060, fireworks in the world (II)
Huwa knows very well that if she doesn't eat it, Tian Xiao and Weiwei will definitely not eat it. Now seeing these two gobbling up and eating so deliciously, he is also very happy, and he feels that the food in his mouth is delicious in the world.
Huwa is a young man in the world, he is not an immortal in the divine land of the emperor's country, whether it is cultivation or state of mind, it is impossible for him not to eat the fireworks of the world. The five-colored divine lotus, or sweet potato, or barbecued meat, in his opinion, are all things to eat, but the former is more conducive to the spiritual effect of cultivation, and it is more durable to satisfy hunger.
But how can there be so many immortal elixirs in the world for people to eat, and being in the world is the norm at this moment. Two plates full of meat, Tian Xiao and Pan Gu each ate about half a plate, and the one who ate the most was the most slender and weak Miss Weiwei, who ate most of the plate. The tiger baby chewed slowly and only ate a small half plate.
Both the meat and the noodle soup exude an appetizing aroma, and they are soon eaten almost to the bone. Tian Xiao also picked up the stone, smashed the big bone stick, and ate the bone marrow in it. After eating a plate of meat, Tian Xiao and Pan Gu began to drink noodle soup, and the tiger baby stopped eating. The old man, the child, and the dog watched the girl eat alone.
Vivi ate so engrossed and absorbed that she didn't even realize that everyone else was looking at her. When there were only two large bone sticks with meat left in the pottery plate, Wei Wei stretched out her hand and retracted it, wiped her mouth and raised her head, and said embarrassedly: "I have eaten too much, and I am already full." ”
Of course, she was very full, and I am afraid that she had never let go of eating meat like this. Huwa smiled: "We are also full, there are still here, you can continue to eat if you want to." ”
Wei Wei hiccuped, shook her head and said, "I really can't eat anymore, Xie Lu Xie Gonggong!"
Huwa said again: "Uncle Xiao, then you can eat the last two pieces, and we can't waste them." ”
Tian Xiao shook his head and refused, saying that he had already eaten enough. Then he looked at the two pieces of flesh and stopped talking. Huwa realized something, and said to Weiwei, "Your mother is still at home, right? ”
Wei Wei was surprised and delighted: "Is this really possible? I have already eaten so much, how can I take it again?"
Huwa smiled: "I said yes, this is also my order." ”
Wei Wei thanked again and again, suddenly remembered one more thing, and quickly washed her hands in the clay pot, picked up the leather robe that had just been placed on the ground with both hands and presented it: "Lord Gonggong, the patriarch saw that your clothes were thin, and you didn't bring anything else with you. I specially asked you to send you a leather robe to protect you from the cold, and you can also cover your body when you sleep at night, and your figure should be almost just right. ”
The tiger baby also washed his hands in the pottery pot and took over the leather robe, this robe is not sewn with a skin of an animal, but the best leather on several animals, the handwork is very exquisite, the pattern deliberately spliced out is also very beautiful, the thick place is thick, the soft place is gentle, it is a very exquisite clothes.
Vivi continued, "This robe is new. I just made it before the winter this year, and it was originally worn by the third daughter of the patriarch's family. The fur is very good, the body is thick, the sleeves are very soft, and my mother sewed it by hand. ”
Huwa took the robe. looked at the empty plate containing meat just now, and said with emotion: "Your patriarch is very generous, he is really willing." ”
Tian Xiao sneered: "What kind of generosity is this! What he asks you to do is to fight against the demon clan and the rogue. Not only to protect Baixi Village, but also to protect his own home, a mere meal of meat and a leather robe, how can it compare to the risk you take?...... Little Mister. I'm grateful that you agreed to the patriarch's request, but you haven't asked for it yet. The patriarch only said that he would do his best to repay, but he did not make it clear how he would repay. ”
Huwa: "This is what I want to do, and I don't care how Baixi Village repays it, as long as it's worth it." ”
Tian Xiao still shook his head and said: "Although you don't care about this, Baixi Village must not do this, you must make it clear how to thank you in advance." Whether it's for your safety or the safety of Baixi Village, we can't rely on you alone. In the past half a month, I will try to invite other masters to help. If you don't make the conditions clear and offer a generous enough reward, you won't be able to invite anyone else!"
This is very reasonable, and Huwa also thinks so. Today, Bai Xiying led a group of people to catch up with the tiger baby, kowtowed and begged on the road, which made the tiger baby tempted, and promised to stay to protect Baixi Village because of the kindness of one thought. Bai Xiying only said that she wanted to thank but didn't say how to thank her, this is purely fooling children, that is, people like Huwa will nod.
If you change a monk, just relying on Bai Xiying's empty words, and the conditions and rewards are not clear, I am afraid that he will not be able to invite him, after all, fighting against the demon clan and the murderous rogues may be in danger of his life. Tian Xiao told Wei Wei again that he would find Bai Xiying later, and said that Master Gonggong had asked him to come here to discuss things.
Since they have been living in harmony and interdependence with Baixi Village for nearly a hundred years, why would those pig-headed people be deceived and want to ransack Baixi Village? If this can be successful, it will be a little beneficial for the time being, but it will not be a good thing for the Shanji Clan in the future! If they fail, then the consequences will not be mentioned.
