Chapter 23 Stabilizing the Fundamentals (3)
After teaching the junior brothers and finished the word recognition on the day, Huo Chong took the fourth junior brother to Zhujia Village. When Zhu Erniu saw Huo Chong coming to the door, he quickly opened the door and welcomed Huo Chong in. When Huo Chong brought the fourth junior brother into the gate, Zhu Erniu quickly closed the door. It can be seen that he was still scared of the incident that almost caused him to suffer a catastrophe a few days ago.
The yard has been restored to its original state, at least the broken bricks and tiles that have been smashed into the ground have been cleaned up. Zhu Erniu asked if the captain would come again in the future.
Huo Chong knew that the captain was wandering in Zhujia Village for two days, Mr. Zhu and his group of people dared not harass Zhu Erniu again. But such things cannot be used to show off. The two sat down, and Huo Chong handed the heavy purse to Zhu Erniu. Zhu Erniu grabbed the purse tightly and said a little embarrassedly: "How can you be so embarrassed? I'm sorry."
Huo Chong replied readily: "This is the money that Brother Zhu should take. What's the embarrassment? Brother Zhu counts to see if I got it wrong."
Zhu Erniu never mentioned the head-catching matter again and began to count money. Although Huo Chong really wanted to give Zhu Erniu money, he regretted it a little after five minutes. Zhu Erniu really started counting money in front of Huo Chong, counting 1510 and 1520. Huo Chong missed the days of mobile payment, and just entered the numbers to do it. With just such a counting method, I don’t know that Zhu Erniu had to count the year of the Monkey and Horse Month.
Fortunately, Zhu Erniu only counted once and did not count it repeatedly. Even so, Huo Chong had already taken the time to teach his fourth junior brother seven or eight words.
"Brother Huo, the money is right." Zhu Erniu breathed a sigh of relief after saying that.
Huo Chong finally let his fourth junior brother learn to "potatoes, "sweet potatoes, and "wine brewing". At this time, he sat back at the table and went straight in. "Brother Zhu, is anyone here growing potatoes?"
"Potato?" Zhu Erniu was a little confused. After hearing Huo Chong's explanation for a few more words, Zhu Erniu suddenly realized and replied: "Brother Huo is talking about dibeans. I've seen them."
"Who planted the ground beans?" Huo Chong asked.
Zhu Erniu thought for a while, "We all grow sweet potatoes here, and no one grows land beans. Brother Huo, land beans are poisonous, and no one dares to grow them."
Sweet potatoes are sweet potatoes, which are also the words Huo Chong taught his junior brother. Zhu Erniu understood this very well, and Huo Chong felt that it would save him a lot of energy, so he asked: "Second brother, it's okay to have someone outside. It's just the price."
Zhu Erniu was very puzzled, "The price of dirt beans is very cheap and not delicious either. What does Brother Huo want to make with this thing?"
"Making wine." Huo Chong expressed his thoughts readily.
"Can beans make wine?" Zhu Erniu was still puzzled.
"Why can't it work? The wine is stronger." Huo Chong knew very well that the potato wine in Europe was almost pure starch wine, which could basically be equivalent to alcohol. The so-called different flavors mean that different amounts of distilled water were added. Huo Chong originally did not like high-alcohol wine. After confirming that this was the real situation from his friends who were mixing the bartender, Huo Chong never drank vodka in a sip.
Zhu Erniu thought for a moment, then said, "Or Brother Huo and I go and have a look?"
"Okay. When will I leave?" Huo Chong agreed. Xu Youlin had great expectations for high-altitude wine, and Huo Chong also had expectations. And whether the current wine koji is suitable for potato winemaking is still a question. With the experiment time, I haven't been away for about two months.
Zhu Erniu suddenly remembered something and said uneasy: "Brother Huo, I heard that there are wolves on the road, so we have to bring guys with us."
"Let's go tomorrow." Huo Chong replied.
When he returned, the fourth junior brother asked, "Senior Brother, you are going out again."
"right."
"Take me there." The fourth junior brother Zhu Xiushan begged.
The fourth junior brother is sixteen this year, three years younger than the third junior brother. He has eaten enough these days and his face is much rosy than when he first met Huo Chong. Like the fifth junior brother Zhu Youcai, the fourth junior brother is also from Zhujia Village. Huo Chong doesn't really want to take him with such an important thing.
Finally, I can only say: "Junior brother, your third senior brother is not as good as you. I took him outside this time, and I happened to be thinking of teaching him to recognize more words."
When the fourth junior brother heard this, he became anxious, "I will follow my senior brother to recognize my words."
"You have to be wronged by this matter. Lao Liu is only fourteen this year, but actually only three. Do you let him be alone at home? I'm not relieved."
