Yang Haiyan has already combed her hair. Originally, she had not planned to go out today. She would have stayed at home all day wrapped in cotton clothes. However, since she knew that Yang Dahua was pregnant, she wanted to go and see.
So she changed her clothes. She wore a bra, two pieces of fine cotton underwear, a short cotton jacket, which was similar to a short kimono, and a rabbit fur scarf. Her upper body was white, and her lower body was a dark red skirt. Under the skirt, she wore fine cotton underwear and cotton jacket pants, and then a dark red long cotton cape. It was hard to tell whether she was fat or thin. She looked like a cylinder, but she didn't care.
Before leaving, Yang Haiyan drank a bowl of porridge and a bowl of goat milk. After eating, she asked someone to bring two bacon, some eggs, and a cotton jacket that she had prepared in advance. Knowing that Yang Dahua would get pregnant in the coldest time, she made a cotton jacket for her when she made a long cotton cloak for herself. Yang Dahua was thrifty and didn't want to make new clothes for herself. She wouldn't give gifts normally. She wasn't that generous. But when people get pregnant, in addition to food, people with good relationships would also give cloth. She didn't give cloth, but a piece of clothing that suited Yang Dahua.
To Yang Haiyan, the clothes were worthless. She bought the cotton on the platform. She went to the county town once without letting her servants follow her. She brought back more than ten kilograms of cotton. One or two kilograms of cotton is enough for a cotton jacket or a cotton vest. Ten kilograms of cotton can make several pieces. Moreover, ten kilograms of cotton only cost about one hundred platform coins, which is very cheap for her who has tens of millions of platform coins.
Accompanying Yang Haiyan was Aunt Lian. On the way, Yang Haiyan said to Aunt Lian: "Han Baifu and my husband are from the same village, and they have a good relationship. And his wife Yang Dahua is my sister, we are both from the Yang Mansion..."
Only then did Nanny Lian know that the wife was indeed from a wealthy family, but in a wealthy family, she was a maid. No wonder the wife had such good manners, it turned out that she was the head maid of the Yang family's legitimate daughter: "Is it the Yang family of the Yang family of Taifu?" Taifu Yang was the Taifu of the current dynasty, how could such a family have bad manners? It was much higher than the second-rank Yuan family. However, even the highest family status was ruined in the struggle for the throne.
Yang Haiyan was a little surprised: "Mammy knows?"
Nanny Lian sighed: "Old Master Yuan used to work in the capital, and later retired and returned to his hometown in Qingzhou. So when he was in the capital, I heard of the Yang family." A true scholarly family, but she didn't know what happened to the Yang family later, because Old Master Yuan had already retired by then.
"Zhi Shi" means resigning from an official position in modern times.
Yang Haiyan: “I see.”
When they arrived at Han's house, the courtyard door was open, and Yang Haiyan called out, "Is Sister Dahua here?"
Yang Dahua was in the kitchen, and when she heard the voice, she responded, "Yes, yes."
Yang Haiyan brought Nanny Lian into the kitchen and saw Yang Dahua and Han Zhen drinking porridge. Seeing her coming, Yang Dahua hurriedly stood up and said, "Haiyan, have you eaten?" Although she knew that Yang Haiyan must have eaten.
Yang Haiyan hurriedly said, "Sister Dahua, please sit still. I just finished eating and my stomach is still panting." As she spoke, she took the thermos bucket from Aunt Lian and brought out goat milk, "Sister Dahua, drink the goat milk while it's hot. I'm so happy. Congratulations." Generally speaking, in ancient times, women would not tell Yang Haiyan about their pregnancy within three months. Yang Dahua had not planned to tell Yang Haiyan, but didn't she order goat milk from Yang Haiyan? If she suddenly said no, Yang Haiyan would definitely be puzzled, so she told her about her pregnancy. She would not tell others, even neighbors she got along well with. She had to wait for a month until the fetus was stable.
Yang Dahua sat down and drank a mouthful of goat milk: "Thank you." As she spoke, she touched her belly. She was happy to be a mother. A family is not just about the male and female owners. With children, the family will be happier and more secure. "It's just that I can't go to the county town to do business for the next month." You know, she could earn one or two silver coins a month by selling this batch of cakes to Haiyan, but now she is pregnant and the child is important, so she naturally won't take risks. After tasting the sweetness of making money, she suddenly can't make money anymore, and she feels a little regretful.
