stubborn thief

Chapter 7 Guo Shanmao

The frontier troops from Yuhebao rushed to find a village in the barren fields before dusk. The village used to be called Guoshanmao.

Mao is a kind of loess hills in the northwest with a gentle top and a steep slope. The village is built beside the mountain. There are many cave dwellings along the steep mountain wall, and there are more residential courtyards. In the past, there were hundreds of households. .

Last spring, there were still a few families here. When Liu Chengzong was out of the fort to recruit troops, he had seen Guoshanmao's sheep herds singing folk songs on the road.

The past years are still vivid in my mind, but this year there are only the collapsed and dilapidated courtyards and the cave dwellings whose doors and windows are covered with loess.

A bit more desolate.

The nearly [-] frontier troops released by He Renlong from Yuhebao were divided into three groups at the mouth of the river. One group led the troops to the northeast to bypass Yulin City and go to Baode Prefecture. The destinations were Shenmu County and Fugu County.

The teams that went to Qingyang Mansion and Pingliang Mansion also said goodbye to them by the river.

In the end, only Liu Chengzu and Cao Yao's two teams went south, with a total of 50 people.

Shi Chang Tian Shoujing led his troops to chop wood, while his elder brother Liu Chengzu had already climbed up the slope of the mountain wall when he first arrived at Guoshanmao, and went up to look at the terrain.

The faces of those who knew each other were full of worries about the future, but Cao Yao's team was quite comfortable, splitting a dead tree and smashing the door and smashing the village, smashing open the soil embryo that sealed the cave when the people fled, Look around for something that works.

It was said to be a lottery, but Liu Chengzong felt that the soldiers released by He Renlong had some problems.

Liu Chengzu's team was recruited from the refugees last year. This year, there was not enough food and grass, and their training was not in place, and their skills were limited. According to the ability of the old frontier army, they were only able to take advantage of the formation.

So 20 people were released.

As for Cao Yao's team, they were all in their thirties, and all of them were outstanding in military skills. There were also many veterans who participated in the Battle of Sarhu, but they had been thieves for a few years, so it was not easy to manage.

Cao Guan, the old thief, was even more happy. He instructed his subordinates to split the door and set up a bonfire. He was hugging his wife and showing off the bronze mirror he bought with three beans. He didn't know what was roasting on the fire. Wandering around the village, greeted with open hands.

"Lion, lion! Seeing you wandering around the village for a long time, what are you looking for?"

"I didn't look for anything. I took Xiao Zhanfeng to the fields outside the village and saw nothing alive." Liu Chengzong walked over and shook his head and said, "I want to see if there is any... Cao Guan team, I turned around twice. Seeing the third brother in high school, have you seen him?"

Even Gao Xian was the third in the family, so he was called the third child of Gao.

Cao Yao smiled and waved his hand: "Hey, what are you looking for, don't worry about Lao Gao, he went to the Qiyan Kiln over the mountain to find his mother-in-law, and it is estimated that at night, he will come back tomorrow, and he will find me. I borrowed three buckets of food and said I would buy my mother-in-law back."

"I didn't listen to him. I told him to take the two of them and tie his mother-in-law back, and tell him to sleep for a year as a son of a bitch. In the end, he would have to give him food..."

Not to mention, among the two of them, Cao Yao is a well-deserved big family. He left Yuhebao with two mules in his fashion luggage, and some things for his soldiers to carry.

This may also be the reason why Cao Yao's team is very comfortable. They know that they will not starve to death. If they can't kill these two mules, they can eat for a few days.

"Then you borrowed his food?"

"Why don't you borrow it or not, I gave it. He said that the family at that time was a life-saving help, huh!" Cao Yao spat into the fire: "Help your life, what is this good thing for his mother? Why didn't he ask me for help? ."

Cao Yao laughed lewdly, and immediately cried out 'Ouch', but it was Cao's sister-in-law who twisted her waist fiercely: "Well, you Cao Liuer, I'm still asking you for help, shameless! "

Sister-in-law Cao looks ten years younger than Lao Cao. She is a beautiful woman with an oval face. She followed Cao Yao when he defected to He Renlong, and has always lived outside Yuhe Fort, and she is also a skilled woman.

"Hey, I'm not going to talk about it now. If I know about this, he doesn't have to give it away...Lion, look." Seeing his daughter-in-law getting angry, Cao Yao accompanies a smile and puts aside the topic, raising his finger to point to the couple on the fire. Piece of meat, said: "Does it look familiar?"

