In the wild outside the 100-household house on the rocky beach, a group of children were digging wild vegetables.
There is always not enough food here, and wild vegetables are only half the year's food.
An eleven or twelve-year-old boy was carrying a basket on his back, taking the family's skinny big yellow dog and his eight-year-old sister, looking for wild vegetables while walking. Lunch at home is these vegetable dumplings.
Both parents were drafted to build the village wall.
They have to dig wild vegetables to feed themselves and their sister.
His name is Zhuzhu, and he is a child of a military family.
Lord Baihu moved everyone to the town. Now there are too many people digging wild vegetables, and they have to walk a long way.
Everyone was hungry and walking was painful.
Fortunately, 100 adults T-shirts are available for everyone.
In the past two days, barrels of porridge have arrived by ship.
Every morning, the entire household, regardless of age or sex, is given a bowl. Each person is also given a stainless steel basin as cutlery and a steel spoon.
That steel basin is so beautiful. It can be used as a mirror and can clearly reflect people's figures.
That porridge is so delicious! There was a thick layer of oil floating on it.
I also added salt. It’s been a long time since I’ve eaten salt.
The soup also has the flavor of spices.
Thinking of this, his stomach growled unsatisfactorily.
Quickly tighten the belt made of straw rope.
"Brother, I still have a vegetable dumpling that my mother brought here. You can eat it first."
"Brother, you're not hungry. Nanny, be good. You can eat it. This is what my mother gave you."
As he spoke, he stroked the girl's withered hair lovingly.
"Woo, woof, woof woof" Dahuang became irritated inexplicably and started barking in a low voice.
The little girl was short enough to hug the neck of this skinny dog with a big frame.
"Dahuang, don't scream, are you hungry?"
The little girl comforted Dahuang with her little hands.
The boy felt something was wrong, so he climbed up a big locust tree with his hands and feet.
Look around. The wilderness opens up in the sunshine.
On the distant horizon, facing the sun, several black spots appeared at the junction of heaven and earth.
Then, more and more black spots appeared.
The speed is very fast, as the distance gets closer.
He saw clearly, cavalry!
He quickly slid down the tree. He grabbed his sister and put her on Dahuang's back.
"Sister, listen to me,"
The little girl was in pain from being caught by him, and looked stupidly at her anxious-looking brother.
"Hold Dahuang's neck and don't let go. Dahuang will take you back to the village. Brother has something to do and will go back later. Don't come out when you get home. Wait for your parents to come back. Remember."
The little girl nodded stupidly.
"Brother, give me your backpack, we are going to eat vegetable dumplings tonight."
"Obey, don't stop. Dahuang, run back, go home, run!"
The big dog whined anxiously, refusing to leave its little master behind.
Zhuzi was anxious, picked up the branch and pulled it over.
"Get out of here!"
Dahuang let out a grievance scream.
Carrying the little girl on his back, he jumped out like an arrow.
The little girl stumbled and almost fell down, so she hugged the dog's neck tightly.
Zhuzi kicked over the basket on his back, took out a gong that Mr. Wang Qi had given him when he took it out, and banged it as hard as he could.
"Bang, bang, bang." In the wilderness, the sound of the gong could be heard far away.
Everyone stopped what they were doing. Stand up and look around.
Zhuzi ran towards the town, beating the gong and shouting: "Stop digging, run quickly, the horse bandits are coming."
"Run quickly, the horse bandits are coming."
With a bang, the group of children exploded, running back in a swarm of cries.
Some shoes ran away, but they came back to pick them up. Shoes are important property, and you will be beaten if you lose them.
"Dunzi, you're crazy, don't stop, run away." Zhuzhu grabbed Dunzi and kicked and beat him to drive him away.
"Wow!" A little girl of seven or eight years old ran away from her family and sat on the ground crying.
There are people running around everywhere. I don't know whose family it belongs to.
The cavalrymen in the distance heard the gong and immediately began to speed up.
Two legs cannot outrun four legs, let alone a hungry child.
Soon the cavalry caught up.
The sharp saber flashed, and a small human head flew up. The body ran forward a few more steps before falling down.
Zhuzi gritted his teeth, hugged the little girl and covered her mouth, rolled with the force, and rolled under a big rock. There was a small pit there, which he had accidentally fallen into before.
He leaned close to her ear and whispered: "Don't be afraid, don't talk, they won't hear you."
The killing outside continued. Some people screamed with their bones broken by horse hooves, and there were voices begging for life. And helpless crying.
At this moment, the little girl quietly opened her eyes. The skinny brother beside her gave her a great sense of security. She suddenly wasn't afraid anymore. Calmed down.
In the distance, Dahuang had already run into the village. The little girl looked back and cried: "Brother, brother."
The wall has not been completed yet. In the past ten days, everyone worked day and night, and they only built three feet high and five feet thick. Commander Wang Dali and Commander Zhang Wuge looked outside anxiously.
Fifty cavalrymen swamped dozens of children in an instant.
Wang Dali angrily hammered the unfinished wall with his fist.
"These beasts."
Brother Zhang Wu shouted, "Hurry up and have the messenger go out through the back door and ride on horseback to report the news to Master Baihu and Master Qianhu."
"Distribute weapons, hurry up, distribute weapons"
Thirty waist knives, thirty-five bows, and sixty sharp spears were quickly fired. The remaining three hundred and twenty-one strong men were carrying long-handled axes for cutting down trees that had been brought by the boat this time.
According to the order of the adults of the hundred households, the women first gave each person a bamboo pole with one end sharpened, and the sharp end was burned with fire to increase the hardness.
Everyone stopped their work and carried the simple horses made of thorny shrubs and thorns cut from the mountains in recent days up to the wall of the village. Everyone huddled behind the three-foot-high village wall.
The cavalry ran thirty meters away from the village wall and did not advance any further.
The leader saw the newly dug three-meter-wide and two-meter-deep surrounding trench, and the three-foot-high new village wall that had been built with rammed earth. There are also many thorns and horses placed on the wall.
Behind the stronghold wall and Juma, many spears were shaking.
I don't know how many people are inside.
They were prepared.
The raid had failed. There is no need to use precious cavalry to attack the enemy directly.
This small number of manpower is not enough to break through this well-prepared stronghold. It seems that there are many people with weapons inside.
Wang Dali waved his hand, "Shoot, shoot these bastards to death."
Some of the fifty or so hunters in the town used issued cavalry bows and striding bows, and some used their own hunting bows to shoot at these horse bandits.
For a moment, the arrows were like locusts. At such a short distance, the hit rate is still very high. More than thirty people on the opposite side were hit by arrows.
The next moment, Wang Dali and Zhang Wu Ge's eyes widened.
Only three people and one horse were shot dead on the opposite side.
The arrows were stuck in those people, dangling, and they had armor inside their robes.
Wang Dali and Brother Zhang looked at each other in horror.
They are not horse bandits.
The cavalry began to retreat, out of the range of the bow and arrow, and then began to walk around the stockade, faintly surrounding the stockade.
"Have the messengers gone out?" Brother Zhang asked.
"Sir, I'm going out to burn incense. I'm riding the fastest horse. The horse bandits can't catch up."
Brother Zhang Wu and Wang Dali breathed a sigh of relief.
