Tian Bao, the captain of the third squad of the Nambu Security Bureau, was awakened by the crowing of chickens outside the duty room. He sat up straight from his chair, wiped his face with his hand, looked at the hourglass in the room, and realized that it was already time for the last patrol, so he hurriedly got up and kicked awake the four members of the security forces who were dozing around the fireplace.
"Wake up, rub your face, don't catch a cold when you go out on patrol."
The security team was Tian Bao kicked awake, one by one from the futon up, stretching legs, ready for today's last inspection, after the inspection, their night shift tonight will be over, you can go home and rest all day.
"Ha! It's cold!" The door of the duty room was pushed open, a tightly dressed team member walked in, he had just finished patrolling with his companions. The vigilante team on duty at night was divided into two groups to take turns patrolling in Nambu Village at night, one group of five people, one group switched to the other after the patrol, ensuring that Nambu Village was always guarded at night. "Report Sir! The first group finished their patrol, no abnormalities were found!"
"Uh-huh!" Tian Bao nodded his head, then took the lead and pushed the door out, instructing the team members who were outside the door ready to come in, "Don't doze off any more, wait for the shift replacement to come and go home to sleep." According to reason, dozing off was not allowed on duty, but at three or four in the morning people could not stay up the longest, and in front of the warm fireplace in the duty room, Tian Bao squinted accidentally.
"Yes! Sir!" Several members of the security team who finished patrolling tensed their bodies, and performed an unstandard military salute to Tian Bao, this kind of irregular posture looked at Tian Bao a burst of egg pain, Tian Bao and his elder brother Tian Hu were the first batch of recruited guardsmen, they went through the direct training of the valley slave officers for three months, and the military etiquette movements were done in a very standardized way, and the team members who performed a salute to Tian Bao were the ones who came in after the establishment of the security bureau, and were trained by the security team themselves, the training The time is not long, the training effect is of course discounted.
The security duty room was built at the easternmost part of Nambu village, and the snow-covered farmland was visible from the gate. Tian Bao led the vigilantes, dressed like the guards of the governor's residence, to the north and started patrolling along the edge of the village; in addition to circling the village in this way, they also had to patrol around a few key factories.
Each member of the patrol team is equipped with a large knife, and when they encounter bandits, they will greet them with the large knife, and they carry a short metal rod at their waist, which has a name called baton, and it is the weapon used in the internal disputes of the village. Nambu village has a security patrol patrol, no more criminals to the village at night to steal chickens and dogs, the village people see the security team members are very respectful, affectionately called them 'yellow clothes', because the security team uniform style and the governor's office guards, although the same style, but the color is not the same, it is yellow, the governor's office guards clothing color is green.
The edge of the village is dominated by straw huts, and the residents are mainly refugees who have just come to Nambu, and these newly arrived people have no sense of hygiene, and urination and defecation can be seen everywhere, and Tian Bao walks in the forefront of the patrol, and once again steps on a pile of gold.
"You, come here!" Tian Bao drew the baton at his waist and pointed at a man who had come out of the corner of the hayloft with his pants up, a man who had apparently peed in the corner hideout.
"Sir! What is it?" The man was a bit baffled, but he knew that the one in yellow was very powerful and had always seen these men punishing offenders on the streets, so he honestly walked up to Tian Bao.
"Did you forget the rules you memorized when filling out the information? Memorize it again!" Tian Bao came at the man's shoulder with his baton, hitting him so hard that he crouched to the ground in pain.
"Haven't forgotten, sir!" All refugees who were able to settle in Nambu had to memorize the Ten Major Codes, the contents of which were formulated by Zheng Yuming in reference to the twenty-first-century disciplinary code for elementary school students in the Celestial Dynasty.
"What's number four?"
"No public defecation!" The man's voice was low.
"Why don't you go to the bathroom? Why don't you go to the back of the house? What's the punishment for three times of adult offense?" Tian Bao's voice was harsh, by this time the sky was already light, some refugees who had already gotten up and were ready to go to work heard the noise and went out to see what was going on.
"Evicted from Nambu Village and revoked from temporary residency." The man had realized that he had done wrong, and his voice was tinged with tears.
"Give me the belt tag." Tian Bao pinned his baton to his waist and pulled a charcoal pen and a small, wire-bound book from his coat pocket.
"Please sir, don't take my name." The man, scared, tugged at Tian Bao's coat to plead for mercy.
