Chapter 201
The four treasure chests were sent to the big tent of the Xi Dynasty in the early morning, and Hongming was busy assigning the question of the going and staying of the guards, leaving Hongrui to be the paper-unpacker.
Hongrui opened the treasure chest, and the box was folded into all kinds of paper, which looked like a child's childlike fun, and it was interesting to open them one by one and read them.
"Master, there are really people here who ask the master for silver." Hongrui was surprised, but someone specially reminded her yesterday, how could someone still write it?
"It's a hundred taels, and there is a reason for it." Hongrui stopped and looked, "In order to marry my brother, this person is really interesting, I am afraid that the master will misunderstand and write the reason." "There is a signature on the paper that was opened in front of it, but there is no reason for it.
"Do you want to give it?" After looking at the majority of the basic weapons of a bunch of people, I couldn't help but be a little more curious when I dismantled such an interesting red stamen.
"Give." It's just a hundred taels, it has weight for others, and it doesn't matter if it's not bad for the lord of the Xi Dynasty, even if it's a reward, it's because of the fulfillment.
"This person's name is Zheng Cao, wait." Hongrui ran to rummage through things, and found a stack of papers with the background of Qinwei's family background to rummage through the information.
"His family is really not rich." Hongrui took into account that someone deliberately wrote this, in order to try to see if she could get the money, and she had a personal background to compare the truth and falsehood.
Hongrui put the paper asking for silver on the other side to classify it, and saw how many people had the idea of asking for silver, and continued to open it.
"Master, there is one who wants wild ginseng, and it is marked that there must be a year in the palace." Hongrui read the contents of the paper, and freed one hand to turn over the corresponding personal background, "The mother of the family has a chronic illness and needs wild ginseng. ā
"Well, go to the palace and take the one you have chosen. Then send a doctor to take a look. "Don't have a problem eating, ginseng is a great tonic, and the older ones are even older. When a good thing becomes a bad thing, the Xi Dynasty instructs.
"There's no need to bother to run to the palace, isn't Doctor Xu here, your own people can rest assured." Hongrui said, "Why don't you let Doctor Xu run now, it just happens that you are not busy at hand, and send the secret guard to go with you." ā
Xi Chao nodded thoughtfully. "Okay, you go to the ward."
Hongrui ran out and told Xu Mian that he could go down the mountain, and when he came back, he went through the paper in the treasure chest. The rest of the content is the same, there is not much novelty, and they are divided into categories one by one.
"Here's a bow and arrow, and it's best to make it of dark iron." Hongrui opened the other one and said, "This one wants a military book." It is indicated that it is not passed on to the family. The sigh is quite big, and if you don't want to think about it, you know that it is not spread, how can the master get it. ā
Hongrui continued to flip through the information, and suddenly sighed, "These four people are together, no wonder, the things they want are particularly strange." ā
"By the way, these four people have brains and potential. Does the master need to pay special attention to it? Hongrui remembered that the Dark Guard had praised the four of them.
"Get the Dark Guard to pay attention." The Xi Dynasty does not intend to treat the four of them specially.
"Okay." Hongrui answered, and put the note on the table neatly. Wrap it in a large piece of paper and hand it over to the Dark Guard to prepare the items needed on paper.
"Master, do you want to mention the New Year's Festival today?" Hongrui means to take advantage of the opportunity of the people who stay in the mountains to hunt and gather in one place, and to inform them, and to have a mental preparation, or a plan.
"Yes." There is no opinion on when to mention the tide of the dynasty.
"What is the master's plan?" Hongrui asked, "Most people must be going home for the New Year, and the few people left can't stay in the mountains all the time, right?" "How bleak and pitiful.
"Where are you going if you don't go home?" Don't want to go home? The first time Xi Chao heard it, he didn't say that other families were still as comfortable as his own home, and his family was still in a broken house, and there were family members waiting for him to go back.
"There are those who don't want to go back, the people in the family are not good to themselves, and they are cold and disdainful." Hongrui can understand the feeling of being rejected by her family, "There is no shortage of people in the big family who treat their children coldly, and there are even worse ones. ā
"Leave it up to them." The Xi Dynasty can't take the place of others, everyone has their own considerations, and outsiders can't intervene in their own living space.
"If you don't have nowhere to go, you can go to the palace." Hongrui's mind flashed with joy, "Anyway, in the future, they will be on an errand in the palace, so they should adapt in advance, there are not many people in the mansion, and the New Year is lively, what does the master think?" "The idea is good, but it won't work without the master's consent.
