The slave soldiers had been out for a month and a half, and their bodies were very tired, but when they returned to the valley, they all picked themselves up and accepted the welcome from the people in the valley. The people in the valley only knew that the slave soldiers had gone to exterminate the bandits, but they didn't know where to exterminate the bandits, and thought that they were in the surrounding mountains.
The captives brought back by the slave soldiers were not the seventy-something that Chu Chao Hui said, but one hundred and twenty-something. The number of prisoners that Chu Chao Hui told Zheng Yuming was only the number of bandits, in addition to the bandits, there were also some of the bandits' family members, the women they plundered up the mountain, and the children these women gave birth to after they were raped.
A few vicious bandit leader was disposed of on the spot, the remaining bandits had thought that must die, do not want to this tall imposing extraordinary noble lord gave them two ways to choose, one is to receive a gold road fee to go home as a good citizen, the other is to submit to this noble lord to his fiefdom as a guard, as a guard not only can eat a full stomach, but also can receive a monthly soldier's pay, the number of soldier's pay has a five gold. Of course, when the guards can not be anyone can be, must be selected, unqualified can only be in the fiefdom to do other types of work, do other types of work will also be sent to the money every month, but the number is not as rich as when the guards.
Most of the mountain bandits gathered in the mountain because of hunger to become a bandit, in order to have a meal to live, Chu Chao Hui even if he did not say that what to do in the valley will be paid, just to be able to fill the stomach of this guarantee has already made their hearts moved. After Chu Chao Hui's selection program was announced, except for a few bandits who were close to the cleared bandit leader and refused to stay, the other bandits unanimously requested to sign up to join the escort.
Chu Chaohui, in front of all the bandits, gave a few bandits who refused to stay a gold road fee, and put them down on the mountain on the spot. Seeing this noble lord's words, there are several mountain bandits who don't want to stay, put down the doubt in their hearts, and also received the road fee to leave. The other bandits who stayed behind settled down in their hearts and took the initiative to help the valley slave soldiers to organize the valuable things of the bandit nest and packaged them into parcels ready to be brought back to the valley.
The mountain bandits who received the road fee didn't get to go back to where they wanted to go, after they went down the mountain, they were killed at the foot of the mountain by the slave soldiers led by Wei Qing, and their bodies were buried deep on the spot. Chu Chao Hui led the team out to fight the bandits this time, it was done in secret and could not leak out. He said he was free to choose, but in fact, he only gave one choice, and the bandits who chose to collect the road fee actually chose the road of no return. Chu Chao Hui did this, but also in order to screen out unwilling to surrender to the bandits.
To the mountain bandits who are not willing to surrender, Chu Chao Hui has no mercy, to those civilians who were plundered by the mountain bandits to the mountain, Chu Chao Hui did not give them a choice, all mandatory to bring back to the valley. Most of these civilians are women, these women were robbed on the mountain, most of them gave birth to children. The number of women was more than twenty, and there were more than a dozen children, and most of the children were under seven or eight years old. In addition to the women and children, out of the nine older people, except for three who were family members who had already defected to the mountain bandits, the other few were civilians with skills, four were smiths and two were healers, all of whom had been kidnapped by the mountain bandits and brought to the mountain to serve them.
Thus it was two horses, five cargo donkeys, and fifty-two men when they left the valley, and became two hundred men, three horses, ten donkeys, and two mule wagons when they returned. On the backs of the donkeys and in the mule wagons were the collected possessions.
The valley has always paid close attention to hygiene, in order to keep the slaves neat and clean, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui set up mandatory hygiene measures, stipulating that people in the valley, every morning and evening to wash their faces, to brush their teeth with willow branches, and at least four times a month to take a bath, and of course, they have to take a shower every day on a hot day. Hair found to be infested with parasites must be shaved at once. All the houses were connected to drains, and the living area had three toilets with closed septic tanks and four bathrooms. Living garbage can't be thrown around, it has to be put in a fixed place, and then transported to the big swamp pool to decompose by the slaves who are specially responsible for cleaning, and the living garbage in the valley is usually compostable garbage.
