Chapter 20: Stepping on the Wind and Snow
Zhang Ping'an ignored Gu Xin's surprise and continued with anticipation: "We are short of time, I'll arrange the next plan. Girls from the Gu family don't have to leave. Take care of Gu Xin here, they are all their own people. If the tent is not too small and there are patients to take care of, everyone should come!"
"I continued to say that it would probably snow heavily tomorrow and we can't leave, but we guys have work to do! We use horses and cattle food to carry north to the cave on the north, and we probably can only go there once. The eldest sister of the Yang family and other women, the children are at home to cook and make dry food to take care of the patients. After the snow stops, all the people and animals are moved to the cave on the north." Zhang Ping'an glanced at the tent and nodded to show his understanding.
Zhang Ping'an waved his hand domineeringly: "Get up tonight, women, children who are sick will stay in the tent, so let's change it with them! You are not allowed to take the bearskin mats away! Sister Yang, don't say it, listen to me." Zhang Ping'an pressed his hand down to stop Yang Erhua's comments.
"Brothers, think about it; we will get sick and get hurt; when you are sick and get hurt, who doesn't want the best care! We are short of doctors and medicine now, so we can only do our best to take good care of them. In the future, a rule will be formed: at home, men should protect women and children. Never give up any injured brothers on the battlefield! Give them the best treatment! This rule is not allowed to be opposed!" Zhang Ping'an said earnestly and domineeringly.
Seeing everyone's reassuring expressions, Zhang Ping'an smiled and said, "I'll talk about the title. You can call me the boss inside, but you must call me the leader in front of outsiders. Deyin, how much do we do this time?"
"Brother, my elder sister and I carefully estimated that there were more than 1,600 stones of grain, 503 sheep, 52 cows, one caravan, forty-nine war horses. What kind of cloth, pot, bowl, water tank, too many crumbs, and too many crumbs. I didn't have to count them in a hurry. There were twenty-five sabers, nine waist knives, and many Mongolian knives, fifty-four; there were seven hundred and fifty-one arrows, and thirteen bows; there were thirty-two pairs of armor; there were not much gold, only a dozen taels of silver this time, and there were more than 300 taels of silver. There were quite a lot of wine. There were also soybeans for horses, and there were six stones of black beans, but there were not much salt, and there were only one bag." Lu Deyin replied while thinking.
Zhang Ping'an nodded with satisfaction: "It's very good! Tomorrow you will take Li Chen to take out the things under the cliff. We are now a big family and have a lot of things. The food is enough for us to eat for two years. Let's go to the cave on the north side to survive this winter!" (Zhang Ping'an will soon pay the price for his blind optimism.)
"Now change the tent, eat and sleep! What are these three boys' names?" Zhang Ping'an pointed to the three little boys in the tent and asked. Although these three little boys looked much bigger than Zhang Ping'an, they knew that even the seven-foot man in the tent bowed to Zhang Ping'an, and they dared not act rashly, especially along the way, when they heard that Lu Deyin had made Zhang Ping'an a god.
The three of them immediately stood up and bowed and clasped their fists. The tallest one of them took the lead in answering: "If you are the boss, we are all from Changshan Town and Xujia Village. My name is Xu Town."
"My name is Xu Liang."
"My name is Xu Yian."
Zhang Ping'an pointed his hand at them: "Tomorrow you will follow Brother Deyin and go transporting grain with us!"
It took six days for this group of people who were struggling for survival to finally move all their supplies to the wintering place designated by Zhang Ping'an.
Under the snow-capped mountain top, there are five-long and three-meter-wide cave entrances embedded in the axe-like rock walls, and the slopes are covered with gravel. Zhang Ping'an organized everyone to send patients, women and children into the cave.
Zhang Ping'an arranged: "Only a part of the food is put in. Cattle, sheep, horse and other animals are arranged in the southeast corner first. We go to the top of the mountain to cut wood, and directly go down the mountain. Rotten wood makes fire, and good wood is used as a fence to surround the animal. We have to work hard and try to build the fence and the ladder to enter the hole today! The eldest sister of the Yang family took the woman to cook, and used water to emit bean sprouts from soybeans. There was no vegetables to eat. After a long time, everyone would be sick! I have to kill a sheep first, and then take the brothers of the Xu family below, dig a trench according to the line I drew. Don't dig when it hits a hard ground. The snow is more than three feet long. Press the big wood to death with snow on both sides. The work of erecting the fence will be done later. Brother Chen and his brothers will do it. Let's do it!"
