"Master, Junior Brother?"
Yun Ce stared at Xian Yujian for confirmation.
The words "Did I recognize the wrong person" were written all over his face.
Xian Yujian was no less surprised than Yun Ce, and even forgot to put down the weapon in his hand: "Is it Brother Yun?"
He quickly retracted his martial energy and walked towards the ridge of the field with one foot deep and one foot shallow. His trouser legs were rolled up high to the middle of his thighs. Below the trouser legs, half of his wheat-colored skin and his muddy calves were clearly distinguished, which stunned Yun Ce.
He hurriedly asked, "Brother, what are you doing?"
Xian Yujian wanted to ask, "Why is Senior Brother here?"
The two brothers looked at each other in bewilderment. In the end, Xian Yujian scooped water from the canal to wash his legs. He wiped them roughly and said considerately, "Brother, what do you want to say while we walk?"
Yun Ce naturally had no objection.
Before Xian Yujian left, he waved to his subordinates who were still working hard, "Work hard, and there will be meat tonight!"
When they heard that there would be meat in the evening, everyone worked even harder.
"Hasn't Senior Brother Yun already gone back?"
Xian Yujian's words brought Yun Ce back from his daydreaming state.
Yun Ce smiled bitterly and told his story. At the end, he spread his hands and said, "... I have completely offended Huang Xiguang. It is not convenient for me to return to the mountain gate at this time, so I followed him here. Junior brother, why are you... doing these things in the fields?"
Xian Yujian seemed to take this for granted.
Answer: "Because this is the order of the lord."
"Come, Brother!" Before Yun Ce could say anything, Xian Yu Jian pulled Yun Ce's hand forward and said with a smile: "I'll take you to see something! Since Brother has already offended Huang Lie, why don't you consider the Lord? You and I don't have to separate as brothers!"
"What are you looking at?"
Yun Ce was also tempted by Xian Yujian's invitation, but this kind of thing cannot just depend on him, he also has to look at Chen Jun.
The choice between the minister and the lord is mutual.
Yun Ce soon realized what Xian Yujian wanted him to see. When the two of them crossed a hillside, he was shocked by the scene in front of him - it was a field with crisscrossing paths. The vast land was cut by straight paths, and rows of crops were planted in the fields.
After a long while, he said in surprise: "Yanzhou is not..."
Xian Yujian stood on the hillside, looking down, and drew a circle with his finger: "This is the result of the hard work of several junior brothers. Fortunately, the terrain here is relatively flat, otherwise we would have to adjust the height of these fields and try to make them on the same level..."
Ordinary people don't have the ability to do whatever they want. They cultivate wasteland according to the terrain, which makes their fields irregular and difficult to measure. Their master has the so-called obsessive-compulsive disorder, which makes them use their puttying skills to smooth the ground when cultivating wasteland, so that each field is the same size.
A field is one acre of land.
Each field is marked with a corresponding serial number.
When the common people lease land from the government in the future, they can divide it up piece by piece, and it will be clear at a glance which household has received which acre of land, which will also be conducive to the payment of the autumn harvest land tax. This is just a matter of convenience for the warriors who participate in the reclamation.
This led to the scene that Yun Ce saw today.
There were already crops in the fields, but he didn't recognize them.
"I heard that Yanzhou suffered a severe flood and all the crops were ruined. Are these new crops being replanted? Is there still time for the autumn harvest?"
Xian Yujian said: "It's not too late to come."
After that, he smiled and said, "We should be able to try it tonight."
Yun Ce was dumbfounded: "Try something new?"
Xian Yujian smacked his lips, as if recalling the taste of the pork ribs and wheat soup he had last night: "Hucao produces a lot of wheat every day, and if we don't want to waste it, we just throw it into the kitchen... Lin Hucao said that this kind of wheat has poor seeds, but I don't think..."
It has such a soft and glutinous texture, and the grains are plump. When it is stewed with pork ribs, he can eat several bowls of it by himself.
Fresh and fragrant, isn’t that good
"Brother, you must try it. You will never forget it once you have tried it!"
Yun Ce: “…”
He didn't quite understand some of the things his junior fellow apprentice said.
But there is one thing he understands, that his junior fellow apprentice is enjoying everything at the moment.
Xian Yujian brought Yun Ce with him. From time to time, someone greeted him. Yun Ce pointed at a place and asked, "What are they doing?"
Following the direction pointed by Yun Ce, Xian Yujian took a quick look and said, "Oh, they are building houses. Brother, you know that because of the wars that took place before, the common people were displaced and many houses were old and collapsed, making it dangerous to continue living there. The Lord plans to build simple villages near the fields. The common people can rent nearby fields, so they don't have to travel far to work in the fields."
The real purpose is to control the population and household registration.
"More than a dozen such villages have been built in recent times, and each village can accommodate at least a hundred households."
