"The king cut our rations by half, and your good days are coming to an end. Today, Sun Ke is expected to exchange two thousand catties for you with me. The king also asked about you."
Qin Yu gave a soft hum.
Mrs. Li's face instantly turned pale, and she took a deep breath before saying: "My son, it doesn't matter whether your concubine is alive or dead. I just ask you to take good care of Wan'er. Don't let her be bullied. If you have a chance, please She sent her to Xiangyang, where my brother is an official. If the son does not want to stay here one day, he can also go to his concubine brother, and I will write you a letter."
"Mother, Wan'er don't leave you."
"Brother Xiaoyu, please don't exchange my mother for food. If you want, you can exchange it with Wan'er."
The mother and daughter hugged each other and began to sob again, but Qin Yu waved his hands impatiently.
"Alright! Isn't this still undecided? I'll think of another way! Let's eat first!"
"However, you can't sit idle all day to eat and dry meals, so I will set aside one hour every day in the future. I hope you can teach those teenagers to read. As for you, you are responsible for washing the dishes."
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For two consecutive days, with a bowl of gruel each morning and evening, the teenagers were all hungry and listless, so they still thought about learning Chinese and literate?
The mother and daughter were also dizzy with hunger, and even the daily queue training was cancelled.
After thinking about it, Qin Yu had to find Li Dingguo.
He is not going to borrow food.
Because each camp has food regulations, if Li Dingguo loaned him food, his subordinates would definitely have opinions, so he asked Li Dingguo to give him a vote.
"Brother Qin, Zhuangzi near Gucheng was beaten down by his eldest brother and the others. If we go to another county, the officers and soldiers in the county will definitely go out of the city to support. Now I only have more than 200 men who dare to fight. The two thousand people are young men who have never been on the battlefield. I'm afraid it's not easy to handle!" Li Dingguo said in embarrassment.
"Why don't you discuss it with other businesses, how about a partnership vote for him?" Qin Yu thought for a moment.
"Hey! Now everyone eats and drinks, who will go to work hard?" Li Dingguo sighed.
"Then let's do it alone. I have more than two thousand catties of gunpowder and a cannon. Don't you believe that even a landlord's castle can't be attacked?" Qin Yu gritted his teeth, and he couldn't bear the days without rice.
"Brother Qin, you don't know that some castles are actually harder to fight than the county."
"Oh! Why is this?"
"Because those family guardians are more desperate than the officers and soldiers, and those landlords will not hesitate to reward them in order to protect their families, so even if the door is blasted open, they will resist desperately." Li Dingguo explained.
"No wonder everyone doesn't want to move, or else, set the country, how about going to fight bandits and bandits?" Qin Yu tried.
"Huh! This is feasible." Li Dingguo's eyes lit up.
Compared to Zhuangbao, Shanzhai is indeed much easier to fight. As long as the gate of the village is blasted, the bandits will probably surrender.
"Okay, then let's make the decision, you go to the king for instructions, I will inquire about the target, how about the food gold and silver we will get at that time?" Qin Yu was overjoyed.
"Ok!"
Li Dingguo nodded. He also knew Qin Yu's current plight, and he was really afraid that he would borrow grain.
Immediately the two went to work on their own.
After several days of inquiries, Qin Yu finally locked his target on Niutoushan, thirty miles north of Gucheng.
So the two of them ordered their soldiers and horses together, brought dry food, and went to the north violently.
Li Dingguo brought a hundred old brothers and a thousand young men, while Qin Yu brought eighty young men with a cannon.
"Big brother, second brother, what are they going to do? The nearby Zhuangzi was beaten down by us a long time ago. Seeing that they didn't bring much dry food!"
"Huh! The ghost knows what they are doing." Sun Kewang frowned, and also couldn't understand it. Then he ordered the two men on the side: "Send two people to follow, and report it as soon as possible."
"Yes! Major General." The big man answered quickly.
Seeing that the team was far away, everyone returned to the city one after another, and continued to live the days of drunken life and dreams. No one wanted to move on a hot day.
For more than 30 miles, more than 1,000 people walked from morning to evening before reaching the foot of Niutou Mountain. The army had to camp.
At this time, the bandits on the mountain also discovered the situation under the mountain, and immediately closed the gate of the village and took strict guard.
"Brother Qin, is the news reliable?"
"Don't worry, Brother Dingguo, I have already found out. This group of bandits has only more than two hundred people. The leader is called Wang Wu. They are cruel and tyrannical. They are extremely mean to their subordinates. They usually burn, kill and loot. I must have saved a lot of money."
"Okay! In that case, let's kill these bandits tomorrow." Li Dingguo patted the table.
To be honest, he actually didn't want to come, because their refugee army is generally on the same front as the bandits, and now after listening to Qin Yu's introduction, they no longer care.
"Second Lord, someone outside the camp asked to see him, claiming to be from Niutou Village."
At this moment, the guard reported from outside the account.
"Oh! Bring in." The two looked at each other and nodded at each other.
"Yes!"
Not long after, a nasty-looking, tall and thin middle-aged man was taken into the camp. Seeing that there were actually two teenagers sitting on it, he was also shocked. He immediately reacted and clasped his fist:
"In the Niutouzhai army division, I have seen two major generals, dare to ask your army's name, why came to me Niutoushan?"
"Hmph! Listen well, we are the rebel army under the command of the Eight Great Kings. I heard that Niutou Village is a disaster for the land, and you are doing everything you want, and you are here to walk the way for the sky." Qin Yu snorted coldly.
"Oh! It turned out to be the rebel army of the Eight Great Kings, disrespectful and disrespectful. My head has always admired the Eight Great Kings very much. I heard that your army had arrived in Gucheng and was about to visit in person..."
"Stop talking nonsense, the two countries are at war. Don't cut your heads. Go back and tell you the master, and those who are acquainted will immediately go down the mountain and surrender, otherwise tomorrow will call him a different place." Li Dingguo slapped the table and shouted.
The thin and tall man was taken aback, and his heart was full of anger, but the opponent was so powerful that he had to accompany his smiling face and said: "This major general calms down his anger. I think there must be some misunderstanding in this. Or else, we would like to give your army a gift. With a hundred taels of silver tattoos and ten loads of grain, how about quelling this conflict?"
"When we are beggars? A mere hundred taels of silver and ten loads of grain want to send us, but you can speak out, let's go!" Qin Yu pointed at him and cursed.
"This little boy calmed down. The two newcomers did not know. At the beginning of the year, the officers and soldiers of Gucheng County also came to encircle and suppress our Niutou Village. There were a total of two thousand people. As a result, they didn’t even touch the wall, so they retreated with heavy casualties. Up."
"Why, you think our rebels were scared?" Li Dingguo stood up, staring at him stubbornly.
The thin and tall man was also taken aback in his heart, and quickly explained: "The major general calmed down his anger. I definitely didn't mean that. Your army is invincible across the world. How can my little Niutou Village be comparable?
It's just that the sword has no eyes. Once the war starts, there will inevitably be deaths and injuries. We are all against the officers and soldiers. Otherwise, how about adding a hundred taels of silver patterns and ten loads of food?"
"No need to say more, go back and tell you the master, if you don't surrender tomorrow, I will take his life."
Li Dingguo waved.
Seeing the resolute attitude of the other party, the thin and tall man had to clasp a fist and turn around and leave, but he cursed the rebels in his heart.