Plane Supermarket

In the dark and narrow earthen house, the old woman looked at the tortillas on the table and smelled the fragrance, feeling in disbelief in a trance.

She sat there blankly, neither reached out to take it, nor ate it into her stomach, she just stared at the stack of pancakes so stupidly, without moving.

She didn't even know if the water fetcher had left or not.

The children were tired from crying and curled up to sleep.

She couldn't remember what day it was, until a man's voice came from outside the wooden door: "Damn it!"

Only then did the old woman come to her senses, as if she had just returned to the world at this moment.

The old woman stood up, was unsteady for a while, and almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, she held the edge of the table in time.

Nothing in the house is good—the table, which had been there when the in-laws were here, now has a leg missing, and it's always wobbly, and it's not stable with stones on it.

In a square room, there is only a rickety wooden table with one corner missing, and they usually kneel and sit at this table to eat.

Not far from the table is the "bed", with hay matted on the ground, and a piece of patchwork fur on it is the quilt.

In addition, there are wooden barrels for storing grain. There are always gaps in wooden barrels, and the grain is easy to get damp. They use rags to surround the barrels layer by layer. But even so, the grain is still damp, so they can only dig the cellar for storage. .

But now the cellar is empty, only some wheat is stored in the wooden barrels—not enough for the family to last for half a month.

On weekdays, the couple would help the folks with a lot of land to do some work in the village to earn a little ration.

But other families don't have much surplus food, and the rewards they give are getting less and less. Maybe in a few days, they won't be able to earn any more food, and they can only sit and eat.

The old woman opened the door, and there was an old man with chapped skin like her standing outside the door.

They looked like they were all old people, but their legs and feet were still strong. Just looking at their faces, they looked like people in their 60s, but looking at their bodies and strength, they looked like people in their [-]s.

"Old Zhou said that someone came to the house?" The old man looked anxious, his voice trembling, "Master Bing? Are the children all right?!"

There is a girl in their family!Although he is only six years old, if he meets someone who is inhumane, he can be used at the age of six.

The old woman looked at her man's face, she nodded, then shook her head: "Someone is here, but the person who entered the house was not Master Bing, but a girl who borrowed our bucket to fetch water."

She walked out the door and glanced towards the well, but she didn't see the person fetching water, only the wooden bucket and the pole beside the well.

The old woman didn't know whether to regret or be thankful, she whispered: "Father, come with me."

As she said that, she grabbed her husband by the sleeve and pulled him into the house, then stood at the door to look left and right, and closed the wooden door.

As soon as the old man entered the room, he smelled a sweet fragrance. He followed the fragrance and saw a pile of golden cakes.

"This is..." The old man swallowed.

The old woman whispered, "The girl gave it to me, she said it was my reward."

The old man couldn't believe it and said, "The reward for fetching water?"

What is water worth?They have no shortage of water.

Their water and soil are good, and water can be produced wherever wells are dug, and the land is fertile. It seems that a handful of seeds can yield a bumper harvest in the coming year.

They are from Chen Guo, born in this fertile land.

But they did not get the benefits of rich land, only countless disadvantages.

As far back as they can remember, the number of food collections changed from once to twice, then to three times a year, and even four times last year.

They guard a large piece of fertile land, but they can't get enough to eat.

The old man's voice was so loud that he woke up the children.

One of their children is eight years old, one is six years old, and the other is three years old, but except for the eight-year-old, the other two children have not learned to speak, or they are too hungry and do not have the strength to speak, and crying is exhausting. all their strength.

The eight-year-old boy also smelled the fragrance. He got up from the "bed", ran to his parents barefoot, reached out and grabbed the hem of his mother's clothes, raised his head, and opened his mouth like a baby bird waiting to be fed. Shout: "Mother, hungry, eat cake."

The old woman looked at the old man.

The old man swallowed, broke off a small piece from the top cake, and carefully put it into his mouth.

The entrance is very delicate, there are no sandy wheat bran and other things that are difficult to swallow, and then sweetness.

It was a sweet scent that he had never tasted before. There was no corn here, so they naturally didn't know what corn tasted like, but after taking a bite, he couldn't help stuffing everything in his mouth.

The old woman watched him gobble it up, fearing that he would choke, so she hurriedly poured him a glass of water.

The old man swallowed the cake in his mouth, and quickly nodded to the old woman: "Eat, tell them to eat, and you eat too!"

"One piece of pie is so big." The old man looked at the dozen or so pieces of pie, as if he had seen his family's future livelihood.

Old woman: "I'm going to share the cake!"

They dare not eat too much. There are so many people who only share one piece of cake. Although the children are young, they also know that it is a good thing.

