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Changhe Fortress, Chu Army Camp...

"Ba~"

A crisp whip sounded on the city wall, and a Chu soldier violently beat the Zhou army soldier who was repairing the city wall and serving as a coolie.

"ah……"

When the whip that had soaked in clear water hit the soldier, he couldn't help but let out a sad sound. He saw a bloody whip mark on the exposed back of Coolie, which was shocking.

"Hmph~" Chu Jun soldier snorted coldly, then spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm and stuck to his face, and said tightly with his whip in his hand, "You dog officials, the king has no killing you, he is still ungrateful, he is lazy when working? Get up and sleep like this?"

Cooli endured the pain, and was afraid to speak. He could only grit his teeth and continue to swing the hammer and began to work hard to chisel the stones under his feet.

Seeing this, the Chu army soldier said arrogantly: "Remember to me, if you see you lazy next time, it will not be so easy now. I will definitely kill you, a scammer, have you heard it?"

"Um……"

Coolie dared not say no, so he could only nod and respond softly.

"Ba~"

“Ah~”

But the next moment, the whip still twitched him, making him moan.

I saw the Chu army soldier grab his hair and shouting loudly: "Don't you know how to respond when you talk to you? You're mute!"

"I understand, Jun Ye calm down, Jun Ye calm down..."

Coolie almost cried and kept responding to the words of the Chu army soldiers, and then he secretly breathed a sigh of relief after watching him leave with a swagger.

"Not good, someone fainted~"

At this moment, a burst of exclamations broke out from the coolie, but an elderly officer and soldier of the Great Zhou fainted because he was carrying a huge rock.

"Do you don't have to work if you yell at anything? Hurry up! You can't finish it before dark, so don't even think about rest!"

An officer of the Chu army rushed over after hearing the news, shouted loudly to drive away the crowd, and came to the fainting coolie, frowned and stared at him for a moment.

"Damn it, pretend to be lazy? Get up!"

In just a moment, the officer raised his big foot and kicked the soldier fiercely, constantly yelling insults.

"Cough cough cough... Jun Ye... Cough cough cough... stop hitting... stop hitting... Cough cough cough..."

After the soldier was kicked, he held his head and begged for mercy, his face full of horror.

"Bah~" the officer spat at him, rolled up his sleeves, lifted the coolie from the ground, and said with fierce eyes, "You are still very tender in front of you, don't say you are pretending to be sick,

Even if you are really sick, you have to finish your work today. If you can’t finish your work before dark, I will let you see what life is worse than death!”

After saying that, the officer let go of the big hand that was holding Kuli's collar, and then punched him hard on his lower abdomen. Kuli's whole body was arched in pain.

"snort……"

After a snorting softly, the officer of the Chu army glanced at him contemptuously, and then strode to patrol other places.

The coolies passing by around him did not meddle in this scene, but just lowered their heads to continue rushing. In the eyes of these great Zhou officials, there was no sense of honor as a soldier. The so-called dignity had long been buried by the environment where they were longing for survival.

After the pain on the coolie and others relieved, he dragged the sick body to carry the basket filled with huge rocks with difficulty, and walked step by step towards the city wall...

And outside the Long River Fortress...

"June, don't, we are not sick..."

"Mr. Jun, please, my child is still young and can't buy a father. I will work hard, please..."

"Mom...Mom, save your son..."

In a huge pit of soil more than ten feet deep, hundreds of officers and soldiers cried and shouted, begging the Chu soldiers to let them go.

These soldiers were found to be abnormal in their health, and the Chu army was short of herbs and was unwilling to treat these official troops, so they chose to bury them all alive...

Faced with the crying of these officials, the Chu soldiers looked cold and kept shoveling the soil under their feet, and shoveling into the pit one by one.

For them, the more such an official army dies, the better, and they will not sympathize with them at all...

With the efforts of more than a thousand Chu soldiers, the pit slowly rose at a speed visible to the naked eye, gradually submerging the voices until the last body was buried, and collectively began to be used to step on the soil on the pit to prevent accidents.

After burying hundreds of infected officials alive, these Chu soldiers were talking and laughing, and went to Changhe Fortress in groups to cover their lives. From the natural expressions on their faces, it can be seen that this is not the first time they have done such a thing.

"It's time to eat, it's time to eat, all of you come over and have a meal~"

As soon as the Chu soldiers returned to the Changhe Fortress, they heard the chef shouting loudly at the top of his voice.

When they heard that they could have dinner, the coolies suddenly had their eyes lit up and immediately threw down their work. They rushed to the chef's place like a mad dog, fearing that they would not be able to receive their meals if they were too late.

The Chu Junfu sneered and watched the group of coolies running towards him. When he was about to hit him, he raised his long-handled rice spoon and pointed at them and shouted: "Don't squeeze, stand farther away!"

The group of officers and soldiers were also very obedient and stopped quickly, staring at the chef, waiting to receive the food for one day.

