Fields of Gold

Seeing the beetroot rice, Yu Xiaograss suddenly rose and raised the rice balls. The rice is filled with meatloaf, crispy milk melon, ham and some nuts, which are particularly rich in the mouth. For the first time, Sulan accidentally ate and hung up, eating in the neighborhood with elegant steps.

Zhu Junyang also feels that this way of eating is novel and delicious. In the future, when marching to war, there is another kind of dry food you can bring. That is, wrapped rice balls, with dishes and rice. You can fill your stomach with just a little heat. It tastes good!

It took another day to reach a small village at the foot of a reckless mountain. To say it's small is not to say the truth. There are only 78 families in the village, all from hunters. Villages are often attacked every winter by beasts descending from the mountains. So every time the first snow strikes, the villagers migrate to towns over a hundred miles away. It was not until the warmer spring of the following year that we returned to the village to cultivate a small amount of land.

Spring is a period of breeding for hundreds of animals. There is an unwritten rule among hunters that spring does not hunt, and animals with pups, young children and handicaps are also to be released. Autumn is the busiest season for hunters, when the prey is fat, full of fur and valuable. At this time, the hunters are very active, making hunting easier.

When Yu Xiaograss and his men came to this seemingly ruined village, there were only old and weak women and children left in the village, and the adult men of the family went hunting in the mountains. Though we dare to move only outside the mountains, the mountains are hundreds of miles long, not ten days and a half months, we will not be able to return.

Old people, women and children in the village, when they see a pedestrian with tall head, dressed in exaggerated clothes, the all-powerful charm is not ordinary people, even the guards and maids can not be dressed in the ordinary people, they only dare to look far away, and hold their curious children and grandchildren, lest they collide with the nobleman to cause trouble.

However, neither the elderly nor women's and children's faces had any sense of curiosity. After all, it is a tough hunter's house, where old and weak women and children can get a forklift gun.

Yu Xiaograss appeared to be the most harmless of the travelers, so she braved herself and discussed the accommodation with the villagers. She walked toward the family with the largest room in the village courtyard, with a brilliant and warm smile on her delicate little face, and said to the young man standing at the door: “Hello, Grandpa! We are passing by and it is late and want to stay in your village for a night. See if you can make it easier. ”

The old man had to be white, but his body was very stiff, his waistplate was straight, and he had a good color. A scar on his forehead should be a wound from hunting when he was younger, but he didn't look pale. The little boy next to him, in his teens, also looked quite strong, with a hunting knife in his hand and a few alert colors in his face.

The old man closed the look in his eyes and looked at the little girl with a clear and pure eye and a sincere smile. He also replied with a friendly smile: “Are you here to hunt? Let me tell you something, every year our village welcomes waves of dignitaries like you who have finally entered the mountains to hunt. If you don't want to abandon the rudeness of your old home, please stay at home! ”

“Grandpa!” The little boys didn't seem to welcome them very well, and there was a slight contradiction between their faces. No wonder, not everyone is reasonable. The better the family looks to them, the worse the young ladies' temper. The last time they stayed at their house, they stared at their noses all day long and said that their meal for guests was pork food!!

These people look a lot harder than the last! Especially the one who rides the black horse in black, looks like someone owes him hundreds of taels of silver, looks like a knife, he can't even look at himself! The man in white looks like he's laughing, but he's not smiling, and he doesn't want to be upset. Six people in a row, and this young lady right in front of you, look so close. Grandpa is old and his mother is sick in bed again, he really doesn't want to serve these people but he can't get a good word in the end!

The old man looked down at his little grandson and touched his head. These dignitaries came towards his house as soon as they entered the village. If they refused for no reason, wouldn't they be guilty for nothing? Besides, in the eyes of him for most of his life, these people are not the kind of warriors who are deceitful and proud.

“Ladies and gentlemen, please come inside!” He said to his little grandson, “Take this little brother and bring the horse to the cattle room behind him to feed him fresh water and grass...”

“Don't bother this little brother, you tell us the approximate direction, we brought our own herbs!” Yu Xiaograss graciously thanked the old man for his kindness with the aim of trying not to cause trouble.

The little boy whispered and whispered: "What's the trouble? You bring your own grass and you bring your own fresh water? ”

“Tiger!” The old man scolded the grandson and smiled with apology at the weed. Seeing each other showed no signs of anger, further corroborating his initial assumptions.

