Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 30 Here comes a change of clothes

Since Zhao Xin left the camp, Sheng Haizhou has been busy every day without touching the ground.

Basically every day he got up at dawn, took Li Ji and other six people to beat their bodies and practice swordsmanship; almost an hour later, the women led by Shino and Wan Zao's wife had already prepared breakfast.

Due to the sufficient food in the camp and Zhao Xin's instructions before leaving, the breakfast these days is white rice.

Originally, when these people were in the island country, they would have two meals a day. They would eat dry meals in the morning, and then go to work in the fields. At night, they would eat thin meals.

Zhao Xin's requirement is to eat three meals a day, so Sheng Haizhou's arrangement is to eat rice in the morning and noon, and cook porridge in the evening.This decision surprised many refugees, especially the 130 seven people who came later.Because of their background in farmers, many people do not have the concept of lunch.

After more than 300 refugees had breakfast, Katsu Kaishu, Liji, Manzo, Heita, Kuzo, Mosuke, and Toyoshi started the daily routine evaluation meeting.

Because of the refusal of the refugees, Sheng Kaishu could only let the other six "samurai" lead a group of refugees to carry out different tasks.

For example, Li Ji was the first to follow Zhao Xin, so he was responsible for the distribution and collection of all materials in the camp. When everyone returned to the camp after work every day, they needed to return the tools they received in the morning, and Li Ji would lead someone to check and check whether there was any damage.

Shino and Wan Zao's wife lead more than [-] women who are responsible for cooking, and these people are also managed by Liji.

Wan Zao led more than [-] strong men and women, who were responsible for digging soil and filling the blast wall every day.This work is very arduous, especially now when the weather is cold and the ground is freezing. Sometimes when a pick is digged, there is only a pit a few inches deep, so the progress is very slow.The refugees took care of this kind of basket that Zhao Xin brought on the outside with steel bars woven into an iron basket.

Heita and Kuzo led a dozen other men to cut down trees around the camp after collecting tools from Liji every day.Many old people and children followed behind, picking up the branches after logging for heating and cooking in the camp stove.

Shigeru and Huyoshi lead the rest of the men and are responsible for the security around the camp to prevent wild beasts from attacking.

In the routine assessment meeting, it is mainly to report on the completion of yesterday's work and what to do today.

Since Zhao Xin did not leave a timing tool before he left, the camp can only arrange each day according to the time of the sun rising and setting.

This time is in the "second warm period" in meteorology, and the temperature during the day is only about minus 10 degrees.With the blessing of long clothes, long pants and labor insurance coats, many refugees even feel that this winter is not cold at all.

At noon on the No. 30 day after Zhao Xin left, Sheng Haizhou was sitting in the tent after lunch, calculating the food consumption and balance, and Huji ran into the tent out of breath.

"Come, here comes a man, with a horse. From, from the east."

"Who is it?" Sheng Haizhou quickly put down the booklet and writing brush in his hand, got up and asked.

"I don't know, it's probably the people the adults mentioned."

"Kulkaqi people?" Sheng Haizhou remembered the situation around Bear Island clearly that Zhao Xin had mentioned.

"I can't tell you, Lord Sheng, go and have a look." Hu Ji said involuntarily, pulling Sheng Haizhou out.

Sheng Haizhou broke free from Hu Ji's pull, leaned over, picked up his coat, put it on, and walked out of the tent.

At this time, the weather was a little gloomy, and the cold wind was blowing on his face like a knife, causing Sheng Haizhou to shiver.

Hu Ji led the way, and Sheng Haizhou followed him all the way to the "iron basket wall" in the northeast of the camp.

The explosion-proof wall here has not been filled with earth and stone, but the steel frames are neatly arranged one by one, and the khaki bags have been installed.The bottom of the explosion-proof wall was blocked and buried by Wan Zuo led his group hastily with some earth and rocks.

Before Huji could reach out and point, Sheng Haizhou had already seen two hundred paces away, a tall man with a shabby robe draped in an animal skin, leading a horse, walking towards the camp.The man's horse seemed to be carrying something, which could not be seen clearly from a distance.

"Go and ask Ping Tai to come." Sheng Haizhou instructed a homeless person beside him.

