Chapter 244: Life of the Rebels
"Thank you for saving your life!"
Seeing that the old woman was about to kneel, Zhang San immediately helped her up, "This lady, don't do this, this is something that is within our camp." ”
On the other side, Li Si was rejecting the woman's wife, "We really can't accept it." He could only say such things, as he was not good at words.
Under Zhang San's good words, the couple let go of their group of soldiers and turned around and walked to the dilapidated log cabin not far away.
"Obviously, we just returned the food they had robbed, why are we so grateful to Dade?"
"That's because you kid hasn't lived in the village and doesn't know the importance of food." , Zhang San said angrily, the young man who spoke just now is named Customer Ying, who originally belonged to Minghua's cavalry troops, and he really has not seen the suffering of the people.
"Then let's give us a little more food, these old couple are quite pitiful."
"It's better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish, our boss said it well. We can't support them for the rest of our lives, we can only try to keep them alive until the autumn harvest. Speaking of this, Zhang San sighed, and then gave the guy a violent shudder, "And the brothers also want to eat!" Shall we go and drink the northwest wind? ”
"Brother Zhang, don't keep hitting me on the head! Doesn't grow tall! The customer Ying immediately complained, but continued to speak, "Then will they be robbed again?" ”
"I don't know, and we can't handle it." , Li Si ordered before customer Ying continued to speak, "Let's go!" ”
"Brother Zhang, what do you think?" , customer Ying is eager to know the answer, and Zhang San can give the answer is not optimistic, "I don't know either." ”
"After all, it's troubled times."
Zhang San rubbed the customer's head, and then said with special disgust, "Remember to wash your hair tonight." ”
"Can I not use that soap......", I don't know why, customer Ying can always think of the distorted expression of the boss Wang Xingjiang when he sees them picking up soap, so he is a little resistant to this.
"No! You have to wash today! Touching a hand of oil, this can't be endured! ”
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Seeing Zhang San and them shouting "We're all back" arrived at today's temporary residence, Wang Xingjiang, who was leading the team to cook, immediately roared back, "Go take a bath!" ”
On the first day of evacuation from Longxiang, Wang Xingjiang and several girls had no problems. But the next day, the blood on the armor began to stink, and the wounds of the wounded began to show symptoms of inflammation and pus.
Wang Xingjiang then remembered about hygiene, and immediately asked Taoxiang to order everyone to take a bath!
The uninjured girls didn't have much to think about, and the toiletries that Aoki and Aisha were carrying were enough to last for a long time, so they weren't a big problem.
But the big man of more than 2,000 people has a lot of trouble.
While waiting for the girls to take a bath, Wang Xingjiang led the team to carry out a simple disinfection of the wounded with salt water, and waited until more than 1,000 people went into the water together......
That scene was so filthy that Wang Xingjiang didn't want to reminisce.
And it was at this time that he discovered the problem of lack of toiletries.
When there was a famine, he and Aoki Lihua had been bathing with rabbit skins, and if they were dirty, they would change a piece, anyway, the number of rabbit skins in the later period was huge, and they didn't feel distressed if they lost it.
But now there are more than 2,000 people, and one skin costs 2,000 rabbits, and Charizard can't catch so many of them to death - and this is not Australia, where do so many rabbits come from.
Looking at the almost blackened river, while lamenting the extreme pollution of the environment, Wang Xingjiang also began to think about how to wash the work, after all, ensuring personal hygiene is also a very important thing.
According to his knowledge, the most accessible cleaning products are soap horn and rice washing water, and a new problem arises.
For the former, Wang Xingjiang and not many people on their side know what the soaphorn tree looks like...... And even if they really find the soaphorn tree, it probably won't be enough for their big gang of people to cause trouble......
For the latter, because the staple food here is millet and wheat, even Wang Xingjiang, who can't recognize all the grains, knows that they are not rice, so is it considered rice water?
The next option is some products that need to be processed, such as soap, and this can be done.
After forcibly recalling the high school chemistry knowledge that he had forgotten for almost two years, Wang Xingjiang finally remembered a reliable production method.
After several accidents, such as the explosion caused by the fire-breathing dragon passing by Aisha, who was electrolyzing salt water, Wang Xingjiang finally made an ugly soap.
Then he witnessed the spectacular sight of hundreds of strong men picking up soap......
His extremely high-energy reaction almost made him poke himself in the eye.
Wang Xingjiang, who has learned to be well-behaved, has never bathed with the soldiers again, even if he says that he is not close to the people, he will admit it! He didn't want to go birdwatching under the moon again! And it's someone else's bird!
But you still have to wash what you should bathe, otherwise it will stink!
They were now stationed at a river that I don't know exactly what it was called, but it must be a tributary of the Yellow River, and the four teams that had returned from hunting were bathing in detachment.
