Hearing Li Xuan's confession, a family named Li Sanhao in Lijia Village killed a wolf kiss with the horse team under Liang Datou on the way back to the door to send his daughter-in-law, Yang Congxun was shocked and blurted out: "This, can't it?" How can it be said that it is also a large horse team with dozens or hundreds of horses, and I am afraid that it will not be able to surround it with hundreds of evil wolves? Can there be so many wolves in the nearby mountains? ”

I saw Li Yan grinning extremely bitterly: "Don't hide it from the immortal, it's really ...... But it shouldn't. ”

It turned out that there was a narrow valley two or three miles wide in the northwest of Lijia Village, and even the most experienced hunters in the village could not tell how deep this valley was.

However, there are all kinds of signs that on the other side of this valley, there should be a large grassland connected to it: whenever the weather is unusually steep, and the snowflakes the size of goose feathers dye the heavens and the earth white, a large group of hungry wolves with gray and yellow fur and red eyes will rush from the other side of the valley!

I heard that this kind of gray and yellow wolf is a unique steppe wolf on the grassland, only in the event of a heavy snowstorm, when the wolves have nowhere to forage, they will migrate to the south in groups, and in the process of migration, the original small wolf pack of only a few dozen wolves will continue to gather, and eventually become a group of top wolves with hundreds of wolves.

In this situation, there is a creepy-sounding name, wolf plague!

According to Li Xuan, in previous years, this kind of wolf plague would only occur in the cold winter of the ninth year, when the water outside the village had already turned into ice, and the villagers of Lijia Village had already crowded into their own kang for the winter.

Protected by the thick wall outside the village, these wolves in transit could not make any waves, and when the weather warmed up, they would return to the prairie along the valley where they had come.

But now it's early autumn, how can such a warm weather cause a wolf plague?!

Seeing Li Yan, he hugged his fist at Yang Congxun with a sad face and said: "I'm not afraid of the jokes of the virtuous brother, since my brother was born, I have been digging in the soil with the tenant helpers at home, and I have never entered the valley located in the hinterland of the mountains, so I am so tired that the whole village and Li have suffered this saltless disaster together." ”

It turns out that before every wolf plague appears, these hungry wolves that swept out of the depths of the grassland are bound to chase and hunt those yellow sheep muntjac all the way.

Under the threat of a large pack of hungry wolves, these small beasts, which usually only live in the grasslands, will panic and crash into the valley.

Once there is a rare yellow sheep in that valley, you have to be prepared to avoid the wolf plague in advance.

However, unlike the previous Lizheng in the village, Li Xuan, who is currently in Lizheng, is not from Orion, and basically does not organize villagers to go up the mountain to hunt collectively, let alone go to the valley to hunt in advance, so as to warn whether there will be a wolf disaster that year.

In Li Xuan's view, even if there is a wolf plague this year, it will be the season when the water drips into ice on nine cold days.

In this kind of ghost weather, no one will go out at all, and every household is crowded on their hot kang heads...... What difference does it make if a wolf plague doesn't happen? As long as you prepare the charcoal you need for the winter in advance, you can eat!

Under the active persuasion of Li Jian and others, the vast majority of the villagers in Lijia Village gave up the habit of going into the mountains to hunt every time the leaves fell in autumn, and instead hoarded a large amount of firewood, rice and grain, hoping to live warmer and more comfortable in the next cold winter.

A few days ago, Liang Datou, the leader of the horse team who often travels back and forth to Lijia Village, sent his men to tell Li Xuan that for some reason, the price of green salt in the county town has suddenly skyrocketed several times recently.

It was precisely because of the shortage of salt in the city that Liang Datou, who was a fine man, was in business and was unwilling to travel long distances to traffic a large amount of precious salt to Lijia Village, so he sent his subordinates to inform Li Xuan...... If you want the caravan to transport salt this time, you have to add an additional 30% to the market price!

Li Yu thought about it and felt that the reason for the soaring price of salt was probably that the people in the city wanted to make pickled meat for the New Year, and the salt market would have to fall in a few days.

Since you Liang Datou don't want to transport it, then don't transport it, anyway, cotton cloth and cotton are also things that must be stocked up for winter...... Since we don't transport salt on this trip, we might as well send a few truckloads of cotton.