Yang Haiyan didn't know what to say, because Yang Dahua's ideas were very consistent with the thoughts of women of this era.
Han Zhen said, "You take good care of yourself, I have money." In the past two years, he has saved two taels of silver. He is not like Qin Fang who can eat a lot, but he can also endure hardships. He will not send money home, so he has a small savings. "When I have a break, I will go to the mountains to buy some game to sell, and I can also exchange some money. Don't worry about the livelihood of the family." In the past, there were only two of them. With his monthly salary and his wife selling some things in the county town every month, the family was still well-off. But with a child, he wanted to give the child better. So Han Zhen thought of going to the mountains to buy game to make money.
When Yang Dahua heard this, she immediately objected: "It's too dangerous to hunt game on this day. I'm worried."
Han Zhen patted her shoulder and said, "I just mentioned it. If you don't agree, I won't go. You guys talk first, I'll go fetch water." In fact, he still had this thought in mind. Of course, he said this because he didn't want to worry his wife. However, in order to ensure safety, even if he was confident in his kung fu, he would ask a colleague to go with him.
Han Zhen went out, and Yang Haiyan asked Nanny Lian to take out the basket and the package. Seeing them, Yang Dahua hurriedly said, "Take them back quickly. You can't buy meat outside these days. Keep them for yourself to replenish your body. I bought some meat and hid it for a while." But there was not much meat, and she didn't expect that she would be pregnant.
In fact, although Yang Dahua was happy that she was pregnant, she felt that the child came too early. If it was a year later, she would be able to earn more money.
Yang Haiyan pushed the food back and said, "There is enough food at home. If there wasn't enough, I wouldn't have brought it. Don't worry about me. You are a pregnant woman now. You are a noble person. Don't worry about things that you shouldn't worry about."
When she was pregnant, friends, relatives and neighbors would send her some food, so Yang Dahua did not refuse. But she looked at the other piece of clothing and could not decide: "Then I will take the food, and you can take back the clothing."
Yang Haiyan took out a dress, put it on her and buttoned up the top: "It's cold in winter, even if you can stand it, the baby in your belly can't stand it. At worst, when I get pregnant, you can give me another one, Sister Dahua. But it has to be made by you. I don't want it made by others. Or do you think my work is not good-looking?"
Yang Dahua knew that she said this on purpose, just to make herself feel at ease to accept it. She felt warm in her heart and body. When she was in Yang's mansion, she had two or three good friends, but something happened in Yang's mansion, and everyone was arranged to marry in different military camps. Only she and Haiyan were left here. At the beginning, she wanted to keep a distance from Haiyan, but she didn't expect that in the later contacts, she found that Haiyan had changed and was easy to get along with.
She thought, maybe it was because they didn't have much contact, so she didn't understand Haiyan.
Yang Dahua grabbed Yang Haiyan's hand and said, "Thank you, Haiyan." She remembered this kindness.
Yang Haiyan also smiled. She didn't have any friends here. She was only good friends with Yang Dahua and Mrs. Lu, and she cherished this friendship.
When she left Yang Dahua's house, she was hit by gusts of cold wind. Even though she was wrapped up from head to toe, she still felt cold to the bone. This journey was only a few minutes long, but she wanted to run home immediately.
Yang Dahua was in a very good mood after Yang Haiyan left. She was reluctant to wear the clothes Haiyan gave her, but the clothes were padded and warm, so she didn't want to take them off. Just like Haiyan said, you can wrong yourself, but you can't wrong your children.
Han Zhen came in and saw her wearing a blue coat, which he thought was pretty. It made her ordinary appearance look more beautiful. He took a step forward and said, "This color suits you."
Yang Dahua thought about it and realized that she had never seen Haiyan wearing this color. Haiyan had fair skin and wore mostly pink, white, light yellow and bright red clothes, but this color suited her skin tone. Could it be that this was made especially for her? Although she thought so, Yang Dahua was also happy to be praised by her man. She curled her lips and said, "This is a gift from Haiyan. Does it look good?"
Han Zhen: "It's beautiful. She's nice to you."
Yang Dahua said with some pride: "We are from the same place and have no relatives, so we can be considered sisters. When Haiyan has her own child in the future, I will also make some clothes for her child myself."
Han Zhen joked: "Don't let her do it?"
