"General Zhier and others want to go to the water to eat, and specially draw the script, so that Linger and others can know what is edible and what is unbearable......"

After handing out the books, the little official, who seemed to have accepted his fate, took a rope from the hands of the people beside him.

"Also, this is the time for the migratory birds to fly south, and you can also set traps in the waters—" he said loudly, "The general has taught you the skill of setting up nets and ambushes, and you must see it clearly!" ”

Chapter 443

Yanzhou has a large area of water, and the golden autumn season is its most beautiful time.

She had seen the water in Huainan, where there were reed flowers and maple trees, the reed flowers were as pure as silver, and the maple trees were more fiery and red than the rising sun. In the swaying waves of the setting sun, there seem to be ten thousand points of golden light between heaven and earth.

But then she was haunted by the water, and most of her soldiers were wounded, and they walked through the water tiredly, bothered by the mosquito bites, and the dampness, and people kept falling ill, and people were left behind.

Therefore, Lu Hangyu does not like Mizusawa very much, unless it is an ambush battle, this kind of terrain is a big trouble for her.

But now that she had slowed down her march for the time being, Daze, which was rich in flora and fauna, had become the target of her concern, and she found that Daze, which she had once resented, also had its benefits.

There are many rivers and lakes in Ozawa, and if you can weave a fishing net, you can catch a lot of fish and shrimp, and even a child can push a stone from between the streams, and there are a few panicked crabs ready to run away.

In addition to the edible wild vegetables and wild fruits, there are many plants that are not suitable for humans but are very suitable for the stomach of birds, and they all bear heavy fruits in this golden autumn, attracting waterfowl to eat.

So every morning, after a burst of smoke curled from the Yanzhou village outside the camp, people in ragged clothes rushed to the water's edge in droves.

The women of the family will coax their children to say that a light diet is suitable for their healthy growth, and may even scare them with some absurd stories, such as a child who is very greedy and clamoring for food every day, and his parents dot on him and indulge him, and finally he bursts his belly, and the blood flows all over the ground, and what he eats also spills all over the ground.

The children were choked back by tears, and did not dare to make any more noise, so the woman could proudly give the man the piece of wheat cake she had hidden, and hand him a jar of hot water that she had boiled in the morning, and ask him to take it with her.

The men had to go hunting, but the women were not idle, and they would follow the caravan, carrying their own baskets, and going out to laboriously gather wild vegetables and fruits, and perhaps work in the fields, and then reclaim a small patch of vegetables. If they have a precious sickle in their hand, they can cut some reeds and bring them back, and it can be woven into many useful things, such as a shed to shelter from the wind and rain, such as a mat where the whole family can sleep comfortably, and of course it can be made into a wider variety of handicrafts that can be exchanged for some grain and rice with others.

The people who do the work are generally not young and middle-aged women, but the grandmothers of the family, who may be deaf and blind, but they still have the work in their hands, and they can get together after the young and strong laborers have gone out, and while doing the work neatly, while chatting, while staring at the children crawling all over the ground, scolding them loudly, and asking them to be honest.

As for the children who were slightly older than the young children, they seemed to be the lowest members of the family, hungry and scolding.

So there are also very witty children who can fill their stomachs while collecting firewood everywhere, including but not limited to touching a few crabs in a nearby stream to roast them on the fire; It is also possible to collect more dry firewood, sneak around the barracks, and beg the soldier who came out to collect firewood to get some dry food and exchange it with him; But more likely to be eyeing other people's vegetable patches, such as secretly picking two small vegetable leaves that have not yet grown.

…… But stealing vegetables may not be so serious in normal times, and now there are people watching the vegetable fields of every household, and once it is discovered, it will inevitably become a big thing.

So when the sun went down and the young laborers returned to the village with more or less prey and ingredients, they could always see some old grandmother scolding her so much that she almost vomited a mouthful of blood.

This kind of scolding made everyone present feel like a year, but fortunately, seeing that they returned with their prey, the scolding may have subsided.

Then comes the happiest time of the day.

