Winter in the north always comes early, just after December, and the ground is already covered with a thick layer of white cotton wool.

The war of Qi's invasion of Beichao has been over for nearly half a year, and the result of the war finally ended with the complete submission of North Vietnam, in addition to opening indemnities and cutting land, North Vietnam also tore up the alliance with Qin and Chu to jointly resist Qi, and instead signed an alliance treaty with Qi, a large number of troops were transferred to the Qin-Yue border, and the situation faced by Qin became more and more sinister, and the internal conflict caused by the domestic drought has not been completely resolved, but it is facing the sinister situation of Qi and Vietnam attacking from both sides. Li Zhi, the commander who was seriously wounded in the battle of Qin and Chu, had to take his wounds out of the mountain in order to control the situation and survive the most dangerous moment since the Qin state.

And for all the people of Dawangzhuang, they also felt the changes in their lives brought by this war when this winter came.

Dawangzhuang is located in Feng County, which is located in the north of the Yue Kingdom, Feng County is far away from the border of Qi and Vietnam, when this war began, they did not feel that their lives had changed much, and they continued to do it, the sun set and the sun rested, and they lived their lives plainly, and the war seemed to be very far away from them. They only occasionally heard that the people who had gone to the county town came back and brought some news from the county town.

The defeat of the Yue Kingdom, the Luo family is finished, one by one shocking news, transmitted to Dawangzhuang, and it also returned to the flat, for the people here, it seems that the defeat of the Yue Kingdom does not have much impact on their lives, the Luo family? I heard that it is the most famous family in our Dayue, and it is dead? Oh, they always lose battles, damn it.

This is what the ordinary people of Dawangzhuang think.

But after the onset of winter, this small village of seclusion finally ushered in the first impact on them after the war. The Yue State wanted to increase the border to the Qin State, and in the battle of Qi and Yue, the Yue State had serious losses in soldiers, and a new round of conscription work was extended to this village, and ten places were forcibly allocated.

Less than a month after sending off ten young people, another task befell Dawangzhuang, to collect grain. For a village that has already paid all the annual taxes and is not wealthy, the new round of grain levy is not to grab food from the mouths of the people, but the officials from the county town have a very tough attitude, and if they do not pay the grain, they will lock people up. In the face of unreasonable officials and officials shaking chains, the people chose to swallow their anger.

Breaking wealth and avoiding disasters, the prison of the official family is not so easy to enter.

Tens of thousands of catties of requisitioned grain are concentrated in the courtyard of Wang Hou, the village is positive, and more than ten full carriages are ready to set off, from Dawangzhuang to the county seat, a distance of more than 50 miles, and in such weather, you have to walk for at least two days.

Dawangzhuang's village is Wang Hou, in the Zhuangzi is a man of his word, he is literate, in the early years in the county, has been the county master's criminal name, for the people of Dawangzhuang, that is a big man, and it is precisely because of his existence, Dawangzhuang for many years, no one has ever suffered a lawsuit, even if something happens to someone, under his face, it is also caught in the morning and put it at night, and he has never suffered hardship, this alone makes him highly respected in Zhuangzi.

In just 20 years, Wang Hou has accumulated a huge amount of family property, the so-called plaintiff eats the defendant, as the county master's criminal master, it is difficult for him to get rich. Or because he did too many bad things in those years, although Wang Hou got married early, he did not give birth to a boy and a girl. After forty years old, Wang Hou finally panicked, after visiting a virtuous monk, Wang Hou resigned from the position of the famous master of the penalty, returned to his hometown Dawangzhuang, did not spare money, paved the way for the villagers in Zhuangzi to build bridges, set up a museum to run a school, it is also a coincidence, back to the second year of Dawangzhuang, Wang Hou's wife was actually an old mussel with pearls, after ten months of pregnancy, gave birth to a daughter for Wang Hou. This made Wang Hou overjoyed, and from then on, he spared no effort to do good deeds.

However, since giving birth to these daughters named Wang Yueyao, Mrs. Wang has not moved, even if the old man Wang married a young concubine for Wang Hou, he still did not give birth to a son and a half daughter. At this point, Wang Hou also died, thinking that he had done too much evil when he was young, and God was punishing himself, and it was already a blessing to be able to let himself have a daughter.

Now Wang Hou is in his early sixties, and he has been serving as a village leader in Dawangzhuang for almost 20 years, and his daughter Wang Yueyao is also eighteen years old, and she has become a slim girl.

There is only such an only daughter, and the family is naturally a treasure up and down, and it has always been to be windy and rainy, and Wang Hou spared no expense to invite a famous teacher in the county to teach his daughter to read at home. The daughter is also smart since she was a child, and she will learn anything, which often makes Wang Hou lament that if her daughter is a man, the Wang family will definitely have a champion, but unfortunately Yueyao is a daughter's family, but she can only be raised in the deep boudoir.

As Yueyao grows up day by day, the power of the family, but also slowly tilted towards Wang Yueyao's hands, although she is young, but often follow her father to play in her own shop in the city, she actually showed an extraordinary business talent, after she took over, Wang's shop business, the annual profit is rolling up, and now the business has done the county.

