Chapter 92: Licorice Ume
Zhu Zaili registered his name and surname in Andingmen, and was about to move the utensils, but was stopped by the sergeant.
"Wait."
Zhu Zaili turned his head suspiciously.
I saw that the sergeant took out a few dried fruits from his waist, but the dried fruits were already covered with dust and sludge, and the sergeant casually rinsed them twice in the water, and then handed them to Zhu Zaili.
"Don't swallow it greedily, and when you can't stand it, you will hold it in your mouth."
Then the sergeant picked up a chopstick and broke it.
"Half of the plug is on, and the other half is sent home tonight."
Zhu Zaili said "thank you" and then took the dried fruit, and after taking a closer look, he found that it was just a few ordinary black plums, but he didn't think much about it, and ran directly towards the stone field in the distance.
Fortunately, although there has been no war in Jingshi for a long time, these things that are not very valuable are still well stocked.
Soldiers under the city had already loaded the Rolling Stones.
When he saw Zhu Zaili, he beckoned a young man with a similar figure to Zhu Zaili.
"The little dolls are here, they can help a lot, you two just take on this fight, go quickly."
"Whoa."
The two men sang, and then they carried the basket of stones and ran toward the city.
The basket of stones was about more than 100 into the top and bottom, and as soon as Zhu Zaili felt the weight on his shoulder, but the young man behind him did not react at all, seeing that Zhu Zaili couldn't eat heavily, he hurriedly spoke.
"Later, you will go ahead, don't miss the big thing."
Zhu Zaili held his breath, didn't want to speak at all, nodded, and then the two of them ran towards the city with the stones.
At the moment when the two of them climbed to the top of the city, an inexplicable stench came to their faces in an instant.
It was a smell of sweat mixed with the smell of blood and various unknown smells.
"The rocks are here!"
"Hey!"
The young man behind Zhu Zaili answered and motioned for Zhu Zaili to follow him.
Smelling the stench of the city, Zhu Zaili's face had turned eggplant, and after throwing down the basket of stones, Zhu Zaili sat down on the ground.
The young man seemed to know that Zhu Zaili was going to vomit, so he picked up a wooden barrel and put it in front of Zhu Zaili.
Smelling the smell of the bucket, Zhu Zaili's last psychological defense line was completely broken, and he vomited while holding the bucket.
"Later, after going there to eat water, the bucket will be placed by the city wall, these are all good things, don't waste them."
"You sit on it for a while, and I'll go down and see if there's anything else to do."
As he spoke, the young man also handed Zhu Zaili a few pieces of beige rhizomes, which were licorice.
After Zhu Zaili picked up the bowl of water and rinsed his mouth, he directly stuffed the licorice and black plum that the young man handed him into his mouth.
When the two flavors diffused on the tip of his tongue, Zhu Zaili's brain gradually calmed down.
As far as the eye could see, there was a cauldron on the top of the city almost every twenty paces, and the sergeants on the head of the city were boiling the contents of the pot.
And the contents of the pot are collectively referred to as "golden juice." ”
Zhu Zaili frowned and looked around, only to see that the gold juice boiled in the pot was made of "human yellow", "wolf poison weed", "arsenic" and other substances.
There is also a lot of serious iron juice.
These things also have only one benefit, and that is that they can penetrate directly through the armor.
Just when Zhu Zaili was still suppressing the overturning of the river and the sea in his stomach.
In the distance, there was a slight sobbing sound from the city, and I looked to see the two old women recognizing the corpses at the city.
The old woman took out a token from her bosom, and after the sergeant closed it, it was for the purpose of inquiry.
"Auntie, go down and get two buckets of rice, and we will leave the corpses first."
The sergeant handed the old woman two pieces of tokens and sent them down the city wall.
The old woman left without a word, and it was not until this time that Zhu Zaili reacted, and before the soldiers and horses arrived, Ding Zhuang had already died of exhaustion in the city.
"This ...... Why didn't this corpse be returned to others? ”
Zhu Zaili muttered in a low voice, but the voice of the young man came from behind him.
