The Ulsan royal residence hosted a sumptuous luncheon, and all the nobles and officials of Dacheng were summoned to the royal residence, where Gongziguang organized a grand banquet to introduce Zheng Yuming to the upper class of Dacheng.
There were three major nobles in Dacheng, the Lu Clan, the mother clan of Gong Ziguang, the Guo Clan of Guo Huben, and the Chen Clan, which had been in Dacheng for generations.
Gong Ziguang has two uncles, these two uncles are the highest head of the armed forces of Dacheng, Guo's is a new aristocratic family, Guo's patriarch is very much in Wei Shen's trust, and Chen's family in Dacheng has a history of several hundred years, the other families with the city of Dacheng city owners continue to change the land, the ups and downs, most of the time disappeared in the time, only the Chen's, such as evergreens like a tree standing in Dacheng towering immovable. Today, Gongzi Guang's two maternal uncles have something absent, the three big families only came to the two big.
Zheng Yuming set up a waterwheel outside the city of Dacheng, has spread throughout Dacheng, as long as a little bit of brains in the aristocracy know what the waterwheel means to them, which means that the farmers of Dacheng more drought-resistant, which means that their income this year will be greatly increased. Because they know the great effect of the waterwheel, the nobles did not feel excessive towards Gongzi Guang's courtesy to Zheng Yuming, and when they saw Zheng Yuming in the Jun Mansion, they were more favorable towards Zheng Yuming, because this foreigner was too good-looking, only such a noble class as theirs could produce such a handsome man.
Chen Meng, the head of the Chen Clan, left his seat with a wine cup to toast Gong Ziguang and Zheng Yuming, who sat on either side of Gong Ziguang with Wei Shen.
"Most of Chen's land is far away from the river, and this waterwheel cannot be used; I wonder if Governor Zheng can help Chen solve this kind of problem?"
"You can dig ditches and open canals." Zheng Yuming owed back to Chen Meng.
"Hey, this is too big of a project, you have to split a mountainside to connect to the river." Chen Meng was full of hope seeking Zheng Yuming's help, not realizing that Zheng Yuming didn't give particularly good advice.
"Irrigation wells can be dug." Water wells appeared as early as 4,000 years ago, and people had already dug wells for irrigation during the summer.
"Water wells have been dug, it's just too laborious." Chen Meng was a little discouraged by Zheng Yuming's answer, he valued farming so much that he followed the example of the nobles in the north who had specialized in digging wells in their fields, but getting water from the wells was a laborious task.
"Using a windlass to cart water can save effort." Zheng Yuming took his eyes to look at Chen Meng a little more, the villagers of Nambu didn't think of digging a well far away from the water source, this Chen Meng seemed to be very attentive and knowledgeable about farming.
"What is a windlass?" Gong Ziguang heard another new thing and couldn't help but be intensely interested again.
"It's a water lift that uses a manual winch and pulls a bucket to draw water from a well."
Literary and historical records windlass was invented by the historian in the early Zhou Dynasty, to the Spring and Autumn Period, the windlass has been popular, in this time and space, I do not know what is the reason, the people of Wu Di have not yet used the windlass.
"Minister Zheng is multi-talented!" Gong Ziguang applauded.
The nobles were able to benefit from Zheng Yuming, and now since Gongzi Guang opened his mouth to praise him, they were not stingy in offering words of praise, and for a while, the atmosphere in the banquet was lively and bustling.
"Governor Zheng is new to Nambu, do you have any difficulties? If there are any difficulties you might as well tell us about, Chen will definitely help out." Chen Meng eyes see Gong Ziguang to Zheng Yuming affectionate, and then associated with Gong Ziguang two years has been favored that clean-cut artist Xin, now this outsider handsome several times more than the artist Xin, but also has a great talent, in the future will surely be the most Gong Ziguang's favor, Chen's in the city of Dacheng towering immovable for hundreds of years, relying on the family decision-makers to invest in the vision.
"Does Secretary Zheng have a difficult matter? Speak quickly if you have." Gong Ziguang encouraged Zheng Yuming not to be polite with him.
"Thank you, Your Excellency and Councilor Chen, there's nothing difficult about Mingyu, it's just a lack of people, a lack of craftsmen." Labor could be obtained from the slave market, but the craftsmen who knew their crafts were in the hands of the nobles.
