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Under normal circumstances, Jiubao would not explain such a small thing to Huo Yunqian in this tone, such as giving away some pickles for free.

But he guessed that if he introduced the Xu family more, the young master would like to hear it.

It's mainly to lead to breakfast.

Because among the four hundred people mining, there are no cooks at all.

How could one be so well-prepared for something like this? It’s not just for fun. Everyone eats in the camp all the time and has no cooking skills at all.

Therefore, for the elite soldiers and generals who chop off heads like chickens, from the time they are stationed here, it is more difficult to make a comfortable meal than to let them kill people.

Xu Tianxin initially gave his grandmother the step-by-step instructions for making dry food and cooking dishes, and even wrote a special note for him. However, when the same rice, flour, grains and oils were placed in the hands of these elite soldiers, they would still become watery or burnt when fried. Stewed and burnt, the dry food is so hard that it can kill a person and tastes like chewing wax.

In fact, there is one person in the Xu family who is like this kind of bear, and that is the third child, Xu Youcang. He seems like he can’t remember it even after watching it eight hundred times. In Mrs. Xu’s original words: “It seems that he doesn’t have that muscle.”

So Jiubao is telling Huo Yunqian:
"...I had two meals a day, but even if I could finish the afternoon meal, it would be difficult to have the morning meal. It would be a waste of time to cook all the time, so I bought a lot of fried noodles, dried noodles, and sour soup from the Xu family. Ah, Master, sour soup is cornmeal. I heard that the Xu family is a kind of thick noodles made by fermenting corn in water. Miss Xu also said two days ago that when the weather gets hotter, there will be cold noodles. "

Jiubao has been looking forward to it ever since he heard the word cold noodles. Miss Xu said that when the vegetables come out from the vegetable garden, put a hard-boiled egg in the cold noodles, cucumber shreds and spicy cabbage, and some chili noodles to serve with it. The noodle soup left in the well to cool down can be eaten as a meal and relieve the heat.

Before Huo Yunqian could ask if he would be full if he only ate noodles all morning. Of course, Huo Yunqian might not ask. Jiubao took the initiative and mentioned that when Xu Tianxin was delivering meals in the afternoon, he would bring a lot of dry food a day in advance. If they woke up early and didn't even bother to cook noodles, they would share some pickles and some dry food, and finish eating while walking into the cave. No need to wash the dishes and chopsticks.

And they ordered lunch at the Xu family, and even ordered a lot of noodles and dry food for the morning meal. Everyone patrolled, and sometimes they would catch prey by chance, and they would give a lot of meat to the Xu family. Anyway, since they couldn’t do it well, they might as well ask those who knew how to do it, so Miss Xu’s grandmother gave the resident a lot of pickles for breakfast for free.

Miss Xu said that her grandmother asked her to tell them that now that there is a shortage of food, she can only send some of the hoarded radish, pickles and wild celery. When the vegetable garden comes down in a while, the Xu family will build a house this year and have a large vegetable garden. They will definitely ask their granddaughter to bring some laba garlic, platycodon pickles, pickled cucumbers, garlic eggplants, and ground rings. There are beans.”

Jiubao thought:

He has never looked forward to a good harvest in the vegetable garden so much.

Maybe it's just too bitter and boring here, that's why he's so greedy.

When they come down from the vegetable garden, they will only receive the various pickles that Grandma Xu mentioned. Presumably they can also eat bean braised noodles in iron pots, various braised noodles, pepper braised vegetables, and eggplant braised vegetables. Unlike now, they can only Can eat wild vegetables.

Huo Yunqian originally didn't want to talk to Jiubao, but when he heard this, he continued to check the camp and couldn't help correcting the little glutton: "That's called cowpea."

In ancient times, the beans here should be accurately called Yau Ma Teng Dou Ying. The beans were larger than modern beans. The beans eaten in modern times have been improved through grafting from generation to generation.

Ah, it turns out that Nianxiang, the guys and soldiers said vat, that’s roughly what it meant anyway, and Miss Xu also called it Douzizi.

