Chapter 5 Different Beds in the Same Room
In the evening, there was another barbecue and kimchi. After soaking feet after the meal, Yan Duo's father burned firewood under the earthen kang in the wing room and took the two of them to rest.
Today is the third day of the twelfth lunar month, and it is very windy and snowy outside at night. Although the house is extremely simple, the walls are tamped with thick loess, and the outside is thatched and the ground is covered with sea sand, which is warmer than modern houses. There are no lights, and fortunately there is an open fire in the stove hole under the earthen kang, which is not too dark.
The earthen kang has existed since ancient times in North Korea. However, it was not invented by the Koreans, but was introduced from the Bohai Kingdom in the Northeast in the Tang Dynasty. It is also considered a patent of China.
There is only one big kang and only one cotton mattress, so the problem is here.
Cui Xiuning lowered her voice, and said word by word, as if she was squeezed out from her teeth: "I'm sleeping on the kang."
Li Luo sneered: "I won't compete with a woman yet." He also kept his voice down.
Cui Xiuning: "So sincerely reminds you. You should know the vigilance of the detective. If you dare to approach me in the middle of the night, I will implement self-defense. I cannot guarantee whether it will be too much."
Li Luo: "Cui Xiuning, don't you feel that you feel too good? I admit that you are beautiful, but you won't threaten my criminal bottom line."
Cui Xiuning: "You are a criminal and have committed many crimes."
Li Luo: "I have never committed a crime to women. If you are afraid, you can go outside and embrace the heavy snow."
Cui Xiuning: "Li Luo, you are not a thing."
Li Luo: "I have been carrying the stone man in the snow for a long time today. I am too tired and sleeping."
Cui Xiuning: "..."
Li Luo leaned against the stove with her big jacket. It was not cold and could fall asleep.
At this time, the room was half bright and half dark, and it seemed very unreal. However, the snoring of Yan Duo’s father from the main room made Li Luo feel extremely real.
It’s really coming to Yuanchu more than 700 years ago!
Li Luo felt a little regretful about why he was not a Mongolian. This identity could easily make him live a very comfortable life. Of course, he did not forget to despise this idea.
He thought of the more than 10 million US dollars lying in his personal account, a pile of gold bars in the safe of Citibank, a garden villa that he bought in Australia before he had time to live, and a piece of blue and white in the Yuan Dynasty that he had hidden...
Li Luo tasted the taste of losing his property for the first time. The feeling of regret and the sense of security being destroyed.
Compared with the family affection that was originally not available, these properties are his reliance in modern times.
When Li Luo heard Cui Xiuning tossing and turning on the bed, her faint sighing voice did not look like a heroic policewoman, but like a sentimental sad abandoned woman.
Li Luo felt a little guilty. Cui Xiuning came here, but in a word, if Cui Xiuning hadn't chased her, he wouldn't have come here. He couldn't tell who had implicated who.
After a while, Cui Xiuning, who couldn't sleep, her voice came softly like a thief.
"Why are you pretending to be a clan? If you are exposed, will we not cause trouble?"
"Who can find out the truth within a year and a half? It's okay for the time being. Nowadays, Goryeo is ruled by aristocratic families, just like the Korean consortium in later generations. Common people and untouchables are hard to do things, but the children of aristocratic families will be much more convenient. You will know in the future. If we really have to wait until the day when the stuff is revealed, we will not know where we will go."
"Who do you think this father Yan Duo is?"
"It is probably the Jin Dynasty officials and even the royal family who fled to Goryeo."
"Can your belt really sell for a thousand stale money?"
"Bonus is definitely a unique rare thing in this era. Not to mention Qianguan, even if it is several times more, someone will buy it. But I feel that selling this thing will not be so easy, and Dad Yan Duo may have thought it simple."
"Is a thousand guan worth hundreds of thousands of yuan?"
"More than that, it should be worth millions."
"After selling it, we will buy two small courtyards, one of me and one of you, stay away, but not too far."
"Yeah, it's pretty good."
"What you do then will be your business. I will run a female literacy class, be a female gentleman, and teach the ladies of wealthy families to learn Chinese characters, so that I can support myself. If I don't believe me, a woman, can't live with dignity."
"Girls' literacy class? Haha. Why are you dreaming before you fall asleep?"
"You are not only a fugitive, but also a straight male cancer with advanced stages. Warn again, don't approach me in the middle of the night."
Li Luo: "..."
After a while, Li Luo seemed to be sleeping and heard a vague sob, which was Cui Xiuning crying in the quilt. She tried her best to suppress her sobs, and she sounded a little out of breath.
