Taoyuan

It’s winter.” Farmers can only seize the time in winter when the sun is not too poisonous to sow more drought-tolerant millet and corn, seize the opportunity of rain every time to take out all the bottles and cans to store water, and do everything possible Accumulating all hope of their survival.

He also has to seize the opportunity when the official road has the most traffic, run his tavern well and make money.

"Big Brother Yu."

"Are you up? Not bad." Yu Tao looked at the little snake demon standing at the door rubbing the hem of his clothes, and he was satisfied. "The business in the store will get busy soon. Since you stayed in the tavern, From now on, follow Hou Bai to do things well. Are you still used to it these days?"

"Yes, I will study hard! Get used to it!"

"Well, go and wake up Hou Bai first, and then take the rag hanging over there and wipe all the tables and chairs in the store." Nodding and casually confessing a task, Yu Tao looked at the little snake demon. The figure ran to Hou Bai's room, closed the window and entered the back kitchen.

Traveling merchants, rogue rangers, filthy beggars... restless people of all kinds and religions popped up like earthworms after the rain, coming and going on the official road in front of the tavern.

Seeing the sun rising higher and higher, a group of guys with mules finally walked towards their tavern, and the little snake demon who sat at the door and grinded his ass for a long time according to Hou Bai's order greeted him with a bright face!

"Hello, uncles, are you here to rest and drink in our tavern? Please come with me. The mule can be tied to this tree."

"This...you are the only kid out there greeting you? What's your name?"

They glanced at each other, and He Fu, who was holding the mule, avoided the little girl's hand.

"My name is Jiaojiao. Brother Yu and Uncle Hou are busy in the tavern." Seeing that there was still no movement from these people, the little snake demon recalled Hou Bai's teachings and tried harder to greet him, "Come and sit in the tavern, don't drink water. Money, if you don’t want to drink, you can also order a few small dishes to eat with dry food, it’s delicious and not expensive!”

"Okay, you lead the way, let's go in and have a look." The few people who had this idea in mind didn't want to waste any more words. They picked up the cloth bag on the mule's back and walked into the tavern. fell behind.

Hou Baigang was instructed by him to pick vegetables in the yard, and seeing the little snake trotting after the guests, Yu Tao had no choice but to go up to greet the guests himself: "Sit casually, what do you want to order? Anyone in the tavern can write It's on the wooden sign hanging on this wall."

"Is the water provided for free?"

"Well, can each of you pour a bowl for you?"

"...Is it clean?"

"It's clean, you don't have to." Yu Tao glanced at the pockmarked guest who was asking questions, and frowned slightly.

"Hey, let me just ask, bring me a bowl too, the others...why are they so expensive, what do you want to eat?"

"Mazi, wait a minute, can you use cloth to pay for food here? We don't have much gold and silver on us."

"Okay." The bad thing he had considered came true, Yu Tao secretly sighed, trying to save a little, "It's better to be gold and silver, it's cheaper for you when paying the bill, and the cloth is not cheap."

"Why is your tavern the opposite of other places?"

how could I know?

With a movement of the corner of his eyes, Yu Tao looked at the guest who was the first to ask, and rarely felt a little wronged——

Isn't it the custom in the world to open a shop to welcome customers and collect gold and silver?

Just like Old Man Yu, who has always collected the money from the guests and allocated part of it to buy the things needed in the tavern, and the rest will become his property; if he collects the cloth now, what is the use?It is not worthwhile to go out to buy gold and silver that is still spent, and it will not be able to store the family property for a few years.

"Anyway, that's it, it won't be used in fabric shops."

"Okay, the second one, he has the final say, pay first, and distribute the materials if there is not enough money, everyone is satisfied." A man behind rubbed his grunting stomach and interrupted impatiently, "Brothers I'm starving to death, let's see what I want to eat, let's order and serve."

This item was decided quickly.After writing down the menus that the group of guests wanted, Yu Tao secretly heaved a sigh of relief, and asked the little snake demon to go find Hou Bai and come out to greet the guests before returning to the back kitchen by himself.

