Zhu Tian: The Fiery Years Begin with Taking Qin Huairu as a Concubine

Chapter 103 Money moves people’s hearts

When he got up in the morning, Zhang Kaiwu went to make breakfast as usual.

He had to go up the mountain to practice shooting today, so he made some extra egg pancakes so as not to trouble the young lady to make them at noon.

The key point is that it tastes bad when cooked on a stone slab!

Just let them cook some cornmeal porridge.

Zhang Kaiwu had just woken up Qin Huairu and the young lady, and everyone was washing up and getting ready.

Qin's father and the new village chief came to the door, and Zhang Kaiwu had even forgotten the name of the village chief.

Father Qin looked at Qin Huairu awkwardly as she was washing lazily, and he wanted to go up and give her a beating.

During the busy farming season in the countryside, everyone eats before dawn and goes to the fields.

I usually get up early in the morning and take care of household chores.

I didn't expect that it was already this late and Qin Huairu had just gotten up.

And it was obvious that Zhang Kaiwu had made the breakfast. Qin Huairu had just woken up from sleep and hadn't even lit a fire! ?
Let the man make breakfast! ?

Qin's father glared at her for a while and prepared to ask Qin's mother to teach Qin Huairu a lesson another day.

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It is also very impolite for them to barge into other people's homes during dinner time.

The two men looked at the pile of egg pancakes on the table embarrassedly. Zhang Kaiwu smiled and stuffed two pancakes into each of them.

Said: "Come and taste my cooking skills. Don't worry about Sister Huairu. I intentionally let them sleep a little longer. Didn't you see that the young lady just got up?"

"I'm just practicing my cooking skills, stop glaring at her. Have some cakes, and Huairu, please make two bowls of porridge. Don't be polite!"

The two shyly delayed for a moment before accepting the egg pancakes.

Qin Huairu brought them two bowls of cornmeal porridge and continued to wash up lazily.

She is not afraid of her father. She has never been afraid of him since she was a child. Her father is all talk and no action.

Only then did Qin's mother dare to hit people.

Now Qin Huairu is not even afraid of her mother. She is already married, and the only thing she is afraid of is that Zhang Kaiwu will drive her out.

She is not afraid of being beaten.

She just likes acting and is just being pretentious for a while, she is not stupid.

After getting the house key, even the obsession in my heart disappeared.

Qin Huairu only needs to please Brother Kaiwu. My family is in Peking now, and we have plenty of houses.

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After a brief chat, Zhang Kaiwu finally understood why they came.

The village has to pay rent, and the situation has been turbulent this year.

The township office requested that this year's grain should not be sent to the township office, but that the summer grain should be delivered directly to the Taiping Granary outside the city of Peiping.

You can even allow the village to deduct some of the losses and pay a little less rent.

It would be better if the grain was delivered to the township office, as the distance was shorter and it only required passing through three villages, all of which were familiar neighboring villages.

The Taiping granary is seven kilometers away, and there are more bandits than cattle hairs now.

For example: Manager Yan’s escort agency was completely looted in the first half of the year, all the soybeans were taken away, and more than 20 people in the agency died!
The situation in the village is very awkward now. There are not enough guns to escort the food courageously, for fear of accidents along the way.

Sometimes there are no guns in your team, and other kind-hearted people can't help but come up and grab some.

They saw Zhang Kaiwu idle at home and wanted him to help run a convoy escort.

After all, Zhang Kaiwu is also a hunter and an expert in using guns. He has two Hanyang-made rifles.

They talked for a while before Zhang Kaiwu understood what they meant.

In fact, there were no bandits on this road, and bandits would not come to the main roads near Peking.

It is difficult to run away if something happens, and the garrison can easily catch up with them with their military vehicles.

What they are guarding against are the villages next door and the villages along the way where people are being bullied by other gangs!
Just like Zhang Kaiwu was on guard against the rickshaw driver, money can tempt people.

Be on guard against other people's sudden impulse.

This is simply nonsense!
But it's too normal. Such things won't be uncommon after decades!
Zhang Kaiwu thought about it and originally planned to lend them two Hanyang-made rifles to serve as a demonstration to give them courage.

But he was moved by Qin's father's bragging. Taiping Granary was the largest grain warehouse in the entire vicinity of Peking.

