Chapter Eighty-Five: Today, Nanguan is a prisoner of Chu

From the moment he stepped on the first step of freshwater, what entered Yelu Chucai's eyes was full of surprise.

Exotic houses, alternative carriages walking the streets, tall smoking chimneys, neat buildings, and the first sight of the haircut guards.

"The skin and hair of the body, the parents who receive it, shave it like this, it is not filial, it is not filial!"

Someone muttered behind his back, it was the former Jin State official who had been transported from China like him, although he was complaining, he didn't dare to make a loud noise, and he was probably frightened by the momentum of the guard.

came to greet everyone, in addition to Li Ye, there were also Chen Ren and Li Yunrui, as for Fang Youcai, because he heard that the camphor flag was not hung on the ship, he was lazy and sent Duncan here. Now that the island has its own business, Li Yerui came because he wanted to give these newcomers some deterrence, and Li Yunrui came to teach these newcomers the rules of freshwater.

Led them into a house outside Tamsui City, some distance from Tamsui and closer to the docks, walled and used as a storehouse. Except for Yang Miaozhen, everyone, including the Yixue boy who came with the boat, bathed here, the old clothes were taken away and burned, and everyone changed into new clothes according to their size.

"Why is this that I have hidden belongings in my clothes, and if I take them off and change them, what should I do without my belongings?" When an official of the Jin State heard this, he shouted: "You can kill me but not humiliate, if you want me to take off your clothes, it is better to kill me!" ”

"Do you have belongings?" Overseeing the undressing of the crowd was a group of men in white, and in addition to the white robes, Yelu Chucai noticed that their collars were also sewn like a guard. There is a red line on the leader of the person who speaks, and I don't know what it means.

"Nature is, I ......"

"Deputy Steward Li has explained that anyone who comes here must follow the rules of the island, and those who violate it will be punished." The man interrupted his boasting and pointed to him: "Take out your belongings, give them there, register them, change your clothes, and take them back." ”

The officials of the Jin State were still waiting to be argued, and the guards next to them were a little impatient: "According to the law of Tamsui, those who do not obey the immunization regulations of the medical institute will be whipped fifty and forcibly enforce the regulations. ”

As the saying goes, a good man doesn't lose money in front of him, although the officials of the Jin State did not believe that the money handed over would be returned, but they had to hand over the pearl and jade hidden on their bodies according to their words. On the "Registry of Personal Property," a teenager wrote down his belongings on a piece of paper with a pen that Yelu Chucai had never seen before, and asked him to verify it at home, and then asked him to sign it.

"It doesn't look like it's going to be swallowed." Yelu Chucai thought in his heart, now that people are swordsmen and he is fish and meat, if they want to swallow their belongings, they only need to cut them down with one knife, how can there be so much trouble.

After washing, sure enough, those who handed over the property were called to get it back, these people went with sad faces and uneasy, but when they came back, they were smiling, Yelu Chucai asked a few people, and they all said that there was no missing object, but they still needed to sign a name when they got it back.

At this moment, those young men in white robes came again with more than ten large vats in a car, and a smell of wine came to his nose, Yelu Chucai was surprised in his heart, he didn't know what the purpose was, at this moment, he could hear the guards on the side smiling one by one: "Stand up, stand up, stand up, stand in a straight line!" ”

Some of the newcomers did not understand, but the guards were patient, and one by one they pulled the men into a procession, and between each two columns, about half a foot apart, and the young men in the cart passed between the columns, and handed out a porcelain cup to each person who passed, and then scooped a bowl of green wine from the vat to them.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Tamsui is in a miasma overseas, and drinking this medicinal wine will protect you from miasma. Please put away this porcelain cup, and you will have to rely on it for all your drinking water in the future. A teenager climbed the heights and shouted loudly with a paper tube in the shape of a horn. This young man is thin and tall, and his eyebrows are ordinary, but from his speech and demeanor, Yelu Chucai vaguely feels that he is somewhat similar to Meng Xisheng.

"Thinking about it, he is the master's disciple again, when Wei Wen came to beg for this, it was because he had to retreat because of the miasma, since he said this, it must be reasonable. Could it be that he studied medicine? There are three thousand disciples of Confucius, two out of seventy sages, and at least three of the disciples of the master are talented, Meng Xianyan and Li Hanfan, but I don't know what to call this one in front of me, so I will have to ask it later. ”

He thought so to himself, the cart had been pushed in front of him, and when he smelled the smell of green wine, he couldn't help frowning, and felt nauseous. Holding back the discomfort, he drank the green wine and put the porcelain cup away.

