"You, who are you?" Lu Shoushan was shocked. He didn't expect that someone could find this place. He hurriedly hugged Xu Shounan behind him
"Monster, monster!" Six-year-old Xu Shounan was so frightened that he cried.
"Han?" Liu Sheng asked as soon as he heard that the other party was speaking Chinese.
"I'll do it. Their accents are like those from my family," Wu Siyu said. He is from Yangzhou.
"Fellow, my hometown is Yangzhou, where are you from?" Wu Siyu walked up and asked, he deliberately adopted a Yangzhou accent.
"Dong, Dongtai." Lu Shoushan couldn't help but get 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: "So, are you officers and soldiers?"
Wu Siyu shook his head and turned to ask Liu Sheng, "Who should we say we are?"
"Overseas survivors." Liu Sheng stepped forward to check the situation in the hay shed. "Hey, there are two more here!"
"Overseas survivors." Wu Siyu repeated to Lu Shoushan. He saw the little kid behind Lu Shoushan peeking at him, so he took out a compressed biscuit from his pocket and tore it open with his teeth. He knelt down, holding it in one hand, and using the little Dongtai dialect he had learned, he said to the little guy with a smile: "Little Nabao is so pretty, and he is covered in pond dust. Are you hungry? This is for you." "
Compressed biscuits mixed with fat and dairy products have an alluring aroma wafting in the dry and cold air.
Xu Shounan, who was attracted by the aroma of the food, looked at the weird man in front of him, hesitantly stretched out his little hand, and when he came close to him, he took it with a strong hand.
Everyone's eyes were dazzled when they saw the child grab the biscuits, turn around and get into the hay shed.
"Brother Guo (Brother), Brother Guo (Brother), there is something to eat, you eat, you eat." As he said this, he stuffed the biscuit into Xu Funan's mouth.
"I'm seriously ill. Oh, the fever is quite severe." Liu Sheng gently touched Xu Funan's forehead, then turned to look at Pan Xiucheng who was huddled in the hay on the other side.
"The young one is quite sensible." Liu Shengtou leaned out of the hut and asked Lu Shoushan, "What's wrong with this brother?"
"It's a joke." Lu Shoushan wiped his tears and answered in confusion. He just heard Liu Sheng and Wu Siyu talking about "overseas survivors". Are they from overseas? Not an officer or soldier?
Wu Siyu said to Liu Sheng: "It's just malaria."
At this time, Wang Yuanfang said to Lu Shoushan: "Fellow, come with us. We have food and medicine there."
Lu Shoushan asked hesitantly: "Where to go?"
"Not far, in the south, south of the island." Wu Siyu lifted Lu Shoushan up from the ground and patted the soil on his body.
"You, you..." Lu Shoushan hesitated and couldn't decide.
Liu Sheng was anxious. He took off his helmet and exposed his thick head. When the others saw it, they also took off their helmets to show Lu Shoushan.
"Did you see clearly? We don't have pigtails." As he said this, he walked up to Lu Shoushan and lowered his head to let the other person see.
"You, are you a monk?" In these days, only monks would shave like this. Lu Shoushan was stunned.
"Bah, bah, I'm not a monk." Ding Guofeng shouted.
"Stop being so nagging, let's go quickly. If it's too late, neither the child nor the adults will be saved." Liu Sheng said impatiently.
"Liu Sheng, you carry the adult. Wu Siyu, you carry the youngest child. Zhao Liang, you carry the one with the fever." Wang Yuanfang didn't want to waste any more time here, and quickly ordered everyone to set off back to the camp immediately.
"Fellow, can you still leave?" Wu Siyu stood up and asked Lu Shoushan.
"Do you have anything to eat with you? Give me something to stutter and I can leave." Lu Shoushan asked very embarrassedly, and there was a "gurgling" sound in his stomach.
When Wang Yuanfang heard this, he immediately took out a piece of compressed biscuit from his vest pocket and put it in Lu Shoushan's hand.
