The man with the broken foot, known as the "chief", did not take the bread to fill his stomach.

Instead, it imitated the eight monsters of Dunhuang, and the good buns were broken and prepared to dry in the shade.

In this way, dry food can be stored at room temperature for at least six months.

Although the gang had failed to sneak away two years ago, they had broken seven little brothers, seven of whom had been shot into a sieve and trampled into mud by horses' hooves.

But since then, this action has never stopped.

At present, there are sixteen accomplices involved in this matter.

Each person would set aside one of the two dry rations they had distributed each day and give it to their "head" to save up.

Just for everyone to have a common dream.

Maybe one day you will be able to run out and make your way home.

Even if their "leader" says that they must wait for the time, they must not be as reckless as last time.

But everyone still holds a belief, that is, one day they will be able to escape the guard of a large number of cavalry, run out of this grassland, and climb the outer Xing'an Mountains mentioned by the leader.

As long as you climb over the high mountains, you can see the river basin in the territory and reach the border line of the imperial court.

Everyone remembers the battle many years ago, when the border gates were closed during their bloody battle.

They fell in rivers of blood and closed their eyes in despair.

But after coming back to life, he didn't hate.

Because if it is breached, the family on the other side of the gate will also suffer.

It's just that I haven't been able to set foot on the road home for years.

One more point...... I don't know if someone will open the city gate for them when they cross the mountain and shoot the city gate for their lives.

So let's prepare step by step, it's better than just hoping for nothing.

Fortunately, they have prepared a lot over the years, which is why it is not difficult for everyone, because everyone has never given up and gone home.

Take, for example, their "head".

At the beginning, their "leader" was seriously wounded, and his left foot was cut off by the enemy, and he fell in a pool of blood, which was found when the enemy army was cleaning the battlefield and picking up corpses.

Should have been abandoned, to be thrown into the wolves to be eaten.

Later, it was the little brother who was dead at the moment, who had been trampled into mud and fed wild dogs, who suddenly shouted: "Take him prisoner, he will forge weapons." ”

The enemy didn't believe it, and they cursed a lot of words.

The little stone didn't understand, but it didn't affect him and hurriedly tore off a piece of cloth from the bloodstained "leader": "You have to believe it, because he is still our little leader." As long as he lives, he will be able to forge arrows for you. ”

Perhaps out of eagerness to seek talent, the enemy army threw out a packet of wound medicine, but this also depends on the will of God.

So far, their "leader" has been dragged and taken care of by Xiaoshi and other people, and followed the enemy army here.

In fact, there were ninety captives who were originally assigned to this tribe.

But excluding those who have died of illness over the years, those who have died of exhaustion, those who have been beaten to death, and those who escaped last time like small stones, there are only seventeen of them left.

As for their "head", it took a year and a half to heal when they first arrived here.

The slave owners of this tribe were impatient to feed the idlers and were ready to stop caring about it, and the wounds on their heads and feet were repeatedly soldered with irons, but they still did not get better.

It was with small stones that took the lead, and everyone saved the rations they received from their work, so that they could save the lives of their "leaders".

When the leader came to his senses, he asked everyone to help find quicklime and asked everyone to help pick one more herb.

Right now, they've ground the wound-healing herb into powder, and they've accumulated three packets.

Next, in order to let everyone improve their salary, the working hours can be shortened, and they will no longer be beaten and scolded by the people here, and they will really help the tribe forge arrows after recovering from their illness.

And it took another half a year to make the other party relax their vigilance.

Just when the guards thought they had been tamed and willing to be the lowest slaves here, they no longer watched them all day long as they used to.

Their "leaders" began to teach everyone how to leave some behind when they were burning molten iron and began to craft their own weapons.

In order to accumulate weapons, otherwise they would not be able to climb out of the primeval forest, and also to save iron for their "head" to make prosthetic legs, everyone spent another three years.

Their "head" has two prosthetic legs. One was on four wheels, and the enemy of this tribe did not know that the prosthetic leg was even faster than the good leg.

It was a night when they were only allowed to sleep for two hours, but their "head" never slept, they were covered by them, and they were sweating profusely and walking back and forth in the cave to practice. And I also used this time to learn the language here.

And the head also has a prosthetic foot that is used to climb mountains.

It was also when they were making the second prosthetic foot that their "head" suggested to the caretaker that the fire did not have enough burning point, and that it needed to be improved with fur birch for air blasting.

