Nambu this village is located in a big river bend, that bend is like a natural river port, can moor a dozen boats at a time, the village is not too big, looks like there are two, three hundred residents, most of the buildings in the village with the road to see the same house, are earth walls thatched roof, a small number of houses using stone walls, roof tiles, the color of the tiles are all greenish gray. The distance from the big river pier to the path is relatively wide, as if it were a village street, bisecting the village, Chu Chao Hui and Zheng Yuming saw a few houses close to the pier stone masonry walls, a large gourd hanging under the eaves of the gate of the stone house, the gate stood a thirty-something years old rough cloth short brown dress bearded big man, the height of this big man is the tallest ancient people who traveled through the person to see the highest stature, probably about 170 centimeters, the The man's height is the tallest ancient man the travelers have seen, probably about 170 centimeters, with a broad waist.
The big man caught sight of Wu Da driving a mule cart over, so he greeted him at the gate with a grin on his face.
"Great proprietor Wu! Take a rest, I have some good wine here brought by the boat family, come and drink a few cups to warm up your body!"
"Yu Kui, is it green wine?" Wu Da strangled the mule cart.
"Not bad, it's none other than Qingzhuang Valley Wine." The big man replied.
This Yu Kuei is a hotel owner? A hotel with a wine gourd hanging on the door?
"Hold an altar for me, my family has an honored guest today, the green wine is just right for the honored guest to drink freely." Wu Da was very generous and asked for an altar, it turned out that he could only spare a bowl or half a bowl here.
The big man standing in the doorway saw that he had made business, the smile on his face increased, and he immediately turned around and went into the house to hold the wine.
Wu Da saw Yu Kui enter the house before he turned his face to explain to his savior.
"Two strong men, the front will arrive at my humble abode, please strong man to my house to eat, after eating, my family and then accompany the benefactor to the port to exchange things, this Qingzhuang Valley wine is a good liquid, in the Wu land is very famous."
"Many thanks to Grand Master Wu!" Zheng Yuming hurriedly opened his mouth to express his gratitude.
Chu Chao Hui is not very good at speaking Wu local language, the conversation is basically by Zheng Yuming open, Chu Chao Hui if he speaks, Zheng Yuming will repeat it.
Not long after, Yu Kui walked out of the house holding a black and yellow tiled altar, and visually that tiled altar could hold like 4 or 5 pounds of wine.
"How about a piece of Dacheng cloth for you?" Wu Da took the wine and did not take out currency to pay for it.
"Dachengbu? Great!" Yu Kui's eyes lit up.
Wu Da turned around and handed Chu Chao Hui the wine, and signaled Chu Chao Hui to bring out a cloth from the innermost part of the wagon.
"I am Yu Kui of the Yu Wine Family, where are the two guests from?" Yu Kui stood beside the carriage, realizing that the two people in the carriage were stout, with outstanding faces and extraordinary temperament, he hurriedly went forward to arch his hand and bowed.
"These two are Strong Man Chu and Strong Man Zheng who saved my life." Wu Da saw Yu Kui noticed the two people in the car, and hurriedly introduced them, Chu Chao Hui and Zheng Yuming did not have long hair, strange clothes, tall, even if sitting cross-legged in the carriage, but also exceptionally eye-catching, since Wu Da entered the village, mule cart walking slowed down, there are several villagers noticed these two distinctive strangers, but with the accompaniment of Wu Da, the villagers are also only curious, did not come forward to watch.
"So it's the strong man! Disrespectful!" Once Yu Kui heard that it was a chivalrous warrior, his attitude became more and more tinged with respect.
Chu Chao Hui and Zheng Yuming two people because Yu Kui and they greeted, hastily down from the car, bowed and returned the salute, to a strange place, must have to get along with the locals, the strong dragon can not be pressed by the snake is summarized after thousands of years.
"We two brothers, drifted here from overseas, we are unfamiliar with life in Wu Di, the customs of your place and our hometown are different, please ask Mr. Yu to guide our brothers a little more, lest we be rude." Zheng Yuming owed his body to Yu Kui, Nambu was a water transportation port, there were quite a few pedestrians coming and going to hit the tip, Yu Kui as a hotel owner was definitely the most well-informed person in Nambu, this kind of person was the same as Wu Da, they were all natives he and Chu Chao Hui needed to deliberately befriend.
"Strong man have any inconvenience although you can tell Yu Mou in detail, Yu Mou will certainly do his best to help." Yu Kui saw these two tall and handsome foreigners, spoke with courtesy, behaved with manners, and was polite to him, he could not help but feel good about these two, and promised to provide help for the foreigners.
