Chapter 1015: The Pain of Colonization (Ask for Subscription)
In the summer of the tenth year of Hongxing in the Ming Dynasty, Liu Liang had forgotten about the first few months.
He deliberately forgot it, because he knew that he was "sentenced to life", and that he would not have the opportunity to return to Middle-earth in this life, and he would not even want to go to Japan, so he could only live in the Gulf of the Americas for the rest of his life...... So he didn't have to count the days and wait for his release.
The Chinese colonists who arrived in the Gulf of the Americas with him had a similar fate, so no one mentioned the date, just a confused life!
Of course, life is bitter, dozens of people, thrown in a wild place tens of thousands of miles away from home, how can it not be bitter?
By the way, some of them have already died in a foreign land!
At this time, Liu Liang squatted on the edge of a grave and talked to himself, and the person buried in the grave was called "Lao Zhang", and he was also dressed in a closed coat. His life is more bitter than Liu Liang, he is a native of Liao, he was born as a slave of the banner people, and he also followed the master of the banner people to enter the customs and fight the Ming army. But he didn't make any meritorious contributions, so he has always been a coating. It is said that he was married, but his wife was slept with by the master of the banner man, became crazy, and then died, leaving a doll for him to pull alone, and when he was recruited before Duoduo sent troops to the pass, he was also killed by the ruthless master of the bannerman......
However, the master of the banner man did not end well, and was killed by Shi Kefa's black spearmen in Deshengdian, and Lao Zhang was taken prisoner, and then sent to the Americas, and when he passed through Japan, he got a wife, and he was pregnant with his flesh and blood.
At that time, it was Liu Liang who collected his body and buried it on the edge of the wheat field where he sacrificed. The wheat is winter wheat, and the harvest is now imminent.
"Lao Zhang, look at it, the wheat is almost ripe, and when the wheat is ripe, you can eat the bun in a big gulp...... Your family's Michiko should also be born by then, and if it is a brat, your Zhang family will have a future. Don't worry, your wife, your children, I'll raise you! If I have a mouthful of buns, I will share them with a mouthful! β
What a brother!
Lao Zhang's wife, Michiko, now lives with Liu Liang, a family of three, and they are happy...... So Lao Zhang can also rest assured below.
After chatting with the old brother for a few words, Liu Liang carried a flintlock pistol around again, and checked the wooden fence against bison before walking towards Peanutun Tun in the distance.
Peanutun is a small village surrounded by ditches and wooden fences, and the village is full of wooden houses, a total of about 30 houses, all but two, all of which have smoke coming out.
Walking in, Liu Liang smelled a disgusting fishy smell...... Needless to say, today's dinner is beef and seafood stew again!
Before coming to the Gulf of the Americas, eating meat has always been a luxury for Liu Liang!
In his impression, the enjoyment of eating meat is only a few times a year, before leaving the customs as a coating, usually the family gets together during the New Year, wraps hundreds of cabbage and pork dumplings, and eats a delicious meal, enough to reminisce for half a year. After leaving the customs, because there is more land to cultivate, so life is a little better, but it is only to kill a lean pig during the New Year, Meimei eats for a few days, and now I miss it when I think about it!
But since I hit here in the Gulf of Americas, I haven't even enjoyed this thing!
It's not that you don't eat meat, but you eat meat for a fucking meal!
And it's beef...... It's bison! I don't know what's going on, it's full of stupid bison! It's easy to catch when you're not angry.
At first, I was very happy to have beef to eat! And I let go of the belly to eat, it was quite good during those days, and the men who ate it grew chest hair and beards, and the little Japanese women who ate it developed, and many of them grew taller!
But I'm tired of eating it!
Especially after the rice brought from Japan and the flour brought from the Ming Dynasty were almost ruined, they had to eat beef as a staple food - food was originally very precious, and it had to be eaten carefully. But after arriving at the Gulf of America, the big guy suddenly discovered that the food could be poured out......
