Dihao's civilian life

Under the oil lamp, the red beads look translucent, as red as blood, so beautiful that people can't move their eyes away.Yu Su held it with his index finger and thumb, and twirled it around his fingertips. He loved it, and this love also contained passionate emotions. It was a gift from Si Hao.

There is a kind of red stone in Yudi, which is opaque, soft and easy to process. People will see it made into tubes and beads. Girls use it to decorate wrists and necks and make hair ornaments with it.However, it is easily mottled, even broken, and it does not have a brilliant color.

Yu Su didn't know the material of the bead in his hand. For Yucheng, agate is quite rare, because agate is harder than jade. Even the nobles of Yucheng may not have such a drilled agate. bead.

The people who drilled the agate came from the very far northwest. They had the best smelting technology, and their products occasionally passed through the hands of the Rong people and entered the imperial city.

Yu Su put a rope on the red agate bead, a short rope that could lift it.The rope was knotted, and the agate was lifted and put into a small bamboo tube, which also had a lid that could be snapped on.Yu Su put the bamboo tube under the straw pillow. He extinguished the oil lamp and lay down to rest. In the dark, he lay quietly.

The red bead hidden in the bamboo tube is like Yu Su's emotion hidden in her heart, it is unknown, it is carefully hidden, it is cared for and cherished.

The young man hugged the bamboo tube in his arms, and fell asleep on his side. The moonlight streamed across his beautiful face silently, illuminating the things in his dreams. Maybe it was the pool in the secluded forest of Falling Feather Hill, or maybe it was the purple lake full of wisteria orchids. .

Early in the morning, when Yu Su woke up, he heard the sound of roosters crowing in the yard. He walked out of the room and went to the yard, and saw his mother was catching a rooster. , was caught by him.

"Mom, what are you going to do with it?"

"Su'er, take it to your brother's house and give it to Xiaochen."

Xiao Chen is the second son of Yu Su's eldest brother, Yu Xi. He is five years old now, and the little guy is not in good health.Yu Xi had a daughter and a son. The eldest daughter was twelve years old, only three years younger than Yu Su.

Yu Xi's home is in the South District, walking from the North District, you have to pass a stream and a wooden bridge, the road is not short, Yu Su has good legs and feet, so I will walk on behalf of Yu's mother.Yu's mother tied the two wings of the rooster and asked Yu Su to hold it. Yu Su grabbed the rooster's wings, and it hung on Yu Su's hand obediently, not daring to struggle, and was dumbfounded.

Early in the morning, carrying a chicken, walking through the streets and alleys, Yu Su needed to attract attention, so when he left the house, he greeted several neighbors and asked, "Xiao Su, where are you going? Someone said: "Why don't you put it in a chicken coop, I'm afraid it will run away on the road."

Yu Su was not bothered, and smiled and talked with people, answering one by one.Stopping and stopping all the way, when they came to the wooden bridge, Yu Su's right hand was numb, and he put the rooster on the ground, wanting to change his left hand, but this rooster, who had been acting honestly all the way, took the opportunity to slip away, clucking, shaking and running away .

"Don't run."

Yu Su threw the chicken feathers all over the place, and it slipped away from Yu Su's fingertips, but it didn't take long before it fell into the hands of another person. Yu Su gave him a gentle smile, and the person handed him the cock and lifted it up The bamboo basket on the ground is gone.

Hugging the rooster, Yu Su saw him crossing the bridge silently and walking towards the south of the bridge. He was wearing old but neat coarse linen clothes, his long hair was not tied up, half braided and half draped over his shoulders, but quite Plain and without any hair accessories.Yu Su met him several times and knew he was Feng Yu.

Don't know what he's carrying in his basket, but he seems to live near the South End as well.

Yu Su unconsciously looked at him twice more, thinking that he was really a quiet person, it was hard to imagine that he would be like Yu Zheng that day on the flower slope under the sacred tree...

To Yu Su, it was a very embarrassing thing to go to Huacaopo for a tryst, and of course he had never been there with anyone.

Yu Su walked fast, Feng Yu walked slowly, and was questioned in front of him, Yu Su heard someone say: "Feng Yu, what food did you bring to Ah Zheng again?" The person who spoke was a woman. He was thick and thick, with a teasing smile on his face.

Feng Yu whispered: "I made a noodle cake."

The four or five neighbors beside the woman laughed together. They were all leisurely people chatting at the door of their house.Yu Su thought, he is so honest, if it were him, he wouldn't tell them the truth, no, why would he think about it being himself?

