Cub Nursery

"There are all kinds of taxes." Shahu himself couldn't say clearly, "Sometimes the family eats coarse grains and there is a coarse grain tax, and if they eat fine grains, there is a fine grain tax. Anyway, as long as the dog general comes to the door, he can come up with many excuses. This time General Dog said that there are only two brothers in my family, and he wanted to occupy my house, and that we were too young to work, and that we were wasting food if we were alive, so we should be taken away..."

"My brother and I are very capable of work." Chihu hurriedly said, "Our land has never been helped by others. It is cultivated by both of us. My brother said, we are children and have little strength, so we should use more other people spend one day, we use it for two, three, or four days!"

Planing food in the soil does not seem simple, but for native farmers, it is much simpler.

As long as you farm the land peacefully, the land will always grow crops, and when the autumn harvest food is brought home, regardless of whether the food is good or bad, it will always fill your stomach anyway.

"Who does General Dog work for, do you know?" Yan Xun asked again.

The red fox was a little confused, obviously he didn't know.

But Shahu's eyes flickered, and he said in a low voice, "It's Mr. Zhang from the county seat."

"The scope of General Dog is not limited to Shangyuan Village?" Yan Xun asked again.

The red fox also knew, so he hurriedly talked about several nearby villages.

Yan Xun murmured, "General Dog can't move yet, but his dog legs can be beaten up, and it's okay to break his legs. General Dog is still useful. Let's... go to your house first to have a look."

"Okay!" Chihu completely trusted the savior.

Shahu stared at the mask on Yan Xun's face for a while, frowned and said, "Your mask is weird, why do you have to draw these traces?"

"If you can get me a pen and paper, I'll make a new mask." Yan Xun smiled, "I have to wear a mask. I look like this now, and it's very ugly without a mask." He took off the leaf mask and gave it to Sha Fox took a look.

Yan Xun is still very thin, with sunken cheeks, he really doesn't look very good-looking.

"It's not ugly, I don't understand what people like you think." Shahu stared at Yan Xun for a while, then muttered, "Actually, they are all pretty." He originally wanted to believe what Yan Xun said, but now he Some do not believe it.

My grandfather and grandma don't look very good-looking, but this person's appearance is really good-looking. Anyway, he has never seen anyone more beautiful than him when he grows up. Even the beauties raised by those adults in the county can't compare. superior.

Such a good-looking person is his cousin?

Because there is still General Dog, he cannot rush back to the village.

After dark, Shahu took the tied dog general back home from a remote path. Fortunately, his house was also located in a remote location. The houses on both sides were already dilapidated and apparently abandoned. Almost alone.

The courtyard of Shahu's house is also dilapidated, and only three main rooms are still intact.

After entering the house, Sand Fox and Red Fox directly put General Dog into their cellar, and then heaved a sigh of relief, and said to Yan Xun, "There is still some food at home, I'll cook."

Yan Xun followed suit.

Next to the three main rooms are two side rooms. There is a simple thatched shed against the outer wall, with a very simple stove.

There are water tanks and rice tanks at the base of the wall, but the rice tanks are empty. Shahu moved the rice tanks, opened a hidden compartment on the wall, took out a small pot from inside, scooped out a bowl of coarse grains, and put it in again.

Yan Xun raised his eyebrows, and the sand fox took it out in front of his face, obviously he didn't intend to keep hiding it, but Yan Xun felt that it was definitely not all the food, the cunning rabbit still had three caves, looking at this kid's cleverness, it might be There are also many places where food is hidden.

But he didn't come here for food, so naturally he didn't go back to check anything.

A bowl of whole grains and a lot of green vegetables, just cook a big pot of vegetable porridge, put a little salt in it, and this is a meal.

The red fox stared at the vegetable porridge and swallowed non-stop. He wanted to eat it very much, because he hadn't eaten food for a long, long time, and he just ate wild vegetables to satisfy his hunger every day.

The excitement of being about to fill his stomach made the red fox temporarily forget the thrills of the day. First he scooped up a bowl of thick vegetable porridge for Yan Xun, and then scooped it up for himself. I bought some whole grains.

"Thank you." Yan Xun picked up the vegetable porridge and drank it, his expression unchanged.

The taste of porridge is very bland. Although coarse grains are grains, they don’t taste very good. Wild vegetables are delicious, but if you eat wild vegetables as vegetables, you will feel extremely delicious, but if you eat them as rice, the feeling will not be so good. .

However, Yan Xun has not had a serious meal for a long time. Although the vegetable porridge in front of him is not delicacies, it tastes really good.

After dinner, Yan Xun said, "Ask the people in the village tonight if anyone dares to oppose General Dog."

"But..." Shahu's eyes widened, "Didn't you say that General Dog can't move, and there is Master Zhang behind him, that's the county government. Once he enters, he will have to shed his skin even if he doesn't die, unless he has a lot of money and buys it with money." life, otherwise..."

