The "Rejuvenation Camp" that Wang Huanlian mentioned is located in Benli Village, ten miles south of Jinhua City. On a huge flat dam below the hillside, the Qing court specially built a prison-like isolation camp for relatives of "people who may be cursed by the banshee" in the name of preventing the spread of plague.

In the square high walls, there are wooden cages that can only accommodate one person in size. The cages are thirty-six rows across and thirty-six rows on a vertical row, totaling 1,296, magnificent and spectacular. They are isolated by countless red curtains to prevent them from spying and communicating with each other.

With manpower and time shortage, this is almost the limit that the authorities can provide.

???? There is a gate on the east and west sides of the fence. Two tall stone statues of Pixiu stand on the left and right sides of the door to ward off evil spirits, and are each guarded by two Qing soldiers wearing red scarves. Inside the wall, there are also four camp patrolers wearing red scarves, walking back and forth between the red curtains, and controlling the discipline inside the wall from time to time.

On the west side of the city wall, there is a simple yamen house, which is the office space of the camp manager. There is currently a man in official uniform working in the venue. This person is called Quan Xinghuai, about fifty years old, with a half-foot-long white beard, and is burying his head to write some official documents.

Shaoqing, an open-top carriage drove to the vicinity of the yamen room. Two officers and soldiers opened the cage of a woman in the carriage, took her down, and took her to the yamen room. One officer and soldier took off the red scarf from his face and said to Quan Xinghuai: "Super-in-chief Quan, Li Jiande's wife has been brought by us. Where should we be isolated?"

???? The officer and soldier who spoke was named Liu Xun.

Quan Xinghuai stopped his business after hearing the sound, looked up at the woman, and asked the two of them, "Can anyone die today?"

Liu Xun replied: "Reply to all supervisors, after investigation, there was no report on the death of the quarantined person today, so I specially asked all supervisors for instructions."

Quan Xinghuai pulled his lips and said in a strange tone: "How come no one died? You may have made a mistake?"

Liu Xun said: "This... no one died, and the cage cannot be released."

Quan Xinghuai coughed twice and said sarcastically: "Haha, it's impossible, it's impossible. If you go to Haosheng to check again, one cage and one cage, someone will definitely die of illness." Quan Xinghuai deliberately made the word "death" look a little longer, as if it was implying something.

At this time, another soldier named Wen Zhengzhi understood it and took off the red scarf on his face and said, "All supervisors understand. We should be not strictly investigating it. Let's go and have a look, and we will definitely be able to free up the cage."

Quan Xinghuai smiled and said, "That's right. Young people, you need to use your brain more when doing things."

At this time, the woman saw the two calling the person in front of her "Supervisor Quan", and immediately ignored her and stated: "Sir Quan, the little woman is innocent!"

Quan Xinghuai smiled disapprovingly: "Hey, who said you are guilty? We are just afraid that you will be infected with the plague and protect you. When the plague passes, we will naturally let you go, don't worry."

The woman argued hard again: "Sir Quan, although my husband Li Jiande was infected with the plague, I was not infected. Instead, he was bedridden and needed me to go home to take care of him. Please give me kindness and let the little girl go back, otherwise he would die."

Quan Xinghuai was obviously immune to such arguments, and was not angry, and still responded easily: "It is better to die alone than to die in a family? Now the whole province implements this policy, and we also do things according to the rules. There is no way. Just stay safe. You can eat and drink, and you won't be less than yours. You don't charge a penny. Why not do it?"

The woman seemed to have known her fate long ago. After a few words of unsuccessful arguments, she sighed and stopped talking and let them deal with it. She should have taken the woman into the cage and imprisoned her, but the wooden cage was full, and the two officers and soldiers took the woman to the cage on the carriage and locked her up. Then, the two put on red scarves again and checked whether anyone among the more than a thousand quarantines died in order to free up the cage.

???? On the way, Wen Zhengzhi slapped Liu Xun's head and reminded him seriously: "Do you really don't understand or pretend you can't understand? The above only built such a large place for us, only so many cages, and ordered all supervisors to be kept in mind. You said, what can you do from his perspective? Do you still want him to say it clearly?"

"Oh..." Liu Xun sighed, "It's not that I don't understand. If I sit in his position, if I don't pay attention, I will lose my hat. But the fact is that there is not enough cages and no one dies. I can only pick out the old, weak, sick and disabled people out and move them to the mountain to wait for death, and then lock new people in. But doing such a thing really makes me unable to sleep or eat."

"Do you think I want to kill someone?" Wen Zhengzhi advised, "You and I are just people who take their salary to eliminate disasters. It is not us who are wrong, but this era. Even if we do this, the history books a hundred years later will not be written on us. It is reasonable to come to the King of Hell, right?"

Liu Xun said: "A person like you will be a good official in the future. If you ask me to tell me, I really don't know what kind of evil I committed in my previous life, I actually sent me to do this job in this life. Alas, sometimes, I really want to take back all the supervisors and let him come and see if all the more than a thousand people are living well."

The two of them had entered the cage area. In order to prevent others from hearing it, Wen Zhengzhi lowered his voice and smiled: "Scholars are angry. If they were with the Queen Mother, it would be a problem of losing their jobs, but they would not even lose their lives... It's great, you, don't think so much. Think like me, there are still wives and children in the family to raise them. We do these bad things for their sakes, aren't it also for their good? "

As they said that, the two looked one by one in the cage, and for about three rows in a row, their eyes fell on a dying old man.

