Under the moisture of the rain, the leaves that cover the sky and the sun are about to look green, and the raindrops drip down the leaves to the ground, and the bright green seems to soak the earth with the raindrops.

Gao Daquan wore a hat, a robe, a sentry tip, and a steel knife at his waist, and walked cautiously in this dense rainforest. On his feet were freshly woven straw sandals, soft and strong, and the trouser legs of his feet were tightly tied up with fine silk cloth.

The most terrifying thing in the nearby mountains and forests is not the tigers and leopards, there are enough resources here, and they rarely go hungry enough to come out and hurt people. What is really terrifying is the ubiquitous poisonous snake, which lies in the grass and bites the leg that comes over without knowing which grass hole.

Tie the leggings is Xu Ping's request, since someone was bitten by a snake, he remembered this method in the book of his previous life, although he didn't know the details, he would not leave ten after trying a few times. Since people who go out to work have been tied in leggings, the number of people injured by poisonous snakes has decreased dramatically, and surprisingly they have walked much more briskly.

The continuous rain curtain, I don't know where the sun has slipped, the weather is gradually darkening, Gao Daquan looked left and right, selected a big pine tree not far away, climbed up to prepare for the night.

Gao Daquan finally agreed to Xiuxiu and came out to look for Liu Xiaomei, but he couldn't say why he agreed. Although Xiuxiu has watched herself grow up day by day over the years, she has never had a fateful friendship, and it is not worth taking risks for her for this little thing.

However, for some reason, Gao Daquan always thinks of Liu Xiaomei's figure as a barbarian little girl, she is very happy every day, full of curiosity about her new life, and very enthusiastic about everyone around her. Liu Xiaomei's enthusiasm is pure to the extreme, because her love for life naturally emanates and infects everyone around her, the more people like Gao Daquan squatting in the corner of life, the more they are infected.

What about telling Xu Ping? Liu Xiaomei is just a familiar man who defected, what actions can she make with just Xiuxiu's words? Gao Daquan felt uneasy, so he agreed to Xiuxiu.

How is it possible to see everything in life? Gao Daquan was a little reckless, and a little hasty broke into this mountain forest.

It was getting dark, but the rain didn't stop, hitting the leaves overhead, tinkling and dingding. Tall and full of people curled up among the branches, listening to the sound of the rain, watching the dark shadows that flashed in the jungle from time to time, and sometimes the eyes that were as bright as lamps and candles flashed. I took out the bamboo tube of rice I brought with me, and chewed it silently in my mouth, but I couldn't taste anything.

When the boy left his hometown, he also camped in the wild like this, at that time he didn't know the taste of sorrow, every black shadow flashed in his heart will be excited, maybe it is a tiger, maybe it is a leopard, if he pounces on himself, he fights with a big fist, maybe tomorrow he will become a hero of the tiger. That night, he was so looking forward to the colorful life, and waited excitedly until dawn.

And yet nothing happened. He worked for people, ploughed the land, and later became the herding horse and horse army of the herding division, which was plain and bland, and the supervisor of Zhichun Ze was disbanded. Later, he entered Xu Ping's Zhuangzi, and the ordinary life continued, even if he came to Yongzhou with the master, the dull taste of life was still the same.

On this day when it was as light as water, Gao Daquan was a little annoyed.

Just for Xiuxiu's sentence "Her brother is not sick at all", Gao Daquan broke into this mountain.

When the hazy light of the morning penetrates the rainforest, Gao Daquan opens his eyes. The rain became lighter, and intermittently droplets of water fell to the ground, splashing a splash, and the frogs waiting for the insects inside jumped into the distance. Not far from Gao Daquan, a palm-long chameleon looked at him curiously, tilting his head, and spit out long letters from time to time.

Gao Daquan stretched out his body and climbed to the upper part of the tree, wanting to see the direction. The surrounding rainforest stretches like the sea, and where can you see it clearly.

Coming down from the tree and looking around, Gao Daquan followed the terrain and walked down the mountain.

After the rain, there will be a stream at the foot of the mountain, and you can find the way along the stream.

Drilling out of the rainforest, the gusts of mountain wind with the fresh breath of the mountain rain rushed to the body, and the whole person was like being washed and cut off, and the whole person was light.