Yang Dahua glared at him and said, "Haiyan doesn't lack clothes. She may not like the style of the clothes I make. But for children, better materials are better and they can be worn close to the body. They don't care about the style."
Han Zhen agreed immediately: "Yes, yes, everything my wife said is right."
When Yang Haiyan returned home, Uncle Hong had already returned from the countryside. He had harvested some eggs and chickens. Since eggs are durable in winter, he was able to harvest quite a lot.
Yang Haiyan stood in the yard and called out to Sister Lu: "Sister Lu... Sister Lu, can you hear me? If you can, come over here."
Mrs. Lu responded from home: "I heard it, I'm coming." She ran over from home, just a few steps away, her nose was already red, and her breath turned into mist. This weather was really torturous.
Mrs. Lu entered the kitchen, shrank back, blew on her hands a few times, and then rubbed her hands: "Haiyan, what's the matter?"
Yang Haiyan quickly handed her the hand warmer and pointed to the basket on the ground: "I asked Uncle Hong to go to the countryside to collect eggs. Do you want some?"
Mrs. Lu saw the eggs as soon as she came in. She was thinking of asking for them, but after hearing what Yang Haiyan said, she decided to give them up: "I was just worried that the eggs at home had been eaten up and the children had no vegetables to nourish their bodies. The bacon alone would not be enough. You brought these eggs at the right time."
In fact, she had stockpiled a lot of eggs before winter, but because too many eggs would go bad, she could only stockpile enough for a month, and now she has eaten all of them. "Are eggs more expensive in winter than usual?" Usually they cost one penny each, and you can choose any size. Now, no one cares about the size, as having eggs is good enough.
Yang Haiyan: "Uncle Hong asked people he knew to collect the food. No matter how big or small, they were two cents each. I told him to collect as much as he could. Even if my family couldn't eat that much, we could give some back to our neighbors."
Mrs. Lu: "That's right, Haiyan, you are so thoughtful. I want sixty."
Yang Haiyan: "You choose."
Mrs. Lu: "I'll go home and get a basket."
Mrs. Lu brought the basket over without making any selection. She just picked out sixty from the visible part. She was not an ignorant person. When Haiyan collected the fruits, she could not pick them, so she naturally would not know how to do it.
After Mrs. Lu gave the money and left, Yang Haiyan said to Aunt Lian, "Aunt, go ask the remaining centurions if they want eggs. If they do, come to our house to buy them and tell them that we charge two cents for an egg. Pick out three eggs and send them to the Han family. If Sister Dahua pays for them, take them."
Aunt Lian: "Yes, I understand."
Not long after Nanny Lian left, several women came over. They were all the relatives of the centurions under Qin Fang. The centurions only received one or two taels of silver per month, so they naturally could not afford to buy a donkey cart like Yang Haiyan and ask people to go to the countryside to collect the eggs. They were also like Sister Lu, and they had eaten up all the eggs they had stored. So they were so happy that Yang Haiyan had eggs. Besides, after living here for a long time, they knew the prices of these things very well.
The one walking in the back was Mrs. Yang Baifu. As soon as she came in, she bowed to Yang Haiyan and said, "Congratulations to Mrs. Qin first. Our family was worried about having no eggs to eat. Your eggs are a timely help."
Yang Haiyan had an impression of her. Yang Baifu was the best kung fu master in their team after Qin Fang and Han Zhen. Besides, she looked cheerful and outgoing, and more polite than other centurion wives. In fact, since Qin Fang became the captain of a thousand men, this Yang Baifu wife was the first person to salute her.
Yang Haiyan came up to help her up and said, "Why are you so polite? Our men are all colleagues and brothers. We are like sisters, we are all family. I asked people to collect more eggs just because I wanted to eat them at home. I was afraid that everyone would think I was meddling."
Mrs. Yang Baifu and Yang Haiyan had never met before. It was only on the second day when Qin Fang became the captain of a thousand men that she came to congratulate him. But at that time, the document from the Ministry of War had not been issued yet, and Qin Fang's position as the captain of a thousand men was not formal. So Yang Haiyan said that she would invite everyone to come and sit down after the document from the Ministry of War was issued, so until now, no one has been invited.
It’s not Yang Haiyan’s fault. It’s mainly because the yard is too small. She planned to wait until she moved to Qianfu’s house with two courtyards before inviting everyone.
