readsfreenovel Chapter 149 Killing Pigs and Sheep for Fun
Chapter 149 Killing Pigs and Sheep for Fun
“Master Wang, you manage the Internal Affairs Hall in an orderly manner. All the brothers admire you. You are a great contributor to the Yanhuang Alliance.
Since you don't want to go far away, then stay! After all, the Yanhuang League headquarters needs a pillar to keep an eye on it at all times.
But Master Wang, you have to train some logistical experts for the Yanhuang Alliance so that our brothers in other regions can have a good meal in the future.
As for the health of Hall Master Wang, you should pay more attention to rest in the future and not overwork yourself. "Hou Xiaoge stood up and said to Wang Defa with regret.
"Thank you for the compliment, Alliance Leader. My two sons are already adults. They have been trained by me for a long time and are barely usable. When the time comes, let them follow you all and see the world." Wang Defa bowed to Li Hou Xiaoge.
"it is good!"
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“As for Hall Master Li, Jimin Hall only provides financial assistance to the Yanhuang people, so the Central Plains issue is the biggest issue for Jimin Hall.
You don't need to run around outside, just stay in Qin Province from now on." Hou Xiaoge said to Li Xiuyuan.
"Thank you, Alliance Leader!"
Li Xiuyuan knew that Hou Xiaoge had just criticized him, so it was good enough that he could speak to him in a nice voice.
“By the way, Hall Masters Wang and Li just reminded me.
Well, let me give a benefit to all the elders in the alliance!
The whole deer tonic pills used in the alliance library as rewards for great merits will be given to those at the hall master level one pill every two months, those at the incense master level one pill every six months, and those at the host level one pill every year.
Disciples of other levels are the same as before, and those who have not reached the third-class merit are not eligible to exchange from the alliance library. "Hou Xiaoge and the others all looked tired, and said with a smile.
The Yanhuang Huang League now implements a disciple system compiled by Hou Xiaoge himself. The highest-ranking person is the leader, and then there are the elders, who are similar to the heads of the cabinet.
Next are the hall masters who are in charge of each hall, including both the principal and deputy positions, and the hall manages all the disciples of the sect.
Under each major hall are the branch masters, who are similar to branch managers.
The incense master will be the host, which is equivalent to the department director.
Next to the host is the deacon, who is at the same level as the team leader and manages thirty to one hundred people.
The most basic level is the formal disciples, of course, formal disciples are also divided into elite disciples and ordinary disciples.
Elite disciples cannot quit once they join a gang. The lowest level they reach is a small leader, with good treatment. The gang will take care of their birth, aging, sickness and death.
As for ordinary disciples, although they cannot quit, they can retreat to the second line if they really don’t want to stay.
Finally, there are the peripheral disciples. These disciples are not on the gang roster. According to later generations, those who have not signed a contract are temporary workers and have no salary, but are eligible to take jobs.
Some of the work done by the Yanhuang League is not peripheral, and they won't let you earn this money. Only peripheral disciples can earn this money.
"Thank you, Alliance Leader!"
Everyone was very excited to hear Hou Xiaoge was distributing benefits generously. There were only two kinds of pills in the gang now, and each of them was extremely valuable if taken outside, at least worth two hundred and fifty dollars.
The first one is the Xisui Zhuanggu Pill, which can replenish qi and blood and strengthen bones, and also has a slight effect of cleansing tendons and strengthening marrow.
The second type is the Golden Deer Tonic Pills. As the name suggests, it is a great tonic for replenishing qi and blood, and is an excellent nourishing and healing product.
The whole deer tonic pills are made by Hou Xiaoge using deer antler blood, angelica, codonopsis, rhodiola rosea, wolfberry, honey, etc. cultivated in space, and adding spiritual spring water.
The spiritual spring water amplifies the efficacy of these Chinese medicines, and the effect of taking them is amazing. When they were first put into storage, Hou Xiaoge gave two pills to each hall master.
The effect was surprisingly good. After taking one pill, I took so much iron that I had a nosebleed. I exercised for two days in a row before I recovered from the excitement.
Seeing the excited faces of his subordinates, Hou Xiaoge nodded with satisfaction.
