"Will it be good to marry you as a woman?"

Zhang Xiaozu only felt that there was a cloud holding his feet, and his body flew lightly and flew into the sky, floating, like a dream and fantasy.

Que'er thought she would get Zhang Xiaozu's happy agreement immediately, but after waiting for a long time, she couldn't hear Zhang Xiaozu's squeak. Her heart suddenly sank, her nose sores, tears fell down, and she choked and said, "I knew you just pity our orphans and widows to treat me well. I didn't really like me, but my mother insisted that you like me and would marry me as a woman."

Que'er's whimper awakened Zhang Xiaozu. He hurriedly wiped Que'er's tears, and said happily: "Who said I don't like you? I like a hundred and a thousand people in my heart. I dream of marrying you as a woman. Stop crying, if you make a bad makeup, you will become a little cat."

"Then why didn't you respond just now?" Que'er asked suspiciously, suspecting that Zhang Xiaozu pretended to like her in order to make her happy.

Zhang Xiaozu scratched his head awkwardly and said, "Happiness comes too suddenly, and I am so dizzy that I can't react for a while."

"Silly!" Que'er gave him a blank look, but his heart was as sweet as honey.

After the boy and girl pierced the hazy window paper to reveal their true feelings, they fell into a whirlpool of honey for a moment, looking at each other with affection, silent but louder than sound.

"Brother Xiao Zu" was still Que'er who woke up from the sweet vortex first, broke his silence, and asked, "I remember you have a dog skin at home, right?"

"Yes, it's in the west room." Zhang Xiaozu said.

"You go and get it, I'll sew a pair of knee pads for you. I heard that the mountains are cold at night, so you tie it to your legs when you sleep, so that you won't be hurt by the cold." Que'er said.

"Oh, OK. I'll get it." Zhang Xiaozu felt warm in his heart, thinking that it would be better to have a wife at home.

Que'er was doing needlework, and Zhang Xiaozhu sat aside, holding his cheek with both hands, staring at Que'er without blinking, like a fool. He was kicked by Que'er, and then he put away his silly look.

"Qi'er, when you have a come-of-age ceremony next year, I will ask the matchmaker to bring the betrothal gift to your house to propose marriage."

"kindness."

"There is a drought now, and life is not easy, but don't worry, it will be a good time to get through it."

"kindness."

"The weather will be good next year. I plan to reclaim three acres of more than three acres, oh no, five acres of wasteland. Including my existing land, we have ten acres of land."

"Don't be tired."

"Hehe, don't you understand me yet? I don't have anything else, I only have endless strength."

"I'll help you."

"I plan to go to the mountains to chisel stones during the slack season. Let's turn the mud thatched house into stones. I heard that all the rich people in the county live in stone houses, warm in winter and cool in summer, and live in them all comfortably. Let's add two more rooms and let my aunt and Xiaoci come here to live together."

"Listen to you."

"When the days get better, let's get some chickens and ducks to raise them, and then put in a pigpen."

Zhang Xiaozu talked about his plans for the future one by one, and Queer listened quietly while doing needlework, responding from time to time. When talking about the wonderful things, the corners of the two's mouths were raised high, and they had infinite longing for the future.

In the kitchen, Queernie was making pancakes while listening to Zhang Xiaozu's future plans while crying. She knew that her daughter had found a good home, unlike herself, who married a short-lived ghost, and had passed by in a confused life for the rest of her life.

In the evening, Que'er's mother took Que'er away, as if she had taken away half of Zhang Xiaozu's soul.

It was just getting dark, and Niu Dawa came and held a hunting knife in his hand to Zhang Xiaozu, saying that his father specially tailored it for Zhang Xiaozu.

The knife was as long as an arm, the blade was dark and shining with a cold light, the blade was wide and thin, and it looked very sharp at first glance, and the back of the knife was heavy. Zhang Xiaozu held it in his hand and weighed it. The whole knife was actually weighing sixty or seventy kilograms. He was the only one in the village to use such a heavy knife. He liked the feeling of heaviness when chopping.

As a thank you, Zhang Xiaozu forced Niu Dawa to give ten cakes.

Niu Dawa just left, Li Rongxi arrived, holding wine and vegetables in his hand. There was only half a pot of wine and only one dish, but it was rich, stir-fried with pickles and jerky meat, and a solid hard dish.

