Lord Cao who came, of course, was not the leader of Shunyang Pass, but Cao Da, the post of Leyang Station.

Cao Da brought two small boxes, filled with dead copper coins.

Ruan Bai is also a person who has been given ten thousand gold, of course he knows how useless these copper coins are. No matter how strong the purchasing power of copper coins is now, it is not as good as his original box of red tickets. What's more, this big week is simply lagging behind to a certain extent, and you may not be able to buy things if you have a ticket.

If it was something else, or someone else, Cao Da wouldn't have to run this trip himself. He is also a fifth-class post man, and there are people under him. But the lesson of the last time was not far away, and this time he still escorted him honestly and personally, for fear that his subordinates would not be honest and do something.

"Lord Ruan, this is an official document, please check."

Ruan Bai already had an official note in his hand, which was brought by Tian Kaifu. In fact, he felt that the construction of the post station only gave money, which was very, very unreliable. Of course, when the post station is really completed, there will be a variety of supporting honor guards and carriages and horses will be sent over.

"No problem." Ruan Bai checked it carefully, "I'm tired of Lord Cao running this trip, let's go after lunch." ”

Cao Da was stunned for a moment, and refused: "No, I'd better leave early while it's dark, I'm afraid it will snow later." He couldn't understand the reason why Ruan Bai was so polite this time, but the lesson last time told him that this young man who looked like bean sprouts was not a good thing, and he was very cunning.

This is definitely a prevarication. Ruan Bai himself has a hand in judging the weather, and he is surrounded by farmers who watch the sky and eat, even if he is not a master, it is still very simple to judge whether it will snow in the afternoon.

However, Ruan Bai didn't force him to stay, but said: "Then Master Cao drinks a bowl of hot soup and leaves, Xia Guan still has some things to ask." ”

Cao Da jerked the corner of his mouth. At this time, he was called a lower official, why didn't he say it was a lower official last time? However, Ruan Bai is only a little old, and he is not good at dealing with a child, not to mention that there is a backer behind this child. Behind him, he said that there was General Cao standing, but General Cao, who was in charge of everything, was polite enough to arrange an official position for such a fellow clan, and it was not good for him to trouble others with some trivial things.

"Don't dare to ask for advice, I don't know if there is anything unclear about Lord Ruan?"

Ruan Bai is really problematic. Tian Kaifu knew what the post station should be like, but when it came to the specific construction of the post station, he was the only one who could ask.

As soon as Cao Da heard Ruan Bai's question, he felt that it was a trivial matter, so he explained it carefully and carefully. His current post station is not like Ruan Bai from scratch, but there are a lot of repairs every year. All aspects of the material artificial flower use, he is clear.

Originally, he thought that it was all something that he was familiar with, but he didn't expect Ruan Bai to have so many problems. It can be summarized as follows-

Ruan Bai: "Isn't this okay?" ”

Cao Da: "This ...... It's not explicitly said no, but no one has ever done it. ”

Ruan Bai: "Oh, that's fine. ”

After a conversation, Ruan Bai said that it was very pleasant. Cao Da said that he was very tired, and the big bowl of broth prepared at noon, plus five thick pancakes, did not eat this tiredness.

Seeing that Cao Da was leaving, Hu Shang hurriedly finished telling Ruan Bai about the matter at hand, and hurried to follow Cao Da.

The cattle merchant has been ready for a long time. He wasn't familiar with the journey, and he might run into something. At the moment, it seems unlikely that they will encounter the Huns, but it is not unlikely that they will encounter wild beasts. For example, in today's cold and freezing ground, it is difficult for wild beasts to find food, and it is not without occurrence that wild beasts have entered the village to steal food, and even attacked people and animals.

There were so many people that Cao Da and the cattle merchants didn't mind waiting for Hu Lao Liu for a while.

A large number of people were sent away in the deserted post, but they were not cleaned up all at once. Unlike the New Year's goods mentioned by the cattle merchants, in fact, they were all bought by Ruan Bai with real money, but Hu Lao Liu really sent a lot of real New Year's goods. A lot of things have to be taken care of.

These things don't need to be commanded by Ruan Bai one by one, Li Niang can arrange them well.

I have to say that the arrival of Xu Er and these people has relieved a lot of pressure on the barren post.

These people are not as good as those ordinary peasant families. After moving here, almost everything had to be prepared from head to toe. Ordinary farmers have to work for a while before the Chinese New Year, and they are all so busy that they hit the back of their heads.

After a hurried meal at noon, the girls all sat at the door of the main hall with needles and threads, flying needles and threads in the sun. There is a lot of fabric, but it is still a little tight to make clothes for everyone for two seasons.

Aunt Ma and Sanniang are playing sweaters. Sanniang is still a little rusty, Aunt Ma can already play with her eyes closed, and the girl can get started very quickly. On the contrary, looking at the most capable Liniang, she couldn't figure out how to deal with these needles and threads.

