Little Zhuangtou and the Great General

046

This winter, the first snow did not fall until the cold season. As far as farming is concerned, less snowfall is not good for diseases and insect pests, but it is a good thing for opening fields.In winter in the south of the Yangtze River, severe freezing usually does not occur until after the snow. When there is no snow, the freezing intensity is not strong, and the impact of freezing will be minimized when the field foundation is rammed.

Taking advantage of the rare good weather before, Wu Liu and Qian Guan's Zhuangzi had completed all the terraced fields available for development, and designated the farmers who settled in the terraced fields everywhere. It was a farmer from the original village, and another surname was matched with a foreign refugee.When matching, the two parties are voluntary, and the two surnames are not forced to settle together.

Wu Liu's Zhuangzi was the first to open the field. When the field was opened, both inside and outside were in harmony. They did not encounter too many troubles when they settled down.

Qian Guan's Zhuangzi encountered some troubles, and the previous conflict between the two parties made some people feel bad.Qian Guan came to Wu Liu's to discuss this issue, and Shen Miao reminded Qian Guan that since it is mainly voluntary, those who are unwilling can not only choose another place, but also leave this village.

Qian Guan understood Shen Miao's meaning as soon as he heard it, drafted the notice overnight, and posted it the next day.The words above are similar to what Shen Miao said, to settle down voluntarily, and if you don't want to choose a land, you can also leave the village.

Qian Guan's Zhuangzi is the richest one in this area, and neither the farmers nor the refugees in the village are willing to leave.If you don't want to leave, you can only let go of your grudges and choose a new match.

The cultivation of the fields for the rest of the people has not yet ended, but before their mountains were opened, Shen Miao and Qian Guan made a plan to avoid the problem of overwintering halfway through the opening of the fields to the greatest extent, so all the fields that have been opened now have been completed. It's finished.

The owners of these Zhuangzi asked Shen Miao if they could let some people settle down first.

Shen Miao rejected their proposal. It is unfair for some people to settle down first, and it will discourage the enthusiasm of those who have not settled down. Once the enthusiasm is hindered, the subsequent fields will be ugly, and the conflict will expand.But it would be too wasteful to let these open fields be left empty, and miss one season of winter wheat and two crops of rice in the coming year.

Shen Miao then suggested: just like recruiting people to open fields, recruit people to cultivate and give a certain amount of remuneration.After all the fields have been opened, start to choose a place to settle.

As a result, the hearts of the people in these manors have settled down a lot.

The snow on Xiaohan’s day began to fall from the fourth watch, first the snow, crackling on the eaves.Shen Miao heard a sound in a daze, and moved.

Wu Liu sensed it immediately, hugged Shen Miao tightly, and said with a smile, "It's snowing, it should snow tomorrow morning."

When he heard it was snow, Shen Miao became excited. He liked snow the most when he was a child, but the El Niño phenomenon in his era was too serious, and it took five or six years for a decent snow to fall.Every time it snowed, he looked at the sky from time to time, for fear that the snow would not accumulate, so when he heard it, he wanted to climb out of the bed and open the window to have a look.

Wu Liu hurriedly pressed Shen Miao: "I won't see anything at this time, so I'll go out and be frozen, wait until tomorrow morning."

"It might be gone tomorrow morning." Shen Miao tried hard to convince Wu Liu.

"Such a crackling sound, it must be heavy snow tomorrow morning, and my village is a wind hole. When other villages are only half a finger thick, I already have a finger." Wu Liu said, seeing that Shen Miao still wanted to get out of bed, he took It was very tricky, they embraced Shen Miao, leaned against each other, and said in a low voice, "If you don't feel comfortable sleeping, I will let you get out of bed tomorrow morning."

Hearing this, Shen Miao felt the scorching heat somewhere, and hurriedly begged for mercy: "I'll sleep, sleep right away." After saying that, she closed her eyes, tomorrow is a rare snow scene, it would be too bad if she couldn't get out of bed.

Wu Liusui smiled, kissed Shen Miao lightly, and fell asleep with her arms around her.

