Seeing the japonica rice, Yu Xiaocao suddenly rose up and made rice balls. The rice is filled with preserved meat, crispy custard, ham and some nuts, and it has a very rich texture in the mouth. Su Ran, who ate like this for the first time, accidentally ate and paced gracefully nearby.

Zhu Junyang also felt that this way of eating was novel and delicious. In the future, when the army marches and fights, there is one more kind of dry food that can be bringed, that is, packed rice balls, with vegetables and rice, as long as it is slightly hot, you can fill your stomach, and the taste is not bad!

After another day of walking, I came to a small village at the foot of the Mangmang Mountain. To say that it is small is indeed not an exaggeration. There are only seven or eight families in the village, all of whom are from Orion origins. Every winter, wild beasts often come down the mountain to attack the village. So, when the first snow fell, the people of the village would migrate to the town more than a hundred miles away. It was not until the warm spring of the following year that he returned to the village to cultivate little land.

Spring is the time for beasts to reproduce, and there is an unwritten rule among hunters that they do not hunt in spring, and all animals with cubs, young and mutilated animals must be released. Autumn is the busiest season for hunters, and the prey at this time is fat, full of fur, and the value is relatively high. And at this time, the prey is active frequently, which is more convenient for hunting.

When Yu Xiaocao and his party came to this dilapidated looking village, only the old and weak women and children were left in the village, and the adult men of the family had gone to the mountains to hunt. Although he only dared to move around the mountains, the mountains and forests stretched for hundreds of miles, and he could not come back without ten days and half a month.

The old people, women and children in the village, seeing the tall heads and well-dressed, and the style of the whole body are not ordinary people at first glance, and even the guards and maids are not dressed by ordinary people, so they only dare to look at them from a distance, and hold their curious children and grandchildren, so as not to collide with the nobles and cause trouble.

However, although there was curiosity on the faces of the elderly, women and children, there was no timidity. After all, it is a fierce house of hunters, and the old and weak women and children can hold hunting forks, knives and guns.

Among the group, Yu Xiaocao looked the most harmless, so she volunteered to discuss the matter of staying overnight with the villagers. She walked towards the house with the largest number of rooms in the courtyard of the village, with a bright and warm smile on her delicate little face, and said in a harmonious voice to the old man and the young man standing at the door: "Hello grandpa! We passed by here, it was getting late, and we wanted to spend the night in your village. Let's see, can you make it easier? ”

The old man's beard was white, but his body was very tough, his waist was straight, and his improvement was good, and a scar on his forehead should have been a wound from hunting when he was young, but it didn't look hideous. The little boy next to him looked like he was in his teens, and he looked quite strong, holding a hunting knife in his hand, and there was a bit of wariness in his expression.

The old man put away the scrutiny in his eyes, looked at the little girl in front of him with clear and pure eyes and a sincere and bright smile, and also returned a kind smile: "You are here to hunt, right?" To tell you the truth, every year our village will usher in several waves of nobles like you who finally go hunting in the mountains. If you don't dislike the simplicity of your old home, please stay at home! ”

"Grandpa!" The little boy didn't seem to welcome them very much, and his expression was a little resistant. It's no wonder that not everyone is reasonable, in their opinion, the better the family situation, the worse the temper of the young masters. The group who stayed at their house last time stared at them all day long, and said that the food used by their family was pig food!!

These people in front of them seem to be much more difficult to serve than the previous batch! Especially the one who rode a black horse in black clothes, with an expression as if someone owed him hundreds of taels of silver, his eyes were like knives, and he didn't dare to look at him! The one in white looked smiling, but the smile didn't reach the bottom of his eyes, and he didn't want to be messed with. A group of six people, just the young lady in front of them, looks closer. Grandpa is getting old, and his mother is sick in bed again, he really doesn't want to serve these people but can't get a good word in the end!

The old man glanced down at his little grandson and touched his head. As soon as these nobles entered the village, they rushed to his house, and if they refused for no reason, wouldn't they offend people in vain? Besides, from the perspective of what he has lived for most of his life, this group of people is not the kind of bullying and arrogant people.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please come inside!" He then instructed his little grandson, "Take this little brother, lead the horses to the back barn, and feed them with water and fodder......

"Don't bother this little brother, you tell us the general direction, we brought our own forage!" Yu Xiaocao adhered to the purpose of trying not to cause trouble to others, and politely thanked the old man for his kindness.

The little boy pursed his lips and muttered in a low voice: "What do you say is not troublesome?" Do you bring your own forage, but can you bring your own water? ”

"Little Tiger!" The old man rebuked his grandson and smiled apologetically at Xiaocao. Seeing that the other party showed no signs of anger, it confirmed his initial conjecture.

