The black shadow poked his head behind the camphor tree, and found a two-body wide gap behind the tree, and hearing that there was no more sound in the gap, he flashed behind the tree, ready to enter the gap, and just as his body was about to enter the gap, he suddenly heard a sound coming from behind him, and the black shadow rolled on the ground to avoid the attack in fear, but when he rolled over and tried to climb up, he was put against his neck by a steel rod, and his abdomen was also stomped on by a big foot.
"So it's the little guy who grabbed the noodle cake." Zheng Yuming walked back through the gap and put the basket on the ground.
"It's Rat, he robbed my apples this time." As soon as Huo Si Zhong took a look at Rat, he felt a resentment in his heart, the apples given to him by the two adults he didn't spare, and after following Wu's wife to run to the pier, the apples in his arms were snatched away by this old foe.
"You followed and still want to rob something?" Chu Chao Hui used a bit of force on his toes, this rat followed him all the way to the hillside before letting him realize that Chu Chao Hui had a bit of interest in this child.
"My lord! Take me in! I'm much better than Rotten Elm, and my strength is greater than theirs." The rat that was stepped on by Chu Chao Hui wasn't scared at all, only curling his arms and legs to show that he had no intention of resisting. Rotten Elm referred to Huo Si Zhong.
"Adopting you is fine, but your life has to be given to us, after entering this valley, you have to listen to us in everything, and you can't leave the valley without our permission." Chu Chao Hui's toes loosened their force a little.
"All at your lordship's pleasure!"
Rat has been observing the Huo siblings for five days, and realizes that the Huo siblings are really like what the villagers said, adopted by kind-hearted people, and not only have food and drink, but also clothing. The behavior of Chu Chao Hui and Zheng Yuming in picking up the two children to walk is even more recognized by Rat, who acknowledges that Chu Chao Hui and Zheng Yuming are different from the rest.
Chu Chao Hui pick Huo siblings walking is also no way, because Huo Sihua is too small, walking walk, a basket, pick a child must be put on the other end of a stone, in this case, it is better to stone for a child, two children are picking to walk. The frostbite on Huo Si Zhong's feet has melted away because of the warmth of the wearer, and would have been walking to crack the frostbite.
Chu Chao Hui and Zheng Yuming don't know, unless Chu Chao Hui kills the rat with a stick, otherwise, it is impossible to get rid of the rat, because after the Huo siblings left, the rat less food source, no place to find food to eat the rat is on the verge of starvation, to fight for the two people who traveled through the country to take in the rat is the rat's last hope to live, without this hope, never go to villagers' homes to steal things the rat will be Without this hope, the rat, who never goes to the villagers' houses to steal things, will be desperate to harm the villagers' interests, and the villagers of Nambu will not tolerate a stray child staying in the village, and the rat will become a street rat in the village, and fall into the situation of being beaten up by everyone, and the live rat will sooner or later become a dead rat.
Rat, who followed Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui into the valley, had been very well-behaved, with curiosity about the slit passageway on his face, as well as hope for his future life. Chu Chao Hui did not comment on the rat's good behavior.
The burden of the basket again to Chu Chao Hui shoulders, Zheng Yuming hands have strength, shoulders can not afford to pick the burden, picking the basket only ten minutes, Zheng Yuming changed the shoulders twice.
"Chu Chaohui, other travelers who crossed over are all good men from all directions defecting, how come when it comes to us, it's all starving brats picking up." Zheng Yuming secretly sighed.
"It's better to have cast offs than not, fortunately there are more things that follow us through, otherwise we won't end up any better than these kids." Chu Chao Hui and Zheng Yuming spoke in Mandarin.
"Yeah, if we were teleported here naked, we might have already gone into the belly of a wild beast." Zheng Yuming looked at the sinking sun in the west and began to feel that his life was still very good, compared to the people outside the valley, he and Chu Chao Hui had too many survival advantages.
When Rat saw the villa, not only did his eyes look straight, but his mouth was also open. Waiting until Chu Chao Hui shaved his head, stripped off his clothes and threw them into the barrel to clean, the rat only turned back to taste.
Huo Sizhong while picking a wooden stick to burn the rat's clothes, while secretly cursing the rat, because the rat followed him, causing him to be missing a set of clothes and a pair of shoes, Wu Da's wife for the Huo family siblings rushed to make two sets of coarse cloth clothes, because of the consideration of the child will grow up, the clothes are made a lot bigger. Rat is one year older than Huo Sizhong, but his height is half a head taller than Huo Sizhong, Huo Sizhong wears empty clothes on his body, Rat wears on his body just fit.
Huo Si Zhong's depression to the dinner time finally dissipated, because he and his sister ate the same as the two adults, while the rats only a bowl of white rice, dinner table hare meat and pheasant meat, rats and their Huo family siblings just entered the valley treatment is the same, is not blessed to enjoy, looking at the rats grilled rice, the two eyes bashful look, Huo Si Zhong only feel the heart of the great pleasure.
