Chapter 88: Flag Language

Shennong River in the early morning. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

The industrious people got up early in the morning and spontaneously gathered on the river beach, yesterday they were busy working for the army to build rafts, and today they were busy working for themselves.

Once the trick is mastered, the people speak, and it is easier to build a raft than to make a basket.

Small reed boats, which could only carry one or two people, were launched, and the people on board carefully rowed their oars and tried all sorts of fishing methods, going to the other side to dig wild vegetables, collect wild duck eggs and duck feathers.

The sun shone on the river, and beside the mountain-like reeds piled on the riverbank, a few craftsmen wore freshly braided reed straw hats and shook the rudimentary wooden wheels. These reeds are specially used for "twisting" when making reed ropes, and the reed ropes of different thicknesses are coiled into rolls and stacked next to the reeds.

A few steps later, a group of people cut the reed poles into long and short reed stalks, and made a curtain with thin reed cords, called reed foil. Wang Erniu pointed fingers at the craftsmen who make reed foil, just one meaning, the efficiency is too low, can you find a way to make more finished products like making reed cables. Wang Erniu has been jokingly called "two donkeys" by the people, just because he laughs at the high donkey when he opens his mouth and laughs at the low donkey when he closes his mouth. However, the reed foil is really not enough, as soon as the reed foil is ready, the people will immediately take it away.

On the reed pier next to the barracks, a simple room was enclosed with this reed foil. Four wooden sticks inserted in the reed mats at the feet formed the pillars at the four corners of the house, and a large reed foil surrounded the four walls, and the reed foil interface was left open for a section. Another piece of reed foil on the wall is the roof, and the roof is covered with fresh reed leaves. An old soldier was specially on duty in the house.

In Sun Yi's opinion, this reed duty room has at least a door and a roof, which is much stronger than the people's original two-sided ventilated shacks.

The people brought back the reed foil to build a house, but it was much more complicated than a simple dock watch room. The people first used two layers of reed foil to enclose the hollow reed wall, and then added mud mixed with reed leaves and loess to the hollow wall, and compacted layer by layer, and when the mud dried, it was a strong reed foil wrapped earthen wall. There are openings for doors and windows on the earthen walls, and curtains made of reed leaves are hung. On the earthen wall, rafters are propped up with wooden sticks, then reed leaf is laid with a layer of mud, and finally a grass roof made of reed leaves.

The people were busy, talking, and wondering whether to bring their wives and children over.

Sun Yi led a few orphans and a few young men to stand by the water, looking at the opposite shore with sunglasses.

Qiqige leaned against Sun Yi, who was the teacher specially invited by Sun Yi.

On the other side of the river, a reed platform similar to a reed wharf was also built, and a shelf was built high with wooden sticks on the platform, and two people could stand on the top of it. Sun Yi said that this is a mobile sentry post, which can be pulled to the required water surface with a few reed rafts.

Coupled with the reed ditch blocked by Yang Ritian with reeds, Sun Yi felt like the fierce Japanese devils back then, implementing a brutal "cage" blockade on the bandits hiding in the reeds.

Sun Yi nodded at Qiqige and said, "Let's start." ā€

Qiqige seemed to be a little reluctant to leave Sun Yi, walked to the open space, picked up two small flags, one red and one blue, red left and blue right, and stretched out his arms left and right, posing a "cross". This is actually the "55" of the two-handed flag.

A dragon on the sentry post on the opposite bank immediately responded with the same gesture, "55", and the two sides established a communication handshake.

Sun Yi said to Qiqige: "Say hello first." ā€

Kikige waved his hand flag and muttered, "It's... Contest... White... Nu...", then lowered his hands and posed a flag "99".

Kikige stared at the other side, still muttering. Then he turned his head and said to Sun Yi, "Lidel, a dragon also greets us." ā€

This was Sun Yi's first flag language communication experiment. Yesterday, Sun Yi recruited a dragon who can speak Mongolian and gave him and Qiqige intensive training. In Sun Yi's communication code, 51-59 is defined as the numbers one to nine, 61, 62, 63, 64, and 65 represent the five vowels of Mongolian, and the 17 consonants of Mongolian are divided into three groups into three groups: 70, 80, and 90. A 99 with the hands hanging down indicates a pause or an end. In this way, the Mongolian language can be freely communicated using the flag language.

A few young men around Sun Yi, all of whom can speak Mongolian and Chinese, will be the first batch of communication soldiers, and three of them will be "borrowed" from Battle.