"Is the first table ready for the shopkeeper? I'll serve them the first few dishes; besides, the three newcomers ordered Su Sansi and raw fish meatballs, and I've already delivered two jugs of mincemeal wine." Hou Baiyi When he got into the kitchen, he kept talking, and with a sweep of his eyes, he neatly put the few dishes that Yu Tao had prepared and put aside on the tray and took them out.

The multi-tasking Yu Tao didn't have time to call out to him, and poured sauce on the last dish at hand, and caught a glimpse of the little snake demon following the kitchen looking at him stupidly, bent down and handed the dish to her: "You take it out and give it to the first table."

Throughout noon, although Taoyuan Tavern was never full, people in twos and threes always came in to order something for lunch and rest.

After finally finishing the work, no Hou Bai or the little snake demon came into the kitchen to report the name of the dish. Yu Tao wiped his hands and packed a bowl of wild walnuts from the mountains, went into the hall, and went to chat with a guest dressed as a knight next to the two of them.

"Want to eat?"

"Okay, shopkeeper, you sit down." Pushing the chair to Yu Tao, Hou Bai took the wild walnuts and shared them, and introduced to Yu Tao, "Shopkeeper, this is Fang Yanshou from Nanyuan County, he is very capable. "Brother Fang, this is what I just told you, Yu Tao from my shop."

"Unexpectedly, the person who can open such a tavern is so young. I have admired him for a long time." Noticing Hou Bai's submissive attitude towards the beautiful young man in front of him, Fang Yanshou sighed secretly, raised his glass with a light smile and respected him.

Although Hou Bai is just an old waiter in a tavern, he has a good reputation among a small number of people in Nanyuan County, including himself. After all, not everyone is capable of holding or hurting or The cruel sneaky people ran to the county government.

He purposely went into this tavern this time on the road to see if he could recruit Hou Bai as his arm, so it seemed like the trip was a waste of time.

No, not for nothing.

The author has something to say: he received inappropriate education before, so Yu Tao’s thinking is a little strange, and someone will continue to educate him correctly in the future_(:зゝ∠)_

In order to make him not look like a mental retardation, I changed this for a long time... it became like this

☆, the county recruits people

"Are you going to the county mansion? It's such a long road, it's not safe to travel alone." Knowing the destination of this newly acquainted brother Fang during the chat, Hou Bai smacked his mouth to remind him.

These days, almost everyone has a little bit of experience in roadblocking and robbery, so walking alone like this is definitely the best target to start with.

"Brother Hou said that he originally planned to go with a few brothers, but something happened to my family, so I had to delay my work for a few days. I can't make them all wait for me." Fang Yanshou waved He waved his hand to signal Hou Bai not to worry, "I'll go to Changjia Village later to find a good brother who is still waiting for me, and then go with him."

Hearing a familiar place, Yu Tao, who was sitting beside them silently listening to their lively chat, cheered up a bit: "Changjia Village?"

"Ah, it's a small remote village. Why, the shopkeeper has heard of it?"

"I went to this village to buy vegetables before, and I know a few people." Later, I found that the vegetables grown by myself and Hou Bai in the yard were much better than those bought outside, and he never spent money on it again. money.

After peeling a walnut for the little girl who was obediently sitting on the side, Hou Bai interjected, "Then maybe the store you're looking for, Brother Fang, also knows him."

"What I'm talking about is that my brother's name is Chang Lin. He's about the same height as me. He's very strong. He has a scar above his left eyebrow. He doesn't like to talk very much." After some gestures, Fang Yanshou looked at Yu Yu with interest. Tao, "Do you have any impression of the shopkeeper?"

Turning his head to recall the images of that day, Yu Tao nodded: "Is his archery very good? That day three people from Changjia Village came to ask for water, and one of them should be the Chang Lin you mentioned... Well, I remember someone called He is 'forest'."

"What a coincidence, it's him!" After clapping his hands, Fang Yanshou nodded again and again, "He is very powerful in archery and has good accuracy. He is two years younger than me, but he is already an old hunter. I can always be in his light." Eat a few bites of meat."

