Chapter 20: It's Good to Love Cleanliness
A large group of people wearing shackles, dressed in rags, and dirty bodies, emitting an unpleasant smell were rushed to Zhang Feng by slave merchants.
Several soldiers stepped forward to prevent Zhang Feng from being hit by these slaves.
"Lord City Lord, the total of 121 slaves, our seven slave merchants, are all here. Please check it out."
The smell on these people was like cooking a can of canned herring with Wang Zhihe stinky tofu, durian and original pig intestine, which was so smelly that there was no blind spot.
They all dodged their eyes and didn't even dare to look up. The slaves just heard that they were sold to a noble noble master, and they didn't know what fate they would be waiting for next.
The minds of these slaves are actually very simple. As long as they can avoid starving to death, they are willing to do anything.
Zhang Feng covered his nose and was very disgusted with these poisonous gas sources, but he still pushed the soldiers away, walked to the slaves, and looked carefully.
Because these slaves were too dirty, they could not judge the specific age, but most of them were quite young. After all, older slaves could not persist in Hongye City.
Both men and women have many, but there are much more women than men.
In this world with low productivity, your physical strength is very important. Women have a relatively low status due to physical fitness and other reasons, and the same is true for female slaves.
Even if male slaves are thinner, they are born with physical advantages. As long as they are not allowed to starve to death, they will do some farm work, or even fight, they are much worse than women.
The slave traders originally had much more slaves than women, but along the way, by the time of Hongye City, the male servants with better physical fitness were basically sold out.
Now all the rest are thin men and most women.
As for whether anyone has indescribable ideas about these female slaves, there are some answers, but very few are very rare. After all, you have money to buy slaves, and it is impossible to lack women around you. It is not good to buy a few more strong male slaves to farm!
And looking at these dirty and smelly female slaves, if anyone can have any ideas about them, Zhang Feng admires him as a man.
"It's okay, there's no missing arms or legs."
Zhang Feng’s inspection was very simple, as long as the parts on his body were complete, it didn’t matter to both men and women.
In Zhang Feng's plan, it is not difficult to get Hongye City to overcome difficulties, but his goal is not just to overcome difficulties. After all, as a two-way dealer in both worlds, he must pursue a tall pursuit, such as building a truly prosperous Hongye City.
For Zhang Feng, people are the first element of productivity, and only by having productivity can we carry out construction!
"Knight Marlowe, let someone take them to the yard downstairs of me, separate the men and women, and prepare a few more large pots and large wooden barrels."
Zhang Feng threw out a bunch of keys and Ma Luo respectfully took them, but his eyes were a little strange, and he didn't understand what Zhang Feng was going to do.
"yes."
Although he bought more than 100 slaves, Zhang Feng did not interrupt himself.
Accompanied by Knight Marlowe and Caroline, I spent the whole morning to take a brief tour of Hongye City, and I probably felt a sense of the idea. However, what surprised Zhang Feng was that there was an empty church not far from the castle.
"Why is there no one in the church?"
Zhang Feng was a little confused.
"Uh, because Hongye City is too poor, those missionaries gave up Hongye City a few years ago..."
Marlow answered a little embarrassedly.
Well, this reason is very powerful, but it can be seen from this that not all cities in other realms are as poor as Red Leaf City, at least those church members have better choices.
At noon, Zhang Feng returned to his residence, and more than a hundred slaves were divided into two groups and stayed in the yard, and were under the supervision of several.
A few huge iron pots were terrified by the side. After all, anyone who saw such a scene would think about some bad things.
"Give it up and boil water!"
Zhang Feng ordered the soldiers to act quickly.
Caroline was startled by Zhang Feng and spoke quickly.
"Sir, I, although we are short of food now, we don't need to do this..."
"What do you think? I just let them take a shower and disinfect them."
Zhang Feng was a little helpless and felt that this girl had a big idea, but what he didn't know was that in some famine eras, there were many things like eating people when they were extremely hungry.
Seeing Zhang Feng's actions of setting up a pot and boiling water, Caroline was inevitably misunderstood.
Caroline didn't know what disinfection meant, but she understood it when taking a bath, which made her feel relieved. However, because she misunderstood Zhang Feng, she felt a little ashamed again.
Zhang Feng glanced at her and suddenly thought of a question.
Due to the relatively low medical level in this world, it is difficult to cure some serious diseases, especially large-scale infectious diseases with certain hidden nature. If you get infected, you will basically be waiting for death.
Most people believe that the root cause of these diseases cannot be found. Water causes the skin pores to expand, bacteria enter the body, and reduces the body's immunity, thereby causing diseases.
Therefore, people keep away from water, especially when taking a bath, which may not be the case once a year. After all, it doesn’t matter if it’s dirty or smelly, but once you get sick, you may die.
Zhang Feng found that he had been in close contact with Caroline for a whole morning, and did not smell the unpleasant questions on her body, but instead had a faint fragrance, so he asked in a low voice.
"How often do you take a shower?"
"Ah...I..."
Caroline was confused. He didn't know why Zhang Feng asked such a private question. His cheeks were flushed and he didn't know how to answer. He began to think involuntarily.
Could it be that I have a smell? But the bath I took yesterday should not smell bad. Do you want to dislike me? Do I want to take it again today? But will I get sick if I get too frequent...
"Ahem, I'm just simply curious, you don't need to answer."
Seeing Caroline's reaction, Zhang Feng realized that something was wrong. After all, he was a girl, and the question was indeed a bit awkward, so he quickly explained it.
Caroline's eyes were wandering and she didn't dare to look directly into Zhang Feng's eyes.
When Zhang Feng thought she would not answer, a sound like a mosquito roared in his ears.
"I, I just took a shower yesterday, I don't smell bad..."
After saying that, Caroline quickly lowered her head and stared at her toes.
"Well, it's good to love cleanliness, it's good..."
Zhang Feng was also a little embarrassed. He secretly glanced at the shy Caroline and smelled the faint fragrance on her body, and felt an indescribable feeling in his heart.
Fortunately, this atmosphere did not last long.
"Sir, the water has almost been boiled."
Zhang Feng tried it and it was about 30 degrees Celsius, and the bath temperature was just right.
"The man goes to the room on the left, and the woman goes to the room on the right, which has a bucket inside and fetches water by himself. Everyone must wash it for me. I will prepare some clean clothes. If I find someone with a odor on it later, I will throw it out and feed the fish!"
Zhang Feng said in a stern tone.
When these slaves heard Zhang Feng's words, they knew that they didn't need to turn into food. They immediately breathed a sigh of relief. As for bathing, no matter whether it would cause a reduction in immunity, it would be enough to survive now.
The slaves hurried into the room and took buckets of water.
"By the way, give them this thing."
Chapter completed!