This was the raw material for the second prosthetic foot, and at the same time their first bow and arrow.

Everyone knew from this that it would take 170 days to make a good bow and crossbow.

And the materials needed for it, in order to prepare birch, horn, wooden tire, cow tendon, animal tendon and horn glue and other materials, they also killed two little brothers who were whipped to death by slave owners.

One is named Daguang, Xiao Nan, who was tortured until he died, and he didn't say what he wanted the cow tendon to do, and he didn't even look at the person who was specially detained and came to watch the execution.

But everyone was kneeling there, but they knew in their hearts that what Daguang and Xiaonan wanted to say was, please go home for us.

It seems that this incident made everyone unable to suppress the fire anymore, and the "leader" led everyone to start accumulating a special kind of stone.

If this tribe is not chaotic, these forging slaves will be extremely guarded, and they will not be able to run out at all.

So two years ago, Xiao Shi said that he was called Shishi, and he led the other six people to light a fire and detonate the stone. Taking advantage of the chaos, the rest of the people fled with weapons while it was dark.

Unexpectedly, someone found out earlier that something was wrong with Xiaoshi and the other seven people, and told the secret. The small stone was then shot into a sieve.

Because the slaves of this tribe are also divided into three classes.

The first class of slaves were the lower people of the tribe.

The second class is the women who were once forcibly robbed back from the Central Plains, and they are also the "public prostitutes" here, some of them are already very old, and they are forced to give birth to babies for the aboriginal slaves of this tribe.

Little Stone had been blessed by a woman who was about the same age as his mother.

Xiao Shi asked the woman about the situation of her children before the mission, but the woman did not expect that the stone had not detonated before she was secret.

And the lowliest slaves are the captive soldiers who have been armed with weapons, even if the "leader" has used his ability to give everyone preferential treatment, but he is still a person who can be beheaded at will.

The cave was the dwelling of the blacksmiths.

At this time, more and more people are sneaking around handing out dry food.

And the person who handed the dry food at the beginning was called Xiao Mao, and he asked in a low voice:

"Boss, do you think we have a chance to trade with each other?"

The man glanced at Xiao Mao, and couldn't bear to say that it was hope, and he was even more disappointed.

Because according to his analysis, the delivery location of the mutual market will be handed over to the most respected tribes of these dozens of tribes. The goods were then distributed among the other tribes.

Therefore, this tribe will not come to General Da Zhou to death.

And even if they knew that they were the people of the Great Zhou, no general of the Great Zhou would have a conflict for them ordinary soldiers.

And even worse news, the mutual market? That is, there will be no chaos in the past two years, there will be no war, and they will not be able to avoid the heavy guards, killing a wave and finding an opportunity to escape from this grassland.

Unless the ambition here becomes bigger, after hoarding a lot of daily necessities, it will find a way to make the Great Zhou court civil war, and then take the initiative to attack.

There is no doubt that this is what he has learned about these tribal ambitions over the years.

The man stood up on crutches and never wore a prosthetic leg in front of people on weekdays.

However, it is better to hear something about that side of the market than not to hear any news at all.

"Boss, I hope that within ten years, even if one of us can only go back alive."

After Xiao Mao finished speaking, the numb faces of the others also had vivid expressions, even if they were only one person.

The man looked back at everyone, and it seemed that he should find a way to persuade the caretaker to give some benefits so that their activity area could become larger and hoard some other things.

Xiao Mao said suddenly, I don't know if it's because he finally heard the news on that side, after so many years, he is very homesick tonight.

His mother should burn paper for him before the New Year.

"Boss, do you think the next mission will be my death? Otherwise, why am I so uncharacteristically homesick today? ”

"It could be me." They have died too many brothers to return home.

"Boss, what about your leaves, blow one for your brothers, and it will be regarded as the New Year." The youngest, twenty-six-year-old Xiao Mao looked at the man with a rare smile.

That night, before the arrival of Chinese New Year's Eve, in the early hours of the morning, the lame man blew the leaf flute.

This is something he learned from a Yunnan veteran before.

Legend has it that according to the order in which the leaves of a tree sprout, you need to find the ninety-ninth leaf that sprouts and grows in order to blow the song.

At this time, he forgot that the Yunnan veteran also said that floating leaves can be seen everywhere, and a talent like him who can learn at a time is one in a million.