"That's really a good skill." Knowing clearly the increasing vigilance in the mountains, Hou Bai admired, but couldn't help feeling a little emotional.

"You young people, I sound like they are all living a good life. Why do you want to go to the county mansion to make a living? When you get there, you are not familiar with the place, and you have nothing to say about the hardships."

Hearing this, Fang Yanshou laughed a few times heartily, showing a bit of surprise on his face: "Why, Brother Hou, haven't you heard of it? There are notices posted in the county town, saying that the county mansion is recruiting everywhere now." people!"

"Writers, accountants, grooms, county soldiers, Jiang's private soldiers... It can be said that anyone can try it, and I don't know how the life in the county mansion used to be." Counting a few items with fingers, Fang Yanshou clasped the table.

"This time I'm discussing to go to the county mansion with brothers who have some martial arts skills. They won't be able to eat enough or starve to death here. I plan to see if I can join the Jiang family's army."

"These are all the people recruited by the county guard Jiang himself?" Hou Bai frowned and asked softly, and saw Fang Yanshou's face showing a subtle "You know me?" Zhi" expression, shaking eyebrows and nodding at him.

"I know a brother who works as a guard in the county mansion. When he came home to pick up his wife in the first half of the year, he got together with me and talked about rumors that the old emperor's family had died out. The big men quarreled for a long time and couldn't push out a new emperor that everyone believed in. In the end, the quarrel broke out, and they went back to their respective homes, only caring about their own one-acre three-point land. I guess it was because of this, the county mansion Only then will we recruit people from outside.”

"The Jiang family's army can get a lot more monthly salary than the county soldiers, and it's easy to get ahead. If I succeed in being taken in, I'll treat you to a drink next time!"

"Okay, then I wish you all the best of luck."

After happily having a drink with Fang Yanshou, he sent him away along the official road with his sword in hand. When Hou Bai returned to the tavern where there were no customers present, he saw his shopkeeper was still sitting there, playing with the wine glass in a daze.

"Store? It's time to close the dishes."

"Ah."

Looking up at Hou Bai, Yu Tao was a little hesitant, which was rare, and he walked into the back kitchen with Hou Bai with the leftovers, and asked after a while, "I just wanted to take a trip to the imperial city."

"Ah? Why are you going to the imperial city?" Hou Bai was taken aback, then turned to look at the store in a strange way.

Frowning, Yu Tao gave Hou Bai a tangled look: "At first I wanted to visit the old emperor's tomb, but I don't know him or the imperial city, so it doesn't make sense to go there."

"I see, I understand, I understand."

"You know?" Hou Bai's inexplicable idea received understanding instead of opposition. Yu Tao was so surprised that he almost dropped the plate in his hand, and looked at him suddenly.

He is an old monkey who has wandered around the world for more than a hundred years. He has seen many of them. What do you not understand?

Although I don't know what the true dragon's blood that Yu Tao once talked about with him, but in this season of catastrophe year after year, most of the people who survived can still look like human beings. The old emperor can be regarded as a powerful monarch, except for the two points of suffering and love to exploit big families... there is nothing to do.

As for now, didn't some scholars say that there is no tiger or monkey in the mountains called the king, and the little monkeys are really jumping up and down, and they can kill people if they don't care.

I don't know how many more people have to die to stop it, life is sad.

Thinking of this, Hou Bai stretched out his hand and wanted to pat the storekeeper on the shoulder as a comfort: "Don't worry about those useless things, the monkey wine I brewed last time should be able to open the altar in a few days, after washing the dishes, let's go taste it , don’t brew any more jars of mince wine left in the shop when they’re sold out.”

Recalling the taste of those so-called minnows, Hou Bai couldn't help but want to hum.These days, waiting for the self-brewed monkey wine to mature, he has been looking for a chance to kick the mince wine off the wine brand of the tavern.

