I don’t know if it should be lucky or unfortunate. Just as Liji left the shack with a long hidden place in the night, a riot that affected the entire town was about to happen in Mangshu Town behind him. The beggars responsible for taking care of the refugees also participated in it and took advantage of the situation to rob, so no one noticed them.

Didn’t a large group of hungry people go to the Mangshu Town to find a rice store responsible for distributing food? These people simply want to get more rice, even if it’s moldy. After all, if a person gives more than 20 grams of rice, the beggar’s head will deduct some of it, even if he feeds birds, it will not be enough to eat it.

However, the owner of the rice shop was sure, and he would not give it. Because the rice he gave to the hungry people was borrowed from him by the vassal department, saying that he would give money, but now the famine is getting worse and the finances of the vassal department are in short supply, and he doesn't know that it will be received in the year of the monkey and horse month.

Now the price of rice is one per day, and even the price in the afternoon and morning is different. If you don’t make money at this time, wouldn’t you be a fool?

The hungry people who had no choice but to ask for help fell into despair, and then someone began to rush into the wooden doors of the rice store. However, the rice store was prepared for it. The newly replaced Tochigi gate was thick and heavy, and there were several thick wooden bars behind it.

Seeing that they could not rush in, the angry hungry people turned to their targets at the shops around them. The robbery began.

Shino, who had been in the grass for a long time, heard heavy footsteps. He was about to look around when a familiar voice sounded: "Hey~~ it's me."

"You brought that hunter out?" Shino, who stood up from the grass, vaguely saw her husband still carrying someone on his back, and instantly thought of something.

Li Ji was afraid that the beggars would find out and chase him out, so he urged him: "Don't ask, go quickly!"

The two walked out of the two miles, one foot deep and one foot shallow, and came to a leeward valley. Only then did Liji put down Jiuzang, took off the gourd containing water from his waist, first fed him a few times, and then fed him to Jiuzang, who was still unconscious, and then briefly talked about the previous situation.

After hearing this, Shino complained: "Oh, why are you so confused? The Dianzhi said that we won't take people back."

By the way, the word "Dianzhan" means not His Highness in Japanese, but the master or the master, specifically referring to the kind of noble and ignorant of the world. For the Liji couple, Zhao Xin's performance is exactly in line with this characteristic.

Liji said impatiently: "Oh! What can I do? He is so injured, his body is hot, can't you watch him die, right?"

Shino hesitated and said, "Why...... send him back to Ximuwu Village?"

Liji thought for a while and shook his head, "The people in their village have all run away. What's the difference between sending him back and throwing him in the wilderness and waiting for death?"

As a person who was forced to be desperate by famine and could only commit himself to slavery, Liji's personality is as cunning, stingy, cowardly, and even cruel as most peasants of this era. But he also has the other side of simplicity and kindness, but this kind of kindness is divided into classes.

If Kuzang was a down-and-out samurai or a bankrupt businessman, Liji would refuse to die, and would even plunder some valuable things before the other party died. But the problem is that Kuzang, like him, was a person who was randomly exploited and exploited, lived humbly in the mud, wagging his tail at the ruling class. What's more, the two knew each other.

Shino couldn't speak anymore. As the saying goes, it's not a family, and she doesn't want to enter the family. She doesn't think her man has done something wrong. If you want to blame, you can only blame this damn world!

"Let's go back first." After a moment of silence, Liji spoke: "I think Dianzhan will take in for a long time."

"Yes. Dianzhan is a kind-hearted and kind-hearted person. He can accept even people like us who can't do anything well. It should be okay to accept one more, right?"

"Ahem~~" Kuzang almost choked by the water and said angrily: "You stupid woman, do you understand what I'm talking about? I mean, Kuzang is useful to Tanishi. Come and rub my shoulders twice, and I'm exhausted after carrying the whole way."

"It's useful?" With the dark moonlight, Shino came behind his man and started kneading him hard.

"He was caught from Akita. He must have passed by Yarishima when he was running away. He is more familiar with that area than us..."

"That's right." Shino suddenly realized.

"Dianzhan is not a mortal, but I think he is not familiar with this vassal, otherwise he would not have let you and me explore the way. Kuzang is a hunter, he can use bows and arrows, and his skills are more flexible than me. I think Dianzhan needs such a person."

"That's right, what if Dianzhan doesn't agree?"

"If it doesn't work, I can only send him away. Alas~~"

Where can I send it? In Liji's opinion, the entire Hirosaki clan is now like hell except for the camp where the couple and Zhao Xin live. If Zhao Xin does not agree to take in for a long time, then his ending will be death.

When the morning light was slightly dewed, the three of them finally returned to the small camp in the forest.