Lu Shoushan took the biscuits and followed Wu Siyu's previous example, tearing open the bag with his teeth. He took big bites and finished them in two or three bites.
"Let's go." Wang Yuanfang waved his hand, and everyone got into the forest again and hurried towards the camp.
...
Zhao Xin sat in the RV, writing and drawing on paper, thinking about the type and quantity of supplies for the next purchase, and preparing for the trip north before spring.
Little A Miao was playing with Duofu in her arms.
The weather is very good today, the sun shines in from the window and is warm.
When Zhao Xin was thinking about which day to go back, he heard a shout from outside.
"Master, master, Master Liu and the others are back!" Li Ji ran all the way to the outside of Zhao Xin's car and shouted through the door.
Zhao Xin stood up suddenly, picked up his coat and got on the boat. He walked to the door in a few steps, opened the door and got out of the car, 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 quickly in front of him dozens of meters away, with five other people behind him.
"Why are you still carrying someone on your back? It turns out there is someone on the island!" Zhao Xin was shocked.
Zhao Xin took a few steps forward, grabbed Deng Fei who had just stopped, and asked hurriedly: "What's going on?"
Deng Fei took a few breaths and said, "It's the hut that was found yesterday. I found it there. The two elders and the younger ones are both sick, and two of them have high fevers."
"who?"
"I don't know. But they look miserable."
"Quick! Quick!" Liu Sheng carried Zeng Xiucheng, who was struggling on his back, and shouted to Zhao Xin as he ran, "Save the child first!"
"Put them all in the car!" Zhao Xinchong said to Liu Sheng.
More than half an hour later.
Katsu Kaishu and Liji quietly got out of the car. As soon as they closed the door, a group of homeless people surrounding them came up and asked, "Sir Katsu, what's going on?"
"Well, my lord said they are escaped slaves from the Qing Dynasty, and they all have tattoos on their faces. I heard they escaped from a place quite far to the west." After saying that, he couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.
He then said to Li Ji: "Put another tent according to your instructions. Let them install the stove and prepare the bedding and firewood."
Li Ji nodded and immediately found someone to help.
In the car, A Miao opened her big shining eyes and looked worriedly at Xu Shounan sitting opposite. The little guy was drinking rice porridge with big mouthfuls. Zhao Xin didn't let A Miao get dry rice, fearing that the child would be upset, so he asked the kitchen to cook a pot of porridge.
A Miao looked at the tattoos on both sides of Xu Shounan's thin face, and she couldn't understand what the tattoos were. She stretched out her hand and touched it tentatively, and asked, "Does it hurt?"
Xu Shounan looked at A Miao in confusion, not understanding what the other person was saying. 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. He raised his head and looked at the cute girl in front of him.
"Isn't it enough? I'll serve it to you again. But you eat too much, it will fill your stomach."
Xu Shounan didn't understand what A Miao was talking about, so he had to turn to look at Wu Siyu again.
"A Miao, give him another half bowl. Don't eat anymore after eating." Zhao Xin, who was checking Xu Funan's temperature, glanced at Xu Shounan's appearance, and then ordered A Miao.
"Hai." A Miao agreed, taking Xu Shounan's bowl and going to the stove in the car to fill him with half a bowl of porridge. Xu Shounan shyly took the bowl from A Miao and continued to eat.
In the kitchen hut, 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 placed it in front of him.
Lu Shoushan was like 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. Then he looked at Shino eagerly, and a group of women who were watching stared at him with their eyes wide open.
This is so delicious! I've eaten five big bowls.
"Eat, serve it to him!" Liu Sheng waved his hand at the side, and Shino quickly filled another bowl of white rice, which was piled high.
Lu Shoushan poured the remaining fish soup into the rice and started eating. When Wan Zao's wife saw it, she quickly picked up a large piece of pickles with chopsticks, caught them with one hand, and placed them on Lu Shoushan's rice.
Lu Shoushan raised his head and glanced at the other party gratefully, then lowered his head to deal with the food.
"Good guy, you've beaten me three times." Liu Sheng shook his head and sighed.
