Chapter 1331 Three Rules
Glad and Miss carefully hid in the weeds by the woods, secretly watching the situation in their village. They had been hiding for three days, missing home, and worried about their houses and crops.
"It seems that there is no one." Glad said: "You hide well, I will go and see."
There is naturally no one in the tribe, and this simple house is not as comfortable as a tent. Besides, Cai He had already made three rules with the crew: no taking any property of the natives; no harm to the natives; no deceiving the natives. If there is any violation, the lighter one will be punished with flogging, and the heavier one will be killed without pardon.
The three rules were originally used by Liu Bang to restrain the army after entering Xianyang, but now Cai He used them in advance.
As expected, there was no one, so some wild animals broke into the village and caused some damage. Some of the food bags left by Cai He were bitten by mice.
In this era, animals are as strong as humans.
When I got home, I found that the furniture was not damaged, but there were some more things. The food left at Grad's house was not bitten by the mice. He touched the cloth bag carefully and found that it was smoother than the clothes on his body.
When he opened it, he found something unfamiliar inside, round and slippery. This is potato, that is, potatoes. Cai He saw that all these things were planted around the city-state when he was in the New World, so he exchanged a lot with the city lord. It tastes good after being cooked and adding some salt, which is just right for filling hunger.
And I heard from the farmers in the city-state that this thing grows fast, usually it can grow in more than 50 days, just need to water it, and don't need too much care.
There are a lot of potatoes on the ship, so Cai He was so generous to give it away.
After taking the things, he immediately went back to meet Miss. The two teenagers started to study the potatoes in the bag. Obviously, they had never seen them before.
They didn't find anything, so they went back to ask the adults.
The woods were very humid, and some older people couldn't stand it, so they asked the two clever boys to explore first.
They couldn't find out anything about the potatoes brought back by the two children, but the bag was very delicate, so they couldn't let it go. Glad said he got it from his own home, so his frugal mother kept the bag. It was his own thing, and it would be a big loss if someone damaged it.
Everyone wanted to go back, but they didn't know if the stranger was still on the beach.
"What does it matter if he is? This bag should be left by them. Maybe they are not bad people." Glad's brother Brad thought it would be good to contact strangers: "Besides, what can we let them rob? Look, their boat can even hold our village. They don't need our things at all."
Some young people were tempted, and they really wanted to see it. Glad stood firmly on his brother's side, and he also wanted to satisfy his curiosity.
But some conservative people disagreed. They usually have families and businesses, and they dare not take risks: "What if we are caught and made slaves?"
"We don't know anything, why do they catch us?" Brad thought that he was barefoot anyway, so he didn't have to be afraid: "If you don't agree, we can go first to see the situation with a group of people. If we are caught, the others will continue to hide. If we are fine, then everyone will come out. We can't just hide because they are there. If they don't leave, we will hide until we die?" This young man is still very smart and knows that eggs should not be put in one basket.
Finally, several older men nodded and agreed to let Brad take some people out to see the situation first and figure it out.
Several young people who have a good relationship with Brad are willing to go out, and with Glass and Miss, two guys who are good at running and hiding, the group returned to the village.
As soon as they came back, they found that there were the same bags in every house, filled with potatoes of similar weight.
"Is this a gift, but what is inside?" Brad looked at what Miss brought and wondered.
"Brother, think about it slowly. Miss and I will go to the beach first."
"Well, be careful. If there are people, come back soon."
"Got it!" Seeing the gifts left by Cai He, Glad felt that they were not bad people. If they were bad people, how could they leave such a precious cloth bag in the tribe.
Cai He and his men naturally did not leave. Not only did they not leave, they also built a large camp on the beach and raised the flag of the Qin Dynasty.
"Sir, the two children are back again." Thousand-mile Eye said.
"They have been hiding for so many days, and they have worked hard." Cai He knew that they could not hide for long: "Have all the people in the village returned?"
"Not all of them have returned, but some young people have returned."
Cai He nodded: "Then prepare things to meet them. By the way, don't bring weapons." He was afraid that bringing weapons would scare them again.
A Lu stood on the deck. The slaves were not allowed to go ashore, but now they can go on the deck to bask in the sun during their stay. A Lu originally thought that the Qin people were going home, but he didn't expect that the Qin people said that they had to travel around the world in the direction of the sun before they could go home.
If we keep going in one direction, won't we be getting farther and farther away from home? A Lu didn't understand what the Qin people meant, but he had no right to object. He just wanted to know that life with the Qin people was comfortable. He had even gained weight.
It would be boring to look at the strange continent for a long time. A Lu would also turn around to look at the female slaves on the deck of another ship. There were really beautiful women over there.
Although these female slaves were on board as a tool for venting, they lived a good life. There was too much porridge and too few monks, and sometimes the female slaves who worked as translators had to do it themselves. It was precisely because of the shortage of supply that they could get very good rewards every time. In addition to food, there were also some jewelry hidden by the crew. These prostitution fees would not be confiscated, because Cai He said that these female slaves would officially become good women when they returned to Daqin, and the money they earned would be left for them to live on, as a reward for their dedication along the way. After returning to Qin, Cai He was not going to continue to run a brothel.
Now these female slaves are dressed in an international style, with animal tooth feathers hanging around their necks, silk tied on their heads, cloth shoes on their feet, and coarse cloth clothes on their bodies. Of course, their fashion consultants are a few maids who are out of their reach, and their dream is to get a set of silk clothes of the same style as the maids one day. Here they learned that wearing clothes can make women more beautiful, and they changed their bad habit of exposing their breasts in South America.
Of course, this way, men like A Lu will have less eye candy.
In fact, there was an incident about female slaves at sea. A captain who performed very well insisted on keeping a beautiful female slave as a maid for his own enjoyment, and even knelt in front of Cai He to beg him. But Cai He firmly rejected it. He knew that such a loophole must not be opened. Besides, these female slaves belonged to the collective property of the fleet, not the private property of the captain, and they could not be separated into public and private.
However, Cai He also knew that the people in the fleet, especially the captain, were very hard-working. So he promised that when landing this time, the captain could go to the shore to find a maid himself, of course he had to pay for it himself, which was considered a welfare for the captain.
Food and sex are also human nature. People who came out of the land of a hundred schools of thought are still very open-minded and will not hide their love for men and women. As long as they do not violate the three rules, it is completely understandable that the captain wants to find a maid.
Some lustful captains can't help but prepare to go ashore to choose, but unfortunately Cai He can't move them.