The children would also pick up the crumbs that fell on the ground and stuff them into their mouths.

The parents also blocked it, but they just couldn't compete with the children for the scum that fell on the ground.

"Put these away." The old man frowned, "What if it gets wet in a wooden barrel?"

The old woman sighed and said, "Then there is no other place to put it, let it be wet when it is wet, and you can eat it when it is wet."

After filling his stomach, the old man remembered to take out a cloth bag from his pocket. He put the cloth bag on the table, and when he opened it was a handful of wheat.

"Yesterday." The old man couldn't help sighing, "Old Yang said I don't have to go anymore, and his house has no food left, so I can only do it myself."

The old woman was silent for a while: "How do you live this day..."

The old man patted her on the shoulder: "Isn't this okay? There are so many pancakes! How many days are enough!"

The old woman: "... have you finished eating these cakes?"

The old man: "Then it's time for the autumn harvest. If you harvest the food, you will have a good year!"

The old woman: "After harvesting the grain, the grain officer is coming again. If the grain is handed over, I'm afraid we won't be able to survive the spring plowing this year."

They were able to survive last year thanks to the support from the villagers. There are always some big families in the village who are soft-hearted and willing to help their honest neighbors, but the food they owed last year is still not paid this year. up.

The old man stopped talking, and after a while, the old man said: "I can always find a way! Don't worry!"

The old man didn't talk about this anymore, but asked: "You said it was a girl? A girl from a noble family?"

The old woman: "It doesn't look like a girl, but like a general!"

The old man smiled and said, "Even if she doesn't look like a girl, she should also look like a young lady. How can a girl look like a general?"

The old woman was also surprised: "She is tall, about this tall."

She compared heights.

The old man was startled: "It's so tall!"

The old woman nodded. It was rare for her to see a newcomer. She said excitedly, "The momentum is amazing! I think those soldiers outside are afraid of her. She looks like a good person."

The old man: "She gave our family so many cakes, so she is a good person! Hey! This time I really met a noble person."

"It seems that those nobles are not all bad."

Old woman: "It would be nice if she came again."

Thinking about it now, she might never meet someone like that girl again.

·

"If you do this, the common people don't believe in being soldiers. When it comes time to fight, if the common people don't cooperate, guerrilla warfare can't be fought!" Chen Shu, who returned to the camp, yelled at Chen Hou. He didn't let it go, "You are a general anyway, manage your soldiers well, and you can't follow orders and prohibitions? If I were you, I would have jumped into the river in shame!"

She finished spraying people to drink saliva, and continued to spray: "Without a mass base, the army is like duckweed without roots. Do you think ordinary people are not important?"

"fart!"

"When it comes time to fight, ordinary people can not only pass on news, help cover, but also transport supplies. The ordinary people understand the local ecology better, know where to hide people, and where to cover. Without ordinary people, the army is like a headless chicken."

Chen Hou and Chen Yan were sitting in the tent, being trained by Chen Shu to be like grandsons.

Both of them lowered their heads, hoping that the immortal would come in and rescue them soon.

But Ye Zhou outside the tent listened to Chen Shu's spout, and returned to his tent honestly - he would never touch Chen Shu's bad luck, not to mention, he didn't think Chen Shu was wrong.

Chen Shu vented a lot, and after venting, he said to Chen Yan: "I will help you lead the troops! You watch carefully and study hard! Write a report to me after you finish studying."

Chen Yan asked in a low voice: "Miss Chen will lead troops?"

Chen Shu: "I have been a soldier since I was 14, and I have fought more battles than you have crossed bridges!"

Although she hasn't fought many battles in her own plane, she has fought more since she became an employee of the plane.

Compared with Chen Yan, a general who only reads military books and has no actual training, she is indeed more experienced.

"The art of war is dead, people are alive, and the battlefield is also alive. When it comes to the battlefield, the competition is who is more flexible and adaptable." Chen Shu, "The art of war teaches you, you have to use it flexibly to master it. Otherwise, it’s just a dead book, reading a dead book, it’s useless.”

Chen Hou looked at his brother and mourned for him for two seconds in his heart.

Chen Shu even said the word "fart", not once. It is conceivable that she was really angry.

Chen Hou was also a little curious: "Miss Chen also served as a soldier?"

Chen Shu nodded. After scolding everyone, she finally calmed down and was no longer so aggressive. She calmly said, "I did."

Chen Hou was even more curious: "In the sky, women can also lead soldiers to fight?"

But he was even more curious: "Who are you going to hit?"

Is there anyone who can fight against the gods?

Chen Shu remembered the fear of being dominated by Chen Hou's [-] whys, and quickly said: "Don't ask too much, you won't understand if you ask, you just need to know that your military discipline needs to be rectified, and soldiers must He looks like a soldier, and his salary is not free."

