In the woods outside the east gate of the camp, Zhao Xin came out from behind a big tree carrying a big bag.
When he walked fifty steps away from the camp gate, the two refugees guarding the camp gate had already seen Zhao Xin. The two people saw that Zhao Xin was struggling to walk on the snow carrying the bag, so they quickly walked away
Welcoming him.
When Zhao Xin saw these two people running towards him regardless, his originally happy face immediately dropped.
How did Torayoshi and Mosuke lead the team? How did Katsu Kaishu manage it? He did not get angry with the two refugees guarding the camp gate. This is not their problem, it is the problem of Torayoshi and Mosuke.
It seems that the peaceful days have made them all start to relax.
After entering the camp gate, Zhao Xin took the bag from the two refugees and asked them to continue to guard the surrounding area inside the camp gate.
Several refugees saw Zhao Xin along the way, and just as they were about to say hello, they saw Zhao Xin's gloomy face. They didn't know what was going on, so they bowed and quickly ran away.
A Miao was hanging clothes while humming folk songs from her hometown, and she seemed to be in a very good mood. Xu Shounan, the little devil with his head wrapped tightly, stood aside and clapped his hands along with A Miao's singing.
Seeing this scene, Zhao Xin felt inexplicably better.
Zhao Xin made a silent gesture to Xu Shounan who saw him, put the thing he was holding in his left hand on the ground, quietly walked behind A Miao who was humming, and gently patted A Miao on the shoulder.
"Don't make trouble." A Miao said without looking back.
Then Zhao Xin covered the little girl's eyes with one of his big hands.
"Ah! Master, you are back." A Miao was so startled that she squatted on the ground first, then turned around and saw Zhao Xin, and jumped up happily.
"Okay. Good boy, you didn't betray me. This is your reward." Zhao Xin smiled and stepped forward to touch Xu Shounan's little head, then took out a few lollipops from his pocket and stuffed them into Xu Shounan's hand.
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The little guy looked at the candies in his hand and blinked his eyes first, then put two into A Miao's hand, while he took the remaining few and ran away quickly.
"Is he looking for his brother?" Zhao Xin asked A Miao.
"Yes, the relationship between the two brothers is really good." A Miao looked at the little kid walking away enviously.
"There are only two of them left. If things get worse..." Zhao Xin shook his head. He then asked A Miao: "How is his brother's wound?"
"After reading it last night, Mr. Sheng said it was almost ready." A Miao took the candy bought by Zhao Xin and didn't know how to eat it.
Zhao Xin helped A Miao peel off the candy wrapper, threw it on the ground, and stuffed the candy into A Miao's mouth.
"Oh. Where are Master Liu and Master Sheng?" Zhao Xin turned his head and looked around and asked casually.
A Miao said: "Master Liu is taking Master Sheng and the others on the beach in the south."
"Oh. I'm going to take a look. Just leave the things on the ground outside the car. They won't be damaged." Zhao Xin said as he stroked the cat a few times, then turned and walked towards the camp gate.
Watching Zhao Xin leave, A Miao picked up the candy wrapper he threw on the ground and carefully put it into his coat pocket.
On the beach, Liu Sheng was using an empty gun to teach Sheng Haizhou and the others how to aim. However, this was really tiring for Liu Sheng, who did not understand the island language.
After comparing with Sheng Haizhou for a long time and finding little success, Liu Sheng's eyes suddenly rolled around. He took Sheng Haizhou's booklet and drew a three-dimensional view of a pistol sleeve on it, including the eyes, rear sight, front sight and target.
The relationship between them was clearly marked. After looking at it for a while, Sheng Haizhou and the others understood it after asking a few questions.
Liu Sheng was not in a hurry and asked them all to try aiming with one hand. After all, there was a big difference in weight and feel between real guns and wooden guns.
"Comrade Liu, you are very dedicated." Zhao Xin appeared from behind several people, holding a wooden stick as thick as a forearm in his hand.
"Lord."
"Sir, you are back."
When Sheng Haizhou and others saw Zhao Xin, they were very surprised and bowed.
"Hey? Why are you back again?" Liu Sheng asked Zhao Xin in surprise.
"Aren't we worried about you? I'm here to bring you warmth." Zhao Xin nodded to Sheng Haizhou and others, then turned to Liu Sheng and said.
"Come on. I got goosebumps all over. Hurry up and say something serious."
"The serious thing is that I have to discuss something with you; the unserious thing is that I brought you ten red hair crabs and fifty prawns. I have to leave tomorrow." Zhao Xin came to Liu Sheng's side and whispered.
"Then..." Liu Sheng glanced at Sheng Haizhou and the others.
