"Uncle Ninth, why? There are 8,000 of us here and we are still afraid of the 2,000 rebels?" I saw the mistress in the veteran's mouth replying to his Uncle Ninth with a look of disdain.
The uncle Jiu mentioned by the mistress was named Li, ranked ninth, and was known as Li Laojiu. He and the third son's father were brothers. This mistress is also called Qiu Yun, and he ranks third in the village, so Li Laojiu calls him the mistress.
"You kid! Why don't you listen to the old man? If your father and I weren't brothers, I wouldn't even bother to risk beheading to tell you this. Do you think Sixth Brother's soldiers are so easy to defeat? ? I just surrendered quickly, otherwise I would be like loess underground now." After listening to Qiu Yun's words, Li Laojiu lectured angrily.
"Uncle Jiu, don't be angry. How dare I not listen to you? My father told me that you have been a soldier for decades, and I must listen to you no matter what." With that, Qiu Yun He also came to Li Laojiu's back and gave him a gentle hammer on the back.
"Well, go, go, go, stand back quickly. If the patrol sees the report and reports it, we will all be whipped." Li Laojiu hurriedly drove back Qiu Yun who came over.
"Yes, Uncle Nine." Qiu Yun quickly retreated after hearing this.
Then he turned his head in the direction of Li Laojiu and asked: "Uncle Jiu, are Brother Six's soldiers really powerful?"
"Awesome, they are all about the same age as you. Although they are not tall, they are all strong, and they are good at fighting. They may not be able to defeat us individually, but we are definitely no match for them. ." Li Laojiu thought back and said
"They are just a bunch of rebels. Are they as good as you say?" Qiu Yun asked suspiciously, feeling that Li Laojiu was exaggerating the power of his enemies to destroy him.
"At first, I thought I overestimated them. But those guys from the Eight Banners of the Han Army have proved it. Don't believe it, my mistress. Uncle Jiu, I won't harm you. If you want to steal military glory, find someone else to fight. Don't even think about fighting. Brother Six, I don’t want to take your body back to your father to explain to you." Li Laojiu warned Qiu Yun again.
"Don't say that. How can I not believe you, Uncle Jiu? I'm just curious why you said that." Qiu Yun apologized hurriedly and asked
"Let me ask you, how often do you train now?" Li Laojiu secretly took a puff of cigarette again and asked Qiu Yun.
"Training? It's been a while. I used to train more frequently, but now I practice probably every five days!" Qiu Yun was a little confused about Li Laojiu's question.
"Then do you know how often Sixth Brother's soldiers are trained?" Li Laojiu continued to ask
"How do I know this? I don't practice every day!" Qiu Yun replied with a little breathlessness.
"Well, you're right. Just practice every day." Li Laojiu replied
Qiu Yun heard Li Laojiu's answer and stared at his face through the firelight, but what he saw was an expression that said, "I'm not kidding."
"How is it possible? My body can't stand the food I eat during training. I can't practice for a few days without having to urinate blood." Qiu Yun subconsciously combined the food he ate during training.
"What do you think they eat? Are they the same as us?" Li Laojiu couldn't help but want to knock his two cigarette poles.
"What kind of good food can those mud-legged people eat? It can't be better than ours." Qiu Yun said with an attitude that I can't even look down on.
Due to the government's propaganda, Qiu Yun also believed that Zhang Rui and his gang were just idiots who dared to rebel just after getting a few steel knives. It is estimated that he has not been able to eat enough for several meals, and whether he can pick up the steel knife is a problem.
"You! You just like to listen to those guys' nonsense, you are a frog in the well. To tell you the truth, the food they eat is not comparable to ours." Li Laojiu looked at Qiu Yun and shook his head.
"Uncle Jiu, how do you know if you haven't eaten it?" Qiu Yun argued unconvinced.
"Hey, don't tell me, I've actually eaten it." Li Laojiu said with a smile, as if he had facts that could slap Qiu Yun in the face.
"Uncle Jiu is lying, how could you have eaten it?" Qiu Yun said stubbornly
"How do you know I haven't eaten? I ate when I was captured." When Li Laojiu said this, he suddenly felt hungry. He got hungry faster at night. Moreover, I had dinner a little early, and now I have to go out on guard duty at night.
"They don't eat breakfast and dinner like we do. They eat three meals a day, in the morning... they call it breakfast. They usually eat meat buns, steamed buns, eggs, and white porridge. Lunch is two meat and two vegetarian meals, and dinner is also two meat and two vegetarian meals. .”
"I heard that sometimes there is a late-night snack during training at night, but I have never eaten this." Li Laojiu seemed very regretful.
"Uncle Jiu, have you really eaten? Is there such a good food?" Qiu Yun couldn't help drooling when he heard Li Laojiu say "pork buns, steamed buns, eggs...", thinking that he was also hungry. . After all, he is young and digests faster than the older Li Laojiu.
"Yes! Every piece of braised pork I ate there was bigger than the palm of my hand." As he said this, Li Laojiu stretched out his palm to make gestures.
"Gu."
Qiu Yun swallowed unnaturally when he heard this. He had forgotten how long it had been since he had eaten braised pork, but he had not forgotten the taste.
Li Laojiu looked at Qiu Yun and thought it was a bit funny, so he continued to seduce him and said: "You have never seen those meatballs, each one looks like the size of a fist. Take a bite, and the taste will change." The meat just spreads out in the mouth. The meat bitten in the mouth will still have oil, and it will flow out to the corners of the mouth."
"You know. Although your uncle Jiu has a share of food and salary, but he has to feed a family, this meat is not always available." Li Laojiu said with emotion.
"I understand. This is not the case in my family, otherwise my father would not have let me take his place early, and he would find another source of food." Qiu Yun nodded fiercely with approval in his heart and replied.
"whisper."
Chatting to this point. Maybe it was because Li Laojiu kept talking about delicious food, so Qiu Yun's stomach couldn't hold it anymore and began to growl unsatisfactorily.
"Are you hungry? Mistress." Li Laojiu asked after hearing Qiu Yun's stomach growling.
"Yes, it's early to eat dinner at night. You'll get hungry quickly, especially after I just heard Uncle Jiu say that those are delicious." Qiu Yun replied with some embarrassment.
"Here, eat this."
Li Laojiu took out a rice ball wrapped in clean cloth from his arms and handed it to Qiu Yun.
"This is a rice ball that I secretly left behind because we both had to be on guard duty that night. I was just worried that you would be hungry. Eat it quickly and don't let the patrol team find out."
Note 1 Meatball, as it is called in dialect, is one of the special dishes of Guangxi: it is a kind of minced pork belly, wrapped in fat and fried, and is generally a must-have dish at wedding banquets in Guangxi.
