Chapter 254 Master Li From Coal City

Just as Chen Wenjiu and the villagers of Yujia Village were picking thorn fruits in the thorn fruit forest, a carriage slowly came to the fruit forest outside Yujia Village.

After the carriage stopped, the tall coachman jumped down, took a bench from the carriage and put it on the ground, and then said to the people in the carriage, "Master, we are at Yujia Village."

The curtain of the carriage was opened, and a man wearing a fluffy fox fur hat got off the carriage. A thick fox fur coat covered his figure, but the other party looked particularly rich and gorgeous.

The man had a young and handsome face. If Yu Xiaoguo saw this face, he would be able to recognize that this was the young master Li he had always liked.

Li Yan, the eldest young master of Qin Province Li's Trading Company, took over most of the family business from his father at the age of 18. Five years later, he has almost completely controlled all the business of Li's Trading Company. He is a business tycoon.

"Let's go and take a look." Li Yan said to the coachman.

Li Yan had noticed the changes in Yujia Village three months ago. 90% of the people in Yujia Village, who originally planned to flee the famine, stayed behind. They were even able to take in people nearby when they were isolated and helpless.

Three months ago, the people in Yujia Village were busy planting trees near the village, strictly preventing those starving people from eating leaves and bark. Of course, he also knew that there were a lot of pasture grass growing in these woods. Although the people in Yujia Village could not let people eat bark and leaves, they would cut some pasture grass every once in a while.

These pasture grasses are indeed grown to feed poultry and livestock, but the tender shoots of alfalfa can be eaten by humans. In addition, some of the pasture grasses planted by Yujia Village can also be eaten by humans. Anyway, poultry and livestock can eat it, and people will not die from it.

Relying on these pasture grasses, Yujia Village not only raised a group of poultry and livestock, but also kept nearby refugees who were not from Yujia Village alive.

Li Yan did do some charity work during this period, but the northwest is not as rich as the south of the Yangtze River, and the Li family does not have that much grain in stock. This year's drought also caused a lot of losses to the Li's business, and he did not have the spare energy to save more people.

Unexpectedly, Yujia Village survived on its own.

Moreover, they planted more than 200 acres of trees, and they have been getting better and better in the past three months, which is really puzzling to him.

Li Yan wanted to find out what happened, and he wanted to see what the fruits of the fruit trees planted by the people in Yujia Village looked like. If they were good, their Li's business could buy them.

Yu Xiaoguo took the children in the village to shuttle through the orchard. The grass on the ground had been harvested when the villagers planned to harvest the thorn fruit, so now everyone would not trample the grass.

Yu Xiaoguo, who was secretly picking thorn fruits to eat, saw the carriage beside the orchard and Li Yan wearing a fox fur coat. His eyes lit up immediately, "Master Li!"

"Master Li? What Master Li?"

"Xiaoguo, who are you calling?"

Yu Xiaoguo's friends did not often follow Yu Chunsheng to the city like him, and it was even more impossible for them to have seen Li Yan, so they were all confused about who he was calling.

"Master Li, Master Li from Coal City, don't you know him?" Yu Xiaoguo said to his friends.

"Master Li from Coal City? Is that the good-looking and powerful Master Li?" The friends asked in confusion.

"Yes, it's Master Li." Yu Xiaoguo nodded.

Li Yan is quite famous in Coal City. After all, Li's Business is very famous in Qin Province. Li Yan is young and promising, and has connections with the Northwest Army, which makes him even more famous.

"Wow, so this is Master Li? He is so handsome."

"Yes, Master Li is so handsome."

Li Yan is indeed very handsome. Compared to a businessman, he looks more like a scholar who is well-read in poetry and books. He has a very strong temperament of elegance and refinement.

"Hello." Li Yan smiled and greeted Yu Xiaoguo and the other children. "I want to find your village chief. Can you help me lead the way?"

"Yes, yes." Yu Xiaoguo and the others nodded readily. "The village chief is picking fruits over there. Master Li, come with us."

Li Yan and the groom Song Zhuang behind him followed Yu Xiaoguo and the others to find the village chief. On the way, Yu Xiaoguo picked a red thorn fruit and handed it to him, saying, "Master Li, try the fruit grown in our village. It's delicious."

Li Yan looked at the grape-sized fruit handed to him and took it naturally. He also thanked Yu Xiaoguo.

"Master..." Song Zhuang saw Li Yan taking the thorn fruit and wiping it on his clothes and about to eat it, so he quickly stopped him. How can you eat casually outside? What if you get an upset stomach?

"It's okay." Li Yan shook his head. He saw Yu Xiaoguo and other children picking thorn fruits directly from the tree and eating them. He was sure that this thing would not make people upset, so he told him not to worry.

Li Yan tasted it, and then found that the thorn fruit tasted really good, rich in juice and sweet and delicious, not much different from other fruits. Although it didn't taste like berries, it was delicious. The light sourness and bitterness would not make people feel unpalatable, but instead relieved the greasy sweetness.

This fruit called thorn fruit is indeed very delicious, and he looked at the yield and it should be good. Yujia Village has planted so many fruit trees, and by then it will be able to harvest 100,000 or 200,000 kilograms of fruit.

"Grandpa village chief, Master Li is looking for you!" Yu Xiaoguo and the others brought Li Yan to the village chief and shouted before they even arrived.

"Ah? Master Li?" The village chief was old. He didn't want to leave when he fled from the famine. He knew that he would be a burden to his children if he followed them because he was old, but his children didn't give up on him and took him with them.

As a result, they only walked for a day and returned the same way. Now that they have returned to Yujia Village, they live better than before the famine. The old village chief is very happy.

Today is the day for picking thorn fruits. It doesn't matter that the village chief is old. He still picks fruits with the villagers and puts the picked fruits into the basket.

When he was working hard, he heard the shouts of Yu Xiaoguo and the other children. He was very confused.

Master Li? It sounds familiar. Who is it?

"Grandpa village chief, it's Master Li from Coal City who wants to see you." Before Yu Xiaoguo could speak, another thin little boy among his friends answered.

As for the title "Master Li from Coal City", he just heard Yu Xiaoguo say it. After writing it down, he quickly showed it to the old village chief.

"Master Li from Coal City?" The old village chief thought about it after hearing it, and after a long time, he suddenly realized, "Oh, is it Master Li from the Li family in Chang'an?"

Master Li from Coal City is because Li Yan's business has reached Coal City. For a period of time, he stayed in Coal City for a long time. After he became famous, everyone liked to call him "Master Li from Coal City".

But in fact, the Li family is from Chang'an City. Li Yan's parents and relatives are in Chang'an City. It's just that he often goes to other cities in Qin Province, or to the neighboring Jin Province.