Chapter 97 The Mountain People
Chapter 97 The Mountain People
Ruhua and the ladies carefully inspected the missing ears, most of them were broken from the root of the wheat ears, and there were no signs of birds or beasts pecking at them, so they must have been thieves.
You must know that the thousands of people in Diqiu, old and young, young and strong, men and women, although not all of them are simple and good people, but most of them are from honest people, and they cherish food the most, whether it is public land or their own. His green tassels were broken and ruined, it will kill him to be struck by lightning!
The rest of the dishonest horse bandits and green skins are either paid by the sentinel guards, or just earn a living in the cafeteria. Even if they go to a construction site to find a part-time job, they can make a living. Who dares to do it under the nose of the urban management? Such immoral things?
Mr. Li built a mill next to several large waterwheels, and used water power to hustle and grind wheat and corn. The two large bluestone mills produced fine and greasy wheat flour, which was used to make Lijiazhenpu pasta. The steamed buns are soft and fragrant, the soup cakes are as slippery as the tender skin of a baby, and Chef He's disciples smashed a few big bones and stewed them in the pot. The delicious taste is indescribable!
Even the corn is ground by the water mill, and the rough shell is gone, and the porridge is fragrant and smooth, and it can be smooth in a bowl.
If it weren't for the high consumption of polished noodles, the canteen on weekdays only serves rough noodles, steamed buns, and millet porridge, and only labor points can be exchanged for those expensive meals. The lives of these people are actually more nourishing than the old landlords in the past—— Landlord Where are you blessed to have eaten Li's steamed stuffed bun? !
How can anyone regret running to pick fresh tassels in this green and yellow field?Aren't you afraid that the black dog's leader Zhong Wudi will whip you if you steal chickens and dogs to waste food? !
If it wasn't done by "insiders", it must have been done by thieves from outside.
Since the wheat was scarce, they and the girls in the painting stared at the number every day, and saw nothing unusual during the day, but it was always less the next day, and there were still some messy and scattered footprints in the wheat field. It is confirmed that there are thieves, not some wild animals.
The thief guessed that there was more than one, but he seemed to have a bit of conscience. He didn't mention the rows of vigorous, colorful, and seemingly extraordinary wheat and millet in the experimental group, but stole them from the strange flowers in the control group, didn't he? The one lying down like a vine is a branch with seventeen or eighteen roots.
But no matter how weird the food in the control group is, it’s because they took care of it so hard. They watched it grow little by little, and they had to compare it with the experimental group every day. After the autumn harvest, it was everyone’s food. How could they be willing to let a few thieves ruin it? up? !
It's just that it's not convenient for a group of girls to be on duty at night. Let those helpers take turns, and they are too simple and honest to catch thieves at all.
Just like this, they were stolen for more than ten days one after another, and the little girls were all black-eyed and wanted to lose the golden beans. They couldn't bear it when they entered the painting, and they sued the city management -- petty theft is the jurisdiction of the city management.
The boss of the city management department attaches great importance to this case, and needs to know that food is the paramount necessity of the people. The food produced by the Li family boy in this field is so weird, but it is also a good harvest. This case is naturally treated as a key case and handled as a key point.
So Lao Zhong sent a team of two to take turns guarding the Maisu field day and night, and that's how today's big show of catching a thief happened, and Master Li just happened to run into it.
"Keep silent? That's fine! Did you see the mountain over there?" The two prisoners who kept silent made Mr. Li feel a little embarrassed!Sure enough, there is a specialization in the art field, next time this kind of work should be done by that guy Chai Dongcheng, and he is not bad at teaching and educating people anyway.
"I won't kill you, I won't beat you, if you tie it to the big tree, it will be a meal for the bears!"
Si Lu was very knowledgeable, waved his hand, and the attendants shouted in response to Mr. Li, while reaching out to pick up the two little thieves.
Li Xian stared at them closely, only to see that the older one seemed to be relieved, still shrinking silently, but his hands and feet were not so shrinking.Look at the tattered clothes on his body. Although they are old and dirty, they are out of shape, but they can be seen to be close together. The lower garments are wrapped in coarse linen, there are no shoes on his feet, and the soles of his feet are as thick as calluses. .
[These two are definitely not in the same group, the older one is a mountain man!Look at that movement, look at the style of clothes, they are all starving ghosts, not fellows! ]
[The little one really doesn't look like a mountain man, anchor Zhong, let's analyze the skull and bones!Look, let me tell you, they are obviously people from the northern frontier, not to mention their facial features, even the tooth socket wear marks are different, they are probably refugees from the war. ]
I get along with the masters a lot, although most of them are quite boring and like to bluff aggressively, but everyone has knowledge as deep as the deep sea, especially in various weird categories, someone can say one, two, three Let's analyze it in detail, and even though Li Xian often slanders, he is also extremely convinced in his heart.
Since they have analyzed the identities of these two little thieves, they are generally close to each other.
A mountain dweller and a refugee all came to steal Diqiu's food, and it didn't look like they were in the same gang, which was a bit interesting.
