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Because it has snowed, the roads that the people in the village walk are naturally cleared, but the roads that are not used very much, or the places where people and livestock will not set foot, are simply left unattended.

Especially outside the village wall, the ditches dug were not only widened and deepened, but also wooden spikes were set in the inside, so whoever fell... let alone people, wild boars would be stabbed to death if they fell.

Who has nothing to go there to sweep the snow?

So this place is pure natural, without any decorations!

What it looked like when it snowed, and what it looks like now, this natural camouflage is the most deadly.

As expected, the visitors followed their usual style of horse banditry. When they came, they came like a gust of wind and rushed towards Yushu Village along a dirt road stepped on by everyone in the miscellaneous woods.

Tie Qing and his fellow villains hid there, watching helplessly as these people approached Yushu Village.

The second masters saw the ditch.

"The ditches in this village are much wider than those in other places."

"It must be supported by a rich family, otherwise, such a remote village needs such a high wall and such a wide trench?"

"Looking at the appearance of the village, there should be some money."

"Money is not important, what is important is food." The group of them did not have much to eat.

In particular, they are all people who are used to enjoyment. Among the horse bandits, they eat delicious food and drink spicy food. Suddenly, they are asked to eat frozen hard biscuits and dry food. They don’t even have to eat a piece of meat. Soup, you can’t do without salt, you’ll lose your strength.

And they look at this rich village, and maybe they can find something good.

Not to mention anything else, there is definitely no shortage of food and drink here, especially in such a wealthy village, there must be frozen pork trips or something, when the time comes, eat a warm meal, take a hot bath, and have some young people Beautiful village aunts and such...Thinking about it, I'm really excited!

Then they ran like the wind to the outside of the village's... wall, what's the fear of the trench?

It's a big deal for them, just cross over from the trench!

Because of the snow, the trenches looked wide, but they were actually wider, deeper, and more dangerous than they appeared.

They thought the trench was similar to the trenches in ordinary villages.

He walked over with one foot.

Like a gust of wind, more than a dozen horse bandits rushed towards the ditch of Yushu Village... together with more than [-] horses!

"oops!"

"Ahhh!"

"Fuck!!"

"Help!"

It is rare for a horse bandit to shout for help.

Probably due to the natural instinct of animals, few war horses rushed in, a few fell in with their owners, and there were still a dozen horses left on top.

These people fell into the bottom of the ditch, only to realize that the ditch is really deep!

Moreover, there were wooden spikes at the bottom of the ditch, and a dozen or so people fell, only a few of them were still alive, and the others all died at this moment!

Erdang's left calf and right arm were pierced by the wooden thorn, and he grinned in pain while hanging on the wooden thorn, and blood foamed from his throat.

The other survivors, although they were breathing, were all seriously injured, and all of them were terrified, knowing that it was over, they were completely ruined.

The cries of people, the wailing of horses, the movement was too loud, no matter how loud the wind and snow were, it couldn't cover it up.

In fact, the families living in the outermost part of the village are all personal guards, and then the bodyguards, while the families living in the far west are all construction teams from the Ministry of Industry, and there are even professional workers from the Ministry of Industry. Master craftsmen, those are craftsmen.

Their vigilance is not so high, but the guards are different from the personal guards.

Hearing the movement, everyone got up quickly, and soon they all came here, even Wei Daliang: "What's going on?"

"Someone broke in and fell into the ditch." Tie Qing pointed to the outside of the wall.

Wei Daliang leaned over to take a look. They came out with torches, but unfortunately, the wind and snow were so heavy that the torches were blown to pieces: "I can't see clearly?"

There was no way to see clearly, I only knew that there were people with horses down there, who unfortunately fell into the ditch, and the torch flickered... Finally, it was blown out by the wind!

"Hello? What are you doing?" Wei Daliang yelled downward.

"We... we were passing by!" The people below were rare enough to have a brain, and they didn't say clearly that they were horse bandits.

"Fart!" The boss Xu next to him became angry: "If you pass by, don't go through the gate of the village, run to the ditch and put a piece of film, think of yourself as the big hawthorn in the candied haws?"

No knowledge is no knowledge, who made them just a bunch of country guys.

