"Let's just go? Even in Xia City, when the city is assembled, people from all clans must be present...... It's like allocating land. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info If we leave like this, will we be missing what we deserve? ”

After deciding to go to Onozawa, the young man who followed Jian Chen put forward his opinion, and Jian Chen shook his head and said, "It looks the same, but it's actually different." This is not Xia Cheng, even if we stay, will they be able to accept the opinions put forward? Moreover, if any opinion is put forward, there will inevitably be opposition and support. The more it is raised, the more it is opposed, and the more enemies of the tree become. Since the result is the same, there is no difference between being and not being, so let's stay away. After a month, a result will always be discussed. ”

The attendant asked, "If this is the case, and everyone does not speak, will not they be able to discuss anything?" ”

"Xia Cheng doesn't speak, because Xia Cheng has no enemies in it, and there is no blood feud, the grassland tribe and the Xirong people can't beat us for the time being, and they ask for less, so they can naturally do whatever they want and not fight. If they ask for more, they will definitely fight for it, and there is no need to worry about this. ”

"Then there is no result yet, will they definitely agree to us to build a small city like Shang and Heyin in Onozawa?"

"Yes. Yesterday, several clan leaders who were not around Onozawa also came to me, telling me that they had a vast land and rivers flowing through them, and that they were willing to carve out thirty and fifty li of land with us. It's good for them and no harm, and no one will object. Lay down your hearts, I am the leader of the city, and I will not let the interests of the city be lost. No matter how much I do for the entire Great River Clan, against the interests of the city, everyone will push me down. Now I'm respected in Sucheng because I'm the leader of Xia City, not because of myself. ”

Chen Jian was very sure of this, there were many clan leaders who came to him, and they all hoped that Chen Jian would build the city with only Cangqiao and the workshop near their city on the premise of abiding by his previous oath, and Su Yue and the others also contacted him many times in the hope that he would not change his mind.

After the view was unified inside, it was snowing outside, and a few horses knew that they were going out again, and they seized the time to chew on the beans, and occasionally looked back at the climbing plows in the courtyard, probably hoping that they would break.

The climbing plough was filled with a large number of physical objects and some common goods, Chen Jian walked over and grabbed the horse's hooves and looked at it, wrapped the sheepskin on his body, tied it around his waist with a hemp rope, and his face was coated with coagulated butter to prevent frostbite, and between his knees were the thick felt knee pads that Hongyu and Yu Qian'er brought last time, which was very warm.

Outside the courtyard, Yuemei blinked her dark eyes, shook the snow on the white fox fur scarf, looked at Jian Chen busy there, sniffed the air because of the sweat of those busy people and the heavy smell of the skin on her body, frowned slightly, covered her nose with a cloth, but took the cloth away when Jian Chen inadvertently looked at it, and quietly hid behind her.

"Ji Xia, where are you going? Can you take me with you? Last time, I said that we would go to enjoy the snow together, but you didn't have time at that time, this time you do your thing, I will enjoy my snow, and you can always take me for a ride, right? ”

She breathed as much as she could, but the strong smell of mutton still permeated the tip of her tongue, and when she saw some snow chips on Jian Chen's sheepskin, she subconsciously reached out and dusted it for him.

Jian Chen hurriedly smiled at her, the last time she recommended Xia Cheng to join the alliance, this girl said it very well, and she helped herself a lot. To put it more shamelessly, if Xia Cheng really builds a small city near Onozawa in the future, Yueyi, which is two or three hundred miles away from the northwest shore of Onozawa, will always be a help, so there are a few more jokes with this girl these days.

At this time, since he asked, it was not easy to refuse, so he replied: "I want to go to Onozawa to have a look, you can take it with you, but it is cold on the road, aren't you afraid of the cold?" ”

"It's like eating herbs. Herbs are always bitter, but for the sake of healing, I will choose bitter herbs. ”

She giggled, her face flushed slightly, and she didn't explain whether the brisk recovery of her illness was with Jian Chen? Or is it referring to going out to enjoy the snow?

In my heart, I hoped that Jian Chen understood, but I was also a little worried that Jian Chen would understand, as if the entangled silk threads were a little unclear.

"Okay then."

Jian Chen smiled, handed her a ball of greasy butter and said, "Do you want it?" Apply it to your face, so that you don't get rid of it. ”

Yuemei stared at the oily clotted fat, hesitated for a long time, and finally shook her head and said, "I have a fox fur bib, just shrank your face into it." You are my eyes, and when a beautiful snow scene calls me, I stick my face out. ”

That being said, but when I really walked, the wind and snow hit my face and I sat on the climbing plow and couldn't move, and after walking for half a day, Yuemei was so cold that I couldn't stand it.

