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After about ten minutes, the heavy wooden door opened again, and two sturdy young men in wolfskin vests cautiously went out to look around, quickly picked up the six rifles on the stone ridge and carried them back to the house, and quickly came out to take six packs of ammunition and a bag of salt into it, and closed the door again.

The main hall of the wooden house was filled with smoke.

In the middle of the fire pit is a cast iron tripod with a black cast iron pot on top of it, and a child about six years old who cannot tell the boys and girls is lying on the ground, carefully adding firewood to the fire pit.

The four middle-aged men and an old man sitting around the fire pit stared blankly at the six Hanyang rifles on the ground, while a group of mothers-in-law holding children in the hall stared blankly at the bag of salt that had just been opened on the bamboo bench.

After a long time, the sturdy young man wearing a wolfskin vest finally couldn't help but speak: "Hey dad (father), hey su (uncle), what should I do?" ”

Everyone looked at the old man in the center, and the two children who had quietly passed over to touch the gun immediately shrank back to their mother.

The old man with a cloth towel wrapped around his head came back to his senses, picked up the two-foot-long purple bamboo cigarette stick at his feet and approached the flames, "Barda" and "Barda" smoked, and after smoking the remaining tobacco in the bronze pipe, he looked at his youngest son unhurriedly: "Those Han generals are gone?" ”

"Let's go, thousands of Han soldiers are still cutting trees and bamboo in the east of the Taoist temple, there are hundreds of soldiers cutting thatch on the gentle slope below Qingtan, and hundreds of soldiers ploughing the ground with shovels, it seems that they don't want to leave." The sturdy young man's face was full of worry.

The old man thought for a while, shook his head and said: "They will go, this mountain can't support thousands of people, I smell a strong smell of blood at dawn all night, it seems that there are many wounded soldiers in this Han army...... These wounded soldiers can't walk, they have to heal their injuries before they can walk, and they sent so many valuable gifts, probably for this matter. ”

The surrounding men suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and the mothers-in-law who pricked up their ears to listen behind also smiled.

The sturdy man who was squatting on the left side of the old man frowned: "This Han army is very strange, there are at least three thousand long and short guns, as well as a lot of iron cannons and countless goods brought by hundreds of horses. ”

"They are completely different from the officers and soldiers we have seen in Le'an County before, I don't know what the way they came from, why did they come to our big mountain where no officers and soldiers have ever been?"

No one can answer these questions.

Everyone here knew that they might be able to figure it out as long as they went out and asked, but none of them said it, and they were still waiting for the old man sitting on the throne to speak, but the old man with a solemn expression began to smoke his pipe slowly.

The two sturdy young men were anxious, and the slightly taller young man put forward his own thoughts: "We She people must return the gifts when we accept them, and if we dare not accept these gifts, we must return them immediately and make it clear to the giver...... If you are sure to accept it, you will return the gift. ”

The full house of men, women and children immediately panicked.

The women looked directly at the large bag of salt on the bamboo bench and couldn't help but swallow their saliva, and the men immediately looked at the six Hanyang rifles and six bags of ammunition in front of the fire pit, and their eyes were full of unconcealable longing.

The old man's abrupt throat squirmed up and down, weighed it for a long time, and finally looked at the youngest son who spoke: "Yan cub, do you understand what a few generals just called the door?" ”

Yan cub nodded hurriedly: "Once a month, I go to Fujita Town, thirty miles to the west, to exchange salt, and I also went to Le'an County to sell deer skins before the Spring Festival, and I can understand the official words of the two generals just now." ”

The old man nodded slowly: "Their gifts are too valuable, such a big bag of salt, at least twelve high-quality deer skins can be exchanged, enough for our whole clan twenty-seven old and young to eat for a year, these six army spears and six cloth bags of guns and ammunition are even more valuable, we can't buy them in our lifetime, with these army spears, we can also get back the two tigers in the back mountain, alas!" ”

"Forget it, just accept it, this Han army has no malice, knows etiquette, is very moral, if you want to harm us, you can kill our entire clan yesterday...... Go, take down all the furs on the bamboo building in the backyard, pick out the best twelve, and the bear skin I hit the year before last, and then we will go to the Taoist temple together to return the salute. ”

The men immediately moved.

A group of mothers-in-law timidly came to the fire, saw the old man nodding slowly, and immediately lifted the big bag of salt on the bamboo bench, and happily carried it to the backyard warehouse.

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The warm sun spilled smiling faces from the clouds, and the mountains and fields were gilded with a layer of golden light, and the front and back of the Taoist temple were full of officers and soldiers repairing the courtyard walls and repairing the roof.

Zheng Yi and other officers at and above the regimental level sat under the towering ancient trees in front of the main hall and made a final agreement on the list of 122 wounded and the list of medical team members and political instructors to be left behind.

Xu Maofu, the guard platoon commander who served as the star officer, hurriedly came to the ancient tree: "Report, several hunters in the west have sent people to give gifts. ”

The officers immediately stopped the discussion, and when they saw Zheng Yi standing up with a smile on his face, everyone immediately sorted out their military appearance, followed Zheng Yi out, and quickly led the old hunter of the She tribe and the six She men to the ancient tree.

The shrewd staff officers had already brewed fragrant tea and brought it to the guests together with the candies and Yihuang rice crackers that they were reluctant to eat.

After a round of greetings, the guests and hosts sat under the ancient trees.

Deputy division commander Han Shouren took out a Shanghai-made cigarette and quickly opened it, and gave each guest a pack, Zheng Yi asked a few words, and beckoned the young She who served as the translator to sit down:

"It is estimated that a few brothers can understand what we speak, but we can't understand what a few brothers say, fortunately, there is this smart and strong little brother, otherwise it will be troublesome, and I don't know if I am scolded."

Everyone laughed, and several She men also laughed.

When the old man of the She nationality saw that Zheng Yi picked up a match to light a cigarette for himself after speaking, he hurriedly waved his hand, and then took out a long purple bamboo cigarette stick from his waist.

Zheng Yi laughed, took out a cigarette and put it on his mouth to light it, took a puff under the stunned gaze of the brothers, and handed it to the old man of She nationality across the long table, and then snatched the cigarette stick in the hand of the old man of She nationality, took out the tobacco from the small cloth bag hanging below and put it into the pipe, struck a match, proudly lit the pipe and began to smoke.

Who knew that Zheng Yi overestimated his adaptability, and as soon as he took a puff, he was choked by the spicy and strong smoke and coughed, causing everyone to laugh.

The She man on the opposite side also couldn't stop laughing, and the psychological distance between the two sides quickly narrowed in this loud laughter.

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