Wei and Jin Cooks

Chapter 1146 Fu Chang

 Fu Chang didn't hear the news. He was hiding in the mountains with his two sons. There were 39 households with a total of 108 people hiding in the mountains with them.

However, there were actually more than 800 of them at the beginning, but they fled all the way here. As they were getting closer and closer to Luoyang, the news came that more than 200,000 people of the King of East China Sea and his party had been wiped out. Before their grief could subside, When they came over, they encountered the Huns army.

Looking at the direction, the Xiongnu are going to attack the Xiongnu. King Donghai has taken away so many people, and Luoyang has no defense. How can it be defended?

Fu Chang still dared to go to Luoyang, so he immediately ran to the mountains with his two sons.

In the process of escaping together, many refugees knew that Fu Chang had some abilities. When they saw him running into the mountains, they followed him.

Some Huns soldiers chased into the woods with knives. Under the shroud of death, the group ran for a long time. When they finally couldn't run and stopped, they were already deep in the mountains, and they didn't know how to get out.

 Not counting those who ran away on the road, Fu Chang finally counted ninety-two people who had run together.

They dare not go out for the time being. The Huns are raging. I don’t know how Luoyang is doing. How is your majesty?

Fu Chang was worried in his heart, but he quickly suppressed such a major event. The most important thing at the moment was the survival of a group of them.

There are ferocious beasts, poisonous insects and poisonous snakes in the mountains, and they are also very dangerous. However, compared to the ferocious Huns outside, the refugees unanimously decided to live in the mountains.

They pushed out two old men and said to Fu Chang, "I see that the terrain here is quite flat, and you can hear the sound of water. Obviously there is a water source not far away. Why not stay here temporarily, and we can go out after the fighting outside has calmed down." .”

Having said that, who knows when the war will end?

Fu Chang looked back to see the way. He couldn't tell the direction for a while, so he nodded in agreement.

So they walked inward following the sound of water. The originally flat terrain went up slightly, then down again. The trees were very dense and not suitable for habitation.

After walking forward for another quarter of an hour, the dark light suddenly became brighter due to the obstruction of tall trees, and everyone's eyes suddenly became clear.

This is a mountain valley surrounded by three mountains. In the distance, water flows down from the mountain stream, forming a large pool below. The water in the pool overflows and forms a river.

The river divided this flat land into two sides. The side they were standing on accounted for about two-thirds of the col. Fu Chang looked down the river and saw that the river seemed to rush into the mountain on the right. Disappear.

 Fu Chang lived here. He and his people built thatched houses and cultivated a lot of fields on both sides of the river. They carried few farm tools with them, which were basically used by the refugees for self-defense.

 There are also some grains and seeds.

Seeds are essential for escape. Refugees flee their hometown. Except for those who flee suddenly, those who leave after careful consideration will take various seeds with them. That is the capital for them to start over.

Fu Chang gathered all the seeds together and found that there were most vegetable types, many hemp seeds, and the least grain seeds. They said they were grain seeds, but in fact, even now, people who have escaped can still distinguish grain seeds from grain seeds. There are not many households left.

 Most people have begun to eat grains.

 So he could only select as much as possible from the grain to make grain seeds.

There are many resources in the mountains. Although it is very bitter, there is always not enough to eat. Occasionally, people are bitten by venomous insects and snakes. Fortunately, Fu Chang knows some medical skills and recognizes herbal medicine. No one has died from being bitten by venomous insects and snakes.

As for wild beasts, it is basically young and strong people who go out hunting together. They have many people and fire, so they can fight against them. This group of people lived in this way. After three years, they lost some people, but also gained some people. This small village called "Xingcun" began to have new babies.

 Living in the mountains is like starting from scratch, so time flies and it is difficult to detect the changes in time.

 Fortunately, Fu Chang never forgot the time outside. When he decided to stay, he started asking his eldest son Fu Yong to record it. When he ran out of paper, he carved it on the rock wall so that he would not forget what night it was.

Fu Yong carved on the rock wall the eighth day of the seventh lunar month in the fifth year of Yongjia, it was sunny. Then he placed the stone piece in a stone cave only as big as a fist, turned around and went to find his father.

Fu Chang was cutting beans in the field. Many villagers were working in the field. An old man came over very happily with a sickle and said, "County Lord, this year will be a good harvest. I think the land at the foot of the mountain can also be cultivated."

Ever since they hid in the mountains, the harvest has been good. Oh, there was less rain last year, and even the water flowing down the mountain stream was much smaller. Normally, it sloped down like an endless cloth, but last year's water was Like the water poured out of a kettle, it only formed two lines, and even stopped for more than ten days in between, which scared them to death.

Fortunately, there was enough water in the deep pool under the mountain stream, and the water vapor in the mountains was strong, so it was a good harvest in the end. However, there were a lot of wild beasts here last year. Three of them died trying to drive the wild beasts away. Finally, Fu Chang asked them to step back and move downstream. They gave up their fields to wild beasts in the mountains and set up traps in the middle reaches to prevent wild beasts from approaching. Most of their houses were built on the side of the mountain in the upper reaches.

Fu Chang knew something was going on outside the mountain after seeing the strange behavior in the mountain stream and the wild beasts in the mountain. He and his two sons said, "I'm afraid there's a severe drought outside. I don't know what the war will be like outside. If we encounter such a natural disaster, it may be even harder to stabilize." , let’s stay here and wait until the time comes before we go out.”

Originally, he had figured out the direction. After hunting and picking things for more than a year, he roughly found the way out. He originally wanted to go out after the autumn harvest this year, but now...

 They decided to stay for another year.

This year, the water in the mountain stream finally returned to normal, and the number of wild animals coming here to drink water also decreased. They knew that the drought should be over.

 But we don’t know what’s going on outside yet.

Fu Chang originally wanted to go out, but when he heard the old man mentioning continuing to open up wasteland, he became even more excited and said: "The farm tools we have are badly worn. Since we are going to open up wasteland, it is better to have people go out and buy some farm tools after the autumn harvest."

The farm tools they brought in were not many in the first place, but once they were worn out, there were even fewer.

The old man doesn't want to go out. The world outside is so chaotic that life in the mountains is not as good as it is.

 Fu Chang here neither collects rent nor taxes. He only pays some grain from each person every year, and he uses it to support the elderly and orphans. The soil in this mountain col is fertile and the harvest is very good.

In just three years, they were able to have enough to eat. Although the food they ate was mostly beans and rice, they were very happy.

So he said: "You can use stones and wood to make farm tools. Didn't we make a lot of stone hoes and stone axes before?"

"But stones are heavy and heavy, and are not as useful as iron tools," Fu Chang said, "and we have long since run out of paper, and the medicinal materials in the mountains are not complete, so we still have to go out and replenish some supplies."

 He knew that they had adapted to life in the mountains and were very resistant to going out at this time, so he did not express any intention of going out to see the court.

 (End of this chapter)