However, none of this matters.

The important thing is... Jiubao quickly leads their master to stop walking straight away.

Because after passing this area of ​​"RVs" where people were temporarily living, yes, their tents were still not enough to accommodate people, and even the carriages had to be accommodated, and further forward there was the toilet.

As their master, they don't need to visit the toilet.

But Jiubao thought about it, and finally mentioned it as he was walking along, regardless of whether human excrement or horse excrement was stored.

The toilets here are a little different from those in Daying. They elevated the straw latrine shed slightly, and specially made a trough with broken boards underneath to catch it.

It's hard for Jiubao to say it in such detail. He mentioned this mainly to bring out the sentence. They would also transport the feces to a place only Xu Tianxin knew about and store it at night like ghosts and monsters.

Everyone has nothing to thank the Xu family for thinking about them. What they see is buying. In fact, there are some small things that come and go, and the Xu family will help and send them free of charge.

And the manure needs to be retted in advance. They have no time to spread it on the ground and can't use it.

Jiubao simply asked the brothers to stock up the horse manure and put the human manure in troughs, and push the manure accumulated over the past few days to a place slightly away from here.

After being stored like this for a year and a half, the Xu family will be able to use it next year after they move out.

What's more, there is an advantage to doing this, that is, if someone really checks it later, they won't find so much feces.

A lot means that many people have stayed here.

At this time, Huo Yunqian nodded when he heard this, and suddenly returned the topic to eating: "Can't the Xu family handle two meals?"

I made two meals a day.

Be obedient, and as a superior person, he will not say anything that is nonsense, let alone mention it again.

Not to mention Jiubao, all the people accompanying him heard the meaning. Maybe the general felt that it was not decent to give people manure, which was a hint that he wanted the Xu family to make some more money.

Helplessly, another subordinate with a calm temperament who was also an accountant took the initiative to answer: "I can't take it. He said he was busy planting medicinal fields and also shipped goods to foreign businessmen."

And except for the Xu family's ancestors and grandchildren, it was impossible for them to let anyone know. I heard that the Xu family also found a suitable reason for the outside world and started coming here after making arrangements to be inconspicuous.

The subordinate who replied thought: In fact, when the Xu family's ancestors and grandsons first knew about it, he was also worried about it when the general didn't come.

If they hadn't had many elite soldiers here who had seen Miss Xu blow up the barracks, they would have had no place to sleep in the winter.

Furthermore, he also knew about Miss Xu's relationship with General Jia Lai and General Lu, as well as Jiubao's heartfelt assurance. Without these, he would never let go.

Today the general finally came. The tone of the questions and Jiubao's detailed answers did not make the general show any impatience. Only then did the subordinates in charge of the accounts fully understand what the term "the seventh-grade official in front of the prime minister's door" means. ".

Jiubao, a "caring person" around the general, is really not something that ordinary people can be.

There's quite a lot of knowledge here.

Why is he said to be knowledgeable? For example, the general himself doesn't like to talk much, so when he chooses his entourage, he won't be a boring gourd at all.

Moreover, if this follower wants to be able to chirp frequently without offending his master, he must know that the general must know what news he needs from the people below him every day. What news do you need to know urgently, and what kind of news do you want to hear more from.

This person thought that the Xu family must be the last type, and the general would be willing to listen.

And the reason why it is said that the people who guard the door for the prime minister are all seventh-rank officials. They cannot offend but can only make close friends. You see, there will be a lot of difference between the people around you who say more and less in reply.

If you don't make good friends with Jiubao, Jiubao, as a close servant, will talk less. If you mention it less, your impression on the general will gradually fade away.

Even in the eyes of this subordinate, even some of Jiubao's replies were really nonsense.

For example, transporting manure at night to the Xu family for farming.

For example, they drink filtered water to avoid getting sick.