"This Chen can help in some small way, Chen can even out a few homes to send to Nambu." Once Chen Meng heard about Zheng Yuming's dilemma, he didn't think it was a dilemma at all.
Chen Meng's official position was that of a councilor, which was one level higher than that of a governor. There were not many ranks of officials under the Ulsan ruler, and the highest official positions were that of Mun-eup-zai and Woo-eup-zai, which were usually held by the vassal of the lord of the city, and the Mun-woo-eup-zai of Dacheng was held by the maternal uncles of Wei Shen and Gong Zi Guang, respectively.
"Wei Yi Zai, the jun's mansion also allocates some craftsmen to Zheng Qing." The Ulsan Jun addressed Wei Shen in three ways, by his official title when he was in office, by his private title of Sherman in the mansion, and by his title of Father when the two of them were alone.
"The Jun Mansion doesn't have many artisans, but it can even out some." Wei Shen had always been careful with his budgeting, and the Jun Mansion did not have many artisans.
"Your Excellency! Can the criminal artisans sent to the Wu land be used by Zheng Yuming?" Zheng Yuming was very happy to get craftsmen from the Chen Clan and the Jun House, but what he liked the most was the craftsmen who had been convicted and sent to the Wu Land, these craftsmen were not criminals themselves, some of them were sent because they had offended their masters, or because they had done things to make their masters dissatisfied, but most of them suffered due to the relegation of their masters, and the city of Dacheng was the southernmost tip of the Kingdom of Wu, which had been always treated as a place of sending because of the hot and humid climate, and because of the plague that often ravaged the place, and it was always treated as a place of sending by the ruling class of the Kingdom of Wu. The place was always regarded as a place of dispatch by the ruling class of Wu. These craftsmen were resold as slaves after they were dispatched, and the valley where the villa is located, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui only wanted to use slaves with no personal freedom before they were developed and expanded.
"This can be done, there seems to be a dozen or so house slaves in the prison that have just been sent here, Governor Zheng can take them along with him when he returns to Nanbu." Wei Shen agreed very quickly, these family slaves who were convicted because of their master's family, put into the slave market auction is more than a hundred gold, with only a hundred gold can reward Zheng Yuming, Wei Shen think it is too cost-effective.
"In the future, all the guilty smiths will be sent to Nambu!" Gong Ziguang could be much more generous than Wei Shen.
"As you wish!" Wei Shen never objected to Gong Ziguang's decisions, but of course, Gong Ziguang was never unauthorized in major matters, and was only a bit arbitrary in minor matters, such as for the reward for Artist Xin and the reward for Zheng Yuming.
"Many thanks, Your Excellency! Thank you Wei Eup Zai!" Zheng Yuming was overjoyed, and this time he stood up to give thanks much more sincerely.
Noon luncheon lasted a long time, singers, dancers, entertainers have come up to perform, has been lively until the evening before the end of the banquet are high-grade green wine, green wine alcohol number is not high, but there is a force, the banquet ended, the people who participated in the banquet basically drunk, Gong Ziguang left the table when the tightly tugged at Zheng Yuming's hand, Zheng Yuming at that time, only two minutes of sanity, the two hooked up with each other together out of the table, and into the bedroom of Gong Ziguang, the two people rolled to the couch and fell asleep. The two hooked up together and left the banquet, and entered the bedroom of Gong Ziguang, and the two rolled to the couch and slept to death.
Huo Sizhong and Wei Qing were arranged to eat and drink at the subordinate, the messenger saw Zheng Yuming very much in the favor of the Prince Light, Zheng Yuming's small entourage did not dare to neglect, on the food is very rich. Huo SiZhong and WeiQing in the valley eat good, but the valley chicken and duck is quite small, the waiter served up the whole chicken and duck so that the two teenagers to eat and drink, watching the sun gradually sinking in the west, Huo SiZhong heart began to anxious.
"Rat! Why hasn't His Excellency come out of the banquet yet?" Zheng Yuming came to Dacheng originally prepared to go back on the same day.