Sanniang couldn't see it, and snatched the needle and thread from Liniang's hand: "You, let's go and do the account." ”

A young woman in her twenties came out of the kitchen, wiped her hands clean, and took the needle and thread: "Liniang is better at doing men's work than women, and these women's work will be left to us." ”

Li Niang blushed when she was said, and she was a little at a loss for a while: "Even Aunt Yun said that about me." I...... You won't let me be here, I'll have to clean the house. ”

When she was at home, her family was not bad, and she was an only daughter, and her fingers did not touch the spring water, and the only thing that could be called housework was to help her mother take care of the family's accounts. Shunyang is open, and she can often go out hunting with her father. It's just that she is a girl's family after all, and her ability to ride a horse is okay, but she doesn't have that strength to hunt, and she can't open her bow.

She now sees that all the other girls can do nothing, but she can't do anything, and she always feels that she is extremely useless.

The woman known as Aunt Yun was the oldest here, and her eldest son was seven or eight years old. But as soon as the Huns came, she protected the two children, and she was taken away by the Huns, and she didn't know what happened to the two children now. After returning to Da Zhou, she wanted to find her relatives, but there is not one out of ten villages and towns that have been affected by the disaster, and even if some of them survived, they don't know where they have gone. It's not that she's not in a hurry, she just stays here, and Ruan Bai and Chu Hao can help them find someone, if she goes out, she's a woman, I'm afraid she won't even be able to take care of herself, let alone find someone.

"Liniang, don't be busy, just sit and bask in the sun when you have time and rest for a while. Seeing that you haven't stopped all morning, the two merchants brought a lot of things in the morning, and you are busy sorting out the accounts alone, and now you are saying that you are useless, isn't it a few of us? ”

When Li Niang was said this, her face turned even redder, and she said: "The abacus that the master made is so good, and it won't take long to make accounts." I have the help of Ah Qiang to move things or something, and I don't have to make much effort......"

Now this abacus not only makes Lisuo Lisuo, but even Chu Hao and Tian Kaifu can play fast. Especially Chu Hao, just by glancing at it, he could move his fingers like flying, which made Ruan Bai deeply doubt his IQ. He only thought about the trouble of not having a computer, and after tossing the abacus, he found that he couldn't play at all.

Tian Kaifu made a few calculations, smiled at Ruan Bai, and waited for the golden egg as if he was looking at a golden rooster. As for the matter between Ruan Bai and Chu Hao, it was not as difficult as he expected. He has been with Chu Hao for more than ten years, if Chu Hao was interesting to him, it would have been done a long time ago, where would it be Ruan Bai's turn?

But since it can't be done, he has no way or ability to offend Chu Hao, and he still honestly maintains his friendship over the past few years. Their Tian family still has to rely on the Chu family. What's more, Ruan Bai, this little guy is really annoying.

The abacus Ruan Bai has just come out two days ago, and it belongs to internal circulation items. However, Tian Kaifu and Chu Hao have already seen the plot, and they have used their own channels to spread the abacus.

On the same day, Chu Hao came back a little late, his face was as black as something, he went home and found Ruan Ergou directly, hugged it and put it on the kang in the room, and touched the dog's head to dissipate his anger: "A group of fools, the abacus is such a simple thing, the finger is like a broken finger, and it won't be taught for a long time!" ”

One of the fools, the stupid second dog sneered: "Hehe." He slapped Chu Hao's hand away and climbed off the kang, determined to get the calculator out sooner or later. Abacus or anything is not his style.

The next day, Chu Hao took a break, so he began to kill sheep early in the morning. Zhou Dahu, as an assistant, had a slight objection: "The villain's family was born as a butcher, and the pickling work of killing sheep is still handed over to the villain, and I don't have to let Lord Chu ...... it."

However, Zhou Dahu's slight voice did not enter Chu Hao's ears at all, so he went to the livestock shed, picked up a sheep selected by Tang Xinhou, hung it on the erected shelf two or three times, and disemboweled it two or three times, and his actions were more neat than Zhou Dahu's butcher.

Zhou Dahu was speechless.

Zhang Daniu, who was born as a hunter and consciously had a good hand at slaughtering prey, did not say a word, and silently carried a basin into the water to deal with it.

For more than 20 people, one sheep is not enough to eat. The second sheep was soon clicked as well.

It didn't take long for the smell of mutton to begin to waft throughout the barren post.

White-cut mutton, mutton stewed radish, stewed mutton, mutton dumplings, mutton scorpion soup...... Ruan Bai was directly in charge. The fourth child was still a little reserved, with his big head on Ruan Bai's waist. The third child stood up, slapped on the stove, and whined anxiously with the big fat and the little fat.

Ruan Bai pushed the third child down, and the big guy was in the way: "Go aside, I'll give you something to eat in a while." ”

The third child was not convinced, and after being pushed down, he quickly stood up again and was pushed down again......

Ruan Bai had no choice but to pick a pot of bones from the pot, put it in the third child's food bowl, and take it aside.

Xu Liu looked at it from the side and slapped his mouth twice: "It's so good to feed the beast?" "There's a lot of meat on the bones!

Ruan Bai glanced at Xu Liu: "The lives of our people were all saved by the third child." "At the beginning on the grassland, if I hadn't met the third child, they wouldn't have died, and it is estimated that there would not be a few left.

