Ye Zheng followed Li Shiqing to the foot of the mountain and told everyone in Niujia Village that Deng Sanniang had allowed them to join Feifeng Village. Everyone was very happy after hearing it, and suddenly they all felt that their hanging hearts had been settled.
So under Li Shiqing's urging, everyone in Niujia Village packed their bags and followed him up the mountain, preparing to accept the settlement in the village.
Along the way, Ye Zheng kept looking for opportunities to talk to Li Shiqing. Through a conversation with him, he roughly understood some of the basic situation and power structure of Feifeng Village. Currently, Feifeng Village, including Deng Sanniang, has a thousand
There are more than 300 people, led by a total of three village leaders. In addition to her as the chief village leader, there are also two deputy village leaders. The two deputy village leaders, one is named He Taizhi and the other is named Tang Jiuzhui.
A person with strong martial arts skills.
Under the three village masters, Deng Sanniang divided everyone in the village into five branches. Each branch had a master, who managed more than 200 bandits.
The quality of the personnel in the branch halls is different, and the responsibilities of the five branches are also different. The bandits in the first hall, the second hall and the third hall are all composed of mature men who have been trained and have some basic knowledge of martial arts and weapons.
Their main responsibility is to follow the village leader down the mountain to rob, or to transport grain and supplies. However, generally they specialize in robbing rich merchants who are unkind and evil, or collect money from passing business groups and escort agencies.
As for the Fourth Hall, they are also composed of some strong men who are proficient in riding and shooting. However, most of the bandits in the Fourth Hall must be alert, agile, and proficient in tracking and setting traps. Their duty is to patrol the mountains and provide security.
The security of the entire Feifeng Village is guarded to prevent enemies or officers and soldiers from attacking the village.
The remaining five halls are the least valued in the entire village. Most of the gang members in Wutang are composed of old, weak, women and children in the village. In Ye Zheng's words, they
Their responsibilities are to cut firewood, cook, do laundry, grow vegetables, and perform environmental sanitation and a series of logistical tasks. Therefore, although Wutang is also one of the five branches of Feifengzhai, compared with the other four branches, they
The status is much worse.
After Ye Zheng roughly understood all this, Ye Zheng and the others, led by Li Shiqing, came to the office of the leader of the fifth branch of the village (actually just a few shabby thatched wooden houses).
The leader of Wutang is a lame man named Chen Fu, who is about sixty years old. When he learned from Li Shiqing that Ye Zheng and his gang were new members of the village, he immediately sighed secretly: The world is really difficult now.
, In the past, it was the desperate criminals who fell into bandits. Now, even these peaceful civilians, under the persecution of the imperial government, have taken refuge with the bandits, dragging their families with them. It seems that the future of the common people in the world will be different.
It will become more and more sad, hey...
Thinking of this, Chen Fu couldn't help but feel sympathy for Niujiacun and the others. After he went up to meet Ye Zheng and other Niujiacun villagers, he enthusiastically arranged a place for them and settled them down as quickly as possible.
Chen Fu allocated several large thatched wooden houses to the villagers of Niujia Village at the back of the village, allowing them to live in them for the time being. He would arrange for craftsmen to come over tomorrow and build a few more thatched huts for them.
After the villagers were allotted a new place to live, they were all busy cleaning it up happily. They were all very happy that they now had a safe and sheltered place to stay.
At this time, Chen Fu, the leader of Wutang Hall, stood in their house and saw that all the villagers in Niujia Village had dusty faces and shabby clothes, especially the old, weak, women and children, all of whom were sallow and thin, as if they had not eaten for a long time.
After finishing his meal, he couldn't help but feel compassion when he saw this scene. He turned back and shouted loudly outside the house: "Monkey Sun, stop working now and come here. I have something to arrange for you to do."
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"Hey! Master, I'm here. What do you want me to do?"
At this time, a young man who was less than twenty years old, after hearing Chen Fu's call, hurriedly trotted to his side. This young man was dark and skinny, and was even worse than an ox or a tiger.
And, no wonder Chen Fu would call him Sun Houhou.
