As soon as it was dawn, Niu Mantun crawled out of the haystack. Rubbed the droppings from the corners of his eyes vigorously. I picked up a clay pot on the ground and brought it to my mouth and drank two sips of water. The cold water poured into his stomach, and Niu Mantun, who had long felt that his whole body was frozen and hardened, felt that the last breath of heat in his heart seemed to be frozen.

Niu Mantun stood up cautiously, lest his head touch the roof of the nest. Because when he was building, Niu Mantun carefully repaired the roof to a double layer. From the outside, he looks like a normal nest. But when people are inside, they will find that the inside of this nest is a little shorter than the other nests. Between these two roofs is Niu Mantun's storeroom, which hides his life-saving grain.

Niu Mantun had no good time last year. Considering that they had just come from the Ming Kingdom and had nothing, they were still allocated a little food. so that they may have the strength to live on their own.

But the little food sent down from above was not enough to eat. What really kept Niu Mantun alive was luck! Niu Mantun found four rat holes before winter. In those four mouse holes, Niu Mantun took out more than 100 catties of grain and various grass seeds. These are all reserve food for the rats to survive the winter. As a result, even they themselves became food for the cows. That's what got him through this difficult winter.

Even if Niu Mantun was hungry, he only ate a little food every day and spent every cold day in pain. I also saved more than dozens of catties of food from my mouth. The grain was hidden between the roofs of the two floors. So Niu Mantun is now thin like a skeleton with skin.

Niu Mantun took out five pieces of black dried fruit from another crockpot. After a moment's hesitation, he threw back another one. He slowly put the four dried fruits into his mouth one by one, and it took him a long time to finish them. The dried fruits were made from sand fruits from the forest he was in charge of guarding. It was very sour, and it was made from the leftover fruit after he had paid the quota. It is used to soothe the belly when you are hungry. But that's all for his breakfast today.

Niu Mantun finished breakfast, he tidied up first, and he slept with a large pile of hay to go out to dry. He picked out all the hay. He had no money to buy a quilt and no way to get skins, so he had to sleep in the haystack every day. So this pile of hay is important to him. Otherwise, this winter will be difficult to pass.

After cleaning up the hay, Niu Mantun took out an axe and pinned it to his waist in the crack in the wall. Then he took off the waist knife from the wall and hung it on his waist, and then walked out of the nest in the ground.

Don't underestimate his precious axe. This axe is now an important property of Niu Mantun! When he left home, his father gave him two taels of silver, which he had not spent and hid well. This axe was the only two taels of silver he had left. With this axe, he had enough time to build a nest. Otherwise, he would have frozen to death. And if he hadn't paid for the axe, he wouldn't have been able to dig four rat holes before winter. He didn't dare to dig with his own waist knife. Because the person above told him explicitly that the knife had to be protected. If the knife is rusty, or has unexpected wear and tear, he will eat the whip. If the knife is lost, he will die.

Last year's Niu Mantun planted some soybeans in order to get a good job. The harvest was certainly not good, but it was better than expected. After the autumn harvest, he sold all the soybeans, burned the stalks to ashes and sprinkled them in the ground, and dug up some pond mud and mixed them together. Later, he bought back a lot of wheat seeds. He carefully skipped over all the wheat seeds, and each one was full of grains, hoping for a good harvest this year.

Niu Mantun does not go out on weekdays in order to reduce consumption. He went out today to set up some traps so that he could catch a few prey and come back. Niu Mantun went out of the door, took a lot of ropes from a shelf outside the door and began to coil around his body. To be honest, Niu Mantun really hadn't been in contact with the matter of setting up a condom before. This is what he learned newly after he arrived in the Northeast.

He was combing the rope in his hand, thinking about whether he could catch the prey today. Even if it is set on the prey, it cannot be eaten, and it must be dried and eaten until spring ploughing. Spring ploughing is coming soon, and if there is no oil and water in the stomach at that time, there will be no strength to work. Then there will be no good harvest in the field, and in the winter you will be hungry.

At noon, Niu Mantun finished setting up the covers. He was lucky today, and on the way back, he found a lot of wild vegetables. When he got home, he carefully counted out some grains, crushed them, threw them into clay pots, and boiled them with wild vegetables. When the porridge was rotten, he drank it slowly with a wooden spoon. Every grain of grain had to be chewed to shreds in his mouth before he could swallow it. He had the impression that if he ate like this, he would last a little longer, and he wouldn't be hungry so easily.

After drinking the porridge, Niu Mantun rested for a while, felt that he had strength, and went to fiddle with a chicken bus outside. The chicken bus was made by Niu Mantun himself. As a qualified farmer's child, it is very normal to know more than a few crafts. Because of the lack of many tools, the chicken bus sat a little rougher. But it looks sturdy. Niu Mantun thought that if he had a car when he was slack in the farm, he could work hard to be a porter. How much can I earn some money and food back.

He fiddled with the chicken cart for an afternoon, barely getting out of shape before putting his hand down. In the evening, Niu Mantun went around in the distant woods. He was disappointed because the condom didn't get anything. Just as he was thinking about whether to have dinner or not today, he heard a commotion from the village. Niu Mantun immediately pulled out his feet and rushed to the village. Because the village chief said that if there is something in the village, you should come quickly. If you can't catch up with the tasks assigned by the above, you will be counted as a sin.

The village where Niu Mantun lives is very small, with only about 20 households. It turned out that these people were all Manchurians, and the only remaining Han Army Banner people were Niu Mantun and two other Han people. When Niu Mantun arrived, he only saw the back of a knight leaving far away. What was a group of people in the middle of the village talking loudly? Niu Mantun has been here for so long, and he also knows a lot of Manchu. He clearly heard the words "war" and "Daming".

The village chief waved everyone to silence and said, "Everyone hears it." The flag said that our Zhuangzi would produce six people, three full and three Han. The Han people don't talk about it, which of you wants to go? ”

Suddenly, a commotion erupted from the crowd. The flagmen were arguing to go, as if war was just a game for them. In fact, it's pretty much the same. Nurhachi had rarely been defeated since he raised his army, so every time they went out to fight, they always managed to bring back large quantities of food, cloth, women, and slaves. Therefore, the combat enthusiasm of these banner men is very high.