"Rotten elm! Call me Wei Qing!" Wei Qing wiped his mouth, looked at the sun, and then listened to the sound of musical instruments coming from the lobby, obviously the banquet was not over yet, it looked like he was going to stay in Dacheng today and not be able to return.
"Look, the artists are leaving!" Huo Si Zhong stood inside the door and hooked his head to peer out, noticing that the singers and dancers were exiting one after another.
"Well, it looks like His Excellency is coming out as well." Wei Qing also next to Huo Si Zhong towards the outside to inspect, both of them can't go outside the door, this is what the attendant repeatedly cared for, the consequences of a wandering underling slave being found out is very serious.
The two teenagers watched the nobles one by one by the family servants to help away, just do not see Zheng Yuming from the inside out, see the sky will be dark, Wei Qing anxious, pulling a passing messenger to inquire about the news.
The waiter who was pulled by Wei Qing did not know where Zheng Yuming was going, but after pinching the twenty Wu coins that Wei Qing had slipped into his sleeve, he immediately agreed to help them inquire about it.
Only after the messenger walked away did Huo Si Zhong whisper for guidance, "Wei Qing, how did you know to stuff money to the waiter?"
"Hmph, rotten elm, you're just a dull wood, don't know won't learn? What can't you see when you run away all the way? You need to open your eyes and look outside!" Wei Qing nose lifted high, bribery was learned on the way to escape, open your eyes and look outside was taught by Chu Chao Hui, in fact, Chu Chao Hui said open your eyes and look at the world, Wei Qing's meaning of the term world was vague, he used outside instead.
"Open your eyes and look outside." Huo Sizhong silently recited these words, Wei Qing's intelligence was a pressure on him, Huo Sizhong vaguely knew that Zheng Yuming wanted to cultivate him, he didn't want to be really dumb as an elm, he hoped that he could be smarter and learn more to live up to his lord's expectations.
The attendant was favored and soon inquired about what Wei Qing and Huo Si Zhong wanted to know. Today the two of them would be staying at the servant's place for the night, because Zheng Yuming had already drunkenly laid down at Gongziguang's place, and the three of them would not be able to return to Nambu today.
Gong Ziguang opened his eyes, found lying on the side of a man in green, fixed his eyes, it turned out to be Zheng Yuming, looking at Zheng Yuming's quiet sleeping face, Gong Ziguang sent a good while to stay, only to think that Zheng Yuming's former country Baimu must be a heavenly realm on earth, only a heavenly realm on earth, to produce such extraordinary handsome talent.
Gong Ziguang to Zheng Yuming is more and more see more and more favorite, the heart feels that such eye-catching people to be able to see every day to be good, just in the Gong Ziguang feasted on the time, mute slaves tiptoe in towards the Gong Ziguang gestures.
Gong Ziguang took one look at the mute slave gesticulating and knew that it was Wei Shen looking for him to discuss important matters, so he had to get up and go see Wei Shen. Gong Ziguang saw Zheng Yuming sleeping soundly and didn't want to wake him up and wanted to leave quietly, but when he got up, he realized that his cuffs were being pressed under Zheng Yuming's body.
Gong Ziguang lightly tugged at the cuffs of his sleeves and found it impossible to pull them out without disturbing the sleeping person. Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at the rapier hanging on the wall and instructed the mute slave with his hand to bring it to him.
Zheng Yuming woke up has been almost to the time, open your eyes to see in a strange place, Zheng Yuming scrambled to climb up, climbed up to find the bottom of the body has a piece of black brocade cloth, Zheng Yuming picked up to see a little bit, I do not know what it is, and casually put it to the side.
Zheng Yuming on the bed to make a noise, a mute slave came in, to Zheng Yuming gesture half a day, Zheng Yuming does not understand the mute language, and the mute slave wide-eyed half a day, until a waiter came in, Zheng Yuming only know their location is actually the Gong Ziguang's bedchamber, the original offerings came, bedchamber utensils for a change, Zheng Yuming did not look out.
After the mute slave waited for Zheng Yuming to finish freshening up, the waiter took Zheng Yuming to the side room for breakfast. Gong Ziguang and Wei Shen had important matters to discuss, and before they left, they asked the waiter to be at Zheng Yuming's beck and call.