Mrs. Yang thought that this young Mrs. Qin was really good at talking. In fact, in private, they all thought that Mrs. Qin was lucky. She used to be a maid, and later she was betrothed to the centurion and became a good citizen. It has only been a few months, and the centurion has become a thousand-man captain. Isn't this a good fate
However, it is hard to say who is lucky and who is prosperous. Because everyone can see that since Mrs. Qin came into the family, Mr. Qin's life has improved. People who used to eat three meals a day in the military camp canteen now have someone deliver meals every day, and there are meat dishes for every meal. More importantly, Mrs. Qin is not spending Mr. Qin's money. Mrs. Qin can make money by opening her own shop, and she can also make money by embroidering things. So, who is lucky and who is prosperous
Then another centurion's wife spoke up: "Mrs. Qin, when are you planning to move to the Thousand Man's House?"
Yang Haiyan: "We plan to move there on the sixth or seventh day of February. I hope you will all come to dinner then."
Several Centurion wives said, "Of course, of course."
I bought a chicken in the morning, so I naturally had chicken soup at noon. I cooked chicken noodle soup. Yang Haiyan didn't eat it herself, and she served a bowl of eggs to each servant. Unfortunately, Qin Fang recently changed his duty time with a captain, so he was on duty at night. In this way, he was in the barracks during the day and at night, so he couldn't drink chicken soup. Chicken noodle soup with some mushrooms, Yang Haiyan drank two bowls of it.
After drinking the chicken soup, she stood up with her belly bulging in a long cotton cape. After standing for a while, she heard Aunt Yu's voice in the yard: "The adults are back." Speaking of Aunt Yu, since she came to the family, she has been very hardworking. Whenever she and Qin Fang changed their clothes, she would wash them immediately. She also remembered her words very clearly and washed the clothes inside separately. The house was cleaned every day. She didn't talk much, almost silently, but she rushed to do the work, fearing that she would be sold if she didn't work.
For this reason, Yang Haiyan went to Doctor Wang to buy medicated oil for winter use to prevent her hands from getting severe frostbite.
When Yang Haiyan heard her voice, she hurried out of the house. Qin Fang had already entered the yard and was about to unload the goods.
Yang Haiyan came up curiously: "Husband, why are you back? What is this?" There was a fishy smell, "Is it river seafood?"
Qin Fang looked at her, wrapped in a dark red long cotton cloak, like a snow doll. He couldn't help but think she was so cute and delicate, and he wanted to pinch her face with his cold hands, but he couldn't bear to do it.
Without waiting for Qin Fang to answer, Yang Haiyan said again: "There are so many big river fish." Each one weighs two or three pounds.
Qin Fang said: "I was on duty last night. After breakfast, I took everyone to the river to break ice and catch fish." In winter, the fish will rest and are less active. If you choose a good spot, you can indeed catch a lot with one casting of the fishing net.
Yang Haiyan looked at Qin Fang with sparkling eyes: "Husband, you are so amazing."
Qin Fang raised the corner of his mouth, then pressed it down. He hummed and said, "It's hard to eat fresh meat in this climate these days. You must be greedy." How could she not be greedy when she loved delicious food so much
Yang Haiyan realized that it was because of her, so she felt guilty for drinking chicken soup until her stomach was bloated. "Husband, have you had lunch?" She changed the subject.
Qin Fang: "Not yet, we have to share these fish with other centurions."
Yang Haiyan: "You go eat, I'll divide the food. How many strips will each household get?"
Qin Fang: "Let's divide it equally. We all worked together. Don't leave any left for Han Zhen." This kid is lucky to have a day off today. He doesn't have to work and can still wait for food.
Yang Haiyan: "I see. Aunt Lian, get some food for the adults. Aunt Yu, go to the downtown courtyard and ask Uncle Hong and Aunt Hong to share the fish... Call everyone over, and wash the fish."
Aunt Yu: “Yes.”
Qin Fang entered the house, and Nanny Lian said, "My lord, let me make you some chicken noodle soup. Hurry up, the noodles are still ready."
Qin Fang: "Okay."
When Aunt Lian was downstairs, Qin Fang came out again. Seeing Yang Haiyan's clumsy body walking around, he couldn't help laughing. Women love beauty, so they won't make themselves so fat even in winter. His wife naturally loves beauty, but she can dress herself so fat, which shows that she is really cold.