"Baiguo wine was bought and stocked in other wineries when it was in Yangui County. It will be gone when it is sold out. It is good to have monkey wine to refill. You can change the brand of wine if you have time... Hey, What's the smell?" Avoiding Hou Bai's dirty hands that were still dripping with washing pot water, Yu Tao just wanted to remind him, when he was attracted by the familiar rancid smell coming from the tip of his nose.

Twirling his nose to make a distinction, Yu Tao lowered his voice vigilantly: "Do you still remember what happened in the yard when you were practicing at night? I asked about the disgusting smell at that time... the sound came from outside the gate of the tavern. , a little lighter than last time."

☆, a Taoist priest with the surname Chu

"Brother Yu, Uncle Hou, a new guest has arrived—"

The delicate voice of the little snake demon came from outside, Yu Tao and Hou Bai exchanged glances, opened the curtain and walked toward the entrance of the tavern.

Contrary to Yu Tao's previous expectations, the outside of his tavern was clean and there was no black smoke similar to what he saw that night. There was only a young man in a black and white two-color broad avenue robe with a basket on his back, who was talking to the little snake demon with his head bowed. .A wooden pole was inserted obliquely in his back basket, and the white hood hanging on the top was dangling behind his head. The ten large characters of "Iron mouth pushes fortune, spiritual eye judges yin and yang" are particularly conspicuous.

It's been a long time since I've seen this kind of appearance of Taoist priests walking around the streets and setting up stalls.Unfortunately, without waiting for nostalgia, Yu Tao discovered that the familiar stench was emanating from this Taoist priest.

Seeing that the Taoist robed youth noticed the existence of the two of them and looked up, Yu Tao, who didn't want to get close to the source of the stench, took a step back and winked at Hou Bai who was beside him.

Is it really the Taoist's problem?

After understanding the meaning of his store, Hou Bai, who was still confused, was a little distracted, and while secretly looking at the Taoist priest, he greeted him with a smiling face.

Standing at the bottom of the steps, Chu Qiuming looked at the little girl in front of him who was just taller than his knees, at the thin guy not far away who was smiling enthusiastically and wanted to take him into the tavern, and then at the door standing far away. Weisai looked at him with disgust, the man in Tsing Yi who was obviously the leader of the trio, thought this roadside tavern was really interesting.

To have such an eye-opening opportunity is not in vain after he has worked so hard on the official road for so long.

Dressed in a robe, showing his most lovable smiling face, Chu Qiuming put his hand on the guy's shoulders, and stepped up the steps to the tavern at his invitation.

"Jiaojiao, I don't need you here anymore, go to the yard and pick all the Cai that can be picked."

"Oh, good." The little snake demon responded to Hou Bai, waved to the handsome and talkative guest brother, and obediently walked to the backyard.

Walking into the hall and looking around, Chu Qiuming randomly found a table and sat down, put the bamboo basket on his back and the green gourd on his waist aside, and breathed a sigh of relief.

"I'm exhausted from carrying on this journey. Do you dare to ask if there is any cheaper food in your tavern?" As he spoke, he pursed his lips, looking at the other two... people in the tavern, "I don't have a lot of money with me, or can I use something else to pay for the food?"

Yu Tao glanced at the green gourd he put on the corner of the table, relaxed his expression a little, covered his mouth and nose, sat down opposite the Taoist priest, and asked Hou Bai to go to the back kitchen to bring some food and wine.

"I didn't expect to meet a real Taoist priest, can you show me your gourd?"

Ok?

Surprised by his straightforward words, Chu Qiuming, who had already prepared five or six ways to deal with it, was stunned for a moment, then sighed with a slight smile, and pushed the gourd towards Yu Tao, "I didn't expect it to be true Those who can see the demon clan in the human world will be three at once."

"Can you see the details of the few of us!?" Suddenly hearing the word "monster clan", Yu Tao's entire demon was awakened as if suddenly awakened by the sound of a drum, his whole body's aura exploded, and he was extremely vigilant Keep an eye on the Taoist priest opposite.