The fleeing troops of the Yellow Turban Army, which attacked from Yanzhou to Qingzhou, turned into bandits in this area, constantly attacking villages everywhere, and the people were in dire straits. Momoka and his party who passed by here couldn't bear to see such a tragic situation, and after discussion, they made a plan to suppress the bandits.
Wang Xingjiang personally supports this kind of behavior, because it can not only eliminate the bandits who endanger the local area, but also provide them with a certain amount of food and grass.
After all, even if they returned the food that everyone alive deserved, there would definitely be a lot left......
Although it was not a complete peace of mind, in order to survive, they still left behind those ownerless foods, plus Charizard led the team to hunt, which can be regarded as meeting their daily needs.
But since there was a battle, there would be no losses. Fortunately, the combat effectiveness of several of their leaders was good, and the scale of the battle that took place nearby was not large, so the casualty rate was finally controlled at a relatively low level.
Such successive battles will temper the will of the good fighters and also weaken the will of the cowardly, so that some deserters have appeared among them.
The leaders didn't mean to blame these deserters, after all, fighting is not something that everyone can accept, and leaving the battlefield is also a way to live.
It's just that in this troubled world, how can you give people a way to live?
Those who remained looked down on these deserters, and their will to fight was raised again.
They now had a total of 1,658 combatants, divided into four teams, led by Lika Aoki, Yun Chang, Lingling, and Charizard. The first three teams suppress the bandits, and the last team is responsible for hunting.
The 131 seriously injured and unhealed, plus the 257 peasants who volunteered to follow, were cared for by Tao Xiang, Aisha, Wang Xingjiang and Kodora, and carried out the logistics work in a unified manner, such as making soap and raising horses.
What made Wang Xingjiang the most proud and distressed were these two hundred and ten war horses, their appearance and combat effectiveness were very high, but the food was also very expensive, and it didn't eat wheat forage!
After Charizard's translation, Wang Xingjiang knew that they not only ate fine, but also couldn't eat too much at one time, and had to be fed every two or three hours.
Since then, Wang Xingjiang has become an extremely bitter horse breeder, and the even more bitter thing is that he is still fainting from the horse......
As a person who does not suffer from motion sickness or seasickness, Wang Xingjiang originally thought that he could not be afraid of any means of transportation - and then he was taught a lesson by the horse.
The horses are not disobedient, they are all obedient under the deterrence of Charizard, but Wang Xingjiang felt all kinds of awkwardness after riding it, and it was even more uncomfortable when he ran, and he vomited on the spot when his vision was extremely confused - he began to retch.
After this incident, Wang Xingjiang found that he might not really be able to play the role of martial arts, so he should continue to be a fairy role, and the white-clothed Shengxue is also ......
Then he found that he couldn't be a fairy character.
This kind of episode made all the girls happy, and the soldiers were very uncomfortable, after all, they did not dare to laugh at their boss. But no matter what, this kind of thing still dispelled some of the solemn atmosphere and let everyone find some breath of life.
Zhang San and Li Si, who had returned from the bath, immediately went to eat, and a rich aroma of wheat had already arrived.
"Eat steamed buns today! Lao Li, you like it. ”
"Got it." , Li Si's answer was not flat, but Zhang San still felt a sense of joy.
This kind of food called "steamed buns" aroused everyone's welcome as soon as it appeared, and the three sisters were also full of praise for Wang Xingjiang's "invention".
Wang Xingjiang wanted to refute it, after all, this was something created by Prime Minister Zhuge Cheng, and he really didn't want to take it off. Wang Xingjiang was very ashamed to be forcibly placed in a camp by Taoxiang, but his explanation still had no effect - after all, they had not seen Gao Shun and Zhuge Liang, and these things had indeed not appeared before.
Wang Xingjiang, who was guilty, could only keep these things in his heart, and planned to apologize after seeing them.
The combination of wild boar and wild vegetables goes well with each other, and the thick dough covers the gravy, allowing the flavor to be preserved as much as possible, waiting for the moment to bloom in the mouth.
Several girls were very happy to eat, especially Lingling, who had the posture of a tengu eating the moon, and even suppressed the two elves with a bun in terms of momentum......
Wang Xingjiang, who was in charge of serving as the head chef, was also very happy to see them eating happily, but he was also frightened by Lingling's wild way of eating, and he was ready to rescue him with a kettle at any time.
The happy dinner time was soon over, and during the time of eating and resting, several leaders began to discuss the follow-up plans.
"According to Charizard's intelligence, we should be able to arrive at the imperial court's military camp tomorrow afternoon, what should we do later?"
Wang Xingjiang, who was in charge of picking up Charizard, was the first to receive this information, but because Momoka was leading the villagers to boil soap at the time, he hadn't told her yet.
The others had mistaken Momoka and waited for what she meant.
"We ...... Let's go see Lord Lu Zhi first, I need more information. ”