Little mountain girl, what's wrong with you, look at you absent-mindedly. Aunt Ma asked kindly.

Zhang Cui smiled and said, "It's okay, it's just a little distracted." ”

"Needless to say, you must be worried about your big pillar, right? Don't worry, it's okay.

Since I joined the club, I have gone out to do several things, and every time I come back safely, you don't have to worry too much.

And this time they go with so many big men, you are afraid that you will not be able to be eaten on the road. ”

"Aunt Ma, do you know what they're going to do?"

"I don't know, there is a rule in the society that people who go out to do business can't tell other people, and family members are no exception. If you know it, you will be punished. ”

"Can't even the family say it?"

"It's a rule in the club, there's no way.

But don't worry, they don't do anything unreasonable, and with the people sent out by the helmsman to follow the command, they will be fine. After Aunt Ma finished speaking, she suddenly winked at Zhang Cui secretly.

Zhang Cui was stunned for a moment, and soon figured out that Uncle Ma must have secretly told the eldest mother what he was going to do, otherwise how would the eldest mother know that what they did was not hurtful to nature.

Hearing Aunt Ma, who knew the inside story, say this, Zhang Cui finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Since being brought to this deserted village by her husband Feng Dazhu, their family's life has finally settled.

This once uninhabited village is now home to thousands of people, all members of Freemasonry and their families.

Including Feng Dazhu, a newcomer, all the members of the Freemasons and their families will be vaccinated with the miracle medicine to prevent and dispel sores after coming to this camp.

And almost all those who are willing to join Freemasonry come for this in the first place.

Anyone who has been vaccinated with that kind of miracle medicine, as the Lord of Wan Duo said, will have symptoms of sores on their bodies to varying degrees, but most of them are relatively mild, and the most common ones are low-grade fever and red rashes.

After a few days, the symptoms will slowly disappear and become the same as a normal person.

If the vaccinated person does not have symptoms for a few days, the doctor in charge of the vaccination will re-inoculate the person until symptoms appear.

It is said that the presence of symptoms is the key to testing whether the miracle drug can have an effect, which is clearly different from the large-scale vaccination of the Tai Hospital at that time.

In addition, none of the people who have been vaccinated so far have contracted the sores again, which also gives everyone great confidence that this miracle medicine is really useful.

In addition to inoculating each member and their family members with miracle medicines, Freemasonry also regularly gives porridge to everyone every day, and provides daily necessities such as clothes and quilts.

Because they were immune to the sores and their food and clothing were also guaranteed, the people who had fled with their families to escape the plague really settled down and were no longer as panicked as before.

What each member of the club has to do is to step up the training of knives and guns every day according to the instructions of the helmsman and accept various tasks that are occasionally assigned.

In addition, members can also introduce others to the company, but the premise is that the person who wants to join must be honest and reliable, and the mouth must be strict enough.

If someone makes a big mistake, the person who introduced him will also be punished.

Because of this continuous sitting mechanism, all members of the club are very cautious when pulling people into the club, and they dare not pull people casually.

But even with this strictness, Freemasonry everywhere continued to grow at an astonishing rate.

The main reason is that this great plague has led to a large number of displaced people who have fled their families in various places, and the ancient society is a typical clan society, if there is a benefit and it will not harm their own interests, it is normal for the person who receives the benefit to take care of his brother or fellow clan by the way.

Just like Feng Dazhu was pulled in by his brother Feng Shuisheng in a way.

Regarding today's life, while Zhang Cui felt settled, she couldn't help but start worrying about whether her husband Feng Dazhu would be okay.

Although she is a woman, she also knows that the Freemasonry has provided medicine and food to support so many people, and it is definitely not for nothing.

Not only do their family members usually have to help do what they can, but their families have become a group of young and strong members, and they are the main force for the Freemasonry.

I don't know where the child's father is now, what he is doing, will it be dangerous? Zhang Cui couldn't help but think about these questions with some worry.