The slaves who came to the valley were not accustomed to these cleanliness and hygiene measures at first, but after being enforced for a period of time, people more and more appreciated the comfort brought by good hygienic habits, and their bodies were also less prone to diseases as a result of hygienic practices. Slowly, the slaves from the initial compulsion, to later take the initiative to pay attention to, every time there is a new slave in the valley, they will take great pains to advise their new partners to comply with the hygiene regulations.
The slave soldiers were out for a month and a half, traveling and fighting, and were in no condition to be hygienic, so when they came back and handed the captives over to the valley guards to watch over, they each went back to their residences to make a big effort to hygienize themselves. This valley outside of more than one hundred and twenty prisoners, let the valley slaves busy, all the canteens are re-cooking, all the bathrooms have begun to boil bath water. Seven or eight razor-wielding slaves were in charge of shaving. It was not until midnight, when the more than one hundred captives who had eaten their fill and cleaned up were divided into groups and placed in the slaves' homes to rest, that the noisy valley quieted down.
The study on the second floor of the villa is lit with oil lamps, and Chu Chao Hui is smoking a cigarette and half lying on the sofa, with his two bare feet crossed on the coffee table.
"Just your feet are frozen like this, Weiqing is not at all fine." Zheng Yuming half squatted beside the coffee table, smearing frostbite ointment on Chu Chaohui's feet.
This frostbite ointment expires in 2014, and if the villa hadn't been transported here, the frostbite would have expired next month. There is no frostbite medicine in the valley, so this ointment, which does not know if it has a shelf life, can only be used as it is.
"Haven't suffered from cold, this foot is not used to it." Chu Chao Hui narrowed his eyes and stared through the smoke at Zheng Yuming who was carefully helping him apply medicine.
Chu Chaohui is a southerner, basically lived in the tropics before being transmitted, not adapted to the cold climate, lack of common sense on how to protect hands and feet in cold weather, this time leading the team out to fight in the snow, ate a lot of suffering. Chu Zhaohui dressed than the slaves sophisticated, but the hands and feet frostbite is the most powerful one, the other slaves only a few people slightly frostbite, like Wei Qing as frozen used to, hands and feet nothing at all.
After Chu Chao Hui's feet had been soaked in hot water, the sores were a bit touchy, and most of the ointment was smeared half on it by Zheng Yuming. "Alright, put your socks on."
"Smeared ointment foot is quite hot, let it cool a little." Chu Chao Hui shook his feet, the ointment smeared with medicinal properties up is slightly hot, but was touched by Zheng Yuming's hand is the real reason for the heat.
"No, it has to be covered." Zheng Yuming's two hands were covered with ointment, he carried a pair of cotton socks with his fingers and threw them to Chu Chao Hui, letting Chu Chao Hui put them on himself.
"Can leather boots be manufactured this year?" Chu Chao Hui held a cigarette in his mouth and bent over to put on his socks. The reason why Chu Chao Hui's feet were frozen into frostbite was due to the shoes he wore. The pair of running shoes he wore on his feet when he teleported over has worn out, the size of Zheng Yuming's shoes in the villa is one size too small, Chu Zhaohui mostly wears Su women's cloth shoes, this time out of the valley is expected to run into rain and snow, Chu Zhaohui and the slaves wear animal skin sewn shoes on their feet, this kind of animal skin shoes will be drenched when walking on snowy water for a long period of time.
"It should be fine." The computer printout had the technology to make leather from animal skins, these daily life items were not as important as the others, Zheng Yuming didn't take this to heart, and now that he saw Chu Chao Hui's frostbitten feet, Zheng Yuming was chagrined.
"As long as the feet don't soak in the snow water, it won't be born later." Chu Chao Hui's feet put on socks and then put on a pair of cotton slippers, he couldn't wear Zheng Yuming's shoes, the slippers could deal with putting them on.
"Take an early rest, after working hard for a month and a half, you need to recuperate before you can do so." Zheng Yuming scrutinized Chu Chao Hui's face and felt that Chu Chao Hui's face was more angular, he had lost a lot of weight from going out to fight bandits this time.