At this moment, the smell of meat will come out. Before Liu Chengzong can speak, Mrs. Cao smiled and said, "Don't make fun of the lion. This is the wild goose that people are fighting."

As she said that, she raised her eyes and said to Liu Chengzong: "You know your brother, you are used to it, and you feel uneasy when you see that you have won the short lottery. When you are about to leave the castle, he instructs someone to ask He Yong to ask for Yanzi."

"One is coming." Cao Yao said, he picked up the wooden sign and looked at the fire, and handed it to Liu Chengzong: "The goose legs roasted for you, that is for your brother, and the rest will be distributed to Liu Chengzong. Brothers make soup."

Liu Chengzong didn't react at all, he fixedly looked at the willow stick that Cao Yao stretched out: "Want one?"

"It's a good idea to keep one of the geese you hunted. It's a matter of whether we will see them in the future. Let's eat first."

Thinking about it too, although Liu Chengzong felt that he couldn't do this, Cao Yao wanted to come back and only goose, the goose legs would be roasted fragrantly, but it was very good, and he sat down and ate it.

Seeing him sit down, Sister-in-law Cao stood up and patted the floating soil on the old cotton-padded jacket, smiled at him, and said, "Lion and your brothers are talking about business, I'll go into the house to burn the kang, and I won't be able to sleep at night if I don't clean it up."

The person walked into the cave step by step and disappeared, Cao Yaocai turned his twisted neck back, the big face plate with the scar on his forehead was still hanging like a dream idiot smile, he recovered his head and shook his head with emotion: "Your sister-in-law is a Nice woman!"

Cao Yao told Liu Chengzong that it was useless. He didn't have a wife and didn't understand it. He just nodded and asked with a gossip, "Brother Cao, how long have you been with my sister-in-law?"

"How long have you been with me?"

Hearing the question, Cao Yao stretched out Liu Chengzong's hand holding the goose's leg and stopped, leaned back, closed his eyes and thought, "Yes, it's been ten years, the year of the Great War of Sarhu, um... ten years. already."

"Ten years?" Liu Chengzong paused, widened his eyes in surprise, handed over the goose legs and blurted out, "I think my sister-in-law is only twenty!"

"Yes, she and I were eleven years old. Without Sal Hu, I, Cao Liu'er, could never get such a good woman in my life." Cao Yao took the goose's leg and took a bite, his mouth was full of oil. " fragrant!"

"Tell me about it?" The wild goose legs were handed back, Cao Yao used a wooden stick to play with the bonfire, his eyes were shining, and his speech speed also slowed down: "That year, when the army was defeated, I escaped with the general, big and small. Be a soldier.

As we approached the pass, the general called Xiong Tingbi to be beheaded. I brought nineteen brothers to bow their heads and worship the heavens and the earth, agreeing to live and die together and escape into the pass.

It was snowing heavily in the territory of Guangping Prefecture, and I didn’t dare to go to the county seat. I wanted to find a village to buy some food... Don’t look at me like that, then I’ll be your age, and I’m not a bastard. I just want to go back to Henan alive and put my boots on. Sold in all.

The village was found, and it was robbed long ago. The defeated army who arrived there first was not safe. The men were all killed, and only the women were left to cook.

We are all very hungry. "

Cao Yao took a deep breath, and then spoke in a very smooth tone: "There is still food in the village, so we pulled a knife on that group of people, and many people died just like that.

I saw that she was so beautiful and fair, I really didn't know how to say it, so I said take her home, she took me home, a big family, I still remember it, the three-entry yard, the shadow wall tile is covered with snow, really it is good!

The wing was burning, and the front and six backyards were all dead. I helped her carry her parents out to bury them, and they got a lot of money... We worshipped on the graves.

They say I'm stupid, but I'm not stupid. How can I keep such a good mother-in-law if I don't mix. After kowtowing, I'll make up my mind. Even if I go back to my hometown in Henan, I'll have to fall to the ground. Sooner or later, my daughter-in-law must belong to someone else.

Later, when I went to Jie Dao, she was a thief wife; I went up the mountain to be a thief, and she was Mrs. Yazhai; I was the team manager, and she was the team manager's mother-in-law.

She's like me, no, she's my brother! "

Cao Yao turned his head with a smile, and said very seriously: "If I keep myself safe, I don't know how many times I'll die."

After that, he took a deep breath again, reminisced on his face, and stretched out his hand to draw between the two: "Brother, let's talk about business?"

(End of this chapter)