The weather in late spring is cool in the morning and evening, and it is still relatively hot at noon. Pork can't be stored for too long, so as not to eat bad stomach and get sick. With Zhu Junyang's consent, Yu Hai sent two wild boars, one big and one small, to the caves of the villagers, and helped them kill them and cut them into small pieces for the village chief to distribute.
The food brought by the villagers is easy to preserve. Except for a few families who brought bacon, others only brought coarse grains that can satisfy their hunger. Now each family has nearly two catties of wild pork, and they can't help being grateful to the county prince and Yu Hai.
Although Dongshan Village has lived a good life in the past two years, it is not like the past when they were poor, and they could only taste meat during the Chinese New Year, but it took only one or two months to cut half a catty of meat and come back to satisfy the children's hunger. Two catties of delicious wild pork cost nearly a hundred Wen in the market!
There are also those who are not greedy, such as Zhang's mother and son. From their point of view, Yu Hai can hunt a lot of prey just by wandering around the forest. The Yu family must have eaten meat these two days! But their mother and son can only eat wild vegetables and fruits and grass roots. Their lives are worse than those in disaster years, and their psychology is extremely unbalanced. A bit of resentment towards Yu Hai's family!
At noon, Yu Xiaocao made a large pot of twice-cooked pork, and marinated the pig's head and offal. Although the seasoning is not complete, but there is Lingshi water, the taste is still good. The remaining pork was soaked in Lingshi water by Xiaocao. It is relatively cool in the cave, so it is absolutely no problem to store it for a day or two.
But when cooking at noon, Yu Xiaocao found that the polished rice and white noodles that can be used as a staple food were about to bottom out. Others are used to suffering, and they can persist without eating these, but the princess was raised in a honeypot since she was a child, and she has been haggard for the past two days. She was not in good health, and she was not used to sleeping on the hard rock bed in the cave. If she didn't eat well, she might not be able to survive.
Yu Xiaocao told Zhu Junyang about this and analyzed the pros and cons. Yu Hai and Chief Guard Zheng were also there. After a moment of silence, Zhu Junyang frowned lightly and said, "Don't worry, I'll just go to the village to grab some food tonight! The private army of the palace will arrive tomorrow at the latest, the day after tomorrow at the latest. Let's get through these two days before we talk about it!"
Yu Hai thought for a while, then nodded, and said, "This morning the sky was full of colorful clouds, and there was almost a rain in the evening. We can take advantage of the rain and catch him by surprise! We have food in our cellar, but we don't know Has it been evacuated!"
Zhu Junyang shook his head lightly and said: "Probably not! The leader of the pirates and several of his followers are all living in your yard, and they will definitely not empty out all the food and supplies. Tonight, let's touch it again." If you touch the pirate ship, it is best to destroy it, so that when our army comes, they will have no choice but to escape!"
Yu Xiaocao blinked and looked at him brightly: "Do you want to chisel the opponent's boat? I'm good at this!! I'm good at swimming, those little devils will never find it!"
"No! This is a matter for men, what are you doing, a little girl!" Zhu Junyang glanced at her with his phoenix eyes, killing her hope in the cradle.
Yu Xiaocao widened her eyes, and said unconvinced: "You are defeated, you have no right to oppose me!!" On weekdays, when she went diving in the sea, Zhu Junyang would occasionally follow her for a few laps. His diving was trained urgently before sailing to the west, so naturally he couldn't compare to Xiaocao, who was born and raised by the sea. Even if Xiaocao didn't cheat, he couldn't beat her.
"Cao'er, the prince of the county is not good at water, doesn't he have a father? You just stay here honestly and talk to the concubine to relieve boredom. This is not for fun!" Yu Hai said the same thing as Zhu Junyang, and neither I hope that my daughter will risk her life.
Yu Xiaocao pursed her lips and continued to fight: "Father, you don't believe in your daughter? It's not that you don't know her daughter's ability. I can hold my breath in the sea longer than you! Let me go, I guarantee everything Listen to the command and never act rashly. Maybe I can help? Dad~~~"
She knew that if she acted like a baby, her father's heart would soften, so the small trembling sound of "Daddy" was repeated a thousand times, not to mention Yu Hai, even Zhu Junyang's heart softened like a pool of spring water. The two generations of men, old and young, looked at each other, and Zhu Junyang also compromised: "You can follow, and when the time comes, follow the master closely. Don't make arbitrary claims, don't take personal risks, don't..."
"Got it, got it!" Yu Xiaocao was elated, waved his hand impatiently at him, and made a big grimace.
Zhu Junyang: "..."
To your father, you act like a baby and pretend to be cute, but when you come to the grandfather, there is no trace of tenderness or coquettishness. Cooperate with Ding Ye? Another day, this little girl must know how powerful the master is, so that her husband will not be depressed in the future!
Xiaojun Wang, you think too much! The road to chasing your wife is long, you have just started, and you want to revive your husband? wait slowly...
In the evening, it really rained heavily. The sky was as black as ink, the rain was pouring like rain, and the sound of "squeaky" rain in the mountains and forests was like a waterfall rushing down. Zhu Junyang put on the coir raincoat that he knitted in the afternoon, looked at the heavy rain pouring down outside the cave, and said to Yu Xiaocao, "It's raining so hard, you'd better not go, be careful that you'll get sick!"
