Author: Add coriander to crucian carp soup

The soldiers carried heavy baskets filled with sand on their backs and walked stiffly towards the city gate.

They walked slowly, and sweat pooled at the intersection between the raised veins on their foreheads and the tightly knitted brows.

The purple-swollen faces were molded into numb clay doll faces, and the wrinkled facial features were just like the word "bitter" engraved in inscriptions.

Li Meng dragged his steps and forced himself into the city. He stopped holding on to the wall and took a few deep breaths. He felt a burning pain in his heart and a fishy earthy taste in his throat.

Every time I swallowed a mouthful of saliva, it was like swallowing raw sand, which was very painful.

"That one over there, what are you standing there for? What are you doing? Come here yet!" The chief stood up, grabbed his belt and moved it, and ordered him angrily.

Listening to his tone, Li Meng knew that his "chief" might have drunk a lot of wine.

He bent down, transferring the weight of the basket to his entire back. His shoulders were bruised to pieces by the thorny straw ropes, and he could no longer bear such a heavy load.

When he came closer, he pretended to put his hand under the basket and said, "Well, the portion is enough. Don't think about it for fun!"

"No, no."

Li Meng endured the smell of alcohol that hit his face and lowered his head in response. Sure enough, he caught a glimpse of a half-deflated wine bag pinned to Shi Long's waist.

"Hmm." Shi Chang said in his nasal cavity and pointed to the right: "Go, go get the meal over there."

Li Meng bowed and unloaded the basket from behind. Looking where he pointed, there were already many people queuing up.

The bit of soup he had eaten in the morning had long since turned into sweat and was excreted. Li Meng's stomach was empty. He was already a little numb from hunger. Now he smelled the aroma of rice and realized that his chest was pressed against his back.

The sound is like thunder.

Not caring about the pain in his body, he opened his legs, took two steps at a time, and squeezed into the crowd.

The grain officer stood behind the leader, watching him stir the pot with a long-handled ladle, fish out the rice porridge mixed with wild vegetables, and then tap lightly on the wall of the pot to force out the soup in the ladle, serving it full.

A bowl, pressed tightly.

The soldier at the front of the queue was overjoyed when he saw this and hurriedly stretched out his hand to take it. However, he saw the leader turned around and gave the bowl of food to the grain officer behind him. He opened his eyes and glanced at the soldier, and took out another pottery bowl.

The spoon flicked randomly in the pot.

"No, go on!"

The soldier waited in line for a long time before it was his turn, but the grain officer got in front of him, and he felt a little resentful in his heart.

At this time, I took the bowl and saw that there were only a few broken vegetable leaves floating in the turbid rice soup. I suddenly became angry and couldn't bear it anymore, so I threw the bowl to the ground with all my strength.

"You evil-minded bitch! Let's all come and see, these 'Shangguan's" are even depriving us of food! If we had known this, why would we come here?! It would be better to go back to Luoyang and fall here.

Are you angry with this son of a bitch?!"

After hearing this, the team behind was in a commotion, and they pushed forward with all their strength.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the grain officer hurriedly put the food in his hands behind his back, trying to cover it up.

Where can the soldiers rely on?

Several people took the rice bowl out of his hands and compared it with the puddle of rice soup on the ground.

"How dark! If this soldier continues to serve as a soldier, we must not starve to death?!"

"It's your mother's fault! I'll wait for your ancestors!"

"It sounded nice back then! The words 'soldiers and generals are one body' and 'share joys and sorrows', bah! They were just empty words to deceive me!"

The more the soldiers cursed, the more excited they became. They picked up an empty bowl and smashed it on the heads of the gang leader and the grain officer.

Li Meng was also very angry, but he was a little excited when he thought about what he had discussed with Wang Fang.

If the court continues to be like this, when trouble arises, won’t I be able to respond to every call?

He thought, raised his head hard, and secretly remembered the Xiliang man who shouted "Soldiers and generals are one body is empty talk" in his mind.

Are you still thinking of smearing my young master at this time?

When was the young man leading the troops, was he always in front of the most dangerous place? As a commander, he went to the battlefield with me and fought in blood every day, and ate and drank with me every day. Where could I find such a conscientious general?

I will remember you as a grandson of a turtle!

"What are you arguing about?!"

On the city wall, the captain of the city gate saw the chaos below. He put down the half-bitten chicken leg in his hand, leaned out and asked angrily, his tone full of impatience.

Shi Chang was so frightened that the soldiers suddenly attacked Shangguan below. He was so frightened that he almost woke up.

Just when the captain of the city gate asked a question, he did not dare to stay down there any longer, for fear that he would be beaten for no apparent reason, so he hurriedly ran up the city wall.

"Yes, it's the soldiers who are making trouble...Say yes, say yes..." Shi Chang hesitated, while speaking, he secretly glanced at the face of the captain at the city gate.

"Huh?" The captain of the city gate became even more impatient. He raised his eyebrows and ordered harshly: "Just say it!"

"...It is said that Shangguan deducted food."

Shi Chang was so frightened that his whole body was shaking and his legs were weak.

"Stealing?" the captain of the city gate sneered: "This meal doesn't cost a penny, do they still think they can eat enough?"

The chief wiped his cold sweat and stammered in reply: "I heard they said that Zhong Shao, oh, when Tai Shiling led the army, he was not of this weight..."

"Taishi Ling." The captain of the city gate seemed to have heard something funny and sarcastically said: "What does a kid know about leading an army?! Such wanton behavior has cost the court an unknown amount of money! I think he is just relying on it.

I just have a good father in the court!"

"When Situ recommended Taishi Ling to defend the city, Uncle Guo was not optimistic about it. Uncle Guo had some foresight! If he really allowed Taishi Ling to defend the city, I don't know what kind of chaos the city would become!"

"Look, these soldiers dare to disobey and attack Shangguan! They are really disrespectful! I don't know how the Taishi Ling led the troops!"

Many people were scared to death.

He felt that he was so stupid. It was great down there, but the worst he could do was get beaten up.

Why do you have to come up?!

He wished he could give himself a big mouth.

I'm telling you to owe, I'm calling you to owe, what's the point of answering nonsense, pretending to be deaf and dumb, and getting past it soon? You have to answer whatever you ask?

"Why, you don't agree?"

The captain of the city gate looked gloomy and stared at him coldly.

"I, I, am a stupid little guy, I really don't know..."

I almost burst into tears. Although I am a distant relative of the eighteenth generation with my uncle, I can be considered his uncle, but I joined the army just to take advantage and make a living.

Wouldn't it cost me my life to take sides?

If I had known that the big officials and gentlemen were fighting so fiercely now, wouldn't I have just settled down and farmed in the valley? Why would I come to this muddy water just for the sake of wealth?

The person involved said: I regret it now, very much.

(Thanks to Xiao Daogang for the tip)

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