Lord Xie returned to the camp early in the morning, and the sound of the soldiers training the bayonet gun resounded through the north gate, kill!

During this time, the food and grass were sufficient, the daily meals in the room were abundant, the meat was continuous, and the cold military clothes were issued, not cold or hungry, naturally all of them had ruddy faces, long and long charm, and their spiritual qi was no longer weak and weak when they were hungry before.

After the meal time, the room was empty and there were not many people, and Xie Chengzu walked in.

The man in his forties listened to the voice, poked his neck out, and saw that it was an adult, so he immediately wiped the greasy on his hands, opened the oily curtain and greeted him, and said with a smile on his face: "Adults come to eat?" You just happened to come in time, you just killed a pig last night, boiled a pot of pig bones, and the eggs of the soldiers in the whole barracks were screaming, more than 400 catties, and the meat was fat enough, it was really fragrant. Seeing that the adult nodded, he said again: "It's warm on the stove, I'll bring a big bowl to the adult, and fill it with three black flour baked cakes and five steamed buns, what do you think?" Do you want to add another crispy melon with pork skin? "It's pork rind strips mixed with pickled cucumbers.

Xie Chengzu found a nearby stool, sat down, stretched out his hand to interrupt him, and said, "Don't bother, just bring it ready-made." ”

"Yes, yes." The man hurriedly responded.

The adult's clothes are still the one that stained a little blood when he came back yesterday, and he hasn't changed them at all.

The man shook his head and turned to the back.

Lord Xie has been very busy these days.

Two days ago, I personally rushed to Fengcheng with hundreds of elite soldiers, and supervised the transportation of a large number of waste iron tools and crude iron ore, and a small hill was piled up at the iron kiln in the outer city.

At dinner in the morning, the black-pressed soldiers turned the sky lively, and everyone was talking about the pile of iron, if all of them were melted to make weapons, how much would they have to make, and those who knew how to do it would have to have at least one piece of hand.

One for each person!

There are not two thousand people under the command of the adults, but there are also fifteen or six hundred people, and one piece per person is more than a thousand pieces, which is definitely not a small number.

In these years, in addition to food, the most lacking is weapons, and now the small soldiers in the camp are a knife and a few people, training on weekdays, shouting and shouting and killing with a stick, and there is not even a spear on the stick. What a soldier! It's really going to come in, and you're unarmed, and you can't even kill a chicken, let alone kill the enemy.

Since I heard that the iron kiln has been built, the iron has been piled up into a mountain, and everyone has a weapon in sight, hundreds of people in this battalion have simply exploded the pot, all of them are boiling, punching and kicking, I can't wait to get my hands now, dancing in the sky, and building the iron kiln is also more hard.

The man returned to the kitchen, and the little soldier who was burning the fire said: "How can I see that Master Xie's face is not good, he came late, is he tired and sick?" ”

"Nonsense, adults are strong and strong, where does the disease come from." The man stretched out his hand to take the big bowl, and at a glance he saw the internal stains on the mouth of the fire-burning soldier, no matter how clean he licked it, it was also shiny, and he raised his foot and kicked it, "I can't kill you if I steal meat." ”

Xiaobing couldn't hide it, so he immediately pretended to be stupid,, guarding a big pot of meat, if he didn't steal, he stole it, and the meat that he ate into his stomach would not fall out if he scolded twice.

The man scolded and scolded, and then walked to the cauldron of boiling meat, from the steaming pork bones, fished out a thin and fat bone, brushed a few knives and sliced the trembling cooked meat on it, put it on the board, raised the knife and fell, cut the cooked meat into slices, collected and wiped, filled a big bowl, and then quickly picked up three baked cakes, five steamed buns, and wanted to serve them out.

"The deer bone and deer whip soup left yesterday, why don't you send it to Lord Xie, that thing can be greatly supplemented." Xiao Bing wanted to steal two mouthfuls, but he was beaten by the guy, and then he said a little flattering.

The guy immediately gave him a blank look, took the soup from the small stove and brought it out: "What's the matter with you?" Take what you can. After taking a sip, he took the meal and walked out of the room.

……

It was cold and windy outside, but the room was warm, although it was past breakfast time, there were few people, but some of the sergeants at the city gate changed their posts, and they would come in to eat a mouthful of hot, three or five lifted the curtain, and saw that Lord Xie was there, but they didn't go up, but three or five or seven familiar people sat together, and occasionally looked at adults while eating, and whispered.

"The iron material that was transported all the way into the city yesterday even leaked in the car? Those dozen carts didn't have eighteen thousand taels of silver, and they couldn't pull them back. ”

"But no, I heard that I met a tartar on the road, and I was beaten by the adult's men and horses......"

