Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 8 Extra Dinner

The sound was transmitted to the convoy behind, and the whole team stopped.

"What's going on ahead?"

Although Qin Qiong's voice was not loud, it was very majestic. This was the effect of long-term military management. At this time, his carriage was not far from here.

"General Qi, there is a fish vendor in front of you who overturned his car and blocked the road." Hearing Qin Qiong's inquiry, the big man with the sword drawn immediately stopped his forward figure, turned around and walked towards the side of the carriage.

"It must be you who ran amok and disturbed the people."

Qin Qiong scolded with displeasure, and then said to the old servant accompanying the carriage, "Uncle Fu, these killers are acting recklessly, you go in person, so as to comfort the people."

"promise."

The old servant Qin Fu bowed and sang a promise, and was about to step forward when another voice sounded from the carriage.

"Slow down, Pindao has been thinking about good medicines for nourishing qi and blood these days, but he didn't want the hawker's yelling to remind Pindao that the eel meat is sweet and warm, and it has the effect of nourishing the middle and blood, and curing deficiency. Eating it often will be of great help to the Duke's condition, why don't the Duke let the fishmonger regularly supply some rice field eels to the mansion for food."

The person who spoke was Sun Simiao, the genius doctor who was in the car with Qin Qiong. Hearing that it was helpful for Qin Qiong's condition, the old servant Qin Fu immediately became overjoyed. Money, if you buy those fish, if you get something again, send it to the villa, and you will definitely treat me badly."

"promise."

After a while, Qin Fu brought two large strings of copper coins to Sun Xiangfu, who were burning eels and loach in wooden buckets on the ground, and said, "Wait for these fish, my family wants them. Let's go with the team, find out the way, and if there is any fish like this in the future, if you send it directly to the mansion, you will be rewarded with money."

After speaking, he also handed two large strings of copper coins to the two people who were a little dazed.

The nobles in this period are equivalent to the local tyrants who will buy things based on their needs, and they don't ask for price bargains. Sun Xiangfu, who was the first to react, quickly wiped his hands on his clothes, and took two large strings of heavy copper coins. However, this is the real deal, one string is one thousand Wen, two strings is two thousand Wen.

"Thank you, sir, thank you, sir."

Sun Xiangfu didn't know if this was the right name, so he took the copper coin and gave Qin Fu a bow, but Qin Fu didn't talk to him too much, and ordered a few guards to help them. After a while, the loach and rice field eel on the ground disappeared They were all caught in the bucket.

"Lead them back to the mansion, take good care of these things, it will be of great help to the master's illness." Qin Fu pointed to the wooden barrel containing the loach and rice field eel and said, then turned and returned to the carriage, and the whole team also At the beginning of the journey, Sun Xiangfu and Sun Dali were surrounded by four guards, pushing a wheelbarrow and walking slowly with the big team. What happened just now was almost the most thrilling encounter in their lives.

Cuiyun Mountain is more than ten miles away from Xiaoheji, but the road here is much easier than the section from the village to Xiaoheji. After all, it is the fiefdom of Duke Yi, and the roads are usually repaired by farmers. Sun Xiangfu finally got in touch with the guards along with him, only to learn that the person in the carriage was Qin Qiong.

Sun Xiangfu was a little excited, and wished he could find a mobile phone to take a short video and post it on Kuaishou. This is a historical celebrity!It's a pity that he has nothing to play with such things as mobile phones in his life.

After walking on the flat road for an hour, and then on the mountain road for more than half an hour, when Sun Xiangfu and the two were about to be exhausted, a complex of civil structures came into view. The houses that can only be seen in the film and television city, Sun Xiangfu just wanted to sit down quickly to squeeze the blood blisters on the soles of his feet, but he walked continuously for three or four hours.

Many people came out to greet them outside the main gate of the villa, but the carriage did not stop, and went straight in. After all, Qin Qiong was seriously ill, and he didn't need to do anything on the scene with the servants of the villa. The two of them, Sun Xiangfu, were taken to the side A small door on the side, to Qin Fu, what is helpful to Qin Qiong's condition is an important thing, so after the carriage entered the door, he walked over here with a person.

"Get them something to eat and drink, and you will accept them when they come to send rice field eels."

The rice field eel and loach in the bucket were quickly carried away by the servants of the Qin Mansion, and after a while, someone brought back the empty bucket, along with a few pieces of mustache and a water bag, Qin Fu did not keep After watching them eat and drink, he turned around and entered the mansion after explaining, and the person he told Sun Xiangfu to deliver food and drink should be the connector when they sent the rice field eel here in the future. Judging by his clothes, this person should be a member of the Qin mansion. Steward.

"This uncle, what is your last name?"

"My name is Qin De. You can just call me Uncle De. The chief manager has told me that in the future, when you deliver fish, just report my name to the concierge. By the way, how many days do you deliver?"