"If you were a woman, Ah Zheng would not be able to marry you as a wife, and would send him delicious food every day."

"Haha, I think it's a good match."

This group of women was really scary. Yu Su lowered his head and carried the chicken, and walked over quietly, but someone recognized him and called him: "Isn't it Yu Xi's younger brother? Did you bring the chicken to your brother?"

Yu Su responded, "Yes."

"This kid is so handsome, how old is he?"

"fifteen."

"Is there a girl you like? We, Huier, are so pretty."

A girl who was about the same age as Yu Su was pushed out by the women. The girl blushed, looked at Yu Su, and hurried back into the crowd.

"Oh, I'm ashamed."

Yu Su was thin-skinned and quickened his pace to leave. He and Feng Yu walked together. The two left the chattering people. Feng Yu asked him: "You are Yu Su, right?" Similarly, they live in different districts and have little contact with each other.

Yu Su responded, "Yes."

The two of them only had this one conversation, and there was no other conversation. In front of them was Yu Zheng's home.Yu Su watched Feng Yu calmly leave from the teasing of the group of women, and then walked into Yu Zheng's house as if nothing had happened, how did he view the matter between them in his heart?And how do you look at other people's eyes?

The courtyard of Yu Zheng's house has an earthen wall, and after Feng Yu walked in, Yu Su couldn't see him.Yu Su continued to walk forward, his elder brother's house was not far from Yu Zheng's house, just three families away.

Yu Su came to the courtyard of his elder brother's house. The courtyard was empty. He looked inside and saw a woman weaving in the hall. It was his sister-in-law Su.Su looked up and saw Yu Su, put down the weaving shuttle hastily, and came out to meet him.Yu Su put down the rooster and said to her, "Mother asked me to bring it for Xiao Chen to eat."

Su found a chicken coop to cover the rooster, and she said, "Uncle, rest your feet first, I'll go to the kitchen. I made some fish sauce, and I have to bring it to Uncle."

In the past, Yu Xi often sent fish. He loved fishing, and when he was free, he would row out to catch fish, and send any surplus to his parents.Yu Su watched his sister-in-law enter the kitchen. He walked around the hall and saw Xiao Chen in the room.He was a thin, timid kid sitting in a corner, playing with a puppy.

Children are always prone to premature death, and it is all luck that brings them up healthy and alive.Xiaochen has been physically weak since birth, and once thought he would die young, so he didn't want to be raised until he was five years old.Xiao Chen raised his eyes to look at Yu Su, and called weakly: "Uncle." Yu Su knelt down, touched his head, and asked him softly: "The sun is warm outside, how about playing outside with Uncle?" Chen shook his head, lacking interest, and teased the puppy with a piece of miscanthus.

Su came in with a pot of things, handed the clay pot to Yu Su, and said helplessly, "The kids next door will bully him, but luckily, like his father, he likes to go to the water and often takes him out fishing."

It's not that he's withdrawn, but that he won't be able to learn anything. The children play together, can learn from each other, run all over the mountains, know flowers, plants, fruits and vegetables, birds, animals and birds.

Yu Su hugged the clay pot, Yu Su said goodbye to his sister-in-law, then left and returned to the North District.

People like to dip their food in sauce, so almost every household can make sauce, and Yusu's family also has several sauce jars.Think about it, Si Hao on Luoyu Hill, without pickled melon and bean paste, life is indeed too difficult.

Yu Su, holding a can of fish sauce, thought that the beans in the field would soon be harvested, so why not make a can of bean paste and seal it, and bring it to Si Hao when he went to Jiaoshan.

**

On the Falling Feather Hill, Si Hao scrubbed the white horse's body with bundles of reeds. He avoided the large and small wounds on the horse and tried not to hurt it.After escaping from the dungeon, fighting and getting stuck in the mud, the white horse has become a gray horse.Clean water is poured on the white horse, washing away the dirt and dust, revealing the original color of the white horse, which is really white and shiny.

Even in Renyi, Si Hao had never seen such a beautiful horse, and he liked it very much.Si Hao knows how to drive chariots, and he is quite familiar with the temperament of horses, and has also gotten along with them.It is not difficult to raise it, but first we need to help it heal.

After cleaning the horse and driving away the flies that were buzzing around it, Si Hao rubbed herbal medicine on the wound of the horse, applying it here and there, and the snow-white horse turned into a white and green one again. horse.

The white horse lay docilely on the haystack. It seemed to know that Si Hao was treating it, and it didn't resist at all. It neighed twice occasionally, which sounded very sad.Si Hao felt that he was a bit similar to this horse, they were both "expelled". No matter which group the white horse came from, it was already alone, and so was he.

