Poor Mao Shisan, when has he ever eaten sweets? I had chewed sorghum stalks before, and picked honeycombs desperately with my friends, and I never even dared to think about maltose. The first bite seemed to be so sweet that his pores were about to open. He closed his eyes and put the sugar porridge in his mouth one by one. All of this was just like a story, yes, just like some story his adoptive father told, someone accidentally Breaking into the fairy world, the gods hosted an unprecedented banquet. When they returned, hundreds of years had passed. What was the final ending? That lucky person must have returned to the fairy world again.
After breakfast, it was already bright, and the fat chef went down to the cabin to get his bean sprouts. In many cases, this was the only vegetable. In order to adjust the taste, there were three types: soybean sprouts, mung bean sprouts and sprouted beans. The two young men were sweating profusely cleaning the kitchen and tableware. Then use a hand pump to press seawater up to rinse the lunch box. The cleaned lunch box must be scrubbed with fresh water. Fresh water is very precious when sailing, and the chief executive has a quota for how much fresh water is used to wash how many lunch boxes.
But now it doesn’t matter on the Yalu River. Cooking utensils also need to be cleaned. Steel things are afraid of rust. If there is floating rust, it must be carefully polished off, especially in the corners. Use a special small cotton swab to rub it little by little and wipe it after washing. There is no water droplets on it, and then use a piece of half-cooked fatty pork to oil it. The kimchi jar, salted egg basket, rice bags, and unused coal in the kitchen must be returned to their original places. There must be no oil stains at all, everything must be shiny, and even the spoons in the spice jars must face the same direction. After cleaning, the deputy captain in charge of ship maintenance will come over to inspect it.
After the inspection was over, they started boiling water. Fu Ji would add lime juice to the water in proportion. At first Mao Shisan thought it was to cover up the odor in the water that had been stored for too long. But Fu Ji said no. There is an elixir in lime juice and you won't get sick if you eat it. If the water is too hot, it will destroy the good things in the juice, so the boiled water must be cooled down, but not too cold. When it reaches a temperature that can be swallowed, warm boiled water is poured in.
Mao Shisan was responsible for running errands for the blended water, and delivered it bucket by bucket to the insulation buckets on the deck and in the cabin. When docking, there was an unlimited supply of fresh water, so you could drink as much as you liked.
"The chief really treats soldiers as masters." Fu Ji secretly said to Mao Shisan.
After returning from delivering water, Mao Shisan held his stomach and dove into the open-air toilet at the bow of the ship. He was originally wearing thin clothes. As soon as he took off his pants, the cold wind blew straight from left to right, up and down, making him shiver again and again. Xiang froze hard in the air and made a thumping sound when he landed on the thin ice. After finishing his defecation as quickly as possible, he cleaned up luxuriously with paper. When Mao Shisan picked up his pants and ran to carry the bucket, he was suddenly stopped by the first mate: "I'm staring at you. Why don't you wash your hands after you defecate?" Touching kitchen utensils?”
Probably finally caught an active criminal. The first mate who was on duty as a star officer began to explain the doctrine at length. Some familiar sailors were behind him making faces at Mao Shisan. It wasn't until he mentioned punishment that the second officer remembered that the man in front of him was not an officer of the ship: "Go away, I'll let you taste the taste of the cat's tail whip next time I catch him."
Mao Shisan didn't dare to make any objections, so he ran back to the toilet and followed Fu Ji's instructions. He spent half a minute carefully washing each finger with soap. The water is cold and the wind is freezing. By the time Mao Shisan rushed back to the kitchen, he was already half-frozen to death. Holding the reluctant Oscar in his arms, he roasted by the fire for a long time before he felt that the ice crust all over his body had melted. "It's better to be at home." Mao Shisan groaned comfortably.
"Let's go to the sauna today." Fu Ji also finished cleaning up.
"No, I'm not going..." As soon as he heard that he was going to take a "sauna", Mao Shisan's face turned bitter, "I have to give up my life."
"This is military regulations. How dare you not go?" Fu Ji knew that as soon as he showed the "military regulations", Mao Shisan would surrender immediately.
"Okay, okay, I'll go, I'll go."
The sauna on Duozhi Island was built under the personal supervision of Xue Ziliang. It is made of very simple dry stones. During winter training in Jeju Island, the special reconnaissance team often uses saunas to exercise soldiers and improve their resistance.
Since the Haitian is going to rest on Duozhi Island for a period of time, it can be regarded as a kind of "exercise" for everyone to take a sauna. So this bathroom was opened.
Mao Shisan screamed, and was once again thrown into the cold river by a few sailors who were smiling lewdly, raising their hands and feet and shouting "one, two, three."
There were still ice floes on the Yalu River in early spring, and the water was bitingly cold. The moment Mao Shisan fell into the river, his penis almost shrank into his stomach.
This "bath" of first fumigating in a stone house and then throwing it into ice water would take place every two or three days. The first time he enjoyed this treatment, Mao Shisan thought it was a "disgrace" and "killing stick" when he "joined the team", but when he saw the "chief" on the ship, he was like snow and mud, and he was working in the same kitchen with him. Living Fu Ji, all of them were like this, and then they realized that this was the way "Da'ao people" were accustomed to bathing.
