At night, on a desolate field on the right side of Longyou. In a simple campsite, more than 100 horse thieves gathered around a bonfire in the center of the campfire, drinking mare's milk, shouting and trying to wrestle.

The leader of the horse thieves, NPc Pei Yuanshao, was also among them, and Cheng Jian and Wang Laohu flattered each other and toasted Pei Yuanshao with meat.

Pei Yuanshao took a leg of mutton, took a big bite, suddenly spit it out, threw it on the ground and said angrily: "How did you roast it, half burnt and half raw, who will eat it!" ”

Wang Laohu was startled, and hurriedly ran to pull up a frightened peasant who was hiding aside, lifted him and fell in front of Pei Yuanshao, and said with a smile: "Big brother, this guy roasted it." This guy hasn't done anything serious since he was caught, and he doesn't work just for food, so I thought about sending him some work to do and let him roast mutton, but I didn't expect him to be so useless, he couldn't even roast mutton well. I'll slaughter him right away, and I'll be the meat for tomorrow!" ”

The peasant shouted in fright and kowtowed: "The three great kings spare their lives, and this great king spares their lives." The villain is just a little tea farmer, who only knows how to make tea. How about making tea for the three uncles? The tea made by the villain is particularly fragrant. ”

"Phew, the uncles all drink, who eats your tea! Useless waste. Wang Laohu snorted, beat him on the head and face, and shouted at the horse thieves: "Come on, pull him down and chop him up." ”

Pei Yuanshao waved his hand and asked Wang Laohu not to mess around, and said, "Don't slaughter it, now we have enough food to eat." Leave him to do the chores, clean up the manure and groom the horses. ”

The minions obeyed the order and dragged the frightened half-dead peasant away.

Cheng Jian brought another pot of meat, and said with a smile: "Big brother, our harvest in the past two days is really not small." He actually collected 2,000 catties of grain from various villages in one go, and also snatched more than 20 sheep from the hands of the Di people. Let's follow the eldest brother, eat and drink spicy food every day, I don't know how many times stronger than the down-and-out bear like before! ”

Pei Yuanshao nodded.

Since Xiaobai Village took the initiative to donate food and survived the crisis on the last day of the end of February. He immediately understood the trick of grabbing food.

No longer attack the villages when the grain is harvested, but to coerce each village to offer 200 catties ~ 500 catties of grain according to their strength. Otherwise, they will be harassed day and night, and their village will not be able to leave. Now that the villages have just finished harvesting grain, most of them have surpluses, and it is not very difficult to donate some grain in exchange for peace, so the grain harvest is unusually smooth these days.

But a new trouble came out, and the upper limit of the weight that their more than 100 centaurs could carry was 2,500 catties. Now the grain is increasing in large quantities every day, and there is no longer enough to move.

This made Pei Yuanshao very nerve-wracking.

It is impossible for him to give up and continue to collect grain. 2,500 catties of grain is only enough for their group to eat for 5~6 days, and it will be consumed soon. At the end of the month, when all the villages were short of food, they would have to have a hard time, going from village to village to beat and scavenge for food. Therefore, he made up his mind that he must collect more grain in his hands while all villages now have surplus grain in hand.

But where will the grain be kept? There was no safe place to store food, so he couldn't rest assured.

Cheng Jian and Wang Laohu saw that Pei Yuanshao was distressed, and hurriedly asked what was going on.

Pei Yuanshao told the two of them about the grain.

Wang Laohu immediately jumped up excitedly and shouted: "This is not simple, can't my Hutou cottage store grain?" Save as much as you want. Big brother, let's go to the cottage tomorrow and be the king from the new village! "The days of jolting on the horse's butt every day made him a little uncomfortable, and he was very nostalgic for the old cottage life.

Cheng Jian immediately sneered: "Come on, look at your Wang Laosan's appearance, he was born to be a waste in a cottage nest." Big brother, we can't go to that hellish place. The place was surrounded by officers and soldiers, and they couldn't run away. ”

Wang Laohu glared angrily, "Who are you scolding!" ”。

Cheng Jian disdainful, Wang Laohu's knife style, he hasn't seen it yet.

Pei Yuanshao said loudly at this time: "Hutou Mountain naturally can't go, we are horse thieves wandering in the wasteland, and we are not cave rats on the mountain." And Hutou Mountain is only afraid that there is already a new owner. Forget it, you two don't have bad ideas, Lao Tzu has already thought of a way. Maybe give it a try. Cheng Er, if you send someone to Xiaobai Village, you will say that I, Pei Yuanshao, will borrow his granary for use. ”

"Keeping food in the village?"

Cheng Jian and Wang Laohu were shocked at the same time.

Wang Laohu hurriedly persuaded: "No, if they refuse to spit it out, we will lose everything." ”

Pei Yuanshao snorted and sneered, touched the single knife on his waist, and said, "Hehe, the grain is stored in his warehouse and can't run away." If he dares to embezzle, we will have to go into the village to get it ourselves. Forgive him for being a small village, and he doesn't have the guts to fight us. This matter was decided, Cheng Er, immediately sent a brother to inform Xiaobai Village. I'm going to talk to their village chief about borrowing a warehouse. ”

"Yes! Eldest brother! ”

Cheng Jian immediately took the order and found a clever horse thief to report. He was afraid that the horse thief would not be able to speak clearly, so he found a rag and wrote two sentences on it with sheep's blood, and asked the horse thief to take it to Xiaobai Village.

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Little White Village.

After the successful research on the standardization of light spears, Zhan Xiaobai handed over the first batch of 10 light spears produced to Jian Ba and asked him to try the reaction in the market. Sword Tyrant looked at these weapons one by one and was full of praise. Sold at the Xiaobai Village Market, it was sold out in less than ten minutes, and they asked to order this low-priced weapon.

The hot scene made Zhan Xiaobai and Jian Ba stunned. We can only hurry up the time, let the weapon workshop rush to produce light spears as soon as possible, and give priority to the honor players in the village.

In the afternoon, Jian Ba found Zhan Xiaobai and told him that 90% of the raw materials had been collected, which was very large, and it was piled up in the two wings of the administrative courtyard. The prices of raw materials in each village are very stable, and nothing has changed. Even if the price of raw materials in the market skyrockets, it will not have much impact on their collection operations.

Zhan Xiaobai nodded, the rest should be able to be collected within today. The raw material task is nearing completion.

There was just one problem, and he never thought of a solution.

That is, Xiaobai Village is nearly 100 miles away from Jiangjia Village, how can this huge batch of raw materials be transported over? There are no baggage trucks in the village, so it is not possible to transport them long distances in bulk. If hundreds of people are organized to go on foot with the goods, the news will definitely be leaked. The journey is long and there are many villages, and it is bound to be maliciously looted by some villages, and when the time comes, I am afraid that all the goods will be robbed.

Renting a stagecoach to run transportation is a way, but the cost of a stagecoach is too high, from Xiaobai Village to Jiangjia Village, it costs 70 copper, which is unbearable.

Zhan Xiaobai thought about it and didn't think of a solution. A near-completion quest to obtain a village upgrade blueprint was forced to be transported over long distances.

"Report, a horse thief came to the village* with an arrow hanging on it, and a strip of cloth with words on it, please take a look at it!" A player came to report.

Zhan Xiaobai took the rag and looked at it.

"Three watches, see you at the ferry. Pei! ”

Zhan Xiaobai furrowed his brows, what did Pei Yuanshao look for him?