The charcoal fire horse had been lying under the collapsed hut at night, and it did not stumble.

It looks much better than last night, firstly, it has plenty of rest, and secondly, it has eaten some forage, showing a bit of vigorous momentum.

And after the collusion between the two of them just now, Liu's mood also improved inexplicably, and the sorrow of the past few days was swept away.

Although the days to come have not yet been settled, seeing that there are a lot of hard days waiting for them, and the house has also collapsed, Hou Jun's change of attitude towards her is the most important. For the first time, she felt that life was not so difficult.

After all, he can catch crows in such bad weather, and it seems that he has not wasted his time in Zhongnan Mountain all these years.

Women are always more realistic than men about life-related issues. They always see at a glance the keys to cold and hunger.

She looked around, and when the wind stopped, there were a few straw houses not far away, and the wind had lifted off the roofs. Those people also hibernated in the heavy snowstorm until dawn, and now they have all climbed up from the snowdrifts, some are picking up daily necessities buried by the wind and snow in the snow, and some are sorting out materials and recovering shelters.

Liu looked at Hou Jun inquiringly, but found that he was sweating profusely at the moment. He didn't know where to find a piece of hemp rope, which was pulled by a charcoal fire and dragged the old roof away from its place. He looked at the materials that had been sorted out and said to Liu, "The things have been damaged a lot, and they can't be made to the original scale anymore." ”

She immediately said, "Then let's do it first, it's freezing right now, and there's nowhere to look for it." ”

They had to build a temporary shack on the original foundation, with a sharp top and only one person at the highest point, and one had to bend down to get in. Liu Shi has also seen the space inside, and it is indeed a bit crowded if you sleep two people, and you have to get tired of your legs if you can't get it, but it's not bad to have a place to live, and my heart is much more calm.

This was originally an almost deserted village, and most of the rich and powerful people moved their families to Liuzhong County, and some went directly to Xizhou Prefecture.

At this time, Hou Jun had just put up the shack, stepping on the snow from the village, and a person came over, this person was short and strong, with a dark face, curly hair, and only a jacket on his cold heavenly body, he was far away, so he shouted at Hou Jun and them, "Hey! I said, little brother, the house has collapsed? ”

Hou Jun just glanced at him, and found that this person's right pupil was different from others, and there was a white spot on it.

Hou Qian didn't have any good feelings for him, but since people took the initiative to come over to say hello, they couldn't be too cold, so they simply replied, "Yes, I just lived here, and I encountered this incident." ”

"My name is Luo Quan, it's okay to call me Brother Luo and Luo Zi", Luo Quan reported to his home, "We came all the way together, there was a bad master watching me on the way before, and I didn't say anything, it's okay from now on, we are all law-abiding citizens, and we all have to make a living in the ranch, little brother, you will follow your brother in the future, how about it?" ”

Luo Quan said, his eyes kept looking at Liu's side, and his legs and feet also came over, at this time, Liu's was shaking off a few pieces of bedding by the shack that had just been built, Hou Junxin said You are still a law-abiding citizen, I think you are a thief and difficult to change.

Luo Quan was already pacing the edge of the shed, Liu Shi just laid the quilt and stood up from inside, and saw Luo Quan's door panel like a body pressing over, startled, busy retreating, if this step retreated later, the two people would inadvertently bump into each other, Liu's feet tripped, his body lost control, the whole person fell to the side, and his mouth screamed "Oops!" ”。

Luo Quan hurriedly went to help, but he didn't touch anyone, and Hou Jun somehow arrived at Liu's side, didn't move much, and stretched out his forearm to support Liu's right armpit. Luo Quan couldn't see Hou Jun's movements, and Liu stabilized his body, but his face was not very good. Hou Jun fell into the house, and saw that the Liu family was impacted, and said coldly to Luo Quan, "This Brother Luo, if you have something, you can say something, stand firm on your feet first, don't move, just now this animal knocked down my firewood shed." ”

This is obviously an eviction order, who knows that Luo Quan doesn't care about Liu's words, just now he wanted to fish in troubled waters, and pretended to take advantage of Liu's inadvertently. I don't want to make a wishful thinking.

He didn't give up yet, and laughed, "It's okay, you're busy with yours." Don't hide it, last night, I saw an official master......"

He leaned over to Liu, who twisted away. Luo Quan approached Hou Jun again and whispered, "I have already seen the housekeeper under the Deputy Pastoral Supervisor, surnamed Luo, this Steward Luo is talking in front of the Deputy Pastoral Supervisor. Yesterday I talked to Steward Luo, who appreciated my origin very much and said that he would arrange a steward for me in the ranch."

"It's a steward, I thought it was a shepherd." Hou Jun said.

Liu suddenly remembered that the one who Hou Jun killed with a knife when he was thirteen years old was also a housekeeper.

Another young couple in their thirties, a man and a woman, accompanied an old man, in his fifties, with a windproof blue cloth wrapped around his head and a goatee, which was the same Muramasa he had seen yesterday. Don't look at the fact that the village officials are not big, but all the decrees issued by the center of imperial rule to the grassroots level, as well as the household registration audits, flood and drought levies, and conscription and salary of the three provinces and six ministries, must be implemented by the village leaders.

