Chapter 118 A big belly is not necessarily a pregnant cavalry has an innate advantage over the infantry, and the cavalry, like an armored vehicle, has a crushing advantage over the infantry.It's just a pity that this ringing horse is too self-righteous, or rather, they are just ringing horses, not cavalry, so they rushed over so rashly.Although the cavalry has an advantage over the infantry, it cannot get close to the infantry, otherwise, in close combat, the cavalry has a large target and is not flexible, but it is easy to be surrounded by the infantry.The current situation is like this, thirty or forty ringing horses, being shot indiscriminately by the thunderbolts, fell two-thirds on the spot, and the rest want to run again, it is too late.This sudden battle, which began in a hurry, ended even more quickly.In just one pillar of incense, the battle was completely over.Two of Quan Xu's family soldiers were cut in close combat, the injuries were not serious, and they did not affect the action, and the most seriously injured was an unlucky guy named Yang Bolted, when he went to lead the horse, he was hit by the big red horse with a violent temper, and he lay on the ground for a long time without getting up, and it is estimated that he fell and suffered a concussion.Quan Xu was a little excited, this capture, obtained twenty-two horses, although the horses of the ringing horses, not necessarily good horses, at least, they can form a mule and horse march.The cart was loaded with the shovels they used when they camped, and the soldiers took the shovels and dug a big pit directly in the ditch on the side of the official road, threw the body of the horse into it, and quickly cleaned up the scene.The carcasses of the horses that were hit by the fire guns were naturally not wasted.Peeling the skin, disemboweling the disembowelment, the standard configuration of Quanxu's family soldiers is the axe, and now it comes in handy, holding the axe, and unloading the horse meat into eight pieces.Xu Biao looked at these horse meat and said, "Master, the weather is too hot, and the horse meat is easy to stink, what can I do?"
”Quan Xu wanted to throw it away directly, but Sanniang said reluctantly: "There is a pine forest in front, take the pine tree and roast it, the horse meat is fragrant!"
”Quan Xu thought for a while and said, "That's fine, let's go into the forest!"
”It was already early May, and Quan Xu didn't know the detailed time when Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong, but no matter how he hurried, if he wanted to reach Phi Dao, it would take at least mid-May, or even late May.It's not going to be a quick and a half time to get up to speed.Hearing Quan Xu's order, all the families were overjoyed, and they immediately started to put the horse meat on the cart.When these carts were pushed by people, a cart loaded with five or six hundred kilograms of things, but now that there are horses, another seven or eight hundred kilograms cannot crush the vehicle.There are a total of nineteen dead horses, and the total amount of horse meat they have is eight or nine thousand catties, which is not a trouble.When the soldiers arrived at the pine forest, they began to process horse meat.This time, Quan Xu brought a sentry soldier, that is, fifty people out, and carried five stainless steel buckets to act as a cauldron for making pots, this kind of stainless steel barrel is a hundred liters, which is very convenient to use, digging the stove, you can burn the fire for cooking.Large pieces of horse meat are directly chopped into fist-sized pieces of meat, washed and boiled in water to remove blood foam, and then the whole package of hot pot base is poured into a stainless steel iron bucket, the horse meat is poured into it, and it is simmered over high heat.After a while, the five stainless steel barrels were filled with tempting spicy aromas.In fact, five stainless steel buckets are far from being able to stew the horse meat of nineteen horses, and more domestic soldiers are holding pine branches, cutting off the skin of pine branches with knives, wearing horse meat pieces, and putting them on the fire to barbecue.Soon the meat pieces emit an enticing aroma.Quan Xu naturally doesn't have to eat a big pot of rice, and the carriage is equipped with Quan Xu's stove, but the horse meat is actually not fragrant in a small pot of stew.Quan Xu also burned horse meat with all the Ding soldiers, of course, cumin and condiments are exclusive to Sanniang, and all the Ding soldiers only have fine salt and chili noodles.As an hour passed, the horse meat was stewed fluffy and delicious.The soldiers of all families ate horse meat in a big gulp, without any discomfort.More than 50 people will kill the horse meat of one horse at most, and the remaining horse meat will be dried with fire after cooking to make horse jerky, so there is no need to worry about deterioration.The captured horses have increased the speed of the soldiers under Quan Xu's command a lot, originally even if they forcibly marched every day, it was only one hundred and eighty miles, but now they have twenty-two horses, plus two horses on Quan Xu's carriage, a total of twenty-four horses, and the speed has doubled.From the Daimyo Mansion to the Dengzhou Mansion, the whole journey was more than 1,300 miles, and Quan Xu originally planned to arrive in half a month, however, with the capture of these horses, he arrived in Dengzhou until the seventh day of the fifth month, and the whole journey took nine days.Looking at the boundary monument in Dengzhou, Quan Xu said with a smile: "Before tonight, let's rush to Dengzhou City, there is hot water, hot rice, big fish and meat, eat as much as you want, it's enough!"
