The young man who had been chased up the tree by the wolf came down the tree and came to Charles's car and said a lot of thanks.

Charles then invited the father and son to sit in the carriage, and they dropped off for the rest of the road.

Diana was also in the car, and she was playing with the young man's son in her arms.

"What's your name, little friend?" asked Diana.

The child stared blankly at Diana and did not speak.

Diana poked the child's fat face, and said, "Tell my sister your name, and say that my sister invited you to eat candy." ”

As a result, the child still did not speak.

The father of the child sitting on the opposite side of the car said a little embarrassed: "His name is Bush, this child is a little afraid of life, you are the first person to hold him and he didn't cry." ”

Diana just smiled, and then took out a lollipop she bought in Abyss City to tease Bush.

She can now fully control the charm ability of her baby's physique, and she is only reopening a little bit now, otherwise this little Bush would have cried a long time ago.

"Bush" means bush, and Bush Jr.'s father was named Butcher, a butcher as his name suggests.

It's just that this butcher can kill pigs, and if he faces a few wild wolves, he has to run away.

Butchers are a very decent profession in the city, because they can often get the offal of those livestock and the bones and other scraps to eat, and they can eat meat often, which is enough for them to choose from the girls in the surrounding villages when they marry wives.

Fortunately, Butcher can eat meat regularly, so he has a good physique, which allows him to carry the child on his back and climb the tree before being chased by the wolf.

Diana was teaching George W. Bush to eat lollipops, and Charles was chatting with Butcher.

Butcher is different from his son, he is a person who can chat, he said a little depressedly: "Today I brought a pair of intestines and wanted to open meat for my father-in-law's house, and when I was chased by the wolf just now, I threw it down and robbed it by the wolf, but the wolf didn't rob it, so he targeted us." ”

Charles said a little complainingly: "Why didn't you fight all the way with the caravan, it's too dangerous." ”

Butcher said a little helplessly: "Recently, there has been a bit of chaos in the city, there are a lot fewer caravans, and even fewer people eat meat. I thought that since the business was not good, I would just take the child to his mother to help my father-in-law Xia settle the money. ”

"I'm glad I met you today, brother, otherwise we would have to live in a tree. ”

Charles continued to complain to him, "Fortunately, you met an ordinary wild wolf, if it was a monster, you would be in the wolf's belly now." ”

After complaining, he changed the subject.

During this period of political turmoil, there were fewer caravans and adventurers going out, so those beasts and monsters that would have been picked up by adventurers also began to run towards the vicinity of the city, which posed a threat to ordinary people like Butcher.

In the afternoon, the carriage came to the village of Mr. Butcher's house.

Outside the village is a large field of golden rice paddies, and in the distance is a huge waterwheel, and the ears of rice that are about to be harvested are heavy, and a gust of wind blows through them like ocean waves.

At this time, the rice field is very lively, and a group of people are catching fish in the field.

Philip has been bringing the technology of rice fish and duck farming to the world for more than 300 years, and the relevant experience is extremely mature.

When the rice was about to be harvested, the farmers began to drain the water from the fields, and the fish swam to the fish ditches at the edge of the fields and were caught by the farmers.

Not far from the village, a peasant woman was leading a donkey back to the village, carrying two baskets of fish.

Little Bush, who Diana was holding, suddenly stood up and shouted to the peasant woman, "Mommy!"

The peasant woman turned her head with a look of obvious surprise on her face.

She saw Butcher and Bush Jr. in the carriage waving to her, and hurriedly threw down the donkey and trotted over.

Butcher's wife obviously ate well in the past, and her figure seemed much rounder than that of ordinary women, and she was even more shaky when she ran.

Butcher's family hugged Bush Jr. and asked Butcher, "Why are you here?"

Butcher scratched his head and said, "Business in the city has been bad recently, so I brought my children over to help." ”

The Butchers didn't say anything, she would come back to help when she was busy with the farm, and occasionally her husband would come back. She sat down on the donkey, and then invited Charles to their house for the night.

Charles agreed, and drove the carriage to the village.