Hearing this, the fourth junior brother pouted and became unhappy. Huo Chong couldn't help laughing, "Fourth brother, don't rush for this time. The days will be long in the future. You want to go now, and after I finish that journey, I have to let you take people there. If you don't want to go then, don't rush."
"Really?" The fourth junior brother became interested again.
The senior brothers talked and laughed along the way. When they arrived at the door of the house, Huo Chong asked the fourth junior brother to go back first and go to the village hunter to borrow a hunting fork. Any valuable things in the house were taken away when Zhu Youquan broke in. Huo Chong had no time to fight again, and after using the hunter's hunting fork to kill the wild boar last time, he felt that the hunter's guy was really useful.
After telling Liu Liehuo, Liu Liehuo nodded repeatedly, "I don't know what's going on. After the beginning of spring, there are wolves in the mountains. Brother Huo, you have to be careful when you walk far away."
While saying that, he went to get two hunting forks. Huo Chong took the hunting fork and asked, "How is your sister-in-law? Are you better?"
"It's much better, much better. After eating pork liver, I'm not so sarcastic. The mouth is better." Hunter answered quickly. After saying that, Hunter lowered his voice and asked, "Brother Huo, isn't your sister-in-law really possessed by evil spirits?"
Huo Chong waved his hand immediately, "Of course not. Sister-in-law is such a bright person, so how could there be so many evil spirits coming up? Brother Liu, if you are obsessed with evil, your heart will be evil first. People say that it is not a family, so you won't enter the family."
Liu Liehuo nodded repeatedly. When Huo Chong returned home, he saw the fourth junior brother start to show off to the third and sixth brothers. Looking at the goods that could not keep the remaining steamed buns in the doghouse, Huo Chong could only sigh in his heart.
The next morning, Huo Chong took Tieniu and met Zhu Erniu. Zhu Erniu said that the family lived more than fifty miles away, and the three of them pushed two wheelbarrows and headed straight for the family that Zhu Erniu mentioned.
By the evening, the sun had already set foot down the mountain. As soon as the three of them found a place on the roadside, Huo Chong heard a sound similar to a husky. It was still spring at this time, and although the trees and branches were dense, there were not many animals. Listening to the howl of the wolf, Huo Chong couldn't help but smile and said, "When you hear this movement, the wolf seems very hungry."
The other two were not as relaxed as Huo Chong, and they were already holding the hunting fork and were nervous. Hearing Huo Chong say this, the two were even more scared. Tieniu said tremblingly: "Senior Brother, don't scare me. If this wolf is hungry, wouldn't he want to come and eat us more?"
"What a joke, a wolf is the ancestor of a dog. He only dares to walk outside the fire circle. At that time, our ancestors ate prey and threw away the bones, and the wolf followed him. In order to gnaw the bones, he followed our ancestors. Slowly, our ancestors picked up the little wolf cub to raise them. As they raised them, they became dogs."
When the two of them heard what Huo Chong said was interesting, they relaxed a lot. Zhu Erniu turned his head and asked, "Brother Huo, what you said is the same as it is. How can a wolf be raised into a dog? If we pick up a wolf cub, can we raise a dog?"
Huo Chongying said: "Hold dozens of nests and spend hundreds of decades, and you will definitely become a dog for you to see."
"Isn't it going to raise our grandsons until they grow up? Can we still see it?"
Everyone talked and laughed, and the tension just passed.
However, no one dared to relax at night. No matter how much jokes, a wolf came over to bite people, it was not a joke. Fortunately, it was fine one night, and the next day the three of them continued to move forward and arrived at the home where they farmed beans.
When he heard that Zhu Erniu brought people to buy beans, the old man's face was full of laughter, so he immediately asked the young man at home to carry a basket. While waiting, he patted his chest and said, "I said, no one in my land of beans knows, and no one will say it!"
I ignored the old man's boast. Huo Chong and others took the beans and were immediately disappointed. These potatoes have not been improved or scientifically planted. They are not evenly large and small, and they are even more frivolous.
Seeing that Huo Chong looked bad, the old man's boasted much less. He didn't dare to make it too high when he talked about the price. That's it, Huo Chong immediately shook his head, "Uncle, do you still want to sell beans here for a price of wheat?"
The old man was immediately excited when he heard this, "Why are you so bad at speaking like this young man? If you don't buy my beans, you can't say that my beans are bad!"
Hearing this, Zhu Erniu quickly tried to smooth things over. Tieniu rushed forward and called the old man, "My senior brother said that the land beans are expensive, so it must be expensive."
"What did you say?" the old man said angrily.
