0p0 Chapter 424: Across 2 kilometers
Chapter 424: Across 2 kilometers
The communication ability of carrier pigeons is quite powerful. Hong Yi received a reply early in the morning on the third day from the command sent from Shu, 2,000 kilometers away.
"The boss asked us to open up caravan routes and set up checkpoints along the way, and also asked us to return quickly!" Hong Yi reported to Lu Yao.
"That's great. I'll report this to the tribe elders. It will be much more convenient for them to contact us in the future!" Lu Yao was delighted. He immediately ran to explain the situation to the tribe elders. Once the caravan route was put into use, it would solve the problems of many tea farmers.
"Really? In that case, I will definitely organize the manpower and manage Jingnan Mountain well." The elder was so excited when he heard the good news that he couldn't express it in words.
"Elder, we need to find a reliable person, and the contact point needs to be kept confidential, so use the identity of a tea merchant as a cover. The person arranged by the elder is just a helper, so that if something happens, the clan members will not be implicated." Lu Yao carefully reminded.
"Okay, okay, we have many mountains, and there are many places that can be sheltered by the mountains. There is a tea warehouse in the clan property, and I think that place is good." The elder recommended the clan property, which was originally used to store tea and served as a warehouse. It is hidden in a narrow valley, surrounded by tea mountains, and the exit can be used by carriages.
"Sixth Young Master, the craftsmen have all arrived, but there are two more households than yesterday." Hong Yi came over to report the situation.
"What? Why are there two more households?" Before Lu Yao could react, the clan elder jumped up first. He wanted to see who was acting on his own?
"Ah? Clan elder..." Lu Yao was helpless. He hadn't finished discussing the main matter yet, and something else came up. What did it mean to have two more households? He also wanted to go and take a look. Lu Yao ran after the clan elder.
"Mom and Dad, please let us go with you! My brother and I have grown up!" Two teenagers knelt in front of a couple in the yard and begged.
"No, there is work to do at home, you have to stay at home, Dad and Mom, go out with your second and third dads to earn money..." said a middle-aged man. Is this family planning to let the adults go out and let the two teenagers stay at home? !
"Stupid! Lu Zheng, who allowed you to act on your own? And you, Lu Ming?" The elder came out and saw that they were his two unfilial descendants? ! The elder roared, and everyone trembled.
"Grandpa, Grandpa, we want to go too!" The two cousins, Lu Zheng and Lu Ming, knelt straight in front of their grandfather at the same time.
"Go, go, go! You just know to go! Are you talented or good-looking?" The clan elder suddenly had an idea and kept using Lu Yao's words to interrupt others. After he said that, he looked at Lu Yao with an unnatural expression.
"..." The scene returned to silence in a second! No one dared to speak for a moment. Everyone looked at each other. What does it mean? Did the elder mean what he understood? To be talented and good-looking? !
"Get over here, don't embarrass yourself here!" The elder returned to the room angrily, followed closely by his two unfilial descendants. Everyone watched the family quietly enter the house, then relaxed, moved their luggage, and prepared to leave.
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I don’t know how the clan elder talked to his unfilial descendants, but in the end they all went back obediently. The adults wanted to go out to work but failed, and the children didn’t want to be left-behind teenagers and succeeded.
With the addition of a team of sixteen craftsmen, five carriages were added to Lu Yao's travel team. Hong Yiluo sent one or two elders to guard the contact point and they would return to the team only after completing personnel training and taking up their posts.
After everything was ready, the team set off, heading south, aiming for the fishing village on the coast. The journey would take about three to five days, and they hoped everything would go well.
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Lu Yao was busy on his way, full of hope and longing, and the conditions were quite difficult. But the scene in Xiaoyao Garden, 2,000 kilometers away, was completely different. It was so lively, everyone was busy harvesting fruits and storing the delicacies of the season. People shuttled happily in the orange grove, and the fruits were easily picked, filling up the bamboo baskets in a short while. Then, loads of oranges were carried to the yard of Xiaoyao Garden one after another, waiting to be processed.
The yard was filled with yellow oranges, and the idle guards in the manor were called over to peel the oranges. The orange peels and segments were neatly separated. The orange peels were thrown on the bamboo sieve, exposed to the sun, waiting to be made into tangerine peels; while the segments were put into the glass bottles, along with the base wine, and slowly brewed over time to become delicious fruit wine. Today, Xiaoyao Garden is uninhabited, and the house is like a huge warehouse, providing enough storage space for the fruit wine bottles.
Yiyi, Yanan, and Bailu took care of the children wholeheartedly, and also accompanied Beibei attentively. However, Ling Wuxin, Nanchen, Yexiao, and Shen Wen, the brothers, seemed to have discussed it beforehand and were busy at the same time. They would appear every day after nightfall, and they had been enjoying dinner at An's house for several days in a row.
"Sister, please arrange for the people in the kitchen to come and cook. I think my brother-in-law must be tired from being the stoker for everyone every day these days!" Yanan couldn't stand it anymore and suggested directly.
"He is happy to do so. He is worried about me and this just gives him an excuse to stay home with me. Do you think he wouldn't think of asking someone to cook?" Beibei glanced at the busy figure not far from her, and her eyes understood.
"..." Hearing this, Yanan could no longer say anything to persuade him. She also felt that her husband also agreed to this arrangement, otherwise the three of them would not be able to work with peace of mind.
"Hehe, my Xinxin and Niannian almost treat the guest room as their own home. When they want to sleep, they naturally point to that guest room." Yiyi teased her children.
"Ruibao doesn't recognize his bed at all and sleeps soundly even during his nap!" Bailu also said so.
"Dudu, Diandian, and Shanshan don't seem to be that delicate. Now they don't cry at the same time. Could it be that they know their father is not at home?" Yanan found it a little unbelievable that she could take care of three children by herself. Of course, Beibei, Yiyi and Bailu also lent a hand.
"Now that you mention it, I seem to have discovered something. We really can't underestimate them. Although they are small, they are not stupid. They know how to curry favor and how to read people's minds!" Beibei said with a smile. The little baby is also smart.
Not far away, An Yi, who was modifying a fire dragon, heard his wife and her sisters chatting and laughing. He couldn't help but smile, feeling that such a day was perfect, a perfection that he had never dared to imagine.
An Yi unconsciously quickened his movements. The ground fire dragon was used to heat the living room. For the children! In the cold winter, they could move freely in the warm living room. In this way, their activities would not be limited to the kang! An Yi imagined the scene of the little baby crawling on the floor at home, and the smile on his face unconsciously deepened a little!