Just cry, it means that the policewoman is also a woman.
I don’t know how long it took, but Cui Xiuning finally got tired of crying, and she was considered to have stopped the “sad” sound.
"Li Luo, are you asleep?"
"without."
"You go out."
"What?"
"I want to use the toilet, you go out first."
"All right."
“Bring it to the door.”
Li Luo wrapped his coat tightly and opened the door bolt. Suddenly, a bitter cold wind swept over the snowflakes. Li Luo closed the door and stood at the door and stared blankly at the sky on the snowy night.
The heavy snow was rolling, and his thoughts were numb. Li Luo felt a burst of confusion.
What to do next?
Stream and survive in this damn world? Facing the loess and backs on the sky, just to pay harsh taxes and avoid starving to death? If you are in labor and military service, you will be burping away by accident? Or do you rely on modern knowledge to get rich, and then let aristocratic officials slaughter them, and randomly search your home and seize property on a charge?
Without power and strength, what else can you do besides being honest and obedient? Living is already good, and it is impossible to live freely and nourish yourself.
Rather than being destined to live so hard, it is better to bet a bet and lose only one life. In Li Luo's opinion, a life that is too bitter is not worth cherishing, especially for those who enjoy modern life. It is better to die than to live too hard.
As for rebellion, Li Luo dared not think about it at all. He just wants to live safer, more comfortable, more dignified now. Whoever prevents him from getting these will he be unable to get along with anyone, even the high-ranking Mongolian Khan will not do it.
The night sky in the distance suddenly began to shine, becoming brighter and brighter. Slowly, a fire rose into the sky. Li Luo immediately knew that a family in that village had caught fire.
The fire became heavier and bigger, reflecting a heavy snow in the night sky, which was a bit grand and magnificent.
There were faint shouts of shouts and gongs and drums in the distance, and the movement should be very loud. It was just because it was far apart, and it was still quiet here.
Li Luo looked at the fire with his sleeves in his arms, and his heart became much quieter and felt warmer.
After watching for a while, Li Luo shook off the snow on his body and returned to the house again.
Cui Xiuning was already asleep, with a slight snoring sound and a dreamy voice from time to time.
"Catch you back to the police station..."
"You are looking for death..."
"Mother……"
Li Luo shook his head, sat down against the stove, and soon fell asleep.
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When he woke up the next day, Li Luo took out his watch and saw that it was already past nine o'clock. He was a little disappointed. This was not a dream.
It was unforgivable to the ancients to get up at this point. Cui Xiuning had not woken up yet and slept very heavily. She didn't know where her so-called vigilance of the detective was gone.
"Get up." Li Luo gently pushed her.
Unexpectedly, Cui Xiuning woke up immediately. She seemed to subconsciously turn her wrist and deduct Li Luo's right hand, "What are you doing?"
Seeing her red and swollen eyes, Li Luo was too lazy to speak and put his watch in front of her.
"Nine o'clock! It's broken, late..."
As soon as he said that, his face changed. He looked around and obviously understood the situation and slowly showed a look of disappointment.
"I thought it was a dream." His voice was lazy, with resentment from getting up.
Li Luo whispered: "Let's go out quickly, Dad Yan Duo should be unhappy."
The two of them came to Yan Duo's main room and saw that in addition to Yan Duo, there were two middle-aged men in their forties, who were talking to Yan Duo's father while cooking fire, and they were also in Chinese with a Heluo accent.
"Last night, the pirates were very poisonous. They not only set fire to the house, but also slaughtered more than a dozen masters and servants of the Pu family. Without waiting for the Korean official to come and get them, they had already brought the money and goods of the Pu family to sail to the sea. How could they catch them..." said a big man.
Another great man said: "It's a pity that the Park family is kind and suffered such a disaster."
When Li Luo heard the conversation between the two, he realized that the firelight he saw last night was a pirate killing and setting fire.
Both of them are very tall, but they are skinny and have a pale face and thin skin, which is obviously difficult to eat.
Li Luo shouted "Dad Yan Duo" and quickly bowed to the two of them, "Li Luo has met two brothers." Cui Xiuning also bowed slightly.
Yan Duo smiled at the two people and said, "This is the little couple who stayed overnight last night." He also introduced to Li Luo separately: "This is Du Lie, this is Wu Tu, both of my clan nephews."
Du Lie and Wu Tu also bowed their fists and called him a distinguished guest, but his expression was a little cold.
Chapter completed!