The next day, after breakfast, Yang Haiyan sped up her pace. The carriage was moving slowly with the group because everyone was walking.
Yang Haiyan took away Nanny Lian, Aunt Fan, Aunt Yu, Kun Zhang, Meng Qiu, Huang Xu, Meng An, and three female relatives of Niu Da, a total of ten people. In addition to private guards such as Kun Shi, there were twenty soldiers.
It must be said that as she proposed, she led people ahead, which was indeed a lot of benefits. At least when Qin Fang arrived with a large group of people, they could eat directly.
Two days later, everyone walked out of Yongzhou. The number of people eating in the past two days has increased from more than 300 people at the beginning to more than 1,000 people, because the dry food everyone brought has gradually run out.
As for meals, from the first rice and bone porridge, to steamed buns, then rice and sweet potato porridge, or baked potatoes, etc., anyway, they were all porridge, steamed buns, sweet potatoes and potatoes, mainly for convenience. After three days, the food that Yang Haiyan brought was eaten up. Compared with the cost of food, it was neither a profit nor a loss. However, neither a profit nor a loss is a profit, after all, the food expenses of two hundred soldiers are not paid.
At noon that day, after eating, Aunt Fan came to Yang Haiyan: "Madam, the food we brought has run out." There is a big difference between a thousand people eating and a family eating. If it is a family eating, the food they brought may last for a year, but if a thousand people eat, it will be gone in two days. Aunt Fan's tone was full of worry. They had eaten all the food, and the wife said she was responsible for the food for the whole team. What should we do next?
Facing Aunt Fan's worry, Yang Haiyan was very happy. She smiled and said, "It's better to eat up the stock. We can also relax when we are on the road."
Qin Fang was coming to find her. Hearing this, he couldn't help but be curious: "How can it be better if it's eaten up?"
Yang Haiyan turned around and said mysteriously, "Guess."
Speaking of which, Qin Fang really didn't know much about these mundane things. Although he was born in a poor family, he had grandparents, parents, uncles and aunts in his family before he joined the army. As the eldest grandson, it was not his turn to worry about the mundane things at home. After joining the army, the kitchen provided three meals a day, so he didn't have to think about these things, so he was really curious when he heard Yang Haiyan say this.
Logically, she should be worried when the food she brought was eaten up, but why did she feel good about it? From her tone, it seemed that she wanted to continue preparing food for everyone.
Qin Fang shook his head, lowered his posture and softened his voice, "Good Yanyan, I can't think of it, tell me."
Yang Haiyan felt that this man was getting more and more shameless. She, an old aunt in her thirties, was ashamed to hear such words in public, and he just said it without thinking.
Qin Fang saw her looking at him, he said innocently: "I'm not as smart as you."
Yang Haiyan ignored him: "We are going to set off. You will know when you see you in the evening. I won't tell you now." After saying that, she left Qin Fang with a back of her head and walked towards the carriage.
Qin Fang didn't make a fuss, but smiled, turned around and looked at everyone, and said coldly: "Everyone is ready to set off."
Yang Haiyan and his team quickly left the group, and soon disappeared from everyone's sight. They had both carriages and horses, and this speed made the people on foot in the group envious.
Mrs. Yang and Mrs. Lu were in a donkey cart. They were originally sitting separately, but they were too lonely sitting separately for a few days. There was no one to talk to along the way, so they sat together.
Mrs. Yang said, "I saw that Mrs. Qin's carriage has run out of food. There are too many people eating these two days, and the food is not enough. I don't know what to do next?"
Mrs. Lu glanced at her and said, "Don't we still have the food we brought with us?" They spent money to eat the food of the Qin family these two days, so they only had the food they brought with them.
Mrs. Yang: "That's what you said, but what about the Qin family? General Qin has already made a big promise, and it can't be that he will die after two days, right?"
Mrs. Lu didn't have any other ideas: "We don't need to worry about this matter. We can't worry about anything. Let's see how General Qin gets the cards."
Mrs. Yang didn't have any other intentions. She was just curious and talked to Mrs. Lu in private.
An hour and a half later, Yang Haiyan and his group arrived in front of a village again. In other words, they were looking for the village. Kunshi was very familiar with the road conditions because he had walked this road before, and he also knew where the village was. "Madam, there is a village ahead. Do you want to go into the village?"
Yang Haiyan said, "Yes. You arrange for someone to tell the general that we will stay here tonight."
Kunshi: "Yes." He called Huang Huzi, "Huzi, go back and tell the adults that we will rest when the team arrives here and stay here tonight."
