The Heroes of Gulong: Great Chefs from Past to Present

Chapter 685 Where is the Joy in the World

On the dirt road at the city gate, Lao Miaozi and Aji finally pulled a cart of pickled food out of the city.

Turning his head to look at the city gate behind him, Lao Miaozi simply wiped the sweat from his face and explained to Aji who was silent beside him.

"Aji, the city is destined to be uneasy. Ordinary people like us must know how to stay away from trouble and never watch the fun. Remember?"

Aji knew that Lao Miaozi didn't see the fight on the street clearly, but he acted like an elder giving advice.
Without refutation, Aji nodded with empty eyes.

After leaving the Xie family, Xie Xiaofeng also fulfilled his responsibility of protecting the family's safety.

But after leaving the Xie family, Xie Xiaofeng began to wonder what he would do in the future.

Protect the home and the people?

He has been protecting the Xie family for more than ten years, and all he has done is kill people.

It will be like this whether you win or lose.

As long as the Xie family still has enemies, the Third Young Master of the Divine Sword will always kill people.

Leave the Xie family, work hard, and then achieve success?

But no matter how hard he tried, he could only become another Third Young Master of the Divine Sword.

Even someone as smart as Li Chaofeng had to rely on the deer-cutting knife in his hand and the dragon-scale armor on his body to protect the huge wealth he had created with his own hands.

The reason why the Red Flame Dragon is so powerful and fearsome throughout the world is not his amazing Dragon Workshop, but his unrivaled military force.

No matter how hard Xie Xiaofeng tries, he needs to become the third young master of the Divine Sword to protect the "Xie family" in another sense.

Xie Xiaofeng left the Xie family because he didn't want to kill anyone anymore.

So hard work has nothing to do with him.

But apart from killing people, he seemed to have nothing else to do.

Xie Xiaofeng, who had nothing to do, didn't want to die.

Once you die, you are completely gone.

Nothing is left.

But he didn't know why he was alive when he didn't want to kill anyone and didn't want to struggle.

What is the meaning of life?
Xie Xiaofeng wanted to ask Li Chaofeng for the answer, but he also knew that he was never qualified to ask Li Chaofeng any questions.

The long and narrow wound on Li Chaofeng's neck was caused by his sword.

Thinking about this, Xie Xiaofeng walked all the way to the remote southwest and became a beggar who couldn't even beg on the street.

Eventually, he was picked up by Lao Miaozi and brought home.

In the end, Xie Xiaofeng, who didn't even want to say his name, got a new name from Lao Miaozi.

Aggie.

Aji is a lucky person.

He is also a useless person who still wants to live in the world.
Useless Aggie.

No, Aggie is still useful.

For example, I helped Lao Miaozi push the cart when he was collecting pickled food, and also lent him a hand when he didn't have enough strength.

Then it’s time to sleep.

I slept soundly and deeply, until there was no light at all.

Now Aji looks like a corpse when he sleeps.

And when walking on the road, he always keeps his head down, looking decadent and depressed.

Even if he occasionally looked up, his eyes were dull and empty.

No one could tell Xie Xiaofeng's romanticism from the useless Aji, especially with a cart of dirty things around him.

Lao Miaozi just took a break. Seeing that Aji was not moved at all, he was also thinking about transporting the things in the car back to the village.

No one wants to get close to pickled food, but it is one of the essential fertilizers for farmland.

Add some leaves and hay, and make compost according to the method written by Lord Dragon God in the newspaper, and it will be enough for an acre of land.

In short, the pickled stuff in his car is much more useful than Aji's.
Thinking about this, Lao Miaozi started to concentrate on pulling the cart, and Aji also pushed with all his strength from behind.

Aji is not very old, but he is very strong.

There are calluses on his hands, but they don't look like those from farming. Instead, they look more like the hands of a gangster.

Although Lao Miaozi was kind, he was not a fool without any vision. He had long felt that Aji was a gangster.

