Go to ancient times and engage in construction

The village of Nanbu is located next to a bend of a big river. The bend is like a natural river port. It can moor more than a dozen boats at a time. The village is not too big. It seems that there are two to three hundred households in the village. Most of the buildings are the same as the houses seen on the road, with earth walls and thatched roofs. A small number of houses use stone walls and roof tiles. The color of the tiles is blue-gray.The distance from Dahe Wharf to the small road is relatively wide, like a village street, dividing the village into two. Chu Chaohui and Zheng Yuming saw a few houses with stone walls near the wharf. A big gourd was hung under the eaves of the stone house gate. , standing at the gate is a bearded man in his thirties dressed in coarse cloth and short brown. This man is the tallest ancient man seen by travelers. He is about 170 centimeters, with broad arms and round waist.

The big man spotted Wu Da coming in a mule cart, and greeted him with his arms crossed at the gate.

"Wu Dadong's house! Take a break, I have good wine brought by the boatman here, let's have a few cups to warm up!"

"Yu Kui, is it Qingjiu?" Wu Da stopped the mule cart.

"That's right, it's Qingzhuang Valley Wine." The big man replied.

This is Yu Kui who runs a hotel?A hotel with wine gourds hanging at the door?

"Bring me a jar, my family has distinguished guests today, and the green wine is just for the distinguished guests to drink." Wu Da boldly asked for a jar, and it turned out that he was only willing to drink a bowl or half a bowl here.

Seeing that the business was done, the big man standing at the door smiled even more, and immediately turned and went into the house to drink.

Seeing Yu Kui entering the room, Wu Da turned his face and explained to the savior.

"Two strong men, I will go to my humble house in front of me. I invite the strong men to have a meal in my house. After eating, my family will accompany my benefactor to the pier to exchange things. This Qingzhuang Valley Wine is a good liquid, and it is very famous in Wu."

"Thank you, Dadong Wu!" Zheng Yuming quickly thanked him.

Chu Zhaohui is not very good at speaking Wu dialect, and Zheng Yuming basically speaks when talking. If Chu Zhaohui speaks, Zheng Yuming will repeat it.

Not long after, Yu Kui walked out of the house with a black and yellow pottery in his arms, and visually estimated that the pottery could hold 4 or 5 catties of wine.

"How about a horse of Dacheng cloth?" Wu Da took the wine, but did not pay for it with money.

"Dachengbu? Okay!" Yu Kui's eyes lit up.

Wu Da turned around and handed the wine to Chu Chaohui, and motioned for Chu Chaohui to take out a piece of cloth from the innermost part of the carriage.

"Next is Yu Kui from Yu Restaurant, where are the two guest officials from?" Standing beside the carriage, Yu Kui found that the two men in the carriage were tall, with outstanding features and extraordinary manners, so he hurriedly stepped forward and bowed to each other.

"These two are the strong man Chu and the strong man Zheng who saved my life." Seeing that Yu Kui noticed the two people in the car, Wu Da hurriedly introduced them. Chu Chaohui and Zheng Yuming have no long hair, strange clothes, tall and tall Sitting in the carriage is also very eye-catching. Since Wu Da entered the village and the mule carriage slowed down, several villagers noticed these two distinctive strangers. Curious, did not come forward to watch.

"It turned out to be a strong man! Disrespect, disrespect!" Yu Kui's attitude became more and more respectful when he heard that he was a knight.

Because Yu Kui greeted them, Chu Chaohui and Zheng Yuming hurriedly got out of the car and bowed in return. When they arrived in a strange place, they must live in harmony with the local people. It has been summed up for thousands of years that a strong dragon can't beat a local snake.

"We are two brothers who have wandered here from overseas. We are not familiar with the place where we were born in Wu. The customs in your place are different from our hometown. Please give us some advice from Yu Restaurant so that we will not be rude." Zheng Yuming turned to Yu Kui owed his lower body. Nanbu is a water traffic junction, and there are many pedestrians coming and going. As the owner of the hotel, Yu Kui must be the most well-informed person in Nanbu. This kind of person is the same as Wu Da, he and Chu Chaohui Indigenous people who need to make friends deliberately.

"If there is any inconvenience for a strong man, just tell Yu in detail, and Yu will do his best to help." Seeing these two tall and handsome foreigners, Yu Kui spoke politely, behaved well, and was very polite to him, so he couldn't help feeling sorry for the two. Showing a good impression, he repeatedly promised to provide help to foreigners.

