With this Mr. Chen and this child as an example, there were more people who were willing to draw the charge, and Sun Ergou saw that those who had drawn the charge were given a small bowl of rice—although it was only a small bowl, but it was real white rice—and he couldn't hold his breath anymore. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"There's a house, I'm going to draw a house." Sun Ergou stood up, "Let me eat white rice again, even if I die tomorrow, I will admit it!" ”

"Wait for me, I'll go too!" Bai Youya also stood up.

At this time, there were already a lot of people in line, and the people in charge began to be picky.

"If you can't get on a ship, you'll get sick and die when you go to sea. No way! ”

"This big brother, I'm in good health, but I've been hungry for the past few days, and I can get better with a few meals." The man pleaded.

"Go aside, don't get in the way of the people behind. If you have a few meals, you will have to give half a month of porridge later. Okay, sign up again! Next, um, you open your mouth, open a little wider, let me see my teeth and tongue! This one is okay, go draw a charge! ”

……

"Mr. Chen, you are also a person who can read and hyphenate, there is one thing I want to entrust to you." After being taken down, taking a shower, and changing clothes, the middle-aged boy named Chen Guang looked a little like a teacher.

"In front of the master, I can't be the word sir, I don't know what the master commands." Chen Guang arched his hand.

"It's going to get warmer." Zheng Cai said, "There are so many people in the north of the city crowded here, I am afraid that it is easy to give birth to diseases, these people are very weak, that is, the people we selected in, in fact, it is the same, if there is really any epidemic, 'Dead Nineteen' is afraid that it is not the one or two sentences said in the book." So epidemic prevention is a big deal. I have a rule here, and following it should greatly reduce the number of patients. It's just that these homeless people are all outsiders, and there are not many people who can understand the official language, and even fewer can speak. My subordinates are all Fujianese, and none of them can understand what they are saying. The person who shouted yesterday borrowed it from someone else. And he has to divide porridge and shout every day, and he can't tell those people how to prevent diseases, and although that person can speak your Henan dialect, he is also illiterate, and he can't understand these things.

Sir can take a look at this regulation, if you don't understand something, you can ask Dr. Hu, and then help Dr. Hu at least do a good job of epidemic prevention in our camp first. In addition, when I went to Taiwan Island, I had to cross the ocean, and many people had to be crowded into one boat, which was much more crowded than here. The sea is warmer than here, and it is more susceptible to disease, and if you get sick at sea and become infected, no one can avoid it. Therefore, for the sake of the lives of a boatload of people, if anyone is sick at sea, he can only throw him directly from the ship into the sea, so as not to infect others and harm the lives of a boatload of people. So the rules in this regulation are really life-saving rules. It is best for the husband to teach them all to memorize and form a habit, so as not to harm others and themselves when they get it. ”

Hearing this, Chen Guang was shocked, he had read some books, and naturally knew that records such as "plague epidemic, nineteen dead" were not lies. Naturally, he knew the urgency of this matter, and hurriedly bowed down and said: "The owner commands, Chen Guang will do his best to do a good job." ”

Hearing this, Zheng Cai nodded, and said: "Mr. Chen, I can see that you are a talented person, since Mr. is going to do this for us, but he can't do it in vain, the rations will be three meals a day, and eat with us families, and if the monthly money is given, it will be given according to their standard first, four dollars of silver per month." Of course, this is still a grievance for a scholar like Mr., but Mr. has just come and has given a lot, and I am afraid that others will not accept it. If Mr. does this well, there will inevitably be more things to be entrusted to Mr. in the future. This salary is naturally easy to say. ”

When Chen Guang heard this, he was quite moved, and said: "Master, Chen Guang has already drawn a charge on the document of selling his body, and now he is a slave of the master's family, but the master treats Chen Guang so well, Chen Guang is willing to die for my Zheng family." ”

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The regulations that Zheng Sen gave to Zheng Cai are actually simple, but they are derived from some simple hygiene knowledge in later generations. For example, frequent bathing, the regulations stipulate that everyone must take a bath once a day unless they are on a boat or in a place where there is no water; For example, to keep the clothes clean, the Zheng family is even more straightforward, and prepares a new dress for everyone who chooses, and of course the old clothes are not confiscated - these clothes can still be worn, but according to the regulations, these clothes need to be boiled in water, and then dried in the sun before they can be worn again. Of course, the most important thing is to eat and go to the toilet.

Under the command of Dr. Hu, the first thing Chen Guang did was to direct a group of selected people to dig a temporary toilet on the ground.

