Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 86 The Story of Yaichiro
Yaichiro's family from Sanhe County were among the first 500 people to disembark.

They were assigned to a tent in the northeast corner of the quarantine area.In addition to their family, four other families were also housed together in this tent, a total of nineteen refugees.

At this moment, the five family members stood outside the tent and looked at everything in front of them, then turned to look around.

A dozen paces to the east and north are the tall walls of the isolation area.

The walls of the entire isolation area are made of newly felled pine trees or pine trees.Due to the rush of time, these pine trees with a diameter of more than one foot were cut down without even the bark. They just removed the excess branches, cut them in half with a chainsaw, sharpened one end and buried them in the soil.

As a result, a strong smell of pine oil wafted throughout the quarantine area.In the tent with the curtain lifted, there was also a smell of pine oil.

On both sides of the Sila River in this era, there were over 100-year-old sylvestris pine, yellow pine, red bark spruce and large areas of birch forests; More than ten meters.

Because the Yichiro family lived at the foot of the mountain all the year round, they were very familiar with the taste and did not find it too pungent; the other four families were similar.

Of the five families, except for one from the Shichihu domain, the other four escaped from Sanhu County to the Sendai domain. Speaking of which, they were all farmers within the territory of the Morioka domain.

It is said that although the Morioka domain is [-] stone high, it is actually poorer than the Hirosaki domain.Because of its remote location, it was not valued by the shogunate at all, and its development was not good.

Historically, in the late [-]th century, due to financial difficulties, the Morioka Domain took the initiative to propose to the Meiji government to abolish the domain and establish a prefecture, which was later renamed Iwate Prefecture.

The light in the tent is not very bright, and in front of the five families are ten wooden beds with two floors.This is also hastily processed with sycamore pine, and it looks very rough.

However, when Yichiro saw that the top and bottom bunks of each bed were covered with quilts and pillows, he couldn't help but exclaimed "Ah".

The wife, who was carrying her son, hurried forward, reached out her hand and carefully touched the pale green sheets and quilt, and a happy smile appeared on her face.

She turned her head to look at Yichiro, and said with a smile, "It's all cotton! These patterns are so pretty."

When everyone heard this, they quickly ran to the bed, reached out to touch it, and sighed in their mouths.

Yichiro kept touching the quilt and said, "It's so good! This quilt is better than that of the samurai master."

The man next to him said, "That's what I said. Have you been to the house of the samurai master?"

Michiro hurriedly defended: "Why haven't I been there? I went to deliver mountain goods to the gentlemen's homes a few years ago."

In fact, he hadn't seen it before. How could the warriors let a mud-legged man enter their house?But these people in the tent were from ordinary peasants, and no one was better than the other, so everyone believed what Yichiro said.

In addition to him, Yichiro's family also has his wife, eldest daughter, youngest son, and his younger brother, and the other four are similar.They belonged to those who had fled early. Among the family members, except for those who starved to death in order to leave food for the younger generation, or who committed suicide because they did not want to drag their families down, the adults basically survived.

After the family fled to Matsushima, Yichiro took his wife and eldest daughter to survive by picking up seaweed and shellfish on the beach every day to survive; occasionally he helped fishermen unload their fish to get some food.

The originally scrawny family had relied on the twice-a-day rice porridge provided by the ship since they boarded the Thor. After a few days, their withered faces gradually turned a little bloody.But his youngest son was still as thin as a big-headed doll, undressed, with a round belly and tiny ribs clearly visible.

"Send two people out from each family, take the wooden sign issued to your family, and go get lunch!" Ping Tai and Kuzang each held an electric horn and started shouting from outside the tent.

When Yichiro heard the shouts from outside, he quickly reached out and touched the slap-sized wooden sign in his arms.It was given to him by someone who looked like a samurai lord when he entered the quarantine area, and every family had one.

I heard the old man say that this sign is written on it is his name and the number of people in his family. It must be kept well, and all the food and new clothes will be used in the future.

Yichiro looked at his wife and children, and said, "Jiro and I will go." After speaking, he took his younger brother out of the tent.

When the other four families saw it, two people came out and hurriedly followed.

Inspired by hunger and food, an open space outside the tent was soon filled with more than 200 people.

Looking at the crowd of refugees, Ping Tai, who was holding a loudspeaker at the side, asked a few of his subordinates to drive the refugees to line up.After the chaotic group of people was intimidated by the guards holding wooden sticks and lined up with sticks, Ping Tai nodded and asked the guard at the front of the line to bring these people to pick up the meal.

Yichiro and his younger brother were at the front of the line. When they were more than a dozen steps away from the gate of the quarantine area, they could smell the rich smell of rice porridge and steamed buns.

It is said that the wheat of the island country was introduced from the Sui and Tang Dynasties.However, due to the scarcity of land, wheat production is not high.In the early days, wheat was always used as feed because of the lack of grinding equipment and cooking technology.

Later, although stone grinding and other equipment were introduced from China, because the technology was not mastered, and the flour produced was too expensive, only the upper-class people like senior samurai and wealthy businessmen could eat it.

When he was in Bear Island, Zhao Xin thought that pasta is easier to digest and absorb than rice, so he started to let the women in the kitchen learn to steam the steamed buns.

