Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 42 A Day at Camp

Think the holidays are coming up and you don't need to exercise?Do you think you don't have to get up early to exercise when you go to the big shopping?

naive~~
Zhao Xin thought so, but the fact hit him hard.

As soon as it was bright in the morning, he was picked up by Liu Sheng.

"Why, didn't you leave after breakfast? Let me sleep again." Someone innocently muttered.

"Mr. Zhao, Uncle Zhao ("big" here should be pronounced "嘚"), get up, let's run five laps first." Liu Sheng gloated and began to slap the quilt.

So Zhao Xin, who was educated by the cruel reality, had to get up to wash, put on his clothes and go out for a run.

Because the "Seven Samurai" already knew that they would go north to build a new camp after the beginning of spring, and plan to reclaim the land.So now, in the morning running exercise every morning, Sheng Haizhou and the others have already participated in it automatically.

Perhaps it was because of the improvement in physical fitness. In the "Seven Samurai", except for Wan Zao's half-reluctant appearance, who sighed and sighed every day, everyone else closely followed in the footsteps of the lord, Lord Zhao.

But this morning, just after a group of people ran a circle, they saw two more people from Ximenli, joining the running circle.

The two followed behind Wan Zao, and the speed was unhurried.It's just that one of them looked a little empty, and after a lap, he was already sweating.

However, the two were very persistent, and one of them was even more physically strong, with strong arms swinging and brisk pace.

"Lu Shoushan?" Wang Yuanfang, who was supervising the situation of the team, ran a few steps in place, and when the last two came close, he said in surprise, "Lu Shoushan? Pan Xiucheng? Why did you two come out."

"I can't be idle, Mr. Wang. We brothers are used to being busy, and we wake up every day before dawn. When I'm idle, I feel uncomfortable." Lu Shoushan stopped and hurriedly explained to Wang Yuanfang.

"Don't call me Master Wang. Call me captain." Wang Yuanfang felt awkward when he was called "Master". "Don't stop, keep running, and finish five laps."

"Yes, yes. Team, team, captain." The two felt that the name was strange.

"Shoushan, do you think these old men have nowhere to go? If you don't enjoy your well-being, you will toss yourself when you wake up in the morning." Seeing Wang Yuanfang running forward, Pan Xiucheng rushed a few steps and turned to Lu Shoushan, who was beside him. asked in a low voice.

"Master, this is torturing your body. When you want to use us in the future, you don't dare to spoil the things you explained. So we also have to practice."

"Sure. I'll listen to you."

"Xiucheng, you've just recovered. Master told you to rest for a few more days. Listen to me, you can rest after this lap."

The day was getting brighter, and the camp began to hustle and bustle.People all got up to fetch water and wash, and the women began to busy themselves with breakfast.Over the entire camp, the smoke from the cooking curled up, and the aroma of white rice began to spread in the air.The children in the camp also got up, and the sensible ones fetched water and washed themselves.

This is how the day of the exile began.

Eight-year-old Xu Funan's wound on his arm has not healed yet. Although it has just begun to form a scab, he still cannot use force to avoid tearing the wound.

Six-year-old Xu Shounan wisely took a plastic basin to the kitchen to fetch water. This was what Xu Shounan noticed when A Miao took him around the camp yesterday.

The poor child had been assigned to Ningguta when he was just over a year old, and his older brother was less than four years old at the time.At first, the mother took them, and every day when the mother went to work, it was the elder brother who took care of the younger brother.

After the mother died of illness the next year, Lu Shoushan took care of them all the time.Every day Lu Shoushan and Zeng Xiucheng are busy from morning to night, and there is no free time at all.The brothers have been learning to draw water and cook by themselves.

When they were older, they cleaned the boots and saddles of the flag soldiers and fed the horses fodder.

The island refugees in the camp are from hardships, and they have also helped their families since they were young.So when everyone saw Xu Shonan fetching water by himself and struggling to walk back with the water basin, many people took it for granted and didn't feel anything.

Xu Shounan was walking hard and cautiously with half a basin of water, when suddenly his hands lightened, and the basin had been taken away.

He looked up and saw that it was A Miao.

"Master said, let me take care of you. Why didn't you wait for me and went alone?" A Miao said Xu Shonan as she walked with the water.

Xu Shounan didn't know what A Miao was talking about, so he smirked embarrassedly and walked behind A Miao.

At this moment, he noticed that A Miao was following a chubby tabby cat under A Miao's feet.

