Without Brother Yong's help in speaking, Shan Wazi seemed very cautious. He walked in front to lead the way, turning back and peeking at Cheng Duo from time to time.
Cheng Duo was about to talk to him, and by the way, he inquired about the situation when he heard the half-eldest child working on the roadside greeting Shan Wazi: "Brother Dashan, are you going out of the village?"
"Where are you going, can you take us with you? Let's go together..."
Shan Wazi usually goes up and down the mountains and rivers to find things to eat, and occasionally brings children from the village, so they want to hang out with him whenever they have a chance.
Before the words were finished, the group of children saw Cheng Duo behind Shan Wazi, and suddenly their eyes widened, as if they were facing a great enemy. Then I don't know who screamed, five or six children quickly scattered, and even one was carrying a big backpack, and his shoes were about to fall...
Cheng Duo: "..." It's quite complicated.
He touched his nose, and he could imagine that his reputation in the village was about the same as "eating children".
Shan Wazi looked at Cheng Duo and wanted to laugh inexplicably. As the saying goes, everything is compared. Seeing that they were so afraid of Cheng Duo, he suddenly felt that he was not so afraid.
"What did the villagers tell them?" Cheng Duo couldn't help but ask.
Shan Wazi's eyes flickered: "It's just... just punching a cow to death or something..." In fact, there was something else, he didn't dare to say.
Cheng Duo: "..." Don't say, he may really have this ability, and these villagers are not rumors.
"But Brother Yong explained to me that you didn't kill the cow, you just knocked it down..." Shan Wazi said, inadvertently asking Cheng Duo for confirmation, with a faint adoration in his eyes.
Shan Wazi has seen the scene of other people killing pigs, three or four adults are holding the pig, and one is in charge of stabbing. Sometimes the pigs barked too loudly, and the adults tried their best to press them, their faces flushed red...
But what Cheng Duo pressed down was a cow, a cow much bigger than a pig! He held it all by himself, what a force!
Cheng Duo noticed Shan Wazi's eyes, and hesitated for a moment: "When you grow up, your strength will also increase."
"Well." Shan Wazi nodded with bright eyes: "When I grow up, I will Go to Twenty Mile Shop like my father and make a lot of money!"
Cheng Duo twitched the corners of his mouth, agreeing that your ideal is to be a laborer? However, compared to the group of people who live like corpses in the apocalypse, Shan Wazi's simple wish seems more flesh and blood...
Cheng Duo smiled a little complicatedly, but did not attack Shan Wazi, but quickly changed the subject and said He got down to business: "Tell me, where are we going to buy things?"
"Oh..."
After Shan Wazi's introduction, Cheng Duo discovered that this ancient village was much more self-sufficient than a big city.
First of all, they grow their own grain and vegetables, and raise livestock. In addition, in some villages, there are family industries such as bean workshops, oil mills, and blacksmith shops.
Like the bean dregs cake he ate before, it was sold in the Yangshu Village Oil Factory. It cost a penny and a bowl, which was much cheaper than wheat flour.
Because Cheng Duo first bought tools, they first went to the blacksmith's blacksmith shop in Niujia Village. When passing by a big mansion that looked good, Cheng Duo found that there were white lanterns and white cloth hanging in front of the house, and a thin layer of paper money was sprinkled on the ground. Some of the paper money has been soaked in rain and dried, and it is incompletely glued to the ground, giving a gloomy and depressing scene...
"What's going on in this house?"
Shan Wazi whispered: "This is Master Niu's house, I heard that he offended him. Bandit, more than a dozen members of the family were killed..."
Shan Wazi felt a little cold here, and unconsciously quickened his pace.
Cheng Duo was thoughtful after listening. No wonder the villagers were so scared when he first went to the village. The bandits here are too lawless. Speaking of chaos, it would be even more chaotic in the apocalypse, but there are still some controls on the surface of each base, at least in the bases, this kind of massacre will not happen.
"Does the government care?"
"I don't know about that." Shan Wazi's eyes moved: "But I once heard my father chat with the uncle who worked with them. They said that the government still accepts the filial piety of those bandits..."
But his father did not Let him inquire, afraid that his children will go out and talk nonsense.
That is possible. The collusion between officials and bandits is normal in a society where the county magistrates can be the local emperors in ancient times.
The two came to the blacksmith shop. The shop was full of everything, such as scissors, kitchen knives, iron pots, hoes, shovels... everything.
However, the ancient blacksmith shops are still different from the modern daily necessities shops selling finished products. Things like kitchen knives, hoes, and shovels are placed on the shop without wooden handles, and customers need to buy them back and make them themselves.
Cheng Duo bought a copy of everything he needed. Ironware was not cheap in ancient times. It cost Cheng Duo three taels and five hundred wen to buy a set.
