Chapter 492 Visiting Relatives
Winter has passed and spring has arrived, three seasons of cold and heat have passed, and the Xuyang Grassland is now a battlefield, with chaos everywhere.
The royal city of the four major tribes, with a total population of over 100,000, fell apart because it became the center of battle.
Every regime change must be accompanied by blood and death.
The surviving herdsmen from those tribes fled to the wilderness, and the merchants doing business in the royal city also left with the battle between the four major tribes.
The quiet Mida River Valley and the vibrant Mida City have become dazzling gems in the hearts of the Di people and a holy place to avoid massacres.
They migrated here with their families and livestock, and the river valley, which was hundreds of miles long, was suddenly filled with herds of cattle and sheep, and it was even a bit crowded.
If Mida City had not divided areas for each tribe in a timely manner, disputes would have occurred here.
Merchants are the most capable of identifying risks. After leaving Xuyang Grassland, they come to Mida City to invest and trade.
Now, the small city of Mida is full of shops and it is difficult to find a house.
Not only is it crowded during the day, but even at night, under the illumination of tall lanterns, there are still streams of people.
The temporary cardboard houses in the city were replaced with sturdy adobe houses, and two-story buildings were built next to each other to form streets and alleys.
There are newly planted green trees in front of each building. Although they have only grown for two years, they have reached one floor high. This is because someone is carefully caring for them.
It is summer now, and the scorching sun on the grassland is shining on Mida City. These green leaves generously spread out patches of green to provide shade for the crowded crowd.
The city lord's wife said that for every tree that grows alive, she would hang a star at the door of the store, along with the owner's surname.
This star is made of shiny, smooth and delicate "transparent stone". It is said that it was burned out by fire. No one can imitate it, and it is also impossible to buy it.
The only source is in the research institute next to the City Lord’s Mansion, where there are many strange things.
There are sewers on the streets of Mida City, and the road surface is paved with black gravel.
The time when the gravel was heavy and would fly into dust when the wind blew will never come again.
The inner and outer cities originally planned by Song Liyun have also begun to take shape.
The inner city was where the first merchants came, and it had the best environment and conditions.
The newly relocated merchants are all in the outer city, with a circle of wooden houses neatly arranged in a large circle.
The outer city is mainly a livestock market, selling live cattle, sheep, horses, as well as woolen materials and furs.
What is most surprising to the herders is that in addition to selling grass and feed, they also sell salt for livestock.
Under the scorching sun, Wudan, now a much taller man, stood on a haystack, holding a black and yellow earthen brick. He shouted to the herders who surrounded him, "In the winter, the cattle and sheep will lose weight because they don't have grass to eat. We can feed them hay, and here's salt for the animals. We don't have to worry about the sheep getting weak after eating hay."
Salt can indeed be mined from saline-alkali land, but only a very small amount of it is edible, and the rest is adobe containing a lot of impurities.
Livestock like to lick these things, so the city of Mida collects them and supplies them with hay for winter pastures.
People who didn't know much about this salt brick were whispering to each other, while those who knew the benefits followed suit. The crowd's discussions were like the whistling of the wind.
Wu Dan was very satisfied with this situation. He liked being surrounded by people and looking at the shocked and surprised faces.
These salt bricks were washed out by him and Abu Ge in the deadly grassland.
Washing the salt with water... is the young lady's method.
He was overjoyed to see his research results being accepted by people.
He has been doing this for more than two years and still enjoys it.
In three years, Abu had grown a short beard. He did not ride a horse, but walked quickly through the crowd to the haystack.
He called out to the tall Wudan, "Little Wudan, Xiaoan and the others are going to bathe in the river. Do you want to go too?"
Wu Dan turned around suddenly and said, "Brother Abu, Xiao An and Shitou are going into the water? Go, why not? I can swim now, look, I can swim better than them."
His words drew laughter from the surrounding herdsmen. Someone shouted, "Young Master, you're not even doing business anymore? I was hoping to buy some salt bricks!"
Wu Dan winked at everyone and said, "I am the Junior Boss, and there is also the Senior Boss. The Junior Boss is going swimming with the Senior Boss!"
He spat out the grass stems in his mouth, jumped down from the haystack as nimbly as a monkey, stuffed the salt brick he was holding into the arms of his servant, and quickly followed Abu to the river outside the city.
Song Dekui and Song Zhenping brought their families, as well as Xiao An, a large group of people came to visit relatives two months ago.
Although Song Liyun returned to Xiaoshi Village once in three years and Song Zhenping also came to Mida City, the three siblings and Sister-in-law Yang Hua have never reunited.
With so many new people suddenly arriving, the City Lord's Mansion has been very busy in the past two months.
Song Zhenping has been married for four years and already has a son and a daughter. Sister Yang Hua has never been empty-minded and is now pregnant with her third child.
Song Zhenping was satisfied, but when he thought about his sister who had been married for so long and still had no news, he was so worried that he couldn't sleep or eat.
After discussing with Yang Hua, he brought Aunt Dekuixia, who had already given birth to a son, to Mida City. They were going to stay here for a while to help Song Liyun induce labor.
Because I had three little kids to take care of, the winter was too cold, so I had to drop my work and wait for the summer.
Yang Hua brought her sister-in-law a consecrated Buddha statue, as well as some herbal medicine from a doctor, asking her to drink it and pray for her to get pregnant soon.
Song Liyun was at a loss whether to laugh or cry about her brother and sister-in-law's thoughts, and was secretly moved.
In the first two years, she and Zhao Tingduo thought that since Mida City had just been built, it would be better to have a baby later.
But when she saw that Abu and Wan Youyou got married a year later than her, and their child was still babbling, and Madam Wuya had also sent small clothes and hats for the baby several times, Song Liyun began to get anxious.
But... I just couldn't get pregnant.
Song Liyun even suspected that her body might have been exposed to cold and difficult to conceive because she had taken too many baths in winter and summer when she was a girl.
Zhao Tingduo didn't care much about this. He comforted Song Liyun and said: There will always be children, and honey brewed late is sweeter.
Although Song Liyun had this in mind, she couldn't get anxious.
Mida City had just been established, and many of the rules and regulations were new to everyone, so they needed to be set up one by one. She spent a lot of effort in the early stages.
Mining, iron smelting and cement making are even more important tasks. For each of them, Old Yu and Wan Youyou need her guidance.
In addition, there is constant fighting in the Xuyang Grassland, and although it is quite far away from here, it is still involved.
There was even a tribe of 10,000 people who wanted to occupy Mida City and challenge it.
Fortunately, there were already 500 guards in the city, plus 1,200 soldiers stationed outside the city, who directly beat back the invading tribe.
As Mida City became more and more famous, it also attracted a lot of trouble.
Due to the complexity of things, she has had trouble sleeping at night in the past two years, and even her menstrual period has not been regular.
In the past two months, my sister-in-law Yang Hua, Aunt Xia, and Wan Youyou's child, four babies who are only knee-high have caused chaos in the City Lord's Mansion.
Zhao Tingduo hid outside the city directly to give Song Liyun space to get close to her family.
Fortunately, there are many maids in the City Lord's Mansion who can play with the children. The youngest, Xiao Ye'er, is already eight years old, and the other maids are eleven or twelve years old. They do nothing but play with the children.
Xiao An hadn't seen Madam Yun for four years, and as soon as they met, they were pulled together.
(End of this chapter)
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