"It seems that I have been hungry for too long." Wang Yuanfang said while holding a cigarette and looking outside.
Soon, a full bowl of rice entered Lu Shoushan's stomach again. This time he no longer asked for more food. He stood up and handed the bowls and chopsticks to Shino, then touched his belly with unfulfilled interest.
"Are you full?" Liu Sheng asked with a smile.
"Seventy percent full. I haven't eaten rice in years." Lu Shoushan said with a smile.
"Ah?" Liu Sheng's jaw almost dropped. After eating six large bowls of rice, he was only seventy percent full!
"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. "I'll take you to change your clothes. Look at your clothes. They're all in pieces."
After eating, Xu Shounan sat in the warm car. His eyelids soon began to fight, and after a while, he leaned on the chair and fell asleep.
Zhao Xin carefully lifted up the six-year-old little guy, gently placed him next to his brother, and covered him with a quilt.
On the other bed in the car, Pan Xiucheng, who had taken medicine and let A Miao feed half a bowl of porridge, was feeling better and was sleeping quietly.
Zhao Xinchong made a silent gesture to A Miao and Wu Siyu, and the three of them came outside quietly.
"Master, that kid is so pitiful. His hands and feet are all cracked by frostbite, and so is the older 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 both adults and children have them?"
Zhao Xin said in a deep voice: "Tattooed hair."
"What?" A Miao blinked. She couldn't understand the master's answer at all.
Tattoo punishment, also known as ink punishment and tattooing, is one of the five ancient punishments. It is the longest-used corporal punishment in Chinese feudal society. Historically, it was not used until the revision of the "Qing Code" in the 32nd year of Guangxu's reign in the late Qing Dynasty. Completely abolished, 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 for so long is actually the shame culture in Confucian culture at work.
Zhao Xin did not explain to A Miao anymore. He turned to Wu Siyu and asked, "Where are they from?"
"Dongtai. Next to Taizhou."
"oh."
Zhao Xin took two steps to the side, took out a cigarette and handed one to Wu Siyu, who shook his head. Zhao Xin lit it himself, took two puffs, and 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 in small sizes. As a result, Li Ji searched for a long time before he found a medium-sized one for him. Then he found a pair of large-sized shoes for him and replaced the original pair. Single shoes tied with rag strips and urala grass.
Lu Shoushan, who had changed into warm clothes, felt much more at ease. In his eyes, how could any officer or soldier allow the captured escaped slaves to eat and drink well, and also give them new and warm clothes?
"Fellow, are you full?" Wu Siyu looked at Lu Shoushan approaching and asked with a smile.
Zhao Xin also turned around and looked at the other party with a smile.
When Lu Shoushan ran back to the camp just now, he had noticed that the six people who brought him back all walked up to Zhao Xin and said something. He felt that the man in front of him was the big boss here.
"I would like to thank the two young masters and my brother for their help." Lu Shoushan knelt down on the ground with a pop, kowtowing as he spoke.
"Fellow, what are you doing?" Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng were closest to Lu Shoushan, and they helped him up together. Zhao Xin bent down and patted dirt on Lu Shoushan's new pants.
"Don't wander around either. Both children are asleep. The older one has taken medicine and his fever will go away soon. The younger one has eaten enough and is sleeping with the older one." Zhao Xin looked at Lu Shoushan Detective Looking behind him, he quickly explained.
"Master, are you a bannerman?" Lu Shoushan opened his eyes wide and looked at Zhao Xin blankly.
"Ah?" Zhao Xin was stunned.
"You speak better official language than Mr. Dutong. When I was in the capital, the officials and adults I met were..." Lu Shoushan's voice became lower and lower as he spoke.
Speaking of which, among the seven modern people like Zhao Xin, only Zhao Xin is purely from the capital city.
Although Liu Sheng's family is also from the capital, their family moved from other places 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 does not sound like someone from the capital.
"When did I become a banner man?" Zhao Xin rubbed his eyebrows, feeling very depressed.