"Take care of your wounds. I'll cut some fresh fodder." Si Hao combed the horse's mane and talked to it. The white horse looked back at Si Hao, and the horse's eyes looked very gentle.

"Wow, woof!" Dahei didn't know when he ran up Ye Muar and barked at the white horse.It stood far away from the white horse, and it could be seen that it was a little cowardly, but not very cowardly, and it dared to bark at it.

"Dahei!" Si Hao stopped it and called it to go down the mountain together.Hearing the master's call, Dahei happily followed his master down the slope. He was very attentive to each other, and even barked twice to attract attention.

Si Hao left Dahei in the pasture, and he went to the waterside to mow the grass, tie it up, carried the grass on his back, and walked back to Yemao.He wanted to wait for it to be raised for two days, and the injury was almost healed, and then he would take it out to graze, and carry more grass every day, just work harder.

Si Hao fed the grass to the horses, and when he was thinking of leaving Renyi, he once joked with Ji Hua that as soon as he went out, he would go to herd sheep and horses, and cultivate vegetables and grains.What I learned in Renyi cannot be used for my livelihood, but I learned a lot when I came to Jiaoshan, and I didn't waste my time.

The horse needs a shed to keep out the wind and rain, but Si Hao, who is injured in his right arm, cannot swing a stone ax to cut down trees. Give it a lie.

After feeding the horses, Si Hao went back to Yuqiu to boil water and fill clay pots, so that he could go down the mountain to see the sheep.

Tao Ke boiled the water, let it cool, and stored it in a kettle. Si Hao tied the kettle around his waist, took a bronze spear from the door, and went down the mountain.At first, whenever he drank water from the clay pot, he would think of the person in the south of Renshui, and after a few days, he got used to it.

Walking to the pasture, Si Hao looked at the path in the forest, but there was no one there. Shu came from there two days ago and told Jianggou that someone had been killed, and said that when the murderer was apprehended, he would come and inform him.For some reason, Si Hao was a little concerned, but Shu didn't come to inform again.

In Luoyuqiu these two days, there were no strange figures passing by, and everything was very quiet, just like the past three months.

**

Three days ago, at dusk, two outsiders came to Gouwei Beach.

There are many outsiders in Gouwei Beach, most of them are herdsmen. The residents of Gouwei Beach are accustomed to herdsmen, and they are also very good at identifying herdsmen.Herdsmen have more or less the smell of livestock, and the local dogs can distinguish danger from danger in this way.The herdsmen who entered Gouwei Beach, they don’t know how to bark, but it’s strange that these two outsiders who came before dusk irritated the seven or eight dogs in Gouwei Beach. They stretched their necks and barked continuously. .

These two outsiders wore pigskin clothes and drove a big pig to Gouweitan.In a small settlement east of Lun City, there is a group of pig herders. They rarely come to Jiaoshan, but it doesn’t mean that they never come, and they can still be seen occasionally.

Each family chased away the barking dogs, and a few well-to-do families looked at the shepherd's pigs and asked what they wanted in exchange.

The big black pig they brought didn't seem to be in good condition, their stomachs were hungry, lazy and listless.The two pig herders were reticent, and the short one said: "I want copper arrowheads, flint, and grain."

His accent sounded a bit strange, but the people in Gouwei Beach didn't care, they went to discuss on their own, who had copper arrowheads, who had flint, and who had grain.Pork is still relatively rare in Jiaoshan. It is better than beef and mutton, has less fishy smell, and is easy to marinate.

Everyone went to prepare the things needed by the pig herders, and the two pig herders rested in the home of the tanner.They were received by a young tanner, who was very interested in the swineherd's pigskin coats.

The lime pit dug in the yard for making leather gave off a stench, and the big black pig was grunting and eating wild vegetables in the yard.

The tanner took his son and brought out two bowls of water to quench the pigherd's thirst.The short pig shepherd took it and said thanks.The tall pig shepherd didn't take the child's bowl for a long time. He looked at a colorful stone shell coin on the blacksmith's clothes, and he recognized it as Ren Yi's stone shell.

The reason why stone shell coins become currency is that they are bright in color, not easy to be abraded, and the processing technology is superb, and it has its own inherent value.People love it, and leather makers even adorn it on leather garments to accentuate its beauty.

Ren Yi's stone shell coins are not difficult to identify because they have a centered hole and a pointed butt.

