Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1349 Suspicious elements among the bitter people

Most of these servants were plundered from the pass for several years. After they arrived in Liaodong, they were assigned to work in Zhuangzi. Their wives and children were scattered, they did heavy work, they ate pig and dog food, and they lived in shacks on the ground. The housekeepers oppressed and abused in various ways, saying that hell on earth is no exception.

After being transferred to this "Master from Da'ao", they were already numb--they had long since left their homes and their wives and children, and it made no difference whether they were slaves in "Da'ao" in Liaodong.Some people are even somewhat happy: it's better to be a coater than to do hard work on the farm.

Now seeing that the Lord's family is so caring for them, personally arranging them a place to live, asking someone to spare clothes for them to wear, asking for their health, and revived their long-numbed hearts that have been tortured, not only the maidservants have long seen With tears in their eyes, even a few men couldn't help rubbing their eyes—it was just because they were afraid that the master would feel unlucky that they resisted not falling down.

After distributing the clothes, several soldiers came over with bundles of blankets.

"Sir...Master..." said the leading corporal, "This is a blanket that everyone gathered together. There is no extra blanket. We thought that there is a fire pit in our house, and one is enough for two people. Let's gather ten blankets for the new brothers." No, this big room is cold, and there is no kang—"

Before the words fell, someone couldn't help crying anymore.It doesn't matter that this cry, it immediately touched all kinds of pain in my heart, and finally gathered into a sound of wailing.

Huang Hua was taken aback, wondering what kind of evil these new servants had fallen into.Lan Bian quickly stood up and said loudly: "Why are you crying so hard! Don't bring bad luck to the master's family! Don't cry!"

As soon as he called out, his crying subsided.Lan Bian hurriedly turned around and called Huang Hua again: "Master, this is everyone's gratitude. The master has a kind heart... May the grandson of the master be prosperous, and the princes forever..." As he spoke, he choked up his own sobs .

It was only then that Huang Hua realized that it was for his own distribution of clothes, which seemed to him the most normal thing, but he didn't expect them to be so grateful. One can imagine how much they have suffered all these years.

At the moment, he said a few words of comfort to everyone, and ordered them to change their clothes first.They also asked people to cook according to the head.Give everyone a "good meal".

Having said that, there is a shortage of fine grains such as rice and white noodles here in Houjin, that is, only "visited guests" like Huang Hua can supply rice on a daily basis, and the soldiers who follow can only eat white sorghum rice.As for the servants who were sent here, although it was said that they were "supplied by the Ministry of Rites", the actual rations sent were only one catty of sorghum rice per person per day.Vegetables and salt are not served.This amount is not enough for a strong man to eat, let alone eat well.

Huang Hua found Bi Tie Shi from the Ministry of Rites who was in charge of looking after the business group in the temple, and offered him money to buy some wine, meat and food on his behalf—this is not an easy task in Shengjing where everything is scarce and everything is expensive.Bi Tieshi went out and ran around, and finally got two-chamber sheep and firewood, grain, seasoning and so on.

It was obviously not enough for more than 40 people to eat two sheep, so Huang Hua decided to make dumplings stuffed with mutton.Everyone picks off all the mutton and minces stuffing together. Naturally, there is too little mutton, but fortunately, there is enough cabbage and radish.It's just that white noodles are nowhere to be found, so we have to use sorghum rice bread boxes-sorghum rice noodles are not sticky enough, so we can only make them into big boxes and steam them in a basket.

Huang Hua also told the soldiers to take out the compressed instant soup they brought with them and cook a large pot of soup for the new servants to eat-add more salt, because the latter was short of salt, the upper class was stingy with salt for cooking, and the lower class servants could eat it. The salt eaten is very little, and these people have symptoms of long-term lack of salt intake.

This meal was not surprising to the soldiers—they were even a bit uncomfortable with eating sorghum rice, and rice was eaten open in Lingao anyway.But for the new servants, it was the first time in years that they had decent food.Most of them, not to mention the years they were taken captive as slaves, lived half-starved and half-fed even in the pass.It is still a luxury to eat fine grains, let alone meat.Many people ate while crying.

Huang Hua sat in the first place, drank a few cups of rice paste wine provided by the Ministry of Rites, and ate something: this box of sorghum noodles stuffed with mutton and cabbage made him full after barely eating one—he really lost his appetite.But seeing the grateful expressions of the servants, he was somewhat incomprehensible.

From Huang Hua's point of view, distributing a few warm clothes to the impoverished fellows, and having a dinner together, are all normal things for a general boss.He didn't expect his actions to have such a big effect.It seems that in this time and space is an era of worse than bad, whoever does a little bit better will be able to "return the heart of the world".

After dinner, Lan Bian came to say hello again, and asked if he wanted to "pass the girls to serve in the room", and said very politely that he had already called the four girls outside and was only waiting for the master to speak.It took Huang Hua 30 seconds to realize that he was talking about the four maidservants.

