Under normal circumstances, Jiubao would not have deliberately explained it to Huo Yunqian in this tone.

But he guessed that if he introduced the Xu family more, he would presumably the young master would love to hear it.

It's mainly for breakfast.

Because of the 400 people who are mining, there are no men and soldiers at all.

Where would you be so prepared to do this kind of thing, and you don't come to play, everyone has always eaten dine-in in the camp, and there is no basis for cooking at all.

Therefore, for the elite soldiers who cut off people's heads like chopping chickens, from the time they are stationed here, it is more difficult to cook a delicious meal than to let them kill.

Xu Tianxin initially handed over the steps of making dry food and cooking that his grandmother told him step by step, and he specially wrote a note, but the same rice, flour, grain and oil were put in the hands of these elite soldiers, and they were still fried either with water or fried paste and stewed with scorch, and the dry food was hard enough to shave to death, and it tasted like chewing wax.

In fact, there is also a bear-like person in the Xu family, that is, the third Xu Youcang, who looks at it 800 times as if he can't remember it, in Mrs. Xu's original words: "It doesn't seem to have that tendon." ”

So Jiubao was telling Huo Yunqian:

“…… Two meals a day, but even if the next meal is solved, it is difficult to eat in the morning, and it is a waste of effort to cook rice, so I bought a lot of steamed noodles, dried noodles, and sour soup from Xu's family. Ah, young master, the sour soup is cornmeal, I heard that the Xu family is a kind of thick noodles made by fermenting corn water mills. Two days ago, Miss Xu also said that after a while, the weather will be hot and hot, and there will be cold noodles. ”

Jiubao began to look forward to it since she heard the word cold noodles, and Miss Xu said, when the vegetables in the vegetable garden come down, put a boiled egg, cucumber and spicy cabbage in the noodles, and then a little chili noodles, with the noodle soup that is placed in the well in advance, which can be eaten as a meal and relieve the heat.

Without waiting for Huo Yunqian to ask if he could eat enough with only noodles in the morning, of course, Huo Yunqian might not ask, Jiubao took the initiative to mention that in the afternoon, Xu Tianxin would bring a lot of dry food a day in advance. If they don't even bother to cook the noodles in the morning, they will divide some pickles and a few dry foods, and eat them as they walk to the hole. You don't need to brush the dishes and chopsticks.

And it was to order a meal at the Xu family, and even in the morning, I had to order a lot of noodles and dry food, and everyone patrolled, sometimes hunting prey, and would take out a lot of meat to give to the Xu family. Anyway, if they can't do it well, it is better to let those who can do it reach out, and Miss Xu's grandmother gave the station a lot of pickles for breakfast.

Miss Xu said, and her grandmother told her that now she could only send some hoarded radish pickles and wild celery. After a while, the vegetable garden will come down, and the Xu family will build a very large vegetable garden this year, and they will definitely ask their granddaughter to bring you some laba garlic, bellflower pickles, pickles, pickles, pickles, garlic eggplant, and ground rings," ...... Young master, I even have a cylinder of beans. ”

Jiubao thought to himself:

He had never looked forward to a bumper harvest in the garden.

Maybe it's too bitter and boring here, so he is so greedy.

When the vegetable garden comes down, where will they only receive all kinds of pickles that Grandmother Xu said, presumably they can also eat stewed noodles with beans in an iron pot tank, all kinds of braised noodles, chili marinade, eggplant marinade, unlike now, they can only eat wild vegetables.

Huo Yunqian didn't want to deal with Jiubao's words, but when he heard this, he continued to check the camp and couldn't help but correct this little gluttonous ghost and said, "That's called cowpea." ”

In ancient times, the beans here should be accurately called oil hemp vine beans, the beans are larger than modern ones, and the beans eaten in modern times have been grafted and improved from generation to generation.

Ah, it turns out that the cow, the gang of men and soldiers said the cylinder, anyway, that's roughly what it means, Miss Xu also called it a bean peg.

None of that matters, though.

Importantly...... Jiubao hurriedly led their master to stop going straight away.