In addition, because the days are so boring, many people want to drink two cups, so they pick up the precious rice and make sake!
So, starting this summer, when eating here at the Gulf of America, instead of beef and seafood, noodles, gnocchi and small rice balls are served with beef!
The days will be like this, and it is really beyond everyone's expectations.
"You're back! Great ......."
Two women with big bellies bowed to Liu Liang, who were his eldest wife Liangzi and second wife Michiko. They are all good wives and mothers, which makes Liu Liang very ashamed.
Every day he said that he had worked hard...... What's the hard work? The wheat was planted in a mess, and no one pulled out the weeds in the field!
If you have the kung fu to pull weeds, you might as well go to the beach to pick up some shells, catch a few fish, catch some lobsters or something.
"Dinner is ready!" Liangzi said to Liu Liang, "Just now, Xu Tunchang personally sent two fish, and I asked Michiko to cook them, as well as some salted bean sprouts, and noodles and beef." β
Noodle beef and beef noodles are not the same, the latter is a thin few slices of beef with a large bowl of noodles, and the former is a thin few noodles with a large bowl of beef.
Michiko added, "The tun chief asked you to go to his place after dinner. β
"Oh, got it." Liu Liang's brows furrowed slightly.
He knew why Xu Kan was looking for him, it was for the sake of mink hunting.
Last winter, Liu Liang was bored because he was idle, so he practiced archery with Xu Kan, and he practiced well. So in the spring, I followed Xu Kan to hunt, and I wanted to hunt bison, but I came back with a few mink.
Mink is worth a lot of money on Daming's side!
Xu Kan pondered that he wanted to catch more, but he couldn't catch much by himself, so he had to organize the people to go out together.
But there are few people who are willing to follow him...... Anyway, it's just eating meat and seafood to make a living, and you don't need money, so why can't you get along with those minks?
However, Liu Liang couldn't refuse Xu Kan, because Xu Kan gave him a "reward" for Michiko, and this favor must be repaid!
After eating the noodles and beef, Liu Liang walked out of his small wooden house and walked to the big wooden house where Tunchang Xu Kan lived.
Xu Kan wasn't going to stay in the Americas for the rest of his lifeβat least he didn't think he would become a United Statesman, because he was an officer and could return to his homeland.
And he also found a way to make a fortune, fishing mink in the Gulf of America!
There are so many minks here that you can't catch them all!
And mink is a sky-high price in Daming! If he could return home with hundreds or thousands of minks, he would be a rich man.
But Liu Liang was the only one who was willing to do it with him...... People who can't go back think that they don't need money for the rest of their lives, so no one wants to go mink hunting.
When Liu Liang entered the house, Xu Kan was preparing a bow and arrow. The bow is a wooden bow and the arrow is a bone arrow, which is very primitive. However, here in the Gulf of America, it is a super weapon, and the natives here have no bows at all...... It's unbelievably backward.
And a group of hunters who didn't even have a bow didn't starve to death here in the Gulf of America, which fully illustrates the wealth of this territory.
Seeing Liu Liang walk in, Xu Kan greeted him very warmly to sit down, and then asked his mother-in-law to bring out a pot of rice wine.
"Lao Liu, drink two cups...... With us, there is no other enjoyment but to eat and drink. Xu Kan smiled, "Eat and drink enough, and then sleep with the girls, it will be a fairy-like day!" When you were in the Qing Kingdom, wasn't that what you were thinking? β
Liu Liang sighed: "At that time, there was the bitterness of that time, and now there is the bitterness of the present......"
"What is bitter?" Xu Kan smiled, "Get rich!" β
"Rich?" Liu Liang looked at Xu Kan, "Tun Chief, you don't need money here, what kind of wealth do you have?" β
"You brainless, it's so good here, there is food, drink, land, and endless mink, how can it be like this all the time? You see, in less than ten years, Peanutun Tun will be a prosperous land! What you will do when the time comes, it will all depend on whether you are willing to do it with me! β