He didn't pay much attention to these four maidservants today, he only remembered them when Lan Bian mentioned them.Hou Jin sent four maids to him. It was obvious that he wanted to win over him, but he had to be wary of the other party's attempt to put someone next to him as a spy.Hong Chengchou was utterly loyal to the Manchu Qing, and Dorgon even forced a Manchurian woman to be a concubine, who specially supervised the army on the bed.

"Where did these four girls come from?"

"I don't know this slave, he's not from Zhuangzi." Lan Bian bowed his head and said, "I heard that they all belong to Amin Baylor's house. Baylor was recently convicted, and these women were not in the government..."

"Master is not interested today."

"Master Qi: One of them is from North Korea, she is only fifteen, or from a Liangban family..." Lan Bian narrowed her eyes and smiled, "I heard that North Korean women are different, do you want to ask her to come in and serve?"

Huang Hua chuckled: "You are really good at figuring out what's going on, and you're supposed to be a famous person in Zhuangzi."

Lan Bian's complexion changed slightly, and he smiled again: "Don't dare, the servant can be regarded as a small leader in Zhuangzi..."

"That's not right." Huang Hua took the face towel sent by the orderly as if nothing had happened, "Your ability to serve others is not acquired by being a long-term worker who is the head of Zhuangzi——Since you are under my door, you are not telling the truth Let's be honest: Which Baylor did you work for?"

Lan Bian was a little flustered at first, but then he calmed down: "The master has a long way to go! The servant was originally working in Mangbeile's mansion. This time, he came here specially to serve the master."

"So you know Sheng Jing very well?"

"After staying for many years, the road is familiar."

"I want to open a shop here, where do you think it should be?"

"Well," Lan Bian hesitated, "Master, it's not up to the servant to talk about this matter, and the imperial court's reward may be..."

Huang Hua stopped asking, and changed the subject: "Will you follow me to Tai O?"

"Since the slave is the master's person, the slave will go wherever the master goes. It's no different."

"Hehe, you don't want your wife and children?"

Lan Bian smiled and said, "The slave is alone, so he has a wife and children. Otherwise, why would he be assigned to the master?" Although he said so, Huang Hua was keenly trained based on the observation of facial expressions and body language he received in the training class of the Intelligence Bureau. found out that he was lying.

Obviously this blue edge is problematic.Otherwise, there's no need for him to hide the fact that he has a wife and child—the normal reaction would be to beg his new master to help him bring his family back together.

When we arrive at Jeju Island, we will examine them carefully.Huang Hua made up his mind, yawned and said, "You don't need to ask them to serve you. Let everyone go to bed early. We have to hurry tomorrow."

No matter how good the maid is, it's inconvenient for him to provoke her—firstly, she hasn't been purified, and secondly, this kind of maid is considered "violation of state property", and it's easy for people to catch pigtails.

Early the next morning, Huang Hua sent a farewell letter through the Ministry of Rites, and soon there was an imperial edict and many gifts.Give Huanghua alone ten East Pearls, all of which are of the highest quality, not only the size of a Gorgon seed, but also rolling beads, very valuable.However, Huang Hua, who is used to artificially cultured pearls, did not have much shock.After finishing all the matters, the business group left Shengjing and returned to Zhenjiang Fort.When they went there, they were still very impressive. Not only were they still escorted by cavalry, but they also had ten carts of gifts.They are all local specialties such as ginseng, fur, and mountain delicacies. They are accompanied by servants and horses, and the momentum is even stronger.

All the way back to Zhenjiang Fort smoothly, the Manmeng guard of Zhenjiang Fort looked forward to their return - almost crying.They received orders to Zhenjiang Fort to do their best to supply the Haitian.Of course, Cheweney and the others on board were not polite, and issued a list of various items they asked for: except for sorghum rice and other miscellaneous grains that they were not interested in, Zhenjiang Fort should supply everything from firewood, vegetables, and meat.

Haitian has already consumed half of the winter vegetables stored in Zhenjiang Fort, and even wiped out the frozen mutton and pigs.The defenders had to hunt for meat.The defenders did not dare not supply them in such distress: on the one hand, the imperial court had an order, and on the other hand, the cannons on the Haitian had already taught them a sufficient lesson. It's a must to get your head off the ground.

Not only that, Haitian also grandly built a camp on Duozhi Island, built a stove to boil water, built a bathroom, and took a sauna on the island every day.The whole ship was cleaned up again, laundry and bedding were washed and dried, and the cleaning and sanitation work was in a hurry.The defenders of Zhenjiang Fort were inexplicably amazed to see the naked buttocks rushing out of the white-smelling stone houses and jumping directly into the river to swim, and the underpants and sheets hanging everywhere on the island.

(End of this chapter)