Chapter Twenty-Five: Poor Feng Ying......

When Yun Zhao was still immersed in the fantasy of his bright future, Feng Ying did not have the slightest shadow of Yun Zhao in his life.

And even if there were, it was just a stocky kid trying to pretend to be an adult.

It's funny.

When the food of the tribesmen was scarce again, she did not think of the fat man, but carried the basket on her back and carried the maid up the mountain, which was no longer round.

When life in this part of Kuizhou was basically not smooth, even if there was no scourge of thieves, the barren land could not allow more than 100 people of the whole clan to get enough food.

To get food here, you basically rely on three points: plant a little in the field, catch a little in the water, and pick a little in the mountains...... (This is what the local secretary general summed up when he went to Fengjie for an interview).

Barren places even the grain is not good to grow, naturally there will not be too many gifts, among which the Three Gorges special leaves are the most famous, after this kind of leaves are made into tea, the biggest feature is to clear the stomach and intestines, scrape oil!

The greedy maid Xiao Chu spit out the leaves stuffed into her mouth, she didn't want to collect the leaves of this wild tree that could be used as tea leaves, after soaking in water and drinking this thing, she would only be hungrier.

"Miss, what are we going to do with these leaves, and we can't sell them."

For Xiao Chu, anything that can't be eaten or drunk is a useless waste.

Feng Ying straightened her waist, carefully took off the hanging shirt from the thorns, and looked at the turbulent Yangtze River waterway under her feet: "Don't worry, someone will buy it." ”

"The ancestor just beat Zhang Bingzhong away, and he has consumed all the food in the village, and he has no money, so he can't collect our goods.

Miss, let's go to Guanzhong and sell all these goods to that fat man, he will definitely like these teas if he is so fat. ”

Feng Ying smiled: "That's what I'm talking about!" ”

Xiao Chu immediately became cheerful when she heard this, hugged Feng Ying's waist and rubbed her face on Miss's back, at this moment, she felt that Miss was the wisest person in the world.

"But we don't have the money to travel!"

"Go get it from Feilang, I've heard they've done a few big deals lately."

"Okay, okay, miss, you can't be soft-hearted this time, they are thieves, and we rob them for the sake of heaven.

Besides, it's good that we've allowed them to stay in this valley. ”

Feng Ying looked at Xiao Chu and nodded with a smile: "Okay, don't be soft-hearted this time." ”

With the goal in mind, the two of them quickly finished picking the tea trees that still sprouted in the winter, and then went to the Feilang Village under the cliff.

Feilang Village is actually the home of a nest of water thieves, these people used to be coolies pulling fiber on the Three Gorges, and they disliked the slow money from pulling fiber, so they turned into water thieves.

Relying on his excellent water skills, he specializes in plundering lone ships.

When Feng Ying and Xiao Chu approached the gate of the cottage, a small crack opened in the gate of the cottage, and a thin man with a thick white cloth wrapped around his head squeezed out of the crack in the door, and said to Feng Ying: "Why does the eldest lady have time to come to my cottage?" ”

Feng Ying smiled and saluted: "The little girl is going to take a trip to Guanzhong to send a batch of goods to my brother, the goods have been prepared, but there is no entanglement, thinking that Feilang Village has been rich recently, I will come and get some." ”

When the thin man heard this, a small face that was already smoking suddenly turned into a dry orange.

Just when he was about to say that there was no food and grass in the village, he saw Xiao Chu excitedly looking down from the bamboo pole to take the bacon they were drying outside, so he didn't bother to talk to Feng Ying, and ran over to stop it.

After only running two steps, he saw Xiao Chu holding a thick handcuff in his hand facing him, so he had to stop, watching Xiao Chu put all the bacon into the back basket, looking extremely desperate.

"Where's the rice?"

Xiao Chu finished loading the bacon and salted fish, but did not find rice, so he came to the man's side, kicked the man's leg heavily, made him kneel down and asked viciously.

"Where did you get this year?"

"What about you stealing our sweet potatoes?"

"Grandpa Tian, since you came, only you took our things, when did we take your things?"

Xiao Chu saw that Miss was looking at the batik cloth drying on the bamboo pole, so he walked over and put it away and folded it and put it in the back basket, and then kicked the man again and said: "This time the young lady is here, if you don't give face, we will let Uncle Peng and them come after we go back, and interrogate your people here again!" ”

Thinking of the appearance of the one-armed Peng Shou, the thin man couldn't help but shudder.

At the beginning, it was this one-armed man who swept all the cottages on the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River with more than 200 white-pole troops, and no less than 20 cottages were destroyed by him.

Clear-eyed people know that this is Qin Liangyu is raising military funds to send troops, and such things will happen every few years, and all the big and small thieves in Sichuan understand, so as long as the white pole army team is dispatched, many cottages will close their doors, or flee in the starry night.

It's just that they didn't expect that two years ago, they would actually find the heads of the heroes in Kuizhou, and leave a team of men and horses to guard the Three Gorges.

Shizhu Ma is an official, although Kuizhou is not under the jurisdiction of Shizhu Tusi, local officials have always turned a blind eye to Shizhu Tusi's behavior of crossing the border to strangle thieves.