"Anyway, General Dog has already offended him, even if he is wrong about General Dog, these things have already become a fact." Yan Xun said bluntly, "General Dog should have a lot of food in his house, right? Don't his scumbags have a lot of food in their house? As long as the people in the village unite, we will share the food by then."

"Even if the county government comes, we have something to say. Don't worry, you can just push it on me when the time comes."

"Go find a pen and paper, and I'll make a note."

Shahu was a little shocked, he felt that not only did he underestimate Yan Xun, but he also underestimated himself.

Thinking about it carefully, General Dog has already offended them anyway. Although those dog legs did not break their legs, they were all tied up and hid near the ancestral hall at the foot of the mountain.Perhaps Yan Xun had already thought of what to do at that time, and Shahu, who followed to help, might have also thought about it in his heart, but he was too timid after all, and he didn't dare to think deeply.

Anyway, they are already offended now, so they just don't do anything, and offend him to death.

As long as there is food, he can survive, he can keep fit, and maybe unite with other bullied families in the village, and he can go to the county government to seek justice.

Thinking in this way, Shahu strengthened his thoughts, and borrowed a pen and paper from someone he knew well.

The paper is the most common paper in the capital made from the recipes researched by the cubs, and the pen is also the cheapest pencil in the mall in the capital.

"I heard that this kind of paper and pen is everywhere in other places, and it is very affordable." Shahu couldn't help but said, "The family who lent me the paper and pen was lucky. They met foreigners and asked them for it." .”

"En." Yan Xun nodded, "There are many kinds of prices for this kind of paper, one price for scholars, one price for children studying, and another price for old people, but shopping malls often have activities, buy one get one free , the price is the most affordable, as are pencils. You can buy thirty sheets of this kind of paper for five cents, and if you are lucky enough to catch up with an event, you can even buy fifty sheets for five cents."

"Really?" Sand Fox's eyes widened in disbelief.

Paper has always been very expensive. There are no scholars in the village, and paper is basically not used. There are only a few scholars in the county town. Many people borrow books to read, and they cannot afford paper and pen anyway.

"The price of paper and pen will not be much more expensive, there will be money subsidies." Yan Xun paused, and then said, "Qiyuan County will be like this in the future."

"I hope." Shahu said so, but his heart became uncontrollably hot.

Yan Xun finished writing the documents, wrote his name on the inscription, and told him, "Words written in pencil are easy to be erased and revised. You can get some leaf juice and paint it again, so that even if the pencil writing is erased, the leaf juice will be erased." It will stay intact."

"I'll get it right now." Sand Fox said hastily.

"It's getting late, I have to go back and see my man. No matter what the result of your contact is, we'll see you at the foot of the mountain tomorrow." Yan Xun turned and went out before leaving, "You two don't trust other people too much, You must know that money touches people’s hearts. Maybe one tael, ten taels, or a hundred taels won’t move your heart, but what about 1 taels, 10 taels, or a million taels of silver? What if you can enjoy endless glory and wealth?”

Seeing that Yan Xun was about to go out, Shahu chased him out and asked, "What about you, how much money do you need to be tempted?"

"I'm not for money." Yan Xun said lightly.

"Then what are you for?" Sand Fox asked.

Yan Xun looked back at Shahu, "You can risk your life for your brother, it's not because of money. As for me, I want you who can eat and clothe to get what you should have, and I will give you the extra things. Certainly not."

What he said was very clear, but he didn't understand it very much.

Anyway, Shahu didn't understand. He was thoughtful, but at the same time he felt that what Yan Xun said should be right.

It's right to get what you deserve, right?Originally, their family should have a lot of food, anyway, they can't finish it after two or three years.

So does Yan Xun mean that as long as he takes back the food that originally belonged to him, he should not take more?Although there is nothing wrong with this, if this is the case, wouldn't it be cheaper for General Dog and his followers?

Shahu thinks that Yan Xun is not that kind of kind person, but he can't understand anything else, but he can't say this casually to others, he thinks that Yan Xun is right, what should be guarded against, even if it is He has a good relationship with some people in the village, and he also sympathizes with each other.

Yan Xun returned to the mountain by another road.

As soon as he entered the yard, he saw Jing Fengye was already waiting, Yan Xun smiled at him, took off the mask on his face and strode over, "Master Jing."

"I'm back." Jing Fengye also had a smile on his face.

"Well, it went well." Yan Xun took out Xiao Hei who had been hiding on his body, pinched Xiao Hei's face with his fingers, and put him on the ground for him to play with, while telling what he had seen and heard. After reading it again, "I drank vegetable porridge, and it tastes pretty good."

"I killed a few rabbits." Jing Feng said at night, "Shall we roast them now?"

