Liu Jun carried a bamboo basket on his back and a bamboo cane, climbing on the mountain behind the village, his eyes wandering around, looking for plants he knew.

It has been a week since the barbarians broke the village, and in this week, Liu Jun finally understood how difficult it was to struggle to survive, and it was not easy to survive.

First of all, the grain in the village was looted by the barbarians, and the few grains that slipped through the net had to feed the 100 or so people in the village, and they could not last for a few days.

Although the road was not quiet, Liu Jun still took the risk of sending Li Youwei and Li Shihu to the county seat to buy grain, the barbarians are not good at attacking the city, and the county seat should not be breached.

Li Youwei came back to report that the county town had indeed not been breached, but he refused to open the door, Li Youwei and the two of them touched the city wall and called the door, but they were told by the familiar doorman that the city gate hole had been blocked by bricks and stones, and the barbarians did not retreat, and the city gate did not open.

The hope of buying grain from the county town was cut off, but even if the city gate was opened, there would not be much grain to buy, and the doorman told him that the grain in the city had risen to four taels and one stone, a full eight times.

Liu Jun didn't find any silver taels in the village, so all the money she could use was saved by herself, and there were two hundred taels.

How others hide money, Liu Jun doesn't know, Liu Jun burned a batch of hollow bricks by himself, melted the silver and poured it into it, and then sealed the small holes with mud and burned them dry.

It's a pity that now the county is closed, and you can't buy anything if you have money. Li Youwei passed through Liuzhuang by the way, which had been burned to a white ground, and except for Lijia Village, all the other affected villages were burned.

This kind of differential treatment made Liu Jun realize that the sentence that the barbarian leader threw down when he left at that time may not be just talking.

This exacerbated Yoo Jun's sense of urgency, and he would rather wipe his neck on the spot than let the barbarians take him captive. Therefore, he must build a certain strength before the barbarians go south again, and give the barbarians a big surprise next time.

If there is a well-trained team in iron armor and heavy crossbows, see which one who is not long-sighted dares to attack him.

Well, a few weeks ago, his goal was only to deal with the village chief Li Wantian's family, and now he is ready to train the army, this damn world, he has forced a quiet beautiful boy to rebel.

It is a pity that before training the troops and building armor, it is necessary to solve the food problem, and it is impossible to build a new socialist countryside if we are hungry.

But Liu Jun couldn't conjure up food out of thin air, so he could only come to the mountains to find out if there were any crops that could replace food.

This is not an easy task, the villagers of Houshan come every day, what can be eaten, they have already tasted it, such as wild vegetables and wild fruits, willow is equivalent to looking for chicken nuggets in the large plate of chickens picked by others.

But this is another thing that Yoo Jun has to do, what if he is lucky? This is not ancient China, maybe not even the earth, but a parallel world, and there are probably some high-yield crops that the villagers don't know growing in the mountains, such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, or baobab trees, etc., so wouldn't it be rich?

It turns out that Liu Jun was very lucky, not long after entering the mountain, he found a large area of chestnut trees, the chestnuts have borne fruit, growing densely on the trees, smaller than the chestnuts that Liu Jun had seen in his previous life, and the trees themselves are not as tall as normal beech, like some kind of dwarf variant.

Liu Jun peeled off a fruit and shaved it with his front teeth, it was indeed a chestnut, with a powdery taste and a very high starch content.

"Great, the starch content is high, so many chestnuts, enough for everyone to eat for two months, they have grown like this and have not been picked, I guess I don't know how to deal with it." Normal chestnuts can be eaten when cooked, but they can't eat more, and if they eat too much, they will be constipated and can't pull it out.

And this dwarf variety, the fruit is small, the taste is astringent, and it is estimated that it is not delicious when cooked, so the villagers will not pick it.

If it was normal times, Liu Jun wouldn't look down on these things, but in this case, it's good to have something to eat, this kind of starch-rich food is a good thing to wrap the abdomen, as long as it is processed and processed to remove its side effects.

In addition to chestnuts, Liu Jun also found toons, but unfortunately the time was not right, and the toon trees did not sprout.

"In fact, as long as it is properly handled, as long as it is something that grows in the ground, almost all of it can be put into the mouth, too hard and too tough to seal and soak, and the aboracious bacteria will decompose the fibers inside, it will become brittle, the taste is too heavy and unpalatable, ground into powder as a seasoning, toxic, if it is a protease poison, take it to the sun or heat, there is always a way to remove the toxicity."

Liu Jun muttered in his mouth, and at this moment, there was a sudden strange sound behind him, as if something was stepping on a dead branch.

"There are beasts?" Liu Jun immediately reached out and grabbed the soft dagger on his belt and turned his head to look.

There are usually no large beasts in the back mountain, because it is too far from the village, and villagers often go up the mountain, even tigers will be killed and eaten, unless they wander from somewhere else.

At the same time that Liu Jun turned his head, the movement behind him accelerated and intensified, and a black shadow ran quickly, and finally flew towards Liu Jun.

"It's not a beast, it's a man! It's the people of the village! A flash of realization flashed in Liu Jun's heart, and he was thrown to the ground by this figure, and his big hand like iron tongs pinched his neck.