The first class of large fish or birds could be sent to the barracks, and some officers would buy this game and pay the bill generously with grain and rice;

The second-class prey could be sent to the scholars to try their luck, and they generally had their own servants to go out hunting, but not necessarily as the luck of these chiefs, so that when they wanted to have a treat at night, it was possible to spend some grain to buy it;

The third-class things will be sent to the merchants, and they will definitely lower the price, and may even play a little trick on the payment of the bill, but they will always exchange these bloody things for grain mixed with more or less weeds;

The worst of the worst, not prey, and therefore unsellable, will end up in front of the children, they may be small fish of poor size, they may be some strange fish that will cry, they may be something that has four legs and crawls quickly against the ground, or even the prey of some prey, such as something that has been eaten by a large animal...... But the poor are always not picky.

Just bring a pot of hot water to a boil and throw in the chopped meat, then the washed and chopped wild vegetables in as well...... It would be even better if the bear child was not so pitiful, but could contribute a few more loaches!

In this way, they gathered around the steaming soup pot, waiting, and expecting, until each of them was given a large bowl, and a small piece of wheat cake mixed with a lot of bran, and ate it with relish.

Most of the time they eat outside the shed, and the rudimentary stove is usually placed outside so that there is plenty of room to sleep in the shed.

But once in a while when it rains, they are forced to go back to the shed to make a fire and cook, and at this time, they always have to be careful that the sparks will burst out and light up the shed they have worked so hard to build.

After the fire is extinguished, the pot is brushed, and all these precious belongings are put away, the family can go into the shed and lie down.

They lay on their shabby mats, and perhaps a star or two could be seen above their heads, and as soon as night came, the autumn wind swept in the coolness of the crevices in all directions, so that they had to endure the cold, though they lay side by side, close to each other.

- Mother, when the mat is finished tomorrow, don't sell it, and replace the old mat on the roof of the shed.

After the man whispered this, the woman beside him immediately slapped him with her elbow.

——It's easy to say, if you are like the king next door, Ah Feng, who can catch geese to please the nobles, why should we be so tired that my mother weaves mats every day and changes a few liters of grain and rice to eat!

The man was very aggrieved, but he didn't know what to say, he couldn't justify that the family next door was originally from Orion, and his ancestors had always only farmed, so he went to embarrass the water birds, which was a very aggrieved thing for the water birds and him.

The atmosphere in the shed was a little depressed and fell into a cold field.

When the old grandmother finally decided to make a round and persuade her daughter-in-law to say a few words, there was a sudden snoring in the small shack.

First the son snored, and then the daughter-in-law also snored next to him.

Finally, there was the old grandmother, who still wanted to talk a few words, but also decided to wait for the future.

Everyone was very tired, and after a short period of complaining, they all briefly escaped from this hard reality and entered a sweet dreamland.

This is true throughout the village, where every house has no lights or sounds at night, only the sound of snoring.

A dark shadow crept out of the water.

With this little moonlight, I held my breath and concentrated, bent my waist and shrunk my back, and approached the ruined village step by step.

Their eyes glowed with a faint phosphorous fire, so when they looked away, they felt that they were not living creatures, but ghosts that slowly crawled out of the depths of the swamp and mire.

But when I got closer, I could hear their breathing, which was becoming more and more rapid than to hide.

Such a rich village is right in front of them, and they can't be blamed for being so greedy and thirsty.

The people of that village ate not weeds, not dirt, not their young sons, but food!

They had sent people to see from afar during the day, and there were still children running around the village!

A child with such soft flesh and bones can walk in the sun without worrying about being robbed!

As they quietly approached the village, two hundred paces, a hundred paces, the big tree at the entrance of the village, which had been burned by fire and had sprouts, gradually became visible, and the bodies of those black shadows suddenly stiffened.

Someone walked by outside the village with torches.

They were very different from the ragged chiefs of the village, the torch-lit men were dressed in clothes that might have been patched, but still neatly groomed, and the long shadows showed the broad, almost murderous shoulders when the moon shadow shone.

They even had long knives around their waists.

It is a few miles away from Lu Lian's camp, and it is not very close.

Therefore, when those black shadows stared at this village, they didn't expect to see the Qingzhou army patrolling the night.

It's just that they're on patrol outside the camp, why do they come here to patrol the night?!

Their thoughts became sluggish for a while, but when the fire shone on their faces, those Qingzhou troops would not be as slow as them.