... So you don't know that I know?This was immediately clear from his abnormal reaction, Chu Qiuming touched his chin speechlessly, and raised the corner of his mouth towards Yu Tao: "I am a true Taoist priest, of course I can see something."

"However, you don't have to face me like this, right? Didn't our two worlds set a rule of non-aggression long ago?"

Uncomfortable being oppressed by Yu Tao's ready-to-go aggressive aura, Chu Qiuming tried his best to suppress his desire to fight back, propped his cheek with one hand, and looked back at him innocently.

After hesitating and observing for a while, Yu Tao slowly calmed down his undercurrent of spiritual power.

"Serve the dishes. A pot of mincemeal wine and two appetizers. Please take it easy, the guest." Seeing the timing, Hou Bai, who had prepared earlier, came out of the back kitchen with a tray, and quickly arranged the wine and dishes on the table. slipped to the backyard.

Just now, the old Hou could see that it was hard to say who was stronger and who was weaker between these two, anyway, he himself was not as good as either of them; at a time like this, it was best to stay on the sidelines.

Glancing at Hou Bai's quick and agile movements that far surpassed ordinary people, Chu Qiuming secretly praised, and took the opportunity of pouring wine to ease the atmosphere on the table: "By the way, is there something on me that annoys you? You When I saw me for the first time, I looked like I saw something dirty. Is it this gourd?"

"Well, is there something like a little ghost hidden here?" Seeing the jade slippery and warm green and white gourd being shaken in Chu Qiuming's hand, Yu Tao couldn't help but frowned in disgust.

"So it's because of this. My master clearly told me that this gourd can tightly seal the yin and ghost qi. It seems that you really can't deal with these ghosts."

Tilting his head to look at the gourd that has always been very useful, Chu Qiuming's eyes flicked across the arrogant young man who was hiding behind him, and the handsome peach tree outside the tavern door, with buds in it, and his heart moved. One sentence blurted out: "Master Yu, are you a Peach Blossom Demon?"

"No, no, that's not right." As soon as he blurted out the words, he repeatedly denied while Yu Tao looked down, "But all the flower demons take the form of women, I was thinking about it."

Looking up, seeing that Yu Tao didn't seem to be unhappy because of his speculation about his details, Chu Qiuming heaved a sigh of relief and decided to change the topic to a safer one.

Anyway, although I can't see the ins and outs of the tavern owner the same way as the other guy and the little girl, but judging from his behavior, it means that the peach leaves, peach trees, peaches, etc. are not gone... Everything can be a living thing , Yaozu is really amazing.

Seeing that the Taoist priest surnamed Chu lost his eyes, he didn't know what he was thinking, Yu Tao endured it again and again, stretched out his hand and took the gourd from his hand: "Do you have any use for the things in here?"

"No, it's useless to the poor." Called back to his senses, Chu Qiuming shook his head.

"Then can I destroy them directly?" After a pause, Yu Tao looked at Chu Qiuming's questioning expression and added a few words, "To me, your gourd emits a stench like a firefly in the night. Hard to ignore...unbearable."

Hearing this, Chu Qiuming raised his eyebrows knowingly, and stretched out his hand to signal to Yu Tao that he could do whatever he wanted.

The function of this green gourd is to seal up the ghosts and kill them every day in order to disperse them as soon as possible. Yu Tao can save a lot of effort by breaking them up directly.

I don't know what these odorless troublesome things smell like to him?

He didn't miss Yu Tao's dark face that was about to drip ink when he opened the gourd stopper, Chu Qiuming wondered about this question curiously while watching him exorcise the haunted ghost with just a few easy moves.

The author has something to say: Let me tell you first, this Taoist priest can only order ghost-hunting, fortune-telling, and Fengshui to cure hysteria.

well enough

☆, exchanges between the two counties

"Shopkeeper, have you talked with the Taoist? Are you okay?"

Hearing familiar footsteps approaching behind him, Hou Bai stopped playing with Jiaojiao and turned to look at Yu Tao.

"It's okay, you can clean up the room where the sundries are stored and let Chu Qiuming live in it." Looking at the vegetable garden that had become much sparser, Yu Tao nodded to Hou Bai.