Zhao Xin saw the SIG P226 in Jiuzang's hand and immediately understood.
"Are there any bullets in there?"
"of course not."
"Then it's over. What are you worried about? You go to the car and wait for me. I'll be there in a minute."
Seeing Liu Sheng walking away, Zhao Xin's face suddenly darkened, and he said to Sheng Haizhou and others: "How do you manage the people in charge of the camp guards?! When they saw me coming back, they all ran out regardless of the guard duty at the gate.
Pick me up. If someone pretends to be me, or there is an ambush in the woods, you will all die a hundred times now!"
As soon as he said this, the seven people who had rarely seen Zhao Xin angry were so frightened that they knelt on the snow.
"My lord, this subordinate has lived up to his lord's expectations, and all the blame for the crime shall be borne by the subordinate. I am willing to commit seppuku and apologize." Sheng Haizhou ignored the cold snow and knelt on the ground with his head bowed in apology.
Kokichi and Mosuke, who were kneeling on the ground, felt uneasy at this moment. They were responsible for guarding the two gates of the camp. At this moment, Zhao Xin was held accountable, and they could not absolve themselves of the blame.
"My lord, everything is our responsibility and has nothing to do with Master Sheng. Please punish us, lord."
"Do you really think that the world will be peaceful when you get here?! Let me tell you, the Manchus from the western continent may come here to patrol at any time! And those local aborigines, the bows and arrows in their hands are not toys. Including that Yaer
ha!"
Zhao Xin reprimanded angrily. He didn't want Sheng Haizhou and the seven of them to lose their vigilance, otherwise a disaster might come at any time.
"You must always remember that behind you are more than 300 old and weak people! Their safety is in your hands! The ice on the sea has melted in the spring, and we have to pick up more hungry people and provide them with food.
They have found a place to survive. But you are so slack, how can I rest assured!"
"Jiuzang!" Zhao Xin shouted coldly, causing Jiuzang who was kneeling on the ground to tremble all over. "Haha!"
Zhao Xinyi pointed at Kokichi and Mosuke, and then handed the pine stick in his hand to Jiuzang: "Both of them, each of them, hit the spine of the stick five times. Katsu Kaishu, hit the spine of the stick ten times. You are responsible for the execution."
Jiuzang straightened up and stretched out his hands to take the stick.
"Liji! You are responsible for supervising Jiuzang." Zhao Xin shouted at Liji again.
"Ha!" Li Ji was frightened out of his mind at this moment. He had never seen his master so angry before.
"After the fight, let me guard the camp!" After Zhao Xin finished speaking, he took the empty gun from Jiuzang's hand, then turned and left.
When he returned to the car, A Miao carefully brought the tea over.
"A Miao, you go out first. No one is allowed to come near here." Zhao Xin said sternly.
A Miao bowed her head in response, put on her coat and went out.
"What's wrong? I can hear you getting angry even from a distance." Liu Sheng asked with concern.
"The comfortable days have been too long, and everyone has slacked off. I just came back to see, okay, there are two people guarding the east gate. When they saw me coming back, they actually ignored the guard guarding the gate and ran out to pick me up.
.If a few Qing soldiers suddenly appear from the woods, these two people will have to finish it off!"
After hearing this, Liu Sheng said sheepishly: "It's my fault. The weather has been too cold these two days. I told them to stop going out."
"How do you say it?" Zhao Xin asked.
"It has been snowing heavily for the past two days, and it just stopped this morning. The wind was very strong the first two days, and the night before yesterday it actually reached minus 25 degrees." Liu Sheng said after taking a sip of hot tea.
"So cold?! Are everyone in the camp okay?" Zhao Xin was very worried.
"Most of them are fine, but a few old people have fallen ill. These days I let them stay in the tent to keep warm. I asked Liji to bring some quilts to cover them, and asked the kitchen people to cook a large pot of ginger every day.
Drink the soup."
"I'll go over and take a look in a while." Zhao Xin said worriedly. If a large area gets sick, it will be very troublesome even if there are enough medicines.
"It's okay to say that the weather is cold. We have cotton-padded clothes. Wear more and we can withstand it. But today I saw them like this. The camp is safe! Old Liu, you don't want us to end up in vain, right? Practice pistols.
There’s no need to go all of them, right? Can’t they be divided into groups?”
Liu Sheng lowered his head and said nothing. He knew that Zhao Xin was right. He had been a little absent-minded these past two days because of the Chinese New Year.
"Be careful and you won't make a big mistake." Zhao Xin looked at Liu Sheng's appearance and knew that his words were a bit harsh. "It's not safe around us. Not to mention the beasts that come out to look for food in winter, the aborigines alone are really...
