The bathhouse was built from one at the beginning to two now.

One is for external use, and the other is reserved for the use of the villagers and the main family.

Ma Guifang took these panicked children to the outside of the No. 2 bathhouse used in the village and admonished:

"The men and women are divided into two columns, the girls follow me, and the boys follow Zheng to take care of things."

The house on the village was almost built, and there was no need for a supervisor, so Wang transferred Zheng Lai to the bathhouse and asked him to be the bathhouse manager, mainly responsible for inspecting the health supervision of the bathhouse.

Because of his harshness, he often carried a small clip to pick up garbage or something, and the children in the village gave him a nickname - Zheng Clip!

The meaning is: to correct people's mistakes.

Seeing that the children were divided into male and female queues, Ma Guifang said again: "After taking a bath and checking the physical hygiene, I will go to the master's house." ”

"When you meet the Lord's family, the Lord's family will assign you work, do a good job, eat and clothe everything, and do a bad job....."

Her gentle expression suddenly froze, and she said coldly: "Those who are unruly and cheating and slippery will be sent to the mine to work as coolies!" ”

Suddenly, those curious little whispers were gone, and the children looked at the female steward who had suddenly changed into a person, and their hearts became more and more worried.

Naiva nodded at her sister Fubao, reassuring her not to be afraid, seeing that her sister looked better, but her heart didn't fall.

They followed Xu Dalang from Bingzhou to Youzhou along the way, and clearly saw how this young master treated human life as a mustard and killed him at will, and his ruthless appearance was like a little Hades.

Fu Bao watched all the way, and was awakened by a nightmare every time he saw Xu Dalang come down to distribute food, he held back his tears, but he didn't dare to snort.

The other children are not much better, and the older ones are just a little better, and they know how to disguise themselves so as not to upset the master's family.

But the young ones don't understand, the ones they are more afraid of than Fu Bao, and they cry when they see Xu Dalang.

He didn't seem to like the crying of children, and as soon as someone cried, the handsome man sank, and it was terrifying.

I was frightened all the way to Xujiazhuang, and when I saw the gentle short-haired female housekeeper, the children were better. I feel that this Xujiazhuang may not be as terrible as the eldest young master of the Xu family.

It's just that this idea has just risen, and when I saw the cold look of the female steward, Naiwa, a group of half-grown dolls, didn't dare to relax the tight strings in their hearts for a while.

On the way here, Naiva had the courage to knock on the side with the eldest young master of the Xu family, and asked him what he was doing when he bought so many of their children back.

But the eldest young master seemed to not understand human words, and asked angrily: "How do I know what Wang Pingping and the young lady want you to do?" ”

Naiva was silent, but she also understood that their group of children was not what Xu Dalang wanted to collect, but Wang Pingping and the young lady wanted to collect.

It's just, who is Wang Pingping? Who is the young lady?

In particular, the name Wang Pingping, because of the regional dialect, sounds very similar to the names of the wizards.

For a while, the children were spreading that Wang Pingping was the wizard of the Xu family, saying that the Xu family was going to sacrifice children or something, and the more it was spread, the more true it became.

Say that human sacrifice is particular, and you can't give too bad a child to the gods, so the eldest young master of the Xu family let them eat twice a day, sometimes passing by the town, and buying eggs, ducks, and eggs for them to eat, only let them eat well, can they be dedicated to the gods.

And with the introduction of the procedure of bathing in the bathhouse, words such as washing white and checking the body have made many children firm in their guesses.

The Xu family just wants to treat them as sacrifices and sacrifice them to the gods!

Ma Guifang only looked at the dolls who were black and thin now, but she didn't know that when Xu Dalang first bought them, these two were as thin as hemp rods, and they couldn't even walk.

That's it, it's still the result of Xu Dalang's regular rationing every day and adding meals from time to time.

Fortunately, Xu Dalang is not here, if he knew that the children who had been worried about two months before fattening up were ineffective feeding in Ma Guifang's eyes, they would definitely have to blow up their hair again.

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With the fear that she was about to become a sacrifice, Naiva and the other boys followed Zheng Lai into the bathhouse.

The bathhouse, surrounded on all sides, looked like a cold cage, and the children stood in rows shivering, stripped naked.

A few men in white coats with white cloth covers walked in, holding all sorts of strange things in their hands, and walked towards them one by one.

The men in white coats spoke in a flat tone, not fierce, but also not smiling.

"Open your mouth, ah~"

Nawa opened her mouth, a little scared and a little curious.

The man held his chin, turned his head from side to side, carefully read his teeth, and then came to play with his eyes, turned his eyelids up, and did not know what he was looking at, in short, he did not let go of any of his facial features.

Another man came up to me and said, "Look at my movements, follow me, turn your head, raise your legs, raise your hands, and jump...... Well, there is no disability in the limbs and is completely healthy. ”

Naiva understood the first half of the sentence, but didn't understand the second half, what does it mean to be completely healthy?

He just watched the man write something quickly on a notebook with a thin black strip (charcoal), and when he was done, he moved on to the next one.

"Follow me after the inspection."

Someone shouted ahead, and Naiva followed the children into the larger room behind the low wall.

Before entering the room, all hair is shaved off.

Wait until they are all bareheaded before they can really enter the big house inside.

When I got here, a stream of water vapor came to my face, and it was white, and I couldn't see it clearly from a distance.

The team was in a commotion, and several staff members strode in, one of whom ordered four or five children to take away.

Naiva and the other four and a half children were taken by Zheng Lai and came to the white mist with trepidation.

The steward shouted a trumpet behind the wall as they watched him do it.

As she was listening carefully, she heard another child's frightened exclamation, and Naiva instantly tensed up, like a vigilant cheetah.

Zheng came to see him like this, as if he was amused, and laughed out loud: "Look at you guys, it's just a shower head, you ...... listen."

"The First Minister of the Ming Dynasty"

Hearing him say this, Navia listened attentively again, and the exclamation was gone, replaced by the curious whisper of the child.

At this time, the trumpet was shouted from behind the wall, and then a stream of water spurted out of the strange lotus canopy pipe overhead, and the water flowed like a stream, spraying on the heads of Naiva and several people, and the warm water washed over the body, and several children couldn't help but relax.

Zheng Lai watched from the sidelines, shook his head funny, took the towels and bean soap handed by the staff, and taught them how to scrub clean.