"Roast!" Yan Xun hurriedly said, "I haven't eaten meat for a long time, now I really want to eat meat."

Almost no one came up this mountain, but there were quite a few rabbits, but there was nothing at the foot of the mountain, and the game had been caught long ago.

After the roasted rabbit was finished, Yan Xun pulled a rabbit leg and handed it to Xiao Hei.

When drinking vegetable porridge at Shahu's house, Xiao Hei wanted to come out, but Yan Xun pushed him back. After that, Xiao Hei never came out again, but he was very obedient.

"Xiao Hei is very obedient." Yan Xun laughed.

"Father." Xiao Hei hugged the rabbit's leg and gnawed it in small bites. The speed was not slow, and he didn't know how he could eat so many things with such a small size.

Early the next morning, the sand fox came out early and waited at the foot of the mountain.

Things went smoothly unexpectedly, when Shahu explained his intentions, no one refuted at all.

In fact, many people have long been unable to uncover the pot. The food in the family is too little, and they have to be on guard against General Dog bringing people to collect taxes. Even if they take it out, they dare not eat it. If General Dog smells it, That family may be over.

Therefore, many people eat wild vegetables every day, and the whole family is full of vegetables, so they can't last long if they go on like this.

If you can get food, then you can have a full meal before you die, and that's worth it.

There are people in the village who can read and write to Shahu, and let Chihu know what Yan Xun's name is.

"Yan Xun." Shahu murmured, "It sounds good."

Not long after, Yan Xun arrived as promised.

At this time, Shahu realized which mountain Yan Xun was on. He hesitated for a moment, because the ancestors of Shangyuan Village did not know how to go up the mountain. He heard the old people in the village say that the mountain is very dangerous. Basically, it is impossible to go up. When I came down again, some people in the village had been there, but they really couldn't come back, which also scared everyone in Shangyuan Village.

Even an arrogant person like General Dog would only dare to be arrogant at the foot of the mountain, and would never dare to go up the mountain.

Yan Xun saw what Shahu was thinking at a glance, so he smiled and said, "I'm not from Shangyuan Village, but I didn't encounter anything on the mountain, and I feel quite safe."

"You are not from Shangyuan Village." Shahu immediately relaxed. The ancient ancestral hall on the mountain belongs to Shangyuan Village, and those who have not been able to come back before are also from Shangyuan Village. The only outsider is Yan Xun. Mountain.

"All ready?" Yan Xun asked.

"En." Shahu whispered, "It's just that everyone doesn't have enough to eat, even if they eat a full stomach of wild vegetables, they don't have much strength."

There must be food in many people's homes, but they will not eat it unless they have to. I'm afraid they didn't fully trust Yan Xun and kept such a trick behind their backs.

Yan Xun didn't break through these small thoughts, and said directly as if he didn't know: "Then follow the plan. If one family is not enough, then two, three, or five households. Quietly, don't make any noise, and don't let it go." Destroy those houses, after all, who knows who those houses will belong to in the future?"

"However, I also want to put the ugly words to the fore. My wording is very clear. You can only get back the food that belongs to you. If you take anything more, or take the opportunity to bully someone or kill someone , then don’t push it on me, even if I go to the county government to say it in the future, I won’t let go.”

"Shahu, have you told them all these words?" Yan Xun finally asked.

"I've said it all." The sand fox's face was a little ugly.

He felt that what Yan Xun said was right, the most urgent thing is to get back the food that originally belonged to his family, and we will discuss what to do in the future.If they join forces to attack those people, then what is the difference between them and General Dog?

It's just that when he said these words, not many people were willing to listen.

"Someone wants to see me?" Yan Xun knew what Shahu was thinking when he saw Shahu's face.

"En." Shahu said in a low voice, "Come with me." He led the way, turned a corner and went to a dilapidated house, where Wuyang Wuyang and a group of people were already waiting.

When everyone saw Yan Xun coming in, they all looked him up and down.

To be honest, General Dog bullied the villagers so hard, it wasn't that they didn't think about doing something, they also thought about secretly uniting to fight together, but they were afraid of being investigated by the county government, but they were afraid of being bitten instead of killing the snake. General Dog is domineering, and there are many people under him. Once bitten back, no one can bear it.

And now suddenly a person who is willing to take responsibility pops up, and it has to be said that almost everyone readily agrees.

In the final analysis, they are still selfish and afraid of death, but yes, everyone has a family, and everyone wants to live a happy life.

Not all are good, but not all are bad.People are inherently very complicated, and there are few absolute good and absolute evil. Even Yan Xun, who is said to be kind by many people, has a lot of bright red blood on his hands.

"Yan Xun?" A strong man said first.

Yan Xun nodded.

The burly man took a step forward, cupped his hands at Yan Xun, "Thank you, young master, for giving us such a good idea."

Yan Xun narrowed his eyes immediately.