Survival Three Kingdoms

Chapter 22 Salt and Food

At this time, Chen Deng could be said to be smug, and his father Chen Gui urgently called him back to Guangling because of disputes in the family.Chen Gui was originally Chen Qiu's nephew. He became the Patriarch of the Chen Family because he was knowledgeable and served as Minister of Peiguo. Now he is old enough to take care of himself at home, and the Chen Family is mainly engaged in the salt industry, so the choice of the next Patriarch is a bit tricky. .Chen Gui had insight into the details and found that something was wrong, so he hurriedly called his son back to discuss.

However, Chen Deng said that choosing a family is mainly based on strength. He proposed the method of drying salt to his father, and tested it in his own salt field. After a month, the results obtained made the two very satisfied.At the family meeting, Chen Deng's throwing this method was like throwing a bomb, which made the clan members dizzy.Therefore, the father and son who were originally at a disadvantage, because of Chen Deng's method of sun-drying salt, greatly increased their production and income, and now they have clearly surpassed their uncle Chen Qiu's lineage.

The father and son planned that if they could become the head of the family, they would move to Xiapi to further expand their power and hope to monopolize the Jiangbei salt industry.A few days ago, Mr. Gan sent someone to reply and brought Mr. Zhou's masterpiece along the way. After reading it, Mrs. Chen and his son were deeply moved. They often recited it when entertaining guests, and said: Zhou Cang, my friend.Chen Deng also secretly imitated and wrote some poems, but it was always unsatisfactory.

On this day, Chen Deng was reading a book in front of the hall, and a servant came to report that Zhou Cang's righteous brother came to deliver a letter, so he hurriedly invited him.

Pei Yuanshao came into the hall and said politely, "My lord, you are polite. I'm sending Pei Yuanshao to deliver letters from his elder brother Zhou Cang." After that, he handed over the letter.

After Chen Deng read the slips of results, he took a closer look at Pei Yuanshao, and saw that Pei Yuanshao was tall and strong, with a bit of momentum, Zhou Cang had a black face, and Pei Yuanshao had a yellow face.Asked, "I don't know if Zhou Cang is good? How did you know Zhou Cang?"

"Brother Zhou Cang is very good. Duke Meng Gan valued Xu Yi's marriage, and he used Wei Guo as his name. Now he has gone to Youzhou with a letter from Duke Gan, and is planning to seek a job under Tao Qian, the governor of Youzhou." Zhou Cang continued, "I I grew up with my elder brother who had known each other since childhood, and lived together after their parents passed away. Later, my elder brother said that he would travel abroad and only separated for a few months. A few months ago, my elder brother was on his way to Youzhou and sent a younger brother to deliver letters.” Zhou Cang was very cautious. Skip the Borgia section.

Chen Deng nodded and said, "Although Zhou Cang and I haven't known each other for long, we have a very good relationship. We respect his talent and learning."

Hearing someone praise him, Pei Yuanshao felt good. "Brother Zhou Cang knows a lot, told me a lot, and taught me a lot of skills."

"Oh, then please tell me a little more about it." Chen Deng became interested all of a sudden, and started to inquire deeply.

"This, this." Pei Yuanshao said carefully, "Well, I will show it. Please don't make fun of me, sir. Please come to the courtyard to watch."

Regarding Pei Yuanshao's hesitation, Chen Deng understood that it was not appropriate to spread it to outsiders, but he didn't know that Pei Yuanshao couldn't think of what to say. He couldn't say that people were transformed from monkeys, or tell the story of hunting wolves when he was a child.

After intense ideological struggle, Pei Yuanshao did the tampered version of the ninth set of radio gymnastics in the yard.Chen Deng watched it with gusto at the beginning, but his complexion became heavy when he watched it. He firmly believed that this must be the family secrets of the Zhou family for physical fitness, including stretching, bending, chest expansion, turning, There are many movements such as jumping. Although the movements take up a lot of space and are small, they are stretched and not intense. There may be other effects that may not be known.So Pei Yuanshao was asked to do it again, and he secretly wrote it down, preparing to teach it to his father Chen Gui later, and to pass it on to his son in the future.

Pei Yuanshao didn't know why, so he did it again, and said embarrassingly, "Brother Zhou Cang said it was called gymnastics when he taught it to me. There are nine moves in total, each of which has a name, and the first move is called gesture. In fact, my brother also I have taught you a lot, but I can’t remember many at the moment, so I invite you, Mr. Haihan.” Zhou Cang called the ingenious preparatory exercise for the first quarter the starting hand pose, Grandpa Jin has the Dugu Nine Swords, and Zhou Weiguo has the Nine Gymnastics Stances.

Regarding Pei Yuanshao's explanation and prevarication, Chen Deng became more and more firm in his judgment. Pei Yuanshao said this out of confidentiality. The Zhou family's unique skills will not be easily spread to the outside world. Pei Yuanshao's gymnastics demonstration without Zhou Cang's permission is considered a violation. If I asked more, it would appear that I had a prying heart, and I made a taboo, so I stopped asking. "Zhou Cang Gaoyi, I will help him. I will give you twenty stones of salt, plus three cattle."

Pei Yuanshao was about to burst into tears, two cows, this is too bold, "Thank you son, I will definitely tell Brother Zhou Cang, I thank you son on behalf of the villagers."

"Hahahaha, such a small matter..." Chen Deng laughed, "It's my wish to contribute a little bit to Wei Guojin and do something for the common people."

In this way, Pei Yuanshao took twenty stone salt and three cows, and paid his respects to Chen Deng to visit Zhang Tiejiang.Zhang Tiejiang still remembered Zhou Cang, but he repeatedly refused Pei Yuanshao's invitation. After Pei Yuanshao took out fifty coins and a bag of salt, he immediately packed up his belongings and took his family and apprentices to follow Pei Yuanshao on the road. He couldn't get enough to eat every day. The days when I was not warm enough to be bullied by others, now that I have such good treatment, I would never go there.Pei Yuanshao also told Blacksmith Zhang that if he saw good iron on the road, he would collect it to make farm tools.Blacksmith Zhang worked very hard, bargaining left and right, and collected nearly [-] catties of good iron.Pei Yuanshao's heart aches for spending money like running water.

When Pei Yuanshao saw Mi Fang, he was still immersed in the joy of riding a horse and archery and training his servants. After getting the letter, he asked someone to prepare [-] shi of grain seeds and [-] shi of millet. After sending the three cows to Chen Deng, he took out another [-] money, [-] sets of farm tools, and set up three mule carts and delivered them to Pei Yuanshao.The Mi family cannot be compared to the Chen family, and then told Pei Yuanshao to come to Xiapi to see the fruits of his labor when he saw Zhou Cang. His elder brother Mi Zhu also wanted to get acquainted with Zhou Cang very much.

Pei Yuanshao and the five strong men were dumbfounded. Is this a big family?That's all for Chen Deng. Seeing that Mi Fang's age is only fifteen or sixteen years old, he can make up his own mind to take out so much food and money without blinking his eyes. How rich must be in that family? Zhou Cang is an acquaintance people.

In Xiapi, Pei Yuanshao stayed briefly for a day to purchase cloth for the winter, and a few pens of poultry to go back to graze. He loaded three mule carts, three oxen, and two donkeys. I don't feel tired. Fortunately, Zhang Blacksmith's family and two apprentices joined, otherwise I really couldn't take care of it.Pei Yuanshao touched his money pocket, only a hundred and ten coins were left, and smiled wryly. If you are not in charge of a family, you don't know how expensive it is. This family is really hard to run.

(End of this chapter)