From a nutritional point of view, steamed bread has 221 calories/100g, while rice is only 116 calories/100g.

The sooner these refugees recover, the sooner the development of Beihai Town can begin.

The line moved forward slowly. After each lunch leader handed over his wooden sign to a woman in front of the wooden shed, the woman shouted the name of the owner and the number of the family on the sign; The women then took a brand new small plastic basin and poured the per capita rice porridge into the basin according to the weight of a small bowl of rice porridge per person.

The woman in charge of checking the number plate is Katayama Kanbei's wife, Tataku. Because she was born in a merchant family, she read books for several years when she was a child, and she is also one of the few "intellectuals" in the current camp.

Then, a woman next to the rice porridge took off the quilt covered by a large basket, which was filled with two large white steamed buns, which were still steaming hot.The woman then used a wooden clip to take out the steamed buns according to the number of people in each household, and put them into another pot.

The last woman placed the cutlery by the hair of each family. The chopsticks were cut from ready-made branches, and the bowls were bright green plastic bowls.Each household will be listed by number of people and put into a red plastic bucket.

At this time, Yichiro heard a man in front of the team asking why he gave so much.A woman said loudly to the people in line: "The only reason for you to drink porridge on the boat is because you have been hungry for too long. If you eat too much, it will hurt your stomach. Now the master has ordered two steamed buns for each adult man and woman. One child. Don't worry!"

"Ah! This..."

When everyone in the queue heard this, they bowed in gratitude, and a few of them actually fell on the ground and started kowtow to a few women.

The woman stepped aside in fright and shouted, "Why are you kowtowing to me? Like you, I was rescued by my master when I was dying of starvation. I will work hard to repay my master in the future."

When Yichiro heard this, a face appeared in his mind.It was on the beach in Matsushima, and a tall man shouted while distributing food.

He grabbed a small steamed bun that day, and although it was divided into five portions for the whole family to share, the taste of white noodles that he had never eaten made him reminisce for several days.

The team continued to advance, and finally reached Yichiro.He took out a wooden sign from his arms and handed it to the woman in front of him.

Duo He took a look at the sign and said loudly, "Yichiro, five people, four adults and one child." After she finished speaking, she stamped a seal on the back of the sign with a small stamp, and then handed it to Yichiro .

"Here, this is porridge for five people. The porridge bowl belongs to you, remember to wash it after use. If it is damaged, you will be compensated."

The younger brother Jiro quickly took it with both hands, hugged it carefully in his arms, then walked out of the team and waited aside.

Yichiro picked up a bowl of snow-white steamed buns from the wooden platform, and saw that there was also a fist-sized black-brown pickle inside.He leaned in and smelled it, and a slightly choking salty smell came to his face.

"Is this pickle?"

"Yes." The woman who made the buns said without raising her head.

He took a few steps forward, where he received cutlery and buckets.

"The buckets and cutlery are all for your use, remember to clean them after use. If you break it, you will pay for it."

When Yichiro heard it, he said, "If it's broken, I want to accompany him."He couldn't help but clenched the handle of the bucket with one hand and lifted it hard, only to be flickered, almost throwing out the steamed buns in the other hand.

"Why so light?"

At this moment, his stomach made a gurgling sound, and without thinking about it, Yichiro returned to the tent with his younger brother.

The wife and eldest daughter, who were waiting in the tent, had already started working together, rolling up the bedding on a lower bunk and placing it on the upper bunk; thus, the bed became a temporary table for eating.

When the whole family took out the bowls and chopsticks from the bucket and were about to eat, the other four people who went to get the meal also came back with their things.

So in this tent, which was classified as A-[-] in the quarantine area, there was a sound of gobbling.

After the meal, Yichiro took his younger brother Jiro around the quarantine area.He remembered that the two women said to wash the dishes when they brought the meal, but where was the water?
The two turned around for a long time, and finally they asked a guard to find out the location of the pool.When I found it, I saw two pools with a gray-black appearance and a height of half a person.

It's just that one has a lid made of branches, and the other doesn't.Yichiro and his younger brother asked a guard next to him again, and only then did they know that the water in the pool with the lid was specially used for drinking, and the one without the lid could be used to wash things.

In fact, this thing is also a temporary solution that Chen Qingsong came up with.Build two concrete pools with a length and width of two meters and a depth of one meter.Each of the two pools is connected to a PVC pipe equipped with a handle switch; a water outlet is made under the pool, open the valve below, and the water will follow the pipe from the outer wall of the isolation area to the sea.

The water is drawn from the Sila River.Chen Qingsong considered that there would be no industrial wastewater in the isolation area at all, at most dirty water for washing clothes and brushing things, so it was not a cause for concern.

As for the drinking water pool, after every time the water is full, the guards will put in pre-prepared drinking water disinfectant.

There are two sets of pools like this, one set each in the southeast, northwest and northwest of the isolation area.

Yichiro and his younger brother wandered around curiously for a long time before heading back.As a result, when the two walked outside their tent, they saw two women in white coats shaving the heads of other men in the tent.

When the two entered the tent suspiciously, they saw several bald heads sitting on the bunks.

Two of them are Yichiro's wife and daughter!
(End of this chapter)