Chapter 9 Open everyone's mind
"Can you two get out of bed tomorrow?"
After Huo Hai entered the house, he actually saw Chu Yu and Baoer sitting up on the bed by themselves. He immediately suspected that what Wang Dang said before was true. The injuries of these two little girls may really take only a few days to heal.
"Uh, it should be possible, but you can't walk around at will." Chu Yu said guiltily.
In fact, in the afternoon, she slowly got up from the straw mat and went to the crack in the door to peek at the situation outside. She was very curious about the things Huo Hai directed the villagers to make.
However, they were afraid that after their injuries were healed, Huo Hai would not give them those delicious foods, or they would leave immediately, so they said this on purpose.
"That's good. Within three days, you will help me find the talisman paper and build the altar as it is." Huo Hai said with a serious expression.
"Three days? This may be very difficult." Chu Yu replied after thinking about it.
"There are difficulties that must be overcome, because the food you have hidden can only be allowed to last for another three days." Huo Hai continued to say seriously.
From what he said that he insisted on for three days, instead of eating for three days, you can imagine the urgency of things.
After all, the so-called five-stone grain was only about 150 kilograms from later generations. If it was allowed to eat more than 80 people for three days, then they could only eat fifty kilograms a day. If they were divided into two meals in the morning and evening, they could only cook twenty-five kilograms per meal, and evenly divided into each person, about three kilograms.
If it was normal, this might be enough for them to survive, but now it is different. They have to do physical work, which consumes a lot of money, and they are also preparing to travel far and get on the way, which will consume even more. This is not the case when Wang Dang may find more people who have no food to eat.
"I can't travel more than 200 miles in three days." Chu Yu looked at Huo Haidao pitifully.
"Nonsense, the villagers told me that on the Changshan Kingdom, Xia County is fifty miles away, Zhong County is seventy-five miles away, Shang County is only a hundred miles away. Even if Zhending County is Shang County, it is not a hundred miles away from here, and it is impossible to travel back and forth between two hundred miles." Today, Huo Hai not only worked, but also kept chatting with everyone, especially those older people who have experienced traveling far away.
From them, Huo Hai learned the news. It turned out that Wang Dang was lying to himself before. In the densely populated Jizhou, the village could not be more than 200 miles away from the county town, unless it was in the sparsely populated border state.
However, this is understandable. Huo Hai knew that Wang Dang at that time wanted to leave himself here to solve their food crisis.
However, if Chu Yu uses such a routine to deceive himself, it will not work.
"Uh, I mean, the round trip is 200 miles, and from here to the county town, it should be about 100 miles." Chu Yu's eyes rolled around and he found a reason to lie.
"I heard that there is an official road not far from the village, which can directly lead to the county town. One hundred miles is only fifty kilometers. I can get there in about half an hour with my car."
"One hundred miles, half, half an hour?" Chu Yu looked at Huo Hai in disbelief. Even the best carriage in this world might not be able to reach this speed.
"Yes, it's only half an hour, but if I really want to use my car, I might set off in the second half of the night. Can you enter the city at night?" Huo Hai was exposed and had already figured out a way to travel.
Most people in ancient times had night blindness and could not see anything at night, so before dark, they all went back to the house to rest.
But Huo Hai is different. He is a night owl. Moreover, the car has headlights that can be illuminated. Even if you need to slow down at night and go to the county town, it will not take him two hours, which is an hour of this era.
Chu Yu dared not lie to deceive Huo Hai again, because she didn't know how much Huo Hai had learned from Wang Dang and the villagers. If he exposed it again, he might have lost his trust. After he hesitated for a while, she said, "If I can recover in three days, I will sneak into the city to get something out in the middle of the night, but it will not be impossible."
When Huo Hai heard this, his face calmed down and said, "Okay, I'll just make up and set off in three days."
When he walked out of the room, Huo Hai had a smile on his lips.
This Chu Yu had some reservations about herself before, but now, she will expose her and shock her again, so that she will not know her depth, so she will no longer dare to fool herself casually.
However, just this is not a scheming person. After Huo Hai figured it out, he would be able to deal with her in the future.
Supper was not surprisingly boiling noodles again. After Jiao Niang added half of the salt left to her to the pots of each bean cooking, she quickly ran into the house to help Huo Hai add firewood.
Huo Hai knew that she was also greedy for her noodles, but she didn't say much. In the morning, he finished cooking most of the leftover noodles yesterday. In the evening, he directly cooked a bucket, hoping to expand the number of people eating noodles to nine children under the age of ten in the village. In this way, he would gain the gratitude from everyone in the village.
Anyway, there are two boxes of noodles on the car, which are more than 40 barrels. One cooked one barrel per meal, and two meals a day can be cooked for more than 20 days. Moreover, maybe in a few days, Huo Hai will wear it back. He plans to leave all the goods in the car to these villagers.
A tube of noodles was originally a portion of ten people. Four adults and nine children could eat it, and most of them could eat it. Huo Hai specially added some water to the pot and cooked a large pot full of pot. Even if the noodles were not full, they could drink the noodle soup.
When they went out to ask the children to come in to serve the noodles with their dishes, Huo Hai also took out the chicken essence and MSG and added some to each bean-boiled pot. Anyway, there were several boxes of these seasonings in the car, and they would not be able to finish them in a while.
Sure enough, when the children squeezed into Wang Dang's home with their own bowls and chopsticks, all the villagers looked at Huo Hai with gratitude. Huo Hai was successful in this way of attracting people's hearts. He was very conscious and everyone handed over the food distribution rights to Huo Hai.
