That day, Ma Damazi came to visit, and Old Master Long met him in the living room. In just a few days, Ma Damazi was already haggard. Old Master Long hurriedly asked what was going on. Ma Damazi sighed and finally said: "My family has no food... Old Master, can you help me with some food?"

Old Master Long smiled bitterly: "I asked my daughter-in-law to go to your house to borrow food. Why did you borrow food from me?"

Ma Damazi was almost crying and choked and said, "I really had no food. I fucked it and exchanged it for land. Oh! I really have lard. I can't finish it even if I lie down and eat it for ten years. But now, I can't even find a steamed bun! My father-in-law and his family saw that I had a green nose and a green eyebrows. There was no good face in their family. They blamed us for eating all the food and quarreling every day, and I didn't know what to do. I can only come to find you. I heard from my daughter that you exchanged antiques for food. Can you give me some? I used land to exchange for you! How about it?"

"Why don't you buy the property to the restaurant yourself?"

"I've gone, no one wants to change it."

"Why?"

"They said that many people died in these famines. Those who farmed either died or fled to flee. Where can anyone farm? Even if they found people to plant, it is already spring now, but the wind and snow have no intention of stopping. The fields are covered with thick snow. How to cultivate them? If you miss the spring plowing, this year will be delayed again. Now you need land, what else can you do except waste? You are unwilling to change it. The land price in the market has dropped to the point where no one can change a steamed bun for five acres of land. Alas..."

Old Master Long was stunned. Didn’t that mean that all the land in his hands has become something that is worse than waste paper?

Old Master Long smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I can't change anything in my antiques. I've spent half of them now and I can't support them for a few days. I'm still worried about what to do. - Have you borrowed them from relatives and friends?"

"Go!" Ma Damazi said with a sad face, "All people who can borrow have asked me, but the rice merchants refused to borrow, and almost all the others were out of stock. Many originally rich families have started to eat braised vegetables. This is still good. Some people have eaten the whole meal but have not had the last meal. They are so hungry that their eyes are green. They are still hoping to borrow food from me."

The two of them sighed for a long time, and they were talking about food shortages, and their stomachs started to roar.

Ma Damazi whispered: "I have an idea, can you listen?"

"What's your idea?"

"Now that there is only the poor scholar in our village. He has some vision and has accumulated a lot of food, so he can only make up his mind."

"Yes!" Old Master Long slapped his thigh. "Why didn't I expect him? He is very sensible and should be able to borrow it. If it really doesn't work, he can exchange it for antiques. He doesn't know how to use antiques, so he probably doesn't know that the price of antiques has dropped. Let's go to him now and exchange all the antiques for him to eat!"

"I don't have antiques, I don't know if he wants the land. Even if he has a mu of land and a steamed bun, I will exchange it with him! It's great that he can survive now!"

"Do you know where he lives now?"

"I asked, and he went back to Wenshun Escort Agency to be an escort. He should be in the escort agency."

"Go now! Don't let others take the lead."

"Take your wife and children with you and make them cry and pretend to be pitiful. He might agree."

"No need to pretend, we can't find food anymore. We are really pitiful!"

The two of them did it as soon as they said that they would do it and immediately took their wife and children to find Gu Yezhou. The two families were pitiful to the escort agency. After asking, they found out that Gu Yezhou's bodyguard had gone and had not come back yet. His grain was stored in the rice merchant Hu Wanghai's family, and others could not make the decision.

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Gu Yezhou, who was trapped in Lingtai County by the wind and snow, was anxious.

After a few days, the blizzard had no intention of stopping. After discussing, I decided to set off for Nanjia County in the blizzard.

Zeng Pao was also worried about the situation at home, so he agreed to set off and return.

So, the group braved the blizzard and set off along the official road.

Before leaving, Fan Jianmei and the others saw Gu Yezhou and the others off. Because they were together for life and death, Fan Jianmei had some kindness to Gu Yezhou and talked more to him. She toasted him personally, but she couldn't change the temper of the young lady, and speaking was always uncomfortable, so Gu Yezhou was always indifferent to her, which made Fan Jianmei's boss unhappy, but she had already seen Gu Yezhou's indifference before escaping from the cave. Although she was not very happy, she was already a little used to it.

After Gu Yezhou and the others set off, they found that the blizzard was even worse than they thought. After leaving the city and going to the wild, it was almost difficult to distinguish the direction. The cold wind mixed with the blizzard made people unstable. Fortunately, Mr. Fan was grateful to them for sending him all the way, so he prepared enough carriages and horses to let them all walk along the official road in the carriage. There were stoves on the carriages to keep warm.

