Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 56
The next day and two nights were uneventful.

Zhao Xin divided Sheng Haizhou and the others into three groups, and he and Liu Sheng took Lu Shoushan and Pan Xiu into two groups.Five groups of people take turns on duty at two observation points during the day and night.

On the third morning, before Liu Sheng came, Zhao Xin climbed out of the sleeping bag and went outside to grab the snow and wipe his face.As soon as the icy snow touched his face, Zhao Xin immediately shuddered and lost all sleep.

Lu Shoushan, who hadn't slept in the second half of the night, held a small pot of warm water that had been burned by a bonfire and handed it to Zhao Xin.After Zhao Xin took it, he swallowed it, rinsed it in his mouth, and spit it on the ground.

"Shoushan, go in for a while. I'll call you when Mr. Liu comes." Zhao Xin looked at Lu Shoushan's bloodshot eyes and said.

Lu Shoushan took the small basin in Zhao Xin's hand and said, "Master, I'm fine." After speaking, he filled the basin with some more snow and continued to sit on the fire.

"Master, do you think we have to stay like this for a few days?" Lu Shoushan asked casually while waiting for the water to boil.

"It's hard to say, but my eyelids twitched so much this morning. It looks like it's coming soon."

"My lord, my lord..." Sheng Haizhou hurried over from another observation point. "Someone is coming on the ice!"

Zhao Xin grabbed the telescope in Sheng Haizhou's hand and looked at the ice.

On the frozen sea, two sledges were heading towards the island.Zhao Xin noticed that three people were sitting on one of the double-drawn sledges; while on the other single-drawn sledge, one person was sitting.Behind the two sledges, five or six dogs followed, running fast.

Zhao Xin saw that about 400 meters away behind the group of dogs, a man was walking on the ice with a horse, and there was another man lying on the horse's back.

"...Four, five, six" Zhao Xin counted the number of people on the opposite side, and muttered in his heart: "Is this why you are here for the big fair? More and more people are coming!"

After the other party approached several dozen meters, Zhao Xin noticed that these people were wrapped in thick animal skins from head to toe.No weapons were seen in these men's hands or on their sledges.

"It really treats this as a free market!" Zhao Xin muttered and handed the telescope to Sheng Haizhou.He checked the cartridge for the assault rifle, reinserted it, and pulled the bolt to reload, but the safety didn't open.

Lu Shoushan, who was on the side, saw that Zhao Xin was checking the weapon, he quickly turned around and took out an axe from the shed; Sheng Haizhou took out the knife at his waist.

Zhao Xin didn't speak, but gestured to the two of them, and walked towards the beach with his waist bent.Lu Shoushan and Sheng Haizhou looked at each other, and followed closely behind Zhao Xin.And Jiuzang in another observation point 20 meters away, saw the three people dispatched, and also drew his sword to follow.

The four of them came to the edge of the forest, only 20 meters away from the beach, scattered and hid behind several big trees.

Zhao Xin raised his gun sideways, and through the scope, he saw that on the single-horse sledge, in addition to one sitting, there was another person lying on it; and the other two-horse sledge was actually three women.

So there are seven natives in total.

When these people reached the shore, they immediately stopped their horses.The three women turned around and looked at the ice in the distance. The two people who fell behind were still more than 200 meters away from them.

Several dogs were sniffing the strange land on the beach.

Suddenly, a dog seemed to smell something and began to bark twice at Zhao Xin's location.

Several people on the beach saw the dog barking and thought it was some wild animal in the woods.A middle-aged woman pulled out a short knife from her waist, while another man with a short stature quickly took a bow from the sledge, took an arrow and aimed at the big tree where Zhao Xin was.

Seeing that something was going to happen to Lu Shoushan under another tree, he quickly shouted in Manchu: "Don't move! Who are you?"

The woman with the short knife shouted, "We are friends of Yalha, and he asked us to come to the island to find someone!"

Lu Shoushan shouted again, "Who are you looking for?"

The woman replied, "The man who sells salt and iron pans."

Zhao Xin still held his gun at the person holding the bow and arrow, and said, "Shoushan, go take a look and ask what's going on."

Lu Shoushan felt relieved when he saw that Zhao Xin was aiming at the beach with a "burst of fire".He had seen Liu Sheng shoot this kind of firearm on the beach, without the ignition rope, standing a hundred paces away, firing dozens of shots within a few breaths, and the wooden target was beaten to a pulp.

He and Pan Xiucheng were stunned at the time, thinking that when they were discovered by Mr. Liu and the others, the other party was holding such a "sparkling gun", and they couldn't help but have a new understanding of Zhao Xin's strength.

He felt that as long as he held such a firearm, he was simply "a husband who is in charge of a man and a man who can't open it."

So, Lu Shoushan put the axe under the tree, turned around and walked out.He spread his hands, walked five or six steps in front of the aboriginals, and stopped.

"Are you all friends of that Yaerha?" Lu Shoushan carefully looked at the people in front of him.An old lady, a middle-aged woman with a short knife and a young girl with a puppy.The man who raised the bow to aim just now has put the bow down at this moment, but the arrow is still on the string.

The man said to Lu Shoushan, "My name is Hengji, and I am a friend of Yaerha. The three of them are family members of Seldan. Oh, he took his son to exchange salt with you two days ago."

