Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 36 Are You a Bannerman?

"You guys, who are you?" Lu Shoushan was shocked, he didn't expect that someone would find this place.He hurriedly hugged Xu Shounan behind him
"Monster, monster!" Six-year-old Xu Shonan cried out in fright.

"Han people?" Liu Sheng asked when he heard that the other party was speaking Chinese.

"I'll do it. Their accents are from my home." Wu Siyu said.He is from Yangzhou.

"Fellow, my hometown is from Yangzhou, where are you from?" Wu Siyu approached and asked, with a Yangzhou accent on purpose.

"Dong, Dongtai." Lu Shoushan couldn't help being a little excited when he heard that the other party's accent was also from Northern Jiangsu.

Wu Siyu continued to explain: "Fellow, don't be afraid. We are not bad people."

Lu Shoushan asked tentatively, "Then, are you officers and soldiers?"

Wu Siyu shook his head, turned his head and asked Liu Sheng, "Who should we say we are?"

"Overseas remnant." Liu Sheng stepped forward to check the situation in the grass hut. "Hey, there are two more here!"

"Overseas remnant." Wu Siyu repeated to Lu Shoushan.He saw Xiao Budian behind Lu Shoushan was peeking at him, so he took out a compressed biscuit from his pocket and tore it open with his teeth.He squatted down and held it in one hand. Using the little Dongtai dialect he had learned, he smiled and said to the little guy: "Xiao Nabao is so pretty, and he is covered in pond dust. Are you hungry? This is for you. "

Compressed biscuits mixed with grease and dairy products have a tantalizing aroma in the dry, cold air.

Xu Shounan, who was attracted by the aroma of the food, looked at the strange person in front of him, hesitantly stretched out his small hand, and when he got close to him, he took it with a jerk.

Everyone's eyes flashed, and after the kid grabbed the biscuits, he turned around and got into the grass hut.

"Guo (brother), Guo (brother), there is something to eat, you eat, you eat." As he said, he stuffed the biscuits to Xu Funan's mouth.

"He's seriously ill, oh, the burn is pretty bad." Liu Sheng tried it lightly on Xu Funan's forehead, then turned to look at Pan Xiucheng, who was shrinking in the hay on the other side.

"I'm quite sensible when I'm young." Liu Shengtou leaned out of the hut and asked Lu Shoushan, "What's wrong with this brother?"

"Playing the pendulum." Lu Shoushan wiped his tears and replied in confusion.He just heard Liu Sheng and Wu Siyu say "overseas remnants", from overseas?Not officers and soldiers?
Wu Siyu said to Liu Sheng, "It's malaria to play the game."

At this time, Wang Yuanfang said to Lu Shoushan, "Fellow fellow, come with us. We have food and medicine there."

Lu Shoushan asked hesitantly, "Where are you going?"

"Not far, in the south, south of the island." Wu Siyu lifted Lu Shoushan from the ground and patted the soil on him again.

"You, you..." Lu Shoushan hesitated and couldn't decide.

Liu Sheng was in a hurry, he took off his helmet, revealing the stubby.When the others saw it, they also took off their helmets for Lu Shoushan to see.

"Did you see clearly? We don't have braids." As he spoke, he walked to Lu Shoushan and lowered his head to let him see.

"You, are you monks?" In these years, only monks would shave like this.Lu Shoushan was stunned.

"Bah, I'm not a monk." Ding Guofeng shouted.

"Don't be long-winded, let's go quickly. If it's too late, neither the child nor the adults will be able to keep it." Liu Sheng said impatiently.

"Liu Sheng, you are carrying adults. Wu Siyu, you are carrying the youngest child. Zhao Liang, you are carrying the one with a fever." Wang Yuanfang didn't want to spend any more time here, and quickly ordered everyone to go back to the camp immediately.

"Fellow, can you still go?" Wu Siyu got up and asked Lu Shoushan.

"Do you still have anything to eat? Give me a stutter and I can go." Lu Shoushan asked very embarrassedly, and there was a "gugu" sound in his stomach.

When Wang Yuanfang heard it, he immediately took out a compressed biscuit from his vest pocket and put it in Lu Shoushan's hand.

Lu Shoushan took the biscuits and followed Wu Siyu's way before tearing the pocket with his teeth.He took a big bite and finished it in two or three bites.

"Go." Wang Yuanfang waved his hand, and everyone got into the forest again and hurried towards the camp.

Sitting in the RV, Zhao Xin wrote and drew on paper, pondering the type and quantity of supplies to be purchased next time, in preparation for the trip north before the spring.

Little A Miao was playing with Duofu in her arms.

The weather is fine today, the sun is shining in through the window, and the sun is warm.