Zheng Yuming was in a hurry to leave the palace, so he asked the attendant to show him the way to say goodbye to Gong Ziguang. When he went to the office of the king of Ulsan, he found that the office was surrounded by soldiers, and Gong Ziguang and Wenwu Yi Zai were all inside. The attendant that Gong Ziguang left with Zheng Yuming was a close friend of his, and this close friend had a big face, so the soldiers did not stop him from entering the inner room to inform him, but Zheng Yuming was blocked by the soldiers outside the door.
A few moments, the attendant came out from the inner room, Gong Ziguang now has important matters can not let Zheng Yuming face to face to say goodbye, but Gong Ziguang let the attendant take a message to him, in the future to come to the city of Da must get the Jun House to pay a visit.
Zheng Yuming also knows from the surrounding atmosphere that Gong Ziguang must have encountered a major event before he did not have the time to pay attention to him, and after greeting the inner room twice, he went to the subordinates to find Huo Sizhong and Wei Qing, and went out of the Jun Mansion straight to the medical center of Doctor Xu.
Zheng Yuming came out of the Jun Mansion in a relaxed state, what he didn't expect was that last night's drunkenness and lying down with Ulsan Jun had left a good story in the history books later on.
History says: Ulsan Jun saw Yuming, pleased with his appearance, like his talent. Set up a banquet to celebrate, drunkenness with the bed, to the morning, Yu Ming did not realize, the gentleman does not want to move, is broken sleeve and up, its favorite to this.
27
Doctor Xu's medical center is actually his own residence, residence front row is the medical center, the back row is housing, both sides are pharmaceuticals, two of Doctor Xu's medicine apprentices in the side boiling Chinese medicine, a Chinese medicine smell permeates the house around. Zheng Yuming with Huo Si Zhong and Wei Qing followed the smell of medicine to find the medical center.
Dr. Xu was treating a patient at the clinic, and when he saw Zheng Yuming come in through the door, he quickly got up to greet him.
"Greetings to Governor Zheng!"
"Don't be rude, Healer Zheng." Zheng Yuming touched a piece of parchment in his pocket, on the parchment were some herbal formulas for treating colds and fevers.
"Many thanks to the governor for the last gift of medicine!"
Xu doctor heart very grateful to Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui, if not they use quinine western medicine to cure Ulsan Jun, Xu doctor and many other doctors have to Ulsan Jun burial, and then from Zheng Yuming hands to buy quinine western medicine, although it is a big price to pay, but to save their own biggest patrons, their own fame has become more and more, and now his medical clinic business than the original to be a lot of red-hot.
"Saving someone's life is a matter of virtue." Zheng Yuming pinched his nose, he was going to say that saving a life was better than building a seven-story pagoda, but Buddhism hadn't appeared yet, so no one would understand if he said that.
"Governor Zheng, I heard Dong Wu talk about his homeland, your medical skills are developed, sick people can be cured, the child mortality rate is extremely low, even my family really yearn for it." Healer Xu heard Wu Da talk about the survival rate of children in Zheng Chu's two homelands reaching more than ninety percent, as if he had heard a pie in the sky.
"Yuming's hometown medical skills are very developed, but it's a pity that Yuming and his elder brother didn't study medicine, or else," Zheng Yuming sighed longingly.
"Alas! Pity." The light in Healer Xu's eyes faded.
"Although Yuming and his elder brother don't know how to heal, they have some formulas in their hands for treating colds, flu, and fever." Zheng Yuming finally brought the topic to the recipes written on the pocket parchment.
"A formula for treating colds and flu and reducing fever?" Doctor Xu's eyes immediately emitted a bright light, this time and space, medicine and witch are not separated, but Doctor Xu's ancestors are pure medicine, not witch, Xu family generations committed to medicines to cure the disease, Doctor Xu is even more on this aspect of the use of the whole heart, this is also the doctor Xu was drafted to the Ulsan Junfu before, heard Wu Mu son of the high temperature fever will be kept in mind to mull over.
"Yes, it is the experience and summarization of the healers of Yuming's hometown for thousands of years."
"Then, Governor Zheng, would it be possible to have a look with the even family?" Healer Xu's face turned red as he said this, because medical skills had always been passed down from family to family from generation to generation. Doctor Xu's own secret formula was never passed on, but now he was asking to see the formula with Zheng Yuming, his heart was really ashamed.
