Chapter Fifty-Six: The Old Peasant
Along the way, the mountains and rivers are green.
All kinds of mountains and steep rock walls are innumerable.
The group traveled through countless valleys, crossed countless obstacles, endured countless city gates, walked through countless narrow ancient roads, countless inaccessible villages and fields, and finally entered their destination------ the vast Central Plains land of Henan.
Entering the border of Henan, although the corners of the mouths of the group are still wafting with the fragrance of hot dry noodles, they are still completely conquered by the most legendary food in Henan, the Central Plains, that is, stewed noodles.
Braised noodles are an important staple food in the Central Plains of Henan, the birthplace of the purest Chinese nation for thousands of years.
Thanks to the unique geographical location of Henan, the central plains, in the southern prefectures and counties of Henan, they all make a living by planting rice, but in the central and northern parts of Henan, it is still a real and out-and-out wheat world.
Most people in Henan do not have specific rigid and simple eating habits, and they don't have to feel like southerners who don't eat rice for three meals a day.
Of course, this is closely related to the unique geographical location of the Central Plains of Henan.
Fifty kilometers before Runzhi and his party entered the boundary of Henan, they could no longer see any towering peaks, and even small hills were very rare.
Runzhi is obviously the first time to set foot in the Central Plains of Henan, when he was still very young, Runzhi heard the old man say that Henan is a good place, and it is a place where our ancestors once stayed. If possible, one day, you must go back to see it, participate in the ancestor worship ceremony in the Central Plains of Henan, and appreciate the flavor of the hometown where the ancestors once survived for thousands of years.
The so-called unpredictable world, who would have thought that now when he came to Henan, he would appear as a feudal official, and before he stepped into this vast Central Plains, he had already become the parents of everyone in this Central Plains.
Of course, the first thing Runzhi did when he entered the border of Henan was to communicate cordially with the local fathers and villagers.
Runzhi and his entourage deliberately took off all kinds of official mansions and changed into local civilian clothes in Henan. 、
Runzhi took the lead, and the group walked into a large area of endless wheat fields, just experienced the baptism of the plague, which made the old people and children in this land of Henan lose a lot, but in fact, when they came to the farmland, Runzhi found that the difference between the original and expected was that there were surprisingly few young people.
In the vast wheat fields, there are hardly a few young men to be seen, all of them are old and weak women and children.
"Uncle, are you weeding the wheat?"
Runzhi asked with the gentleness of a scholar, but the old man was still hoeing the ground, and he didn't seem to hear anything, but the grandson who seemed to be an old farmer next to him had discovered the passage of this group of people early, and deliberately put down the grass that had just been pulled out in his hand, as if he was curious, mysterious and vigilant, so he looked at Runzhi and his party for a while with a complicated look.
"Uncle! Weeding! A servant pulled his throat and shouted at the old man at a volume ten times that of Runzhi, using a standard Henan local accent.
Fortunately, at that time, there were only five local officials from Henan who were close to the case, and there were still eight or nine officials from various parts of Henan left in the team.
"Ha, yes, weeding!" , The old man continued, "My ears were broken when I was a soldier when I was young, behind my ears, you speak louder."
"Uncle, it's hard"
Runzhi also shouted out thoroughly in the voice of the servant, and was so shocked that the women and children around him looked over, and some of them were covering their mouths and smiling very simply.
"It's not hard, what are the boys doing here, why don't you go to join the army!" , The old man heard what Runzhi said this time, but obviously the old man felt incredible when he saw that so many strong young men didn't go to participate.
"You won't be Wang's subordinates again, will you?" The old man didn't wait for Runzhi and his party to defend themselves, so he said in a pleading tone: "Good deeds, let you take the only grain left in my family, these wheat is not yet ripe, please help me in front of the king A few more kind words, let him collect less this time, or our whole family will starve to death at home!" ”
The old man said that he was emotional, and he actually cried loudly, but this was something that Runzhi and his party did not expect.
"Uncle, we promise that King Wang will not accept your grain again from this year!" , Runzhi said to the official who shouted to the old man before, "Shout what I said again!" ”
Obviously, Runzhi rarely shouted out as thoroughly as he did just now, so as soon as he shouted, he felt that his throat was dry and itchy, uncomfortable, and accompanied by a faint sharp pain.
"Uncle, we promise that the king will not accept your food this year!" , the official then shouted out at the top of his voice.
"Medium... Medium, it's good if you don't accept it, God willing! Otherwise, our whole family will starve to death today, and starve to death," the old man seemed to be talking to himself, and as if he was responding to the words of this servant.
"Are you a subordinate of the king? What do you mean by top? The old man asked.
"Top use, that must be dropped", Runzhi shouted again thoroughly, after a short break, Runzhi's throat obviously just returned to normal, this shout, but it was much more uncomfortable.
"We are not the king's subordinates, we are the officers and soldiers here!" , Runzhi called the official who had just shouted again again.
"Guanjun, ah, Master Guan, why did you come here, don't you wear official uniforms?" , the old man obviously didn't believe that Runzhi and his party were official soldiers, not to mention that they didn't wear official uniforms, so they couldn't help but believe it.
What's more, this old man never dreamed that today's officials and soldiers would come to the fields to talk to him, a person who has a very good ear.
Indeed, in such a big place as Henan, how could a dignified official or soldier come to such a field, this is obviously killed, and the old people will not believe it.
"We're here to see!" Runzhi then gathered his strength again, and shouted at the same level as before.
Such a shout has a great effect, the old man obviously knows that this group of people does not look like an official army, and it does not look like a king's subordinates, so it must be the head of the village for self-protection, and the only few remaining young people ran to the ground to help, and they were playing with themselves at this time.
"Can you weed for me?" The old man was in full swing just now, this conversation, the old man was temporarily resting, seeing that there were so many people in Runzhi, since they were neither under the king's subordinates nor in the official army, so the old man naturally hoped that Runzhi and his party would help him weed.