The wooden houses are lined up in rows, and the roads are clean and smooth.
The doors of every house were wide open, and the light of the oil lamps inside was clearly visible. The noise of children mixed with the barking sounds seemed particularly harmonious.
The further the old man walked in, the more shocked he felt.
If it weren't for the guards following him who needed to clean up his wounds, he would have stopped taking one step at a time!
The housekeeper who was supporting the old man couldn't help but increase the strength of his hand, which attracted a sharp look from the old man.
'Don't panic, you have seen the big world, how could you be scared by a small village? '
'The villagers all look very nice, this is a serious village! '
He comforted himself so.
"Shen Lizheng, do we have a vacant house here?"
He was so shocked that he almost forgot about his job!
When Shen Manyun heard this, he slapped his forehead and almost forgot about the business.
"Yes, don't worry, everyone, they will be sorted out later."
After four months, this is the first time a visitor has come to Shenjia Village, and the visitor is a distinguished guest from afar, so he must be well entertained.
"It's getting late today. I'll ask my mother-in-law to cook some simple food for you later. Butler Jiang, don't mind it." "
Thank you Li Zheng, it's us who disturbed you."
The group of people walked around and talked, not only did they finish They briefly introduced each other and briefly introduced the situation in the village.
The old man and the housekeeper also learned something about the village.
The reason why this place is so "prosperous" is due to the fact that the Shen family has a sixth uncle who just turned 70 this year, and it also benefits from the unity of the Shen family village.
Mr. Jiang looked stunned when he heard this and didn't say anything for a long time.
If every village in the Great Yan Dynasty had such wise old people sitting in charge, and coupled with the cohesion of the younger generation, how could it be like this?
"Alas -"
Shen's ancestral hall soon arrived.
The injured guard was taken away by the patrol to clean his wounds, the unused wooden house was packed up and some mattresses were added, and water was added to the large iron pot in the collective kitchen of the ancestral hall, and it started to boil in a short time.
In the wooden house, Mr. Jiang waved to the housekeeper.
"You will deliver our food to the ancestral hall later. It is not easy for the people, so we can't take advantage."
"Yes, don't worry, sir."
Jiang Ming changed his title before entering the village, and immediately called a guard to get it. food.
The master and the servant thought the same thing. Even if the village was aware of the snowstorm before, the food stored in a village was limited, and life would not be easy for any family.
We have to save food. Those who can drink rice porridge are in the best conditions.
Well, I will give you some food later. The guards have been on the road for a long time, so they should eat something thicker. Huh?
"What's the smell? Why does it smell like meat to me?"
Jiang Ming felt that there was something wrong with his sense of smell.
Mr. Jiang was also stunned. He was looking out of the wooden house with his head tilted.
The smell of meat on the tip of my nose was getting stronger and closer, and the next moment it was right in front of me!
Lian Hu walked in with a steaming bowl of meat in his arms, fully demonstrating the village's hospitality:
"Two guests, here comes the food!"
A large bowl of meat was placed neatly on the only table in the wooden house. In the middle of the wooden table, the steam in the bowl rose upwards, and the aroma immediately filled the entire wooden house.
Behind Lian Hu, someone brought four black-faced steamed buns and two small bowls of vegetable porridge.
"I'm sorry to you two, the food in the village is in short supply, so I can only ask you two to eat more meat."
"But guests, don't worry, this meat has been cooked for a long time, and it is definitely not hard or woody!"
Lian Hu said with a crackle. , I didn't hear a reply for a long time.
He tilted his head and looked to the side. Good guy, the eyes of the two guests were straight.
Jiang Ming, who had seen the world, pointed tremblingly at the large bowl of stuff, as if he couldn't believe it:
"This, this is meat?"
"Yes!"
Lian Hu wondered, what else could it be?
How obvious!
"What kind of meat?"
Jiang Ming felt that this village was so hospitable, wouldn't he kill the livestock just for them?
That is unacceptable!
However, the next second, two words popped out of Lian Hu's mouth:
"Wolf meat."
The two of them said: "?!"
***
The next day, the fiery red sun rose in the east, shining on the rows of the village. On the row of houses.
Mr. Jiang put his hands behind his back and walked slowly around the Shen's Ancestral Hall.
The old housekeeper behind him followed step by step.
When the old man saw the rows of game meats hung outside the ancestral hall, the corners of his mouth trembled slightly and his eyes looked strange.
"Jiang Ming, did you see it too?"
Even after hearing Lian Hu's story about the patrol hunting, he still couldn't understand it.
When most of the country is plunged into a once-in-a-century snowstorm, how can there be a village with more meat than grain?
What's more, they also grew green, crispy and tender vegetables in this kind of weather!
Jiang Ming also looked strange, "Master, that's meat."
And there was more than one kind of meat.
At a glance, he could see pheasant, wild duck, wild boar, and the wolf meat he had eaten last night. As for the rest of the weird ones,
it was his fault that he didn't see them.
"This piece of Shennong Mountain has nurtured tens of thousands of Dayan people."
Mr. Jiang finally moved his gaze to the depths of the mountain, where there were rolling hills and mountains as far as the eye could see.
Jiang Ming nodded in agreement.
"Sir, this sixth uncle is a master."
He knows how to use the geographical advantages to revitalize an entire village.
"Haha——"
The old man smiled and looked at him with a pair of wise eyes.
"Do you think all this was the sixth uncle's idea?"
"That's exactly what Shen Li said, and all the men in the village respect the Shen clan leader, don't they?"
Mr. Jiang did not speak this time, a pair of old eyes flashed Some thought.
Others may not have noticed it, but he noticed it when he saw the young man with the scar on his face last night.
The village seemed to be obeying the right advice, but the eyes that fell on the young man were filled with awe and admiration.
If he didn't have some skills, the villagers wouldn't be like this.
From last night to now, although he has never spoken to that person, he feels that those deep eyes are confusing.
Even the little lady who sells his braised pork recipe is not an ordinary person.
"Let's go and look elsewhere."
The two of them changed directions and continued walking forward. Soon they heard the sound of whips hitting rocks.
"Hurry up, hurry up!"
"You've eaten so much this morning and you still dare to be lazy?"
"What are you doing here? It's you two again!"
The old man was stunned when he heard the curse. He turned around and saw yesterday The patrol team who greeted them with smiles and hospitality in the evening was waving their whips to supervise the work.
Directly in front, there were about 100 people with cumbersome iron shackles on their hands and feet, working like prisoners to move rocks. On the other side, there was a wave of houses being built.