Because he bought a lot at one time, he was a big customer, and the blacksmith even gave him a basket for him to take it easily. Cheng Duo carried the iron pot to his back, and suddenly asked the blacksmith
, "Do you have weapons like knives or bows and arrows for sale here?"
How dare I fight, it's not like I'm going to die?"
Cheng Duo almost knew from his expression, if someone paid a lot of money, he could definitely beat him secretly. Just look at yourself and don't dare to accept it.
"To tell you the truth, I'm a hunter. I just bought weapons to hunt in the mountains, nothing else."
Niu Blacksmith nodded, his expression softened a little, but he still didn't say anything.
Cheng Duo is not reluctant, let's talk about it later. He has now bought an axe, a hatchet, and a pocket knife for skinning, which is enough for the time being.
After buying ironware, Cheng Duo went to the adjacent carpenter's house to order doors and windows, tables, chairs, benches, beds, cabinets and other furniture. Especially the bed, Cheng Duo has had enough of the days of sleeping in the wind, and he can live a little more comfortably, and he is willing to spend more money.
After that, Cheng Duo originally planned to buy clothes, bedding and quilts, but Shan Wazi told him that they had no finished products here. The weavers only weave the cloth, and every household buys it and sews it.
However, there were cotton balls, so Cheng Duo had several more cloth and two quilts on his body. Fortunately, the weather is getting warmer now, so he doesn't need to buy cotton to go back to make cotton coats.
In fact, Wudu County is located in the Shifang Mountains. Most of the people here wear leather, and only a few rich people make cotton-padded clothes specially. Even if it is a cotton mattress, you may only buy it once in a lifetime, that is when you get married.
Of course, there are also those who are too poor and use wheat stalks and straw directly. Shan Wazi's family just sold all the bedding and laid the wheat terriers directly. In fact, this is more convenient, because when his youngest brother urinates, just take the wet wheat terrier away.
When Cheng Duo heard Shan Wazi say this, he simply gave him two cents to go back and bring him a bundle of wheat stems, so that when the bed he ordered was not delivered, he could sleep directly on the wheat stems.
When Shan Wazi heard a bundle of wheat terriers and two cents, he was so happy that he agreed immediately.
Originally, Cheng Duo felt that there were too many things to take, so he was going to go back and talk about it. Unexpectedly, the two of them were halfway through, and they happened to meet Zhou Huolang who was carrying a pick.
Cheng Duo simply wrapped everything in his pick except for women's use, but he was responsible for helping to deliver.
Of course, Zhou Huolang did not refuse. He usually carried the pick to sell goods in various villages. Sometimes, he was unlucky, and one village sold two headbands. This big customer has packed most of his stuff, and he's got another order!
Zhou Huolang originally thought that his guest's house was in good condition, but who knew that when he got to the place, he saw two houses that were about to collapse in front of him...
Zhou Huolang: Well, he won't encounter anyone who tricked him into robbing him, right?
Fortunately, Cheng Duo was very happy to give the money and paid a deposit. Zhou Huolang agreed with him on the time for the next delivery, and quickly left with an empty burden.
Brother Yong was startled when he looked at the pile of goods like a hill: "Why did you buy so much?"
Cheng Duo touched his nose: "It's okay, just use more and keep it for later use."
He actually He was too lazy to choose, and since it was inconvenient to buy anything in this rural village, he simply bought everything at once.
Shan Wazi was also surprised by Cheng Duo's generosity. This person spent almost five or six taels of silver for buying things and paying a deposit in one afternoon!
His father may not be able to earn 40 cents a day. What he spends a day is almost equal to his father's four months' wages.
No wonder Shan Wazi was shocked, Shan Wazi's father was able to find a job in Twenty Mile Po, which was enough to make the villagers envious. Those in the village who only knew how to farm are not as good as him.
It's just that he has a lot of expenses to live outside, plus the debts and children, etc., the family still has a miserable life.
Cheng Duo had no idea about silver at first, and he disliked Meng Ji for giving less, so he bought a bunch of them and looked back, it turned out that silver was quite a forbidden flower.
It seems that he missed that guy, and there are not many soldiers.
Meng Ji, who had returned to the camp, just wanted to smile bitterly. When he went to the Rong people before, the general asked him to bring a little more just in case. If there was a place where he needed to buy someone, he would just take the opportunity.
In fact, the money is not only borrowed from the accountant, but also the private house he has saved over the years. After being scraped by Cheng Duo, he returned to before Jiefang-Jiefang.