"Is this called taking a bath? You should be punished, right?" He would mutter every time he crawled out of the river. No matter how many times he washed, he still couldn't get used to this kind of "punishment" - although now he was no longer as afraid of the cold as he was the first time.
"Slowly you won't be afraid of the cold anymore." Fu Ji threw the towel and coat to him, "You will know the benefits if you wash them more often."
Mao Shisan didn't know what the "advantage" of steaming on the ice first was. He was about the same age as Fu Ji, but he also knew that "the first to enter the teacher's sect is the best", not to mention that the other party was wearing a serious "Hao Kan". A real soldier with a salary is much better than him with a "black household registration" who came from a shelter. So I never dared to refute what this little friend said.
Mao Shisan followed Fu Ji's example, first drying and heating himself with a towel, and then put on the old uniform that was going to be used as a rag to clean the cannon. The cotton uniforms that were intended to be used to clean the gun barrels had long been worn to pieces. They were not as good as the thick, strong and furry coats that Fu Ji and the others wore, so the captain of the Haitian issued another refugee suit. Give him a cotton-padded jacket. Wear the uniform over it as a smock.
The clothes were not heavy, but for Mao Shisan, who had not worn a decent cotton-padded jacket for many years, it was already warm to his heart. Oddly enough, after taking this bath regularly, my whole body feels comfortable and my muscles and bones feel relaxed. My body is always warm, I don’t know why?
He buttoned up and asked Fu Ji, "Are you going to make lunch soon?"
Fu Ji laughed: "You know how to eat, it won't last you!" He waved his hand, "Let's go. Let's wash the vegetables. We also need to make some preparations for dinner."
As soon as he heard that cooking was about to begin, Mao Shisan followed him eagerly.
Their job is to wash vegetables. Fubojun attaches great importance to the supply of vegetables and will try to supply fresh vegetables whenever possible. The only vegetables that can be stored on the Haitian are potatoes and onions. And it has been almost consumed these days. Therefore, the vegetables they used when they anchored on Duozhi Island were collected from Zhenjiang Fort under Hou Jin's rule and various nearby forts.
In the bitter cold land of ice and snow, the only vegetables that can be supplied in winter are stored Chinese cabbage and radishes. Although the local garrison received orders to "do their best to supply", they really couldn't supply anything good. Fortunately, Chinese cabbage and radishes are also delicacies to the sailors who have been drifting at sea for a long time and eat bean sprouts and potatoes every day.
On the shore of Duozhi Island, a temporary trestle has been set up in the upstream waters of the Haitian. This is where the ship usually collects water and washes it. There is a temporary water point here with a filter to filter the river water.
The vegetables were just shipped from Zhenjiang Fort a few days ago. In addition to cabbage and radishes, there are also sometimes frozen game meats such as roe deer and deer. Fu Ji often cleans and decomposes these "meat corpses" on the river beach. Mao Shisan also came to help. When he was sitting on the trestle washing vegetables, the Eight Banners cavalry patrolling the river bank were clearly visible - this was the first time he had observed these enemies so closely and calmly.
Mao Shisan had never seen real Tatars in the past, but he had heard many stories about how cruel and ruthless they were from his adoptive father, military households, and people who escaped from Houjin. Mao Shisan’s attitude towards the Tatars The feeling of fear was deeply imprinted in my mind. When the Haitian cruise ship anchored at Duozhi Island and the Tatar cavalry came to visit, Mao Shisan was so frightened that he almost peed his pants.
When he heard that the Haitian was originally in the Yalu River, not far from the Tatar Zhenjiang Fort, Mao Shisan even wanted to die - wouldn't this be a self-inflicted trap? It's a pity that I haven't eaten enough yet!
Unexpectedly, in a battle on the riverside, more than 200 Tatar cavalry were beaten to a pulp, leaving only the dead horses and horse meat on the ship, which was eaten open for several days. Moreover, after the war, the Haitian sailed to Zhenjiang Fort to look for bad luck on the Tatars, and a cannon blast caused the Tatar garrison to come out to sue for peace. From then on, Mao Shisan felt that the Eight Banners had nothing to fear. They will die even if they are hit by artillery fire. If there are more people killed, they will have to run for their lives. If they are defeated, they will have to surrender. But now they are almost all the vegetables and meat on the ship.
Every time the newly delivered vegetables were inspected by the hygienist on the ship in advance, although sometimes Zhenjiang Fort also sent some dried mushrooms and other things, the hygienist never allowed them to eat them, and they were always thrown directly into the furnace of the sauna. Firewood burning - this made Mao Shisan very distressed. In the past, if he could get some mushrooms to make soup, it would be a good delicacy.
The two of them were chatting while cleaning the soil from the cabbage and radish. There seemed to be a lot of dishes to wash today, and there was something rarely seen on the beach: a whole mouthful of well-slaughtered cows.
"The Tatar official is so generous today!"
"You're so generous, that's because they dare not not take it out, otherwise we will kick Zhenjiang Fort down, and the Tatar official will lose his head even if he can escape with his life." Fu Ji shook his head and said, "Huang The chief will be back from their capital soon, and Chief Xue said that he would take care of him and give everyone a treat - we are about to go back." (To be continued...)