But lack of knowledge does not mean lack of common sense.

A group of people, more than [-] horses, this is not the posture of a caravan, and they don't go through the gate of the village, they come from the west, what is there in the west?

In the west of the village, apart from a few pieces of wasteland, there is a miscellaneous forest, and to the west of the miscellaneous forest is the West Mountain.

Usually no one dares to go up and go deep into the West Mountain, how dare they a group of outsiders?What's more, at this time, Xishan is very dangerous.

The whole village dared to go in.

"We are really passing by..." The people living below pretended to be weak: "Help!"

Because there is no lighting tool, everyone dare not go down easily, let alone rescue people. Knowing that there is a problem, but going to rescue people is the second lack.

Fortunately, at this time, there was a master craftsman from the Ministry of Industry over there, who asked someone to come over with a few kraft paper lamps.

Tie Qing saw this kind of thing called "kraft paper lantern" for the first time, and in his memory this thing should be the classical name of a horse lantern, but it wasn't.

This kind of "kraft paper lamp" is actually a kind of lantern made of thin, specially made kraft paper, which is airtight, and then painted with a layer of transparent vegetable oil on the outside, this thing can be windproof and waterproof.

Although it is small in size and the range of illumination is not as wide as that of a torch, it does keep the candles in the lamp burning steadily.

I heard the person from the Ministry of Industry say: "This kind of lantern is mostly used on ships in coastal areas, and it is also called "ship lantern", especially in windy and rainy weather. !"

"Really?" Tie Qing also wanted such a lantern.

"Actually, there is also a kind of horn lamp." The person from the Ministry of Industry gestured: "That's good!"

Yangjiao lamps are lamps made of processed sheep's horns, not paper lanterns.

The horns are boiled into a transparent liquid, condensed and pressed into sheets, which are called Mingwa; lampshades are made, which are called horn lamps.

The finished effect of the horn lamp has the translucent characteristics of horny, and has a strong light transmittance; at the same time, it is airtight and fireproof, so the horn lamp is also called "qi dead wind".

Due to the complex process and high cost, most of them are only used in royal palaces and noble mansions.

The finished ram horn lamps can also be painted or decorated with yellow and white, blue and red.And usually the surname or official title of the owner of the house will be written on it.

"This is not bad!" Tie Qing became interested: "How did you do it?"

"For that kind of lantern, you must choose high-quality horns, cut them into cylinders, put them in a pot of boiling water, and boil them together with shredded radish. Make it thinner as a whole; if it is boiled repeatedly, it is propped repeatedly... Each time it is replaced with a wooden last with a wider belly until the whole horn is deformed into a thin and transparent lampshade; It can often be up to one foot or more, and the accessories are candle-lit lanterns with three-inch-square characters written on it, which is very convenient and decent to carry or hang on the gate.” People from the Ministry of Industry talked eloquently. : "The best claw shade, translucent, paper thin, and without a single seam!"

Tie Qing's eyes lit up, and there were a few lanterns in their house, but they were nothing special.

In rural areas, it would be nice to have candles. Lanterns are only available on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and most of them are lanterns.

There are many colors and patterns of materials, and the quality is really not good.

"Many ram horns will be damaged during the stretching process, and not too many will succeed in the end, and the large ones are especially rare." A person from the Ministry of Industry told Tie Qing: "When the eldest son got married, the four pairs sent by Beijing Central The ram's horn headlamp is a fine product, a rare ram's horn headlamp!"

They chatted excitedly and had a lot of content, but the injured people below couldn't bear to wait like this.

I couldn't help but exposed their bandits' face: "I said, have you finished talking? It's important to save people! I'm going to bleed dry."

"Save the fart!" Tie Qing was very unhappy when he was interrupted to chat with the people from the Ministry of Industry: "A group of horse bandits are worthy of asking us to save you?"

"Horse bandits?" Wei Daliang raised his tone at that time: "What's going on? Are they horse bandits?"

"We are a caravan..." The people below yelled, "Caravan!"

Even the others looked at Tie Qing in surprise.

"Which caravan didn't bring any goods?" Tie Qing gritted his teeth: "The caravans come and go, but they won't let the horses go empty."

