Feast of villains

Chapter 99. Madam Knows Much More Than Daughter

The midday sun shines on the town.

There is snow everywhere on the mountains, on the roofs, on the roadside, and the whole world is completely white, quietly.

In this kind of weather, if you just sit in the house and enjoy the fire, it won't be cold.Nance was drinking tea made from unknown leaves, squinting and looking outside the house. The crystal icicles hanging from the eaves were as charming as beautiful crystal decorations in his eyes.

During tea time, the wind kept ringing.

"The tea leaves are picked on the mountain." Mrs. Li was knitting a sweater and said aside, "Dry it in the summer and drink it in the winter. It can not only quench your thirst, but also warm your body."

Dust tangles with each other in the winter light.

The tea is full of fragrance, with a light aftertaste, and the atmosphere of drinking tea is great.

"It tastes good!" Susha smacked her lips.

"The leaves of what plant?" Nance asked.

"Ah, I really don't know the name. People here call it Xiaoyehua." Mrs. Li smiled, and her eyes fell on Nansi: "The flower tree is short and blooms in July. Because it smells good, try it. Pick it for tea. Some strange beasts also like to eat this kind of flower."

"Are there many strange beast activities?" Nance asked.

"It's usually active in winter. In summer, there is plenty of food in the mountains, and they generally don't come out to approach humans. But in winter, when the mountains are covered by heavy snow, all the vegetarian animals are gone, and the meat-eating beasts frequently appear near the town."

"For stuttering."

When she heard the food, Susha turned her head and muttered, "I'm so hungry."

"I'll go and make lunch for you." Mrs. Li put away her needlework, got up and gave a slight salute before heading to the kitchen.From the living room, you can see the kitchen at a glance. She is washing vegetables by the sink with her sleeves rolled up. Her back looks pretty.

A pale yellow sweater and a beige ankle-length skirt.

The long black hair was tied loosely and stuck to the back, looking very gentle and virtuous.

"Why is there such a big difference between mother and daughter..." Nance looked at his wife sometimes, and sometimes at his youngest daughter.The sun shone into the house from the eaves, and the little girl turned over and continued to nap on the floor.

The light was bright, and her delicate little face was covered with a layer of bright and charming colors.

What a lovely girl.

Even an angel would feel ashamed of such a shining appearance, but it's a pity that she has a mouth that can speak human words.

"Guy who sleeps late, open your eyes quickly." Nance shook the girl's shoulder.

Li Qingxian opened his eyes slightly to look at him, then closed them again.When Nance shook her shoulders for the second time, she rubbed her eyes and sat up reluctantly: "Uncle, can you stop being so annoying."

"Your father is working in the fields, and your mother is preparing lunch. Why do you have the nerve to sleep?" Nance asked.

"Ha~"

The girl yawned, and walked lazily towards the kitchen.

She has a very exquisite little heart, and from Nance's tone, she can tell that he wants to help her mother cook by herself.

Normally she would be too lazy to move, but she was even more lazy to chat with Nance here, so she simply moved to the kitchen to sleep.

Just when she reached the door of the kitchen, she yawned again. She struggled against her laziness for a few seconds, and then she became paralyzed.

The shadow immediately jumped up from the ground, hugged the main body in his arms, then turned his head, and said to Nansi angrily: "Don't force the main body to work, or she will be unhappy!"

No problem, Nance thought.

From now on, just force the shadow.

After more than ten minutes, Mrs. Li brought an iron pot from the kitchen and put it on the firepit.

There was a pot of chowder, with potatoes and onions and some pork, and she put it on plates and added bowls of rice for everyone.

The dishes were simple, but the seasoning was good, and Nance ate quite happily.After eating, I drank a cup of tea, my whole body felt warm, and it was time to do something serious.

Mrs. Li packed some food in an insulated box and woke up her little daughter: "Bring lunch for your dad."

Li Qingxian pursed his lips unwillingly.

"Be good, don't let Nance see the joke, what a cute child, how can you be so lazy." Mrs. Li gently touched her daughter, put her fingers into her hair, scratched the pink hair fluffy, Then put her nose on her daughter's face, "Qingxian, mom loves you..."

Li Qingxian hesitated.

Obviously she was not interested in this kind of parent-child interaction, her lips twitched slightly, as if she wanted to scold "stupid"?
However, she still didn't scold her own mother for being stupid after all, and it seemed that she still kept the moral bottom line after all. Nance was very pleased about this.

After her mother took her hand away, the girl shook her little head a few times, and her long, fluffy pink hair returned to its vertically draped shape.

