At dawn, Niu Mantun crawled out of the haystack. He rubbed the gum in the corners of his eyes vigorously. He picked up a clay pot on the ground and brought it to his mouth and drank two mouthfuls of water. He poured the cold water into his stomach and it was already long.

Niu Mantun felt that his whole body was frozen solid, and the last breath of heat in his heart seemed to be frozen.

Niu Mantun stood up carefully to avoid hitting his head on the roof of the underground house. Because when he was building it, Niu Mantun carefully repaired the roof into a double layer. From the outside, his house looked like an ordinary house.

The dens are all the same. But when people are inside, they will find that the inside of this den is a little lower than the other dens. Between the roofs of the two floors is Niu Mantun's storage room, and he is hidden in it.

Life-saving food.

Life in Niumantun was not easy at all last year. Considering that they had just come from the Ming Dynasty and had nothing, the superiors allotted them some food so that they could have the strength to survive.

But the little food distributed from above was not enough to eat. What really allowed Niu Mantun to survive was luck! Niu Mantun found four mouse holes before winter. Among the four mouse holes, Niu Mantun

He took out more than a hundred kilograms of grain and various grass seeds. These were the mice's food reserves for the winter. As a result, they themselves became food for the cows. This allowed him to survive this difficult winter.

No matter how hungry Niu Mantun was, he only ate a little food every day and spent every cold day in pain. He still managed to save dozens of kilograms of food from his mouth. This food was hidden on the roof of the two-story house.

time. So Niu Mantun is now as thin as a skinned skeleton.

Niu Mantun took out five pieces of dark dried fruits from another earthen jar. After hesitating, he threw back another piece. He slowly put the four dried fruits into his mouth one by one, spending a lot of time.

It took a long time to finish eating. These dried fruits are made from the sand fruits produced in the forest he is responsible for guarding. They are very sour. They were made from the leftover fruits after he paid the quota. They are used to comfort him when he is hungry.

Soothing his belly. But these are his breakfast today.

After Niu Mantun finished his breakfast, he first tidied up a lot of hay that he used for sleeping and went out to dry it. These hays were specially selected by him. He had no money to buy a quilt and no way to get leather, so he could only sleep in it every day.

He sleeps in the haystack. So this pile of hay is very important to him. Otherwise, this winter will be difficult to endure.

After finishing packing the hay, Niu Mantun took out an ax from the crack in the wall and put it on his waist. Then he took off his knife from the wall and hung it on his waist, and then walked out of the den.

Don't underestimate his precious ax. This ax is now an important property of Niu Mantun! When he left home, his father gave him two taels of silver, which he did not spend and hid well. This ax

He bought the ax with the only two taels of silver he had left. With this ax, he had enough time to build a nest. Otherwise, he would probably freeze to death. And if he didn't pay for the ax, he would be there.

He couldn't dig out four mouse holes before winter. He didn't dare to use his waist knife to dig because the people above clearly told him that the knife must be protected. If the knife was rusty or accidentally worn,

He will be whipped. If the knife is lost, he will be dead.

Last year, Niumantun planted some soybeans for mature land. The harvest was definitely not good, but it was better than expected. After the autumn harvest, he sold all the soybeans, burned the poles into ashes and sprinkled them on the ground, and dug some

The pond mud was mixed in together. Then he bought a lot of wheat seeds. He skipped those wheat seeds carefully, and each one was full of grains. He hoped that there would be a good harvest this year.

Niu Mantun does not go out on weekdays in order to reduce consumption. Today he went out to set some traps so that he could catch a few prey. Niu Mantun went out, took off a lot of ropes from a shelf outside the door and started to put them on his body

To be honest, Niu Mantun had never been exposed to the matter of setting condoms before. This was a new thing he learned after arriving in Northeast China.

He was combing the rope in his hand, thinking in his mind whether he could catch the prey today. Even if he caught the prey, he couldn't eat it. It would have to be dried in the sun before it could be eaten during spring plowing. Spring plowing was coming soon. If there was no food in his stomach by then

If there is no oil and water, you will not have the energy to work. Then there will be no good harvest in the fields, and you will be hungry in winter.

At noon, Niu Mantun finished setting up all the traps. He was very lucky today and found a lot of outstanding wild vegetables on the way back. When he got home, he carefully counted out some grains and crushed them even with the chaff and grains.

Throw it into an earthen pot and cook it together with wild vegetables. When the porridge is cooked to a pulp, he slowly drinks it spoon by spoon with a wooden spoon. Every grain of food must be chewed to a pulp in his mouth.

Swallow it. In his impression, if you eat like this, you can last longer and you won't get hungry so easily.

After drinking the porridge, Niu Mantun took a rest and felt stronger, so he went to play with a chicken bus outside. The chicken bus was made by Niu Mantun himself. As a qualified farmer, it is very important to know more than one craft.

It's a normal thing. Due to the lack of many tools, the ride of this chicken bus is a bit rough, but it looks very sturdy. Niu Mantun thought that if he had a car during the off-season, he could work hard as a porter. How much money could he make?

Bring back some money and food.

He played with the chicken bus all afternoon and finally put it down after he finally got a prototype. In the evening, Niu Mantun went for a spin in the distant woods. He was disappointed because the condom didn't catch anything. Just as he was thinking

When it was time to have dinner or not to have dinner today, he heard a noise coming from the village. Niu Mantun immediately rushed to the village. Because the village chief said that if anything happens in the village, he should come quickly.

First, if you fail to catch up on the tasks assigned by the superiors, you will be considered a sin.

The village where Niu Mantun lived was very small, with only about 20 families. It turned out that these families were all Manchus, and the remaining people in the Han Army Banner were only Niu Mantun and two other Han people. When Niu Mantun arrived,

He only saw the back of a knight leaving in the distance. What was a group of people in the center of the village talking loudly about? Niu Mantun had been here for so long, and he also understood a lot of Manchu. He clearly heard the words "War" and "Da Ming"

These two words.

After the village chief waved everyone to quiet down, he said: "Everyone has heard it. The banner said that our village will have six people, three full and three Han. If the Han people don't say anything, which of you wants to go?"

Suddenly a noise came from the crowd. The bannermen were all quarreling to go, as if the war was just a game to them. In fact, it was almost the same. Since Nurhachi raised his army, he has rarely lost, so every time they go out
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