Yun Ce was both happy and worried.
He was happy that the fields were connected and the sounds of chickens and dogs could be heard; but he was worried that the terrain was so flat that once the enemy came in, this place would be defenseless. The neatly planned fields also made it easier for the enemy to plunder food.
He couldn't help but express his concerns.
Xian Yujian said: "My lord has never thought about this."
Yun Ce asked in surprise: "Never thought about it?"
Xian Yujian scratched his head: "I think the lord should not have considered these gains and losses. As long as the fields are still here and the newly built villages can still be inhabited, no matter who controls this place, the lives of the common people have been improved, and that's enough."
Yun Ce: “…”
Somehow, he thought of the old general under Huang Lie's command, and felt a little empathy with him.
He asked Xian Yujian: "Why did Zheng Qiao fortify his city and clear the countryside?"
The purpose of destroying everything is naturally to cut off the enemy's supply!
Let the enemy capture the territory and there will be no recovery!
When the overall situation was still undecided, Chen Jun spent so much effort to keep this place in order. Huang Lie and others would laugh in their dreams if they knew about this. They would kneel down to Chen Tang.
Thank you for the gift of nature!
What is a living Bodhisattva
This is what a living Bodhisattva is!
Xian Yujian understood the worry behind Yun Ce's words, and he said, "My lord will not lose! He will not lose to Huang Lie!"
Yun Ce didn't know where his junior fellow apprentice's confidence came from.
Ding-ling-ding-ling-
Hearing the bell for the next shift coming from far away, Xian Yujian put his hands on his mouth like a trumpet, and used his breathing skills to make his voice heard far away: "It's time to go to the next shift!"
If you are not proactive after get off work, there is something wrong with your brain.
Everyone working in the fields stopped what they were doing.
As if their butts were on fire and there were ghosts chasing them, they rushed to the canteen at the rear at the fastest speed, and some of them even ran so fast that they left afterimages. The slower ones were more relaxed, and since they couldn't catch up with the first wave anyway, they didn't force themselves to run over. As the saying goes, "It's better to arrive in time than to arrive early", as long as they were lucky, they could still catch up with the logistics to replenish the food.
“It’s worth it!”
"Go, go, go—"
"Isn't it too early to get off duty today?"
I didn't feel the time passing, it was over in the blink of an eye.
Xian Yujian and Yun Ce are clearly in the first echelon.
To be precise, Xian Yujian was rushing to eat, while Yun Ce was passively dragged to eat. The two of them ran at full speed and soon surpassed the first batch of contestants. When they arrived, the canteen built temporarily by the logistics department was still empty, with only a few cats.
"Is there any Yumai today?"
Xian Yujian slammed on the brakes.
The soldier in charge of serving food said, "Yes, yes."
Thanks to the Hu Cao, the logistics department has to harvest dozens of acres of corn every day. The corn grains are getting fuller day by day, and the kitchen staff also racks their brains to develop various ways to cook corn. However, the most popular dish so far is corn soup.
Mix and cook with various ingredients!
Sprinkle some salt on the soup after it cooks and it will taste delicious.
Yun Ce also ordered one. The appetite of a warrior is different from that of an ordinary soldier, so his portion was particularly large. It was heavy in his hand, and Yun Ce didn't come to his senses until he sat down. At this time, Xian Yu Jian had already taken a sip of the hot soup.
The other person looked at him with bright eyes.
Warmly invite: "Brother, try it."
Yun Ce looked at the wooden spoon in the bowl and was stunned again.
He had been fighting with Huang Lie for quite some time, and before that he had been a knight-errant for a while, doing justice wherever he went. To put it nicely, he traveled the world with a sword, but to put it bluntly, he had no fixed place to live, so he couldn't have any requirements for food.
When I was a ranger, I ate whatever I bought and hunted. Sometimes I didn't have a meal for two days in a row.
When he was fighting under Huang Lie, the situation was better. Most of the food he ate was corn cakes and steamed rice. These foods had a longer shelf life and could be kept for a long time even in the middle of summer. They were easy to carry. When the conditions were better, he could eat hot food, but more often he ate it with cold water and wheat rice. These foods had a dry and hard texture and tasted bland, so he added a little vinegar to enhance the flavor.
Yun Ce is used to all this.
Previously, he had been under Huang Lie's orders and had been under Chen Tang's command for a while. The food conditions were much better than Huang Lie's, but they were mainly dry food, and most of the time they were just rice soaked in cold water. There were also hot meals, but only a few times, so Yun Ce didn't pay much attention to them.
Now
Yunce found it a bit absurd.
Xian Yujian had already finished half a bowl of soup and a bucket of wheat rice. He looked up and saw that his senior brother had not yet moved. He wiped his mouth with a handkerchief and said, "Senior brother, these foods don't suit your taste?"
