Wei and Jin Cooks

   Chapter 229 Punishment

The    pillar and a group of people were sent to a wilderness.

   They were led here by ropes, looking at the endless field with a confused expression.

   Not far away, there are a bunch of people working in full swing.

When    saw them, someone came up to lead them, saw the ropes tied to their hands, and asked, "Is it a crime?"

   "Yes, they are all crimes."

   "What happened?"

"This, this, and these two, lazy and slippery, these three, stealing things, and those three, stabbed head, took the lead in fighting and making trouble, all were sentenced to ten months of reform through labor." This is Zhao Hanzhang New county government regulations.

   All crimes that do not involve human life will be changed from prison sentence to reform through labor, and sentenced according to the severity.

  The heavy ones also need to be guarded, and the light ones do not.

  The punishment of the pillar belongs to those who do not need to be guarded.

   The leader took them down and resettled them, divided them into two thatched huts, and then gave them a lesson, "You have all seen it, our house has not been built yet, so you have to live in thatched huts."

   "Because you are committing crimes, you are not paid for your work here," he said. "The work is a bit heavy, I promise you will be fed, work hard, get a reduced sentence, and go home early."

   "But if anyone is disobedient, cheating, cheating, or just running away, we don't want to eat anything." The other party pointed around and said, "See, it's all our girls."

   "Furthermore, none of the people who can be sent here are bare. If they can run away, a monk can't run away from the temple, hum!"

  No one dared to run.

   Zhuzi was so remorseful that he could not cry.

   He didn't do much, so he was transferred to work in the mill. Others didn't have his luck. I heard that he was going to dig a mountain, which was very hard.

  Iron ore is very important to Zhao Hanzhang, and there are still some things to improve in blast furnace ironmaking and steelmaking, so she and Fu Tinghan came here.

   Zhuzi and the others lived in the outermost part of the city. They didn't know that there was an iron mine three miles away from here. There were houses built there, and an iron smelter was built.

  This place is heavily guarded, and everyone who enters and leaves must be strictly checked.

  The craftsmen made another pot of molten iron under the guidance of Fu Tinghan. While waiting for the cold cutting, Fu Tinghan nodded and turned to go out.

   Zhao Hanzhang was watching people beat farm implements with smelted iron blocks. When he saw Fu Tinghan, he picked up the bamboo tube and unscrewed it and handed it to him.

  Fu Tinghan took over and drank the water inside and asked, "They have adapted to the blast furnace here, when will we go back?"

   Zhao Hanzhang: "Tomorrow."

   She glanced outside and said with a smile, "Let's go out for a walk today."

  Fu Tinghan didn't want to go, it was winter, it was cold and lonely outside, the only people who were busy were working people, what's there to see?

   But because Zhao Hanzhang invited him, Fu Tinghan nodded and agreed.

   So the two of them rode out for a walk.

   Zhao Hanzhang took him directly to the river, "I'll take you to catch fish, your appetite is not very good these days, let's eat some fish."

  The fish in winter... are not easy to catch, mainly because the water is cold, it is not easy to enter the water, but it is very good to lure.

   It may be because there are few people here, the fish in the river have never seen the complexities of human hearts, so they are stupid.

   Zhao Hanzhang took out the hook that was hit, prepared the bait with the things he took from the kitchen, and threw it into the water.

   She kept the hook.

  Fu Tinghan stood beside her and saw the buoy move, she was pleasantly surprised, "Bite the hook."

   Zhao Hanzhang closed his eyes after only one glance, turned his ears to feel the pulling force of the fishing rod in his hand, and waited for a while before raising the rod.

  The fish was very big, and he pulled it back with more force. Zhao Hanzhang slipped the fish and slowly pulled it ashore.

  A grass carp weighing seven or eight catties, Zhao Hanzhang held it in his hand and was a little tangled for a while, "What should I do with the fish?"

   Fu Tinghan was not sure: "Boiled or fried?"

   Zhao Hanzhang suddenly wanted to eat fried fish pieces wrapped in flour, so he said to the fish: "Come on, let's try it in the kitchen."

   They didn't go back to the kitchen of the camp, but went to the kitchen of the nearby settlement site.

   There is a settlement here, which is for the tribes who cultivate the land, and it is also the first line of defense for the iron ore.

  Because it is also far away from the nearest village, the county government directly built a workshop here.

  Because of the iron ore, more and more people will live here in the future, and a mill is inevitable.

   Zhao Hanzhang passed by the mill and heard the faint cries coming from inside. He couldn't help being curious, so he put his head in and looked at it with the fish in hand.

  I saw a dozen or so people inside, either pounding rice, or grinding wheat and beans, and one of the seventeen- or eighteen-year-olds was pushing the mill and crying in a low voice.

   "What are you crying for?"

Everyone in the mill was startled, and the crying boy was also startled. He recognized Zhao Hanzhang and rushed forward. Fu Tinghan subconsciously pulled her behind him, while Qiu Wu choked and pulled out his long sword. .

  The boy's knees softened, and he knelt on the ground with a plop, "Xian, Xianjun, I know I'm wrong, let me go."

   Qiuwu breathed a sigh of relief and retracted his sword.

   Zhao Hanzhang felt that he was a little familiar, but he couldn't recognize it for a while.

  Fu Tinghan just glanced at it and said: "It's from Xiajiao Village, it seems to be called Zhuzi."

   Zhuzi nodded again and again, "Yes, Lord Lang has a good memory, so my name is Zhuzi."

   Seeing Zhao Hanzhang standing beside him, he immediately asked to make up for it, "The county lord has a good memory, the county lord is still kind, please forgive me, I dare not."

   Zhao Hanzhang asked curiously, "What did you do?"

   Zhu Zi wiped his tears and said, "I just stole a bit of laziness."

   Zhao Hanzhang: "To be honest, will I send you here to grind the mill just by being lazy?"

   Seeing that Zhao Hanzhang was about to leave, Zhuzi hurriedly took two steps and went up to plead, "I, I'm really lazy, and then let Dahua's father help me a little..."

  Dahua's father is a fool, not smart, but he works very hard. Basically, he does whatever others ask him to do.

   Then he has a very powerful daughter Dahua, and because his daughter is so powerful, everyone forgets his name and calls him Dahua Dad directly.

   Zhao Hanzhang felt that the girl was good when he was in Xiajiao Village. Hearing this, he squatted in front of him and asked, "Then how did you get caught?"

"Dahua knows, and the trouble came to Lizheng. She said that if she didn't arrest me, she would file a complaint, and Lizheng arrested me and gave it to the official." Zhuzi cried: "Xianjun, I will I was lazy once, really only once, I was not very comfortable at the time, so I asked Dahua Dad to help me, please forgive me this time, I will never dare."

Zhao Hanzhang smiled slightly: "I believe you, but I can't break the rules I set. Since you did make a mistake, you should correct it first, rest assured, no one will bully you here, work hard , try to go home early."

   Zhuzi cried again, "But it's really hard to push the mill!"

   Zhao Hanzhang reached out and patted his shoulder and said, "I'll go catch fish for you in a while, and you can eat some fish soup at night, don't be too sad."

  Although Zhao Hanzhang still didn't forgive him, Zhuzi felt much better when he heard her caring so much.

   After leaving the mill, Zhao Hanzhang said to Qiu Wu: "Let someone go to Xiajiao Village to send the Dahua father and daughter to the county office, I will use her."

   Such a powerful girl, just digging a canal in Xiajiao Village.

   (end of this chapter)