Huang Huzi: "Yes..." He got on the horse and went back immediately.
Yang Haiyan continued, "Captain Kun, let's go into the village."
Kunshi: "Yes."
When they arrived at the village gate, their group of thirty or forty people attracted a lot of attention. In other words, when they appeared in front, someone went to find the village chief. After all, these people were either riding horses or in carriages, and they were obviously rich or noble. The appearance of nobles here made the villagers not only curious but also nervous, fearing that something might happen.
Yang Haiyan said to Kunshi, "Let them rest where they are. If we go over like this, we will scare them."
Kunshi made a gesture to the soldiers, and they immediately stood on the spot.
Yang Haiyan said to Nanny Lian, "Nanny, please ask the villagers to call the village chief and tell him that I want to discuss a big business with him."
Nanny Lian bowed and said, "Yes."
Nanny Lian walked to the villagers who were watching them and said in a friendly manner, "Excuse me, we are the wives of officials passing by. We have something to ask the village chief and want to discuss a business with him. I wonder if this lady can help to invite the village chief?"
When the woman being asked heard that they were wives of officials, she immediately said respectfully, "Someone has already called the village chief. Please wait for a while."
Nanny Lian said, "Thank you, lady."
After a while, the village chief came. The village chief of this village looked very old, with white hair and a cane, but he looked energetic.
The village chief looked at them with some caution. As they approached from a distance, he was a little reserved and a little worried. "May I ask who you are?" He could see that this group of people was led by this young woman, and there were so many servants and guards around the woman, which showed that their identities were different.
Nanny Lian said, "Hello, village chief. My wife is the wife of a fifth-rank general. Today, I want to discuss a business with your village."
Talk about business? The village chief looked at Yang Haiyan in confusion. At his age, he knew that there was no such thing as a free lunch. However, since the other party was of high status, he did not dare to refuse. He had to ask carefully: "Hello, sir. What business are you talking about?"
Nanny Lian also looked at Yang Haiyan, because she did not know what kind of business the madam wanted to discuss. The madam had only mentioned business.
Yang Haiyan said, "It's like this. My husband is a fifth-rank military general. He was ordered by the emperor to go to Yunxiang County to settle the barbarians who surrendered at the border, so he passed by here. However, the journey to Yunxiang County is long, and everyone has limited dry food, so I came to the village chief to order tonight's dinner, tomorrow's breakfast and lunch.
Today's dinner is sweet potato rice with a layer of fried cabbage on top, two cents a piece.
For each meal, the amount of rice should be 1/4 of the total amount. The amount of rice should be 2/3 of the total amount. The amount of rice should be 1/4 of the total amount. The amount of rice should be 2/3 of the total amount
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The amount of rice should be 1/2 ... Besides, the dinner of sweet potato rice with oil and stir-fried cabbage cost nothing, and the nobleman gave them two cents for one portion, so they still made money. The next day, breakfast was porridge and eggs, and eggs cost one cent outside, but porridge and eggs didn’t cost two cents. Besides, two steamed buns didn’t cost a penny either, so they still made money.
The village chief thought about it and thought it was a good deal, so he said, "I will arrange for everyone to prepare now. Why don't you go to my house to rest for a while?"
Yang Haiyan said, "Sorry for disturbing you there." Then he said to Kunshi, "Captain Kun, you take everyone to wait here. I, Lian Mama, Meng Ping, Tao Shan and I will go over."
Kunshi: "Yes."
The village chief took Yang Haiyan back to his home. He originally asked his daughter-in-law to clean up a room to entertain guests. But Yang Haiyan refused and she just sat in the yard.
Yang Haiyan sat down, and the village chief's daughter-in-law came forward to ask: "Hello, sir. Would you like some tea?"
Yang Haiyan said: "Excuse me, sister-in-law. Just give me a pot of hot water."
The village chief's daughter-in-law said: "Yes, please wait a moment."
Nanny Lian took out a bag from her shoulder bag and spread it out: "Madam, fill your stomach." The bag contained small biscuits, sweet and salty fried dough twists.
Speaking of which, Nanny Lian and others learned how to use the shoulder bag from Yang Haiyan. However, with this shoulder bag, it is indeed convenient to travel, and some things can be carried with you.
Yang Haiyan picked up a piece of biscuit and took a bite. The mellow milk flavor spread from her teeth. Slurp... a sound of slurping saliva entered Yang Haiyan's ears. She turned her head and saw a little boy hiding at the kitchen door. The little boy stretched out his little head and looked at him curiously.
Yang Haiyan looked at this cute child and couldn't help but smile and waved at him.
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