Volume 3 The Valley of Wu Wei Chapter 90 Let it be
Liu Jizu looked at Elder Long and Wu Lun again, both of whom squinted and remained silent.
Liu Jizu knew that this meant to let himself have an idea. He thought for a moment, turned to the eighty-seven children, and said loudly: "I know that many of you also want to leave, but you have no family and are still young, so you have no choice but to stay." Now there is a choice before you, take up a weapon and stab bravely, you are a warrior. I know it's cruel and even hurts you. But now are troubled times, there are still many dangers waiting for us along the way, and I can't wait for you to grow up and let you make decisions. If you really can't do it, you can't stand it, just stand up. I will ask Mr. Su to arrange for someone to send you home, and also prepare ten taels of silver for you, do you hear clearly?"
The children looked at each other, but no one moved.
At this time, a girl took the lead and said: "Childe, we are all sold, not as lucky as some sisters, and our families are still missing." Some of the family members sold us because they couldn't get by. But I'm not, my parents sold me to give my brother a daughter-in-law, and if you send me back, they will sell me again. It was Childe who rescued me from prison, and I am willing to follow Childe, and Childe will be my master from now on. I'll do whatever Childe tells me to do!"
Liu Jizu glanced at the girl and saw that she was relatively old, about twelve years old, with a delicate appearance and slightly dark skin. It seems that Wuwei Valley buyers have been picked, and in order to try cosmetics, they choose those with good facial features and good looks.
As soon as the girl spoke, a girl next to her also said: "Sister Yun is right! I'm even worse, I was sold because my father was in debt for gambling money, and if it weren't for the higher price of Wuwei Valley, I would have been sold to a brothel." That home is no longer my home, and I am willing to follow my son for the rest of my life. ”
At this time, the boy who impressed Liu Jizu said: "Engong, I was sold because my family was really desperate, and I have no support when I go back, I hope my son can take me in." As for what you said about killing people is cruel, I don't think so, although the thirty of us have not stayed in the Wuwei Valley for a long time, but life is worse than death all day long, they continue to torture us with poison, and I have no burden to kill them. Besides, Engong, you are only less than seventeen years old, not much older than us, you can go into battle to kill the enemy, why can't we?"
The other boys chimed in: "Yes, we won't go home, we won't even have enough to eat at home! We are willing to follow Eungong! We can kill the enemy!"
Liu Jizu turned his head to Divine Doctor Feng and said, "Divine Doctor Feng, you see, this is their own choice. Although they are still children, in order for them to survive better in the future, they can only be ruthless!"
Divine Doctor Feng sighed, twisted his head to the side, and stopped talking.
Hou Huaigu had to admire Liu Jizu, and easily shut up the most stubborn Doctor Feng. He first asked people to collect all the weapons left by those who left, and distributed them to the children, and then began to form a team, so that the seventeen adults, including Mr. Su, came first.
The captives who were still alive in Wuwei Valley were frightened when they heard that they were going to be used as targets to practice. But when I saw that many of those people had left, I thought that I had escaped. Now I saw the rest of the people coming in line with weapons, and they were so frightened that they whimpered in their mouths, and their bodies couldn't stop writhing, and some of them were even scared to pee.
These seventeen men were not much better than them, and some of their hands were shaking.
Hou Huaigu told them to line up, stabbing the dead first, and then the living.
Unexpectedly, the first person in line was actually Mr. Su, who took the initiative to stand first, and actually held a Xuanyuan sword in his hand. I saw him come to the first dead body, turn his head to the side, and stab him hard with both hands. Then he took a deep breath before he pulled his sword out with all his strength and walked over to the next dead body.
The people behind also stabbed down when they saw it, it was easier than Mr. Su, and soon the dead body was stabbed, and there were living people below.
After stabbing a few dead people, Mr. Su's eyes were firmer and his hands were steady. But when it was the turn of the living, he hesitated for a moment before he was ruthless and stabbed the man hard in the shoulder.