Because after this temporary "caravan", yes, they still don't have enough tents to live in, even the carriages have to live in people, and then go forward there are latrines.

As their master, they don't need to visit the latrine.

But Jiubao thought about it, and in the end, he still walked all the way, and mentioned that it was human manure and horse manure that were stored.

The latrine here is a bit different from the one in Daying. They raised the latrine shed a little higher, and made a trough with a broken board underneath to catch it.

Jiubao couldn't say it so carefully, he mentioned this mainly to bring out that sentence, they would also transport the feces to a place that only Xu Tianxin knew about at night.

Everyone has nothing to thank the Xu family for thinking so much about them, what they see is buying, in fact, there are some small things that come and go, and the Xu family will help to think about it and don't want money to send it.

And the manure needs to be soaked in advance, and they don't have time to sow it in the ground, and they can't use it.

Jiubao simply asked the brothers, the horse manure was hoarded, and the human manure was packed in troughs, and the manure that had been hoarded for a few days was pushed a little farther away from here.

After a year and a half of storage like this, after they are withdrawn, the Xu family will be able to use it next year.

What's more, this also has an advantage, that is, if someone really looks at it later, they won't find that there is so much feces.

A lot, which means that there were many people who stayed here.

At this time, Huo Yunqian nodded when he heard this, and suddenly returned to the topic of eating: "Can't the Xu family undertake two meals?" ”

Two meals a day, both were done.

Obedient and listening, as a superior, he will not have a sentence that is nonsense, let alone mention it again.

Not to mention Jiubao, all the people who accompanied him heard that meaning, I don't know if the general thinks that it is not decent to give people manure, this is a hint that he wants the Xu family to make some more money.

Helplessly, another subordinate with a calm temperament who is also in charge of the accounts, took the initiative to reply: "I can't take it." said that he was busy planting medicine fields, and he had to ship them to foreign merchants. ”

And except for the ancestors and grandchildren of the Xu family, it is impossible for them to let anyone know. I heard that the Xu family's side also found a proper reason for the outside world, and only began to come here after the unobtrusive arrangement was completed.

The subordinates who replied thought to themselves: In fact, the ancestors and grandchildren of the Xu family knew that when the general did not come, he also played the drum in his heart.

If it weren't for the fact that many of their elite soldiers here had seen Miss Xu bomb the barracks, saying that they would have no place to sleep in the winter.

Moreover, he also knew the relationship between Miss Xu and General Jia Lai and General Lu, as well as Jiubao's chest patting assurance, without which he would never let go.

Today, the general finally came, and after listening to the tone of the question, and Jiubao's detailed answer, the general did not show impatience, and the subordinates in charge of the accounts completely understood the word, which was called "the seven rank officials in front of the prime minister's door".

Jiubao, the "intimate person" around the general, is really not something that ordinary people can be.

It's very knowledgeable.

Why do you say that you are knowledgeable, like the general himself doesn't like to talk much, and he chooses to follow his entourage, so he won't want a stuffy gourd at all.

And if this entourage wants to be constantly twittering and not disgusting the master, then he must know the general well, and he must grasp the news of the people below every day. What news is urgently needed to know, and what kind of people are willing to hear more.

This person thought to himself, presumably the Xu family is the last one, and the general is willing to listen.

And the reason why it is said that the people who watch the door for the prime minister are all seven-grade officials, and they can't be offended, they can only have deep friendships, you see, there will be a lot of difference between one more sentence and one less reply from the people around you.

If you don't make good friends with Jiubao, Jiubao will say less as a close-quarter. If you don't mention it, you will slowly lose the impression in the general's heart.

Even in the eyes of this subordinate, even if Jiubao replied with some words, it was really nonsense.

For example, transporting manure at night to rush to the Xu family for farming.

It's like they drink filtered water so they don't get sick.

It's like walking all the way, Jiubao's mouth is really not idle, and he will mention it when he introduces the food: "In fact, the subordinates are eating according to the Xu family's menu." It's just that the subordinates started to eat earlier than the Xu family and ate the same meal, and this Xu family had a meal in the evening. ”

The general has a lot of things in his heart, and he mentions those trivial things.

