Chapter 184: Laying a solid foundation

In the blink of an eye, it has been more than half a month since Zhao Yuan returned from the county seat, and all the planned things are being carried out in an orderly manner.

With the establishment of the transportation team led by Wan Yan, the transportation efficiency has been greatly improved, and barrels of cement have been continuously transported from the cement workshop in Laozhutian to various parts of Danling, and the transportation caravan has become larger and larger.

Zhao Yuan went home to play with Meng Ying and Luoluo for two days with a large group of people who came back from the county seat, and had to continue to be busy with other things at home.

The children of Zhaojiazhuang and Xiaobao of Songjiazhuang are on vacation, Luoluo is very happy now, not only a group of children from Changyan Changsong from the county seat, but also Uncle Xiaobao is also on vacation, and after a few days, they are all crazy.

Although cement is now in short supply, Zhao Yuan still allocated some production to strengthen the house, and the cave where the grain was stored had been planned long ago was also built with cement, and some of the dried grain had begun to be stored inside.

"Uncle, we're going to Zhaojiazhuang, won't you come with us?" Early in the morning, Luoluo, who got up early, said to Zhao Yuan, who was practicing in the yard.

"Yes, Uncle Atom, why do you have so much to do, my father and they will take us back to school in two days." Chang Song also said.

Although the collection and processing of wild mushrooms this year has not ended, it has also passed half of the entire mushroom picking season, and the overall income has been about the same as last year, of which Zhao Yuan's family only accounts for two percent of the overall income, and the rest are all owned by the villagers of Zhaojiazhuang and Meng's father's family.

During this time, Meng Ying took Luoluo and Jia Yang and his wife to Zhaojiazhuang every day to be busy with mushroom affairs, and later his father and eldest brother also came to help, and they lived a very fulfilling life.

"Okay, I'll be with you for a day today." Zhao Yuan laughed, stopped practicing, took the hands of the two little guys, and walked towards the house.

"Brother Yuan, breakfast is ready soon, wash up quickly, see you sweat profusely." Meng Ying, who was in the house with Xue Yao to make breakfast, saw Zhao Yuan enter the house and said with a smile.

"Okay, Xiaoying, I'll go to Zhaojiazhuang with you today, and the family is almost busy." Zhao Yuan nodded with a smile, scooped up a basin of water and began to wash.

Zhang Xucong and the three of them came to Gray Yuan Town for a few days and left because of other things, but they left the children behind, saying that they wanted the children to experience the childhood life that Zhao Yuan said.

The children got up one after another, and Zhao Yuan's house slowly became lively. The three children of Zhang Xucong's family, the five children of Wang Pinxuan's family, and the four children of Ran Yanbo's family, plus Wan Xin, Wan Xiaoxiao, Meng Xiaobao, Xiaoya, and the sound of chirping, made Zhao Yuan's family full of vitality.

"Queue up to wash your face and brush your teeth." Seeing that the friends were all up, Luoluo took Changyan Changsong and arranged for the friends to wash.

For more than half a month, this group of children has become very familiar, and there were many conflicts at the beginning, which were later resolved by Luoluo, which also established Luoluo's status among children, the absolute eldest sister.

"Sister Luoluo, are we still going to pick prickly bubbles, there were a lot of them there yesterday." Among the children, Wan Xiaoxiao, the youngest, asked with a greedy face.

"No, no, no, I was tired yesterday." Wang Tao, the second son of Wang Pinxuan's family, hurriedly said with a chubby hand.

"Sister Xiaoxiao, those prickly bubbles are not fully ripe, and they can't be eaten yet." Luoluo comforted the little girl and said.

As the mushroom-picking team went farther and farther, this group of children followed the mushroom-picking team to run farther and farther, several hills in Zhaojiazhuang basically ran all over, yesterday found a large cluster of thorn bubbles on the north slope of the North Mountain, but these children were very happy.

Breakfast preparation is very simple, a large pot of porridge boiled with rice and wheat grains, and the side dishes are canned bamboo shoots and canned mushrooms and horseradish bean curd.

There were too many children, and it took Zhao Yuanguang a while to remember their names, but with these children at home, it was much more lively.

After breakfast, everyone cleaned up and rushed towards Zhaojiazhuang, a few little guys sat in the carriage and donkey cart, singing along the way, and soon arrived at Zhaojiazhuang.

"Atom, you're done?" As soon as I arrived outside Zhao Yuan's house in Zhaojiazhuang, I saw that the villagers of Zhaojiazhuang were basically here, and Uncle Zhao Chuanyi saw that Zhao Yuan actually followed, and said with a smile.

"Almost, uncle." Zhao Yuan also said with a smile.

"Okay, hahaha, atom, our village has made a fortune this year, and we are going to repair the ancestral hall well, just use the cement made by your cement workshop." Zhao Chuanyi said happily.

"Okay, I've got the cement I need." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

"No, everyone in the village has money this year, just give you a copy, we know that your cement is selling very hot." Zhao Chuanyi said.

"Okay, I can help design the ancestral hall." Zhao Yuan didn't insist, and said with a smile.

Taking advantage of the fact that the weather was not so hot, everyone took tools and went up the mountain to pick mushrooms one after another, and Zhao Yuan kept greeting everyone.

"Uncle, you can play with us." Watching Zhao Yuan finish talking to the adults, Luoluo said.

"Okay, Uncle will play with Luoluo for a day today." Zhao Yuan said hello to a few uncles and went to be the child king.

"Where are we going?" Zhao Yuan walked up to the children and asked with a smile.

"Go to our secret base." Luoluo said happily.

"Yo, there's a secret base, where is it?" Zhao Yuan asked with a smile.

In addition to playing some games brought by Zhao Yuan, the children's favorite thing to play is to play at home. In Zhao Yuan's mind, it was nothing more than something like a house made of mud branches.

"At the top of the back mountain, our base is beautiful, uncle, let's go quickly."

"Yes, Uncle Atom, you'll be surprised." The other children said happily.

"Okay, go slowly, don't fall." Zhao Yuan said.

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After a day of playing with Luoluo and the children, Zhao Yuan threw himself into busy things again.

The size of the cement workshop has been expanded, and with the establishment of the new transport caravan, the personnel of the escort have also been expanded several times, and the quota of personnel allowed at the beginning has long been exceeded, but the salaries of the team members are paid from the cement workshop, the soap workshop and the transport caravan, and no one will take care of it.

"My lord, according to your orders, we have two teams of men and horses to start the entire Danling territory of bandits, and two groups of bandits who have been entrenched for many years have been eliminated." Miao Shijie, who had already been promoted to captain of the escort team, reported to Zhao Yuan.

"Okay, hard work, how about the casualties of the brothers?" Zhao Yuan asked.

"Only three brothers were slightly injured and were out of the way." Miao Shijie said proudly.

After spending some money, Zhao Yuan's official position has also been improved by two grades, and the current grade is basically the same as that of Danling County Order, but as a military position, his status is still half a level lower than that of a civil official.