Wooden houses are lined up, and the roads are clean and smooth.

The doors of every house were wide open, and the light of the oil lamps inside was clearly visible, and the noise of children mixed with the screams of the children was particularly harmonious.

The more the old man walked inside, the more difficult it was to hide the shock in his heart.

If it weren't for the guards following him who needed to clean the wounds, he would have to take one step at a time and stop one step!

The housekeeper who held the old man irrepressibly increased the strength of his hand, attracting the old man's sharp eyes that hated iron but not steel.

'Don't panic, you've seen the world, how can you be frightened by a small village!' ’

'The villagers are all very good-looking, this is a serious village! ’

He comforted himself so.

"Shen Lizheng, do we have a spare house here?"

I was so shocked that I almost forgot my job!

Shen Manchu slapped his forehead when he heard this, and almost forgot about his business.

"Yes, don't worry, I'll let people clean it up later."

After four months, this is the first time that Shenjia Village has had a guest, and it is still a distinguished distant guest, so it must be well entertained.

"It's getting late today, I'll tell my mother-in-law to cook something simple for you later, don't dislike Steward Jiang."

"Thank you, it's us who interrupted you."

The group walked around and talked, not only completed a brief introduction to each other, but also briefly introduced the situation in the village.

And the old man and the housekeeper also learned a little about the village.

The reason why it is so "prosperous" is due to the fact that the Shen family has a sixth uncle who has just reached the age of 70 this year, and it is also due to the unity of the Shen family village.

Jiang Lao looked stunned when he heard this, and he didn't say anything for a long time.

If every village in the Great Yan Dynasty could have such a wise old man in charge, coupled with the cohesion of the younger generation, how could it become the field it is today?

"Ahh

The Shen ancestral hall arrived soon.

The wounded guards were taken by the patrol to clean their wounds, the unused wooden huts were cleaned up and some mattresses were added, and the large iron pot in the collective room of the ancestral hall was filled with water, and it was not long before it boiled.

In the wooden house, Jiang Lao beckoned to the butler.

"You will send our food to the ancestral hall later, it will not be easy for the people, you can't take advantage of it."

"Yes, don't worry, sir."

Jiang Ming changed his name before entering the village, and immediately recruited a guard to fetch food.

One master and one servant thought the same, even if the village was aware of the snow disaster before, the food hoarded in a village was limited, and it was not easy for anyone to live.

The grain has to be saved, and those who can drink rice porridge are in the best condition.

Well, I'll give the food to Lizheng later, and the guards should eat something thicker after they've been on the road for a few days. Ay?

"What's the smell, why do I smell like meat?"

Jiang Ming felt that there was something wrong with his sense of smell.

Jiang Lao was also stunned, and was tilting his head to look out of the wooden house at this time.

The smell of meat on the tip of the nose is getting stronger and closer, and the next moment it appears in front of you!

Lian Hu walked in alone with a steaming large sea bowl, fully demonstrating the hospitality of the village:

"Two guests, the food is here!"

A large bowl of spiky meat was placed squarely in the middle of the only wooden table in the wooden house, and the steaming heat in the bowl filled the whole wooden room at once.

Someone behind Lian Hu brought four black-flour steamed buns, plus two small bowls of green vegetable porridge.

"I'm sorry for the two of you, there is a shortage of food in the village, so you can only bother the two of you to eat more meat."

"But don't worry, this meat has been paused for a long time, and it is definitely not hard or woody!"

Lian Hu crackled and finished speaking, but he didn't hear an echo for a long time.

He tilted his head to look to the side, good fellow, the eyes of both guests were straight.

Jiang - has seen the world - Ming trembled and pointed to the big bowl of spiky things, as if he couldn't believe it:

"This—This is meat?"

"yes!"

Lian Hu wondered, what else could it be?

How obvious!

"What meat?"

Jiang Ming felt that this village was so hospitable, it wasn't for them to kill the livestock, right?

That's not a problem!

However, in the next second, two words popped out of Lianhu's mouth lightly:

"Wolf meat."

Two: "?! ”

***

The next day, the fiery red sun rose in the east and shone on the rows of houses in the village.

Veteran Jiang put his hands behind his back and walked slowly around the Shen ancestral hall.

The old butler behind him followed suit.

When the old man saw the rows of game made into bacon and bacon hanging outside the ancestral hall, the corners of his mouth trembled slightly, and his eyes were strange.

"Jiang Ming, you also saw it, right?"

Even when he heard Lian Hu tell the story of the patrol hunting, he still couldn't understand it.

At a time when most of the country is in the midst of a once-in-a-century snowstorm, how can there be a village with more meat than food?

What's more, they also grow green, crispy and tender little greens in this weather!

Jiang Ming also looked strange, "Master, that's meat." ”

And there's more than one kind of meat.

At a glance, there were pheasants, ducks, wild boar, and wolf meat that he had eaten last night, and the rest of the strange shapes.

Blame him for not seeing.

"This piece of Shennong Mountain has raised tens of thousands of Dayan people."

Jiang Lao finally moved his gaze to the depths of the mountain, where it was undulating and could not be seen at a glance.

Jiang Ming nodded approvingly.

"Master, this sixth uncle can be described as a master."

Know how to take advantage of geographical advantages to revitalize a whole village.

"Huh-"

The old man smiled and looked at him with wise eyes.

"Do you think all this was the idea of the sixth uncle?"

"That's exactly what Shen Li said, and the men in the village respect the patriarch of the Shen clan very much, don't they?"

Jiang Lao didn't speak this time, and a little thought flashed in his old eyes.

Others may not have noticed, but he had noticed it when he saw the scarred face of the descendant last night.

This village seems to be obedient to Li's words, but the eyes that fall on the descendants are full of awe and admiration.

If he didn't have some skills, the villagers wouldn't be like this.

From last night to now, although he had not spoken to that man, he felt that those deep eyes were unpredictable.

Even the little lady who sold his braised pork recipe was not an ordinary person.

"Let's go and have a look somewhere else."

The two of them turned around and walked on, and it wasn't long before they heard the sound of whips slapping stones.

"Hurry up, hurry up!"

"After eating so much in the morning, you dare to be lazy?"

"What are you doing with it, it's you two again!"

The old man was stunned when he heard the scolding, and when he turned the corner, he saw that the patrol that had greeted them with a smile and a warm welcome last night was supervising the work with a whip.

Directly ahead, about 100 people with cumbersome iron shackles on their hands and feet were like prisoners moving stones, and there was a wave of houses under construction on the other side.

(End of chapter)