As soon as the sword stabbed down, blood flowed out, and the person who was stabbed writhed violently, glaring at Mr. Su with hatred, as if to say: "You weeds, how dare you stab our people from Wuwei Valley!"
Mr. Su was frightened by the man's eyes, and his whole body trembled, which came from years of humility, which made him extremely weak at this time.
Su Mengqi pulled out the sword with trembling hands, blood splattered on his pale face. The blood with the temperature calmed Mr. Su down. He stopped trembling, took two more deep breaths, and came to the next captive. This time he seemed to have overcome his fear, and without hesitation, he stabbed down with a single sword, crisply, and then drew his sword and moved on to the next one.
With Mr. Su taking the lead, the efficiency here is much faster, and soon the adults will be stabbed again, and there will be no captives alive.
Hou Huaigu nodded, and his hanging heart was also put down a lot, after all, it was too cruel to let children kill people, but it was different to stab dead corpses, because Wuwei Valley's disciples had to touch corpses since they were children, although they were also very scary, but they were still not the same as killing people.
He first arranged for Mr. Su to take the seventeen people and some warriors to pack up the vehicles, and then it was the turn of those children. Although they were very firm, when it was time to do it, they were still afraid, and a few of them were so frightened that they cried when they saw the dead bodies.
At this time, what is needed most is a leader like Mr. Su, the first boy to stand up is the child who impressed Liu Jizu, and the girl is led by the child known as Sister Yun.
Everything is difficult at the beginning, and it is easy to do it if someone takes the lead, and under the leadership of the two, they soon completed this arduous task. After doing this, the children were relieved, and Mr. Fan also finished distributing the money.
The people who had received the money quickly dispersed, and took with them the eight cars that belonged to them. The eight buses were all bringing patients to see patients. Mr. Su also took people to prepare the cars, although there were eight fewer cars, but there were more than 200 fewer people, and they were more relaxed in the car, but there were not enough drivers, and more cars could only be strung together.
The horse meat was also smoked at this time, and Hou Huaigu asked people to get some firewood and grass to pile on the fire, and put the corpses on it and burned them.
Hou Huaigu, Elder Long, Feng Shenyi, Su Mengqi, Fan Cheng and others redistributed the vehicles and horses. Several carts were set up to carry various supplies, and the meat of the five horses alone was loaded into three carts. When they had all packed up, they got on the carts, rode their horses, and continued to set off eastward, and when the last car was gone, the people who were guarding the road ahead let the passing merchants go.
Those merchants were very unhappy, and a few of them still wanted to do it, probably from the rivers and lakes. But as soon as I saw the two poisonous warriors in gray clothes, no one had any opinions, they all waited obediently, and they didn't dare to say cruel words, it seems that Wuwei Valley is really saying nothing in Jiangbei Province!
There are more and more rivers on the road behind, but fortunately they are all tributaries, the rivers are not wide, and there are bridges on the river.
According to Hou Huaigu, most of these bridges were built at the expense of Wuweigu. In the past, they had to rely on ferries to cross the river, which was very troublesome, and it was inconvenient for the transportation of medicinal materials and the exchange of people, so they built many bridges. Although this is to facilitate Wuwei Valley to do business, it is also objectively convenient for other people, and it can be regarded as doing some good things for the local area.
If there are good roads and more fields, there will be more villages and towns.
Everywhere Mr. Su went, he would arrange for people to inquire about the purchase, mainly to buy bows and arrows, food and forage. It is far from the city, there are many mountains, there are many hunters around, and there is a market town where there happens to be a craftsman who makes bows and arrows. They were going to buy all twenty-four bows in his hand, and the man was both happy and a little frightened, wondering why these men had bought so many bows at once.
But there was no reason not to do the business that came to the door, and now life was getting worse and worse, and he sold not only all the bows, but also all the arrows, a total of about five hundred. Although these bows are ordinary hunting bows, the workmanship is worse than his, and the material is average, but the strength is okay. Combined with the government-style bows returned by the six people who left, he now has thirty bows idle in his hand, and nearly fourteen hundred arrows.
