Jin Tong underestimated Captain Fang's malice. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The next day's breakfast was still provided by the deer beater, and it was full of meat, which almost moved the revolutionary heroes to tears.

Outside the dormitory, a fierce quarrel broke out between Captain Fang and Ashku.

"I have already decided to go to the Fifth Pioneer Group, and now I will say that the wasteland is full of wasteland!" Ashku's loud voice roared, and Jin Tong could hear it clearly in the room.

Captain Fang explained in a low voice, and Ashku was dissatisfied: "I don't care! Is that a place where people can go? ”

Captain Fang's voice raised slightly, "It's winter now, and the ghost swamp is frozen, wasn't it very simple in the past. ”

Ashku said angrily: "You also know that it is winter, so what about Kaichun'er?" There is not even a road, food cannot be transported in, and you want to starve them to death? ”

"What is that?" Captain Fang was a little angry, "They are exiled prisoners, and they are supposed to open up new soil, so of course they grow their own food in the spring!" ”

"Fart!" Ashku was furious, "How many months will it take to plant it before it can be harvested?" As for those student babies, do you think one of them can farm? ”

"Wouldn't it be okay to prepare more food and seeds, and then transfer a few good farmers from the pioneer group?" Captain Fang explained impatiently.

"Well thought out! There are no houses, no houses, no wells in that place, and it is an eye-opener for twenty-five people to survive ten! You're sending them to their deaths! ”

"Good! Even if I have bad intentions, what's the big deal about dying a few rebels! Captain Fang was very dissatisfied with Ashku, "You have the right to suggest where the prisoners are placed, but in the end it is up to me to decide!" If you don't sign and countersign, I'll write one more report. ”

"Whatever you want!" Ashku departed angrily.

Until ten o'clock, the bailiff did not show up. Jin Tong sat on the kang and gave Jin Jing a plane geometry lesson uneasily, and Wu Rui sneaked in.

Without waiting to be greeted, he sat down on the kang by himself.

"Brother Ye Feng, have you heard? Cover the wasteland. ”

"It's so loud, of course I hear it."

"I asked Lin Qian to inquire, and the deer beater said that the full cover was the devil's meaning." Wu Rui handed over a hand-drawn map, although it was only a few strokes drawn on the back of the cigarette box with charcoal, but it was very good at cartography.

"This was drawn by Lin Qian after asking the deer beater, who is a member of the United Geographical Society."

On the map, the rapids river runs from south to north, and Xinlu is on the west side of the river. The east bank is all hills, but there is a valley that can be passed, out of the valley, continue to the east for twenty miles, is the camp of the 5th Compulsory Pioneer Regiment. Further east of the camp, a large number of black dots are drawn.

"These black dots, do they represent swamps?" Jin Tong had a bad premonition.

"That's right. You see, there is a tailless river parallel to the rapids, which originates from the reindeer peak and flows into the depression from south to north, forming a large swamp, which is called a ghost swamp by the deer beaters, and can only be passed during the ice period. Beyond the Oninuma, there is a large area of land, the terrain is slightly higher, and it can be transformed into fertile land, at least 10,000 hectares! ”

"This 10,000 hectares of land is full of wasteland," Jin Tong was a little puzzled, "Can't you go further east?" Do you have to cross the swamp? ”

"You can't get around," Wu Rui smiled bitterly, "to the east of the wasteland are dotted with lakes!" Large and small, looking at the shallow water, there are roads between the lakes, and there are actually muddy ponds everywhere! The most experienced hunters will also get lost when they go in. ”

The deer beater said that if you want to enter the "full cover", you must advance the "ghost swamp".

After the ice melted, the ghost swamp was dead silent, and the dark brown stagnant water was covered with dead branches and poisonous algae. The mud beneath the surface of the water was covered with the bones of wild beasts, the guns of hunters, and the wagons of the reclamation teams.

Three years ago, the commander of the 5th Forced Pioneer Regiment wanted to create a farm in the Mangai Wasteland, so he sent a survey team to cross the Onemuma in winter.

They are like a sea of mud cows, never to return. Some say they were eaten by wolves, some say they froze to death in the freezing cold of minus 40 degrees Celsius, some say they starved to death due to insufficient provisions, and some say that when they returned in the spring, they were sunk at the bottom of the swamp with their men and carts......

The deer hunters were afraid of the mangai, and they occasionally appeared in the wasteland in winter, and they would not hunt any animal so as not to anger the demon king.

Jin Jing's face turned pale, she didn't understand what the sinister environment represented, she was simply frightened by words like "devil and bones".

"Say no more!" Jin Tong's face was ugly and stopped Wu Rui's narration, "Ashku is very righteous, we may not go there!" ”

Wu Rui shook his head firmly, turned sideways and smiled at Jin Jing, "Xiao Jing don't have to be afraid. Did you know? Deer hunters have at least three or four dogs in each family, and Uncle Ashku is a good man, and he said he would give us a few. ”

Jin Jing's eyes lit up, and he immediately threw his fear out of the clouds, "Really? ”

"Of course it's true! There are big dogs and puppies, fluffy and especially cute! ”

"Then I want one! I want a puppy, not too big a ......" Jin Jing became excited.

"Let's go out and have a look, Ashku has brought several dogs in the yard outside."

Jin Jing was overjoyed, hurriedly got off the kang, kicked on her boots, grabbed her hat and ran out of the door.

