The market lasted for the whole morning.
Tianliu Village really likes the salt, sugar, vinegar and cooking oil provided by Mojia Village.
The people in Mojia Village also exchanged for a lot of animal meat strips.
The girls chirped, "There's actually silk in Mojia Village. It's so soft and beautiful!"
"Yes, and the price is very affordable."
"When I went to town before, I didn't want to buy those bright fabrics. Today I can go back and make myself a new set of clothes."
"I also bought some cotton! It's very cold here in the winter. Although it's still early, it's better to prepare in advance."
"This preserved fruit is so delicious. There is also steamed cake. I even secretly put some in the basket and planned to eat it when I get home."
The little people were all smiling and chatting with each other after the transaction.
Mojia Village has a small population, and some young men are still single, while Tianliu Village also has girls waiting to get married. A young man and woman accidentally bumped into each other's arms in the market. They apologized to each other, but when they looked up, they saw each other's eyes. The girl was shy and hurried away with her sisters, but the boy stared at her back and couldn't help asking the stall owner next to him, "Uncle, whose girl was that just now..."
The stall owner smiled and asked, "Do you like it?"
The young man nodded vigorously and answered directly and affirmatively: "I like it!"
The stall owner said, "That's the girl from the Ge family in our village. If you like her, I can act as a matchmaker and ask her for you."
"Okay, thank you uncle!"
The folk customs in the villain world are relatively open, and the marriage customs are different from those in ordinary ancient times. It belongs to an imaginary area, and the marriage customs are relatively simple. There is no special matchmaker in the village. If a man meets a girl he likes, he can ask someone to ask. If the girl also has this intention, she will send her horoscope. If there is no problem with the horoscopes, they can discuss the wedding date.
As for the person who made the connection, he can receive a thank you gift.
Moreover, in order to encourage childbirth, widows are not prohibited from remarrying, and the restrictions on women are not that strong. Even if a woman becomes pregnant before marriage, she will not be thrown into a pig cage. At most, she will be pointed at by neighbors, and her family and friends will feel ashamed.
If the family is cruel, they will kick the girl out of the house.
But most families are reluctant to kick their girls out.
As noon approached, there were fewer and fewer villagers in the market and everyone started to pack up their stalls.
The little people in Tianliu Village need to cook for themselves, but in fact, no one is hungry at all, because they eat while walking around in the morning, and the gods will add new snacks after they finish eating. Many people have not stopped eating all morning. Not only do they eat with their hands, they also secretly hide some in their sleeves and take them back home.
Luo Mingyue turned a blind eye to this kind of behavior. These snacks were originally for the little people to eat, but some of them were greedy and kept taking them secretly. If they were told that they could take them away openly, they would probably rush to grab them.
Luo Mingyue planned to feed the animals regularly because she had storage space for easy storage. If she fed the animals too much at one time, the little ones would not be able to finish them, and they would not be fresh enough if left for too long.
In Mojia Village, Chen Qi brought back a puppy, a khaki pastoral dog that had been weaned. Its bright black eyes were very lively. It ran in circles around Chen Qi, its tail wagging happily.
Chen Qi didn't know what to feed the puppy. He happened to see a stone basin falling from the sky. He knew it was time for the gods to feed everyone, so he picked up the puppy and prepared to take it to the Xianjuan Terrace for a meal.
Some villagers had bought lambs and were now working hard to build a sheepfold. They were sweating profusely and had not planned to eat lunch. But suddenly they remembered that the lambs were still hungry, so they wiped the sweat off their faces with a towel and planned to bring back some food.
Mo Jin's family has quite a lot of pets, including two lambs, a puppy, and a piglet.
Mo Hanshi rolled up his sleeves, castrated the pig first, and then said to his brother: "My family has raised a pig for a long time, and we killed it during the New Year..."
Mo Jin said: "I don't remember."
Mo Hanshi smiled and said, "That's normal. You were just born at that time."
The two brothers chatted while working.
Shangguan quickly cleaned up the sheepfold and drove the two lambs in. They seemed to be hungry and made bleating sounds.
Shangguan said with anticipation, "These are lambs bought from two different families, one male and one female. They will be perfect for pairing when they grow up and will give birth to lambs in the future..."