If anything went wrong in the grain warehouse guarded by tens of thousands of heavily armed soldiers, the food supply for the entire Beijing would be at risk.

The grain inside was piled up into mountains, and the department was responsible for the mobilization of grain for the entire Peking.

The piles of grain were so huge that after being weighed and inspected outside, they had to be placed on several springboards before they could be sent up.

Each grain pile weighs tens of millions of kilograms, and Qin's father and his colleagues have worked there before.

People in the village sent volunteers to help repair the warehouse.

I watched them bragging about how big the Taiping warehouse was and how much grain it had. The rats inside weighed more than one pound each.

Zhang Kaiwu felt embarrassed for them, as if they could eat the food inside!
This is so embarrassing!
They live worse than those big rats which weigh more than one pound each!

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The grain depot guarded by tens of thousands of troops is usually impossible to enter.

In the past, people from the township office used trucks to deliver food, but now the situation is tense and the trucks have been requisitioned.

This is a rare opportunity now!
Even though Zhang Kaiwu is rich now and wants to buy large quantities of food, it is still difficult to buy.

Food is always a top priority at all times and is strictly controlled.

This time I went to help pay the rent.

This is simply like roasting Zhang Kaiwu on a fire! ?

Zhang Kaiwu was desperately counting in his mind, and found that most of the storage space was still empty.

There are about 800 cubic meters, and one cubic meter of wheat can hold about 750 kilograms.

Wheat of particularly good quality can weigh 850 kilograms per cubic meter, but that quality is not something that can be achieved with today's wheat.

Three seven eighteen.

It can hold a total of 600,000 kilograms of wheat!

Six hundred tons of wheat! ?

This time I secretly did it, and Maizi will have to eat until the end of time! ?

Even though the Zhang Kaiwu family cannot finish eating 600 tons of wheat, in fact, it can be stored in a small house.

For the entire Taiping warehouse.

It's really a drop in the bucket.

If you collect some in a warehouse, you can't even see it.

The 600 tons of wheat lost in Taiping Warehouse may not even be discovered.

The losses are not limited to these things.

Those little grain rats can steal thousands or even tens of thousands of tons of grain without anyone noticing, right?
The quantity of grain after it enters the warehouse must be estimated by volume.

Zhang Kaiwu agreed to their request with a smile and agreed to go there tomorrow.

Because the new village chief was afraid that the weather would change and the wheat would get damp due to rain, and the quality of the wheat would be reduced and cause loss.

They were also afraid that something might happen to the harvested wheat at the village office and that it might be stolen.

The new village chief wants to send it there in the next few days to satisfy the villagers’ wishes.

Zhang Kaiwu enthusiastically invited them to eat egg pancakes. After one person ate one pancake, he felt too embarrassed to eat more.

After drinking the bowl of pure cornmeal porridge, he poured some water to rinse the bottom of the bowl and drank it, then Qin's father and the other two said goodbye.

The new village chief kept exaggerating and showing off his martial arts on the way, he was simply too arrogant.

For people who don't even work in the fields, their breakfast is fried egg pancakes and pure cornmeal porridge! ?
He is such a generous person.

As expected of being the richest man in Qinjiatun Village, Qin Huairu married well!
A life of luxury!

Father Qin said with a smile:

"Kaiwu has been close to Huairu since childhood. Huairu used to only be close to him and play with him. She would have married him even if she didn't become rich."

There have been so many people complimenting Qin's parents during this period that these few words have become a catchy saying.

Watching the two people chatting and walking away.

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Zhang Kaiwu finished his breakfast, threw the bowl away and said:
"Girl! Let Huairu teach you how to ride a bicycle later. I'm going to clean up the house over there."

"It's too late today. I'll take you to the mountain to play some other day."

The young lady understood immediately that he had something private to attend to and wanted her to hold Sister Huairu back.

Zhang Kaiwu strolled into his old house, ran to the kitchen, and cleared out all the firewood sticks.

Hiding in the kitchen, I tidied up the storage space.

He also dismantled the ammunition boxes. It was not until noon that he strolled back to cook.

In front of the young lady's house, they were all riding bicycles and playing.

With Qin Huairu's help and guidance, the young lady can now ride a bicycle slowly and unsteadily.

