Zhao Yu sighed and sat on the haystack, wrapped tightly in the linen clothes on his body, and stared at the panda melancholy, he just made up for a return sleep here, and now he came out to bask in the long-lost sun, it rains here in winter, and it has been raining in this ghost place for a week, it has rained for four days, Zhao Yu feels that he is moldy, and he can't sleep well every day, and now he is very nostalgic for the stable in Senatia's house, at least the horse will not snore when he sleeps.

"Zhao! Look what I caught! The rice bucket happily carried a rabbit to invite merit, and the poor rabbit's head was flattened, and he was stoned to death by the rice bucket.

This fool is very adaptable here, but his mouth can't stand it, and he is used to eating big fish and meat with Zhao Yu, how can he gnaw on the special coarse bread of slaves as before, so he jumps up and down every day to find all the game that can be eaten.

Not only the rice bucket, but many slaves and mercenaries were idle when they arrived, hunting rabbits and mice in the nearby fields, and catching fish in the river, and Senatia didn't care, anyway, she didn't have to pay for it, and she had the strength to work if she ate well.

It is inevitable that everyone will be so idle, there is no farm work to do in winter, and now there are so many more people, and they are even more idle, so they can only find a way to change the food.

"Eat it yourself." Zhao Yu looked up and said helplessly, this rabbit is only three or four catties, it would be good to be able to pick up more than one catty of meat, how can you eat it in a rice bucket, Zhao Yu really can't bear to eat him, there are few prey that can be caught in winter, and the rice bucket must have taken a lot of effort to hit this hare.

"Hehe, eat together, eh, so many people can't even sprinkle cumin, my appetite is much smaller."

Zhao Yu rolled his eyes, this is also the reason why he didn't eat it, it's okay to sprinkle salt, how dare you take out the spices, whoever sees it will be over, and now the barbecue method of the two of them has been promoted, roasting in their own houses in the city, there is a special iron frame, and when roasting, olive oil must be brushed several times, and honey and red wine must be smeared, the taste is called a stick, and now the mouth can't adapt to it at all. In addition, Zhao Yu is tired of eating barbecue, and the big iron pot in the bracelet also comes in handy, Zhao Yu brought the stir-fry that will only appear in N years to this world, but the only thing that has the honor to eat is the rice bucket.

Zhao Yu looked at the rice bucket and said pitiful, so he asked him to go to the river to deal with the hares, and go to the woods to find branches to barbecue, and by the way to see if they could catch some game, they were difficult to fight because they didn't have bows and arrows and other weapons, but they had crossbows, and it was not a problem to fight wild boars, but they should be careful when using them and not be seen.

As soon as Zhao Yu picked up a few branches, he found two slaves running in a panic in the depths of the woods, he also knew that they were from Senatia's family, and the relationship with Zhao Yu was not good, because they were envious, jealous and hateful of Zhao Yu's position.

These three people, plus Zhao Yu's rice bucket, and two guard slaves, are all the male slaves in Senatia's family, and they are usually three small groups that do not interfere with each other.

"Zhao, run, the robbers are coming!" One of them shouted while running, although the relationship was not good, but he still anxiously reminded him, which was a bit of a conscience.

"Robbers?" Zhao Yu straightened his waist and looked behind the two of them, the woods were very dim, and there were so many shadows that he couldn't see clearly.

At such a short time, the two of them had already run to the front, Zhao Yu saw that there was still some blood on their bodies, and the two said in a panic: "Run, there are really robbers, the poor dog was killed by them, and they robbed our pheasant!" ”

Zhao Yu was speechless, it turned out that the three of you ran to the forest to hunt pheasants, now it's okay, the pheasants didn't eat and took a human life.

In fact, this is not to blame them, they are not like Zhao Yu who eats and drinks well, and finally has the opportunity to come out to hunt wild food, so the three of them chased a group of pheasants and went deep into the forest, and coincidentally ran into bandits who were trimming in the forest.

The bandits didn't talk nonsense with them at all, they cut down one as soon as the axe flew over, and the remaining two didn't hesitate at all, threw away the dead pheasant in their hands and turned around and ran, and actually gave the two of them a run.

These bandits are also unprofessional, they are all poor people with no food at home, and the first thing they do is not to kill the two slaves, but to fight for the pheasants on the ground.

As for why these two slaves did not surrender and join the gang, there is no way, it is not that they do not accept it, but that the exiles who make up the robbers are all free people, and it is the robbers who pick up the knife, and it is the peasants who put down the knife, and the looting is only a matter of this winter, in order to make a living, as long as they are not caught or killed during this time, there is nothing at all.

But when the slave joins the gang, how can he let go of the knife, he can only go one way to the dark, surrender, if he does not exist, he will die if he is caught, and he will not even have a chance to be a slave again.

This is also the status quo of slaves, peace of mind can still live as a slave, but if you escape, you can only die, because now although the Roman Empire is very chaotic because of policy reasons, and the people are not living, the army is still strong, and the hundreds of thousands of Roman troops are still one of the strongest forces in the world, there is no market for uprising and rebellion, and even the challenge task did not let Zhao Yu revolt, because this is far more difficult than assassinating the emperor, and the proletarian revolution only allows him to establish a team, as long as the people gather together and the concept is transmitted in place, it will be considered successful.

Within a few seconds, Zhao Yu saw the bandits chasing them, walking through the woods in layers of linen clothes that were more tattered than slaves, and they had weapons of all kinds, sickles, axes, iron rods, and even stones and wooden sticks with pinned pins.

Zhao Yu didn't intend to be a hero, he ran back with the two slaves, where he was at the edge of the forest, and ran into the winery in a few minutes, and halfway through, the mercenaries on guard discovered the enemy situation, rang the bronze bell standing in the center of the winery, and all the slaves and mercenaries who were still outside ran back like crazy.

Seeing the winery on alert, the bandits and robbers who rushed in front stopped, this is not their goal, too many people will die here, and they can't be drawn, and the surrounding farms seem to be better bullied, at least they don't have such good wooden walls, and there is enough food in them.

More and more people poured out of the woods, Zhao Yu was sweating behind the stake, I really don't know how this forest can hold so many people, it is estimated that there are thousands of people in the dense!

At first, he didn't care, thinking that some bandit gangs composed of homeless people had little strength, and even regular weapons were scarce, so it was impossible to take down the winery, but now that he saw this number, he knew that he was wrong, so many people rushed over without fear of death, this low wooden wall couldn't stop it at all, and the more than two hundred men in the wall could deal with two or three times the enemy at most, even if they could rely on the elite mercenaries to defend it, they would definitely suffer heavy losses.

Fortunately, the robbers did not come forward to attack, but looked at each other affectionately from a distance of a few hundred meters, and then withdrew to the woods, looking in the direction of east.

"What's going on!" Senatia came running with a group of maids, who had just been tasting the new wine in the winery and eating the roasted hares offered by the slaves, when she was frightened by the ringing bell, and felt like she had run to the front to inquire about the situation.

"It's nothing, a group of robbers just came and went around and have fled." The mercenary leader Slok said with a relaxed face, he didn't take the other party seriously, they were powerful mercenaries, they could fight with the Roman army, and they could be afraid of some armed civilians?