Yao Heizhu pointed to a separate thatched hut at the entrance of the village and said, "There is only Yao Ergou in this thatched hut, and he is the only one at home. A few days ago, he was forced to go there by nearby Heixiong Mountain. The house was empty, so let's live there for the young hero."

Jiang Chen bowed and said, "Thank you, the village chief."

Yao Heizhu was about to turn around and leave, Jiang Chen waved and shouted, "Wait for a moment, let's take this sheep together. I'll stay for a few more days and go back to hunt in the mountains."

Yao Heizhu was stunned at first, then his eyes turned red. He knew that he had met a kind-hearted person today, so he was not polite. Because it was really necessary, he bowed and thanked him: "Thank you, Young Master. I'm embarrassed to ask you along the way. I dare to ask the young master's name."

Jiang Chen was stunned for a moment, thinking about the new arrival in Zhongtu, and there was no enemy hunting him down, so he didn't need to hide his name, and then said, "I'm Xia Jiangchen."

After Yao Heizhu thanked him again, he happily carried the sheep away.

The hut is not big, with a small dilapidated square table, a bench, a earth stove near the doors and windows, two broken bowls next to the stove, and a half-broken water tank with a large, flat mouth.

Beside the house, a wooden board is cushioned with stones, and the compacted hay is laid on it, which is the bed for sleeping.

Jiang Chen didn't mind either. He had slept with tree holes and rocks, and it was good to have a bed now.

I came to sit by the bed and was thinking about my future plans. When I heard the noise outside the house, it seemed that everyone in the village had run out.

Jiang Chen was curious and went out to see what happened. When he saw a large number of young and old people in the village, he walked towards the entrance of the village one after another.

I saw the old and small village gathering in the small square at the entrance of the village. The two big pots that were set up were smelling from afar.

Yao Ergou's house was very close to the entrance of the village. When he approached the crowd, he heard someone muttering: "I'll drink meat soup tonight. The village chief brought the mutton back."

When I got closer, I saw that the pot was boiling mutton, and the food was boiling wild vegetables and leaves.

When Yao Heizhu saw Jiang Chen coming, he stepped forward and smiled, "Young hero is here. I haven't seen any meat in the village for half a year. Today I have meat, so I called the whole village to take advantage of it."

The children behind Yao Heizhu stared at the big pot with their eyes fixed on it and kept swallowing their saliva.

Jiang Chen smelled the fishy smell of mutton soup, so he went up to pick up the spoon and stirred it, scooped up a spoon and tasted it, frowned and asked, "Is this mutton so fishy, ​​haven't been washed and blanched?"

"Hey, Young Master You, you still blanch it? How can we bear it?" Yao Heizhu said with a bitter face: "Just this sheep needs to be cooked for three days, drink the broth for two days first, and eat the meat on the last day."

Another old man continued: "It is a sin to us if you have to blanch the meat. Young man, look at the pot, the leaves of wild vegetables and leaves floating above, but in fact, the bark and roots below are our staple food. Even the sheep bones are crushed and ground into powder to eat."

Jiang Chen couldn't help but frown, suddenly seemed to remember something, and hurriedly said, "The village chief is waiting for me."

I turned around and went back to the house, and soon came over with a pack of things. I came to the side of the pot and threw some herbs into the pot.

The villagers around looked a little confused, and even showed some anger.

Yao Heizhu stepped forward and asked, "What is the young hero doing?"

Jiang Chen did not answer immediately, and stirred the spoon in the pot, scooped up a spoon and handed it to Yao Heizhu and said, "Try it."

Yao Heizhu took a spoon and took a bite, "Hmm?!" Beard's eyebrows immediately stretched out, "Young hero, what did you put on just now? Is it seasoning? When I was in the Cultivation Sect in my early years, I also placed seasonings in the food. These things were only available in the cultivator sect or in the towns close to the cultivation sect, but they were far less delicious than the young hero."

Jiang Chen replied: "Oh, some of them purchased during the tour, and some of them were made by me. In fact, these are all from the mountains, but you just don't know how to make them."

In a mortal society, if life is difficult and you can’t even eat enough, how can you have the time and energy to think about your taste?

Cultivators in the world of cultivation generally do not study this kind of desire, so the development of diet in this world is still very backward.

Anyway, during Jiang Chen's time in Chilan Pavilion, the food was either cooked or roasted, at most it was sprinkled with a little salt, one or two seasoning herbs.

Helplessly, Jiang Chen had to make it himself. It was nothing more than drying, baking, frying, fermenting, pickling, etc.

Fermentation and marination are more complicated. Jiang Chen, who has been busy, has no chance to make it, so he drys it and frys it.

Jiang Chen asked again: "The village chief wants to learn it. I will teach you some more. If you make it, you can use it for some money and food."

Yao Heizhu bowed and said, "That's so thankful to Young Master You."

Jiang Chen raised his hand to stop him and said, "No need to thank you, this is our fate."

After Yao Heizhu thanked him again, Jiang Chen threw some seasonings in another pot and left and returned to Yao Ergou's house.

Not long after returning to the house, Yao Heizhu brought a large bowl of broth to the door and knocked on the door.

Seeing the big bowl full of mutton, Jiang Chen was moved. He knew that each sheep had 100 people in a village, and each person would not be given much, and it would take the third day to share the meat.

However, Jiang Chen was not pretentious and took it happily.

Jiang Chen again told me to practice at night and not to disturb me if I have nothing to do. I would go out early tomorrow morning and come back later. Yao Heizhu nodded and closed the door and retreated.