As the business gets bigger and bigger, Wang Yueyao often goes out to inspect her own shops, and her horizons are naturally broader, but this makes Wang Hou's old troubles just gone, and new troubles come again.

Eighteen-year-old girl, she hasn't even married a family affair. This is in Dawangzhuang, but it has never been seen, the girl in Dawangzhuang has not married out at the age of more than sixteen, that is the old girl, even if it is placed in the entire Feng County, eighteen years old has not been married, it is extremely rare, either extremely ugly, or there are other problems, but their daughter is obviously beautiful and beautiful, some people have people, and they have talents, of course, there are wealth.

Of course, Wang Hou also knows that the problem is not in others, but in his daughter. Over the years, I don't know how many people have come to ask for marriage, including many leaders in the county, but in the eyes of her daughter, one by one is like a chicken and a dog, and she is devalued to nothing, if she is in a hurry, she threatens to run away from home, this is Wang Hou's old life, the family will see this daughter as the root of her life, there is still dare to force her, and she can only come by her temperament.

But at this age, it is getting older and older year by year, for this, Wang Hou really doesn't know how much gray hair he has, whether he is bitter or angry, whether he is righteous or righteous, his daughter's mother is soft and hard, and the evil consequences of being pampered and obedient since childhood will appear at this time.

This time, the county gave a total of 50,000 catties of grain to Dawangzhuang, and the people in Zhuangzi made up enough 40,000 catties, and the remaining 10,000 catties were directly raised by Wang Hou from his own grain shop in the county.

"Daddy, be careful all the way." Wang Yueyao, who was wrapped in a thick fur fur, only showed a delicate face, and looked at Wang Hou worriedly, "A while ago, people from the shops in the county said that there was a group of bandits gathered on Yanshan, and several Zhuangzi have been affected by disasters and many people have died. ”

Listening to his daughter's concerned words, Wang Hou didn't care much, "Yao'er, don't worry, our Dawangzhuang is not comparable to those villages, look, this time I brought thirty people, everyone has weapons, my Wang is not a nameless person in Feng County, but he still has some prestige, besides, isn't there still Brother Lu?" With Brother Xu's prestige and kung fu in the rivers and lakes, how can those little thieves be his enemies? ”

Standing beside Wang Hou, a burly man smiled at Wang Yueyao and said, "Don't worry, eldest lady, with someone from me Lu here, those little thieves dare to come to find trouble, just clean up, carry their heads and go to the county to receive the reward." ”

Wang Yueyao nodded: "Then there will be Uncle Lao Xu along the way." ”

"Okay Yao'er, go into the room quickly, it's so cold outside, don't blow you sick, I don't know how many times I've walked this road in my life, even if I close my eyes, I can touch the county seat." Wang Hou turned around with a smile, climbed onto a carriage, and waved his hand, "Let's go, let's go, hurry up, this snowy day, you have to walk for a day or two, be careful, don't hurt the livestock, otherwise it will be troublesome." ”

Seeing more than a dozen carriages lined up, holding torches, and walking out against the wind and snow, Wang Yueyao still looked sad, standing quietly at the door, staring at the distant convoy.

"Eldest Miss, go back, there are so many people, and there is a seventh-level master like Lu Yifan to protect you, nothing will happen, maybe the group of bandits in Yanshan has already been exterminated by the officials, but the news has not yet come." Behind him, the chief housekeeper Wang Bao comforted Wang Yueyao.

"Hey, I don't know why, my eyelids are beating wildly all day today, I always feel restless, and I always feel that something is going to happen." Wang Yueyao sighed and said: "If it weren't for the urgency of the official family, why would I have to wait for this snowstorm to stop, and I can only go on the road after I have inquired clearly." ”

"The eldest lady is too worried, then Lu Yifan is not a martial arts master, he is the eldest lady, you spent a hundred taels of silver a month to invite, this money is higher than the salary of our county master, I really can't figure out why he is so valuable?"

Hearing Wang Bao's complaint, Wang Yueyao laughed, "Butler, that Lu Yifan is a master of martial arts cultivation to the seventh level, not to mention our Feng County, even in the county town, that is also a well-known master!" People will come for a lot of money? ”

"In that case, what else is the eldest lady worried about?" Wang Bao said with a smile.

"Yes." Wang Yueyao smiled, and suddenly remembered something: "By the way, housekeeper, that person still can't remember anything?" ”

Listening to Wang Yueyao's words, Wang Bao spread his hands, "Cough, it's still like that, dementia, just eat for him, drink for him, but don't say anything when you ask, Miss, this person shouldn't be a fool, right?" ”

"No, it won't." Wang Yueyao shook her head: "Don't look at this person who is dirty like a beggar, but the clothes on his body are all high-end goods of great value, and he is still alive despite so many injuries, obviously not an ordinary person." First of all, he entertained him, asked the doctor to come and see his injury, and secondly, don't let outsiders know about the existence of this person, where did the doctor tell him, his mouth is important. I always felt that this person was not ordinary. ”

"The eldest lady is kind-hearted." (To be continued.) )