Song Yin in the last days

Song Yin rejected Zhu Xiao's invitation to move in. Going to someone else's home as a guest is not as comfortable as staying in a hotel. The eight, one, and nine of them asked for six single rooms and one big suite. The daily accommodation fee was three catties of rice, and they paid for half a month in one go. The room fee is 45 catties of rice, which is also a point of income for Yaoli's economy.

There are only a few guests in the inn, and three catties of rice is equivalent to covering up the entire yard, but Xu Lingfeng still feels quite amazing, will anyone come in and stay in the inn these days?

The innkeeper smiled and replied: "There are few customers, but it's not that there are no. Every April, the town distributes seeds, and people from several nearby villages will come. If the weather is too bad in summer, some life-saving food for the winter will be distributed in October. There will be more people coming at that time, these two months are the peak season for our inn, and we have dozens of people staying every day, and at most we have lived in 136 people."

"Six people at 130?" Song Yin looked around, implying, do you have so many rooms in this small shop?

At that time, they were sitting on the porch with the boss's family to enjoy the cool air.It is now mid-July, and even in the depths of the mountains, the daytime temperature is 47-[-] degrees, and such high-temperature weather will continue until mid-to-late September.Although the sun has gone down at this moment, you can't feel the slightest bit of coolness, but at least you don't have to worry about radiation. People who have slept all afternoon can finally go out of the room to breathe outside. Anyway, it is so hot every year. When the heat comes down every year, everyone gets used to the heat, especially the children, who still have the strength to hide cats and cats in the cornfield in the yard.

But being so hot is not bad at all. At least the mosquitoes are hiding, and they will not come out until the temperature drops to 41 degrees in the early morning. It can be seen that human beings are more adaptable than mosquitoes.

The owner of the inn, surnamed Zhang, is a middle-aged man with a wrinkled face. He is currently smoking a strange dry tobacco made of several kinds of weeds very contentedly. Everyone has a room, and there are more than ten people crowded together, and one person only needs five yuan a night, if it is not too cold at night for fear of freezing, no one will come in to stay in the hotel."

Song Yin began to imagine what it would be like if ten people squeezed into one room. Xu Lingfeng's point of view was different from his, and asked, "Do all the nearby villages come to you to buy seeds?"

"Where is the purchase? It's all free, otherwise who would run so far, the wild animals in the forest are very fierce." The proprietress interjected, with a rather unwilling expression on her face.

The boss sighed: "Isn't this all forced? The winter is so long, and many people even eat up the seeds to survive... Sigh, God didn't leave a way for people to survive."

"Just give them the seeds for free? Will those who left the seeds at home also come and get them for nothing?" Li Xia asked.

"Why not, that's why people are angry." The proprietress rushed to answer, "Our mayor is too kind. He said that the forest is so dangerous and they all came here. They just gave it away for nothing."

Xu Lingfeng and Song Yin looked at each other, and they both smelled something extraordinary.

Li Xia blinked and asked again: "Where is the winter food in winter, is it also free?"

"It's about the same. The mayor said that if the harvest is good in the coming year, he still has to pay back the grain, but you are talking about the bad weather, can the harvest be good?" Now even the slightest smile on the boss's face is no longer visible.

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Not long after, a few people left the inn to look for food on the street, and now people’s routines have all changed: everyone will get up at around 09:30 in the morning, and rush to the fields as soon as the sky is bright, and work until [-]:[-] when they can’t stand the radiation. go home.After lunch, everyone will fall asleep in the heat wave. Of course, they will also use some ancient cooling methods. Like Xianyin Town, Yaoli has built a huge ice cellar underground. Xianyin Town is a round house with an ice cellar , here is obviously several neighboring families sharing the same ice cellar, but the results are almost the same, they put ice in in winter and take it out and put it in the house in summer, which is a bit of psychological comfort.Regardless of whether this cooling method is effective or not, many people have to sleep until five o'clock in the afternoon to get up, take a rest, eat something (usually cold porridge), and wait for the sun to set before going to work in the fields. I went home to eat and sleep until ten o'clock in the evening when I couldn't see at all...

Therefore, although it is already 06:30 in the evening, Yaoli Old Street seems to have just woken up from a nap, with the sounds of chickens, dogs, greetings, children's fights, and even quarrels. ... There were various noises in the street, and it began to gain popularity.

Song Yin's destination is the restaurant on the old street.Although the inn can also provide meals, Tian Mingwu and the others chose to go to the restaurant without hesitation. Firstly, the chefs in the restaurant are good at craftsmanship, and secondly, because of the long-lost feeling of "going to a restaurant"-these are all in the defense team. He's a martial artist again, with a good income, but at most he'll come to Chef Hu's every now and then for a plate of stir-fry, and ordering food in a restaurant like this is rare once a year.

This restaurant in Yaoli is also interesting. The restaurant only provides some ingredients, such as ginger, scallions, dried shiitake mushrooms, etc. As for the main ingredients, no matter the food, please bring your own. They only help to choose and wash the pot. If the guests don’t bring it? ...Sorry, the store has no ingredients!

This is the third day they arrived in Yaoli, and they have come in several times. Li Xia handed in the ingredients prepared earlier and explained the various requirements. The few people have finished ordering and sat down to wait for the boss. serve.

Xu Lingfeng sighed: "I didn't expect Zhu Xiao and the others to be able to do this!"

They already know that there are more than a dozen villages, large and small, in the vicinity of Yaoli, with more than 1 people living in them. Not only seeds, but winter grain, even if only one-sixth of the total population comes to ask for help , only 3000 to 50 people come here every year, and 10,000 catties per capita is also [-]+ catties of grain. This has been the case for several years, every year!

Yesterday he and Song Yin were invited to Zhu Xiao's residence, and saw a large farmland behind the "Zhu Family Courtyard", extending all the way to the foot of Yaoyu Mountain. According to Zhu Xiao, there are [-] mu of land in Yaoli outside the town. Taking the grain output of Xianyin Town as a reference, the output of these fields can at most allow the Yaoli people to barely eat enough, that is to say, Zhu Xiao got those "life-saving grains" from other places.

Xu Lingfeng had no doubt that Zhu Xiao (or Guanjingmen) would find a way to get this food, but he also believed that the process would definitely not be easy.Xu Lingfeng knew very well how much effort Song Yin had put into making those talisman disks, and he believed that Zhu Xiao would only pay more.

And what Zhu Xiao did was not just distributing food.

The villagers have to climb mountains and wade out of their villages for food. The ones that are close are okay, and they can be reached in a few hours. The ones that are far away have to walk through deep mountains and old forests for several days to get there. There is no need for danger explain.As for Zhu Xiao, he could have had the food delivered directly, but he chose to help the villagers clear the forest along the way, and his intentions were not without hardship.

"But, maybe a lot of people will blame him. And so many ordinary people go into the woods, there must be accidents every year, and those people's homes must... Anyway, it won't do anything good!" Li Xia muttered in a low voice.

Everyone fell silent, except for Ding Ding, everyone agreed with her words.

After a while, Song Yin broke the silence and said to Li Xia seriously: "Master Zhu, he didn't do this to please anyone."

He does it simply because he thinks he should.