Chapter 9 When they entered the courtyard, Ye Lu and the other two saw the side door...
After entering the courtyard, Ye Lu and the other two saw a large living creature lying next to a large low house next to the side door.
I saw a big blue bull with vigorous blood, green body, hard horns, and a body two or three times larger than the bulls in Ye Lu's memory. It was lying on the ground and eating hay leisurely. Not far behind it was a cart frame with a lot of things tied tightly on it.
Ye Ludu saw that all the large water vats in his family were tied up, and the edges of the vats were tied with a special kind of wide hay leaves to prevent the water in the vats from leaking out during the journey. The large and small vats were piled on the carriage.
Ye Lu even discovered that the car board was more like an extra-large carriage than a board. There were things stuffed on top of the carriage and things stuffed under the board. Ye Lu moved a little closer and found that the color of the carriage was different from the board. It should have been added later. It was probably added by Uncle He Qi knowing that they had to flee from famine.
The craftsmen in the village work so fast, Ye Lu sighed subconsciously in his heart.
Ye Lu then opened the door of the carriage, which was quite a miniature house. Most of the carriage was covered with thick hay. The hay looked familiar, and Ye Lu recognized it as the stalks of millet. On top of that was some fluffy cloth. On the top of the carriage was a large green coarse cloth, which should be filled with clothes.
Such a large area should be for the three of them to sleep in. The location is neither too big nor too small, just the right size. Other places are also large and small jars, and the jars are filled with grains that were just harvested during the day. There is some empty space elsewhere, probably for Ye Lu and the others to pack up other small things themselves.
"Master Dao, your uncle is good." The ghost scholar looked around and quickly understood the style of the villagers fleeing famine. The main feature was to leave no grass at all. He nodded and understood what he should do. He turned his head and spoke to Ye Lu, lamenting that Uncle He Qi even helped his nephew collect the food.
Ye Lu knocked on the door of the carriage in front of him, indicating that he should be more careful.
The ghost scholar was just joking. He then turned around and went into the house. He understood how to escape the famine, and they could do it themselves from then on. Apart from anything else, the ghost scholar was really famous for his sharp brain.
Ye Lu and Xi Mingren, two strong men, followed the ghost scholar's instructions and went in and out of the house.
"...Wait, you want to take this away too?" Ye Lu looked at the broken table in front of him. The table should have been used by him when he was a child. Ye Lu never expected that the ghost scholar would take this away.
The ghost scholar did not say anything. He motioned for the man to come over and use the sickle beside him to saw the four legs of the table to the same length, turning it from a high table into a short table that would fit perfectly in the carriage.
The ghost scholar raised his chin.
The playful man lowered his head, not daring to even look at Ye Lu, and obediently carried the coffee table into the carriage. There was still grain in the carriage, and putting a table there would just be able to fix the grain jars to prevent them from being crushed.
"Are you going to take these rags away too?" Ye Luxing retracted his gaze and saw that the ghost scholar had collected all the rags on the bed. He frowned and said.
"A poor family has a rich road, Taoist priest. You are used to being wealthy. Look at what your uncle has cleaned up for you. Don't you know the style of this village? Take everything away, understand? Otherwise, when you suddenly need it, where are you going to buy it?" The ghost scholar kept collecting things and his replies were well-reasoned.
Ye Lu was speechless.
Ye Lu watched the ghost scholar quickly and mercilessly put away all the miscellaneous things in the house. He packed all the seasonings and leftover food neatly. Ye Lu looked at the small jar in the ghost scholar's hand and it looked more and more familiar. Wasn't this the one he used to put the strange bead in? The strange bead had to be wrapped in strange animal skin and put into the jar. Now these foods were wrapped in oil paper first, and then wrapped in a layer of coarse cloth, so that they could be put in and found more easily.
It was obvious that the ghost scholar was a little confused before, but after just a few glances, he integrated into the atmosphere so quickly. Instead, Ye Lu was a little uncomfortable.
Ye Lu entered the room and looked around for a long time, and found that even his strange food had been packed up by the ghost scholar and put into the carriage. Only the empty bed was left. Well, he had no chance of sleeping tonight.
Ye Lu touched his forehead, expressionless.
Then, he saw the ghost scholar holding another tree root, hollowing it out in the middle and filling it with a lot of soil. It looked like it was just dug out from the ground. Wait, Ye Lu remembered that all the vegetables in the yard had been cleaned up.
"You're not going to take all this with you, are you?" Ye Lu couldn't help but speak up to tactfully stop the ghost scholar's raid. Not really, not really. They were indeed fleeing famine, but they wouldn't even take away the soil they passed by.
"The soil on the road is probably different from the soil in our village. Take it with you. What if you can grow something else?" The ghost scholar argued convincingly and his rebuttal made sense. He said, "Anyway, the blue ox is strong enough to pull it."
Before Ye Lu raised his hand, he saw the ghost scholar smilingly handing the old tree root in his hand to the playful man. The latter honestly tied the tree root in the corner of the carriage and planted a few seeds. The other odds and ends had already been tied to the four sides of the carriage, successfully turning it from a mini hut into a walking hill.