The villagers in the village gradually gathered around, crossing the person's difference, caused the curiosity of the indigenous population, Chu Chao Hui 183 height, the village people unheard of, unheard of, and slender, handsome Zheng Yuming, but also caused the crowd to marvel at, we must know that in ancient times, the lack of medical care, the poor people are malnourished, Chu Chao Hui and Zheng Yuming all the way, in addition to the Yu Kui, did not see more than 170 centimeters high Indigenous men, indigenous women are even shorter, are around 150 centimeters. Aboriginal people's faces are not flat and smooth, basically have hemp scars, skin color is not white and pink, most of them are dark and burnt, not the kind of honey color Chu Chao Hui.
Wu Da's dress look out is the best, although and the villagers are the same as the top and bottom dress, but the fabric is cotton, lined with a jacket, collar and sleeves are also lined with animal fur, on the feet is a pair of shoes made of animal skin. The other villagers were not as neatly dressed as Wu Da, most of them were short linen robes, and most of their lower bodies were coarse linen pants, and on their feet were shoes made of cloth and grass mixed together.
Wu Da family is in the south bank of the port, from Yu Kui's wine shop another thirty meters or so, Wu Da and Yu Kui bought wine, did not get on the car, but led the mule, leading Chu Chao Hui and Zheng Yuming slowly walk, and then go ahead twenty meters or so to see his family house. Wu Da was pointing in the direction of his house to tell the guests how far it was, when the barking of the wood suddenly came from behind him.
Chu Chao Hui and Zheng Yuming got down from the car, and Woody jumped down after them. Wood jumped down, first ran to the side of the road towards the villagers raised family dogs flaunted some, most of these family dogs are malnourished, because they are accustomed to the presence of strangers in the village, so during the day, these family dogs will not bark at strangers, for tall strangers, family dogs did not pay attention to the demonstration of the small puppy is even more ignored.
Wood roared twice, see imaginary enemies are lazy, also feel bored, hummed twice and ran back to the master, in Zheng Yuming between the legs to drill around. Zheng Yuming has been feeling the wood right next to his feet, do not want a distraction, the wood actually ran back to the Yu Kui wine shop next door, barking at the earth wall next door to the wine shop, which is piled up next to a pile of withered grass.
"Woody! Come back!" Zheng Yuming turned back to see Woody barking and screaming at a pile of grass, thinking that Woody had been naughty, he hurriedly called Woody back.
Woody heard his master call, looked back at him, wagged his tail, and still turned to bark at the haystack.
Zheng Yuming see can not call back the wood, had to walk towards the earth wall, want to carry the wood back, walked to the wood just want to bend down, the pile of grass suddenly moved, the Zheng Yuming startled, the wood screaming more vigorously.
Chu Chaohui not far away also found this earth wall side of the odd, and quickly walked over to stop Zheng Yuming in front of him, he has a steel stick in his hand, better than Zheng Yuming's crossbow and arrows.
The haystack moved a little bit and then did not stop moving, after a burst of sizzling, from the haystack drilled out a small black thing. Chu Chao Hui and Zheng Yuming and other black things all from the pile of grass drilled out, only to find that this black thing is a child, a 7, 8 years old size, a head of disheveled hair, ragged clothes, sleeves have become a strip of cloth, two arms and arms exposed half outside, pants and feet are also so, feet are a pair of straw shoes, ankle skin frozen purple.
The child burrowed out of the haystack and saw two tall strangers standing in front of him, and was so shocked that he sat back down on the haystack, and as soon as the child did so, a smaller child burrowed out of the haystack, and this smaller child's clothes were just as ragged and tattered and fluffy, and both children's necks were so thin that they couldn't hold their heads up, and the eyes on the two small faces looked excessively large, and there was panic in their eyes.
"These two children followed their parents to flee to this place, their parents were sick and didn't survive the winter, these two poor children have been wandering here." Wu Da also led the mule cart over and introduced the two children's origins to Chu Chaohui and Zheng Yuming.
"No one in the village to adopt?" Zheng Yuming looked at the two children who hugged and shivered together, could not help but feel pity, this is not the dynasty, there is no professional beggar, this era to go begging, are really penniless, need people to pity and sympathize.
"The harvest has been bad for the past few years, it's hard to feed your own biological ones, who would adopt someone else's child, I would like to take this boy in, but the boy is dead set against leaving his sister behind." Wu Da sighed. It turned out that the child who looked to be five or six years old was a girl. Wu Da had pity in his heart, but he didn't want to raise two children.
Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui glanced at each other and gained an understanding of the ancient preference for boys, in that society with low productivity, the preference for boys was a hopeless choice, and when it was impossible to feed all the children, girls became the preferred sacrifice because girls could not be raised to become a labor force. That's how boys would be adopted while girls went unnoticed.