Zheng Yuming looked at the Xu healer did not say anything, and said What are you blushing, take the money out to buy ah, today is specifically to find you to do business.
"I don't want to see all of it, I just want to understand what medicine can reduce fever, I still have more than six hundred gold in my house, all of it is dedicated to the governor." Seeing that Zheng Yuming did not say a word, Doctor Xu suddenly remembered that when he traded the quinine medicine, Zheng Yuming had said that he was short of money.
"Hey! Yuming originally wanted to offer the formula to the healer so that the healer could save more lives, but Yuming had just arrived here and needed money and silk, so since Healer Seo was such a good healer, Yuming offered the formula in its entirety."
Zheng Yuming before he came here only intended to exchange from healer Xu here to three or four hundred gold, there are a few hundred gold, it is enough to maintain more than a month, more than a month after Wu Mu as long as there is no accident must have returned to Nambu, then there will be no worry about money.
"The governor is a good man!" Dr. Xu's face was full of emotion, no wonder the people in Dacheng praised the governor of Nambu, the two governors of Nambu really care about the people, not only to help the people of Dacheng to solve the problem of irrigation, but also generously dedicate the medical prescription to the benefit of the people of Dacheng.
When Xu doctor got the parchment, a little dumbfounded. Because there are a lot of aliases on the parchment, which is still Zheng Yuming against the ancestral parchment book copied by Wu everyone, Zheng Yuming if all the simplified Chinese characters to write formulas, Xu medical practitioners out of six hundred gold to get their hands on the formulas can only be unintelligible book of the sky, and now parchment formulas, although there are seven percent, eight percent of simplified Chinese characters, but the shape of herbs against the text next to the Xu medical practitioners can still be able to figure it out.
With these formulas sold to him by Zheng Yuming, Dr. Xu's medical skills rocketed, and his fame was soon second to none in Dacheng.
After Zheng Yuming received six hundred gold from Healer Xu, he first sent Wei Qing to the inn to do some work, and took Huo Sizhong to the Da Cheng prison, where there were more than a dozen craftsmen sent by Azure Mountain Jun to Nangbu. Zheng Yuming had to lead these artisans back to Nambu, and the few artisans sent by Chen Meng and the Jun House were to be sent to Nambu in a few days.
The dungeon steward had seen Zheng Yuming's warrant, and with the money and silk Zheng Yuming handed him in his sleeve, he hurriedly and attentively took him to the dungeon to extract the prisoner. Although the Ulsan King is merciful and a saint in the people's mouth, the Da Da Cheng prison is still the most horrible place, it is dark and humid inside, and there are sounds of pleading and pain everywhere, the ones who make noise are still in a better situation because they are still alive, after Zheng Yuming's eyes adjusted to the darkness of the prison, he found a number of prisoners laying motionless on the humid haystacks of the prison, and those prisoners are either in the time of death, or have already been cut off from their breaths.
"My lord! These fifteen prisoners are artisans." The steward had the prison guards lift and carry the artisans from the prisoners.
Zheng Yuming surveyed these condemned artisans, who looked numb and had large sinful characters branded on their faces.
"What about the families of these smiths?" These smiths will have to make a home in the valley in the future, and they can't be allowed to be outwardly attached.
"The families of the craftsmen are all trash, do you still want to take them away, Lord Governor?" The steward had the hardware that Zheng Yuming had slipped him in his sleeve, and the Ulsan-kun's warrant stated that the prisoners were to be lifted and taken by Zheng Yuming, so the steward felt that those family members were women and children, not laborers, and that Zheng Yuming wouldn't need them, and so he just gathered the smiths together.
"Take all the families of the smiths, as long as they are in the family."
Zheng Yuming's words fell, the craftsmen's faces are no longer numb, one by one, there is a gleam in their eyes, that is, turned into slaves, but also a family together as slaves is good.
The family members of the craftsmen are also only two dozen, respectively, nine women, a dozen children between eight and fifteen years old, and two old men in their early forties, these family members are only half of the number before the exile, and the other half have already died on the way, young children and old men are the first to die, and the two remaining old men are actually craftsmen as well because of their good health in order to survive to reach the city.