"Huh? He's staying in our tavern?"

"Yes, I will live under the same roof from now on, please bear with me." A head with a crown poked out from the window, and answered Hou Bai's question with a smile on his face.

Hou Bai twitched the corners of his mouth, dispelling the nervousness that had just arisen, and looked at Yu Tao suspiciously.

"I want to know something from him, and let him stay in the museum for a while." After a pause, Yu Tao glanced at Chu Qiuming who was leaning against the window and watching the movement in the backyard. If you don’t have enough money to pay the bill, if you want to earn money by soliciting customers in our tavern, you should remember to count his daily rent and meals as well.”

"Okay, I must write it down every time." Smiling and scratching the back of his head, Hou Bai straightened up and responded, and then asked Chu Qiuming, "Do you think this room on the east side is okay? Although it is a bit small, it is It’s much brighter than the other one, enough for you to live alone.”

"Well, which room is easier to clean?" Chu Qiuming asked after looking at the two rooms following Hou Bai's guidance.

"The room on the east side is filled with light household items." After saying that, Hou Bai suddenly felt uncomfortable, and frowned, "It's not because the east room is easy to tidy up..."

"That's not what I meant." Waving his hands and retracting his head, Chu Qiuming said as he walked towards the backyard, "It's an unexpected good thing to be able to stay in the tavern, so how can I bother you to clean up the place for me. Just east It’s easy to clean up.”

Pingyuan County prefecture.

On the tall table in the main hall, an old man in dark black clothes was slowly flipping through the old books spread out in front of him, his face was solemn, and his slightly frost-colored thick eyebrows were tightly knit together.

The sound of rapid and regular footsteps suddenly sounded from far to near, and entered the room. The old man who was disturbed by his thoughts frowned, slightly raised his head and looked outside the door: "Who is making noise?"

"Grandpa is me, I have something urgent to report!"

"Cheng Song? Come forward!"

The figure of the eldest grandson appeared at the door, walking quickly against the light.The old man suddenly got up in a moment of excitement, and even brought down the teacup on the table with his toga and sleeves: "Let me guard outside the door, and Cheng Song quickly follow me into the back hall."

Seeing the two servants who had been serving beside his grandfather silently and swiftly retreated from the hall and closed the door, Jiang Chengsong breathed a sigh of relief, no longer caring about the possible loss of manners, and moved a few steps faster.

"Grandson..."

"The etiquette is all waived." Jiang Liuyuan pointed to the seat at the bottom of his head to signal his grandson to sit down, and asked, holding back the anxiety in his heart, "How will Tao Jiayi of Qingyuan County respond to our proposal? According to what you have said along the way Seeing the situation, what is the current situation in Qingyuan County?"

"This is the letter Mr. Tao asked me to bring back and present to your grandfather." Jiang Chengsong took out the well-preserved envelope from his coat, and handed it to his grandfather with both hands, while his grandfather opened the letter to read it. It's time to organize your thoughts quickly.

To be honest, the way grandfather wants to unite Master Tao and become an ally is very good, but in his opinion, the possibility of success is really not very great——

After all, the vision of an alliance between the two counties is indeed beneficial to their Pingyuan County of the Jiang family, but it can only be regarded as a tasteless idea for the Tao family.Although Master Tao has always been on good terms with their family, it is unlikely that he would help them under the current situation without saying a word, right?If I can think of a way to communicate with Qingyuan County, it will be easy to really impress Mr. Tao...

The dull and loud "bang" made Jiang Chengsong's heart skip a beat.

Seeing his grandfather clutching the letter paper tightly, his face blushing and slapping the table angrily, he hurriedly stood up and went to give his grandfather relief.

"Grandfather, don't be angry, your body is important! No matter what Mr. Tao wrote in the letter, why hurt your body because of him?"

"He has no ambitions, greedy for profit, short-sighted, and too deceitful! Does his surname Tao really think that I must ask him? Look at this letter!" After taking a few breaths, Jiang Liuyuan snorted coldly and stuffed the letter in his hand When he came to his grandson, his seemingly old eyes flickered.

