Chapter 437: Dispatching the Frontier (3)
Where can Qiu Yu and the others care about picking this and that now, they are so tired that they hurriedly climb on top of the bunk, get into the quilt, and go to bed early.
Qiu Yu didn't know how long he had been asleep, he was awakened by a noisy sound, outside the cows barked, the horses barked, the sheep barked, the barking did not stop, Qiu Yu heard it and hurriedly got up from the bed, looked out through the gap in the wooden plank, only to see that the huge yard was already crowded with cattle and sheep, and there were many people, respectively, into their respective wooden houses.
Qiu Yu's wooden house also walked into more than a dozen people, they were wearing heavy clothes, obviously these people were grazing, these people were not surprised to see Qiu Yu and the others, they were talking, as if they didn't find them.
It didn't take long for me to hear the sound of iron tools colliding, and these people who had just entered the house hurriedly stood up, picked up the dishes and chopsticks on their own shop, and hurriedly walked out.
These people walked straight into a larger wooden house, where there were already two or three hundred people at this time, all lined up, ready to eat, Qiu Yu and the others lined up in the middle of the line, this wooden house had a few soldiers who distributed food to the prisoners, and the rest were some wooden benches and tables.
Qiu Yu came to the front of the cook, handed over the celadon bowl, and the soldier took a big spoon, deducted a little bit of the rice made of hungry food that he couldn't see, and deducted a big spoonful of soup.
Qiu Yu took the food in his hand and looked at it for a long time without seeing what it was, while some other people who sat on the stool began to devour it, Qiu Yu also found a stool and sat down, watching others eat very fragrant, Qiu Yu tasted it.
The food in his mouth is like countless prickly things, and he can't swallow it all the time, Qiu Yu finally swallowed it ruthlessly, only feeling that the food was rubbing between the intestines, not only choking his throat, but also his stomach couldn't stand it.
Qiu Yu was so hungry that he couldn't take care of it too much at this time, even the hot water was poured directly into his stomach, and after eating, Qiu Yu returned to his wooden house with his own dishes and chopsticks, lay down and fell asleep.
Early the next morning, he was awakened by a metal knocking sound, Qiu Yu just got up, and then saw more than a dozen people on the opposite side, hurriedly walked out with dishes and chopsticks, Qiu Yu knew that it was time to eat again, Qiu Yu also walked out, after eating, most of the people walked out of the yard one by one.
The people of the five major families have finished eating, and they don't know whether to go back to the house to sleep, or what to do? At this time, a soldier took out a big notebook, looked at the people of the five major families, and asked them to gather in the courtyard and say their names.
Qiu Yu and other people from the five major families gathered in the courtyard, and the soldiers read their names loudly, and after the names were called, the soldiers began to assign their respective jobs to them, Qiu Yu was assigned to the hunting group, Master Lin was assigned to the cattle herding group, Mrs. Lin was assigned to the sheep herding group, and the others had their own assignments.
After the group, the people of the five major families were taken outside the courtyard, at this time two or three hundred people outside the courtyard were already waiting here, the people of the five major families stood in the corresponding position according to their respective assignments, Qiu Yu was divided into the hunting group, Qiu Yu was still standing in front of twenty or thirty people, under the order of a soldier, these people went to find their own cattle and sheep, ready to graze.
Qiu Yu's team walked directly towards the vast white snow in front of him under the leadership of a prisoner, and I don't know how long he walked, Qiu Yu saw a few low trees, the more he walked in, the taller the trees became, and the leading prisoner also squatted on the ground from time to time to look at the marks on the snow, and occasionally pheasants flew overhead.
The leading prisoner, from time to time, used an unknown rope to lay a sleeve in the snow, and when he walked for a short time, Qiu Yu found that the leading prisoner took out a hare in a snow nest, and the hare had a thin rope tied around its neck and strangled it deeply into the hare's neck.
As everyone scattered to search, the collection of wild meat also increased, at noon, everyone stopped looking, the leading prisoners, came to the hut they built here, Qiu Yu also followed in, this hut is not too big, but it can ward off the cold, someone found some wood, lit it outside, and the house suddenly warmed up.
The leading prisoner glanced at Qiu Yu and chatted: "New here, what did you do to come in?" After hearing this, others were also very curious, and they all looked at Qiu Yu.
Qiu Yu smiled embarrassedly after hearing this: "I didn't do anything, the emperor died, our family had some dealings with the second prince, this time the second prince lost in the battle for the throne, and we were sent here." ”
When the leading prisoner heard this, he looked up and down: "Oh, I see, we have been here for decades, we don't know about the outside affairs, you can come to our hunting group, it means that someone has said good things to you, otherwise this hunting group is not ordinary people can come in." “
Qiu Yu was stunned after hearing this: "Really? I don't know anyone here, so how can anyone say nice things about me? ”
The leading prisoner smiled after hearing this: "In the future, everyone will be together, they are all a family, our hunting group, it is a relatively easy job, that is, collect some game every day, take it back to the head to eat, and nothing else." ”
"Now that we've caught enough, we can rest, and by the evening we've turned in all the game we've caught, and we're done with the day."
Qiu Yu looked at the more than 20 people and had some questions in his heart: "Are you all prisoners here?" Why don't we see a soldier watching over us? ”
A group of prisoners couldn't help laughing when they heard this, and one of the thin-looking men explained: "Brother, you just came here, you don't know this place yet, we can't run, if we can run, we will run a long time ago." ”
"There is white snow for thousands of miles around here, and if you want to run, you will either freeze to death or starve to death, and besides, we are relatively safe here, and if you go outside, there are even larger animals, such as bears, tigers, everything, and running is equivalent to looking for your own death."
After hearing this, Qiu Yu suddenly realized, and complained that there was no soldier watching, it turned out that he couldn't run if he wanted to, and these large animals acted as guards.
At this time, some of the prisoners had already begun to clean up, the hares and pheasants, the skins were peeled, the internal organs were removed, the cleaned animal carcasses were thrown aside, and the internal organs of the animals were skewered with sharpened wooden sticks and roasted on the fire.