Chapter 164 Can one still be used?
The corvée far exceeded Yi Xiaochuan's expectations. He couldn't imagine the hard work of going to the north to build the Great Wall, but he stayed in Xianyang as an official slave. He had to work every day before dawn, and sometimes he even had to work late into the night with a torch. People are like slaves without human rights, who can be beaten and scolded by the guards.
The food is even clearer and less watery, and you can't even eat bran.
Where did Yi Xiaochuan live such a hard life?
It is also difficult for him to imagine how an ordinary person can survive.
Seeing half a spoonful of clear water overflowing the bottom of the bowl and a grain of corn floating on it, Yi Xiaochuan was about to pull the other officials and slaves to talk to the guards, but what greeted them was the battered staff, and the second God's order to continue to work.
Just like that, after only half a month of working, Yi Xiaochuan's face was completely thinned, and several laborers in the same shed died suddenly due to overwork and hunger.
When one after another corpses were dragged out of the shed, he couldn't stand it anymore, so he brought the remaining brothers in the shed to the kitchen to steal things.
Crazy hungry people don't care about anything.
The small kitchen was like a typhoon passing by, and it was turned into a mess in an instant. Yi Xiaochuan showed helplessness, but a frivolous smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. He enjoyed this kind of joy of "helping others".
Amidst the sound of thanks from everyone thanking Dade, Yi Xiaochuan felt that he was the hero who saved them.
Little did he know that he rescued these official slaves, but he might have killed the entire cook in the back kitchen.
Well. With Yi Xiaochuan's cleverness, he must know, but he is still keen to enjoy the simplest vanity, and he is unwilling to uncover the surface and think about it.
"Hey~ Save some for me too."
Just as everyone was enjoying their food, footsteps suddenly came from outside the door. Yi Xiaochuan came to the door and saw a group of soldiers in black armor walking towards this side. They went out through the side door one by one, and these unfamiliar-looking soldiers didn't have any doubts.
At least in their cognition, no one has the courage to be so bold.
More than a dozen people said that more is not too much, and that less is not too much.
By the time the soldier led a fat adult into the kitchen, the servants had almost escaped.
Yi Xiaochuan glanced at the empty stove and table, calm in danger, shook the apron on his body, followed behind the last person, made a pair of cuffs, and walked outside.
"Hey~ cook, I'm calling you, stop."
As soon as he was about to slip out of the kitchen, Yi Xiaochuan didn't have time to let go of his hanging heart when he heard the voice of a soldier behind him.
Yi Xiaochuan's body froze, the few people in front thought that the official had found something wrong, so they ran away in fright, they didn't care about Yi Xiaochuan, they disappeared in a flash.
Out of the door, they ran as much as they wanted, but Yi Xiaochuan, who had not stepped over the threshold with one foot, had no chance to run.
Turning back pretending to be calm, Yi Xiaochuan showed a puzzled look and said, "Are you calling me?"
"Nonsense, is there anyone else here? If you don't call me who?" The soldier frowned, "Where are the other cooks? Why are you the only one?"
"Other cooks" Yi Xiaochuan groaned in his heart. He couldn't say that other cooks lied to the vegetable garden to dig treasures, could he?
Before he could come up with a reason, another soldier next to him showed an impatient look, "Forget it, the higher-ups are pressing hard, and he alone is just right."
"Hey~!" The fat man interrupted the two of them with a wave of his hand, and said dissatisfiedly, "How can you make do with the people you want?"
"Miscellaneous cough, I am asking you, can you cook?" The fat man finally came out, so he naturally wanted to show off his "official authority", raised his chest, looked at Yi Xiaochuan, and asked.
"Cooking.?"
Is making instant noodles count?
Yi Xiaochuan swallowed his saliva, and thought for a while, thinking that if he became a cook, he would be able to avoid the hard labor day and night, did he look for a chance to escape?
As for the question of whether it will be revealed, Yi Xiaochuan thought that he is a civilized person who has eaten modern food, so it is not easy to fool the ancient people with a few dishes?
Thinking of this, Yi Xiaochuan nodded again and again, "I know how to cook! I know how to cook too much. I am proficient in everything, such as frying and frying Shandong cuisine and Sichuan cuisine." The more Yi Xiaochuan said, the more proud he was, showing his usual light With a smile, he raised his eyebrows and said, "To be honest, before I was arrested, I was a cook, responsible for the food of the entire archaeological team."
While talking, Yi Xiaochuan put his palms together silently in his heart and apologized to Gao Yao, 'I'm sorry, Lao Gao, let me apply your experience first, after I get away, I will have a drink with you. '
"Steamed vegetables? Archaeological team? What's messed up~?"