It's just that the world has been changed by the Dragon God, and many young people's martial arts are no longer useful, so they lose their ambition.
But it doesn’t look like it.

Although the Dragon Guards stationed outside the city were all trained personally by Lord Dragon God, the government office in the city is recruiting good family boys who know martial arts to join the government office every day.

No matter how weak a warrior is, he is still stronger than an ordinary person.

Aji is obviously a Han Chinese, not from the Black Miao or White Miao family, and he doesn't look like a bad person.

With a little effort, you can get a job in the government and support your family.

Can.
Lao Miaozi sighed inwardly because Aji didn't even have the strength to live.

If no one takes care of him, he will starve to death.

Faced with this situation, Lao Miaozi had no choice.

He could only keep Aji by his side, try to find something for him to do, and chat with him often.

It is a pity that although Lao Miaozi is kind-hearted, he has never read any Chinese books, and does not understand any great principles of the world.

The only thing he could do was to tell Aji some specious truths he knew.

Unfortunately, Aji never responded to Lao Miaozi's words.

It was silent all the way, and the village was getting closer and closer.

Lao Miaozi unloaded the things on the car into a pit, and he also looked at Aji.
And Aji just looked at himself silently.

Lao Miaozi sighed, but tried to force a smile and said.

"Aji, today's work is done, you can go and have a rest."

After hearing what Lao Miaozi said, Aji turned around without saying a word and walked towards the old house.

Looking at Aji's departing back, Lao Miaozi suddenly remembered something and shouted quickly.

"Aji, I got some snails today. I'm going to make spicy fried snails with sweet potato porridge. It's delicious. Remember to eat it before going to bed."

Aji paused for a moment, but quickly continued forward.

It is already the middle of spring and wild vegetables have begun to sprout. Many people can eat some snails by the river bank to satisfy their hunger.

But compared to the venison and bear paws that can be found everywhere in the Xie family, no matter how special the farm dishes are, they cannot be considered delicacies.

Aji just paused, and Lao Miaozi knew that he heard what he said.

Without caring whether the other party agreed or not, he started to work.

If he wants to compost, these things in front of him must also ferment.
There is still a lot of work to do, but it doesn't require much effort.

Li Chaofeng freed the slaves and liberated productivity, and the number of sophisticated gadgets that ordinary people would never use in their lifetime gradually increased.

Experienced farmers like Lao Miaozi have even been promised that if they grow crops well, their mud houses can be converted into brick ones.

The only difference is that farmers today are different from those in the past. After the grain is harvested, except for the grain they keep for themselves, all the rest has to be transported to the city.

They are called farmers, but in reality they are similar to tenants.

The land is distributed and belongs to the whole world. Farmers only have the right to cultivate it and cannot buy or sell it privately.

In addition to busy farming seasons, these farmers can also go to the city to work in their spare time.

It has become easier to make money, and those who work hard can save money.

But Lao Miaozi's family not only has an old mother, but also a pair of unmarried children.

The son relied on his own strength to get into the construction team. Although he was a poor boy, Lord Dragon God did not deduct anything from him.

Save money for two years, then go back to the mountains and you will definitely be able to find a wife.

However, Lord Dragon God did not like people to be slaves, so he forced the wealthy families to disperse their slaves. The child also left the mansion and was arranged to work in a weaving workshop.

The weaving workshop was not bad, at least it was a decent livelihood.

Every day, huge amounts of cloth were brought to the market and sold at very low prices.

Wawa has been smiling happily every time she returned home recently, and she has brought back several rolls of thick cloth, saying that it is the wages given to her by the weaving workshop.

After measuring, the aunt also said that Wawa could make a set of winter clothes for everyone in the family, and there would be a lot left over, which made Wawa smile even more happily.

Under the protection of the Dragon God, the lives of these poor people are finally getting better and better.

Lao Miaozi thought about this and continued to work with his head down.

But he didn't see a tall man walk into his house silently.
(End of this chapter)