This women's bicycle has a short body, which makes it easier to learn. The girl is so tall that she can just support herself on the ground with just her feet.

Riding a bicycle is such a simple thing that anyone with talent can learn it in five minutes.

But there are also some ruthless people who never learn.

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Seeing Zhang Kaiwu coming back with a smile, Qin Huairu and the young lady hurried back to the kitchen to help.

After practicing my cooking skills and having lunch, I started practicing the Su Nu Heart Sutra exercises.

The days passed were nourishing and fulfilling.

There was no time to go up the mountain in the afternoon, so Zhang Kaiwu practiced some farming tricks at home. The young lady and Qin Huairu watched the fun from the side and cheered for him crazily!
Although I don't understand this Kung Fu, but Zhang Kaiwu crippled Manager Yan, who has been practicing Kung Fu since childhood, so he should be very powerful.

Before going to bed at night, the Su Nu Heart Sutra had reached 89 experience points.

Zhang Kaiwu had a hunch that the breakthrough in the Su Nu Heart Sutra would definitely bring about a qualitative change.

This is the most important thing.

When he was with Zhu Zhiyin, he also read those ancient medical books.

Although the record of Huangdi in the book is not very clear, it also indicates that there were strange visions.

The record of Su Nu Heart Sutra in medical books is also unclear.

Just some of the benefits!
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Early in the morning, the young lady and Qin Huairu also got up.

The three of them finished their breakfast. Qin's father and the people in the village had already made preparations.

Zhang Kaiwu put on a set of tattered clothes as he had to go to the grain warehouse to collect wheat later, so he wanted to avoid attracting attention.

He handed a Hanyang-made pistol to Qin's father and took one himself, shocking the scoundrels.

The village prepared six large ox carts, some chicken buses, and a large number of people carrying loads, and organized an escort team of more than three or four hundred people.

Almost all the men in the village joined the battle, including a dozen or so widows.

According to yesterday's conversation, excluding the mountains and marginal lands, there are only more than 1,000 acres of land in the village.

There are fat and thin ones, and the rent is different.

On average, one acre of land can produce 200 kilograms of wheat, which is almost 200,000 kilograms of wheat.

It took more than three or four hundred people to deliver just one hundred tons of wheat.

What happened in later generations was a car, but now it’s a large and vigorous event.

This is the way it is in this era, one reason is for safety.

If anything happens to this batch of grain, the entire village will have no way to survive.

One is that the current means of transportation are ridiculous. Chicken buses and ox carts are considered advanced tools in the village.

Apart from the ox carts that pulled more, there was not much else.

They are all wooden wheels, without even tires, how much can they pull! ?
It's not much more than a strong man carrying a load on his back, but it's a little lighter.

Zhang Kaiwu did not ride a bicycle either. He walked in the middle of the road with Qin's father, holding a gun to escort them.

In fact, it is just a show to remind others to keep calm.

The huge army delivering food from Qinjiatun set off slowly like ants moving house.

Even the dozen or so widows without husbands were carrying their loads and blending into the crowd.

The army delivering food marched along the official road, following each other's lead, trying not to fall behind.

The village chief and the head of the security guard stood in front and behind to support the team, shouting from time to time to slow down.

Zhang Kaiwu and Qin's father also had to pay attention to the people on the road and walked slowly for seven kilometers.

After walking and stopping for more than two hours, almost three hours, we finally arrived near the Taiping Warehouse.

The large force arrived safely!
Looking at the heavily guarded Taiping grain warehouse.

The drivers, pushers of rickshaws, and people carrying loads, all breathed a sigh of relief.

This year's good weather and harvest have passed just like that. As for next year, we'll talk about it later!
The village chief and the headman of the security guard ran around to gather the people so as not to get confused with the food delivery teams from other villages.

Zhang Kaiwu handed the Hanyang-made rifle in his hand to Qin's father and asked him to wait outside.

He said with a smile:

"Dad! I'll go in and see what's going on. You keep an eye on the gun outside."

Father Qin smiled and said:

"Kaiwu! Just take a look, don't mess with those soldiers."

Zhang Kaiwu had already discovered that the guards in other villages were also standing outside with guns.

Maybe they don’t allow guns in! ?

The village chief and the head of the security guard took the tax payment account book of Qinjiatun and went through the weighing procedures.

