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Chapter 16 Getting Ready

Why did Huo Hai tell Chu Yu about his fantasies, and use such a very seductive tone?

Because he was afraid that Chu Yu would not be willing to help with his return.

After nightfall, several people put all the food, cloth, sheepskin, etc. on the car and started returning.

Huo Hai, who was familiar with some road conditions, drove his car a little faster because the people in the village who had lost their food might be hungry at this time.

"Well, young master, why is there no music?" After the car started, Chu Yu asked Huo Hai.

"Okay, I'm still thinking about listening to music. If I can travel smoothly to and from this world, I'll bring you a walkman next time." Huo Hai said, plugging his phone into the data cable, and suddenly, a nice music sounded in the car.

"What is a Walkman?" Chu Yu asked in confusion.

"It's an electronic product that can be specially used to listen to songs. It can store many songs. However, if you want to listen to them all the time, you have to solve the charging problem."

"Electricity? What kind of electricity does it appear when thundering?"

"Yes, it's that kind of electricity, but you have to use something to control it and stabilize it in order to replenish the energy needed for these electronic products to operate."

"Thunder and lightning...that's something that only gods can do, I can't do it." Chu Yu fantasized about the sky when it was thunder and rain, and said a little depressedly.

"So, cherish your current music time! Every time you listen to music in the future, it will become very precious." Huo Hai smiled, and wouldn't he continue to talk to her about this issue.

Unfortunately, they can only listen to more than a dozen songs in total, just one hour’s drive away.

When everyone saw the car driving into the village, the villagers suddenly burst into cheers. They were not sure that Huo Hai brought back the food, but they were sure that Huo Hai did not abandon them.

Moreover, he had left a lot of food in the village before, but Jiao Niang didn't allow everyone to eat those foods. Now, everyone should be able to eat some.

"Everyone brings food together." After Huo Hai got off the car, he opened the carriage lane directly.

Fifty stones of grain were about 3,000 kilograms of later generations, which was enough for hundreds of people to eat for more than three days. Of course, Huo Hai knew that from the number of people gathered to move the grain, there were many people coming to the village today. Fortunately, he had previously instructed Xu Chang to organize people to transport a batch of grain to the vicinity of the village.

"It's yellow rice, a lot of yellow rice..." The first bag of grain was moved from the carriage, and everyone had already smelled the smell of rice and began to shout excitedly.

Millet rice is a general term for refined rice in this era, which is rice that has been peeled off. The ones that Huo Haila returned are the most common yellow rice, which is the kind of yellow millet used to cook porridge that people often see in supermarkets in later generations.

In the north, only the only one who can remove all the thousands of stones of millet from the millet was stored, is probably the only top grain merchants like Zhen.

Because their family's grain sales are large and they are not afraid of accumulation. The price of yellow rice that has been peeled off is about twice as high as before it has been peeled off.

In normal years, if you spend more than 200 yuan to collect a stone of millet, you can sell it for more than 300 yuan after removing it from the shell. In addition to manual losses, they can earn at least dozens of extra money per stone.

In the current disaster year, they spent 300 yuan to collect one stone of millet and sold for more than 500 yuan, but they could earn about 200 yuan per stone because the labor cost in the disaster year was lower, and many workers only rely on eating the bran grinded from the chaff.

After Chu Yu saw these yellow-grey rice in Zhen’s warehouse, he decisively chose it instead of beans, because this kind of millet is more suitable for cooking porridge and feeding more people. Cooking half a pound of glutinous rice into two bowls of sticky porridge is enough for an adult to deal with a meal, half a pound of each morning and evening, it can almost support them in their physical work for a day.

Moreover, Liang rice is more suitable for long-term consumption and does not harm the stomach. It will not be like those who eat bean rice for a long time. Although it is more nutritious, it is easy to accumulate food and fart. Huo Hai said before when everyone farted one after another that eating beans as a staple food for a long time will affect health.

Of course, his original intention was to ask Chu Yu to get some wheat or rice back. Unfortunately, the Zhen family did not have wheat in the warehouse in Zhending County, and there was no rice or rice produced in the south.

However, when Chu Yu went to Zhen's warehouse to deliver food and property, he made a judgment on Zhen's financial resources. Zhen's warehouse was only in Zhending County, and could take out at least 1,000 beans and millet, nearly 1,000 livestock, and more than 10,000 stones of cattle and horse essence. If the Yellow Turban Army launched the operation, just stealing the things from their Zhen family would be enough for more than 10,000 people to eat for many days.

"Cook at half a pound per person! In a short period of time, everyone should not have to worry about food." Huo Hai explained to Jiao Niang and other women while watching everyone unloading the truck.

"promise."

After receiving the order, Jiao Niang said embarrassedly, "Mr. Huo, we are watching your stuff! No one is touching, but my husband has brought a lot of people to come today. Now, there may be more than 500 people to eat."

She was afraid that Wang Dang would bring too many people to eat and Huo Hai would not get so much food.

"It doesn't matter if there are more than 500 people. Lin San and the others will tell you how much food we have now." Huo Hai waved his hand to the beautiful lady and began to check everyone's work results again.

Soon, as Lin San and the others announced the good news to everyone, a warm cheer broke out in the village, and everyone wanted to lift Huo Hai up and throw him high.