Of course, Meng Ji didn't know what liberation was - before liberation, he just wanted to use the roster he finally brought back and the roster he had protected with his life, so that the general would forget about borrowing money from the accountant... With the
money, Cheng Duo again I went to Li Sanye to buy some wheat flour, soybeans and cornmeal (the sorghum was too thick, Cheng Duo didn't want to eat that). Contrary to Cheng Duo's expectations, Daxia doesn't seem to have sweet potatoes and potatoes yet. And there are too few paddy fields in Wudu County, and there are none in Li Sanye's house, so he did not buy rice.
Of course, the amount of food Cheng Duo bought was not large. He didn't even have roof tiles to protect him from the wind and rain. Did he buy so much food and wait for mold?
Speaking of tiles, Cheng Duo finally realized that he had forgotten something.
That night, when he was looking at the starry sky with the wheat terrier and the cloth on his pillow, he remembered later that he forgot to ask about the tiles.
However, before this house was covered with wheat terriers, it seems that in the entire Yanger Village, there is not a single household with a roof tile. He had been here for so long, and the only house he saw that was a little more decent was the house of Mr. Niu, who had been destroyed.
I don't know where they brought the tiles from, it wouldn't be from that far market...
When Cheng Duo woke up in the morning, Yong Ge'er had already arrived, watching him extravagantly use a whole cloth cushion As a bed sheet under him, Brother Yong only thinks that he is a prodigal.
Cheng Duo yawned and sat up, "You're here? Help me make breakfast, I'll wash up..."
After saying that, he went on his own without waiting for Brother Yong to agree.
Cheng Duo squatted by the mountain stream to wash, and out of the corner of his eyes saw Brother Yong obediently go, and the corner of his mouth slowly hooked up. It's not that he avoids cooking, it's that he cooks really badly. Last night, I finally got an iron pan, and I bought oil from Doufang. He luxuriously baked pancakes to eat, but he accidentally burned it...
Brother Yong looked at the battered pan and the inside of the pan. A layer of soybean oil, and can't stop scolding the prodigal in my heart.
He put the oil on the surface in a bowl, washed the pot again, and then steamed a pot of wheat and cornmeal wotou for Cheng Duo. Seeing that there was cabbage next to it, I sautéed another bowl, just using the remaining oil.
Cheng Duo was very dissatisfied: "It's too bland, I'll add more oil next time when cooking."
He obviously bought such a big pot, what can he do with it?
So much oil, how can it be light? Next time...
Brother Yong gritted his teeth angrily: "There is no next time."
Maybe because he couldn't get used to Cheng Duo's waste, Brother Yong contradicted him for the first time.
"What?" Cheng Duo didn't respond for a while.
Brother Yong glanced at him, his momentum slowly dropped, and he whispered, "I'm here to grow vegetables for you, not to cook."
Cheng Duo's movements of nibbling at the head of the nest and picking vegetables paused: This little brother It's very smart, it seems that it's impossible to fool around...
He thought about it for a while, and tentatively said: "I can give you money."
"Do it once and give you ten... two cents, what do you think? Then you can eat with me, You eat what I eat... I will do it myself in the time before the house is built."
Brother Yong was a little moved, and he made a meal for two wen, and he also paid for it. There is no more lucrative work than this.
"Then, then you are responsible for preparing the ingredients."
"Of course." Cheng Duo nodded, but the little brother was so stingy, he was afraid of letting him prepare the ingredients. This guy gave him a vegetarian diet every day, and sooner or later he would eat it into a rabbit.
"Alright then, just before the house is built." Brother Yong said shyly, but he was actually overjoyed. Even if Cheng Duo only eats two meals a day, he can still earn four cents and save his own rations.
People take food as their heaven, and the first thing Cheng Duo built was the kitchen. Because he didn't know where to buy tiles, he had the luxury of nailing a row of planks to the top of the kitchen, and then laying thick wheat stalks on top.
Although there is no guarantee that it will not leak, but at least it is much more luxurious than the roofs in the village.
In fact, thanks to Cheng Duo's great strength, cutting down trees is not a problem for him at all. There is a whole mountain forest behind his house. Although Cheng Duo didn't know much about the species of trees, he specially picked the thick and sturdy ones for cutting boards.
After drawing the line and opening the two ends, it will be a flat wooden board with an axe.
Brother Yong had already mowed the weeds in the ground, and while digging the ground with a hoe, he cleaned the grass roots, and then stopped to rest for a while, watching Cheng Duo scratching the board like tofu, and envious of him every day...
Cheng Duo is busy Almost done, he left his work, turned around and picked up the hatchet: "I'll go up the mountain, don't run around."
Brother Yong said "oh", two days later, he was used to it.
This man is a carnivore, and every time he goes up the mountain, he will definitely gain something. Brother Yong thought of the braised rabbit meat he ate yesterday, and couldn't help licking his lips.
Cheng Duo's food here is so good that he wants his house to be repaired slowly...