When Zhao Xin was thinking about going back one day, he heard a shout from outside.

"Master, Master, Master Liu, they are back!" Li Ji ran all the way, came to Zhao Xinxin, and shouted through the door.

Zhao Xin stood up suddenly, picked up his jacket and got on the boat, walked a few steps to the door, opened the door and got off, and walked towards the east gate of the camp.

As soon as he arrived at the gate of the camp, he saw Deng Fei running in front of him, dozens of meters away, with five other people behind him.

"Why are you still carrying people? It turns out that there are people on the island!" Zhao Xin was shocked.

Zhao Xin took a few steps forward, grabbed Deng Fei who had just stopped, and hurriedly asked, "What's going on?"

Deng Fei took a deep breath and said, "It's the grass hut that was discovered yesterday, and it was found there. Both two children are sick, and two have high fever."

"who?"

"I don't know. But they look miserable."

"Quick! Quick!" Liu Sheng, carrying Zeng Xiucheng, who was swinging on his back, shouted to Zhao Xin while running, "Save the child first!"

"Send them all into the car!" Zhao Xinchong said to Liu Sheng.

After half an hour.

Sheng Haizhou and Li Ji got out of the car lightly, and as soon as they closed the door, a group of refugees around them came up and asked, "Lord Sheng, what's going on?"

"Hey, the lord said that they were runaway slaves from the Qing country, and their faces were tattooed. I heard that they escaped from a far place in the west." After speaking, he shook his head and sighed.

He said to Li Ji again: "According to the instructions of the adults, set up another tent. Let them also install the stove, and have the bedding and firewood ready."

Li Ji nodded, and immediately found someone to take care of.

In the car, A Miao opened her big bright eyes and looked a little worriedly at Xu Shounan, who was sitting opposite. The little guy was drinking rice porridge.Zhao Xin didn't let A Miao take the food, fearing that the child would eat a bad stomach, so he let the kitchen cook a pot of porridge.

A Miao looked at Xu Shonan's thin face with words pierced on both sides, and she couldn't understand what it was.She reached out her hand and touched it tentatively, and asked, "Does it hurt?"

Xu Shounan looked at A Miao for unknown reasons, but couldn't understand what the other party was saying. Right now, his attention was on the porridge in the bowl, so he lowered his head and started eating again.After a while, the small bowl in front of Xu Shounan was empty, and he raised his head to look at the cute girl in front of him.

"Isn't it enough? I'll give you more. But you're eating too much, it'll hurt your stomach."

Xu Shounan didn't understand what A Miao was talking about, so he turned to look at Wu Siyu again.

"A Miao, give him another half bowl. After eating, you can't eat any more." Zhao Xin, who was checking Xu Funan's body temperature, glanced at Xu Shounan's appearance, and then instructed A Miao.

"Hayi." A Miao agreed, and brought Xu Shonan's bowl over, and went to the stove in the car to put another half bowl of porridge for him.Xu Shounan shyly took the bowl from A Miao and continued to eat it.

In the grass shed in the kitchen, Lu Shoushan, who was brought over by Liu Sheng, was squatting on the ground, holding a large bowl of rice with some pickles sprinkled on it.Wan Zao's wife gave him another hot fish soup and put it in front of him.

Lushou Mountain was like a wind and clouds. After a few mouthfuls, a large bowl of rice was eaten, and there was only a little bit of fish soup left.Immediately, they looked at Shino eagerly, and the eyes of a group of women watching straightened.

This is too delicious!I ate all five bowls.

"Eat, serve it to him!" Liu Sheng waved his hand aside, and Shino quickly filled another bowl of white rice, which was piled up.

I saw that Lu Shoushan poured the remaining fish soup into the rice and started eating.When Wan Zao's wife saw it, she quickly picked up another large chopstick of pickles, followed it with one hand, and placed it on the rice in Lushou Mountain.

Lu Shoushan looked up at the other party gratefully, and then lowered his head to deal with the food.

"My good fellow, this one beats me three times." Liu Sheng shook his head and sighed.

"Looks like I've been hungry for too long." Wang Yuanfang said while smoking a cigarette while looking outside.

Soon, a full bowl of rice entered Lu Shoushan's stomach again.This time, he didn't ask for extra rice anymore. After getting up and handing the bowl and chopsticks to Shino, he rubbed his belly.

"Are you full?" Liu Sheng asked with a smile.

"Seven points full, I haven't eaten rice for many years." Lu Shoushan said with a smile.

"Ah?" Liu Sheng's chin almost fell, and he was only [-]% full after eating six bowls of rice!

"Where is the young master? I want to see the young master." Lu Shoushan wiped his mouth with his tattered sleeve and said to Liu Sheng.