"Don't beg me, if the rules are set, everyone has to abide by them, even if it's the governor's chief official who breaks the rules, he has to be punished! This is what Lord Governor emphasized again and again in the meeting!" Tian Bao had a tiger's face, not forgiving at all.
The man had no choice but to pull out his wooden waist tag, which was a set of Arabic numerals, one for each person living in Nambu Village, starting with '1' for permanent residents, '2' for temporary residents doing business, and '3' for refugees. Refugees start with '3'. Refugees had to stay for one year before they could be regularized as permanent residents beginning with '1'.
"How many times have you committed this offense?" Tian Bao wrote down the numbers, each number would not be repeated and corresponded to only one person, after Tian Bao finished recording, he returned the waist plate to the man, these records would be filed back to the Security Bureau, when the records exceeded three times, the punishment process was activated, this system was guilt by association, one person commits an offense, the whole family is expelled, and the expelled refugees could only reach Dacheng or other places to survive.
"Once!" The man sleeps until dawn and wakes up with urine, and in his ignorance, follows his old habit of going out to the hideout to pee, forgetting that he has arrived in a new place with rules.
"Memorize the rules again, more than three times and you can't stay here!" There were more rules than just hygiene in Nambu, and even if a man followed the rules of hygiene, he was guaranteed to break other rules.
After Tian Bao finished dealing with the man who urinated and defecated anywhere, he looked around and realized that several of the refugees had panicked faces, so he couldn't help but grunt coldly, "Who is the group leader?" Every thirty households in the refugee group picked one person to be the group leader, and this group leader was equivalent to the captain of a production team in the rural areas of the Heavenly Kingdom.
"It's me!" A middle-aged tanned man with a bad face stepped out from the crowd.
Tian Bao to this refugee group leader training for half a day, and to group members of poor performance will be late to share the threat of land, this only when a month of small head of the dark man bluffed more ugly face, in Tian Bao left, to their own group a yell, let these refugees check around the hayloft, there are garbage and feces have to be cleaned up, do not clean up, not allowed to go to the relief gruel to drink.
Tian Bao rushed back to the duty room after patrolling with his team members, and came to the day shift of the security team members to hand over the shift, then to the end of the day, he can rest a whole day today, the security team every four days on the night shift, Tian Bao's next night patrol will be in four days later.
Tian family housing is still mud and grass houses, but the number of mud house rooms from the original three expanded to five, mud house in front of a yard, the yard played a well, the open space was opened up into a vegetable field, planted a little bit of greens and spinach and garlic, these kinds of vegetable seeds are taken out from the Minghui Valley, put into the village of Nambu, the governor's office stores for sale, Tian's brothers two are small head, have the right of first refusal. These kinds of vegetables taste much better than the vegetables of Great Qin.
"Little Uncle is back." Tian Bao met two widowed sisters-in-law who were going to work in the textile factory at the door, Tian Bao's widowed sisters-in-law can work in the textile factory, but also thanks to the Tian brothers two people as the blessing of the security team leader, which is called the family members of the public service to prioritize the work.
When Tian Bao's second sister-in-law saw Tian Bao, she had a somewhat mysterious expression on her face, "Little Uncle, Little Auntie is back, bringing two village people along."
The sister-in-law of Tian Bao's second wife is the youngest sister of the Tian family, who married three years ago in a large village some 20 kilometers away. She was rarely able to return to her mother's home, but after the Tian family's fortunes improved, her husband's family began to encourage her to travel to her mother's home.
"Oh, little sister is back!" Tian Bao surprise, he was adopted by his uncle's family when he was a child, he had long considered himself as a member of his uncle's family, he grew up with his cousin who was two months younger than him, and the two of them had a cordial relationship.
Tian Bao's sister-in-law watched her little uncle enter the courtyard and couldn't help but sigh, "Will our little uncle marry a woman?"
"No way!" Second Sister Tian flatly asserted. "The two little uncles are too affectionate, they won't separate."
"So it's a bad condition..." Sister-in-law wanted to say something.
The reason why there are pairs of Lang appeared in the common people of Da Qin is because many poor people can not marry a wife, many bachelors feel lonely, so they look for the same sex to partner to live, Tian Hu and Tian Bao grew up together, two people's feelings since childhood, because the Tian family is very poor, Tian elder brother and Tian elder brother got married and had children to have offspring, Tian Hu and Tian Bao married pairs of Lang have no objections, and now the conditions are good, Tian mother moved the heart to give the two Now that conditions are better, Tian's mother is thinking of giving her two sons wives, and there are many pairs of wives who will marry and have offspring after they form a pair.
