Infinite Armory

() Ye Zheng followed Li Shiqing to the foot of the mountain, and after telling everyone in Niujia Village the news that Deng Sanniang had allowed them to join Feifeng Village, everyone was very happy when they heard it.

So under Li Shiqing's urging, everyone in Niujia Village packed their bags and followed him up the mountain, ready to accept the settlement of the cottage.

Along the way, Ye Zheng kept looking for opportunities to talk to Li Shiqing. Through the conversation with him, he got a general idea of ​​the basic situation and power structure of Feifengzhai.At present, there are more than 300 people in Feifeng Village, including Deng Sanniang, and there are a total of three village masters in command. Besides her, the chief village master, there are two other deputy village masters.The two deputy village masters, one named He Taizhi and the other named Tang Jiuchui, were both highly skilled in martial arts.

Under the three village masters, Deng Sanniang divided all the people in the village into five branch halls, and each branch hall has a hall master, who manages more than [-] bandit gangs. The quality of the personnel in the branch halls is different, and the responsibilities of the five branch halls are also different.The bandits in the first, second and third halls are all composed of well-trained men who have a rough understanding of some martial arts and weapons. Their main responsibility is to follow the village owner down the mountain to rob or transport food and supplies. Generally, they specialize in robbing rich merchants who are not benevolent and do evil, or they collect money from passing business groups and bodyguards.

As for Sitang, they are also composed of some middle-aged men who are proficient in cavalry, but most of the bandits in Sitang are nimble, agile, and proficient in tracking and setting traps. Their duty is to patrol The mountain vigilante guards the safety of the entire Feifeng village, preventing enemies or officers and soldiers from attacking the village.

The remaining five halls are the least valued places in the entire cottage. Most of the gang members in the five halls are composed of old and weak women and children in the cottage. In Ye Zheng's words, they The responsibilities are a series of logistics work such as cutting firewood, cooking, laundry, growing vegetables, and environmental sanitation. Therefore, although Wutang is also one of the five branch halls in Feifengzhai, compared with the other four branch halls, they position is much worse.

After Ye Zheng had a general understanding of all this, Ye Zheng and the others, led by Li Shiqing, came to the office of the head of the fifth branch of the cottage (actually, it was just a few broken thatched wooden huts).

The head of Wutang is a cripple named Chen Fu, about [-] years old. When he learned from Li Shiqing that Ye Zheng and his gang were new gang members who joined the cottage, he immediately sighed secretly; the current world is really difficult In the past, it was those criminals who had nowhere to go that would turn into bandits. Now even these ordinary people who keep their own law and order are under the persecution of the imperial court and the government. The child will become more and more sad, hey...

Thinking of this, Chen Fu couldn't help being full of sympathy for Niujia Village and the others. After meeting with Ye Zheng and other Niujia Village villagers, he enthusiastically arranged a place for them and settled them down as soon as possible.

At the back of the cottage, Chen Fu allocated a few big thatched wooden houses to the villagers of Niujia Village, letting them squeeze together for a while to live in, and arrange craftsmen to come over tomorrow to build them a few thatched huts.After the villagers in Niujia Village got their new residences, they all busily cleaned up happily. They are all very happy that they now have a safe and sheltered accommodation.

At this time, Chen Fu, the head of Wutang, stood in their house and saw the villagers of Niujia Village, all of them were covered with dust and shabby clothes, especially those old and weak women and children, all of them were pale and emaciated, as if they hadn't eaten for a long time After he had finished his meal, seeing this situation, he couldn't help feeling compassionate, and immediately turned his head and called out loudly: "Sun Houzi, stop busying yourself, come here, I have something for you to do." .”

"Hey! Hall Master, I'm here, what do you want me to do?"

At this time, a boy under 20 years old, after hearing Chen Fu's call, trotted all the way to his side. No wonder Chen Fu called him Sun Monkey.