Since leaving Mangshu Town, Jiuzang has been unconscious and has a high fever. Liji has no choice but to walk and stop and stop with him on his back, so tired that he sweats heavily and pants.

Although he made up his mind, he felt relieved. When he was still more than a hundred meters away from the camp, he was worried and asked his wife to go over to see the situation first. As a result, Shino ran back with a panic expression on his face and said in a crying voice: "Oh no! The palace is not here."

"Ah!" Li Ji was surprised, and his first reaction was that the master abandoned the couple. But he thought again, no!

It took two days to say I had said before, but I came back in just one day. Well, it is very likely that the master left if he had something to do. He would come back tomorrow, the day after tomorrow.

“Are those food and use still there?”

“Everything is here.”

The camp prepared by Zhao Xin is composed of three camping tents of ten square meters. The tent is divided into two rooms inside and outside, two living rooms, and one is used to store food.

Out of a precaution, he only had enough food for a few days. However, such as flashlights, LED lights, heating stoves, small wood stoves, pots and other miscellaneous pieces, they were very complete.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "That's it. Dianxi will not abandon us. He must have something to do and will return to the cave in the mountains. He will appear the day after tomorrow."

Hearing her husband's affirmative tone, Shino's heart fell halfway.

Back at the camp, the two of them were busy and filled their stomachs quickly. They then tore up a bun and soaked them in hot water. They fed them to Jiuzang. Then they helped him into the inner room of the tent and lay down, and they slept in the outer room of the tent. Although Zhao Xin's tent was empty, the couple would never dare to touch it.

After struggling for a day and a night, the two of them soon fell asleep and snored.

More than an hour later, it was dawn. The sun shone through the sparse branches and leaves on the open space, and a few crows flew over the treetops and screamed.

Suddenly, a circle of ripples rippled out of thin air in the open space more than 20 meters away from Zhao Xin's tent, like a deformed mirror, or like a ripples on the water surface. When the diameter of the circle of ripples spread to two meters, a guy with a buzz cut suddenly appeared.

"Yo, why are they both coming back so soon?"

At the beginning, Zhao Xin did not realize that there was one more person in the camp because the tent he bought was full-inclusive; once the door curtain was pulled, nothing could be seen outside.

He hesitated for a moment and decided to wait until Liji woke up before talking. So he put the drinking water and food he brought back into the stock tent, and then wandered around the woods, wanting to see if there were any signs of outsiders or animals breaking in.

After watching it for a long time, this guy didn't see anything, but he was very cold. Although it was only mid-September, a stream of cold air penetrated into the bones through the down jacket.

In Aomori Prefecture, in another time and space, the lowest temperature at night in September is only 10 degrees. The daytime is sunny and the temperature is comfortable. It is completely different to switch to the 18th century.

Fortunately, I checked the information in advance. Zhao Xin knew that this was because of the sudden eruption of Iwaki Mountain and Asama Mountain. The volcanic ash flying up to the stratosphere blocked most of the heat in the sun. Moreover, this situation will last for a long time, otherwise the "dawn famine" would not last for six years.

From a historical climatology perspective, the island countries in the late 18th century were in the "Kuanzheng/Tianbao Little Ice Age", and the cold climate will continue until the mid-19th century.

Globally, it is currently the third phase of the Little Ice Age, which lasts 220 years, that is, the "Dalton Minimum Period" (1770~1830). Not only does natural disasters in the northern hemisphere continue to occur, but life in Europe is not easy.

Zhao Xin, who was trembling with the cold, returned to his tent, poured some kerosene into the heating stove in a hurry, and then lit it. He also gave Li Ji and the others one of this thing, and taught him how to use it.

Burning a large bonfire is quite exciting, but it is easy to be discovered.

More than ten minutes later, Zhao Xin, who was warming up, suddenly realized a problem; that is, although the heating stove is smokeless and odorless, it still produces carbon monoxide. Li Ji and his team closed the curtains tightly. If the stove is lit, it will be easy to get poisoned!

Thinking of this, he hurried to the couple's tent, pinched the double-sided zipper on the door curtain, and opened it in a "swish".

So, not only the sleeping couple fell into Zhao Xin's eyes, but even Jiuzang, who was sleeping in the inner room, was seen by him. Then, Li Ji was kicked up by Zhao Xin.

He got up in a daze, turned his face and saw Zhao Xin's angry look on his face. Mi glared for a few seconds before he woke up. He was shocked and had no sleepiness.

A few minutes later, the young couple who were so scared that their butts were urinating and sweating on their backs crawled outside Zhao Xin's tent and stammered about the trip to Mangshu Town.

Zhao Xin's first reaction after hearing this was to give up the Liji couple after snatching the batch of gold and let them die.