Qin Fang walked up to her and asked, "Have you finished counting?" His voice was gentle, which was really inconsistent with his tall stature. No one would have thought that a man with a stern face would speak to someone so gently.
In fact, when Qin Fang first came to serve in the army, he was not so cold. He was favored at home, had younger brothers and sisters, and his personality was still lively, but his years of military service gradually changed his personality.
When Yang Haiyan saw him coming, she couldn't help but walk away a few steps. She smacked her nose and said, "You stink, you smell fishy, don't let your smell get on me." A woman is sometimes like an older sister and sometimes like a younger sister. A man is sometimes like a son and sometimes like a older brother.
This is probably the sour smell of love.
Yang Haiyan felt that Qin Fang was sometimes like her little wolfdog, and would be moved to bark if she was a little nice to him. Sometimes he was full of boyfriend power, just like when he came back from riding a horse that day.
Qin Fang felt very aggrieved at being despised: "Then I'll go take a shower?"
Yang Haiyan: "You have to go back later? What are you washing?"
Qin Fang: "I'm not going back. I've dealt with the matter. I'll be back on my team starting tomorrow. So I'll still be on duty during the day and take a rest in the afternoon."
Yang Haiyan heard this and said, "Let's have fish soup tonight."
Qin Fang: "Okay."
Yang Haiyan: "It's a pity that there is no tofu. Tofu fish soup is delicious." And the tofu in her platform cannot be taken out. Now that there are more people in the family, the electrical appliances she bought before are still in the platform. Maybe they will be sold second-hand someday. Then Yang Haiyan said, "I counted and there are a total of 126 fish. Including our family, there are 11 households in total. Is it divided equally?"
Qin Fang: "No, there are seven households in total, and the remaining four households are living in the military camp, and their families are not here."
Yang Haiyan: "Then each household has exactly eighteen."
As they were talking, Aunt Yu, Uncle Hong and the others came back: "Madam, Sir."
Yang Haiyan: "Uncle Hong, divide the fish here into seven households, 18 fish per household, and send them to the centurions' families." A fish weighs two or three pounds, and the women can't carry it, so Uncle Hong has to carry it. Uncle Hong is a hunter, so he is very strong.
Uncle Hong: "Hey, send it right away."
Uncle Hong delivered fish to each household, and Aunt Fan and Aunt Yu began to wash the fish.
Aunt Lian: "Sir, the noodles are ready."
Qin Fang returned to the kitchen, looked at the chicken noodle soup, and thought that his wife's life was not as difficult as he thought. She still had chicken soup to drink.
Yang Haiyan followed him to the kitchen and saw the chicken soup, so she explained guiltily: "Uncle Hong went to the countryside to collect eggs and chickens this morning. He distributed some eggs to the centurions' families. We collected two chickens. We ate one today. The other one is kept in the cellar of the yard in the downtown area. It can only be kept in the cellar for a few days, not for a long time. I was planning to wait for you to come back to drink it, but you came back today and I ate this chicken too." What I meant was, I didn't drink the chicken soup secretly from you.
Qin Fang looked at her pitiful appearance and said generously: "If you like, eat that one too. I'm not picky about food." He just wanted to fill his stomach.
Yang Haiyan insisted: "No, that won't work. How can I eat alone without telling you?" At worst, after eating, I can ask Uncle Hong to go to the countryside again.
At noon, the family had chicken soup, and in the evening, they had a fish feast. Without tofu, Yang Haiyan also came up with several ways to eat it. In addition to braised and scallion oil, the most fragrant one is... grilled fish.
Since we had a grill pan at home, we served grilled fish right away. Although the ingredients were not enough, people who had never eaten grilled fish were full of praise after eating it.
There were two tables in the kitchen, one for Qin Fang and Yang Haiyan. Another for Nanny Lian, Aunt Fan, Aunt Yu, Uncle Hong, and Aunt Hong. Although it was a bit crowded, it was also quite lively. Yang Haiyan didn't mind sitting with them, but they remembered their duties and didn't dare to sit together. And now that Qin Fang was an officer and had a rank, they would not sit together even more.
After dinner, Yang Haiyan asked Aunt Fan and others to sort the fish meat and make fish meatballs and fish fillets. Everyone would have fish fillet porridge tomorrow morning and fish balls tomorrow night.
As soon as she said that, everyone looked forward to tomorrow morning.