"Being a soldier is to defend the country, to protect the people."

"If soldiers attack ordinary people, they are inferior to animals!"

Chen Shu sighed: "You guys, if you don't win people's hearts, don't carry out patriotic education, have no cohesion, and don't need others to fight, maybe in a few years, you will naturally perish."

The ordinary people have no country in their hearts, soldiers have no country in their hearts, and even scholars and ministers have no country in their hearts.

Does this country still deserve to be called a country?

Chen Shu doesn't know what the people here think. They don't seem to care about the country at all, and they don't even feel that their own destiny is connected with the destiny of the country.

Chen Hou hurriedly said seriously: "Girl teach me."

This is the first time he has saluted a woman.

Chen Shu: "Patriotic education is still second. This is not something that can be planted overnight, but the orders and prohibitions in the army must be followed. The common people are afraid of soldiers and regard them as scourges. When fighting, they will He will know the news and keep silent."

"You are a general, and you have read military books, so you should know how serious it is to delay a war opportunity." Chen Shu looked at Chen Yan, "If you don't fight for people's hearts, others will."

Chen Shu looked at Chen Hou: "Just like you, your government orders cannot go out of Linzi, but if the people in the world recognize you as the king, then even if you don't send people to various cities, the people can help you rob these cities. come over."

Chen Hou's eyes widened: "They... help me snatch it?"

Chen Shu: "Of course, don't underestimate the common people. Ants kill elephants. As long as they are willing to advance together for one goal, they can overthrow you, let alone nobles."

"It's just that they don't realize it yet."

The common people have no weapons in their hands, no leaders, and no ideological guidance.

Chen Shu: "It's like if you want to attack a city, as long as the people believe in you and are willing to follow you, they can always find a way to open the city gate."

"Your army stops outside the city, and they can also deliver news for you. At that time, everyone in the city will be your internal support. Do you still have battles that you can't win, and cities that you can't take back?"

Chen Hou was dumbfounded, it was the first time he heard such remarks, Chen Shu's words were like a blow to the head, which made him sober up.

He had never felt so awake.

He has always only wanted to win the support of the royal family, and the people have never been in his mind.

It is true that the people are impoverished and incompetent. They can only farm and work hard, without wisdom or family inheritance.

But now, Chen Shu's words opened the door to a new world for him, allowing him to see another possibility.

The Gongqing family and him complement each other, but they are naturally hostile.

He wants to maintain his royal power, and the family of ministers wants to maintain their own power.

Therefore, unless foreign enemies come, they will never unite their goals. Their support is hard to win, and even if they win, no one knows when they will fight back.

But ordinary people are easy to fight for.

Even if Chen Hou had never been a commoner, he knew that the common people wanted to have a full meal, had surplus food at home, could live a stable life without selling their children and daughters, and could live a good life without soldiers breaking into their homes.

"Miss Chen, I entrust you with leading the troops!" Hou Chen stood up and bowed to Chen Shu, "Brother Yan will also accompany you."

Chen Shu waved his hand: "I'm going out, I'll take a walk around."

After finishing speaking, she opened the curtain and walked out of the tent without looking at Chen Hou and Chen Yan.

She looked at the thousands of acres of fertile fields in front of her, and at those people who were still working in the fields with yellow and emaciated faces, she punched the trees beside her.

When she walked away, the soldiers saw that the "sturdy" small tree wobbled and broke from the place where she hit it, and then turned to one side.

Someone swallowed.

If this fist hits a person's head, I'm afraid it can kill him directly, right?

Chen Shu didn't go back to rest in the tent, she felt angry, she had experienced so many planes, but she had never been so angry.

It may be because she has been a soldier for so many years, and she really can't understand soldiers bullying men and women, or it may be that the old woman's expression touched the softest part of her heart.

Chen Shu didn't go any further. She got into Ye Zhou's tent and shouted to Ye Zhou as soon as she got in, "Boss, I haven't used my salary this month, right? I've already paid in advance for next month. "

Ye Zhou looked at her: "What do you pay for in advance? Food?"

Chen Shu nodded: "I feel uncomfortable, and I am going to be a boy who spreads money."

"I'm relieved now that I'm gone." Chen Shu looked into Ye Zhou's eyes, "Boss, I'll just be willful this time."

Ye Zhou didn't persuade her: "What do you want to change? I brought a lot of food when I came out this time."

Chen Shu: "Rice, sweet potatoes and potatoes, whatever is cheap and large in quantity will do."

Ye Zhou: "Alright then, let's find an open space and I'll take out the things."