Wen Zhengzhi whispered to Liu Xun: "Look, this old man Du has been locked up for more than a month, and it seems that he is not far from Guixi. Anyway, he has no children and no energy to live, so let's just him."

Liu Xun said helplessly: "You have the final say."

Wen Zhengzhi immediately said vigilantly: "No, no, no, it's not that I have the final say, but that we found out that the old man is dead after patrol. Do you understand? Hello, don't be so depressed, everyone is fucking on the same boat, okay?"

Liu Xun nodded silently, took out a bunch of keys from a large bag, found the key corresponding to the cage number Seven Four and Five, and opened the cage.

Old Man Du was awakened by the sound of the two people. He opened his eyes and seemed to have expectations, but he could only ask weakly: "Two sirs, can I go home?"

Wen Zhengzhi smiled and said, "Hehehe, Mr. Du, we are here to take you home. Soon, you can meet your wife and son."

Although Old Man Du was so old that he stepped into the coffin with one foot and was terminally ill, his mind was still clear. He heard the implicit sound in Wen Zhengzhi's words and asked in horror: "Where are you... going to take me?"

Wen Zhengzhi said: "Oh my, don't ask this. In short, when you get down, don't blame us. If you want to blame, you will blame your bad luck. But then again, in this fucking world, you have to last until you are ninety years old, but you have already lived a fortune." After that, he reached out to the cage to catch Old Man Du.

Old Man Du used all his remaining strength to struggle: "What are you doing? I won't go! I don't want to die!"

Wen Zhengzhi slapped Old Man Du hard and suddenly changed his face: "Damn it, if you don't want toast, I will kill you with a punishment if you don't believe it or not!"

The two were competing, and a burst of laughter suddenly came from the cage next to them: "Hahaha, do it, you can do it as much as you like. If the Qing Dynasty continues to play like this, you will finish playing yourself sooner or later!"

The owner of the voice was Ji Hongyu's father Ji Boyan. Although he was separated by the red curtain, from his full voice, he could tell that this person still had the spirit and fighting spirit of an ordinary person.

Liu Xun was still feeling guilty. When he heard this, he immediately walked through the red cloth curtain and shouted into the cage No. 744: "Rareless, Ji Boyan, dare to make such a rebellious statement!"

Ji Boyan asked disdainfully: "Is what I said wrong? You open your dog's eyes and see what the Qing Dynasty has become now? For a few dog bones, you have even lost the minimum human nature! You must know that once you lose the people's hearts, the Qing Dynasty and the Empress Dowager will just survive!"

Liu Xun shouted, "You fart! Tell you that not long ago, Hong Xiuquan was dead, and the old nest of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was also taken over by us. There is only one word for any great rebellious person - death!"

Ji Boyan smiled and said, "Hahaha, is there only one Taiping Heavenly Kingdom resisting you under the heaven? In my opinion, whether it is the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom or you, it is not a good thing. One day, I firmly believe that there will be more powerful and more upright people to overturn you. This is the wheel of history and cannot be stopped!"

Liu Xun couldn't help but take out his pistol and pointed at Ji Boyan and said, "Warning you, if you say this again, be careful that you will die in this stinky mouth sooner or later! Don't blame me for not reminding you that no one will come to investigate anyone here!"

At this time, Wen Zhengzhi had knocked Old Man Du unconscious and used all his strength to drag him out. Seeing Liu Xun's tense appearance, he persuaded him through the red curtain: "Oh, brother, we are just here to make a living. If you don't do what you should do, why are you going to compete with that big mouth? Come and help me."

Seeing that the two patrol soldiers were passing by, Liu Xun took back his pistol and pointed at Ji Boyan fiercely. Then he let him go and turned around to help Wen Zhengzhi drag the old man to the west gate.

After leaving the west gate, the two of them pulled one of Old Man Du's arms and continued to drag it up the hillside. Not far from the slope, they came to a flat dam again.

The floor was covered with corpses wrapped in straw mats on this flat dam, and they were wet in the rain all night. The two of them put down Old Man Du in the direction of the other corpses, then clapped their hands and breathed a sigh of relief.

Liu Xun sighed, "It's pitiful. If you don't care about him, you'll probably starve to death at this time tomorrow."

"It would be fine if he really starved to death. I'm afraid he won't starve to death. It will be troublesome when he wakes up and runs away. So I'll give him some fun." Wen Zhengzhi said, taking out his pistol from his waist.

Liu Xun said in surprise: "It's better not to do such a thing, right?"

Wen Zhengzhi disagreed and said, "You know me, and no third person knows this. Besides, be careful to sail the ten thousand-year-old ship, this is also for our good future."

Liu Xun wanted to say something, but saw that Wen Zhengzhi had already put the gun on the head and pointed it at Old Man Du.

Just as they were about to shoot, they suddenly tilted their bodies and were overturned to the ground by a wave of air.

Wen Zhengzhi stood up and cursed, "His grandma, what's going on with this gust of wind?"

Liu Xun looked around the surrounding corpses and said timidly: "Forget it, the yin energy here is too heavy, so it is better to leave quickly. Be careful to alarm some evil spirits!"

As he was talking, a burst of laughter came from the hillside: "Hahaha, don't be careful, evil spirit, you have already found it."
Chapter completed!