It took them three days to walk because of the blizzard but they only walked halfway. They had to stop at night so as not to overturn the carriage into the valley because they could not see the road.

On the evening of this day, they camped in a leeward place. Clustering the carriages together and tied them to each other, which can enhance their ability to resist blizzards and block the wind.

Gu Yezhou was riding in a carriage alone. Since she had a skin kinship with Zeng Lingmei, the two of them paid special attention to avoid suspicion in front of others. So she not only did not sit in the same car with Gu Yezhou along the way, but also rarely talked to him after she settled down. The same was true for camping that evening.

Gu Yezhou had eaten dry food and was about to lie down to rest, suddenly, he heard the rushing sound of warning from the bodyguard who was acting as a guard. He immediately pulled out his pistol, loaded the bullet, grabbed it with his left hand, pulled out a single knife with his right hand, lifted the curtain and jumped out of the car.

The corpses and yamen constables on various carriages, Min Zhuang, jumped out of the carriage and looked around with weapons.

I only heard the rushing roars in the blizzard, mixed with the shouts of killing, which made me very nervous, because the blizzards everywhere were too heavy, and there were no people outside a dozen steps. The enemy was invisible, which made me even more at a loss.

Zeng PaoTou and Zeng Lingmei also got out of the car. Seeing Gu Yezhou, they snatched over. At this moment, someone heard someone whispering loudly in the blizzard: "Is Zeng PaoTou here? Come and talk!"

Zeng Pao Head and Gu Yezhou looked at each other, and both of them were surprised because the sound was very familiar, as if it was the voice of the leader of the bandit, the mountain god.

The three of them followed the sound and finally saw rows of bandits in the blizzard, all holding bows and arrows! They aimed at them!

Bow and arrow! It is the deadliest weapon in such a blizzard. Zeng Biao turned his head and said anxiously: "Everyone is lying down and hiding. The bandits have bows and arrows in their hands!"

The corpses, constables and Minzhuang quickly lay on the snow, and some even got into the carriage. The shield hands in the yamen were well trained and quickly stepped forward. Two shield walls were built in two rows of upper and lower rows. The archers' bows and arrows also aimed at the direction of the bandits. However, the visibility in the blizzard was too low, and they could not see the bandits at all. They could only blindly aim at the front...

The mountain god held a thick shield made of long pure iron, blocking most of his body. He showed an eye from behind the shield and looked at them, sneering: "Zeng Pao, don't be nervous. We are not going to fight with you. We want something."

When Zeng Pao heard him be kind and felt a little relieved, he said, "What?"

"When you returned to Miss Fan's family, you took things from the cave."

Zeng Biaotou frowned and said, "The Scar Wolf who took the hostages. Are you yours?"

"No, but I was entrusted to get the thing back. We know that when you rescued Mr. Fan's daughter, you killed Scar Wolf and Carp. I can ignore your murder, as long as you return the very heavy blue cloth package you took. As for what is contained in it, I don't need to say, of course you will return it to us exactly the same."

Zeng PaoTou didn't even look at Gu Yezhou next to him and said lightly: "I'm sorry, when we saved the hostages, we didn't take anything away."

"Impossible!" said the mountain god decisively, "That thing is in the cave. We have found that cave. You killed Li Yu and his men, stacked the body at the entrance of the cave, blocked the cave, and stripped their clothes. The thing was on the carp at that time, and it could only be taken away by you. It could not be someone else! - I warn you, Zeng Eun, this thing is not something you can eat. If you hand it over now, everything will be done. If you don't hand it over, your escort agency will be afraid that it will be a chicken or a dog! This time no one can protect you!"

Zeng Pao said in a deep voice: "It doesn't matter if you believe it or not, we really didn't take anything."

"Do you really don't want the lives of dozens of people in your escort agency? We must get this thing back, and there is no room for anyone to discuss. If you don't give it to us, we will catch everyone in your escort agency and torture them one by one! I don't believe you can hide it!"

Gu Yezhou stepped out and said, "I went alone to rescue Mr. Fan's daughter. When I found Mr. Fan's daughter, there was no one in the cave, but the cave was indeed blocked. But I don't know if it was piled up with corpses. I rescued the hostages and took them away. What I can tell you is that I didn't see any package. Mr. Fan's daughter did not have any packages on her. So, what you said should have been taken away before."
Chapter completed!