After the Spring Festival, Xiao Qian and Xiao Wan also have to work independently. Gao Shulin assigned me the task: when standing on the ropes, we should point out three wealthy families, and the three of them act separately.

The first village we came to this year was called Majiahe, a large village with a total of 100 families.

The platform was built in the threshing ground, the gongs rang in the village, and everyone in the village walked out of their homes. After the Spring Festival, the land had not yet bleeded, and the villagers were still idle at home, waiting for the spring sowing season to come. As soon as the circus arrived, everyone went out.

I stood on the rope and instructed the courtyards of three wealthy families. The three of them climbed up the courtyard walls respectively. Everything went well with Bodhi and Xiaoqian, but there was a problem with Xiaowan.

The problem lies in that Xiao Wan did not throw a stone to ask for directions.

There are definitely no people in the courtyard, but there may be dogs. According to the rules, a thief rides on the wall and must throw a stone to ask for directions. If there is a dog, don’t jump down. However, Bodhi taught Xiao Qian and Xiao Wan various techniques of stealing, but he forgot the most basic way to throw a stone to ask for directions.

Xiao Qian was very lucky that there were no dogs in his courtyard; Xiao Wan was very unfortunate that there were dogs in his courtyard.

Standing on the rope, I saw Xiao Wan jump into the yard and run out of a calf-like hunting dog from the backyard. The yard was frightened and fled, but there was no way to run over the hunting dog, and there was a high courtyard wall blocking him. Xiao Wan was knocked down by the hunting dog, and the hunting dog bit him, and he struggled in vain.

I don't know what to do. If I stop the rope performance and people return home, Bodhi and Xiaoqian will be caught; if I continue the rope performance, Xiao Wan may be bitten to death by the hunting dog.

I was walking on the rope, and I was extremely anxious. What should I do? What should I do?

After walking back and forth again, I finally couldn't hold on and slipped down from the wooden pole. Gao Shulin asked me angrily why, and I whispered: "Xiao Wan was knocked down by a dog in the yard."

Gao Shulin's expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly turned around and asked us to load the car quickly.

The crowd slowly left reluctantly, and we drove away in a carriage.

The carriage ran forward, and I grabbed the wooden strips next to the carriage tightly. Gao Shulin kept looking back to see if anyone was chasing him.

The carriage ran two or three miles away, and Bodhi flashed out of the weeds on the roadside. Bodhi said that he had not yet obtained anything. When he heard Xiao Wan's screams drifting with the wind, he knew it was broken. He quickly climbed out of the wall and escaped. He did not wait for Xiao Qian, and Xiao Qian did not run out of the village.

Majiahe is a large village, and the threshing farm is built on a flat ground hundreds of meters away from the village. Xiao Wan was bitten by a hunting dog, and it is estimated that only Bodhi and Xiao Wan in the village can hear it, and those who watch the circus on the threshing farm cannot hear it.

Bodhi couldn't bear to let go of his two disciples, so he asked Gao Shulin to stop the car and wait. Gao Shulin said, "I can't wait, everyone will be captured after waiting. Let the two of them go to fate."

The carriage ran forward quickly again. There was no pedestrian on the roads in the countryside. The dusk clouds drooped, and the wind blew, and there were snow particles in the wind, which were painful and cold on the face. Later, the snow became heavier and heavier, and the ruts on the road were clearly visible. Bodhi suggested that everyone divide into two routes, stumps drove the carriage forward, and others hid to avoid someone chasing behind. He said: "We have a saying that we don't go to work in the snow."

Gao Shulin looked at the snowflakes flying all over the sky and laughed to the sky. He said, "God helps me, let's walk over, the ruts have long been covered by the snow."

The carriage drove forward again and passed a market. There was no one in the market, only the red lanterns on the roof of the inn, shaking among the snowflakes. Everyone was cold and hungry, hoping to get close to the hot fire and drink a bowl of hot bacon. However, Gao Shulin asked to continue moving forward. He said: "If someone pursued him later, he would definitely judge that we lived here, but we would not live here."

The carriage walked to a mountain pass in the middle of the night. The wind and snow became heavier. The sky and the earth were white. Due to the strong wind, the mountain pass had accumulated several meters of snow, and the carriage could not pass through. When we got off the carriage, I saw the horse's mouth spraying with heat and ice slag on its mane.

Gao Shulin walked towards the hillside with his body slanted, and we were also slanted. The cotton coats on our bodies were as thin as paper and could not resist the wind at all. When we walked down the hillside, I was so cold that my hands and feet lost consciousness. There was a cave under the hillside, and we squeezed in together, relying on our body warmth and body. The tree stumps and horses were also led in, and the monkeys were squeaking and screaming in cold.

