Civilization spreads to another world

"There are a total of 62 people in the village, 41 males, 14 females, 50 adults over 84 years old and under 14 years old, 50 minors under [-] years old, and elderly people over [-] years old..." Shi Yu said There was a pause, "Six."

He pressed out the tip of the oil pen and drew a circle on the six.

There are only six old people in the village with more than 100 people, and the reason is self-evident.

Huo Ci was silent.

They are sitting under the old tree at the entrance of Baishan Village. The old tree is very big, at least three or four hundred years old. In winter, the leaves wither, leaving only huge and bare rhizomes. Stone, forming a natural stool.

The old village head sat on it, waiting respectfully for an answer, even if he couldn't understand what they were saying.

Shi Yu and Huo Ci had just made a general statistics on the villagers with the help of the old village head.

Shi Yu sighed, and said, "I'm sorry for dragging you down to mess around with me."

Huo Ci shook his head: "I also yelled to stop, I am willing to stay and help."

In the situation just now, anyone with a little sympathy will stop, he is not hard-hearted.

That's good.

Shi Yu breathed a sigh of relief, he also knew that he was impulsive, let alone security issues, staying here meant that they had to be responsible for these one hundred and three people, who made them the name of envoys of God.

But the situation just now was really frustrating.

Huo Ci: "Actually, there are advantages to staying. We can't stay in the mountains forever. Sooner or later, we have to contact the outside world. Otherwise, we won't be able to pass the game."

This is true, Shi Yu nodded, the main storyline of the game is city construction and civilization after all, no one how to build and spread.

"And they have already seen us, let's go, the news about the envoy will definitely spread." Huo Ci added, "At that time, if someone comes to look for the envoy..."

Shi Yu's heart trembled. People who have been associated with gods since ancient times will be flocked to in any era and world, but they can go far away to avoid them, but the villagers and businessmen have seen their faces. He and Huo Ci are so characteristic Obviously, once word spreads, it's easy to spot.

Unless...they killed all these people.

This is of course impossible.

In this way, they had to stay instead, not only to stay, but also to find a way to win these people to their side.

The two exchanged a look, tacit understanding.

The biggest crisis in Baishan Village right now is food.

Shi Yu and Huo Ci held hands again and changed their language to ask the village chief.

The village chief: "All the food harvested in autumn was taken away by the baron. We only have vegetables, but the vegetables are eaten up quickly. After the snow falls, they don't grow anymore. We can only dig weeds."

"Where are the animals?" Shi Yu asked, "There must be animals in the mountains, wild boars—" Thinking that some animals in modern times may not exist in this world, he changed his mind, "I can't catch large animals, what about small ones? Isn't there a river below, and there are no fish shrimp?"

Huo Ci also said: "What about the livestock? I saw animal excrement on the ground, which is still fresh. Why don't you kill the livestock to satisfy your hunger?"

Village head: "Baishan and Green River all belong to the lord. Without the lord's permission, we can't enter casually, and the same goes for livestock. The inspection team has to count and record them, so we can't move."

There was pain in his eyes when he spoke, but he obeyed as a matter of course.

Shi Yu was speechless for a long while.

In modern times, things like famine are hard to come by. He thought that these people were hungry because they couldn't find food, and they were worried about how to solve it. He never thought that this would be the reason.

Huo Ci also had a difficult expression on his face.

Because the lord didn't allow it, he would rather starve to death than move. What kind of miserable era is this?

Shi Yu suppressed his anger: "Then we can move from today! We are envoys, so are you going to disobey the envoy's orders?"

The village head tremblingly said, "Don't dare, but..."

"There's nothing wrong with it." Shi Yu insisted, "How can a mere baron fight against an envoy?"

Although they are not real envoys, they might as well pretend to be powerful.

Huo Ci said, "I'm afraid the baron can't care about this."

How to say?Shi Yu looked at him.

Huo Ci fiddled with the cap of the oil pen: "Why did the inspection team once every six months become once every three months? And the robbers that Duojin met on the road..."

"War!" Shi Yu suddenly said, "There is a war outside! Because of the war, we need to hoard food!"

It doesn't make sense that the lord would starve to death all the people under his rule, and how would they cut off the next crop if they died, unless they couldn't take care of themselves, how could they care about the people.

If the war is chaotic, it is not surprising that there will be bandits wantonly haunting.

The village chief didn't know anything about it, and the two called Duojin.

Sure enough, Duo Jin said: "I heard that the Marquis of Changchang and the Marquis of Chenxi started the war, and Baron Baimu is the youngest son of the Marquis of Changchang."

What the hell is Changchang Marquis?

Shi Yu wondered if there was something wrong with the "translator".

which chang?long?taste?often?

Duo Jin gave a clear explanation: "The long and the short are long."

According to the law of naming here, Shi Yu's thoughts inevitably ran towards the indescribable direction, what is the length?how long?

