Chapter 502: Walking through the Great Wilderness
Although the help of the mortal world is really insignificant to Yun Yao now, she still enjoys the feeling that someone can rely on and trust. After being lonely for so many years, she is finally no longer alone.
"Well, thank you, I do need your help right now." Yun Yao leaned on Xiao Chuhan's shoulder and finally understood the meaning of the word "Jinghao". It turns out that as long as the two hearts are close to each other, everything is warm and sweet.
The two chattered and gossiped, Yun Yao told Xiao Chuhan some interesting things that Fang Liangyu encountered in modern times, and he also said some things about Xiliang's government and cooperation with other states, and time flew by.
It's a pity that Xueyin, an unconscious little fox, was bored wandering alone, so she quickly found it back and destroyed their two-person world.
Yun Yao saw that it was not early, so she simply stayed in the palace tonight, had dinner with Xiao Chuhan, and walked around the imperial garden with him, and experienced a handful of flowers before the moon, but unfortunately there were too many light bulbs behind him, which was really a little boring.
The next day, Yun Yao left Xiliang and began to explore the true cause of the Great Wilderness Spiritual Qi abnormality.
She and Xueyin traveled all over the corners of the Great Wilderness, visited famous mountains and rivers, and towns and cities, but did not find anything strange. The aura of the Great Wilderness seemed to have all disappeared after she left.
On this day, Yun Yao landed in the mountains on the border of Xiliang again, looking at the verdant eyes, she couldn't help but sigh deeply.
Xue Yin asked obediently on the side, "Master, why are you sighing again?" ”
"Ugh." Yun Yao sighed again and said, "After running for so many days and finding nothing, is it true that the Great Wilderness will not be able to restore its former glory?" ”
Xue Yin bit her finger and said, "It's okay, right? Haven't you brought the seeds already spreading everywhere? Fang Liangyu's business in modern times has also done well, and he used the money he earned to buy many good breeds of livestock and send them over, and the people now have vegetables and meat on the table, and their lives are much stronger than a year ago. ”
"That being said, but all this is due to my negligence, and I always feel uncomfortable if I don't make up for this mistake." Yun Yao shook her head, disappeared and rose into the air, looking into the distance.
Now it is the end of summer, even in the border land, the crops are about to be harvested, and the farmers working everywhere in the fields can be seen, with satisfied smiles on their faces, but Yun Yao can't smile when she looks at them.
People are so easily satisfied, as long as they can have a bite to eat, they will not think about it anymore, but they should live a better life, and they don't have to live hard for the years in order to survive.
"Master, don't think so much. You see, how happy those children are, it's all the result of your master's efforts. Besides, you can't blame you for the Great Wilderness becoming what it is now, it's all caused by the stinky wolf of the White Nightmare. Speaking of Bai Wei, Xueyin still couldn't swallow this breath, and there was resentment in her words.
"Forget it, it's not easy for him. In order to help the people of the Great Wilderness, he has been busy these days, so let's not talk about the past. Yun Yao patted Xueyin's head, and the two lowered their heads, turned into a pair of village girls, and slowly walked towards the nearest small village.
Xueyin remembered Bai Wei's full cooperation these days, and she couldn't find anything wrong with him. Knowing that the master didn't want to talk more about the past, he had to follow Yun Yao forward with a mutter.
It seems that it is impossible to seek revenge on him, the master only regards everything in the past as a calamity for her, as long as Bai Wei does not do anything harmful to the Great Wilderness, I am afraid she will not punish him too much.
Yun Yao and the others walked into the small village and immediately attracted a group of children to watch. She has done a lot of such things these days, and beckoned to the tallest and strongest child among them disapprovingly: "Come here, sister, please eat candy." ”
This is a small village in the middle of nowhere, and the villagers have just planted the next crop, and before the harvest arrives, life is still very tight.
Xueyin took out a handful of candy from her pocket and sent it down, and those children immediately rushed up, grabbed a few pieces each, and quickly stuffed them into their mouths, and they all exclaimed: "This candy is so sweet, much better than what my mother bought from the town." Sister, where are you from? Is there anything going on in our Hanshi Village? ”
Yun Yao smiled and nodded, "My sister came from far away to find relatives, may I ask how to get to the village chief's house?" I'd like to ask him something. ”
The children who got the sweetness immediately led the way in front enthusiastically, never thinking that these two beautiful girls appeared too suddenly, nor did they think that they might be bad people, which shows that the local folk customs are really simple.
A large group of people hulala rushed to the village chief's house, and the village chief hurriedly came out of the house.
"Dad, there are two sisters here who said they were coming to find relatives, so I brought them over." There happened to be the youngest son of the village chief's family inside, and when he saw him come out, he hurriedly ran over to show his merits.
