Chapter 4 Soup kitchen
When the first rays of sunlight on February 3 of the seventh year of Guanghe broke through the sky and the mist fell, Liu Bei, who had stayed up all night, had no sleepiness, and his red eyes stared at the "Yellow Turban Thief" hundreds of feet away, still hidden in the mist. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The gray-haired pale head shrunk into a ball, the woman trying to wrap the thin child in her arms, and the young man rubbing his hands and dry wood stared silently at the gate of the dock fort outside the dock fort wall.
Liu Bei took the red date corn porridge handed by Jian Chun, the hot red date corn porridge soothed Liu Bei's nervous and numb nerves due to tension, the poignant picture in front of him was still real, some naughty children broke free from the women's arms and ran towards the dock fort, the barren heads shouted loudly, the dry wood boy quickly hugged the children back, and the children howled loudly under the scolding of the women and the cangtou!
Listening to the children's crying, the fragrant red date corn porridge had made Liu Bei lose the slightest appetite, and he put down the bowl in his hand and said to the patriarch Liu Le, who had just come up: "What will happen if I let them in?"
Liu Le heard the words and looked at the peasants lying on the ground outside, put down the bowl and said unconfidently: "It's the same township, it shouldn't be too much!"
"Won't it devour us in an instant?"
"Probably not!"
A few people who have never encountered a peasant uprising have no idea, look carefully at Liu Bei and wait for him to get an idea, the destructive power of each peasant uprising is extremely powerful, and a huge peasant uprising is the arrival of the end of a dynasty.
"Let's let people go out and distribute porridge!"
After hesitating again and again, Liu Bei really couldn't watch the peasants who were sitting quietly outside the wall of the dock fort starve to death little by little, and even do crazy things in hunger.
At three o'clock in the morning, the dock forts slowly opened, and the farmers who were sitting quietly began to make a commotion, and then they saw a group of young men pushing carts out, and the tempting corn porridge on the cart made the hungry farmers can't help but walk towards the dock forts.
"It's all for the old man to come back."
A white-haired man shuddered, and a young man with dry wood asked puzzledly, "What is Grandpa Nine doing?"
"What if it's Liu Heixin's trick? Rat, have you forgotten how Liu Heixin slaughtered the villagers last night? What if he uses a bowl of porridge as a guide to shoot them one by one? ”
The cangtou's scolding made the withered wood boy retract his steps, and a thin yellow girl nestled in the woman's arms poked her head out and shouted weakly: "Brother, I'm hungry!"
The thin body of the dry wood boy was shocked, and he turned around and ran towards the car in front of the dock fort, and someone led the young men out one after another, and the old man with a big head shouted angrily before the women could hold back the commotion.
"The mice are coming to drink porridge! Wait a minute, wait for the third uncle to get everything done and then serve it to you! ”
As soon as the mouse ran to the porridge truck, the third uncle who was working in the dock fort in the village greeted him warmly, the mouse was stunned by the enthusiasm of the third uncle, and thought that he would be shot by the people on the wall of the dock fort, who knew that Liu Heixin really wanted to give porridge? I can live, I can live. The mouse's heart is extremely hot, and it suddenly doesn't feel hungry or cold! said: "Third uncle, I'll help you."
"Okay!"
A quarter of an hour later, the teenagers walked back with bowls in their hands, and watched their younger siblings swallow corn porridge despite the heat, and it was so glorious to be the pillars of a family.
The rest of the peasants saw that the boy ran back intact, and there was no conspiracy as the old man had said, and they rushed towards the porridge cart in front of the gate of the fort, and some women and girls who had not had time to stand up were trampled under their feet by hunger.
The tide of peasants swarming in made Liu Bei a little scared and busy shooting arrows, dense arrows were shooting down a few steps in front of people, the people in front suddenly stopped but were pushed to the ground by the people behind, and several rounds of arrow rain shot down to make the crowd stop, and countless eyes looked at the city in puzzlement, although there was no word but the waves were surging.
The people of the Liu clan on the wall of the dock fort did not let them wait any longer before there was a deafening shout: "A bowl of corn porridge per person, children and women take it first, and the old people are young and strong, no matter who they are, they will line up to receive it in order, if there is a troublemaker, don't blame us for being ruthless under the arrow, and now the young and strong old man is flashing aside, letting the women lead the children in the front line."
The people outside the wall were still in turmoil for a while, and finally the ninth grandfather shouted: "Do what they say!" We're going to die! The children can still survive. ”
The crowd began to squirm, the women led the children to line up to receive the porridge, the young and old people on the side waited with hunger, and a guy with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks couldn't help but be hungry and mixed in the women's group, and after a while, he was shot by the Liu clan with an arrow.
The originally orderly crowd caused a burst of chaos, but fortunately, under the persuasion of the old man, calm quickly returned, and the woman and the girl and the child quickly finished receiving the porridge, and the rest were the old man and the young man.
"Xuande, I'm afraid it will cause trouble if they are full, not to mention that we don't have much food in stock?"
The elder Liu Hun came to the city with Liu Ling's support, and looked at the thousands of young people lining up to receive porridge under the city and comforted.
Liu Bei didn't know that so many young people got together, and if one was not good, it would bring great trouble to himself, so Liu Bei prepared gruel, and each person could only receive one bowl.
"Is there any way for the elders to stop them from causing trouble?"
Liu Hun's cloudy eyes emitted a gleam, and he shook his head: "I don't know, but the old man knows that once people have nothing to do, they will cause trouble."
Oh, yes! That's how Much Much About Nothing came about. Liu Bei thought of the very famous cash-for-work scheme, especially when spring is coming, spring wheat can be planted, and there is no tractor or quyuan plough that can be used for ploughing. But before plowing, clean up the corpses outside the wall.
There were three or four hundred peasants who were shot and killed outside the wall, but there were five or six hundred people who were frozen to death and trampled to death, and the corpses of nearly 1,000 people were used as nutrients to make Liu Bei's farm successfully rise to the fifteenth level.
The farm has been upgraded to the fifteenth level and has the size of six acres, that is, 30,000 grains of corn, after a corn matures, there will be dozens of corn, dozens of corn produced by the farm can make a young man eat two full meals, corn can mature four times a day, one-tenth of a mine, 108,000 corn will mature in a day, can ensure the survival of 54,000 people.
In this chaotic world, as long as people don't starve to death, someone can come to take refuge, which is also Liu Bei's only capital in this troubled world.
Nearly 1,000 young people packed up their bodies under the supervision of dozens of Liu clansmen, and began to set up a reed canopy outside the dock fort to avoid the cold, and then began to take a hoe to reclaim in the reed grass outside the dock fort wall.
The old and young women and children used a large number of reeds to weave into reed armor to wear on their bodies, the reed armor is not only stronger than coarse cloth clothes but also warmer, even so, there are still more than a dozen people and children are frozen to death every day.