In the early morning of the next day, it really was a heavy snowfall as Wu Liu said. Snowflakes like goose feathers were falling one after another. Snow had already begun to accumulate on the eaves. Due to the frequent movement of people on the ground, only water remained.There were also people walking in twos and threes on the ridge in the distance, all of them went to the ridge to inspect the wheat before the snow accumulated.

Seeing that Shen Miao went to the porch to watch the snow as soon as she got dressed, Xiao Hua hurriedly brought the cloak she had taken out earlier in the morning, put it on Shen Miao, and put a hand warmer for Shen Miao, and put a delicate hood on it so as not to burn her hands. .

Shen Miao couldn't help boasting after taking it, Xiaohua felt ashamed, changed the subject and said: "Young master told me before going out that you should stop standing in front of the corridor on the second floor for a long time. It's cold here. I really want to play in the snow, go downstairs Playing on the patio."

Shen Miao hurriedly responded, the wind in the snow is indeed not suitable for standing for a long time, it will cause a headache.So he obediently withdrew to the house, and asked Xiao Hua by the way: "Where is Wu Liu?"

"The young master said that the snow must be heavy snow, and he was afraid that the mountain would be closed for half a month. He was worried that Mr. Luo and the others on the mountain would be short of food, so he took someone to rush to send it." Xiaohua replied.

Shen Miao nodded when she heard that, this is indeed an urgent matter, after the heavy snowfall, it must be frozen, once the mountain road is frozen, it will be difficult to walk, and the food cannot be delivered in time.

Just as he was thinking, Duo'er rushed in from outside, smiled at Shen Miao and said, "Young Master, Young Master, the snow has accumulated on the beach outside, let's go out and play."

Shen Miao agreed as soon as she heard it, but before she could say anything, Xiao Hua spoke first: "Snowy road skating and going to play on the beach, have you forgotten the young master's advice?"

"The young master only said to let the young master be careful when playing, he didn't say not to let him play in the snow." Duo Er retorted with a smile.

"But the young master didn't tell me to play in the snow in a dangerous place like Xitan." Xiao Hua took a look at Duo'er.

Duo'er was disappointed, and murmured: "The stream beach is not dangerous at all. There is little water in winter, so it is impossible to fall into the water."

"There is no water, and there are big rocks, what should I do if I slide down from above and fall?"

"Don't go to the big rock, just the stream beach in front of the door, there is only a small pebbles over there."

"That's not OK."

"Eh!!!"

"Okay, okay." Seeing the two little girls fighting for their own safety and almost disregarding their friendship, Shen Miao hurriedly smoothed things over, "I think this is the way, a compromise, Duo'er and I go for a walk outside, pick a safe place to play, okay?"

Shen Miao's austerity obviously contained a subtext, which meant that he agreed to go out, and what kind of place would be safe to choose later, that was Shen Miao's final decision.So Xiaohua still hesitated when she heard the words, Duoer kept looking at Xiaohua, silently begging Xiaohua to agree, finally Xiaohua was helpless by Duoer's little eyes, so she nodded: "Okay."

"Great." Doer jumped up and down happily.

Xiao Hua hurriedly added: "Remember, don't go to dangerous places."

"Got it, got it." Duo'er said, pushed Shen Miao and went out.

Shen Miao was forced to walk forward quickly, turning her head and laughing while walking: "It is said that the Luoxue dog is happy, why are you happier than the dog?"

"My lord, don't talk about me, I'm back at the place, I'm more happy to keep you than me." Duo'er said with a smile, and led Shen Miao out of the inner hall, the outer hall, and went straight to Xitan.

The stream beach is bare|exposed to the outside, the surface temperature is low, and in winter, the surface is dry, and no one comes, the snow on it is much more than ordinary places.Do'er also picked a small and dense cobblestone. Once the snow covered it, it was a vast expanse of white without any blemishes, just like a layer of cream spread on the flat ground.

Shen Miao rushed down immediately, throwing her feet into the sky, it was so cool, and it was even more refreshing to roll again.

