Chapter Ninety-Nine: A Leisurely Life
"What the fuck is the Shajin you said?" The dice standing in the stream glared at Cai Jincheng very dissatisfied, and vigorously threw the gold panning plate in his hand towards Cai Jincheng who was sneering, who hurriedly dodged, but accidentally stepped on Liu Shishi behind him. Liu Shishi, who was trampled on, screamed, and Cai Jincheng immediately ran onto the riverbank like a rabbit, saying that he was unwilling to get half a step closer to the dice.
Cai Jincheng's men found Shajin in the upper reaches of the stream, and Cai Jincheng originally planned to hide it from most of Tang Cheng's subordinates, but Tang Cheng didn't want to hide it, but on the second day of the airdrop, he told all his soldiers the good news. The excited soldiers took matters into their own hands and made their own simple gold panning tools in a rudimentary way, and then rushed to the upper reaches of the river to pan for gold.
Tang Cheng didn't pay attention to Cai Jincheng's complaint at all, but when Mike came over to inquire about the matter, Tang Cheng explained a few words. "I don't know what the situation of your U.S. military is, but I know that these guys must not be told to be idle, and if they are idle, something will happen. Anyway, it's just us here, and the command only said that they want us to stay put, so they just let them mess around, so as not to suffocate people and go crazy. β
With the acquiescence of Mike and Tang Cheng, the dice gang also threw themselves into the gold rush army, but the dice were too impatient, and they always couldn't find gold with the best gold panning plates, so it was no wonder that he was angry at Cai Jincheng. Tang Cheng didn't follow the blind team, but took Liu Shishi and Cai Jincheng's guys to go around the valley all day, and they didn't know what they were doing.
There are no Japanese soldiers to eat and drink, and they can play cards and pan for gold for fun when they are free, the originally impetuous soldiers finally settled down, and the things that Tang Cheng had been worried about did not happen, which made Tang Cheng finally able to put his mind at ease. Compared with the calm of the direct company, the 38th Division confronted the Japanese army on the front line of the Nanrong River but had a very bad time, the rainy season came, the front line of the Nanrong River was full of mud, and the soldiers could only squat in the position full of muddy water, and there was not even a little dry place on the body, and many people's feet and crotch had already festered.
The Japanese troops who confronted the 38th Division were also not having a good time, but they never retreated against the 38th Division, and even used the rainy night to carry out sneak attacks on the 38th Division's defense line on the other side of the river on several occasions. Originally, when Tangcheng defeated the Kawada brigade on the red soil slope, the Ma Gao Japanese army was also ready to continue to draw troops to the north to clear the attack, but when their reinforcements arrived at the red soil slope, they had already left Tang City.
Without waiting for this group of Japanese troops to follow the whereabouts left behind in Tangcheng to pursue, the American detachment heading south frequently sneaked into the rear line of the Japanese army, thinking of the strong firepower and heavy machine gun salvo that the Kawada brigade encountered that day, the Japanese army finally came to a vague conclusion that it was probably the American army that ambushed the Kawada brigade on the red soil slope, and the Chinese army would not have such a strong heavy machine gun firepower. Tang Cheng and the others, who had temporarily settled in the valley, did not know that the Japanese troops who were supposed to pursue them were now led away by Rick and them, and Cheng DΓΉ said that it was Rick who shared the pressure faced by the direct company.
There was nothing to do at all, and when the weather was bad, Tang Cheng would pull Mike and Tan Fei together to play poker, and the bets were mostly cigarettes dropped by the plane. If the weather is good, Cai Jincheng will take people down to the river to pan for gold, while Tang Cheng will take Liu Shishi to haunt the grass in the valley, holding the crossbow of the rock dragon, and fighting birds and beasts in the grass. Usually Tang Cheng shot an arrow, and Liu Shishi, who was carrying a basket on his back, rushed to the place where Tang Cheng had just shot with an arrow - but usually it was in the air, so the two of them had a lot of fun in the grass.
As the old saying goes, practice makes perfect, although Tang Cheng's archery is every accurate, he can't stand up to it, and after wandering around the valley for a long time, there will always be a time to hit the prey. No matter what kind of wild thing it is, as long as it is considered edible by Tang Cheng, it will become the target of Tang Cheng and Liu Shishi, and all kinds of poisonous and non-venomous snakes that have been avoided by Mike are about to be killed by Tang Cheng, compared to wild animals such as hares and pheasants, all kinds of snakes in the valley are excellent targets for Tang Cheng.
After hunting for a long time, Tang Cheng's heart would occasionally be bored, if he wasn't really idle and had nothing to do, he would have thrown the crossbow to Liu Shi to fiddle with. With the proficiency of Tang Cheng's hunting, the back basket on Liu Shishi's back finally had a full load, and there were more prey in hand, and there was more time to eat meat. With Zhao Liang and the military doctor, Tang Cheng will not lack local spices, so fiddling with food has become another hobby of Tang Cheng.