As if walking all the way, Jiubao's mouth is really busy. When introducing food, he will mention it smoothly: "Actually, the subordinates eat according to the Xu family's menu. It's just that the subordinates eat earlier than the Xu family, and eat the same food. This meal is in the evening."

The general has a lot of things on his mind, so why mention such trivial things?

What this subordinate didn't know was that Jiubao's words were not nonsense.

When Huo Yunqian hears it, he will immediately think about what Xu Tianxin will eat tonight, and the names of the dishes that Jiubao just reported will also appear on the screen. There will be a general impression that Xu Tianxin eats well, no wonder he has grown a lot. He saw that the shredded potatoes in Xu Tianxin's lunch box in the afternoon were fried in oil, and there were some pickles. It turned out that the meal was a snack. There will also be a meal at night.

If Huo Yunqian finally took the time to come to the mine this time, what surprised him was not the above. Instead, he was led by his subordinates from the accommodation area to the back mountain.

Many crops have been cultivated and planted here.

One of the advantages of Huo Yunqian's ability to have so many elite soldiers and generals follow him wholeheartedly is that he never doubts that his men will do what it takes to pick up sesame seeds from a watermelon.

For example, there are large areas of crops planted here. His first reaction was never doubting that his men delayed mining. They must have cultivated them by taking advantage of the night rest.

It can be seen that his men are working very hard.

"Why."

Jiubao is very good at being a good person, but at this point, he is like a stuffy gourd and stops talking.

The subordinates who were in charge of accounting and planting just now saw Huo Yunqian's eyes glancing over, and they quickly reported to the general to explain why this was the case.

The subordinate in charge of the accounts said that expenses must be controlled.

This is what he was sent to consider for the general. Even though the general never gave them any orders in this regard.

Counting the horses at the racecourse and the meals for the four hundred of them, they would be able to control themselves within sixty taels of silver per day. When ordering meals with the Xu family, we also inform them in advance, so that if the food is particularly good the day before, the Xu family will cook something cheap the next day.

In fact, the cost of horses is the biggest expense.

So with just this sentence, Huo Yunqian is not an unconventional young master. He will immediately have a general impression in his mind that his subordinates here are like a big family, and like most farm families, they have to make ends meet.

No wonder Jiubao mentioned that he wanted to follow the Xu family's menu. The old lady of the Xu family is exactly the person who can do this. She spends less money and treats her children with care so that her children and grandchildren can eat well. She is not lacking in all aspects of nutrition.

Immediately afterwards, Huo Yunqian had another general impression. It seemed that the Xu family really didn't make much money from selling food. Although Huo Yunqian didn't know how to calculate specific accounts, he guessed that after deducting costs, he only made about three taels a day?
Most of what the Xu family can earn is not his money. Xu Tianxin sells goods and earns his men's monthly military pay. No matter where you live, you have to buy clothes and spend a little money. It's normal.

Huo Yunqian defined this behavior as not really Xu Tianxin's desire to make money, but more broadly speaking, it was called prospering people's sideline development.

Leijiawo can make some money by making tents. The money he makes can buy food and the people can have enough to eat.

Women in Erdaohe can earn some money by making shoes and clothes and dyeing them. Weavers who don't know them can make money. There are also medical kits and those who raise chickens, ducks and pigs can all make some money. He must praise Xu Tianxin. Otherwise, the little girl earns less from selling food, and if she complains in her heart that she is just a bunch of money, she will definitely pout in dissatisfaction and dissatisfaction.

Xu Tianxin is doing something meaningful.

And what the subordinate in charge of night planting and reclamation reported next made Huo Yunqian feel that his evaluation was not wrong.

This man was smarter than the accountant. He discovered that if he mentioned trivial matters as long as he mentioned Miss Xu in every sentence, the general did not dislike how verbose he was.

In fact, this is the case. He directly reported that when Miss Xu came to sell food, she said that the horses chewed too much and it was all money.

Whose money belongs to the general? Can you spare some of it so that the soldiers can have more weapons to kill the enemy? These words made these four hundred people feel anxious.