There are really some beautiful places on the road, especially near a cold spring that does not dry up in winter, and the trees are full of rime, but Yuemei has no interest, and the ninja in her heart is cold, so she only looks at it a few times, but she is quite interested in looking at the bonfire that she is tired of seeing on weekdays.

Resting by the spring at night, since he has promised Yuemei and owes a lot of favors, he has to think of a way.

A square was tied with some branches, and water was poured on the outside and frozen overnight to form a layer of ice to keep out the wind and cold, and only a small door was left behind that could be used for people to enter and exit, and a layer of skin was rolled up, and some charcoal fire was made inside.

After waking up the next day, Yuemei found this small lattice pulled on the plow, she was not stupid, she could see at a glance what it was for, she went in and tried it and it was really much warmer, at least there was no wind and cold on her cheeks, a smile appeared at the corner of her mouth, and she sat in it and smiled sweetly.

"Won't you come up and sit? It's much warmer inside than outside. Thank you. ”

Yuemei picked up the skin behind her, and saw that Jian Chen was still sitting on the plow and frozen, and at this time, there was no such thing as a big problem between men and women, so she asked very naturally, and stretched out her hand to pull Jian Chen up.

"I'm not going. What the leader likes, the people will always imitate. Today with ice, tomorrow is silk, the day after tomorrow I am afraid that it will be better than whom, and then the cattle and horses are bumpy I am afraid that they will be carried by people. I'm just afraid that in a few decades, the people of Xiacheng will forget to ride horses and not wear sheepskins. If it weren't for the cold, I wouldn't have used it even if I knew. ”

Yuemei snorted, "What's wrong with not wearing sheepskin?" You want to be a ninja of the cold wind, but you can't force everyone else to do the same. Hey, the one on horseback, now let you in and warm up, won't you come? Truth be told, don't be afraid of him. ”

The rider turned his head and smiled, nodded, "Of course I do." Mo said that there are beauties by his side, even if he is just around the stove, it is much stronger than eating the wind. ”

Yuemei smiled: "Look, this is all the truth."

"Yes, it's true, but if I don't go into the igloo, they won't go in, even if they think to it, as long as they don't do it. Xia Cheng didn't ask what he thought in his heart, he just looked at how to do it. Even if you are reluctant and pretend to be a lifetime, what is the difference between that and willingness? I have a clansman named Ji Yun, who used to be a tax collector in the city, and he was punished for receiving gifts from the village, so do you say that the newly elected tax collector must be extremely fair in his heart and don't want to accept gifts? ”

Yuemei retorted: "That's not necessarily. ”

"yes, not necessarily. I don't care if he's just right in his heart, or if he's forced to be just. I didn't ask him what he thought, I just looked at what he did, and the result was the same. ”

Yuemei frowned and sighed, "Do you always think badly of people?" ”

"I never think about good or bad people."

"I didn't want to do it before, but then I realized that there are still good and bad people. Good people, like us, know shame, so they abide by the agreement and do not exceed the rules. The bad people are shameless, and they don't follow the rules at all in order to eat and live. ”

"What does that mean?"

Yuemei looked at the vast field, as if recalling something, and said slowly: "You're going to Onozawa, right?" Onozawa is very large, and two or three hundred miles southeast of Wolgi is its northern shore. A few years ago, slaves in a nearby town rioted, and the leader of the town ran to our town with his children. Later, several cities worked together to drive out those slaves, and many of the originally noble bloodlines were driven to live in the cowshed by these slaves, who could endure such an insult? ”

"I know that these slaves are very bitter on weekdays, but even if they are very bitter, they should not kill, they should talk to those people of noble blood, and don't let them be so harsh. Isn't it good that the slaves worked hard, and the nobles gave the slaves more food, and when they were sick, they visited the cold and wore clothes? Riots kill people, and many people die. ”

Of course, the slaves of that town were defeated, but they did not die, and fled to Onozawa with many people. The leader named himself Ze, and hid in it with his familiarity with Ohnozawa, even if he wanted to encircle and suppress them, he couldn't find them, and even won a few times, and gradually became famous. ”

"Everyone hated him, because many slaves began to work badly, forgot the rules, always resisted, sometimes ran away, and often killed their masters, and all this bloodshed was caused by him."

