Defeat natural disasters with farming

Father Ye was busy outside all day, and it was already midnight when he returned home. Mother Ye opened the door for him in her clothes.

"Why did you come back so late? Are you hungry? Shall I cook something for you?" Ye Mu asked in a low voice.

Father Ye took off his coir raincoat, and a cold air rushed over his face in an instant, and he also had a white breath when he spoke, "Lu Wen is the sheriff after all, and we should carefully consider how to deal with it, although he doesn't seem to have the idea of ​​fighting for power. , but people should not be judged by appearances, and conclusions cannot be drawn easily, I had a whole day meeting with Shen Fu and the others."

"Also, don't stay up late waiting for me in the future. It's so cold, it's not good for your health." Father Ye said in a low voice, "I'll go to bed after I come back and tidy up."

Mother Ye lit the oil lamp and waved her hands under the dim light, "It's not too late, anyway, I can't wake up in the morning, and I can't fall asleep too early at night."

"What do you want to eat? There are wontons and dumplings in the kitchen. I also brought back the mother's buns. They are stuffed with sauerkraut and vermicelli. They taste very appetizing."

When Father Ye heard this, he stopped trying to persuade him, and after thinking for a while, he replied, "Let's have a bowl of dumplings. It doesn't need to be too many, about ten will do."

"Sure, you go and change your clothes first, and it will be ready in a while." Mother Ye stood up and said.

After eating a bowl of steaming soup dumplings, Father Ye's body immediately warmed up, and he said with emotion: "It will be the Chinese New Year in a few days, and this day flies so fast."

Mother Ye nodded, "That's not it." She said worriedly, "I don't know what's going on with Brother Xu, will something happen?"

After so many years, she has basically regarded Chu Xufeng as her second son. Even though Chu Xufeng said it was very easy before leaving, she is not an idiot, so she naturally knows that he may face danger when he goes to Jingbian City .

Father Ye believed that nothing would happen to them, because he knew General Chu very well. Everyone said that General Chu was loyal to the emperor, but in his opinion, General Chu was loyal but not foolish. He must be prepared before making a decision. retreated.

But even though he believed in him, he couldn't put an end to his worries.

"I don't know if Brother Xu can come back before the Chinese New Year." Father Ye said so.

I don't know if it's because of the reason for saying nothing, but when they were worried, another familiar figure ushered in front of the huge gate of Hope City.

Chu Xufeng came at a gallop on his horse. When he got off the horse, although he described it as untidy, he didn't look embarrassed. The scattered hair and chapped lips added a bit of truth to him.

Ye Hai was overjoyed when he recognized him, and immediately came down and opened the city gate, and said happily, "You're back, how is Jingbian City?"

Chu Xufeng pursed his lips and smiled, his mood was obviously bright, "I'm fine, I have to trouble you to take me to find Uncle Ye."

Ye Hai responded, "Success, what's the matter with our relationship?"

After the two of them came in, the city soldiers guarding the gate greeted Chu Xufeng one after another.

"Captain Chu is finally back." "Yes."

"Is the road going well?" "It's okay."

"Brother Yu has been thinking about you every day recently. Now that you are finally back, you have to go there later." Ye Hai said.

After Chu Xufeng heard Ye Yu's name, a warm color flashed in his eyes, "Well, I'll go over after I finish talking to Uncle Ye."

But there is no need to wait, when the two of them came over, they saw Ye Yu in the file room listening to Wang Shu and Father Ye report the population registration matters.

Ye Yu was surprised when he saw Chu Xufeng coming in from the door, and was overjoyed when he was shocked. Although he didn't speak, his eyes never left Chu Xufeng's body.

Father Ye also saw the two of them, nodded slightly to signal them to wait, and then continued to listen attentively to Wang Shu's report.

"I took people to register their basic information, their respective birth date, gender, name, and what they are good at are all written down on the paper, and when they officially settle down in the future, they can make a household registration card .” After Wang Shu finished speaking, he put a stack of yellowed papers on Father Ye’s desk.

The so-called household registration card is made of wood chips, on which there is only a simple date of birth, gender, age and name.

Father Ye nodded when he heard these words, "Okay, is there anyone worth noting among these people?"

Wang Shu replied: "In addition to Lu Wen, there is also a blacksmith who once opened a blacksmith shop. According to him, he can easily make simple iron pots or iron farm tools."

"Okay, I see." Father Ye kept this matter in his heart.

Then he walked towards Chu Xufeng cheerfully, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Good boy, you are finally back, how is General Chu?"

Chu Xufeng smiled and replied, "My father is fine, but I have something to discuss with you, Uncle Ye."

"What's the matter?" Father Ye asked.

Chu Xufeng didn't say what happened, but first described the recent situation of Jingbian City, "The orphan of the royal family is the youngest son of a former prince. He has been living in Zhuangzi with his servants and guards, he is not very old, but he is upright and a good person."

It is very rare to get a good evaluation from him, Ye Yu secretly thought, it seems that the man is indeed quite capable.

Immediately afterwards, Chu Xufeng started talking about the business, "My father has accumulated a lot of prestige in Jingbian City, so for the sake of the two, he must not stay any longer, so he made a decision to leave Jingbian City with his confidants."

Father Ye pondered for a while after hearing this, and then agreed: "General Chu's thinking is quite reasonable."

Then he issued an invitation, "It's better to let the general come to us for a rest first, and then consider the next thing after the rest."

