Chapter 56 The old, the weak, the sick and the disabled come first
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. The five groups took turns guarding the two observation points day and night.
On the morning of the third day, Liu Sheng hadn't come yet. 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 hit him.
He was so excited that he suddenly lost all sleepiness.
Lu Shoushan, who had been awake for the rest of the night, brought a small basin of warm water boiled over a campfire and handed it to Zhao Xin. Zhao Xin took it, swallowed a mouthful, 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 like it's coming soon."
"My lord, my lord..." Sheng Haizhou walked quickly from another observation point. "Someone is coming 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 there were three people sitting on one of the two-horse sledges, and one person was sitting on the other one-horse sledge. Between the two
Behind the sledge driver 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 got closer to several tens of meters, Zhao Xin noticed that these people were covered in thick animal skins from head to toe. There were no weapons 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 bullet in the assault rifle magazine, inserted it again, pulled the bolt and loaded the bullet, but
The insurance is not turned on.
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, and walked towards the seaside with his waist down. Lu Shoushan and Sheng Haizhou looked at each other and followed Zhao Xin closely. There was another observation point twenty meters away.
Jiuzang, who was inside, saw the three people moving out, and he also drew his sword 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.
After these people 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 200 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 where Zhao Xin was.
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.
, he 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 take a look and ask what's going on."
Lu Shoushan felt relieved when he saw Zhao Xin pointing a "fire gun" at the beach. He had seen Liu Sheng shooting this kind of fire gun on the beach without lighting a match rope. He stood a hundred steps away and fired within a few breaths.
Dozens of shots were fired, 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 discovered that 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 can guard the gate 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 and walked five or six steps in front of the several natives, then 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 one who just raised his bow and aimed at it
The man had put down his bow at this moment, 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 took 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 walking very close with his injured father.
He recognized that the man in the 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 Erlu, and then the look on his face became much more relaxed. He shouted behind him: "Master, it's okay. These three women are Serdan's family members, and this is his friend
.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Elu 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 a soft sound of footsteps behind him, and Liu Sheng came over with Pan Xiucheng, Huji and Mosuke.
Zhao Xin turned off the safety, put away the gun, and whispered to Liu Sheng: "You guys are here just in time. Just stay here and watch, and I will go over and take a look." After saying 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 held a long, sharp knife in their hands, and their faces were covered with blood.
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."
Didn’t the Han people? Master? Yalha say that they are "Kuyefyaka"?
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, he started to have a high fever again yesterday and his whole body was frighteningly hot. Elu also pressed the button
I followed Seldan's instructions before leaving and took the medicine, 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 told them 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 were not yet up, so everyone continued 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 there was yellow water flowing out.
Hengji originally wanted to cut open 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 arrowhead was actually stained with horse dung. Now even he was helpless.
"Brother, please tell your master that brother Yarha has suffered from frostbite and has been suffering from a high fever; brother Serdan has been hit by poisonous arrows from officers and soldiers, and his wounds are ulcerated. Please ask your master to save them!
"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 so that it is easier to lead the way.
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 quickly to treat their injuries. 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 Elu and Hengji to sit on the sledge. Lu Shoushan asked Elu to follow on horseback.
After Zhao Xin finished his explanation, he waved to Jiuzang, and the two of them rushed back into 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 or master. The largest leader is the surname chief, the chief of the same surname. According to the "Manchu Archives of the Deputy Dutong Yamen of the Three Surnames", the Qing court's foreign relations with Feiya in the northeast
There are a total of fifty-six surnames and 2,117 households in Kazakhstan. Among them, there are six surnames and 17 households in Kuyefeyaka. There is no subordinate relationship between the heads of each surname.
The tribute mink reward system mentioned earlier is based on the above statistics, each household has one mink skin per year.)