"At that time, I'm talking about the number of people." The Xi Dynasty is not disgusted with outsiders to set foot in the palace, just a mention yƬ, there is still more than a month before the New Year's Festival, enough for those people to think clearly about staying in the land.
"Okay." Hongrui happily responded, the master is not completely endless, that is, there is still hope, and it is a great temptation to visit the Xinyi Palace, is there really no one to go? Looking forward to it.
"Is the master going hunting?" Hongrui changed the subject, eager to try hunting, it has been a long time since she stretched her muscles, and it is just right to play.
"Wait for everyone to return from hunting, and let go of the Zhuangzi to do something good." How can you fill your stomach just by eating meat, and Xi Chao has no intention of showing off his riding in front of people.
"Go ahead." Xi Chao was very amused when he saw Hongrui's anxious appearance.
"The slave and maid went to convey the master's command." Hongrui left happily, went to Hongming to talk about the New Year's Festival, and by the way, he roasted some game to eat, it must be very delicious.
Hongrui found Hongming and said a seal, and Mei Zizi said that she would hunt with her guards.
Hongming didn't answer the noisy Hongrui gathered everyone to speak: "When hunting, you need to pay attention to large carnivores such as tigers and wolves, although it is rare to hear rumors that you have encountered them in this mountain, it is always right to be careful, and then you will catch the prey and take it back and clean it up by the river, don't litter the internal organs, don't find a place to make a fire when the weather is dry, there is an open flat land on the other side of the stream, and it will be cleaned up for everyone to barbecue, don't go deeper, there are deep ditches in some places, Mo went on a business trip because of the appetite, and finally came back and announced one thing to everyone." Well, don't bother with all this nonsense. ā
No one will be annoyed, careless loss of Jingzhou has not happened, at first did not listen to the persuasion when the wind is heard, and then suffered all of them learned to be obedient, this time it is a relaxing hunting, something unexpected how troublesome it is.
Seeing that everyone was almost gone, Hongrui said excitedly: "Let's go out." ā
"I'm not going. There's still something to do. "The vacated space has to be sorted out, although Hongming has handed over the power to Hongrui, some trivial matters are still in charge of himself.
"Really. It's good to leave it to the dark guards, we can easily have the opportunity to go out hunting, and it should be very lively when there are many people. "The prey that the master is waiting for us to catch, the weather is getting colder day by day, and we can make a lot of things by peeling off the fur of rabbits and other animals." I'm pretty boring by myself, and I can't be with those big men. ā
"Alright, alright." Hong Ming listened and compromised. "It's up to you." Leave things to the Dark Guard, not for fun, but for the soft, smooth fur.
"Let's go, what if it's too late to go, the prey is caught by those people." Hongming urged. "Speaking of rabbits, it's not bad to raise." The plush ones are very cute.
Hongming and Hongrui went hunting for different purposes. In order to leave space for the animals to be saved, they are quite particular about hunting, and let go of the next generation that has just grown up to live in the mountains for this life.
Take the prey to the river to clean up, peel off the fur and put it aside, and it has to be dried and tanned before it can be used to make things.
Hong Ming counted the number of prey, and he couldn't do it, and he could do two boots and a shoulder.
The two cleaned up neatly. One after another, people came back to find a place to clean up the prey, and the dark guard had prepared more than a dozen fires. Just light it, take a branch and put it on the prey to roast.
"You go and light the fire." Hong Ming instructed Hong Ming, "I'll just do this little work, and I'll bake it later and give it to the master." ā
Hongrui took the fire fold and lit the shelf set up by the branches, and found two clean and finger-thick branches through the rabbit meat and put them on the shelf to roast.
"I'll go get some spices." Saying that, the wind ran away without a trace, and the wind under Hongrui's feet came back after a while.
Some of the people who came back hit the Chengcheng stag, and some hunted a big wild boar, and the harvest was quite considerable, and everyone happily packed up the prey and shared it with everyone, and the men who drank wine and ate meat together were good brothers.
The aroma of the barbecue is very attractive, the men who have been hungry for meat for many days have green light in their eyes and saliva overflowing, fortunately remember that this is outside, and they can't embarrass themselves, but the eyes staring at the barbecue have not changed at all, and they are in a hurry, why is it not good.
The seasoning brought by Hongrui is distributed, and the barbecue without salt smell will be inferior to the smell and taste in the mouth, and the human taste is so tricky.
Having received his share of the wild boar and venison, Hongrui immediately rushed away, taking advantage of the heat to give to his master to enjoy, although it was a little rougher, it was still very tempting to look at.
