Chapter 362: Luxury
When they got here, the coachmen refused to leave. After entering the valley, you will enter the Funiu Mountain, although this valley mouth is the official road connecting Song County and Luo County, but this place is already an extremely dangerous place, and you must not go into it again. Besides. Zhao Dongjia promised them the same, just send the goods here, and then it was a joke with their lives.
Liang Qi didn't insist, he had actually achieved his goal when he arrived at this valley mouth, of course he hoped to go some further, but since the coachmen were unwilling, he could only give up. He immediately ordered the coachmen to unload their goods in the grassy ravine beside the road and send them back. Although the drivers were a little suspicious of this, they got double the price of the car and did not want to cause more trouble. Moreover, if people just unload the goods here, they may let another group of people who are not afraid of death come to deliver the goods, and it cannot be assumed that this person is problematic. Take another 10,000 steps back, even if this person is a bandit in the mountains, his own gang helps the bandits to transport food, which is going to kill the head. So no matter from that point of view, it's better to pretend to be confused and shut up.
After sending the coachmen, Liang Qi hurried into the mountain, and finally rushed back to Luoyan Valley before noon, and reported the news to Gao Muqing and everyone in the cottage.
Gao Muqing was overjoyed when he saw Liang Qi come back, and after listening to his report, he didn't blame Liang Qi for running to Hangzhou to see Lin Jue without permission, and immediately ordered that in addition to the vigilant manpower, all men, women and children went to carry goods outside the valley. For a while, everyone who got the news was thunderous, and they followed Liang Qi to the mouth of the valley, carrying various materials up the mountain like ants. Nearly 30,000 stone of grain, thousands of quilts and clothes, and various winter materials on the mountain were transported to the temporary resettlement place on the mountainside. Gao Muqing and Liang Qi immediately organized the distribution of supplies, and everyone was smiling and busy.
The cottage where the people of Guishan Island settled is located on the slope of the south side of the mountain peak on the east side of the Luoyan Valley, hidden in a clearing in the dense forest. When this place was captured, the original Luoyan Valley cottage was set on fire, so it could only temporarily cut down bamboo and wood to build a shelter as a temporary shelter. However, due to the lack of supplies, and the continuous fighting, there was no planning and systematic construction, and now it is just a shack made of trees, covered with thatch and branches, which looks like a slum.
During this time, nearly 1,300 people and hundreds of soldiers and horses on Guishan Island were suffering in this environment. Located in the north, although it is not as cold as the land north of the Yellow River, the temperature in this Funiu Mountain has already been unbearable. For the past month, we had to endure not only the ferocious attacks of the enemy every day, but also the bitter cold at night. The rudiments of the dwellings, the lack of bedding and cotton clothing, the shortage of food, and the pressure and fear of the enemy's advance made almost all of them face collapse.
Many people fled here from the distant Hongze Lake, thinking that they could have a stable place to live like in Funiu Mountain, but they didn't expect to be in such a situation here. But even so, their persistence has never changed. The harsh environment and situation have not yet broken their hearts, the people spontaneously organized, digging grass roots, hunting prey, digging wild vegetables to satisfy hunger, they want to reduce the burden of the big village owners as much as possible, they want to save the grain to the people who fight to eat. Many of the people also chose to participate in the battle, although they did not have weapons and armor, and they did their part with stones and sticks to stop the attacking enemy.
Throughout the month of August, all of them went through hellish ordeals, with hundreds of people dying and hundreds of warriors dying. At first, when people died, they shed tears. By the end of the day, they had no more tears. The dead silently carried the corpse to the burial, and then continued to deal with the enemy. To put it mildly, it's strong. To put it mildly, in fact, they are numb.
In the camp where more than 1,000 people gathered, the daily routine was a dead silence. Hardly anyone spoke. During the day, people silently gather firewood and grass everywhere, looking for something to eat. At night, the camp was dark, and the cries of the children were faint. In the cold wind of the night, in the leaky shacks, people were close together, enduring hunger and cold, waiting for the next hopeless day.
Tonight, however, the camp was a very different scene. Beginning in the afternoon, men, women and children went into battle together, and it took seven or eight hours to carry dozens of truckloads of food and materials to the cottage. After that, the owners of the village began to distribute grain, cotton clothes and bedding, and even a large piece of fat meat per person. After that, the food on the campfire begins to boil and smell fragrant, the fat of the pork is bubbling on the fire, and the air is filled with the aroma of rice and white flour, and the mouth-watering aroma of meat.
