Destiny is ashes

Chapter 11 Eating Meat
On an ordinary evening, a row of fiery clouds passed over the mountains, and the golden-red sunset cast a dim glow on the entire mountain.

An Jing and his group, who had completed their training goals ahead of schedule, were gathering together to play marbles.

An Jing, Gu Yeqi, Zhang Ying, Cang Linzu, Ye Xiuyuan and Zhan Feng are the core group of people united around An Jing. They are basically An Jing's younger brothers and sisters and personal admirers. They have a good relationship with each other and play together in their spare time.

Marbles originated from the rewards that An Jing received from his instructor for his daily performance, but he himself did not play with them. Instead, he used marbles to teach his friends how to master strength and exert it accurately and skillfully.

There is a line on the ground as a dividing line. The other five people hold short sticks and use the sticks to push their marbles to hit other people's marbles in turn.

Hitting one of someone else's marbles gets one point, hitting two gets three points, hitting three in a row gets six points, four is a grand slam and gets twelve points, and hitting it out of bounds deducts two points.

This game looks easy, but in fact you can only win if your marbles stably hit two other people's marbles. You need to consider the force applied to the marbles and the chain collisions, not to mention that everyone is using sticks to exert force, which is much more difficult than using your hands. It is a great test of stability, accuracy and path calculation.

Each player hits the ball once, and the game ends after five rounds. The player with the highest score will be taught martial arts by An Jing. As for the player with a negative score, An Jing will let him practice more.

From the current perspective, Gu Yeqi has won the most points - her control is quite agile, and she can hit two stably every time, and occasionally burst out and hit three.

Cang Linzu and Ye Xiuyuan followed. Their skills were also quite good and were not inferior to Gu Yeqi. However, they were too greedy and always used too much force, causing the marbles to go out of bounds.

As for Zhang Ying and Zhan Feng, they are both candidates for regular extra training - Zhang Ying is not good at grasping the angle of force, and Zhan Feng is too strong and cannot control the strength.

"Okay!"

This time it was Zhang Ying who hit the ball. He mastered the angle and strength and actually hit three balls at once, turning the negative score into a positive one. He immediately cheered excitedly.

Afterwards, he turned his head in confusion and sniffed around: "Hey, wait, Brother An."

"Did you smell it?"

"A little bit." An Jing was currently flicking a marble with his thumb. The marble went straight up and down, very steadily. This was his way of exercising his finger flexibility and control.

He looked up and answered thoughtfully, "But I don't know what it tastes like."

"Huh?" Gu Yeqi was first again this time and could get An Jing's guidance. She was handing a bottle of water to An Jing and turned around and asked, "Is it the smell of herbs?"

"It's Tie Nanxin... Yeah, there's more!"

Gu Yeqi has lived in a manor soaked in the scent of countless herbs since he was a child. He can even distinguish the types of herbs by pure smell. After closing his eyes and smelling them carefully, he opened his eyes confidently and said, "There is also the smell of ice silvergrass seeds, which can help me calm my mind and spirit!"

"Wrong!"

Zhang Ying also said confidently: "It's meat. And a lot of it!"

"And..." After sniffing it carefully, the boy said confidently, "There is more than one kind of beast meat!"

Zhang Ying's family has been hunters for generations. Before the frost disaster, hunters in the northern border were synonymous with danger and wealth. If a hunting team could enter the mountains and come out alive, they would definitely return with a full load. They could not only harvest the fur and flesh of wild beasts, but also pick rare spiritual plants and precious medicines from the mountains.

Zhang Ying was very familiar with this smell. It was the smell of many wild beasts being slaughtered, with blood flowing and energetic muscles releasing. He would never make a mistake.

"It's meat!" "It's herbs!"

As they were talking, the two started to quarrel. Cang Linzu and Zhan Feng on the side started to make trouble: "Fight, fight!"

Ye Xiuyuan and An Jing both shook their heads helplessly.

"All right."

Finally, An Jing raised his hand to stop the two people arguing: "There are more than just these flavors."

He turned his head and looked at the attic on the side of the martial arts field.

That is the medicine pavilion, where the Deputy Medicine Envoy and others live and work.

Xuanming Manor is like a large boarding school that can easily accommodate a thousand people. Although there are a lot of refugee children gathered there, their actual activity area is not very large. They are not allowed to enter and exit places like the medicine cabinet, the back hall, the back mountain, the central courtyard, and the secluded pond freely.

Xuanming Manor has too many secrets, but the children don't care. Except for the medicine pavilion.

Every five days, the Deputy Medicine Envoy would summon the children to the medicine pavilion for physical examinations and prescription treatments, so everyone was quite familiar with the medicine pavilion.

But today, An Jing also smelled some different medicinal smells from the direction of the medicine cabinet... It was an extremely sweet smell mixed with a slightly fishy smell. It felt like braised pork cooked with mustard, brown sugar and strawberry craft beer. Just smelling it a little bit would make people's minds shake.

"It's almost time to eat."

Hearing the ringing sound, An Jing shook his head slightly and tried to get rid of the strange metaphor that suddenly popped up in his mind.

He called everyone to gather and then led the team to the cafeteria.

Today is indeed very different.

Under the astonished gazes of all the children and with the rich aroma of meat, everyone received a large portion of meat.

Two or three pounds? Or four or five pounds? There was too much meat, some of it was ribs, some of it was leg bones, and the meat had been carefully roasted with a rich aroma.

It trembles so vigorously that it gives the illusion that it will overflow from the plate.

An Jing frowned slightly, not knowing whether he was surprised or happy, and stared at the piece of meat in front of him.

This was probably the meat of some ferocious beast, because the shape of the bones was very strange, unlike any creature he knew. The rich aroma of oil mixed with the taste of spices and sauces made his stomach lurch violently, and his flesh and blood were trembling with desire, urging him to devour the flesh and blood in front of him.

But perhaps because An Jing had eaten a lot of meat recently, he was able to suppress his body's instincts.

He swallowed back the saliva secreted by his body and looked around the cafeteria.

Not everyone eats the same meat.

Some people, like An Jing, eat the meat of some kind of beasts, some eat the wings or wing roots of birds, some eat the internal organs, and some eat strange insects? There are even seafood like fish and crabs, and so on.

But there was no doubt that everyone loved the food in front of them. No one had the slightest desire to talk and they were all concentrating on eating the meat in front of them.

Eat meat.

There were no other thoughts in the children's eyes, only pure hunger and greed. This surging desire made An Jing shudder, and an inexplicable terror climbed up his spine.

"An Jing."

At this moment, an old voice came. An Jing turned his head quickly and found that the owner of the medicine manor came to him quietly: "Don't you like it?"

The skinny old man, who looked like a ghost, leaned down, looked at An Jing, and asked softly, "Why don't you eat?"

The young man stared into the pair of deep, dark eyes in front of him, grinned, showing his white teeth and said in a smile: "Master Yaozhuang, I'm afraid I won't have enough."

In fact, the meat in front of An Jing was far more than what was on the plates of other boys and girls, and even of higher quality.

This might be the preferential treatment from the 'Big Brother'. As the strongest among all people at present, his treatment is totally not on the same level as that of ordinary boys and girls.

So it makes people feel uncomfortable.

"Ha ha……"

Hearing this answer, the owner of the medicine shop stood up and laughed with an ambiguous meaning: "Because you are afraid of not having enough, you look at the meat in other people's bowls before eating?"

"What a greedy boy... But don't worry."

The owner of the medicine shop said calmly: "One day, you will be truly full."

"Eat."

(End of this chapter)