Chapter 650 My brother was taken away by a terrible woman!

Wu An was diligent and efficient in his work. Before the time agreed by Sang Zhixia, he had already prepared the vehicles and horses for transporting grain.

A long queue of vehicles stretched halfway up the mountain. The things that had piled up like mountains on the farm and had been gathered from all over had been packed and were quickly loaded onto trucks as sweat dripped down people's foreheads.

Liu, the farm's steward, hurriedly wiped away beads of sweat and panted, "Boss, the salted eggs and dried vegetables you ordered are now packed. Do you want to go take a look?"

The salted eggs and dried vegetables were both Sang Zhixia's idea.

The production range of salted eggs is very wide, including chicken eggs, duck eggs and goose eggs.

In addition to what is produced on the farm, many are purchased from other places.

The round eggshells were rolled with a layer of salt and placed in a jar for a long time until they were all cooked.

When you take it out and pack it in a box, just carefully cover the top and bottom with a layer of bedding and thick hay so that it will not be broken during transportation and you can just break the shell and eat it.

Dried vegetables are small vegetables such as radishes and turnips grown on the farm. They are blanched in water and then baked and dried in the sun to remove the moisture. The dried vegetables made in this way are not only not easy to spoil, but are also much lighter to transport.

Just add fried noodles with dried fruits and sugar to boiling water, stir and you can eat it. One bowl can keep you full for most of the day.

When Sang Zhixia first asked people to prepare these, the managers who were used to eating all kinds of fresh side dishes didn't quite understand why.

It wasn't until I realized that these were all going to be sent to the battlefield that I suddenly realized what was going on.

With these things, even if there is no cooking in the army, you can just pinch them and put them in your mouth to eat, and the taste is much better than the dry rations.

In addition to various dried vegetables, many dried fruits are also baked and dried.

But dried fruits cannot satisfy hunger, at most they can be considered as sweet things, and the relative quantity is much smaller.

Sang Zhixia had previously specifically asked the old man who had spent half his life in the military about the details of the military camp, focusing on food, clothing and other expenses.

According to the old man, it would be fine if the army was stationed in a fixed place. Even if there was no meat, at least they could have something hot to eat.

If a large army is on the march, there will be many inconveniences during the march. In many cases, in order not to expose the whereabouts of the army, not even a little smoke can be raised.

Unless there are special circumstances, you can have two meals a day, one dry and one liquid, in the morning and evening.

The thin one is a bowl of mixed grain porridge with the bottom empty, and the dry one is a fixed amount of dry food for one meal.

The dry rations in the camp were different from the biscuits that ordinary people talked about.

Most of them took advantage of the time when there was no war to mix various grains and rice flours together and knead them into steamed buns. After steaming, they were dried. This made it easy to store without affecting the progress of the march, and they could be eaten directly after being grabbed.

As for whether or not to choke...

The old man's original words were: "No matter how choking the dry food is, if you stuff it into your stomach and drink more water, you can still be full. With these few mouthfuls of food, you can survive. Why would you be picky?"

In fact, it’s pretty good to be able to eat these.

After all, when the old man was young and fighting in the wars, the soldiers often had to tighten their belts and grit their teeth to endure it, and it was normal to have their stomachs growling all day long.

Today, the Lingnan army has the support of several farms in Sangzhixia with astonishing output, as well as several caravan routes that Sangzhixia had opened up a long time ago. I can't say anything else, but at least they don't have to worry about food and drink.

And what they eat is real white rice and white flour, which are really good things on the battlefield.

In the past, the old man himself would not have dared to think about it.

But Sang Zhixia still felt dissatisfied after hearing this.

She didn't know how difficult it was to swallow the steamed and then dried buns, but how could a person bear to eat and drink such things for a long time?

Sang Zhixia knew that Xu Yu would not be able to act independently, so she simply extended her reach to cover everyone she could.

Anyway, as long as Xu Yu is well fed, everyone who follows him will benefit.

She has so many productive farms in her hands, with the number of arable lands alone exceeding ten thousand.

Having saved so much money, Sang Zhixia's husband not only wants to have enough to eat, but also wants to eat as well as possible.

Otherwise, what's the point of her going through so much trouble?

Sang Zhixia waved her hand and said, "I don't want to watch it anymore. Just take it away."

"Including the wine that my Third Uncle has prepared, will the fleet be enough?"

The steward grinned and nodded: "Enough, enough."

"In addition to what you mentioned before, Lord Wu also arranged two extra teams of carriages and horses. I think he guessed that you still have extra to send. It is definitely enough."

Sang Zhixia breathed a sigh of relief calmly, sat in a relatively cool place and fanned herself. Just as she was about to take a break, Xu Mingyang ran towards her with a look of horror on his face.

"Sister-in-law!"

Sang Zhixia raised her eyebrows: "What's wrong?"

Xu Mingyang seemed to have been frightened by something. He stood still and panted for a long time. He held his knees with both hands and said with horror: "Sister-in-law, go and take a look!"

"My brother...my brother..."

Sang Zhixia's heart skipped a beat: "What happened to Xu Minghui?"

"Don't worry, just speak slowly."

"Your brother..."

"My brother was taken away by a terrible woman!"

Sang Zhixia: "???"

Xu Mingyang danced with joy and howled, "That woman is so scary!"

"She rode like the wind, and in a flash she was blown off my brother's horse's back and swept away!"

"We tried to catch up but failed. My brother was kidnapped and taken away to be the wife of a bandit leader!"

Sang Zhixia: "..."

Xu Mingyang was like a cat whose tail had been pulled out. He was so frightened that his hair almost stood on end. It was obvious that he was really frightened.

It's broad daylight after all.

People come and go.

Xu Minghui was such a grown man, but he was kidnapped on horseback?

Sang Zhixia's initial heart skipped a beat, then turned into an indescribable complexity. After a pause, she said, "Where was Xu Minghui kidnapped?"

Xu Mingyang got even angrier when he talked about this: "On the street!"

"We were just following my brother here to help my sister-in-law, but as soon as we got to the street, that woman came and grabbed my brother!"

"I didn't dare go home and tell my mother for fear of scaring her, so I had no choice but to ride all the way here to find my sister-in-law!"

Sang Zhixia fell silent again.

Xu Mingyang gritted his teeth in anger: "Sister-in-law, don't worry, we didn't lose you."

"When the woman who kidnapped my brother ran away with him, Yanyou and Chen Yun and the others were chasing after them. If we lead our men over to rescue my brother now, we'll be catching him in the act! We'll catch him red-handed!"

"We have all the evidence, both witnesses and physical evidence. My brother was taken away by that woman!"

Sang Zhixia licked her tongue, not knowing what she was thinking of. After a moment of silence, she said earnestly, "Mingyang, don't be impatient."

"Wait here. I'll go take care of things over there, and then..."

Sang Zhixia exhaled slowly and said in a strange tone, "I will take you to rescue your brother who was kidnapped."