Even after understanding what kind of wood Old Uncle Qiu and the others used to smoke the meat, everyone spontaneously put on raincoats and braved the rain to find pine and cypress branches, eventually leading to anyone who wanted to watch the smoking process automatically bringing pine branches.
For a while later, people kept delivering pine branches to Old Uncle Qiu, so much so that even after the meat was smoked, the pile of pine branches still grew like Xiao Shan, probably enough to smoke the entire herd of pigs, cattle, and sheep from the pasture.
The pigs, cattle, and sheep contentedly eating their feed: ...What have we done to deserve this?
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The days in the Ownerless Land were thriving, but the atmosphere in the Imperial Capital was becoming increasingly oppressive and tyrannical.
There were still two and a half months left until the date proposed by the Ministry of Rites for Yuwen Jun's ascension, yet Yuwen Feng was increasingly restless.
