In modern society, materials are abundant and survival is easy, but this was not the case in ancient times. Storing food is a necessary means of survival. Even princes and nobles will be trapped sooner or later due to lack of food and water if they do not know how to store food.

Take Yuan Shu for example. Yuan Shu proclaimed himself emperor, which was extremely noble. However, once he was defeated, he lost all his supplies and when he fled, he didn't even have clean water to drink.

The soldiers only brought sewage water for Yuan Shu to drink, but Yuan Shu refused to drink it and insisted on drinking honey water.

The soldier replied, "There is only blood and water at this time, where is the honey water."

After Yuan Shu heard this, he vomited blood and died.

Look, Yuan Shu doesn't know how to carry some food reserves with him at any time and place. It doesn't matter if he proclaims himself emperor or wears a dragon robe, a crown, and gold and silver.

In case of disaster, gold, jewels and stones cannot be eaten, and wearing luxurious clothes is not as good as carrying a water bag and a bag of dry food.

With this in mind, Li Mengxi took his younger brother to find Guan Yu.

Guan Yu's troops were gathering the trophies on the battlefield. The local warriors picked up the scattered weapons and piled them up. They carried the grain bags that fell from the grain cart and put them on the cart. Some people also picked up the grain scattered on the ground.

Put it back into the bag.

Guan Yu immediately stood on one side of the battlefield and ordered his men, Xiang Yong, to work quickly.

Out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly saw two small figures walking this way. Guan Yu took a closer look. When he saw it was Li Mengxi and his brother, Guan Yu showed a smile on his face. These two dolls came over.

"Drive." Guan Yu lightly kicked the horse's belly, said "Drive lightly", and rode the horse past.

Li Mengxi was very curious about what cleaning the battlefield was like in ancient wars.

He was observing carefully and found that cleaning the battlefield was similar to harvesting crops. A group of people were walking around picking things up and putting them together.

Li Mengxi saw something familiar, a pallet cart, also called a frame cart in the Central Plains.

This is a human or animal-drawn cart with a simple structure. Its structure is a pair of wheels, plus a simple body made of wood. There are two long handlebars in front of the body. In the Central Plains area, people use carts to collect grain and pull wheat straw.

, even pulling cattle and sheep dung, and pulling grain when going to the market, it is really a rare agricultural tool.

What I didn't expect is that flat carts are still common in the 21st century. Two thousand years ago, in the late Han Dynasty, the appearance of the flat carts in the late Han Dynasty was exactly the same as the flat carts two thousand years later.

It has the same pair of wheels, the same simple body made of wood and a long handlebar. For two thousand years, the structure of the cart has not changed at all.

With his eyes full of thought, Li Mengxi felt a little emotional. The vitality of ancient technology was so tenacious, and technological updates were so slow.

Li Mengxi observed with great interest every detail of the ancient war cleaning battlefield, while his younger brother, Brick, was an active child, and Brick was not as interested in people walking around as Li Mengxi was.

Feeling bored, Brick looked around with his big eyes, so Guan Yu came over on horseback, and Brick noticed it immediately.

"Brother, brother! Is someone here?"

"Brother, look, man!"

The younger brother shook Li Mengxi's hand and pointed at Guan Yu, who was coming.

Li Mengxi's train of thought was interrupted. He came back to his senses, turned around and saw Guan Yu coming on horseback.

He has only met Guan Yu once, so we are not very familiar with him.

How should I say hello at this moment, Li Mengxi thought to himself.

Soon, Guan Yu arrived in front of him.

"I've seen General Guan." Li Mengxi imitated the ancients, standing straight, cupping a fist with one hand, and covering the fist with the other hand, and gave a decent salute to Guan Yu.

Guan Yu saw that although Li Mengxi was in ragged clothes and had a sallow complexion, he was polite and polite, unlike ordinary children.

Looking to the side, another little baby with dirty fingers biting his fingers peeked over. After thinking about it for a moment, he could understand that these were two brothers who depended on each other for life.

Seeing that Li Mengxi was still holding his fists, Guan Yu waved his hand and said, "Little brother, there is no need to be polite."

After that, Guan Yu looked at Li Mengxi carefully. After careful inspection, Guan Yu was very sure that he did not recognize this young man.

However, this young man seemed to recognize himself, which was strange.

"Little brother, are you a good person from Hedong?" Guan Yu leaned over and asked.

Hedong Jieliang, Li Mengxi knew where this was. This was Guan Yu's hometown.

When Guan Yu was young, he killed someone in his hometown and was forced to go into exile. He traveled to Zhuojun.

It seems that because he directly called Guan Yu's name, Guan Yu mistakenly thought that he was an old friend from Hedong.

Li Mengxi originally thought that he was wrong, but since Guan Yu had misunderstood, he could just pretend to be from Hedong.

But then I thought again, a lie requires more lies to cover it up.

If he pretends to be a good man from Hedong, then if Guan Yu asks about Hedong, he won't be able to answer.

Li Mengxi looked hesitant, and Guan Yu was even more surprised when he saw it.

"General, I am not from Hedong, nor am I an old general." After thinking about it, Li Mengxi bowed his hand and answered honestly.

"Then why do you know my name?" Guan Yu immediately stroked his long beard and frowned.

In the flash of lightning, Li Mengxi's thoughts changed rapidly.

"The Yellow Turbans are disturbing the people. My father heard that there are three heroes in Zhuo County who are training their local bravery to prepare for the Yellow Turbans. When my father heard about it, he wanted to join the whole family.

But before we reached Zhuojun, we met the Yellow Turbans first. Among the rebellious troops, only two of my brothers remained.

Before coming here, my father knew the details of the three heroes of Zhuojun. One is Liu Bei and Liu Xuande, with big ears and droopy shoulders; the other is Zhang Fei and Zhang Yide, with a leopard head and eyes; and the other is Guan Yu and Guan Yunchang, with a face as heavy as a jujube."

"Before, on the side of the road, someone saw the general's appearance and thought about what my father said, so he recognized General Guan."

After saying this, Li Mengxi seemed to be sad and his face was miserable.

Guan Yu was moved when he heard this.

Guan Yu got off his horse and came to the two brothers. He embraced them with his big hands and said solemnly, "My little brother wanted to join his family to join our rebel army, so he suffered a disaster. Guan is deeply ashamed. Fortunately, you two survived."

If it's difficult, how about meeting Guan and following my rebel army in the future?"

This is exactly the result Li Mengxi wanted.

After pretending to hesitate for two seconds, Li Mengxi pulled his brother and knelt down with a plop.

"Thank you, General, for taking me in. My two brothers have been treated like cattle and horses for nothing in return!"

After saying that, he touched his head to the ground.

Guan Yu hurriedly pulled the two brothers up.

After becoming the martyrs, Guan Yu picked up the two brothers. Seeing that the two brothers were extremely young, dark and thin, Guan Yu felt heartbroken.

Seeing Brick still holding a piece of pancake in his hand, Guan Yu smiled and asked if the pancake was delicious.

"It's delicious!" my brother said happily.

Guan Yu laughed loudly.

Therefore, Li Mengxi pretended to be the son of a righteous man who wanted to join Liu Bei's rebel army but was unfortunately kidnapped by the Yellow Turban. Using this identity, he integrated into the rebel army.

Li Mengxi was very smart. He only said that he met the Yellow Turban on the road and that his two brothers were left alone, but he did not elaborate on whether his family members were missing or died in the war.

This leaves some room in case the family is found again one day, right?
Chapter completed!