The appearance is quite handsome, but the way he speaks is confusing, which is simply inexplicable.
On the one hand, the urging from above was really urgent, on the other hand, Yi Xiaochuan's distinctive temperament really moved Mr. Fat, he nodded with some satisfaction, "The above wants a cook, since you are willing to do it, then you are."
"It's just a cook~ Of course I'd like to." Seeing that everything is done, Yi Xiaochuan said proudly, "I know a lot of dishes, I guarantee you haven't seen them before."
Even the fat man himself was amused by Yi Xiaochuan's optimism and cheerfulness, and couldn't help laughing out loud. The two soldiers next to him looked at each other, and the expressions on their faces couldn't hold back any longer. The strange smile,
Yi Xiaochuan saw that everyone was happy for him, although he was a little confused, he also laughed.
For a while, the whole back kitchen was filled with cheerful air.
Different from the happy air here, an open space in the east city of Xianyang is filled with hot air.
Gao Yao rolled up the drawings and pointed his **** at people coming and going, sat down to drink cold water from time to time, then got up again, compared the drawings that Zhou Ji gave him, and supervised whether the craftsmen cut corners.
This restaurant is his only chance to become the "No. 1 Chef in the World". Modern society is absolutely hopeless, but in the Qin Dynasty, Zhou Ji was willing to give him this opportunity.
For this reason, Gao put all his energy into this restaurant.
Eat, drink and stay, almost all at the construction site.
Watching the restaurant being built day by day, Gao Yao's mentality also quietly changed.
On the other side, Lu Zhi and Su Su were also planning to open their own restaurant, and when they had time to accompany Zhou Ji to visit the restaurant, they almost didn't recognize this person in front of them.
It's a bit like meeting for the first time, with disheveled hair and short robes and jackets similar to those of craftsmen, but the light in the eyes is completely different from the original "cowardly", "cowardly", "catering" and "pleasing". , a kind of power called self-confidence is gradually sprouting, and the words and deeds are also more poised and responsible.
He believes that as long as the restaurant is built smoothly, Gao Yao's character will take a completely different path from the original work.
Do not rely on blackening, do not experience incompleteness, Gao Yao is no longer the Zhao Gao in the play who fell into the dust and said in despair that he wanted to "climb to the top step by step, step by step, step by step".
As for Yi Xiaochuan.
When Zhou Ji occasionally went to the official slave camp, he would check on his recent situation.
After all, there is no monitoring in this era, and it is impossible for Zhou Ji to monitor Yi Xiaochuan's every move 24 hours a day.
It was already two days later when he heard that all the cooks in the official slave camp had their heads beheaded because of the theft of the kitchen. The hut where Yi Xiaochuan slept was replaced by a new batch of official slaves. It has also disappeared together with Yi Xiaochuan.
Zhou Ji found out after some inquiring that he sneaked into the kitchen with other official slaves and ate the food prepared for the Second Lieutenant. As a result, all the cooks in the back kitchen and the sixteen official slaves in the straw shed were all beheaded.
As for himself, it seems that he was taken away by the palace people, so he escaped a catastrophe.
Hearing the news, even Zhou Ji was taken aback for a moment.
Yi Xiaochuan lived in the Qin Dynasty for two years, and he still lacked a real understanding of this era. On this point, he might as well be awe-inspiring and lofty in a small restaurant.
In the play, suffering from the plague, Susu used all her love and even her life to make Yi Xiaochuan's heart hurt for the first time in this era. Physically painful.
Zhou Ji had to sigh with emotion, good fortune tricks people.
However, Zhou Ji had no intention of saving Yi Xiaochuan. If Yi Xiaochuan hadn't encouraged the servants in the same shed to steal food from the kitchen, the cook and the sixteen servants would not have died because of him.
Zhou Ji is not a good person, but he is not a wicked person either.
Before doing things, you need to consider the consequences. He has a twisted personality and never wants to involve innocent people in the world. He can't do it for a moment and kills more than 20 people because of him, and he doesn't want to rescue people like Yi Xiaochuan.
In a warehouse at the corner of the palace.
Yi Xiaochuan was full of surprise, walking all the way from the official slave camp, he also found that these soldiers were not the guards of other camps, but the imperial guards guarding Xianyang City.
I thought this trip was to go to the imperial army kitchen to cook for these Qin Dynasty elites, but was taken to an empty room and tied to a shelf.
There was a bad premonition in his heart, no matter how much he asked, no one responded to him.
