As night fell, the Su Lu leader finally rushed to Li Xiaoqin's camp, and his eyes were miserable.
In dozens of shacks, the seven or eight hundred guards were squeezed. Everyone was skinny and skinny. Li Xiaoqin, the strongest man, was almost 20 jins thinner than that day when he called for Su Lu's soldiers.
When Kou Cheng, the guide, saw Su Lu, he kept holding his thigh and crying, it looked like a dead father.
As night fell, the tent had not yet been set up, but a large pit was dug out by the guards on the ground, which was large enough to accommodate thousands of people to sleep.
Although the pit was shallow, it scared Li Xiaoqin enough, and took Su Lu's hand with tears in his eyes:
"Have I already sentenced me to the camp? Did you fight on the spot?"
Li Xiaoqin, who was almost forty years old, cried like a child. He was wronged. It wasn't that Xiaoqin didn't try his best. The mountain road was so difficult to walk.
Su Lu patted Li Xiaoqin on the shoulder: "What do you think, bury you with everyone's painstaking effort to dig out such a big pit to bury you."
Li Xiaoqin wiped away his tears, and when he understood, he was relieved immediately, pulling Zhao Pu next to him and asking:
"How did you get here? By the way, your heavy armor and iron guns, why are you only having this idea?"
Li Xiaoqin Barabara kept asking.
Su Lu ignored them and directed Su Ping and Li Kun to throw all the firewood they found into the pit and divide them into dozens of piles. They should not be too close, otherwise it would affect everyone's food.
The cauldron stood up, and the melted snow steamed hot for a while, and it didn't take long before it started to boil.
Su Lu ordered Li Kun to lead people to pour the pre-prepared spices and peppers into the pot.
"You must put enough in each pot. The weather is cold, damp, and cold. If you want to survive, the brothers have to rely on these things for their lives."
Su Lu told Li Kun that this is a life-saving thing. If everyone's body heat is not enough, they won't be able to survive tonight.
Soon, a fragrant smell came out of the boiling pot, mixed with the spicy taste of chili, causing a group of guards to throw their jerky into the pot one after another.
The jerky was hot as soon as it was in the soup, and after a few turns, it was picked up by the person who threw the jerky and returned to his mouth.
Li Xiaoqin looked at Zhao Pulao eagerly at the jerky: "Zhao Canjun, where's our jerky?"
Zhao Pu pointed to the fern piled up on the ground next to him: "Dudu Su said, you should eat that first."
A group of hungry, skinny monkey-like guards only dared to scold their mother in their stomachs.
Li Xiaoqin looked constipated: "Chenjun Zhao, Brother Zhao, let me call your brother all right, is this something special to eat?"
After staying here for four or five days, Li Xiaoqin found everything he could eat, and he firmly didn't believe it was edible.
Kou Cheng picked up the chopsticks, took a chopstick and threw it into the pot. He was not so particular. When he was a child, his family was poor and he could eat the leaves of the trees. These brackens would definitely be edible even if they were cooked.
Governor Su did not allow everyone to eat meat, he must have the idea of Governor Su, eating vegetables will not kill people.
"good to eat"
Kou Cheng took a bite of the hot boiled bracken and said vaguely, then numbly gathered the remaining bracken together, picked it up with chopsticks, blew the heat, and swallowed it.
At the entrance of the hot bracken, a warm current filled the cold body, the spicy taste of pepper rushed down the throat, and the warm current instantly warmed the whole body. The cold seemed to be isolated from the body, and the whole person was ironed. .
Kou Cheng closed his eyes, feeling like he was about to fly.
"Really tasty"
Kou Cheng had tears in his eyes. From childhood to childhood, after eating so many things, he didn't expect that bracken was the best.
Infected by Kou Cheng, a group of people put bracken in the pot one after another, Li Xiaoqin's chopsticks swiftly, before reacting, they ran away Zhao Pu's jerky.
"The bracken can be delicious with jerky, I don't believe it."
Without the jerky, Zhao Pu could only pick up a chopsticks bracken. After swallowing it, Zhao Pu stared, "It's so delicious."
Li Xiaoqin didn't believe it: "Fart, bracken can be delicious with jerky."
"Huh, it smells so good."
Li Xiaoqin robbed Zhao Pu of bracken while admiringly said:
"The person who invented this way of eating is really a god. The unpalatable bracken becomes a good thing that is incomparable with the delicacy of the mountains and the sea when it is hot. I have eaten in Bada Hutong in Beijing, and I have never seen such a delicious one. "
Zhao Pu snorted: "It's as if you've actually been to Bada Hutong."
