Chapter 34: Returning to the Heart
The temperature of the lime water is a little higher than expected, but it is not fatal, after soaking, the skin will be red for a while, I don't know if it is my own delusion, I always feel itchy up and down.
Achill never knew that there were so many insects hidden in a person's body, and the one who jumped in with him next to him was now surrounded by dozens of small insects of various colors, most of which were fleas, all of them with big and round bellies, and he didn't know how much blood he had sucked.
Needless to see, Archer himself is no better, no wonder I saw from a distance that there were people holding things and constantly fishing out for things from a distance, and the emotional fishing was the bugs that had soaked off their bodies.
Looking at the corpses of these insects, Achill couldn't help but believe a little bit about the claim that lime water can prevent and disinfect the epidemic.
"Shall we come, or will you come by yourself?" asked a young soldier with a large brush in his hand.
"Come by yourself, come by yourself. Achill hurriedly replied, the few guys who were brushed and cried wolf next to him were a lesson from the past, these amiable-looking young soldiers were not polite at all, they were pig hair brushes used to brush the bodies of war horses.
Achill didn't dare to deal with official business, and brushed all the plaster on his body as much as possible, because when he came out of the pool, those young soldiers would be inspected one by one, and once they were unqualified, it was not a matter of rewashing, but their people went out in person, and they brushed it, and it was absolutely clean, but they were like red pigs, and it was estimated that they would not be good for two days or three days.
Archer was lucky, passing the test in one go.
However, if you want to eat big white steamed buns and salty soup, you still need to pass a few levels.
With the experience of the previous car, Archer can do it himself next, never bother the other party, take the dagger, and clean up the hair that is about to reach the waist in three clicks, revealing a white head, there are such big heads everywhere, and there is nothing unacceptable and embarrassing, except that the scalp is a little cold, the whole person is much more relaxed.
"Name. ”
"Achill. ”
"Good name, Andes in the language, pull out the bow of the strong man, your relatives have high expectations of you, have the strength to handle?"
"Thank you. Achill is sincerely grateful, and for the first time he knows that his name has such a unique meaning, he can't help but be a little happy.
He was very experienced in the questions asked, and when those slave owners inspected slaves, they would ask similar questions, in order to assign work, this kind of thing did not dare to mess around, otherwise they would be assigned jobs that were not suitable for them, and in the end it was themselves who were unlucky, and Archer replied truthfully, "It should be okay, and it should not be a problem to lift three or four hundred pounds of stone." ”
Hearing this, the young soldier who had been recording looked up at Achill and said with a smile: "What you reported yourself is only preliminary information, and someone will verify it at that time, if it is a false report, there will be no punishment, but it is not very beneficial to your future development, and you still need to change it?" ”
Achill hesitated for a moment, the results he said just now were two years ago, and he has grown a little longer in the past two years, so there should be no regression, and finally nodded.
"Okay, I didn't expect there to be a strong man seedling here, age. ”
"It should be fifteen. Achill wasn't sure, even his father was confused about his age, let alone himself.
"Well, another fool who doesn't even know the date of his birth. The young army was not surprised, because there were already a bunch of them in front, "Then fifteen, have you practiced bows and swords?"
"No, but I have participated in militia training and practiced spears for a few days. ”
"Attacking in a military formation?"
"No, it's a simple assassination. ”
"This is useless, it doesn't count, do you know how to read?"
"I don't know. ”
"Other specialties are things that I am good at, such as farming, logging, and quarrying. ”
"There is this, there is this, I can cut wood, quarry, repair the city walls, simple forging, and I can calcine lime. Archer was a little self-confident by the other party's series of questions, and felt like he was about to become useless waste.
When he finally asked what he was good at, he immediately poured beans into a bamboo tube, eager to show all the things he knew, which was a good opportunity to achieve the first life goal he had just set.
"Well, yes, I didn't expect to be an all-round talent, I can learn so many things, it means that the head is very flexible, if it is directly assigned to the sapper side is a bit of a waste, like this, give you a chance, as for whether you can stay, it depends on yourself, put away this wooden card, this is your future identification, don't lose it, receive things, receive meals will be used, this is only temporary, and when there is time, I will give you a bronze, just like me, the front is your name, the back is your number and battalion, your current number is 001027, belonging to the first battalion, the leftmost one is, your commander is called Marshall, you can go to him to report, get your clothes and food, and ask someone for advice when you have time, at least your name must be known and written!"
"Yes, it will!" Archer held the round wooden sign tightly, as if holding the most precious treasure, and looked at the words on it over and over again, it turned out that this was his name, and it turned out that his name was written like this, which was really beautiful.
"Next, why is there a problem?"
"Sir, there's another question, which side is on the left?" asked Achill a little embarrassed, feeling like a fool in front of these boys, and he didn't even understand the meaning of many words.