The villagers in the village gradually gathered around. The uniqueness of the time traveler aroused the curiosity of the local residents. Chu Chaohui's height of 183 was unheard of by the villagers, and Zheng Yuming, who was slender and handsome, aroused everyone's amazement. You must know In ancient times, people lacked medical care and medicine, and the poor were malnourished. Chu Chaohui and Zheng Yuming traveled all the way. Except for Yu Kui, they did not see aboriginal men taller than 170 centimeters, and aboriginal women were even shorter, all around 150 centimeters.The faces of the aborigines are not flat and smooth, they basically have pockmarks, and their skin is not fair and pink, but most of them are dark and burnt yellow, not the honey color of Chu Chaohui.

Wu Da’s clothes are the best. Although he wears tops and bottoms like the villagers, the fabric is made of cotton with jackets inside. The collar and sleeves are lined with animal fur, and the feet are made of animal skin. shoes.The other villagers were not as neatly dressed as Wu Da. Most of them were linen short gowns, their lower bodies were mostly coarse linen pants, and their feet were shoes woven with a mixture of cloth and straw.

Master Wu was on the south bank of the port, and it was only thirty meters away from Yu Kui's wine shop. After Wu Da and Yu Kui bought wine, instead of getting in the car, he led the mule and led Chu Chaohui and Zheng Yuming to walk slowly. You can see his house if you walk more than [-] meters forward.Wu Dazheng was pointing in the direction of his home to tell the guests how far it was, when Wood suddenly barked from behind him.

Chu Chaohui and Zheng Yuming got out of the car, and Mu Mu also jumped off.After the wood jumped off, he ran to the side of the road and showed his might to the villagers' dogs. Most of these dogs were malnourished, because they were used to strangers in the village, so these dogs would not bark at strangers during the day , For the tall strangers, the domestic dogs ignored them, and the demonstrations of the little milk dogs were even more ignored.

Mu Mu roared twice, seeing that the imaginary enemy was lazy, he also felt bored, he snorted twice and ran back to his master, slipping back and forth between Zheng Yuming's legs.Zheng Yuming always felt that the log was at his feet, and he didn't want to be distracted, so the log ran back to the Yukui Winery and barked at the earthen wall next to the winery, beside which there was a pile of withered grass.

"Wood! Come back!" Zheng Yuming turned around and saw Mu Mu yelling at a pile of grass, thinking that Mu Mu was being naughty, he hurriedly called Mu Mu back.

Wood heard the master's call, looked back at the master, wagged his tail, turned around and barked at the haystack.

Seeing that he couldn't call back the log, Zheng Yuming had no choice but to go to the earth wall, trying to hug the log back, but just as he was about to bend over when he reached the side of the log, Zheng Yuming was startled by the sudden movement of the haystack, and the sound of the log became even more vigorous.

Not far away, Chu Chaohui also noticed something strange beside the earthen wall, so he quickly walked over to stop Zheng Yuming. He had a steel rod in his hand, which was better than Zheng Yuming's crossbow.

The haystack moved for a while but didn't stop. After a while of rustling, a small black thing emerged from the haystack.Chu Chaohui, Zheng Yuming and other dark things all got out of the haystack, only to find that this black thing was a child, about 7 or 8 years old, with messy hair, ragged clothes, sleeves that had become strips of cloth, and both hands and arms were bare Half of them were outside, and so were the trousers, with straw sandals on their feet, and the skin on their ankles was purple from the cold.

The child got out of the haystack and suddenly saw two tall strangers standing in front of him. He couldn't help being shocked and sat back in the haystack. After the child sat down like this, a smaller child emerged from the haystack. The same tattered, fluffy heads, the necks of the two children are so thin that they can hardly support the heads, and the eyes on the two small faces are too big, and the eyes are full of panic.

"These two children fled here with their parents. Their parents were sick and did not survive the winter. These two poor children have been wandering here." Wu Da also came over with a mule cart, and said to Chu Chaohui He and Zheng Yuming introduced the life experiences of the two children.

"Is there no one in the village to adopt?" Zheng Yuming looked at the two shivering children hugging each other, and felt pity in his heart. This is not the Celestial Dynasty, and there are no professional beggars. Those who go begging in this era are really poor and need pity and sympathy.

"The harvest has not been good in the past few years, and it is difficult to support my own children. Who would adopt other people's children? I want to take in this boy, but this boy refuses to leave his sister behind." Wu Da sighed.It turned out that the child who looked like five or six years old was a girl.Wu Daxin felt pity, but he didn't want to raise two children either.

Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui glanced at each other, and they had an understanding of the patriarchy in ancient times. In a society with low productivity, patriarchy was a helpless choice. When all the children could not be fed, girls became the first choice of victims, because Girls are raised to be unable to become laborers.This is how boys are adopted and girls are left unattended.

Seeing the two dangerous men being barked out by himself, Mu Mu was not only barked out by himself, but also hugged and trembled together. He couldn't help but feel that his victory was brilliant, so he went up to the two dark children and sniffed them. When he realized that there was no danger, he fell. He turned his head and ran to Zheng Yuming's feet, wagging his tail, and shouted at his master to show his merits.

Zheng Yuming felt that the two children were too pitiful. He and Chu Chaohui would not rush to adopt the children, but it was still possible to give the children some food, because there was Wu Da's treat for lunch today, and the biscuits prepared in the valley villa were superfluous. It's better to give these two children to satisfy their hunger.

Thinking of this, Zheng Yuming took out a palm-sized pancake from his backpack and handed it to the boy. The puffed pancake is fermented from flour and baked in an oil pan. As soon as he took it out of the backpack, the fragrance overflowed. Even Wu Da sniffed it. .

The boy was in awe of the two tall strangers, his face was eager for food, but he dared not reach out his hand to take it.

"Take it, give your sister a full meal." Wu Da encouraged the boy to take the food.

The boy was familiar with Wu Da. The owner often delivered food to his brother and sister. Seeing that Wu Da asked him to pick up the food, he judged that the two strangers were harmless and friendly, and stretched out his dirty black hand.

Just when the boy was about to grab the bread, a black shadow suddenly appeared from the side and snatched the food from Zheng Yuming's hand. Heel of the black shadow, the black shadow was swept away, and the speed of escape was still unabated.

"A rat who kills thousands of knives! You're robbing these two children of food again." Wu Da took a bite at the shadow that was going away.

"Rat?" Chu Chaohui's hand was already on his waist. He hadn't swept the black shadow away with a stick just now, so he wanted to draw the pistol reflexively, and only reacted when his hand touched the hard gun body. Being robbed of a piece of bread, there is no need to waste a bullet for a piece of bread.

"It's a wild boy. He wandered here the year before last, and he just squatted around the village and refused to leave. This wild boy is not bad at all, but he can snatch food. His speed is extremely fast. Adults often have nothing to do with him. Most of the food for these two orphans will be taken away by that wild child." Although Wu Da didn't dislike wild children, he didn't like them either. He felt like seeing a fly that couldn't be driven away. .

The eyes of the boy who was robbed of the food were filled with tears. He had never smelled such delicious food. Before he could even touch it, he was snatched away by his old enemy. Now the boy felt very regretful and annoyed at his hesitation.

"Here's more, here it is!" Zheng Yuming sighed, took out the last piece of bread from his backpack and handed it to the boy. When he handed the food again, Zheng Yuming looked around from the corner of his eyes, fearing that the 'rat' would snatch it away again.

For the stranger's second kindness, the boy didn't hesitate any longer, snatched it quickly, put it to his mouth and took a bite, before chewing, suddenly remembered his sister, and hurriedly handed the pancake to her.

The three adults by the haystack just watched the two children gobble up, and left when they saw that there was not much bread left.

Yu Kui had been standing at the door of his winery watching all this, and he walked slowly towards the haystack after Wu Da led the two overseas people away.

"Is it tasty?"

"Delicious!" The bread has already been eaten, but the two children are still licking their little hands. They have never tasted such deliciousness since they were born and grew up. It is so delicious that they almost chewed their tongues. .

"Do you and your sister want to live?" Yu Kui bent down and asked the boy. The two children licked all the black ash from their hands, and the hands that had been black all year round finally saw the color of flesh.

"Think!" The boy's eyes are full of longing for life. The cold winter life of eating and sleeping in the wind puts them on the verge of life all the time. If it wasn't for the lack of rain and snow throughout the cold winter, they would have froze in the haystack in the wet night. .

When Yu Kui was talking to the boy, the 'rat' who was hiding in the far corner and licking his fingers was happily reminiscing about the prize he just snatched, and even the tingling pain on his feet couldn't interrupt his thoughts Aftertaste, he stared at the place where Chu Chaohui and Zheng Yuming disappeared, and secretly made up his mind that he must taste this delicacy in the world again. As long as he grabs it again, even if he turns into a dead 'rat' after eating it, he is enough. Book.