Seeing Sun Houzi rubbing the sweat on his forehead and standing in front of him respectfully, Chen Fu was very satisfied with the attitude of his confidant, he pondered for a moment, and said loudly: "Houzi, you go to the cottage kitchen now, order The guy in the kitchen cooks a few pots of meat, then stews a few chickens, steams some white flour steamed buns, and please let me know when it’s done, I’m going to give these new brothers who joined our cottage today a simple cleansing.”

As soon as Chen Fu said this, everyone in Niujia Village cheered and cheered.Originally, they fled in the mountains these days, and they never had a full meal or a good night's sleep, let alone a delicious meal of boiled meat, but now they heard that Chen Futang mainly gave them these new recruits The newcomers took the wind to clean up the dust, cooked meat and stewed chicken, and all of them were salivating immediately, and their affection for Chen Fu soared.

At this time, after Sun Houzi heard Chen Fu's order, his face showed a bit of embarrassment, hesitated for a long time, and then said in a low voice hesitantly: "Master, we... the pork, beef and chicken in the kitchen, and the leftovers... There are not many more, these are reserved for Ertang and Santang when they go back to the mountain... to celebrate when they go back to the mountain. If we give these meat to these new brothers, then the people in Ertang and Santang will know , will they..."

"Sun Monkey, I want you to go, so you go, where did all this nonsense come from!"

Chen Fu's tone was a little displeased, but thinking that Sun Houzi did all this for his own consideration, and fearing that the people in the second and third halls would make trouble for him, his tone softened again, and he whispered: "Monkey, I know You are thinking about me, afraid that people in the same class will embarrass me, but look at these old people and children, all of them look weak, like refugees, I really can't bear it! I still want to cook some broth to nourish them If you don’t have a lot of pork and beef in your body, you can find a way to even it out, and don’t worry about the rest, I have my own ideas.”

Sun Houzi looked at Chen Fu, then at the old and weak women and children in Niujia Village, immediately nodded, and said, "Monkey will do it now!"

After finishing speaking, Sun Houzi left quickly, and when he just walked to the door, Chen Fu suddenly added: "Well, Monkey, wait a moment and ask a few people to go to the wine cellar and get some old wine from the altar. .”

Sun Houzi nodded and didn't say anything else. At this time, he quickened his pace and disappeared outside the door.

Everyone in Niujia Village heard that not only will there be meat to eat, but what makes the big men even more happy is that there will be wine, and suddenly, the cheers broke out again, and everyone shouted loudly: "Thank you, hall master, haha! "

"Hall Master really deserves to be a bold person, he knows what we are good at!"

"Hehe, I must have a few drinks with the hall master later..."

At this moment, Ye Zheng, who was standing by the side, saw Chen Fu being so righteous and kind, and immediately had a more friendly impression of him, secretly thinking that Chen Fu is really a good person.But at the same time, he was a little puzzled by the conversation between Sun Houzi and Chen Fu just now, and he didn't understand why Sun Houzi actually showed a bit of embarrassment after hearing Chen Fu's order, but because the two of them were far away and The voice was very low, so Ye Zheng didn't know what they just said.

After a whole morning of busy work and tidying up, Ye Zheng and everyone in Niujia Village managed to clean up the huts so that they could barely accommodate people.Just as everyone was sitting on the newly paved thatch mats and chatting, at this time, lunch was ready, Sun Houzi personally came to lead Ye Zheng and the people from Niujia Village to the kitchen for dinner.

Feifengzhai's kitchen is also at the back of the cottage, not far from Ye Zheng's residence, and it takes only a few minutes to walk there.

The kitchen is made up of several huge thatched huts. It has a large area, covering hundreds of square meters. Inside the kitchen is a row of huge stoves and cupboards and kitchen utensils. Outside the stove are rows of simple and huge wooden The wooden table with wooden stools is very long and large, and there is no problem with sitting more than a hundred people casually.

At this time, dozens of pairs of bowls and chopsticks were placed on the table, as well as seven large pots of boiled wild vegetables with pork and seven large pots of stewed chicken with mushrooms. Next to each meal was a jar of old wine and a steamer of snow-white steamed buns. It was steaming white.

