Zhuge Xuan's funeral was arranged from the evening of the same day, and the funeral was officially buried and reported before dawn the next day.

The so-called small burial is to dress the deceased and change the bed.

The funeral of the Han Dynasty had a complete set of processes, including purification, incense burning, funeral, cessation, wake, funeral, funeral, burial and so on.

In later times, these procedures were much simplified, and the general funeral was held for three to seven days, while in ancient times the process would be very cumbersome.

Ordinary people's homes may not be so complicated, but from the poor family to the scholars to the eunuchs, princes and nobles, almost the higher the status, the more troublesome the funeral process will be, and the longer it will take to handle.

In history, the funeral of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty lasted for almost two months, and in the Spring and Autumn Period, due to the lack of smooth roads, Zhou Tianzi may even have to stop for a year after his death, waiting for princes from all over the country to come and pay their respects.

Although the Zhuge family is not a big family, the ancestors also had two thousand stones like Si Lixiaowei, which is slightly better than Hanmen and Haoqiang, and it is considered a low-level family, so the process of the main family in handling funerals will be a little more cumbersome.

It's just that I didn't expect that there was a little problem on the first day of the funeral.

Before dawn the next day, Zhuge Liang, who had not rested all night, walked out of his uncle's room, and his uncle's friends had already left last night, and only Shen Chen was still with him.

Zhuge Liang went to wash up first, and when he came out of the backyard, he saw that Shen Chen was already standing behind him without knowing when.

"Brother."

"Brother."

Shen Chen looked at him with some concern and said, "I haven't slept all night, and I have to stop my spirit today to report the funeral, you have to pay attention to your body, so you can sleep a little." ”

Zhuge Liang waved his hand and said, "It's okay, my uncle died of illness, and I couldn't sleep even if I wanted to sleep last night." ”

"Hmm."

Shen Chen nodded and said: "After my clan moved to Nanyang, I have held a large number of funerals for dozens of families who died, and I am also quite experienced, if you want to rest for a while, I will help you." ”

"Okay."

Zhuge Liang reluctantly smiled: "Then when I'm tired, you can help me receive guests." ”

"Understood."

The two walked back to their room.

Outside the door, there were children squatting at the door, drowsy.

Zhuge Liang woke him up and asked him to call a few sturdy male servants from the house.

The funeral process is strictly regulated, and the day before must be the same, that is, the deceased must lie in his bed as he did before his death and let him rest for the last night.

This custom is called "quite mourning", and then in the early morning of the next day, the "small burial" will begin, that is, the deceased will scrub the body and change into funeral clothes.

After a while, six young manservants came to the room, and one of them was yawning with an impatient look on his face.

Zhuge Liang instructed: "You carry your uncle to the backyard hall, make a plate of hot water, scrub your uncle's body, and put on new clothes." I have written some mourning prayers, and in the afternoon you will go to the city and visit the Lord's house one by one, according to the names written on them, do you know?"

"Yui."

A few of the slaves should be.

But when the yawning slave heard that he was going to scrub Zhuge Xuan's body and go to Xiangyang to report the funeral, he was immediately unhappy and said, "Da Lang, can I not do it?"

"Hmm"

Zhuge Liang glanced at him majestically, and said in surprise: "You are sick"

The servant shook his head and said, "No, it's just that when the doctor bought Ding, the coupon only stated that he would take care of the house, and there was no agreement to scrub the doctor's body and leave the house to go to the city to send funeral advice." ”

Hearing this, Shen Chen and Zhuge Liang glanced at each other, and their brows furrowed at the same time.

Met a lazy slave.

Since the beginning of the Qin and Han dynasties, slavery has basically been abolished and a feudal society has been moved. But this does not mean that slaves no longer exist at all, at least until the Qing Dynasty, slaves were a symbol of the property of the ancient magnates.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, a certain slave culture was naturally retained, and the Yuan family of the fourth and third princes had countless slaves, and the top wealthy families were embarrassed to go out if they did not have thousands of slaves. It is common for ordinary families to have hundreds or thousands of slaves, and even Mi Zhu, a wealthy merchant in Xuzhou, has tens of thousands of slaves.

Although Zhuge Shi's family is in the middle, Zhuge Liang's father used to be a county prince after all, the second-in-command of Taishan County, and his basic social status and wealth are still not less, so there are dozens of slaves in the family, most of whom are male servants.

Later, Zhuge Jin was in charge, considering that he was only fifteen years old at present, and his stepmother was alone and widowed, and there were too many male servants, so he sold most of the male servants, leaving only four loyal slaves.

The rest of the remaining slaves are mainly child servants, male servants can do some manual labor, and child servants accompany the two younger brothers to study, serve Lang Jun, and do some simple chores for the main family.

When Zhuge Xuan came to Xuzhou to pick up Zhuge Liang and them, Zhuge Jin went to Jiangdong separately and took the four adult male servants with him by the way.

After arriving in Jingzhou, because the family had to start anew, it required a lot of manual labor to serve and live, build houses, cultivate fields, raise livestock, etc., so Zhuge Xuan hired a large number of local villagers for construction, and at the same time bought six male servants to manage these things.

