The next day and two nights were uneventful.
Zhao Xin divided the six of Sheng Haizhou and the others into three groups, while he, Liu Sheng, Lu Shoushan and Pan Xiucheng were divided into two groups. Five groups of people took turns guarding two observation points day and night.
On the morning of the third day, Liu Sheng had not yet arrived. Zhao Xin crawled out of his sleeping bag and walked outside to grab some snow and wipe his face. As soon as the cold snow hit his face, Zhao Xin immediately shivered and lost all sleep.
Lu Shoushan, who had been awake for the rest of the night, handed Zhao Xin a small basin of warm water boiled over a bonfire. Zhao Xin took it, swallowed it, rinsed it in his mouth, and spit it on the ground.
"Shoushan, you go in and take a nap for a while. I'll call you when Mr. Liu comes." Zhao Xin said, looking at Lu Shoushan's bloodshot eyes.
Lu Shoushan took the small basin from Zhao Xin's hand and said, "Master, I'm fine." After saying that, he filled the basin with some more snow and continued to sit on the fire.
"Master, how many days do you think we have to stay like this?" Lu Shoushan asked casually while waiting for the water to boil.
"I can't say, but my eyelids were twitching so much this morning. It seems to be coming soon."
"My lord, my lord..." Sheng Haizhou walked quickly from another observation point. "There's someone on the ice!"
Zhao Xin snatched the telescope from Sheng Haizhou's hand and looked towards the ice.
On the frozen sea, two sledges were driving towards the island. Zhao Xin noticed that three people were sitting on one of the two-horse sledges; and one person was sitting on the other single-horse sledge. Behind the two sledges were five or six dogs, running very fast.
Zhao Xin looked behind the group of dogs, about three to four hundred meters away, and saw a man walking on the ice holding a horse, and there was another person lying on the horse.
"...Four, five, six." Zhao Xin counted the number of people across from him and muttered in his heart: "Are you here to catch a big market? There are more and more people coming!"
After the other party came closer for several dozen meters, Zhao Xin noticed that these people were covered in thick animal skins from head to toe. No weapons were seen in the hands or on the sledges of these people.
"You really treat this place as a free market!" Zhao Xin muttered and handed the binoculars to Sheng Haizhou. He checked the bullets in the assault rifle magazine, inserted it again, pulled the bolt and loaded the bullet, but the safety was not opened.
Lu Shoushan on the side saw Zhao Xin checking the weapons. He quickly turned around and took out an ax from the shed; Sheng Haizhou pulled out the knife from his waist.
Zhao Xin didn't say anything, but made a gesture to the two of them, then walked towards the seaside with his waist down. Lu Shoushan and Sheng Haizhou looked at each other and followed Zhao Xin closely. When Jiuzang, who was at another observation point twenty meters away, saw the three people moving out, he also drew his knife and followed them.
The four people came to the edge of the forest, only twenty meters away from the beach, and hid behind several big trees.
Zhao Xin raised his gun sideways, and through the sight, he saw that on the one-horse sledge, in addition to one person sitting, there was another person lying on it; and on the other two-horse sledge, there were actually three women.
So there are seven natives in total.
When the men reached the shore, they immediately stopped their horses. The three women turned around and looked at the ice in the distance. The two people behind were still more than two hundred meters away from them.
Several dogs were sniffing around on the beach, smelling the smell of this strange land.
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 beast in the woods. A middle-aged woman pulled out a short knife from her waist, while another short man quickly took a bow from the sledge, nocked an arrow and aimed at the big tree where Zhao Xin was.
Seeing that something was going to happen, Lu Shoushan under another tree quickly shouted in Manchu: "Don't move! Who are you?"
The woman holding a short knife shouted: "We are friends of Yalha, 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 pots."
Zhao Xin still raised his gun and aimed at the man holding the bow and arrow, and said: "Shoushan, go over and have a look and ask what's going on."
Lu Shoushan felt relieved when he saw Zhao Xin pointing the "fire gun" at the beach. He had seen Liu Sheng shooting this kind of musket on the beach without lighting a match rope. He stood a hundred steps away and fired dozens of shots within a few breaths, and the wooden target was smashed to pieces.
He and Pan Xiucheng were dumbfounded at the time. Thinking that when Mr. Liu and the others found out, the other party was holding such a "repeated fire gun", they couldn't help but have a new understanding of Zhao Xin's strength.
He felt that as long as he held such a blunderbuss, it would be like "one man is in charge and ten thousand men can't open it." No matter how many armored soldiers he brought, he would be dead.
So Lu Shoushan placed his ax under the tree, turned around and walked out. He spread his hands, walked five or six steps in front of several natives, and stopped.
"Are you all friends of that Yalha?" Lu Shoushan carefully looked at the people in front of him. An old lady, a middle-aged woman holding a short knife and a girl holding a puppy. The man who had raised his bow to aim just now had put his bow down now, but the arrow was 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 Serdan's family members. Oh, he brought his son to exchange salt with you two days ago."
"Oh." Lu Shoushan looked at the stocky Kurkhaqi man in front of him, nodded and asked, "Where are Serdan and his son?"