The people in Qinjiatun were like ants moving, and began to inspect bags of wheat one by one.

Once the grade and weight are determined, they start to be moved into the warehouse bag by bag.

Zhang Kaiwu picked up a bag and entered the grain warehouse.

At the door of each large warehouse, there are two inspectors reviewing.

He kept shouting:

"Everyone must climb to the highest point to dump the wheat. You are not allowed to dump it at a lower point!"

Zhang Kaiwu stepped on the wobbly springboard and climbed onto the huge pile of grain, like a mouse falling into a rice jar.

The wheat was harvested without anyone noticing, and soon the storage space was filled up.

Compared with these huge warehouses, his storage space is really insignificant.

I had originally thought of visiting a few more warehouses, but it seems I underestimated how big the warehouses are.

The storage space was filled with wheat, and there was no sign of any problems inside the warehouse.

He held up the empty bag and asked the person at the warehouse door to check it, making sure that he had emptied it and did not bring out any grain.

Zhang Kaiwu was too lazy to make a second trip as the storage space was full.

After walking there, he threw the bag to the village chief and others and left Taiping Warehouse.

He ran to the door and boasted to Qin's father, smoking and waiting for others.

After the task was completed, Zhang Kaiwu did not feel very excited. This was mainly because it was too simple.

Just climb up and collect them secretly. How much you can collect is determined by the space.

The food delivery operation was not completed until after 2:00 p.m.

The key is that you spend a lot of time on the road.

Three or four hundred villagers in Qinjiatun worked hard for half a day and delivered one hundred tons of wheat.

Zhang Kaiwu alone simply pulled out 600 tons of wheat, which was really cool.

A large group of villagers walked back to Qinjiatun hungry, and the village was immediately filled with laughter.

The biggest difficulty of this year has passed and the rent has been paid. This is all thanks to the fact that the old village chief no longer has an account book.

The corn in the second half of the year is all ours, so with God’s blessing, we won’t have a hard time this year.

Qin's father declined Zhang Kaiwu's invitation to dinner, returned the Hanyang Zao to him, and went back to work in the fields.

There is no such thing as always going to my daughter's house for dinner.

With the help of Qin Huairu and others, Zhang Kaiwu finished washing up and started to cook dinner.

He has gained some experience from practicing cooking skills and gaining experience during this period.

The key for a chef is the heat, and cooking is about how to improve the quality of the dish.

Stir-fry evenly and grasp the best time to serve.

Zhang Kaiwu, a chef with sharp eyes and ears, is a genius at knowing the right time to add oil, salt, sauce and vinegar.

Because he is sharp, busy, and has an amazing memory, his cooking skills are nothing.

I easily gained two experience points.

After finishing dinner with the young lady, it was still light outside.

Zhang Kaiwu, who was impatient, had already pulled them to wash up.

I started practicing, wanting to make up for the one I missed at noon.

Hahahaha!

It was quite interesting to practice martial arts with the shy Thirteenth Aunt, and the young lady was also gentle and considerate.

Qin Huairu's shy and aggrieved look was probably due to her habit of acting.

Sometimes I look at Qin Huairu’s aggrieved expression, the way she begs for mercy with tears in her eyes.

He is very interesting and feels a sense of accomplishment.

Now Qin Huairu’s energy is full, and those are all her acting skills.

Although he knew she was acting, Zhang Kaiwu felt very refreshed practicing his martial arts.

There is a sense of accomplishment in doing it.

Before she knew it, Qin Huairu fainted again!

The young lady's tenderness towards him is always like a breeze.

Just like she said, the whole person is his.

Zhang Kaiwu was also very nice to her and much gentler.

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Before going to bed at night, he looked inside the storage space again.

There is a huge pile of stuff and I have to find a way to clean it up slowly.

Those American military uniforms were the most troublesome, with too much stuff and taking up too much space.

You don’t even dare to throw things from the beautiful country away randomly, as it might be discovered.

If these things are discovered within a few decades, they will be big trouble.

Things from the beautiful country always trigger a series of associations.

The safest way is to burn them and be done with them once and for all.

This is such a pity. I don’t even have many pieces of clothes. Will I be punished by God if I burn these woolens and quilts?

(End of this chapter)