Chapter 599: She is the Wife of King Qin (7)_1
Throughout this period of marching, the soldiers had been eating cornmeal mixed with white flour made into steamed buns. Although rough, it was filling. The vegetables were mainly boiled cabbage, potatoes, radishes, and other common greens. It wasn’t that King Qin was treating the soldiers harshly, but that military rations were just like that. The soldiers did not feel wronged. Moreover, most of the soldiers were sons of poor families, being able to eat their fill was already good enough. Quite a few soldiers joined the army just to be able to eat fully.
For the soldiers, eating meat was undoubtedly a luxury. Since they had enlisted, the number of times they had eaten meat could be counted on one hand and it was always only meat soup. The meat had been boiled into nothing, but everyone enjoyed it all the same. After all, even meat soup was a rare treat for them.
"Hey, Sergeant Lu, when King Qin said he would improve our meals, he didn’t just mean giving us a meal of white rice, did he?"
"What’s wrong with white rice? Isn’t eating white rice considered an improvement in meals? I’m telling you, Liu Ergou, when you came to join the army, you were wearing rags, and you probably hadn’t even tasted white rice in your life. Now you’re getting picky!" Sergeant Lu scolded Liu Ergou with annoyance.
"No, no, I dare not be picky. It’s already great to have white rice. Just as Sergeant Lu said, I, Liu Ergou, have never had white rice before, hehe..." Liu Ergou hurriedly reflected, then chuckled and said, "I was just wondering why they got so many large pots and boiled so much water, and asked casually."
Sergeant Lu scratched his head, "Yeah, what’s with all the large pots all of a sudden? Alright, I’ll go ask Zhang Mozhang, you guys wait."
Sergeant Lu walked away briskly.
In the army of Great Jin, five men make up a squad, ten men make up a team, and a hundred men make up a unit. Each squad, team, or unit has its own leader. That Sergeant Lu was the leader of a squad of five.
Just as Sergeant Lu was leaving, a faint squealing of pigs suddenly came from the distant hillside. The irregular, high and low cries puzzled the soldiers. Where did those pigs come from? Judging from the sounds, there must be a lot of pigs. Who would drive so many pigs this late?