"Serdan was chased by officers and soldiers and was injured by an arrow. Elu and him came over immediately." Hengji said, turning around and looking at Serdan and his son who were dozens of steps away.
At this time, Erlu was holding the horse and was very close to the injured father.
He recognized that the man wearing a dark cotton robe opposite was the Uncle Lu who had talked to his father a few days ago, so he quickly raised his hand and waved a few times, shouting: "Uncle Lu!"
Lu Shoushan also recognized Elu, and then the expression on his face became much more relaxed. He shouted behind him: "Master, it's okay. These three women are Seldan's family, and this one is his friend."
As soon as he finished speaking, Erlu had already led the horse and dragged his own Ama to the beach.
"This brother..." Hengji saw that they knew each other, and then said to Lu Shoushan: "Serdan told me that you have medicine there. Can you save him and brother Yalha?"
Zhao Xin, who was still hiding behind the tree and taking aim, heard Liu Sheng's voice coming from the walkie-talkie.
"Zhao Xin, where are you guys? It's over."
"Here at the beach, six, oh no, seven natives came. Over."
As soon as he finished speaking, there was soft footsteps behind him, and Liu Sheng came over with Pan Xiucheng, Hu Ji and Mosuke.
Zhao Xin turned off the safety, put away the gun, and said in a low voice to Liu Sheng: "You are here just in time. Just stay here and watch, and I will go over and take a look." After that, he walked quickly to the beach, Sheng Haizhou He Jiuzang, holding a knife, followed closely behind Zhao Xin.
Hengji, who was talking to Lu Shoushan, saw a tall, white-faced, beardless young man walking out of the woods, followed by two little men; the two little men both held a sharp long knife in their hands, and their faces were full of anger. The evil spirit made him immediately nervous.
Lu Shoushan followed Heng Ji's gaze and turned around to look, then he smiled and comforted a few people: "It's okay, it's okay, this is my master, and those two are his servants."
Han people? Owner? Didn't Yarha say that they were "Kukhov Yaka"?
Henji suddenly felt that his brain was not strong enough, but that was not the most important thing at the moment.
Yarha started to have a high fever a few days ago. Although Yarha recovered for two days after taking the "life-saving medicine" that Serdan brought back, she started to have a high fever again yesterday and her whole body was frighteningly hot. Elu also took medicine according to Serdan's instructions before leaving, but it had no effect.
Yesterday at noon, Serdan's wife drove a sledge and brought Serdan's mother and daughter to Hengji's house. When she saw Erlu, she said that the officers and soldiers were going to arrest Serdan. The three of them escaped overnight. After Elu listened carefully to what happened, he said that Ama had given instructions before leaving. If he didn't come back for three days, he would take his people to Bear Island to seek refuge with the salt sellers.
But the three days have not yet arrived, so everyone continues to wait in all their eagerness. In the middle of the night, Seldan finally came, but he was injured by an arrow. The place where the arrow hit his shoulder blade was swollen, and yellow water was flowing out.
Hengji originally wanted to cut the wound with a knife, take out the arrow and apply it with herbs; but after cutting the wound and taking out the arrow, he found that the arrow was stained with horse dung. Now even he was helpless.
"Brother, please tell your master that brother Yarha suffered from frostbite and has been suffering from a high fever; brother Serdan was hit by poisonous arrows from officers and soldiers, and his wounds fester. Please save them, too!" "As soon as Hengji finished speaking, the three women from the Serdan family knelt down towards Zhao Xin.
"Kneel down again! Can you speak properly?! Everyone, get up!" Zhao Xin yelled helplessly.
After he finished listening to Lu Shoushan's translation, Zhao Xin immediately said to Lu Shoushan, let the old man and the Serdan who was hit by the arrow get on the sledge, and you can squeeze in and follow them together to facilitate the lead.
He also told Sheng Haizhou that you should go up to the sledge in Yalha and arrange a tent for these people to live in when you return.
Although Zhao Xin himself wanted to go back and act as the "Mongolian doctor", the two sledges could not accommodate his big man.
"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 their injuries quickly. Lao Liu, Jiuzang, follow me. You still have to guard the observation post. They escaped overnight, and I'm worried that there will be pursuers behind."
Liu Sheng nodded and said, "Don't worry."
While the two were talking, Serdan had been helped by Erlu and Hengji to sit on the sledge. Lu Shoushan asked Elu to ride behind him.
After Zhao Xin finished explaining, he waved to Jiuzang, and the two of them rushed back to the woods and ran towards the camp.
(There are no words for "master" and "master" in Manchu. There is only "enjen", which means master or monarch. "Master" is the name of a Han slave.
For the Feyaka people, there is no such thing as master and master. The biggest leader is the surname leader, the leader of a surname. According to the "Manchu Archives of the Three Surnames of the Deputy Dutong Yamen", the Qing court compiled a total of 56 surnames and 2,117 households in the Feyaka people in the northeast. Among them, there were six surnames and 17 households in the Kuye Feyaka, each with their own surname. There is no subordinate relationship between the leaders.
The tribute mink reward system mentioned earlier is based on the above statistics, each household has one mink skin per year. )
