Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Great Battle
Bang Bang Bang!
The sound of a gong came, and the bookkeepers who had been trained by Yunshu cramming entered the scene one by one.
The tables and chairs were set aside, and an account clerk sat on the table with an A4-sized notebook and a beautiful brush in his hand.
There was also a shrewd woman beside her, and beside her was a table with cleaned dishes and chopsticks.
Behind her was the troop hot pot that smelled of soul-stirring.
As it gets dark, countless torches are lit around the threshing floor, illuminating everything here.
There are not only Niu Ben's private soldiers, but also the original tenants, domestic slaves, and family members, almost more than 3,000 people.
To be sure, not all the people here are in the village.
Some people hid directly last night when they saw that the situation was wrong, and the time was too short to investigate one by one, so they could only count as many as they wanted.
The people were panicked, and everyone squatted on the ground with their heads in their hands, and they didn't dare to come out.
In this era, the only consequence of defeat is to have a new master or be slaughtered by a new master...
They don't know what fate awaits them, and the kind of weapons in the other party's hands that can blow up houses and create small ground movements make them not have the slightest sense of resistance...
Ah Da took the small horn given by Yun Shu, and yelled loudly at the black heads crowded in front of him.
"Everyone came to the bookkeeper here one by one to get the dishes and chopsticks..."
"Queue up, don't crowd, scramble... As soon as you find out, you will be expelled from the team! Disqualify him from dinner..."
"Before everyone receives the dishes and chopsticks, they should report their names, ages, how many family members there are, who they are, and what they are good at..."
"For example, you are good at farming, hunting, carpentry, brickwork, blacksmithing, etc., as long as you can do it, you can report it!"
"The men are in the left row, and the women and children are in the right two rows..."
"Let's have a demonstration first, everyone is optimistic..."
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After yelling, Ah Da handed the horn in his hand to a team that had already lined up beside him.
The team was made up of half of the children of Orion Village, with an average age of no more than thirteen.
At the front row is Hu Ergou, who is also the biggest person in this group of children.
He took the horn in Ah Da's hand, and said in a trembling voice: "My name is Hu Ergou, I am thirteen years old this year, and there are eleven people in my family..."
"They are my grandfather, my grandmother, my father, my father, my uncle, my aunt, my eldest brother, my second brother..."
Ergou made a lot of noise, and Yun Shu was almost squirted out of the tea in his mouth.
Ah Da made a table behind the bookkeepers, and on top of it was a large table with a bubbling army hot pot boiling.
Yun Shu's family of four sat on the table, and the hot pot was exactly the same as the contents of the twenty large iron pots placed below.
There were several tables on the left and right of the stage, and the five Yahuans newly collected by Yun Shu and Hu Lichang of Orion Village, as well as Ah Da, Hu Aqi and other people from Orion were all sitting here.
The people of the escort team have long been rotated to eat, and they are maintaining discipline here with full energy.
"I'm good at hunting, I learned a little kung fu from Ah Qigong, and I can also make fur..."
The more Hu Ergou spoke, the more his voice trembled, and in the end, his voice was shaky.
"Good boy, good! Next..."
Ah Da laughed and patted Hu Ergou on the shoulder and slapped him on the back.
Hu Qiu, who was in the back, had a pair of spiritual eyes, took the horn, and his voice was very steady.
"My name is Hu Qiu, I am ten years old this year, and I have a family of seven... I'm good at... Burn the fire..."
Burst...
Yun Shu laughed directly.
This kid is stable on the surface, but as soon as he arrives at the specialty, he gets stuck, and in the end, he even holds back a fire.
There was a faint sound of laughter in the threshing floor, but with two examples, everyone knew what to do later.
"Do you understand?"
Ah Da yelled with a bullhorn.
"Got it..."
The sparse response on the threshing floor was "Let's start..."
"Start now..."
Ah Da gave an order, and the people in the threshing field immediately moved, scrambling to seize the first position.
What kind of hot pot is very fragrant, they can't hold their saliva...
Ah Mao was originally an ordinary farmer here, and he was fortunate to farm hard every day, and he didn't dare to relax for a moment, and the family was almost in the field.
However, more than half of the grain harvested every year is taken away by the government, and less than 30% of the grain is left for them to chew.
The higher and higher taxes are collected, coupled with the fact that the grain has been harvested less and less in recent years, and it is already God's blessing that no one at home starved to death until the beginning of spring this year.
Originally, they could survive this year's autumn harvest by renting grain from local landlords and wealthy households, but there was a famine here.
The price of grain became more expensive day by day, and soon rose to a sky-high price that the common people could not afford.
The food at home is gone, but the sister-in-law who passed through the door last year was pregnant again...
Ah Mao remembered that his father and eldest brother sat all night, and his sister-in-law shed tears all night.
The next day, my mother went to grab a pair of medicines...
The child in my sister-in-law's womb is gone...
The pain in Ah Mao's heart was no less than that of his eldest brother, who was the nephew he had been looking forward to for months...
But when it comes to this fucking world, they can't do anything about it!
Later, in order to survive, their family was sold to the Niu family and became the domestic slaves of the Niu family.
Relying on the food obtained by the whole family to survive to this day... Until the gang in front of them blew up the door of the earthen village...
"I'm the first, I'll say it first..."
Mao relied on his dexterous figure to grab the position of the first team on the left, and he raised his hands and shouted loudly.
Behind him was a crowd of people who kept pushing and shoving, and behind him there was a strong man who slipped on his shoulder and was about to throw him out...
Mao slapped his arm desperately, his mother hadn't eaten for several days, and if she didn't eat, she would starve to death...
He had to grab this bowl of rice!
"What for! Let go! Otherwise, you will be disqualified from dinner! ”
A guard in a dark green strange shirt slapped off the strong man's hands and gently pushed Ah Mao forward.
"You go! To be honest in the back, whoever doesn't line up well will be disqualified from dinner! ”
The people in the back suddenly became honest, and Ah Mao pulled his legs and ran to the table.
"My name is Ah Mao, I am fifteen years old today, and there are nine people in my family... I know how to farm! ”
The bookkeeper who is responsible for recording to Ah Mao is surnamed Li, and he is also a domestic slave of the Niu family, but they belong to the first echelon of domestic slaves, which is considered to be Niu Ben's cronies.
After Niu Ben died, they were driven to this wheat field with the crowd in panic.
I was worried for a day, and I was afraid that the new master would go under the knife before the others.
When they slipped out of the rapture just now, they were almost paralyzed by fright...
After rounds of investigation, it was confirmed that they had not killed anyone and had not done anything bad, and they were assigned this job.
Long before the start of construction, several of their bookkeepers and the woman in charge of the dishes and chopsticks had already eaten a full meal of that hot pot, which was really delicious to swallow the tongue!
Over the years, they have followed Niu Ben to the north and south to do business, and they have seen a lot of delicacies from the north and south of the river, but this kind of food called hot pot is unforgettable...
I'm afraid that only those people from the family and the royal family can eat these delicacies!