Chapter 140: Arriving at Shikou Village
The girl's name is Xiaolan, the daughter of an ordinary family in Shikou Village, today I wanted to take advantage of the fact that the people who bought the medicinal herbs had not come, and went to the mountains to pick again, but I met a vicious bandit, but fortunately, there was no danger in the end.
"Brother Ye Yinan, Brother Ye Qing, there is Shikou Village in front!" The bamboo basket on her back was empty, but Xiaolan looked happy, bouncing along the way, living like an innocent girl, the two small freckles on her fair cheeks not only did not look ugly, but made her look more innocent and natural.
Looking at the girl who was as active as a fawn, Ye Yinan and Ye Qing, who were following behind, unconsciously became extremely relaxed.
From a distance, Ye Yinan saw a row of people standing at the entrance of the village, looking like they were greeting.
"The two should be distinguished guests from the Ye clan of Purple Cloud City, I am the village chief of Shikou Village, Huang Pan, welcome the arrival of the two distinguished guests!" When he got closer, the middle-aged man standing in the center walked up quickly, with a warm smile on his face.
"Village Chief Huang is polite. Seeing him so polite, Ye Yinan smiled and returned the salute.
"Xiao Lan'er is also here. After Huang Pan finished saluting, he looked at the girl on the side, and when he saw the empty bamboo basket behind her, he shook his head and smiled: "You stupid girl, you went out early in the morning and returned empty-handed." β
Xiaolan blushed and said dissatisfied: "That's not the case! I met ......."
The entrance of the village is not a place to entertain guests, Huang Pan didn't listen to her explanation, smiled and left her a back, and took Ye Yinan and Ye Qing into the village, Xiaolan stomped her little feet angrily in the back, and hurriedly chased after her.
After officially entering the village, Ye Yinan and Ye Qing glanced at each other, and they both saw the deep surprise in each other's eyes, where does this Shikou Village look like a village, with attics lined up one after another, and the central streets extend in all directions, at a glance, except for the smaller ones, the rest are not much worse than Ziyun City, and they are far from the remote and poor villages in their imaginations.
Huang Pan glanced at the eyes of the two, with a faint smug on his face, and he asked as he led the way: "The two of you look a little raw, they should be the first time to come back to Shikou Village!"
"Well, the person who was in charge of coming to Shikou Village before can't come this time, so I'm here for him. Ye Qing nodded and replied, looking at the various places to play on both sides of the street, and the prosperous demeanor that only a county town can have, he couldn't help but smack his lips.
This is called Shikou Village? Why don't we expand it and change the name to Shikou County.
Ye Yinan looked around curiously, and asked casually with a smile: "Village Chief Huang, how did you develop Shikou Village into this situation?"
This is what Huang Pan is most proud of, Ye Yinan's words undoubtedly hit his point, he grinned, cleared his throat and said: "Actually, the credit is not on me, at most it is a bit of hard work." At first, Shikou Village was called a poor village, and almost all the villagers were surrounded by four walls, and they couldn't even open the pot. But then one day, we found that we could sell medicinal herbs near the village, and they could often sell them at a better price than others!"
"Oh, why is that?" Ye Yinan became interested, and when he saw the other party's mysterious and appetizing expression, he laughed in his heart.
Huang Pan was very satisfied with his questioning, and continued: "For some reason, the medicinal herbs around our village not only grow rapidly, but also have a better medicinal effect than those in other places. β
Through the open gate of a family, Ye Yinan saw a medicine field in the yard, nodded lightly, and knew in his heart, no wonder Shikou Village is so prosperous, this is the so-called relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to eat the water!
During the conversation, he also learned that the Ye clan of Ziyun City was not the only patron of Shikou Village, and even the people of the six counties in the northern Han Dynasty often came to buy medicinal materials here.
Huang Pan also learned about the two of them saving Xiaolan, and immediately bowed down excitedly to gratitude, Xiaolan is the little girl he watched grow up, naturally very close, he saw her and Ye Yinan coming together before, and thought that she happened to meet when he came back from collecting medicine.
After settling down the two of them, the two sides were about to start talking about business, Ye Qing was also wearing the Sumeru ring of the clan this time, and the medicinal materials he wanted to buy were not a small amount.
"Brother Nan, are you really not going?" Ye Qing looked at Ye Yinan pitifully, and began to play again.
Ye Yinan shook his head, he just heard that Village Chief Huang meant to eat and talk at the banquet, but he was not interested in that kind of occasion at all, he talked about business, and he ate and drank when he ate, he didn't like to confuse the two.
Ye Qing tugged at his sleeve and said bitterly: "Can you bear to let me face it alone?" This appearance is a little similar to Huachi Yu, but it is a pity that he is not as cute as Chi Yu, and he does not have the big talking eyes of Chi Yu.
"Die!" Ye Yinan shook off his hand in disgust, this funny scene made Xiaolan hide her mouth and snicker.
"If I'm drunk, I'll vomit on your bed at night!" Ye Qing threatened viciously, and seeing that it had no effect, he had to follow Huang Pan away with resentment in his eyes.
When Huang Pan was leaving, he wanted to tell his subordinates, but suddenly remembered that Ye Yinan still had a life-saving grace for Xiaolan, so he told Xiaolan to take Ye Yinan around the village to play, and not to snub the guests.
The two walked on the street, and the lively Xiaolan walked in front, looking at the rouge gouache for a while, and then looking at the ceramic clay figurine, I didn't know that I thought she was coming to Shikou Village for the first time.
There were a lot of people on the street, and Ye Yinan even noticed a lot of martial artists among them, and secretly guessed that these people should be outsiders who came here to buy medicinal materials.
"Xiaolan, do people in Shikou Village come to buy medicinal herbs every day?" he asked curiously.
Xiaolan was puffing out her cheeks to blow the windmill on the stall, when suddenly there was a question next to her, she sighed, patted her little chest lightly and said: "This, I heard Uncle Huang mention it before, our village started selling medicinal materials at any time and in any quantity, but it turned out that someone would buy them all at once, and then others would have to wait for the next batch of medicinal materials to mature." β
"So then he set up rules, as if he limited the days of buying medicines, and also limited the quantity, and he couldn't sell them to individuals!" Speaking of this, Xiaolan frowned slightly, she couldn't understand these rules.
Ye Yinan nodded, feeling a little embarrassed in his heart, it is really a whirlpool of battles everywhere, if the medicinal materials in Shikou Village are really so magical, I am afraid that there are definitely many forces that covet this place, such as the major forces in the six counties of northern Han.
It is even very likely that even those rules are not something that Village Chief Huang can decide.
PS: Tired tiredγγγγγγγγ This month's full attendance is goneγγγγγ