Because there were more than 1,000 people, the scene was a little noisy, but under the maintenance of those white-robed young men and green-clothed guards, there was no chaos in the compound. The cement field under their feet was paved with a layer of lime, and Yelu Chucai's heart moved, separating them together, saying that it was for epidemic prevention, which he believed, just sprinkling this lime, could it be also for epidemic prevention?

He remembered that as early as the Han Dynasty, there was a method of isolating the infected from the healthy (Note 1), and the Great Song Dynasty even recruited monks and nuns to bury the dead bodies.

Among the more than 1,000 people, there were also those who did not want to drink, and the most stubborn among them were still pinched and poured a glass of green medicinal wine by pinching their noses after being whipped in public. Yelu Chucai couldn't help but shake his head when he saw it, in this case, that person was also stupid and stubborn, and it was purely self-inflicted.

It took an hour, everyone had finished drinking the medicine and wine, and Yelu Chucai was about to leave his position to ask the name of the white-robed young man's leader, but was stopped by the guards: "I also want to give you bedding and clothes, and wait patiently first." ”

After a while, several carts pushed in, and each of them was given a set of bedding and clothes, as well as cloth towels and chopsticks. Everyone looked at each other, especially the officials from the Jin Kingdom, who had never seen such a situation, and couldn't help but whisper.

After receiving the bedding and clothing, there were guards who took them away one by one, and in groups of twenty people, all of them were followed by a child, with a pen in his hand, and copied the names of all twenty people, and took them in duplicate. It was evident that this was not the first time that they had done so, and in less than half an hour the cement yard was empty, and everyone was led into the house.

The house was a warehouse, so it was not very comfortable, and there were ten bunk beds in each room, and the upper bunks had to be climbed by a small ladder. Yelu Chucai put down his things and was about to look around, when a person in the same room smiled and said: "Please make your bed first, and then put the dishes and chopsticks on the table. ”

As for the "bedroom hygiene evaluation", Yelu Chucai can only be as the name suggests, but fortunately, it is easy to understand, and he can guess a rough idea. The man who spoke was no more than fourteen or fifteen years old, and he was only a teenager, and he made his bed as he spoke, and his movements were extremely swift.

The bed he chose was in the lower bunk closest to the door, and Yelu Chucai's heart moved, and anyone who wanted to go out had to pass by his bed.

"Who is the little brother, who is familiar with the rules of this freshwater?" There were other people who thought the same as Yelu Chucai, and the man asked tentatively.

"In the next compound surname Sima, a single name is heavy, there is no word yet, this freshwater is the land of my master, and the rules are naturally known in the next." After the man finished speaking, he pointed to the paper with everyone's names written on the door and said: "There are twenty people in our room, and they are appointed as the head of the room. ”

"Who is the master of your house?" Someone asked, and it's a question that almost everyone wants to know.

"Hehe, this question can't be answered." Sima Zhong smiled: "You just need to know that this fresh water is my master's property." ”

"Your owner's property?" Someone sneered: "Under the whole world, it is not the king's land, the shore of the land, it is not the king's minister, I am the Dajin clan, and your master ...... me."

Before he finished speaking, a person next to him stood up and gave him a kick: "It turned out to be a Tartar, I saw it was wrong, I was a rebel in Shandong, and it was you who fought it!" ”

The room was in chaos for a moment, Sima Chong was stunned at first, then furious, and suddenly blew a bamboo flute, and a moment later, a team of five guards came to the door.

"These two people fight each other and don't listen to persuasion, they are new to Tamsui, they have no Tamsui household registration, there is no need to judge, and they should be whipped ten times according to the law." Sima Zhong pointed to the two people who were still entangled and said, "Please execute!" ”

"Yes!"

Although Sima Zhong was a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy, those guards who were about eighteen years old listened to his orders, and as soon as he gave the order, four guards immediately came up and separated the two people who were entangled, and the other person went back to get the bamboo whip, took off the shirts of the two people in front of everyone, and gave them ten blows on the back.

These two people were pumped out in pain, and the self-proclaimed Shandong Righteous Army shouted injustice, Sima Zhong sneered: "Merit must be rewarded, passing must be punished, Tamsui is not the rest of the place, private fighting is a felony, because you have no household registration, so it is only ten lashes punishment, if you have a household registration, it is 50 lashes plus a penalty of 50 days, and if you commit another offense, you will be punished with 100 lashes and a penalty of one year, and if you commit three offenses, you will be expelled from the island!" ”

Seeing that someone seemed to be excited, Sima Zhong sneered again: "Don't think that expelling from the island is to send you back to land, hmph, there are uninhabited islands overseas, except for my big ship, no one can get there, there are cannibals on the island, or poisonous snakes and beasts, or plague miasma, if you want to try, the rules on the island will not be opened!" ”

Yelu Chucai's heart moved again, this freshwater has the appearance of a Legalist ruling the country, and if he violates it slightly, he will be punished.

