Chapter 229 Uxiha, who first arrived in Fuldan City
Chapter 229 Ushiha who first arrived in Fuldan City
The day Liu Sheng and the others returned to Fuldan City was the morning of the ninth day of the first lunar month. When they rode to the city gate, Liu Sheng saw Sheng Haizhou (Sheng Haizhou) at a glance. This guy was wearing a brand new military uniform.
He was talking to several guards on duty outside the east gate.
"Master Liu is back!" A sudden shout from the top of the city attracted the attention of everyone at the city gate.
Liu Sheng was about to speak when he heard another person shout: "The tiger has been killed!"
This caused a sensation, and more than a dozen people at the city gate came over immediately. As the loud voice continued to shout on the city wall, many people ran out from the city to watch the fun, and soon Liu Sheng and the others were
It was surrounded by three floors inside and three floors outside.
"Is this a tiger?"
"Jinba and his son are so pitiful! They were bitten by a tiger during the Chinese New Year."
"What's Shiba! His surname is Jia, and his name is Jia He."
"This tiger is so big! Look at those claws, tsk tsk!"
"This leather is so good! It looks like a ball of fire."
At this time, Liu Sheng's security team dismounted and gathered around the sledge where the tiger carcass was placed. "You can see, but don't touch it!"
Seeing so many people running out of the city, Liu Sheng was a little strange, so he leaned down on the horse and asked Sheng Haizhou, who was standing next to the horse's head, loudly: "What day is it today? What are these people doing?"
Sheng Haizhou said loudly: "Today's fire drill!"
"What?!" There was so much noise around him that Liu Sheng couldn't hear clearly.
"fire drill!"
Liu Sheng waved his hand helplessly, forget it, he still didn't hear it clearly.
Only when the group of people finally walked back to Chen Qingsong's office in Fuldan City did Liu Sheng clearly hear what Sheng Haizhou said.
"Fire drill? When did Lao Chen set these rules?" Liu Sheng asked in surprise.
Sheng Haizhou quickly explained: "This is actually a habit of Edo people. Every year on the ninth day of the first lunar month, the first fire drill of the beginning of the year is held. The town's fire brigade will perform ladder climbing. This is also considered a festive event, so
Everyone who has nothing to do comes out to watch the fun. We all live in wooden houses now. Years ago, Mr. Chen asked people from various residential areas to form a fire brigade."
It is said that in towns during the Edo period, wooden houses were lined up in rows. Once a fire broke out in a house, it was difficult to extinguish it. Firefighting in this era was based on "destruction firefighting", that is, destroying the downdraft of the fire source.
house to prevent the fire from spreading. In ordinary towns, there is a town fire department, and in the city where the daimyo lives, there is a daimyo fire department.
When a fire strikes, the method of calling the police is usually to notify the fire through alarm bells located in the neighborhood, and the different rhythms of the bells are used to convey the distance of the fire location and the intensity of the fire.
In this era, town fire firefighters in the island country were required to be equipped with team flags, dragons spitting water, large fans, ladder frames, fire hooks, steel forks, black buckets and other tools, but those in Fuldan City were different.
Everyone has a dry powder fire extinguisher, the red kind. Of course, ladders, shovels, and iron hooks are also required.
Let’s talk about it again. In the island country, the fire captains, that is, the fire chiefs, are all on the street. Generally, no matter what troubles there are, as long as the fire chief comes forward, everything can be settled.
In view of this, Chen Qingsong incorporated the fire brigade into the security police force, temporarily under the unified command of Katayama Kanbei. By the way, the Katayama Police Department has now changed its surname to Katabei.
Don’t doubt it, the “film surname” does indeed exist!
When Saharian and his daughter Uhiha followed him all the way on a dog-drawn sledge, they were discovered by a nearby outpost just five miles east of Fuldan City.
"Stop! What are you doing?" Two soldiers ran out of the guard post with guns in hand and stopped the dog-pulled sledge.
Ushiha was about to speak when he was stopped by Amma. Saharian said in unfluent Mandarin: "I, we are looking for someone!"
"Who are you looking for? Where did you come from?"
Ushiha blurted out: "We are from Zak Sulu's tribe, and this is my Ama. Let's find the big guy."
"Big guy? Zak Sulu's tribe?" the soldier said with a suspicious look on his face. "Get down here, we need to check."
"Why?!" Wu Xiha was unconvinced.
"This is the jurisdiction of Beihai Town, and everyone passing by must be inspected."
"Stop fighting. This is someone else's territory." Saharian hurriedly advised. He got off the sledge, bowed to the two soldiers and asked: "Two officers, has anyone been pulling you in the past two days?"
A tiger passed by?"
The two soldiers were stunned. Liu Sheng and his party had just passed here this morning. "What are you doing? Don't even think about going there unless you explain clearly."
Ushiha said to the guard: "Do you have an uncle named Serdan here?"