"Oh." Lu Shoushan looked at the short and sturdy Kurkachi man in front of him, nodded and asked, "Where are Seldan and his son?"

"Seldan was chased by officers and soldiers and was injured by an arrow. Elu and him came over immediately." Hengji said, turned and looked at the two of Seldan and his son who were dozens of steps away.

At this time, Elu led the horse and walked very close with his injured father.

He recognized that the man in the dark cotton robe on the opposite side was the Uncle Lu who had spoken to his father a few days ago, so he quickly raised his hand and waved it a few times, shouting loudly, "Uncle Lu!"

Lu Shoushan also recognized Elu, and then the expression on his face became much lighter.He shouted behind him: "Master, it's all right. These three female relatives are Cerdan's family, and this is his friend."

As soon as the words fell, Elu had already led the horse and dragged his Ama to the beach.

"This brother..." Seeing that they knew each other, Hengji immediately said to Lu Shoushan, "Seldan told me that you have medicine there. Can you save him and Brother Yaerha?"

Zhao Xin, who was still hiding behind the tree and aiming, heard Liu Sheng's voice coming from the walkie-talkie.

"Zhao Xin, where are you guys? It's over."

"Here at the beach, there are six, oh no, seven natives. It's over."

Just after he finished speaking, there were soft footsteps behind him, and Liu Sheng walked over with Pan Xiucheng, Hu Ji and Shigeru.

Zhao Xin turned off the insurance, put away the gun, and said to Liu Sheng in a low voice, "Just in time for you to come. You guys just stare here, I'll go take a look." After speaking, he walked quickly to the beach, Sheng Haizhou He Jiuzang carried a knife and followed Zhao Xin closely.

Hengji, who was talking to Lu Shoushan, saw a tall, white-faced and beardless young man walking out of the woods, followed by two little men; The suffocation, which made him immediately tense.

Lu Shoushan followed Hengji's gaze and turned to look, so he smiled and comforted several people: "It's okay, this is my master, and those two are his servants."

Chinese?Owner?Didn't Yalha say that they were "Khafei Yaqa"?

Hengji suddenly felt that his brain was not enough, but this is not the most important thing at the moment.

Yaerha had a high fever a few days ago. Although Yaerha had recovered after taking the "life-saving medicine" brought back by Seldan for two days, she had a high fever again yesterday, and her body was terrifyingly hot.Elu also fed the medicine according to Seldan's instructions before leaving, but it had no effect.

At noon yesterday, Cerdan's wife drove Cerdan's sledge and brought Cerdan's mother and daughter to Hengji's house. After seeing Elu, he said that the officers and soldiers wanted to arrest Cerdan, and all three of them escaped overnight.After listening carefully to the passage, Elu said that Ama had given orders before he left. If he did not come back for three days, he took people to Bear Island to seek refuge with the salt sellers.

But three days have not yet arrived, so everyone continued to wait in urgency.In the middle of the night, Seldan finally came, but he was injured by an arrow. The old man was swollen at the arrow in the back of the shoulder blade, and there was yellow water flowing out.

Hengji wanted to cut the wound with a knife, take out the arrow and apply herbal medicine; but after cutting the wound and taking out the arrow, he found that the arrow was actually stained with horse dung.This time even he was helpless.

"Brother, please tell your master that Brother Yalha has been suffering from frostbite and has been having a high fever; Brother Seldan was shot by a poisoned arrow from an officer and his wounds are festering. Please also ask your master to save them! As soon as Heng Ji finished speaking, the three women of the Seldan family knelt down at Zhao Xin.

"Kneeling again! Can you talk properly?! Get up!" Zhao Xin shouted helplessly.

After he listened to Lu Shoushan's translation, Zhao Xin immediately said to Lu Shoushan, let the old man and the arrow-shot Seldan get on the sledge, and you can squeeze and follow each other, so that it is convenient to lead the way.

He also explained to Sheng Haizhou, you go to the sledge in Yalha, and after you go back, arrange a tent for these people to live in.

Although Zhao Xin himself had to go back to act as a "Mongolian doctor", the two sledges couldn't fit his big man at all.

"Liu Sheng, come here quickly. It's over." Zhao Xinchong shouted into the walkie-talkie.

Soon, Liu Sheng ran over.

"I have to go back and treat them quickly. Lao Liu, Jiuzang, follow me. You have to guard the observation post. These people escaped overnight. I'm worried that there will be pursuers behind."

Liu Sheng nodded and said, "Don't worry."

While the two were talking, Seldan had been helped by Erlu and Hengji to sit on the sledge.Lu Shoushan asked Elu to follow him on horseback.

After Zhao Xin explained, he waved to Jiuzang, and the two rushed back to the woods and ran towards the camp.

(In Manchu, there are no two words "Master" and "Master", only "enjen", which means master, monarch, "Master" is the name of the Han slave.

And for the Phayaka people, there is no such thing as a master and a master.The biggest leader is the surname long, the head of a surname.According to the "Manchu Archives of the Deputy Dutong Yamen of the Three Surnames", the Qing court compiled a total of 56 surnames and 2117 households for the Feiyaka people in the northeast of China; There is no affiliation relationship between them.

The previously mentioned system of rewarding mink with mink is based on the above statistics, one mink per household per year. )
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