There were some things that both sides said tacitly. There was a horse farm in front of them to attract attention, so why should there be such a large secret open space between the mine and the back mountain?

Miss Xu suggested planting some corn, millet, sorghum, alfalfa and other materials for horses to chew. Planting these is normal.

In addition, Miss Xu also suggested planting some sweet potatoes, pumpkins, beans and other vegetables in the corners of this big black land. When we were waiting for the food to come down, didn’t we think we had a bad meal in the morning? If you are hungry and you pick a few potatoes, she will directly sell you the sauce, tell you how many vegetables to pick, scoop out the amount of sauce, and then stew it.

"Miss Xu found someone to cultivate the vegetable seedlings in the name of the Xu family. The Xu family lent us a batch of farm tools after they finished using them."

This is a report, General, please rest assured.

The Xu family has a lot of wasteland and a large vegetable garden, so it is suitable to buy rapeseed and seedlings in the name of the Xu family.

Everyone in Erdaohe has work, and there are not that many houses to cultivate vegetables. I heard that Miss Xu asked her master Guan Langzhong to specially find the extremely poor families in Shiliba Village to help cultivate vegetable seedlings.

Let those people earn some hard-earned money.

Huo Yunqian: It really drives the development of each village.

Jiubao showed that expression again, as if to say: Look, did he make a mistake? Is it impossible to live without a woman? But he quickly said: "Master, you have to bow your head."

Huo Yunqian bent down and entered the gold mining cave.

As soon as he entered the emergency escape entrance, he saw many of his subordinates lying down catching up on their sleep.

It seems that this group of people have been doing it for at least four hours continuously, and they are catching up on sleep in order to have to do it again later. This is a break in between.

Huo Yunqian's guess was correct. There was still a handsome young man here who had been injured and had to be replaced. He was applying the medicine he bought from Xu Tianxin to the wound while staring at the water-drop clock. After half a grid, he was going to Call the brothers.

The elite soldiers here think very simply. With the cost of chewing sixty taels of silver a day, plus their monthly military pay, they must create the greatest value for the general as quickly as possible. Only in this way can the general never treat them poorly.

When the soldier saw Huo Yunqian, he stood up excitedly and wanted to say hello loudly. Huo Yunqian was one step ahead of him and waved his hand so as not to wake up his men.

Perhaps this scene affected Huo Yunqian's mood somewhat.

So when I saw the reclaimed gold and stone, I gained a lot, and I didn't smile like I did in the camp before.

That night, Huo Yunqian did not leave and was sitting where his men usually ate.

Tonight, he will stay here.

Jiubao looked at his young master with red eyes and thought: Master, if you are silent, I know you feel sorry for us. Don't be like this, we are supposed to work hard for you, but if you act like this, we can easily do nothing to you right now.

In order to make Huo Yunqian happy, Jiubao hung many gourd lanterns in layers on the branches of a nearby tree.

When Xu Tianxin sold his lamps, Jiubao had long imagined letting his young master take a look.

He wanted to tell the young master, don't look at the wilderness here, squatting for several months. But they also have their own little romance.

When the evening breeze blows, with a gourd lantern, you can lie under the night and look at the stars in the sky, thinking about your family and your young master.

Although Miss Xu told him that he was the only one who would spend such a huge sum of money. But Jiubao felt that this could also be interpreted as saying that he was the only one who understood Miss Xu's aesthetics.

"Master, look."

The gourds were cut out to look like melons, fruits, pears, and even a big gourd with a smiling face.

While Jiubao was pouring tea for Huo Yunqian, he told her, "When the melons, fruits, and peaches come down, Miss Xu said, there will be pear lanterns, orange lanterns, and pumpkin lanterns."

Miss Xu also said that if you buy two, you can give him one as a gift. Jiubao thought: I won’t mention this anymore.

Huo Yunqian pursed his lips and smiled.

The other subordinates were watching and exclaimed in their hearts: Thank God Jiubao is a boy, otherwise he would definitely be a little goblin who knows how to coax people.