Before dark, more than a hundred green construction tents had been set up. As for the cooking team responsible for cooking, dozens of large iron pots and wooden barrels were lined up in sequence, and the aroma of the food wafted inside and outside the castle along with the steam.
Shu Haili looked at the noisy crowd and the hundreds of large grass-green tents in front of him with his mouth open, and marveled in his heart how many people the "imperial court" had sent!
And the food these people eat is so good! Snow-white rice, big chunks of oily stew, and vegetables that are rare in early spring. Not to mention ordinary fort residents, even Shu Haili himself couldn't remember the last time he ate white rice.
Liu Sheng was currently holding a large bowl of rice, which was piled with vegetables. When he saw Shu Haili not far away, he waved to him with chopsticks, signaling him to come over.
Shu Haili held back the saliva secreted in his mouth and kept swallowing. As he walked, he looked around at the migrant workers who were carrying food back to the tent. He walked up to Liu Sheng and said, "Sir, what are your orders?"
"Call out all the families in the fort and ask them to come over with bowls to get food."
"Ah! How can this be done!" Shu Haili said, while glancing at the big stew pot not far away.
"What nonsense are you talking about? Go quickly!" After Liu Sheng finished speaking, he winked at the soldiers behind Shu Haili, signaling them to watch. The soldier saluted and took Shu Haili to the fort.
In Fuldan City, the residents were all surprised after hearing Shu Haili's words. The "general of the imperial court" invited everyone to eat meat! The sun came out from the west today, right? Where is the sun? Oh, it's getting dark now. Let's check it out tomorrow morning.
Stop talking and hurry up. A group of fort residents held torches, holding rice bowls and water bowls found at home, and snored outside the fort. When the "officers and soldiers" led them to the large iron pots lined up in a row, everyone's saliva wanted to make a big hole in the ground.
"Mom, what is that?" Shu Haili's daughter looked at the white rice in the big wooden barrel and asked with her index finger in her mouth.
"Listen to your father, that's rice." Shu Haili's wife has never eaten rice.
"What is rice?"
"Rice is a better food than sorghum rice."
"Mom, I want to eat rice."
At this time, a fat cook from Beihai Town waved a big iron spoon in his hand and shouted to the fort residents who were standing in a huddle: "Get in line! Everyone get in line! Those who don't queue up won't be fed!"
Upon hearing this, Shu Haili quickly asked the fort residents to line up and stand in line, and cursed at a bannerman: "Baman Gong, you kid, line up behind me! Be careful I whip you."
Baman Gong held a pottery basin under his arm and turned back step by step to stand at the end of the line.
"One serving for each person. If it's not enough, we can serve more! Bring your own chopsticks!" said the fat cook waving a big iron spoon while serving food to the fort residents. On the small wooden table next to it, chopsticks cut from pine branches were placed in a basket.
At this time, two soldiers from Beihai Town carried rifles on their backs and said to every fort resident who had finished eating: "Go to the tent to eat, it's warm there."
The fort residents bowed their waists and carried the meals into each tent with great gratitude. Finally it was Bamangon's turn. He couldn't wait to bend his waist and said to the cook in front of him: "Sir, please bring more broth, more meat, and more rice."
The cook's surname was Hu and his name was Hu Deli. He was the cook that Shen Jingdan recruited from northern Jiangsu years ago. At this time, I was feeling very angry, thinking that I used to cook for the salt merchant, but now I am doing a lot of cooking with a big spoon every day.
Bamangun didn't notice that there was another person behind him. When Hu Deli saw it, the resentment in his stomach immediately disappeared, and he said to the man with a smile on his face: "Sir, what else do you want?"
Baman Gong looked back and found that the man was much taller than himself, wearing a cotton hat, and was looking at him with a smile. He pouted dissatisfiedly and said, "I came first, I came first."
"Master Hu, please serve him first. I'm not in a hurry." Zhao Xin found the young man in front of him quite interesting.