When it came time to sleep at night, Huo Si Zhong was depressed again, he and Rat were assigned to the workers' room, and the two of them shared the only remaining iron bed, and Rat was so happy that he rolled around on the bed covered with cotton wool and was glad that he had a good eye, and followed a good master's family, so that he could eat, drink, and sleep warmly.
Could this be a dream? Rat kind of couldn't believe his good fortune and couldn't help but give his thigh a dead squeeze. Huo Si Zhong screamed miserably and kicked hard at Rat, cursing under his breath.
"Stinky Rat, what are you pinching me for?"
"Let me see if it's a dream!" Rat was kicked by Huo Si Zhong but didn't think so. The fact that Huo Si Zhong would scream in pain from the pinch meant that they weren't in a dream.
"I shucks! Is it a dream you won't pinch yourself." Huo Si Zhong burrowed into his own comforter, and he and Rat were assigned one comforter each.
"Pinching you is different, as long as it hurts." Rat touched the quilt, it was so soft, never touched or seen before.
"Scoundrel." Huo Si Zhong turned around not wanting to see this cheeky person again.
"Heh heh! The two lords are definitely not treating us as subordinates, they must be raising us as sons, Rotten Elm Head, don't you think so?" Rat even asked Huo Sizhong twice, but did not see Huo Sizhong answer, and then listened carefully to the sound of Huo Sizhong's breathing, only to realize that Huo Sizhong had fallen asleep.
The second floor bedroom of the villa, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui did not sleep, today the two of them need to have a conversation about planning for the future.
Chu Chao Hui is ready to buy a large number of slaves, of course not a one-time purchase, but a measured effort. The initial development of the valley a few years, can not let outsiders into, and no outsiders into, means no labor force, just two cross people, exhaustion at most can only be planted on two dozen acres of food, buy slaves to reclaim the forest, is currently the best method, because the slaves are private property, there is no personal freedom, designate them where they have to be where, if escaped out of the valley, just anyone can be Capture them, these captured slaves, basically one end, beheading! With this kind of deterrent social system, using slaves for hard labor is the best method.
Chu Chao Hui not only want to plant in the valley, but also want to build factories, to build paper mills, glass factories and brick factories, the first two factories to make products are sold to the public, the latter brick factory is for their own use.
Zheng Yuming has no problem with developing the valley, the valley terrain is relatively hidden, the later the outside world knows the more benefits, so Zheng Yuming is also a million percent in favor of purchasing slaves, the two travelers from the democratic society, ready to use the exploitation of slaves to make their own power grow first.
Then came the development plan for Nanbu, Nanbu was an unexpected gain, since Nanbu became their fiefdom, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui were willing to shed their blood on Nanbu, Nanbu as a water and land port was also very pleasing to the two men, and in the future, what the valley produces, can be sold to other countries through the waterways.
"Why do you want malaria medicine to become tribute." Zheng Yuming had a feeling in his heart that Chu Chaohui was intending to make Artemisia herbal medicine a tribute to be paid in Nambu.
"Because artemisia is the cheapest, the least costly." Chu Chao Hui face pale color, paper making is okay, glass is very labor intensive, Chu Chao Hui does not want to take time and effort to make things to become tribute.
"If Artemisia annua becomes a tribute, will it become a special supply and we are not allowed to use it for the common people?" Zheng Yuming was worried that if Artemisia became a tribute, the ruling class would make it exclusive to the royal family in order to have a dominant position.
"Artemisia annua recipe I will give directly to the people around." Artemisia annua is everywhere, as long as you know a few key ingredients in the formula, the people themselves can be boiled at home, to the artemisia cure for malaria is well known, want to artemisia as the exclusive enjoyment of the aristocrats will not be possible. Chu Zhaohui's observation, this Wei Shen is not disregard for the people's life and death of the officials, all things are Wei Shen dealt with in Dacheng, last year, Ulsanjun tax cuts, may be Wei Shen's idea, the people of Dacheng can self-governance of malaria, I believe that Wei Shen will be happy to see it.
"Then the computer printout of the Chinese medicine formula, is it also possible to tell the people around?" Zheng Yuming felt that Chu Chao Hui had provided him with a new idea, the medicine in this time and space was too backward, Zheng Yuming hoped that the Chinese medicine formulas of the later times could reduce the death rate of the surrounding people from diseases.
"This is still a little late, the same formula should be the right medicine, not a healer, it is best to be cautious." Chu Chao Hui also did not want to make money on top of medicine. He was inclined to cultivate his own healers, but these plans could only stay on paper for now.
At midnight the people of the villa sank into sleep, and the whole valley was surprisingly quiet on this night. Toward the latter part of the night a spring rain, more precious than oil, crept in, which, though it was pitifully little, and merely wet the ground, was a great relief to the people of Dacheng.