When a passerby becomes a princess

Liang Xi finally knew why the horse bandit's stockade was in the valley, because the wind and snow on the Gobi desert was even more violent than on the grassland, and he couldn't even stand up straight when walking against the wind and snow, otherwise he might be blown upside down go out.

Squeezing the hatchet in his hand, Liang Xi felt that his legs were almost numb. Walking in the knee-high snow was extremely strenuous, and every time he took a step, he had to pull his feet out of the snow.

On the night he went to cut firewood on the first day, Second Sister Qiao told him that soaking his feet in scalding hot water for a quarter of an hour every night could prevent frostbite.At that time, he didn't care about it, but it was quite comfortable to soak his feet in winter, so he did it.Later, he saw an old man with no feet in the village. Someone told him that the old man had to have his feet cut off because of severe frostbite.After that, every night no matter how tired he was, Liang Xi would boil hot water to soak his feet.

The stockade collected a lot of firewood in autumn, so not many people went to chop firewood. They only went once every three days, and stayed in the stockade to rest at other times, and occasionally they were called to do other things, but Everyone understands that he still has a child with him, and basically never looks for him.

When it was time to go out to cut firewood, Liang Xihui would send the tiger head to Second Sister Qiao early and ask her to take it with her for a day, then took the machete and followed the firewood cutting team, dragging the sledge and set off.Going out from the mouth of the valley before dawn, if the speed is fast, you can go around to the woods on the other side of the valley before noon. If you want to eat something, you have to cut firewood quickly, so that you can pull the firewood full of firewood before dark. The sledge went back to the stockade, went to pick up the tiger's head from the second sister Qiao, and went back to boil water to soak his feet.

Liang Xi has been raised and respected since he was a child, and he has never suffered such hardships, but he has never complained much. Everyone here does this, and he is no exception. Besides, he also knows that his status as a prince Absolutely can't say it.

On rest days, he sleeps in the house with the tiger head in the dark, unless he wakes up from hunger or the tiger head cries, otherwise he will not get up.

Every house has a stove and cooking utensils. You can go to pick up rice noodles and make them yourself, or you can go to the lobby in the middle of the valley to eat, but there is a fixed time for dinner in the lobby, and if you go late, you will only have leftovers. It must be dismissive. After experiencing hunger, Liang Xi can eat any food now.

Oh, that's not right, if it happened that Yu Qi was in charge that day, Liang Xi would rather be hungry than not eat.

During this period of time, Liang Xi and the people in the village became acquainted, and Yu Qi would occasionally be mentioned in the conversation. It is also said that Yu Qi puts a few pieces of human flesh into it every time he handles the spoon.

Seeing that Liang Xi was so frightened that his face turned blue, someone told him that livestock oil is round when dripped and solidified, and human oil is semicircle. don't eat.

Liang Xidao really wanted to try it, but unfortunately there was not much oil and water in the food in the village, and it was not easy to separate the oil droplets, so as long as it was in the hands of Yu Qi, he would take some rice noodles home and make it himself, even if he ate raw rice noodle soup Also stronger than cannibalism.

It was only later that Liang Xi learned that Yu Qi was in charge of cooking and that someone else cooked the rice and noodles, so he finally didn't have to cook by himself, but he didn't eat the dishes cooked by Yu Qi anyway.

He tore off a piece of wheat cake vigorously, chewed it in his mouth, grabbed a handful of snow from the snow around him and ate it into his mouth, and then swallowed the dry and hard wheat cake.

A piece of jerky was handed over, half a finger thick and palm-sized jerky horse meat, this is what horse bandits always bring when they go out.Liang Xi glanced at it, grinned and took a bite, not daring to savor the taste carefully, chewed a few mouthfuls hastily and swallowed it down.

Speaking of this kind of jerky horse meat, Liang Xi didn't dare to eat it at first.

Fresh horse meat is minced and pressed into palm-sized pancakes, pasted on the horse’s back, and then pressed on the saddle. The sweat of the horse when running adds salt to the dried meat, and the temperature of the body gradually evaporates the water inside, and it becomes After eating this kind of horse meat jerky, one can imagine how "refreshing" the taste is.

However, after a long time in the snow, if you don't eat some wine and meat, you will easily freeze to death. If you want to survive, you must eat even the most unpalatable food.

"Chop firewood after eating." The leader of the team yelled, shaking off the snow on the trees.

The area of ​​this forest is huge, and it is connected to the large forest at the foot of the snow mountain. Most of the trees are pine trees, so you can see some green even in winter.

Liang Xi picked up the leather bag next to him and took a sip of strong wine to warm up his body. He stared at a tree as thick as a calf and started chopping.

Someone next to him said to him: "It will be the chief's birthday in a few days, and there will be good wine to drink then."

Without raising his head, Liang Xi asked, "When?"

The man said, "The second day of December."

Liang Xi was taken aback when he heard that, because that day also happened to be his birthday.Ever since he entered the grassland, he has long forgotten the date. If this person hadn't mentioned it, he would have forgotten that his 19th birthday will be in a few days.

