sbdcsierra Chapter 965 The Old Man
Chapter 965 The Old Man
This will make the people around you bolder.
"Sir, sir, our ducks are also Mallard ducks, and the meat is tender, do you want some?"
"Sir, there is also ours. Ours is not bad either."
One of them was particularly loud, "Sir! Our chickens are great, do you want to buy our chickens?"
The voice was too loud, and it was a young voice. Zhou Guo couldn't help but look over and found several teenagers guarding a pile of chickens, looking at her eagerly.
Zhou Guo felt that they looked familiar at first glance, and the more he looked at them, the more familiar they looked. He didn't want to buy chickens at first, but now he had just arrived and had nothing, so he might as well buy a few and keep them at home.
I went up and picked a few.
Little did she know that when she looked at someone, the person on the other side was also looking at her.
After Zhou Guo finished choosing, he looked at the one who spoke, and after trying to hold back, he asked, "Do you know Gou Ya?"
Sorry, after so many years, she could only remember Gou Ya's name and had long forgotten the names of others.
When the person on the other side heard this, he was stunned. The person holding the chicken loosened his grip, and the chicken fell back, cackling loudly.
The one who opened the conversation asked tentatively: "Do you know Gou Ya? Are you Zhou Guo?"
Zhou Guo nodded, "I am."
The group of people on the opposite side couldn't believe it. They looked him up and down several times and said in disbelief: "I thought you looked familiar, but I couldn't recognize you. I haven't seen you for a few years. How come you have become a young master? Oh, by the way, did you find your brother later?"
"Yeah, did you find your brother?"
This is what everyone is most concerned about.
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "I found it. I found it on the way back that year. How did you get here? Where's Gouya? Where's everyone else? Are you all okay?"
The old man and Erpang looked at each other in bewilderment.
Xiaoshu admired and said, "Master is really amazing. I can always meet people I know when I walk here!"
The old man nodded, thinking that he had been escorting goods for his entire life, but in all this time, he had never met an old friend. People really cannot be compared.
Erpang bought all the ducks from the remaining families.
There weren’t many, just over a hundred in total, and everyone happily followed Dashu to send the ducks off.
Other vegetable sellers were still asking if we wanted this or that.
Er Pang said, "No, I've bought enough of these things today."
Others selling chickens and meat were very disappointed. Why did they only want ducks and not chickens?
Chicken is much tastier than duck, and the eggs it lays are also tastier, much tastier than duck eggs.
Zhou Guo bought all the dozen chickens on their stall and said, "Come on, I'll treat you to a meal."
"Ah, no, no, you asked for so many chickens from us, we'll treat you."
"Yes, we just happened to go see Sister Gouya. She is also here. We all followed her here."
"Okay." Zhou Guo agreed readily.
She asked Dashu to take these things back and guard them.
Er Pang glanced at the old man and couldn't help but whispered, "Are these people the same as Old Tang?"
The people in Old Tang's group are now working in shops in various villages in the north. They are learning to read while working and, like them, they swear to become big shopkeepers.
I think in a few years, the master will find someone else to use it.
The old man said, "You don't know if there are many people. You go to buy some things. It's not reasonable to go to someone's house to eat empty-handed."
If there are a lot of people, we can divide them into a few in the south and a few over there, so there will be no need to send so many people down from the north.
It would be great if they could get these people out and return to the North.
The place where they lived was outside the city. The road was winding and became more and more remote. There were more and more weeds. After walking for an hour, they saw a thatched house, which seemed to have been built not long ago.
The person who rushed back to report the news has already gone in to notify them.
The gates of several courtyards opened at the same time, and twenty or thirty people swarmed out and ran up.
Looking at Zhou Guo's outfit, his cheerful smile disappeared and he didn't dare to get close to him.
In the middle was a young woman, who looked at Zhou Guo with a smile and said happily: "I didn't expect to see you here again after so many years. When they said it, I thought it was fake, but I didn't expect it was really you. You have changed a lot!"
Zhou Guo looked at her and said, "You have changed a lot."
She had grown taller and more mature. Although she was not wearing silk or satin, it was at least a clean cotton dress. Her hair was simply tied into two braids and tied up with a silver hairpin.
He is capable and good-looking, and you can't tell at all that he was a little beggar a few years ago.
Gou Ya said with a smile: "We are where we are today thanks to you. Come in quickly. Today we are going to kill a pig and eat the pig-killing dishes."
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Then we are in for a treat, but we have to trouble you to get a pig. Are you going to keep it for the New Year?"
"Hey, what's the point of celebrating the New Year? You're here, and we're celebrating the New Year. At first, you taught us how to set traps, raise rabbits, and make simple leather. We relied on these things to gradually get by. Then, as we raised more rabbits, we could exchange them for rice and oil, and later for a few copper coins. When we saved enough copper coins, we could leave, and slowly we came here.
We raise rabbits, chickens, ducks, and two pigs. Pigs are hard to raise because they eat a lot. They won’t grow big just by eating wild vegetables, and it takes a lot of effort. So we raise two. At the end of the year, we plan to sell one and eat the other. If you hadn’t come, we would have killed them in a few days.”
Zhou Guo was very happy, "Really? Then take me to see it. But why are you here?"
"We are lucky. We heard that General Xu started to march south to fight. People rushed to the places he had fought and he even distributed land to everyone. So we came here. The government originally wanted to separate so many of us, but we are all one family. How can we be separated?
We were separated and left. Later, the government had no choice but to assign us here. There are few people here, and the nearest household is three miles away. The key is that our land is not far away and is more suitable for raising rabbits and chickens. We are about to live a good life."
Zhou Guo listened quietly to her talking about their experiences along the way. In the rows of straw sheds in the backyard were rabbits, white, black, and gray, huddled together eating grass.
"Over there, in that forest, we have fenced off a large area and raised chickens inside. There are about 100 or 200 of them. We go in and clean up every day, and the feces we sweep out are piled together as fertilizer. The chicken coop has been clean for so long and has never been sick. We can still pick up a lot of eggs every day and sell them for a lot of money. We plan to fence off a few more areas of the forest next to it in the spring and raise chickens there."
Zhou Guo looked around and saw the rabbit shed, chicken coop, and pigpen. Except for the two pigs, everything else was of a large scale.
She asked, "You raise so many chickens and rabbits. Can this small county eat so much?"