As the medicinal materials in the spiritual fields on the top of the mountain mature and transform, the efficacy of the pills produced in the future space will become stronger and stronger. This is also the core interest for him to firmly control the gang in the future.
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When Hou Xiaoge returned to the village in the afternoon, he was warmly greeted and welcomed by all the villagers.
There was no other way. The food that Hou Xiaoge contacted was too affordable and of good quality, especially the 500 kilograms of soybean meal and the one stone of rapeseed oil residue given at a discount by the Yanhuang League. It was so tempting.
These days oil residue is also a good thing. Ordinary people use less than two taels of oil a month. Because of the primitive craftsmanship, there is still a lot of oil left in the oil residue. The price is relatively cheap, and it is a good thing to replenish oil and water.
Of course, people never get enough. When some villagers asked Hou Xiaoge if he could still get it, Hou Xiaoge decisively refused and said bluntly that it was only once a month.
Some people who were planning to speculate gave up their ideas helplessly after hearing what Hou Xiaoge said. They did not dare to offend Hou Xiaoge.
By the end of November, after spending nearly twenty days, the wall of Nanjiagou was finally built. The wall is three meters high and one meter thick. Each side of the wall is 130 meters long, forming an oval shape that surrounds the village.
However, the stinky ditch in front of the village has been filled up by the villagers and there is no more smelly water or garbage. People can enter the village through the ditch.
The villagers, who finally finished building the walls on both sides in just one week, decided to build another two-meter-and-a-half-high wall in front of the stinky ditch, which took a dozen more days.
Behind the walled Nanjiagou, a five or six meter high earth slope was dug, with three meter earth walls on both sides, and a four or five meter steep trench and a two meter high wall in front, which greatly improved the safety factor.
After the wall was repaired, Hou Xiaoge could clearly feel that the villagers held their heads high and chests puffed out when entering and exiting the village gate, and it was obvious that they had completely regarded this place as their home.
It is the end of November and Qin Province has completely entered winter. The frost that falls at night recently is like light snow. Every morning when I wake up, the wheat in the field seems to be covered with a layer of white fluff.
"Heiwa, your wheat is growing really well! We will definitely have a good harvest next summer, but it's a little small, with only three acres of land.
If I had an acre of land, I could grow coarse grains next year, and my family wouldn't have to worry about food!" Hou Xiaoge and his friends in the village were standing in front of the trench peeing, and his friend Yangwa said with envy.
"Hehe! Then you guys should hurry up and level the land. This is a stinking ditch. It's more profitable than reclaiming wasteland. There's no tax for two years.
The grain in Qin Province can be harvested three times every two years, and you can get a lot from your one acre of land.
If we don't grow crops but grow vegetables instead, we can make more money since we are close to the city." Hou Xiaoge said with a smile.
"Heiwa, please don't say that. I finally get a few days' rest. If I am caught by my father and forced to dig the soil again, I can't bear it." Yangwa and several other friends quickly shook their heads.
"You guys are like lazy donkeys pulling a millstone that produces a lot of shit and piss. Only those who endure the most hardships can become the best. If you don't work hard, you will starve in the spring." Hou Xiaoge knew that the situation next year would be even more difficult.
"Hehe! We're hungry, Heiwa. When will you give us some of the extra broth and bones in your home? We haven't eaten for several days and we're really greedy." The little kid asked with a grin, not caring about anything.
"I gave each of you a bowl of broth and a big bone just the day before yesterday. How come it took several days? What can you eat with broth and bones? You are so greedy.
But you don't have to be greedy. The village ahead fought with human traffickers to save my elder sister. Now the wall has been repaired, and my uncle decided to fulfill his promise and treat everyone to a pig-killing meal.
I've asked someone to buy the pig, a big fat pig weighing more than 200 kilograms, and it will be back in about an hour." Hou Xiaoge said with a smile as he looked at his skinny little friends.
"Oh my god! A fat pig weighing more than 200 kilograms."
"There are more than 200 people in our village, and each person can eat one pound."
"Stupid, there are still bones!"