"Good night then!" Chu Chao Hui stubbed out his cigarette butt and stood up, ready to go back to his room.
"Good night!" Jung Yuming looked down and rubbed the frostbite cream on his hands with a towel.
"It's good to be back!" Chu Chao Hui walked past Zheng Yuming, two hands in a hug, lips pressed in Zheng Yuming's ear sighed softly, voice has a strong satisfaction.
Zheng Yuming's body stiffened, and his hand holding the towel couldn't decide whether to push Chu Chaohui or not.
"May we all have good dreams!" Chu Chaohui let go before Jung Yuming struggled and left the study to go back to the bedroom. Jung Yuming stood in the study only to feel Chu Chao Hui's contented sighs still echoing here.
Early the next morning, Zheng Yuming got up to settle the new prisoners, more than seventy mountain bandits who signed up to be soldiers were screened and only sixty were hired, and the eliminated ones were dispersed and settled in various places.
The women brought back gave Zheng Yuming a headache. Among these women, the beautiful ones were taken over by the bandit leaders, while the other ordinary-looking ones became the bandits' sex objects, and most of the children born to these women could not be sure who the biological father was. Zheng Yuming in the distribution of accommodation, asked these women who is the father of the child, each child even several bandits came out to fight for the biological father.
In accordance with the principle of voluntariness, if a woman in a bandit den was willing to recognize any bandit as her husband, the valley declared them to be a family, and they were assigned to live together in separate dwellings. Most of the women chose their favorite bandits as their husbands, but there were a few women who had children and hated the bandits who forced them to have sex despite their wishes, and preferred to stay alone with their children. Of the women who did not have children, only one was willing to marry the bandits, while the others said they wanted to break up with the bandits. For these women, Zheng Yuming also allocated accommodation according to the principle of one mud room for two single people.
The few craftsmen that were brought back were assigned to various factories and workshops, and the two healers were sent to Jiang Gui's medical center. These two healers had pleaded with Chu Chao Hui to let them go back, and Chu Chao Hui, in order to appease them, only said that they would be let go back home after they had stayed in the valley for three years. The two doctors felt that they could earn a salary in the valley, which was much better than doing voluntary labor in the bandit den, and as for going home after three years, it was just like working away from home for three years. Therefore, after being assigned to the medical center, they did not resist, and worked with dedication under the command of Jiang Gui.
The slave soldiers rested for a day, and on the third day back in the valley, the valley held a funeral for the fallen slaves. The casket material was made of good wood from the valley, which the carpenters had worked all night to produce. The elderly slave cleaned the dead slave's body and dressed him in a jacquard green and deep coat, boots of buckskin, and the long knife used by the fallen slave during his life made his burial piece.
In order to show the solemnity of the funeral, Chu Chao Hui had the entire valley stop their work to come to the funeral. The coffin was pulled by a four-wheeled carriage with the carriage removed, and the former slave comrades were escorted behind the carriage in a neat line. The location of the cemetery is in the western part of the valley, surrounded by more than a dozen hundred years old trees, not far away is the stream running down from the south mountain, this place can be said to have mountains, water and greenery, is a good resting place.
Before the coffin was placed in the ground, Van Zin read a eulogy at which the valley got its own regional name, the valley was named Minghui Valley, and the fallen slave soldier was honored with the title of Minghui Warrior.
This time and space people are not everyone has a last name, many civilians only first name, no last name, some people's last name to live for the last name, such as Dajiang and his old man, living in Chu Huanggang, Dajiang's last name is Huanggang, Zheng Yuming smacked Huanggang Zhuang don't mouth, it is recommended to go to the word of the Gang, into the Huang Zhuang.
The sacrificed slave also similarly has no surname, he is no surname until his death, the valley only know that he is a Tang countryman, his family relatives died out in the famine, only one person wandering to Dacheng to sell his body into slavery, his name is also only a small name, called the four dogs, his tombstone can only be Tang as a surname.
This slave, who had no last name and no great name, was inscribed on the tombstone and in the history books with the name Tang Si Dog. In later history exams, the quiz question of Tang Si-Dog as the first martyr of Minghui Valley often appeared.