"Those barbarian thieves who don't open their eyes, this time they have hit the hands of Lord Yama, only our adults rob people's shares, how can anyone else rob his share."

"Haha, that's it, I heard that the adults have taken all the refugees into the outer city this time."

"Probably because I'm worried that once the city is attacked, these people will have nowhere to hide, and they won't be under the control of adults, and adults will do their best."

"But no, according to the people guarding the outer city gate, three or five hundred homeless people have come in the past few days, all of them are rushing for adults, and the pot in the outer city has been added three more mouthfuls, and the original ones are combined, and there are more than 1,000 people! Calculate, there will be more than three months in the spring of next year, and more than half a year in the autumn of next year, and the consumption of rice and grain alone will be enough for adults to have a headache......"

"You don't know that, do you?" The sergeant who spoke lowered his voice and said: "We are not short of grain now, the treasury has only transported more than a dozen truckloads of grain and grass, and now even the displaced people in the outer city can be fed, you can see the food in our hands, it is all dry goods, it is delicious and hungry in a different way, and you can see a meal of meat in two days, it is real fatty meat, and when you bite it, it is full of oil." ”

"Yes, the adults must have got the silver again, otherwise they wouldn't be able to buy the pile of iron in the outer city, now the iron is expensive, the adults have a way to get it, but they really have the ability......"

"That is, I just think that the adult has the ability, and he has meat to eat, so I joined the army."

"Then you say, where did you get this money, my lord? Before, they took us to suppress bandits, but now those bandits, seeing the soldiers and horses of adults, are like ghosts, and they are scared, and no one dares to set up a village within thirty miles. The tone was not without pride and pity, and after speaking, several soldiers laughed.

……

They thought that the voice was low, but Master Xie, who was sitting in the middle, had already heard it.

That face is not half a point of pride in the sergeant's mouth, if you say it, Jane is embarrassment is not enough words, when he first received Wei'an City, it was an empty city, a group of poor soldiers, the family was surrounded by walls, not to mention the silver in the treasury, not even a mouse, not only to build an outer city but also to raise more than a thousand people, it was a helpless move to suppress bandits.

The garrison of a city actually lives on the gold and silver stolen by the bandits, and when it is said, it has become a laughing stock, and it is not a glorious thing.

……

The man brought out the breakfast, five white shengsheng, adult fist-sized steamed buns, which are very different from the black noodles, press down, it is a fingerprint, it is very sweet to look at, the flatbread is thin and soft to roll the meat to eat, it is also very fragrant, and then there is a bowl of broth, which is very enjoyable in the cold barracks.

Seeing the garrison take half a bowl of broth in one gulp, "What kind of soup is this?" A strange smell. He asked and swallowed a steamed bun in a few bites, and the man hesitated, leaned closer and said, "My lord, this is ...... Deer whip bone broth"

Xie Chengzu didn't hear clearly, raised his eyebrows, and looked at him with a bite of a steamed bun, "What kind of soup is the deer?" ”

"My lord, it was yesterday, that deer ......"

"What happened to the deer?" Xie Chengzu frowned.

When I mentioned the deer, I remembered a few people who fought for some flesh and blood yesterday, and the ugly appearance of eating was because of the lax military discipline.

On the way back, he encountered several waves of bandits who dared to carjack the car, as well as a group of Tartar soldiers who were obviously seeking revenge.

Fortunately, Xie Chengzu came prepared, and the accompanying team was full of elite soldiers, all of whom had experienced a hundred battles, and the loss was almost none, and by the way, he found a deer in the forest, and was shot by him on the spot.

Although he said it clearly, the people who saw it had a share, but he didn't expect to throw the deer to the house, but after going out, after coming back, it was clean from head to toe, and there was not even a bowl of deer blood left, but fortunately, the man left some muscles.

"The deer whip of the deer, and a few deer bones, I kept them quietly, these are all good things for the man's body bones, the small stone is dead and the face is wanted, I didn't give it, it was reserved for adults, the bowl of soup that the adults drank just now, that is, after drinking this, I didn't get tired even after staying up for three days and two nights, good things ......"

The husband is full of good intentions, but men, especially young and unmarried men, have strong muscles and bones, neither impotence nor sperm damage, and make up a bowl of deer whip soup for nothing, that feeling.

As soon as Xie Chengzu poured the remaining soup from the big soup bowl into his stomach, he heard these words, although he had beaten a deer, he had never drunk this thing, so he was stunned for a while and looked at the empty bowl.