"That's not a small amount. Just thinking about the big fat piece of meat makes my mouth water."
These days, the living conditions of ordinary people were very poor, and they had to wait for other people’s families to set up a banquet or celebrate the New Year before they could eat meat.
In the past two months, the Hou family has gotten to know many butchers who make braised meat, so buying a big fat pig is just a matter of saying hello.
It was the end of the year and the pigs were fat. A pound of live pigs was almost 1 cent cheaper than pure meat, at 2 cents per pound. Hou Yangmin gritted his teeth and spent 52 dollars to buy a 260-pound fat pig.
By the way, Hou Xiaoge’s family now owns a car.
Hou Xiaoge made an excuse that he had asked someone to buy him a donkey cart with rubber tires for a cheap price of two hundred dollars some time ago.
Hou Xiaoge did not keep this car for his own family, but counted it as belonging to all three families.
The weather has been getting colder recently, and the roads are difficult to travel on. It is really uncomfortable to pull a cart, so it would be nice to have a car.
However, the feeding was left to the eldest cousin and the second cousin. The benefit was that they could go out and earn money by transporting goods after finishing their stall.
This is a good thing. Hou Xiaoge has recently established relationships with several deacons and hosts of the Yanhuang League in the capacity of a friend of the leader of the Yanhuang League.
The disciples of the Yanhuang Alliance were very polite to Hou Xiaoge, a person who could get the alliance leader to ask for help, and they all went out of their way to make friends with him.
So Hou Xiaoge introduced his eldest cousin's donkey cart to the Yanhuang League. The Yanhuang League now monopolized the transportation business of many railway stations, so they just happened to have some goods to sell.
After finishing their stall every day, the two brothers would go to the train station to pull goods to earn money. They could earn at least one dollar a day. After spending the money of the two of them and the donkey, they would still have fifty cents left. This income was considered a comfortable life in that era.
With the income, my uncle's family's life is getting better and better.
Look, during this period of time, several people in the village have come to my cousin to propose marriage. They are all relatives of the villagers who fled from the Central Plains to escape famine.
At around eight o'clock in the morning, Hou Yangmin and his third uncle drove a donkey cart pulling a big fat pig that was squealing loudly into the village.
As soon as we entered the village, the villagers surrounded us.
"Brother Yangmin, it's not a festival, why did you buy a live pig? Are you going to treat the villagers to a pig-killing feast?"
"Chief, I'm looking forward to your treat. I'm starving."
"Patriarch, is this true?"
Uncle Hou Yangmin and the other two looked at the villagers who were surrounding the donkey cart and touching the fat pig. They all looked up and smiled brightly.
“You guessed it right, this fat pig is for everyone to enjoy the pig-killing meal.
In September, everyone helped rescue my daughter Dani from Guanyin Hall. I said at that time that I would treat everyone to a pig-killing meal. Now the fence has been built, and the timing is perfect. "Hou Yangmin said loudly.
"Damn, the clan leader is so arrogant."
"Let's eat the pig-killing dish!"
"The patriarch is mighty!"
When the villagers around heard Hou Yangmin say this, they jumped up excitedly.
Of course there were people who made sarcastic remarks, but they just whispered behind my back.
"A little girl is only worth a pig's leg after being sold. This Yangmin seems to be really rich. He is such a spendthrift."
"Her aunt, you are right. In normal years, a girl can only get 20 or 30 dollars when she is married off. In these days, people can't even afford to eat. A grown-up girl can be exchanged for a bushel of rice. This is really bad at calculating.
"Alas! Yangmin, there is no woman in the family, so the men spend money lavishly."
"Haha! Xiufen, it just so happens that you don't have a man, why don't you go knock on the door of the clan leader's house tonight."
"Xiu Fen, your two big lights are definitely big enough. Many men in the village are staring at them in the summer. The clan leader hasn't had a woman for a long time, so he must be greedy."
"Yes, we can have another feast."
"Ha ha ha ha!"
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Hou Xiaoge happened to hear these people talking, but he didn't get angry and just pretended he didn't hear anything.
But that's how a group of women are. Some of the things they were talking about went off topic, which made Hou Xiaoge blush.