"Sir, you are benevolent and righteous." Hu Deli praised Zhao Xin with a smile, and when his eyes fell on Baman Gong, he had a look of disgust on his face. "What do you want!"
Bamangon was so preoccupied with eating meat that he didn't even pay attention to what Hu Deli said. He pointed to the wooden barrel containing rice: "Bring me half a pot of this!" Then he pointed to the half pot of stew left. "I want this! More broth!"
Hu Deli took half a spoonful of meat, poured a large spoonful of broth over the rice, and finally poured a large spoonful of boiled cabbage.
"I want to eat meat!" Baman Gong said dissatisfied.
"Eat, eat, eat. It's all for you. What do the people behind you eat?" Hu Deli rolled his eyes at the other party, and then the expression on his face magically turned from vertical to horizontal. He smiled at Zhao Xin and said, "Sir, what do you want to eat?"
Zhao Xin smiled and said: "Master Hu, please give him some more meat. This boy is young and can eat it right now."
"Whatever you say." Hu Deli put another half of the iron ladle of stew into the pottery pot.
Baman Gong glanced at Zhao Xin with gratitude, took a pair of chopsticks, and walked away with the pile of pottery basins under the leadership of the soldiers.
Hu Deli turned back at this time, quickly picked up a plate of sliced pork fried by himself from the table behind him, and said to Zhao Xin: "Sir, this villain made this specially for you."
Zhao Xin nodded with satisfaction, served some rice and cabbage, and said to Hu Deli: "Thank you, Master Hu."
"Ouch, I can't afford this. This is going to kill me!" Hu Deli's legs went weak and he almost knelt on the ground. He knew the man in front of him very well, the big leader of Beihai Town. I have been a cook for so many years, but no master has ever been so polite to a cook.
Zhao Xin waved his hand and said: "You're welcome, Master Hu. You guys should eat early too."
Hu Deli looked at Zhao Xinyuan's retreating figure, his nose became sore and he almost cried.
When Zhao Xin entered the tent with a rice bowl, Liu Sheng had already finished eating and was assigning tasks to Sheng Haizhou.
"You guys didn't even work hard tonight. You've got everyone inside and outside the fort under surveillance. No one can escape."
"Yes! No one can let go." Sheng Haizhou stood at attention and saluted, and then immediately went out to arrange manpower.
Zhao Xin sat at the table with a smile and asked Liu Sheng while eating, "How was it? What do you think?"
Liu Sheng knew what he was asking. He rolled his eyes at Zhao Xin, lit a cigarette and sighed: "I walked around the castle in the afternoon. I am so poor! I am so poor that I can't bear to do anything."
"You did a good job today, peaceful settlement and peaceful annexation. I guess that by the time these people wake up, they will be in a dilemma."
"That's what I mean too. It's best not to kill anyone if you can. How are you going to deal with them tomorrow?"
"What you say sounds like I want to set up a concentration camp. Am I that evil?" Zhao Xin rolled his eyes, swallowed the food in his mouth and said, "Let them all move out tomorrow and live in tents. Inside the fort All those broken houses have been demolished! After the land is leveled, warehouses and medical stations must be erected first."
Zhao Xin's plan is that Fuldan City in the east will be used as a logistics base, and material warehouses and medical stations will be located here. The Jurgen Old Fort, four miles away to the west, has long been abandoned. It will be transformed into a forward headquarters. The entire defensive position is located around the Jurgen Old Fort.
"Where are Director Liu and the others?"
"They all went to rest after eating. These more than 20 days have made them very tired."
While the two were talking, they heard Guisheng's voice coming from outside the tent: "Sir, Miss A Miao is here and said she has something to ask you."
Liu Sheng immediately became suspicious, looked Zhao Xin up and down, and said jokingly: "Hey, let me tell you, how many boats are you going to step on?"
"You can eat randomly, but you can't talk nonsense. Look at what you look like now, image, image!" Zhao Xin picked up the rice bowl and walked out of the tent. Under the firelight, A Miao, whose nose was red from the cold, was waving to him.