In winter north of the Yellow River, the temperature can drop to minus 20 to 30 degrees Celsius, and we cannot live in the wild at all. However, now, we are not in the village in front or in the shop behind us. The mountains are covered with heavy snow, and we can only stay in the cold cave. Everyone's teeth know how to tremble, and their bodies are almost frozen. We put them on the horse's belly, holding the horse's legs, hoping that the horse can give us some warmth.

What's even more terrible is that if we want to make a fire, there is not even a handful of dry firewood here. A heavy snow soaked all the firewood and hay. We can only use our body temperature to resist the surging cold.

The stump said, "Tear the carriage."

The stump stepped on the snow that was waist-deep and came to the carriage. He kicked the carriage with his feet, and the crackling sound of firewood breaking made me hear it in the cave. Then, he overturned the carriage, stepped on a shaft with his feet, and held the other shaft with both hands. With the force, the shaft was separated from the carriage.

The stump came to the cave with a carriage that had been dismantled into dry firewood. However, there was not even the wool firewood that caused fire in the cave. The stump turned around and suddenly pointed at Gao Shulin's waist and said, "Take it out."

Gao Shulin asked with his lips trembling, "What?"

The tree stump said, "Turn."

Gao Shulin thought hard for a while, and then untied his belt with his fingers that were almost frozen. His waist was very long and wide, and there were stacks of bills in his belt, all of which were of large denominations. Cui'er wanted to know where Gao Shulin's bills were hidden, and I also wanted to know where Gao Shulin's bills were hidden, and it turned out that they were hidden around his waist.

The stumps messed up the bills and lit them, and the flames burned. The stumps put the dry firewood from the carriage on the bills. The bills were about to burn out, and the dry firewood finally started to burn.

Gao Shulin crawled by the bonfire, screaming like a wolf.

Gao Shulin's half of his life's savings and Gao Shulin's half of his life's hard work only brought in a bunch of bonfires.

At that time, there was no more thing to ignite a bonfire. All the firewood was wet, the clothes were wet, and the curtains of the carriage were wet. Without a bonfire, we would freeze to death here. We needed to roast the fire, warm our bodies with the bonfire, and dry the clothes on our bodies with the bonfire.

That night I thought: No matter how much money is, it is useless to survive. The most important thing is to survive.

It was dawn, the snow stopped, and the temperature rose. Looking around, the snow was covered with red makeup, which looked very beautiful. However, Gao Shulin didn't want to see it at all. He crawled on the ground, constantly fiddling with the ashes on the ground, trying to find a note that had not yet burned.

Overnight, Gao Shulin fell from a rich man to a destitute, and he suddenly grew ten years older.

The tree stump said: "Money is something outside the body. Think about the situation last night. If you want money, don't want life; if you want life, don't want money. If you want life, don't want money. Is money important to have life?"

Gao Shulin raised his head, his face full of smoked black marks, and he said, "I want life and money."

The tree stump said: "It's not easy to ask for money? We all have the skills, so we can buy a carriage and then work on the team."

Gao Shulin said: "What are you using to buy a carriage? I have no money."

The tree stump said: "If you have a horse, you can buy two big carts when you sell a horse. We only buy one cart, and the remaining money will be used for dinner. If you perform one, you will get one."

Gao Shulin said in a crying voice: "That's all."

The stump asked me to follow him to the market to sell a horse, and the rest were waiting for us to come back in the cave. Everyone was hungry. When we were about to go out, some said they would bring him buns with big meat fillings, and some said they would bring him oil and sesame soup. Oil and sesame soup, now called Mahua, was an expensive food at that time.

We led our horses to the market, which was the one we walked last night. It was snowing all night and the road was blocked, so we had to carefully distinguish it before we could find the road we walked last night.

When we walked to the market, it was already noon. We were so hungry that we were shaking our backs, shaking and almost falling. There were not many people in the market, and many shops on the street did not open. The stump said, "Call me, if you don't shout, who knows what we do?"

I asked, "What are you shouting?"

The tree stump said, "Just shout to sell horses."

I shouted, "I'm selling my horse." My voice was dull and soft, like a cooked noodles.

The stump said, "The sound is louder."

I increased my voice and shouted, "I'm selling my horse."

There was an inn ahead. A group of horse riders walked out of the inn. They had already walked out of me for more than ten meters. Suddenly, they heard me screaming behind me and turned around. I suddenly saw that among the people riding horse, Xiao Qian had his head, and Xiao Qian was riding behind a man, holding his waist.

………

We wanted to sell horses, but we didn't meet the buyer, we met the person who caught us; Gao Shulin and others were waiting for the buns with big meat filling in the cave, but we didn't wait, but the person who caught them was still the person who caught us.

We were thrown into the county prison together.
Chapter completed!