"Brother Guard, please ask the senior brother from the medical institute to bandage the two of them, it is inconvenient to go out, please forgive me for the trouble." After the whipping, Sima said to the guards again.

The leader of the guards hurriedly waved his hand: "This is what we should do, why do we need to thank you." ”

The leader of the guards, Yelu Chucai noticed that he was different from the ordinary guards, with two red threads embroidered on the strips of cloth sewn on his shoulders, while the ordinary guards were only one. He remembered that Li Ye's shoulder was embroidered with a star, thinking that this red line and star were the marks that distinguished the guard class.

After this, everyone understood that this Sima Zhong was placed among them by Tamsui, and if they did anything wrong, a team of guards would arrive in the blink of an eye. When everyone looked at Sima Chong again, their eyes were a little strange, Sima Chong didn't care, Da Lang had already explained, these people were not a little favor to be subdued, at the beginning they could be familiar with and abide by the rules of freshwater, then the goal was achieved.

"Do anyone have any questions?" He asked, raising his voice.

Yelu Chucai heard the sound of a bamboo flute again, thinking about which bedroom there was someone who was disobedient, his expression did not change, and he asked slowly: "Brother Sima, I don't know the name of the young man who made us drink medicinal wine, can you tell me?" ”

"That's autumn cool, Tamsui Doctor is right." Sima replied.

"I met Meng Xianyan and Li Hanfan on the way, I don't know if this Qiu Shuangqiu is from the same school as them?"

"Hey, you actually know Brother Xisheng and Li Ye?" Sima glanced at him again, and then suddenly realized: "I remember, you are Yelu Chucai." We are all taught by the master, but Brother Xisheng and Li Ye are both in the first phase of Yixue, Qiushuang is the second phase of Yixue, he is not yet eighteen, so there is no word, I am the fourth phase of Yixue, and when I am eighteen years old, the master will give words. ”

"Meng Xianyan is extremely profound, Li Hanfan can govern the army, this Qiu Shuang knows the epidemic...... How knowledgeable is your master? Yelu Chucai's expression was somewhat exaggerated.

Sima Chong glanced at him and smiled slightly, Yelu Chucai only felt a heat on his face, he acted like this, quite a bit of the meaning of the young man's words, but Sima Chong's glance clearly saw through his intentions.

"Any other questions?" Sima Zhong asked again.

"Your master...... What is the purpose of bringing us here? An official of the Jin State raised his eyes, stared at Sima Chong and said: "We have all read the books of the sages, and we can kill but not be humiliated, if your master really wants to send us to the mines, we will have to fight to the death." ”

He was not the only one who wanted to know this question, Yelu Chucai and the rest of the officials from the Jin Kingdom also wanted to know, and even the Shandong Righteous Army who came halfway also wanted to know how this fresh water would come to them.

"Haha......" Sima Zhong laughed: "With your physique, it is not easy to go to the mine." I don't know how my master will settle you, but I want to come...... They will not go down to the mines. ”

Yelu Chucai heard him say yes, and knew that his words were not very detailed, but if he didn't want to speak, no one dared to force him. He pondered for a while, and then asked, "Brother Sima, how long do you say we're going to be locked up here?" ”

"Ten days, if there is no susceptible disease among us for ten days, we can really enter freshwater." Sima Chong said without thinking.

"Since Brother Sima is a disciple of the master of Tamsui, why is he also with us?" Someone asked again.

Sima Zhong smiled and said: "If you are just put together, you just fight like that, I don't know how many cases will happen every day, and besides, you are not idle to do in these ten days, but you have to memorize the laws of freshwater with me, if you can't recite them after ten days, we will all leave here, you have to stay and continue." ”

"What if you can't memorize it all the time?" Someone else asked.

"I haven't been able to recite it, I'm afraid I'll really be sent to the mine." Sima Zhong knew the thoughts of the officials from the Jin Kingdom among these people, and only hoped that if they could not be recalled, they would be returned to the land, so he smiled and stopped their thoughts with a word.

Note 1: "Hanshu Ping Emperor Ji": "In the first two years of the Yuan Dynasty, drought locusts, people with diseases and epidemics, gave up the empty mansion to buy medicine. "Compared to the bubonic plague in the West, they took refuge in the castles in the countryside, which caused the disease to spread, I don't know how many years ago.