Gao Daquan raised his head high and stretched his neck to meet the breath. Looking at the rolling mountains around you, the washed green is like a world of jade, and you can grab it as soon as you reach out.

The whistle stick in his hand slammed into the ground, and Gao Daquan jumped up, stepped over the bushes at the edge of the forest, and ran to the rolling mountain stream not far away.

The stream was bone-chilling, sprinkled on the face, comfortable from head to toe. The scorching heat seemed to have been washed away by this heavy rain, and the whole world became clear.

After washing his head and face, Gao Daquan ate dry food on the stream, and stood on a big rock to look at the surrounding environment.

Although Liu Xiaomei's home belongs to Zhongzhou, it is actually far away from Zhongzhou, about a small village located in the middle of Zhongzhou and the inspection village. Gao Daquan had already asked Xiuxiu, there were six families in that small village, a small dam surrounded by mountains, and a river flowed through several houses in the village. The fields in the village were cultivated by the villagers themselves, and the barbarians called them Koufen Fields, which were counted as their own land. However, the taxes collected by the governor of Chungju are getting higher and higher, and the life of these Tita, who cultivate their own land, is becoming more and more difficult.

After being in contact with the Han people for a long time, they also know that the local taxes directly under the imperial court are not increased, and Yongzhou is backward here, there are no miscellaneous taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the burden is much lighter than those of them in the mountains. Over the years, there has been a lot of trouble with the Huang family in Zhongzhou for money and food, but the Huang family has hundreds of soldiers, which one can beat them. There was chaos in the mountains, and the policy of the Great Song Dynasty was to break everything peacefully, never interfere, and the days did not change much day by day.

The village of six families is not small in the mountains, and it is not difficult to find. After coming to Yongzhou for two years, Gao Daquan also learned a few commonly used barbarians, as long as he saw people, he looked for them all the way.

At this time, a piece of bamboo-green cloth floated up and down in the stream, slowly and leisurely, slowly and leisurely floating in front of the tall and comprehensive.

Coming down from the stone, Gao Daquan picked up the pieces of cloth from the water and looked at them carefully. This is obviously from the woman's clothes, it should not be a barbarian, and the barbarian will not use such brightly colored cloth.

Where did the Han woman come from in this mountain? Even the settled Han barbarians have also adopted the customs of the barbarians and will no longer wear Han clothes. Could it be that there are mountain people who plunder Han women?

Gao Daquan lifted the whistle stick and steel knife placed next to him, and walked upstream along the place where the cloth had floated.

The creek is full of boulders, scattered, and there is a small waterfall from time to time, and the road by the stream is very difficult to walk. In addition, the road is slippery in the rain, and the tall and tall people are all staggering, relying on a whistle stick to support their bodies.

After walking less than two miles, the stream suddenly calmed down and became a large shallow beach in the valley. Suddenly, the pile of rubble disappeared and turned into a soft sandy beach.

Liu Xiaomei lay quietly on the beach, her bamboo-green dress was in tatters, and her long black hair was rising and falling in the water. She lay quietly in the water, looking up at the sky, but the sky was full of dark clouds and scattered drizzles. The sky was not watching her.

Gao Daquan rubbed his eyes, thinking that he was dazzled.

This is indeed the little barbarian girl I am familiar with, lying in the slowly flowing stream, like a fairy in the mountains, and her bamboo-green dress is like a flower blooming in the water.

Walking forward quickly, Gao Daquan put down the steel knife and whistle stick, held Liu Xiaomei up, probed her nose, and breathed slightly.

Gao Daquan suddenly didn't know what to do, he could fight the tiger with a steel knife in his hand, but he couldn't do anything in the face of such a fainted little girl.

Just froze in the water for a while, until the mountain wind pressed the water surface and pounced on him, Gao Daquan suddenly came to his senses, hurriedly carried Liu Xiaomei to the river, and found a place to shelter from the wind and rain. Awkwardly rubbed Liu Xiaomei's forehead, her skin appeared reddish, but there was still no sign of awakening. Gao Daquan looked around and felt so helpless, how could things not be what he thought last night.

After calming down, he felt that his soaked body was a little cold, and Gao Daquan remembered that he should make a fire, maybe Liu Xiaomei was frozen.

