"Get on your knees!"

Deng Kui glared at the Xiong brothers and shouted loudly.

"Deng Zongqi, it's their ......" Xiong Minfan defended tremblingly, just now he was all about rice, and he didn't think about what the consequences would be. Now that he saw the officer, he realized that this was not good. However, in front of everyone, if he wants to kneel down immediately, he still can't wipe his face.

"Get on your knees!" Deng Kui didn't listen to any explanation at all, and he yelled loudly again.

"I ...... It's ...... them."

Xiong Minfan raised his hand and wanted to point at the few people who were fighting with him. Deng Kui couldn't wait, he stretched out his hand, grabbed Xiong Minfan's wrist, lifted it up, and slammed his other hand with his backhand, and the back of his hand was patting Xiong Minfan's exposed weakness. This is a nirvana in fighting, Xiong Min Fan Nuo's big man was suddenly beaten, the pain was unbearable, and he couldn't help bending down.

Deng Kui raised his leg and kicked Xiong Minfan's knee, Xiong Minfan's knee weakened, and he involuntarily knelt down.

"Brother!" Xiong Min looked up and saw that his brother had been beaten, his eyes suddenly turned red, and he didn't care that his combat strength was not as good as his brother's, so he pounced on Deng Kui with his teeth and claws. The result is conceivable, before he could get close to Deng Kui, he was kicked to the ground by Deng Kui and rolled with his brother.

"There are four more who are fighting, all come here, kneel!" Deng Kui turned his head to look at the group next to him. He Bencheng and the other four soldiers who participated in the fight dared to hesitate, and one by one they stepped forward with their heads bowed and knelt in front of Deng Kui.

"What's going on?" Hao Tong also came over. He arrived with Deng Kui, but when Deng Kui collected a few soldiers, he didn't make a move, because he knew that with Deng Kui's ability, it would not be a problem to deal with six peasant children who had not undergone military training.

Headed by He Bencheng, several soldiers told the story of the incident upside down, and some of the onlookers also presented the Xiong brothers' food in their coats, which is conclusive evidence.

"Is what they said true?" Hao Tong asked the Xiong brothers, these two people had become honest after being beaten by Deng Kui, and knelt opposite the four companions with their heads down, not daring to stand up.

"Report to Master Zongqi, it is true that my brothers use small coats to pack rice, but this is because my brothers forgot to bring bowls." Xiong Minyang said.

"Don't bring a bowl? I think you mean it, right? Hao Tong sneered, "Don't remember to bring a bowl when you enter, but your brothers don't remember." Even if you don't remember to bring a bowl, you always remember to bring a brain, right? Don't put in a bowl how much rice, how much rice do you have in this little coat? ”

"This ...... Master Zongqi, I see how big the bowl is, and it can hold as much rice as it gets, so our brothers didn't pay attention for a while...... Pretend to be a little too much, please forgive the Lord of the Flag. Xiong Minyang pretended to be remorseful and said, he already felt that his brother had gone too far and caused big trouble, and now he had to pretend to be pitiful and pretend to be innocent, in order to get by.

"You, go and invite Su Baihu here." Hao Tong casually pointed to a sergeant, and the sergeant agreed, and ran to find Su Hao.

Su Hao was really busy and tired, so he didn't go to the dining hall to eat with the soldiers, but stayed in his own hundred official offices, and discussed the matter of teaching the soldiers in the future while eating with Ma Yu and several other students. I heard that some soldiers were fighting because of grabbing food, Su Hao's head was as big as a fight, and he didn't care about the shelves of hundreds of households, so he trotted all the way to the dining hall.

After listening to Hao Tong's introduction of what happened, Su Hao couldn't cry or laugh, he looked at the nearly seven or eight bowls of rice wrapped in his coat, shook his head, walked up to the Xiong brothers, and asked, "These rice, are you two pretending?" ”

"Yes." Xiong Min replied.

"I know you two, you two are brothers, right?" Su Hao asked.

"Yes, Master Xie Baihu still remembers." Xiong Minyang wasted no time in slapping Su Hao's ass, but he still had that remorseful expression on his face, hoping to arouse Su Hao's sympathy.

Su Hao asked again: "You have packed so much rice, can you finish it?" ”

Xiong Minfan raised his head and replied angrily: "Yes, don't talk about our brothers, if there is enough food, I can eat all of them." ”

Su Hao was cold, he really couldn't imagine how a person could eat food that was several times larger than the volume of his stomach. It seems that I really underestimated the amount of food I ate that year.

In terms of the level of economic development, the Ming Dynasty is even known as the highest peak of all dynasties, if you do not consider the scientific and technological content of the product, in terms of the mass production of physical products owned by the average person, it is also a few points stronger than that of Europe at the same time. But even so, the people are only able to achieve a low level of food and clothing, and most of them have no oil and water in their stomachs, so the potential for food is endless.

"So, do you usually eat so much at home?" Su Hao asked again.

Xiong Minfan shook his head: "If you usually have so much food at home, who will come to be a soldier." ”

"I see." Su Hao nodded.