"Uncle, let's go!" She raised her eyelids to look at Nance, and snorted, "I'll take you to meet that weirdo who only cares about seeds."

Nance put on his coat and hat, and bent over to Mrs. Li: "I'm going out."

"Be careful on the road." Mrs. Li smiled gently, bent down to take Nance's leather shoes from the shoe cabinet, squatted down, and said to him in a soft voice while helping Nance put on the shoes: "It's cold outside. , it’s getting dark early, so come back early, I’ll make dinner at home and wait for you.”

Nance's eyes fell on her slender neck.

She is such a gentle and skilful lady.

——Knows how to please men better than the youngest daughter.

"Goo!"

Doraemon rolled his eyes mischievously.

Little A thinks that next time he sees the Queen, he must make a small report that Nance likes a wife!

Although it wasn't snowing outside, the wind was blowing, and it was still difficult to walk on the road.There are few pedestrians on the street, so the narrow street feels much wider, maintaining the silence unique to remote areas.

When we got to the edge of the fence, we saw people gathering under an announcement.

When Nance passed by, he glanced at the announcement.

[Cement worker: Male, 20-40 years old, in good physical condition, 200 pence per day]

[Lathe worker: male, 25-50 years old, with lathe experience, 300 pence per day]

[Handyman: Male is required, no age limit, 100 pence per day]

The townspeople surrounding the announcement made a lot of discussion; in front of the small hotel next to it, some people who looked like mercenaries looked at the mountain to the north.

"Concrete workers are recruited to strengthen the city wall, and lathe workers are to process guns, both to prevent the impact of alien beasts." Li Qingxian squinted his eyes and said impatiently, "There are also those mercenaries who come here every winter to try to get rid of alien beasts." Get some oil and water on your body, noisy, annoying to death."

Her words made Miss Su's eyes light up.

The organs of some strange beasts are precious raw materials for potions. If Nan Si can be encouraged to go hunting in the mountains, the old lady will get rich, ah ha ha ha... There was a lustful smile on the corner of her mouth, and she blinked her eyes. Tao Hua looked at Nansi: "Hey, my dear..."

"Get out, it's impossible, give up!" Nance directly persuaded him to retreat three times in a row.

Unwilling and aggrieved, Miss Su suddenly kicked out.

Nance, who had expected her to move his feet, dodged in an instant and let her kick the air.

Miss Su's legs are slender and beautiful, and she is wearing a pair of high-heeled leather boots that look like a queen, really seductive.

It's a pity that the temperature is low today, and the roadsides are icy, so slippery that even walking normally makes you fall.

With a full kick, she also lost her center. After staggering two steps, she fell directly onto the ice with a bang, and then slid down the slope from the wall.

Outside the town, the undulating road between the mountains forms a gentle snow valley that extends slowly, just like a specially designed ski run.

Miss Su slammed into the snowdrift on the side of the road, half of her body was buried in the snow.

"Bastard!" she swore at Nance.

"I just want to see you make a fool of yourself." Nance walked over with the owl on his head.

"You bastard!" Su Sha stood up tremblingly, brushed off the white snow from her hair, then bent down and rubbed a snowball on his side face.Before Nance could fight back, she sat down on the ice and continued to slide down the ramp, leaving behind a series of heroic laughter along the way.

The warm sunlight shone on the silent ice surface. A seven or eight-year-old girl came shaking the bell in her hand. She was frightened by the laughter and sat down.

Miss Su slipped past her with a gust of wind, and Nance, who was dragged behind, picked up the little girl and placed it on the non-slippery muddy ground beside her, and then warned: "Don't be like this sister when you grow up."

The little girl blinked ignorantly.

"Ah~" Li Qingxian passed by yawning.

Her steps were wobbly all the way, and I was really worried that she would fall headlong into a ditch or the cow dung on the side of the road.The cow dung was fresh and steaming. Just now, Nance watched with his own eyes, a cow raised its tail right under his nose, and then slapped a big lump on the ground.

Let the face of the beautiful girl be buried in cow dung, it is too wrong.

Nance looked back at the girl's swaying body, slowed down, and walked side by side with her, so that he could support her in time if she was about to fall.

"I have a shadow, so there's no need for uncle to worry about it!" Li Qingxian took a long breath and stretched himself.

She was wearing a dark blue and rose red coat with a romantic touch, and blue trousers on her lower body.

The forehead is fair, the lips are so delicate and cute, but the eyes are lazy at all times, sorry for the youthful vitality in her body that is almost overflowing.

"Why didn't you eat lunch just now?" Nance asked her.