Duo'er laughed out loud, see, Da Huang next door had this reaction when he saw Xue.

Shen Miao knew what Duo'er was thinking at a glance, so she squeezed a small snowball and threw it over: "Throw you a meat bun."

Duoer ran away quickly, and said with a smile, "I can't be fooled by you." As he said, he squeezed the snowball and threw it over.

The two threw it back and forth, unexpectedly, a snowball came in the air, and precisely hit the snowball that Shen Miao had just thrown. The snowball split into two halves, one half hit Shen Miao back, and the other half hit Doer.

Shen Miao and Duo'er were stunned at the same time, looking at each other, who is so powerful?

The two looked back at the same time, and saw Wu Liu riding a horse standing on the stream beach, the horse raised its head and snorted, as if mocking Shen Miao and Duoer for their inferior skills, while Wu Liu was throwing snowballs with his left and right hands alternately .

"It turned out to be the young master." Duo'er came back to his senses, and immediately praised, "Young master is so amazing."

Shen Miao slipped her foot on purpose, and the moment she hit the ground, she pinched two snowballs quickly and threw them out with lightning speed, and shouted to Do'er after throwing them: "Duo'er, come on, that guy actually If you dare to sneak attack from behind, get him off the horse quickly."

After hearing Shen Miao's words, Duoer picked up two and threw them away, and Shen Miao also threw two more.

Wu Liuqi dodged Shen Miao's two snowballs with ease on the horse. Facing the four that were thrown later, he used his body shape, jumped up from the horse easily, and kicked the snowballs one by one with both feet casually. Kicked back, one hit Doer, one smashed the snowball that came flying, and one...

Wu Liu threw out the snowball he was playing with, and the snowball hit the remaining snowball, but it didn't smash into pieces immediately, but pushed it towards Shen Miao.

At the moment when it was about to hit Shen Miao, the snowball that was hit before finally couldn't support it and split apart, and the rest hit Shen Miao's forehead.

Everything happened in the blink of an eye, and Shen Miao only reacted in a daze.Just when he thought he was about to be hit, his body was suddenly pulled back and fell into a warm and familiar embrace, and the snowball that followed was easily held by the person who pulled him.

"..." Shen Miao looked at this scene stupidly, was it Wu Liu who pulled him just now?One second he was dodging the snowball, throwing the snowball, and the next second he was behind him, what a magical skill.

"Do you dare to throw snowballs next time?" Wu Liu asked with a smile.

Shen Miao hesitated and nodded: "Play."

"Huh?" Wu Liu frowned.

Shen Miao smiled: "Next time I will play on the same team as you."

"Haha!" Wu Liu laughed heartily, and hugged Shen Miao tightly, "Such a beautiful scene, the ground is the bed, and I will have a hearty time."

"Hey...the little girl is here, why don't you still?" Shen Miao protested, but just as she finished speaking, Duo'er's voice came from far away: "La la la, I'm leaving first."

Shen Miaomo.

Wu Liu smiled even more happily, so Shen Miao could only say, "It's too cold, can you bear it?"

"Afraid of the cold? Let's say, I'll take you to a place where it's not cold, where you can cook wine around the stove, or..." Wu Liu deliberately paused.

Shen Miao understood what he meant, but she did it in broad daylight, as if it was too frequent, so she said, "You can cook wine around the stove and go to the front hall, the pavilion over there is very nice."

"That place must have been occupied by your wife, are you sure you can beat him?"

"..." Shen Miaomo, Luo Zhaojian is extremely good at wine, and not giving him a drink would be tantamount to killing him. If cooking wine around the stove is the most enjoyable thing in winter, if it is destroyed, Luo Zhaojian will go berserk.The consequences of Luo Zhaojian's rampage are very serious...

That's Luo's gluttonous mouth, once it bursts, it will make you hungry all day long!Oh no, this kind of thing is definitely not something that can be done in a whole day, it might be a month, a year, or a lifetime! !