Just when Zhang Cui was thinking about her husband, at this time, Feng Dazhu was doing something that he had never said and even dared to think of before: carrying corpses.

This time, the mission sent by the Lord of the Ten Thousand Helms was to ask everyone to find the corpses of some civilians who had died of illness due to scattered sores nearby, and then use simple thin coffins to collect them.

Because of the plague, civilians who died of disease or starvation were everywhere, and many even exposed their corpses to the wilderness as food for wild dogs.

Hall Master Chen, who was in charge of leading the team, asked everyone to collect those relatively intact corpses as much as possible, and only selected those corpses with obvious symptoms of sores.

In order to prevent the plague when collecting the corpses, lime was sprinkled on the corpses and inside the coffins. In addition, each member of the club who carried the corpse wore a mask made of cotton cloth and had herbs in his mouth to reduce the smell of the corpse.

Although the epidemic prevention measures have been relatively sufficient, for ordinary people like Feng Dazhu, who can only farm, this fact is too terrifying.

Not to mention him, many members are also doing this kind of thing for the first time. Many people almost couldn't help but vomit when they first saw the corpse.

But the helmsman's order cannot be disobeyed, and everyone can only do it with a bitter face.

As time passed, everyone went from not daring to look at it carefully at the beginning, and then gradually became numb, so more than 300 corpses were collected one after another.

The bodies were not buried on the spot, but were ordered by Hall Master Chen to be dragged by cart to another uninhabited village near the camp.

After the thin coffins containing the bodies were dragged across the uninhabited village, Master Chen asked everyone to bathe in the river at the edge of the village, and also provided clean soap and a change of clothes.

As for the clothes that the people took off, they were all thrown into a large pot and boiled in boiling water to sterilize.

After everyone had changed their clothes, Hall Master Chen took everyone back to the camp to rest.

After returning to the camp, in order not to worry his wife Zhang Cui, Feng Dazhu didn't tell her what he had done, but just made up a random reason to fool around.

Zhang Cui saw her husband return safely, and finally put her mind at ease.

When he was resting at night, Feng Dazhu had been thinking about a question, that is, why Wan Duo mainly collected so many corpses but did not bury them.

But soon, this question was well answered in a new mission the next day.

Early the next morning, Master Chen took most of the young members to the village where the corpses were parked again, and then asked everyone to change into mourning clothes made of raw linen cloth, and tie mourning belts in a bun, and dress up as wearing linen and filial piety.

There is also a special person responsible for carrying the white flag, and the words "soul returns to hometown" are written on it.

After everyone changed into mourning clothes, Hall Master Chen asked everyone to pull a cart containing a thin coffin to a cave near the village.

There were already hundreds of men with weapons and even bows and arrows who were there to ambush and guard.

Although these people were wearing cloth clothes, judging from the fierce momentum on their faces, they looked more like a group of soldiers disguised as civilians.

A man in his thirties with a serious face walked up to Hall Master Chen and glanced at the members behind him, and then said, "Is there only so many people?" ”

Hall Master Chen replied, "Yes, almost all the young men are here, and there are only a dozen people left in the camp to guard them. Lao Cui, I'm going to work hard for you on the road. ”

"Nothing, it's all we have to do. It's not too early, let's talk about the goods first. ”

"Good. Come with me. ”

After Hall Master Chen walked into the cave with all the members, Feng Dazhu and the others were surprised to see that the cave was full of coffins, almost occupying the entire cave.

Under the doubts of everyone, Hall Master Chen said loudly: "Everyone is their own people, and I won't hide it from you.

These coffins are not filled with dead people, but with very important goods.

This time, the task is to let you transport the goods in the coffin to the nearest Linjiang wharf.

In order to prevent homeless people or horse thieves from robbing on the road, we have to dress up as a funeral party, and the corpses outside are used to deceive others.

The so-called 1,000 days of raising soldiers is used for a while, and now is the time for you to make a big contribution to Freemasonry.

