Chapter 34 Homecoming
The temperature of the lime water is a little higher than expected, but it is not fatal. After soaking, at most, the skin will turn red for a while.
Achill never knew that there are so many bugs hidden in a person's body. The one who jumped in with him beside him, now has dozens of bugs of various colors floating around him, most of which are fleas, and each one has a stomach full of bugs. It's big and round, and I don't know how much blood it has sucked.
No need to look, Achill himself is not much better, no wonder I saw people beside the puddle holding things and kept fishing for things, and what I was emotionally fishing for was the bugs soaked from them.
Looking at the corpses of these bugs, Achill couldn't help but believe in the statement that lime water can prevent and disinfect the disease.
Shall we come, or do you come by yourself? A young soldier with a big brush in one hand came over and asked with a smile.
Come by yourself, come by yourself. Aqier hurriedly responded, and the guys next to him who were brushed up and howling with ghosts and wolves were a lesson from the past. A pig hair brush used to brush the body of a war horse.
Achill didn't dare to deal with official business, so he tried his best to clean up the plaster on his body, because when he got out of the pool, those young soldiers would check one by one. It was their people who went out in person, they cleaned them, and they were absolutely clean, but they all looked like red-skinned pigs, and they probably wouldn't get better in two or three days.
Achill was lucky and passed the level once.
But if you want to eat big white steamed buns and salty soup, you still need to go through a few levels.
With the lessons learned from the past, Aqier can do it himself next time, without bothering the other party, took the dagger, and cleaned up the hair that was almost waist-length, revealing a big white head, like this everywhere With a big head, there is nothing unacceptable or embarrassing, except that the scalp is a little cold, but the whole person is much more relaxed.
name.
Achille.
Good name, in the Andes language, it means the strongman who draws the bow of the thousand weights. Your relatives have high expectations of you, and you have the strength?
Thank you. Achill thanked him sincerely. It was the first time he knew that his name had such a unique connotation, and he couldn't help being a little happy.
I have a lot of experience in the questions being asked. Back then when slave owners inspected slaves, they would ask similar questions for the purpose of assigning work. Don’t dare to talk about such things, otherwise, if you are assigned to a job that is not suitable for you, you will be the one who will be unlucky in the end. , Achill replied factually, It should be okay. It shouldn't be a problem to lift three or four hundred pounds of stones.
Hearing this, the young soldier who had been recording looked up at Aqier, and said with a smile: The information you reported is only preliminary information, and someone will verify it at that time. If you make a false report, there will be no punishment, but for you The future development is not very favorable, do you still need to change it? I don’t need it, I can remember it.”
Achill hesitated for a moment. The results he mentioned just now were from two years ago. In the past two years, he has grown a little, so he should not have regressed. He finally nodded.
Okay, I didn't expect there to be a Hercules seedling here, age.
It should be fifteen. Achill was uncertain, even his father was confused about his age, let alone himself.
Okay, another fool who doesn't even know the date of his birth. The young army is not surprised, because there are already a bunch of them in front of him, Then fifteen, have you ever practiced bows or swords?
No, but I have participated in militia training and practiced long guns for a few days.
Army attack?
No, it's just a simple assassination.
This is useless, it doesn't count, do you know how to read?
do not know.
Other specialties are things that they are good at, such as farming, logging, and quarrying.
I have this, I have this. I can do logging, quarrying, repairing city walls, and simple forging, and I can also calcine lime. Achill was a little bit self-confident because of the other party's series of questions, feeling that he was almost useless of waste.
When he finally asked what he was good at, he immediately poured beans out of the bamboo tube, wishing to show all the things he knew. This was a good opportunity to realize his first life goal that he had just set.
Well, that's right. I didn't expect him to be an all-around talent. He can learn so many things, which shows that he is very flexible. It would be a waste if he was directly assigned to the engineer. Let's give you a chance. As for whether you can stay or not, It’s up to you. Put this wooden sign away. This is your future ID card. Don’t lose it. You’ll need it for things and meals. This is only temporary. I’ll replace it with a bronze one when I have time. , just like me, on the front is your name, on the back is your number and battalion affiliation, your current number is 001027, belongs to the first battalion, the one on the far left is, your chief is called Marshall, you can go to him to report , I have collected your clothes and food, if you have time, ask someone for advice, at least you must know your name and be able to write it!
Yes, I will! Achill held the small round wooden sign tightly, like holding the most precious treasure, and looked at the words on it over and over again. It turned out that this was his name, so his name was so Write it, it's really beautiful.
Next one, why is there still a problem?
Sir, there is one more question. Which side is the left? Aqier asked a little embarrassed. In front of these young soldiers, he felt like a fool, and he didn't even understand the meaning of many words.
Which hand is best at ordinary times? The boy army didn't make fun of Achill. This kind of situation is very common even among ordinary mountain people, let alone this kind of people who have been reduced to slaves since they were young, and they lack some common sense.