What this subordinate didn't know was that Jiubao's sentence was not nonsense.

When Huo Yunqian heard it, he immediately made up what Xu Tianxin would eat tonight, and the names of the dishes in Jiubao just now would also be on the screen. There will be a general impression that Xu Tianxin can eat well, no wonder he will grow a lot of size. He saw that the shredded potatoes in Xu Tianxin's lunch box in the afternoon were fried in oil, and there were some pickles, and it turned out that the meal was a supplementary meal. There will be a meal at night.

To say that Huo Yunqian finally took the time to come to the mine this time, it was not the above that surprised him.

Instead, he was led by his subordinates from the accommodation area to the back mountain.

A lot of crops have been cultivated here.

One of the advantages of Huo Yunqian that he can make so many elite soldiers follow him with all his heart is that he never doubts that his subordinates will do things like throwing watermelons and picking sesame seeds.

For example, there are large crops planted here, and his first instinct was never to suspect that his subordinates were delaying the opening of the mine, which must have been cultivated by taking advantage of the night's rest.

It can be seen that these subordinates of his are very hard.

"Why?"

Jiubao is very good at being a man, and at this time, he is like a stuffy gourd and no longer grabs words.

The subordinates who were in charge of the accounts and the planting just now saw Huo Yunqian's eyes sweeping over, and they hurriedly reported to the general to explain why this was so.

The subordinate in charge of the accounts said that he wanted to control the expenditure.

This is what he was sent to think about for the great general. Even though the Great General never gave them orders in this regard.

Counting the horses in the horse farm and their four hundred men for food, they would be kept within sixty taels of silver a day. Ordering a meal with the Xu family is also informed in advance, so that if the food is particularly good the day before, the Xu family will cook again on the next day, and it will be cheaper.

In fact, it's the horses that cost the most.

So just this sentence, Huo Yunqian is not a son who is not popular, he will immediately have a general impression in his heart, his subordinates are like a big family here, and like most farmers, they have to calculate and live a long life.

No wonder Jiubao mentioned that he wanted to follow the Xu family's menu, the old lady of the Xu family is the one who can do this, she can treat her children and grandchildren with less expenses, so that her children and grandchildren can eat well, and there is no shortage of nutrition in all aspects.

Immediately afterwards, Huo Yunqian also had a general impression, it seems that the Xu family really didn't make much silver taels by selling food. Although Huo Yunqian doesn't know how to calculate the specific accounts, he guesses that it should be after deducting the cost and only earning about three taels a day?

No matter what the Xu family can earn, most of it is not his money, and the Xu family's Tianxin sells goods and earns the monthly military salaries of his subordinates. Wherever you live, you have to buy clothes and flowers, normal.

Huo Yunqian defined this behavior as really not Xu Tianxin wanting to make money, but to put it mildly, this is called the development of the sideline of the prosperous people.

Lei Jiawo can make some money by making tents, and he can earn money to buy food, and the people will have enough to eat.

The women of Erdaohe can earn some money by making shoes and clothes, and weavers they don't know can make money, and they can make some money by making medicine kits, breeding chickens, ducks and pigs. He must praise Tian Xin. Otherwise, the little girl would have earned less from selling food, and if she complained in her heart that people were money skewers, she would definitely pout and be unconvinced.

Xu Tianxin is doing something meaningful.

And the next report of the subordinate who was in charge of night planting and reclamation made Huo Yunqian feel that he was not wrong.

This is smarter than the bookkeeper, he found that as long as he mentions trivial matters with Miss Xu every sentence, the general does not dislike how verbose he is.

is also in fact, he directly reported that it was Miss Xu who came to sell food and said that the horses were too big to chew, and this was all money.

Whose money, the general's, can you save a little bit with your heart, so that the soldiers can have more weapons to kill the enemy. These words made the hearts of these four hundred people iron.

Some of the words of both sides were tacitly understood, and there was already a horse farm in front of the people, so there was such a large hidden open space between the mine and the back mountain.