Mo Hanshi said, "Mom, you are thinking too far ahead. Maybe one day, I will get up in the middle of the night and be very hungry, so I will roast this little lamb and won't be able to wait for them to grow up."
Shangguan glared at her son, "How dare you?"
Mo Hanshi chuckled and changed the subject, "The immortal has given us some delicious food again, let's go eat."
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This time, Luo Mingyue not only prepared lunch for the little people, but also prepared fresh grass leaves for the lambs and cows, goat milk and eggs for the puppies, and more millet grains for the chickens. Moreover, she had crushed the millet grains and could be fed directly.
The villagers lined up and received food for their pets in an orderly manner.
With all kinds of animals, the village became lively, and children ran around the streets happily chasing the puppies.
Some children were more naughty. They opened the sheep pen and wanted to go in to ride the sheep, but were stopped in time by the adults at home.
The village is bustling with activity.
Seeing the little people laughing, Luo Mingyue was also sincerely happy.
She went to see the situation in Tianliu Village again.
Then he discovered that something seemed to be wrong in Tianliu Village again.
From the blood mist, a group of refugees, covered in dust and ragged clothes, walked out.
The refugees walked slowly and listlessly, as if they had lost hope in life and just moved forward numbly.
Luo Mingyue quickly called Liu Dashi.
"Daishi, many people have come to your village..."
"A lot of people?"
When Liu Dashi heard this, he rushed out of the room with a knife in his hand, calling his friends along the way, and called over a dozen brothers.
Luo Mingyue comforted him, "Don't be nervous. They are not bandits, but a group of refugees."
Liu Dashi said: "We can't take it lightly. The refugees are going crazy and risking their lives for food. In some ways, they are scarier than bandits."
It's safer to hold a knife.
Ever since the incident with Hei Dou, the villagers had become more respectful towards Liu Dashi. Seeing Liu Dashi holding a knife, more and more villagers went back to their houses to get their weapons and hurriedly chased after him.
Luo Mingyue said: "Dashi, there are too many people gathered in your village, let them go back and get bowls and spoons."
Liu Dashi sent a brother to tell the villagers behind him, "Don't bring knives, bring some tableware."
As for Liu Dashi himself, he continued to walk towards the village entrance with a dozen young and strong youths. They carried knives on their shoulders and blocked the entrance to the village firmly.
At this time, the refugees turned the corner and saw the stone tablet with three big characters "Tianliu Village" inscribed on it. Going further ahead was the entrance to the village.
"There's a village ahead!"
The refugees' eyes suddenly lit up.
They couldn't find any food or water along the way. Their legs felt like they were filled with lead and their heads were dizzy, like the walking corpses.
During this period, some refugees even had the idea of killing their own kind, but what they didn't know was that there was an awakened person hiding in the team.
This awakened person quietly influenced the refugees' thoughts and travel routes, secretly helping them avoid many dangers along the way, and finally arrived here.
The refugees originally wanted to break into the village, but when they saw that Liu Dashi and others were all strong, carrying knives, and had ferocious expressions, they thought they were not easy to deal with.
As a result, the refugees were forced to become polite and greeted each other first: "Hello, hello..."
Liu Dashi said coldly: "Okay."
"Your knives are so shiny, they even reflect light in the sun... Can you put down your knives and show them to us?"
One refugee said hoarsely, "Is there any water? Please give us some water."
"Just give us some water and we'll leave right away without any entanglement."
"Please, we really can't survive. My baby is still young. I can live without water or food, but please give my baby some water..."
The refugees were already tired, and as several adults knelt down to beg for their children's survival, more refugees followed suit and knelt down, begging for drinking water.
Liu Dashi pointed the tip of his knife at the refugees and shouted, "You want water? Then stand up and line up!"
"Don't make noise or cut in line, or I'll stab you. Do you understand?"
"As long as you line up quietly, you will have plenty of clean water to drink!"
Liu Dashi shouted a few times with all his might.
His shouting was very effective. Although the refugees did not quite believe what he said, they quickly stood up and lined up.
There are three rows.
Under normal circumstances, some of them might cut in line and make noise, but the scene suddenly became eerily quiet. The refugees quickly lined up like emotionless rag dolls.