Li Qingxian cleared his throat, and said boredly: "Mom's cooking is too bad, I don't want to eat it. I want dry fried chicken, hamburger beef patties, raisin pancakes..."

"These things are high in sugar and calories, so eat less." Nansi said earnestly, "At your current age, you should eat more nutritious food in order to grow up better."

"Whispering uncle." Li Qingxian muttered in a low voice.

"I think you have to be considerate of your mother..." Nansi was thinking about what Mrs. Li was like last night, and was about to reason with her, but Li Qingxian preemptively asked him, "What did you and my mother do last night?" ?”

"..."

Li Qingxian looked at him suspiciously: "My mother is too enthusiastic about you, which is obviously beyond common sense!"

"It's really beyond common sense." Nance smiled and said calmly: "It's not that I'm trying to quibble, but because of what your mother said last night, it's hard for me to shirk it. It's a long story to explain, anyway. , summed up in one sentence: She asked me to take good care of you sisters."

"take care of?"

"That's right, it's about taking care of her. She was afraid that the fire at the city gate of your house would bring disaster to you and your sister, so she asked me to take you away."

"Funny." Li Qingxian curled his lips indifferently.

"It's pretty funny," Nance admitted.

"Hey, you probably fell in love with my mother, right?" The girl put on a very old-fashioned look, shaking her head and said, "Let me tell you, although I hate my father, I don't want to change you as a stepdad ! Adults are all like this ghost, no one is pleasing to the eye..."

"...how did you talk!"

Nance gave her a big mouth directly.

The beating was very light, just to show the meaning of a lesson.

"It's so funny!" Li Qingxian put down the last sentence, then ran forward with the insulated box in his hand, chasing after Su Sha's back and shouting: "Sister Su, let me tell you, the uncle is a married woman. fucked my mother..."

Nance shook his head helplessly.

Alas, she is such a troubled girl, she needs to be trained properly.

The weather is cold and clear, and the chirping of birds pierces the air sharply from time to time.

After leaving the scope of the town, there are snow-covered farmland all around, and the roots of some straws are sticking out of the snow.The three of them headed in the direction of the mountains to the north.There are some thatched huts scattered in the fields, dilapidated and dilapidated, which makes people worry that they will be blown into the sky by a gust of wind.

A plastic greenhouse appeared at the foot of the mountain in the distance.

Nance walked across the field path and stepped onto a single-plank bridge over a creek, with the cold wind blowing on his face.

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Winter is not a suitable season for farming.

All along, Li Ting didn't like winter very much.

After arriving in Nanwan Town with his family, he likes to stay in the house every winter, write some articles on agriculture by hand, and publish them on the Internet for free.In addition to agricultural principles, he also discusses physics and philosophy with people on the Internet... His life in Nanwan Town is very fulfilling, but occasionally he feels a kind of unsatisfied resentment.

This winter has been extremely cold and long.

Dark clouds enveloped the land, and quickly covered the water with a thin layer of ice. The climate suddenly surpassed the soil eroded by natural disasters, and became the number one enemy of agricultural production.

Early this morning, Li Ting put on his boots and coat, and went to inspect the experimental field.Fording icy streams blinding in the sun, stepping on ice and sinking in snow.

This plastic shed at the foot of the mountain has devoted his whole life to it.

When he came to open the door, the workers who came to help hadn't arrived yet, so he first went to look at the livestock.

The cows were already in the paddock, their shiny coats basking in the sun, lowing to the meadow.

Li Ting stared at the group of cows with admiration. He knew their conditions clearly, when they calved, when they came into heat, and what type of bulls they liked... He broke a branch, opened the enclosure for the calves, and filled the cows Drive these little guys out of the bar with a smile on their faces, and let them go to bask in the sun and exercise.

The calves born this winter are exceptionally good.

According to Li Ting's estimation, the slaughter period only needs a little more than a year, which is three to five months earlier than the current mainstream beef cattle in the empire.And the nutrition of the meat is not bad, but the taste will be a little bit darker.In terms of feeding, this breed of beef cattle will also be more cost-effective. It only needs dry roughage mixed with a small proportion of soybean meal, and a small amount of protein is enough.

Such beef is destined not to be recognized by the upper class.

But if they can be successfully promoted and cultivated on a large scale, their meat can halve the current price of beef and become the most important source of nutrition for the residents of the empire.

Li Ting took out hay from the barn and sprinkled it in the trough to feed the calves.