Li Xiaoqin's eyes stared: "Lao Tzu is also the home of Xunqin at any rate, and the Anyuan Mansion in Xicheng is Lao Tzu's home."
Zhao Pu immediately admired it and said: "Disrespect and disrespect, cheating on the home of ancestor Li Zhihuai, I know."
Li Xiaoqin was immediately discouraged and threw his chopsticks to curse:
"I will break the two legs of the turtle son sooner or later, and shame me all day long. I said Lao Zhao, this way of eating will not be the way our governor came up with it? It's really fragrant."
Zhao Pu nodded, then took out his job and greeted everyone:
"Of course it's the captain's way, otherwise, who can come up with such a good way. Drinking soup and soup, can survive tonight, rely on a mouthful of soup."
Li Xiaoqin saw that everyone had a bowl, but he was empty-handed, angered, and picked up the cauldron.
At night, Li Xiaoqin looked at the buried fire with a strange expression: "Capital Governor, we just sleep like this, won't we be frozen to death?"
Su Lu pointed to a pile of woolen skins on the ground, and ordered: "This is yours, you are responsible for distributing it, and you can go to sleep when you wrap it up. It will be more difficult to walk tomorrow."
After speaking, Su Lu was wrapped in sheepskin and lay on top of the buried fire. The heat below had already risen, and the soil began to heat up. This warmth persisted overnight and it was not a big problem.
When Li Xiaoqin woke up the next day, he moved his limbs a bit, but he didn't even feel freezing, and he suddenly became strange. In the old days, dozens of brothers huddled together, and these arms and legs were still cold. Today, they are wrapped in a sheepskin, and it is so warm.
Kou Cheng, who had already woken up, touched the soil on the ground, with an expression of sudden enlightenment on his face: "General Li, the soil is warm. It will freeze."
Li Xiaoqin grabbed a handful of loess, it was really warm, not cooler than his own hands.
Looking at Su Lu who was instructing the guards to burn snow and melt water over there, Li Xiaoqin's face was full of shame. I was very happy when I replaced Governor Su to lead the army, but now I understand that I was so stupid at the time. It must be extremely difficult for a powerful figure like Governor Su to refuse.
Regret not at the beginning!
After eating the early food, the guards also packed up and saluted and started to set off.
"Throw away the iron pot and just keep the waist knife that you carry with you. In front of you is Wangliangling, which is the hardest to turn over. After Wangliangling, we will really survive."
Su Ping and Fatty Zhao shouted back and forth in the team, reminding the guards to discard heavy objects and pack lightly.
Kou Cheng looked at the iron pot on the ground with a look of dismay, and asked Su Lu next to him:
"The Governor, if we lose the iron pot, we won't be able to eat the delicious food that last night."
Su Lu looked at the snow-covered Wangliang Ridge and let out a long breath:
"After Wangliangling, we can survive. This is what you said. When we arrive at Lintao Tunbao, where there are Tule people, we have some jerky for us to eat."
Kou Cheng reluctantly turned his head several times to look at the iron pan, and was reprimanded by Su Lu. Only then did he cheer up and climb up the mountain.
Wangliang Ridge was very high, and the guards exhausted their efforts to reach the top when the sun turned to the sky.
The guard rested on the spot, Su Lu found a stone and sat down to rest, gnaw on the dried meat, and took a bite of snow.
After finally eating the jerky, Su Ping's startled voice caught Su Lu's attention.
"It's such a big river, this is going to the sky!"
"That is the end of the river, is it snow or white clouds, it looks like white clouds."
"Kou Cheng Koucheng, why is there a city over there, a lot of houses, is there anyone?"
Looking far away, in the distance, a big river rushes down from among the white clouds, and the white waves are surging to the sky.
Not far from the big river, a city can be seen blurry, but because of the long distance, there is no one at all.
Kou Cheng finished gnawing on the jerky without raising his head. He searched for the clean snow on the ground, took a bite into his mouth, and smacked his mouth and said:
"That's Liangzhou in the Western Qin Dynasty. It's far away from here. That's the origin of the name of this ridge. That river is called the Yellow River..."
Kou Cheng tells everyone the allusion here.
Su Lu looked into the distance and suddenly remembered a poem.
The Yellow River is far above the white clouds, and there is a lonely city, Wanren Mountain.
Why bamboo flute complain willow, spring is not degree Pass.