There are twenty or thirty families in this village, and the houses are basically rammed earth houses, mixed with some thatched houses. A few of these houses have tiled roofs, while most of the others have straw roofs.

Not long after entering the village, Charles and Diana discovered something interesting.

There are more or less ducks hanging under the eaves of the house, and there are many clay pots that are drying in front of the house and behind the house.

Charles drove the carriage to the small square in the middle of the village, then took out a rattle and shook it there.

Diana couldn't help but laugh out loud at the sight of him shaking the rattle, and Charles glared at her angrily.

The villagers in the village heard the sound and knew that a trader was coming, so they came out to see what was worth buying.

Charles saw that the time for summer harvest and summer planting was near, so he bought a lot of farm tools such as sickles and hoes, which were common goods used by farmers, in addition to some daily necessities such as sewing needles and twine.

Business is okay today, perhaps because there have been no merchants lately.

By the time the sun began to go down and the smoke rose, Charles had sold a few sickles and hoes, and Diana had sold a few needles and a lot of thread, and they had made some hard-earned money today if they hadn't fed the horses.

The villagers occasionally did some chores, and someone brought a few pairs of wooden shoes to sell, and Charles took them when he saw that the quality and price were good.

A 10-year-old boy asked Charles if he wanted someone to help him cut the grass and come back, so Charles gave him two sacks for him to mow the grass and come back.

At this time, an old man in his forties found Charles and them, his bare feet still covered with mud.

This is Butcher's father-in-law, and he has come to invite Charles and them to his house for dinner.

Mr. Butcher's house is not far from the village wall, with a hall at the entrance, a place for farm tools behind a wooden wall, and two wings on the left and right, with a kitchen and toilet at the back.

This layout becomes more and more familiar to Charles, and the layout of the earthen houses in the 80s and 90s in his hometown village in his previous life is like this.

Even in 2019, when a durian went to the countryside in June to carry out the appraisal of dilapidated houses, there were still some such houses in the mountain village interspersed with cement houses, and these houses were expected to be demolished and rebuilt by 2020.

As the saying goes, whenever there is a problem, throw it on the head of Philip's ancestor, and it is estimated that this kind of house was designed by him.

When Charles and the others followed the old man to the front of the house, they saw Butcher killing fish outside the door.

He dissected the belly of the fish, cleaned the guts and gills, and then used well water to clean the blood of the fish.

Bush Jr. crouched beside him, holding a small shovel in his hand, and carefully shoveled the fish entrails into a small wooden barrel.

Then Butcher's wife, while scolding Butcher for almost killing her son by a wolf today, took the fish, then shook off the water from the fish, spread it out and put it in a clay pot, and then poured in a little rice pickled grains.

It looks like it's to marinate the fish.

Butcher's family were all real people, and they were not as good at thanking him as Butcher, so they took a duck from under the eaves and cooked it in rice, cut it and gave Charles and Diana a duck leg and a large piece of meat near the duck leg.

The summer harvest has begun, and the farmers who "drink scarcely when they are busy and eat dry when they are busy" have also begun to "eat dry when they are busy".

After dinner, when it was already completely dark, a patrol of young people from the village walked past the house and took the bucket of guts from the fish Butcher had just killed.

There are a few watchdogs and rat-catching cats in the village, which are the property of the whole village, and these fish offal are cooked and used to feed the dogs and cats.

Butcher's mother-in-law cleaned up a room for Charles and Diana to rest for the night, and smoked mosquitoes with herbs common to the fields.

At this time, the child who helped to cut the horse's grass came to Charles with two bags of grass, and Charles tossed his weight, and then looked at the grass that was usually used to feed the horses, and gave him a few copper plates.

This pull-back horse is a breed that is not picky, but the strength and endurance are not very strong, and it is cheap, making it the best choice for novices on the road.

If it's those powerful horses, feed money can bankrupt a small businessman like Charles.

Charles returned to the room after feeding the horses and saw that Diana had already laid out the mat.

The peasant envoys went to bed early in the village, and Charles and the others followed the customs, and went to sleep after returning with a bucket of water and wiping their bodies.