I saw that the young man had climbed up to the city again with two baskets of stones.
"I've heard that the corpses are still useful, and if the stones and gold juice run out, these corpses will be rolling stones."
Zhu Zaili gasped when he heard this.
It was only at this time that Zhu Zaili knew how cruel the war was.
Literati and writers would only say, "There are a few lines of names and surnames in the history, and there are countless barren hills in the north." ”
But in fact, on the battlefield, there can be a barren hill, which is already a good end that can be put into the ground.
Many more were used as a kind of instrument, a weapon, and finally buried in a deep pit to prevent epidemics.
On the city wall, looking into the distance, the golden glazed tiles of the Fengtian Temple in the distance are faintly visible.
It's only ten miles away.
No one in the palace could see what it was like on the wall.
Before Zhu Zaili pondered for a long time, a bell rang on the city, and several sergeants came over carrying a few bamboo baskets.
"A lot of salt is sprinkled on a cake today, and the big guy eats it open, and there is a lot of food in the city~!"
In the cheers of the Ding Zhuang at the head of the city, the young man standing behind Zhu Zaili also smiled and said: "This brother is lucky, the cakes he ate yesterday didn't even have much salt, and the soles of his feet were weak when he worked. ”
The young man took two cakes and walked slowly in front of Zhu Zaili, and stuffed one to Zhu Zaili.
Zhu Zaili opened his mouth and took a bite, a salty and astringent taste spread on the tip of his tongue, and after just a few bites, there was a "click" sound in his mouth, and a piece of gravel almost shattered Zhu Zaili's teeth.
Zhu Zaili looked at the young man in disbelief.
"This bread, this bread!"
The young man also looked at Zhu Zaili with an excited face.
"This bread, this bread, is a fine grain! If you look at how thin this side is, you may be lucky. ”
Looking at the young man who was eating with relish, Zhu Zaili, who was holding the cake, was stunned in place, and after being silent for a long time, he sat back on the city and forced himself to chew again.
Even though Zhu Zaili spit out a few mouthfuls of sand, he still drank a large vat of water after eating to quench his thirst.
The young man was reluctant to chew heavily, and still chewed and savored it slowly, as if he was eating a big meal.
"Brother, you came to work in the city, how much silver did the court give you?"
The boy smiled.
"What silver is not silver, whether you give it or not, it will be done."
"It doesn't matter if you give it or not, then what are you doing on the city wall?"
"My mother said that if you beat away the Tartars, you will be able to live a peaceful life, I have said everything about my family, who is in a hurry if I am not in a hurry?"
At this point, the young man seemed to have opened up a conversation.
"After getting married, I will have two more boys, counting my father and my brother, our family will open up the last dozens of acres of wasteland behind the village, and our family's good days will come."
"Fortunately, there are few people in our village, and no one robs me."
"When I get married, please come to your wedding wine."
Zhu Zaili couldn't help but be infected by the young man.
"Then I'll thank my brother first." As soon as he finished speaking, Zhu Zaili realized that something was wrong.
"But when your baby grows up, where will you go to open up the wasteland?"
The young man was stunned, and then looked at Zhu Zaili like a fool.
"Where else can I open up a wasteland? The 100 acres of wasteland I opened were not all theirs, and when I finished opening, they didn't have to open them. ”
"Yes."
Just when Zhu Zaili and the young man were chatting with each other, a melodious melody suddenly came from the north of the Jingshi, which was the only way for humans to sing with two voices at the same time.
The cavalry of thousands of horses roared in the harmony of the whim, all the conversation on the city wall stopped abruptly, and everyone subconsciously clenched the "weapon" in their hands that could cause damage.
According to the record of "The Story of the Western Expedition to the Stone City": Chenghua four years, the original robbery, the rebel will be full of four according to the stone city and guard, the governor of the imperial Shi Ma Wensheng offered a plan, with the corpses of the officers and soldiers and horses to cut off the thief water, and the city was not broken
(End of chapter)