He returned to Hao Tong and asked Hao Tong: "Hao Zongqi, according to military law, how should this situation be handled?" ”

Hao Tong said: "If you fight in the camp, you should be whipped according to military law.30 This incident started because of the Xiong brothers, and the cause was to rob the robe Ze's food, this ...... Can it be punished as robbery? ”

Su Hao said: "If it is punished as snatching property and causing a fight, how should it be dealt with?" ”

"Kill!" Hao Tong replied without hesitation.

"Chop?" When the Xiong brothers heard this, they only felt that their souls were gone. Xiong Minfan immediately wanted to jump up, but was pulled by Xiong Minyang. Xiong Minyang knew that his brother's ability would not be able to go two rounds under Hao Tong and Deng Kui, and if he resisted at this time, he could only die faster. He saw that Su Hao was a white-faced scholar, and he must have been soft-hearted, and his brother's life depended on Su Hao's thoughts.

"Master of a hundred households, spare your life!" Xiong Min took two steps forward, tears and snot flowing, "My brother is just hungry in the past, and today I saw this lot of rice, so I shouldn't be greedy, and I also ask the lord of the hundred households to remember my brother's ignorance, spare our lives, our brother will be a cow and a horse in the future, and repay the kindness of the lord of the hundred households." ”

"This ......" Su Hao also stood up, he was born in an era of preaching and initiation, and he really couldn't adapt to the ancient tradition of not taking life as a thing. In his opinion, in order to grab a bowl of rice, he has to lose his head, and this punishment is too heavy.

"Hundreds of households, strict military orders, can win a hundred battles. In ancient times, Ci is not in charge of the army, and hundreds of households must not abandon military law because of a little good thought. Hao Tong said with a calm face, I don't know how he could understand so many idioms as a soldier, maybe it was smoked by Deng Zilong's side. It is recorded in the history books that Deng Zilong is also a man of both civil and military affairs, and he writes good poems.

Su Hao said: "Military law should be strict, this is true. But for such a group of peasant children who have just entered the barracks for less than an hour, it is still a little too harsh to cut off their heads if they make a mistake. If you are not a sage, who can be wrong, or should you be given some opportunities to reform yourself, Hao Zongqi, what do you say? ”

Hao Tong hugged his fists and gave a military salute to Su Hao, and said: "Su Baihu is kind-hearted, and he has thanked Su Baihu for not killing his brothers on behalf of the Xiong family. ”

Hao Tong naturally didn't want to casually cut off the heads of two subordinates and grab a meal, Bi Jing couldn't compare to the big crime of escaping on the battlefield, and Hao Tong couldn't do it himself for the sake of a bowl of rice. The reason why he pretended to be serious was that he actually wanted to sing a double reed with Su Hao, and the evil would be done by himself, and the good way to let Su Hao do it, the way to govern the army has always been lenient and severe.

Hearing Hao Tong say this, the Xiong brothers knew that their heads were saved, and this kindness should be recorded on Su Hao's body. No matter how angry the two of them are, they don't dare to make a mistake in this situation, so they can only kowtow like pecking rice, and say something like "thank you for not killing" in their mouths.

Deng Kui and Hao Tong also thought the same thing, he was fierce on his face, but he was still a peasant kid in his heart, and he didn't want to see a villager like himself lose his head in a daze. Seeing that Su Hao spared the lives of the Xiong family brothers, he stepped forward and saluted and said, "Su Baihu, this Xiong family brother's death crime can be avoided, but the living crime is unforgivable." How to cure the crime of snatching food, please also ask hundreds of households to show it. ”

Su Hao said: "The six people who fight, regardless of each other, will be whipped." Reading his first offense, he is a newcomer, and he is not familiar with military regulations, so he will be given 10 lashes each, and the rest will be recorded in the account, and if he commits it again in the future, he will be punished together. ”

"No!" Hao Tong and Deng Kui replied at the same time.

Su Hao said again: "Brother Xiong, regardless of the righteousness of the robe, snatch the food, and behead according to the law." In the same way, he was exempted from the death penalty and punished with imprisonment for the second time, and was not allowed to eat. ”

"Confinement ......," Hao Tong said in surprise.

"Isn't there such a thing as confinement in the army?" Su Hao was also puzzled, he thought about it for a while, and said: "It's just to find a dark room, lock up the two of them, lock up the three of them, and no one is allowed to talk to them." Whoever makes a mistake in the camp will be dealt with in the same way. ”

"No!" Hao Tong responded, he couldn't think of what kind of punishment this could be, but since the chief official said so, it was inconvenient for him to question it in public, so he had better wait until the fact to discuss it with Su Hao.

"The time of confinement is counted from now on." Su Hao said, after speaking, as if he remembered something, he picked up a bowl from the side that he didn't know what to enter, scooped half a bowl from the big bag of rice wrapped by the Xiong brothers, put it on the table, and said to the Xiong brothers:

"The punishment for starvation is also counted from now on. However, before this, your brother had been hungry for several hours, and had not yet eaten supper. Ben 100 households have pity on you, and give your brother this bowl of rice, so you can eat together, and after eating, you will go to the confinement room and starve for 36 hours. ”

"This ......" The Xiong brothers looked at each other, looking at the half bowl of rice, and no one refused to reach over.