In the distance, Ye Zheng and everyone in Niujia Village smelled the fragrance. Immediately, everyone salivated and moved their index fingers. Under the signal of the hall master Chen Fu, they all sat down on the wooden table and couldn't wait to gobble it up. At the dinner table, everyone They all happily asked for cups and cups, but they were not happy to eat.

At this time, Ye Zheng, who was already half full, found that there seemed to be no other people from the cottage on the table except himself and his group, and even Sun Houzi, who had brought them over just now, was just sitting by the side of the stove , lowered his head and held a wooden stick to poke boredly, while the hall master Chen Fu, he was holding a tea bowl, smiling and watching his group eating and slowly drinking tea.

Seeing this scene, Ye Zheng and a group of men from Niujia Village hurriedly got up to pull Chen Fu, Sun Houzi and other cooks over, and prepared to have a good drink together.

However, except for Chen Fu coming over to politely congratulate them for a few drinks, the kitchen staff like Sun Houzi politely declined and did not serve the table.When Ye Zheng and the others met, they felt even more sorry. They thought to themselves that they worked so hard to cook for their group, but they didn't serve them to enjoy with them after they were cooked. It was so embarrassing. No matter what, I have to pull them over to eat and drink together.

While chattering, suddenly, a group of strong men rushed into the kitchen shed. Ye Zheng glanced at them, and found that all of those strong men were bare-chested, with gangster-like faces and extremely fierce expressions.

At this time, a tall and strong man with a black tiger tattooed on his chest kicked a bench in front of him, rushed to Chen Fu aggressively, rolled up his bull's eyes the size of copper bells, and spoke in a bad tone. He roared angrily: "Chen Laizi, why did my three halls get so little wine and meat today? It's not that you lame!"

When he roared, everyone put down their bowls and chopsticks and stared at him with displeasure, but the strong man didn't take it seriously. Instead, he gave Ye Zheng and the others a fierce look, and then he roared loudly: " You damned cripple, if you don't explain the matter to me today, I will immediately lead someone to demolish your kitchen!"

Chen Fu was not angry when he called him a lame man, he just said indifferently: "Master Yang Hong is overthinking, Mr. Chen has always been trusted by the village master, and he has always been strict with himself and never greedy for personal matters. How can you hide it?"

Hearing this, Yang Hong said angrily on the spot: "Bullshit! If you cripple don't hide your secrets, why do we have so little wine and meat in Santang? You wastes, you usually just hide in the mountains and eat idle food. Nowadays, the old men go down the mountain every day to work hard, and in the end they can’t even eat enough wine and meat, it’s just unreasonable!"

Chen Fu knew that the three hall masters had a bad temper, but he didn't expect him to speak so badly today, and suddenly, he couldn't help but feel a little displeased: "It's been a long time since I bought wine and meat in the cottage, it's normal if it's not enough. Why do you have to speak so harshly when you are so angry."

Yang Hong sneered and said: "You lame man, you really know how to argue. I sent someone to fetch wine from the wine cellar late last night. When I asked you, you said that the wine and meat were enough for today, but today, you actually said it was not enough. Who can believe such nonsense!"

Hearing what he said, Chen Fu was at a loss for words, and blushed and said: "Wine and meat are enough for today, but because a new brother joined the cottage today, Chen made the decision to prepare some wine and meat for them to share with them. Take the wind and wash away the dust, is there any problem with this?"

When Yang Hong heard this, he couldn't help thinking that when he entered the kitchen, he saw a group of strangers eating. He turned his head coldly and glanced at Ye Zheng and the others. Seeing that most of them were old and weak, women and children, he sneered and said sarcastically: "I don't know who is a big shot. I need Feifengzhai to put out wine and meat to clean up the dust. After looking at it for a long time, it turns out that they are just a group of refugee waste who eat and drink together. Hmph!..."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone was angry!