Hongming and other big guys ate it, clapped their hands to show quietness, and said: "The things mentioned before are related to the New Year's Festival, the New Year's reunion is a century-old custom, the New Year's Day begins to take a vacation two days before the New Year's Festival, and comes back on the nineteenth day of the first month of the New Year, if you can't go home or don't want to go home, it's best to have a place to go, there is no one left on the mountain, if you really provide a place for the difficult master, you can report your name to the newspaper." ā
Everyone was stunned, it turned out that it was for this matter, and they thought that the Wing King was going to come up with a strange idea again, and their hearts were half-hearted, and then they fell back to their original positions.
Of course, I have to go home during the New Year's Festival, and I haven't been able to go back to visit my parents and relatives for so long.
As for those who don't go home? It's strange, there are people who don't want to go home, they can't go back to their homes, they don't want to go back, they don't want to go what's going on, they have a stomach full of questions, no one asks directly, it's about other people's family affairs, as the saying goes, Taoist families have a difficult scripture, they are old enough to eat radish first, who doesn't have a few rotten things, life is like this, don't let the brothers around you can't get off the stage, just guess in your heart, say it more than people.
"Where is the place?" Someone boldly asked, pulling back the thoughts of some people who were not on the normal line.
"Yes, it's inconvenient to disclose." Someone chimed in, "The shops on the street for the New Year have to close their doors and go home for the New Year, and a few are open." The various places in the words were tacitly understood by everyone present.
Except for the Huanchang Restaurant, Casino and Theater, there is really no one that is open, and everyone's curiosity is hooked, and they all want to know where the Wing King provides.
"If you don't go home, you can go, or if you want to go to join in the fun after the New Year, you can also go?" Some people also questioned that if everyone is bored, it is normal to go out and have fun and drink with friends.
"Can you say it now, so that everyone can have a plan." Many people whispered.
"This ......" Hong Mingzhen didn't know if he could reveal it. I said in advance whether a large group of people would break through the gate of the palace, and I was a little hesitant.
"It's not where everybody thinks." Hongrui came out to play in the circle, and always liked to see other people's surprises. This matter is absolutely confidential.
"Where is that?" Use your imagination to try to guess certain places where you might become homeless teammates.
"It's a Chinese New Year's Eve surprise." Hongrui said with a smile, "Everyone thinks about where they are going, and whether they can get together after the New Year depends on how many people there are." "The Wing Wang's Mansion is big enough to put down four thousand people, yes, some things need to be prepared in advance, such as beds, clothes, daily utensils and food, all of which need to be purchased in large quantities, among which food is the most difficult to store. If you really want a large group of people to go, the scattered poor people in the Yiyi Palace's mansion are really too busy, and everything needs to be taken into account. Otherwise, it will be difficult to explain to the master.
After finishing speaking, Hong Ming pulled Hong Rui to the side to speak, "You shouldn't have come up with the idea, right?" Although there are seven layers of affirmation in the tone of the question, Hongrui often does this kind of thing.
"yes." Hongrui generously admitted. "There are people who really don't want to go back. And you can't put people alone in the deep mountains and old forests. ā
"The master agreed?" Hong Ming didn't blame Hong Rui for coming up with ideas, after all, what Hong Rui said was the truth, and it was inevitable to have this idea from reality.
"The master said that he would be watching it then, and it is estimated that he will change places if there are too many people." Hongrui only now remembered that there was still a Zhuangzi under the mountain, and people could be released there.
"There's still a month to prepare, don't throw your master's face in a hurry." Hong Ming's mind has already begun to think about the way to 'hospitality'.
"I know." Hongrui knows in her heart that she can't let her master feel annoyed.
"What do you need on the master's side?" Hongrui sent Hongrui back, and the master was alone in the tent without someone to serve him.
"I'll go back now." Hong Rui neatly left the matter to Hong Ming and left.
Everyone was eating meat and talking about what had just happened. The New Year is approaching, and the days fly by. Think about whether you will go home or stay and see the place arranged by the Wing King.
Most people choose to go home and talk to the people around them about what to bring home, but they can't go back with empty hands, it's too cheap.
As he spoke, he talked about which shop in Beijing had delicious pastries, which bacon was cheap, which wine's wine was mellow and spicy, and which hemp sugar was sweet and toothless......
The more I talked, the more greedy I became, so I could only take the barbecue in my hand and bite down on it, and the delicious food in my mind still lingered.
Many people began to envy their teammates who were allowed to go down the mountain, and they had already known that they would bring some food back, so that they could eat barbecue and think about something else.
