Not long after leaving the city gate, Zhang Xiaowu saw the stele where the king said that the stone was buried, the stele was only a few hundred steps away from the city gate, and the blurred words on the stele no longer knew when the tombstone was erected and why.

"My lord, what's wrong?" Hu Sanwan asked.

"Shi Jing should be buried here." Zhang Xiaowu sighed.

Hu Sanwan looked at the tombstone, stepped forward and bowed, and the other three also stepped forward to bow and salute when they saw this, and then stepped back and stood aside.

Zhang Xiaowu stood in front of the stele and was silent for a long time, squatting in front of the stele with sorrow in his heart, pulling out a short knife and carving it crookedly on the stele: "The tomb of Shi Jing, defending the earth city lives up to the grace of the country and the hearts of the people, and the 27th regiment respects all of you." He is not afraid of being affected by Shi Jing, if someone investigates deeply, he, Shi Jingyu, will not be able to escape no matter what, so he simply admits it generously.

Fair and popular, in Zhang Xiaowu's view, Shi Jing will be rehabilitated one day.

"Gone, sir." Hu Sanwan reminded.

"yes, it's time to go." Zhang Xiaowu said.

The plague village is located in the mountain temple in the north of the city, the original mountain temple is behind a righteous village that puts the dead body, after the sixth regiment is stationed in the wooden city, the mountain temple and the righteous village are returned to the prisoner camp, and the epidemic village is set up to imprison the prisoners of war of the epidemic.

There was almost no one around the Plague Village, and it wasn't until Zhang Xiaowu stepped into the gate of the Plague Village Mountain Temple that two lazy old men came out, looking to be in their fifties, and they looked thin and supported by a waist knife, which was more like a crutch. When the two saw that Zhang Xiaowu's clothes and armor were dressed up, they hurriedly stepped forward to clasp their fists and salute, and said with a smile: "The lowly people have seen the elder Shi, but I don't know what happened to the adult?" ”

Zhang Xiaowu said: "A certain is the head of the Bingshi team after the capture camp, and the commander of the Houdu team on behalf of the commander, this is an official document, which can be circulated to the monarchs." All the sergeants stationed in the epidemic camp immediately went to the temple for examination in addition to duty. ”

"Whoa." The two old pawns glanced at each other, were surprised, and hurriedly said, trotting back to the village to inform everyone.

Soon the soldiers of the epidemic village were assembled in front of the temple, with a total of 46 people in the two banners of A and B, and 4 servants, a total of 50 people, of which eight were on duty to guard the prisoners of war, and the rest were here. Zhang Xiaowu looked at the past, except for the servants, the soldiers were not neatly dressed, and even their clothes had not been washed for several days, and they were still dirty, and some of the soldiers had lice and insects on their bodies, and they stood there and kept tickling, as if they could not stand steadily for a moment. Among the assembled soldiers, only half of them carried blades and weapons, and the other half of the soldiers were bare-handed, looking like a fool, not at all like a soldier.

Zhang Xiaowu had a rough judgment of these sergeants in his heart, and then ordered Wang Yijin to read out the official document of the appointment of the prisoner camp, and after reading it, he saw that the faces of the sergeants were full of numbness, and there was no trace of waves at all about him, the new generation, and his gaze seemed to be looking at a dead man.

Zhang Xiaowu frowned, and said in his heart that these soldiers could no longer be called soldiers, and their fighting spirit was even inferior to that of servants. He then inspected the cells, which contained one hundred and twenty sick prisoners and sixteen wooden cells, the top of which was half covered with a wooden lid and half of which was open to the sun of the sick prisoners. But in Zhang Xiaowu's view, these 16 cells are just relatively high pigsties, and the sick prisoners can escape, but except for the wooden city that can escape into, the rest of the surroundings are Gobi wasteland.

"It's difficult to use water here, and all the water comes from the old well in Mucheng, which is three miles away." The person in charge here is Xiao Kai, the leader of the first team of the Jiashi team, who introduced himself.

Because Yang Huan, the head of the Jiashi team, did not want to stay here longer, the first team leader was in charge of the Jiashi team in accordance with the order of the army, and Xiao Kai was mostly responsible for it before. Xiao Kai was in his twenties, and he was originally an archer commander, but because he accidentally injured his right eye during training, he became a foot soldier from then on. And Xiao Kai was not strong in fighting, so the army transferred him to the epidemic camp as a captain, and then he was assigned to the epidemic village, but he was also unlucky.

"There are three cars in the village, but there are no horses, so they can only be pulled by people to get water, once in the morning and once in the evening." Xiao Kai introduced, "Team A and Team B take turns to get water, and today Team B takes water." ”

Zhang Xiaowu looked at the carts, they were all wheelbarrows, and the equipment was old, and they creaked and creaked when pushed, and it took four or five sergeants to push a cart, and only two buckets of water could be placed on a cart, which was very inconvenient to transport. He silently remembered it in his heart, thinking of ways to improve it. He suddenly asked, "Xiao Wuchang, my accent is familiar, where is your hometown?" ”

Xiao Kaizuo replied: "Yongzhou, Hejian Mansion, Chen County." He spent three years in private school in the early years, but later his family fell into the middle of the road, and he was forced to join the army to beg for food, but the market revealed the habit of scholars.

Zhang Xiaowu was stunned first, and then said: "It turned out to be a fellow villager, and I am from Yunxian County, Hejian Prefecture, Yongzhou." ”

Xiao Kai said in surprise: "After joining the army, my lord is the first fellow villager of Hejian Mansion I have met. ”

Zhang Xiaowu said with a smile: "Most of the soldiers in Hejian Mansion will be assigned to the Vermilion Bird Army, and the Vermilion Bird Army is often transferred to the south for judgment, so almost all the soldiers in Hejian Mansion are in the south, and naturally there are many fewer in the north." ”

Because he was a fellow villager, Xiao Kai finally put his mind at ease and introduced this epidemic village in detail with Zhang Xiaowu one by one.