Three tablespoons per person, which means beans filled with a pottery bowl of half a foot in diameter. This is what Huo Hai believes is the most basic food requirement for a person who works hard.
However, when he was assigned to the last dozen people, the beans in the pot were obviously not enough. In order to make everyone feel fair, Huo Hai had to get in the car and find some food to give to those who could only get two spoonfuls of beans in the end.
"This thing is called pineapple egg, also known as jade egg. There are only a few plates in my car. You only have two spoonfuls of beans, and each one will make up one such egg!" Huo Hai took out a plate of eggs and handed them one by one to the villagers who only had two spoonfuls of boiled beans in the bowl.
However, there were thirty plates of peeled eggs. After the split, there were still more than a dozen left. Huo Hai put them on the wheelbarrow made today and said, "The remaining eggs are used as rewards. During the meal, or after the meal, you can start thinking about what preparations we need to make under the current conditions, which are conducive to traveling far. When you think of a person who everyone thinks is feasible, I will reward him with a jade egg."
After hearing what he said, all the people who could and did not have the eggs lit up and stopped eating.
"Don't worry, you can eat while thinking. I'll go to eat first, and then listen to your thoughts after the meal." Huo Hai smiled and walked into Wang Dang's house. Inside, several children were surrounding the stove, carefully eating the noodles in the bowl one by one.
Yu Qiu picked up the bowl of his own, and added chopsticks to the bowl, Lao Ganma, and then started eating it.
Many children looked at the bottle of Lao Ganma that he unscrewed, and were obviously curious about what it tasted.
"It's very spicy, you kids can't eat it."
Huo Hai smiled and explained to them, and immediately found a reason for Chu Yu and said, "I'm not a child, I can eat it!"
"Uh, girls eat too spicy food and are prone to acne." Huo Hai found another reason.
As a southerner, Huo Hai was having sex with no spice. Lao Ganma only had two boxes. If he couldn't go back, it wouldn't be enough for him to eat for a few months.
“What is, acne?”
"There are one by one on the face, something can be squeezed out from it." Huo Hai described to Chu Yu.
Upon hearing this, Chu Yu frowned, but still disbelief and said, "Didn't you add a little in the morning? It's okay if we eat it! I'll eat a little, it's okay!"
After all, Huo Hai was embarrassed to ask for this, so he directly stretched out the bottle that had unscrewed the cap towards Chu Yu and asked her to pick it up.
Chu Yu was not polite, and wanted to pick as many as possible. Finally, he directly used a bowl to take a quarter of the bottle and then he was finished.
"I want it too, I want it too..." Baoer also stretched out the bowl and prepared to use her chopsticks to pick the sauce in the bottle.
"Remember, don't say 'I want' in front of a man in the future, as it will easily cause misunderstandings." Huo Hai stretched over the bottle and asked Baoer to pick the sauce in the bottle by himself.
Baoer was a little confused if she didn't know what this meant, but she was very quick in her hands. She picked up about a quarter of the bottle of sauce again, followed Huo Hai's appearance, and stirred it in the bowl.
When Huo Hai collected the bottle, he showed a smirk on his face. People who had never eaten chili had eaten so many Lao Ganma at once, hahaha...
Sure enough, after two mouthfuls of noodles, Chu Yu took the lead in spitting out his breath and kept swelling his tongue. As for the girl who imitated her, she was not much better, and tears and snot came out soon.
"This chili..."
"Isn't it hot?" Seeing the two women regretting asking for help, Huo Hai smiled proudly.
Now they are having trouble with each other, eat it! It's too spicy and can't eat it, so don't eat it! When they get hungry, they feel uncomfortable, so it's obvious that Huo Hai will never cook a bowl for them.
They had made an appointment with me, no, they could only finish eating the chili sauce they mixed with tears.
Within a few minutes, Huo Hai finished his bowl of noodles, and there was still a lot of noodle soup in the pot. He told Jiao Niang to allocate it to several children evenly, and then came outside the house.
At this time, most villagers who ate bean rice around the fire in the open space outside the house had not finished eating, because their brains were always thinking about the problem. As for a few villagers who had tasted the taste of jade eggs, they were savoring it.
This thing is delicious, but it is not very delicious. It just comes after it is knocked open. The jade-like color makes people feel that it is a very nourishing thing.
Of course, there are also many people who don’t eat it, and they want to leave it to their children who are eating noodles in the house.
"Did anyone have any idea?"
As soon as Huo Hai asked his question, someone immediately answered, "I, I have it. I think we should burn a few kilns of carbon belts before we set off. It will be winter soon. If we don't have carbon for heating on the road, we may be frozen to death. Anyway, we have tools that are good at hand, and the carbon is not heavy. If we hang a bag on each wheelbarrow, it can burn for many days."
"You are right. What is your name? What do you think you have specialties? Tell me." Huo Hai, who only wore a leather jacket and felt a little cold, slapped a few times and said to the old man who spoke.
"Uh, my old man's name is Luo Guang. Not only can I burn charcoal, bricks and tiles, and pottery. When I was young, I also helped people build various kilns. I know the tricks of building kilns." The old man in his forties stood up and bowed to Huo Hai and replied.
"Uncle Luo Guang, you don't have to be so polite. Your suggestions are right, so I want to give you an jade egg as a reward."
Huo Hai said, then handed a peeled egg to Luo Guang's hand.
When the villagers around saw Huo Haizhen, they became even more excited. They racked their brains to start thinking about what else to bring and what to prepare for when traveling.
Chapter completed!