When Zhang Bingzhong entered Shuzhong, the Feilang Village was a great help, and now Zhang Bingzhong went to Hubei again, but the water thieves in the Feilang Village did not have the courage to follow, so they could only be blackmailed by Feng Ying and his group from time to time.

That little girl is right, it's good to say that the eldest girl Feng Ying is here, she is generally not very excessive, if Peng Shou's murderous demon comes, it will be difficult for a hundred and ten people in the Feilang Village to want to live people, the thin water thief Han Jin gritted his teeth and took out a silver ingot from his arms and offered it with both hands.

"Only three taels of silver?"

Xiao Chu immediately became furious when he got the money.

Feng Ying stopped the angry Xiao Chu and said to Han Jin: "I see that the batik cloth produced in your village is good, can you form a batch of goods, I will take it to Guanzhong to trade, if the price is good, you don't have to make a living on the water in the future, and everyone can make a living by making batik together." ”

Han Jin said with a smile: "Miss, this is all the work done by the mother-in-law in the village when she is free, can she really enter the eyes of the eldest lady?" ”

Feng Ying sighed and said: "We don't have this kind of craftsmanship in Kuizhou, you have plundered the Yunnan women from the boat, and you are not afraid of retribution." ”

Han Jin hurriedly said: "Miss, you have wronged us, there are no women on the boat crossing the gorge, and many troublesome merchants will throw the women they bought at the ferry, or sell them cheaply, and the women in our village are all here like this."

Don't say it, most of them are from Yunnan, and I don't know what's going on. ”

Feng Ying sighed when he heard this: "It's not the sin that was created during the rebellion of Extravagant Chongming, the men are dead, these women can't make a living, so they have to leave their homeland, and it is inevitable that people will leave their hometowns."

Han Jin, you go and tell other cottages, if they can trust me, organize a batch of goods, give them to me, I will take them to Guanzhong to trade, and prepare some grey cloth for you on the return trip, okay, this business can continue.

After Zhang Bingzhong's thief rebellion in Kuizhou, there is no such thing as a good livelihood. ”

Han Jin said: "The eldest lady's words are naturally trustworthy, don't hide it from the eldest lady, the business on the water is becoming more and more difficult to do, ten days and a half months can not see a boat, sometimes the boat comes, but it is a group of people who are not easy to start."

If those mothers-in-law who eat white rice can make wax cloth, and there is an extra bite to eat in the cottage, the small ones will be prepared. ”

"By the way, tell those bastards, Miss can't help in vain, no matter what, you have to wrap up the plate for Miss."

Xiao Chu was beating the drum on the side, and Han Jin agreed again and again, not daring to disobey.

When he went home, Xiao Chu returned with a full load, not only meat, fish, but also a small bag of white rice, which was given by Han Jin.

She couldn't wait to get back home and start cooking.

"Miss, that fat man is very rich now!"

Xiao Chu never forgot the Yun family's strips of meat.

"Don't be a fat man and a fat man, Brother Yun Shi is a capable person, I heard Uncle Peng say that the Yun family has begun to dominate in Guanzhong.

In the past, I didn't look down on these, thinking that I could take my people to find a vacant land in the mountains and farm and weave cloth by myself.

At that time, Brother Yun Shi said that Kuizhou was not a good choice, and thought that he wanted to annex us, but now it seems that Brother Yun Shi's words are right, Kuizhou is the gateway to Shuzhong, as long as there are heroes coveting Shuzhong, we will not be able to stabilize Kuizhou.

In the past two years, our village has moved three times in succession, and every time we move, we have lost once, and now we are almost exhausted.

This time I went to Guanzhong to see if this place was saved! ”

"Why can't we help, Miss is so smart, we can still grow corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes, where can't we live?"

Xiao Chu was very dissatisfied with Miss's self-contemptuous words.

Feng Ying pinched Xiao Chu's face and said, "If it doesn't work out, I will marry you to the Yun family in exchange for food." ”

Xiao Chu smiled and said, "If Miss marries that fat man, won't all of us have meat to eat?" ”

Xiao Chu said explicitly, Feng Ying did not look twisted, and said softly: "If I don't marry the Ma family, I can only marry the Yun family, just these two paths, there is no other choice."

Xiao Chu, it seems that you are more optimistic about the Yun family, right? ”

Xiao Chu hesitated for a moment, and finally said in a low voice: "Yun's strip meat is delicious!" ”

Feng Ying smiled bitterly, looked up at the gray sky above the Three Gorges, and whispered, "Poor Feng Ying, ......"

Xiao Chu shook his head and said, "Marrying a Han, marrying a Han, dressing and eating, there is nothing wrong with this." ”

Feng Ying said: "You don't understand, I want to live faster, I don't want to sell myself to anyone just to eat." ”

Xiao Chu said: "It's all of us who dragged Miss down." ”

Feng Ying didn't reply, but he took off the longbow on his back as fast as lightning, and shot arrows with the bow in one go, and with a bow sound, a rock rabbit rolled down the cliff.