However, who would have thought that Li Xuan would soon regret his decision and his bowels would turn blue.

Not long after Liang Datou led his team to leave the village, several hunters in Lijia Village, who often went up the mountain to hunt, found traces left by a large number of wolves passing by in the forest.

People even picked up a piece of bloody silk on the side of the mountain road, and after careful identification, they found that it was worn by the new daughter-in-law of Li Sanhao's family in the same village...... Doesn't this mean that even Liang Datou's caravan was attacked by wolves, and no one survived?!

Since the establishment of Lijia Village, the villagers have seen the horror of the wolf plague many times: everywhere they went, there was a dead silence, but there were only white bones!

Now that the wolf disaster has started again, hurry up and close the walled gate, raise the knife and gun to strictly guard against it, which one dares to step out of the walled gate half a step?

However, in this way, the supply of salt in Lijia Village has become more and more tight.

With tens of thousands of catties of grain laid by Li Xuan's family in hundreds of acres of mountain fields, the village will not have a food shortage for a while.

However, if you can't go up to the mountains to graze, what will the pigs and sheep raised by the villagers eat to live? We can't let these domestic animals steal food from the villagers!

As a last resort, Li Jian had no choice but to put up the shelves and force the villagers to slaughter these pigs and sheep that were originally kept for the New Year.

However, this is only a strategy to break down the east and make up for the west: it is early autumn at the moment, and there is still a month or two before the snow falls in winter...... On such a hot day, if you don't take salt and marinate the raw meat that you can't eat for a while, the meat will be rotten.

In the past few days, there has been a faint smell of rotten and stinky raw meat that has not been completely salted in the sky above Lijia Village.

lost points one after another on the important matters of leading everyone to prepare for disasters and famines, which made the villagers look at him more and more unfriendly.

Fortunately, at this time, a horse fairy surnamed Yang drove the carriage to Lijia Village alone, and the cart was also loaded with a lot of essential oils and fine salts, which immediately made Li Xuan, who looked like a drowning, get a life-saving straw.

The only way to do this is to find ways to make this person relentless and agree to sell the oil and salt in the car, but it is best to invite this person to make him nod and agree, and go to the county seat for Lijia Village to purchase a batch of salt!

It was precisely for this reason that when he saw that Yang Congxun and the lame pickers he brought were angry at Wang Jia's act of snatching the roast chicken leg from his wife Xiuying, Li Xuan, who was worried about how to please Yang Congxun, suddenly slapped his thigh.

"Wang Jia, what maggot are you chewing in your mouth? Left and right, pull him down and pour him two spoonfuls of feces to be sober and sober! ”

So, Yang Congxun, who found that Li Yan was still a good person with clear rewards and punishments, groaned for a while, and nodded and agreed to Li Yan's request to buy salt from his own hands.

"The dozen catties of salty salt in Xiaodao's hand are not worth anything, even if they are given to your village, but please Li Zheng You can take good care of this big brother who picks mountains. As for going to the county seat to buy salt......"

Seeing that Yang Congxun showed a slight embarrassment on his face, Li Yan suddenly waved his hand: "This matter is big, and it will be discussed in detail tomorrow." Come on, go to the village house to set up a banquet, and put all the monkey drunk in the village on the table, I want to get drunk with Brother Xiao Yang tonight! ”

Seeing Li Xuan, he turned around with a big grin and instructed the villagers to prepare for the welcome banquet, a pair of black eyes first turned around, and then changed into a little fox with a treacherous smile and quietly jumped behind Yang Congxun, and then gently pulled the latter's sleeve.

"Good Brother Yang! Have you learned to sit on the ground and raise prices? How much money do they want to play in the score? ”

I saw Yang Congxun waving his hand back and forth with a smile: "Where is this?" I just want to ask Wang Jia about the specific situation of carrying the corpse in the cellar back then! ”

"Ao, it seems that Daoist Yang really has to wait for tomorrow...... Hu San, I don't think it's enough for that Wang Jia to clean his mouth tonight! ”

"Hey, I look like I'll have to wait until tomorrow...... Phew, you deserve it. ”

"Hey, what do you want to do with such pickles? Anyway, I can't escape him, so it's important to drink wine and eat meat first! ”

However, Yang Congxun and Hu San, who followed Li Xuan to the banquet, would never have thought that tonight would be such a sleepless night!