After reading the entire letter at a glance, Jiang Chengsong gradually blushed, and anger surged in his heart.

"Master Tao was also one of the guests who came to congratulate my grandson at the ceremony, how could he ask my grandson to marry a daughter from Tao's family now? No matter how slack in the army in Pingyuan County, it will not be his turn to intervene with other county chiefs; as for the last food matter... If anyone in the county government thinks this matter is negotiable, it is either an idiot or a traitor !"

When it came to the end, Jiang Chengsong was already gnashing his teeth.

Throwing the letter paper in his hand into a hasty ball, he bowed his head to his grandfather in anger, shame and shame to admit his mistake: "It's my grandson's fault. I didn't notice Mr. Tao's perfunctory when I was in Qingyuan County..."

Jiang Liuyuan, who had regained his composure, shook his head, signaling to his grandson that there is no need to say any more: "Come on, he has eaten more salt than you have eaten, so you can still see if he is interested?"

"Little Tao's Qingyuan County has the largest lake in the world, Jinghu, and the livelihood in the county must be better than ours in Pingyuan County; however, he doesn't think about his other bad neighbors. It's not easy to get along with."

"And I, Pingyuan County, is located in the place where the four wars in the traffic throat, although there is no near-term worry, there will be long-term troubles, so I have to plan ahead." Fumbling for the sandalwood beads on his wrist, Jiang Liuyuan relaxed his body and leaned back on the chair back.

"At the beginning, I hired General Yan's daughter as your wife, but now it seems that I did the right thing."

"Cheng Song, go back to your residence today to rest for a day. In the future, pay more attention to the recruitment and training of soldiers from the county and our Jiang family army."

"Yes, Grandfather." Seeing that his grandfather returned to his calm and unhurried manner after being agitated for a while, Jiang Chengsong felt that he was also infected a lot, and answered, keeping his grandfather's advice in his heart. .

"Okay, you go out and explain to the people, let them go to the countryside a few more times to supervise the farming, and there should be more agricultural plants like waterwheels and wells."

"Then, grandfather, you..."

"I'll just rest here for a while." Let the waiters come in.

"Yes, grandfather, grandson will leave." After bowing to his grandfather, Jiang Chengsong relaxed his hands and feet and walked outside, his shoes fell to the ground almost silently, with a calm posture.

☆, full of guests

There were only four or five customers in the tavern, but it was as lively as if the house was full of guests.

Disturbed by another loud applause from the corner, Yu Tao, who was sitting behind the counter, rubbed his forehead helplessly and raised his head to look over.Sure enough, those guests were sitting next to Chu Qiuming and surrounded him, chatting with him in full swing.

Although the business of the tavern did improve a little after he set up a stall in the tavern and began to tell fortunes and characters for people, but... he always felt something was wrong and unhappy.

"Jiaojiao." Looking down at the little snake demon who was sitting on the ground leaning against the corner of the table and learning how to read, Yu Tao said urgently, "Go and bring a jug of wine, and ask the guests if they want it."

"Okay!" Hearing this, Jiaojiao raised his head and nodded to King Yu, happily threw away the copybook in his hand, patted the dust on his little buttocks, stood up, climbed onto the stool and picked a bottle full of wine. Holding the celadon jug in his hands, he held it carefully in his arms and ran towards the Taoist brother and the others.

It's so nice not to have to go on reading, she's going to stay a little longer among the guests!

Pointing to the palm prints of the guests, he had just done a round of counting for him, and it was a success, which was highly recognized by him and warmly responded by other spectators. Chu Qiuming was about to drink tea to moisten his throat and continue to say, strike while the iron is hot and kill fat sheep. When I got to the lower end of my clothes, I was pulled a few times.

"It's Jiaojiao, what's wrong?"

Touching the two small scratches on the head of the little girl who was standing next to his legs, Chu Qiuming immediately picked her up and placed her on his lap, "What's the matter?"

