Lu Ming

Chapter 110 Yang Er and Moyun Temple
After being shipped out to sea, Yang Er could still see some small islands in the distance during the first two days when the wind was released, but there was no trace of land at all in the next few days.Yang Er didn't know where he was, and he didn't know when the fleet would dock. He sometimes thought that maybe the fleet would never dock.

He is unaware that if he can hang out on the deck for two hours this time, he will be able to see the terminal: the coastline of Tainan. It is a pity that he only has one stick of incense time each time.

A few nights ago, when Yang Er was woken up from the bunk and came to the brightly lit front hall of Moyun Temple, he knew very well that it was finally his turn.

During the several months after Yang Er came to Moyun Temple, it changed little by little every day. In the end, except for the newly built front hall to decorate the facade, the rest of the ruins were gradually replaced by rows of neat houses.

It is not only the ruins that have been replaced one after another, but also the old people in the audience.Starting from the night when Abbot Wei escorted away many big shots in the gang, it took ten days at the fastest and half a month at the slowest. There were always some people who disappeared after sunrise the next day.

Yang Er knew that these people were all taken away in the middle of the night.

The great monks in Guansi have supernatural powers and can watch people at night. This generation is good at doing things in the middle of the night. There are old people in the gang who don’t believe in evil, and those who are looking for opportunities to escape are all beaten to death on the way by bird guns——Yang Er received it Dead several times.

As the elders in the temple were being sent away one after another, the status of the beggars who came in was getting lower and lower, and there were fewer and fewer people who knew Yang Er well. Most of them were new beggars who joined the gang just to eat.After the new house was built, the rules in the temple became more and more strict. One house has one house, and the people in one house sit together when they have something to do, and some people talk about going to sea in private on weekdays, and all the people in the house will disappear soon.

Yang Er took the opportunity to inquire about the old acquaintances who were new to the temple, and only then did he know that the outside world has changed.The new head of the regiment is cruel, vigorously rectifying the assistant affairs, and the people in charge of the various offices are all the leading cronies from outside.

All the old people with a little status in the gang are thorns in the eyes of this generation, and they always find the wrong place to suppress them. From time to time, some old people and their cronies are assigned to Moyun Temple. How much, the old people in the gang have been replaced by seven or eight, and they are no longer the previous gang of beggars.
Yang Er's liver and gallbladder were broken after listening to it at that time, and the young man realized that even if he escaped from birth one day, he would be dead if he returned to Hangzhou. As far as he knew, the only ones who would not be taken away in the middle of the night without worrying about food and drink in the monastery were those few study seeds.

However, reading also requires talent. Although Yang Er has a hard-core brother who has changed his name to Jiang Shang to help him after class, he still stumbles in learning those "scriptures" with twists and turns.Because of his mediocre level of study, he could barely maintain the state of not being sent to work—after Abbot Wei, who liked Yang Er's cleverness, disappeared that night, he was once sent to weave straw sandals by the new abbot.

Since the completion of the large-scale civil works, Moyun Temple has been formalized and managed like a prison.According to the order of entering the temple, there are planned "houses" waiting for different batches of newcomers to move in.

The mats and cotton bought from outside the temple will be made into homespun clothes, straw sandals, and straw hats step by step by the people in the cell according to the procedures of a simple assembly line.The style is the most material-saving double-breasted jacket and cropped trousers. It doesn't even need to be dyed, and moon white cloth is just fine.All the finished products will not be sold, and the excess will be stored in the warehouse, and then transported away with the ship - Dayuan's textile industry is still in the Year of the Monkey, and there is an urgent shortage of finished products at this stage.

All those who entered Moyun Temple will have a rest time after a series of quarantine procedures are completed.There is no heavy physical work, and the food is good, so many skinny newcomers become normal and healthy in just one or two months.During this period, the managers will make simple fine-tuning, the elderly, the weak, the sick and the disabled will be transferred away, and other people will be adjusted to dormitories and arrange sailing schedules.

The general principle of first come, first go will not change. The previous batch has given priority to sending away all the elders of the beggar gang. After a few trips, most of the existing human resources in the temple are new recruits who don't understand anything.The only one left to the end is a group of top students, who are masters and have three stripes.

Therefore, on the day when Cao Chuan successfully delivered 8 boxes of equipment to the senior staff, Hangzhou Station notified the Gouyan fleet, which was resting, to prepare to set sail after receiving the telegram. It is necessary to start, because the tension in the residence of the senior officials will soon be relieved, and the school is the first sequence of buildings.

Therefore, Yang Er finally waited for the fate of boarding the boat in the middle of the night, but the good thing is that he found out that night that his little brother Jiang Shang was also in the team.However, Jiang Shang and him were not on the same road. He and the two green-robed scholars who boarded the ship later lived in the upper class cabin, and Yang Er lived in the lower cabin.

Taking back the wandering thoughts in his mind, Yang Er, who was leaning on the bulwark and blowing the sea breeze for a long time, guessed that it was almost time for a stick of incense, so he spit into the sea, and then lifted the urine bucket to prepare to return to the cabin.

Just as he walked to the hatch, he met a man, Shi Shiran, who was coming up from below.

"Brother Jiang!" Yang Er greeted the visitor in surprise.

"Second Brother Yang!" Seeing that he was the elder brother, Jiang Shang smiled, pulled Yang Er aside, took out half an orange from his pocket and handed it to him: "It's hard work living down there."

Yang Er didn't even peel the orange, he stuffed half of the orange into his mouth in one gulp, and said vaguely while chewing: "Bitter, the time for letting the wind out is short, how can you live comfortably in the upper cabin, where you can eat and drink."

Standing in front of Yang Er, Jiang Shang was no longer in the form of a skeleton soldier.The young man is now full of complexion and well-proportioned. In just a few months, he has grown a lot. His upper body is a pair of indigo muslin jacket and his lower body is trousers of the same fabric. It doesn't look like Yang Er's clay legs with bare ankles.

After hearing Yang Er's complaints, Jiang Shang first giggled a few times, and then said to him: "No matter how strong you are, you will be at the end of the land, and you can arrive today."

"Really? Brother, don't coax your brother."

"Really! I have seen the charts in the ship building, and the shopkeeper even tested me to convert them. I did the calculations correctly. The oranges are rewarded by the shopkeeper."

"Hey, I'm going to the end of the land. Brother, I'm so miserable. Didn't we float thousands of miles on the ocean this trip? Alas, we are going to be dispatched to the end of the world."

"It's not ten thousand miles." Jiang Shang thought about it seriously, and then counted with his fingers: "It's about 1000 kilometers, 540 nautical miles, and 2000 miles. We are now facing the sea in Fujian, at the boundary of Guyi Prefecture."

Yang Er blinked and looked at Jiang Shang in a daze, speechless for a while.

(End of this chapter)