"Why didn't you say it just now?" Huo Ci was more upright.

Duojin was aggrieved and at a loss: "My lord didn't ask."

The two were speechless for a moment.

But no matter how many questions you ask, Duo Jin doesn't know anymore. Although he is fighting, the battlefield is not in the fief of Baron Cypress, and he is just a small businessman walking between villages and towns. He has no ability to go to big cities. As for the war, the specific circumstances are not clear at all.

Shi Yu and Huo Ci let go of their hands and switched back to Chinese.

"If it started last fall, it has been fighting for a year." Shi Yu said, "No, it's more than a year. There must be grain storage before the war. It seems that the situation on the front line is not very good."

It has reached the point where people are being plundered for food, and it is not bad. Even if they win, I don’t know how many such Baishan villages will be built. In the end, only the aristocrats will benefit.

Prosperity, the people suffer, death, the people suffer.

"Regardless of winning or losing, the nobles won't be here for a short time," Huo Ci drew a simple map on the paper according to Duo Jin's description, "But as long as Baishan Village is still there, people will still come to collect taxes in spring. Don't let them find out."

If they decide to stay, there will definitely be big moves. If these people see that the villagers of Baishan Village are living well, there is no guarantee that they will plunder again and even implicate them.

"We can't confront these people head-on." He tapped the map with his fingers, his eyes stern. "Of course, it would be better if they don't show up. The war lasts for another year or two. Once we develop, we won't be afraid."

Shi Yu thought for a while, and suggested: "Why don't these villagers just pretend to die?" After finishing speaking, he felt that this idea was brilliant, "Just pretend that Baishan Village has not survived this winter. Anyway, according to the game flow, the houses must be built first, and these houses must be built. It can’t be empty, let them live in it, the houses produced by games are always better than them.”

Baishan Village is not so much a village as a refugee camp. The houses are made of branches and turf. Many of them don’t even have logs to support them. At most, they are surrounded by stones. will become ruins.

Instead of spending a lot of time repairing it, it is better to rebuild it in another place.

Of course, this is their idea, and the wishes of the villagers have to be sought.

In the end, the village head accepted their proposal without a single complaint, as if he would do whatever the envoy told him to do.

The village chief had no objection, and the other villagers had no objection either.

It is a good thing not to waste too much time, but Shi Yu and Huo Ci were not very happy, they looked at each other and sighed.

But that's okay, in the current situation, it's better to be completely obedient than to have a different heart.

There is no rush to build a house, but to solve the food problem first.

The village chief took them to see the livestock they raised. Right now, all the livestock in the village are raised in his house.

The village head's house is located on a small high slope in the center of the village. Compared with those crumbling shacks, the village head's house is much stronger. The stone at the base has obviously been polished, the four corners are supported by solid logs, and the roof is also covered. very strict.

It feels a bit like a log cabin in a western fairy tale.

However, after opening the door and entering, there was an indescribable pungent smell, as if it had been stuffy for a long time, and it was also mixed with the smell of animal excrement.

Shi Yu was caught off guard by the smoke and almost vomited out.

This is not a house for people to live in, the toilet is not bad.

The village chief didn't feel anything, as if he couldn't smell it at all, tremblingly opened the door to the maximum, pointed inside: "It's all here."

Shi Yu turned his head and met a pair of huge bull's eyes.

Wait, he took a step back, sure this is a house for people and not a shed for livestock?

Huo Ci was equally astonished. People lived in the same house with cattle and sheep. What kind of operation is this?

The wooden house looks like a fairy tale from the outside, but the inside is not beautiful at all.

There are no partitions in the house, and the whole house can be seen clearly at a glance. The living room, bedroom, and kitchen are all connected together, without even a curtain to cover them. Straw, wood and other sundries are piled up on the ground, more like a warehouse.

There are also cattle and sheep tied to wooden piers in the corner and chickens in small pens.

Full of original ecology.

Especially the taste.

Shi Yu couldn't take it anymore, he sucked in it all at once, his brain hurt, and he quickly counted it out.

There are not as many livestock as they imagined in the village, only one cow, one sheep and five chickens.

According to the village chief, there were originally two cows, one cow and one yellow cow, and the cow died of illness after the cold winter came.

"Where's the beef? Have you eaten it?" Shi Yu asked.

The village chief hurriedly waved his hand: "No, no, you can't eat it. If the cattle and sheep die, you have to tell the inspection team. They will come and carry them away, or you will be fined."

Forget it, when he didn't ask.

Shi Yu shut up.

The more you ask, the worse it gets.

On the contrary, Huo Ci asked a few more questions, and when he got the answer that the cattle were not used for farming, milk, goat milk and eggs, the villagers could eat them, but the cattle, sheep and chickens would be taken away by the inspection team when they grow up to adulthood. They also shut up after they continued raising cubs. .