"Listen! The owner said that in the future, can only be pulled in these pits, if someone pulls elsewhere, the first time it is discovered, tomorrow will be hungry for a day, if it is found twice, it will be directly beaten, broken hands and feet and thrown out! Where do you find food today? If you throw it out, it's a dead end. Do you understand? After the toilet was dug up, several servants gathered the selected people, and Chen Guang shouted to them.

"Mr. Chen, we all understand." Most people say so.

"What if you can't find who it is?" Someone asked.

"What if the pit is occupied by people and can't hold it back?" Someone else shouted.

"If you can't find it, you will be hungry together, and you will be hungry until you find it! If you can't hold it, hold it for me! Chen Guang shouted, "If someone stands in the pit and doesn't, naturally someone will clean them up, such people, we are also a stick and then thrown out to feed the wild dogs!" Okay, have you all memorized this rule? ”

"Remembered, remembered." People shouted.

"Okay, then let's talk about the second rule: you must wash your hands before eating, before everyone comes to eat, someone will check whether your hands are clean, if they are not clean, this meal will be gone, understand?" Chen Guang shouted again.

"Well, there are rules for washing hands, and every time we check, we will focus on checking these places, where ......"

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Sun Ergou and Bai Youwu were also selected, and the two of them and several others were assigned to a tent. It was already night, and it was time to go to bed, and the conditions in the tent were not good, and there were no soft beds, just a layer of hay on the flat ground. Naturally, there were no quilts, only another pile of hay dried in the sun.

Everyone took off their new clothes in the dark—no one was willing to sleep in their new clothes, for fear of damaging them. Then he carefully folded it, put it away, put it in his arms, put a bundle of hay on his shoulder, and put it on himself, and then he could go to sleep.

Bai Youwu has done everything, covered himself with hay, and is ready to sleep, how many days, I haven't slept with a full stomach like this, I really hope that such days can go on forever. At this moment, he suddenly heard Sun Ergou next to him snort.

"Ergou, what's wrong?" Bai Youya asked.

"Grandma's, the one who took the bath, washed off a piece of the skin on Lao Tzu's body, and it hurts when you touch it." Sun Ergou muttered.

As soon as he said this, Bai Youwu also felt that some places on his body hurt.

", why is that big brush so hard?" Another person in the room spoke.

"Because it's a brush for horses and donkeys. I've used to raise horses and use that thing. But when I brush the horses, I don't work as hard as them. What's even worse is that he still brushes my balls with that thing, and it hurts my balls even now! Grandma's, brush me up. Also, they actually washed our hair with lime mortar, which made my scalp tingle to this day. Do Fujian people take a bath and wash their hair like this? ”

"I don't know, my scalp is numb and itchy." Another person also replied.

In ancient times, there were many prescriptions for washing hair to remove lice or something, but these cost money, and although the Zheng family was rich, they couldn't spend it like this. But getting rid of lice can easily lead to disease, so Zheng Sen came up with a rather simple and crude method - fill the hair with lime slurry, and wash it off with water after a while. Lime slurry can also kill bacteria and insects, and it is also relatively cheap. Of course, this thing is also very irritating to the skin, but this is not within Zheng Sen's consideration - it is nothing more than some skin reactions, and most people can't die anyway.

"Sleep, when you fall asleep, it won't itch." Another person said.

"The habits of the Fujian people are really strange, bathing with a brush like a horse and washing their hair with lime mortar......" I don't know who said it again.

"I heard that I have to take a shower every day, and I want to do it again tomorrow?"

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Half a month passed quickly, Zheng Cai caught about 1,000 people here, most of them are middle-aged men, and some half-grown boys, although these people are still very weak because of long-term malnutrition, even after half a month, it is still the case, but can go all the way here, can still hold on, in fact, the foundation of the body is still good, Zheng Cai believes that these people are loaded on the ship and transported to Taiwan, and there should not be many deaths on the way.

Now the soup kitchen stall has been removed, and the people who have been selected have been stuffed into ships and transported to Songjiang first, where they are exchanged for sea ships to Taiwan. It's just that the displaced people in other places don't know that there is no soup porridge here, and they are still pouring over, so Zhang Xianling had to close the city gate while letting people shout and tell them: There is no more here, but there seems to be still in Songjiang, hurry up and go to Songjiang, or you won't be able to catch up!

There is not much difference in other places, and Zheng Cai estimates that there are almost 10,000 people in total. Zheng Cai arranged ships to send these people to Taiwan in batches, while preparing for the next batch of immigrants.