"Sirdan? How do you know him?"
Wu Xiha took out a small stainless steel wine glass given to him by Liu Sheng from his arms and explained: "We met a few days ago! Look at this, he gave it to me."
The two soldiers understood now. However, they checked the things on the sledge first and found that in addition to some animal skins and dry food, there was also a pair of bows and arrows and daggers at their waists. One soldier asked his companion to continue staring at this
For the father and daughter, he returned to the outpost to report.
It was normal for the soldiers in Beihai Town not to know about Serdan before, but since the father and son both received second-class merit medals a few years ago, everyone in the Beihai Town army knew about it.
After a while, the soldier trotted out and said to Saharian, his daughter and their companions: "They will be here in a moment. Come in and wait."
Saharian hurriedly handed over his hands and replied: "Don't dare. We'll just wait here."
At this time, Saharian suddenly frowned, with a look of pain on his face, and then bent down and beat his right knee. Ushiha quickly supported his Ama and asked with concern: "Does it hurt a lot?"
"It's okay."
Half an hour later, Serdan arrived in a hurry on horseback with one of his men. He saw the pretty light yellow figure on the roadside dozens of meters away.
"Ushiha, it's really you!" Serdan laughed, jumped off his horse, and walked quickly to Ushiha. He glanced at Saharian and asked with a question on his face: "Who is this?"
Ushiha quickly explained: "Uncle Serdan, this is my Ama."
Saharian looked at Serdan in front of him and was secretly surprised. This was the Kurkhaqi hunter that the government had announced a reward for. At this moment, he was exuding a hint of evil aura, which made people tremble. In fact, Saharian didn't understand.
, there is no evil aura in Seldan, it is just the majestic aura of a soldier.
"Hello, sir." Saha quickly saluted Qian'er.
Serdan picked up the other person and said with a smile: "Don't! This will make you appear outside! We just came back with the front foot, and you will come with the rear foot. What do you want to do here today?"
Saharian didn't know how to explain it, so Ushiha pouted and said: "Uncle, I took it upon myself to replace Amma's 'Alchu Kuoqi' with a wine bottle that day. Amma scolded me after I returned.
We came here today to find the big guy to take back."
Serdan said in his heart that it was indeed the case. When he saw the six roe deer bones on his way back that day, he told Liu Sheng that these were not girls' playthings at all. They were probably used for divination; because girls play with them.
All her bones had to be dyed. Liu Sheng didn't take it seriously at the time and said that if someone came to ask for it one day, he would just give it back to her.
When Serdan thought of this, he said to Saharian: "Then come with me. Let's go to the city and rest for a while. You and your daughter must be exhausted after traveling such a long way. I will take you to eat first.
Order something."
Wu Xiha lowered his head and said with guilt: "It's all my fault. I came out too hastily, and my old leg broke again. Uncle, where is that big guy?"
Serdan laughed and said: "Let's go, I will take you to see him."
As a precaution, the outpost sent two soldiers to accompany them. When the group arrived outside the east gate of Fuldan City, the fire brigade's ladder-climbing performance was reaching its climax, and there were probably thousands of people watching.
Saharian was secretly frightened when he saw it.
Because the space inside the city was too small, the parade was arranged outside the city. Among the crowd, I saw a vertical ladder standing in the open space, with several people supporting it. The guy in charge of the performance climbed up with "dengdengdeng".
Get to the top of the ladder.
There are not many high-rise buildings these days, and many people get dizzy when they reach high places. Only those who can climb to the top of a seven or eight-meter-high ladder in one breath without changing their expressions are qualified to enter the fire scene.
At this time, Serdan and his party also stopped and watched curiously. They saw the guy standing at the top of the ladder shouting: "Hi! Handan Dream Pillow!" After shouting, he actually put on a sleeping figure at the top of the ladder.
Look.
The island residents watching the performance clapped their hands and applauded. The story of Lu Sheng’s encounter with Lu Dongbin’s enlightenment has long been a household name in the island country, but the Saharian father and daughter could not understand it at all.
"Ushiha, what are they talking about?"
"I don't quite understand what the Handan Dream is like." Ushiha turned around and asked Serdan again, how could Serdan understand this, and he shook his head to express that he didn't know.
A group of people entered the city from the east gate. Saharian couldn't help but be surprised when he saw the scene in the city. The dozen or so dilapidated wooden houses in his memory had long disappeared; the originally low-lying and uneven roads in the city were also paved with gravel.
They were replaced by roads. What surprised him most was that there were densely packed new wooden houses in the city, with countless people passing through them.
"Wow! So many people!" Wu Xiha opened his mouth in surprise.
Liu Sheng was visiting the father and son who were bitten by the tiger in the ward of the medical center. The injured man named Jia He looked in disbelief when he heard that Liu Sheng said that he wanted to give the tiger skin to him.
"When the tiger skin is peeled off, I'll have it delivered to you to make up for the loss in your family."