Zhang Xiaozu did not let him down and drank half a pot of wine with Li Rongxi. The first time he drank, he fainted after drinking a few sips. He grinned and bragged to Li Rongxi. Li Rongxi was also the one who could not drink, and rolled his sleeves and blew against Zhang Xiaozu.

Zhang Xiaozu said that his feet were the smelliest in the village, but Li Rongxi was quite dissatisfied and said that his own was the smelliest. In the end, the two simply took off their shoes and sniffed each other. After smelling them, they immediately became convinced and gave each other a thumbs up.

March 22.

At 7 p.m., the sunset is setting, and the sunset is like fire, igniting the entire sky and reflecting the red mountains of the earth.

A bonfire was lit in a gentle mountain depression. Thirty men sat around the bonfire, each of whom was gnawing dry food, silently speaking, and depressed.

This group of people is not someone else, but a hunting team from Liujia Village.

Today is the second day they entered the mountain. In the past two days, they have climbed up ten hills and hunted dozens of places, but they have not even seen a mouse. It seems that all the living things in the whole forest are dead. They hunt again and again and again and again and receive goods, like a pot of cold water pouring them down, extinguishing their passion and longing when they set off, and their morale is very low.

"Old Niu, let me say a few words to cheer everyone up." Li Dashan broke the silence and said to Dawa's father Niu Yao. His lips curled up slightly and a cunning smile appeared, as if he had expected the zero receipts in the past two days.

Niu Yao filled a pot of shredded cigarettes, took out a piece of firewood from the bonfire, lit the cigarette pipe and took a few sips. Then he said slowly, "What are you talking about? What's there to say? The mountain outside has long been hollowed out by us and people from several other villages. If you can catch things by just surrounding them, will everyone still have to go hungry? They all go into the mountain to grab things and eat."

"Then why are we going to do anything these two days? Eating food is in vain. You should go straight to the mountains." Niu Dawa was dissatisfied with complaining, thinking that his father, the hunting captain, had problems.

Zhang Xiaozu and many others also had the same doubts as Niu Dawa, and looked at Niu Yao in confusion.

"Hmph" Niu Yao snorted coldly in the smoke ring, pointed to Niu Dawa, Zhang Xiaozu and several other younger generations, and said, "Let you dig out bird nests and dig field mice, catch rabbits and pheasants, and go down the river to catch fish and shrimps. Can you support two of them? But do you know how to hunt? Do you know how to cooperate? What should you do if you surround the beasts such as jackals, tigers and leopards?"

Zhang Xiaozu and other young people suddenly realized that the purpose of hunting in the past two days was not prey at all, but to let them, young juniors, master the hunting skills as soon as possible through actual combat. No wonder Niu Yao and other old hunters were so angry in the past two days, yelling and scolding at them, and even sucking tree strips. It turned out that they were teaching their hunting experience.

"This is called sharpening the knife and chopping wood." Niu Yao said. He took a few sips of the smoke pot and continued to say: "Looking at the last hunting game this afternoon, you have basically mastered the hunting skills, so we will not practice tomorrow. Tomorrow we will go straight to Shuanglonggou. After passing Shuanglonggou, it will be the Black Forest. We should gain something there."

"Uncle Niu, I heard that there is a blind bear taller than a house in the black forest, a giant python thicker than a large water tank, and two big hung-eyed tigers larger than a buffalo. Isn't that true?" Zhang Xiaozu asked curiously.

Niu Yao shook his head and said, "I have heard from the old hunter that I have never seen it with my own eyes. Maybe there is, after all, the Black Forest is so big and it is not surprising that beasts with spirits are so big. But even if there are such ferocious beasts, they must be in the deepest part of the Black Forest, and there is no need to be afraid."

At night, wrapped in the knee pads of the birds, Zhang Xiaozhu felt warm all over and had a sweet sleep. He had a dream that he was entangled by a spotted python thicker than a water tank, and was about to be strangled to death. A big black bird suddenly flew from the sky. The big black bird spread its claws, which were larger than a millstone, and its two wings spread out, several feet long, covering the sky. The big black bird grabbed the head of the spotted python with one claw, then slapped its wings, grabbed the spotted python and flew into the sky, and led him to the sky together. The big black bird flew higher and higher, flying higher and higher, and flew above the clouds. Suddenly, his paws loosened, and he and the big flower python fell to the ground together.

Zhang Xiaozhu was frightened and found that it was already dawn. Several people were awake and were packing their things. So they stopped sleeping and got up to clean up their things with everyone.