Ye Zhou looked at Chen Shu like this, as if he saw himself in the past, but he also knew that Chen Shu had experienced more than him, so he shouldn't ignore the poor man. He must have thought of something related to his own experience.

Since she didn't lose her mind, there was nothing to say about her changing food.

What's more, there are no big family members in such a village, so if you give them food, you don't have to worry about the food in their hands being robbed again.

"You have paid for it, and I, the boss, can't do without paying." Ye Zhou said, "Well, I will pay half of it."

Zou Ming, who walked into the tent at this time, also said, "I also pay a month's salary."

Sarah, who came in with Zou Ming, immediately said, "I'm coming out too!"

Cao'er who passed by poked his head over and asked, "What happened?"

Sarah: "I don't know, it's right to come out anyway."

Cao'er said "Oh", since her elder sister said so, she didn't ask any more, and just said, "I'm coming too."

Soon, the employees in the supermarket were "out", even if they had no idea what was going on or what was going to happen.

Ye Zhou could only explain to them.

Originally, Ye Zhou thought that these hard-working employees would not be willing to donate their wages - after all, they would cherish what they had more after suffering and poverty.

Unexpectedly, the employees are very generous, especially Cao Erniang: "Immortal, I have been working for half a year! Just give me some leftovers so that I can eat enough."

Wu Yan also said: "Immortal, my family pays me half a year's salary."

Zhou Wen: "Immortal, I have lived alone in my family for half a year."

Feng Yao: "I'll leave it for three months, and I want to save some to bring back to my friend."

Cao Erniang had a smile on her face: "It's good to donate money! It can feed them well, good!"

How she wished that when she fled famine, there were such people to help her.

But she did not meet.

Now that she can help others, it's like seeing her former self.

When she met immortals back then, now she is also willing to help these poor people.

Ye Zhou was a little surprised and smiled at them: "It doesn't need so much, how about it, half a month's salary for one person, that's enough."

There are such employees in the supermarket, and half a month’s salary adds up to tens of thousands of yuan. I don’t know how much rice, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and cornmeal can be bought. It is not a problem for the people in this village to live a year full of food.

And they can still keep the potatoes and sweet potatoes. The land here is good, and the days after that will not be too sad.

Ye Zhou: "Chen Shu, I'll let you handle the food distribution."

This time Ye Zhou was not worried that this kind of food delivery would make the local people insatiable - after all, they only stayed here for one night.

After this night, they will never deal with these villagers again.

That being the case, if you want to do something good, do it, there is nothing to worry about.

As for whether the villagers appreciate it or not, it doesn't matter whether they will be greedy or not.

Ye Zhou looked at Chen Shu.

Chen Shu nodded: "OK."

·

Zhaojia Village is a small closed village. There are no people with other surnames in the village, and they only intermarry with a few surrounding villages. They only know how to farm and have no other survival skills.

Therefore, there are very few major events in the village, and the most is someone's marriage.

But nowadays, there is no wedding banquet for marriage, and most of the family members get together to have a meal, which is regarded as a gift.

So when the village head knocked on the door and said something big happened, all the villagers thought-was they going to pay the grain again?

Some people began to cry before the village chief said what was the big deal, and a man burst into tears: "Village chief, I can't pay it, I really can't pay it, if I pay it again, my family can only find a stone to kill me." Come in and have a look, come in and have a look, there is no more grain left in the grain bucket, it really is gone!"

The village chief looked at the tears on the face of the Chinese character, but he was not affected by the man's pain at all, but still excited: "It's the nobles! It's the nobles who stopped by our storage, and said they want to send us food! No money! I don’t want anyone! I don’t want anything!”

"There is rice!" the village head shouted, "There is rice!"

The man froze on the spot, and his mother-in-law hid behind his man, and asked in a low voice, "The village chief...isn't he insane?"

How can the nobleman be so kind, and why should he send food to these untouchables?

The village head glared at her: "You are crazy!"

"If you want it, go there."

The village chief pointed to an open space. It was almost dark at this time, and the villagers couldn't see clearly, so they could only squint their eyes to see.

They saw people walking around in the open space, and there were a lot of things piled up behind them, but they couldn't see what it was.

The village head didn't talk to them too much, and said: "I have to go to the next household, you go by yourself."

After speaking, he ran to the next house without looking back.

His old body hadn't been this strong for a long time.

As the head of the village, he could only watch as every family ran out of food. His family had been the head of the village for an unknown number of years. Can't get it back.

But without borrowing, he couldn't just watch these villagers die.

He has never read a book and cannot read, but he knows in his heart that he is the head of a village, and he has to control them so that they do not starve to death.

Otherwise, what village would there be?what length?