The green ox on the side was still eating hay leisurely. Part of the thick hay in their carriage was also the dry food for this guy. Of course, more of it was hay made from the stalks of white millet. Only by eating these hays with strange powers could the half-strange beasts sustain their horrible consumption.
When everything was packed up, it was almost dawn.
Ye Lu tried to stop him for a long time but still failed to stop the ghost scholar from imitating the other people in the village to sweep the house. Looking back, he saw that there was not even a piece of wood left inside or outside the house.
In contrast, the ghost scholar had a smiling expression. Ye Lu could tell how satisfied the ghost scholar was from his smiling face.
"…………"Forget it, as long as he likes it, Ye Lu gave up very decisively. It was probably because their current strength was too weak. The space could not be opened, and they had no strange power. They almost only had physical strength. The people around them were very strong. The ghost scholar had a paranoid attack and thought that anyone would harm them. Now he just wanted to make more preparations.
Ye Lu has gotten used to it. It’s not a bad thing anyway.
"We can go now. The villagers will probably meet at the village entrance!" Ye Lu imitated the movements he remembered and pulled the rope with one hand to pull the blue ox off the ground. The blue ox obediently stood up slowly, while he put the carriage behind the blue ox.
The other two got in the car, and Ye Lu drove in front, heading towards the village entrance.
Xi Mingren sat next to Ye Lu and watched Ye Lu driving with great interest. He had been interested in Qingniu from the beginning. The ghost scholar was too lazy to pay attention to him and came into the carriage by himself. Anyway, he could see the front by pulling open the curtain.
When Ye Lu and the other two arrived at the village entrance, it was brightly lit and filled with torches. There were several half-monster livestock like Ye Lu, as well as cows and donkeys. Ye Lu took a look at the villagers' luggage and realized again that the ghost scholar was not exaggerating at all. Those families were actually very similar to them.
These cows were dragging the hills along slowly.
Ye Lu also spotted a familiar figure at the back of one of the carriages. He was tall, strong and cheerful. It was none other than He Qi. Next to him was the silent He Si. It seemed that He Qi had been looking for Ye Lu and the others. As soon as he saw them coming, he greeted them cheerfully.
Only after seeing Ye Lu nod in reply did he retract it.
Ye Lu now had time to look at the situation at the entrance of the village. The prosperity of He Village was apparent at this time. Apart from the green cows and donkeys on the periphery which were strange beasts, all the other animals formed a circle, with ordinary vehicles placed in the middle. This might be because ordinary livestock were timid and easily frightened, so it was safer to place them in the middle.
Ye Lu also saw five or six black dogs at the entrance of the village, lowering their heads and sniffing around. Most of them were stationed around an asphalt carriage where an old man with an aged face and a hunched body was driving. From time to time, the black dogs would jump onto the carriage rack and lie down.
These black dogs are even more human-like. After Ye Lu awakened, he could feel the strange power more deeply. He could clearly sense that the big dog leading these black dogs was emitting strange power, and should be of the same level as Qingniu and Donkey.
These aren't the most eye-catching ones.
Ye Lu just glanced at it and quickly memorized it in his mind, and his attention was soon attracted by the largest and most spacious ox cart at the front of the village entrance. The color of the wooden boards of the ox cart was very similar to that of the ancestral hall, both black and red, and there were even various plant patterns carved on the carriage.
This ox cart was not the first one in line, but the third one.
The magicians and village elders were gathering in the open space in front of the ox cart. Magician He and Magician Shi had solemn expressions, while He Lan, who was standing beside them, was holding a bronze mirror with an equally serious look.
At first glance, the bronze mirror looked ordinary, with a dark surface, no different from what Ye Lu saw when he awakened before. However, Ye Lu knew something was different. In his vision, the bronze mirror was like a condensation of strange power. It was constantly spreading the strange power, forming an encirclement to protect all of them.
"Please come in first, Lady Bronze Mirror!" the stone magician whispered.
Helan slowly but seriously picked up the bronze mirror and put it into the ox cart. Ye Lu clearly saw that the mysterious circle of power that protected them moved with Helan's actions. After entering the ox cart, the patterns carved on the carriage might really be useful. The mysterious circle of power became much gentler and soothing in an instant.
It also wraps the entire fleet more durable and gently!
Is this a ritual of relocation? It will probably be like this on the road ahead, Ye Lu thought. This was also the first time he had seen such a scene. The entire ritual process revealed a sense of mystery and wildness, a sense of wildness and mystery that belonged only to this world.
After that, the only ones left were Master He and Uncle He San, and also... Ye Lu turned his gaze to the center of the crowd, and to the strange jade-like plant that had made everyone look at it involuntarily from the very beginning.
Huangli grade-green millet.
The green millet was stored in a very large ceramic jar.
What made Ye Lu frown was the great change in the appearance of the green millet. Compared with the green millet before awakening, the green millet was now much smaller, especially against the backdrop of the pottery jar, it was pitifully small, almost one-third of its previous size, and there was no ear on its head, instead it was like a seedling.
This size is just right to fit into the car.
"Please get in the car, Guizhi!" the stone magician said slowly again.
As soon as he finished speaking, the two guards who had been waiting nearby tensed their arm muscles, lifted up the pottery jar, and carefully put it into the carriage. They did not use any supernatural powers at all, relying purely on physical strength.
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