In previous years, his birthday was celebrated in the palace, and his father, queen mother, elder brother, and concubines from all palaces would send him precious gifts.Birthday is Liang Xi's happiest day, because of his birthday, he can go out of the palace to play for a day, and then come back to have a family dinner at night.At that time, he always wanted to leave the palace, but now that he really came out, he began to miss everything in the palace.

Suddenly he remembered that his birthday was only one month away from Lin Qiu's, which meant that Lin Qiu's birthday had already passed this year.

After getting married, the two didn't spend their first birthday together.

Thinking of this, Liang Xi slashed several times fiercely, raised his foot and kicked hard, the tree creaked and fell down.

In a blink of an eye, it was the second day of December.

There are only three festivals a year in the horse bandit village, one is the New Year, the other is the third day of March (the day to go to the grassland), and the other is the birthday of the big boss. For the horse bandits, a powerful and ruthless leader Much more reliable than the gods in the sky.

The door of the Juyi Hall was opened, and the big boss and four deputy bosses lined up at the top, and the men sat on the eight long tables below, either according to their seniority or their relationship.The newcomers sat in the lobby outside the Gathering Hall with women and children.

Liang Xi and Hu Tou sat among a bunch of women and children, feeling that their heads were about to explode.

If Liang Xi transmigrated into Westward Journey, he must have a common language with Supreme Treasure, because what he feels now is that there are a large group of flies, mosquitoes, bees...or three thousand ducks, anyway, the noise makes him Can't hear anything, can't eat anything.

But next to him was Mazi Sun's pungent daughter-in-law, Mrs. Gu, so he couldn't even hide.

Gu was originally the daughter of a rich family in a small town on the border of Daliang Country. She was born as beautiful as a flower, and she was spoiled since she was a child. Later, when she came out to play, she was beaten with a sap, sold to the grassland, and was rescued by a horse bandit. return.Because her body was broken, she didn't want to go home anymore, and she could only be a concubine or remarry when she went back, she might as well stay in the horse bandit village.It just so happened that Mazi Sun killed a bearded Baihu that time, and when he came back, the big boss was so happy that he assigned Gu to him as his wife.

Sun Mazi had never been able to marry a wife because of the pockmarks on his face, so he suddenly got such a beautiful daughter-in-law, and held Gu Shi like a treasure. When Gu Shi saw that he had a good temper, he became more and more arrogant. Ren Ren is a famous shrew in the village.

At this time, he saw such a handsome young man as Liang Xi, and together with several women beside him, he beat and beat him to force Liang Xi to drink non-stop.

Liang Xi was originally unable to eat because of the noise, and was given a lot of alcohol. He soon became dizzy and had double vision when he saw people. Fortunately, he still had a sense of reason, and he knew that if he was drunk, he would say something that should not be said. Yes, the consequences were disastrous, and he quickly staggered to his feet, grabbed the tiger's head with one hand, and walked out.

It seemed that someone was talking to him along the way, but he couldn't hear clearly and simply ignored it. He stumbled out of the lobby and was sobered up by the cold wind. He recognized the direction and went back to his room, locked the door behind him, put the tiger's head in the On the bed, he also fell down.

"Hey, hoot..." Hutou sat on the bed and patted Liang Xi. Just now, Mrs. Gu also used chopsticks to order some wine to feed him, but now it was probably because of the drunkenness, and she screamed in excitement.

Liang Xi buried his face on the pillow, turned over after a while, lay on the bed, looked at the beams of the roof, laughed, and said: "Hey, Father is still the best, there are so many women in the harem, he What a headache." After thinking for a while, he said in a low voice, "Fortunately, Qiu'er is not a woman."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the tiger head next to him suddenly yell "Mother".

Liang Xi was startled, and sat up suddenly, but fell down again due to dizziness, so he could only support himself on the bed with his hands, and said to Hutou, "Hutou, what did you just say?"

Hutou saw how funny he was getting up and lying down, giggled non-stop, and called "Mother" again.

During this period of time, Tantou has been looking for someone to adopt Hutou. Every time Hutou is sent to a family, the hostess of that family will keep teaching him to call "father" and "mother", although the next day he will After being returned, he had already learned to call "Father" and "Mother", but Liang Xi never talked to him, so naturally he didn't know.

Now hearing Hutou yell out the word "mother" in a correct accent, Liang Xi was pleasantly surprised, but couldn't laugh or cry, and said, "Little bastard, even if I adopt you, I'm still your father, and Qiu'er is your mother. "

Hutou patted his chubby little hands and said, "Yeah, mother..."

Liang Xi was so angry that he drank alcohol and became dizzy. While patting the bed, he yelled, "I'm the father! Qiu'er is the mother!"

The little tiger's head was tilted, his round eyes stared at Liang Xi, and he said with some doubts: "Father...Qiu...Mother..."

"Well, that's right, Qiu'er is the mother..." Satisfied, Liang Xi wrapped the tiger's head in the quilt, put on his boots and got in, and fell asleep after a while.