Jin Tong's face became more serious, "Brother Shuangming, is it really so bad?" Why send a hound? ”

"It's safer to cover the wilderness with wolves, and it's safer to have a few dogs. That, Ashku suggested to me just now...... It is better to buy a few horses for daily mobility. Wu Rui was a little embarrassed.

"Buying a horse?" Jin Tong hesitated slightly. The revolutionaries were already penniless, and they had to pay for it only by Jin Jing. But horses are not cheap, and the price of a riding horse in the Beijing suburb horse market is as high as 40 yuan!

"It's cheap!" Wu Rui hurriedly added, "Ashku said that the deer hunters value their horses very much, and they don't sell them easily. There were only two families in the village who were willing to sell horses, one with one five-year-old and the other with two, both over fifteen years old. The old and the small, can be obtained at a low price, and there is no problem with carrying and serving. ”

"Okay, let's go check it out."

The two of them immediately went out of the woodcut to find Ashku.

The uncle, with a vicissitudes on his face, was standing in the yard yard, laughing at a few dogs scurrying around in the middle of a group of schoolgirls, dodging their overly enthusiastic petting.

Jin Jing chased after a white puppy, trying to grab its tail. But the puppy is very flexible and will never easily succumb to the arms of a beautiful girl. The girl's laughter spread throughout the freight yard, making Jin Tong feel an indescribable emotion.

How long can such pure happiness last?

Jin Tong struck up a conversation with Ashku.

"I've read the newspaper, you students are too ignorant, how dare you burn the house? Assassinating the Prime Minister is nonsense, I feel like a sham! It's not good to fry Taizu, you should pump your ass hard! "Ashkudao.

"That captain Fang has a bad heart and wants to harm you. I'll give you five dogs, two big and three small, all of them hunting dogs, wolf-proof, and can help catch roe deer. Horses can't be given away for nothing, they have to be bought for money. I said hello, if you want to buy it, I'll take you to see it. ”

Jin Tong nodded in agreement, and asked his sister for fifty yuan, so he entered the village with Wu Rui under the leadership of Ashku.

The nomadic deer hunters lived in conical houses called "slanting pillars", which were covered with twenty or thirty long wooden poles and animal skins and birch bark.

However, in the case of settlement, the village not only has the traditional Xirenzhu, Yata Anga (delivery room), and Olun (public stilt warehouse), but also has the earth kiln, woodcarved flute, and even the adobe house in the style of the Han people.

The three of them came to a stable. It is said to be a stable, but it is a simple building with wooden poles in a circle and a roof covered with grass.

Ashku shouted, and a middle-aged woman wearing a wide right leather robe and a turban stepped out of her cellar. The two of them spoke in some kind of difficult Tungusic language.

The woman nodded, and went into the stable, pulling out the two old horses.

This is a small hunting horse bred by a deer hunter, with a small physique, and the horse's head is only up to Jin Tong's neck, which is about the same height as Jin Jing.

A horse is sixteen years old, all white; The other is seventeen years old, red. The most unique is the horsehair, which has a long mane that wraps around the entire neck and acts as a heat retention. The white horse has a black mane, and the red horse has a golden mane that brightens the blinding eye.

Ashku introduced: "Let's beat the deer people's horses, obedient and docile, able to endure hunger and thirst, climb ice and snow. These two stallions will protect the herd and have kicked wolves to death. The most important thing is that you can jump through the swamp in the summer. ”

"What's the Tower?" Jin Tong asked.

Wu Rui interjected and explained: "Tatou is a unique wetland type in the Sanjiang Plain, moss grass grows in the swamp, and after the root system dies, it grows again, then decays, and grows again, and the cycle repeats itself, forming grass mounds over the years, which are more than ten centimeters or even one meter higher than the water surface. ”

"You know that? Ever been to the Northeast? Jin Tongqi said.

"No, I'm a graduate of the Department of Biology at Teikyo University." Wu Rui pretended to be modest.

Jin Tong pursed his lips, turned to Ashku and asked, "Can you ride it and try it?" ”

Agreed, he neatly rolled over and galloped back. Because his father was a patrolman on horseback, this body was able to ride horses since he was a child.

Wu Rui was also eager to try, but he had only ridden a few horses and his skills were not good. Ashku was enthusiastic about teaching him, helping him get on the horse and correcting his posture.

"Don't be hard, lean forward, go up and down with the horse, swing back and forth, yes, that's it! People are comfortable, and horses are also relaxed...... Feet on stirrups, do not ...... with full feet"

Wu Rui is quite talented, and he quickly mastered the trick, and he also sweated profusely.

After a while, Jin Tong was addicted to horseback riding, and decided to buy it.

The lifespan of horses is generally about 30 years old, and the physical strength of this hunting horse begins to decline at the age of sixteen, so the price of a deer hunter woman is not high, fifteen yuan a horse.

Jin Tong tried to bargain for ten yuan, and the woman agreed after a little thought. It was a real bonus.

The two led the horses and followed Ashku to see another pony. This time it was not so cheap, the owner asked for thirty yuan, and Jin Tong was only willing to pay fifteen when he cut half of his waist. It took a while to bargain for twenty dollars.

Ashku reminded Jin Tong that the pony was weak and would have to be raised for another year before it could be ridden by an adult, and that it would be fine for a little girl like his sister to ride.

At Ashku's suggestion, Jin Tong bought three more pairs of deer-beaters' self-made climbing plows and corresponding harnesses, which cost only two yuan.

PS: The setting of the full wasteland is from Liang Xiaosheng's short story "This is a Magical Land".