"I, I just came to ask all the uncles if they want to drink?" Taking out the jug from his arms and putting it on the table, Jiaojiao blinked and looked at the guests around him.

A little girl named Baibai Nennen suddenly appeared in front of her eyes, and the guest who liked children immediately sighed in surprise and joy: "Hey, this little girl is well-raised, it's rare."

"Yeah, is that Hou Xiaoer's child in the tavern? This shop is really..." Someone laughed a few times, not daring to laugh at the shopkeeper who didn't look very easy to mess with, and secretly teased the child, " Did the store ask you to bring this wine? We don't want it, so you can put it back. "

"okay……"

"You got it, it's not easy for others, how much money do you need? Don't listen to him, just put this pot of wine on the table, and moisten your throat for the Taoist priest." Zhong Zhong, who was waiting for the Taoist priest to tell his fortune The young man with a scarred face rolled his eyes at his cheapskate companion, and stopped the well-behaved child who was about to jump down, "What's your name, little girl?"

"Jiaojiao, my name is Jiaojiao."

"Oh, Jiaojiao, it's a good name." The man with the knife scar casually stuffed the dried fruit on the table to the little girl, while secretly frowning, he asked, "This doll is so small, why don't you choose a cheap name to support her?" ? You can't be too delicate."

Like the two in his family, the older one is called Shuisheng, and the younger one is called Yusheng, how wonderful.

Chu Qiuming smiled slightly and was about to answer, when he felt the little demon sitting on top of him rush forward, and retorted tenderly: "Uncle, what you think is wrong, my name is Jiao———"

She learned her own name from the king, um, she also asked the king to give her this name after she saw that everyone had a name.

Rudely scratching the word "Jiao" with his fingers on the table, the little snake demon raised his head and explained proudly, "This means that I hope I will be better than others in the future."

After successfully transforming into form, her next goal of snake life is to work hard to become a flood dragon as soon as possible.Calling myself "Jiao" with the same pronunciation as Jiao also sometimes urges to work hard to cultivate this level, so I can't tell them.

Relying on Yu Tao's hearing ability, Chu Qiuming didn't deliberately cover up, the conversation of this group of people reached his ears very clearly.

Hearing that the little snake demon gradually chatted with this group of people, Yu Tao hesitated for a moment, put down the notebook in his hand and walked out of the tavern. There was a small group of people on the upper reaches of the stream who didn't know what they were doing.

Looking at the group of people from a distance for a while, Yu Tao moved his feet, and walked lightly for a few miles while breathing, and calmly picked a direction in the dense forest, stopped and walked out, and approached the group of people loudly: "Dare to ask, What are you guys doing here?"

Hearing the sound, he noticed that someone was coming from the dense forest. The people who were in the heated discussion were not surprised, and only glanced this way.The little official in official uniform standing on one side took a few steps forward, bowed hastily to the stranger, and motioned him to look at the various tools at his feet: "I am Guo Wenyu, an official in the government office of Nanyuan County. Bian recently issued a document requiring all counties and counties to 'reclaim farmland where there is a water source' and 'must have more wells where there is a village', and it is here that we arrange the cultivation of farmland."

"This place is quite remote. I didn't expect to meet people. What are you doing here?"

"No." Shaking his head, Yu Tao approached them, watching other people busy on a crude map, "I'm the owner of the tavern near the lower reaches of this stream, so I just came here because I saw someone worried about the upper reaches Take a look. This place is full of rocks and forests, and it will be turned into farmland?"

"Ah." Wiping the sweat off his forehead, Guo Wenyu nodded, "I can grow a little food, anyway, people from the nearby villages come here to carry water on weekdays, so just take care of it when the time comes."

"I also saw the tavern over there when I came over, and I thought that if someone opened a tavern there, it would be a suitable place to reclaim wasteland. Since you are the store owner, I just asked, would you like to open the back of your tavern? Shouldn’t the peach grove be leveled and replaced with other species?”

"...I don't want to." Frowning tightly, Yu Tao asked the little official with an uneasy face, "Does the government even care about this? Then