Chapter 36: Who is more terrifying, humans or beasts?
Sang Ning felt like a beggar guarding a mountain of gold.
There is obviously plenty of corn, but you still ask for it from others.
"Okay!"
“You guys slice it and I’ll fry it.”
I won’t give them the pork tenderloin that Sang Ning has cut!
She quickly fried another bowl and asked Huo Jingya to take it away and share it.
"Third sister-in-law has a bad stomach, don't let her eat too much. I'll make her another pancake later." She reminded.
Although wolf meat is delicious, you should not eat too much. Pregnant women should eat everything in moderation.
"Ah, maybe Third Sister-in-law is having trouble adapting to the local climate? She always seems uncomfortable lately."
"Probably." Sang Ning said vaguely.
Li Yuzhi brought another pile of firewood and put the pot on the stove for Du Shan and the others.
Du Shan simply gave the large pieces of roasted meat to Hu Si.
Hu Si didn't care about fine details. As long as it was meat, he would eat it with big mouthfuls, not even minding the heat, like a starving beast.
Sang Ning saw that the center of the meat was not yet cooked and was red with blood, and he couldn't help but curl his lips.
"It's so delicious! I wish I could eat it every day!" Du Shan and Tian Kaiwu exclaimed.
It’s a pity that this weather cannot be kept, alas…
They took out the remaining half jar of wine.
"Fourth Madam, First Madam, would you like to drink?"
"No, no, burp~"
Li Yuzhi burped and quickly covered her mouth in embarrassment.
I’m full!
It's so embarrassing.
She was afraid that if she didn't eat, it would give the yamen runners an advantage, so she ate a little hurriedly.
Sang Ning stared at the wine with a strange look in his eyes.
"Fourth Madam wants to drink?"
"No, I can't handle alcohol. I get drunk after just one drink. Once I'm drunk, I can sleep for three days. How can I travel then?"
No way!
It’s not a long sleep, it’s a three-day riot!
"Hahahaha, then you can't drink it." Du Shan didn't dare to delay the trip any longer.
Li Yuzhi thought silently: I have to tell my fourth brother about this and ask him to pay attention to it.
While people were chatting and laughing, a young man broke off several branches that had been sharpened to points.
Finally, he took the branch and thrust it into the bowl, as if into someone's flesh, skewering all the meat in the bowl and swallowing it in one gulp.
Fourth uncle is going crazy again!
Xiao Jintang was dumbfounded. He had just let his sister eat first and he hadn't eaten much yet!
Fourth uncle ate half a bowl in one gulp!
"What are you looking at? You have no conscience at all. You won't eat more standing there than here! Are you thinking of giving those bailiffs a break?"
"Get over there!"
But it was clearly Fourth Aunt who made him come here to eat because she was afraid that the yamen runners would rob him. And Fourth Uncle said this too. Who should he listen to?
I used to think I was pretty smart, but now I feel like my brain isn’t enough.
Smelling the aroma of barbecue, Jintang felt craving for food, but he still went over with the empty bowl.
He soon came back with the bowl.
The bowl was full of meat and a piece of radish.
Jintang was very happy.
"Uncle Si, eat quickly. Aunt Si said she'll get more later. If you can't finish it, hide it for the next meal."
Huo Changan's eyes were still heavy.
The fool is back again!
"What are they talking about?"
"Fourth Aunt asked about Liangzhou, and the bailiff said the governor of Liangzhou really disliked people from the capital."
Jintang was still very smart. After hearing it, he also became scared.
The yamen runners said that people who went there from Beijing could not find good jobs at all, and many of them could not survive the winter.
"Uncle Si, don't worry. My handwriting is good. I can make money by writing and selling paintings." Xiao Jintang said naively.
A place where you can't even get enough food is sold to ghosts!
Although Huo Changan lived a life of luxury in the past, he was not completely ignorant. His second brother also defended the city in the west for three years.