Seeing Monkey Sun stroking the sweat on his forehead and bending down to stand respectfully in front of him, Chen Fu was very satisfied with the attitude of his confidant. He pondered for a moment and said loudly: "Monkey, go to the cottage kitchen now and give orders.
The guys in the kitchen will cook a few pots of meat, stew a few chickens, and steam some white flour steamed buns. When they are ready, be sure to let me know. I want to give these new brothers who joined our village today a simple refreshment."
As soon as Chen Fu said this, everyone in Niujia Village present cheered and applauded. Originally, they had been fleeing in the mountains these days and had never had a full meal or a sound sleep, let alone a good meal.
The meat was cooking deliciously. Now when I heard that Chen Futang mainly cooked meat and chicken for the newcomers like them, their mouths immediately watered with greed, and their favorable impression of Chen Fu skyrocketed.
At this time, after hearing Chen Fu's instructions, Sun Houhou showed a look of embarrassment on his face. He hesitated for a long time before he hesitated and whispered: "Master, we... the pork, beef and chicken in the kitchen have... not enough left."
There are more, these are reserved for the Second Hall and the Third Hall when they return to the mountain... to celebrate their return to the mountain. If we give these meat to these newly joined brothers to catch the wind, then the people of the Second Hall and the Third Hall will know,
Will they..."
"Sun Houhou, if I want you to go, just go. Where did all this nonsense come from!"
Chen Fu's tone was a little unhappy, but when he thought that Sun Houhou did all this for his own consideration and was afraid that the people in the Second and Third Halls would cause trouble for him, his tone softened again and he whispered: "Monkey, I know
You are thinking about me and are afraid that the people in the second and third halls will make things difficult for me, but look at these old people and children. They all look weak, like refugees. I really can't bear it! I still want to make some broth to replenish their health.
Well, if there isn’t much pork and beef, just find a way to even it out, and don’t worry about the rest, I have my own ideas.”
Monkey Sun looked at Chen Fu, then at the old, weak, women and children in Niujia Village. He nodded immediately and said, "Monkey, let's do it now!"
After saying that, Monkey Sun left quickly. When he just walked to the door, Chen Fuhu added: "Well, Monkey, later you ask a few people to go to the wine cellar and get some old wine from the altar."
Bar."
Sun Houhou nodded, said nothing more, quickened his pace and disappeared out the door.
Everyone in Niujia Village heard that not only would there be meat to eat later, but what made the big men even more happy was that there would also be wine to drink. Suddenly, cheers broke out again, and everyone shouted loudly: "Thank you, Master, haha!
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"The hall master is indeed a generous person, and he knows what we are good at!"
"Haha, I must have a few drinks with you, the hall master, later..."
At this time, Ye Zheng, who was standing aside, saw that Chen Fu was so kind and kind, and his impression of him immediately became much friendlier. He secretly thought that this Chen Fu is really a good person. But at the same time, he was not satisfied with the conversation between Sun Houhou and Chen Fu just now.
I was a little confused and didn't understand why Monkey Sun showed a look of embarrassment on his face after hearing Chen Fu's instructions. However, because they were far away from each other and their voices were low, Ye Zheng didn't know what they just said.
What.
After a whole morning of busy work and tidying up, Ye Zheng and everyone in Niujia Village had made a few thatched huts clean and tidy enough for people to live in. Just as everyone was sitting on the newly spread thatched mats, chatting, at this time, lunch
After it was done, Sun Houhou personally came to take Ye Zheng and the people from Niujia Village to the kitchen for dinner.
The kitchen in Feifeng Village is also at the very back of the village, not far from where Ye Zheng and the others live. It only takes a few minutes to walk there.
The kitchen is made up of several huge huts. It is very large, covering hundreds of square meters. On the inside of the kitchen is a row of huge stoves and cupboards and kitchen utensils, and outside the stove are several rows of simple huge wooden
The wooden stool table is very long and large, and it can accommodate more than a hundred people without any problem.
At this time, there were dozens of pairs of bowls and chopsticks placed on the table, as well as seven large pots of pork stewed with wild vegetables and seven large pots of chicken stewed with mushrooms. Next to each meal was a jar of old wine and a steamer of snow-white steamed buns.