Hearing Mr. Li's menacing words, the little food thief shook involuntarily, his eyes full of fear.
Li Xian also had a point in his heart, glanced sideways, and ordered someone to pull the little one back into the "city", wash it clean, and let Chai Dongcheng interrogate it, it's okay to suffer a little, don't be too heavy on your hands and feet.
Seeing the little one being dragged away and being left alone, the big one panicked.
"Both of you, beat him until he confesses."
Lord Li lifted his chin, and handed him over to the two city management officers who had chased the thief for several miles.
Clap!ah ah!Howling ghosts and howling wolves.
Once the invincible city management whip is out, how can there be people who dare not speak?
That guy was crying and screaming very quickly, but he spoke a strong dialect in the Northwest Mountain Col. If it weren't for the urban management who was also a horse bandit in the Northwest, he might not understand what he was snoring about.
This guy is undoubtedly a mountain dweller, his name is He Chun. Since his grandfather's generation, he has fled from famine and entered the mountains, opened a few dry mountain lands that are not yet big enough, and hunts small animals on weekdays to make a living. If you do it, you won't even be able to marry a daughter-in-law.
Originally, this life was difficult, but I have endured it, but in the past six months, there has been a drought for more than half a month, and the barren land has no crops. Since a certain official was stationed in Diqiu, in order to feed the guards and soldiers , Let the crossbow team go up the mountain to hunt twice in three days, not to mention the rabbits, pheasants, roe and deer are almost extinct, they can run away, even the forest kings, wolves, tigers and leopards have no choice but to move to the deep mountains.
In this way, the mountain people living in hiding on the outskirts of the mountains can neither hunt small animals nor have the ability to find happiness in front of tigers and bears, so they must tighten their belts to dig wild vegetables to survive the spring famine.
Unexpectedly, in the past few months, many refugees who do not know how to live or die have poured into the mountain. They stuff their mouths when they see something edible, and they don’t know how to survive in the mountains. I don't know how many there are, and those edible weeds and vegetables have been planed clean.
How can the mountain people endure this kind of mouth-grabbing?However, there were too many refugees, and they were all so hungry that they didn't care about anything. They fought several battles, and each of them suffered casualties.
Whether to fight or not, but people always have to fool their mouths in life.
If you want to go into the deep mountains again, it is a narrow escape, and ten lives are not enough. It is really helpless. After eating all the edible things around the vast mountains, the refugees and the mountain people are all staring at the nearby land that looks like a fairy. crop land.
It's just that there are thousands of people led by the officials there to live and work in agriculture, and there are also many vicious generals. Going there to find food is not much different from touching a tiger's buttocks. A few people really dared to go down the mountain.
When the wheat first ripened in midsummer, the few who were about to starve to death couldn't take it anymore, and rushed down the mountain just to eat a few meals before they died.They dare not go to densely populated places, and dare not move the majestic wheat. They just go to the strange field at night to steal a few ears of strange wheat to fill their stomachs. If they are really poisoned to death, they will avoid suffering every day.
Unexpectedly, these wheats grow strangely, and they are not poisonous. The more they eat, the more hungry they will be. When they get dizzy from hunger, they don't care about life and death. It's better if they can live for another day, so they eat it every night. Come and steal...
"There are a lot of refugees coming from the mountains? How many of your original mountain people are there? How many refugees are there?"
Lord Li touched his chin and asked, tsk!Just thinking about the lack of manpower, this is delivered to the door.
"Refugees? Very, many. Mountains, mountain people? Yu Dazhuang's family, Smelly Ya's family..."
He Chun was illiterate, let alone counting, his nose was blue and his face was swollen, and he was so dazed that he couldn't explain why. When it came to the mountain people, he could only point his fingers at the few families he interacted with. When it came to refugees, he even used his toes. , I still didn't know how many people there were, so I could only say with my tongue tremblingly, "Many, many, more than rabbits in the mountains!"
"Well, that's fine, don't hit me yet."
Master Li waved his hand, and the urban management angrily took down the whip immediately.
"You ate the important seed wheat in my field, and I'll fine you a hundred boards, isn't it unfair?!"
After hearing the "translation", He Chun's face turned pale, and he kowtowed desperately, screaming for mercy, not to mention a hundred boards, ten boards from his body would kill him, he wanted to live, even if It is good to be able to live for a while even if they are living such a life that is not as good as pigs and dogs.
"Okay, let him stop howling!"
Lord Li gritted his teeth, and was shocked back half a step by the tragic cry, mother, such a shriveled jujube, I can't tell that the sound is louder than a gong, what a talent!
"The [-] rods are recorded in the account, let him lead the way to the mountains, and pull five people down the mountain to do work, and then give him one board, if no one can be recruited? Ten boards every day!"
Seeing that guy listening to the urban management's translation, with a confused expression on his face, trying to count his stinky feet with his fingers, Mr. Li gasped, and quickly covered his nose and asked the urban management team to pull him back. Propagate Diqiu's salary as a worker, and after a few days, let this guy lead the guards up the mountain to arrest people, heck, up the mountain to recruit workers.
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