In ancient times, large families actually preferred to cultivate slaves from an early age, so that their loyalty would be much higher, so they were called domestic slaves.

And the newly bought slave is not loyal enough, and it is easy to be pampered and proud if he is too good to him, and if he is not good to him, he may abandon his family and run away. Therefore, during the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, especially in the late Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were many disputes between master and slave.

The original male house slaves of the Zhuge family were all taken away by Zhuge Jin, and most of the current house slaves are seven or eight years old and teenage children, only the six newly bought slaves are young and strong, so they need to contribute.

As a result, I didn't expect that a manservant was actually a lazy slave.

In the past, these male servants managed the property of Zhuge Xuan outside, and the inner house was mainly taken care of by the child servants of the Zhuge family, and only when they had to use heavy physical work, they would call these male servants over, so although Zhuge Liang knew these male servants, the relationship was not very close.

In the past, Zhuge Xuan was an official under Liu Biao all the year round, working every day, leaving early and returning late, and he had no time to manage these slaves, resulting in after his death, there was actually a lazy dog slave who wanted to shirk his duties and contradict the master's family.

Although such a thing is actually very common, when the northern princes were fighting for hegemony, due to the collapse of the official order, thieves were rampant, and the legal system was broken, even if the slaves of the large families escaped, few people could manage them.

Especially during the turbulent period of the Yellow Turban Rebellion and Dong Zhuo's Rebellion, the contradictions between masters and slaves broke out very fiercely.

Occasionally, the old master dies of illness, the new master is too young, the master is weak and the slave is strong, but the house slave occupies the master's property, and even during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, there is no shortage of slaves who eat the master and participate in the rebel army to kill their own master.

But this is Jingzhou.

Liu Biao's rule is quite stable, the rule of law is strict, and the control of the government is sufficient.

If this slave named Ding thought that after Zhuge Xuan's death, Zhuge Liang, a child in his teens, would not be able to be in charge of the family, and he could bully the young master, it would be a big mistake.

After hearing Ding's words, Zhuge Liang thought for a while, then turned his head to look at Shen Chen and asked, "Brother, do you lack slaves?"

Shen Chen suddenly understood, and said to the boy outside the door: "Anu, you go and call Shen Qi and Deng Pi in." ”

"Yui."

Anu bounced and ran outside.

Shen Qi and Deng Pi were not his slaves, but distant relatives of Deng Shen Er's clan, two bodyguards who specialized in protecting Shen Chen.

Ding was puzzled and asked, "Is Da Lang going to sell Ding?"

Zhuge Liang was too lazy to take care of him.

After a while, Shen Qi and Deng Pi came in and asked, "Xiaolang, what are you calling us?"

"Hold him down."

Shen Chen pointed at Na Ding and said.

Shen Qi was burly and powerful, and when he heard Shen Chen's words, he immediately rushed towards Ding with a fierce look and knocked him down.

The other slaves around him were silent.

After all, treacherous and cunning slaves are in the minority, and honest people are still in the majority.

Ding Liao immediately shouted: "Da Lang, what mistake did Ding Liao make, why did you arrest me." ”

Zhuge Liang ignored him, but said to Anu: "Anu, you go and bring Ding's coupons." ”

The bond contract is the so-called master-servant contract, which can also be called a slave contract, and there are some relevant provisions in it.

For example, some of the duties of the slave are clarified.

It's just that because of the limited space, the specific content will be more general, such as Ding's coupon agreement only stipulates that he should take care of the house, and there is indeed no provision that the dead owner must be scrubbed.

But the problem is that the reason why the coupon contract does not write the details is that it is inconvenient to record it, and the social rule at that time was that the master's orders and servants must listen to them, and even if they are not written on the coupon contract, they must abide by them, so Ding Liao actually wants to exploit the loopholes of the law and be lazy.

Soon Anu brought Ding's contract, which was a roll of bamboo slips, and there was a backup of this bamboo slip in the local government, so he was not afraid of being stolen.

And the master can use this bamboo slip to buy and sell privately with others, and only need to report to the government after the transaction is completed, so the bond contract is very important for the slave, commonly known as the deed of sale.

Zhuge Liang took the bamboo slip from Anu's hand, glanced at the contents, and said to Shen Chen: "Brother, take a look." ”

Shen Chen took it and took a look, it was a very formal coupon contract, Zhuge Xuan bought Ding for 18,005 baht, and the content of it was indeed quite general, so he took the bamboo slip and said to Ding: "If you want to summon you, you must go to the coupon; If you don't write it into the coupon, you won't do anything."

"Of course, you have to use the coupon as a proof."

Ding bit this sentence to death.

Generally speaking, if the master's family is powerful, the slave will not be so lazy, because even if the slave is killed, the master's family will only lose some money and does not need to resist the fate.

The problem is that there are fools everywhere, and there are countless stupid slaves like Ding Liao in the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty.

In addition, Zhuge Xuan had just died, and Ding felt that the new master was young and could be bullied, so he wanted to be lazy and strike, but he didn't know that Zhuge Liang had just become the head of the family, and he was about to govern the family and establish his own majesty, so he hit the pole and couldn't complain about anyone.

