Early this morning, a group of people carrying firewood found an open space by the river, lit a bonfire, and then a buffalo was pulled over.
After worshiping the gods, a strong man grabbed the horns of the cow with both hands and threw the cow to the ground. Then he picked up the long knife beside him and inserted it through the gap in the cow's ribs.
After a while, the buffalo stopped struggling. Another big man came over with a machete and chopped off the head of the buffalo with several knives.
The big man put the chopped cow head on a thick wooden stick, then set it on a bonfire and carefully burned off the hair on the cow's head.
Under the sharp knives of a group of strong men, the huge cow's body was first stripped of its skin, and then its belly was cut open. After a while, it turned into piles of pure meat, bones and internal organs.
This is the place where Duolong invites everyone to come for a meal. The Quan Niu Banquet is the highest level of reception here.
The location of this wilderness is very good. It is close to the river on one side and a rare flat land on the other. There are no woods around it, which avoids the possibility of an ambush. Moreover, this wilderness is just outside the front line of both sides, so it will not cause everyone's tension.
Under Duolong's guarantee, the seventeen village owners had come early. As a result, everyone waited and waited. The meat in the pot was cooked again and again, and the water in the pot was added again and again. Watching Tiandu
It was almost dark, but there was no movement from the Han people.
"Duolong, this meal of yours is interesting. Do you think you want us to eat it by touching our noses at night?" A village leader asked Duolong.
"Haha, Master Moda. The fire must be slow before the meat becomes rotten. Just wait patiently. The meat will be ready soon." Duolong laughed loudly.
Everyone knew that this was not about eating. In fact, even Duolong was very anxious.
"They're coming, they're coming," someone ran over and shouted loudly.
No need to report any more, everyone saw it as soon as they stood up, and saw only a few Han military attachés walking towards this side in a majestic manner.
The expression on Duolong's face now is extremely ugly, so dark that it is almost dripping with water.
The people are the people, and the officials are officials.
Civilian vendettas are governed by one set of rules on the surface and another set of rules privately. But no matter what kind of rules they are, they have never been left to the government to handle them.
Now, these Han people are here wearing official uniforms. They are simply trying to force us to rebel.
It was just for Duolong's sake, otherwise the leaders would have turned around and left.
After Gong Guangjie came over, he saluted everyone and said loudly: "Sorry, sorry.
Mr. Gong is busy with military affairs and is a little late. I will punish myself with three cups of wine later. I hope everyone will understand.
Look, you guys, I didn’t even have time to change my clothes, so I hurried over here.”
As soon as Gong Guangjie finished speaking, he unhooked his sword and threw it to his subordinates. Then he began to take off his clothes in public until he took off the official uniform of the general flag and sat by the fire in casual clothes.
"Oh, this is still comfortable. Duolong, I smell your meat is so fragrant, can you eat it?" Gong Guangjie said loudly.
Upon hearing this, Duolong quickly announced the start of the banquet.
Everyone was starving. When Duolong said it was time to eat, he was not polite and took his bamboo chopsticks to fish out the meat from the hot pot.
After eating a bowl of beef and drinking a bowl of beef soup, Gong Guangjie picked up the porcelain bowl in his hand and knocked it on the big iron pot. After hearing a ding sound, Gong Guangjie said loudly: "This beef is delicious, better than
We have a lot of yellow beef in our hometown."
The whole cow feast is to use an extra large pot to cook a whole cow in it. The head of the cow is still being cooked in the pot. Just by looking at the horns, Gong Guangjie can tell that this is at least not a scalped cow.
Hearing Gong Guangjie's loud praise, Duolong finally looked a little happy.
"Actually, I don't like eating yellow beef." Gong Guangjie said to the others, "Why?
Because I ate yellow beef, I would cry in bed at night."
After Gong Guangjie shook off his baggage, he changed his posture and said to everyone: "Why are you crying? It's not because the scalpers are suffering too much.