It was steaming with white flowers.
From a distance, Ye Zheng and everyone in Niujia Village smelled the aroma. Suddenly, everyone's mouths watered and their index fingers moved. Under the signal of the hall master Chen Fu, they all sat down on the wooden table and couldn't wait to devour it. At the dinner table, everyone
They all happily drank and drank, but they were not happy about the meal.
At this time, Ye Zheng, who was already half full, found that except for his group, no one else from the village seemed to be eating at the table. Even Monkey Sun, who had just brought them over, was only sitting on the side of the stove.
, lowered his head and poked around with a wooden stick in boredom, while Chen Fu, the hall leader, held a tea bowl, smiled and watched his group of people eating, and drank tea slowly.
Seeing this scene, Ye Zheng and a group of men from Niujia Village quickly got up and went to pull Chen Fu, Sun Houhou and other kitchen workers over, preparing to have a good meal together.
However, except for Chen Fu who came over and politely chatted with them for a few drinks, the kitchen staff such as Sun Houhou politely declined and did not serve the table. When Ye Zheng and the others saw it, they felt even more sorry, thinking about how hard they had worked so hard to serve them.
It would be very embarrassing for my group of people to cook and cook the food, but then not serve it to the table and enjoy it with me. No matter what, I would have to bring them over to eat and drink together.
While tugging and tugging, suddenly, a group of strong men rushed into the kitchen shack. Ye Zheng took a look at them and found that all of the strong men were naked from the waist down, with gangly faces and extremely fierce expressions.
At this time, the leader, a tall and strong man with a black tiger tattooed on his chest, kicked away a bench in front of him, rushed to Chen Fu aggressively, opened his bell-sized bull's eyes, and said in a bad tone
He roared angrily: "Chen Laizi, why are the portions of wine and meat shared by our three halls today so small? You lame man must have kept it secretly, right?"
His roar immediately caused everyone to put down their bowls and chopsticks and stare at him with unhappy expressions. However, the strong man did not take it seriously. Instead, he glared at Ye Zheng and others fiercely, and then he roared loudly: "You
This cripple who deserves to be killed, if you don’t explain everything to me today, I will immediately bring people to demolish your kitchen!"
Chen Fu was scolded as a lame by him, but he was not angry. He just said calmly: "Master Yang Hong is too worried. Chen has always been trusted by the village master to take care of the meal. He has always been strict with himself and has never been selfish.
How can you hide your secrets?"
Hearing this, Yang Hong was furious and said: "What nonsense! If you, a cripple, don't hide your secrets, why do we have so little food and wine in our three halls? You losers usually just hide in the mountains and eat free food. I didn't expect it now."
Nowadays, I go down the mountain to work hard every day, but in the end I can’t even get enough food and wine to eat, it’s simply unreasonable!”
Chen Fu knew that the three hall masters had a bad temper, but he didn't expect that he would speak so unpleasantly today. Suddenly, he couldn't help but feel a little displeased and said: "We haven't bought wine and meat in the village for many days. It's normal if we don't have enough. Why should Hall Master Yang do this?"
, Why bother to speak so harshly if you are so angry?"
Yang Hong sneered and said: "Damn lame, you are really good at quibbles. I sent someone to the wine cellar to get wine late last night. When I asked you, you said that the wine and meat were enough for today. But today, you actually said that it was not enough. Such nonsense,
Who can believe it!"
When Chen Fu heard what he said, he was speechless and said with a blushing face: "Meat and wine were enough for today, but since there were new brothers joining the village today, Chen took the initiative to prepare some meat and wine for them to greet them.
Washing the dust, is there anything wrong with that?"
When Yang Hong heard this, he couldn't help but remember that when he entered the kitchen, he saw a group of strangers eating. He turned around and glanced at Ye Zheng and others coldly. Seeing that most of them were old, weak, women and children, he immediately sneered and said:
"I thought he was some kind of big shot. He needed some food and wine in Feifeng Village to wash away the dust. After looking at it for a long time, it turned out that he was just a bunch of refugee trash eating and drinking. Hmph!..."
As soon as this statement came out, the whole hall was angry!