At night, Yang Haiyan took a hot bath in the bathroom. After coming out of the bath, she immediately wrapped herself in a cotton-padded sleeping bag and got into bed. The warmth of the cotton-padded sleeping bag was comparable to that of a down jacket.
Qin Fang was not afraid of the cold and read a book in the room for a while. The family was financially well-off, and the oil lamp was lit. When the time was about right, Qin Fang went to take a shower. After taking a shower, Qin Fang came out and looked at Yang Haiyan, who was wrapped like a silkworm pupa, and couldn't help but move his hands: "I'll warm the stove for you, take this thing off." In Qin Fang's eyes, this was just a thing, a sleeping bag, this annoying thing didn't deserve a name.
Qin Fang was very strong, and Yang Haiyan did not dare to resist, fearing that her cotton-padded clothes and sleeping bag would be torn. Besides, her man had not been home for several days, and she would still smell good sleeping in his arms. She cooperated and let him take off his sleeping bag, looking like she was ready to do whatever he wanted.
Qin Fang threw her cotton-padded sleeping bag out, then pulled her into his arms. He hugged her tightly and asked mischievously, "Who is warmer, me or that thing
Yang Haiyan: "Of course you are warm, my husband is the warmest."
Qin Fang was happy as long as he heard her say nice things. However, he was not satisfied with just hearing nice things now. He claimed that he had eaten her lip balm and touched her last time, and he had been thinking about her all day. In this day, because he promised her that they would not have a wedding night until she was eight years old, he dared not be unrestrained when sleeping and had to behave himself.
But now, the Ren and Du meridians have been opened.
Qin Fang hugged her, and his hands became unruly: "Yan Yan, I want to touch you."
I don’t know if all men like to touch women’s breasts, but Qin Fang likes it.
Yang Haiyan struggled and protested: "No, no, it will make my breasts bigger." She didn't want to become a girl with big breasts.
But Qin Fang would never listen to her.
the next day
Yang Haiyan hadn't gotten up yet. When Qin Fang had eaten fish porridge early in the morning and was about to go to the military camp, Han Zhen came. Han Zhen came to ride with Qin Fang to the military camp, but before leaving, Han Zhen asked Yang Haiyan to visit their home once a day to prevent Yang Dahua, a pregnant woman, from having an accident. That would be a big deal, and Yang Haiyan would naturally not refuse.
On the way, Han Zhen said, "When are we free? Let's go to the mountain to harvest some crops?"
Qin Fang had already given up on this. He didn't even have money to buy a gift for his wife. When Han Zhen mentioned it, he said directly, "Let's go in two days. We went to cut ice today. Let's take a two-day break."
Han Zhen: "Don't bring too many people. You, me, and Brother Lu and Brother Yang are enough, right?"
Qin Fang couldn't help but hum.
Han Zhen explained: "My wife is pregnant. Although I have saved some money in the past two years, I am afraid it will not be enough as we will have to spend money after the baby is born. She still remembers my sister-in-law's dim sum business and wants to sell it in the county town. How can I, a grown man, let her, a woman, worry about money?"
Qin Fang understood, he wanted to hunt to make money. However, when he heard him say that Yang Dahua was pregnant, Qin Fang thought that if his wife got pregnant, she would give birth to a beautiful girl like her, fragrant and soft... He felt happy just thinking about it. "Okay, call Brother Lu and Brother Yang."
Now that the matter was settled, Han Zhen relaxed.
Yang Haiyan and Yang Dahua had no idea what their husbands were planning. She would ask someone to deliver goat milk to them every morning, and when the delivery was delivered, she would remind them that after drinking the goat milk, they should save the eggs for noon, because eating goat milk and eggs together was not conducive to the absorption of nutrients.
Two days later, Qin Fang and his men arrived at the military camp early in the morning, and then Qin Fang asked General Ao for leave to go hunting. The hunting hill was close to the military camp, so if there was anything going on in the military camp, they would be able to see it as soon as they sent a signal. Besides, it was broad daylight, and the enemy would not come at this time.
General Ao readily approved it. In fact, when there was no war to fight, the military camp was quite relaxed.
A quarter of an hour later, Qin Fang, Yang Baifu, Lü Baifu, and Han Zhen, a total of four people, went out with weapons. Qin Fang's weapon was a knife. He was tall and strong, and he could wield the knife with great power. Most people could not resist his knife. In comparison, Han Zhen used a sword, Yang Baifu also used a knife, and Lü Baifu used a gun.
