Chapter 7 Inventory of the Family
A moment later, smoke billowed from the back house, and a fire ignited. Zhao Quanyi rushed out suddenly, his face with angry eyes distorted and deformed, hideous and terrifying. He held a thick-backed big knife high above his head, pounced over, and used all his strength to slant towards Zhuang Yi's neck.
Zhuang Yi did not retreat but advanced, took a big step forward, and flew up like lightning, Zhao Quanyi couldn't stand the force, "kicked" three or four steps back, and sat on the ground with a butt.
"I said a long time ago, you are not my opponent, respect you as a man, do it yourself!" Zhuang Yi's face was as cold as iron, unmoved.
"Kill ......" Zhao Quanyi turned over and got up, his eyes were blood-red, he ignored it, roared like a mad tiger, and pounced again.
"Humph! When I haven't killed anyone? Zhuang Yi snorted coldly, took two diagonal steps, and the spear pierced into Zhao Quanyi's left chest like thunder.
With a "po......of", blood gushed out, and the air gradually filled the air with the unique fishy sweetness of blood. Zhao Quanyi spat blood at his mouth, still screaming and slashing with a knife.
"Ruthless! Shameless enough...... Why are you right to kill? Zhuang Yi smiled and pursed his lips, the spear swung sideways, and the head of the spear swept towards Zhao Quanyi's throat.
A rain of bright red blood shot upwards like a fountain, and then scattered in all directions. Zhao Quanyi's head flew up and down to the height, and his bones rolled out of the distance, and he didn't blink his eyes.
Zhuang Yi strode forward, provoked the head with a shot, looked at the eyes that did not have the slightest brilliance, and chuckled: "Zhao Quanyi!" Actually, I don't despise you for being a house slave, but if you kidnap the concubine of the head of the house, you should find a place to live honestly and steadily, how happy it is. But you are on this path...... You know what? Only those who have great ability are qualified to take the inheritance of others and replace them. And I'm ...... Why do you think I came to this world, God wants me to be the master of this world, do you understand? Aha......"
Zhuang Yi opened his arms and laughed wildly to the sky unscrupulously, but his tears were blurred when he laughed. His mood is complicated, and he must wave goodbye to the original world and start a new life and a new journey.
Zhao Quanyi's mansion and the houses next to it were burned to the ground, and the smoke and fire raged for an afternoon. The sudden change made everyone in the cottage unprepared, they did not go to fight the fire, they chose to wait and see in silence, and they could only wait and see in silence.
Zhuang Yi ignored them, and after finishing his business, he went to the stream at the bottom of the mountain to take a hearty cold shower, and when he returned to his small dilapidated house, he fell asleep. When I woke up the next morning, I found that on the ruins, Duan Zhongzhong was leading people to clean up the blackened ruins.
"I thought...... People die for peace, and good is great! Thick burial as well! Duan Zhongzhong said with an unnatural expression, he was a little entangled in his heart and at a loss.
"Okay...... This is a must, you can do it! Also, I'm going to move to the school. And also...... Keep an eye on them, reassure them, and don't let them run away! Three days later, the whole village was summoned to the treasury to discuss the matter, where the venue was large enough. Zhuang Yi took the lead in becoming the owner of the village, and once he gave the order.
"Okay! I'll arrange it later. Duan Zhongzhong nodded and agreed.
"I'll go to the treasury and take a look, your eldest man is on duty there!" After thinking about it, Zhuang Yi planned to take stock of his family.
"In, in...... Why don't I accompany you? Duan Zhongzhong smiled a little flatteringly. As the person who has been with Zhuang Yi for the longest time, and knows the most, the more he feels that he can't see through Zhuang Yi as a person, and if there is a sense of mystery, he will be afraid, and Duan Zhongzhong has this hairy feeling in his heart.
"No need! You are busy with your ......" Zhuang Yi didn't think about that, he agreed casually, and walked towards the foot of the mountain.
The storehouse is in a dry depression at the foot of the mountain, back against the cliff stone wall, facing the wall, a whole five tall stone houses, covering an area of about five acres (converted to 2,500 square meters), including granaries, groceries, weapons three categories, the roof is also covered with thatch, it looks very dilapidated.
Zhuang Yi pushed open the courtyard door and walked in, Bian Wu and An Huaixin were carrying goods to the warehouse with people, when they came back yesterday, it was too late and there was no time to unload the goods.
"Boy...... Not bad! Well done! Zhuang Yi put on a cheap smile again, showing his white teeth, and patted An Huaixin's shoulder very forcefully.
