After receiving the information from Chen Jiaqiao, Xu Mu stood up suddenly.
"My boss is going out again? It's going to snow heavily in the next few days."
"I can't care less."
If it hadn't been for the heavy snow, he would have thought of going there as early as two days ago.
According to what Liu Wu said, there will be a bitter village four hundred miles southwest of the inner city. In the village, there are at least a hundred mountain hunters who are good at shooting.
Thousands of private soldiers have not been gathered yet, and he does not want to miss out on these good people.
"Wei Feng, order thirty people, bring more dry food, and follow me out of the village."
"General Feng!"
There was a sound of a horse neighing, and General Feng jumped out of the horse gallery, ran towards Xu Mu, and stopped in front of Xu Mu.
Xu Mu looked happy, stretched out his hand and touched General Feng's horse's neck, took out a piece of corn from his pocket, and fed it into the horse's mouth.
After General Feng finished eating happily, he had to kneel down again.
"Don't kneel down, don't kneel down, stand up, you and I are brothers, brothers are not allowed to kneel to each other."
The gray horse seemed to understand all of a sudden. After shaking his mane, he straightened his body again.
Xu Mu then smiled and stood up in the stirrups.
"Master, we're all here, and we've brought a few extra portions of dry food..."
"Okay! Four hundred miles southwest, follow my boss's attack!"
Under the blossoming snow velvet, Xu Mu pulled up the reins, and General Feng whizzed away like lightning. Not long after, he was already two miles away.
Only thirty of Wei Feng's men were left. After being stunned for a moment, they then picked up the reins and roared forward.
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Changyang City, covered with snow, crushed the wine shops that were unable to earn business, crushed the sound of studying in Shuixie Academy, and crushed the backbones of many people.
Yuan Tao was wearing a big cloak. It was rare for him to go out and take a few steps when the snow was light. It was not because he wanted to enjoy the snow scenery, but purely because of the emotion in his chest. He couldn't hold his breath for a while. He wished he could see the snow-colored mountains and rivers of Daji more often.
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Gu Ying held a hand stove and followed carefully.
"How to deal with the body of the Beidi man?"
"Master, I heard that the royal family was being buried in a royal ceremony. After a while, I restrained myself and sent it to the north. But on the way... I was blocked by many knights again, and the body was chopped into meat paste."
"Relieve the qi." Yuan Tao exhaled, and unconsciously coughed a few more times.
"Master, do you think it's the little boss..."
Yuan Tao turned his head, with a slight smile on his pale face.
"Don't talk nonsense. That day, the young master was having wine and wine in Tangjiang City. Many people saw it. Lu Zizhong, a member of the four major families, was also beaten to a pulp for the second time."
"Master, I'm just suspicious. I always feel that this matter is the trick of the little boss."
Yuan Tao smiled, stopped answering, and continued to pace forward with slightly staggering steps.
"In the spring of next year, as soon as the frost and snow have gone, the Beidi people want to knock on the city again. When the robbers come, they don't fight them, but they want to give away their wealth and honor."
"A wolf's ambition cannot be fed enough."
"Gu Ying, I heard something that... Daji can't defeat Beidi. It's because the Great Wall has long since disappeared in the minds of Ji people like us."
"Why doesn't the court use civilian workers to build the city?"
"It is the Great Wall in the heart."
"There is a Great Wall in the heart, which can protect the mountains and rivers thousands of miles away."
Gu Ying still didn't understand, so he simply stopped asking. He just held the stove and followed his master's footsteps, slowly moving forward.
"By the way, where is the little boss?"
"Master, this kind of frost, snow and cold weather should be in Zhuangzi."
Yuan Tao lowered his head.
"In my game of chess, my little boss has a killing piece."
Gu Ying agreed in confusion. When he looked up again, he found that Sheng Xue, dressed in white, had turned around and walked towards the Hou Mansion, coughing.
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Two days later, I was fortunate that heavy snow did not fall. Only the bare old trees and extended dead branches beside the official road were covered with a thick layer.
When a horse's hoof steps on it, it will be shaken to the ground.
"Uu."
Xu Mu stopped his horse and stroked its neck twice before silently raising his head and identifying the direction of travel.
"My boss, if we continue to take the official route, we will go to Muyun Prefecture."
"Take the path."
Xu Mu spoke in a calm voice. Over the past two days, he had heard that thousands of people in Dangyang County revolted. They only lasted for less than a day before the army of Muyun State broke through the city, with more than 10,000 casualties.
Occasionally, there would be people fleeing, following the official route from the direction of Muyun Prefecture, and the bodies of the dead were spread all the way.
"My boss, there is a small road ahead." Two heroes from the Qinglong Camp hurried back.
"General Feng, let's go."
The figures of more than thirty people on horseback only waited for a while, then stepped on the horses' hooves and hurried forward.
"Master, once you enter this small road, there will be no rest in the town."
On these two days, when it was getting dark, they all looked for a nearby town to spend the night. Otherwise, they would most likely freeze to death outside.
"It's okay. There are woods nearby. We'll probably build a wooden shed."
As we drove, from early morning to dusk, until the trail in front of us almost reached the end. Only then did a group of thirty people see the smoke of people in front of them.
"Master, it's almost dinner time, so maybe we can buy some hot soup and cakes." Wei Feng laughed happily.
"Wei Feng, you seem to have forgotten that only in Xujiazhuang can you have three meals a day."
The ancients only ate two meals a day, even if there was no shortage of food. They went out to do farm work in the morning, had one meal in the morning, and had the second meal around midnight in the afternoon, almost in the evening.
Furthermore, in these troubled times, if you don’t even have enough food left at home, why would you want to sell it to passers-by?
"Master, there are frozen corpses here."
Xu Mu paused, looked up, and found that there were five or six people huddled under a bare tree, all frozen.
They were probably members of a family. One of the women was wearing thin clothes and had a desperate look on her face. She was holding the child tightly in her arms.
At the very edge, there was another middle-aged man performing his filial piety, keeping his bow and warming the legs and feet of an old woman.
After thinking about it carefully, during the heavy snowstorm of the past two or three days, the family had no way of survival. They wanted to go to the inner city to beg for their lives, but they didn't want to freeze to death on the way.
If the world were peaceful, the people of this family should be able to work at sunrise and rest at sunset, instead of facing the tragic scene in front of them and dying in the wind and snow.
Before Xu Mu could give orders, Wei Feng sighed and led a few good men to bury the poor man of the family under the tree.
"Go ahead, don't reincarnate in the past few years. If you don't reincarnate as a rich man, everything will be miserable. It will be painful to death."
Xu Mu was silent for a moment. He only felt that Wei Feng, the reckless man in front of him, suddenly spoke to his heart. He thought of Tian Song who died at the border in the distance, and often blamed the words on the corner of his mouth.
It is better to be a dog in peace than to be a traveler in troubled times.
"Enter the village."
After Wei Feng and others walked back, Xu Mu dismissed his annoying thoughts. The figures of thirty riders rushed towards the small deserted village not far ahead in the frosty weather.