The children changed into cotton clothes, cotton pants and cotton shoes, and the careful Liang Qi even added more than 100 tiger head cotton hats bought for hundreds of children to the purchase list. The children donned their winter coats and began to weave between the campfires in the clearing. The people sat around the campfire, eating hot rice and steamed buns, and began to laugh and talk with each other.
The entire camp had gone from dead silence to life, simply because of the large amount of supplies that had arrived. The arrival of this batch of materials has completely changed everything here.
Gao Muqing has been busy with Liang Qi and more than a dozen other backbones in the bamboo shed in the middle of the camp. It is necessary to collect the registered materials, distribute them, and finally clean up and properly arrange the rules for their storage and distribution. After distributing a batch of supplies, the rest of the materials were neatly stacked in the bamboo shed, and a group of people were busy reinforcing the shelter with bamboo and long grass to avoid rain leakage and dampness. After working until the third watch, Gao Muqing dragged his tired body to his residence.
Gao Muqing's residence is in a small wooden hut separated by a bamboo fence to the east of the camp. This is the residence of Gao Muqing and more than 30 female guards under him. This place is extremely simple, and it can't be compared to the small building he used to be on Guishan Island, but Gao Muqing no longer cares about this.
But today, the scene in this humble courtyard is very different. The lights in the wooden house where Gao Muqing lived in the middle were very bright, which was completely different from the past. Since arriving here, the only thing used for lighting is the pine meiko, which is lit in the house with thick smoke and a pungent smell, and the brightness is not very high. But the light in the room in front of me was by no means the light of Matsumeiko, this light was much brighter.
Gao Muqing walked into the room strangely, and saw a silver-white three-pronged candlestick with a beautiful shape on the simple pine table, and the three candles were burning on the candlestick, illuminating the eyes of a group of female guards in the room.
"This ...... Where do candles and candlesticks come from? Gao Muqing's mood was also very excited.
These months have been almost living in hell, living in darkness every day, worrying about life and death every day, like living in the long suffering of isolation. Every day, when I woke up, I saw the people around me who were ragged and yellow-skinned, and all I heard in my ears were lamentations and crying, Gao Muqing had almost forgotten what the world outside the mountain was like.
But now, I saw this silver candlestick with a beautiful shape, and the bright candle flame that was lit. It's like suddenly coming from hell to the world, and suddenly I think of the world of flowers outside the mountain. I remembered that in addition to what I was looking for, there was another prosperous and exquisite world.
"Lord Dazhai, this is sent by Liang Qi's life. Liang Qi also sent a lot of things to us, saying that they were specially for the owner of the village. The personal maid Wei Chuncao hurriedly stepped forward to explain.
Gao Muqing frowned and said, "Specially for us?" How does this work? Everything is there? At this time, everything must be kept and distributed in a unified manner, how can it be special? How can we light three candles at once, and almost blow out two, how can we be extravagant and wasteful now. ”
"Master of Dazhai, Liang Qi specially explained, he was entrusted by others. Come and see, there are a lot of things here. We've all moved into your room. Chuncao laughed.
Gao Muqing was stunned for a moment, walked to the bedroom on the east side, and as soon as he entered the door, Gao Muqing's whole eyes lit up.
What used to be a simple room with a pine bed and a makeshift pine dresser has completely changed. The bed was hung with a pink curtain, and several clusters of new and exquisite brocade quilts were neatly laid out at the head of the bed. The golden hook hooked the curtain to the sides, and the red tassel hung underneath. At the corner of the curtain, there is a huge mahogany wooden box, which is beautifully lacquered, which is very luxurious.
Looking at the originally empty, on the dresser, a beautiful copper mirror is placed on it, and on the table there is a fuchsia vanity box that has always been square. Next to the dresser, a mahogany hanger hangs several new brocade cotton robes. On the two spring benches next to them, there are a few shiny copper basins, copper slag buckets and other things. In another corner, a hollowed-out copper incense burner is waving its fragrance.
The room was still the same low and simple room, but after these things were placed in the room, it suddenly became magnificent, and became like a boudoir of all the ladies.
Gao Muqing was stunned for a long time, and said dumbfounded: "This ...... Liang Qi: What are you doing? ”
"It's not Liang Qi, Liang Qi said that someone specially bought these things in Hangzhou and asked him to bring them all the way to the mountain. Hehe, the master of the village, you don't need me to say, you know who this is. Chuncao laughed.
Gao Muqing didn't know what to feel in his heart, so he slowly walked into this strange room, stood quietly for a moment, and said softly: "What about Liang Qi?" Go and call him, I have something to ask him. ”