Wei and Jin Cooks

   Chapter 185 Patrol

Fu Tinghan calculated for them the time and manpower it would take to build the house from cutting down the wood. Chang Ning glanced at it and then ordered the people to stop the work they were doing first, cut down the trees in the forest, and wait for each team to be ready. Only after the wood needed to build the house was let them go to the wasteland to cultivate the land.

   So the refugees still have to sleep in the wilderness at night.

   Zhao Hanzhang and Fu Tinghan went to the countryside to inspect. Seeing that the sun was about to set, they knew that they would not be able to return to the county town tonight, so they simply found the nearest resettlement site and stopped.

   The team owner in charge of this team saw Zhao Hanzhang and Fu Tinghan, and immediately trotted to greet them, "Girl, Dalangjun."

   Zhao Hanzhang nodded, smelled the aroma of the rice, and asked, "What are you going to eat tonight?"

   The team leader grinned and said, "Moon!"

   Miscellaneous grain buns, gray, but still soft, Zhao Hanzhang and Fu Tinghan went to the queue to get two each, and then made a bowl of vegetable soup.

   Zhao Hanzhang found a piece of grass to sit down and gave Fu Tinghan a good seat, and then asked the young man beside him who was eating hard, "Is this enough to eat?"

   The young man raised his head and glanced at Zhao Hanzhang, he didn't know him, but he knew Fu Tinghan who came over, he got up immediately, and called out, "Fu Dalangjun!"

  Fu Tinghan nodded, wanted to say hello, and introduced Zhao Hanzhang, "This is a girl, our county magistrate."

   The young man's eyes widened, and he wanted to put down the bowl and buns to salute Zhao Hanzhang, but he was reluctant to put them on the ground.

   Zhao Hanzhang waved his hand indifferently and said, "No need to salute, come and sit down and talk."

  The young man did not dare to sit, but squatted cautiously aside.

   Zhao Hanzhang asked: "Is this food enough?"

  Two buns with a bowl of vegetable soup is certainly not enough for a young adult, but the young man thinks this treatment is very good, so he nodded and said, "Enough."

   Zhao Hanzhang finished eating two buns and drank half a bowl of soup, but still felt hungry, not even half full, she believed him.

   Fu Tinghan glanced at her and handed her one.

   Zhao Hanzhang pushed back, "You eat, you are full."

  Fu Tinghan smiled and looked at her, and put the buns into her hands, "Eat it quickly, if you encounter wild animals at night, I'll be waiting for you to protect me."

  Zhao Hanzhang opened it, took only half of it, and stuffed the other half into his hand. She opened small mouthfuls to eat, and said, "It would be great if there were beasts, just in time for extra meals."

   They have more than 200 people here, and they are not afraid of wild animals.

   But when it comes to beasts, Zhao Hanzhang still turned his head and asked the young man, "Will you encounter wild beasts when you sleep outdoors?"

   "No," said the young man, "We can hear wolves barking at night, but we all make fires at night and there are so many people that they don't dare to approach."

   He was a little uncomfortable, but he didn't dare to turn around and leave. He glanced back at his comrades, and whispered, "Occasionally, I catch a rabbit and a pheasant in the mountains."

   Zhao Hanzhang, "That must be a very happy thing."

  The young man was relieved when he saw that Zhao Hanzhang did not object to their hunting, and also relaxed a little, "It's not something that can be hit all the time, just occasionally."

  After dinner, before it was dark, everyone went out to mow thatch, chop firewood and pick up firewood.

   Zhao Hanzhang saw that there were a lot of firewood piled around, some of them were dry and some were drying, so he pointed and asked, "Are these firewood for winter?"

"Yes," the team leader said, "The chief bookkeeper often said that the newly built thatched hut will not be very warm, let us prepare more firewood, and we need to burn charcoal by ourselves to store it for the winter, but we can't burn charcoal, so we only hoard it. Firewood."

   "Burning charcoal..." Fu Tinghan wrinkled his nose and said, "I know how to burn it, but it pollutes the air a lot."

   The team leader got excited when he heard the words, and looked at Fu Tinghan with bright eyes.

Zhao Hanzhang said: "Let them not freeze to death first, but the kiln mouth for burning charcoal should be far away from the place where they live. This season is mostly the north and west winds, so let them build the kiln mouth in the southeast, avoiding the tuyere."

  The smell of burning charcoal is not good. If you smell too much, you will get sick.

  Fu Tinghan nodded, "Then I'll go back and draw the kiln mouth for burning charcoal, but I only know the principle, and they have to try it out bit by bit."

   The team leader happily agreed. He knew Mr. Fu Dalang. He was knowledgeable and read a lot of books. There were rumors in the army that there was nothing in this world that he didn't know.

   It’s just that everything he learned came from books, and he never did it himself.

   So the things that come out need people to figure it out by themselves.

   But this is also very powerful. Thinking about how to make glaze and masonry just by reading, I even heard that you can even make paper...

   So now their greatest wish is to make contributions and make money, and let their children study in the future.

   I don’t want to be as powerful as Lord Fu Dalang, and it’s enough to have three points of ability.

  Although their children are not yet in sight, they are well prepared.

   Zhao Hanzhang saw that they were busy, so he took Fu Tinghan into the woods, and wanted to see if he could catch a rabbit or something for a late night snack.

   The result may be that there are too many people living outside the woods, and they have been caught a lot recently, so they walked around and saw nothing.

   Zhao Hanzhang was very sorry and was about to go down the mountain when he saw a gap on the side. From there, he could overlook the bottom and could clearly see this large field.

   Zhao Hanzhang stepped forward and looked down.

  Fu Tinghan stepped forward and said, "This location is very good. If it was a wartime, a lookout could be built here."

   Zhao Hanzhang nodded, pointed to the bottom and said, "This resettlement point is well chosen. You see, the distance from here to that village is not very far. When the resettlement village is built, the two villages can come and go frequently."

  When the sky darkened, fires began to burn below. Twenty people crowded around a large fire, and eleven fires were lit. The middle one was left to Zhao Hanzhang and the others.

  The soldiers put leaves under their bodies, then cover them with a layer of thatch, and then cover their bodies with two layers of thatch, so that they can spend the night in peace.

  In order to build the thatched cottage, they started harvesting the thatch after eating dinner during this period. They have already finished cutting around here, and they have already started to go up the mountain and go to the other end of the mountain to mow.

  The thatched grass that was dragged over was dried and then weaved and put aside when everyone was resting. When building a house in the future, it could be easily used.

   Zhao Hanzhang was very interested in their way of camping, so he also spread thatch and lay down together.

   It felt good to lie down at first, but after a while, I felt the cold air rising from the ground.

   Fu Tinghan also felt it. Although there was a layer of leaves and a layer of thatch underneath, it still couldn't stop the cold.

   He got up immediately, pulled Zhao Hanzhang up, took his cloak and spread it on the thatch before letting her lie down.

   Zhao Hanzhang felt that Professor Fu was weaker than her, so he had to give him the general position.

  Fu Tinghan glanced at the team owner and others who were sneaking over, and refused, "I'm not cold, go to sleep."

How could Zhao Hanzhang sleep? He said to Fu Tinghan, "Changning asked me to use catkins and reeds to fill the quilt. It's not expensive to use cotton catkins. There are not so many, but Mr. Ji just wrote to me, saying that he watches the sky at night, this year. Winter may be very cold, and there may be snowstorms and freezing disasters like last year's Yingchuan."

   I'm too sleepy tonight, so I can only go here and make up for it tomorrow

   (end of this chapter)