武朝, Jinghan Tenth Year, East, Shandong East Road, Yu Ying County.

Winter was deep, and heavy snow fell, covering the small county town inside and out with a silver blanket. However, in the current Yu Ying, not many people would be interested in such a snowy scene.

Except for some wealthy families in big cities, or carefree children, such a snowy day is always the most difficult for ordinary people to endure. Especially after crossing the Qinling-Huaihe line, every winter, people accumulate firewood and often wrap themselves in quilts for a month or two, living unwilling to get out of bed, which is not surprising. One is because the weather is too cold, and there is nothing to do in winter, and the other is because every household may not have winter clothes at this time. Many rural households in some places may not even have basic warm clothing. When winter comes, they can only wrap themselves in quilts and endure the cold. Every time they get out of bed is an ordeal.

And there are also some poor families with impoverished backgrounds who cut firewood and sell it everywhere in late autumn and early winter, but in winter they have no firewood to keep warm. The charcoal seller's concern about the low price of charcoal and wishing for cold weather is not a rare thing in the current Wu Dynasty. In this way, when winter comes, it can be considered a peaceful year if there are no large-scale deaths from freezing near big cities. As for the frail elderly, it is not a strange thing if they cannot survive the coldest days.

Of course, Yu Ying is not a big county, but after all, there is a wharf on the bank of the Yellow River, and some wealthy households gather here. In such a snowy day, there are still people who will go out. In the county town, the business of several of the best restaurants and teahouses has declined due to the cold weather, but the business of brothels, although affected, is not significantly affected. Many wealthy merchants are willing to enjoy the warm, home-like feeling in these places, and some merchants who are stranded in Yu Ying due to the snowy weather have no choice but to come to these places to linger and pass the time, turning short-term business into long-term.

Chunxiang Pavilion, the best brothel in Yu Ying, is brightly lit every day. Thick cotton curtains are hung on the brothel door and around it, and the best charcoal strips are burned inside. The singing girls have melodious voices, the snacks are delicious, and the brothel girls who accompany them are considerate and lovable. If you want to take a bath, there is hot water at all times. Although it is expensive, the wealthy households in the county or the merchants stranded in Yu Ying are willing to come here to relax.

Of course, occasionally there is some excitement to watch.

Just like at this time, a lively scene is taking place in Chunxiang Pavilion. A woman wearing a cotton-padded jacket led several strong men to drag a drunken young man out of a woman's room upstairs. The drunken young man refused to leave, and the two sides almost cursed at each other in the building.

Similar "catching adultery" scenes are not uncommon in brothels. But honestly, if it really gets noisy, it means that the woman herself must have some background, and in the dialogue between the two, others can also hear that the two are not husband and wife. The people in the hall watched the show with great interest, discussing it.

The drunken young man dragged the handrail downstairs, struggling fiercely: "I'm not your husband! I'm not your husband! You are just my sister! Why are you meddling in my business! Why are you meddling in my business! Let go of me, I want to go back and drink!"

The man was acting shamelessly, shouting randomly without any order. The woman in front was wearing a cotton-padded jacket, so bloated that she couldn't see much of her figure, but just looking at her face, she was not bad. At this time, she was trembling with anger. She only said to the back: "Drag him out!" Two accompanying strong men dragged the man downstairs, struggling all the way.

The man grabbed everything he could grab, or simply lay on the ground, struggling and shouting: "I won't go! Why are you doing this! I am your brother! The eldest brother is like a father! Now I am the biggest in the family! You worthless thing, you will not be a Lou family member sooner or later, why do you care about my business! I want to marry you off! I want to marry you off - brothers, this is my sister, I want to marry her off! Today, whoever pays for my wine, I will marry her to whoever it is! Don't drag me -"

This remark caused a burst of laughter from the crowd in the building. For a while, someone responded with teasing, but it seemed that the woman's background was not simple. Someone in the building whispered that the woman was from out of town doing business and had some relationship with Chen Laohu, who had connections in both the white and black worlds in Yu Ying. Shandong has always been a place where the white and black worlds are mixed, and it is because of Chen Laohu's background that this woman could catch people like this in Chunxiang Pavilion.

"This brother, we can't control it if your sister wants to marry..."

"However, it is indeed not good for a sister to meddle in her brother's romantic affairs, haha..."