"We can deliver once a day."

Sun Xiangfu said almost without thinking, this is the mansion of Qin Qiong, Lord of the Yi Kingdom, and if he is familiar with running, there will be great benefits in the future, so he will naturally not give up this opportunity to get closer to historical celebrities.

"Oh, that's fine, this thing is good for the Duke's health, the more the better, after you finish eating and drinking, go away on your own!" Uncle De was stunned for a moment and said again.

You must know that with the fishing technology of this period, rice field eels are not easy to catch. In the vegetable market in Chang’an City, the price of rice field eels is more expensive than mutton, reaching [-] yuan per catty. Most of the time, they are used as medicinal food by medicinal shops Well, Sun Xiangfu and Sun Dali can actually catch so many eels every day. In Uncle De's opinion, they have some skills.

"Thank you, Uncle De, it's our blessing to be able to help Duke Yi's body. We'll come back to bother you tomorrow."

Naturally, Sun Xiangfu would not stay in the Duke's mansion to eat and drink. If he didn't leave, he wouldn't be able to get home after dark. Moreover, before they went back at night, they had to collect a round of fish cages!
The way down the mountain is easier than going up. To Sun Xiangfu's surprise, when he turned to look down the mountain, he saw two hills in the distance, which looked familiar to him.

"Brother Dali, look at the mountain over there, does it look familiar?"

Sun Dali, who was reminiscing the taste of some Hubing cakes given by Uncle De, looked up and said pleasantly, "Yes! Isn't this the two wooden mountains in our village? I didn't expect to see them here."

"you sure?"

"I have gone up the mountain to collect firewood many times, and I can't go wrong."

"That means we can take a shortcut home."

So, the two of them were sad. The saying "Wangshan runs to death" is very reasonable, but even so, they saved a few miles compared to going back to Xiaoheji and taking the muddy road back. By the time I got home in the dark, most people in the village had already fallen asleep.

"Brother Dali, I almost forgot one thing. We now have two pennies in our hands. Two pennies, two thousand coins."

When unloading the recovered fish goods, Sun Xiangfu remembered the two long strings of copper coins wrapped in linen on the wheelbarrow. These two thousand coins are undoubtedly a huge sum in this village where no one even lights the oil lamps. It can buy more than 300 catties of millet, which is enough for six people in the two families to eat millet rice for a month. If they cook porridge, they can barely eat it for more than two months.

Sun Xiangfu's words made Sun Dali feel bad, and he wanted to shout excitedly. Li Cuihua and the little guys who came out to greet them were also very excited when they heard the news, so everyone felt that they should celebrate.

Even after eating locust powder steamed cakes in the afternoon, the big guys were hungry again in the evening, and they collected more than a dozen catties of scale fish in the evening, and Sun Xiangfu decided to cook them all, so Sun Erli and the two little guys were called by Sun Xiangfu. Going out and calling people in the village to eat, not everyone shouted. Sun Xiangfu already had a plan for the future development of the village in his heart. He is an agricultural graduate student and half a botanist, but in terms of labor, he is far inferior to Sun Xiangfu. Dali, so he wants to use people who can be used.

There were only six families who were secretly called over to eat fish soup. Without exception, these six families were all skilled and labor-intensive. The two brothers Wang Fu and Wang Gui came from a family of carpenters. Zhao Da used to be a butcher, killing pigs. The sheep slaughterer is good, and he has also fed livestock. There are also Marin and Zhang Quan, who were born as blacksmiths. It is said that they also made weapons for the army back then.

The last family has no strong men. The head of the family, Nie Sanniang, is a widow like Li Cuihua. She has three children, two boys and one girl. She has also achieved the position of managing affairs, she is good at raising silkworms, weaving cloth, and making ready-made clothes, but her craftsmanship is not what Sun Xiangfu urgently needs, just because her family is the same as the previous Sun Xiangfu's family, and now she can't open the pot.

Six families, with a total of more than 20 people, especially the two brothers Wang Fu, Wang Gui and Ma Lin. One has an old father, the other has an old mother, and there are wives and children below. Having a minor illness, his wife and children are all mouths to eat, and they don't have much labor force. Now they are crowded in Sun Dali's house, drooling over the fish soup in the pot.

"Aunt Cuihua, first serve everyone a bowl of fish soup, and then bring the steamed cake made of locust powder and share one with each of them!"

More than a dozen catties of fish can't be cooked in one pot, so Sun Xiangfu and the others plan to wait until the next pot to eat. After all, they have eaten the Hubing cakes given by the Qin Mansion in the afternoon, but most of these people have been hungry for a whole day. After the fish soup and locust cakes were served, everyone excitedly wanted to say some words of thanks, but Sun Xiangfu stopped them.

"Eat something first and then talk."

During the day, Sun Erli invited all the children in the village to drink fish soup. Everyone knew how these fish came to be.

(End of this chapter)