"Which hand is the best hand to use in normal times?" the boy army didn't laugh at Achill, this situation is common even among ordinary mountain people, not to mention this kind of person who has been a slave since childhood, some common sense is very lacking.
"This one. Achill raised his left hand.
"Left-handed, remember, your usual hand is the left hand, and the corresponding other is the right hand, with the center of your body as the point, the left hand side is called the left side, and the right hand side is called the right side. The young soldier rubbed his forehead and muttered in a low voice, "If you want to reorganize them, there is a long way to go, Marshall, they not only have to be captains, but also serve as common sense teachers, no matter what, anyway, this is a headache for them." ”
With that log card, Archer couldn't help but feel a sense of belonging, as if he had become a human being with the boys, and this feeling made him a little fluttery, although he knew that it was just his wishful thinking.
The next thing was much simpler, he received a barely fitting linen coat and chopsticks from his future chief, made a bowl of salty soup with two pieces of meat and bones, grabbed two white-flour steamed buns as big as piglets, and found a place with few people at random, squatting and eating.
At first, I tried to use the new cutlery called chopsticks, but soon found that I wanted to use these two slender things, and I couldn't fly up and down like the boy army in a few days, so I started eating it with a wooden bowl and gobbling it up.
Just the first bite, Achill fell in love with this white, fluffy and soft food, even if there is no broth, chew it carefully a few times, there is a unique fragrance, compared to the bran black bread that has to grind the throat to bleed, I don't know how many times, even if it is a white bread specially for the nobles to eat, it is nothing more than that, right?
Anyway, it was the most delicious food Achille had ever eaten in his life, and it was so delicious that it brought tears to his eyes.
Crying while eating was not the only one of Achill, and a large number of slaves burst into tears.
Whether it was because of the happiness of eating delicious food, or the recollection of a previous unbearable experience, no one knows, even they themselves can't tell.
One thing is certain, when this meal is over, no one will want to go back to the days of hunger and cold two days ago.
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"You kid is getting more and more shrewd, a pot of pork bones stewed cabbage, a cage of white-flour steamed buns, you can gather a bunch of people's hearts, this deal is a good deal. McGee and Sean crouched beside a cauldron as well.
This was the first meal they had after the night attack, and if they didn't deal with those banes, even if it was the delicacies of the mountains and seas, Sean wouldn't be able to eat them.
Sean gave McGee an angry look: "I can't stop your mouth when I eat, when it comes to eating, you eat me the most, and I haven't seen you return to me." ”
Sean didn't bother to explain, he hadn't thought about buying people's hearts at all, and the current food was just a normal big pot dish in his opinion, just say that the pork bone stewed cabbage, it would be good to have one-third of the dishes in everyone's bowl, and the rest was all soup.
Don't say it's him, even those young soldiers are embarrassed to call it pork bone stewed cabbage, just call it salty soup, and the flour used in white flour steamed buns is made of wheat flour and barley flour mixed together.
This is also something that can't be helped, not to mention the Manyu military leader, even if it is the entire Ashane Continent, wheat is a relatively expensive crop, not only has a low yield, but is also prone to various disasters, and it is not the highest priority in the planting sequence.
Of all the grain grown on a manor, the area of wheat cultivation will never exceed one-fifth, and pure wheat flour can only be enjoyed by those noble lords.
The amount of wheat in these white flour steamed buns is no more than one-third, and the rest is this incomplete husked barley, for the sake of long-term planning, the two can only be mixed, although the taste is poor, but the nutrition is more comprehensive.
In his previous life, he ate too much fine rice, and he had to go back to eating whole wheat bread and whole grains, and so did the mountain people and the military slaves almost didn't eat their tongues together.
Where did Sean think that the happiness of people in this world is so low, a slightly normal meal and a little bit of true feelings will move them to the ground.
If he let them see the tragic drama of his previous life, and didn't let them cry into tears, if it weren't for the dozens of brothers who grew up with him lying in that corpse pit, he would never have shed half a tear.
Sean is a little wrong about this, what really makes these people cry is not sadness and bitterness.
They have experienced countless things since they were children, life and death are commonplace for them, and if they drag out a random person, their experience will be even more tragic than the most tragic tragedy, they have long been numb, and their own experience can't touch them, let alone other unrelated people.
What really touched them was the sincerity and kindness that he and the Boy Army involuntarily showed when they made every move, something they had never felt in their lives.
Even if there are good slave owners, they can't change their slave owners, and most of the kindness is valuable, even if it's gratuitous, it comes with a high altitude.
As for their kind, when they deal with fatigue and hunger all day long, where can they show kindness, even if there are really such a selfless people, who will not survive long in such a group, and will first be reduced to bones.
Cang Liao knows etiquette, and knows honor and disgrace when he has enough food and clothing.
This old saying from Sean's previous life is the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancients, and it is not a nonsense out of thin air.