After a while, a wooden barrel about half a person tall was mentioned to the side of the chef by two strong Chu soldiers. In the eyes of everyone's expectation, the chef opened the lid of the barrel, but saw that there was sticky white rice porridge inside, emitting a hint of heat. The hungry coolies looked green in their eyes and kept sighing that they could finally have a good meal.

The chef picked up a long-handled spoon and stirred it in the wooden barrel for a while, then smiled and said to the official army: "We king thought you had worked hard for days and specially used these hot porridge made of rice to greet you.

You are eating hot porridge, but you must remember the good things about our king. You must know that you are all prisoners of our Chu army now. Captives cannot eat such good rice. Do you need to be grateful to know?"

"knew……"

"The king is kind and righteous..."

"Salary to the king is a blessing for me to cultivate for several lifetimes..."

These officials were already hungry and were touching their backs. After hearing what the chef said, they immediately praised Huang Fu, hoping to eat this mouth-watering white porridge soon.

But the next moment, they were soon stunned and saw that the chef ordered people to pour the bucket of white porridge into several empty water tanks placed on the left.

The half-person-high white porridge poured six water tanks. After pouring them, someone brought a bucket of hot water and kept pouring them into the water tank. The Chu soldiers took the opportunity to pick up the long handle and stir the water tank until the water in the water tank turned pink and white before giving up.

After doing all this, the chef said proudly: "Everyone is a bowl, no one should rob. Now start eating and continue working after eating!"

Looking at the rice soup that was as thin as water, the officials and soldiers looked bitter, but no one dared to complain. They could only obediently take the broken bowls handed by the chef and start to receive their own rice soup one by one.

The chef scooped up a spoonful of rice soup and poured it into a bowl in front of him. He muttered disdainfully: "I still want to drink white rice porridge? I don't even look at my identity. We don't have any food to eat. It's your turn? According to me, this rice soup should not be given to you, the dogs and officials!"

The rice soup was very thin and it was finished in a flash. Many people didn't even have a grain of rice in their mouths after drinking it. When they thought that there was still such heavy physical work to do in the afternoon, they felt a lot of complaints.

Some people start to be clever and occasionally insert into the team when people are not paying attention, planning to drink a few more bowls.

However, how could these small actions escape the surveillance of the Chu soldiers around him? When they saw someone trying to fish in the water, they pulled them out without saying a word and beat them up.

"Stop fighting, stop fighting..." A coolie curled up on the ground and held his head and begged for mercy. "June, we are so hungry. We can't eat enough for a bowl of rice soup. Stop fighting, please..."

However, his begging for mercy did not arouse the sympathy of the Chu soldiers, and he still ruthlessly stepped on them.

After a Chu soldier kicked and beat him for a while, he said to him with a angrily voice: "I really don't know what's wrong. We are afraid that you will not eat well, so we will make special improvements to your food.

Not only do you not be grateful, but you also want to eat one more bowl of rice soup? If you eat one more bowl, others will have to eat one less bowl. Don’t you understand such a simple truth?

Still want to have enough food? Don’t you know what day you are now, how many families can have enough food? If you don’t teach you a lesson today, you might cause trouble in the future!”

After saying that, he punched and kicked again, completely ignoring the hard begging for mercy by the officers and soldiers.

In fact, in the eyes of these Chu soldiers, these captured official troops were no different from animals, and they had never treated them as human beings. Whether they were dead or alive, no one cared about what they felt in their hearts.

"stop!"

Suddenly, a loud shout stopped the Chu soldiers from beating the coolie.

Everyone looked up and immediately stepped aside when they saw the person coming. Even the chef nodded and bowed, showing a pleasing look.

The person coming is not someone else, it is Sun Xiushi...

Sun Xiushi looked at the official army lying on the ground and wailed, and asked sternly: "What happened? Who can explain it to this general..."

The chef hurriedly stepped forward and told Sun Xiushi about the entire incident. Of course, he was pushing the main responsibility on those officials.

After hearing this, Sun Xiushi frowned slightly, then went to the rice jar and looked at the rice soup that could make water and fell into a brief thought.

After a long time, he picked up a broken bowl and threw it into the rice jar. He only heard a "pop" sound, splashing a splash of water. The broken bowl slowly floated in the rice jar, without any sign of sinking...

Sun Xiushi's face turned pale and pointed to the broken bowl floating in the rice jar and asked the chef: "Is this their meal? Is this rice porridge for people to drink?"

The chef looked embarrassed and said to Sun Xiushi in a low voice: "General Sun, please calm down. Actually, this is all ordered by the king..."

"You are so brave!" Sun Xiushi asked sternly: "Dare you dare to blame the king? Did the king tell you to make such thin rice soup for people to drink?"

The chef hurriedly explained: "General Sun, even if you use your courage, you dare not push the responsibility to the king..."
Chapter completed!