The Yachiro family from Sanhe County became one of the first batch of 500 people to disembark.
They were assigned to a tent in the northeast corner of the quarantine area. In addition to their family, four other families were also placed in this tent, totaling 19 refugees.
At this time, the five family members stood outside the tent and looked at everything in front of them, then turned around and looked around.
A dozen steps away to the east and north are the tall walls of the quarantine area.
The walls of the entire isolation area are built with newly cut down Pinus sylvestris or Pinus sylvestris. Due to the rush of time, these pine trees with a diameter of more than one foot were not even processed after being cut down, but the excess was removed.
The branches were cut in half with an electric saw, one end was sharpened and then buried in the soil.
As a result, a strong smell of pine oil wafted throughout the quarantine area. And from the tent with the curtain opened, a strong smell of pine oil also wafted out.
At this time, both sides of the Xila River were covered with sylvestris pine, yellow pine, red spruce and large white birch forests that were more than a hundred years old. The diameter of sylvestris pine was at least two people's height.
More than ten meters.
Because the Miichiro family has lived at the foot of the mountain all year round, they are very familiar with the smell and do not find it pungent; the other four families are also similar.
Among their five families, except for one who came from Shichinohe Domain, the other four families all fled to Sendai Domain from Sanhe County. They were all farmers in the territory of Morioka Domain.
It is said that although the Morioka Domain is 100,000 koku high, it is actually poorer than the Hirosaki Domain. Because of its remote location, it is not taken seriously by the shogunate at all, and its development is not good.
Historically, in the late 19th century, due to financial difficulties and difficulty in maintaining the Morioka Domain, the Morioka Domain took the initiative to propose to the Meiji government to abolish the domain and establish a prefecture, which was later renamed Iwate Prefecture.
The light in the tent was not very bright. In front of the five families were ten wooden beds with two floors. They were all hastily processed from Scotch pine and looked very rough.
However, when Yaichiro saw that the upper and lower bunks of each bed were covered with quilts and pillows, he couldn't help but exclaimed "Ah".
The wife, who was carrying her son on her back, hurriedly stepped forward, stretched out her hand and carefully touched the light green sheets and quilt, and a delighted smile appeared on her face.
She turned to look at Yaichiro and said with a smile: "They are all made of cotton! These patterns are so beautiful."
When everyone heard this, they quickly ran to the bed, stretched out their hands to touch it, and sighed.
Yaichiro kept touching the quilt and said, "It's so good! This quilt is better than the one at the samurai master's house."
The male owner of the family next to him said: "That's what I said. Have you ever been to the samurai master's house?"
Miichiro hurriedly defended: "Why haven't you been there? A few years ago, I went to deliver mountain goods to the gentleman's house."
In fact, he had never seen it before. How could the warriors let a mud-legged person enter their house? But these people in the tent were all ordinary farmers, and no one was better than the other, so everyone believed it.
Yachiro's words.
In addition to him, Mishi Lang's family also includes his wife, eldest daughter, youngest son and his younger brother, and the other four families are similar. They are the ones who fled early. Among the family members, except for those who left food for export to the younger generation,
Those who starved to death, or committed suicide because they did not want to burden their families, the adults basically survived.
After the family fled to Matsushima Town, Yaichiro took his wife and eldest daughter to survive by picking up seaweed and shellfish on the beach every day; occasionally he could help fishermen unload their catch and get some food.
After boarding the Thor, the originally skinny family relied on the rice porridge provided twice a day. After a few days, their withered and yellow faces gradually gained a little color. However, his youngest son was still as thin as a big-headed baby.
As if, when he unbuttons his clothes, his belly is bulging, and his tiny ribs are clearly visible.
"Send two people from each family to come out, take the wooden sign issued to your family, and go get lunch!" Heita and Jiuzang each held an electric horn and started shouting outside the tent.
When Yachiro heard the shouting outside, he quickly reached out and touched the palm-sized wooden sign in his arms. It was given to him by a man who looked like a samurai master when he entered the quarantine area. Every house has one.
I heard that the old man said that his name and the number of members of his family are written on this sign. He must keep it well because he will need it to get food and new clothes in the future.
Yaichiro looked at his wife and children and said, "Jiro and I will go." After that, he took his younger brother out of the tent.
When they saw it, two people from the other four houses also came out, and they hurriedly followed them out.
Inspired by hunger and food, more than two hundred people soon filled the open space outside the tent.
Looking at the chaotic crowd of refugees, Pingtai, who was holding a loudspeaker at the side, asked a few of his men to drive the refugees into a line. After the noisy group of people were intimidated by the guards holding wooden sticks, they lined up.
, Pingtai then nodded and asked the guard at the front of the team to take these people to receive the meal.
Yachiro and his younger brother were at the front of the queue. When they were only a dozen steps away from the gate of the quarantine area, they smelled the strong smell of rice porridge and steamed buns.
It is said that wheat in the island country was introduced from the Sui and Tang Dynasties. However, due to the lack of land, wheat production was not high. In the early days, due to the lack of flour grinding equipment and cooking technology, wheat was always used as feed.
Although stone mills and other equipment were later introduced from China, because they did not master this technology and the flour produced was too expensive, only the upper classes such as high-ranking samurai and wealthy businessmen could afford it.
