"It's been peaceful these past few years. If it had been earlier, I wouldn't have been able to enter the village even if I gave you a few pieces of silver or gold bars!"
With the support of Zhu Yunxi, the old man walked towards Zhuangzi. As he walked, he said, "If you dare to force your way in, the young people in Zhuangzi will fight with you!"
"The common people have worked hard all their lives and only have such a small amount of wealth. They are afraid that outsiders will cause harm to them!"
"When we were fighting in the early years, we were very proud of the young people who were born in Zhuangzi. They were all good soldiers when they came to join us. They dared to fight hard and still stayed together. They were all related to each other. When fighting, they were so fierce!"
Cao Zhen smiled and interjected, "Isn't that right? When we first attacked Chuzhou, we had few soldiers. My boss, you asked the young men to pretend to be officers and soldiers to destroy a few villages and loot them. The next day, hundreds of young men came to join us.
You, your eyes were red when you saw the officers and soldiers in the first battle, and a bunch of mud-legged people just killed the officers and soldiers..."
"When will I ask you to pretend..." The old man just kicked Cao Zhen in the crotch, "If you can fucking speak, just speak. If you can't speak, act like a mute."
"Ouch!" Cao Zhen somersaulted, got up and smiled, "You were not the one who made the mistake, and it was not you who made the mistake. It was my fourth brother who made the mistake."
Guo Ying looked at him sideways, "How can you fucking die if you don't speak?"
Zhu Yunxi smiled and said nothing. In troubled times, people's lives are like grass and grass. Survival and victory are the first to be harvested. As for morality, morality can only be hung on the forefront after you have reputation, righteousness and strength. Otherwise, morality cannot be eaten, let alone
Bring life.
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The group of people walked into the village and found that the doors of every house were locked, and the men in each house were lying on the wall and squinting.
The old man said to the old man in the village, "Sorry for bothering you!"
"Ah!" The old man was a little stunned when he saw the old man's extraordinary demeanor. He had lived for such a long time and had seen the world. These people said they were merchants, but how could any merchant take such a stupid path?
Furthermore, the old man in front of him, who was about the same age as him, was shouting and swarming in a crowd bigger than the county patrol, and there were so many horses outside. How could he be a merchant?
"The village is small, the villagers don't know much about it, and the distinguished guests don't see it. It doesn't have any good things, it just can keep out the wind and rain and not freeze!"
"It's good to be protected from the wind and rain!" The old man smiled, looked at the village in the night, and then looked at the old man, "How old are you this year?"
"Seventy-four!" the old man laughed.
"Ah, how many years older than us are you? You're quite handsome!" The old man said with a smile, "Should we call you brother?"
"Farmers are so fat that they don't have enough strength!" The old man smiled and said, "I'll take you there!"
As he said that, Zhuangtou and a few young people were in front, and the old man Zhu Yunxi and others were behind. The group walked to the west of the village, to a courtyard with three thatched houses.
In the yard, several young men came in with firewood to heat up the stove.
Li Jinglong entered the yard first, looked around, and asked a junior, "Where is the food?"
The young man pointed to the basket behind him and said, "Here it is!"
When Li Jinglong took a look, he suddenly felt a toothache. There were just a few dustpans of coarse grains and a few plates of pickles. It seemed that they had to prepare the food themselves.
"Is there any fodder in the village? The animals we brought..."
"What are you bluffing about?" The old man also stepped into the courtyard and glared at Li Jinglong.
"Let's just make do with it for one night, and find a good place tomorrow during the day." Guo Ying also whispered, "Don't show off!"
"The distinguished guests, please rest here for the night!" The old man at the village head smiled, "There is really nothing in the village to bring out, how ridiculous!"
The old man looked at the whole grains and pickles in the basket and said with a smile, "It's already very good, you took the trouble!"
Later, the old man from the village took people out. The old man sat down by the stove fire and stretched out his hand to warm himself.
"Thirty years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the people only had enough food and clothing... It was hard to find food and clothing. It was not far from the capital, and the people eating in this village were still these coarse grains." Zhu Yunxi looked at the box containing food, "Officials
That’s all the peace and prosperity you talk about.”
"That's how villagers are. No matter how rich they are, they still scrimp on food and clothing. If they can eat coarse grains, they will never eat fine grains. If they can eat two meals, they will never eat three." The old man sighed, "This little bit of money is all saved through the teeth!"