After forty or so people were lifted out of the cell, the prison was suddenly empty, and Zheng Yuming pointed at a short man in his thirties and asked the steward, "Who is that person?"
The Steward reached over and looked into the corner of the cell, where the short man was taking the pulse of a prisoner lying on the floor.
"That's a witch doctor who was convicted and exiled here for killing Dr. Kang's concubine."
"A healer then?" The short man's movement of taking someone's pulse caught Zheng Yuming's attention.
"It's a quack!" The steward was full of disdain.
"I'll take that witch doctor too." Zheng Yuming did not feel that the witch doctor would be a quack, if it was a quack, it would not be his turn to treat the bridegroom's concubine, it must have failed to cure the concubine of doctor Jiang, and was exiled by the anger of the doctor surnamed Jiang.
The steward was surprised in his heart that Zheng Yuming not only wanted women and children, but even quacks, and that witch doctor was alone, with no family members, and was driven into the smithy team after the steward shouted out of the prison.
"My lord! I am also talented, please take in your honor!" Next to a cage a prisoner pounced on the bar to Zheng Yuming request, this prisoner from Zheng Yuming came in has been paying attention to, found that this temperament and appearance outstanding land nobles, as long as there are skills will be taken away, and hastily pounced over to self-introduction.
"What talent do you have?" Zheng Yuming surveyed the bony prisoner, the self-recommended prisoner was in his mid-twenties, with big eyes and a thin figure, looking at his body and bones not like a craftsman or farmer who did laborious work.
"I know ventriloquism." The prisoner's eyes were filled with longing, even if he had to become a slave, he hoped that he would have a better slave master.
"Ventriloquism?" Jung Yuming frowned at that, what did he need a ventriloquist for, the valley didn't need one.
"My lord! I can read!" The prisoner saw Zheng Yuming raise his step to leave, but not anxious, he said literate, in fact, just know more than a hundred words, or self-taught to recognize.
"Oh, you know how to read?" Zheng Yuming was interested, those who were literate in this time and space were nobles, even Wu Da was literate only because his ancestors had been nobles.
"Yes, my lord, my name is Fanjin, and I can write the word Fanjin for your lordship."
"Fan Jin?" Zheng Yuming laughed at the sound of it, Fan Jin was a celebrity, a successful lifer, but this Fan Jin was not the same Fan Jin. "Alright, bring him up."
After seeing Fan Jin self-nomination by Zheng Yuming, the other prisoners in the cell are up in the air, have rushed to the front of the bar yelling, Zheng Yuming patiently listened to the self-nomination of a few prisoners, found that these people do not have a bit of skill specialties, sighed and threw down a piece of pleading, and took the selected prisoners quickly left the prison.
From the dungeon led out of the prisoners a total of forty-one, these prisoners in the unloading of the torture device, one by one to help each other to follow in Zheng Yuming's back hobbling, the end of the team only Huo Si Zhong escorted, even so, this group of prisoners are also extraordinarily well-behaved, none of the demeanor of a different movement.
This time is already midday, prisoners were Zheng Yuming brought to the inn, Wei Qing in the inn has let people cook a good corn porridge, prisoners slightly cleaned, each person to a large bowl of corn porridge, eat porridge these prisoners have the strength, one by one was driven to hire five mule carts, Zheng Yuming and Wei Qing, Huo Sizhong did not sit with the prisoners, the three ride alone in a mule cart to walk in the back.
The mule cart was hired by the Zheng Chu duo last time, and the second time they went to Nambu they were familiar with the road, and the mule cart traveled fast all the way, and in more than two hours they arrived at the slopes next to the mouth of the gap.
The mule cart had just stopped at the bottom of the hill when a group of bald young men sprang out of the woods beside it, the foremost one with slightly shorter hair, tall, bright-eyed and starry-eyed, and athletic in action.
"Chu Chao Hui!" There was joy on Zheng Yuming's face, a kind of happiness at seeing one of his own.
"How did you buy slaves?" Chu Chao Hui mouth asked the prisoners, but the eyes only stared at Zheng Yuming survey, yesterday Zheng Yuming did not return to the valley, Chu Chao Hui in the camphor tree next to wait until the moon rises to return to the valley, today with slaves to work dry to more than three o'clock, stop working with slaves out of the gap mouth in the hillside waiting.