In front of the plague village is the mountain temple, stationed soldiers, behind is the original Yizhuang, the prison cell is located in the center of the original courtyard, reinforced on all sides of the high wall and four sentry posts, each sentry can sit two people, one with a bow, one with a knife, eight people to monitor the courtyard of more than 120 sick prisoners. To the north of the cell is the military stove and the servant's room. The job of the four servants is to clean up the feces in the epidemic village and transport away the buried corpses, Zhang Xiaowu said that it was hard, and the four servants were busy saying that they didn't dare to dare.

Zhang Xiaowu learned about it, and asked if there was a doctor, Xiao Kai said that the doctor was either sent to the front line to see the Yashan camp and the Jincheng defenders, or to see the sergeant in the wooden city, how could there be a prisoner. Zhang Xiaowu knew that the doctor was expensive in this era, but he didn't care, so he stayed temporarily.

The next day, Zhang Xiaowu put forward three requirements: first, the prisoners of war must clean their own cells, and the cells must be clean and tidy; Second, the sick prisoners needed to weave their own straw mats to serve as couches, and prisoners of war were not allowed to learn how to turn the dead grass into a nest to live in. Third, everyone must drink boiled water, and no one is allowed to drink cold water, including prisoners of war.

The three new orders were not complicated, and the cleaning work was a matter of health, and soldiers and sick prisoners supported it. However, there were still a few sick prisoners who deliberately made trouble, refusing on the grounds that they could not understand the Shenghan dialect, saying that they liked to be dirty.

Xiao Kai said: "There are always a few people who are too lazy to die, these are all Tartars, you know, they ...... Some Tartars only take a few baths in their lives, and their bodies are sassy and smelly. ”

"Who loves cleanliness the most?"

"The Wuhuan people, or the Wuhuan people can dominate the western countries, but the love of cleanliness has already led the khanates." Xiao Kai smiled and said, "Elder Shi, how to deal with these four people?" They claim to be satisfied with the current environment, and those who wait for death do not have to work. ”

"Bring them out, I'll meet them myself." Zhang Xiaowu was stunned at first, and then said lightly that he already had murderous intentions in his heart. Xiao Kai did not doubt that he had him, and asked people to bring the four Tartar prisoners to the center of the epidemic village, and the dead man looked lazily waiting for death, looking like an old man for many years, no matter what you say or do, just ignore it.

Xiao Kai stepped forward to ask for instructions on how to punish these four people, Zhang Xiaowu couldn't control his anger and the urge to kill when he saw these four people, he snorted coldly, rushed forward and slashed directly at the four people with a knife.

They were all sick people, how could they have the strength to resist, and what kind of martial arts Zhang Xiaowu was, even if they wanted to resist, they couldn't resist it. So in front of everyone, the four lazy prisoners were chopped off on their heads, and the blood soon stained the center of the square, and the noonday sun was so hot that people's faces were hot, and people's hearts were terribly cold.

Xiao Xingxing was startled, looked at the other military commanders, and the others were also cautious, and they didn't dare to prevaricate about the military order anymore, this even chief's method was a bit ruthless, not to mention, just looking at the neatness of his killing, I am afraid that it is a guy whose life is like a mustard. Following behind such a ruthless person, everyone can only obey, how dare they prevaricate military orders.

"Servant, chop up the bodies of these four men and bury them in the field to the south to serve as fertilizer. In the future, we need to tidy up the fields that serve as our epidemic villages, and when the rainy season comes, we will grow vegetables to eat. Zhang Xiaowu's words made everyone even more frightened, chopping people up as fertilizer, what kind of truth is this, how can someone make fertilizer? I heard Zhang Xiaowu say: "In the future, all the dead people in the epidemic village will be chopped up and buried in the ground as fertilizer. ”

There will be no mess when four sick prisoners die, sick prisoners often die of illness, and it is the ability to survive.

After Zhang Xiaowu killed people in cold blood and cruelly, the anger in his heart calmed down, and the blood in the courtyard stimulated him. He turned back into the house and looked at his hands, trembling slightly, not scared, but angry.

"I ...... How did it get like this? He closed his eyes and asked himself.

He thought to himself that his former self was not a cold-blooded executioner, not an emotionless killing machine, he just wanted to live his peaceful little life. But now he actually kills calmly in anger, and there is no turmoil in his heart. Taking someone's life is like trampling an ant to death.

"Cold-blooded, cruel, no wonder they are afraid of me." Zhang Xiaowu regretted it a lot, there might have been other solutions just now, but he chose the simplest and most cruel way. In order to calm the anger in his heart, Zhang Xiaowu found a piece of wood, sat on the clay kang and carved it with a knife. He was carving a wooden front tooth for Hu Sanwan, perhaps carving such a small thing diverted most of his attention and gradually restored his inner peace.

"I'm a human being, I'm not a murderer." Zhang Xiaowu said to himself.

In the afternoon, the prisoner camp sent three more sick prisoners, Zhang Xiaowu saw that it was Gao Shichang who sent people, so he smiled and stepped forward to say hello, and Gao Shichang said embarrassedly: "This...... Master Zhang, I have offended a lot in the past, and I have offended a lot, but I am also not performing military affairs. ”

How could Zhang Xiaowu have the same knowledge as him, and dragged him to eat here, Gao Shichang was afraid of getting sick, so he was so frightened that he ran away.