Seeing the two dangerous elements being barked out by themselves, not only barked out by themselves, but also cuddled together and shivered, Woody could not help but feel that he had won the battle brilliantly, and coming up to the two dark children and sniffing at them, sensing that there was no danger, he turned his head around and ran to Zheng Yuming's feet wagging his tail, and barking at his master to show his credit.
Zheng Yuming felt that the two children were too pitiful, he and Chu Chao Hui would not go to adopt a child out of hand, but giving a little food to the children could still be done, because today's lunch had a treat from Wu Da, and the rising cake prepared in the valley villa was just redundant, so they might as well give it to these two children to fill up their hunger.
Thinking of this, Zheng Yuming fished out a palm-sized piece of cake from his backpack and handed it to the boy, the rising cake was made of flour fermented and baked in a frying pan, and as soon as he took it out of his backpack, it was full of fragrance, and even Wu Dudu sniffed his nose.
The boy was in awe of the two tall strangers, his face was eager for food, but his hands were too afraid to reach out and take it.
"Take it and give your sister a full bite." Wu Da encouraged the boy to take the food.
The boy was familiar with Wu Da, the proprietor who often brought food to their siblings, and when he saw that Wu Da had asked him to pick up the food, he decided that the two strangers were harmless and friendly, and held out his dirty black hand.
Just when the boy is going to grab the pasty, suddenly from the side sprang a black shadow, a hand to take away the food in the hands of Zheng Yuming, this black shadow is very fast, Chu Chao Hui reacted quickly a stick up, only swept to the heel of the black shadow, the black shadow was swept away and stumbled, the escape is still unabated speed.
"Thousand-killing rat! You're robbing these two children's meals again." Wu Da quenched at the distant black shadow.
"Rat?" Chu Chao Hui's hand was already on his waist, just now when a stick didn't sweep the black shadow, he reflexively tried to pull out his pistol, and when his hand touched the hard body of the gun, he reacted to the fact that they had only been robbed of a piece of pasty, and for the sake of a piece of pasty, there was no need to waste a bullet.
"It's a wild child, wandered here the year before last, squatted around the village and refused to leave, this wild child is not bad to any extent, is that he will snatch the food, his speed and oddly fast, the adults are often helpless against him, the food given to these two orphans by the village, most of the food to be snatched by that wild child." Although Wu Da was not very disgusted by the wild child, he did not have a good feeling about him either, and his feeling towards him was like seeing a fly that he could not drive away.
Tears filled the eyes of the boy who had been robbed of his food, he had never smelled food that smelled so good, and before he could even touch it with his hands, it was snatched away from him by his arch-enemy, and now the boy felt remorseful in his heart, remorseful for his hesitation.
"There's more here, here!" Jung Yuming sighed and took out the last piece of pastry from his backpack and handed it to the boy, as he handed the food again, Jung Yuming's eyes were watching the surroundings with the rest of his eyes for fear of being snatched by that 'rat' again.
For the second kindness of the stranger, the boy did not hesitate any longer, but quickly snatched it up, put it to his mouth and bit hard, and before he could chew it, he suddenly remembered his sister, and hastened to hand her the pie.
The three adults by the haystack just watched as the two children wolfed it down, only to leave when they saw how little of the pastry was left.
Yu Kui had been standing at the entrance of his family's winery watching all this, and only when Wu Da led the two overseas people away did he slowly approach the haystack.
"Is it good?"
"Yummy!" The pastry had already gone down, but the two children were still licking their little hands, they grew up until now, they had not savored such a delicious taste, fragrant and sweet, so delicious that they almost chewed their tongues off their bellies.
"Do you and your sister want to live?" Yu Kui asked the boy as he bent down, and the two children licked all the black ash off their hands, their perennially blackened hands finally seeing the color of flesh.
"Want!" The boy's eyes were full of the desire for life, the cold winter life of the wind and food had put them on the edge of life at all times, if it hadn't been for the lack of rain and snow throughout the winter, they would have long ago frozen in the haystacks in the wet and cold nights.
When Yu Kui and the boy were talking, the 'rat' who was licking his fingers while hiding in the far wall corner, was full of happiness and savoring the victories that he had just snatched, even the stabbing pain on his feet couldn't interrupt his reminiscence, and he was staring at the place where Chu Chao Hui and Zheng Yuming had disappeared, and he secretly resolved in his heart to savor the delicacies of this world once again, and as long as it was given to him to snatch the last time, even if he became dead after eating it, he had already had enough. last time, even if he becomes a dead 'rat' after eating it, he has already had enough.