Huo Chong immediately grabbed his third junior brother and refused to let him quarrel with the old man. After the old man scolded him a few more words, Huo Chong said: "Uncle, this place produces at least one thousand kilograms per acre of beans. The price you want is reduced by 50%, I will buy three thousand kilograms. Otherwise I will go back."
The old man rolled his eyes and scolded for a moment: "Get out quickly, there is no such a cheap price."
Huo Chong no longer bargained, and pulled Zhu Erniu and his third junior brother away. Zhu Erniu wanted to bargain with the old man again, but unfortunately he was not strong enough and was almost dragged away by Huo Chong. In the end, he could only keep up with Huo Chong's pace and just complained: "Brother Huo, I don't know anyone else who grows beans in other places."
"Don't worry. If he doesn't sell it to us, who else can we sell it?" Huo Chong whispered.
As a result, they couldn't see the other person there when they walked, and the old man still didn't give up the price. The three of them stopped at the intersection, and Zhu Erniu complained again.
Huo Chong also felt that he might not have a deep understanding of the agricultural product trading in this era, or was he too ruthless in bargaining? But he had already left, and Huo Chong didn't want to go back and be slaughtered, so he walked and looked at whether anyone else was also farming beans. After walking for a while, Huo Chong remembered that he didn't know what potato seedlings looked like.
Moreover, this generation is not flat, with all kinds of high and low slopes blocking the view, so it is not that easy to see other people's land.
But I heard a shout from afar behind me, "Brother Zhu, wait."
Huo Chong was delighted and quickly told the two of them, "You have a stern face, don't laugh."
The one who caught up with the old man's son, he caught up with Huo Chong and others panting, "Are you bringing cash?"
When the other two people heard this, their faces became tighter. Huo Chong took out his purse silently and shook. A dull sound of a large amount of copper coins rubbing out from it.
The man's face was full of joy, "I can only sell you five hundred kilograms. If you sell too much, I will lose."
When he returned to the uncle's house to trade, some men came from outside in three or three. Seeing them standing in the outer circle, Tien Niu quickly held the hunting fork that had been standing on. Huo Chong whispered: "Put down the fork."
"What if they want to rob us?" Tieniu asked nervously. Looking at the standing positions of those people, they did look faintly surrounded.
"You have been holding a fork, and those people may be afraid that we will steal them." Huo Chong could only try his best to appease Tie Niu. At the same time, he looked at the hunting forks placed under his feet. Even if he was fighting each other, Huo Chong personally also liked to be able to attack suddenly. He would lack preparations for a surprise attack when he was in such a posture.
Fortunately, the transaction was quite peaceful. After the scale, I gave the money. Huo Chong pushed the cart and walked, and the people also dispersed on their own.
A car was more than 200 kilograms, and it was very difficult to push it. After walking for more than ten miles, the three of them were exhausted. While resting, Zhu Erniu and Li Tieiu fell asleep against the wheelbarrow. Huo Chong didn't want to sleep and didn't dare to sleep, so he simply stood on the high side of the road and watched the scenery.
Humans are really adaptable. Huo Chong was once happy about this pastoral scenery, but he could no longer see what he felt. Just as he was about to stretch his body, he saw a corpse lying on the clearing ground in the distance.
Judging from the appearance, the body was a girl. Her clothes were dirty and she lay on the ground with her back facing the sky.
Huo Chong felt a little reluctant, and wanted to go over and bury the girl, but was worried that he could not stand the stimulation. He was in a dilemma, but he saw two gray-yellow wolf approaching the girl's body.
Huo Chong felt that he had no confidence to fight these two beasts, but just held the hunting forks tightly. The wild wolf would not hurt people again after eating. Huo Chong and others were much safer even if they walked at night.
The wolf gradually approached and ran back a few steps. This caution did not smell like a ferocious big bad wolf. Finally, two wolves arrived near the corpse of the girl. One wolf had already begun to try to gnaw the legs of the corpse.
The sword flashed, and the girl's body raised her arm and slashed it horizontally. The wolf that was biting the girl's legs made a barking sound similar to a dog's barking, probably injured.
I x! Huo Chong was shocked. Is this a zombie? After a while, Huo Chong realized it with reason. This girl could actually pretend to be dead and lure the wolf over and try to kill the wild wolf.
Who is this girl? How dare you do such a dangerous move?
Before Huo Chong could figure it out, he saw that the two wolves did not flee in panic, but instead showed a horn-like momentum to face the girl. Perhaps after being injured, he became very fierce and wanted to fight the girl to the death.
The girl also stood up shakingly, carrying the knife that was too long for her, and preparing to separate her from the two hungry wolves from life and death.
Chapter completed!