Shuanglonggou, also known as Yishitian, is a gully between two peaks. One of these two peaks winds northwest and the other winds southwest, with steep cliffs that penetrate into the sky and cannot be climbed. Like two giant dragons, it plates the black forest and imprisons the ferocious beasts in the black forest for harming the world.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Niu Yao and everyone rushed to the entrance of Shuanglonggou. The scene at the entrance of the valley made the thirty people stunned. Noisy and people were everywhere. Judging from the equipment and outfits, they should be like them, and they all wanted to hunt in the Black Forest. It is not difficult to understand that the drought is poisoned and the food is stored. Since there is food in the Black Forest, each village and town naturally had to organize people to hunt in the Black Forest. However, these people were blocking the valley in groups, arguing fiercely, as if the road ahead was blocked and unpassable.

Niu Yao reminded everyone to get together and not to walk around, and then go to the front to find someone to inquire about the news and see what the situation was. After a while, Niu Yao returned with a cold expression on his face, as if he had heard very bad news.

"Old Niu, what's going on?"

"People with dark hearts are making disasters and wealth." Niu Yao gritted his teeth and said hatefully, "The valley entrance was occupied by several big families in the county. If you want to enter the valley, you must pay five kilograms of rations by one person, and you must pay half of the prey you hunt when you leave the valley. These people who are blocked here are all from the villages and towns near us. Look, the people in Zhangjia Village arrived a day earlier than us and are still waiting there."

Everyone looked in the direction of Niu Yao's finger and saw a large group of people from Zhangjia Village. The two villages were adjacent to each other and most of them knew each other.

Niu Yao continued: "There are 90 people coming to their village. If you want to enter the valley, you must pay 450 kilograms of rations, but each of them brought the rations for three days. The total amount was less than 300 kilograms, so how could they pay 450 kilograms?"

"It's outrageous. Isn't this an open robbery? Is there any law of the Heavenly Rule?"

"The Black Forest is not their hunting ground, why should we guard the entrance and not let it in?"

"So many people are afraid of just a few families? Each person drowned them with one spit."

After hearing this, everyone was filled with indignation. There were a few strong-willed people who even rolled up their sleeves and wanted to go to find someone to argue, but they were all scolded by Niu Yao.

Zhang Xiaozu also widened his eyes and was furious.

The villagers of the Liu family are simple and the villagers are all beautiful with humility and kindness. Zhang Xiaozhu has been deeply influenced since he was a child. Therefore, under the guidance of the old village chief Dundun, he was able to easily let go of his hatred of abandonment for his biological parents. It can be said that his heart is good and not evil is rooted. What he sees and hears now has a great impact on his "harmonious and friendly" idea, so he is furious.

However, Zhang Xiaozhu was angry but not impatient. He always kept in mind the teachings of the village chief’s grandfather, and should not be impatient when encountering problems. He must think twice before acting. The more he collapsed, the calmer he should be. So he suppressed the anger in his heart and looked at the valley entrance calmly. After observing, he couldn't help but frown.

The village chief’s grandfather once said: No matter whether it is a legitimate or a fallacy, existence is the truth.

Zhang Xiaozu felt that this was the current situation.

Since it has become a fact that several major families have occupied the valley entrance, what is the reason for its existence? The answer is very simple. Several major families have strong strength to not fear public anger. If you want to enter the Black Forest through Shuanglonggou, you must either hand over the rations obediently or have stronger strength than several major families. And these thirty of them obviously do not have this kind of strength.

After thinking it through, Zhang Xiaozu was deeply frowning, knowing that if he wanted to enter the Black Forest, he would have to surrender to the power of several major families and obediently hand over the food. Fortunately, they brought a lot of food, and after paying it for a lot, there was still a lot of surplus, so they would not have to hunt on hungry after entering the Black Forest.

In addition, Zhang Xiaozu was still a little uneasy. After observing just now, he saw a group of people in the southwest, about sixty or seventy people, all with strange faces. I don’t know which village they were from. The two sides didn’t know each other, but the group looked at them frequently, and at the same time they whispered to each other and showed a fierce look on their faces, as if they were not good.

Zhang Xiaozu subconsciously covered the dry food bag hanging around his waist, his heart skipped a beat, and he immediately knew why he was uneasy.

An ordinary man is innocent and he is guilty of possessing a treasure.

The bulging dry food bags around their waists are the ones that bring guilt.
Chapter completed!