The refugee heard this, and hurriedly ran to the west side of the camp.Today, Ping Tai and Jiu Zang are logging in the west, and it is estimated that they will have to wait for a while before they can come.

Speaking of Zhao Xin, Lord Zhao's "Seven Dwarfs". Bah!Among the Seven Samurai, except for Katsu Kaishu, only Heita worked as a shop assistant before, often dealing with customers, and had seen some of the market.

Sheng Kaizhou himself does not know how to deal with these aborigines, because this is their first encounter.Besides, Sheng Haizhou felt that as the "old middle school" of Master Zhao, how could he go up to negotiate in person?

The man stopped when he was twenty steps away from the outer wall of the camp, shouted a few times at Sheng Haizhou, and waved his hand.It was only then that Sheng Haizhou saw that the man was carrying a deer on the back of his horse.

At this time, Huji and Shigeru were already nervous, and the swords in their hands had been drawn halfway.The other refugees were even more nervous, and clenched the wooden sticks in their hands; these sticks were sharply chopped with an axe and trimmed so smoothly that they were used as spears by the refugees.

When Sheng Haizhou watched the aborigines wave to him, he was also very nervous, but he knew that he couldn't show it in front of these refugees.As for what the aborigines were shouting towards him, he couldn't understand them at all.

He glanced back, and Pingtai hadn't come yet.He gritted his teeth and thought for a while, so he also raised his hand and waved at the man.

The man saw Sheng Haizhou waving his hand, so he pulled the reins back and took a few steps forward.

This time it was troublesome, and Toruki, Shigeru, and a few refugees immediately shouted to stop the man and not allow him to move forward.On the other hand, Shigeru pulled out the knife nervously, and the sharp blade was particularly eye-catching.

As soon as the man saw someone drawing a knife, he immediately stopped, then started to back up, and stood back to his original position.

Just as the swords were drawn, Sheng Haizhou heard the sound of footsteps running behind him, and when he looked back, he saw that it was the refugees sent by Ping Taihe before.

Ping Tai was sweating on his forehead at this time, but his breath was very steady.It seems that the hard training these days has significantly improved his physique.

"Master Sheng, what happened?" Ping Tai asked Sheng Haizhou while looking at the aborigines not far away.

"It seems to be a local person. Your lord mentioned it to me before, calling these people the Kurkazi people. I don't know what his purpose is. I came here to discuss it with you."

After listening to Sheng Haizhou's story, Ping Tai walked to the camp wall and carefully looked at the man twenty steps away.After watching for a while, he turned around and said to Sheng Haizhou, "It's not like you're here to grab something." After thinking about it, he handed the knife to Sheng Haizhou, and continued to say to the people around him, "Don't move, I go and see."

Sheng Haizhou put a hand on Ping Tai's shoulder and said to him, "Ping Tai, be careful."

Ping Taichong nodded to everyone, and then walked out through the gap in the explosion-proof wall.

When Pingtai slowly walked ten paces away from the man, he stopped.Only then did he see clearly that the horse that the other was leading was carrying a deer; on one side of the saddle was a quiver, which seemed to have five or six arrows stuck in it; In addition to a large bow, there is a short knife attached to his waist, and the scabbard is also made of animal skin.

"KULAKAQI?" Heitai asked the man tentatively.

(In Japanese, the reflex sound of "R" does not exist as a phoneme. Since you have never heard it, you will not be able to speak it. Therefore, islanders who have not been trained in other languages ​​will not recite the reflex at all. sound, you can only use the "L" sound instead.)
When the man opposite saw that Ping Tai knew about Kurkazi, he nodded excitedly, patted the deer on the horse's back a few times, and pointed to the coat on Ping Tai's body and said a few words.

Heita still didn't understand at all, he thought for a moment, then pointed at himself and said, "HIETA (Japanese pronunciation of Heita)." After speaking, he saw that the man didn't seem to understand, so he pointed at himself and said it twice.

The Kulkaqi man on the opposite side seemed to understand, raised his finger to himself and said, "Yalha."

"Yariha?" Ping Tai pointed to the other and asked.

"Yalha." The Kurkachi repeated it again, then nodded happily, then waved to Ping Tai and asked him to come over.

"Yariha." Ping Tai thought this was the other party's name.Well, until these refugees learn the allegro tongue twister, the tongue can't be rolled up.

