At noon, the convoy rested.

Such a large army is difficult to entertain in ordinary villages, and it is not safe, so it can only stop by the roadside in the wilderness, take a short rest, eat and drink when it is time to eat and drink, and Lazar when it is time to lazar.

"Little master, if you feel bored, you can open the door for ventilation and come down for a walk. The villain goes to relieve himself, and if you have something, call me. ”

The groom parked the carriage and turned back to the carriage.

Wen Wu opened his eyes from meditation, "You are at your own convenience." When the groom was gone, he opened the two stalls of the carriage and looked outside. At this moment, the carriage stopped at the edge of the field, and as far as the eye could see, it was desolate.

In this winter month, the autumn harvest has passed, the spring ploughing has not yet arrived, and most of the fields are still barren. The people in the convoy were not polite, except for a few who wanted to dig into the grass and woods, and most of them scattered into the fields.

Only the lazar of the female dependents will be more troublesome, but this northbound convoy is mostly manual work, and most of the people accompanying the team are men, and there are few female dependents, so the problem is not a big problem.

Thinking about it now, it's no wonder that Qu Hong insisted on finding a big carriage.

"Hmm-"

Wen Wu let out a long breath and stretched. Looking at other small carriages, not to mention stretching your waist, it is difficult to stretch your legs, let alone do other private things.

On the other side, the cook pushed a trolley and shouted as he walked, "Hot soup, hot soup, come to Shengha by yourself." "There was a big bucket of vegetable soup in the car, steaming hot.

In a few moments, dozens of people surrounded him.

Wen Wu looked at it, and he didn't have much appetite. In order to rush to the road, such a large convoy generally tries to make as few fires as possible in the morning and noon, and only cooks a large pot of hot soup for everyone to eat with dry food. In the evening, they will eat better, build a few fires, and everyone will get together to eat some hot food, prepare some hot water, and after the fire is finished, you can still heat yourself at night when you sleep.

Of course, these are limited to people of low status. Like those old masters, young masters, and young masters, or leaders like Li Mad, most of them have their own preparations, and they don't need to squeeze with the people below.

In fact, there is a small copper stove in Wenwu's carriage, which is used for heating and cooking. He looked at the people surrounding the cart outside, and watched them drink the hot soup to their satisfaction, and his heart was touched. Ordinary people can use charcoal stoves, but in the carriage, open flames are not allowed, it is too dangerous, not to mention the transportation of medicinal materials. Although the copper furnace also burns charcoal, it has a double layer, so it is much safer. However, safety is only one aspect, and what really hinders the use of copper stoves by ordinary people is the price. Copper furnaces are expensive to build and can only burn fine charcoal.

Wen Wu unsheathed the buckle of the copper furnace, opened the valve, and threw a fist-sized piece of black charcoal into it. This fine charcoal, made of the unique dragon lily wood in the south, is flammable, high-temperature, smokeless, tasteless, and burn-resistant.

Longli is a kind of fruit, purple skin and white meat, sweet and fresh, quenching thirst in the summer, is a special product of Nanyuzhou. Longlimu, as the name suggests, is a dwarf tree in the south, and it usually takes ten years to become a tree.

That's why civilians are reluctant to burn charcoal. Refined charcoal is made from dragon lily wood, and considering the charcoal yield, it is necessary to choose an adult tree that grows to more than ten years. However, ten years of dragon lily wood can already produce fruit, and the annual output of dragon lily can be sold for one or two silver. And the dragon lily tree can generally live for thirty or forty years, even if the impact of the decline in the yield of the old tree is removed, there can still be a harvest of more than ten or twenty years. So, who would be willing to cut it down so easily? If you follow the charcoal yield rate of the freshly grown dragon limu, you can generally only get seven or eight catties of fine charcoal after firing. Longli only sells a few broken coins a catty, and the refined charcoal on the market is not less than 3 copper coins a catty.

The copper furnace that Wenwu is using, if it burns for 12 hours a day, even if it is used sparingly, it will have to burn more than a dozen catties of refined charcoal. What is this charcoal? It's simply burning money. In fact, if it weren't for Qu Hong, Wen Wu would not be reluctant. According to her, anyway, it is the public account of Wanyaotang, and if you don't spend it, the money will fall into other people's pockets.

After a while, the groom trotted back from the small tree ridge on the other side of the pipe, pulled out a gray sea bowl from the package hanging from the wheel, and hurried over to fill the soup. Although most of the people who do hard labor are low-class people, working in the Ten Thousand Medicine Hall is not poor, so it is not enough to rob this kind of thing. The groom didn't wait much, and soon came back with a bowl full of hot soup. He returned to the carriage and took out another paper bag from the package, opened it and took out a dried bun of yellow wheat inside.

Wenwu ate yellow wheat once, and it was not delicious to eat directly, so it could only be used to feed livestock, but after grinding into flour, it was made into buns, steamed buns or bread buns, which could be used to fill the stomach.

The groom looked quite satisfied, and the dry bun was eaten with hot soup, and the drink was 'whirring', and it looked quite fragrant.

Wen Wu noticed that while he was nibbling on the dry bun, he was also carefully placing the bowl under his mouth so that all the crumbs fell into the soup so that they would not fall to the ground and go to waste.

The groom seemed to be aware of it, and turned his head to look, but saw Wenwu sitting inside reading a book, and there was nothing unusual, so he continued to eat.

Jade white jade soup, green vegetables and tofu, it is also appropriate.

Wen Wu thought about it in his heart. However, he is really regarded as the eldest young master. He muttered. Otherwise, whether you eat or not, even if it's just out of politeness, you can't ask a word? 'Don't you drink?' 'Do you want to drink?' and so on. It is estimated that the groom has long been accustomed to those old and young masters starting a new stove, and asking more questions will only increase the embarrassment.

Two quarters of an hour flickered by, and just before the time came, the convoy set off on time.

The groom closed the stall of the carriage and checked it again to make sure that nothing was missing, and then unleashed his horse. But before he could set off, the curtains behind him were lifted.

Wen Wu stretched out his hand and handed him a small packet of dried fruits, "Taste it." ”

The groom was stunned and subconsciously took it.

Wenwu lowered the curtain and threw a preserved fruit into his mouth. The fruit of Huangpa, sweet and sour, is raw and consumed, but two or three pieces of money is a pack, the amount is enough, how good.