It’s not impossible to save people. When you come back and explain it clearly to yourself before you can find a solution. But Liji just took his own initiative. If he was caught by those beggars, he would have to save him. It would be impossible not to save him. If this kid tells his own affairs to save his life, he will be exposed and he will be able to run away.

He is not a fighter who fights ten. He can use only two weapons on hand, and he is also the kind of sashimi cutters. Whenever he meets a samurai sword, he can only escape.

Why did he come to Hirosaki's vassal state? Start the war mode? Or save the hungry people from the fire? Stop talking!

Zhao Xin was not interested in fighting for dominance, especially the world of island countries. The six-year-old famine was extremely hungry and hunger was everywhere. Except for buckwheat, he could not live without any one of them. Only a regime like Tokugawa family, which was so rotten that it was willing to be distorted.

Besides, even if you want to do good deeds, wouldn’t it be better to go to the next door to bring the clean? By the way, you can get some bottles, bowls, basins, etc. The last time they were all objects from the Qianlong period.

Of course, Zhao Xin doesn't want to take Qing back now. He doesn't want to shave a big bald man and wear a wig with a thin pig tail. Moreover, antiques are too difficult to deal with, so there is no gold.

"It seems that you have to buy a crossbow quickly." Zhao Xin thought so.

He accidentally learned about it when he was buying camping supplies in Aomori City in another time and space. Although the Japanese government has extremely strict control over guns and knives, crossbows can still be purchased. What is the logic? (Note)

However, when Zhao Xin heard Li Ji's reason for insisting on bringing Jiuzang back, he couldn't help but feel moved.

A hunter who knows archery, is familiar with the mountains and forests, and can identify the footprints of wild animals. Moreover, Li Ji and Jiuzang know each other, which is also a good idea to some extent. Otherwise, where can Zhao Xin go to find it? Even if he meets one, he would not dare to ask for it!

As for whether this hunter named Jiuzang would have bad intentions after waking up, he felt that with his height advantage and two kitchen knives, it should be no big problem. At worst, he could use the "television technique"!

"I don't believe it, I can't scare them to death!"

After thinking about this, Zhao Xin's anger had almost disappeared, but he still didn't give Liji and Shino a good look. He took his backpack and reached in with one hand and tinkered it for a while. When he took out his hand, a small white pill appeared in his hand.

"This! I'll give it to the hunter."

"I dare to ask the palace, this thing is..." Li Ji did not dare to neglect and carefully held the pill in his hand.

"A medicine for treating fever."

Li Ji stared at the round pill in his palm with a surprise that was less than the size of his little finger. He tilted his head and looked at his wife with the same expression. He couldn't help but have an idea in his heart: "Is this the legendary elixir?"

Modern antipyretics are very effective, especially for the ancients who were not resistant to drugs. Half an hour after taking the medicine, his body temperature dropped. But his body was too weak and he was still sleepy. During this period, Shino fed him several times a batter of bread soaked in hot water, and did not wake up until the next morning.

Liji and Shino got up early in the morning. While Zhao Xin was visiting the forest, they hurriedly cleaned the owner's tent and sorted out the food that the latter brought back.

In addition to bread, ham, etc., the most important food that Zhao Xin brought here was two large boxes of "hand-relayed noodles", which to put it bluntly. Out of caution, all the handwriting on the outer packaging was covered by him with a smear liquid. The plastic packaging that was difficult to modify was torn off and thrown in another time and space.

Although he knew that Liji and his wife could not read at all, it would be fine even if they didn't do it, but they were afraid of ten thousand in the world, but they were afraid of being careful. It would be no harm if they were careful.

When the couple saw the white noodles in the cardboard box, they couldn't help but secrete saliva. They were also a little confused. I have never seen this thing before!

The history of Chinese noodles being introduced to the island country was actually quite early, and they were brought back by monks almost in the Tang and Song dynasties. However, in the following hundreds of years, due to the small area of ​​wheat planting, it has not spread and only existed in a few temples in the Bomo Country.

The official record of noodles in the Edo period was that after Zhu Shunshui went into exile to Japan, facing the warm hospitality of Tokugawa Mitsuko, the vassal lord of the Mito family, there was nothing he could do, so he had to let his own chef make a bowl of noodles. After tasting it, the other party praised it very much. But it was limited to this.

In fact, the custom of eating noodles by the island people began in the era of "dawn famine". Due to the cold weather during the six-year famine, rice harvests failed, and cold-resistant and high-yield buckwheat was widely planted. The people survived the long hunger years by relying on two cups of buckwheat noodles mixed with yam every day, and gave it more meanings later.

Hearing the movement in his tent, Li Ji ran over and saw Jiuzang awake, and said happily: "Blessed by Buddha, you have woken up."
Chapter completed!