"So come with me!" Wu Liu hugged Shen Miao horizontally, performed lightness kung fu, stepped on the snow without a trace, and disappeared on the stream beach.

The two of them didn't go far, and only stopped at a place where a huge stream and rocks overlapped.These overlapping stream rocks straddle the stream, and there is a deep pool in front of it. Even in the winter when there is little water, it is full of darkness and attractive, so no one dares to approach it at will.

Wu Liu jumped to a place sheltered from the wind by overlapping streams and rocks, and there was no snow on it. He put Shen Miao down and motioned him to look inside.

Shen Miao looked around as she said, and there was a narrow space inside, without wading through the water, only for one person to pass through.

Wu Liu jumped down first, pushed aside with his hands, and then signaled Shen Miao to come down.

Shen Miao jumped down as promised, Wu Liu caught him, pointed to the dark hole in front of him, and signaled to enter.Shen Miao stepped in as promised, Wu Liu opened the fire folder and followed closely behind, and the entrance of the cave was closed after the two entered.

Inside the cave is a very long corridor, which can only be passed by one person. After walking about two hundred steps, it suddenly opened up, and there was still a faint water vapor coming in, with a sulfur smell.

At the same time, a fork appeared at the front of the road. One end pointed to another dark corridor, and the other end had a faint light.

Wu Liu led Shen Miao to the faintly bright end. The further he walked, the fewer traces of man-made excavation, the more abundant the water vapor, and the stronger the sulfur smell, followed by sweltering heat and still covered in snow. Shen Miao, who was dressed in warm weather, quickly took off her cape.

At the end, Shen Miao finally knew the reason for all this.There is a natural hot spring here, and there is a gap on the top of the hot spring, so that the fresh air and the water vapor inside are alternated, making the place not only not stuffy, but also very comfortable.

Shen Miao is very strange. According to geological inference, frequent volcanic activities may indeed leave hot springs, but after volcanic activities, most of the leftovers are marble-like rocks, and generally very few granite formations that can form caves are left.Thinking of Shen Miao looking over her head, she was surprised to find that she was wrong.

He always thinks that caves with hot springs are karst caves. In fact, this is not a karst cave. It is formed by a huge rock falling on the mountain, just like the huge rock mass on the stream, but this rock mass is bigger. □□The part outside is probably covered with plants.

Wu Liu didn't understand the professional knowledge in Shen Miao's mind. Seeing Shen Miao's silence, he only knew that it was because of his doubts.Then he said: "When you opened the first terraced field, did you see a middle-aged bamboo mountain surrounded by mist?"

Shen Miao nodded. The bamboo mountain is not high in altitude, but it is shrouded in clouds and mist all the year round, and has a slight peculiar smell. Bamboo is everywhere on the mountain, even on the top of the mountain.When the local old man introduced it, he specifically said that it is a place of practice for a master who has attained the Tao, and only those who are predestined can enter it.Shen Miao didn't believe the Taoist's words, but because the cloud and fog did not clear for a long time, she was worried about getting lost, so she didn't go in.

"So it's here!" Shen Miao suddenly realized.

Wu Liu smiled and pointed to the top of his head: "The reason why the clouds and mists are shrouded in this place all year round, the bamboo on the mountain is specially planted, and with some skills, ordinary people can only go around the periphery when entering."

Shen Miao nodded. The gas here is hot, and after leaking out, it contacts the cold air outside and naturally forms clouds and mist. The clouds and mist formed later dilute the smell of sulfur, so there is only a slight peculiar smell in the air.

"Okay, don't think about it anymore, it's important to do serious things." Wu Liu stuck to Shen Miao's back and hugged him from behind.

Only then did Shen Miao come back to her senses, she understood what it means to do serious things in seconds, rationally made a choice between doing less during the day, and why not do it when there is a hot spring, and finally leaned back resolutely, and said with a smile: "Okay."

Wu Liusui started to move: "I've always wanted to bring you here, but the timing is always wrong, so this meeting is a good deal."

"Why?" Shen Miao was puzzled.

Wu Liu smiled: "I'll tell you later..."