The Lan Ruo where the Dihua family lives is extremely hidden because of historical reasons, few people pass by outside, even if there are people, they just see a piece of ruins without a roof, that year's "ban on Buddha" movement, there is no temple that is not stained with blood, not to mention a Lan Ruo, the world says that this kind of place is "cursed" by the Buddha, and it is very angry, so even the foot merchants will not spend the night here.

It's very safe here, Eagle Qiu Danqing doesn't plan to leave, he holds the sweet potato, and he can't say anything for a while. He knows that this sweet potato originated in the distant Americas, how did it get here, I don't know, compared to potatoes, sweet potatoes are more suitable for the northwest, where the land is barren and desertification is serious, but for sweet potatoes, this is not a thing, it is said that good sandy land, sweet potatoes can reach more than 1,000 catties per mu.

One thousand catties, what is the concept, Eagle Qiu Danqing is in charge of the largest tribe in the Xiting Empire, and he knows it very well in his heart. He had to find a way to bring the sweet potatoes and potatoes back to Xiting.

It's just that from Yanzhou to Tongguan, it's not just a matter of distance, after the war, as a straggler, it is difficult to protect itself, let alone with such an important strategic material, maybe the people of Hejian have not yet understood its importance, but the carving of Danqing does not plan to take risks, in case of failure, Xiting may have to fight the famine for a hundred years? Two hundred years? Or even longer.

"The first flower...... Girl"

"Huh?"

Diao Qiu Danqing smiled: "How many sweet potatoes are there now?" ”

Dihua looked at this Shating man vigilantly: "What are you going to do?" ”

In this period of famine and war, any talk of "food" is "hooliganism".

"The surname is Diao, I can tell you, I can take you to Yanzhou Mansion, or I can take you to Yanhu City, but if you dare to fight the idea of sweet potatoes, I will fight with you. This is the life of my little master. "If you do, you're out with me."

"Don't worry, I'm fighting this sweet potato idea, but I won't let you go without food." Diao Qiu Danqing explained.

Obviously, Dihua didn't trust his words at all, and the atmosphere under the eaves suddenly became tense.

Eagle Qiu Danqing pulled out the golden knife from the black belt, so frightened that Dihua hurriedly dragged Xiao Yu into the room, the high threshold made him fall, Xiao Yu looked at Dihua dissatisfied.

If it was in the past, the first flower would definitely pick up Xiaoyi, shoot and coax, but now she doesn't estimate it so much, she took out the iron and wooden stick she carried with her, and roared with a crying voice, "What are you going to do?" I'm a martial artist. ”

The first flower will be martial arts, yes, both men and women have the practice of martial arts in the river, but against a strong military person, that bit of martial arts is really not on the table, which can be felt from her crying. She secretly regretted her sloppiness, if she didn't bring him back, the food stored in the house might allow Xiaoyu and them to survive this winter, but now danger has fallen from the sky.

"Don't be nervous, I swear to God that I won't hurt you." Eagle Qiu Danqing dropped the golden knife in his hand and further showed goodwill.

"Then you."

"I just want to bring some sweet potatoes back to Xiting." Carving Qiu Danqing swept the brassica on the bluestone platform under the eaves, sat down, and gave his back to the first flower: "You know that Guanzhong has a lot of sandy soil, the land is barren, and this sweet potato is cold-resistant, cold-resistant, and very easy to plant, if I take some back, it will not take three years, no, two years, the famine in Guanzhong will be solved, and then our famine will be solved, and the sand pavilion will not go east, and the river will be safe, and it will be good for you." ”

"Really?"

"The first flower."

"Eh, little master." Dihua is really fond of her younger brother, and hugs the dissatisfied little boy to the threshold and sits down.

"Then you took it, what are we going to eat?"

Diao Qiu Danqing smiled: "So I want to see how many sweet potatoes you have, if there are enough, I will take them, if they are not enough." He looked at the sky: "We'll plant it, and when spring comes, and when there is a harvest, I'll bring some back." Now that there is chaos outside, I am not in a hurry to leave. ”

"You're going to stay?" Dihua kept thinking about the amount of food stored and everyone's food.

