The meal at Xu Yue's house left Zhao Yu and his family with endless aftertaste and unforgettable memories.
When everyone left, Xu Yue gave everyone another pack of instant noodles.
But the youngest son and two grandsons of the Zhao Yu family were extremely happy.
But eating people has a short mouth, and taking people has short hands. Although Xu Yue said nothing during this meal, Zhao Yu already understood what she meant.
She was telling him that people in that world lived a truly good life.
There are countless delicacies there, and these instant noodles, watermelon, and cola are just the ones that people are tired of eating.
After returning home, Zhao Yu asked himself in his heart: Do you yearn for such a world?
After a moment of silence, the villain in his heart told him: Yearning!
Even if I can't be a prince or a governor, and I don't have so many rights, I still yearn for it.
Just because, in any world, being an ordinary person would lead a happier life than being a prince or a governor!
No wonder, no wonder the Xu Yue family has never looked down upon their inseparable position of power.
Zhao Yu realized this. He even wanted to get up early tomorrow morning and go to the newly built health center in Xu Jiajun to check up on his health, live a few more years, and try to see the future of this world.
This feeling was like being possessed, which made Zhao Yu extremely excited and itchy.
He got up overnight and soaked the package of spicy beef noodles given by Xu Yue!
After eating and drinking enough, licking up the last drop of the soup, I thought about it and fell asleep contentedly.
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Xu Jiajun's construction in Zhuoxian was on track, and all kinds of novel things that had never appeared in Zhuoxian before were continuously sent from Yuyang.
In terms of clothing, Xu Jiajun's linen clothes are cheap and durable, and ordinary people can afford them.
The quality was so good that even the eldest daughter-in-law of the Zhao Yu family couldn't help but buy a few sets to take home and use them as summer clothes to wear inside the house.
In terms of food, there are more varieties, such as stir-frying and frying, which have changed the previous monotonous cooking methods.
Of course, it’s not that people don’t know how to cook food to make it delicious. It’s just that they couldn’t afford iron pots and oil and salt in the past, so they could only stew in clay pots with white water.
It's better now. Xu Jiajun has brought many iron daily utensils. Oil, salt, and sugar are also cheap. People are gradually getting used to using woks when cooking.
Not only that, the food shop opened by Xu Jiajun, with its braised pork, braised pork belly, meat buns, duck blood vermicelli and other snacks, has greatly enriched people's taste.
With more oil and salt, people will gradually gain strength, their bodies will be better nourished, and their faces will look brighter.
The richness of the dishes also reduces food consumption.
In the past, people had to eat three bowls of rice before they felt full. Now that there is oil and water in the stomach, one meal only requires a bowl of white rice and half a bowl of vegetables.
A few years ago, people would not have believed that they could have enough food and clothing just by working on their own land.
But seeing their swollen bellies, strong hands and feet, and the surplus food stored at home, the people of Zhuojun dared to believe that all this was not a dream.
Xu Jiajun also built many dormitories for rent to people who came to work in the city. Although the prices were not cheap, anyone who came to work in the city and worked well could afford the money.
Besides, this is a top-notch cement-brick house that even the former governor could not live in.
However, compared with the previous ones, the cement road has benefited the people the most.
A cement road has been built directly from the county seat to the entrance of the village, so you don't have to worry about rain or snow. You no longer have to walk on muddy dirt roads when traveling.
The road is easy to walk and the speed is fast.
Places that used to take a whole day to reach can now be reached in half a day.
Those villagers who have never left the small village in their lives can finally see the beautiful scenery outside because of this cement road.
Some old people walked to the entrance of the village, looked at the vendors carrying burdens passing by, and asked blankly:
"This troubled time is over? Who is the new emperor now? Has the corvee tax been exempted?"
There was also an old farmer standing on the edge of the field, looking at the green rice fields and asking in a panic:
"Why aren't there any more corns growing in the fields? What will we eat this year if we don't grow any corns?"
Just after school in the village, the children who were gathering at the entrance of the village to play replied: "Old man, the land is planted with fairy rice. One acre can produce 700 kilograms!"
"Oh, also, there is no emperor anymore, there are no more corvees, there are still taxes, but we farmers only need to pay the grain tax."
“My father said that after the grain tax is paid during this autumn’s harvest, the family’s food needs will be deducted. If there is any excess grain, he will sell it to buy an iron plow for our family.”
"In this way, if the land at home is cultivated well, when I reach the age of twenty, I will have a gift to marry Xiaohua from the next village as my wife!"
When the villagers heard this, they all laughed.
"You guys have been born at a good time!"
However, not everyone is so optimistic. Some people looked at everything in front of them and sighed reluctantly:
"I don't know how long the Xu family's army will last. There is General Gongsun in the north, Cao and Sun in the south, and the emperor is not dead yet. I really can't say for sure what will happen in the future..."
Hearing this, the laughing villagers stopped and couldn't help but feel a little worried.
"Yeah, who knows how long Xu Jiajun will be well... I'm afraid that the joy will be in vain by then, alas~"
Many villagers sighed in sadness.
On the contrary, the two bewildered old men from before smiled and persuaded them: "The world has been in chaos for so long, don't we ordinary people still live the same life?"
"Why don't we live a good life? Now that Xu Jiajun is still here, let's live a good life with Xu Jiajun. If things get difficult in the future, we can talk about it later!"
"Okay, you worry about it, old man, I'm going to see what this fairy rice looks like..."
The two old men walked to the fields with crutches.
The young people looked at me, and I looked at you, and then they all looked at the two old men in the village. Suddenly they felt that they were a little funny.
He was young and full of energy, and he even attended literacy classes. He didn't even know two Chinese characters, and the trembling old man was well-informed.
"Hey! Guys, look at it!"
Suddenly, a child pointed at a team on the main road at the entrance of the village and shouted in surprise: "What is that?"
The villagers looked over curiously.
I saw a group of Xu Jiajun riding on two strange things with two wheels, glaring with their feet, whizzing past the village at extremely fast speeds.
The children chased after them out of curiosity, but they could only see the convoy driving into the sunset and finally disappearing.
They stopped panting, and excitedly said to the chasing villagers:
"Yes, it's the magic vehicle used by Xu Jiajun's communications troops!"
After the children's reminder, the villagers all remembered it.
"Earlier, Xu Jiajun came to the village to deliver a message. He seemed to be riding an iron guy. The wheels grunted and rubbed and then flew out. What is that called?"
