"How many are back?"

"Not much, forty or fifty, the rest are still being searched, but not very easy to find. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoAlthough there is snow on the ground, there are also some people who have followed Ji Xia to the grassland in the first place, and they run from the branches, so it is difficult to follow. ”

"There's no hurry, it's a good thing that someone comes back. Go over and let them prepare something hot. ”

The messenger took the order and left, and Chen Jian raised the wine bottle and finished the previous conversation with Eyue Weihe.

The wine bottle was put down, and E Yue explained: "Ji Xia doesn't have to worry, those people can always find it." ”

"Worried? I wasn't worried, on the contrary, I was a little happy. These people fled because they began to fear the new rules and thought in their hearts that they had done something wrong. That's a good thing. ”

"A good thing?"

"Yes, there are a lot of rules that are suitable for different habits in the past. For example, a long time ago, there were rules in the clan, but the basis of this rule was that the interests of the clan were the greatest, and they did the right thing according to the basis of this rule. And these new rules I have set are not based on this, so they are afraid that it means that the clan has been dissolved in their hearts......"

Jian Chen thought for a moment and explained, "It's like ...... Suppose there is a clan that eats people and thinks it's right. One day the new rules say that it is not allowed to eat people, and then one day the person who made the rules leaves, and someone can't help but eat people. However, instead of rightly believing that he was doing the right thing, he felt that he was doing something wrong and tried to run away from it. ”

E Yue shook her head and said, "They're just scared. ”

"Fear is just the beginning, and after a long time, in addition to fear, there is also inner right and wrong. Rules can't control the evaluation of right and wrong things in the heart, but they can affect the evaluation of right and wrong in the heart, and when one day the inner morality is very similar to the rules, these rules that some people seem strange to now are taken for granted. ”

"But Ji Xia, how do you know that what you want them to think is right and wrong, which is the real right and wrong? Aren't you worried about what you want them to think is right or wrong, but what is wrong is actually right and right is wrong? ”

Jian Chen raised his head and laughed, "I don't think what I am is really right and wrong, but this right and wrong can make the city stronger in a short time." Ponder who is right and who is wrong, and leave it to posterity. Future generations will have time to consider right and wrong when they are fed, clothed, clothed, and fed, and then even if they think we are wrong, what will we have? It's good that they can judge whether we're right or wrong, and prove that the community is still alive and doing well. ”

He toasted the two of them another bottle of wine, apologized and let them go to their own devices, and left the house himself.

Several black-clothed guards followed, habitually guarding with swords, and guided Jian Chen to the dozens of people who had returned.

In a small courtyard, forty or fifty people were divided into piles, squatting by the fire, and the broth was boiling in clay pots.

The smell wafted out, but the men struggled to have an appetite, always feeling that the people outside the courtyard who had been used as slaves they had agreed to were directing them, and sometimes the sound of the wind blowing through the clothesline made them feel that there was clearly a mixture of anger from those inside.

The riders had already told them that they would be dealt with lightly after the mill fight, but they were still a little uneasy in their hearts, and they were most worried about what they would do if they were assigned to live within a mile of the previous people.

When Jian Chen appeared, everyone immediately stood up and screamed a little apprehensive and embarrassed.

"I finally remember where my home was, and I thought you weren't coming back. Why, do you really want to leave Xia Cheng to pick fruits in the woods to eat? ”

"I know, if you don't know the bitterness of forest gathering, it's easy to forget the sweetness of settling in the city, your method is very good, let everyone try it in the future."

As he spoke, he sat down in the middle of a group of people, and randomly called out a person's name and asked him to add some more firewood.

Those people thought that the beginning of this conversation would be a question or a reprimand, but they did not expect to hear a joke, and they lowered their heads and laughed, and several people from the fire next to them gathered around.

"Ji Xia, how can we forget where our home is? In the past few days of leaving, huddled in the cave, the children shouted to sleep on the hot kang, and the city wanted to send sugar gourds to eat during the New Year, who wants to live outside? ”

At the beginning, when talking about home, some people's mouths opened, and they kept talking about the cold and misery they had endured in the wilderness these days.

"In that case, why did you run in the first place?"

"Because we know that Ji Xia will definitely punish us when he returns, and those rebels also say that Ji Xia will even kill us when he returns."

The sound of the insects being burned in the firewood covered up the killing word in the words, and a seven or eight-year-old child next to him only heard the punishment, thinking that it was about hitting the palm of his hand like he couldn't memorize a multiplication table in the school, and said immaturely: "Of course you will be punished for doing something wrong." ”

The child probably didn't understand that the limit of punishment was death, Chen Jian sighed, called the people outside to take some sugar and the remaining mutton to share with the child, and took the child to play.

After the child walked away, Jian Chen sighed and said, "Do you know? When I came back, I saw the ruined summer city, and I was really angry. Because the summer city and our home that everyone has worked hard to build for several years have become like this. ”

"When I was in Yucheng, there were always people who asked the people of Xiacheng with envy what Xiacheng was like. At that time, everyone remembered what Xia Cheng looked like, and those who heard it were always surprised. I thought I'd take the children from the rest of the city, the children who call me sir, to our house. Now I've brought them here, but what kind of summer city do I see? ”

"The child is right, he should be punished for doing something wrong, but why should he be punished?"

"For you are men, not sheep to be trought. A flock of sheep that has eaten the wheat seedlings cannot be chastened but the shepherds. But you are human beings, not sheep, and a group of people should know that it is wrong to trample on the wheat field, and that if you trample on it, you will be punished. ”

"I punish you because I want everyone to be human beings, not a herd of sheep that have been herded. To punish you is to make no more mistakes in the future, not to punish for the sake of punishing. ”

"The punishment will not be too severe, but it will not go unpunished, otherwise there will be people in the city who will try to cause chaos and still destroy our homes."

"I'm glad you're back. Because you have the courage to bear your own faults, and you do not blame everything on the rebels as sheep, and you know in your hearts that you are men and not sheep, and those people are not shepherds. That's enough. ”

"The punishment is nothing more than a fine of money and land, which can be reclaimed and earned if these are gone. As long as you know that you are a person who stands up to the sky and the earth, and a person who is indomitable, there is nothing that you can lose and cannot regain. ”

He tapped a man on the shoulder, turned his head, and in the distance in the snow several children were playing with some of the children of the New Summer City, falling to the ground and throwing snowballs at each other, laughing at each other.

"Perhaps, when these children grow up, they will not make the mistakes you have made."

"Well, I know that many people are still hiding outside, and you know where they are hiding, and even made an appointment to meet somewhere, which is what I taught you is the truth that life is life and death, and you will not forget. Go, go tell them what I say, let them come back and be punished, and continue to be a summer cityer. ”

"Spring is coming soon, can you bear to let the land you reclaim with sweat and rain be barren? Tell them, go home, I'll wait for them at home. ”