If you accidentally kill them, our busy days will be in vain."
The two sat in silence for a long time before Liu Sheng slowly asked: "Seriously, why did you suddenly come back today?"
Zhao Xin thought for a while and said: "Actually, I originally made an appointment with Wang Yuanfang to buy horses together, but..."
After he met Wang Yuanfang the day before yesterday, accompanied by Andrew, he transferred and flew to another city. When they took a car from the airport to the gate of the ranch, as soon as they got off the car, they were startled by a horse walking in the fence.
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The giant black horse with a shoulder height of more than two meters made Wang Yuanfang feel that the two good horses of Old Man Sun he saw in China were just like two donkeys.
Andrew's uncle, Igor, the farmer here, is a seventy-year-old man. At this time, he also came out of the house to greet the three of them.
After some polite greetings, Igor introduced to Zhao Xin that the Shire horse you saw was a stallion, weighing 1,200 kilograms and over two and a half meters tall.
Zhao Xin had his mouth wide open at that time and could not close it for a long time. He had never seen such a big horse before. If it were to pull a cart, it would have to pull a lot of things! It would be no problem to drag a sled cart on the snow with two or three tons.
ah.
Igor went on to say that the daily feed cost for this horse alone was tens of thousands. When Zhao Xin heard this, I was so surprised! It would cost two thousand less in conversion, so forget it, because I really can’t afford it.
After that, old Igor led him and Wang Yuanfang to the other two stables. When he saw more than twenty Soviet heavy horses and seven or eight Don hippos, Zhao Xin's heart dropped back to his stomach.
Except for a few male stallions and Don hippos, most of the draft horses here are about 1.6 meters or less in height at the withers. They have very docile personalities and are not afraid of being touched.
Old Igor said to Zhao Xin, if you buy horses, I suggest you buy some mares. Because Soviet heavy horse mares have a very high milk production. These mares can produce milk more than 300 days a year, among which
There are about 230 days during the peak period of milk production. During the peak period of milk production, an adult mare can produce about 20 liters of milk. If the low period of milk production and a few times when milk cannot be produced are combined, it can produce milk in one year.
More than 5,000 liters of milk.
Zhao Xin originally had no feelings about mare's milk, and was even a little resistant. But after listening to old Igor's vigorous introduction, he was also very tempted. This is much more cost-effective than simply raising cattle.
We must know that the number of days that modern dairy cows can produce milk in a year is about 275 days. Among these 275 days, only about 100 days are the peak milk production period, and the other more than 100 days are the evaporated milk period. During milk production
During the peak period, a well-raised cow can produce up to forty liters of milk a day; during the evaporated milk period, the daily milk production of a cow is very unstable, and sometimes it can produce twenty liters of milk a day.
, and when it is small, it can only produce about five liters of milk per day. The milk production in a year is less than 4,500 liters.
The key is that the milk-producing life of a cow does not exceed fifteen years at most, but the milk-producing life of a Soviet heavy horse can be as long as twenty years!
Zhao Xin then chose five two- and three-year-old stallions and five two-year-old mares based on the principle that he would not drink anyway. At the same time, he promised old Igor that he would buy another ten horses within half a year.
More than one heavy horse.
The two parties agreed to sign the contract the next day, and Zhao Xin then asked Andrew if he could buy a farm for himself near a port city in the Far East. The horses were transported there first, and then boarded a ship from the port.
Zhao Xin's plan was to go directly from modern times to check the situation of the local aborigines so as to prepare in advance for the migration after the spring.
Now that the boat has landed, he doesn't have to take hundreds of refugees across the strait, and then go all the way through the mountains and ridges to reach the predetermined location. After the beginning of spring, he will directly board the boat and go there, which is only more than a hundred kilometers away.
When asked, Andrew said that old Igor happened to have an idle farm in the north of that port city. Because it was too far away, it had been abandoned and no one took care of it, and he was planning to sell it.
Zhao Xin immediately found Old Igor, and after some bargaining, Old Igor agreed that Zhao Xin could obtain the use rights of this 200-acre farm in the form of a long-term lease. This is the country's regulation.
Foreigners cannot buy farm land, they can only rent it.
Because there are stables and a wooden house on the farm, the rental price is five yuan per acre per year. Well, it is only one thousand yuan per year~~(In the early days, when Chinese people went north to farm, every acre of land
The rent does not exceed three yuan.)
In this way, both parties were happy. So during dinner, both Zhao Xin and Wang Yuanfang drank too much.
When Zhao Xin had his fifth glass of vodka, he suddenly fell asleep and fell unconscious. When he woke up from the bed in the guest room, it was already the morning of the next day.