They were warming up by the fire and drinking hot water. The bodies quickly warmed up. A few people sat or lay on the hay in the corner. They were exhausted from running around for a day and didn't want to talk, let alone chat with the old man. They soon fell into a coma. Feeling sleepy.
Chang Yu, on the other hand, was in good spirits. He was leaning against the wall, chewing dry food, and staring at the fire in a daze. Old Pimple had already gone to bed, and the dog was curled up at the foot of the bed, half asleep and half awake.
Really unable to sleep, Chang Yu wanted to get up and walk outside the house, but he was worried about making any noise and waking up others, so he could only look at the empty house in boredom, and then started looking at the animal skins on the wall in a daze.
Skin!
Chang Yu suddenly had an idea in his mind, so he got up and walked towards Lao Baoda's bed.
"What do you want to do?" Before he could reach the front, Lao Gaoda suddenly stood up with a guarded look on his face.
Good guy, this little old man is very alert. Chang Yu was a little surprised: "Let's discuss this."
"What's going on?" Seeing that he didn't mean any harm, Lao Gao'a looked relieved, but he also woke up Wang Zhengnan and others, and they all looked over.
"Will you sell the animal skin?" Chang Yu asked.
"I want to sell it, but I can't get a good price. I plan to go to Jinzhou City to sell it in a few days when the weather gets colder..." The old man rambled on, but Chang Yu interrupted him: "Sell it to us, okay? Let’s set a price.”
"Why did you buy him?" Lao Ge was startled.
"It's cold, wrap it up to keep it warm," Chang Yu said casually, and the old man actually believed it. After all, these people really suffered from sleeping in the open air in the cold weather, and being wrapped in animal skins can indeed keep out the cold and keep warm.
Even Kuang Ren and Wuzhong believed it, but Wang Zhengnan felt that Chang Yu's move must have a deep meaning, but he couldn't figure it out for a while.
He was able to sell the animal skins without going to the city, and the price was pretty good. Lao Gao was very happy and talked a lot. But Chang Yu and the others didn't want to talk too much with him, so they just said a few words. Then he fell asleep again.
Two people were huddled in the haystack in the yard.
Two roots and water
Leading the way and being on guard, this is their duty. Although staying in the village is still a haystack, it is much more comfortable than having to freeze in the wild.
The haystack was sheltered from the wind and still warm. Although the two of them were tired, they couldn't sleep: "Shui Sheng, you said that if we succeed in this trip, can the Governor give us an official promotion later? I don't ask too much, I can do it." That’s all.”
"I don't care about being an official. It's best to reward us with some money and go back to my hometown to get a wife." Shui Sheng said with a warm smile on his face.
"Hey, you are thinking far ahead, and don't think about what happens if we two brothers give up." Ergen sighed: "The man next to us is an adventurous master. Didn't you hear that he wanted to go to the city? Hehe, It was a narrow escape in the past, but this time I'm just afraid..."
"Besides, even if we die, we can still get a large pension, right?" Shui Shengdan smiled and said: "I heard that the brothers who follow him will enjoy wealth and wealth whether they live or die. At least the pension is quite considerable."
"That's true." Ergen licked his lips: "I have been in the army for eight or nine years. I am lucky enough not to die. Now I am still thinking about getting promoted and making a fortune. Alas, I am really dissatisfied..."
As the night got deeper and deeper, the two of them whispered this in the haystack, and unknowingly fell into a dream. However, their vigilance in doing their job was countless times higher than that of ordinary people, and they hardly fell asleep. Half asleep, half awake, and will wake up at the slightest disturbance.
Ergen woke up suddenly and pushed Shuisheng: "Did you hear that?"
Shuisheng hummed: "I think I heard a dog barking..." Before he could finish his words, the two of them quickly got out.
At the same time, Chang Yu in the room suddenly woke up because he suddenly heard the sound of a wild beast. When he opened his eyes, he saw the old dog lying on the ground, staring at the door with wide eyes, baring his teeth and making bursts of noise. Grow.