"What a fat raccoon~~" Xu Shonan shouted.

King Duofu glanced at the little brat beside him, and let out a vicious meow.

Humble human beings, tremble before me...

"It's really fun." Xu Shounan reached out and wanted to touch Duofu's head, but the tabby cat ducked his head and raised his paws.

"Duofu, don't arrest anyone!" A Miao shouted from the front without looking back.

Well, let this human go for a while.Although Zhao Xin has no time to deal with it recently, Duofu is still very infatuated by Ah Miao's embrace.

A Miao came to the two brothers' tent and first helped Xu Funan to wet the towel and let him wipe his face; then picked up the towel and wet it, and then twisted it twice to wipe Xu Shounan's face clean.

"Lady Lao." Brother Xu Funan bowed shyly and thanked him.

A Miao didn't care about these false gestures, she poured the rest of the water outside the tent, and after she came back and put the basin down, she pointed in the direction of the kitchen and made a gesture of eating.

Seeing that the two brothers understood, A Miao hurriedly turned around and walked out of the tent, trotting all the way to Zhao Xin's car, with Duofu closely following behind.

Coming to Zhao Xin's car, A Miao followed what Zhao Xin had taught before, first filled the electric kettle, then pressed the switch, and waited for the water to boil.

Then he took out Dofu's rations from a cabinet, took two spoonfuls and poured them into the cat basin.Zhao Xin recently told A Miao that Duofu is too fat to feed him too much.

Duofu, who had been waiting for a while, looked at the half of the ration in front of him, and called out to A Miao pitifully.

"No, no. The master told you to eat less." A Miao shook her head firmly, ignoring the other's plea at all.

At this time, the kettle had boiled and made a beeping sound.A Miao got up quickly, took Zhao Xin's insulated water cup, found the tea leaves from the cabinet, put them away, and brewed the tea.

After doing all this, Duofu had already finished eating, licking his tongue dissatisfied, and continued to shout at A Miao.

A Miao gritted her teeth and said hesitantly, "I'll give you another spoon, just one spoon."

Then I took another spoonful and put it in the cat pot.She squatted on the ground, purring the tabby cat's head, and smilingly watching Duofu finish eating, she got up with the cat basin and took some water for Duofu to drink.

After a while, A Miao estimated that the time was almost up, so she hurriedly took the thermos cup without covering the lid, got out of the car, and came to the west gate of the camp.

Zhao Xin had already finished the fourth lap. When he saw A Miao walking over from the camp, he slowed down and waved at her to say hello.

Duofu ran to the camp gate, squatted down, grabbed the wood in the middle of the camp gate, climbed a few times, and successfully reached the top.Condescendingly, he looked at Zhao Xin who was far away, and the long line of followers behind him.

Damn humans, don't let this king be full...

A few minutes later, Zhao Xin stopped at the camp gate sweating profusely, walking back and forth to slow down his blood circulation.A Miao was waiting beside her with a water cup.

A few minutes later, Wang Yuanfang, Liu Sheng and the others also finished the sixth lap and stopped at the camp gate and walked back and forth.

"Luo..." Just as Ding Guofeng opened his mouth to start teasing, Wang Yuanfang slammed the words behind him back into his stomach.

"Ah Miao, give them the water first." Zhao Xin looked at Ding Guofeng, a living treasure, both angry and funny.Since the first day, this fellow has been making fun of himself every day, but fortunately A Miao can't understand.

Be sure to deduct his bonus.

After everyone went back to the camp and finished breakfast, Zhao Xin stopped Sheng Haizhou and told him that he and Liu Sheng would go out in the morning, and it was estimated that they would be back in the evening.

Sheng Haizhou hesitated whether to offer to follow him, but he held back his last words.He felt that his lord was a goddess, and if he did not allow himself to participate, it would be better not to take the initiative.

After explaining the victory to Haizhou, Zhao Xin said to Lu Shoushan who was competing with the third bowl of rice: "Shoushan, I'm going out in the morning. If you have nothing to do, just follow Jiuzang and them to cut wood. I also see Come out, you're a restless guy."

Lu Shoushan smiled honestly, stood up and bowed, and said, "Just follow the master's instructions."

Zhao Xin explained to Li Ji and Jiuzang about Lu Shoushan again, so he could pick up the axe and set off with Jiuzang.

After explaining this, Zhao Xin went back to the car to get a piece of clothes, and left with Liu Sheng who had changed his clothes.