Yu Xiaocao was wearing a small coir raincoat and a large bamboo hat that didn't fit well on top of her head. Hearing this, she gave him a blank look, and said, "Why did you change your mind again? This girl is determined to dig a boat. If you don't let me follow, aren't you afraid that I will sneak past?"
Thinking of the restless behavior of the little girl in the past, it is very possible! Zhu Junyang expressed some headaches, so he had to tell her again, saying: "Remember, you must follow Grandpa..."
"You're so annoying! Like an old man, Rory can't stop talking non-stop! Let's go, it will take another hour to get out of the forest, don't delay the business!!" Yu Xiaocao slapped him unceremoniously.
Zhu Junyang closed his mouth helplessly, the little girl could not be beaten or scolded, there was really nothing he could do about her!
Yu Xiaocao's water bank was kept in her house, but she didn't bring it out when she fled. Zhu Junyang decided to go to Yu's house to carry food first, and help the little girl get out the water tank by the way.
The rain comes and goes quickly. By the time we reached the foot of the mountain, the torrential rain had turned into a patter of light rain. The night filled the air, and the entire Dongshan Village was shrouded in pitch black ink. Zhu Junyang, Yu Hai's father and daughter, and a dozen or so palace guards quietly approached Yu's old house.
Perhaps because of the heavy rain, the Japanese pirates who lived in Yu's house took a rest early! The leader of the Japanese pirates lives in the east courtyard of the old house, where the guards are stricter. The west courtyard was much more relaxed, and the two pirates on duty at night stood under the eaves, yawning. In the main room and wing room, the sound of snoring was loud.
The snoring sound was like a lullaby. One of the pirates yawned big, wiped the water from the corner of his eyes, and said to the other pirate, "I'll sleep on it for a while, and watch it carefully, and change it later." you!"
Said, sat down on the stool under the eaves, leaned against the house and closed his eyes. The other Japanese pirate stood crookedly, listening to the pattering rain, his eyelids gradually became heavy, and when they were about to close, they suddenly opened again, staring blankly at the front, and then slowly closed... After a few times, His eyelids droop completely...
At this moment, Zhu Junyang and Chief Guard Zheng, who were ambushing nearby, rushed over like lightning, one by one, covered each other's mouths, and twisted the necks of the two pirates! Zhu Junyang glanced at the door, and gave Chief Guard Zheng a wink. The two moved the corpse of the Japanese pirate to a secret place—his little girl is timid, so don't scare her!
The warehouse in the west courtyard of the Yu family had been evacuated by Japanese pirates, and there was a loud snoring sound from inside. Yu Hai gestured towards them. There was a relatively secret cellar in the backyard, and there was a lot of grain, bacon, and chicken and duck in it. I don't know if it was discovered.
Yu Xiaocao followed behind Zhu Junyang, tiptoeing towards her backyard like a thief. A heavy rain washed away the soil on the plank at the entrance of the cellar, exposing a corner of the plank. Yu Hai forcefully opened the entrance, and walked down the wooden ladder inside. The food in the cellar was still there, so I picked up more than a dozen bags of polished rice and white noodles, and picked up a few dried ducks and chickens. There are also a lot of eggs in the basket.
By the time we got out of the cellar, the rain outside had stopped. More than a dozen guards carried a bag of food on their backs, and their other hand was not empty. They carried chickens, ducks and eggs, and walked towards the west mountain silently. And the Japanese pirates in the west courtyard were still sleeping like dead pigs.
Zhu Junyang, Yu Hai, Yu Xiaocao, and Chief Guard Zheng stayed behind. The moon gate connecting the east and west courtyards was closed, and the guard chief Zheng jumped onto the wall, opened the door, and the four of them entered the east courtyard.
The moon sneaked out half of its head from the gap in the clouds, curiously looking at the four people who stayed up all night. Yu Xiaocao looked at the dim moonlight and saw the vegetables in her yard were trampled into a mess, and a ball of anger rose in her heart, wishing to burn these damn pirates to death! !
"Don't be sad, when the soldiers under my master come, I will kill all the Japanese pirates and vent my anger for you!!" Zhu Junyang took her little hand casually, and held it gently in the palm of his hand. This little hand is so soft and soft, as if it has no bones, and the skin on the hand is as delicate as high-quality suet jade, so comfortable to hold in the hand. I don't want to let go, what should I do
"Ahem!!" Yu Hai saw that his daughter was being taken advantage of by someone, regardless of whether the other party was the King of Yang County or the King of Yin County, his brows were tightly frowned, and his fire-breathing eyes stared at the hand that was holding his daughter, wishing he could There was a knife in his hand, and Deng Tuzi's hand was chopped off on the spot.
It's not good for the King of Yangjun to continue to do some shitty things in front of his future father-in-law. Although he was extremely reluctant, he let Xiaocao shake off him and let go of his hands. Otherwise, it would be no wonder that with the little girl's strength, she could throw him away!
Xiaocao and Xiaolian's room was on the east side of the main hall, and there were many snoring noises inside, and it sounded that at least seven or eight Japanese pirates had slept there.