After a while, the fat man who had talked to him before pushed open the door, still holding a basket of eggs in his hand, and smiled at him, "Are you scared? Don't worry, no matter what you did in the official slave camp , as long as you are here, no one can kill you."
Obviously he was concerned, but the fat man's smile was a bit sinister no matter how you looked at it.
'Yes, it must have been exposed that he went to the kitchen to steal food. '
Yi Xiaochuan's heart skipped a beat, and he said repeatedly, "I can't understand what your lord is saying~ Didn't you agree that you would come to be a cook? Why did you bring me here?"
"That's right, I'm here to be a cook." The fat man said with a smile, "However, it's not that easy to be a cook, so we need to make some preparations first."
"What are you preparing for?" Yi Xiaochuan's heart became more and more uneasy, but now he was **** with ropes, it could be said that he was like a knife, and he struggled twice, but he still couldn't break free from the shackles.
The fat man reached out and took out a boiled egg from the basket, took out the yolk and stuffed it into Yi Xiaochuan's mouth, and said with a light smile, "Fill your stomach first."
Yi Xiaochuan chewed a few times dryly, barely swallowed the egg yolk, but saw the fat adult stuffing another one.
Just like this one after another, Yi Xiaochuan's mouth was dry after eating, and when he wanted to ask the fat man for a bowl of water, he saw everyone put away their things and left the room without paying attention.
"It's not right, it's not right." Yi Xiaochuan shook his head again and again, looked around, and found that the various parts placed in this warehouse were not so much warehouses as torture chambers.
It is also a brand new interrogation method to ensure that the fat adult keeps feeding him egg yolks.
Yi Xiaochuan thought about it but couldn't figure out what the other party wanted to get out of his mouth. Since he left Kuaiji, except for the first time he met Zhou Ji, he had never mentioned this matter to anyone.
Yi Xiaochuan knows that Zhou Ji is not the same as him, but also believes that with Zhou Ji's pride, he will not leak his relationship with the Xiang family to the court.
"It doesn't matter, anyway, this matter is weird from the beginning to the end. I was too eager to get out of the corvee, and I was impulsive." Yi Xiaochuan's hands and legs were tied up. Fortunately, these soldiers didn't know that he had martial arts. , so the bundle is not very tight.
But in his current state, he could only loosen the rope little by little, trying to find a way to free one hand from the binding.
So, in the next few days, the fat adult would come to feed him a basket of egg yolks every day, and after everyone left, he loosened the rope as much as possible, trying to free his hand.
Maybe give him another half a month, he might really do it.
However, ordinary people can’t survive for half a month when they only eat egg yolks every day and don’t touch a drop of water.
Until the seventh day, Yi Xiaochuan's lips were chapped, and his consciousness was somewhat blurred.
The fat man knew that the time had come, so he told the guards beside him to put down the wooden frame. Yi Xiaochuan suddenly woke up and exclaimed, "What are you doing? What do you want to do?"
The fat man opened the cloth bag at hand, took out a short knife, and said with a sinister smile, "What else can I do? Of course I'll cleanse you."
"Purification?"
Yi Xiaochuan frowned instantly, and struggled, "Didn't you say you want to hire a cook? Can I stop working? I won't play, I won't be a cook."
"No? It's too late."
The fat **** sneered, and signaled the little **** beside him to take off Yi Xiaochuan's pants, and Yi Xiaochuan struggled even harder.
However, both hands are tied to the wooden frame. Even if one hand has been loosened a little, if you want to break free completely, you still have to grind for at least a few more days.
The fat **** couldn't wait for a few days, so he sprinkled a handful of lime powder, and swiped down Yi Xiaochuan with a knife in his hand.
Severe pain came instantly, and Yi Xiaochuan's eyes showed killing intent. Since he crossed the Qin Dynasty, he never wanted to kill, but now it is the first time that he can't restrain the urge to kill.
Quietly, a gust of wind blew from nowhere in the sealed room. Yi Xiaochuan was still struggling with pain, and the hemp rope in his hand broke instantly. The brain shrouded in murderous intent moved ahead of time, raised his hand to grab the dagger from the fat eunuch's hand, and inserted it into his throat.
A thunder rolled in the sky, just covering the scream of the little **** next to him, Yi Xiaochuan took advantage of the situation and stabbed the little **** in the chest again.
It's a matter of self, and what kind of benevolence, righteousness and morality, the Holy Mother of Mercy has all been left behind, if someone comes forward at this time and persuades him to be generous, Yi Xiaochuan is afraid that he will fight desperately with others.
(end of this chapter)