Jin Xiaohu drummed the mumps and reluctantly led them to the cattle shed. Their house, similar to the house before Little Grass Dongshan Village was renovated, is a nice four-house yard, with five straight houses, and three compartments on each side. The cattle shed was mounted on the left hand side of the door with a strong yelling donkey.

A line of six-man horses, as soon as they got into the cattle shed, the empty shed was crowded. The yelling donkey was squeezed into a corner by the wind and red, timidly gauging strange “guests”.

Hou Xiaoliang took the grass and fed the horses. Xiaohong also smiled at the grass and asked for some sugar cubes to eat. Seeing the wind staring at it, it split one for it with great kindness. As for the donkey screaming at it while eating the rest of the grass, Red revealed the expression "hillbilly": How's it going, you haven't eaten it? These herbs, they've been eating for the most part ever since they were little!

Leaving Hou Xiaoliang to serve several difficult horses, Yu Xiaograss and Zhu Junyang were welcomed into the yard. The old man pointed to his own yard and always introduced them. Don't look at the size of his yard, the number of rooms, but the family is plentiful. The elderly son and grandson add up to nine, all but the little tiger that stays next to them go into the mountains. The daughters-in-law, apart from the sickness of their third daughter-in-law in bed, went to the wasteland at the foot of the mountain to break corn.

Last year, his eldest son lined up for a day and a night at a grain store in town and finally bought corn seeds that were said to produce kilograms. After the harvest this summer, it was planted in accordance with the sowing manual. Although the land that has just been cleared is relatively barren, the corn that grows does not show much impact.

This crop is certainly not very selective. That acre of corn is well grown, and the corn stick is large and full. Although he does not have much farming experience, he can also predict that the output will not be low! This is not true, just in the harvest season, even though the sons are in the mountains, daughter-in-law is a good hand in the work, and just at dawn she is accompanied out to pick corn.

Other people in the village are also staring at this acre of land. They all said that if their family plants well, they will also go to town next spring to line up for seeds. This saves a lot of money buying food and makes life a lot better at home.

“Cough... Dad, are you here? I went to cook...” A woman with a waxy face and an exposed face walked out of the cabin with a door frame, holding her chest and coughing. Yu Xiaowei watched her face flush and breathe poorly, guess she was having bronchial or lung problems.

“Mother, your illness is not well, go back to the house and lie down. They brought their own maidens. They wouldn't make them if they wanted to.” Jin Xiao Tiger stepped forward, mixed with the woman, with a less strong body to support most of the mother's weight. While helping the women into the house, they did not forget to look back at the little grass.

“My daughter-in-law suffered some chills the other day," the old man hurried to play the roundabout for her grandson. "She didn't listen to the advice and went to see the doctor. She only made herbs to drink at home. She burned them all night last night. Tiger's worried about his mother. Don't blame the guests! ”

Yu Xiaowei, appreciating that she must have had fever-induced respiratory and lung problems, took out a pill for a cold induced respiratory infection and passed it over: “This is a cough pill from Tongchengtang, the treatment of cold induced cough and fever has a good effect. You let your aunt take a pill before each meal and it will be cured in less than three days. ”

There is still a little confidence in the medicine that you make yourself.

“Tong Ren Tang's pills?” Old Han shook his hand and didn't dare to pick it up. When he went to the capital to sell fur, he walked to the front door of Tong Ren Tang and heard the queue say that Tong Ren Tang's pills and syrup moved hundreds of taels and often sold out of stock. Each time a new batch was launched, it was quickly robbed. Pills and syrup have a shelf life of more than a year, but some people at the bottom of the house will have some at home, so be prepared!

Don't look at this little bottle. It will cost hundreds of taels of silver. Their whole family is a good hunter. There are only 350 taels left when they get down the most in a year. When they are lucky, they hit a rare fur and sell a hundred taels of silver. That's a big luck. These hundreds of silver pills are enough to hold their own for years!

“Meeting is fate, you can always accept it. Just think of it as the cost of a few days' stay! Auntie's illness can't be dragged any longer. Be careful what she drags into her illness.” Yu Xiaoxue stuffed the pills in the old man's hand and asked him again, "Grandpa, where are we staying at night? Let's put our bags down and make dinner. Let me tell you something, I've been wanting a nice meal all these days. ”

When the old man saw her sincerely, he stopped pushing away and handed over the pills to his impatient grandson. Once Xiaohu got his hands on it, he couldn't even say thank you. He rushed into the house quickly and took warm water and clothed his mother.