Chapter 183 Seizing the Fortress (3)

Before dark, more than a hundred green construction tents had been set up. As for the cooking team responsible for cooking, dozens of large iron pots and wooden barrels were lined up in sequence, and the aroma of the food floated with the steam inside and outside the fort.

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Shu Haili looked at the noisy crowd and the hundreds of large grass-green tents in front of him in stunned silence, and marveled in his heart how many people the "imperial court" had sent!

And the food these people eat is so good! Snow-white rice, big chunks of oily stew, and vegetables that are rare in early spring. Not to mention ordinary fortress residents, even Shu Haili himself

I can’t remember the last time I ate white rice.

At this time, Liu Sheng was holding a large bowl of rice, which was piled with green vegetables. He saw Shu Haili not far away, and waved to him with his chopsticks, signaling him to come over.

Shu Haili held back the saliva secreted in his mouth and kept swallowing. As he walked, he looked around at the migrant workers who were carrying food back to the tent. He walked up to Liu Sheng and said, "Sir, what are your orders?"

"Call out all the families in the fort and ask them to come over with bowls to prepare food for you to eat."

"Ah! How can this be done?" Shu Haili said, while glancing at the big stew pot not far away.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Go quickly!" After Liu Sheng said this, he winked at the soldier behind Shu Haili, indicating that he was watching. The soldier saluted and took Shu Haili to the fort.

In Fuldan City, the residents of the fort were all extremely surprised after hearing Shu Haili's words. The "general of the imperial court" invited everyone to eat meat! The sun came out from the west today, right? Where is the sun? Oh, it's already dark.

Let's check it out tomorrow morning.

Stop talking and hurry up. Holding torches and holding rice bowls and water bowls found at home, the fort residents arrived outside the fort with a snoring sound. When they were led by the "officers and soldiers", they arrived in a row.

In front of the big iron pot, everyone's saliva wanted to make a big hole on the ground.

"Mom, what is that?" Shu Haili's daughter looked at the white rice in the big wooden bucket and asked with her index finger in her mouth.

"Listen to your father, that's rice." Shu Haili's wife has never eaten rice.

"What is rice?"

"Rice is a better food than sorghum rice."

"Mom, I want to eat rice."

At this time, a fat cook from Beihai Town waved a big iron spoon in his hand and shouted to the fort residents who were standing in a huddle: "Get in line! Everyone, get in line! Those who don't queue up won't be fed!"

When Shu Haili heard this, he quickly asked the fort residents to line up and stand in line. He also cursed at a bannerman: "Baman Gong, you kid, line up behind me! Be careful, I will slap you."

Baman Gong held a pottery basin under his arm and turned around step by step to stand at the end of the line.

"Each person has one portion. If it's not enough, we can serve more! Take the chopsticks by yourself!" said the fat cook waving a big iron spoon while serving food to the fort residents. The small wooden table next to it was made of pine branches.

The chopsticks were put in a basket.

At this time, two soldiers from Beihai Town carried rifles on their backs and said to every fort resident who had finished eating: "Go to the tent to eat, it's warm there."

The fort residents bowed their waists and carried the meals into the tents one after another with a lot of gratitude. Finally it was Ba Mangon's turn. He couldn't wait to bow his waist and said to the cook in front of him: "Sir, please give me more broth.

More meat, more rice."

The cook's surname was Hu, and his name was Hu Fugui. He was the cook that Shen Jingdan hired from northern Jiangsu years ago. At this time, he was feeling very angry, thinking that I used to cook for the salt merchant, but now it's better, every day Make big pot dishes with a big spoon.

Baman Gong didn't notice that there was another person behind him. When Hu Fugui saw it, the resentment in his stomach disappeared immediately, and he said to the person with a smile on his face: "Sir, what else do you want?"

Baman Gong looked back and found that the man was much taller than him. He was wearing a cotton hat and was looking at him with a smile. He pouted dissatisfiedly and said: "I came first, I came first."

"Master Hu, please serve him first. I'm not in a hurry." Zhao Xin thought the young man in front of him was quite interesting.

"Sir, you are benevolent and righteous." Hu Fugui smiled and praised Zhao Xin. When his eyes fell on Baman Gong, he looked disgusted. "What do you want!"

Baman Gong was so preoccupied with eating meat that he didn't even pay attention to Hu Fugui's words. He pointed to the wooden barrel containing rice and said, "Bring me half a pot of this!" Then he pointed to the half pot of stew left. "I want this. !More broth!”

Hu Fugui poured half a spoonful of meat, a large spoonful of broth over the rice, and finally a large spoonful of boiled cabbage.

"I want to eat meat!" Bamangon said dissatisfied.

"Eat, eat, eat, I've given it to you, what will the people behind you eat!" Hu Fugui rolled his eyes at the other party, and then the expression on his face magically turned from vertical to horizontal, and he said to Zhao Xin with a smile: "Sir, what do you want to eat?"

Zhao Xin smiled and said: "Master Hu, please give him some more meat. This boy is young and can eat it right now."

"What do you say?" Hu Fugui took another half iron spoon of stew and put it into the pottery basin.

Baman Gong glanced at Zhao Xin with gratitude, took a pair of chopsticks, and, led by the soldiers, walked away with the pile of jutting pots.