They were dragged out to work before dawn, wandering around the fields all year round. From time to time they had to be whipped by their masters (bamboo whips), and they were fed only the worst hay (rice or wheat straws).
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I have suffered like this all my life, and will be killed to eat when I get old.
So, when I eat yellow beef, I want to cry.
I cried and cried until my eyes were swollen from crying.
The more I cried, the more I thought, isn’t this old scalper just like us poor people?
No. We are worse than the old scalpers, we are still wasting our lives, and we are committing crimes."
Although he has become rich in the past two years, Gong Guangjie has been immersed in bitterness since he was a child, otherwise he would not look so old.
The harder people live, the faster they age.
Gong Guangjie's words of bitterness brought everyone closer together.
Although human beings' joys and sorrows are not the same, the suffering caused by material scarcity is exactly the same.
As the topic opened up, Gong Guangjie said to the leaders: "Originally, I sent someone to give you gifts."
Gong Guangjie waved his hand, and someone came over with a basket. Gong Guangjie picked up a bottle of medicine and introduced it like a treasure: "This is our treasure [Fever Powder]. Whether you have a headache or a fever,
I still have chills and shakes, or my nose has clear water, and I have swallowed a coal in my throat. After taking our [Fever Powder], it can be taken for up to three days, with food and medicine wrapped up.
This is our star product. What is a star? It is the brightest star in the sky, which can be seen at a glance.
This [Rheumatism Pain Relief Patch] will help you with whether you have neck pain, shoulder pain, back pain, vest pain, ankle pain, knee pain, etc. You can apply it wherever it hurts, and wrap it up with the patch.
This is [Anthelmintic Pill]. Don’t look at it, but it is overbearing in its efficacy. There are some insects that want to burrow into people’s stomachs, eat their flesh, and drink their blood. What should we do?
You can't dig them out with a knife.
Let me tell you, as long as you take [Anthelmintic Pills], you will know that you have pooped the next day, and all the worms in your stomach will be dead (poisoned). From now on, you will be clean and comfortable, and you will grow two ounces longer.
Meat.
Don’t believe it, come on, come on, give them all a try, give them a few boxes each, and use them as you like.”
Soon, the basket of medicines glowed.
After all the medicine was delivered to his hands, Gong Guangjie said: "My deputy sect leader, Zhang Bing, brought a thousand pieces of goods and gave gifts to everyone one by one.
What a pity, Zhang Bing was hacked to death when he was halfway through.
These one thousand pieces of goods were also robbed, and they have not been found until now."
Gong Guangjie deliberately cut off the whole story and saved some face for everyone. Who knows if there are any people here who went to rob and kill Lao Zhang that day.
"You said, these head-cutting bandits didn't rob our Shennong Baicaomen, they clearly robbed us of the heavy gift we wanted to give everyone.
Do you think these people are hateful?"
After listening to Gong Guangjie's words, everyone buried their heads and remained silent.
In fact, everyone knows what is going on.
Duolong and the people in several other villages have already said that the Han people came here just to win over friends and give them gifts, and there was no intention of being malicious.
"I won't talk about what happened before." Gong Guangjie waved his hand and said: "Brother, I don't need any courtesy when I come here this time. But, brother, I'm here to make a fortune with you all.
We don’t want to live in poverty anymore, we want to drink and eat meat every day, and we want to make a fortune together!
Someone asked, how can someone in this remote mountainous area get rich?
Hey, good business has come. Let’s make medicine together.”
It was getting dark, and beside the campfire, a group of people listened attentively to what Gong Guangjie said.
After three days of separation, treat each other with admiration.
After going through storms and hardships, Gong Guangjie is no longer what he used to be.
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The caravan set up camp early and piles of bonfires were lit.
This was Huang Xiaoshi's first time with such a large caravan. In the past two days, he had been riding back and forth on horseback. Although he didn't say anything, everyone could see that he was worried.
After dinner, everyone sat around the bonfire, talking and laughing, and from time to time there were bursts of singing.
Singing and dancing are natural talents that humans possess.
