Volume 5 Legendary Mentor Chapter 121 Encounter with the Actor
On the morning of the fourth day, the princess practice group that had been outside Beach City for three days finally embarked on the journey again.
During the journey, Ye Fengliu, Shang Yi and Li Hui no longer forcibly forced He-Man to practice martial arts, but they still maintained a hostile state against each other in front of the princess.
The princess once again returned to a "happy" life of food, clothing and not being beaten.
However, the so-called eating does not refer to the delicacies cooked by Li Hui, but the folk coarse tea and light rice.
The so-called wearing is by no means the brocade and jade robe of the past, but the folk linen plain clothes.
It's true that she won't be beaten, but the reason is that Ye Fengliu has discovered another more fatal weakness of the princess, that is, she is afraid of toads.
In short, if He-Man wanted to run away, didn't want to leave, or was disobedient, Ye Fengliu threw the leper toad in front of her, and she immediately coaxed her and became an obedient baby.
However, Ye Fengliu did not threaten the princess with this to practice martial arts, obviously he did not think that this weakness could make the stubborn princess give up her great ideal of being a miner.
At noon, Li Hui led the rickety Seaman to the nearest village to Beachy City for lunch.
Ye Fengliu and Shang Yi, who had disappeared early in the morning, were waiting for Li Hui and Xi-Man to arrive on a broken wooden table in front of a house.
On the broken wooden table was a blackened nest head, still steaming, and a peasant woman in her thirties, whose clothes were patched, was coming out of the door with a second nest head.
When Seaman saw the food, he immediately pounced, grabbed a nest and stuffed it into his mouth. Although the coarse grain wowotou tasted a little squeezing, Seaman, who ate this for the first time, still left tears of happiness.
There was no way, even going to bed after three days of hunger could not stop the invasion of hunger, even if it was just a nest made of rough rice bran mixed with unknown wild vegetables, eating it made her instantly have a strong feeling that this is the most delicious food in the world.
"Such delicious food, why is it not provided in the palace, and those damn chefs dare to have a vegetarian meal!" Seaman said with a slurred anger as he shoved his head into his mouth.
"This poor boy is hungry." The ordinary peasant woman who provided the lunch looked at Seaman with pity, and added another nest to her plate.
Then she explained to He-Man in detail: "This kind of food is naturally good for us ordinary people, but I am afraid that pigs will not eat it in the palace." ”
"Why does this taste worse the more you eat it? Is it just that the skin is delicious. Seaman, who was already seven points full, slowly lost interest in Wowotou.
She put down the small half of the nest head in her hand, and then pulled a small piece of skin from the other whole nest head and stuffed it into her mouth.
"Phew...... This one is even more unpalatable! ”
The peasant woman, who was already in her thirties with a wrinkled face, was stunned when she saw this, and silently put the spitted scalp that Heman had spit out into her mouth.
"Uh......" Seeing this, Seaman felt a little uncomfortable in his stomach, but finally smiled apologetically at the peasant woman, "The palace teacher once said to me, 'Honey is not sweet when you are full, but sweet as honey when you are hungry.'" I didn't understand it before, but now it seems to be true. ”
"But if this thing is so unpalatable, why don't you eat meat or something nice?"
"What?" The peasant woman's eyes widened in disbelief when she heard this, and she looked at He-Man as if she were looking at a fool.
"Because our village is close to the national capital of Biqi City, it is much better than some remote villages. But even so, it can only barely make ends meet, how can there be extra money and food to exchange for meat to eat! The girl is so good at joking. ”
"Hah!" Seaman's eyes widened in disbelief when he heard this, and he said angrily, "How can you be so poor? ”
"My father clearly told me that the country of Biqi is the richest and most powerful country, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, and eat and dress well."
"I see that although your house is more dilapidated than your neighborhood, I think it should be caused by laziness, don't cry poor in front of me, to be honest, what is your family's surplus in a year?"
Hearing this, the peasant woman looked at the three members of the secondary second team who had been eating silently in disbelief, but saw Ye Fengliu say to her with a gloomy face: "Don't care, this child is poor and crazy." I always like to think of myself as a princess and play the game of 'secret petition'. ”
The peasant woman understood Ye Fengliu's spoken language, so she regained her pity, and decided to be more patient with Heman's stupid child, so she responded: "The peasant woman's family has few men, and only my man is an apprentice in the blacksmith shop in Beach City, and he can only save 12 gold coins after deducting 36 gold coins for various taxes every year. ”
"Although it is not as good as a family with many men in the neighborhood. But fortunately, I am quite frugal in running my family, and I usually take on some sewing and washing work for the rich and noble families in the city. ”
"12 gold coins!" Seaman's eyes widened, "Mama once said that the pear blossom cake I eat every morning is worth 12 gold coins per box, is one box of pear blossom cake enough for your family to eat for a year?" ”
"Well," said the peasant woman, who was tempted to say that there was more to living than just that, and that if it was just to eat, her family would only need to spend eight gold coins a year.
But she saw that this stupid girl was already very stupid, so she didn't bother to waste any more words, and secretly wondered: "The girl who led the team only gave me ten copper coins for food, but she didn't say that she would chat with the fool, do you want them to give me another copper coin later?" ”
"Forget it, they don't look easy, I'd better go back to the house and mend the man's pants, or tomorrow the man will show his ass when he goes to work, and then it will make people laugh off their big teeth."
