Winter has turned to spring, and there have been three periods of cold and heat. Xuyang Grassland has now fallen into a battlefield, with chaos everywhere.
The royal city with a total population of more than 100,000 from the four major tribes fell apart because it became the center of the battle.
Every regime change must be accompanied by blood and death.
The surviving herdsmen of those tribes fled to the wilderness, and the merchants doing business in the royal city also left as the four major tribes fought.
The quiet Mida Valley and the vibrant Mida City have become dazzling gems in the hearts of the Di people and a holy place to avoid massacre.
People migrated here with their families and livestock, and the valley, which was hundreds of miles long, was suddenly filled with cattle and sheep, even a little crowded.
If Mida City hadn't divided areas for each tribe in time, disputes would have occurred here.
Merchants are the ones who can best identify risks. After leaving Xuyang Prairie, they come to Mida City to invest and trade.
Nowadays, there are so many shops in the small Mida City that it is difficult to find a room.
Not only is it crowded during the day, but even at night, illuminated by tall lanterns, it is still crowded.
The temporary cardboard houses in the city were replaced with solid adobe buildings, and two-story buildings were built next to each other to form streets and alleys.
There are newly planted green trees in front of each small building. Although they have grown to one storey in two years, they are carefully cared for by someone.
It is summer now, and the hot sun on the grassland is shining on Mida City. These green leaves are generously spreading out patches of greenery, allowing the crowded crowd to get shade.
The wife of the city lord said that for every tree that lives, hang a star at the door of the shop with the owner's surname.
This star is made of shiny, smooth and delicate "transparent stone". It is said that it is burned out by fire. No one can imitate it, nor can it be purchased.
The only source is the Scientific Research Institute next to the City Lord's Mansion, where there are many strange things.
There are sewers on the streets of Mida City, and the roads are paved with black gravel.
This gravel is heavy, and the time when the wind blows up the dust will no longer appear.
The inner and outer cities originally planned by Song Liyun have begun to take shape.
The inner city is where merchants first come, with the best environment and the best conditions.
The newly relocated merchants are all in the outer city, and a circle of wooden houses is neatly arranged in a large circle.
The outer city is mainly a livestock market, with fresh cattle, sheep, horses, and wool and leather goods.
The most novel thing for the herdsmen is that in addition to selling grass and feed, there is also a kind of salt for livestock.
Under the scorching sun, Wudan, who had grown taller, stood on a haystack, holding a black and yellow mud brick in his hand, and loudly said to the herdsmen surrounding him: "In winter, cattle and sheep have no grass and will lose weight. We can
Feed hay, and this... This is salt for livestock, so you don’t have to worry about the sheep eating hay having soft feet in the future.”
It is true that salt can be recovered from saline-alkali lands, but only a very small amount of that salt can be eaten by humans, and the rest is adobe containing a lot of impurities.
Animals like to eat these things, so Mida City collected them and used them with hay to provide winter pasture.
People who didn't know about this kind of salt bricks whispered, and those who knew the benefits followed the propaganda. The crowd's discussion was like the howling of the wind.
Wu Dan was very satisfied with this situation. He liked being surrounded by others and looking at the shocked and surprised faces.
These salt bricks were washed out by him and Brother Abu in the grassland.
Washing the salt with water... is the young lady's method.
Seeing his research results being accepted by people, he felt so happy.
He has been doing this kind of thing for more than two years and still enjoys it.
In three years, Abu has grown a short beard. He walked quickly through the crowd to the haystack without riding a horse.
He shouted to the tall Wu Dan: "Xiao Wu Dan, Xiao An and the others are going to take a bath in the river, do you want to go too?"
Wu Dan turned around sharply: "Brother Abu, Xiao An Shitou wants to go into the water? Go, why don't you go? I can swim now. Let's see if I can swim better than them."
His words caused the surrounding herdsmen to laugh, and someone shouted: "The little boss is not even doing business? I still want to buy a few salt bricks back!"
Wu Dan winked at everyone: "I am the little boss, and there is the big boss. The little boss went to drink water with the big boss!"
He spit out the grass stalks in his mouth, jumped down from the haystack as nimbly as a monkey, stuffed the salt bricks he was holding into the boy's arms, and quickly followed Abu to the river outside the city.
Song Dekui and Song Zhenping came to visit relatives two months ago with their respective families and Xiao An.
Although Song Liyun has returned to Xiaoshi Village once in the past three years, and Song Zhenping has also been to Mida City, the three siblings and Sister-in-law Yang Hua have not yet gotten together.
With so many people suddenly added, the City Lord's Mansion has been very busy these past two months.
Song Zhenping has been married for four years and already has a son and a daughter. Sister-in-law Yang Hua's belly has never been empty and she is now pregnant with her third child.
Song Zhenping was satisfied, but when he thought about his sister getting married and there was no news for so long, he was so worried that he couldn't sleep or eat.
After discussing it with Yang Hua, they brought Aunt Dekuixia, who had already given birth to a son, to Mida City to live here for a while and give birth to Song Liyun.
Because I had three little kids, it was too cold in the winter, so I had to leave my job and come here in the summer.
Yang Hua brought her sister-in-law the Buddha statue that had been blessed and the herbal medicine given by the doctor, and asked her to drink it and say goodbye so that she could conceive the child as soon as possible.
Song Liyun couldn't laugh or cry about her brother and sister-in-law's thoughts, but she was also secretly moved.
In the first two years, she and Zhao Tingduo thought that it would be better to have children later since Mida City was just built.
But seeing that Abu and Wan Youyou got married a year later than him, and now the children are babbling and learning languages, and Mrs. Wu Ya also gave several small clothes and hats for the baby, Song Liyun became anxious.
But...I couldn't get pregnant anyway.
Song Liyun even doubted whether her body was washed too much in winter and summer when she was a girl, making it difficult to conceive due to cold.
Zhao Tingduo didn't care much about this. He comforted Song Liyun and said: There will always be children, and honey brewed late is sweeter.
Even though Song Liyun had this intention, he couldn't be impatient.
Mida City has just emerged, and many rules and regulations are new to everyone and require setting them up one by one. She spent a lot of time in the early stage.
Mining, iron-making, and cement-burning are even more important matters. In each case, Yu Lao and Wan Youyou need her guidance.
In addition, the war in Xuyang Grassland continues, even though it is far away from here, it is still involved.
There is even a tribe of ten thousand people who still want to occupy Mida City and want to challenge it.
Fortunately, there were already 500 guards in the city, plus 1,200 troops stationed outside the city, so they could fight back the invading tribes directly.
As Mida City's reputation grew, it also caused a lot of trouble.
Everything was so complicated that she couldn't sleep at night in the past two years, and even her menstruation was not on time.
In the past two months, sister-in-law Yang Hua, Aunt Xia, and Wan Youyou's child, four babies only as high as knees, have caused a stir in the city lord's mansion.
Zhao Tingduo hid directly outside the city to give Song Liyun space to get close to her mother's family.
Fortunately, there are many maids in the City Lord's Mansion who can play with the children. The youngest Xiao Ye'er is eight years old, and the other maids are all eleven or twelve years old. They do nothing but play around the children.
Xiao An has not seen Mrs. Yun for four years, and the two of them pulled together as soon as they met.