There is a saying that 'poverty limits my imagination', and in the same way, a rich life will also limit people's imagination, making people wonder how poor they were back then, and what incredible things they did because of poverty.

For example, getting up in the early morning to pick up chicken manure under other people's trees, this is a scene that people in the rich era can't imagine, and in that special era, this kind of behavior is a common phenomenon, and even, because of an inconspicuous piece of chicken manure, causing two children who pick up chicken manure to fight, if it is serious, the adults of the two families will even be involved, and if it is more serious, it is a confrontation between the two ethnic groups, and finally it is common to make trouble in the county government.

Picking up a piece of chicken manure is a big thing, it will cause such serious consequences, which shows the poverty of the people, the poor people are often not full, so it is good to harvest one or two more grains, and the harvest of grain is closely related to the fertility of the land, if the land is not fertile, the crops are not good, and the harvest will not be high, so in order to make their own land at home, can produce more food, every household will try their best to collect fertilizer, The manure and urine in your own home will be piled up in a fixed position, and for the huge demand for land, such a little manure and urine is definitely not enough, so it has become a good idea to go out and pick up manure, whether it is chicken manure, cow dung, or bird dung falling from the sky, as long as it can become fertilizer manure, you will not miss it.

And in the process of picking up dung, some people will naturally find that in the early hours of the morning, the efficiency of picking up manure is the highest, and the most feces can be picked up in a unit time, after all, people in every household want to sleep at night, so that the feces excreted by animals can have no one to pick up for several hours in a row, and the number will naturally be much more than during the day, so getting up in the early morning to pick up manure is the best choice for many hard-working people.

Adults have to work in the field early in the morning, specifically take time to pick up manure, obviously some can't draw, compared to picking up manure, or go to the field to weed more efficiently, and the work of picking up manure, naturally falls on the children, these children are weak, can not do any farm work, picking up chicken manure is completely competent, and, adults more or less also want to face, early in the morning to pick up dung, it seems very embarrassing, and children don't care, others will praise the child for being sensible, get up early, The more children they pick up, the more sensible they become.

And some children will inevitably be lazy, get up late and do not work hard to pick up dung, if the harvest is insufficient, will be spanked by the adults in the family, such children are ignorant and disobedient children in the eyes of adults, some disobedient children in order to avoid being beaten, will choose to snatch the feces picked up by other children, this is the bullying incident from the lowest level, but also the fuse that causes major conflicts.

People in the era of affluence, when they look back at this matter, will find it quite interesting, but when they are also in this era of material scarcity, the mood will be completely different, maybe they will do such a thing!

Horse thieves are mainly robbed, farming is only auxiliary, and there are no children in the nest, therefore, horse thieves will not be idle to pick up bird droppings, horse manure is larger, and basically piled up in various stables, this is naturally to pick up, this is the main source of fertilizer for horse thieves, the amount of these horse manure is huge, much more than human feces.

"The land, fertilizer, the soldiers planted some vegetables and fruits here, the Xiazhou City of the province was supplied, plus the food in the cave, all the food supplies did not need to be provided additionally, but the seized silver taels were too small, and the military salary still had to be provided by the imperial court."

Lao Guo said.

Li An nodded and said, "Yes!" The horse thieves had taken away all the valuable gold and silver treasures earlier, and there was only grain and horse manure left, but when our army completely exterminated the horse thieves, the gold and silver would be ours sooner or later. ”

On the gentle slope in front of is a defeated sweet potato field, the sweet potatoes in it have long been dug out by the thieves and put into the cave, but the sweet potatoes in the field must not be dug up, as long as you dig again, you will definitely be able to dig a lot.

Li An and Lao Guo squatted down and gently dug a few times with the small branches they were holding in their hands, and they dug up a few sweet potatoes, but these sweet potatoes are relatively small and buried deep, so they will be missed by horse thieves.

After all, the roots of sweet potatoes can also be rooted very deep and far, and when digging sweet potatoes, for efficiency, it is unlikely to dig very deep, and if you are busy and tired, there will definitely be some omissions, which is more serious in harvesting peanuts.

