They tied the reins of all the horses to the trunks of the trees in the middle of the mountain, led a horse to the top of the mountain, blindfolded, fixed their feet on all fours, and slaughtered them.

At first, Chaoyang and Hu were a little unable to do anything, after all, these horses had been ridden, and they could be regarded as saving everyone's lives, but think about it, these are the war horses of the Japanese army, and they will not be killed in vain.

It's easy to kill a horse, but it's very difficult to cut the skin, but fortunately, when Chaoyang was a child, he saw his grandfather do this, and found the smallest knife, which reached into the body of the dead horse, and slowly separated the skin and flesh with a knife.

The horse skin is thick and the pulling force is large, but there are many of them in Xiucai, and there are many helpers, and it took a long time for everyone to cut off a whole horse skin.

A horse has a lot of meat, and it can't be eaten raw, and barbecue on the top of the mountain in broad daylight is dangerous, and there will be smoke, which may attract Japanese planes.

Secondly, there is not so much fuel, these timbers and planks are to be kept for horse rafts, Xiucai called Da Kui, a young and strong young man with good water nature, with iron trees, big bulls, silly tigers and other young and strong young men, to collect the wood and planks that floated over by the water.

Later, Da Kui simply tied the wood to the door panel and made a wooden raft, on which several people stood and rowed out, and collected the wood around the hill not far away, tied it with ropes, and dragged it back to the hill.

Da Kui and the others picked up some long bamboo poles and made a few long hooks with bamboo poles, which could be caught by a little farther wood, and they could also catch strange things on the hooks.

For example, wooden cabinets, boxes, tables, stools, wooden boards, bed frames, bed boards, etc., and even pots and pans, and a few large iron pots have been fished, which solves the big problem of cooking and eating.

Doglegs and bamboo poles brought a few people, and the original simple stove in the dark castle was modified, repaired a lot bigger, and according to the size of the big iron pot, three stove eyes were made, and they were tightly sealed.

The chimney was also made longer, and a few small holes were opened every short section, so that the smoke turned into fine smoke and dispersed in the air, and in the hot weather of June, the scraps of wood that were fished up were quickly dried on the top of the mountain, and it was easy to burn, and the smoke was not large.

In this way, several large iron pots were poured with water from the wells, and all of them were boiled, one pot was dedicated to boiling hot water, one pot for cooking horse meat and horse bones, and the other pot for cooking rice.

However, everyone didn't have much rice, they used to eat it raw or baked rice, but now Xiucai didn't dare to eat all the rice that everyone carried, just cooked a small part, and the rest was fried, and then put it back into everyone's rice bag.

There is also a problem, the small well in the dark castle, because of the excessive water, is about to dry up, and the water that is full again is pale yellow, obviously affected by the large water outside, and seeps in.

This kind of water can't be eaten, there are too many poisonous things in the water outside, not to mention dead pigs and dead dogs floating on the water, there are also dead people, and I can't say whether there are poisonous gas bombs in the weapons of those devils, and they also sink in the water, which is too dangerous.

The monk asked people to bring up the water, put it in a few big tile gangzi, precipitate it first, then drain it out, put some anti-inflammatory and anti-virus tablets into it to soak, and finally put it in a large iron pot to boil and precipitate before it can be used.

At first, they were a little slow to handle the horse skins, and they were not skilled in groping, but then they slowly got faster, and they were able to handle several horses a day.

In addition to boiling a lot of horse meat, they also cut some pure meat into strips, skewered them with bamboo skewers and dried them as dry food.

This time, fortunately, Sangou brought a bag of salt with him, otherwise this boiled horse meat in clear water is cooked thoroughly, and he can't eat it if he eats too much, not to mention that horse meat is far less delicious than pork, beef and mutton.

In the past few days, Sangou has drunk a lot of thick horse bone broth, his body has recovered quickly, and the wound has healed very well, but he still can't move, and the location of the injury is more embarrassing, but everyone is a single person and doesn't care.

Because I want to take advantage of the good sun, take off my pants and dry the wound, it's better quickly, Sangou doesn't care so much, take off the pants below, now I can sit up, wipe the wound with a hot water towel, and put it in the sun.

Three days later, the flood did not subside at all, but now everyone was not hungry, nor did they feel too anxious, and besides, they were all busy, and they did not have much to think about other things.

The bearded sun rises faster and the speed at which they cut the skins of the horses is increasing, and the horses are almost slaughtered, and the endless horse meat is piled up, and the stove is boiled and roasted day and night.

The roasting speed is too slow, so take the cooked meat slices to the top of the mountain to dry, which is also a good way, and soon the sun is relatively dry, and then take it back to the oven to continue roasting, and the speed will be faster.

The day before yesterday, they had collected five or six horse skins, and they tied a few horse feet and horse neck skins tightly with their beards, and blew into them, blowing round, and everyone changed to blow, blowing dizzy, and finally blew up several big leather balls.

The beard cut off the skin of the horse's head, cut it into strips, boiled it half-cooked and half-dried, and then rolled it into a horseskin rope with great tenacity, and then tied the horseskin balls to the wood and planks, and the first horseskin raft was successfully launched.

After trying the carrying capacity, it is indeed amazing, just six horse balls, there is no problem with five or six people sitting on them, Xiucai plans to make a few more boats, and then load the dry food.

Eating horse meat all day long, his mouth couldn't open his mouth, Da Kui made a fishing hook with a sewing needle, made a fishing rod with a bamboo rod and a horse skin rope, and took minced horse meat to fish on the side of the hill.

Da Kui saw that there were really fish in the water, and he was even more energetic, using the strength of the children in the fishing village by the Yangtze River, soaking the bark, withdrawing the silk tendons, and actually weaving a fishing net.

The next day, I rowed a wooden raft to "go to sea" to fish, and at the end of the day, the harvest was quite rich, and I caught dozens of big fish from the Yellow River and came back, and boiled in a pot, and the fish soup was delicious and abnormal.

Everyone seems to be living a happy life, but Xiucai doesn't think so, and always looks at the water level he marked, for fear that once the water level drops rapidly, the devil will come again, and there will be no good life.

Besides, it's impossible for you to live here for the rest of your life.

Dakui and the others still go out every day, that is, wooden rafts, to salvage some messy things and come back, of course, there are more dead people and dead animals on the water now.

The dead people and dead animals that sank to the bottom a few days ago have now surfaced, and they have begun to rot, emitting a foul smell, and Da Kui is not willing to open his net to fish, and he has caught too many disgusting things, and even the fish in this water feel disgusting.

Due to the ferocity of the previous war, a large number of ordinary people in this area have all fled, and most of the villages are almost empty, so the loss of life of the people is relatively small, but all the homes have been destroyed.

After such a large amount of water has been soaked for so long, not to mention that it will take a long time for the land to recover the mud power for planting crops, or it will emit so much toxicity, I don't know how long it will take.

If the flood recedes, people will come to live immediately, and there will be a plague. Not to mention the future, just now, looking at the corpses of people and animals floating and rotting on the water, it is also a hell scene on earth, and the lives of the people are miserable.

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