After Lu Shoushan finished eating the fifth bowl of rice, he saw Sheng Haizhou carrying a long axe to look for him.He hurriedly handed the bowl to the woman in charge of washing the dishes, while wiping the corner of his mouth with his sleeve.

Sheng Haizhou smiled and handed the ax to Lu Shoushan, then pointed to Ping Tai who was waiting on the side, and motioned for Lu Shoushan to follow.

Lu Shoushan looked at the axe in his hand, and found that the material of the axe handle was very strange. It was neither gold nor wood, and the texture of black and orange was very beautiful.

He tapped the handle of the axe with his knuckles, and it felt very hard. He guessed that the inside might also be made of iron. Looking at the body of the axe, the paint surface like fine sand was very delicate to the touch. There was a piece of paint on it that looked like a knife. It was scraped off, revealing the shiny metallic sheen underneath.

Is it made of steel? !
Lu Shoushan tried the sharpness of the axe blade with his rough thumb.Even an axe for chopping trees is so fancy.Such an axe, if sold in southern Jiangsu, would be worth at least one or two taels of silver.

While thinking about it, someone patted his arm, and Lu Shoushan saw that it was Pingtai.He smiled and bowed slightly, then followed Ping Tai's footsteps.

At the east gate of the camp, seven or eight refugees were already squatting and waiting together with tools, while Jiuzang was standing silently with his beloved sword.

Ping Tai came closer and said, "Let's go."

Everyone went out of the camp gate and walked towards the dense forest to the east.

The trees on Bear Island are mostly fir and spruce, with some birch and catalpa.Because no one has cut them down all the year round, most of these trees grow very tall, and the lowest must be more than ten meters high.

Lu Shoushan followed Ping Tai and the others to a sunny hillside near a hill. He saw a log pile and knew that this was the logging farm.

The group of people was obviously very skilled in the division of labor and cooperation in logging, so they separated from each other without Ping Tai's words, and started working in groups of two.

Ping Tai patted Lu Shoushan and motioned for the other party to come with him.

The weather is getting colder recently, and the firewood consumption is very large, so Pingtai and the others mainly cut down some birch as firewood.

After Ping Tai chose a birch as thick as his waist, he chopped a few times on one side, and then gestured to Lu Shoushan.After watching for a while, Lu Shoushan probably understood what Ping Tai meant, so he swung the axe in his hand and started to work.

The two cooperated with each other, and soon Lu Shoushan became more and more skilled.After he cut the gap, Heitai changed his saw, sawed a gap on the other side of the gap, and knocked in the prepared wooden wedge.With the loud reminder of the two, the tree gradually fell on the hillside.

When it was busy until noon, a few refugee women came to the camp to bring lunch, two large pots of rice balls, a small pot of pickles and a few pots of water.

The sweaty Lu Shoushan ate very sweetly, and he rarely ate such white rice when he was in Dongtai.New rice can only be eaten in the days when the rice is harvested during the busy farming season; usually only brown rice is enough.

When in Ningguta, these slaves generally ate sorghum rice.Lu Shoushan and Pan Xiucheng also had to save their own rations to support the two children of the Xu family.As for the wealthy bannermen, they ate the precious tares rice.

None of these refugees who are logging the wood are working as supervisors, and everyone is working hard.Mainly to ensure the heating of the camp, and to prepare wooden piles for the construction of the outer wall of the camp.

The farmers' ideas are simple.Although the adults are very kind to the men, women and children in the camp, they can't always eat idle meals all day long.Besides, what kind of work is this? I used to have to do more than this in the village every day.

Without the beatings and scoldings of the flag soldiers, and the deducted meals, Lu Shoushan felt that he had endless strength.

In this way, when it was getting dark, Lu Shoushan had already cut down about twenty birch trees.Today's work is done.

When everyone dragged their exhausted bodies back to the camp, and just reached the gate of the camp, they heard bursts of joyful cheers from the camp.

Ping Tai and Jiuzang looked at each other and couldn't help but quicken their pace, and everyone quickly followed.When I got to the material point, I found that men, women and children gathered here, everyone was happy and excited.

Ping Tai pulled away the refugees in front of him, walked inside, and couldn't help being stunned; while Jiuzang and Lu Shoushan who followed behind were also stunned.

On a large piece of sheet cloth, there are many frozen beef and mutton neatly stacked.Although the temperature was cold, the smell of meat still made the homeless people who were present swallow their saliva.

(End of this chapter)