Jin Xiaohu puffed out his cheeks and reluctantly led them to the livestock shed. Their house is similar to the home in Xiaocao Dongshan Village before it was flipped, it is a small courtyard house, with five main houses and three wings on each side. The barn was set up on the left hand side of the door, and a sturdy and screaming donkey was tethered inside.

As soon as a group of six horses were led into the barn, the originally empty shed became crowded. The yelling donkey was squeezed into a corner by Tempest and Little Red, timidly looking at the strange "guests".

Hou Xiaoliang took the fodder and fed the horses. Xiaohong also coquettishly approached Xiaocao and begged for a few candy cubes to eat. Seeing that the wind was watching from the sidelines, it was generous enough to give one to it. As for the donkey yelling at the leftover forage it eats, Xiaohong showed an expression of looking at the "hillbilly": How is it, haven't you eaten it? This forage, it has been tired of eating crooked since it was a child!

Leaving Hou Xiaoliang to serve a few difficult horses, Yu Xiaocao and Zhu Junyang were welcomed into the yard. The old man pointed to his yard and introduced them one by one. Don't look at the big yard and many rooms in his house, but there are many people in the family. The old man's son and grandson added up to nine, and except for Xiaohu, who stayed by his side, the others all entered the mountain. Except for the three daughters-in-law who were sick in bed, the rest of the daughters-in-law went to the wasteland at the foot of the mountain to break corn.

Last year, his eldest son queued up for a day and a night at the town's seed store to finally buy corn seeds, which are said to produce thousands of pounds. After this year's summer harvest, they were planted according to the sowing manual. Although the newly cultivated land is still relatively barren, the corn that grows does not have much impact.

This crop is really not too picky, the corn of more than one acre grows well, the corn cob is big and full, although he does not have much experience in farming, but he can also predict that the yield will not be low! No, it has just come to the harvest season, although the sons have entered the mountains, the daughters-in-law are all good at work, and they go out to pick corn together at dawn.

Other families in the village are also staring at their more than one acre of land with a wait-and-see attitude. They all said that if their family planted well, they would also go to the town to queue up to buy seeds in the spring of next year. In this way, a lot of money will be saved to buy food, and the life of the family will be much better.

"Ahem...... Dad, there's a guest at home? I'm going to cook......" A woman with a sallow-faced and sickly face came out of the chamber with her hands on the door frame, coughing incessantly with one hand on her chest. Yu Xiaocao saw that her face was flushed and she couldn't breathe, guessing that she should have a bronchial or lung problem.

"Mother, your illness is not cured yet, go back to the house and lie down. They brought their own maidservants, and they can't cook whatever they want to eat! Jin Xiaohu stepped forward, mixed with the woman, and used his not so strong body to support most of his mother's weight. While helping the woman into the house, he didn't forget to turn around and glance at the grass fiercely.

The old man was busy playing a round for his grandson, and said: "My daughter-in-law, a few days ago, suffered from some cold, did not listen to the persuasion and did not go to the doctor, only boiled some herbs at home to drink, and burned all night last night. Xiaohu is worried about his mother, don't be surprised by the guests! ”

Yu Xiaocao estimated that she must have a respiratory and lung problem caused by fever, so she took out a bottle of pills for respiratory tract infections caused by wind and cold, handed it over, and said: "This is a cough suppressant pill produced by Tong Ren Tang, which has a good effect on treating cough and fever caused by wind and cold. You let your aunt take one pill before every meal, and it will be cured in less than three days. ”

For the medicines made by themselves, this little grass still has this confidence.

"Tongrentang's pills?" Jin Laohan shook his hand again and again, not daring to pick it up. When he went to Fucheng to sell furs, he walked to the door of Tong Ren Tang and listened to the people queuing there say that Tong Ren Tang's pills and syrups were often hundreds of taels, and they were often sold out of stock. Every time, it was a new batch on the shelves, and it was quickly sold out. The shelf life of pills and syrup is more than one year, but anyone who has some family backgrounds will have some at home, so be prepared!

Don't look at this small bottle, it costs hundreds of taels of silver, their whole family is good at hunting, and there are only thirty or fifty taels left at most in a year, and when they are lucky, they hit rare furs and sell them for one hundred and ten taels of silver. These pills of a few hundred taels of silver are enough for their family to store for many years!

"Meeting is fate, you can accept it when you are old. Just a few of us spent the night on these days! My aunt's illness can't be delayed any longer, be careful that a small illness becomes a major illness. Yu Xiaocao stuffed the pill into the old man's hand and asked again, "Grandpa, where are we staying at night?" We put our luggage down first and then make some dinner. I'll tell you the truth, I've been sleeping in the open these days, and I've long wanted to have a comfortable meal. ”

Jin Laohan saw that she was sincere in sending it, so he didn't push it anymore and handed the pills to his little grandson who was impatient on the side. As soon as Jin Xiaohu got his hand, he didn't even bother to say a word, he quickly ran into the house and took warm water for his mother.