"Everyone stand up, share the food, and then go with General Deng to receive the whipping. After the beating, go to the solitary room. Remember, you have to be hungry for 36 hours before you can eat." Su Hao ordered.
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The Xiong brothers stood up, walked to the table where the half bowl of rice was placed, and looked at each other. Xiong Minyang said to his brother: "Brother, I'm not hungry yet. You can eat your food."
Xiong Minfan said: "Lao San, didn't you listen to what Master Baihu said, we are going to be hungry for 36 hours. If you are not hungry now, you will be hungry in a while. I am strong and can be starved for 36 hours. But you are weak and you are still hungry."
You eat it."
Xiong Min looked up and said, "Brother, you should eat it. You are bigger and your appetite is bigger than mine. I have a small appetite, so I'll be fine even if I'm hungry for three days."
"I eat a lot and have a lot of food in my stomach. If you don't have food in your stomach, you won't survive three days."
"Brother, you usually let me eat, but this time it's my turn to let you. Eat quickly, brother, don't make Master Baihu unhappy."
"Who said I was the one who asked you every time? Lao San, do you remember? Last time we went to the market to sell vegetables, we lost our money and left a rice cake. You let me eat it. You were hungry all the way.
.This time, I’ll pay you back.”
"Brother, you always helped me find food when I was a kid. Brother owes you a lot, so you should eat..."
"..."
The two brothers who were fighting for food with Paoze just now, faced with only half a bowl of rice in the next 36 hours, actually started to give in to each other. The surrounding soldiers were still watching the fun at first, but when they heard that they
The conversation between the two brothers made everyone feel a little sad. The soldier with shallow eye sockets had already begun to secretly wipe his eyes.
There is no country child who has never suffered from hunger. Especially families with many brothers and sisters have had to give up their only bowl of rice, rice cake, etc. to their compatriots. In fact, when they came out to serve as soldiers,
Why don't you want to save the family's food rations and leave it to your underage brothers and sisters?
Listening to their conversation, when everyone looked at the large bag of rice wrapped in their coats, the feeling of hatred and anger they felt before seemed to have faded a bit.
"Master Baihu, the fight was caused by Xiaoru. Xiaoru is willing to feed the two Xiong brothers for one day each. Please ask Master Baihu to reduce their punishment to two days." He Benzheng was kneeling on the ground.
Suddenly he raised his head and said to Su Hao.
"Have you been with them for a day?" Su Hao asked quietly.
He Benzheng hesitated for a moment, kowtowed and said: "Master Baihu, this brother of the Xiong family has a grudge against Xiao Ru. When the Bailima students tested our knowledge, Xiao Ru couldn't write a word. It was the third son of the Xiong family who secretly
I told Xiaoru, otherwise Xiaoru would not be able to pass the exam. Now that this happened, Xiaoru wants to repay his favor."
"Oh?" Su Hao responded meaningfully.
Only then did He Benzheng realize that he had let something slip. He quickly kowtowed and said, "Master Baihu, please forgive me. This matter has nothing to do with the third son of the Xiong family. I begged him repeatedly and he couldn't do anything, so I told Xiaoru.
If Master Baihu wants to punish this crime, just punish me once."
"It seems that you are quite honest." Su Hao said.
He Benzheng said: "Xiao Ru doesn't dare. It's just that when he was a child, he listened to his husband's story telling about the loyalty of knights and knights, which made Xiao Ru yearn for it. These Xiong brothers respect each other and love each other, which reminded Xiao Ru of his own brothers, so he couldn't bear to see it.
They have been hungry for three days and have been injured by hunger. I would like to help them for a day."
"Xiao Ru is also willing to take the blame for the Xiong brothers for a day." The other three soldiers who participated in the fight also followed suit. They may not have any feelings for the Xiong brothers, but they have a very simple value concept. They
I feel that if I don’t express myself at a time like this, it will be difficult for me to be seen in the future.
"The second son of the Xiong family, the third son of the Xiong family, what do you think of the actions of these Paozes?" Su Hao asked the Xiong brothers in a long tone.
Xiong Minfan turned his head and looked at He Benzheng waiting to enter. He suddenly knelt down with a plop, beat his head and said: "Brothers, I, Xiong Laoer, have become obsessed and tried to come up with such despicable ways to compete with you brothers for food.
Xiong Laoer has already realized his mistake, and I will never dare to let you brothers take the punishment on my behalf. Please take back what you just said quickly, and don’t make Master Baihu angry."
Xiong Minyang also knelt down with his brother and said: "Brother He, the other brothers, we brothers are at fault and should be punished by Master Baihu. Master Baihu did not chop off our heads, which is already an extrajudicial mercy.
Brothers, please stop interceding for our brothers."
Su Hao chuckled and turned back to look at Hao Tong and Deng Kui. The two men's faces were as hard as iron, but their eyes clearly showed a bit of relief. The soldiers in the army are the most valued.
It was the brotherhood between the robes, and this scene of vying to take the blame for the other party in the fight, which moved the two hard-hearted veterans.