The sun sets very early in winter, and most of the fences are not finished. Zhang Ping'an waved: "Everyone goes back to the cave to have a meal, and leads the horse to the big rock west, and there is no wind there. Carry the lamb into the cave, and ignores everything else! If a wolf comes, the horse will call the police! I'm tired all day, everyone will have dinner and finish the work tomorrow!"
Zhang Ping'an and a group of men sat around the fire in the cave and ate mutton, with mutton soup, stretched their tired legs comfortably, and the man passed the wine bag in his hands, exhaling the alcohol happily.
Zhang Li was drinking wine and sighed: "We are just like these days, following the young boss, eating delicious food and drinking spicy food. It has been almost two years since we finally ate white flour cakes and mutton! If we eat like this every day, we will never live in vain in this life! Little boss, I heard Brother Yin say that you have studied and tell your brothers about the things in the book!"
Zhang Ping'an glanced at the women six or seven feet away from them, and was silently gnawing on the bread and mutton. Although he looked tired, there was a little blood on his sallow face.
After Zhang Ping'an graduated from the military academy in his previous life, he went to the company to lead the soldiers and knew that he should not be too gentle to the veterans. So he turned to put down the soup bowl and said to a group of men: "I'll tell you a paragraph." Seeing that everyone stopped eating and drinking, they all focused on listening to him.
Zhang Ping'an waved his hand and signaled everyone to continue taking: "That's right, the emperor saw that the palace maids were listless in the harem one day, and he was very puzzled. So he asked the imperial physician to enter the palace and treated a group of listless palace maids. Soon after the imperial physician finished the treatment, he returned the emperor: the ministers had finished the treatment, and the illness was the same. The emperor asked: Can you have a good prescription for treatment? The imperial physician replied: The medicine will be cured in five days! The emperor was overjoyed and ordered the prescription to be prescribed quickly. The imperial physician waved his pen and took the prescription.
Leave it to the emperor. When the emperor saw it, the prescription read: Ten strong men! The emperor ordered the ten strong men to choose the strongest ten in the Yulin Army. Two days later, the emperor returned to the palace and saw happily that the maids in the harem were very happy. As expected, the imperial physician was so powerful that the medicine was cured! So he came to the imperial physician again and said, "You are indeed a good method!" However, the emperor pointed with his hand, and the man who was sitting or lying under the wall, with pale faces and trembling legs asked: What's going on? The imperial physician replied: The medicine residue!"
A group of men laughed like thunderous laughter, and the eldest sister and sister-in-law also blushed. Lu Deyin, Gu Xin and the Xu brothers looked at Zhang Ping'an with a blank look on their faces.
Lu Deyin raised his little face and asked in confusion: "Brother, I didn't understand, please tell me in detail!"
Zhang Ping'an curled his lips: "You little brat, go there! But everyone, drink less wine, I still have the help of this wine. In the first half of the night, the eldest sister of the Yang family and Deyin were watching at the entrance of the cave. If you have any questions, call us. In the second half of the night, Chen and I will wait for a walk! Go to bed early after eating!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Yang Erhua blushed and asked Zhang Ping'an: "Brother Ping'an, our soybeans may not be eaten for long. There is no wild vegetables to pick in the snow and ice, so you have to think of a way!"
Zhang Ping'an scratched his head: "This is a big problem. I'll think about it tonight. What else is missing. You think about it. Let's solve it at one time. There is another thing for you. I put a few large jars in the north and south of the cave entrance. The woman in the north and the south gate belongs to the man. I pull all the urine inside, and only urinate, no shit, and no other debris are allowed. If anyone is stooling in the hole, I ask him to take it out with his hands. Do you understand?"
"Brother, what are you doing?" Lu Deyin was a little confused.
"I'm very useful. Just do it. Don't ask why. Do you understand? If I know, who dares not do it? I will chop off the head of a man and drive him away to feed the wolf!" Zhang Ping'an was very domineering.
Seeing that no one was making a sound, Zhang Ping'an stood up and yelled angrily: "Didn't you hear it?"
At this time, everyone reacted, and Zhang Ping'an continued: "After the fence is finished tomorrow, I will purify the wine. See how I do it. The wine will be gone after drinking this half of the bag tonight. I will purify the other medicine to wipe the wounds. The elder sister of the Yang family is also responsible for cleaning the hole. You can arrange it, and every woman will take a day. If someone throws miscellaneous items in the hole, it is the man who told me that each person will have three whips. Women, just do it and hit three sticks. Don't be afraid of offending others, I will support you!" (To be continued)
Chapter completed!