Tomorrow's Ark is too real

Chapter 946 About Happiness
That night, instead of going back to Senior Yingwu's house, they returned to the village where Uncle Nanye lived.

On the one hand, he came to pick up the luggage; on the other hand, Xia Feng wanted to discuss his thoughts with Uncle Nanye.

Seeing them come back, the enthusiastic Nanye Shimoda prepared a hot dinner, as well as a lot of small seafood that Sora caught during the day.

Bagpipe took out a candy apple from his backpack.

"Hanako, here, I'll give you another candy."

"Wow, thank you sister."

Little Hanako took the candy and hid in the inner room alone to lick it.

After the food was served, Nanye Shimoda took out the wine again.

"Fuutarou, have a few more drinks with me."

Seeing Bagpi's unfriendly eyes, Xia Feng firmly refused this time.

"No, no, I'm a person who can't drink, and I have a lot of things to do recently, so I won't drink."

Nanye Shimoda was a reasonable person, so he stopped lobbying.

"Oh, young man, it's a good thing not to drink, come on, let's eat more food."

Xia Feng rolled up his sleeves and picked up his chopsticks.

"To be honest, I'm really hungry, Uncle Nanye, then I'm not welcome."

"you are welcome."

While eating, Nanye Shimoda asked about their harvest with concern.

"How about it, have you seen the senior Yingwu who lives in the cherry blossom forest?"

Xia Feng swallowed the food in his mouth.

"Well, I see you, he is a very nice person."

"Have you decided where to live?"

"It's decided. It's just south of the cherry blossom forest. Bagpipe and I have sorted out an open field today."

"Not bad."

Having said that, Xia Feng put down his bowl and chopsticks, and it's time to get to the point.

"By the way, Uncle Nanye, I happen to have something I want to discuss with you."

"what's up?"

"It's like this. Bagpipe and I don't know how to build a house. If it's just a shelter from the wind and rain, we can probably build it clumsily. But you know, we plan to live here for a long time, so naturally we plan to complete in one step."

Afterwards, Xia Feng explained his expectations in detail.

To put it simply, he hopes to get the help of the villagers of Nanye Village to help him build a house with complete supporting facilities in the shortest time.

He didn't want to go whoring for nothing. To be honest, there was nothing unseemly about it. His brother would settle the score and he would pay.

The current currency in circulation throughout the entire Eastern Kingdom is stone gold, stone silver, and copper coins issued by the Kanno family, and the Xichuan area is naturally the same.

Nanye Village, which has settled on the south coast for generations, does not circulate money, but adopts a cooperative model. To put it bluntly, it means exchanging what they have for what they don’t have, and supporting each other in life.

In the three-acre land in the village, gold coins cannot be eaten or drunk, and they are almost useless except for shining.

Of course, there is no currency in circulation in the village, which does not mean that the role of currency is completely useless.

In this era, there are very few villages that can be truly isolated from the outside world. As Sorata mentioned before, there are more than a dozen villages, large and small, and relatively large towns scattered along the southern coast of Xichuan.

Nanye Village is self-sufficient in most of its daily necessities, but there are still some things that need to be purchased in order to improve the quality of life.

Such as medicines, tools, some auxiliary materials in the manufacturing process, including spices and sugars that cannot be grown.

All these things need to be bought in the town on the other side of the mountain. You don’t have to spend money to buy them, you can also exchange them with things.

Because Nanye Village is close to the sea, it is rich in seafood such as dried fish, which can be exchanged for daily necessities in the town.

Of course, it is easier to use money.

Through the conversation with Uncle Nanye, Xia Feng also has a certain understanding of the current economic situation of the village.

The villagers have a weak sense of money, and those who usually leave the village to exchange things in the town are those few people who go there only once every half a month on average.

The villagers did not have the habit of saving money, and all the money was kept by the village head. Now all the money added up was not as much as the gold coins in his trouser pocket.

After understanding Xia Feng's thoughts, Uncle Nanye thought about it.

"Well, I can discuss it with the village chief. We should be able to send someone to help. As neighbors, this is what we should do."

Xia Feng looked happy.

"Great, Nanye Village is righteous, don't worry, I will definitely not let everyone contribute in vain."

Uncle Nanye waved his hand.