It's just that people who work in the fields all day long are so burdened by life that they can no longer straighten their backs or raise their heads, and they gradually lose this ability.
This time, there were many young people in the caravan who had not been quenched by life, so at night, the atmosphere became much more lively.
Among these young people, Huang Xiaoshi is not included.
Huang Xiaoshi, who had just relaxed his mood in those few days, now has dark clouds in his heart, and is about to feel thunder and lightning.
Huang Xiaoshi is summoning the twelve squad leaders for a meeting and asking them to report on today's situation.
There was nothing to say. The twelve squad leaders all said in unison that it was "no problem" and "no problem."
Seeing Master Shi's appearance, everyone felt that Master Shi was too nervous, but this was understandable.
Although Mr. Shi is good at anything, he still rarely sells goods. In addition to the trade routes between Shuzhong and Luoyang, he has only traveled to Wuhan once.
So Mr. Shi is now acting like a new stick, with hairy hair (shocked and startled), which is normal.
When he heard everyone say "nothing to do", Huang Xiaoshi sighed, waved his hand and announced the adjournment of the meeting.
After everyone dispersed, Huang Xiaoshi found a utility bag and sat down on the spot, sitting in the shadow of the livestock and not wanting to come out.
Huang Xiaoshi is very upset now.
There are many troublesome things, but the core troublesome thing is that Huang Xiaoshi has no deputy for this business trip.
Lao Zhang stayed at Shennong Baicaomen to take charge of daily work. Originally, Huang Xiaoshi was not prepared to take him.
In the plan, Huang Xiaoshi was planning to take Lao Xu on this business trip. But that old guy who failed to live up to expectations was destroying his future.
Huang Xiaoshi has been used to being the hands-off shopkeeper, so now he feels very annoyed and tired.
In the past two days, Huang Xiaoshi wanted to promote a deputy from among the twelve captains, but after contacting him in the past two days, he really didn't find anyone who was more capable than the other.
Let's put it this way, after Huang Xiaoshi watched it back and forth for two days, there were so many problems with his caravan ranging from cargo distribution, material deployment, personnel functional configuration and response speed, that it made him upset.
Forget it.
What made Huang Xiaoshi feel even more irritated was that at night, Huang Xiaoshi called the squad leaders up for a meeting and asked them for two days if they felt there was any problem with the operation of the caravan. The answer they all received was "no problem."
Nothing is really important until nothing happens.
It shows that these captains are only at this level, and they can’t even see the problems right in front of their eyes.
It's not that Huang Xiaoshi's skills are high. After following Guan Wei for a escort trip, he can be called a professional. His own caravan is nothing more than a bucket of water.
What's more, half of the people in this half bucket of water are newly recruited and don't know anything.
What's even more annoying is that these people still don't listen.
What you say to them will either go in one ear and out the other, or you will forget what you said and only pretend to be pretentious when asked.
Damn it, I have set so many rules, are you just talking nonsense?
We can't blame Huang Xiaoshi for being arrogant and having a strong liver meridian (he has a bad temper). A person's vision comes from his experience and knowledge. Huang Xiaoshi's experience is indeed far ahead of this era.
This gap requires an extremely large amount of knowledge to fill.
A simple command will require thousands of prerequisite knowledge when explained.
Or, it's the other extreme. Don't ask me what I mean, just follow it to the end.
Huang Xiaoshi chose the second method, but the effect was extremely poor.
Before setting off, Huang Xiaoshi issued several orders and required everyone to strictly implement them.
For example, you are not allowed to drink raw water from roadsides and rivers.
For example, after two meals a day, a large amount of boiling water is boiled, and each person fills a pot and bottles it for drinking on the road.
For example, everyone must wear leggings. The leggings are tight and you must wash your feet with hot water before going to bed at night.
Huang Xiaoshi watched it for two days, but few people followed it seriously. At most, they just showed it to him.
Huang Xiaoshi said it once when we met him once, but he said it only once twelve times.
As a result, he said it over and over again until he felt tired and even more tired.