It is naturally a routine practice at night, and practicing martial arts naturally leaves the village and goes far away.

After many battles with others, Jiang Chen found that he would always encounter enemies whose cultivation was stronger than himself. And in the fight, his martial arts were very insufficient.

Most of them are made up for it by the firearms in their hands, and there are also the support and help provided by Fu Yousheng and Chengkong around them.

Now that I am alone, I can’t always rely on others. What if I run out of ammunition one day?

Therefore, his own combat needs to be strengthened, so he found two combat martial arts books from the classics brought out by Chilan Pavilion to practice.

One is his own martial arts and martial arts, and his sword skills. The weapon he uses now is to wield the shovel like a big knife.

Body skills are to make up for speed, and it is necessary to prevent or avoid the life of the attack.

After yesterday's understanding, the reason why the villagers' lives are difficult is that the young and strong laborers were snatched away by robber monks.

In addition, there are many monsters appearing in the surrounding mountains and forests, and they dare not go too deep to hunt.

Early in the morning, Jiang Chen got up early to practice and then walked into the mountain with his tools.

Until evening, Jiang Chen returned to the village with two packages and two live sheep.

The villagers saw from a distance that the children in the village had just drunk the delicious mutton soup and knew that it was given by Jiang Chen. They shouted happily: "The hero is back, the hero is back!"

When Yao Heizhu saw the two live sheep being carried by Jiang Chen, he hurried forward and instructed the villagers to help fight the sheep.

Jiang Chen ordered Yao Heizhu: "Call the villagers quickly and build a sheep pen."

Yao Heizhu said in confusion: "Is Young Master going to raise sheep?"

Jiang Chen replied yes.

Yao Heizhufu sighed again: "This person is not full, and the grass leaves around him are picked and eaten. How to raise sheep?"

Jiang Chen replied: "Listen to me, I will let you solve the problem of food and clothing."

Seeing that Jiang Chen was so sure, Yao Heizhu knew that he had met a good person and was still a good person. He bowed to Jiang Chen again and called on the villagers to build a sheep pen together. Many people helped him and they were ready soon.

The big pot at the entrance of the village started to boil again. Jiang Chen ordered people to wash the things in one of the packages and let them throw them into the pot to cook together. He also picked some out and threw them into the heat.

In the evening, Jiang Chen and the villagers sat around the fire for supper.

In addition to soup and wild vegetables tonight, each person also had two more foods. The noodles taste soft and soft, and there was a little sweetness after eating them.

After the villagers dispersed, Jiang Chen said to Yao Heizhu: "This is sweet potato, dug out more than 500 miles into the mountain. It grows fast and is very easy to plant. The yield is very large, except for winter. What do the village chief thinks? There is also this white plant, big and juicy, called radish, cooked and preserved for eating."

Jiang Chen continued: "There are also planting grasses that grow until half of the person is tall, and half of them can be cut. The rest can continue to grow. Isn't it just right to raise sheep? After drying the excess, it will be stored as a fodder for raising sheep after winter."

"There are also these herbs that are both useful for curing diseases and a cooking seasoning. I don't know how long I can stay here. You should learn it quickly, at least you won't be hungry again in the future."

Yao Heizhu was stunned when he heard this. After coming to his senses, he knelt down and bowed, "My benefactor! You saved the lives of the whole village! I survived it last year with some old friends. I really don't know what to do this year, so I thought of going out to rob the Tao." After saying that, I burst into tears.

Jiang Chen immediately helped Yao Heizhu up and said, "Miss Chief Yao doesn't have to do this. They are all worthless things. They are all deep in the mountains. Ordinary people are not allowed to enter, and monks look down on these things, so they cannot be spread."

"And you should not just care about yourself in your village. You should teach all the surrounding villages as soon as possible, so that more people can have food, and it is best to try to make more people survive."

Yao Heizhu sincerely said: "The young hero must have been sent by the gods to help us mortals. Don't worry, I will let someone inform the neighboring villages to come to learn tomorrow. How many people can be saved if this is promoted? I will definitely erect monuments and statues for the young hero in the future and build temples for the young hero."

A few days later, Jiang Chen took several villagers from the Tianjiedao to the mountain to catch sheep.

All the seventeen surrounding mountain villages were notified and sent people. They all got three or five goats of varying numbers based on the number of people in the mountain villages.

The newly caught wild goats still need to be domesticated for a long time, so raising livestock is a slow process, and it takes at least one or two years to see the effect.

If the mountain people here have sufficient labor, they will form teams to go to the mountains to hunt, collect, and plant a small amount of them.

Therefore, planting is the real solution to the current food problem. There is not enough farming land in the mountains and forests, which is the auxiliary reason for their planting.

Therefore, Jiang Chen wanted to teach them to open terraces in the mountains and forests. As for the planting of radishes and sweet potatoes, it is simple.

As autumn just begins, if you grasp the time and get harvest before winter begins, you can pass through this cold winter safely, at least no one will die of starvation.

After five days of teaching, the surrounding villagers all returned happily and prepared to start planting crops.

These eighteen mountain villages, including Yao Village, are distributed in a 50 or 60 miles surrounding them.

Yao Village is the strongest village in this area because of Yao Heizhu, and the remaining population is 103.

But in other villages, the fewest people are left, only twenty or thirty people.

The total population of the eighteen villages is estimated to be only one thousand people.

Jiang Chen was worried that those villages with a small population would not be able to complete planting due to insufficient manpower, and they would probably not be able to withstand this cold winter.

Jiang Chen suggested to Yao Heizhu that he would visit each village to see if he could think of a way.

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