There are still dozens of miles away from Chang'an City, and Zhang Xuezhou received a black and white horse mount.

"What a baby!"

Seeing the huge mount turn into a palm-sized bone horse treasure, Zhang Qian couldn't help but marvel again.

"If you don't have anything to do, can we go to the Murderous Country right away?" Zhang Qian looked at Wuchaodao.

"I'm sorry, I have something to do now" Wu Chao said lightly: "I have to retreat for at least seven days now, and I can only walk with you after seven days!" ”

"Seven days will be very soon!" Zhang Qian said happily.

He smiled happily, and felt that Wuchao was a trouble-free person, even if there was something, it would only take a few days.

Not to mention that Wuchao retreats for seven days, even if Zhang Qian's 'immediately' has to go through several official procedures, the time is not that he can leave, but must be approved by several departments.

There are many things to be done, such as the convoy, the horse team, the food, the money, and the matching of the members of the mission.

For Zhang Qian, he has solved the most important problem of guidance right now, and there are still many things to do.

If all goes well, he is expected to leave in half a month.

"You guys get busy first, let's walk slowly!"

Zhang Xuezhou, who received the black and white horses, waved his hand at Zhang Qian and Wuchao, signaling that he would no longer go together.

On the one hand, the black and white horses are not suitable for swaggering, and on the other hand, he and Rong Tianding are worried about Xu Yuan, a monk of the Nong Sect.

He and Rong Tianding left Chang'an City for nearly two months, and Zhang Xuezhou hoped that Xu Yuan would be healthy and not unable to live because of the lack of their help.

From the official road to Chang'an City, it will continue to approach, and shuttle through patches of farmland, and then enter the civilian area outside Chang'an City.

The shed built by Xu Yuan was not far from Wei Shao'er's thatched house, and the other party also planted two plots of land outside Chang'an City.

This civilian area is not only inhabited by people, but also superimposed with fields interspersed with it, and in some distant places, it can even spread to a hundred miles away from Chang'an City.

The stronger civilian fields and houses are closer to Chang'an City, and the weaker ones are farther away from Chang'an City, and the quality of the fields is average, and they need to go into the mountains and forests from time to time to find prey to be satisfied.

But now that we have stepped into the golden autumn season, there are some harvests everywhere, and many people are busy making food for the winter.

"This millet must be dried to very dry, you don't have to be afraid of the weight of the dried low selling price, but as long as the millet is stored for seedlings, it will be worthless, that is, the pig eats two bites are disgusted and bitter, we want to store the grain for the winter and next year's seeds, then we have to make all the preparations, and there can be no ambiguity in the drying!"

Xu Yuan is very weak among the group of monks, but he is undoubtedly strong and powerful among ordinary people.

And Xu Yuan is not pedantic, and he is not ambiguous when he should fight.

This made Xu Yuan's field not too far from Chang'an City, and no one dared to steal the ingredients Xu Yuan planted, and the water source for irrigation in his field was relatively in place.

When Zhang Xuezhou and Rong Tianding arrived at the place, they saw Xu Yuan harvesting millet.

The millet in his field was undoubtedly extremely good-growing, and the golden ears made many people look at it again and again, each with envy on their faces, and two gangster leaders were beside him to help maintain order.

"Brother Xu is having a good time!"

Zhang Xuezhou stretched out his hand from a distance to say hello, which made Xu Yuan raise his neck.

When he saw Zhang Xuezhou through the crowd, he couldn't help but wave in response.

"The two fields planted can harvest eight stones of grain, hand over two stones, the remaining grain for the winter should be worry-free, as long as you plant like me, you can have a bumper harvest in the coming year!"

One stone is equal to four catties, one jun is equal to thirty catties, and Xu Yuan's three acres of land have been harvested nearly 1,000 catties.

This kind of yield is undoubtedly very low compared to modern agriculture, but compared with the millet grown by other farmers, Xu Yuan's field is undoubtedly a bumper harvest.

No amount of talk can be worth the actual operation.