Miss Xu suggested that it would be better to plant some corn, millet, sorghum, alfalfa grass and other horses to chew. It's normal to plant these.

In addition, Miss Xu also suggested that this big black soil should plant some sweet potatoes and potatoes, pumpkin beans and pegs and other vegetables in the corners. When the food comes down like this, isn't it bad to eat that meal in the morning? In case she was hungry and picked two potatoes, she sold the sauce directly, told her to pick a few picks of vegetables and scoop out how much sauce to eat.

"The vegetable seedlings were cultivated by Miss Xu in the name of the Xu family. The farm tools are borrowed from us when the Xu family runs out of a batch. ”

This is a report, please rest assured that the general.

The Xu family has a lot of wasteland and a large vegetable garden, so it is suitable to buy rapeseed and vegetable seedlings in the name of the Xu family.

I heard that Miss Xu was looking for her master Guan Langzhong, who was specially looking for those extremely poor people in Shili Eight Villages, to help cultivate vegetable seedlings.

Let those people also earn a little hard-earned money for vegetable seedlings.

Huo Yunqian: It really drives the development of villages.

Jiubao showed that expression again, as if to say: Look, did he say something wrong? Is it impossible to live without a woman? But he hurriedly said, "Young Master, you have to bow your head." ”

Huo Yunqian bent down and entered the gold mining cave.

As soon as I entered the emergency escape entrance, I saw that many of my subordinates were lying down to make up for sleep.

It seems that this wave of people has been working for at least four hours in a row, and they are sleeping in order to get up for a while, and this is a break in between.

Huo Yunqian guessed right, there was still a handsome guy who had been injured and had to be replaced, he was using the wound medicine he bought from Xu Tianxin to compress the wound, while staring at the water drop clock, and after half a square, he was about to call his brothers.

The elite soldiers here thought very simply, the cost of chewing sixty taels of silver a day, plus the monthly salary of these people, they had to create the maximum value for the general as soon as possible. In this way, they are worthy of the general, and they never treat them poorly.

The soldier saw Huo Yunqian standing up excitedly and wanted to say hello loudly, Huo Yunqian waved his hand one step ahead of him, so as not to wake up those subordinates.

Perhaps it was this scene that affected Huo Yunqian's mood a little.

Therefore, when I saw the reclaimed gold and stones, the harvest was great, and I didn't smile like I did in the camp before.

That night, Huo Yunqian did not leave, and was sitting in the position where his subordinates often eat.

Tonight, he'll stay here all night.

Jiubao looked at his young master, and his eyes were red and he thought: Young master, if you are silent, I know that you feel sorry for us. Don't be like this, we should have worked hard for you, you are like this, we are easy to want to smear your liver and brain right now.

In order to make Huo Yunqian happy, Jiubao hung a lot of gourd lamps on the branches of a nearby tree.

When Xu Tianxin sold him lamps, Jiubao had long imagined letting his young master see it.

He wanted to tell the young master, don't look at the wilderness here, squat for months. But they also have their own little romance.

When the evening breeze blows, with a gourd lamp, you can look at the stars in the sky when you lie in the night, think about home, think about the young master.

Although Miss Xu buried him, he said that he would spend this unjust amount of money as far as the eye could see. But Jiubao felt that this could also be understood as only he understood Miss Xu's aesthetics.

"Young master, look."

The gourd was cut out of shape, and when it lit up, it had the appearance of melons, fruits, pears and peaches, and there was a big gourd that was a smiling face.

Jiubao chattered while pouring tea for Huo Yunqian, and told: "Wait for the Ming melon, fruit, pear, and peach to come down, Miss Xu said, there are pear lamps, orange lamps, and pumpkin lanterns." ”

Miss Xu also said that she could give him one if she bought two, and Jiubao thought: I won't mention this sentence.

Huo Yunqian pursed his lips and smiled.

The other subordinates watched from the side, and shouted in their hearts: Thanks to Jiubao being a male baby, otherwise he would definitely be a little goblin who can coax people.