There was no dry firewood in the woods on a rainy day, so I found a few pieces of wet dead wood, and Gao Daquan took out a small iron bucket from his body. It was filled with kerosene, one of the few necessary items designated by Xu Ping to enter the mountain, and it was also a very precious thing for Xu Ping.

opened the iron bucket, Gao Daquan poured a little kerosene on the firewood he had picked up, took out the flint and crackled for a while, and finally ignited the kerosene and caught it on fire.

Looking at the light blue flames, Gao Daquan carefully used a steel knife to chop the dry wood he picked up into small pieces, slowly led the fire, lifted Liu Xiaomei's body, and gently placed it by the fire.

The firelight slowly changed from light blue to yellow-orange, reflecting on Liu Xiaomei's white and delicate face, reflecting the rain and fog outside, like a dream.

Gao Daquan sat by the fire, put the steel knife on his knees, looked at the rain outside, looked at the firelight, looked at Liu Xiaomei, and suddenly felt that this picture was a little unreal, as if it was a dream.

The flash flood from somewhere leaked into the stream again, and there was a rumbling sound, Gao Daquan woke up and turned his head, only to find that Liu Xiaomei was looking at him quietly.

"Are you awake?"

"Am I not dead? It's like a dream—"

"I also felt like I was dreaming."

Liu Xiaomei smiled lightly, this smile seemed to pull the pain on her body, but it was sincere.

"Brother Gao, did you save me?"

"I-I don't know-"

"Can you find me saliva to drink? I was so thirsty. ”

Gao Daquan jumped up and said: "I'll boil water for you to drink, the official said don't drink the raw water in the mountains, you will get an unknown disease." ”

"We barbarians, we have been used to drinking since childhood, and we will not get sick."

"I'll burn it for you to drink."

Gao Daquan pulled out a large iron cup from behind the bamboo tube on his back, ran to the creek with it, filled a large glass of water and ran back with both hands.

Putting the iron cup on the fire, watching the tongue of fire add to the bottom of the cup, Gao Daquan let out a sigh and said to Liu Xiaomei: "It's so fast, it will boil quickly." ”

Liu Xiaomei's voice was so low that she couldn't hear it: "Brother Gao, don't fill the water when you boil water, the water will overflow and extinguish the fire-"

"Oh, is that so—" Tall Man hurriedly poured some water out and put it back on again.

went back to look at Liu Xiaomei, but her eyes were closed again.

When she came to Liu Xiaomei's side, Gao Daquan came up to her and asked in a low voice, "Are you okay?" Why don't you open your eyes? I'm afraid of you——, I'm afraid of you—"

"I'm so tired, I want to take a break-"

Liu Xiaomei opened her eyes, glanced at Gao Daquan, and slowly closed them again.

The water boiled, and after feeding Liu Xiaomei and drinking a few sips of water, her pale face slowly became lustrous again.

Liu Xiaomei's head was resting in the crook of the tall and thick arms, her long wet hair hung down his arms to the ground, her broken bamboo green dress couldn't hide her body, and she drank the hot water in the cup in a small sip.

Gao Daquan had never had such intimate contact with a woman, but now he felt that it was natural, as if he was born like this.

After drinking the water, Liu Xiaomei rested for a while, and Gao Daquan asked her, "Why are you in the stream?" ”

"I jumped in on my own."

"How did you dive?"

"My brother lost the money and sold me to the Huang family again, I didn't want to, so I jumped in."

Things are simple, repeating the previous trajectory, Liu Xiaomei's voice is very calm, as if this is her fate, again and again, until no one releases her out of the bamboo basket again, no one rescues her from the mountain stream, she ends her life, ends this simple and boring fate.

"I'm not dead. It's good to be alive! ”

After drinking the water, the brilliance on Liu Xiaomei's face brightened again.

The rain finally stopped, and the whole mountain forest was full of joyful breath, unknown birds were singing, countless small insects were jumping in the grass, and even the deer came out to join in the fun, standing among the trees and looking curiously at a tall figure not far away, carrying a woman in a bamboo green shirt, walking step by step towards the forest.

Last night, I found a cave to nourish my spirits, bandaged Liu Xiaomei's wounds, and when the sun was still lying at the foot of the mountain and probing my brain, Gao Daquan finally arrived at the mouth of the valley.

"Out of this valley, we left Chungju, not far in front of the inspection village, Zhang Inspector and I are familiar with each other, you go there to have a good rest."