When he was on Bear Island, Zhao Xin considered that pasta was easier to digest and absorb than rice, so he started asking the women in the kitchen to learn how to steam steamed buns.
From a nutritional point of view, the calories of steamed buns are 221 calories/100g, while the calories of rice are only 116 calories/100g.
The sooner these refugees can recover, the sooner development in Beihai Town can begin.
The team walked forward slowly. After each family receiving lunch handed their wooden sign to a woman in front of the wooden shed, the woman loudly announced the name of the owner and the number of family members on the wooden sign;
The woman took a brand new small plastic basin and poured the amount of rice porridge calculated per head into the basin according to the amount of a small bowl of rice porridge for each person.
The woman in charge of checking the number plate is Katayama Kanbei's wife Tahe. Because she was born in a merchant family and had studied for several years when she was a child, she is also one of the few "intellectuals" in the camp.
Then, a woman next to the rice porridge opened a quilt covering a large basket. Inside were two large white steamed buns, steaming hot. The woman used a wooden tong to hold the steamed buns.
Take it out according to the number of people in each family and put it into another basin.
The last woman placed the tableware according to the heads of each family. The chopsticks were all cut from ready-made branches, and the bowls were light green plastic bowls. The members of each family were counted according to the number of people and put into a red plastic bucket.
inside.
At this time, Yachiro heard a man in front of the queue ask why he was given so much. A woman loudly said to the people in the queue: "The reason why we only give you porridge on the boat is because you have been hungry for too long and you ate too much."
It will hurt the stomach and intestines. Now the master has given orders, two steamed buns for each adult male and female, and one for children. Don’t worry!"
"Ah! This..."
When everyone in the queue heard this, they all bowed with gratitude, and some people even lay on the ground and kowtowed to several women.
The woman was so frightened that she stepped aside and shouted: "Why are you kowtowing to me? Like you, I was saved by my master when I was about to starve to death. From now on, I just need to work hard to repay my master."
As soon as Yaichiro heard this, a face appeared in his mind. It was on the beach of Matsushima Town. A tall man was shouting and handing out food.
He grabbed a small steamed bun that day, and even though he broke it into five portions to share with the whole family, the taste of white flour that he had never tasted before left him thinking about it for several days.
The team continued to move forward and finally reached Yachiro. He took out the wooden sign from his arms and handed it to the woman in front of him.
Duohe took the sign, took a look at it, and said loudly, "Yashiro, there are five people, four adults and one child." After saying that, she stamped the back of the sign with a small stamp and handed it to Mischiro.
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"Here, this is porridge for five people. The porridge basin belongs to you. Remember to wash it after use. If it is damaged, you will have to pay for it."
His younger brother Jiro quickly took it with both hands, held it carefully in his arms, then walked out of the team and waited aside.
Yaichiro picked up a bowl of snow-white steamed buns from the wooden platform and saw a fist-sized dark brown pickle inside. He leaned closer and smelled it, and a pungent salty smell hit his face.
"Is this a pickle?"
"Yes." The woman making the buns said without raising her head.
He walked a few steps forward to get cutlery and a bucket.
"The buckets and tableware are all yours to use. Remember to clean them after use. If they are damaged, you will have to pay for them."
When Yaichiro heard this, he said again, "I broke it and I need help." He couldn't help but hold the handle of the bucket tightly with one hand and lift it hard. As a result, he was dodged and almost threw out the steamed buns in his other hand.
"Why is it so light?"
At this time, his stomach made a growling sound. Yaichiro didn't think much and took his brother back to the tent.
The wife and eldest daughter who were waiting in the tent had already rolled up the bedding on the lower bunk and placed it on the upper bunk; in this way, the bed board became a temporary dining table.
When the whole family took out the bowls and chopsticks from the bucket and was about to eat, the people from the other four families who went to receive the meal also came back with their food.
So in the tent designated as No. A1 in the quarantine area, there was a sound of gobbling.
After the meal, Yaichiro took his younger brother Jiro around the quarantine area. He remembered that when receiving the meal, the two women said they wanted to wash the tableware, but where was the water?
The two walked around for a long time, and finally asked a guard to find out the location of the pool. When they found it, they saw two pools with a gray-black appearance and about half a person's height.
It's just that one has a cover made of branches, but the other doesn't. Yaichiro and his brother asked a guard next to them, and then they learned that the water in the covered pool was specially used for drinking, and there was no cover.
The one can be used for washing things.
In fact, this thing is also a temporary solution that Chen Qingsong came up with. He built two cement pools with a length of two meters wide and a depth of one meter. Each of the two pools was connected to a PVC pipe equipped with a handle switch; the bottom of the pool was
At the water outlet, open the valve below, and the water will flow along the pipe from the outer wall of the isolation area to the seaside.
The water source is pumped up from the Xila River. Chen Qingsong considered that there would be no industrial wastewater at all in the isolation area, and at most it would be dirty water for washing clothes and brushing things, so there was nothing to worry about.
As for the drinking water pool, every time the water is filled, the guards will put in pre-prepared drinking water disinfectant.
There are two such pools in the southeast, northwest and northwest of the quarantine area.
Miichiro and his brother walked around curiously for a long time, looking here and there before heading back. When they walked outside their tent, they saw two women wearing white coats, preparing for the tent.
In other families, men shave their heads.
When the two of them entered the tent suspiciously, they saw several bald heads already sitting on the bunk beds.