In the crowd, there was a young girl with a dusty face, hair like dry grass leaves, and a body as thin as a bamboo pole. She hung her head in silence, and her eyes were a strange green, sometimes fresh like the first green on the treetops in early spring, and sometimes dark like the withered yellow leaves in late autumn. The color of her pupils slowly changed between these two colors, containing the rhythm of life.
An invisible aura emanated from her, enveloping all the refugees. The refugees were connected into a whole, rising and falling together.
As long as the girl is alive, those who are enveloped by her power will not die and will share her life state.
This also means that if the girl dies, all the refugees will die.
When the line was lined up, people from Liujia Village had already brought their bowls and chopsticks.
Luo Mingyue put down a stone basin filled with porridge.
People who have been hungry for a long time cannot eat too much in one breath.
The refugees looked up at the sky in surprise. They didn't expect that such a large object would fall from the sky and land in Tianliu Village. Because Liu Dashi and others were blocking the way, the refugees could not see what was in the stone basin.
The villagers of Tianliu Village felt extremely complicated when they saw the miserable plight of the refugees. They could not imagine that there would be such miserable people in the world, each of them lifeless and dying. Liu Dashi and others took knives and made way for only two people to pass through. The rest of the villagers filled their bowls with porridge.
Liu Dashi said, "Now, step forward in rows to receive your food. If anyone dares to jump out and disrupt the formation, I will let him see what it means to be beaten with a white knife in and a red knife out!"
In fact, this last threat was completely unnecessary.
The refugees came forward one by one, and after receiving the porridge, they squatted on both sides of the road, gulping down the porridge.
They don't even need a spoon, they just use their tongues to lick all the rice grains in the bowl until not a single one is left.
Everyone had porridge.
Soon, it was the turn of the girl with the strangely colored pupils.
The girl had long bangs that covered her eyes. She also received a bowl of porridge and squatted on the roadside like everyone else, but she ate in a very polite manner, drinking the porridge in small sips.
As the warm rice soup went down the girl's face, a faint smile appeared, and she felt particularly satisfied.
But she only drank half a bowl. A middle-aged woman came over and said, "Ye Ningchuan, you have a small appetite, so half a bowl is enough. Give the remaining half to your brother and sister."
Ye Ningchuan looked up, her bangs covering the color in her eyes, and she held the bowl tightly in her hands.
"If you don't say anything, I'll take it as your consent." As she said that, the middle-aged woman tried to grab the bowl from her hand.
The girl was thin, and even though she held the bowl very hard, it was still ruthlessly taken away from her.
A hint of pride flashed in the middle-aged woman's eyes, but when she turned around, she saw Liu Dashi looking at her expressionlessly, with a long knife already on her neck.
"Okay, okay...good man, let's talk it over!" The middle-aged woman was so frightened that she was out of her mind, her face turned pale, and she forced a flattering smile.
Liu Dashi said: "Everyone is very obedient and eating quietly, why are you the only one who is restless and runs to grab other people's bowls?"
To be honest, Liu Dashi felt that the mental state of this group of refugees was very strange, a bit like the walking dead. But after receiving the food, everyone had light in their eyes and smiles on their faces, but Liu Dashi still felt it was weird because the refugees were too obedient, so obedient that it was abnormal. Just at this moment, a middle-aged woman stood up and snatched someone else's bowl, which made Liu Dashi feel that she was a normal person.
The middle-aged woman said in a trembling voice: "I... I took my daughter's bowl. You see she is so thin and has a small appetite. She can't drink a whole bowl, so I took it away. I am her mother..."
Liu Dashi frowned, half believing and half doubting, "A mother is stealing food from her child?"
The middle-aged woman pointed at her husband and her other two children and said, "Look, these are all my family members. Ye Ningchuan is my eldest daughter, and the other two children are named Ye Zhuangshi and Ye Meili."
Liu Dashi raised his eyebrows, "Why does the name Ye Ningchuan sound very meaningful and nice, but the other two children are very...down-to-earth?"
The middle-aged woman explained, "When Ye Ningchuan was born, my husband became a father for the first time and was very happy. He specially spent copper coins to invite the scholar in the village to name the eldest daughter. As for the two children later, they are twins, a boy and a girl. Unfortunately, the scholar was not in the village at that time, so we named the children ourselves..."
(End of this chapter)