"Don't be busy yet." Liu Sheng smiled. "Take you to change your clothes, look at your torn clothes, they are all mounds."

Xu Shounan, who was full, sat in the warm car, and soon his eyelids began to fight. After a while, he fell asleep on the chair.

Zhao Xin carefully lifted the six-year-old little guy, put him gently beside his brother, and covered him with a quilt.

On the other bed in the car, Pan Xiucheng, who had already taken medicine and asked A Miao to feed half a bowl of porridge, was better and was sleeping peacefully.

Zhao Xinchong made a gesture of silence between A Miao and Wu Siyu, and the three of them walked out lightly.

"Master, that child is really pitiful. There are frost cracks on the back of his hands and feet, as well as the bigger one." A Miao's eyes were a little red, and she whispered to Zhao Xin. "Master, what are the patterns on their faces? Why do adults and children have them?"

Zhao Xin said solemnly: "Take a face and distribute it."

"What?" A Miao blinked, she couldn't understand the master's answer.

Tattoo punishment, also known as ink punishment and tattooing, belongs to one of the five punishments in ancient times. It is a kind of corporal punishment that has been used for the longest time in Chinese feudal society. , It has been used for thousands of years; the most familiar ones are Wu Song and Lin Chong in "Water Margin".

The reason why this kind of punishment can last so long is actually the culture of shame in Confucian culture at work.

Zhao Xin didn't explain to A Miao any more, he turned and asked Wu Siyu, "Where are they from?"

"Dongtai. Next to Taizhou."

"Oh."

Zhao Xin took two steps to the side, took out a cigarette and handed it to Wu Siyu, who shook his head.Zhao Xin then ordered it himself, after taking two sips, he sighed, "What a sin!"

After a while, Liu Sheng and Wang Yuanfang came over with Lu Shoushan, who had changed his clothes, followed by Li Ji.

Most of the clothes Zhao Xin bought were of small size, but Liji searched for a long time before he found a medium size for him; then he found him a pair of large shoes and replaced the original ones. Shoes tied with rags and uran grass.

After changing into warm clothes, Lu Shoushan felt a lot more at ease.In his eyes, how could officers and soldiers let the captured fugitive slaves eat and drink and change into new and warm clothes.

"Fellow, are you full?" Wu Siyu looked at Lu Shoushan who was approaching and asked with a smile.

Zhao Xin also turned around and looked at each other with a smile.

When Lu Shoushan ran back to the camp just now, he noticed that the six people who brought him back walked up to Zhao Xin and said something.He felt that the man in front of him was the big leader here.

"The villain is on behalf of the two young masters and my brothers, thank you all for your kindness in rescuing me." Lu Shoushan knelt on the ground with a puff, and said while kowtowing.

"My fellow, what are you doing?" Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng were the closest to Lu Shoushan, and they supported him together.Zhao Xin bent down and patted the soil on Lu Shoushan's new pants.

"Don't hesitate. Both children are asleep. The older one has already taken medicine, and the fever subsides after a while. The younger one is full and sleeps with the older one." Zhao Xin looked at Lu Shoushan. Looking behind him with his head, he quickly explained.

"Master, are you a bannerman?" Lu Shoushan opened his eyes wide and stared blankly at Zhao Xin.

"Ah?" Zhao Xin was stunned.

"Your official language is better than that of Lord Dutong. When I was in the capital, the officials and adults I saw were..." Lu Shoushan said, his voice getting lower and lower.

It was said that among the seven modern people of Zhao Xin, only Zhao Xin was a native of Beijing.

Although Liu Sheng's home is also in the capital, their home was moved from another place when Liu Sheng was a child.In addition, Liu Sheng joined the army after graduating from high school, and also worked in other places after he was discharged.Therefore, Liu Sheng's accent did not sound like someone from the capital.

"When did Lao Tzu become a bannerman?" Zhao Xin rubbed his eyebrows, very depressed.

　From the seventh year of Yongzheng, those prisoners who were exiled to Jilin Wula, Ningguta, Badune, Sanxing, and Heilongjiang changed from tattooing on one cheek to two cheeks.The reason for this change is that in the past, the crime was stabbed on the left face of the migrants. At the same time, because of the cold weather in the northeast and the difficulty of living, a large number of migrants fled.When these people were captured, it was difficult to tell where they escaped because they had only the charges on their faces.Therefore, with the permission of Yongzheng, the prisoners who were exiled to the Northeast from then on were all stabbed with the crime on the left cheek, and the place of distribution was stabbed on the right cheek, and they also had a combination of Manchu and Chinese characters.In this way, even if you run away and get caught, you can immediately confirm where the streamer ran from.

　　
　
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