The man thought that the adult wanted to ask where the whip went, so he took the initiative to explain without asking: "I cut the deer whip into three sections, boiled a section, and the bowl that the adults drank, there are two sections, kill a chicken at night, boil it into chicken soup for the adults, and fill it with some ginseng, so that it is more supplemental." ”

I didn't say it, I didn't feel it, but when I said this, I just felt that the bowl of soup was hot, and the whole person was hot, and he couldn't help but stretch out his hand to interrupt him, "Okay, don't give me the rest, give it to Xiaoshi, he just got married and needs it, send it to him." ”

"Adult ......"

Xie Chengzu hurriedly waved his hand, "Go get busy." ”

As soon as the people left, he hurriedly touched his nose, but there was no blood.

"Deer whip?" He put the empty bowl on the table, didn't that add fuel to the fire? After hurriedly finishing his food, he got up and left the room.

……

Although it is winter, but the outer city is extremely lively, some chariots and horses frequently go in and out of the inner and outer cities, countless soldiers and homeless people come and go, or dig earth pits, or build stone houses, temporarily take the homeless people in the outer city to settle down, but the number of people is too much, if all settled down, it will take a month.

On the east side of the outer city, a kiln had been built, and the iron kiln was the first to be built, and several square and sturdy houses made of stone, as soon as they entered, the heat wave hit the face, and many blacksmiths were summoned, shirtless.

When Xie Chengzu and Zhang Xiandu and the two of them entered, several apprentice craftsmen who were striking iron stopped what they were doing, called out to adults, and continued to turn over the scrap ironware.

When I walked to the iron furnace, I saw a square-faced, shirtless man, who was concentrating on grabbing the iron hammer high and repeatedly beating a piece of red-hot iron, under the reflection of the fire of the furnace, the arm of the iron was exceptionally strong and shiny.

Xie Chengzu didn't bother, but walked to the several knives that had been punched, picked up a handle, checked it with his hand, tried the weight of the hand, and then looked at the blade in the light, and slowly waved it twice before nodding, "Not bad!" ”

Zhang Xian was also looking at a gun head that had just been shot out for a short time, although it was only one, but it was sharp and sharp, the tip of the spear was like a thorn, and there was a faint cold light, "My lord, I have heard of this Shi Hao, a famous Shi blacksmith in Yizhou, the ancestral craftsmanship, has been a good hand at fighting weapons from generation to generation, and he is the only one left in his generation."

It turned out that this person was good-looking, but since his beautiful wife ran away with a weak show, he went crazy, and later left Yizhou, and he didn't know where to go, but he didn't expect to live in Guard'an, and almost starved to death on the street. "It was originally a character of hundreds of schools of thought, how could it fall to such a point, it is a little embarrassing to say.

Du He snorted and said: "Woman, run away, run away, marry another one, the stone blacksmith has a lot of strength, and it is not a problem to support the family, why bother to be crazy for a woman, it can be seen that there is no backbone." Thinking of something, he immediately said: "I really don't know what is good about the kind of weak chicken scholar who can't lift his hands and can't bear his shoulders except for chewing words and writing poems." ”

"Women like the kind of scholarly and scholarly manners." Zhang Xian said: "A big old man like us, who dances with knives and guns every day, swings hammers and smashes iron, people and girls are afraid when they see it, and they walk around you, don't you see how many people in the camp can't marry their daughters-in-law?" When did you see a show before you hit a single? ”

Du He took a sip, "What the world!" Women are blind! ”

Xie Chengzu put the gun head on the case, turned around and left the iron furnace room, the two looked at each other, they didn't know what they said wrong, and couldn't help but be silent.

As soon as he came out of the iron kiln, Xie Chengzu said to Zhang Xian with a heavy face: "The gun head uses less iron, it takes a short time, and it needs to be forged in large quantities. ”

"In addition, the farming tools for cultivation should also be made in the spring of next year, and the number will be handed over to Wang Ji after the number is counted." After looking back at the lonely kiln room, he said, "You two will summon more blacksmiths who are good at beating farm tools, these people are not enough, and each of you will add half a bucket of rice when you call." ”

"Yes, sir." Zhang Xiandu and the same channel.

After Xie Chengzu finished speaking, he turned around and got on the horse, Zhang Xian looked up at the sun, the whole outer city turned around, it was noon, he couldn't help but say: "My lord, the little stone couple held a banquet in the house at noon, whether the adults would go." ”

"No, I'll go to the academy." As he spoke, the black charcoal head had already rushed out.

Zhang Xian touched his nose, "My lord went to pick up Fuyin." ”

Du He glanced at him, "Don't forget that there is another person, the adult was angry just now, don't listen to it, right?" The academy is full of little white faces. ”

Zhang Xian patted him on the shoulder, "People are female students who teach." ”

Du He shook his hand away, "Don't think that I don't go to East Street, male and female students have a courtyard, it's mixed!" ”