In the evening of the same day, Hou Huaigu found a relatively gentle open space on the side of a valley road and set up camp.
In the middle of this valley is a road, and on both sides of the road there are many low shrubs and tall trees growing halfway up the mountainside, and the whole valley is closed, and there are cliffs on both sides of the road, and there is no vegetation cover.
They used horse-drawn carriages to surround two circles, and arranged all the people who knew martial arts to patrol the outer ring, and Hou Huaigu also sent spies to both sides of the road. Under the arrangement of Su Mengqi and Fan Cheng, the seventeen adults chopped firewood, dug stoves, lit fires, set up pots, fetched water, and prepared food for everyone in the inner circle.
Liu Jizu took this opportunity to gather all the eighty-seven children and found an open space to teach them archery. He found that although these children were only in their teens, their height and weight were not as high as those of the same age in their previous lives, but their minds were much more mature, and they were like little adults.
What's even stranger is that they all have good physical complexions, even better than the children of his age he saw on the road. Liu Jizu guessed that this might be because the peasant children of this era, if they didn't study, they would have already done farm work or hard labor for several years, so they seemed mature, and in these days in Wuwei Valley, although there was no freedom, Wuwei Valley needed them to keep their health healthy and eat enough in order to test drugs and drugs, so they looked very good.
Liu Jizu stopped his thoughts, and with the assistance of Seventh Sister and Ye Zi, he divided them into three teams. The first team of boys is led by Liu Jizu, and the girls are two teams, each led by Qimei and Ye Zi. Each team of about 30 people, lined up in three columns, one column of ten people. Liu Jizu gave the bow and arrows to the first team, let the other two teams watch from the side, and then began to teach them archery. The three teams of children took turns to shoot, and Liu Jizu and the three of them guided by the side.
These children are very serious in their studies and will soon be able to grasp the essentials, although their strength is a little worse. But this problem is not a big problem for children of their age, Liu Jizu has personal experience, as long as the nutrition keeps up, and then practice diligently, the strength can soon be greatly improved.
As it got dark, the smell of horse meat wafted through the camp, and many of the children began to swallow.
Liu Jizu was about to laugh at them when he saw it, but his stomach screamed angrily, and the sound was very loud.
Everyone laughed.
Liu Jizu also smiled and arranged for the boy to pack up all the bows and arrows, and then disbanded and went to dinner.
Cooking for so many people is not an easy task, and there is a series of work to be done. Therefore, for convenience, the meals are made in a large pot, and there is nothing particular about it, so you can only be full. They used the simplest method, which was boiling. Large pieces of horse meat are boiled in a large pot, and the seasoning is only salt.
Wu Lun complained when he saw it, saying that they couldn't do good things, and said that he would find time to teach them well in the future.
In fact, this can't be blamed on Su Mengqi and Fan Cheng, horses are originally rare in the Central Plains, and the Central Plains people eat less horse meat, and they can't even eat a piece for life, so they won't make it in the first place. In addition, this was on the way to escape, and they didn't have the kitchenware and spices they had to take advantage of, so they had to settle down.
Although Wu Lun was not satisfied, the others did not see it that way, they were already hungry, especially those children.
It's hard to get a hot meal on the way out, let alone nutritious meat, who cares about the taste.
About 10 people gathered around a pot of boiled horse meat, grabbed the steamed buns and cakes they bought on the road, grabbed the meat with their hands, and devoured it.
Not to mention, it tasted good, and after eating the meat, everyone took turns to drink the soup with a spoon.
Liu Jizu frowned when he saw it, he felt that this was unhygienic, but there were no bowls on the way to escape, and even these spoons were used by Su Mengqi when he bought a pot in the town of Wuwei Valley. He thought to himself, let's wait until he settles down, he doesn't have time to think about these little things yet.
When it was almost time to eat, Hou Huaigu quietly came to Liu Jizu's side.