"Yes, I know how to farm." Eagle Qiu Danqing stretched out his hand very confidently, his cocoon was very even, unlike other Shating people, only the cocoon of the tiger's mouth was heavy, because they only held a knife, and Eagle Qiu Danqing was different, he liked to hold a hoe in addition to holding a knife.

Dihua was nervous, she didn't like to gamble, especially her life.

Eagle Qiu Danqing is waiting for her "verdict", if she doesn't agree, he will not leave, but in the coming winter, everyone will not be comfortable, because he plans to use his strength to snatch the sweet potatoes he needs.

"Yes" Without waiting for the first flower to speak, Xiao Yu sat on the threshold and said: "Let him plant sweet potatoes now." ”

"Hmm." The first flower was relieved.

"You seem to be afraid of your brother?"

The first flower gave him a blank look and threw him a broken pot: "The water source is outside the ridge, you go and water the ground and weed." ”

It's not so much a field as a vegetable garden, and perhaps a wild vegetable garden is more appropriate. This was originally opened up by the previous cultivators, the terrain is not good, some distance from the well, maybe the cultivator in order to temper himself, the canal is only half opened, no one maintains, and the water and grass are already full of ditches. Carving Qiu Danqing was tired and tired, carrying a broken basin to carry water back and forth, and the water sprinkled made the road muddy, and the vegetable field that could be watered was less than three feet.

"That's not going to work." Eagle Qiu Danqing threw away the basin in his hand.

"What, you can't do it anymore?" Dihua was dragging a small bag of sweet potatoes in her hand, and she could see that she was working hard in her hands, obviously not believing that Eagle Qiu Danqing could really farm.

"You can't do this, this water is poured, and it dries up before it is planted."

Dihua deeply agreed, she also wanted to take care of it, but she was a woman, and she was busy for a few months, and she barely opened a long land. There were no good tools and no strength to unclog the canals, which made everything extremely difficult, and it was only then that she deeply understood what her mother said: "The family still has to have a man." ”

Carving Qiu Danqing took off his clothes and pants, wearing only a pair of obscene pants, revealing his sturdy body, and Dihua subconsciously turned his head: "What are you going to do?" ”

"I'll get the canal through first." Saying that, he jumped into the canal, and the canal led straight to the garden, but the other end was abandoned all the year round because of the ridge, and the well was not passed, and the water plants grew extremely luxuriantly, and the carving Qiu Danqing jumped into it, and his feet fell deep into the mud, and the oppressed muddy water almost reached his knees, and it was very laborious to pull out the water weeds.

The man in front of him quickly cleared out a few bundles of aquatic weeds, and the stagnant canal showed signs of activity, once the canal was dredged and water was drawn from the well, he could pour down the ridge, so that there was no need to hold the basin over the ridge. As long as there is water, it will be easier to water, and if you can water, the soil in the garden will not be so hard, and it will be much easier to weed and plant sweet potatoes. At this moment, Dihua began to believe that Diao Qiu Danqing was really a farmer, and she also began to patiently practice the sweet potatoes at hand, and peeked at the man who was stained with muddy water from time to time.

It was not until the sun set that the carving Qiu Danqing cleaned up the silt from the canal and the aquatic plants pulled out in advance, and piled up two large pieces.

Xiao Yu gave him a thumbs up, and even handed him one more sweet potato in his hand during dinner.

After soaking in the water for a day, both on his feet and on his hands were miserable, carving Qiu Danqing was not like other Shating people, he would rather die than farm, Shating people thought that a man's hand could only hold a scimitar, but he was different, he was tired and did not fall asleep, this was the third day after the battle, and this night was very important to him.

Dihua's mother did not go out for a day, and he was still sleeping outside the eaves, and in the middle of the night, he endured sleepiness and exhaustion, climbed over the wall, went to the east, walked five miles in the dark, and lay on a dry grass, his eyes were open like gongs, for fear that he would fall asleep by accident.