Ordinary women would inevitably be ashamed and annoyed by such teasing. Although the woman in front of her seemed to have seen big scenes, she bit her teeth and her eyes were slightly red at this time. She went downstairs all the way and put a silver note in the hands of the madam, saying goodbye. The man's shouts behind her became more and more intense.

"I don't want to go... Did you hear that! Lou Shuwan! You're already crazy - I'm the smartest! Let me go back and drink! I don't want to be with you! You take your Yangguan Road, I cross my single-plank bridge! You lunatic! You think you killed... it's amazing, is it! You still haven't understood..."

"Speak louder!" The woman suddenly looked back when the man seemed to say something about "killing someone". Although everyone was slightly stunned when they heard this kind of thing, it was not surprising. Not to mention that the man did not say it clearly, even if he did, given the mixed situation of the white and black worlds in Shandong, what kind of good person would be able to get in touch with Chen Laohu. It was just that after hearing this sentence, no one opened their mouths to tease anymore. Merchants come and go in this area, there are martial arts heroes and heavy criminals in the green forest, gathering and dispersing, and they will be forgotten in a few days.

After walking out of Chunxiang Pavilion, the wind and snow hit her face. The woman wiped the tears from her face and walked ahead. The man behind her struggled all the way, saying that she was not a member of the Lou family. When they came to the place where two carriages were parked by the roadside, the woman suddenly looked back.

"Yes! I am not a member of the Lou family! But you are! Look at what you, a member of the Lou family, look like now! Lou Shuheng! You are the last man in the Lou family, what do you look like now?"

Right now, here are the Lou family siblings who were displaced after the fall of Hangzhou.

"Me?" Lou Shuheng, swaying unsteadily, tried to stand firm under his sister's stern rebuke. He waved away the strong men who were pulling and supporting him, and laughed madly, "I am a smart person! I am just like this because I am a smart person! I want... to live well, seize the day! You... you are the lunatic! Lou Shuwan, look at what you are doing..."

In the wind and snow, Lou Shuwan looked at him and said, word by word, "I am making the Lou family stand up! I... am preparing to avenge Father and Elder Brother..."

"Hahahaha, revenge." Lou Shuheng shook his head and laughed, then shook his head, "You want revenge, I don't want it! You lunatic... you haven't seen it clearly, you can't take revenge at all, even if you didn't see it clearly in Hangzhou, you should see it clearly here! What revenge are you talking about! A Liangshan is all dead! What are you going to take revenge with... you think it's amazing that you killed your husband, you... you just killed your husband, and you don't care about him at all, I can see it clearly, why don't you kill me..."

Lou Shuheng's voice gradually lowered, Lou Shuwan stood there staring at him, her eyes filled with blood, and said with gritted teeth: "If you weren't my brother, I would have killed you long ago..."

"Haha, yes. I'm sorry to you, I and he are sorry to you, back then during the escape, I was blinded by greed, I was about to starve to death, I was blinded by greed, I shouldn't have used you to exchange for food..."

"Shut up!"

"Oh." Lou Shuheng laughed neurotically, "You don't like it, I won't say it. But... I can see it clearly, Lou Shuwan, you can't take this revenge, and I don't want to take revenge with you, because you have no..."

"Shut up!"

"You have no..."

"Shut up -"

A slap resounded on Lou Shuheng's face. Lou Shuheng staggered back two steps and sat on the ground by the wheel of the carriage. He laughed heartily, took out a wine pot hidden in his sleeve, opened it and wanted to drink. Lou Shuwan rushed over and kicked him in the chest, then kicked him in the hand.

"Don't drink anymore, brother -"

She rushed up and punched and kicked Lou Shuheng. She was already wearing thick clothes in winter, and Lou Shuwan couldn't be considered very strong. After punching Lou Shuheng for a while, she only kicked his wine pot away and messed up his clothes and hat. Lou Shuheng was not afraid of boiling water at all at the moment. After being beaten for a while, he mocked there full of alcohol. Lou Shuwan stood there and looked at him for a while, and finally ordered the people next to her: "Take him back to the inn."

Lou Shuheng was taken into a carriage. When the carriage was about to leave, Lou Shuwan raised her face and said: "Brother, let's go back and talk."

Lou Shuheng's head drooped on the carriage window, and he said in a daze: "I still want to go to Chunxiang Pavilion..."