Zhao Xin walked over with a smile and said, "It's too cold outside. Go and talk in my tent." A Miao nodded and followed Zhao Xin into the tent.
The thin little girl that Katsu Kaishu met in Sendai Domain has now become slim and tall, and has grown quite a bit. At this time, A Miao had a little baby fat on her face, her facial features were delicate and attractive, her eyes were bright, and she had a natural beauty that was free from ornaments.
Zhao Xin reached out and rubbed A Miao's head twice, then asked with a smile: "What do you want from me?"
"The teacher said that the anti-inflammatory medicine is not enough and asked you to get her some more tomorrow."
"That's it?"
"The teacher also said that she would see the completed medical station the day after tomorrow."
"Your teacher told me about this during the day."
A Miao lowered her head, occasionally looked up at Zhao Xin, and said with a smile: "Are you going back in a few days?"
"Yeah. What's the matter?"
A Miao's little face suddenly turned a little red, and after a while she said, "Are you coming back?"
Zhao Xin reached out and touched A Miao's little face. It didn't feel burning. "What's wrong? Of course I have to come back."
A Miao's neck turned red at this moment, and she whispered: "If I'm not here, Duofu won't be able to eat well."
Zhao Xinxin said that was all. "There are brothers from the Xu family, so we can't starve him. Is there anything else?"
"Then you can rest, I'm going back."
"Have a good rest, we have a lot of things to do tomorrow."
A Miao came out of the tent and felt that her face was no longer so hot when the cold wind blew. She ran all the way back to the medical team's tent. When she went in, she saw that the small light in the tent was still on and Liu Siting was waiting for her.
"Did you give it to him?"
A Miao shook her head, reached into her coat pocket and took out a pair of new cotton gloves. The gloves were so big that it looked like they were not hers.
"You are so stupid. Don't say you are my apprentice when you go out. Go to sleep."
"Oh." A Miao responded, taking off her coat and covering it on her quilt, then got into the quilt. In the darkness, A Miao held the cotton gloves in her arms and looked at the roof of the tent with twinkling eyes.
That night, the residents of Fuldan Castle had a good dream after having a big meal. They dreamed that their homes were full of cattle and sheep, and countless grain bags were piled in the house. From then on, they no longer had to worry about going hungry.
Early in the morning, at dawn, the fort residents were awakened by loud noises outside the house.
"Everyone, please pack up your valuables and move to the tents outside the fort first! The old fort has been requisitioned!" Serdan held up a large iron speaker and shouted in Manchu everywhere in the fort.
Shu Haili hurriedly put on his robe, pulled on his old boots and opened the door. Seeing Serdan walking over, he quickly asked: "Sir, what's going on?"
"The old fort was commandeered by the army. Everyone immediately packed up their belongings and went to live in tents outside the fort."
"This" Shu Haili was stunned. He hurriedly caught up two steps and pulled Seldan and asked: "This, what on earth is going on?"
"Fuldan City is going to be rebuilt. The General has ordered that everyone move out of the castle. Go home and pack your things immediately!"
Despite their reluctance, despite their attempts to delay, two hours later, all the fort residents carried large and small bags of rags and belongings, led their cattle and horses, and left Fuldan City under the escort of Beihai Town soldiers.
Shu Haili was followed by his wife and son. The youngest daughter was held in her arms by her mother and led a skinny farm cow to a tent.
A migrant worker from Beihai Town came over and said, "This tent belongs to your family of four. Leave the cow to me and I will have someone to take care of it." After saying that, he took the reins from Shu Haili without any explanation and took the cow to prepare for a short distance. The livestock pens at.
"My cow!" Shu Haili put down the baggage in his hand, followed quickly, and said to the migrant worker in a flattering manner: "Sir, this cow is the lifeblood of our whole fort, and it will be used for plowing in the spring. .Please, give me the cow back."
The migrant worker stopped, looked at Shu Haili sideways and said, "You have raised a cow like this, and you have the nerve to let it go to the fields?"