Gao Daquan said to Liu Xiaomei on his back.

Liu Xiaomei nodded lightly: "It's so good, I don't want to go back to Zhongzhou again." ”

Drilling out of the mountain forest, the sea-like sugarcane forest in the distance is already in sight, and you can even see the curling smoke rising from the roadside settlement area, which makes people's hearts warm to watch.

Gao Daquan let out a long breath and stood up.

"Brother Gao, don't go down yet!"

Liu Xiaomei suddenly patted Gao Daquan on the shoulder and pointed to the foot of the mountain for Gao Daquan to see.

More than a dozen barbarians with knives and guns in their hands were patrolling back and forth at the mouth of the valley, probing their heads to look at the mountains and forests on both sides.

"Coming to get you?"

"Hmm."

Gao Daquan found a clean stone and put Liu Xiaomei down, looked at the foot of the mountain, raised the steel knife in his hand and gritted his teeth: "If you wait here, I'll drive them away!" ”

Liu Xiaomei smiled bitterly: "There are more than a dozen of them, forget it, let's wait here, they can't stay here all the time." ”

Gao Daquan thought about it very seriously, and said that he couldn't tell if he could kill more than a dozen barbarians, and he also fought and killed people by his master's side all year round. Besides, Liu Xiaomei is now even difficult to walk, and she can't protect herself when she is discovered by the barbarians.

Little by little, the sun was rubbing down the mountain, and Gao Daquan was spinning around on the top of the mountain, his heart restless. Seeing that he has escaped from the cage, it is really embarrassing to be stuck here like this. Why don't you take Liu Xiaomei around the mountains and forests over there? What if I get lost? Although I didn't take the main road from the mountains yesterday, I still followed the direction of the valley and really got into the deep mountains and old forests, but I didn't know the bottom in my heart.

"Brother Gao, look, someone is coming over there!"

In the early morning water vapor, the shadows of the black oppressive crowd slowly appeared in the distance, neatly arranged, and slowly pressed towards the mouth of the valley.

Gao Daquan muttered to himself: "The official is here? ”

Huang Conggui, who was leading people around the valley mouth at the bottom of the mountain, was anxious, scolding and scolding, but saw a family member running over quickly, and shouted in a panic: "Yanei, the big thing is not good, the soldiers and horses of Yongzhou are coming!" ”

Huang Conggui raised his foot and kicked the visitor to the ground: "There is no interest, what is the panic!" How many people came? ”

The family didn't dare to get up on the ground, and said: "The black is pressing, I'm afraid there are thousands of people!" ”

Huang Conggui was startled and hurriedly ran to the valley to see. I saw Xu Ping with the soldiers and horses of the inspection village, as well as hundreds of township soldiers in Ruhe County, pressing straight towards the valley.

"You go and ask, what is Xu Tongju doing with the troops? Is it possible to evacuate our Chungju! ”

Huang Conggui stretched out his hand and pushed the family next to him out, and asked the people around him to lead his horse over, something was wrong, he got on the horse and ran away.

Seeing someone coming from the opposite side, Xu Ping ordered the men and horses to stop.

When the family arrived at the place twenty or thirty steps in front of Xu Ping's horse, he knelt on the ground and said loudly: "The villain has seen the general judgment, and we asked the little to ask, how can the general judgment bring people to the Zhongzhou territory, and if there is something to order!" ”

Xu Ping didn't answer, and looked coldly at the valley filled with water vapor.

Sun Qilang, who was next to him, had sharp eyes and whispered to Xu Ping: "Official, the tall and tall people over there have all come down!" ”

The mountains here are not high, and it didn't take much time for Gao Daquan to run to the foot of the mountain with Liu Xiaomei on his back, and walked towards Xu Ping's army.

The matter came urgently, Xu Ping did not discuss it with Cao Zhizhou, Gao Daquan came back, but it was difficult to do it. The Xitong matter is beyond the scope of Xu Pingtong's judgment, and the revocation of a Tuzhou matter can be big or small, but it is not something he can decide in any case, and it is difficult for Zhongzhou to calm down at once if he has a defense.

Out of a sigh, Xu Ping said to the barbarian in front of him: "Go back and tell you Zhizhou, I don't have anything to do here, just watch the rain stop, come over and see if there is a flash flood." It's okay! ”