That carriage left. Lou Shuwan stood for a while, then reached out and pressed her forehead. When she turned around, she saw the wine pot that had been knocked into the snow, so she walked over and picked it up. A lot of the wine inside had spilled, but there was still some left. She stood there, raised the wine pot, and gulped down a few mouthfuls, a trace of blush on her face. She said to the remaining followers beside her: "Go... we have to get the Tiger King's business done... After it's done, it will be fine..."

The group walked towards the remaining carriage. When the carriage started, a small village not far outside Yu Ying County. In the dim woodshed, a pair of eyes looked up, watching the snowflakes falling from the window. The eyes belonged to a man with a large frame. He was slovenly at this time, looking abnormally thin, lying in a pile of messy firewood. Half of his face was scarred and half of his face had been destroyed. Therefore, no one could see... the sinner's mark that had been tattooed on that cheek.

Not far away by the stove, a farm woman who was not wearing thick clothes was coaxing a two-year-old child in her arms while adding firewood to the stove to add some warmth.

She was talking in a rambling voice: "...When I picked you up, I saw that you were tall and strong. Even if you weren't a green forest strongman, your good health could help with some work. Who knew that after spending so much effort to cure you, you turned into a fool, alas... a money-losing thing, if you continue like this, I will drive you away next spring... Why do you always look at the window, I know, you are cold, right? I'll help you find something to block it later..."

She is a widow in this village, with some beauty. When her husband was alive, her family was considered well-off, but since her husband passed away, everything took a turn for the worse.

A few months ago, she rescued a man who was washed ashore. He seemed to be injured by swords and guns. She had a little thought in her heart. Instead of letting the things her husband left behind be divided by other relatives, it would be better to rely on a strong man. She took great pains to heal him, but who knew that after he was healed, this man was silent all day long, without saying a word. He didn't know how to resist even when he was beaten and scolded, which made her feel that this business was really not worth it, but the weather was gradually getting colder, and she couldn't just drive a fool away, so she had to settle him in this woodshed, in a sense, it was also letting him fend for himself.

However, this kind of thing actually brought her a lot of trouble. Her husband's things were still her husband's. In the past, some relatives wanted to take them, so they had to cover it up. Now that she has taken in a man, many people have come to gossip these days, and they have become more confident, which often makes her argue with them.

When arguing, the man was in the woodshed, listening quietly. After the widow finished arguing and came back, she would often complain and scold him: "If the weather wasn't too cold, I would have kicked you out long ago..."

When the next spring comes, there will be a silent farmer with half his face scarred in the village. Because he is tall and has many knife scars on his body, although the villagers gradually know that he is easy to bully, no one really does too much. Many people think that he may have some background - maybe he is a mountain king from some mountain. These kinds of things don't matter here, and no one has the intention of reporting to the authorities because of this.

When he goes to the field to farm, the widow with the child will send things over, sometimes watching by the field. There are many rumors in the village, but she is not afraid of being ugly, has a pungent personality, and occasionally argues with people. When the things her husband left behind are gradually divided up, the two will sleep in the same bed. That was in the autumn of the second year...

The trajectory of fate is like countless chaotic strings. Sometimes they intersect. After separating, it is not known when, or even if it is possible to converge again. In the twelfth month of Jinghan's tenth year, Su Wenyu and Wang Shanyue left Shandong and returned to Bianliang. The experience of managing that camp for a few months gave Su Wenyu an unspeakable baptism, and his entire temperament has changed at this time. As for Wang Shanyue, he recently had some friction with the Zhu Family Village, and even made Zhu Biao beat him up severely.

The reason is that he became the third party in the marriage between Hu Sanniang and Zhu Biao...

And after beating him, Zhu Biao asked him to bring a message to Ning Yi: "After the New Year, I will go to the capital."

At this time, in the capital city, approaching the end of the year, it is a scene of prosperity...The trajectory of fate is like countless chaotic strings. Sometimes they intersect. After separating, it is not known when, or even if it is possible to converge again. In the twelfth month of Jinghan's tenth year, Su Wenyu and Wang Shanyue left Shandong and returned to Bianliang. The experience of managing that camp for a few months gave Su Wenyu an unspeakable baptism, and his entire temperament has changed at this time. As for Wang Shanyue, he recently had some friction with the Zhu Family Village, and even made Zhu Biao beat him up severely.

The reason is that he became the third party in the marriage between Hu Sanniang and Zhu Biao...

And after beating him, Zhu Biao asked him to bring a message to Ning Yi: "After the New Year, I will go to the capital."

At this time, in the capital city, approaching the end of the year, it is a scene of prosperity...

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