MTL - Lord Highlander-Chapter 5 4. The meaning of life

  Chapter 5 4. The meaning of life

  Large fields of lush sweet potatoes grow on the soil **** at the foot of the forest farm. When a gust of wind and heat waves blow, the sweet potato seedlings on the soil **** undulate like wheat waves.

There is plenty of rain here, and the climate is warm in summer. There are no natural enemies such as groundhogs. The sweet potato grows very vigorously, and the watery and tender stems and leaves are the favorite food of the Thunder Rhinoceros. These thunder rhinos should be fed with sweet potatoes that contain a lot of starch.

  The soldiers of the second team waved their sickles against the scorching sun, cut down large pieces of sweet potato seedlings, and used iron picks to dig out the sweet potatoes buried deep in the soil.

Each of these sweet potatoes as thick as an arm is one meter long, and the light yellow slurry contains a weak toxin. If an ordinary person eats them, their lips will swell like sausages within an hour of eating the sweet potatoes , the tongue sticks out like a dog, and half of the face is swollen to the point where it is impossible to speak normally. Few people in the Grimm Empire eat sweet potatoes.

Thunder Rhinoceros and some big livestock don't care about this little bit of weak toxin, but these sweet potatoes have tenacious vitality and extremely high yields. This kind of plant can be seen everywhere even in the wilderness. Lei Tingxi in the village prepared half a month's rations, and all five teams in the squadron were mobilized, and it took three days to dig out the sweet potatoes on the slope.

Suldak was shirtless, waving a sickle and rushed to the front. He knew what posture to use to save energy and how to hook the roots of sweet potatoes. He Boqiang followed behind him, using the prepared vine The strips bundle the potato vines into a large bundle and place them neatly on the hillside. Each bundle of the potato vines is kept at the same distance, which looks pleasing to the eye.

  The black boy Jeronen and the red-haired Klaus each carried a pickaxe and worked hard to dig out the sweet potatoes from the fertile and soft soil.

It was proposed by He Boqiang that four people work together in a group to cooperate with each other in digging potatoes. Facts have proved that the work efficiency of everyone working together is much higher than that of working alone, and each of them performs their own duties. more interesting.

Captain Sam loaded the neatly arranged sweet potatoes on the flatbed truck, walked to He Boqiang, punched him **** the shoulder, bared his yellow teeth and praised He Boqiang: "Well done! Look at you With such a strong body, it is unexpected that he knows how to work as a farmer."

  Suldak, who was at the head, stopped, straightened his waist, picked up the kettle and drank a lot, and then threw the kettle to He Boqiang.

  He Boqiang was not polite, and poured the remaining water in the kettle into his stomach in one go.

   "Are you from the north?" Captain Sam asked He Boqiang, sitting on a bundle of potato seedlings, looking up and squinting at He Boqiang.

  He Boqiang saw the endless snow-capped mountains from the fusion memory, hesitated for a moment before slowly nodding.

"When this war is over, we will all contribute to your travel expenses, and you can go home." Captain Sam took out a pipe from his arms, sucked it twice dryly in his mouth, and said in a hoarse voice. He Boqiang said.

  He Boqiang squinted his eyes, recalling the other world, his smile was full of bitterness.

   "Why, don't you want to go home?" Captain Sam asked He Boqiang.

  Although He Boqiang can currently understand the Imperial language based on the knowledge in the memory fragments, he cannot pronounce it accurately. Therefore, there are still certain obstacles in communicating with people. He can only listen and cannot speak.

Suldak has been taking care of He Boqiang during this time, so the two walked closest, but Suldak rarely talked about this with He Boqiang. This time Captain Sam asked He Boqiang, and Suldak took the opportunity to ask. : "Did you forget where your home is?"

  Suldak didn't expect He Boqiang to nod, he was a little speechless, and didn't know how to comfort him, so he could only curse in a daze: "Damn plane war!"

"Then what are your plans for the future?" Captain Sam asked He Boqiang. Seeing that He Boqiang was silent and didn't speak, he turned his head to Suldak and said, "Dak, aren't you Do you know the merchants in Tarapagan? Or ask them about their lack of manpower..."

  Suldak agreed: "I'll find time tomorrow morning to ask."

As one of the few fighters with skinning skills in the 57th Heavy Armored Infantry Regiment, Suldak is obviously more popular with merchants who followed the infantry regiment into Handanar County to collect war money. He knew several merchants. The steward of the team, Sam asked Suldak to find those merchants for help, and it was by no means aimless.

  Black boy Jeronen interjected from behind: "Captain, why don't you keep the big guy?"

  Since He Boqiang woke up, his injuries have gradually improved. Although he is temporarily unable to speak, this does not prevent him from doing things.

A lot of experience from the memory fragments of the body owner, after fusing those experiences in other worlds, there are many novel ideas, some may not be realized due to various constraints, but some of them are very effective when used, because of this , He Boqiang's injury has not healed, but it has been accepted by everyone in the second team.

Captain Sam bit his pipe and cursed vaguely: "Nonsense, we are serving in the military. The recruitment system of the Green Empire is here. If it is not compulsory conscription, who would want to come to fight and go through this kind of blood licking?" day?"

   One sentence made Jie Longnan unable to say anything, so he could only pull a piece of baked wheat cake from his arms, stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it casually, and then swallowed it.

  He Boqiang clearly saw a bulge the size of a ping-pong ball in Jie Longnan's throat, and watched him swallow the dry wheat cake with great difficulty. He didn't even need to drink a sip of water, but his eyes were a little straight.

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  These cut fresh potato seedlings will also be transported back to the camp, and all thrown into the trough outside the animal pen.

Those thunder rhinos like small hills came from all over, and they could swallow a bundle of potato seedlings with their mouths wide open. These thunder rhinos with an amazing appetite were the strongest in the military camp, but it was extremely difficult to feed these big guys. With heavy work, there are usually dedicated breeders, and only a group of soldiers will go to the wild to collect temporary thunder rhino rations.

After the Fourth Battalion got the good job of cleaning the battlefield, they carried out several reconnaissance missions in succession. Together with the preparation of fodder for the Thunder Rhino this time, it was also Earl Mond Goss who wanted to balance the hearts of the other captains. some.

These sweet potatoes were transported back to the camp, and the work of the second team was not over yet. Immediately after, someone had to mash the sweet potatoes, and send the sweet potato slurry soup to the logistics cooking team, and use the big steamer there to turn the sweet potatoes Potato pulp is steamed into potato cakes, which is Lei Tingxi's favorite food.

  Making sweet potato steamed cakes is one of the more interesting things He Boqiang does, because in the process of making steamed cakes, he can observe those thunderous rhinoceros at close range.

  For these big guys weighing tens of tons, He Boqiang really wanted to ride on their backs to feel them.

  However, the breeders in the camp watched very closely and refused to allow people to touch these giant beasts easily.

  Although he has infinite curiosity about this world, He Boqiang always feels that he does not belong here.

During those days when he was recuperating in the tent, He Boqiang secretly hypnotized himself in order to endure the pain on his body. He kept silently telling himself: “Don’t be afraid, all this is just a dream. , all suffering here will be gone'

   This is a sentence he must say to himself every night before falling asleep.

   When a new day opens, he will look for the meaning of life when he came to this world in the morning sunshine.

  (end of this chapter)