After another half a moment, he took out a bamboo tube from his bosom, lit the fuse with a flint, and a flame rushed to the east.

"What are you doing?" Dihua rushed out of the grass pile far away: "Tiansha Hu people, you ...... Hurt us? ”

Eagle Qiu Danqing was a little confused, as an excellent hunter, he was actually followed without knowing it? He grabbed Dihua's hand, and a sour smell hit his nose, but he didn't dare to let it go, because he could see that Dihua's eyes were full of flames.

"It's okay, I'm just telling my companion that I'm here, and I don't want to hurt you."

"Companion?" The first flower flashed the appearance of a rout in her heart, those are all demons, you want to attract demons?

"Don't worry, they will listen to me and won't harass you."

"No, I'm going to kill you, you Hu people are demons, even if you can restrain them, they will attract Yanzhou people, do you know how difficult it is for me to find such a place to live?"

At this point, Qiu Danqing does not doubt that a family of four, the only adult who can take care of things, wants the family to live, and the suffering they suffer cannot be explained in one or two sentences. But he must send a message at this moment, he is the prince of Xiting Kingdom, he has his guard, although he is separated, according to the agreement, after midnight on the third day of separation, take the signal flare as the letter, if it is launched to the east, it is five miles west of the signal location, if it is launched to the north, it is five miles east of the signal place, this is what they agreed, because if the signal is not sent at the agreed time, no one can guarantee that when the signal flare is launched, someone is staring at the sky and watching.

Outside the cabin in the south of Yanzhou, two men and a woman in leather armor are standing on the top of the mountain, they are the guards Tiele, the hedgehog and the Ming Bird, they killed a team of patrolling Yanzhou guards the day before yesterday, and stayed in the cabin, waiting for the signal at three o'clock in noon tonight.

"Ten miles to the south, to the east."

"You go and call Kui Niu, and let's go."

"Okay, Mingniao, you be careful, there are ten Tiele here this time, and there are only three of us left, and if there is one less, I can't give the prince an errand, especially you."

"I'm also Tieler, and I'm no different from you." The signal light in the pupils of the bright bird was about to go out, she glanced at the distance fiercely, the time of transmitting the signal, the agreement of each noble person is different, if it is not seen by the enemy, it is the best, as for the direction of the signal, the position represented is also different, but if the person who is searching has a master, they will definitely gather at the source of the signal, and then ambush the person who responds, so as to find out the true location of the nobleman.

In order to ensure safety, Mingtori needs to be one step ahead and make sure that there are no enemies, and this task is dangerous. The pig argued with her for a long time, and finally he lost the punch.

The figure of the bright bird disappeared into the darkness. The pig reflexively walked to the wooden house, pushed open the door, Kui Niu was chewing, saw the pig, stood up and the huge body almost obscured half of the light in the room, he grinned, took out a piece of bamboo from his mouth, threw it on the table, the shaking bamboo piece gradually lay on the table, and it said "Cui Hu".

Mingniao walked along the side of the path, took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, listened to the sound in the distance, the road was very smooth, Mingniao was a little unconvinced, in the desert, this kind of meeting signal, the important leaders of the tribes have, in the endless wasteland, a signal to the sky, will always attract the attention of the enemy, and in Yanzhou, obviously those patrolling Yanzhou soldiers do not have such awareness.

Gradually, when they reached the target, the bird hid in the grass, quiet as a shadow, and waited for half an hour before the two of them surrounded them.

"Is it safe?"

"There isn't a single figure, and it's clear that the people of Hejian don't understand our customs."

"That's good, Niu, you stay here."

"Hmm." Kui Niu squatted higher than the grass, took two steps back, the dark night obscured everything, and his responsibility now was to be in charge of squatting until Ming Bird and the Pig found the Eagle and Danqing, and then informed him of the convergence.

Half an hour later, Mingniao and the Pig saw their prince, a prince who was being chased by a Chinese woman.

They didn't shoot arrows at Dihua, because they could see that the Eagle was just playing, not dueling.

Seeing the Tielers with black circles and black eyes, Dihua fainted directly.