In Ang Lee's childhood memories, he went to the field to dig sweet potatoes, and basically dug them every year, and every time the sweet potatoes were ripe, Ang Lee would follow his family to dig ripe sweet potatoes on the slope of the second machine station.

The main sweet potatoes are naturally dug by the adults in the family, and Li An is mainly playing, and then, after the adults dig a sweet potato ditch, Li An will pick up leaks inside, as long as he picks up one, he will tell his family loudly, in order to prove his awesomeness, and every time the result does not disappoint Li An, because every time he picks up, he can harvest a lot of sweet potatoes, and even, sometimes he can harvest a lot of sweet potatoes, which shocks his family, and even suspects that Li Ang did not dig from the ground, but out of the pockets of the earth.

And even if you pick up the leaks, if you come to pick up again the next day, you can still pick up a lot of huge sweet potatoes, even if you dig sweet potatoes in the ground every day for a week, you can't guarantee that all the sweet potatoes in the field will be dug up, the sweet potatoes in this field are so stubborn, no matter what, you can't finish digging, and in the spring of the next year, these sweet potatoes will grow new sprouts from the ground again, which is a big surprise, it turns out that there are still remaining sweet potatoes in the ground that have not been dug up!

Ang Lee and Lao Guo played a competition, and the two of them picked up leaks in the field together to see who picked up more.

"Lao Guo, I've picked up six, and you've only picked up three, it's slow!"

Ang Lee said with a smile.

"Hey, it's old, people can't disobey the old! The eyes are not very easy to make. ”

Lao Guo said helplessly.

In fact, this has little to do with the eyes, mainly because Lao Guo has never planted sweet potatoes, does not know much about the growth habits of sweet potatoes, and will not judge where there are sweet potatoes according to the phenomena on the outer surface of some land, so the probability of finding them is naturally relatively low, and Li An is too familiar with sweet potatoes, and he is very familiar with the root system of sweet potatoes.

After looking for a while, Li An had already picked up more than a dozen sweet potatoes, while Lao Guo had only lost four.

"Don't look for it, let the soldiers come and play when they're fine!"

Lao Guo was tired and threw four sweet potatoes on the ground.

"General, this is the result of the review, and these horse thieves have all confessed."

A soldier came to report the situation.

Lao Guo took these materials and made a rough browsing with Ang Lee.

"This one doesn't tell the truth at first glance, and it's definitely not a sincere surrender."

"This is not good, there is an orphan, not even a relative."

A horse thief without relatives is not concerned, and it is difficult to control, and it is indeed not credible.

"Lao Guo, this is good, he is from the Central Plains, his family is in the countryside on the outskirts of Xiazhou City, because the fields have deteriorated and there is no way to live, the family will go their separate ways, my brother and parents went to Xiazhou to do hard labor, he was deceived by high remuneration into the camp of horse thieves, mainly responsible for feeding horses to horse thieves, and has not killed anyone, nor robbed."

Ang Lee finally found a trustworthy person, such a person is possible to control, but it is still necessary to determine the identity first, in case this identity is made up by himself, it will be bad.

"Well, it should be true, it's already very clear here, if you make it up blindly, it is impossible to make up so many details, and it is so seamless, and the brother he said is not a hard labor, and now he is a soldier under my command."

Lao Guo glanced at the information, and suddenly thought that there was a soldier named Big Pony among the soldiers under his command, according to the description of the pony thief, it should be his brother, which made Lao Guo overjoyed.

"And such a good thing?"

Li An smiled, glanced at Lao Guo, nodded and said, "Go and call this person over alone, we will review it personally." ”

Soon, the pony thief was led into the sweet potato field outside the back door, and the soldiers stepped back to protect him.

"What's your name?"

Ang Lee asked.

"Little Pony."

The foal replied.

"Why is that a name?"

Ang Lee felt that this was like a nickname, not like a real name at all.

"Ye Niang gave it this name since I was a child."

