears and wild boars, if you get injured, I can't save you." Si Hao bowed. She said, "Thank you old man, I will remember."

"This is medicine for you, you go." Hu Sou handed Si Hao a large bag of medicine powder.

Si Hao put the medicine powder into his bosom, saluted Hu Sou again, thanked Hu Sou for saving him, and then turned and left.

The old man could see that Si Hao's respect came from his heart, and he thought that he might have guessed Si Hao's identity, and Si Hao also knew his origin.

Back then, Hu people raised troops against Sihao's great-grandfather, the founder of Diyi and the first king of the empire.After being defeated by Sihao's great-grandfather, the Huren clan spread all over the place and lived a life of upheaval.Although it was a long time ago, Hu Ren and Luo Si had a feud.Husou took care of the offspring of Shichou, which is enough to show his enlightenment and generosity.

Si Hao carried the food on his back and carried a pottery cauldron with a spear, walked through the forest and returned to Luoyu Hill. It was already noon.

While it was still dark, he drove the sheep back to Ye Muar that had been grazing outside all night, and none of the sheep was lost. This was the credit of Dahei and the first sheep.

At night, Si Hao's hut was lit with cooking smoke, and he cooked noodle soup in a broken pottery kettle.

Si Hao was sitting by the firepit, changing the dressing on his wound. The wound that was pus was already healing.Thanks to Husou's timely rescue, and because Si Hao was young and strong after all, he didn't lose his life because of such a bite.

The noodle slices were cooked quickly, gurgling and boiling, smelling the fragrance of the noodle, Si Hao picked up the pottery cauldron, ignoring its boiling heat, and ate it with a wooden spoon.A large pot of noodle soup, except for the big black portion, he ate the rest.He didn't think about that he also had a pottery pot for cooking. If Yu Su was still there, he would be very happy.Si Hao seldom thought of Yu Su, except when he was sick and confused.So what if you miss him, they are so far apart, and it is not easy to meet each other.

The author has something to say: Director: Mr. Hao and Yusu will meet in the next chapter.