Usually let you train how to use the short knife, just in case someone finds out, you can use the short knife on your body to fight with others, so as not to let this batch of goods fall into the hands of others.

Of course, we don't do that until we have to.

The people out there will follow us, too, and if you do it, you just have to follow them.

I repeat, the purpose of Freemasonry is to share good and bad times.

If anyone dares to flee without following orders, not only will he be executed, but his family will also be implicated.

So for the sake of yourself and your family, don't do this kind of harm to others and yourself.

Did you hear it all? ”

"Yes, sir." Everyone responded in unison.

"Okay, now let's move the goods to the trailer first, remember to put all the coffins under the load, and finally put the coffins containing the corpses on top, let's start."

The members immediately carried a coffin containing goods to the trailer as instructed and tied it tightly with ropes to prevent it from falling.

When Feng Dazhu was moving, he found that these coffins were all tightly sealed with nails, and he didn't know what was inside.

But while carrying it, he suddenly saw some rice scattered on the ground near the coffin.

Seeing these scattered paddies, Feng Dazhu couldn't help but have a bold guess in his heart: Could it be that the coffin was full of grain?

Although there was such speculation, he didn't dare to ask, so he could only hold back his heart and bury his head in his work.

After loading all the coffins onto the trailer, Hall Master Chen said to everyone: "There can't be only men and no women in the funeral procession, otherwise it will definitely arouse suspicion."

When we get back, we will select some women from your family to join the funeral procession by catching eunuchs.

If you are a husband or a family member of the chosen woman, explain it to them, and all this is for the sake of the overall situation.

The journey may seem dangerous, but as long as you do what you are told, you will be fine.

Okay, now tow the trailer back to the village, and we'll leave early tomorrow morning. ”

As he walked back with the others pulling the trailer, Feng Dazhu was nervous, he only hoped that his wife would not be chosen.

Fortunately, what he was worried about did not happen, and after he returned, when he was arresting and selecting eunuchs, Master Wan Helm very humane excluded all women like Zhang Cui who needed to take care of young children, and only let some middle-aged women who were healthy and did not have to take care of their children participate.

In the end, after being arrested, more than 30 middle-aged women were selected, and Aunt Ma, who usually takes care of Zhang Cui, also happened to be selected as one of them.

These selected middle-aged women are also expected to wear linen and filial piety like their husbands, and they will also serve as the main force of mourning when the homeless people stand in the way.

In addition, both men and women will hide a handkerchief stained with ginger juice on their bodies, which is used to stimulate tears in the eyes.

Otherwise, how can it be convincing that a large group of mourners just stood there and howled without shedding tears.

Not only that, but some people also rub some mud on their faces or necks and put some chicken or duck blood on top to make it look as if their skin is festering, to pretend to be a sore attack.

After all these preparations were made, early the next morning, this funeral brigade composed of thousands of people, under the leadership of Hall Master Chen, set off to the Linjiang Wharf in a mighty manner.

"Lao Cui, why don't you choose to rush at night, isn't it safer?" When he was hurrying, Hall Master Chen couldn't help but ask Cui Zhisheng, the leader of the guards.

Cui Zhisheng shook his head and said: "Since you want to make a play, you have to do a full set, how can anyone run for funerals at night."

If you encounter a homeless person or bandit blocking the road on the road, the other party will definitely be suspicious.

Instead of hiding it, it is better to do it openly and honestly. ”

"I see, you're really shrewd."

"Shrewd, I've just been here for a long time, and I just know some of the local situation."

Just as the two were talking, a spy who was in charge of pathfinding in front ran over and said, "Cui Bai...... Brother Cui, there are more than 4,000 homeless people blocking the intersection two miles ahead, and it seems that they are all hungry people who have been hungry for a long time. ”

"I see, you keep watching."

"Yes, the villain is retiring."

"I didn't expect to meet the homeless crowd so quickly.

Lao Chen, it's up to you now.

If it really doesn't work, you secretly give me a code, and I'll get rid of the leader first.

