Wu Qing choked: "Grandma, how dare I?" ”

"For so many years, Hong Lang didn't say it, but I know that he misses the days when he commanded thousands of troops and horses. Finally, he wants to swim in the sea again. Ah Jin exhaled, "I've dragged him down long enough to keep it over and over again." But if you refuse to give, I will seek you daily. ”

Wu Qing hesitated in place for a long time, and finally was helpless: "Okay, okay, I'll get it, don't say it." ”

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When the grain team arrived in Xinhuang, the sunset had fallen to the tip of the mountain, and it was about to sink in a blink of an eye.

The time was just right.

Xinhuang is just a town of a thousand people, and hundreds of grain trucks drove in, occupying all the open space in the west of the town. The company servant led the guard, and there were more people than the townspeople.

The convoy had been on the road all day, and the people and horses were tired, and this stop had to eat, drink, and rest, and the whole town was busy.

The reception capacity of the small place is limited, so the news of the upcoming arrival of the grain transport team actually has to be delivered more than ten hours in advance, so that the townspeople can prepare early. In this way, the manger can be filled with clean water, the fodder for feeding cattle and horses can be removed from the roots and sieved in advance, and the personnel can also have hot food to eat.

When you're tired and hungry, there's nothing like a hot meal to calm your mind. Although the servant got nothing more than rough grain, at least it was steamed hot, and it could be dipped in some soybean sauce.

The soldiers could get more stewed beans, and some even got pickled cabbage and ate it together in the nest.

He Chunhua, who was dressed in civilian clothes, dismounted and handed over his mount to his own soldiers to serve. He Lingchuan only wore ordinary clothes and armor.

Although Xinhuang has received grain transportation teams many times, its ability is limited after all, and He Chunhua inspected the soldiers' meals, and it was common for people to turn over on their backs and not be able to supply.

The only thing that pleased him was that the military doctor carried out the order relatively well, and the food and water of people and animals had been tested for drugs and sampling, and there was no abnormality.

In fact, the army has the strength to be around, and its resistance to common poisons has greatly increased, and the people who are prone to bad luck are nothing more than servants and livestock. He Chunhua was careful, lest the enemy secretly suffocate him, and he took the trouble to ask for a drug test, otherwise the opponent would put some croton powder in the drinking water, and people and animals would not be allowed to slack along the way?

After walking around the camp twice, He Lingchuan called out according to his belly: "Dad, it's our turn to eat." "People are iron and rice are steel, and if you don't eat, you will be hungry and panic.

On the contrary, the medicine ape has no burden to eat the head of the nest, and the rock wolf also has its own ration, and no one can lose it. He Lingchuan learned on the road that it could also eat apples and grains!

He Chunhua pointed to the head of the nest and said, "Come two?" ”

"I've been eating this thing all the way, haven't you eaten enough?" He Lingchuan's eyes rolled, "Dad, don't you want to be sensitive to the people's feelings?" If you can observe a p in the army, you have to go to the town and watch while eating. ”

He Chunhua smiled helplessly: "Okay." ”

At this moment, the county magistrate came to invite the chief of the grain team, saying that he had booked a table in the restaurant in the town and wanted to give the chiefs a pick-up.

Xinhuang belongs to Baiyun County, and the county government is not here, but the arrival of the grain transport team is the top priority, and the county order still rushed over.

He Chunhua traveled to the north on a light car, wanting to inspect the people's situation, and he was silent to the outside world, so the nominal highest commander of the grain team was Mo Zhe Jingxuan, that is, his original staff, and now Xiazhou.

The county order invited, and Mo Zhe Jingxuan happily went. There is nothing good to eat in this small place, but the meat dishes for the banquet should be enough. He can eat and drink in the restaurant, and He Chunhua has to solve his own dinner problem.

The father and son quietly left the camp, without bringing the two monsters, followed by Mao Tao, Shan Youjun and Jiao Tai.

This town is very small, there are only more than 200 houses, sheds, and shops combined, and the main street is only 100 meters, and it can be done in a few steps with your legs, and the dust is big, and the houses are all gray and simple.

There is only one restaurant in the town, which is used by the county order to entertain Mo Zhe Jingxuan, and the father and son don't want to go there.

A few people turned around and found that there were few shops and not many pedestrians, but as soon as they arrived at the well, there were people queuing. He Lingchuan saw his father's straight face, so he asked him, "What's wrong?" ”

"It's pitch black, and few households have lights up." Lamp oil and candles have to be bought, where can the poor give up? However, the Dunyu people did not turn off the lights until at least after dinner, and the people here probably had to eat early and go to bed after dark.

"People here are so poor."

He Chunhua sighed, his face worried: "The further you go north, the worse it is." ”

After coming out of this trip, he realized that Dunyu's wealth was dozens of times that of other places! The farther north you go, the poorer the people become, the fewer households there are, the more barren the fields, the more chaotic the government becomes, and the more the people's livelihood withered.

He had seen poor people selling their sons and daughters in the bazaar, and when they met people, they would boast that their children had eaten less and had done more, and they begged the other party to buy them back. The family is skinny, and the child is expressionless when he is sold.

He even heard from the people that the army was "killing good people and risking merit". All kinds of chaos and failures are simply shocking.

Poor is chaos.

There is no doubt that if he wants to govern Xiazhou well, he still has a long way to go.