"Not slaves, but smiths and smiths' families."
"Oh, a smith?" Chu Chao Hui turned to the group of prisoners, looking at the group of prisoners as if they were looking at a treasure.
The slaves brought out of the valley behind Chu Chao-hui all looked with pity at the forty-one men who came down from the mule cart, forty-one men just as they had been a month before, dressed in rags, with burnt faces and so thin that their mouths could not enclose their teeth.
The slaves in the valley measure the prisoners, the prisoners are also peeping at them, the prisoners are pondering the identity of the bald ones in their hearts, you say they are slaves, but one by one they look good, they are neatly dressed and look more decent than the civilians, you have to say that they are not slaves, one by one they are all branded with a mark on their eyebrows, which is a slave symbol. The witch doctor among the prisoners is the most suspicious in his heart, because he knows that the plum blossom mark is mostly branded for which type of slaves, look at these slaves are not the material to be a favored slave ah, does the main family have a special fetish?
Sending off the hired mule carts, the valley slaves led the prisoners into the valley under the command of Er Zi and Dajiang; Er Zi, who had come from Tang, and Dajiang, who had come from Ch'u, were now team leaders among the slaves, with nine men under each of them.
Prisoners see the valley villa as usual surprised, wait until the second son and big strong with hair picking pusher to pick their hair, the prisoners only know the origin of the valley slaves bald. When the slaves came into the valley to shave their hair there was also a commotion, but this group of prisoners did not move a muscle when their hair was picked. Because the status of this group of prisoners is not as good as the slaves bought in the slave market, those slaves are of civilian origin, while they are convicted and deposed, the lowest rank among the slaves.
Er Zi and Dazhuang, the slaves who arrived first, were assigned the task by Chu Chao Hui to look after the craftsmen and the craftsmen's families, Er Zi and Dazhuang had a kind of psychological superiority when they saw the prisoners, because they had already got out of the misery and lived the life they had been dreaming of. Seeing these prisoners, the slaves immediately remembered their previous painful lives, and while sympathizing with these people who entered the valley later than them, they were glad that they were out of their misery earlier.
The prisoners' hair was shaved and their clothes stripped, and the women and children scrubbed themselves clean in the greenhouse, while the men washed in the slave kitchens, and were kept busy until dark.
The prisoners wore coarse linen clothes sewn by the village women of Nambu, and each of them was given a big bowl of corn porridge, with a large piece of salted noodle lumps in the bowl. After dinner, the prisoners were led into the mud room by the slaves who arrived first. The women and children were divided into three rooms, and the other smiths were equally divided among the slaves; this was only a temporary shelter, and from tomorrow onwards, these smiths had to build their own houses to live in.
"This brother, when did you come here." Fan Zin was assigned to the second son's room. This room had wooden planks on the floor, hay on the planks, and coarse linen on the hay.
"A month ago." Eriko lay on the straw bunk, one leg resting on top of the other and wiggling.
"The master's family treats you well, even giving you dry rice to eat." Fan Zin licked his tongue, the slaves ate differently from them at night, the slaves ate corn rice and vegetables, his nose also smelled the aroma of meat, smelling it from afar was a delicacy. They didn't know when they had this treatment.
"Haha! The Lord is merciful, you will have something to eat in the future as well." As soon as Er Zi heard Fan Zin's envious tone, he remembered his own gluttony when he thought that noodle lumps were a delicacy.
"Really? We can eat dry rice in the future too?" Fanjin was full of surprise.
"Of course, when we first entered the valley we also ate the same thin rice as you guys, the adults said that it was to nourish the intestines and stomach, the intestines and stomach are something that needs to be nourished, if we give you guys good food now, it will eat your intestines and stomachs bad, don't worry, you guys will be able to eat good food in a couple of days." Er Zi sincerely explained to Fan Zin.
"You'll be able to eat well in the future!" Fan Jin smashed his mouth, saliva gulping straight from inside his mouth, and in his heart, he was very fortunate that he had made a self-recommendation to Zheng Yuming, and also fortunate that when he was performing ventriloquism, he had humbly learned the words from the artists around him, and had managed to get out of his misery by relying on the hundred words that he had learned from his self-taught experience.