”All the soldiers were very happy.Along the way, all the soldiers did eat horse meat, but the problem is that if you eat too much of anything, you won't feel delicious.When they first started eating horse meat, fifty of them killed a full horse, and each of them ate nearly five or six catties of horse meat on average.By the second day, they had eaten only half a horse's horse's meat, and on the third day even less, only one horse's leg, and less than half a pound of meat per person.After six or seven days, most of these horse meat were still left, but they took the horse meat and exchanged a lot of wild vegetables and mushrooms with the people, which can be regarded as changing the taste.Just passing by a small pond, I suddenly saw two or three hundred people around the edge of the pond, all of them holding wooden sticks, hammers, and flat poles, shouting and shouting and killing, and they were in a mess.Jeon Wook thought it was a fight in a nearby village over a water source, which was very common in ancient times, even decades ago.Walking closer, Quan Xu found that surrounded by everyone, there was a woman with a cloak in a pig cage, the woman's clothes were a little messy, and her mouth was stuffed with rags.A young man of fifteen or sixteen years old, who looked black and strong, held a firewood knife and confronted everyone.The young man's skills were quite agile, and more than a dozen people did not take him down, but were put down by him five or six people one after another.A man who looked like an old clan, his beard trembled with anger, and commanded more people to surround the young man.Because it is a Shandong dialect, Quan Xu can't understand it.Through Sanniang's explanation to Quan Xu, Quan Xu only then understood.Originally, this woman and man had been dead for more than three years, and suddenly her belly was bigger, and everyone thought that the woman did not abide by the woman's way and wanted to sink him in the pond.But the young man, the woman's son, quit, and he fought with the crowd with a knife.Sanniang was a little anxious: "Xianggong, let's go, such a stinky woman deserves to be sunk in the pond!"
”Quan Xu didn't care about this woman, he just looked at the young man behind him, he was obviously practiced, and he lacked a family member who could fight.If he can be like Mei Changsu's personal guard Feiliu in "Langya Bang", he can also have more protection when he travels in the future.Thinking of this, Quan Xu decided to take care of this matter, he waved his hand at Xu Biao and whispered softly in his ear.Quan Xu asked Sanniang to give Xu Biao a handful of silver coins, and Xu Biao took the silver coins and walked towards the clan elder.Quan Xu didn't let the soldiers do it, and directly robbed people.These people are just a matter of concept, simple in nature, the young man was pressed to the ground by several people, unable to move, he yelled and screamed, but the people did not hurt him.Sure enough, everything was as Jeon Wook expected.At first, the clan elder listened to Xu Biao's words and looked very angry, but when Xu Biao showed the silver coin, everyone was silent.What is it called not abiding by women's morals, there are many people who sell their children and daughters for money, and the thing that destroys the three views of pawning wives is not absent in ancient times, but it is very common.The so-called pawn wife is to pawn his wife like an object, which is a temporary way of marriage.However, it is also very ceremonial, and it generally has to go through the links of matchmaking, contracting, hiring, and marrying.Generally, pawn wives go through the process of making a contract.The deed mainly states the time, rent price and preparation of the pawn wife.The period of the pawn is generally three to five years, and the price of the pawn depends on the age of the woman and the length of the pawn period.For those who inherit the ceremony, they will put forward conditions for the woman they want to pawn, such as having the ability to have children, not living with the original husband during the ceremony, and not allowing them to go home to take care of their children even if they look at them, etc., and write these requirements into the contract.It is recorded in "Hanshu Jia Don's Biography": "Marrying a wife and selling children, the law cannot be forbidden, and righteousness cannot be stopped. ”When Xu Biao showed a large handful of silver coins, the eyes of the clan elder and the people around him lit up.Xu Biao handed a silver coin to the clan elder: "This is one or two silver cakes, you can check it." ”The silver minted by Quan Xu was brighter than ordinary silver ingots, and the clan elder took the silver coin and looked it up and down, and when he bit it with his teeth, a tooth mark appeared.Xu Biao continued: "One big and one small, two of them are wanted by our host!"
”As he spoke, Xu Biao counted the silver coins in his hand one, two, three: "Fifteen, that is, fifteen taels of silver, you can buy one big and one small two cows, this price is more than enough to buy a yellow flower girl, be a man, don't be too greedy!"
”Everyone looked in the direction of Quan Xu, who was carrying a luxurious carriage with carriages, thirteen flat carriages, more than 20 horses, and forty or fifty strong families, and they knew at a glance that they were big families.The patriarch reached out and grabbed the money.Xu Biao hurriedly flashed: "There is still a contract, don't rely on the debt!"
”I used it again, but fortunately, the chief knew a few words, drafted a document, in duplicate, signed and fingerprinted, and then completed the transaction.The people and the elders took the silver coins and left, leaving behind the woman and the boy in the pig cage, and no one else pressed him, he got up in a hurry, picked up the wood knife, and cut the pig cage frantically.Xu Biao looked at the young man: "Boy, don't think about running, our host bought you and your mother for fifteen taels, and the two of you are more expensive than cows!"
”The boy didn't say a word, and lifted his mother up from the pig cage."
Thank you for your life!"
Quan Xu looked at the woman's pale face, obviously not pale with fright, but a sickly pale, her belly bulged, but she was so thin that she didn't look good.Could it be that this is a big belly disease, not a pregnancy.