The wooden fence next to the trough was broken, and he planned to call a carpenter to repair it yesterday, but unfortunately, the carpenter was called by the town government to repair the fence, and he had no time to come to help.He had no choice, he could only plan to stay and repair by himself after finishing the work at hand today, and it didn't matter if he came home late.

The sun gradually rose, and the nearby peasant women came to the experimental field to help.

Li Ting didn't pay them any wages, but promised to share some grain with everyone when they harvested.

In such a remote town, it is good to have food, so many housewives who are idle at home are willing to come to help.Moreover, Li Ting also promised that, apart from saving some of these new varieties of grain seeds for research, the rest will be distributed to everyone for free.

Some townspeople who were envious of him experimenting with high-yield grain crops in the field were now willing to work for him.

A large group of peasant women and scattered old people are busy reclaiming wasteland.

The shovel dug in the hard soil, sending out a strange vibration, shattering the tense air.

Li Ting searched the warehouse for a long time, ran out and shouted: "Aunt Mary, I was going to tell you yesterday that the harrow needs to be repaired. You should know that the field is going to be harrowed today."

"what?"

A peasant woman looked up in surprise.

"Didn't you let me fix it today?"

"I said I asked you to repair it yesterday. Your ears are really bad..." Li Ting yelled, but it was useless to get angry now, so he stopped talking halfway, and just sighed: "Hurry up and fix it, you can rake One point is one point, don't waste everyone's time."

Aunt Mary rushed into the warehouse.

Li Ting turned to another peasant woman, "What happened to the six acres of land you raked yesterday?"

"I have already sent Vasily over to sow seeds, and today I can plant at least three acres."

"Why can't we plant all the seeds?" Li Ting shouted.

"The shed over there hasn't been set up yet, the ground is covered with snow..."

"Okay, hurry up and take a few people to build a plastic greenhouse, don't let the low temperature delay the harvest."

"immediately!"

With a big wave of her hand, the peasant woman immediately led several people to the warehouse to fetch wooden stakes and plastics.

Li Ting was a little annoyed, so he also went to help.

It’s okay to only plant half of the six acres of land, but there is no shed, and the seeds are sown under the ice and snow, which will definitely affect the harvest, and these few acres of land will be wasted.

"Why are there so few people?"

"Everyone is busy with their own business."

"what?"

"Five people are planting potatoes, four are feeding eggs and ducks, and, no, look..." The speaker pointed to the cowshed, "It takes three people to milk a cow..."

Li Ting glanced at the cow shed.

Three gray-haired old men, wearing fur boots and thick bloated coats, were working slowly.

"Hey!"

Li Ting waved his hand angrily.

Really, it would be great if there were enough labor on such a clear day.

"Ignat!" he yelled at the young man who was rolling up his sleeves and feeding the ducks, "call some young men to town..."

"My lord, there are no young people in this town now..." The man shouted helplessly, "Boys are either going to build the city wall, or go to the big city..."

Li Ting was silent.

He encountered resistance again, and he knew that no matter how hard he tried, there would be no greater miracle in such a remote place...

"Let me go and have a look, just wait..." Ignat asked the man to wipe his hands and ran out of the test field.

"Master, there is still a shortage of manpower!" The peasant woman feeding the ducks yelled loudly, "Ignat needs to find someone to do the job!"

"This side also needs it. There are no young people to build a shed. How can we rely on women like us..."

"Master, the rake can't be repaired well, come and have a look..."

The whole experimental field was noisy and full of lack of people, which made people dizzy.

A calf snorted, swung its rein high, and walked briskly on its hooves.

Li Ting looked around silently.

If there are enough people, he can plant 150 acres of wheat, [-] acres of potatoes, and [-] acres of corn; he can open up a pasture next to the experimental field, dig a pond, and build a movable corral to accumulate manure... No need How long will this town not have an acre of land to fall into disrepair.

Immersed in a helpless mood, Maverick approached him and snorted a few breaths.

A neatly dressed young man walked in from the experimental field, with an owl on his head.Beside him was a tall, gray-white woman with long hair, both of them seemed to be able to work in the fields... As for the pink-haired girl, forget it, owls are more useful than her.

As a result, Nance and Miss Su, who had just walked in, were given a saw and a hoe by a middle-aged man, one built a plastic greenhouse, and the other went to the field to hoe.

Even the owl, after a terrified coo, was caught by him and taken to the henhouse to hatch its eggs.

"Ha~"

Li Qingxian made a rebellious face.

She was tired of even looking at her old father, so she let Shadow carry her up to the roof.

Squint your eyes, bask in the sun and go to bed.

　There is a party in the evening, and this chapter has been posted ahead of schedule.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)