The last time Zhang Xuezhou saw Xu Yuan here, the other party persuaded everyone not to grab water, the plant itself has the nature of drought resistance, and it is not so easy to die of thirst.

At that time, Xu Yuan's prestige was far from enough, and everyone should be beaten and scolded endlessly, and few people listened to Xu Yuan's words.

And when Xu Yuan's crops matured, there were obviously more people willing to listen to Xu Yuan's words, and even the little leaders here looked at Xu Yuan with blank eyes.

The food in this age is greater than the sky.

There are rich people in Chang'an City, but ninety percent of the people in the world are poor, and even many people live below the subsistence line.

Accordingly, people who have real skills are also respected, and even regarded as masters.

It just so happened that Nongzong's best thing was planting, not to mention planting valuable things such as medicinal herbs, even millet for a living.

Xu Yuan has been busy for several months, and it can be regarded as a bumper harvest.

But he was new to this place, and he didn't have any stored ingredients, so he obviously had to work hard in the past few months, and his body was black and thin.

In response to the reward of two catties of millet from a few farmers who harvested millet rice, Xu Yuan ran out of the crowd.

"If only everyone could meet you earlier," Zhang Xuezhou said: "You don't know that when we were young, when we encountered a harvest that couldn't work, we could only starve, even if the animal skins on the bed had to be boiled and eaten!" ”

"Have you ever been hungry like this?"

Xu Yuan was slightly surprised, he didn't expect that Zhang Xuezhou, who seemed to be free and easy, also had a miserable time.

When it comes to the sake of even the animal skin, there is really nothing to eat, and this is a desperate situation for most people.

"And how did you get through that?" Xu Yuan was puzzled.

"Oh, we still have my parents, they went out to hunt some birds and beasts, and then stuffed a piece of meat in my mouth, and many of our friends came back to life," Zhang Xuezhou said.

"It's good to have a daddy!"

Xu Yuan pursed his lips.

His parents were obviously not friendly memories for him, and there was some darkness in his eyes, and there was a bit of unwillingness to struggle.

If he didn't have a thousand catties of heavy burdens on him, where would he have crossed thousands of miles of mountains and rivers to pursue cultivation and upward movement.

"I haven't seen my parents in years, and I don't know where they've gone!"

It wasn't until Zhang Xuezhou's melancholy voice came that Xu Yuan was slightly stunned.

"Is your father gone?" Xu Yuanqi said.

"Our entire village is gone," Zhang Xuezhou waved his hand and said: "My father and mother went to investigate, but until now I haven't seen where they have traced, but the information has been lost!" ”

"I'm afraid I'm going to be taken to serve in the conscription, right?" Xu Yuan said uncertainly: "In some places, when there is a big construction project, the entire village is arresting people and doing work, and no one has been seen for several years!" ”

"Our mountain is in the middle of the mountain...... What you say makes sense, I'll look it up in the future! ”

Zhang Xuezhou turned to the monks' methods, such as begging Dong Zhongshu and Wuchao, but nothing came of it.

And Rong and Zhang Zhong did not return to Rongcheng.

Zhang Xuezhou thought about it for a while, and then thought about a big construction worker like King Liang, and felt that the kind of thing Xu Yuan mentioned was not impossible.

There are no relevant records on the Rongcheng side, but there are too many people who can go beyond the Rongcheng County Government to do things.

It is very difficult to verify this matter, even if Zhang Xuezhou is running around on a black and white horse, it is in vain, but as long as the official position is in place, the corresponding inquiry will be simpler.

He was not too anxious at this time.

On the one hand, Zhang Xuezhou's work and rest problems caused him to do things inconveniently.

On the other hand, time has passed for so long, if something happened a long time ago, if nothing happened, everything is easy to say, with the survival ability of many people in Zhangjiazhuang, it will definitely be able to survive.

Although suffering is inevitable, as long as you survive, everything is nothing.

"The whole village is gone? Conscription? Construction in a big way? ”

Zhang Xuezhou and Xu Yuan reunited and chatted, and some people in the crowd frowned.