Thinking of this, the peasant woman simply snorted, ignored He-Man, and went back to her yard.
At this time, Ye Fengliu and Shang Yi had already finished eating the plate of nests in front of them, and after glaring at each other angrily, they chose the opposite direction and walked away.
Li Hui's eyes were red, and he silently stuffed the head of the nest that had only taken a small bite into his arms. I muttered to myself, "Can you eat this kind of thing?" ”
But he said: "I heard that if this nest is replaced with worse wheat bran porridge, it will be a week's ration for the family." ”
"I, the brave, flaunt justice, and share the suffering with the people, I am just one person, how can this nest have to eat for a month, otherwise it will be a waste of rations."
"Princess, have you finished eating, we should hurry after eating."
Seaman wanted to stand up and leave, but when he heard Li Hui say this, he hesitated for a moment, and then wrapped the half-nest head he had eaten in a handkerchief and put it into his arms.
In the next few days, the three members of the Secondary 2 squad took turns to take He-Man to bury their heads.
As the distance from Beach City became farther and farther away, the living standards of the people of Beach Country began to deteriorate.
The three members of the Secondary 2 squad have always implemented the principle of sharing weal and woe with the people, they will eat whatever the local people eat, and they will wear whatever the local people wear.
At the same time, the same is true of He-Man's treatment. Now, on the third day of the journey, Heman's patched clothes had become a beggar's garment with holes, for the people here were too poor to even afford a needle and thread.
So while wearing a beggar's suit that leaked everywhere and drinking the stinky wheat bran porridge, Seaman cried again.
"Master Ye, this family is so pitiful, let's help them." Seaman looked at the big-headed, small-headed, obviously malnourished peasant child who had been staring at her rice bowl with fierce eyes, and looked at Ye Fengliu with tears in his eyes.
Ye Fengliu's face was like frost, "I'm not your master yet, so you can't call me Master Ye, you can still call me Brother Ye or the Death Demon like before." ”
"Even if you are not a master and apprentice, if you don't want to practice martial arts, we will naturally not force it anymore. But we must let you go through the training you deserve as agreed with the king, and send you to the Sealed Demon City. ”
"So since we don't have anything to do with it, we naturally won't interfere in what you want to do. If you want to help them, I won't stop them, so you don't have to ask for my opinion. ”
After Ye Fengliu finished speaking, he no longer paid attention to He-Man, but rolled his eyes and poured the bowl of black paste in front of him into his stomach, and then lay on the table and did not move.
Of course, if you look closely, you can see that his body is shaking. He said that this is definitely not his poor acting skills, but that it is already a miracle that he can still be alive after drinking that bowl of porridge.
At the same time, he was also ruthless in his heart, "Dead girl and dead fat man, no wonder you two never showed up at the meal!" And the group performances and props you two are looking for are too dedicated, let's see how I will take revenge on you when it's my turn to arrange tomorrow. ”
Ye Fengliu struggled with the black paste in his stomach here, and He-Man gave the black paste to the child, and cried again when he watched the child drink it and start licking the rice bowl.
"Brother Ye, I don't know if I have to bring money when I go out! I'll be sure to bring more next time. There must have been a corrupt official who exploited the people, and if it weren't for the fact that there was not a lot of meddling and revealing his identity during the trial, I would have killed them right now. ”
"Therefore, only when I finish my cultivation and see my father and the king truthfully, then the life of these people will immediately improve after this corrupt official subdues the law."
"But in this way, when I return to Beach City from Sealed Demon City, it will be three months at the earliest. So let's give relief to the people of this village first, let them spend this time first, how about giving each family only three gold coins? ”
Ye Fengliu simply shook his head and refused, looking at the child licking the bowl with a shocked face, "Where did this kid find a group performance, this acting skill is definitely an actor!" ”
"Hmph, Death-Demon, you have exploited a lot of gold coins from me, I don't want you to give them to them, can't you?" Seaman went from a poor baby to a female tyrannosaurus.
"You think you don't need money for food, drink, clothing and housing along the way! That's what we use for your living expenses, and you can't use it for other purposes. Ye Fengliu selectively forgot the words that he once said that these gold coins were apprenticeship fees.
Anyway, if you don't want to worship the teacher, the money that entered Shang Yi's pocket is that she wants to come out again, and Ye Fengliu wants to say that even if I want to help, I can't help.
"Brother Ye, please, even if it's a gold coin per family!" He-Man begins to sell moe.
Ye Fengliu was indifferent.
"That's just one gold coin for this one." Seaman was teary-eyed.
"If you want us to help you, you can do it, as long as you promise to sincerely worship us as a teacher and learn martial arts with your heart. Then as our apprentice, we will naturally consider your request. Ye Fengliu began to wagged the fox's tail violently.
"Death Demon, I don't have any sympathy at all, I hate you to death. I won't be your apprentice if I die, so you should give up this thought. He-Man got up and walked away.
"Let's go, the sooner you can get to the Sealed Demon City, the better, I don't want to see your hateful face for a moment."
Hearing He-Man's words, looking at He-Man's back holding his deflated stomach and pouting, Ye Fengliu was not angry but happy, and a relieved smile appeared on his face.
Just as he got up to catch up with He-Man, the kid licking the bowl suddenly let out a scream, "Mom, come out quickly, someone is going to run away after drinking your porridge......"