Volume 2 Chapter 191 Memories of the Past
The place of the meal was set at Tongfu Restaurant, and in addition to the people just mentioned, the attendees also included Mo Lilun, Qu Mingming, and He Wenwen. Li Xian was busy writing a report on the Xuhui murder case, so he didn't show up, but no one was polite, Tomo gave Gu Amei a small gift, and when he opened the package, he was amused by everyone, it turned out to be a mobile phone case with the words "reborn"! I don't know, I thought Gu Amei had just been released from prison.
Mo Anran was so angry that he called Li Xian for a good meal.
With such a small episode, the atmosphere of this dinner was suddenly much more relaxed, and this meal was also enjoyed by the guests and hosts.
A big stone in Gu Amei's heart for a few months finally fell to the ground, so she drank a lot of wine during this meal. After the dismissal, Mo Anran was responsible for sending her back to the clinic. Qu Mingming was naturally sent home by Mo Lilun, the messenger of the flowers. He Wenwen didn't drink, but she still had to be sent by Du Lin.
On the way back, He Wenwen once again mentioned that he wanted Du Lin to accompany him and a few classmates to archaeology.
Although Du Lin was reluctant in every way, there was no way, he had promised He Wenwen before, and now no matter how much he didn't want to go, he couldn't refuse.
Du Lin didn't want to go, the main reason was that in addition to not taking care of the clinic for several months, another important reason was that he deliberately wanted to keep his distance from He Wenwen.
Although he promised to get along with He Wenwen for a while before. But then he thought about it, and still felt that he and He Wenwen were not suitable. So he began to deliberately alienate He Wenwen. But He Wenwen originally had a good impression of Du Lin, and later added the effect of blood kinship, so she became more dependent on Du Lin.
After sending He Wenwen home, Du Lin returned to his villa and pulled out a diary written in the early Qing Dynasty more than 300 years ago from the bookshelf on the third floor.
I, Durin, hereby swear that no matter how many years I have left in this life, I will never provoke any more girls until I find a cure for my coughing up of blood, or that the people close to me can live with me.
In the 12th year of Kangxi, the Qing Emperor Aixin Jueluo Xuanye was determined to pacify the three feudatories. This is definitely good news for me, who has been living in the midst of war. Because since the Qing Dynasty unified the Central Plains, there has been no major war for decades, and I haven't drunk blood for a long time.
When I heard that there was going to be a war, I immediately went to the recruitment office of the government to register.
Because I knew how to heal, I was easily given the opportunity to become a soldier, and I was assigned to the Green Battalion.
The officers and troops who participated in the pacification of the three feudal domains this time were mainly composed of the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion, and the Eight Banners were the main force when the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and their combat effectiveness was very strong, and they were divided into the Eight Banners, the Eight Banners of Mongolia and the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty.
After the Manchurians entered the customs, they found that the number of eight cavalry was too small to rule the vast Central Plains, so they reorganized it into a green battalion army based on the old army of the Ming Dynasty, mainly Han Chinese.
This time, the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion fought together, so the wounded camp for the treatment of the wounded soldiers was built together, and because I knew how to heal, I was arranged to be an errand boy in the wounded camp, and I was also assigned a thin and small Han Eight Banners soldier as an assistant, called Shi Li.
Before the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, they imitated their form of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty and compiled the Han people living outside the customs into the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty. These Han Eight Banners, like the Manchu Eight Banners, all need to serve in the military, and because they have lived between the white mountains and black waters outside the Guanwai for a long time, their riding and archery skills are no less than those of the Manchurians. The combat effectiveness is also very strong, and it has also made great contributions to the unification of the Central Plains by the Qing Dynasty.
Now that Emperor Kangxi wants to pacify the three feudatories, these Han Eight Banners will also be mobilized immediately.
This soldier of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, named Shi Li, was arranged by the commander to the wounded camp because he was born small, and he gave us medical officers a hand.
On that day, the official army and Wu Sangui's Nanyun soldiers fought for a day and a night in the area of Hengzhou, southern Hunan. Both sides suffered heavy casualties, and the camp was overcrowded.