"Dad, after you are full, worry about the country and the people." He Lingchuan pointed forward, "How is this place?" ”

A restaurant in front of me was lit up, and the smell of food wafted out.

There were three horses tied to the outside.

He Chunhua felt his belly rumble at this time: "Go in." ”

Lifting the windshield curtain and entering, everyone saw that the restaurant was shabby, the tables and chairs were dilapidated, but fortunately, the place was quite large, and seven or eight square tables could be placed, and now there was also a table of guests eating.

The five of them sat down, and Mao Tao shouted: "Shopkeeper, get some food!" ”

The shopkeeper has a bitter face: "There are only sour powder and mixed noodles steamed buns." ”

He Lingchuan had already seen that the people at the front and back tables were sucking and sucking powder, and he swallowed his saliva: "Everyone comes, if there is material, add it!" ”

It was almost all ready-made, about half a burnt incense, and five large bowls were placed in front of everyone.

This bowl of sour noodles is nothing more than three things: coarse flour, pickled cabbage, and baked peanuts.

Locally produced mung beans, so this is bean flour. The cabbage that has been pickled for half a winter is sour enough, and it is just right to mix flour, and it is not as rare as vinegar.

As for peanuts, it's a simple bake on the fire, don't think about frying so luxuriously. There is no trace of meat in the whole bowl of sour powder, not even oil flowers.

Everyone was hungry, and it felt quite cool to raise a quick gesture like this.

Mao Tao looked at the other table and asked for a few heads of garlic. Everyone took a bite of noodles and nibbled on garlic, which was sour, spicy and rushing.

Gotta do it!

It also serves sliced soup, which is boiled noodles in white water, with two sour cabbages, a few beans, and a plate of bean sauce to dip in mixed noodles and steamed buns.

Because there was no meat, He Lingchuan ate a big bowl of sour noodles and felt empty in his stomach, so he asked for two bowls of sliced soup and four large steamed buns.

Although the price is cheap, it is not as affordable as the locals.

He Chunhua asked the store while eating: "Can you usually have business here?" ”

The shopkeeper waved his hand: "Can't make money, can't make money!" ”

Mao Tao interjected: "This is the only way between the north and the south, and I think there are still some caravans, which are better than those villages in the mainland." "That's a poor and white person who can only eat soil.

The shopkeeper looked disgusted: "The tax rent is so high, the money is earned by others and the officials!" ”

He Chunhua asked: "How much do you have to pay tax rent?" "Taxes and rent, you can't get around opening a store.

"If I earn ten copper plates, I will hand over eight. What money do you think I can make? The shopkeeper laughed at himself while stirring the soup, "That is, barely the mouth of the lake, there is no need to sell my family's nan." ”

The customer who was eating noodles on the side suddenly answered: "Don't listen to his complaints, others can't open this store." Today, the whole town has used the water trucks there, so that we have no water available, and you see there is a queue at every well. As for him, there is a well behind him, but no one else will fight. ”

Since selling fans can earn you some money for eating, why don't others sell them?

He Lingchuan wanted to laugh, but he couldn't.

There were three guests at that table, all dressed as merchants. He Chunhua asked them, "What are you guys doing?" ”

"Cloth and lamp oil, and when I return, I will bring some local products to sell."

They are all must-sell. "How's business?"

The three of them sighed: "It's not good, it's not good, it's not as good as forty percent in previous years, and it won't come next year." ”

They looked at He Chunhua and the others, and asked, "You are also officers and soldiers?" ”

He Chunhua denied it: "We want to go north, and follow behind the officers and soldiers, trying to be safe." ”

"What's up to the north?"

He Chunhua said casually: "I want to collect some sugar." ”

When the shopkeeper heard this, he interjected: "It's useless to go, and you can't get a good one." ”

"How?"

"About thirty or forty years ago, this Xinhuang town was rich in brown sugar, and the whole Xiazhou was famous. The surrounding area of the town is full of sugar beets, and there is no end to it. The old people in the town said that the brown candy in those years was not worried about selling, and they rushed to sell it all the way to Dunyu. ”

He Chunhua sighed: "We walked all the way, and we didn't see any beet fields. ”

"It's long gone. Now most of Xiazhou uses sugar and brown sugar from the northern demon country. It is said that this is one of the conditions set by our big kite and the northern demon country, and hundreds of thousands of catties of sugar must be bought from there every year, hey! ”

He Lingchuan said: "I have eaten it, and it tastes good and durable. ”

He Dashao had never tasted any brown sugar at all, whether it was in Shi Huan or Dunyu, the dim sum he had eaten was all made of brown sugar; In Blackwater City, you eat locally produced local sugar.

"Yes, brown sugar is not expensive. After that, the brown sugar in Xinhuang Town could not be sold, and slowly no one made sugar, so everyone switched to growing grain, but this land did not produce much good grain. ”

The merchant on the side answered: "You don't know how powerful the Northern Demon Kingdom is, and the sugar they produce every year can be tens of millions of catties!" ”

The shopkeeper was angry: "It's hateful! ”

At this moment, Shan Youjun slapped He Lingchuan hard, and his voice was not loud or small: "Hey, I'm full, I'm full, I'm going to find a place to, are you going?" ”

He usually doesn't look at the elders like this, He Lingchuan blinked: "Let's go." ”