"You want to go back?" Meng Zhou gave Zhang Qi beside him an elbow.
"Nonsense, where can you go if you don't go home?" Zhang Qi gnawed on the rabbit leg and glanced at Meng Zhou, and he was embarrassed to ask.
Meng Zhou was used to being buried by Zhang Qi, so he didn't take the derogatory words to heart, "After that, this is long enough." "You can't just stay at home and be bored all the time.
"Do you have a good plan?" Zhang Qi asked and ate, without delay at all, the meat had a strange smell when it was cold, of course it should be eaten while it was hot.
"I want to go to the place provided by the Wing King to open my eyes." Meng Zhou felt that the Wing King's move must be a big deal, on the one hand, he was curious and excited on the other, and the mixed emotions were intertwined together and couldn't be explained.
"Maybe there is a limit to the number of people, and your dream is doomed to fail." Zhang Qi is used to pouring Meng Zhou's cold water.
"It's not that it's not decided, how do you know it's not going to work." Meng Zhou didn't believe that the Wing King was so rich and powerful, and there would be no big place to accommodate 4,000 people, don't talk about it.
"We'll talk about it when the time comes." Zhang Qi was actually quite curious about the place chosen by the Wing King, but by the way, Meng Zhou would not say what he thought in his heart.
"Well, why haven't those two come back, I'm a little hungry." Meng Zhou raised his hand to look at the sky for a moment.
Zhang Qi almost sprayed, and the white of his eyes was about to roll out, Meng Zhou was really embarrassed to say, what happened to the big piece of roast pork in his hand, and he ate half of it.
"You guess they're not going home?" Meng Zhou finished speaking, and talked about others himself.
"Who knows, wait for the two of them to come back and ask." Zhang Qi estimated in his heart that Zheng Cao must be going home, as for Wu Yue, it is difficult to say, he has a bad relationship with the people in the family, and half of them may not go back.
"It's cool to eat meat and drink a lot." Meng Zhou glanced at the meat in his hand, and always felt that there was something missing.
Zhang Qi understood, Meng Zhou is really picky, it's good to have meat to eat, if it weren't for this hunting, where would the large pieces of fragrant and oily barbecue come from, I would not be satisfied.
At noon, everyone ate and drank to their heart's content, and the rest of the barbecue was wrapped in a small portion as a snack, or found a place to hang it to dry, and gritted its teeth when the meat was jerky.
The people who went out for a walk came back, bought a lot of things in large bags and small bags, found their respective teams, put things on the ground, and generously said that everyone has a share, and the amount is less than the mind has arrived, how can you patronize yourself when you go out, everyone is a team of brothers.
Everyone is very happy, this is a brother, things are distributed by the captain, and there is a lot of energy to grab and lose your identity, and everyone has a share and can't do without you.
Wu Yue and Zheng Ke came back with their front and back feet, put the things back in the camp tent in advance, and the two came to the gathering place together, they had eaten at noon, and Meng Zhou handed over the barbecue and tasted a piece and put it away.
Meng Zhou's mouth was big and he shook out what he was talking about before, and the four of them planned to go back first, who knows what kind of training was waiting for him in the afternoon.
"New Year's Day?" Zheng Ke raised his eyebrows, "Why did you take so long off?" ā
"It's probably fifteen, Shangyuan Festival, and the family will be reunited." Wu Yue was sad when he said this, his family showed his face every year during the New Year, and then he went to other places to run around, going out early and returning late, avoiding the strange eyes of his family, if he didn't have an official body, he would probably have been swept out of the house.
"I'm going back." Zheng Cao said again, "I am also looking forward to the place provided by the Wing King, so I will ask and see it when the time comes." ā
"You and I want to go together." Meng Zhou was full of smiles and hit it off with Zheng Ke.
"Wu Yue, aren't you going back this year?" Meng Zhou saw that Wu Yue's face was different, and he said tentatively.
"It depends." Wu Yue really didn't want to go back.
"Why don't you go to my house." Meng Zhou mentioned yƬ, he couldn't watch his friend's lonely person wandering outside on Chinese New Year's Eve.
"No, you don't." Wu Yue stayed in someone else's house strangely and restrainedly, after all, it was not his own home, he couldn't be casual, and there were many rules to abide by, so why should he be wronged.
"Otherwise, you will go to the place provided by the Wing King." Meng Zhou is not easy to persuade, each family has its own family affairs, others do not understand the inside story, and they have no right to speak.
"Let's see." Maybe go and take a look, Wu Yue is a little moved. (To be continued......)