"Sir, this, this is not okay! How dare a villain want something that belongs to an adult!"
"Stop talking, it's settled!" Liu Sheng patted the other party's shoulder lightly, turned around and left the ward.
The eyes of the refugee from the former island country named Jia He were a little red. He looked at Liu Sheng's back until he disappeared, and then he turned his attention to his son on the bed next door.
Liu Sheng walked to the door of the medical center and was wondering if he should go back to Jurgen City when he heard someone from the other side shouting: "Big man!"
Liu Sheng looked up in surprise and saw that it was the girl he met a few days ago, still dressed in the same dress. Besides Serdan and a few soldiers, there was also an old man in his fifties.
"Little Xingxing? Why are you here?"
Wu Xiha ran up to Liu Sheng in a few steps, stretched out his hand and raised his head and said: "Give me back that pair of Al Chukuoqi. I'll bring you the wine bottle."
Liu Sheng smiled and said: "So you came here to ask for the six roe deer bones." After saying that, he took out the small bag containing the roe deer bones from his pocket.
Ushiha and her mother stayed in Fuldan City for five days.
Saharian suffered from a cold leg attack and was in so much pain that afternoon that he could not walk. So Liu Sheng asked Serdan to take Saharian to the medical center.
Because Hong Tao and Liu Siting were not here, the medical staff who stayed behind could not judge each other's condition at all. They only prescribed some antipyretics and anti-inflammatory drugs based on Sahalian's fever symptoms. Who knew that Sahalian's knees hurt after taking the medicine for two days?
It was significantly relieved, which made Wu Xiha very happy.
Zhao Xin had said to Liu Sheng and others before that we should show goodwill to the border residents in the future. If they do not come to attack Beihai Town, then try to be friendly to them. It is best to attract them to Fuldan City to do business in order to expand
The influence of Beihai Town.
So when Saharian was discharged from the hospital, Liu Sheng gave him another box of painkillers and told him to take one if he suffers from cold leg again in the future.
The Saharians were so grateful to Liu Sheng that they gave him the dozens of mink and badger skins they had brought. After Liu Sheng learned about the value of the skins from Serdan, he also bought them from the civil affairs warehouse.
I took twenty pounds of salt, five bags of flour, several iron pots, a pack of matches and two horses and gave them to them.
Saharian was deeply moved by this! He didn't expect that his little animal skin could be exchanged for so many things. Moreover, this bandit leader, who was said to have done all kinds of evil by the government, was so polite to his father and daughter.
When Liu Sheng saw that Saharian was about to kneel down to thank him, he quickly helped him up and said, if you want to express your gratitude, you can bring your clansmen to Fuldan City to trade in the spring, and you can treat it as thanking me. We have food and clothing here.
Yes, there is everything. You can come and take a look. Even if there is nothing to exchange for, we still need people to work here. It is good to work as casual workers for a few days and exchange some money to buy things.
Upon hearing this, Saharian hurriedly agreed.
The Zaksulu tribe where the father and daughter live has 105 households and more than 200 people. Their size is already among the top large villages in the outer northeast. According to the information provided by Saharian, the Qing government is currently
There are more than 2,000 households in the entire outer northeast, with a total of more than 50 surnames. The largest village has nearly 300 households and a population of more than 500.
During the few days when Saharian was undergoing treatment, Wu Xiha sometimes accompanied Amma, and sometimes wandered around the city curiously. Liu Sheng had nothing to do now, so he would also take time to accompany her. Until one day the little girl
Seeing the "Leatherneck-Gear-Patrol" fixed knife that Liu Sheng carried with him, he asked to take a look. Liu Sheng handed it to the other party without taking it seriously. Wu Xiha couldn't put it down after playing with it. Liu Sheng took a look and thought,
gave it to you!
Wu Xiha had nothing to exchange for the time being, so he made an agreement with Liu Sheng that when spring came, he would give him a "Gilda Gun" (piercing gun) used by the Hezhe people.
On the 20th of the first lunar month, a thousand soldiers and horses who set out from Beijing to escort the ransom finally arrived at Ninggu Pagoda. He Shen, who was stationed here, had been waiting impatiently for a long time. He hurriedly sent a messenger to the Mongolian River Military Station to inform Beihai Town.
Because he could not return to the capital to accompany Qianlong during the Spring Festival, He Zhongtang was very depressed. But since he had boasted about Haikou, he could only wait to bring Fukang'an, Duerjia and the soldiers from the Beijing camp back to Beijing.
As for the garrison of the Eight Banners from other provinces, let General Jilin Mingliang arrange it!
In order to be ready to receive the captured soldiers, He Shen first ordered Jilin General Mingliang to take two thousand Sauron soldiers and a large number of civilians to escort a large amount of grain and supplies to Ninggu Pagoda; then Na Qitai rushed to Hunchun City with these supplies.
, make preparations for personnel placement in advance.