Men's Blowing:

"You know that Macau isn't my real name, and I've been away from you for too long, mother.

But they took away my body, and you still keep my soul.

Over the years, the biological mother who has dreamed of never forgetting, please call her son a milk name......"

"Xu Youtian" felt that he, like the Waixinganling here, would definitely return home one day.

He was reluctant to close his eyes when he died several times.

Because he's still looking forward to his mother and his daughter coming here like him.

……

At the same time, the border city is upstairs.

Huo Yunqian specially invited the second-in-command sent by the imperial court to supervise him and ascend the city tower together at this hour.

He was pointing to the city and asked the people around him, "Do you seem to see those faces in the war?" ”

How many Chinese sons and daughters have been here, who have bravely moved forward and not retreated in the war, so that they can celebrate the New Year in peace today.

Tonight, Huo Yunqian plans to show the greatest sincerity to talk to the person who is supervising him next to him.

It is not him who should be defended by the imperial court, let alone Huo Jiajun.

He didn't want civil strife, civil war more than anyone else.

I don't want foreigners to take advantage of the chaos to step into the mountains and rivers to burn and rob, and the court will lose thousands of miles of rivers and mountains.

Although Huo Yunqian also knows better than anyone else, from ancient times to the present, taking history as a mirror, very few famous generals can die well. But he still didn't want this court to be torn apart one day and the people to be displaced.

The court should not make him stumbling at every turn, and he should not have two hearts.

The person next to him has been an official for many years, and the middle-aged man looks at the mentality of young people, and regards the sincerity of this moment as naïve, and rushes all the way here without sleeping, not to say that he can see the face in the war is simply crazy, and he is very unimpressed.

said: "That's natural, this official is here to assist the general this time." General Wanwang, don't get any misunderstanding. ”

Huo Yunqian suddenly felt bored, and there was no need to communicate.

When Jia Lai climbed the tower, only Huo Yunqian was left standing alone in the night.

"General?"

"Why didn't you go into camp to rest?"

Jia Lai and Huo Yunqian reported on the types of goods in the mutual market.

Don't look at the people of Jalai have arrived at the border camp, but they have been thinking about his account books.

In the end, I plan to use the name of Tian Xin to call instant noodles and sell them to various tribes." ”

Huo Yunqian asked: "Will there be a problem with the transportation of this kind of flour sold by secondary processing?" You're not going to use rice to protect against moisture, are you? ”

Jia Lai told Huo Yunqian, how could it be, then put the cart before the horse. How many war horses can instant noodles be exchanged for? If you have to build some more rice, you will lose money.

He learned from Xu Tianxin to make alkali from plant ash and then coagulate into a liquid and solidify into small crystals, which will play a drying role when put together with food, and after testing, fried instant noodles can indeed be stored for several months.

In addition, quicklime is used, which is very absorbent.

When Jia Lai said this, he also chatted with Huo Yunqian and said: "General, they all say that their subordinates are a little delicious and delicious, so they are worried about that girl, you see, just dry powder, we can use it elsewhere, how much money does the little girl here save us." ”

Huo Yunqian smiled a little at this time.

But thinking of the words Xu Tianxin wrote to him, he was still very dull and had no ideas after only reading half a book.

How could it not be, eccentric, I just don't want to say it, I don't want to discuss it with him.

Does Xu Tianxin know what she will lose if she misses a gentleman like him.

He doesn't teach ordinary people.

She still dislikes it.

Look at the New Year's gift that is not heartfelt, Jiubao is boasting about the flowers, and he only received two small bottles of wine. Not to mention that the taste is different, he hurried to fight the cold, and took the wine handed by Lu Yan before, and the taste was the same.

In fact, Huo Yunqian was a little puzzled.

It stands to reason that he treats that girl no worse than Jia Lai and Lu Yan.

Even he knew her father.

Previously, he also sent her a stack of silver tickets, and four baskets of pomegranates were transported to one basket, so it seemed to be something worse than him.

And the most annoying thing is that the letter, there are only a few words of experience, and it is still made up with New Year's greetings.

I wish him:

When the time comes, it turns into rain, and the spring arrives when the tiger chases the wind.

The wind and the splendor, the mighty laughter of China.

Jia Lai looked at Huo Yunqian's expression, what's wrong? We don't know what we're thinking. took out the biscuits from his arms: "General, you haven't eaten much for dinner, come, put a few pieces to taste." ”