"It's okay, we're friends, it's a trivial matter to pay or not, but there are some things you need to figure out."

"what?"

"Materials for building a house."

"Like?"

If you don't ask, you don't know. There are a lot of questions.

Uncle Nanye didn't know much about building houses. His usual division of labor was going out to sea to fish, but based on his understanding, he proposed a lot of materials that Xia Feng hadn't thought of before.

Such as burnt bricks, sand, gravel, wood, thick soil, etc., this is just a minimum standard house.

If he wants to build something more high-end, he may also need lime, iron frames, waterproof materials, paint, floor tiles, iron nails, casings, etc.

Coupled with the agricultural items that the bagpipes are going to develop the fields, to be honest, these things are really not available in the small Nanye Village.

Seeing that Xia Feng was a little dazed, Uncle Nanye lit up his cigarette pouch and said with a sigh of relief.

"There is a carpenter in the village who understands this. You can ask him tomorrow what you need and how much you need, but you may go to the town to buy these things yourself, and find a way to transport them back."

"This"

Maybe because he sensed Xia Feng's embarrassment, Uncle Nanye thought he was worrying about money.

Then he said out of good intentions.

"How about this, the village has just made a batch of dried fish, you can sell it in the town and see how much material you can exchange."

Xia Feng came back to his senses.

"Oh, that's useless."

Hearing Uncle Nanye's words, Xia Feng felt warm in his heart.

Uncle Nanye might feel a little guilty because the village couldn't take him in, so he was willing to help him for such a reason.

Give him the dried fish that the villagers have worked hard to catch in the sea to exchange for him. This is really treating him as a friend.

He was in a daze just now but he didn't understand the situation, but thinking about it carefully, it seemed to be much easier than what he thought before.

For him, as long as it can be settled with money, it is easy.

The journey along the way didn't cost much at all, and he still has 4 stone gold and a lot of silver coins in his hand.

Although it doesn't feel like a lot, but combined with the prices in Dongzhou, he knows very well that this money is already a huge sum in the economically backward south coast.

I made an agreement with Uncle Nanye that he would come to the village again tomorrow morning, and the villagers would take him to the so-called town.

In order not to disturb others, tonight he and Bagpipe packed their luggage and returned to their carefully chosen "home" to prepare for camping.

Although there were some twists and turns, it was generally smooth.

Walking out of the village, the night sky is full of stars and moon, shining brightly.

In the neon city of Victoria, this kind of scenery was hard to see.

With the sea breeze blowing and insects buzzing all around, Xia Feng is full of hope for the future life.

Turning his head sideways, he grinned at the bagpipes.

"Bagpipe, I will definitely make you happy."

Xia Feng thinks this sentence is reasonable, because they are a team, Feng Bao is an animal, and Bagpipe is the only "person" in the team besides himself.

Bagpipe's happiness means that he will be happy, and everyone's happiness is the real happiness.

However, the speaker has no intention but the listener has intention, these words are heard by bagpipes who are still in the "sensitive period", once again adding a touch of brain-made ambiguity without accident.

Under the moonlight, the eyelashes of the bagpipes were trembling slightly, and the whole person was a little bit at a loss.

"Really, what are you talking about?"

Xia Feng strode forward with his luggage on his back, and responded foolishly.

"Hahaha, I said I will work hard to make you happy."

Bagpipe's little hand holding the backpack strap was unconsciously clenched. If there was no cover of night, the blushing ears would definitely be found.

"Stop talking, aren't you ashamed?"

"Huh? Why should I be ashamed, don't you want to be happy?"

The bagpipes sounded faintly.

"Of course I want to."

"That's it."

"Oh, it's not what you think. The happiness I'm talking about is not the kind of happiness you said."

"Ah? The happiness I'm talking about is happiness. What kind of happiness are you talking about?"

"I'm talking about the ordinary happiness of life."

Xia Feng had a black question mark on his face again.

"I'm talking about ordinary life happiness, what kind of happiness do you think I'm talking about?"

Bagpipe blushed and puffed out her cheeks.

"I won't tell you anymore."

"Don't, just tell me."

"Do not say."

"Say it."

"boom!"

Bagpipe kicked up and hit Xia Feng's calf directly, forcibly ending the topic of "happiness".

(End of this chapter)