I'm tired, I don't love it anymore, I don't want to care anymore.
It's not that Huang Xiaoshi doesn't have enough authority to ban things, but that these orders are actually forcibly changing everyone's living habits and consciousness.
It is difficult to change lifestyle habits with orders.
Because people don't understand why the change is needed, isn't it great now?
If you don’t understand enough, you won’t have the motivation to execute. Even if you execute, it will be perfunctory.
What's more, sometimes, even if you understand something, you may not have the motivation to execute it.
Everyone knows not to lie in bed and stay up late playing with their mobile phones, and some of them have changed this.
Therefore, this kind of thing must be taught slowly, taught over and over again, and talked about, and it will definitely be tiring.
If you don't want to get tired, the easiest way is to leave this task to others. Then Huang Xiaoshi only needs to teach one person, and there is no need to teach him twelve times.
well.
After the meeting, Huang Xiaoshi sighed heavily. Maybe he should keep Lao Xu first, and then kick him back to Shuzhong after this trip.
You see, every time you are impulsive, you have to correct yourself.
Just when Huang Xiaoshi had a headache, a figure flashed to his side, and then a pair of hands pressed on his shoulders.
"What, what trouble did you encounter?" Ji Wushuang asked Huang Xiaoshi softly.
"I'm tired." Huang Xiaoshi stopped pretending to Ji Wushuang and said to Ji Wushuang with a sense of heartache and irritability: "I always feel that this is God's punishment for me.
Punish me for being a bunch of pigs together.
It’s just that I had such an easy life in my last life, and that’s why I’m so tired in this life.”
When Ji Wushuang heard this, he immediately laughed. Young people are like this. Although they are very cool when things are going smoothly, they become discouraged when they encounter a little setback.
It's a good opportunity for me to comfort him.
Ji Wushuang smiled and comforted Huang Xiaoshi: "Let's talk about what happened. Maybe I can help think of something."
Huang Xiaoshi thought about it, yes, he is the Eight Heavenly Dragons of the Tianlong Sect after all, and he should have more experience in this field than himself, so he told Ji Wushuang one by one the problems he had seen in the past two days, and then talked about these problems.
What consequences will it cause, and how to deal with these problems.
As Ji Wushuang listened to Huang Xiaoshi's words, the movements of her hands became slower and slower, and she felt more and more surprised in her heart.
Ji Wushuang didn't understand the issues Huang Xiaoshi talked about.
It's just that many times we don't know what's going on at all, so we can't talk about how to solve it. Over time, we get used to it.
For example, Huang Xiaoshi talked about drinking boiled water.
After listening to Huang Xiaoshi's words, Ji Wushuang realized that many inexplicable diseases were caused by drinking raw water in the wild and being infected by the "raw plague" in the water.
It is also very simple to kill the "sick plague", just boil the water and drink it.
Huang Xiaoshi's medical skills are extremely superb, and he is a good young doctor that even Divine Doctor Shen admires. Ji Wushuang naturally believes in his words.
Yasha suddenly felt a little regretful.
This is extremely important news. It can be said that if this news reaches the Tianlong Sect, more people can be saved than this batch of pills.
It's a pity that the trade road has been blocked, and now no birds can fly through it.
Why couldn't I have known about this earlier.
Yasha felt that he needed to listen to Huang Xiaoshi more, instead of following his own temperament and just thinking about having fun with him every day.
…
Huang Xiaoshi was very rude to his subordinates. He only told his subordinates to do what he did, but did not explain to them why.
Huang Xiaoshi felt tired because he was trying to reason with these guys.
But Ji Wushuang is different. Not only is Ji Wushuang more beautiful, but she is also smarter than most people.
Through many contacts, Huang Xiaoshi understood that Ji Wushuang could quickly understand his "unreasonable" truths. When talking to Ji Wushuang, Huang Xiaoshi sometimes felt as if he had met a close friend.
People can't deceive their own hearts, Huang Xiaoshi knows.