After a busy day, I took advantage of the dead of night to go to a small river outside the camp to bury the mass grave of the fallen soldiers, hoping to dig up a corpse, suck some blood, and relieve the symptoms of blood thirst.
Because, when sucking blood, my five senses are the worst, so before sucking blood, I have already observed the surrounding situation in advance, and there are no people or animals within a radius of one mile.
So I was relieved and boldly sucked the blood.
After a cup of tea, I emerged from the pile of corpses, only to see a woman bathing in a creek not far from me!
It was a full moon that day, and the white moonlight emitted a little white light on the surface of the river, and the woman's body was also reflected in the slightest.
The woman also saw me, and she first covered her chest with her hands, and then hurriedly crouched down, her face frightened.
I suddenly felt that she was very familiar, and if I looked closely, wasn't this a stone ceremony?
Shi Li in the river pointed at me and said weakly, "You...... You...... Are you eating human flesh?"
I quickly wiped my mouth and found that my hands were full of blood, I guess I must be covered in blood now, maybe how scary it is.
I hurried to the river, wanting to wash my face, but Shi Li in the water thought that I was going to eat her, so he was so frightened that he didn't care that he was undressed, and fled naked to the middle of the river.
Although the river was not wide, the water was still very deep, and she ran a few steps before she could reach the bottom, and in a panic she fell into the water and struggled.
Seeing this, I didn't bother to wash my face, so I rushed into the water in a few steps, swam to her, took her in my arms, and swam to the shore.
Shi Li struggled even more, desperately trying to break free of me, so I had to scare her, "Be honest, or I'll really eat you." ”
When she heard this, she was really a lot more honest, and obediently asked me to save her ashore.
I lay her flat on the pebble beach on the shore, and she curled up shyly and shivered.
I looked around, found her clothes, threw them beside her, and stepped aside. Turn away from him and look no more.
After a while, I figured he was dressed and turned back.
"How do you eat human flesh?"
"How are you a woman?"
"You speak first!"
"You speak first!"
The two of us asked questions and answered at the same time.
In the end, she answered first.
It turned out that their ancestors were the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty who entered the customs with the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
Whether it is the Manchurian Eight Banners or the Han Eight Banners, in fact, it is a kind of "world soldier system", once it is compiled as a banner person, then this family will be a military household for generations, the soldiers eat military rations, the family members eat salaries, and they can also get a piece of land in the Guannai.
During the Shunzhi period, the emperor issued an order that if each military household sent less than four soldiers, the fief should be recovered.
In Shi Li's generation, there are only four men in total, including his father, but Shi Li's third brother is not in good health and is riddled with tuberculosis.
Shi Li's father didn't want him to join the army, but without Shi Li's third brother, there were only three soldiers in the Shi family, and the land that was previously allocated to the Shi family would definitely be recovered.
Originally, the Shi family was already living in very poverty, and if there was no fief, then the food rations for the family would become a problem.
Only 16 years old, Shi Li is a sensible child, she imitated the ancient Mulan, discussed with her father, and came to such a "brother in the army".
But to be honest, she also risked losing her head by doing so.
Impostor as a soldier, at a small level, this is a pretext to lead the army's rations, and at a large level, it is not an exaggeration to deduct you from the crime of bullying the king.
During the day, Shi Li followed me all day and sweated. As a girl, she naturally likes to be clean, so she took advantage of the fact that there was no one at night and wanted to bathe and clean herself by the river.
Although girls in this era are already at the age of 16 to talk about marriage, they are still young girls, and their hearts have not retreated. When I first arrived, she was lying on her stomach in the river and holding her breath, so I didn't notice her.
Now that she has revealed her secret to me, I should tell her my secret as well.
But I didn't tell her that I had lived for 1,000 years, I just said that I had a strange disease, and if I didn't drink human blood, then I would be in pain, so I went to the mass grave at night and drank human blood.
A 16-year-old girl is quite easy to deceive, and she easily believes my words.
Since that night, the two of us have kept each other's secrets. Maybe after exchanging their most important secrets, the two of them will become closer.