Hu Fugui turned back at this time, quickly picked up a plate of sliced ​​pork fried by himself from the table behind him, and said to Zhao Xin: "Sir, this villain made this specially for you."

Zhao Xin nodded with satisfaction, served some rice and cabbage, and said to Hu Deli: "Thank you, Master Hu."

"Oh, you can't afford this for a villain. This will kill you!" Hu Deli's legs went weak and he almost knelt on the ground. He knew very well the man in front of him, the big boss of Beihai Town. He had been a cook for so many years, and he had never seen such a thing before. No master has ever been so polite to a cook.

Zhao Xin waved his hand and said: "You're welcome, Master Hu. You guys should eat early too."

Hu Fugui looked at Zhao Xinyuan's retreating figure, his nose felt sour and he almost cried.

When Zhao Xin entered the tent with a rice bowl, Liu Sheng had already finished eating and was assigning tasks to Sheng Haizhou.

"You guys didn't even work hard tonight. You've got everyone inside and outside the fort under surveillance. No one can escape."

"Yes! No one can escape." Sheng Haizhou stood at attention and saluted, and then immediately went out to arrange the manpower.

Zhao Xin sat at the table with a smile and asked Liu Sheng while eating, "How is it? What do you think?"

Liu Sheng knew what he was asking. He rolled his eyes at Zhao Xin, lit a cigarette and sighed: "I walked around the castle in the afternoon. I'm so poor! I'm so poor that I can't bear to do anything."

"You did a good job today, peaceful solution, peaceful annexation. I guess by the time these people wake up, they will be in a dilemma."

"That's what I mean too. It's best not to kill anyone if you can. How are you going to deal with them tomorrow?"

"What you say sounds like I want to set up a concentration camp. Am I that evil?" Zhao Xin rolled his eyes and swallowed the food in his mouth before saying: "Let them all move out tomorrow and live in tents. Inside the fort

All those broken houses have been demolished! After the land is leveled, warehouses and medical stations must be erected first."

Zhao Xin's plan is that Fuldan City in the east will be used as a logistics base, material warehouse, and medical station. The old Jurgen Fort four miles to the west will be transformed into a

The forward command headquarters, around the old Jürgen Castle, is where the entire defensive position is located.

"Where are Director Liu and the others?"

"They all went to rest after eating. These more than 20 days have made them very tired."

While the two were talking, they heard Guisheng's voice coming from outside the tent: "Sir, Miss A Miao is here and said she has something to ask you."

Liu Sheng immediately became suspicious, looked Zhao Xin up and down, and said jokingly: "Hey, let me tell you, how many boats are you going to step on?"

"You can eat randomly, but you can't talk nonsense. Look at what you look like now, image, image!" Zhao Xin picked up the rice bowl and walked out of the tent. Under the firelight, he saw A Miao, whose nose was red from the cold, waving to him.

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Zhao Xin walked over with a smile and said, "It's too cold outside, go and talk in my tent." A Miao nodded and followed Zhao Xin into the tent.

The thin little girl Katsu Kaishu met in Sendai Domain has now become slim and tall, and she has grown a lot. At this time, Miao has a little baby fat on her face, delicate facial features, bright eyes, and...

A kind of natural beauty without decoration.

Zhao Xin reached out and rubbed A Miao's head twice, then asked with a smile: "What do you want from me?"

"The teacher said that the anti-inflammatory medicine is not enough and asked you to get her some more tomorrow."

"That's it?"

"The teacher also said that she would see the completed medical station the day after tomorrow."

"Your teacher told me about this during the day."

A Miao lowered her head, occasionally looked up at Zhao Xin, and said with a smile: "Are you going back in a few days?"

"Yeah. What's the matter?"

A Miao's little face suddenly turned a little red, and after a while she said, "Are you coming back?"

Zhao Xin reached out and touched A Miao's little face to see if it was not burning. "What's wrong? Of course I have to come back."

A Miao's neck turned red at this moment, and she whispered: "If I'm not around, Duofu won't be able to eat well."

Zhao Xinxin said that's all. "There are brothers from the Xu family, so they can't be hungry. Is there anything else?"

"Then you can rest, I'm going back."

"Have a good rest, I have a lot of things to do tomorrow."

A Miao came out of the tent, and when the cold wind blew, she felt that her face was not so hot anymore. She ran all the way back to the medical team's tent, and when she went in, she saw that the small light in the tent was still on, and Liu Siting was waiting for her.

"Did you give it to him?"

A Miao shook her head, reached into her coat pocket and took out a pair of new cotton gloves. The gloves were very large, and it looked like they were not her own.

"You are so stupid. Don't say you are my apprentice when you go out. Go to sleep."

"Oh." A Miao responded, took off her coat and covered her quilt, and then got under the quilt. In the darkness, A Miao held the cotton gloves in her arms and looked at the tent with twinkling eyes.

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That night, the residents of Fuldan Castle had a good dream after having a big meal. They dreamed that their homes were full of cattle and sheep, and countless grain bags were piled in the house. From then on, they no longer had to worry about being exposed to food.

hungry

At dawn in the early morning, the fort residents were woken up by loud noises outside the house.

"Everyone, please pack up your valuables and move to the tents outside the fort first! The old fort has been requisitioned!" Serdan held up a large iron speaker and shouted in Manchu from all over the fort.
To be continued...