After winter, the temperature gradually drops, and everyone adds clothes and animals gain weight to keep out the cold.

Since entering the wax moon, there has been a lot of commotion on the lake, and there are more than three or four times more fishing boats on the lake than in previous months. These fishermen from the county are here for the mandarin fish and fish in the lake.

Fish and even umami meat, and compared with chickens, ducks, pigs, cows, game, etc., they are much easier to get, fields, streams, rivers, as long as there is water, almost everywhere.

However, in ordinary times, the people of Pingtou would rather eat wild apples than fish, so that the fish in the fields, streams, and rivers are almost overflowing.

It's not that people don't like to eat fish, it's really a way to cook fish, and it's hard to get rid of it without oil or salt.

Fish is readily available, while oil and salt are expensive.

However, after November, more and more fishermen went out of the boat near the lake, and almost all those whose boats could only enter the water went to fish.

Although the seasonal mandarin fish and lake fish in winter are fresh and beautiful, if they are only for the sacrifice of the five internal organs, they will not go to the lake so often to catch fish, what they do is mainly the fat layer in their abdomen.

The unified purchasing law promulgated by Dahua clearly stipulates that the minimum price of a catty of lard shall not be less than 600 yuan, and the maximum shall not be higher than 720 yuan, which is equivalent to about four to five yuan of silver.

And one pound of millet is only 13 to 16 catties, and one pound of lard can buy 40 to 50 catties of dry grain, which is an expensive commodity.

The taste and texture of fish oil are far inferior to lard, however, its price is also 400 wen a catty. It is not sold, kept for personal use, and it is also used by every household all year round, and it is essential.

There is always no oil for three meals, and I can't afford it, so I have to try to fish and refine oil.

"Childe, along the way, every household in Lingdu County has been sunburned with mandarin fish and dried lake carp, and I am afraid that I will have enough food for half a year. Lingdu County is not rich in Cangsheng County, and the people's livelihood is already like this, not to mention those places where products are rich. Duanmu Jing turned his head sideways, and said in a deep voice Duanmu Yudao on the side.

After Yu Lingyi returned to Yinyang, he reported the demands of An, Xu, and Chen to Duanmuyu and Xu Qianmeng.

After learning about the family background of the three families, Duanmu Yu was so shocked that he got up from his seat almost immediately. He originally wanted Yu Lingyi to run this trip with the intention of giving it a try, but he didn't expect that this thing would really come to pass.

And after three hundred years of accumulation, the descendants of the two kings have all become giants, and they are not inferior even when the two kings were strong.

With such help, how could Duanmu Yu be willing to abandon it because of the danger?

Xu Qianmeng, Yu Lingyi, and Duanmu Jing couldn't persuade them, so they had to obey their orders and arrange his itinerary.

Five days ago, Duanmu Yu, escorted by Yu Lingyi, Xie Tianyin, Zhu Xiaochen, Tong Gaoge, Mu Lunyan, Duanmu Jing, Mu Huan, and 35 masters of the Gyeonggi camp, entered Qizhou in Sheng County from Wudang Mountain, and only arrived in Lingdu County in Pengzhou City, Cangsheng County last night.

There is still half a month before the day of the Ruozhou Alliance on December 12, and Duanmuyu and his party are not in a hurry to hurry, all the way to check the livelihood of Dahua.

"There is an old saying in Dahua that 'relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to eat the water', which is the case. Our country has many miasma forests, saline-alkali lands and few lakes, and the catch is a rare product. This Dahua is different, with lakes dotted and waterways crisscrossed, and the catch is extremely easy to obtain. In the prefectures and counties adjacent to Huze, there is a shortage of arable land, so the people have less acres of land, and the income from the two crops of grain is limited, which is often not enough to eat, so they turn their livelihood to the lake. Duanmu Yu replied with a smile.

There is no exact statement about the breadth of the lake, but I have heard that a good deed person once drove a horse around the lake, and ran for ten days, according to the footsteps, it was more than 3,000 miles.

For thousands of years, the lake has been supporting millions of people in the neighboring three counties. Even, a few counties farther away, in the year of famine, will travel hundreds of miles to survive. Where there is a lake, there are fish, and where there are fish, no one will starve.

Every year, there is a famine in Dahua prefectures and counties, but Pengzhou is not included.

The corners of Mu Huan's lips smacked a few times, and he muttered: "Alas, Jihua mandarin fish and lake carp are rare and delicious, I have never eaten them in the Turkic country for so many years, but the flat-headed people here can eat three meals as they like, tsk... It's a good life!"

"Haha, not necessarily. Duanmu Jing sneered, "Mu Hua, it is rare for you to eat it once, and you will feel that it is extremely delicious." If you eat this dried fish three times a day, you will no longer taste any delicacies. ”

Mu Wei pursed his lips, looked disdainful, and refuted: "You are very uninteresting, and you are not particular about food, so you can't pay attention to what you say." ”

Yu Lingyi and Xie Tian invited a few people to listen, and they all laughed.

"Childe, why don't we find an inn to settle down and let the store burn a few tables of all-fish banquet tonight?" Yu Lingyi said with a smile, Duanmu Yu said, "I see that Mu Yu is greedy, and there is only drooling left." ”

Their group of forty-three people marched in three teams, with seven guards and Duanmuyu in the middle, and seventeen and eighteen warriors of the Gyeonggi camp in front and behind, respectively.

"Yes, Mr. Yu has a lot of sense. When Mu Yu heard that he could eat a whole fish feast tonight, he hurriedly agreed.

Duanmu Yu frowned and thought about it, and said with a smile: "It's better than this, obviously the people on both sides of the front and back are resting at the inn, let's find a farmhouse and experience a whole fish feast for ordinary people in Dahua?"

He did not come to Dahua to eat and drink, in addition to swearing an alliance with the descendants of the two queens, it was another purpose of this trip to observe the people's livelihood and folk customs here to prepare for war.

Although the seven guards often quarreled, they heard Duanmu Yu speak at this time, but no one dared to say anything, and they all replied: "What the son said is extremely true. ”

It was getting dark, and the village was dotted with sporadic fires.

Eight rode into the village, and at one time the dog barked.

"Well, these dogs are really annoying!" Mu Wei complained helplessly as he listened to the barking one after another.

Xie Tianyu was also quite bored, and answered: "Why does this Dahua family have dogs? Could it be that they all like to eat dog meat?"

"Definitely!" Duanmu Jing replied with a smile, "Chinese dogs are not raised to eat their meat, but to prevent thieves and thieves." There are many people in Dahua who eat Jianghu rice, and there are all kinds of good things. Some bad embryos with no quality will come to the farmhouse to steal money and goods, and the people are wary of them by keeping dogs at home. ”

"Oh, I see!" Mu Yu suddenly realized, and his dislike for these watchdogs disappeared in an instant.

"In that case, it's better for us to be in the country!" sighed thankfully.

The Turkic country has always persuaded the people to follow the peasantry, and the practice of martial arts among the people is not prevalent, and such acts of armed burglary and robbery are not common.

"Yes, if you want to talk about the people, it is better to talk about the people of our country. Mu Yu said thoughtfully.