Ping Tai hesitated and took a few steps forward, only to see Yalha walking towards him and stopping in front of him.

"Hey! Be careful." Everyone behind the camp wall exclaimed.

Ping Tai did not step back, but he carefully looked up and down the very strong Kulkaqi man in front of him. The big boots made of animal skins were stuffed with thatch (Ulla grass); the coat and trousers were made of cloth, but the robes on the upper body were also somewhat worn; It looks very warm.

Then Pingtai turned to his side again and looked at the deer on the horse's back.A pair of huge antlers came into view, and Ping Tai counted in his heart that there were as many as eight forks.The deer looked very strong, with thick gray-brown fur, and a trace of white down on the deer's abdomen.

At this time, the head of the deer on the horse's back was drooping to one side, and Pingtai saw a finger-sized hole in its neck, which looked like it was shot with an arrow.There wasn't much blood coming out of the wound, and it was frozen.

On the opposite side, Yalha looked down at Ping Tai. He stared at Ping Tai's cotton-padded jacket, and then reached out and touched the position of Ping Tai's shoulder lightly. After rubbing it a few times, his eyes showed light.Then he pointed to Ping Tai's cotton-padded coat, turned around and pointed to the deer on the horse's back, saying something in his mouth.

In the cold weather, beads of sweat appeared on Ping Tai's frightened forehead.After he stared blankly at the other party's series of actions, he probably understood what it meant.Then he turned around and shouted at Sheng Haizhou: "Master Sheng, I think he wants to exchange deer for our cotton-padded clothes."

This is the people behind the wall who let out a sigh of relief, it turned out to be changing things.A few refugees were so nervous that they almost urinated.

Sheng Haizhou thought about it for a while, and he felt that it was better not to have any conflicts before the adults came back. He could only temporarily stabilize the other party and wait for the adults to report back to see how to deal with them.

So he shouted to Ping Tai: "You ask him to wait, I'll go to Liji."

Ping Tai listened, and immediately gestured at the other party for a long time, indicating to wait.

Yalha seemed to understand what Ping Tai meant, and immediately patted his chest to express his relief.

Ping Tai continued to turn around and shouted at Sheng Haizhou: "Bring a cotton coat first."

Sheng Haizhou immediately turned to look for Li Ji, and just after walking two steps, he saw Li Ji and a few people turned out from behind a tent.Li Ji was carrying a knife in his hand, and the others were about to charge up with shovels and picks, and Katsukai Zhou hurriedly stepped forward to stop them.

He grabbed Liji and told the situation on Pingtai's side. Liji asked directly after listening, "What if the lord comes back and asks?"

"Of course, tell the truth." Sheng Haizhou said affirmatively. "Don't worry, I will take all the responsibilities."

Li Ji thought for a while, and he had no good idea. He was also afraid if he really wanted to draw a knife and copy the guy.So he had to agree with Sheng Haizhou's opinion. First, he walked to the camp wall and looked at the figure of the Kurkashi man, then turned around and went back to get the cotton-padded coat.

After a while, Li Ji came back with a worn cotton coat.

"Why is it old?" Sheng Haizhou saw that the cuffs of the cotton coat were a little worn, and the front was a little dirty.

"What's wrong with the old one? Isn't this also very good? The clothes are not torn." Li Ji's tone was very strong, he was not afraid of Sheng Haizhou.

Sheng Haizhou had no choice but to return to the wall with his clothes, and waved at Ping Tai with his clothes.

Seeing that the clothes were brought in, Pingtai made a gesture at Yalha first and asked him to wait a moment; after turning around and walking back to the wall to get the clothes, he handed them to Yalha.

Yarha happily took the cotton-padded coat and flipped it back and forth in his hand.He found that the fabric used for this cotton coat had never been seen before, and it was very smooth to the touch; moreover, the clothes were very thickly padded, so there should be a lot of cotton; what surprised him most was that the stitches on the clothes were fine and tight, inside and out. It's all like this, not even a single exposed thread can be seen.

However, the style of this dress is really strange. Not to mention the material of the buttons, he has never seen it before. There are two diagonal pockets on the outside and one pocket on the inner lining.Moreover, this dress is a pair of fronts from top to bottom, which is not the common style of the Manchu.

However, this robe is really rare!
(End of this chapter)