Boiling wild vegetables, stewing snake meat, roasting birds and beasts, plantain paste, everything that the military doctor thought could be eaten was all served to the table by Tang Cheng, and poor Cai Jincheng and Mike became the best candidates to try the dishes for everyone. In general, Tang Cheng's craftsmanship is not very bad, but Mike can't accept that Tang Cheng always gets some strange food, and even Tang Cheng simply brought back a monkey and stewed it in the soup again. Hungry dice they can also take care of the monkey's resemblance to humans, as long as they can fill their belly, they can fill their stomachs with anything but human flesh.
There are only more than 200 people in Tang Cheng in the entire valley, and there is no one else, many soldiers have become accustomed to wandering around the valley shirtless, going down to the river to pan for gold shirtless, and chatting together bare-chested. In just one month, everyone including Tang Cheng and Mike had already looked like the Burmese natives in the mountains, and if it weren't for Mike forcing everyone to keep their hair, beard, nails, and teeth neat, Tang Cheng would have been no different from the wild people.
Everyone in the valley is busy every day, and when enjoying their idleness, Tang Cheng has not forgotten the vigilance that he should have, there are guard posts on the hills on both sides of the valley as usual, and there are also rotating scouts who go out of the valley to search around, Tang Cheng doesn't want to be blocked by the Japanese army who suddenly appeared in this valley and make dumplings. Mike had already turned into an engineer with nothing to do, and under his persecution, a large number of idle soldiers were driven to cut down and tidy up the hillside, and the original shrubs on the hillside had been cleared, and Mike planned to build a row of wooden houses here, saying that he was fed up with the days of nesting in the bunker as a soil rat, and he wanted to sleep in the wooden houses and enjoy a better life.
Tang Cheng wasn't very optimistic about Mike's ambitions, but when Mike led people to build the first wooden house out of the rudimentary planks that had been cut out of machetes, everyone including Tang Cheng went crazy. All bayonets, machetes, axes were looted, soldiers went up the hill in droves to cut down trees, and with wooden huts, who would want to continue to live in damp bunkers. The trees on the slopes on both sides of the valley were cut down one after another, and the clever fellows no longer even used machetes to cut down the trees, but only made a wooden wall on the slope with the thickness of the bowl with rattan and floating soil.
With four walls and a thatched roof framed by wooden strips, a humble wooden house is complete. Some of the impatient ones even forgot to leave the doors and windows for their wooden houses, and waited for the roof to fall before they had to reopen the doors and windows on the wooden walls with an axe. Finally, there were no idlers in the valley, and everyone was busy building their own wooden houses, and they could even chisel out of the wood to connect the wooden houses to the frame, and the clumsy ones could only use rattan to strengthen their wooden houses, but in any case, such wooden houses were indeed much better than sleeping in bunkers.
"Look, it's much more meaningful for them to learn to build a house than to go down to the river to pan for gold." Mike was very satisfied with the activity he initiated, and when he talked to Tang Cheng, there was always a look in his eyes that you learned a little, and Tang Cheng was angry and grinded his teeth. In order to show the difference between himself and Mike, Tang Cheng did not go to build wooden houses with the main stream, but took Liu Shishi to carry stones all over the valley, and when his soldiers built half of the wooden houses, Tang Cheng and Liu Shishi also picked up a few large piles of stones.
"That's right, Lao Tzu doesn't look down on your wooden house, I am going to build a stone house here, a stone house that is really warm in winter and cool in summer." Tang Cheng carved out a place on the hillside with a bayonet, and then took Liu Shishi and pouted his ass and began to dig a pit, which in Tang Cheng's words was digging the foundation of the house. Tang Cheng and Liu Shishi, who had sapper shovels, dug quickly, but after the foundation was dug, Tang Cheng found a big problem, he only had enough stones in his hands, but he did not have the cement used to bind the stones.
Under everyone's laughter, Tang Cheng's stone house plan was finally aborted, but fortunately, with Hou San's help, the wooden house belonging to Tang Cheng was also completed quickly, although the shape of the wooden house looked a little weird, but Tang Cheng himself felt very good. After the hut was built, it was followed by a new round of decoration of the hut, the skins of various animals became sought-after, the slightly squarer stones were looted, and Mike even used a red-hot bayonet to brand his family insignia on the door of his hut.
There were no furs to hunt, no beds to chop wood and make planks to build themselves, and the soldiers' creativity seemed to burst out in this valley, and in short, everything in this valley was used by everyone. There were more and more wooden houses on the slopes, and they were becoming more and more elaborate, and Mike thought that if he had the tools at his disposal, he could build a small town in this valley.