"My father, after helping the leader to pacify the city, told us not to be too harsh on the slaves in the future. That's what I thought, and I was kind to the slaves, like this fox skin that I wore around me, which the slaves caught in the winter. They used to do what they should, but I gave them more food, and even more meat. ”

"Many people are grateful to cry, I don't ask for their gratitude, but just like you and I receive such a favor, we will be grateful, this is what I said that people like us can understand etiquette and know the rules. But there are still a few people, although they say they are grateful, but secretly lead people to run to Onozawa while the autumn harvest is coming. ”

"The slave who gave me a dog killed my puppy as food when he left, it was only a little more than a year old, and it was obedient on weekdays, but once it went out to play and forgot it on the ground, and it lay there and watched it for a long time, and did not go back to eat."

"The dog owner didn't run away in the end, and died. His death, my puppy's death, was all because of him. If he didn't want to run, how could this happen? ”

"Besides, I've been kind to them all the time, and they've sworn that they won't run away, but how do they do it? This kind of person is a bad person who is ungrateful and does not understand etiquette, transgresses the rules, and is duplicitous. ”

"A rabbit can always give birth to a rabbit, and a goshawk can never give birth to a goose. Knowing etiquette and abiding by the rules is also with the blood. The children born of the noble are always noble, and the children born of the lowly are always lowly, it seems that they are right. ”

When Yuemei spoke, she frowned, full of sadness and heartache, standing on a high place and pitying those who should be pitied, there was some indescribable sorrow in her eyes, full of kind doubts, she sighed leisurely, with a trace of frost on her long eyelashes, her nostrils moved slightly, and some tears oozed out, probably thinking of the poor dog.

Jian Chen glanced at Yuemei and sighed numbly, but somehow he remembered the scene when Hongyu, who used to be a slave, said confidently when he got the spinning wheel, "This is what I deserve, not what you charity".

So he laughed playfully and asked Yuemei, "Then do you think you are good?" ”

"At least it's not bad."

Yuemei recalled it and nodded very definitely, she was very confident and at ease, without the slightest entanglement, she could cry for a puppy, she was really kind, she believed that a person who could cry for a puppy would definitely not be a bad person.

Jian Chen smiled, pointed to the two horses who were panting from pulling the heavy igloo and said, "You might as well ask them." ”

Yuemei was stunned for a moment, shook her head and smiled: "People are different from Marco. The criterion for evaluating good and bad must be applicable regardless of blood, language, and habits. Those slaves who escaped into Onozawa were the most unruly and unruly group of people who did not keep their oaths, and they were all bad people. ”

"Anyway, if you build a castle in Onozawa, you must be careful of the slaves who escaped, but don't kill them all, that would be too cruel, promise me, okay?"

"Onozawa is very big, if you build a castle in the northwest, you can be closer to Yueyi, and you have to take care of everything. If...... Well...... Anyway...... It will be good in the future, and I can go there often and listen to your stories. ”

Her face was slightly red, and it suddenly occurred to her that it would be best if one day in the future she and Jian Chen were together, and the other city in Xia City was very close to Yueyi. Xia Cheng is alone in building a city without walls here, but he has to help more, and his father will not object.

Jian Chen didn't notice his blush, but he didn't think about some things in his heart that he shouldn't have thought about, such as occasionally thinking: Yuemei is very good-looking, her temperament is very gentle, and she may be very comfortable to sleep on, Yueyi is indeed very close to Onozawa, if you can interfere in the internal affairs of Yueyi by means of political marriage, so as to serve as an important foothold of Xia Cheng near Onozawa, it will indeed save a lot of effort.

It's just that...... He didn't like it.

Both of them are thinking about a nearly similar future, the difference is that one is pure and jade, and the other is not at all, full of the squalor of political interests.

When he was fantasizing about a better future, an old man from Awai who led the way in front came over and said hello, and said with a smile: "Ji Xia, Yuemei, if we want to go to Onozawa, there are two places in front of us where horses and climbing plows can pass. ”

"It's rugged, but there's a poplar forest with a lot of holly on it, and it's the season to produce red beans, so I think it's beautiful, and I think Yuemei will like the scenery there. Yesterday I was so cold that I covered my face and didn't have the heart to look at it, but today it's warm, but I want to take a good look. ”

"The other one is flatter, closer to the riverbank, but you can't see anything but snow when you walk past, and there is a village in front of you, you can get there before the evening, you can spend the night in the village."

"Which way?"

Yuemei didn't answer, thinking in her heart that if she followed her heart, she would definitely want to go a little rougher, because she really looked forward to seeing the holly and red fruits that were still green in winter, but it was really cold.

Is it to walk the more rugged road according to your heart and endure a little wind and cold? Or go against the original intention of seeing the scenery, take the road closer, rest earlier and warm up earlier?

"Ji Xia, which way are you going? I listen to you. (To be continued.) )