After three years, the skin all over his body was blown into gravel.
In the most barren places, even food cannot be grown.
Liangzhou is located in the westernmost part.
It will only get worse.
He hit Jintang rudely: "Selling flowers in a toilet, you are really elegant."
After Sang Ning finished roasting the meat, he steamed a few pancakes with cornmeal mixed with wild vegetables, and left some to make a bowl of corn porridge for the old lady.
That little bit of cornmeal was used up.
The milling technology at that time was not good enough, and the cornmeal still had the husk, which was really rough and scratched the throat when eaten.
But it’s still better than those black steamed buns mixed with peanut shells and bran.
The pancakes are enough for Xie Yurou and the children to eat for two days, and she will think of a way later.
Xie Yurou held the golden and fragrant cake in her hands, feeling extremely grateful.
She remembered clearly what she had eaten before.
In prison, he ate half-rotten cold rice. On the road to exile, he relied on the black steamed buns distributed by the yamen runners. After eating a few bites, his teeth would feel sore.
I can’t even imagine how I managed to survive those days in such a daze.
She thought silently that no matter whether Sang Ning'er would become the fourth wife of the Huo family in the future, she would still regard her as a relative.
Sang Ning'er is the second mother of the child in her belly.
Du Shan went out to check and came back to say that he didn't see any trace of the horse bandits.
"They should just leave. We're not fat sheep, there's no need to hold on to us."
Sang Ning was not very reassured.
After all, they are all women and have other values.
"Master Du, if we cross this mountain, can we reach Liangzhou?"
Du Shan seemed to have heard some fairy tale.
"Are you kidding me? Anyone who dares to enter this mountain will die."
"In this world, how can we get any better if we go outside? If we run into another wave of bandits, we'll be dead. We can't always be so lucky."
"Besides, at least there's plenty to eat in the mountains."
"No, no, no..." Du Shan waved his hands repeatedly.
So is Tian Kaiwu.
Li Yuzhi and Huo Jingya also looked at Sang Ning in astonishment, as if she was talking nonsense.
Everyone knows that there are many wild animals in the mountains.
Aren’t these two wolves ready-made examples?
Among those hunters who have been dealing with the mountains and forests for many years, few of them live to old age and end up being eaten by animals.
In the past, there were mountain people who supplied animal skins to the Marquis' Mansion, but they basically disappeared after two years. When asked, they said either they had gone into the mountains and never returned, or they had been bitten to pieces.
If those strong and capable hunters are like this, then aren't these weak women like them, who go into the mountains, becoming snacks for wild beasts?
When Sang Ning saw them like this, he understood.
Du Shan shook his head, thinking that women are women after all and they still lack experience.
"Some villages in the neighboring mountains are attacked by wild beasts several times a year. How dare people compete with wild beasts for territory? Otherwise, everyone would retreat into the mountains. Why would they have to flee the famine?"
Well, she was naive.
There were many wild animals at that time, but it was not an era of extinction.
Du Shan continued, "Even if we encounter bandits, we still have a chance of survival. But if we encounter wild beasts, there will definitely be no trace left."
"Ha!" Huo Changan sneered.
"A bandit, a glimmer of hope? Officer Du is not just a lettuce or melon seed who has been on duty for a year or two. Even a rich and powerful young master like me knows that human evil is more ferocious than a tiger."
Du Shan and Tian Kaiwu's faces changed.
"They commit adultery, robbery, and all kinds of evil. Old, thin men are called 'Rao Ba Huo,' women and children are called 'Bu Xian Yang,' and little children are called 'He Gu Lan.'"
"If you fall into the mouth of a wild beast, you can still die a quick and painful death. But if you fall into the hands of bandits... guess what? You'll have fun and be humiliated, and then you'll have your meat sliced and cooked, your bones pounded with huge rocks, and then you'll feast on them."
"Who is more terrifying, man or beast?"
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