From the military camp to the nearby mountain, with four people walking, the speed was naturally fast, and they arrived in less than a quarter of an hour. After arriving, Qin Fang ordered them to rest for a while before moving on.
During the break, Qin Fang arranged things: "Everyone, look for traces of prey separately, and alert your teammates immediately if there is any situation. It is winter now, and some animals hibernate, but some animals may not be able to bear the hunger and will come out to look for food."
"yes."
In the early years, there were many hills nearby, so there were a lot of prey on the hills, but year after year, these prey were scared by the soldiers and hid in the hills and dared not come down. Although they are beasts, they are sometimes very smart.
However, if you dare to go deeper into the mountains, you can find prey, but ordinary soldiers don't dare to go into the mountains. Although Qin Fang and others split into four routes to look for prey, they didn't separate too much. If something happened, they could rush to each other in the first time. And with their kung fu, even if they encountered the king of the forest tiger, they could fight alone. Unless they encountered a group, they could hold on until their teammates arrived. However, they could still hide.
Military Camp
At about Shen time (12 o'clock), the soldiers at the back door of the military camp saw Qin Fang and others coming back. There were four people in total, carrying a lot of prey, and each of them was very big, which scared the soldiers at the back door.
"Lord Qin, you are back. The prey is really big." There were two wild boars and one deer. No one knew how they found them. The total weight of the two must be more than 1,400 kilograms.
The army camp mess hall collects prey, and the price is cheaper than outside. It doesn't make sense for the soldiers to catch prey and give it to the mess hall for free, and then let everyone eat it for free. Moreover, the dishes in the mess hall are also charged. It should be said that the free dishes are only part of the food. If you want to eat other dishes, you need to pay more money to buy them. However, the mess hall does not make money, and all the dishes are sold at cost.
Qin Fang and others went directly to the kitchen, which was the kitchen of District 8. Some soldiers from District 18 saw them and immediately rushed over.
"Lord Qin, you guys are great. You went hunting without even asking us." Zhang Baifu also saw it. He had just returned from patrol with his men, and when he saw so much meat, he was drooling.
Yang Baifu: "You can go as a team. We just suddenly got interested and went because we were hungry."
When Zhang Baifu heard this, he hurriedly called on the others to discuss going hunting another day. None of them would be afraid of going hunting in a team.
The logistics soldiers from the kitchen ran out, their eyes lit up when they saw the meat: "Sir Qin, are you selling all this meat to the kitchen?" In the past few days, other teams' kitchens had also received prey, but not as much as Sir Qin and his team.
Qin Fang: "Yes, cut off 100 catties to make soup for the more than 1,000 soldiers in our 18th district. Each person will get 1 tael of meat. In addition, cut off 400 catties of venison, and the rest will be counted as money."
The soldiers in District 8 heard this and immediately shouted, "Thank you, Sir Qin."
"Master Qin is the best."
"You can eat meat today."
Listening to their cries, Qin Fang also had some subtle feelings in his heart. He was one of them once. In the first year of his military service, his kung fu was average and he couldn't go hunting. He was happiest when there was free meat in the mess. Now, he saw them happy for the meat, and the feeling in his heart was self-evident.
In the past, Qin Fang was just a centurion under the centurion of the 1000 men in District 18, and he was only responsible for the 100 men in his team, but now he is responsible for the 1,000 men in the entire District 18.
However, seeing how happy they were, he also felt a sense of responsibility.
The logistics officer asked someone to weigh the meat. Seeing the weight, the logistics officer calculated: "Sir Qin, the total weight is more than 1,400 kilograms, but the prey with fur will be discounted. It is more than 1,100 kilograms, minus 140 kilograms, and the remaining part is 1,044 kilograms. Our kitchen will charge 10 cents per kilogram. Do you think it's okay?"
Qin Fang: "Okay."
The logistics officer counted the money and said, "A total of 15,720 taels, keep it."
Qin Fang took the silver and divided the four catties of venison into four pieces. The four of them took one catty each and planned to send it home. Then, he began to divide the silver again. Each of them got less than 12400 coins. After dividing the money, Qin Fang reminded them: "I don't care if you want to give the money to your wife, but you can't betray me."