"
Li Jinglong couldn't help but shake his head when he looked at the whole grains and pickles, "How about I discuss this with the people in the village? I just came over and saw that many people raise chickens. Please give me more money..."
"Let's go play ball. The chickens raised by farmers are expected to lay eggs in exchange for salt, needles, and thread. Are you going to eat them just because you are so big-mouthed?" the old man scolded with a smile.
"Then...I will ask people from outside to bring in our food!" Li Jinglong said again.
"No, this is good!" The old man looked at the basket of whole grains, and then smiled at Zhu Yunxi, "Everyone in your father's generation has eaten these. In your generation, your grandmother and I pampered you and never let you eat it.
These things just happened to come out today, let’s try them together.” After saying that, he paused and said, “This is what the common people eat!”
"My grandson will obey the teachings of the emperor!" Zhu Yunxi said, adding a few handfuls of firewood to the stove.
Boom, Guo Ying suddenly kicked Li Jinglong.
"What are you stunned for? You're beating me up!"
Li Jinglong was stunned, "I..."
"You want the two bosses to do it themselves?" Guo Ying asked with a sideways glance.
"I can't fucking cook!" Li Jinglong cried in his heart.
"Hurry up and make the bed." Cao Zhen shouted from the side again, "You are young, why don't you do more?"
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But it was said that Zhuangzi's old man, Zhuangtou, took the young man out of the yard and walked to a corner not far away.
"This group of people is not simple. Please pay more attention at night. You guys are watching." the old man ordered.
"Three old ladies, three old ladies!" A half-year-old child jumped up from a distance, shouting with a horrified look on his face, "This is incredible!"
"What's wrong?" The old man stared, "What are you looking at?"
"Aren't there people riding horses following the old man outside?" the half-grown child grinned, "They..."
"What happened to them?" the old man asked angrily.
"They feed the eggs to the horses!" The half-grown child's face twitched.
"Ah?" Several young students were stunned, "Feeding eggs to horses?"
"I watched them break the eggs into their pockets and feed them to the horses!" the child said, taking out two eggs from his arms. "When I looked closer, their leader gave me two more.
Let me go home and cook it."
"They still..."
"Why are you breathing so hard when you talk?" the old man said angrily.
"They gave me this back." The half-grown child took out a handful of dried meat from his arms, with a few golden melon seeds sandwiched in the dried meat.
In an instant, the eyes of the old man Zhuangtou and several young men were straightened.
"Where did this group of people come from?" The old man became increasingly confused.
At this moment, Li Jinglong came out of the courtyard and happened to see these people in the corner. He opened his mouth and said, "Old family, we are all men who can't cook. Can you find someone...I'll give you more money."
Without waiting for the old man to agree, the half-grown child jumped up and said, "I'll ask my mother to cook for you!" and ran away.
"Come back, your mother's widow's family..." The old man didn't stop him, and the half-grown child had already run away.
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Ahem!
The fire in the stove choked Li Jinglong and he couldn't help but cough, with a hint of gangsterism on his face.
There was boiling water in a pot, but after a long time, half of the water was boiled.
"Hurry up, you've been hungry all day!" Cao Zhen kept urging from the side.
"Didn't you eat two roast chickens today?" Li Jinglong was in a hurry and at the same time he was helpless with those coarse grains.
"His mother has turned into shit in her belly!" Cao Zhen laughed.
"You're going to turn into dust sooner or later!" Li Jinglong cursed in his heart and kept shaking his fan in front of the stove.
At this moment, a voice suddenly came from outside, "My mother is here!"
Suddenly, there was silence in the courtyard.
Then a woman appeared at the door nervously.
Under the light, the woman didn't stand out very much, and she looked ordinary.
But between the eyebrows and eyes, they are particularly attractive.
"I heard from my son that there is no one to cook for these distinguished guests..."
"Sister, come in quickly!" Cao Zhen stood up, "Looks like these rough guys have never touched the pot, sorry for bothering you!"
"My boss!" Guo Ying smiled at the old man in a low voice, "Look, idiot Cao can't move again after seeing the widow!"
"Do you think there's something wrong with him?" The old man crossed his arms and watched the fun, "Why has he been so proud of someone who has given birth to children and got married in these years?"
"He's big and his butt is like a millstone. He likes it best!" Guo Ying smiled evilly.