At the beginning, the whole family fled from famine, and I used a milk bottle as a koi carp

Chapter 26 The future is promising!

In the evening, the village chief led a group of people out of the city again. There is a curfew in the city at night. Unless you stay in an inn, go to relatives and friends, or rent a house, you are not allowed to stay in the city, especially at night.

With so many people in the village, it would be too expensive to live in an inn, so they simply fled all the way here. The villagers are also used to camping in the open air.

It's mid-October, and the weather has turned a bit cooler, so the villagers are lighting fires outside the city.

The village chief was chatting with the clan elders and several young adults.

The village chief discussed today's settlement consultation with the clan elders.

After hearing this, the elder of the An family sighed and said: "We An family members must be together. It doesn't work here. How about we try other methods? Not necessarily. We must stay near here. If it doesn't work, let's continue to the south. Let’s go, there will always be a place that can accept us.”

Another clan elder from the An family added: "Anyway, the village chief is also a member of our An family, so we will follow you and live wherever you take us. As long as each of our families is given some land to farm, If we can eat, we can hunt, raise chickens and earn some extra money to survive."

The elders of the Liu family are worried after all. The people of the An family are generally more diligent and earn more than those of the Liu family. The savings of the Liu family are definitely not as large as those of the An family. It is definitely not easy for the Liu family to stay in this big city. .

"Village Chief, we people from Xiushan Village came out together and settled together. We are still together. At least we can have someone to take care of us in the new place so that we will not be bullied by others. We believe in you."

Hearing the words of the elders of the two surnames, the village chief was actually a little moved. Along the way, he had to break up many times, but he reluctantly got together and walked together. Everyone was heading for a better life.

"Okay, as long as you decide to follow me, I will never give up on everyone living a good life alone, but I will live a good life together."

Seeing the village chief's statement, most people in the village feel relieved. The gap between the rich and the poor in the village is actually quite large, even 20 taels. Most people can still afford it at home, but not everyone is willing to spend so much money. , especially some girls, are particularly nervous.

Although the village is not so patriarchal, I have seen many families sell their daughters first if they cannot survive. Even in the past, there were many people who sold their daughters to give their sons wives.

The An family in the village loves An Ningning very much, more than several boys, but there is nothing we can do about it. An Ningning is very lucky, and everyone in the village secretly calls her Little Fubao.

Of course, An Ningning knew nothing about these things. She was still immersed in thoughts of how to make money.

She asked the tea waiter today how people make and sell tea at this time. Starting from the Zhou Dynasty, people gradually switched from boiling and drying raw tea to making tea cakes. The tea leaves are first made into cakes, dried in the sun, and then crushed and brewed. The tea leaves of this material are basically not processed, so the tea cakes made have a strong grassy flavor.

This kind of tea cake must be compared with the mature tea-making technology recorded later. There is much more that can be manipulated later. Moreover, although tea drinking was relatively popular in the Guangyang area, drinking was still the mainstream among the upper class of the Zhou Dynasty.

Although she didn't know the specific steps of tea frying and brewing, she still knew the general method. It wouldn't be impossible to find two masters to try it out.

Well, she said that there will be a lot of uniforms in the future, but they have to find a place to settle first, preferably somewhere with hills where tea can be grown.

After much deliberation, I couldn't fall asleep, so I sat up from Mr. An's arms. Seeing An Laoer still sitting next to the fire, he crawled over from An Laoer, clapped his hands towards An Laoer, and asked for a hug.

An Laoer wisely hugged his little niece, wrapped her in clothes and put her on his lap, and they warmed themselves together by the fire.

"Uncle, why don't you sleep?"

The fire was not far from the sleeping place. An Laoer watched other people sleeping, picked up An Ningning and went to the night watchman's side, which was some distance away from the sleeping crowd.     “I can’t sleep, my uncle is thinking about the problem.”

"Uncle, what are you thinking about?"

An Laoer looked at the fire without making a sound. There were some things he told these children, but they didn't understand. Even if they understood, they might not understand. Even if they understood, they might not be able to solve it.

An Ningning rolled her eyes, knowing what An Laoer was thinking.

"Uncle, are you thinking about settling down and living in the village in the future?"

An Laoer really didn't expect that someone as small as An Ningning would understand this. He probably overheard what the adults were saying.

"It's okay, Xiaoxiao, don't think so much. There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain. A group of people like us can live well even if we don't register and just work as black households. This way, we are in the wilderness of Yeling, black households. It’s not that rare. We’ve even seen a lot of bandits. Do those bandits have household registration?”

"That's definitely not the case. If you don't have household registration, you don't pay taxes. Nowadays, taxes are getting higher year by year. In the early years, there were a lot of people with black households and hidden households." An Laoer thought about it, it's true, we can't live.

Feeling that she was overthinking it, she pinched An Ningning's little nose.

"Uncle, it's okay. I can make wine and make charcoal. When we get there, it's winter. In winter, charcoal is always used. That's simple." After thinking about it, the easiest thing is to make charcoal, make tea and Brewing follows the seasons. When they first arrive in a place, they have nothing. Making charcoal is relatively simple and cost-effective.

An Laoer was shocked, "You're such a little kid, can you still make charcoal?"

In their backward place of Xiushan Village, most people burned wood when it was so cold in winter, which was the kind of wood cut down in the mountains that was dried and burned. Carbon was used by people in the city. He was really surprised that this little kid could actually do it.

"Um, who taught you this? Really or not?" I still couldn't believe it.

"Of course it's true. When we settle down and are assigned a land, I will teach you how to make charcoal, but we will keep this secret, and you can't tell anyone else." An Ningning warned uneasily.

"Look at you, when has my uncle sold you? You have sold him so many times before, but he never said a word! Humph."

An Ningning smiled awkwardly. There were some things that her three-year-old baby couldn't do before, so everything was blamed on her uncle. However, his uncle was also reliable. He had never betrayed him, and he always believed in her luck. Very good.

"Don't worry, uncle, our uncle and nephew will not be far from getting rich in the future."

An Laoer touched An Ningning's head. This little niece is really smart, has brains, and the most important thing is that she is very lucky. She is really God's favorite.

He would go hunting with his niece, never empty-handed. He had gone hunting with his eldest brother before, but he had only hit it a few times. The eldest brother had some strength, but his hit rate was too low. The pheasant flew past and couldn't even scratch its wings. In the past, their old Anjia was insulated from prey.

Ever since he started hunting with his niece, he was never empty-handed.

Looking at the piles of torches in the distance, I feel confident. These people are all labor! The future is promising!

(End of this chapter)