Luo Quan looked at the three of them approaching, and said shortly, "That's the case, I think that Lord Luo's housekeeper sometimes has to rush back to Liuzhong County in the middle of the night, and he doesn't have a suitable foot strength, I think your horse is a good horse, and I have promised to make peace and give your jujube red horse to Lord Luo." ”

Liu was stunned, and the two families only faced each other once, and then they made the decision for others and gave away other people's things.

Hou Jun laughed angrily, and said categorically, "This benevolent brother, you can send it if you want to, if you really don't have it, big brother, you personally carried this Lord Luo back and forth to Liuzhong, and others can't interfere." But the little brother's horse is a horse with a fate of thousands of miles, and he was embarrassed to give it away as soon as he got it yesterday. ”

Luo Quan was choked like something in his throat, he couldn't go up or down, and said with a sneer, "I've put my words here, whether you want to weigh it again, Lord Luo, don't say that you want a horse, you just want people, which one dares not to give it!" After saying that, he shook his hands and left, just bumped into the village that came, and he didn't apologize.

Hou Jun secretly clenched his fists loudly, eager to catch up and beat him twice, but Liu quietly pulled him, and then gave up.

The three people who had just arrived looked at Luo Quan who left inexplicably, the woman was holding a roll of luggage in her arms, and said crisply, "In the evening, my father said that there has never been such a heavy snow in Xizhou for so many years, but there must be some old houses that can't be forbidden, and sure enough, let him say, today the sheepfold in my family also fell, and the donkey shed also fell!" The lame donkey at home almost suffocated to death in the donkey shed, and he was busy until now, so you must have come early and you didn't have the time to make it to eat, and you didn't freeze yesterday, right? ”

She took Liu's hand and asked for warmth, "Seeing that my sister's age is only younger than me, I will support the eldest one, you can call me sister, don't look at my father-in-law is the village Zheng, but our two families are neighbors, and he is also the head of the neighborhood, let's talk first, the food is distributed by the government, but the luggage is our own, and we will return it to us after use."

Liu looked at the village girl, twenty-eight or nine years old, she did look older than herself, but when she spoke, her face was flushed with ruddy brilliance, she was a straight temper, and she didn't feel that she had a good impression of her, and said, "Grandma, why didn't I see you come yesterday, and no one spoke at night, and the house still collapsed, it's boring." ”

"Yo Yo, sister, you say so, is this brother also like our brother, kicking three feet without saying a word? But you have to tell this brother, you can't be too honest, my family, you see, someone came to pull me away at the moment, and he wouldn't squeak. ”

"How can you?" The young man said embarrassedly in a low voice, "Pull the sheep away, I won't say anything, pull you away, it's not okay." The old man immediately interrupted, "You two children, as soon as you meet, you will pour all the details to others," he turned to Hou Jun and said, "My son, born with me, is a child who can be explained, but if there is no daughter-in-law of mine to lock up, there are twenty sheep that will be pulled away." ”

The woman asked, "That black loach thief stole your firewood yesterday," the old man said a little embarrassed when he heard this, "Originally, as a village leader, I had to take care of this stealing of chickens and dogs." But all of you have committed lawsuits, and I don't know who is what, and I'm afraid of making things out of control...... It's a long time coming. ”

"Daddy!" The woman called out to remind the old man, and the old man quickly said, "Although you have come together, the prisoner is very different from the prisoner. Hou Jun hurriedly interrupted and didn't let him continue on this topic, and asked him, "Dad said that this snowstorm has not been encountered for many years, what happened?" ”

"There has never been such a heavy snow in this place in Xizhou, and there are nearly 300 days of sunshine in a year, otherwise how could this place be opened up as a horse farm? Horses have to eat grass. ”

The old man said that there are five counties in Xizhou: Qianting, Liuzhong, Jiaohe, Puchang, and Tianshan County, all of which are located in oases in the desert, all of which are suitable for raising horses, so they all have pastures.

"So what is the origin of this deputy pastoral supervisor mentioned by Brother Luo Zi?" Liu wasted no time in asking.

"I don't know which one you're referring to by the deputy shepherd. There are two deputy pastors in the ranch, one surnamed Gao and the other surnamed Lu. The surname Lu who came yesterday is usually not in charge of things, and he is a worry-free person. The Luo steward who followed the deputy superintendent of Lu Mu was a close confidant of the senior deputy pastor, and speaking of which, the senior deputy superintendent also didn't like to take care of the ranch very much, but I heard that there was a background, but I only heard that it was the son and nephew of some senior official in the court. ”

"Who is the shepherd?"

"Don't ask me about this, I haven't seen the shepherd here, this is not unusual, there are two deputy shepherds under his hands, of course the chief shepherd doesn't have to take care of things, just take care of big things."

Hou Jun and the Liu family also knew when they heard this, and they wanted to come to this ranch and met three lazy shopkeepers, none of whom were in charge of things, and they were almost the housekeepers that Luo Quan said when they covered the sky with their hands here. No wonder just got involved in the relationship, this Luo Quan is so domineering. It seems that because of the charcoal fire, it will be a little difficult to do. Everything can only be decided by waiting for the other party to find the head again.

While a few people were talking, they saw the sound of hooves at the mountain pass outside the village, stepping on a layer of snow mist, and a team of horses galloping majestically. The village girl said, "The steward of the ranch is here, and we are hiding."

She pulled the man, hurried back with the old man, and turned back to the Liu family, "Sister, be careful of the person surnamed Luo Na just now, I think he doesn't just like your horses." ”