However, Huo Hai, who was checking everyone's labor results, sighed that there were indeed great power. There were more than 20 wheelbarrows made today, and there were a long row in front of the house. As for tents, there were also many.

There is also the kiln, which has been dug half and will be completed tomorrow. There is no problem in burning a kiln of carbon before departure.

"Well, I have basically arranged everything I did for you. Now, it's time for you to do things for me." After the meal, Huo Hai gathered several old villagers who were still excited and were responsible for leading people to make these things.

"What do you want us to do for you? Please tell me bluntly." Everyone looked at Huo Hai in confusion.

"That is, repeat the worship ceremony that day and open a passage for me to go back." Huo Hai reminded everyone.

"What? Mr. Huo is leaving? This, this, this is not possible! Without Mr. Huo, we can't survive..."

"Yes! Mr. Huo is gone, what should we do!..."

...

When the villagers heard Huo Hai say this, they suddenly lost their temper and were very nervous. Several children from the village who were listening to them ran over and grabbed Huo Hai's clothes. Among them, the youngest bean said in a unclear manner, "Mr. Huo, please don't leave, okay?"

The children's expectant eyes made Huo Hai very troubled. He just showed a little bit of kindness from normal people in the future, which made these people very grateful to him.

The most important thing is that this kind of gratitude makes them unwilling to send him back. If they don’t try their best to replicate the worship activities of that day, Huo Hai may not be able to go back, so he has to continue to fool him.

"Well, I won't come back after I went back. If it proves that this passage is unobstructed, then I can come to see you often in the future and bring you some delicious food and useful things." Huo Hai touched the heads of several children and said.

"The passage, a passage that comes and goes freely?" These people who saw Yu Qiu crossing with their own eyes were stunned.

"Shh, the specific situation, Lin San and Zhao Chong will tell you privately later. Now, if there is a way I come from, you can't tell anyone. When Wang Dang comes back, I will discuss it with you." Huo Hai made a booing move to everyone, and looked at the people around who were busy cooking. Everyone immediately understood and stopped talking.

Fortunately, those people are now focusing on the cooked yellow porridge and do not pay attention to what they are talking about.

In the next two days, thanks to Huo Hai's personal supervisor and guidance, everyone is further proficient and improved in the completion of various preparations.

Huo Hai took out some sewing bags from the box and asked the women to start sewing clothes. A few boxer underwear made of silk cloth were what he urgently needed. Then, sixty pieces of silk turned into nearly a thousand pairs of underwear. As long as the people in the village are, no matter men, women, young and old, there is one.

Two days later, after Xu Chang's men brought more food and cloth, the village started making new clothes. It was not a wide-robed, large-sleeved clothing with wind leaking on his hem and unable to keep his body temperature without shrinking, but a jacket and pants.

Although the so-called jacket is to stuff some dead grass and kapok into two layers of fabric, after nailing wooden buttons, the clothes can be tightened tightly, which is very warm. At least, wearing it can be used for a short time outside the house during wind and snow, and the cold wind cannot penetrate it.

As for the more than 100 young and strong men who needed to be responsible for defending everyone, they all wore sheepskin coats and pants, and their neat clothes made them look a little elite.

Of course, the number of people coming from each village in the past two days has increased one after another. After three days, Wang Dangcai brought more than 100 people back to the village. At this time, more than a thousand people had gathered in the village, and the people from more than a dozen villages with a radius of 30 miles were almost all here.

These people are different from those in other places who want to join the Taiping Cult rebellion. Since Huo Hai did not allow Chu Yu to brainwash them, they are just ordinary people who want to escape to a place with water to live.

"Wang Dang, now you have gone to Heishan. If Chu Yan wants to bring you into the gang, it will be impossible not to give you a second-in-chief." Huo Hai and Wang Dang took Wang Dang to see what he had brought people to make these few days and said with a smile.

After hearing Huo Hai's joke, Wang Dang grabbed his scalp and said without saying anything. However, Chu Yu said, "My brother is not the boss, why give him the second boss a position?"

Hearing this, Huo Hai remembered that Chu Yan was a member of the Taiping Cult, and the real boss of the Taiping Cult is Zhang Jiao, Zhang Liang, and Zhang Bao, the second-level brothers, and the commander of the thirty-six parties. There is also Dafang Commander, the leader of Chu Yan, the small commander, but because there is no rebellion, Zhang Niujiao, who is still in Boling County, did not join forces with Chu Yan, and Zhang Jiao did not designate Dafang Commander here.

"I never thought that like Brother Feiyan, I would be the king of the mountain. My biggest wish now is to follow Mr. Huo." Wang Dang said with a smile.

"I'm afraid you can't get what you want. Young Master will ask you to bring someone to repeat the previous worship ceremony tomorrow and let him return to an unknown place. If he never comes to our place again, you will not be able to see him." Chu Yu said with a little sourness.

Upon hearing this, Wang Dang turned his head to look at Huo Hai with a questioning look on his face.

Huo Hai did not deny anything and said, "After supper today, you call all the old villagers and I want to hold a prize-winning Q&A meeting to find out all the situations of your worship that day, and also record them in detail, if it can..."
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