The foal replied.

"Okay, foal, do you like being a horse thief?"

Ang Lee asked.

"I don't like it, they don't count when they talk, they said they would pay me twice, and as a result, they detained me here for several years, except for good food and drink, they never let me leave, I haven't seen my family for so many years, and I don't know if they are doing well."

The foal spoke.

Lao Guo interjected: "What a hard-working child, how is your family doing, I want to ask your brother." ”

"My brother's name is Big Pony, is this here?"

The foal was a little excited.

"Don't worry, it's already been passed on, and I'll be able to come over soon, can you first tell me about the dozen or so people who were captured, what are the origins, are they willing to give their lives to the horse thief?"

Lao Guo said.

"The others are better, the one-eyed leader is not a good person, he is a close confidant of the leader, he is usually extremely arrogant and domineering, and often bullies us people, I heard that he has also killed people, the general must not let him go."

The foal spoke.

"Ben will have his own strategy, you just need to tell everything you know."

Lao Guo opened his mouth to teach.

The little foal explained some situations one after another, which made Li An and Lao Guo very satisfied, and the more they knew about the situation of the horse thief, the more beneficial it would be to deal with the horse thief.

After some time, the big foal finally came.

"Erlang, you kid is really not angry, how did you become a horse thief."

The big foal came up with a punch, and the hit was quite heavy, which is the deep responsibility of love, and the heavier the hit, the deeper the feelings.

"If you don't learn well, let you not learn well."

The big foal was a little out of control, and hit him many times in a row, and he felt the urge to kill his own brother.

"Don't fight, your brother also has a hard time."

Lao Guo couldn't stand it anymore, and hurriedly persuaded him.

"General, no matter how hard you are, you can't be a horse thief, it's the villain who can't discipline him, and I ask the general to punish the crime."

This proper bitter meat trick, clearly pleading, is actually pleading, this routine is too common, and Ang Lee can hear the cocoon.

"Okay, don't ask for guilt, there is an opportunity to make meritorious contributions, as long as your brother can grasp it, you can clear the blame, after all, he just feeds the horse thief and cooks the horse, and the crime is not big."

Lao Guo said.

"Please also ask the general to give an order, our brothers will not hesitate to go to the soup."

The two foals hurriedly knelt on the ground and said.

Lao Guo looked at the brothers and said: "Little Pony, I want you to return to the side of the leader of the horse thieves, be my internal response, and pass on the news when you have the opportunity, and the big foal is responsible for taking the news, however, this matter is extremely risky, and the slightest carelessness will give away your life, you have to think about it, in addition, your relatives are still in Xiazhou City, if you take refuge in the horse thief, the consequences will be very serious." ”

"Although the general can rest assured, our brothers will not take refuge in the horse thief even if they die, even if there is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire in front of us, we will definitely complete the task assigned by the general."

The foals spoke.

"Do you have any plans for how to get in touch? I heard that horse thieves are very strict with their subordinates, especially low-status grooms, it is basically difficult to leave the nest, even if they go out to collect firewood, they are a group of more than a dozen people, and there are two leaders who are responsible for supervising, and there is no chance to separate, how should the information be transmitted? ”

Ang Lee asked.

"Our brotherhood will learn bird calls, and many birds can call them, and we can use the sound of birds to convey messages, and we can completely avoid the surveillance of horse thieves."

The foal spoke.

"Haha! It's not easy for you to still have this ability! In this way, it is much safer. ”

Li An said happily.

Lao Guo waved his hand and said, "Little pony, go back!" Big foal, you go back too. ”

"Lao Guo! The scouts who had infiltrated the horse thieves before had never been able to pass on the news, but now that we have the Little Pony and the Big Pony brothers, we may be able to complete the task of passing on the information, so that we can fully grasp the initiative. ”

Li An said.

"Yes! After so many months of confrontation, it is finally possible to move seriously, at most a month, we must eliminate all the horse thieves, and all the moths in Xiazhou must be dug out. ”

Lao Guo said confidently.