The carriage gurgled along the official road, and the further you went, the more desolate the scenery became.

It stands to reason that Jinju is supposed to be a rich city, with plains and rivers and lakes, which is very suitable for growing crops. But when they came out of Xiyuan Town, they had just passed the suburbs, and the scenery along the way changed too quickly, so that Hua Qingyan and his party could not come back to their senses.

Because she was going to stay in the town for a few days, Hua Qingyan thought that instead of going to the restaurant every day to order food, it would be better to buy some ingredients and borrow the kitchen of the inn to make them herself. So as soon as the big guys got together, they thought of going to the countryside of Xiyuan Town to collect some ingredients and buy some chickens, ducks, fish and the like.

Except for the two Yu Linwei who are responsible for protecting safety, they are all women, Hua Qingyan must go, and then follow the empress dowager and Le Yao, Pinggu and Mu Zilan who are in the fun, and there are many people. As soon as Hua Qingyan saw this posture, she simply brought the two children with her.

In Hua Yaozong's view, it was Hua Qingyan who took the family on an outing.

Although Hua Qingyan learned about the hardships of the people in Jinzhou Mansion from Yu Jiamin's mouth, she realized that her previous imagination was too lacking, and it was not what she thought at all.

The roads are lined with weeds, but many of them have been reclaimed by the villagers and planted crops. However, the crops in the field did not grow very well.

"Don't look at it, girl." Lou Xueyan patted Hua Qingyan's head and comforted silently.

Hua Qingyan shook her head and lowered the curtain, her eyes were slightly red, and she was a little uncomfortable.

All the way to Jinju Prefecture for safety, they all took the official road and did not enter the nearby villages, so they did not notice the situation in the nearby villages at all. I just think that the villagers here are all capable, and even the wasteland has been reclaimed.

The carriage drove into the nearest village to Xiyuan Town, perhaps because it was relatively close to Xiyuan Town, for the sake of face, this village was not exploited too much, but it still couldn't be compared with other villages that Hua Qingyan had seen, let alone a mountain village.

The houses in the village are generally made of loess and thatch, and they are all yellow as far as the eye can see. Many children were running around the village, and although they were all dressed in clothes, their clothes were covered with pudding, and they could not find a complete piece of cloth at all.

Not far away, there were people working in the fields, hunched over, with a heavy piece of graphite on their backs, so that they could not straighten their waists.

The carriage in the village seemed to be a common thing, and the children only glanced at it casually when they heard the movement, and went on with their own business. Hua Qingyan noticed that they were digging wild vegetables on the side of the road, and each child had a basket in his hand, and the basket was not full.

Wild vegetables are the most common in spring, and now that they are all in summer, many of them have grown old and hardened and are no longer edible, but the children still dig up those wild vegetables and put them in baskets.

Hua Qingyan jumped down from the carriage, and a Yu Linwei followed closely behind her. Hua Qingyan walked over to the child, "Child, I want to buy something, can you call someone to bring it?" ”

It seems that Hua Qingyan's appearance was too sudden, which startled several children digging wild vegetables, and they all looked at Hua Qingyan vigilantly.

"Who are you?" Among them, there was an older child who protected the other children behind him, looking at Hua Qingyan with his head held high, but his eyes glanced at Yu Linwei behind Hua Qingyan. Yu Linwei was tall and had a straight face, and he was a little scary.

"I just want to buy something, like your chickens or eggs or something." Hua Qingyan smiled, trying to make herself amiable.

There was a clicking sound behind Hua Qingyan, accompanied by the sound of bells, Hua Qingyan turned around and protected the child who ran over in her arms. In order to talk to the children, Hua Qingyan squatted down. Xiao Xi'er pounced over and snuggled in Hua Qingyan's arms, her little arms wrapped around Hua Qingyan's neck, and her big eyes looked at the children in front of her curiously, "Auntie, what are they doing?" ”

"Little brother and sister are digging wild vegetables, do you want to eat wild vegetables?"

The little little ones have eaten wild vegetables, and in the days when they couldn't eat enough and didn't sleep well, wild vegetables were already very delicious. Xiao Xi'er tasted it for a while and found that she couldn't remember the taste of wild vegetables, so she nodded: "I want to eat." ”

Hua Qingyan touched Xi'er's head, "Then can you go and buy all their wild vegetables with my little brother and sister?" ”

Xiao Xi'er nodded, and Hua Qingyan put a tael of silver in Xiao Xi'er's palm. Xiao Xi'er was a little shy, pinched the silver ingot, and hesitated for a while before walking towards the children with small steps.

"Brother and sister."

Xiao Xi'er's voice was soft and glutinous, and her big eyes looked particularly cute, and the child, who was still a little restrained, gradually relaxed. The older little man even squatted down and smiled at Xiao Xi'er; "Hello little sister."