Su Hao waved his hand, motioning for the Xiong brothers and He Benzheng to stop talking, and then said: "He Benzheng? And you guys, please stand up. We were busy fighting just now and haven't eaten yet. Let's get the bowls to eat first, and then we can go together.
After receiving the whipping, all six of them will be locked up together for a whole day without being allowed to eat."
"No!" He Benzheng and others responded loudly. They learned this from Hao Tong and Deng Kui.
"Master Baihu...how much food can we eat?" A soldier named Yu Jun asked carefully, holding his own bowl.
Su Hao laughed, pointed at the big bag of rice packed by the Xiong brothers, and said: "This bag of rice is for the six of you. You can eat as much as you want. I just want to explain that since you are fighting for food,
If you fight, then you are not allowed to leave even a grain of rice, otherwise, this hundred households will punish you for wasting food."
"You don't dare!" the six soldiers who had committed the crime responded in unison.
The Xiong brothers borrowed a bowl from the fellow villagers in the team, and together with He Benzheng and others, they started eating around the bag of rice. When scooping rice into the bowl, everyone was humble to each other, and no one was embarrassed to take too much. As a result,
, after everyone finished a bowl, half of the rice was left in the cloth bag, so everyone consciously put the remaining rice into their own bowls according to the proportion of one-sixth for each meal, and then took big gulps.
The ground ate it.
A fight that started over grabbing a meal eventually turned into a bloody drama of harmonious coexistence between comrades. This can be regarded as a divine reversal. When the onlookers saw this, they were also sighing. Those who had served in advance
The soldiers who had eaten too much looked somewhat ashamed when facing their companions.
"Everyone has seen that I reduced the punishment of the Xiong brothers. What's the reason? It's because the two brothers were humble and gave in to each other when faced with a half bowl of rice. This shows that the two of them are better off.
The heart is not an animal heart.
They know that they will be hungry for 36 hours in the future and face half a bowl of life-saving rice. They can be humble to each other because they are brothers. What about us big guys? Aren't we brothers?
I hope you will remember that from the moment you step into the military camp and put on the military uniform, you are my soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. In the military camp, every soldier is your brother, even closer than your brother.
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As the old saying goes, to fight a tiger, you need brothers. In the future, when we go to the battlefield and face fierce enemies, the only thing we can rely on is your robe, those brothers who are sharing the same bucket with you. What is
Pao Ze? Pao Ze is someone you can trust to protect your back. Pao Ze is someone you can trust with your life, property and fiancée without having to worry about it.
Since we have joined the army, we will have to live with these brothers in the next few years, ten years, or even decades, eat together, and fight together. I hope that from now on, you will all regard the robes of the same camp as
For my brothers, things like this kind of grabbing food must never happen again, do you understand?"
Su Hao said loudly to all the soldiers watching.
"No!" All the soldiers agreed loudly with all their strength.
"From now on, when we cook in the camp, we will cook according to everyone's normal appetite, which is almost a bucket for each Xiaoqi. Who of you has a big appetite and who has a small appetite, you need to make it clear to each other and be more humble to each other. Here are some things for you to eat
There is much more rice than when you were at home, and you can definitely eat enough. Everyone wants to eat more, but it’s just because they were afraid of hunger in the past and couldn’t bear to put their bowls away when they saw the rice. Although we don’t limit everyone’s rations, we still
There is no need to waste food, right?" Su Hao continued.
"Yes!" everyone replied.
"Okay, after dinner, each of the small flags will go back to the military quarters to discuss today's matter, get to know each other, and agree on how to get along in the future. Third flag, you guys will move to the solitary room for the meeting.
After the battle, the soldiers who have made no mistakes today will go back to the barracks to sleep. The six of you who fought will stay in the solitary room and will not be able to come out until this time tomorrow, do you understand?"
"clear!"
After Su Hao said this, he waved his hand and asked Hao Tong and Deng Kui to deal with the following matters. Hao Tong and Deng Kui took the soldiers to the empty field outside the dining hall and asked everyone to form a circle to watch the fight between the six soldiers.
The process of execution by soldiers.
Deng Kui personally swung the whip and whipped him. He controlled the strength in his hand, and the whip hit him. It was extremely painful, but it did not hurt the muscles and bones, nor did it leave any big wounds. Even so, this blow
After the whip was struck, the six soldiers were still lying on the ground unable to move. Hao Tong called the doctor in the camp, who was a doctor previously invited from the county town, and asked him to apply medicine to the six soldiers.
After everything was over, the soldiers of the third small flag who had not been tortured supported their devastated comrades and went to a small wooden house that was temporarily used as a solitary room. Hao Tong supervised them and went together, while the soldiers of the other flags stayed in Deng.
Under the unified leadership of Kui, they returned to the military camp and held group meetings separately.
When Hao Tong and Deng Kui returned to Baihu Government Office, they saw Su Hao asking Ma Yu to help write a banner that read:
Why do you have no clothes? I share the same robe with you. When the king raised an army, he repaired my sword and spear, and I share the same enemy with you.
How come I have no clothes, and I am in the same boat with you. When the king raised his army, I repaired my spear and halberd, and worked with him together.