The village chief glanced at Yun Yao and the others, pulled the younger son behind him, and said to the others, "Okay, you all go out to play." ”
The children dispersed in a hurry, and the village chief invited Yun Yao into the house, looked at her suspiciously, and asked, "This girl is very angry, may I ask who your relatives are, do they live in our Hanshi Village?" ”
Yun Yao just came to inquire about the situation, so she casually dealt with it and asked with a smile: "Uncle, the two of us don't know the road either, probably because we went wrong." How many villages are there in the vicinity, and are they populous? ”
Although the village chief felt that it was a little strange for the two girls to appear here alone, seeing that they were both neatly dressed and talked elegantly, he politely replied: "The road in our small village is not very easy to walk, and there will be people who come during the year when the rent is collected, and the two girls are rare guests." ”
Yun Yao followed his words and asked, "Collect rent?" Now that you have collected a few percent of the rent, will you still be able to eat enough after you have collected it? ”
This sentence can be regarded as asking the village chief's heart, and he immediately smiled.
"I used to work hard for a year, and I didn't have enough food to eat for my own family, so I had a hard time. But now it's different, I heard that the God King exempted our Xiliang tax, and the prince also reduced our rent, as long as we pay some seed money in the past two years, we can keep the rest for ourselves. ”
After he said this, he suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly shouted to the house: "Old woman, take some melons and dried sweet potatoes out to entertain the guests." The two girls are on the wrong path, and you don't know how to come out to say hello. ”
As he shouted, a middle-aged woman in a thorn hairpin cloth skirt came out of the kitchen, holding a plate in her hand, in which were a few slices of cut melon.
The woman smiled faithfully and said, "Master, you have wronged me." These two girls look like golden nobles, I can't ask them to take the whole melon and nibble it in their hands, right? ”
She put the plate on the table and sent it to Yun Yao's hand one by one, she had to pick up a piece and take a small bite, and praised: "It's so sweet." ”
The woman immediately smiled and said happily: "This is planted by the seed that the mayor of the town let people divide, and it is said that it is a new variety cultivated by the princess herself, and you can eat more if you eat it to strengthen your body." ”
Yun Yao didn't expect that she hadn't married Xiao Chuhan yet, and everyone in such a remote village actually called her a princess, so she couldn't help but smile awkwardly and asked, "Have the other villagers been divided?" ”
The woman smiled a little proudly: "How can it be, there are not many such seeds, each village has only a little bit, and my family keeps it for itself." No, after harvesting, we will divide it among the families, and everyone will leave the seeds after eating, and they will all be able to eat them next year? ”
Yun Yao was amused by her honest and conspicuous expression, and said, "This is really a good way." I just heard my uncle say that there are dried sweet potatoes, and you also grow sweet potatoes here? ”
"Planted, planted." The woman hurriedly opened the cabinet, took out a handful of dried sweet potatoes from it and stuffed them into Yun Yao's hand, and said with a smile: "Girl, taste it, this sweet potato is also a good thing sent by the princess. ”
Xueyin looked at the simple appearance of their home, so she was embarrassed to eat too much, and after eating only a piece of melon, she picked up a piece of dried sweet potato and put it in her mouth and chewed it slowly, Yun Yao also picked up a piece and tasted it, and said with a smile: "Well, it's very sweet." ”
The woman hadn't seen an outsider for a few years, and when she finally saw two beautiful and neat little girls, she couldn't stop talking, and she smiled and stuffed the sweet potatoes into her hands, and kept persuading her to eat more.
The village chief coughed on the side and said with a straight face: "There are guests at home, and I don't know how to cook something, what kind of household cooking is here?" Go and pick some vegetables from the garden. ”
The woman answered and was about to go out, but Yun Yao hurriedly stopped and said, "Uncle, aunt, I have to go to other villages to find my relatives later, so I won't eat here." ”
"You're looking for relatives? I'm afraid I won't be able to go today. The woman wiped her hands on her apron and said, "The nearest village from here has to walk more than ten miles of mountain roads, how can you two girls get on the road?" Where do your relatives live? Why don't you let my old man put an ox cart on you early tomorrow morning? ”
"Oh? Do you have bullock carts in your village? I don't know how many cows are raised in the village? Do other livestock have it too? Yun Yao took advantage of the situation to inquire.
The village chief saw that she was asking these strange questions, not like he was really going to leave his relatives, but he also replied good-naturedly: "Yes, the prince gave an order this spring that each village should raise a few cattle and sheep." In a poor village like ours, the cubs are provided for free, as long as the money is paid back next year. ”
Yun Yao carefully asked about the population and income of the village, then got up and said goodbye: "It's not early, let's go on the road early." We came on donkeys, but we weren't afraid to walk. Uncle and aunt, let's take our leave first. ”
Yun Yao made a look, Xue Yin hurriedly took out a silver ingot from her arms and put it on the table, and the two walked straight out.
When the village chief saw the ingots and was about to chase them out and return them to her, he couldn't even see the figure.
The old couple was surprised for a long time with the silver, and the village chief suddenly shouted: "I remember, it was the reincarnated goddess who came just now, I have seen her portrait in the town, and she looks exactly like the painting!" ”