The chef had to cook a dish for hundreds of people, and the taste was difficult to control, either too salty or too bland. If the senior brother didn't like it, he could only pay the chef to cook a special meal. But that would have to wait until the kitchen was free.
Or, are you dissatisfied with having two small pieces of meat for a bowl of soup
Yun Ce shook his head: "Do you eat like this every day?"
Xian Yujian said: "Not every day. The lord is still very poor, and such food cannot be supplied every day. It is only three or five days in ten days or half a month... But if the people in the household department are more diligent, there will be more days..."
The entire army is most afraid of offending people from the Household Department.
Others hope their sons and daughters will become successful, but they are different. Many of their comrades pray to gods every day hoping that Lin Feng and the others will become successful, because it concerns the quality of the food they eat every day.
Only when the forester Cao becomes a talent can they have enough food.
Yun Ce: “…”
This is also very scary!
He stared at the hot food on the eucalyptus tree, his mouth watering and his Adam's apple rolling. He simply let go and ate. Soon, people arrived one after another, and a long line formed in the temporary cafeteria. At the end of the line were two familiar faces.
“Gong Xichou, you have changed with your thick eyebrows and big eyes!”
I could vaguely hear the gray-faced Shen Tang accusing me.
Gong Xichou raised his eyebrows: "How have I changed?"
Chen Tang accused, "You cheated and took all the beads from me! Dare you say you didn't distract me on purpose?"
She had never lost so thoroughly in marbles. After several rounds of competition, all ten of her marbles were eaten by Gong Xichou! You know, a few years ago, they could still fight back and forth!
It's all Gong Xichou's fault. Every time she makes a move, he tells her some big news to distract her attention. He's become a bad guy!
Gong Xichou: "No, it was not intentional!"
He crossed his arms over his chest, speaking with confidence.
"It's obvious that Mama has neglected to hone her skills over the years and is not as good as me, so how come it seems like I cheated and beat you?"
Chen Tang: “…”
Gong Xichou took advantage of the victory and continued: "Besides, Mama is as strong as me. Ask yourself, even if I heard the news that the sky was falling, I would not be easily distracted, let alone lose my aim and lose the game."
“…Okay, you have a point.”
Chen Tang, who had always wanted to be strong, was forced to admit that Gong Xichou had a point - it was better to admit that she had neglected to hone her skills because she was busy with government affairs than to admit that her concentration was not as good as Gong Xichou's and she was not a strong person - she lost because she was not good at it.
"Mama, play a few more games with me and you'll get your touch back."
How can you become proficient if you don’t play
Chen Tang held the plate and looked at Gong Xichou's head silently.
Gong Xichou tilted his head towards her: "What's wrong?"
"Will the promotion to the sixteenth level of Heavenly Thunder help you replace your brain?" Didn't this guy get a new brain
"As far as I know, no." Although the Heavenly Thunder Body Tempering has the same effect as marrow cleansing and bone strengthening, it does not include replacing the brain.
"It's your fault. You wasted time dawdling on the road."
You have to fight for a spot in the cafeteria.
She arrived late, and even though she was the lord, she had to sit on the ground.
Fortunately, she was able to share a table with others. Yun Ce's face was a built-in light mirror, and she could be caught at a glance even in a crowd. Yun Ce naturally noticed her and wanted to get close to her, but when he thought of Chen Tang's gender, his expression froze slightly for a moment.
Shen Tang smiled and moved closer.
"Yuanmou, we meet again."
Come, move over and set up a table.
Yunce, the newbie, was much more sensible than the other veterans. Not only did he give way on his own initiative, he also saluted with his fists.
"Yun Ce has met Mr. Shen."
Chen Tang first chatted with Yun Ce about family matters for a while, then changed the subject: "I heard about your experience from Feng En. If you have nowhere to go for the time being, why don't you stay here and make plans? With you here, that old bastard Huang Xiguang won't dare to make any moves."
Yun Ce also wanted to get close to him, so naturally he wouldn't refuse.
only-
He glanced around, a hint of embarrassment appearing on his pretty face.
According to the normal process, he should be extremely excited at this moment, holding the Wudan Tiger Talisman in both hands, clasping his fists to show his loyalty, and saying "Thank you, Lord Chen, for not abandoning me. I am willing to serve you like a dog and a horse", and then the lord would help him up, and they would exchange affectionate words.
Now-
Chen Tang ate so much that wheat grains stained the corners of his mouth.
"Yuanmou, don't you want to eat? Today's dishes are pretty good."
Finish one bucket quickly and make up for it, otherwise it will be gone if you eat slowly.
Yun Ce: “…”
This is not right!
At the same time, Huang Xiguang was also furious.
He swept the things on the table away, his eyes reddened, and he said angrily, "You said Yun Yuanmou injured the garrison commander and defected?"