After dressing up as a stepmother, I transformed the whole family into working in the fields

When the team was resting, the civilian husband and soldier from the other team came over to ask Liu Ji and his civilian husband for help.

Thinking that everyone is a hard-working man doing corvee labor, and there are fellow villagers, when the fellow villagers meet the fellow villagers, they will burst into tears, and they will basically agree.

Seeing that his fellow group members were soft-hearted and wanted to go over, Liu Jichun quickly stopped the five people and told them to stay out of their own business.

He always had a bad premonition, and the grain truck in front of him was their life-saving talisman, and he just wanted to guard it every step of the way.

Otherwise, once there is a problem with military rations, people will die even if they live.

So how can you have so much time to care about others?

Because they could always drink Liu Ji's water mixed with sugar from time to time in the past few days, and he was responsible for the group's meals at night, they secretly added a lot of salt to them. Although the five of them felt a little bit resentful that he was unkind, after all, Still, she listened to him and silently retreated to her grain cart.

Others immediately looked at them in a different way, and occasionally said tsk tsk twice, despising their inhumanity.

Seeing that his companions couldn't stand it anymore and hesitated to speak, Liu Ji decisively took off his own water bottle and handed it to them, Are you thirsty? Come on, take a few sips.

With such natural eagerness, those who didn’t know it thought it was some kind of good wine.

Although it is not a good wine, it is also a very good thing.

The mixture of sugar water and salt water will taste strange at first, but after drinking it, you will feel much better and have more energy to go on the road.

This is also the secret recipe that keeps their team at the forefront and avoids being beaten.

To be precise, it was the secret recipe given by Liu Ji.

A man with short hands and a soft tongue, when Liu Ji offered the salty sugar water, the five people in his party couldn't refuse, and they were 'forced' to choose to join in the evil deeds.

When they went out, they only knew that the officials who served as corvees were also in charge of food, so they didn't prepare anything to eat. They only had time to grab a simple self-defense knife and a few copper coins in case of emergency.

There was a poor man in the family who didn't even have a pair of sturdy shoes. His straw sandals were worn out, so he could only follow the army barefooted.

Who like Liu Ji not only brought a simple knife and copper plates, but also a lot of sugar and salt.

Two pairs of shoes with thick soles are prepared, and thick clothes, raincoats and hats are also provided, which is quite complete.

He didn't know where those things were hidden. When he first set out, it was so hot and unbearable. If he hadn't suddenly drank the little sweet water he had, he might not have been able to hold on long ago.

Then while making dinner, Liu Ji suddenly took out a small pot and placed it on the stone stove.

If Dalang were here right now, he would be able to tell at a glance that this small pot was custom-made by Qin Yao from the blacksmith in Xiahe Village in order to take him into the mountains to practice cooking.

The pot is not big, only about 16 centimeters in diameter. It is mainly made deep, so the capacity is very considerable.

Moreover, it is made of thin iron and is very light in weight. There are grooved buckles between the pot handle and the pot. They can be spliced ​​together when in use. When not in use, remove the pot handle and put it into the pot. There is still free space inside to put some soft and stuffable things. Objects are particularly useful.

At night, Liu Ji cooked vegetable cakes for others to save trouble by nibbling the dry food they had made in the first few days.

Salt is added to it, which makes it rich and flavorful, much more delicious than the clear soup that is watery.

Especially in the days after the rain, the cold is getting stronger day by day, and the mouth feels warm at night, which is not to mention very exciting.

Ever since, Liu Ji relied on this little bit of sugar and salt to become the invisible team leader in his group, so that he could stay away from laziness for a while.

For example, if he is really tired from walking and leans against the car, lifts his feet slightly, hangs on the back of the car and rubs against the car, the group members not only acquiesce, but also cover him.

The whip last time was purely due to lack of cover, so he was discovered by the patrolling soldiers and whipped him.

But by now Liu Ji had restrained himself a lot, because as he walked, he actually got used to it!

Could this be the masochistic physique that Qin Yao’s mother-in-law always mentioned?

The five people in the same group drank all the salt and sugar water in the bamboo tube, gave Liu Ji a diabolo tube, and sat next to the carriage to take a rest under the shadow cast by the carriage.

As long as I can't see the main character, those special looks don't exist.

Liu Ji opened his mouth and shook the bamboo tube vigorously, but there was really not even a drop of salt or sugar water left for him.

He glared at the five people angrily, put away his diabolo tube, held on to his long plain knife stick, and stood swaying for a while, taking a look at the excitement of the other team.

Outside Xuanyue Pass, as far as the eye can see, there are all undulating hills covered with grass, with no obstruction on all sides.

Liu Ji was surprised. Why couldn't he detect the enemy troops in advance when they appeared?

Just as he was imagining it, Shangguan Lie gave an order, and all the civilians immediately returned to the team and set off at full speed.

The grassland is easier to walk than the roads in Guan Nei, and the roads are wide and flat.

After leaving Xuanyue Pass, the temperature dropped significantly, and those who could afford it put on the thick clothes they brought with them.

Passing a river on the way, everyone filled their water bottles.

There are still three hundred miles to the next city.

And that city is the destination of this trip's grain transportation, and it's called Wangyue City. It is the farthest city in the north of Sheng Kingdom, guarding the entire northern border.

People living in Wangyue City are all military households. Because of the chaos of the previous dynasty, many ethnic groups lived in it.

Liu Ji was lucky enough to see a travel journal describing the scenery of the frontier from his roommate. The book said that before the establishment of the Sheng Kingdom, Wangyue City was occupied by Mobei barbarians for more than thirty years.

Now that the Sheng Kingdom has taken back Wangyue City, the Mobei barbarians naturally do not want to lose this lush pasture, so they frequently provoke them.

The outbreak of war, Liu Ji guessed, may also be because of this important city.

In the past, how could a common man like him care about these national events?

Now, although this journey is difficult, we can also see the vastness of Shengguo.

Comparing the wealth inside the pass with the desolate grassland outside the pass, if he were from Mobei, he would probably want to send his troops south to take this rich land as his own.

Moreover, he also heard from fellow veterans that further north, there are snow-capped mountains. The snow in the continuous mountains does not melt all year round, and it is extremely cold. The climate is only warmer in summer.

Such climatic conditions make it impossible to carry out farming at all, and they can only make a living by herding sheep and horses.

If the weather is not correct any year, Xuanyue Pass will suffer. These Mobei people are more ferocious than horse bandits. They come and go in a hurry, grabbing money, people and food. Wherever they go, they are like locusts crossing the border.

Their horses are very good, and children as young as three years old can ride them well. They often sweep away the border residents for a while and then leave in a hurry, which is very abominable.

Knowing this news, and looking at the packed grain trucks in front of him and behind him, Liu Ji always had an uneasy feeling that people from Mobei would rush out to grab grain at any time.

But after all, they are two teams now, with more than 200 people. It is expected that the Mobei people will not dare to be so arrogant.

It was getting late, and the scouts sent by Shangguan Lie came to report that there was a small lake ahead, where the two grain transport teams could camp.

The peasants worked hard to speed up. They just wanted to get to the place quickly and stop to rest early.

Moreover, it was getting so late, and the enemy troops had already arrived once before. They were coming early now, so everyone felt relaxed.

But at this moment, the sound of horse hooves suddenly sounded, and from far to near, black shadows rushed out from the horizon with the force of thunder!