Tian Xiao sneered again: "Those pig-headed people's stupid brains rarely think so long-term. And even if their patriarch is an understanding person, I am afraid that he hates Baixi Village in his heart. In my opinion, sooner or later, there will be a conflict between the Mountain Paste Clan and Baixi Village, and I blame Bai Xiying's gang for not talking. But I didn't expect this to be the case, and they would become accomplices of the rogue. ”
The demon clans in the deep mountains usually rarely deal with outsiders, and their appearance is easy to scare people. Since ancient times, the people of the Shanjiao tribe have only come into contact with Baixi Village, and the two sides exchange each other's goods and take what they need. The fur of the robe sent by the patriarch to the tiger baby today was exchanged for it from the mountain paste tribe.
This kind of exchange is a kind of buying and selling relationship, but the people who engage in buying and selling are not merchants, and what they exchange is their own production and needs. At that time, business was very restricted, and ordinary people simply did not have the ability or strength to buy and hoard large quantities of goods that they did not need, only to ship them elsewhere and sell them to others for profit.
Merchants who do not produce but only seek profit do not have a high status in the eyes of the people, and are often subject to official constraints. Most of the caravans that Huwa has seen are organized by various cities, with an official background.
There were also many shops in Shanshui City, where people of various tribes exchanged things, but those people were not real merchants, they only transported their goods on behalf of each tribe, exchanged them for what they needed, and then transported them back. The exchange of goods between Baixi Village and the Mountain Paste Clan was also like this in the past. But when Bai Xiying became the patriarch, the situation changed.
Bai Xiying used the identity of the patriarch to organize and monopolize the trade with the Mountain Paste Clan. He organized a centralized exchange of the products of the clan with the mountain paste clan, and he was able to take advantage of it every time. This situation was nothing at first, but it became more and more excessive. For example, the old wheat grain is mixed with the newly harvested wheat grain, and even the deflated straw is added to it, and the dried sweet potatoes that have been stored in the warehouse for a long time and are about to spoil are exchanged for pigs raised by the Shanjiao people.
The reason why Bai Xiying dared to do this was because he had two points, first of all, those pig-headed people were very stupid, obviously not as smart as him Bai Xiying, and sometimes he couldn't react to losses. The second is that the people of the Shanjiao tribe have no other choice, they only do business with the people of Baixi Village, and they don't know whether the road is good or bad without comparison, so they can only agree to any conditions, as long as they still want to exchange.
On the surface, this approach has brought more benefits to Baixi Village, as they can exchange less for more things. Of course, the one who benefited the most was Bai Xiying himself, and he either handled these trades himself, or sent his cronies to do it. If he can't use the things he got from the Shanji clan, he can also sell them to other villages or even cities.
But in Tian Xiao's view, Bai Xiying's approach is destined not to last long. Although those pig-headed people are stupid, they don't really have no brains, and sooner or later they will realize that Baixi Village is bullying people, and they will be provoked. Moreover, the patriarch of the Mountain Paste Clan, Zhu Sanxian, is said to be a monk of the Three Realms, but he is not an easy character to deal with, and sooner or later he will clash with Baixi Village.
If Bai Xiying was retaliated against by the Shanzhi clan, he deserved it, and Tian Xiao was even happy to see it. But now that the practices of the Shanji people have exceeded the limit, Baixi Village will face a catastrophe, so we must first get through the current difficulties.
When Tian Xiao accused the patriarch Bai Xiying of all kinds of unbearable things, Weiwei kept her head down and didn't dare to interject, but the tiger baby kept asking curiously. It seems that just like the people and things in the world introduced by the mountain god, this Baixi Village is indeed different from the Lu Village where the tiger baby grew up, and Bai Xiying is not a patriarch like the mountain master or Gu Xin.
Huwa asked Tian Xiao again, how do you plan to deal with the enemy? In his opinion, he only stayed to deal with the masters of the demon clan or the rogues, and the protection of the village also depends on all the clansmen of Baixi Village to take up arms and form a battle formation. And Tian Xiao's answer is not too complicated, it is nothing more than relying on the walled wall to set up defenses, seize the time to build weapons, organize the clansmen to fight in small teams, and then ask the master to lead the team to command.
Huwa said curiously: "When I heard the news today, your patriarch and those clansmen were panicked. But when you talk about these things, you don't look very nervous or scared. ”
Tian Xiao sighed and said: "Because I have experienced wars, when I was on the border battlefield, there were often tearing and killing, and at the beginning I was really nervous and felt very anxious every day, but later I gradually got used to it. If you have to deal with something like this, the more panicked you are, the worse it may end, and the only thing you should be nervous about is the time of battle, and now you just need to calm down and prepare.
I'm already old, anyway, time is running out, I want to retire quietly when I go back to my hometown, but I didn't expect to go to the battlefield. And these people of mine, they have been living comfortably for so long that they have even forgotten how these hundred years of comfort came about? If this continues, even if there is no such thing as today, something else will happen in the future, and it is time to wake up. (To be continued......)
PS: Thank you for the apples, fish and leaves you bitten, and the red encouragement of the wind and wine!