Several orphans were prepared by Sun Yi for follow-up communication experiments. The orphans were not familiar with the Mongolian language, and Sun Yi planned to let them try to spell Shaanxi in Mongolian. There are so many vacancies left in the code of Sun Yi 61-98, which is reserved for the future expansion of Mongolian Pinyin to Shaanxi and Shanxi Pinyin.

Sun Yi said to Kikige, "Ask a dragon what it sees on it." ā€

Kikige waved the small flag for a while, and suddenly waved her hands up and down, and muttered in her mouth, "Oops, it's wrong, start again." Then start over, one note at a time.

Waving his hands up and down is the meaning of re-issuance in the flag.

Kikige solemnly finished the question, his hands drooped, and he posed a 99, followed by a 73.

73 is the Mongolian letter B, which also happens to be the first letter of "goodbye" and "thanks" in Mongolian. Sun Yi asked that after sending a paragraph, he should take the initiative to type 73 to indicate the end.

A dragon responded immediately from a distance.

Sun Yi could read the pronunciation of a dragon's flag, but he didn't understand what a dragon was saying.

Kikige translated for Sun Yi, "He said it was all reeds, and there were wild ducks, and he also said that the sun was very dry. ā€

Sun Yi is very satisfied with the results of the experiment, and there is no problem with normal communication at all! "Ask him what he ate last night?"

After a few moments, Kikige replied, "Pot helmet, reed roots, weed soup." He also said he wanted to eat meat. ā€

Sun Yi's eyes in the sunglasses showed a smile, a dragon dared to talk to himself, and life seemed to be a little more fun.

Sun Yiyi: "Tell him, let him prepare harpoons and small rafts, and I will take him to fish at night to make sure he has enough to eat!" ā€

"Really? Riddell take me too! Kikige eagerly awaited.

"Okay! It's a reward! You've got enough to eat, too! ā€

Kikige quickly finished the flag.

A dragon replied, "Long live the lord, long live, long live!" ā€

A dragon climbed down the sentry post and returned in a "reed banana raft". Everyone else thinks that the "banana raft" is unstable, but Yilong thinks it is light and easy to use, so the "banana" has become his special water tool.

Several young men and orphans were trained by Kikige and Yilong, and an hour later they began to practice in pairs on the river beach.

Although the pronunciation of Mongolian is simple, it is not too easy to memorize the 22 flag words at once and use them proficiently. "Teacher Kikige" held a horsewhip in his hand and kept correcting the mistakes of the "communication soldiers". The bilingual "communication soldiers" made rapid progress, and the orphans could only simply exchange some common Mongolian and Mongolian place names.

There was silence on the river beach, except for the small flags in the hands of the people flying up and down. Suddenly, Kikige's horsewhip was raised, and with a "snap" in the air, the tip of the whip rolled back an inch from the tip of the nose of a "communications soldier". Kikige's eyes widened, and she said sharply, "Don't swear!" ā€

It turned out that the bilingual communication soldiers practiced and began to play freely, first chatting with each other in flag language, and accidentally the two of them quarreled with each other in flag language, which gradually developed into scolding, and one person could not scold, so he used flag language to swear.

Sun Yi suddenly remembered that there are two shortcuts to learning a foreign language, one is to find a female (boyfriend) friend who only speaks foreign languages, and the other is to use foreign languages to scold people.

Sun Yi pressed the whip down on the ground of Kiki. The "beaten" signal soldier asked, "The other party scolded you?" ā€

The Signal Soldier nodded aggrievedly.

Sun Yi said simply, "You scold back!" The harder you scold, the better! If you win, I'll take you fishing at night! ā€

The communications soldier gritted his teeth, touched his nose, and waved his flag fiercely.

Sun Yi turned his head to appease Kikige, but found that it was not necessary at all.

The little girl looked at herself obsessively, not feeling that Sun Yi had hurt her at all. Sun Yi sighed, he was really a sin! I wondered if I would bring the baby and let the little girl know that she had a daughter, and she died.

Only a moment later, there was a "scolding" on the silent river beach, and the signal soldiers' hand flags waved faster and faster.

Qiqige blushed and said to Sun Yi in embarrassment, "Lidel, their scolding is getting worse and worse. ā€

After all, Qiqige was not yet an adult, so Sun Yiyi waved his hand and took Qiqige and the orphans to find another place to practice.

Before leaving, Sun Yi instructed a dragon, "Look at it, don't let them fight!" ā€

As soon as Sun Yi walked not far, he heard a dragon roaring: "Listen well, it's okay to scold, you can't insult the women in people's houses!" ā€

It turns out that a dragon can't "listen" anymore.