"Where did you get this shellfish coin?" asked the tall pig shepherd. He put on a casual look, and after saying this, he focused on the clear water in the bowl.

"In exchange for a pair of sheepskin shoes." The tanner laughed. He was quite satisfied with the deal and relished it.

"I can exchange several pairs." The tall pig shepherd knew the price of barter, but he had changed hands a lot during his wanderings for several months.

"It's strange to say that he is a young shepherd, but he is really rich." The leather craftsman still remembered this young shepherd, who looked very handsome, although his clothes were ragged.

"Has he appeared recently?" The tall pig shepherd raised his eyebrows slightly, and if you looked carefully, you would find his eyebrows were gray.

"I just met him a few days ago. If you want to sell his pork, you have to walk a long way. He doesn't live here." The leather craftsman is also a talkative person. Pigs have to be bought by several families together, except for Muzheng, how many people have Shibei coins in their homes.

"Oh, I just asked casually." The tall pig shepherd drank the water in the bowl, put the empty bowl on the ground, and stopped talking.

The talkative tanner asked how the little pig shepherd had to drive the pigs to Gouwei Beach to sell them. If they were sold at the Jiaoshan Camp, they would be more valuable there.The short pig shepherd only said that they drove the pigs here to sell.The leather craftsman felt that the way was very tortuous, and felt that it seemed unreasonable, but he didn't think much about it.

People in Gouwei Beach are used to living a peaceful life. If it was more than ten years ago, when there was a big scuffle, they might have a little more thought.

At night, people gathered together the copper arrowheads, flint and rice grains and handed them over to the two pig herders.The two of them glanced at the items that were easy to change, and then started to kill the pigs.To say that their method of slaughtering pigs is quite neat and bloody.A knife pierced in, disemboweled, blood spattered, without blinking an eye.

As for how to divide the pork, it was not within the responsibility of the two pig herders. They packed their things and left Gouweitan overnight.People watched them leave, and the seven or eight dogs continued to bark.Only then did people pay attention to the long bamboo baskets behind them, which contained mysterious things, tightly wrapped with thatch, and they were left alone before, and no one was allowed to touch them.Looking at the direction in which they left, it was not returning to Lun City, but the opposite direction, which is also strange.

But I just thought about it for a while, and felt that it had nothing to do with me, so I left these two people behind.

Leaving Gouweitan, the short pig shepherd said to his companion, "Hui, are you sure it's him?"

Hui is the name of a tall pig shepherd. He looks to be in his thirties, but his hair and eyebrows are already gray, like someone who has suffered from a serious illness.

"You and I have traveled all over Renfang and tracked him down here. If he hadn't escaped from Renfang, he would only be in Jiaoshan. Why don't you go check it out?" Gray said coldly, looking ahead, he found a pillar of fireworks in the forest.

"Isn't it all agreed, we have to cross the water to search for the hill. What a coincidence, we found it." The short pig shepherd looked disheartened, his face was slack, his hair was thin, and he looked slumped.

"Ji, are you scared now?" Hui taunted his partner, he took off the bamboo basket he was carrying, looked up at the surrounding trees, he wanted to find a spot to observe the source of the fireworks.

"There's no need to kill that pig herder. When the body is found by the camp soldiers, we'd better have escaped." Thorn was very annoyed. When they came to Jiaoshan, they intercepted and killed a pig herder halfway and robbed him of his belongings.This is quite risky, because there is a camp at Cape Mountain, where soldiers are stationed.

"Oh, there is no sharp weapon, you can only wait for death. You have done a lot of murder, so what are you afraid of." Hui Hui had already climbed up the treetops, and he saw a lonely house, very good, alone.

They broke in and killed people, and no one knew about it. I hope there will be no crying children or women who hug their legs and beg.

Hui climbed down the tree, picked up the bamboo basket, and signaled to stab away.Stabbing heart was dissatisfied, and followed silently. He was also a strong-willed person, but he was very tired of fleeing for several months.

Gray with thorns, he came to a dilapidated grass and mud house, and there was an old black-haired dog outside the house. This old dog didn't bark when he saw them, and even trembled a little.Hui thought, what a clever dog, probably because it smelled something unusual.

Both of them had a strong smell of blood, not only from pig blood, but also from human blood.

"carbon!"

A hunchbacked old man came out slowly and called his dog. He looked up and saw two outsiders. His eyes fell on something behind them, which he guessed was a weapon.

The shepherd has the appearance of a shepherd, and the soldier has the appearance of a soldier. The appearance and posture of these two people reminded Hu Sou of a ferocious wolf.