Chapter 2
Sun Zhaoyuan waited in Jingbing Mansion City for a few days, sitting and drinking tea in the public office, during which there was no official who came to report the matter, and it was not until noon that day that he saw Jin Fei and Jiang Fugui come back.
Sun Zhaoyuan said, "Two brothers, can you gain anything from going here?"
Jin Fei said: "This trip can be regarded as seeing the misery of the world."
Sun Zhaoyuan said, "Where did my brother say that?"
Jin Fei said: "These exiled prisoners, about three or four hundred, are all people who have committed serious crimes in various states and prefectures, and there are even many officials and governors, attendants, and prefects. On the way to exile, with shackles, you need to travel 50 miles a day, and if you are sick, no one will pay attention to it, you can only suffer hard, and when you get to this cold place, if you have two silver taels to bribe the servants, the servants will buy you some clothes and animal skins, if you don't have silver taels, you will be allowed to starve and freeze, so the exiles are tortured along the way, and they are two or three times out of ten. Even in this place of exile, it was very difficult. This place is sparsely populated, the weather is cold, there is a lack of food and clothing, a lack of medical treatment, and the misery is unspeakable. The government also only gave out some brown rice so that these people would not starve to death, and these people and others were all yellow and thin. The errand of these people is that the government will give them sheep and let them graze, and they will give you five sheep this year, and you must hand over seven sheep to the government next year, and if you pay less, the sentence will be increased, and many people will be exiled for only ten years, but in the end they will be exiled for thirty years, which is really miserable."
Sun Zhaoyuan said: "Every year, this sheep will give birth to lambs, how can this errand not be able to be done?"
Jin Fei said: "There are many wolves here, and at night, the wolves come out to feed, and many sheep are taken away, except for the wolves, in winter, the wind rolls up the ice and snow to cover the sky and the sun, and often blows down the fence, and those sheep are lost in the wind and snow, and they are never seen again. Therefore, many people, not to mention that they can help the government earn more sheep, but also distribute a lot of sheep, which is a difficult thing."
Sun Zhaoyuan said: "The sheep land is really true to its name, and it is really difficult to come to this exile. My younger brother once read in a book of poems, in ancient times, there was a minister and literati, when he was exiled, he sighed, empty cooking cold vegetables, burning wet reeds in the stove, now it seems that there are cold vegetables and wet reeds, it is better than the people who are now exiled to stay in the state. Have you ever heard about any big cases that people are angry about?"
Jin Fei said, "It just so happened that last month, there was a tragic case of the Nie Er tribe slashing and killing exiled sinners, killing two and injuring ten."
Sun Zhaoyuan said, "Hurry up."
Jin Fei said, "This matter has some connection with us and others."
Sun Zhaoyuan said, "What does this matter have to do with us?"
Jin Fei said, "Brother still remembers when he was going to design and kill my criminal department servant Lu Sutai?"
Sun Zhaoyuan said, "How can you not remember."
Jin Fei said: "The victims behind this case are Lu Sutai's distant relatives. This Lu Sutai was sentenced to behead by the saint that year, and his distant relatives were exiled to Changliuzhou, he had a distant relative, who was sentenced to exile seven or eight people, and when he arrived in this Jingbing Mansion, there were only two men and one woman left. The woman was twenty-eight years old and handsome, so when she arrived here, many Han people fell in love with her and wanted to be nice to her, but she was good, none of them had a fancy to herd, and she only wanted to give birth to sheep and herd sheep, and when the sentence expired, she went back to her hometown to pick a good husband to marry. Unexpectedly, a few months ago, a group of Nie Er people grazing past, and the leader Zebudo saw the woman, so he became lustful, and brought a few people that night to rob it. Unexpectedly, these exiles risked their lives to protect this woman, so that she did not fall into the clutches of the devil. Zebu saw that the Han people were many and could not be twisted, so he pretended to retreat, but carefully observed in secret, and after the Han people dispersed with the flock, they came to snatch the woman again, this time there were only more than ten people around the woman, although they were desperate to protect each other, but they were all sinners, and there were no weapons around, so the woman's two relatives were killed, and the ten people around her were killed and injured. After Zebudo took the woman back and bullied her, the woman was sad and angry, thinking that there were no relatives in the world, so she committed suicide in civilian clothes. Because of this Han man, each beating his chest, he can't wait to remove this Zebu into eight pieces to relieve the hatred in his heart."
Sun Zhaoyuan pondered for a long time, with a sense of worry on his face, and said to himself, "This is fate, and you can't blame me."
Jin Fei said: "If this case is used, it will be verified that if Zebudo is to be imprisoned, he will definitely get a lot of assistance among the Han people, and this Zebuduo will definitely resist, maybe he will entangle people and others to attack the Jingbing Mansion Office, so that these hundred guards will not be able to leave this place."
Sun Zhaoyuan said: "Exactly, this matter, we will deal with it together. I'll go out of town with you to inquire into the case."
So the three of them rode out of the city together and hurried to the sheep field.
After getting this sheep land, Sun Zhaoyuan was shocked to hear a wolf howl, which was very terrifying. Sun Zhaoyuan had never seen such a scene, and a cold sweat broke out on his back.
Jin Fei saw that Sun Zhaoyuan was sweating on his forehead when he saw Sun Zhaoyuan in such a cold day, knowing that he was frightened by this wolf howl, and said: "This sheep land is a wolf den, I heard that there are dozens of wolves, but my brother don't panic, even if dozens of wolves besiege together, Jiang Fugui and I can also slash one by one, and protect you thoroughly."
Sun Zhaoyuan made up his mind and said, "The two elder brothers are strong in martial arts, so they are naturally not afraid of this wolf. But how dare these exiled sinners, most of whom don't know martial arts, and are defenseless, live in this place?"
Jin Fei said, "This is the place of punishment for the imperial court to exile them, and they must live if they don't want to. I asked the Han people here, and they also thought of a lot of ideas, many Han people have big dogs, if the wolves come, the big dogs will bark wildly, and the Han people will pick up torches to help. The wolves and beasts are also the most afraid of the fire, and they see that the crowd of dogs is very imposing, and they don't dare to venture in, so they will naturally go. So as long as you don't run around, everyone will gather around and won't be caught and eaten by wolves. But if you lose your way in the wind and snow alone, you will never be able to get it back."
Sun Zhaoyuan said: "This kind of sinister is what we could have thought of in Anyi Prefecture before."
After talking for a long time, I finally arrived at a place where Han people lived in Sheep Land. I saw that there were about twenty or thirty tents in that place, and the Han people were scattered among the meadows, and there were about forty or fifty people. Those sheep are grazing grass around. Twenty or thirty dogs scattered around, howling if a pack of wolves approached, calling their friends to gather and drive them away.
Jin Fei and Jiang Fugui led Sun Zhaoyuan to a tent and said, "Jiang Yuan, the former governor of Jiangzhou, lives here, and he is the leader of the Han criminals in this sheep-walking land, and he knows best what is going on."
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