Although the scalper was alive, it was skinny, and even if it was killed, it would not be able to remove much meat. Thinking that it would be useful to raise the scalper, the two discussed it and decided to raise it first.

The same goes for chickens, which can lay eggs. Although according to the village chief, it takes two or three days to lay one egg, it is better than nothing.

In this way, the only one that can be killed and eaten is the sheep.

The issue is--

"how to eat?"

Shi Yu asked a question.

Mutton has a fishy smell, he knows a few ways to remove the smell, but right now there is no seasoning or vegetables, can it be eaten?

Roasting is okay, they have oil, but when people are hungry for a long time and suddenly eat something with a lot of oil, they will have diarrhea. It is just when manpower is needed, and everyone is paralyzed. What to do next.

"First cook the porridge." Huo Ci made a decision, "Drink some porridge to warm your stomach, then go to the river to catch fish and make fish soup, and then see if you can find some wild vegetables and fruits in the mountains. The sheep will be killed after a few days .”

Fortunately, the villagers themselves were starving, but they prepared hay for the cattle and sheep early, and took them out to find food for themselves when the sun was shining. They lived more comfortably than the villagers.

The cooking of the porridge was handed over to the village chief's son and daughter-in-law. Shi Yu and Huo resigned from the riverside, intending to see if there were really fish, in case the other world was different from the modern one.

Fortunately, God favored them. The two of them took a few villagers to break through the thick ice with great effort. Immediately there were fish rushing out to breathe the fresh air, and there were also bold and direct fish. jump out.

The fish weighing more than ten catties hit the ice and made a loud noise.

He smashed the village head who insisted on following him into shock.

"Quick, catch the fish." Shi Yu ordered.

A few villagers looked at the village chief, but a tall and thin young man was about to catch the struggling and sliding fish, and then hugged him tightly in his arms, as if he was holding a life-saving straw, his eyes glowed green.

Someone took the lead, and the rest of the villagers followed suit.

You don’t even need a fishing line and a fishing net. The fish throw themselves into the net one after another, some jump out by themselves, and some are squeezed out. The ice hole the size of a washbasin is densely packed. You can imagine this fish that has never been fished by humans. How many schools of fish live in the big river.

Shi Yu and Huo Ci both breathed a sigh of relief, at least they don't have to worry about food.

When they went back, every villager carried two fish in their hands, weighing up to ten catties each, and even the old village head held one in his arms, touching the cold fish scales with his red and swollen fingers, his lips trembling and murmuring the tone of the sentence.

Back in the village, the rice in the earthen pot had been cooked, and the villagers squatting on the side of the road stared straight at the fish they brought back.

Shi Yu and Huo Ci glanced into the pot and frowned.

Not too much, but too little.

Ten catties of rice is not enough for more than 100 people, so it is made into porridge, at least everyone can drink a bowl.

As a result, the village chief's son only cooked half of it, and divided it into four large pots. The rice soup was diluted so that the bottom could almost be seen.

Seeing the envoy frowning, the village chief's son was so frightened that he was at a loss and trembling: "I shouldn't cook too much..."

Shi Yu sighed, and said, "First, each person has a bowl to warm their stomachs, and the remaining bag will be cooked with the fish later."

Huo Ci was already directing the villagers to handle the fish.

Only then did I realize that the villagers didn't fight for it, and they all waited outside the house with their bowls in their arms.

Even Duojin and his three servants squatted obediently under the eaves, holding a broken bowl borrowed from someone.

Shi Yu's heart was a little relieved, he had planned for the worst in his heart, but when they came back, the rice had already been scrambled and eaten, but he didn't expect the situation to be better than he thought.

It is not surprising that they would rather starve to death than break the rules and enter the mountains and rivers to satisfy their hunger.

The villagers brought up bowls of porridge one by one. At first, the old village chief hesitated whether the envoy needed to eat, scooped out the first bowl and brought it tremblingly, but they refused.

They also have breakfast bread and red bull, so they don't have to compete with the villagers for this.

The old village chief obviously has great prestige in the village. He directed the villagers to come up one by one. The porridge like white water was poured into the bowl. The rice grains at the bottom of the bowl could be counted at a glance, but the villagers seemed to have obtained delicacies from mountains and seas. They were very careful and solemn. .

Then I went back to the place where I was standing and squatting just now, and poured water into my stomach.

While drinking, someone suddenly burst into tears.

Shi Yu and Huo Ci were shocked, and found that it was a middle-aged man with an unshaven beard, crying while holding a pottery bowl that had bottomed out.

The old village head shook his lips and said, "His name is wow... His mother was afraid of eating too much, so she went into the mountains alone, just the day before yesterday."

Shi Yu and Huo Ci were holding the bread, and the taste suddenly disappeared in their mouths.