Since the team cannot survive without Yan Laoer, we might as well go back with him to have a look.
Pulling the team to a temporary camp to rest, General Xue Qi wanted to call a few smart brothers to join him, but seeing that Yan Laoer wouldn't even let the Qi brothers follow him, and made a very bachelor decision, I'll do the same.
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Along the way, General Xue Qi did not control his speed. He knew that the Yan family's cattle could keep up.
Even though it is a cow, it has the patience of a donkey and the speed of a horse. When it gets wild, it can push its head and kick its legs. A cow looks proud of the horses. It will not bully the horses, and the horses will not even want to get close to it.
"Yan Er, let's take a rest." General Xue Qi shouted from the horseback.
Yan Laoer looked at the sky, then at the road ahead, and made some calculations in his mind.
"Brother Xue, if you keep persisting, we can reach Huju tonight if we work hard together."
Mr. Xue Qi: "We can't get in at night. There's no point in being anxious. Listen to me. Let's rest here for the night. We'll get up before dawn tomorrow morning."
"Why can't you get in? Just follow me." Yan Laoer said confidently.
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General Xue Qi looked at the very hidden dog hole under the city wall and fell into silence.
Yan Laoer was kneeling there with his butt sticking out and digging in the soil.
"Brother Xue, don't underestimate this dog hole. Look at how big it is. I specially asked someone to expand it. The loose soil and weeds outside are all decoration. Isn't it particularly hidden? It's easy to get out from inside, but it will be troublesome for us to enter from the outside.
Fortunately, the weather is warm and the soil is civilized now, otherwise it would be really difficult for us two to dig, huh? Brother Xue, what are you doing standing there? Come and help!"
He turned around and saw that Mr. Xue Qi was not moving at the side, so he urged anxiously.
Mr. Xue Qi's expression changed.
Suddenly he moved.
He grabbed a stone nearby and followed Yan Laoer's example, kneeling down and digging.
Yan Laoer got help and took the opportunity to straighten his back.
"This dog cave is not very close to the county government office. We have to walk for a while to get through it."
Mr. Xue Qi stopped and turned to look at him: "What do you mean by this? How many dog holes are there like this?"
Yan Laoer chuckled and said: "It's not good, you don't know the benefits of the dog hole. Last autumn, if it hadn't been for it, we would have been blocked by Beirong in it."
The Beirong army has been eliminated, and the great revenge has been avenged. Yan Laoer now feels very peaceful when he talks about it.
"By the way, Brother Xue, we are back. Do you want to go home and visit us? We left in a hurry. My sister-in-law and children are all thinking about us, right?"
"I take it you want to go home, right?" Mr. Xue Qi couldn't help but complain: "I'm talking about Yan Er, I'm not talking about you. You're a grown man who thinks about your mother-in-law and mother all day long.
When we came here, you still found so many things for yourself. If you hadn't brought a message home to the brothers in the vigilante group, would we have been able to come out almost two hours later? If it's the same, there's nothing you can't remember, and you still have to do it
Write it down. Not only do you bring messages, you also carry things! Those cow and sheep skins haven’t been divided yet, so I’m going to ask you how to divide them up. Good guy, you don’t have anything, so you dare to give people the money to give to their homes?
You, you, you! Let me tell you what you are good at!"
General Xue Qi became very angry when he mentioned this.
If you do what Yan Laoer does, the team will really be out of control.
Yan Laoer doesn't feel that he is at fault.
He said plausibly: "We are a militia, different from your frontier troops. You have wages, what do we have? It's so cold, haha, what are you risking your life for? Don't you just want to earn more money to support your family?"
"It's okay if I don't come back early. Now that I'm back, I must first settle down the brothers' homes. When the homes are well, everyone can feel at ease."
"Seeing that spring plowing is about to begin, it's still a matter of debate whether we can come back in time. They are all the strong laborers in the family. We have taken them out. Who in the family will work in the fields? Find someone to help with the work, even if the relatives say they don't need money.
You have to take care of people's meals."
Yan Laoer continued to dig the soil and babbled: "Repay it to my mother-in-law. I don't think she cares about it. It delayed the spring plowing and the harvest in the field is small. Who cares? Don't worry about your feelings. You can stand and talk.
No back pain.”
"Oh! That's enough!" Yan Laoer cheered in surprise.
No one else has this kind of emotional transformation.
"Hurry up, Brother Xue, I'll get in first, you behind me."
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"Brother Xue, please stand upright first, be sure to stand firm, wait for me to step on, then slowly stand up straight, be sure to keep steady and don't shake." Yan Laoer took a breath in each of his hands and rubbed them.
If you rub him, you have to pull Mr. Xue Qi’s collar.
Mr. Xue Qi:......
His eyelids drooped, and his face also drooped.
Let's get it straight, let's get it straight.
Ah...so annoying!
Why on earth can’t I think of coming back with Yan Laoer? Why!
"Brother Xue, just wait for me. I'll pull you up when I get up!" Yan Laoer finally climbed onto Mr. Xue Qi's shoulders with difficulty, his legs trembling uncontrollably.
"Brother Xue, please stop shaking? I can't even stand still!" he whispered anxiously.
General Xue Qi rolled his eyes.
"I can't even shake you to death! Yan Er, can you do it? If you can't climb up, take my place."
"Brother Xue!" Yan Laoer shouted softly with a straight face: "Do you want to call the border troops who are surrounding the county government office at the other end? I have already said, keep your voice down! Keep your voice down!"
Yan Laoer quite hated the fact that iron was not made of steel. He puffed his hands twice while muttering in his mouth: "I told you that I will come back alone. The target is still small. You must follow me."
Just follow me, if you still don’t obey me and don’t cooperate..."
He tried twice, stood on tiptoes and finally raised his arms to the eaves. Panting heavily, his feet kept fluttering in the air. Even if he didn't flutter up, he would sweat from the tossing.
Mr. Xue Qi was looking at him from below with his arms crossed.
"Yan Er, how are you? Can you still go up?"
"Brother Xue, please help me, brother, I can't hold on any longer." When Yan Laoer asked for help, his eyes looked sincere.
The dog's face changes, but that's all.
Mr. Xue Qi supported him with both hands and watched as Yan Laoer climbed up to the roof.
He took a running start, hooked up to the eaves of the house, and with the help of Yan Laoer's pulling force, he was instantly on top of the house.
"Brother Xue, follow me." Yan Laoer crouched and moved cautiously across the room.
Mr. Xue Qi also imitated him and walked on the roof like a thief.
After all, I had never practiced Qinggong or anything like that. It was cold and I wore a lot of clothes. The tiles that the two old men stepped on made a clicking sound.
The border troops surrounding the county government office not far away just thought they were deaf.
But the continuous sound of stepping on tiles was really annoying, so I couldn't help but complain to the people next to me.
"These Huju people really don't have enough room to go to during the day, and they don't stop at night. They give away so many things. I looked in yesterday and saw that all the people in the county government are getting fat."
"Okay, the prince didn't treat us badly, and the prince's concubine was so generous! He never sent someone to give us a reward. The concierge prepares hot water for us every day, and no one brings anything inside. Do you think those
Did the briquettes form and fly in by themselves?"