Chapter 46: Daniel Zhang (Chinese New Year's Eve, Happy Spring Festival)
The great exile took the silver handed by Chai Hu, and his eyes showed disbelief.
Twenty taels of silver is enough for a family of four for a year, and Lord Bai actually gave him fifty taels.
"My lord, aren't you afraid that I will take the money and run away?"
Bai Luo smiled, "If you say this, I know you won't." ”
The big exile had a complicated look on his face, in the past three years, since his hometown was destroyed by the Western Turks, no one had taken care of them.
He wandered around with the other outcasts, begged everywhere, was looked down upon and disliked, and was never treated as a human being again.
They are like the stray dogs in the streets, and when others are happy, they give them a bite to eat; If you are not happy, you will be driven away from it.
He never imagined that he would one day be trusted as a human being.
Instead of being scorned like a dog.
He held the heavy silver in his hand, and only felt that the silver was hot to his hands and hot to his heart.
The big exile threw himself down again, this time looking at Bai Luo's eyes in addition to gratitude, but also more convincing and loyal, the man's deep voice sounded on the city wall, word by word as if engraved between heaven and earth: "Adult, villain Daniel Zhang swears to the sky, from now on loyal to the adult, willing to go to the soup for the adult." ”
Under the noon sun, the warm golden sun sprinkled between heaven and earth, making the barren mountains in the distance as if plated with a layer of gold, and on the high loess brick city wall, a tall but thin man with only a handful of bones knelt down in front of a beautiful man, his eyes full of loyalty and submission.
The beautiful man's posture is weak, as if he is not overdressed, but his temperament is unmatched, the whole person is as clear and clear as the breeze and the moon, and his beautiful eyes are smiling, looking at the man in front of him with a warm and warm smile, bending over, and supporting the elbows of the kneeling man with both hands.
A few years later, Daniel Zhang, who was already the first fierce general under Bai Luo, probably did not expect that a few years later, he would follow Bai Luo and become the legend of the continent country.
Daniel Zhang left with the child, Bai Luo and Chai Hu also went down the city wall, let Chai Hu rent a carriage, bought some Hu cakes on the street, poured some inferior tea from the tea stall into the water bladder, and Bai Luo took Chai Hu out of the county from the city gate in a carriage.
The two sat in the carriage and swayed towards the barren mountain in the west that had just been pointed out to Daniel Zhang.
The autumn sun was warm and dazzling, and Bai Luo lifted the curtain and squinted at the barren mountains that were still some distance away.
The northwest is windy and sandy with little vegetation, and the horse-drawn carriage walks on the flat and endless loess road, and the wooden wheels are heavily crushed on the cracked loess, bringing up dust all the way.
"Young Master, what are we doing in that barren mountain?" Chai Hu asked puzzled while driving the car.
"Go see what else we can do for them?" Bai Luo pinned the whole curtain of the car, and the breeze slowly blew through her sideburns, bringing up a lock of green silk.
At this moment, Bai Luo shows her daughter's delicate color.
"What else to do? Young master, we have already taken a big risk for them, and we may have to offend a lot of people in the future, what else can we do for them? Help them again, young master, your own black gauze hat will be helped. Chai Hu chattered resentfully: "This desolate mountain bird doesn't go to, let's rush there." ”
In Chai Hu's heart, his young master is the biggest and most important.
Bai Luowan smiled, pinned the green silk that was constantly blown up and raised by the wind behind his ears, and whispered with a smile: "It's hard to live again, if you still look forward and backward, and can't live according to your own heart, then wouldn't you live up to this heavy life." ”
The murmur was like that of a mosquito and a fly, and as soon as it rolled on Bai Luo's beautiful red lips, it was quickly blown away by the wind in the northwest desert.
After an hour, the carriage finally arrived at the foot of the barren mountain, Bai Luo got off the carriage with the support of Chai Hu, squinted his eyes and looked around, only to see that the barren mountain was full of rocks, and there was no way for the carriage to go up the mountain.
Chai Hu pulled the carriage to a big stone and tied it, walked back to Bai Luo's side and said, "Young master, I've seen it too, let's go back." ”
"Don't worry," Bai Luo lifted the hem of his clothes, tucked the hem into his belt, stepped on the cracked loess, and climbed towards the barren mountain, "Go up and take a look." ”
"Ah, you still want to go up?" Chai Hu was depressed, but he had no choice but to follow him step by step.
After walking a few steps, Bai Luo smashed a dirt bag next to him with his foot, picked up a few large lumps of soil, threw them to Chai Hu, who was still behind, and said, "Go, throw these lumps of dirt on the carriage and bring them back, I will be useful." ”
Bai Luo wanted to bring back the soil samples and ask the people in the county who were good at farming how the loess could be turned into fertile land.
Chai Hu simply felt that his young master had fallen into evil.
It's taking risks and responsibilities, and it's looking at maps all night and climbing barren mountains, and now even the lumps of dirt have to be taken home.
Young master, was he beheaded by this gang of outcasts or what?
Chai Hu reluctantly picked up the lump and walked to the carriage.
Bai Luo ignored Chai Hu and climbed up by himself.
The soil of the barren mountains is dry and loose, except for a few malnourished spruce pines, clumps of sea buckthorn and barberry.
The whole barren mountain gives Bai Luo the biggest feeling: dry.
"It seems that if this water problem is not solved, it will not work after all." Bai Luo looked at the dry yellow hillside in front of him and muttered to himself.
There is a shortage of food in the northwest, and there is even less water.
If you want the displaced people to really settle down in Anning County, the first thing to solve for them is the water source.
Bai Luo raised his eyes and looked around, only to see a plant in front of him that seemed to be extraordinarily lush and green, and he couldn't help but be happy.
Is there a water source?
Bai Luo walked quickly in that direction, and just took a few steps forward, but his feet were empty, and the whole person fell.
"Ahh Bai Luo screamed in fright.
In the scream, Bai Luo fell into a dark pit, only to feel a pain in his ankle, and then the whole person lost his balance and sat on the ground, and immediately felt a huge pain in his buttocks.
Bai Luo groaned and supported his body with his hands, there was a wet mud ground under him, not very dry and hard, but what was the huge pain in his butt just now?
Bai Luo was puzzled and touched down again, but he touched a cold, hard and a little slippery stone, it seemed that he was unlucky, and he happened to fall on this stone.
She reluctantly moved herself to the side of the dirt and sat down, and by the light of the sky shining into the earthen pit, Bai Luo looked around, only to see that the area of the hole was not large, but the depth was about the height of two adults.
The soil in the cave is loose, and in addition to a soil hole that was broken by himself, there is still half of the thin soil skin that is still unbroken, hanging on the top of the cave.