The two glanced at each other, and Shen Chen said with a smile: "Since this is the case, then I will read it first: On March 8, the second year of Jian'an, Shen Chen, a man from Xinye, bought a strong slave from Zhuge Liang, a man from Longzhong, Xiangyang, and decided to pay 20,000 yuan. Slaves are servants, and they must not have two words. ”

"Since March 9, I have been sprinkling and cleaning in the morning. Judang wears a broom and cuts a bucket. The dredging canal is bound, and the garden is moor. Du Ji Pi ground, carved wood for the frame. Qu Zhu as a loquat and cut the deer Lu. If you finish it in one day, if you don't listen to it, you will be punished with a hundred lashes. ”

"On March 10th, the weaving shoes were coarse, and the sticky finches were open. Fishing with nets, and catching geese. Climb the mountain to shoot deer and enter the water to hunt turtles. The back garden is indulgent, and there are more than 100 geese. Expel the birds and herd the pigs. Plant ginger and raise taro, and grow dolphin foals. The dung is removed from the hall, and the horses and cattle are fed. If you finish it in one day, if you don't listen to it, you will be punished with a hundred lashes. ”

"On March 11, it was dike and Dujiang, and it fell mulberry peel brown. Plant melons for gourds, don't put eggplants on green onions. Burn the hair domain, and the ridge set is broken. In the middle of the day, the fire is in the morning, and the rooster crows. Regulate the horse household, and fall threefold. If you finish it in one day, if you don't listen to it, you will be punished with a hundred lashes. ”

"March 12"

After finishing speaking, he bought the work that Ding had to do on the third day, and before he could say the work on the fourth day, Ding had already knelt down, kept kowtowing, and shouted in his mouth: "Xiao Lang, don't say it again, any of these jobs have to be done for a day, how can the work of ten days be done in one day, Xiao Lang is going to kill Ding." ”

Shen Chen glanced at Zhuge Liang, and Zhuge Liang said coldly: "Since this is the case, do you know if you are wrong?"

Ding slapped himself a few times, tears and snot flowed down together, and kowtowed to Zhuge Liang again and again: "Ding knows that he is wrong, Ding will definitely listen to Da Lang's words in the future, and he really doesn't dare to do evil." ”

"Then you will be flogged ten lashes to set an example."

Zhuge Liang looked at the rest of the slaves and said, "Wait until you pull him down and whip him ten times, don't be lazy, I want to see blood." ”

The slaves suddenly felt bitter in their hearts, knowing that although the new master of the family was young, he could govern the family strictly and could not be bullied, so they hurriedly dragged Ding out, tied him up in the courtyard, and beat him ten times in front of Zhuge Liang, each whip was extremely heavy, and the whip was bloody.

On the side, Shen Chen praised his brother in his heart for his good methods, and he said that he would be flogged with a hundred whips, but he lowered it to ten lashes, which not only punished the lazy slave, but also did not make the lazy slave resentful, and the means were clever.

Soon Ding was dragged back and knelt down in front of Zhuge Liang, not only did he not dare to hold grudges, but he also kept thanking him for his grace, and his nose and tears flowed.

After all, the bad guy was done by Shen Chen, Shen Chen's contract was completely to kill him, if Zhuge Liang really sold him to Shen Chen, it would be better to die, so he seemed to have escaped from the ghost gate, even if he was beaten with ten whips, he was grateful to Zhuge Liang for saving his life.

Zhuge Liang asked him to do things immediately, and the slaves did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly acted according to his orders.

"Brother Shen"

"Hmm"

Shen Changqing walked on the road, and when he met someone he knew well, he would say hello to each other or nod his head.

But it doesn't matter who it is.

There was no superfluous expression on everyone's face, as if they were very indifferent to everything.

on this.

Shen Changqing is used to it.

Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, it is an institution that maintains the stability of Great Qin, and its main responsibility is to kill demons and monsters, and of course there are some other side jobs.

Arguably.

In the Demon Suppression Division, everyone has a lot of blood on their hands.

When a person is accustomed to seeing life and death, then he will become indifferent to many things.

When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but over time he got used to it.

The Demon Suppression Division is huge.

The people who can stay in the Demon Suppression Division are all powerful masters, or people who have the potential to become masters.

Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.

Among them, the Demon Suppression Division is divided into two professions, one is the town guard and the other is the demon exterminator.

Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Division starts with the lowest level of demon slayer.

Then step by step, he is expected to become a town guard.

Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level of the demon slayer envoys.

Have memories of the predecessor.

He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.

It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of an attic.

Unlike other places full of slaughter, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd, and in the bloody Demon Suppression Division, it presents a different tranquility.

At this time, the attic door is open, and there are occasional people entering and exiting.

Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment, and then stepped in.

Access to the attic.

The environment has changed in vain.

A burst of ink fragrance mixed with the faint smell of blood came to his face, making his brow furrow instinctively, but quickly stretched.

The smell of blood on everyone's body in the Demon Suppression Division is almost impossible to clean.