"Brother, Xi'er wants to buy your wild vegetables, is it okay?" Xiao Xi'er blinked and pointed to the basket in the children's hands with big eyes, and spread out the silver ingot in the palm of her hand to show them, "Brother, I have silver." ”

The children didn't seem to have seen the silver ingot, and the eyes of the hands staring at Xi'er flashed with longing. But they didn't move because it was a child who was holding the silver, but looked at the wild vegetables in the basket and chattered for a while, and then the older boy said to Hua Qingyan: "I can give you wild vegetables, but there is too much silver." ”

Hua Qingyan didn't expect the children here to be so simple, and they didn't take advantage of it. Hua Qingyan smiled with satisfaction and beckoned to Xiao Xi'er. Xiao Xi'er glanced at the little brothers and sisters, and walked back obediently. Hua Qingyan took the silver and exchanged it for fifty copper coins and put it in Xi'er's hand: "Go ahead, buy the wild vegetables back." ”

The little boy ran back with the copper coins in his hand, and the little boy had already loaded the wild vegetables in the baskets of several children into his own basket. Seeing Xiao Xi'er coming, the little boy handed Xi'er a basket full of wild vegetables. Xiao Xi'er held the basket in her right hand, looked at her left hand again, and then stretched out to the little boy: "Brother gives it to you!" ”

The little boy did not refuse this time, and took the copper coins from Xi'er's hands one by one, and then distributed them one by one to the children behind him, fifty copper coins, six children, destined not to be evenly divided. Hua Qingyan noticed that the little boy basically gave the copper plate to the other children, and she took the least.

The children were very happy when they got the silver, and when they looked at Hua Qingyan again, there was no guard in their eyes.

Hua Qingyan has a lot of them, and they are basically girls' families, which is naturally particularly eye-catching. As soon as Xi'er handed the wild vegetables to Wuwu like a treasure, some villagers came, and there were quite a few of them.

Hua Qingyan noticed the old man who was surrounded by the villagers, presumably that should be the village chief. Sure enough, the old man walked over and said to Hua Qingyan: "Hello guest, I am the head of this village, what is the matter with your guest?" ”

The village chief asked politely, but the villagers behind him looked at Hua Qingyan with the same vigilance, and they still had weapons such as sticks in their hands, as if they would do it if they disagreed.

As soon as the little boy saw the village chief, he leaned over and muttered something to the village chief. Hua Qingyan noticed that the village chief glanced at her in surprise, and her face softened a lot.

Hua Qingyan did not despise these villagers, and also gave a salute to the village chief, "Village chief, we have no malicious intentions. ”

The village chief nodded and said, "I don't know what you mean?" ”

"We are passers-by, but at the moment we have to stay in the town for a few days because we have stumbled on things, and we don't want to eat at the restaurant, so we want to buy some ingredients and go back and make them ourselves." Hua Qingyan felt that she had nothing to hide from her thoughts, so she said it all, "I don't know if you can sell us some chickens, ducks, eggs and the like." ”

The villagers looked at each other, and they saw that the group of people was beautiful, dressed and dressed exceptionally cleanly, and they looked like a rich lady. And what people do the villagers of Jinju Mansion hate the most, that is, these dignitaries who exploit them! Every time those people come to the village, they either take or drink for nothing, and they beat people! And this girl actually wants to buy something from them!

Everyone looked at each other, incredulous and relieved at the same time.

With what the little boy said, the village chief naturally believed in Hua Qingyan, not to mention, how could a girl's family bring the elderly and children to grab things, although they brought a guard, but the guard had a righteous face, which was completely different from the dogs behind those dignitaries!

Hua Qingyan followed the village chief to the village chief's house and discussed what was needed. She didn't want a lot of money, she discussed with the village chief for a while, and set thirty eggs, four chickens and two boxes of seasonal vegetables, this year's rice has not come out, and there is not much left in each household of the new rice harvested last year, so Hua Qingyan didn't plan to ask for it, and left it to the villagers to eat by themselves.

The village chief announced what Hua Qingyan needed, and after a while, a villager came to the door with something. The eggs are saved by the whole village, thirty, and according to the price of each five wen set by Hua Qingyan, every household can get five wen.

To buy these things, Hua Qingyan paid a total of thirty taels, although it was not much, but it was already a great wealth for the villagers. The hands of the village chief holding the silver trembled with excitement, and the village chief was afraid that he had never received so much silver at one time in his life.

Looking at the villagers who were happily looking like they were celebrating the New Year, Hua Qingyan and his party sighed heavily, and their mood was even more depressed. I only hope that Yun Shumo can quickly pull out the cancer of the Han family from the land of Jinju Mansion and return people to a pure land!

After buying something, the village chief had to leave Hua Qingyan for them to eat, his attitude was resolute, and his eyes were even red, and even as soon as Hua Qingyan refused, he was about to cry. Hua Qingyan had no choice but to accept the village chief's retention, and at the same time contributed a chicken to cook. The village chief waved his hand again and again and pulled Hua Qingyan into the kitchen, and Hua Qingyan suddenly found a fat rabbit lying on the board.

The village chief said with a smile: "This is my son who came back from the mountains to improve the food, and it happened to invite a distinguished guest to eat, which is not too bumpy." ”