"Tian Hu said that he would treat his nephews and nieces as his own children." Tian Er Sister-in-law face has a shyness, she is still young, only in her early twenties, she can still remarry, the original can not afford to give up the child, now the conditions are better, even if she remarried, the child will not suffer, because Tian Er Sister-in-law remarried will not take away the child, Tian mother agreed, and now is entrusted to the matchmaker in the village of Nambu to watch out for the right person.
Mrs. Tian glanced at her sister-in-law, and envied her sister-in-law's youth and her ability to start a new life. She herself was nearly thirty years old, and didn't want to remarry; anyway, her husband's mother-in-law and brother-in-law were good people, and she was happy to live with them.
Because of the winter solstice day Tian Hu shift, so he practiced late last night, Tian Bao into the room, he is still huffing and puffing. Tian Bao stripped his clothes down to just a pair of pants and climbed into Tian Hu's quilt, the sleeping Tian Hu was Tian Bao's cold body temperature provoked a moment to wake up.
"Look at you freezing." Instead of pushing Tian Hu away from Tian Bao, he wrapped his arm around and warmed him with his body heat.
"Mother hasn't died yet, still thinking of letting us marry a woman." Tian Bao very skillfully stripped off both of their pants under the covers, and after expanding his hand behind Tian Hu a few times, he held his desire into Tian Hu's body.
"Uh-huh, I'll talk to Mother again." Tian Hu grunted as Tian Bao moved.
"Be firm in your attitude!" Tian Bao kissed Tian Hu with satisfaction, his Tian Hu's tiger head was just adorable.
In fact, Tian Xiaomei brought a wonderful woman is not introduced to their two brothers, but introduced to the next door neighbor's family scion, Nambu villagers rich, many villagers in the surrounding villages want to marry their daughters here.
Zhou Cheng, a slave soldier who had once won first class honors in a bandit suppression operation, had been promoted from company commander to battalion commander because of the expansion of the army, where a battalion of infantry had been expanded into a regiment. Zhou Cheng was the third batch of slaves purchased by Chu Chao Hui, but unlike Ma Ren, whose relatives had died out, he had a family. Zhou Cheng was a native of Lu, and had fled to Tang to avoid the military disaster, and then fled from Tang to Dacheng.
Zhou Cheng in the valley as a soldier, there is a salary, he saved his salary ready to let the merchants to help him bring to his parents are still in the state of Lu, but Qi and Lu are always at war, to go to these two countries are not many merchants, there are to the state of Lu merchants, to go to the prosperous places, Zhou Cheng's hometown is more remote, the merchants can not go to that place, Zhou Cheng would like to entrust someone to send money back to the desire to fall through.
Now Zhou Cheng became an officer, the salary is twice as high, he ate, wore and lived without spending, all the wages and bonuses have accumulated, the total has more than two hundred gold, the original Zhou Cheng is to send the money home to improve the lives of loved ones, but see more and more of the northern victims fled to the south port, which in addition to the two countries of Tang and Wei, the two countries of the Qilu disaster is also more and more, Zhou Cheng changed his mind, he wanted to receive his family to the south port to come. But how to pick up is a difficult problem, because he can not leave the valley at will, can only entrust the help of merchants, in order to let the merchants are willing to take a detour to his hometown to pick up the family out, Zhou Cheng opened a hundred gold pay, heavy gold finally impressed a Hu vendors, Hu vendors promised to run a special trip for Zhou Cheng.
Zhou Cheng commissioned Hu traders have been two months, counting the time, no accident, Zhou Cheng's family can catch up in the waxing moon before the south port, but now it is already the winter solstice, Hu traders and family members are still no shadow, Zhou Cheng heart anxious, as long as to the south port of the official business, will turn to the port to look around and hope to see Hu traders of that wooden boat.
Author's words: everyone, these two chapters are from the local indigenous perspective to describe this society, not butterflies in order to make up the numbers, from the protagonist's point of view can not be a complete description of the society at that time, and the form of this society and the two protagonists development is closely related, do not write the loose ends, can not reflect the novel is complete.