Mr. Zhuang...... Oh no! It's the boss of the village! We came back late yesterday, and a car went down the cliff on the road, and I wanted to find it, but they didn't go with me......" An Huaixin carried a sack on his shoulder, his face tangled.
"Forget it...... Isn't it just a cartload of grain? Follow me! You will have endless food, you can eat fish and meat, you can eat the delicacies of the mountains and seas, and you will never go hungry! Zhuang Yi casually drew a big pie.
"Hey, hey, hey...... That's a good idea! An Huaixin smiled innocently.
Hearing them speak, everyone in the courtyard stopped what they were doing and tilted their heads to look at their new owner with a scrutinizing face. Someone had already informed Duan Renzhen, he was Duan Zhongzhong's eldest son, the word Bocheng, and he had always been in charge of the treasury. Unlike his shrewd and calculating father Duan Zhongzhong, Duan Renzhen has a relatively gentle temperament and a good sunny young man, which is very much in line with his name and character.
He is twenty-three years old, and he has a twenty-year-old younger brother, named Duan Sizhen, the word Zhongming, the two brothers are not married, of course, there is no suitable woman, ordinary mountain women, he will not look down. Because of this embarrassing identity of a thief, you must know that men in this era got married and had children at the age of fifteen or sixteen, which gradually became a matter of Duan Zhong's heart.
Duan Renzhen was grizzled and dirty, and his clothes were covered with dust, which concealed his elegant and quiet temperament. He trotted in one hand with the hem of a blue round-necked, narrow-sleeved robe.
For Zhuang Yi to be young, but he has a high and profound knowledge of arithmetic, he admires it very much and often asks for advice. Therefore, compared with Zhao Quanyi, who is a rough man, he is often unable to get along, and he is happy to see the transformation of Zhuang Yi's identity.
"Zhuang Dalang! Congratulations! Duan Renzhen didn't care if this was the place to speak, and said with a smile.
"Haha...... Rejoice and rejoice! Bo Cheng! You can rest assured! There will be a new atmosphere for the new Lord...... If you want to manage government, manage your money first! Let's start by looking at the inventory geometry. ”
"That's right...... This way ...... walk"
Zhuang Yi walked into the warehouse with his hands behind his back and walked into the warehouse, inside the left side against the wall is a bag of stacked grain bags, on the right side is a few grain piers on the opposite side, surrounded by bricks of a small room of one zhang in length and width, and the inner wall is smoothed with mud and lime mixture, which is suitable for long-term storage of grain and will not rot due to moisture.
"With the wheat and corn that have just been put into the warehouse, it is more than 1,800 buckets in total, and if you add the cattle and sheep and the vegetables grown in the village, it is enough to eat for two months. But two months later, the summer harvest season has not yet arrived, and when the green and yellow crops are scarce, the grain will be bought with land if there is money......" Duan Renzhen said with mixed feelings.
In the Tang Dynasty, the grain trade was generally measured by buckets, so it was called "buckets", and if the quantity and weight were too large, they were called "stones" with a higher unit of measurement, and one stone was equal to ten buckets, about one hundred and twenty-five catties.
"Oh...... Do not worry! What about the money? How many are left? ”
"Money! There are more than 700 of them! ”
"It's okay! How about taking me to see the weapon? Zhuang Yi looked relaxed and didn't care.
"What are the weapons to see, they are all in everyone's hands, only a few spare arrows, about a thousand! There were more than fifty bows, as well as some remaining spear heads and arrowheads, but not many, and a few pairs of tattered leather armor. Duan Renzhen said as she walked.
Zhuang Yi walked through the arsenal and looked very disappointed, there were rusty broken knives and broken spears thrown everywhere, and there were several large wooden boxes stacked against the wall. I couldn't help but step forward and open it to see that it was all bundled arrows, and I counted them, and there were thirty bundles of arrows.
"We have to find a way to get weapons...... Zhuang Yi thought, turned his head and asked, "Are these weapons all bought from the Songting Guantun Army?" ”
"Yes! They only sell us half-used weapons, and some of them buy iron and make them themselves......"
"Oh...... There is a blacksmith in the village, and this is easy to do! Do you know where there are iron mines? Zhuang Yi was overjoyed and turned around and asked. The rest of the things, he is no longer interested in looking at any more, in the future, he only needs to check from time to time and listen to the exact data report.
"Iron ore? Haven't you heard of it here? Only there are ...... on the other side of Youzhou."
"Then next time we'll exchange it for iron, and it's better to make our own weapons."