This one. Achill raised his left hand and said.
Left-handed people, remember, your commonly used hand is the left hand, and the other hand is the right hand. Take the center of your body as the point, the left-hand side is called the left side, and the right-hand side is called the right side. The young soldier rubbed his forehead and muttered in a low voice, There is a long way to go to reorganize them. Marshall and the others have to be not only captains, but also teachers of common sense. Don't worry, this is what they need to worry about anyway. matter.
After having the log card, Achill involuntarily had a sense of belonging in his heart, as if he had become a kind of person with the Boys Army. This feeling made him a little bit smug, although he knew it was just his own wishful thinking.
The next thing was much simpler. I took a barely-fitting linen clothes and bowls and chopsticks from my future chief, made a bowl of salty soup with two meaty bones, and grabbed two piglets as big as piglets. White flour steamed buns, I randomly found a place with few people, squatted down and ate them.
At the beginning, I tried to use the new tableware called chopsticks, but soon found that if I wanted to use these two slender things, I couldn’t fly up and down like the Boys in a few days. I started to gobble up the wooden bowl directly have eaten.
Just the first bite, Achill fell in love with this white, fluffy food. Even without broth, after chewing carefully a few times, it still has a unique fragrance, which is better than the one that would grind your throat to bleed. Bran black bread, I don’t know how many times better, even if it is white bread specially for nobles, it’s nothing more than that, right?
Anyway, this is the most delicious food Achill has ever eaten in his life, and it is so delicious that it makes people cry.
Crying while eating was not patented by Achill alone, and many slave soldiers burst into tears.
Whether it's because of the happiness of eating delicious food, or recalling the unbearable experience before, no one knows, even they themselves can't tell.
One thing is certain, after this meal is eaten, no one will want to go back to the days of hunger and cold two days ago.
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You're getting smarter, brat. A pot of stewed cabbage with pork bones and a cage of white flour steamed buns can gather a lot of people's hearts. This is a good deal. Skull Crusher McGee and Sean also squatted next to a big pot and ate. .
This was the first meal they ate seriously after the night raid, and Sean would not be able to eat even delicacies until the roots of the disaster were dealt with.
Sean gave McGee an angry look: You can't stop your mouth even when you eat. When it comes to eating, you eat me the most, and I haven't seen you turn your heart to me.
Sean didn't bother to explain. He never thought about buying people's hearts at all. In his opinion, the current food is nothing more than a normal big pot dish. For example, the stewed cabbage with pork bones can have three or three servings in each person's bowl. One part of the dish is good, and the rest is soup.
Not to mention him, even those young soldiers are embarrassed to call pig bones stewed cabbage, but just called salty soup. The flour used for white flour steamed buns is made by mixing wheat flour and barley flour. The shells are not completely peeled off. It's just a multigrain steamed bun, and the taste is not a bit worse than the real wheat steamed bun.
This is something that can’t be helped, not to mention the Man Yu army leader, even in the entire Arshan Continent, wheat is considered a relatively expensive crop, not only has a low yield, but is also prone to various disasters, so it is not the top priority in the planting sequence.
Among all the grains grown in a manor, the wheat planting area will never exceed one-fifth. Pure wheat noodles can only be enjoyed by nobles and gentlemen.
The amount of wheat in these white flour steamed buns does not exceed one-third, and the rest is this incompletely shelled barley. For a long-term plan, the two can only be mixed. Although the taste is not good, the nutrition is more comprehensive no.
People in my previous life ate too much refined food, and they had to go back to eating whole wheat bread and whole grains. If so, those mountain people and military slaves almost ate their tongues into their stomachs.
Sean never thought that people in this world would have such a low sense of happiness, and a slightly normal meal and a little bit of true feelings would move them so much.
If they were allowed to experience the tragic drama of the previous life, and they were not allowed to cry into tears, if it weren't for the dozens of brothers who grew up with him lying in the corpse pit, he would never have shed half a tear.
Sean was a bit wrong about this point. What really made these people cry was not sadness or bitterness.
They have experienced countless of these things since they were young. Life and death are commonplace for them. If anyone is dragged out randomly, their experience will be more tragic than the most tragic drama. They, let alone other irrelevant people.
What really touched them was the sincerity and kindness that he and the Boys' Army showed in every move, something they had never felt in their entire lives.
Even if there are kind-hearted slave owners, they cannot change their status as slave owners. Most of the goodwill comes at a price, even if it is free, there is a sense of alms from above.
As for their kind, when dealing with fatigue and hunger all day long, how can they express kindness? Even if there are really such selfless people, they will not survive long in such a group before they will be turned into bones.
The granary knows the etiquette, and the food and clothing are sufficient to know the honor and disgrace.
This ancient saying in Xiao En's previous life is the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancients, not just nonsense.
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