Xu Liu was stunned, remembered the reason why he was here, and hurriedly said: "Lord Chu asked the villain to ask, is there any longan red dates or something." ”

"I think there is." Ruan Bai thought about it, there seemed to be some such things in the New Year's goods brought by Hu Laoliu, Guiyuan didn't know, there must be red dates, "You go and ask Li Niang, she knows where it is." What does Chu Hao want these things for? ”

Xu Liu was bored by the question, and said, "The villain doesn't dare to ask." "Chu Hao is a thousand households, don't say that he is not a post pawn now, even if he is a post pawn, his identity is also different from that of a thousand households, where does he dare to ask Chu Hao?

"Oh. You go to Liniang, she should be playing with the skin right now. Ruan Bai didn't have much thought about Chu Hao's identity. If Chu Hao was his superior, then of course he would obey the order. But he and Chu Hao have no subordinate relationship, but they are brothers. The barren post is still his territory, only Chu Hao listens to him, and there is no reason for him to be afraid of Chu Hao.

Ruan Bai soon saw what Chu Hao was busy talking about, a large pot of mutton...... Sweet.

A pot of mutton with longan, red dates and sugar made Ruan Bai's brows jump.

"Brother made sheep paste for you, but I can make it up." Chu Hao was very happy. Sugar is quite expensive, but Shunyangguan is not unavailable. Tonight, on the night of the winter solstice, you have to eat something good. He also forgot it, his second dog is still growing his body, and he has suffered a lot of losses, so he has to make up for it, and he has to make up for it ruthlessly.

This kind of food is no stranger to Ruan Bai. He had seen black-bone chicken roasted like this before, but he obviously didn't understand this recipe very well. Sweets should be considered a very luxurious treat nowadays. Besides, these people really need to make up for it.

None of the others in the desert had eaten such extravagant sheep paste. Tian Kaifu has eaten it, but he is a typical gentleman who cooks far away, and he doesn't know how to do it at all. And when he saw Chu Hao and Ruan Bai together, he didn't want to go into the kitchen. Intellectually, he persuaded himself, but emotionally he still couldn't get over it. Alas, he always thought that Chu Hao only liked girls, so he would look down on him.

Sheep paste is limited, and one person will share a small bowl in the evening.

Ruan Bai took a small bite: "It's okay." Then he pushed the bowl aside and went to eat something else. Why can meat be sweet? Still incomprehensible.

These two words clearly do not fit the standard answer. Chu Hao immediately stretched his face: "Okay?" ”

Ruan Bai compared the force value of the two people in his heart, and changed his words: "It's not bad?" Under Chu Hao's glare, he silently took another small bite. He's given face like this, don't force him!

Chu Hao snatched the bowl, poured it directly into his mouth, and hummed: "If you don't like it, don't eat it." Give you good food, and take medicine. ”

As soon as Ruan Bai saw that the alarm was lifted, he didn't care what Chu Hao was humming. If you can't eat weird things, you won't eat them, and someone will solve them anyway, and he's not a waste of food.

After returning to the Great Zhou, for the first time, everyone ate with their bellies up. Ruan Bai is a pity that there is no soy sauce, otherwise it would not be too good to make red stewed mutton. Soy sauce is made of soybeans, and now that there are soybeans, he has to think about how to turn soybeans into soy sauce......

But when he woke up the next morning, Ruan Bai didn't have the leisure - the crotch of his pants was a little wet, the air still smelled a little bad, and there were people rubbing around him...... Rub the hair, rub it! Ruan Bai kicked Chu Hao to the ground with a kick.

Fell directly from the kang to the ground, and woke up from any dream. Chu Hao lay on the ground, and only got up after a while, looked at the still dark sky, grabbed Ruan Bai to wash his underwear, and comforted him: "Second brother, don't be afraid, this is when you grow up, not pee your pants." ”

Soul light! Chu Da Dog is peeing pants! He's been growing up for years!

That morning, there were a lot of people who got up to wash their underwear, and they all overdid it. When they first came back from the grassland, they were all weak, but after such a long time, their bodies had already been nourished.

The men hung their panties in shame in their rooms.

Aunt Yun, who got up early to cook, glanced at the woman who had given birth to two children and laughed at the men who had not had time to harbor the evidence of the crime. The men were ashamed of themselves.

Ruan Bai didn't dodge it, and was touched on the head.

"Our lord has grown up and is not shy. My aunt is going to dry you in the yard. ”

Ruan Bai didn't have time to stop it, and then Chu Hao hung his cleaned pants on Ruan Bai's side, looked at Ruan Bai's pants on the side, and touched them in a ghostly way, and then walked away as quickly as if he was burned. The dream in the morning was not far away, but the memory was already a little blurry, but the young man's flushed face and suppressed "Brother Hao" lingered as if it was burned in his mind.

Ruan Bai held his breakfast bowl and squatted in the courtyard to guard his pants, ready to take it back into his house when it stopped dripping.

Chu Hao walked over, squatted beside him, and asked with a stern face: "Call me Brother Hao." ”