There was also an empty grain bag hanging on their horses.

There is no goods, not even a fur.

People in the caravan will not let themselves empty-handed. The caravan from the south will be full of goods. After selling them in the north, they will purchase local specialties in the north and then return to the south to sell them.

Merchants are all profit-seeking, who will let the horse team go on the road with empty horses?

The fur of the Northland is very valuable in the south. Old wild ginseng, fungus and other mountain delicacies are all things that southern businessmen like to buy.

Tie Qing has been here for so many years, and has also dealt with caravans. There are caravans from all over the world. He still knows their habits.

The people below are stuck.

"All right, all right, let's hug him up." In the end, it was Lord Captain who spoke. He is the head of the eldest son's bodyguard, and he has an official title and the status of Wu Sanjie, so he speaks well.

Moreover, he didn't let the group of country men do anything, and led his men to erect a rope ladder on the top of the wall to go down. Only a few of the people underneath were alive and injured. A living person slipped up, on a snowy night, who cares about death?

That's all for tomorrow.

But Tie Qing went out and led the dozen or so horses left behind to the village entrance on the east side of the village, and entered the village.

He found that the lights of the houses in the village were basically turned on, and the dogs barked. Many people were alarmed.

He put the horses in his own house for the time being. There was no other way. The stables of other people's houses were not big and they didn't have so much fodder. There were quite a few wealthy people in their family who kept these war horses for the time being.

"Good stuff!" When he entered, the house was already brightly lit.

Everyone woke up, it turned out that Lynch was guarding the gate, and he was guarding the gate with a few big-armed personal guards.

"Why are you awake?" Tie Qing was quite surprised.

"Such a big commotion, can you not wake up?" Lynch said, "Is this the spoil you got?"

"No, it's temporarily placed in my house, so many war horses, other families can't afford it." Tie Qing said: "This thing is expensive."

War horses are different from the horses used by farmers themselves.

This thing is precious, and it must be carefully raised. In addition to forage, it must be fed with corn bran, black beans, etc., and it must be eaten at night.

"What's the matter, if it's in our hands, it belongs to our family!" Lynch said with a bit of a soldier's sense.

"You all go back and rest, there's nothing else to do right now." Tie Qing wanted everyone to go to sleep.

"Don't!" Lynch didn't want to sleep: "What's the matter? Who is it? Bandits? Beards? Horse thieves?"

"It's a horse bandit who came here." Tie Qing said: "It's a group of horse bandits from the grassland."

"Well, that's right, such a good horse. Except for the army, I guess other rogue horse bandits here will not be able to get such a good horse." Lynch was very interested: "It's from the grassland, so tell us Are the languages ​​the same?"

He remembered that the people on the grassland spoke differently from his side.

"Someone who can talk to us should have come from our side." Tie Qing thought for a while: "I don't know much about the others, so let's talk about it after dawn."

It's hard to stand outside in this cold weather.

The wind continues to blow, the snow is still falling, what are you doing standing at the door?

"Go and see tomorrow." Lynch said happily, "Come on, let's go into the house. The back kitchen has made haggis soup. If you're hungry, you can have some supper."

"We don't pay attention to supper here in the northeast." Tie Qing also smiled: "Hurry up and go back, go to the back kitchen to cook for yourself if you want to eat, and go to bed if you have nothing to do, it's midnight, don't be sleepy ?”

"That's right, let's go back!" Lynch led the people back to the guest house.

Tie Qing tidied up, and then went to the main room of the second courtyard, changed clothes in the outside room, and washed up a bit, because he was leading the horse, he was afraid of smelling on his body, which would smell on his husband and children, and deliberately After I washed my hair and dried it with supernatural powers, I entered the house... I was shocked when I entered the house!

Brother Xiao was dressed neatly, sitting cross-legged on the kang, the two candles in the room were lit, and the child fell asleep in the car.

Looking at Tie Qing who came in with piercing eyes: "Sir."

"Hey!" Tie Qing immediately stood at attention: "Fu Lang... why are you awake?"

When he left, he was obviously silent. When he came back, the front yard was brightly lit, but there was no movement at the second entrance.