Chapter Seventy-One: Entering the Winter Building

The golden eagle stands on a low tree, carrying a big rabbit with fluffy fur on its thick talons, and the eagle's beak tears off a piece of meat from the rabbit from time to time.

The two big dogs each held a pot of mixed grains mixed with meat pieces and chewed violently. The canopy dangling from the pigsty outside the village wanted to rub the food, but avoided the whimpering threats of the two dogs.

The two big dogs are not easy to provoke, and the remaining eleven beasts in the courtyard are even more unprovoked, and the canopy snorted twice, and shook to lie under the low tree, as if waiting for the gold to leak food, and now the canopy does not refuse to eat meat.

Sitting on the terrain like a bear, with shiny fur and eleven wolverines of different sizes, Zhang Xiuniang and Cai Yan threw a lump of frozen livestock into the water and threw it to them.

After the training of the flying bear, each wolverine that was assigned to the ice cube would obediently bark at the two girls, and then show their fangs and claws, and gnaw at the hard ice cubes the size of half their bodies, tearing the blood in them.

Unlike dog badgers, wolverines are semi-hibernating creatures that rarely hibernate if they have enough food sources.

Earlier, Liu Cang took badgers to Jizhou to hunt locusts, after all, it is not the origin of wolverine, and wolverines rarely live in groups, more than 2,000 badgers, more than 30 wolverines were encountered, and more than 10 were killed without surrendering, and finally left 20.

These wolverines became the generals of the flying bears, and the ten dog badgers and pig badgers left on the Dongshan Mountains, and the other ten were brought back to the village by Liu Cang, and their tails were dyed with a dye mark that was easy for the villagers to identify.

On weekdays, these wolverines play in the house, and at night they will sweep the snakes, insects, rats and ants in the village, and for a few months, the snakes and rats are almost no longer seen in the village, as long as they do not dig holes, and no one drives them away in the village during the day.

In the winter, Zhuo County became more and more dry and cold, and the dog badger and pig badger entered hibernation, and the turtle also entered hibernation.

Because of the limited conditions, in order to avoid contracting the wind and cold, Liu Cang did not dare to do any winter exercises, the intensity of labor and exercise was greatly reduced, and the whole Lousang seemed to have entered a slow-paced season.

Enough forage has been collected before winter, and the people of the pigs, sheep, cattle and horses have taken time to eat and clear the circle every day.

After feeding these meatless and unhappy guys at home, Zhang Xiuniang took care of the trivial affairs at home, and Cai Yan followed Cai Yong to learn Wen Fuqin.

After the sundries at home are busy, Zhang Xiuniang doesn't have much to do with Xi Wen, so she will get together with Cai Yan to do some embroidery and sewing things, making clothes and sewing shirts, and the two girls have now begun to ponder the weaving skills of the nail tube.

After greeting a few people in the family, Liu Cang left home. Unless Cai Yong asks Liu Cang to endorse the assessment, Liu Cang doesn't spend much time at home during the day.

Speaking of which, the Eastern Han Dynasty was not very friendly to 'house', especially young men. If you have a job to do, it's okay to go out and find friends and drink if you don't have a job.

If a man is always at home, it is easy to give people the impression of being introverted and bullied, which is more harsh for men than in previous lives, and may also lead to worse negative situations.

How to say, even if you are pretending, you have to go out and hang out, so that there will be no one to help you in the family, and you will not let some ruffians dare to deceive your family.

Of course, Liu Cang has no worries about this, and he is not going out to hang around, it is estimated that there should be yaks that can collect the spiritual marrow, and Liu Cang is ready to go to the cowshed to go around.

Going out and crossing the street, there is a simple open house opposite the gate of Liu Cang's house, which is a restaurant built in the village, run by Liu Erma, who has a crippled leg in the village, and the village townspeople who are on duty on Cai Yong on weekdays usually gather here.

"Erma's family, come to a bowl of broth and put more mugwort." There is no door to the restaurant, three earthen walls are windproof, and the inside is spacious, Liu Cang wrapped his clothes and found a low table, and several villagers with weapons in the restaurant greeted Liu Cang's forehead.

"Alright!" A woman who looked less than 30 years old saw Liu Cang's face full of smiles, and quickly picked a rabbit leg from a large clay pot, served Liu Cang with broth, and sprinkled it with mugwort.

Nowadays, there is soy sauce, there is meat sauce and miso, but there is no chili, the pepper is fried too expensive, the so-called mugwort is dogwood, instead of chili, it is a little weird, but it doesn't matter if you are used to eating it.

"Where's Erma?" Taking the soup bowl, taking a sip of the hot soup, and pinching up the rabbit leg that was more meat than normal, Liu Cang took a bite and asked the woman.

Er Ma is the man of her family, a few years younger than this woman, in his early years, he was a ruffian in Youhuang County, and later he was discounted, and the village found him a daughter-in-law to remarry, which is considered to be stable.

"I pulled a big car and went to the township early in the morning, there are more traveling merchants in our village who eat and drink, and I plan to collect some wine and come back, so that I can have more inputs." The woman said to Liu Cang.

"If you go to the township, it's cold, and if you're robbed again, go directly to the county." Liu Cang answered, and saw that Liu Cang seemed to be talking about things, and the woman did not leave, so she accompanied her.

"There are many people in the county, it's not that I'm afraid of being remembered, and I'll talk about the trouble of liquor tax when I go back." The woman explained to Liu Cang.

"It's also about the old people of the clan, go back and discuss it with the old man, see if he has a charter, it's very chaotic outside, don't run around in the township if you have nothing to do, take the official road more." Liu Cang gulped down the broth and said to the woman.

"Okay, I'll go to the clan elder to discuss later." The woman's face was overjoyed and said to Liu Cang.

The clan elder is in charge of the affairs of the whole village, and there are hundreds of people in the village, so it is naturally impossible for everyone to take care of it, but with Liu Cang's greeting, the clan elder will also discuss with her, and the woman is happy.

"It's very chaotic in winter, and yesterday there were people from Taiping Road in the village who came to ask for alms, saying that people had starved to death in the south." The woman happily talked to Liu Cang, and when she said this, she lowered her voice and leaned over to Liu Cang's side.

"Uncle, be careful when you go to fight strongmen in the future, these caravans have been equipped with a lot of bows and crossbows recently, and I saw a presser before, as if he was carrying a military crossbow." The woman said to Liu Cang.

Crossbows are much stricter than knives and guns in the people, but the range of bows and crossbows used in folk hunting is usually only ten or twenty steps, which is no different from a slingshot.

The range of qualified bows and crossbows in the army is generally more than 100 paces, the bows are lighter and more flexible, and the accuracy and penetration of crossbows are stronger, these things have already posed a deadly threat to ordinary unarmored people.

And some powerful bows and crossbows, especially the big yellow crossbow and iron spine bow, which are included in the expeditionary weapons, can reach an accurate range of five or six hundred steps, and the penetration is extremely strong, and they are held by those who are good at shooting, and their threat to people even exceeds that of later rifles.

Of course, it is impossible to see crossbows of this level casually among the people, but if the caravans are equipped with military crossbows now, I am afraid it also means that some local forces have begun to strengthen their own strength from the perspective of armament.

"Well, provincial." Liu Cang nodded, frowned slightly, took a few bites of the rabbit meat in his hand, and drank it all in a bowl of hot soup.