In April, the family began to be busy with spring ploughing.

Yue'er asked, "Why don't you hire someone yet?" If we don't start sooner, we won't be able to hire a job. ”

The old god Su Zhi was wandering around the courtyard while he was there: "Commander Pang sent so many people to the door, I can't afford to spend more money to hire people." I am thinking of opening more rice fields this year, and selling rice through Shining channels this year. ”

As a result, the Pang Commander, who was originally suppressing bandits, was borrowed by Su Tong to open up the wasteland. Moreover, he did not provide food for these thousands of people, and they all had to eat Pang Zuo's military rations.

After planting the rice fields, these people's farm work was much more slippery than fighting, and then Su Tong still didn't let them go.

He said that he didn't provide food, but the rabbits on his side still had enough to eat, and every day he brought food over there, and he killed the rabbits for those who had enough.

When he was almost done eating, he took them up the mountain to hunt.

Su Tong's achievements are widely spread in the army, and more than 1,000 people can follow him, not to mention farming and hunting, or taking them to ask for food.

After entering the mountain a few times, Pang Zuo couldn't sit still, and took the initiative to go hunting with Su Zhi.

Su Zhi was sharpening his machete, looked up at him and said, "I can't hunt recently, I have to build some houses, otherwise there are so many fields and I don't hire more people to be busy, and if there are many people, I need a house to live in." ”

Pang Zuo looked at him in a daze, and then heard Su Tong say: "From today onwards, we will go up the mountain to cut down trees, and leave some people at home to drag adobe." ”

Ponzo suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, as if it was time to suppress the bandits.

So he said: "Lord, the matter of cutting down the tree may be delayed for a few days, and the last general will take people up the mountain to suppress the bandits today, and then he will return to his life." After all, there are thousands of miles to go, and it is not good to delay until autumn. ”

It was thousands of miles away from their camp, and it was already snowing here during the autumn harvest, making it extremely difficult to walk.

Su Tong was also inconvenient to delay others, so he said: "Then your people go to suppress the bandits, and when you finish suppressing them, I will go up the mountain to cut down trees, and I will take advantage of these days to drag the adobe." ”

Ponzo still felt uncomfortable, but there was nothing he could do. said that he wanted to suppress bandits, so he had to go up the mountain in earnest.

He went up the mountain to suppress the bandits, and got an empty bandit's nest, and there was not even a grain of rice in it, and he didn't dare to destroy the land.

After being stationed on the mountain for a few days, he submitted a secret decree to the emperor asking for instructions to withdraw the troops, but he waited for the emperor to reply to him for more than a month, and then stationed for a while to prevent the mountain bandits from returning to the nest and harming the people.

This is on the surface, but in fact, it is necessary to keep an eye on Su Zhi and strictly prevent him from hoarding troops by taking advantage of the bandits' nest.

And Pang Zuo came with 50,000 soldiers this time, and after stationing around Beishan Village, he dragged part of it up the mountain, and after a long time, he had to keep transporting grain and grass here, otherwise he would eat up Dabeishan.

It can be said that there are not so many people in the entire county, and now that these people are stationed in, they have prospered in Qingshui Town.

Even the villagers of Beishan Village often take their chickens and ducks to sell to the garrison.

Yue'er simply opened a door to the outward side of her upside-down room and opened a grocery store there. Su Tong still felt that it was not enough, and opened a restaurant in the courtyard where the couple lived before in the front yard.

The two brothers, Da Nianzi and Ernianzi, who were hired before, were responsible for cooking in the tavern, and Uncle Wang's family also came.

There are those who run the hall and those who burn firewood and chop wood, and those hunters still want to go up the mountain to hunt and sell to Su Zhi's restaurant, but there are 50,000 people stationed up and down this Dabei Mountain, can you still have a rabbit left?

Gradually, the food in this military camp became more and more bad, and Su Zhi went to borrow people from Pang Zuo as soon as he did farm work, and the borrowed people were good to eat.

As a result, before the Dragon Boat Festival, almost all of Pang Zuo's soldiers rushed to be borrowed, not only to eat meat but also to drink.

There are even people who come to help the restaurant serve dishes for free, just to eat better.

The children of Beishan Village have been very happy since the beginning of this spring, and every day the village is full of soldiers, some carrying hoes for the prince's family to farm, and some driving sheep out to graze.

Some cut pigweed in the fields, and some served dishes in restaurants.

The children were not afraid when they became familiar with these soldiers, and sometimes they would go around outside the barracks, and if they were daring, they would go to the tail of the horse, and go home to get a fly to tie up for their grandfather.

Seeing that it was the Dragon Boat Festival, Su Tong's family saved a lot of eggs, bought some from the villagers, and everyone who worked at home gave out eggs.

Qin Shining sent more than a dozen pigs and more than a dozen sheep, and after killing them, they stewed in a large pot in the courtyard on the other side of the rice field, adding newly picked vegetables, and freshly caught fish in the river, which were also stewed pot after pot.

The low-level soldiers in the barracks could not eat meat, they were all seven or eight people with a big cauldron, some fixed one person to cook, and some took turns to cook.

There is nothing to do, just put the rice in the pot, and then there is to go to the mountains to get some wild vegetables and put them in the house, and one person will send a little salt, and add it to the pot of wild vegetables and rice porridge to make a meal.

This is what you eat for the next meal, and the biggest change may be that the varieties of wild vegetables are different.

Seeing that the officers and soldiers were scrambling to go to Su Tong's side, this made Pang Zuo very worried, so he asked people to buy some fishing nets and come back, scatter the people out to fish, and prepare for a good holiday.

But 50,000 people, how many fish can you eat!

Besides, it's not that you want to fish, these people are about to empty the river.

Su Tong came to the shore with his hands in his hands, looked at Pang Zuo, who was frowning, and said: "You can't catch fish around the village like this, let's go downstream, maybe you won't catch too much." ”

Pang Zuo complained: "The imperial court has never paid the slaves to the army, and the military households support their own children, that is, they can hand over a little food and salt, and the vegetables are usually grown in the station. ”

Su Tong nodded: "If you don't leave for a while, you have to think about raising some livestock and then opening some fields, otherwise it will be difficult to guarantee that there will be deserters after a long time." ”

Pang Zuo sighed: "I don't know when I will leave, so I will drag it out like this, I knew it would be so, I would have planted some in the spring, and now it's too late." ”

Su Tong looked at the soldiers fishing in the river, one by one because they couldn't catch up and complained to each other, some almost fought, if it weren't for the commander on the shore, I'm afraid that now it would not be fishing but fighting.

"There is a lot of wasteland in the villages around Qingshui Town, and now if you open it out to plant some radish and cabbage, at least if you don't leave in the last autumn, you can still store more autumn vegetables."

"That's all I can do, and after this day I will order someone to open up the wasteland."

Hearing the sound of someone running behind them, the two turned around at the same time to look.

I saw that there was no shadow running over with Ning Ge'er on his back, and when he saw the two of them turn around, he shouted: "Master, Madame is about to give birth, go back quickly." ”

Su Zhi couldn't hold it steady anymore, so he ran home, and followed behind him with his son on his back at night.

Pang Zuo looked at the backs of the two and asked the people around him: "This woman is not shallow in kung fu, is she his secret guard?" ”

The man shook his head: "I don't know, but this woman is very familiar with the village, and she walks from east to west all day long, and the one who is carrying her son is called Yening." ”

Ponzo nodded and headed back to camp.