Chapter 36 The folk customs are simple
The monks walked quickly, and it didn't take long to reach Baixi Village.
After Yang Cheng and others arrived, they saw children playing at the entrance of the village, and the villagers were working in the wilderness. I went around the village, but I saw that the houses were built according to the topography, and there were about three or four hundred households. The people here are simple and simple, and they basically live a life of working at sunrise and resting at sunset. As long as you don't make trouble with monsters and horse thieves, it can be regarded as a paradise.
After the group turned around, they looked for someone to ask for directions, and the people in the village were enthusiastic, and they personally led the way to the patriarch's house in a short time.
The patriarch was a white-headed old man, and when he heard that these people had come from the city to do business, he was very enthusiastic and introduced them endlessly. There are no special products in this Baixi Village, and the only thing that can be done is the unique skill of taming beasts. The clansmen often go out to exchange animal meat and skins for necessities, but there are occasional villains on the road who kill people and sell goods, and it is difficult to protect the lives of the clansmen. If a businessman can come to the door in person, it is natural not to be lazy.
There are more than 400 households in Baixi Village, who make a living from planting and are basically self-sufficient. Only some daily necessities, cloth, and the like need to go to the city, and buy and sell some grain, and the meat and skins of the piebald beasts in exchange. The piebald beast resembles a cow that Yang Cheng has ever seen, except that it has long fangs, is taller, and has thick skin and meat. The piebald beast is extremely fierce, but the ancestors of Baixi Village have been trying and taming for countless generations, and now they can completely control the piebald beast, and each family can breed two or three heads.
A piebald beast can have more than 1,600 or 700 catties of meat, but there are many kinds of beast meat in the city, and the piebald beast is not a rare thing, and the transaction volume is very small, and most of it can only be used for its own use.
Yang Cheng told the patriarch that he wanted to cooperate with Baixi Village to do a big business, but he needed to learn about it carefully. After all, I have just entered the village for half a day, and I just took a general look. The old patriarch was very excited and arranged accommodation for Yang Cheng and the others. I personally took them to each courtyard to take a look around, and carefully inspected the growth, meat quality, and milk quality of the piebald beast.
After going to several houses, they came to a secluded place. In a courtyard, there was a melodious piano sound, which immediately attracted Yang Cheng's interest. The houses in Baixi Village are usually practical and simple, but this family's courtyard is just as simple but exquisite, built in a bamboo forest. Looking in from the open door, next to a small lotus leaf pool, an old man with a long beard leisurely played the piano, looking comfortable and complacent.
Only listen to the sound of the piano, sometimes the beads fall on the jade plate, cheerful and comfortable. Sometimes it is hurried, as if Jin Ge is fighting. In the end, there is melodious, reverberating and flat.
This old man has an outstanding demeanor, and he does not look like a local farmer at all. Yang Cheng didn't dare to disturb abruptly, so he asked the old patriarch for details.
The old patriarch said: "I only know that this old man's surname is Chu, and everyone in the village calls him Mr. Chu." A few years ago, a team of men and horses in robes and armor broke into this place. At that time, the villagers of Baixi were scared enough, and this team did not embarrass them, only placed the old man in the village, and never came back. ”
Yang Cheng and Lu Baichuan knew each other at a glance, and they each understood. Although this old man has an extraordinary demeanor, his strength is low at first glance, and he is left alone in the village, surrounded by thieves and demon beasts. Placing him here, without sending a warrior to protect him, is tantamount to house arrest here. I'm afraid that someone will draw this place as a prison and trap him here to fend for himself.
The old patriarch said: "Over the years, this Mr. Chu has no quarrel with the world, and he gets along well with the people in the village, and he also helps them write things on weekdays. is not good at work, the people in the village are kind, and they will help him more when they need food. ”
Yang Cheng nodded, he didn't understand the situation, it was better not to meddle in his affairs, and only praised the purity of the people in the village to the old patriarch. The old patriarch also stroked his beard with a smile, and said: "Then let's continue walking, go to the top of the mountain, overlooking Baixi Village, I don't know if the son will have to move forward." ”
Yang Cheng actually saw the same, and he already had some understanding of the situation here, and the ability of Baixi Village was very suitable for raising a large number of people. Now that he came out, he had time to take a look at it, so he nodded and continued to move forward. The old patriarch was an ordinary person, and he was old and frail, so he didn't let him suffer, and sent two guards to send him back first, and the rest of the people continued to climb up.
After a short time, everyone reached the top of the mountain, looking down, the village was full of smoke, and the fields were green and yellow, like a fairyland on earth. Yang Cheng was in a state of relaxation when he heard Murong Tie discussing with his companions. He turned behind him and looked in the direction Murong Tie was pointing. In the distance, there is a canyon, looking down from this high place, like a huge gourd, with two big bellies in the middle, and the canyon passage at both ends is shaped like a spout.
Murong Tie has participated in many battles and has some understanding of the terrain, seeing that the terrain is very good, he likes that the canyon is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is suitable for garrisons, but the distance is too far to see the internal situation clearly, and he doesn't know whether it is suitable for living in Tuntian. However, the surrounding area is too desolate, and it is in the wild, and the construction cost and risk are too great, no wonder no family wants to occupy this place.
Not to mention the sect, it is not a treasure land with a strong aura, so they naturally look down on it.
Yang Cheng didn't understand, and after taking a look, he didn't care.
In the evening, the patriarch's house. The patriarch called some representatives of Baixi Village to discuss cooperation with Yang Cheng.
Yang Cheng put forward several points: First, the people of Baixi Village selected some male spotted beasts from their homes that could meet the requirements and provided them as meat. As long as each family can meet the requirements, they can have as many as they want, and the meat and skins all belong to Yang Cheng. According to two hundred silver coins per head, that is, the price of two spirit coins, but the villagers need to raise themselves. It is up to the patriarch to plan which piebald beasts to slaughter every day in order to ensure a continuous supply of growth.
There is no objection to this for the villagers, according to the market price, this meat is not so high, and the key is that they can't sell much meat in a year.
Secondly, the milk produced by the female spotted animal needs to be collected by the villagers themselves and packed in uniform-sized wooden barrels. It is calculated according to the price of one silver coin per ten catties.
The yield of animal milk is very high, but it is not valuable, except for their own children's use, there is no use, and it is naturally better to make money.
In the end, Yang Cheng hoped that the patriarch and the villagers would discuss on their own to increase the amount of feeding, and that they could not be slaughtered this year and not be provided next year. It is necessary to ensure that the supply volume will be twice as high next year as this year, until Yangcheng limits the supply quantity.
In view of the fact that there was still some danger in the exchanges, Yang Cheng took over the work of guarding the transportation. The villagers helped with loading, unloading and transportation, and the Yang family nursing home protected the safety. Even arranging accommodation for the villagers who went to the city made it easier for them to buy necessities and return with the escort a second time.
The patriarch and the villagers' representatives naturally agreed without hesitation, and they were also able to achieve such a good thing, and there was no reason to refuse at all.
Yang Cheng solved this matter and opened a new direction for his products. In addition to being usable in your own yard, those meats can also be used as non-staple foods such as jerky, which is a treasure of this piebald beast.