Chu Xufeng nodded slightly when he heard the words, and said, "My father also thought about it the same way, just to trouble you."

Father Ye smiled heartily, "No trouble, I haven't seen the general for a long time, I don't know what he looks like now?"

"You will see him with your own eyes soon." Chu Xufeng looked a little solemn, "Just one more thing, there are many subordinates who are willing to leave with my father, and they still have family members. Small amount."

Father Ye thought for a while and asked, "About how many people are there?"

Chu Xufeng replied truthfully: "In fact, there are not many people who are willing to leave a stable life and face homelessness. There are about [-] people in total, two-thirds of them are soldiers around my father, and the remaining three One is their families."

More than three hundred people is not a small number, and these are all soldiers who have seen blood. If they have a different heart, it will only be a matter of seconds before Hope City changes hands. However, Father Ye trusts General Chu and Chu Xufeng, so it is very easy It was soon agreed that the Chu family's army would go to the city to rest, but they could not enter the inner city, and had to live in the outer city with the people from Mushi Village who had just defected yesterday.

There are not many simple houses in the outer city, but they are obviously not enough for more than 300 people to live in. However, they will definitely not be able to build enough houses in just a few days.

Fortunately, Chu Xufeng said: "Don't be so troublesome, just wait for them to come and let them build it by themselves. After all, there are a lot of people. As for my father, he can live with me."

This is a good idea. The Chu family's army are young and strong soldiers, so it would probably be faster for them to cut down trees and build houses.

So Father Ye nodded and said, "That's fine."

Immediately afterwards they began to discuss again, which barely ended until dark.

After it was over, Father Ye patted Chu Xufeng on the shoulder and said with a smile, "Go, go home and eat quickly. Your Aunt Ye has been waiting at home for a long time. He cooked a table of delicious dishes. Let's have a good drink when we get home."

Chu Xufeng replied softly, "Okay."

Father Ye left first, and Ye Yu and Chu Xufeng were the last.

At this time, Ye Yu pulled Chu Xufeng's sleeve, looked at his body carefully with his eyes, and was relieved when he saw that he was not injured, "It's good that you are fine."

Chu Xufeng's expression became softer, and he comforted in a gentle voice: "Don't worry, but I think you seem to be thinner, have you not eaten well these two days?"

When Ye Yu spoke, he breathed out a white breath, "It's not because I'm worried about you, I can't eat or sleep all day long."

"Oh, is that so?" Chu Xufeng knew that Ye Yu was teasing, so he followed up and said, "How about I apologize to you? Whatever you say is what you say."

"That's what you said." Ye Yu held Chu Xufeng's wrist and said, "You have to do what I told you to do."

"Well, I said it." Chu Xufeng smiled fondly.

As the saying goes, go out with dumplings and go home with noodles.

What Ye Mu made tonight was stewed noodles with long beans. The long beans were cut into small pieces after removing the stems on both sides. A piece of pork belly was cut into thin slices, and the green onions were cut into chopped green onions. slices, garlic peeled and smashed.

Put the oil in the pan and heat it up. Yemu puts all the ingredients mentioned above into the pan, and then adds the appropriate amount of salt, sugar and soy sauce. The beans and sliced ​​meat are gradually softened under the stir-fry of the spatula. At this time, the water can be poured After entering, the clear water submerged in the beans gradually boiled and turned into soup.

Immediately afterwards, a strong fragrance came out.

When Mother Ye heard the sound of someone pushing the door, she poked her head out to take a look. Seeing Father Ye came back with the two children, she immediately smiled and said, "Go and wash your hands, the noodles will be ready soon."

After urging her to wash her hands, she went back to the stove and lifted the lid of the pot, and spread the thin noodles on top of the beans, and the steam quickly cooked the noodles.

Taking advantage of this time, Mother Ye took out a ceramic pot from the wooden cabinet embedded in the wall, opened it and took out four duck eggs, cut them in half with a knife and put them on the plate. The duck eggs were well marinated, so everything Leave the oil when you open it.

In addition to these two, there are two dishes, one is boiled pig's trotters, which is used to dip in soy sauce, and the other is vinegared cabbage, which is very appetizing.

The soup is ginseng black chicken soup.

After the meal was brought to the table, Ye Yu began to bury his head in eating. He was not lying. He did eat less recently. The main reason was that his appetite was easily affected by things in his heart. In addition, many things happened a few days ago. Several meals were missed on time.

But tonight is different, no matter how difficult things are, as long as Brother Youxu is with him, he will have unlimited motivation, so he rarely has a big appetite.

Especially the stewed noodles are well done, even a person like him who doesn't like beans can eat them with relish. The noodles have been stuffed for a long time, and they are very tasty. The thin strips are not soft, but very hard, and they break when bitten.

Seeing this, Mother Ye quickly served him a bowl of black-bone chicken soup, and even scooped up two ginseng whiskers for him, "Drink the soup slowly."

Then she served another bowl with Chu Xufeng, "You suffered a lot on the road, and you have to make up for it recently. You can live in peace these few days, and I will make delicious food for you two."

Chu Xufeng didn't refuse, took the bowl and thanked him.

Ye Yu was also very serious when drinking the soup. The bitterness of the ginseng whiskers neutralized the greasy chicken soup very well. He drank it in one gulp. He didn't even miss the ginseng whiskers and black-bone chicken pieces, and ate the meat one by one. dropped, leaving only the bones.