Shu Haili said sarcastically: "Well, there's nothing we can do about it. People don't have enough to eat, so how can they have time to feed it?"
The migrant worker pointed at the livestock shed and said, "Let us raise the cow for a few days. Don't worry, no one will eat it." Shu Haili followed the other person's finger and saw that in the livestock stable not far away, dozens of migrant workers were feeding him. Horse feeding.
"You see, the animals are taken care of by someone, don't worry." The migrant worker patted Shu Haili on the shoulder and led the cow over.
Shu Haili had no choice but to turn around and pick up the baggage on the ground and dust it off. He looked at the green tent, stepped forward and opened the curtain suspiciously, and a wave of heat hit his face.
"It's so warm!" Shu Haili turned around and waved to his wife and children, and the family entered the tent.
"Dad, it's so warm here!" Shu Haili's wife looked at the tent with excitement. In the corner, firewood was burning in a cast-iron stove. A calf-thick white iron pipe was inserted into the iron stove and led out of the tent roof.
On the ground, on thick green mats, were several brand new beddings and some colorful pots placed on them.
"This is too luxurious!" Shu Haili said dumbly. It seems that the general is really a good officer!
The family was in high spirits when the door curtain opened and another person walked in. "Bamangon? What are you doing here?"
Baman Gong looked at the furnishings in the tent and said happily: "This is much warmer than my shabby house." He turned to look at Shu Haili and said: "The adults outside said that this tent can accommodate seven or eight people. I was assigned here too.”
Ignoring the people in the tent, in Fuldan City at this time, teams of migrant workers armed with shovels, picks, and steel drills walked in from outside the fort.
Zhao Xin took Guisheng and followed a group of migrant workers into Fuldan City. Looking at the dilapidated houses in front of him, he waved his arm and said to Wan Zao, the leader of the migrant workers, with great emotion: "Demolish it!"
Upon hearing the order, each team of migrant workers, led by their captains, rushed forward waving the tools in their hands. The already dilapidated city of Fuldan suddenly became even more dilapidated.
The door panels of each house were removed, the fences outside the houses were removed, and the thatch from the roofs was pulled out. After these things were placed on the open space, then the houses were pushed down one after another.
Guisheng looked at the migrant workers in front of him who were working in an orderly manner, and thought to himself that you are really awesome. Even the civilian husbands are trained like soldiers.
Zhao Xin turned to Guisheng and said, "Tell them to work harder. The whole city must be demolished before dinner to free up all the space."
"Yes. My lord."
How much effort would it take for more than two thousand people to demolish dozens of dilapidated houses? At three o'clock in the afternoon, Wan Zao found Zhao Xin and reported that all the buildings in the fort had been demolished and the ground had been cleared.
Zhao Xin asked Wan Zao to take all the migrant workers out of the fort. Some of them immediately went to cut down trees on the nearby hillside, while others were on standby. He did not take Guisheng with him, but strolled into the castle by himself. At this time, those dilapidated houses were gone, and the entire area of the fort could be seen at a glance, the size of two football fields.
After Zhao Xin took out two small road rollers, a small excavator, and a lot of tools and materials from the jade pendant, he left the castle and said to Wan Zao who was waiting outside: "It's your turn, follow the previous plan , do it.”
Two days later, Shu Haili helped feed the animals in the morning and went to the fort to take a look when he had time. When he reached the north gate, he was stopped by the guards, but he still saw what the city looked like now.
The ground inside the fort, which originally looked like a mud pond, was flat, and the muddy path had disappeared. On the black soil, some migrant workers were pouring lime and gravel onto the ground, and two rollers were rumbling to level the ground.
Shu Haili looked at the two slow-moving rollers in astonishment and asked the soldier in front of him: "Master, what are those?"
The soldier said without looking back: "Steamroller."
"Duck braised chicken?" Shu Haili looked at it for a long time, thinking that this thing doesn't look like a chicken at all.
(End of chapter)