"Bandits!"

There was the sound of hurried footsteps!

First one, soon into a group!

Those strong men drew their long knives and chased after them!

Their hideous faces were like demons in the firelight—they must be real demons!

…… Run!

Someone sat up from the shed and poked his head out in horror to look around;

There are also people who are very curious, not only get up and go out, but also want to climb the big tree, climb high and look into the distance, and take a look at the famous scene of suppressing bandits;

Of course, there are many people who are so tired that they don't know what happened during the night, and they just sleep until dawn.

The man's eyes were wide open in confusion, and he saw the smoke rising from the shed, and the voices of women, who seemed to be talking about something very remarkable, but his mind was not yet fully clear—of course, it didn't matter.

It's still a hard day.

And it's no different.

Chapter 444

The people of Yanzhou have a hard time, they have to work hard every day to hunt and fish, collect wild vegetables and fruits, and at the same time look at their own fields, counting the days when the vegetables will be ripe.

There was no food, and even though they had just experienced a good harvest, it had been plundered by the soldiers and horses of different forces, so they could not only eat the prey they brought back every day.

They also had to take advantage of the fine weather to disembowel the surplus prey that could not be exchanged for food, and dry it to dry.

So this brings us to the next question: dried fish and dried meat all need salt, where does so much salt come from?

Lu Hangyu made orders to those wealthy merchants in Yanzhou, and those merchants were happy to help, but if they didn't take the waterway, it would always take time to get around the fortress cluster in Xuzhou, and the swamp was so difficult to walk.

Even the food in the army has become light - more than one soldier complained that the food they ate was tasteless, you must know that less than half of them are from Xu Zhou, most of them are from Qingzhou, not far from the sea, so it may not be easy to eat and dress warmly, but there are still two jars of pickled vegetables at home, and now they are eating vegetable soup that is stingy with salt, and there are some complaints.

Lu Hangyu was also drinking soup, drinking the same soup as a soldier, but the leader of the gang was still very respectful to her, and put a bird leg bone with a little cartilage left into her soup bowl, which looked very imposing - there must be no meat, after all, this is a big pot of rice, and all the meat on this water bird has been stewed into the pot, so soft that only a little shredded meat can be fished.

She picked it up and nibbled it carefully, occasionally biting off the cartilage and tendons on it.

Xiao Er and Xiao Wu watched from the side in horror.

The general's expression is always very kind, but now his pale face is hideous and murderous, like a leopard-tailed tiger tooth in the Book of Mountains and Seas, and a creature with fluffy hair and good howl.

She narrowed her eyes slightly, tensed the muscles in her cheeks, and her eyes suddenly burst out! Then came the sound of bones breaking!

The general's expression was peaceful again, her eyes were half-closed, her gaze was forward, as if no one was looking, her mouth made a gurgling sound, and in her hand she held in her hand half of the leg bone of a water bird, the bone stubble on which was stubble and bloody.

…… This level of eating bones is even more powerful than that of dogs.

The two beautiful teenagers were in awe of each other.

This bone is terrible.

Lu Hangyu was engrossed in chewing to prevent sharp bone slag from cutting through his mouth, and at the same time, he was also feeling the not-so-good taste in his mouth.

Their recent food is very friendly to blood pressure, and the lightness can definitely get a compliment from cardiovascular and cerebrovascular doctors.

But for a soldier, there is no doubt that she will lose strength without salt, so she needs supplies, a lot of supplies.

The supplies are being delivered later and later, and the things that are being delivered have not decreased, but the frequency of intervals has become longer, and everyone will naturally feel struggling.

The reason is also very simple, Xu You's camp has been built more and more, which has affected the road from Guandu to Chenliu.

If the baggage team escorts a large number of soldiers, the amount of grain and grass consumed will increase exponentially, and it has happened in history that ten portions of grain are transported but nine portions are eaten on the way.

But if you don't send enough soldiers and horses to escort it, then you can't tell who is cheaper.

For the time being, she didn't think of how quickly and easily she could crack these camps.

Of course, it is not that there is no one on her side who stays behind the enemy to block Yuan Shao, such as Gao Shun, such as Lu Bai Zhang Chao and so on.