Just when he was wondering, the door was suddenly pushed open. Wang Zhengnan, who was sleeping in Wuzhong, was still alive. He subconsciously drew his sword and turned over, slashing at the black figure that rushed in. The movements he used were done in one go, but he stopped abruptly, because In an instant, they saw clearly that the person who came in was aquatic.
"Someone has entered the village," Shuisheng said as he picked up the bucket behind the door to put out the fire, and then gently closed the door, making it impossible to see anyone in the house.
There were a few faint dog barks outside, and the old dog in the house roared again. The old dog scolded in a low voice: "Hei Zi"... The old dog lay on the ground silently.
Wu Zhong and Wang Zhengnan were hiding behind the door with knives, Kuang Ren was aiming at the door with his bow and arrow, Chang Yu was standing in front of Lao Gaoda's bed with a knife, and Shui Sheng was hiding somewhere.
After a while, there was movement in the yard. Someone climbed over the wall and came slowly towards the house. Although the footsteps were light, everyone still heard them clearly.
"Old lump, old lump." The man approached the house but did not push the door or knock. He just called twice softly. Everyone heard that it was not Er Gen's voice. They all held their breath and pressed the button directly when he came in. .
But after waiting for a long time, the man made no movement.
After waiting for a while, there was a coughing sound outside the door, and Ergen pushed the door open and came in: "They're gone."
Er Gen had not entered the house before. He hid in the haystack and watched. He saw a person climbing over the wall and coming in. There were two other people poking their heads outside the wall, so there were at least three people on the other side.
As for why the man left suddenly, Ergen said he realized something was wrong.
"What's wrong?" Chang Yu asked.
"odor"
Everyone was startled, and then thought that Shui Sheng had put out the fire in the house just now. The other party might have smelled it. An old man living alone was warming himself by the fire in the house in the middle of the night? Well, even if it was, why was it suddenly extinguished again?
"They are so alert." Kuang Ren couldn't help but sigh, and Wuzhong sighed: "All they do is licking blood with the tip of a knife. If they weren't alert, they would have died thousands of times. Do you think Ergen and Shuisheng are so lucky?" It all depends on luck, but they are not alert enough. They came from the back of the village, so they caused other dogs in the village to bark. If they had come from outside the village to Laogao, we might not have noticed it."
"Are we people or Tatars?" Chang Yu was more concerned about this. Ergen shook his head slightly. He was hiding in the haystack and it was dark and he couldn't see clearly. The other person spoke in Chinese, so it was difficult to judge, but He said that based on his intuition, he was not one of his own.
"Can we still stay here?" Kuang Ren asked quickly.
Ergen looked at the old man lying half-lying on the bed: "Old man, tell the truth, have you been around before we came here?"
The old man shook his head: "There was a wave yesterday, coming from the south. Today you are the first wave."
"Those who come from the south are those who come from Ningyuan," Wuzhongdi muttered, "Damn it, you missed it, or they'll all be slaughtered."
Ergen looked at Chang Yu again: "My boss, do you want to leave?"
Chang Yu thought for a moment: "We are not sure of their identity, and they are not sure of our identity. Even assuming that they are Tatars, the fact that they did not take action just now means that they evacuated because they did not have many people. If so, what's the point?" Terrible!"
"But what if they go to move reinforcements?" Kuang Ren always felt that this place was not safe.
"Where are we going to move reinforcements in the middle of the night? How many can we move? What do we have to fear if ten or twenty of them come?" Chang Yu really didn't want to bother with it in the middle of the night, and after careful analysis, he found that those who took this route were all lurkers. If there is no harvest at night, there will only be a group of three or five people at most. Even if there is help at a certain stronghold, it will only be a few people at most, and it is impossible to move a large army.
Seeing what he said, everyone had no choice but to agree. However, after all this trouble, they could no longer sleep soundly. On the contrary, Chang Yu and Lao Dazai were shouting loudly.
I heard the crowing of roosters in Mimi Lake. It was already early in the morning but it was still dark. At this moment, I suddenly heard two people outside the courtyard shouting: "The bastards are coming again."