As soon as the leader dies, the others will be able to do it. ”

"Okay, you'll see what the time comes."

After Hall Master Chen finished speaking, he immediately waved his hand to stop the funeral team, and then asked everyone to start crying loudly as they had said before, especially those middle-aged women who were the main force, and asked them to cry as much as they wanted, and it was best to shed tears and snot together.

In the midst of a burst of weeping and crying, the mourning team slowly moved forward, getting closer and closer to the displaced people.

It didn't take long for the mourning team to finally meet the group of displaced people blocking the road.

The homeless had apparently been hungry for a long time, and all of them were yellow and thin, and when they saw someone approaching, they immediately gathered around them with great anticipation.

However, when these homeless people saw the team in front of them holding the spirit flag, and all of them were wearing linen and filial piety, they couldn't help but be stunned.

"Who are you? What are you doing here? The leader of the homeless asked loudly.

Seeing so many homeless people blocking the road, the already nervous crowd suddenly became nervous.

But in order to get by, they can only continue to stand there and cry.

In the midst of this cry, Hall Master Chen, supported by one of the guards, pretended to be weak and walked up to the leading homeless and said weakly: "This strong man, we are all villagers of Bailai County.

In order to escape the plague, his family fled here.

But I didn't expect that several people were infected with the plague along the way, and now more than 300 people have died.

In addition, the food brought out has been exhausted, and there is really no way out.

For this reason, we can only go back to our hometown. After saying these words, he suddenly coughed violently.

The leader of the homeless man was horrified to see that the skin on the left side of the man's neck seemed to be rotten and slowly oozing blood.

As soon as he remembered what he had just said, he was so frightened that he took several steps back.

"Y-You're also infected with loose sores?!"

Hall Master Chen smiled bitterly and said, "Yes, not only me, but also many people in the queue have this disease.

It was because of this disease that I knew that my time was short, so I wanted to go home and wait for death.

Even if it's ...... Cough...... Even if we die, we want to die at home, and we don't want to be left behind...... Cough...... Exiled......" As soon as he finished speaking, he coughed violently again.

Smelling the smell of corpses coming from the carts behind him, coupled with Hall Master Chen's realistic performance, those homeless people who blocked the way still had half suspicions, and fled backwards like a tide, so as not to be infected by these people who had sores.

"Hurry up, don't stay here, get out of here! Come on! The leading homeless man stood far away and shouted at the door.

"Thank you for giving way." Hall Master Chen bowed weakly to those homeless people, and then slowly walked forward with the funeral team.

Everywhere the team went, everyone was as far away as they were, lest they avoid it.

After passing through this intersection without danger, all the ordinary members from the peasant family breathed a long sigh of relief, and many were even so nervous that their underwear was soaked with cold sweat, and Feng Dazhu was one of them.

Cui Baihu, who was in charge of the guards, walked up to Hall Master Chen and laughed: "I didn't expect you to perform this play so well, it's really condescending, haha." ”

Hall Master Chen smiled bitterly: "Don't laugh, I was actually very nervous just now."

If those people still don't believe me, I'll have to open the coffin and show them the dead inside.

If you can't even do this, then you really have to start fighting. ”

"It seems that this method is really feasible, and Master Su is really a god. I don't know how the other food teams are, I hope nothing happens on the way. ”

"I hope so."

In addition to Hall Master Chen and them, similar funeral teams have also appeared in various parts of the Yangtze River, ranging in scale from large to small. There are thousands of people, and there are hundreds of people.

These funeral teams that dragged carts and carts of coffins on the road with wheelbarrows were the famous "funeral food teams" in the history books in the future.

In fact, if it weren't for the perfect time when the plague was rampant and everyone was panicking, this modest method of smuggling would have been discovered long ago.

In this way, a large amount of grain and materials exchanged for the homes of wealthy families in Jiangnan were smuggled to ports in various places by means of ant moving, and then transported to Jiujiang Prefecture in the northeast by water, laying an important grain and material foundation for the Jiangnan War not long after.