Chapter 126 A moment of negligence
Li Mengxi didn't take bathing seriously. Firstly, the river was a bit far away from here, and Li Mengxi didn't want to run away. The sun was too hot at the moment. Secondly, there was nothing interesting to see when a group of people took off their clothes and took a bath.
Therefore, Li Mengxi did not follow him.
Accidents often happen due to negligence.
The river was three or four miles west of Zhuozhou. The local warriors brought the people there and pointed at the sparkling river to ask the refugees to go into the river.
During the communication, a misunderstanding arose. The refugees thought that the officers and soldiers wanted to drive them into the river and drown them all. They started to quarrel. However, despite the good temper of Liu Bei and Li Mengxi, who had been busy for these refugees for a long time, the refugees refused to go into the river.
Go, but the military order is to let these refugees bathe in the river.
The centurion got angry, raised his gun and started to fight, and drove the people into the river. Now, the refugees were even more afraid of chaos, fearing that they would be pushed into the river and drowned, so they started pushing and shoving the village heroes.
The rebel centurion was arrogant and stupid, and a small incident almost caused a riot.
A clever commander under the centurion hurriedly ran out and stopped both sides, "Our military advisor said you are dirty. We are afraid of getting sick. Please wash yourself in the river."
"No," the chief said, throwing a bundle of hard firewood on his back on the ground. "This firewood is for you to bathe and dry your clothes."
After saying that, Commander Ji clever ran to the centurion and whispered a few words, "Boss, we can't control them, should we call the military advisor or who should come over?"
The centurion refused to comment, but the chief minister did not get the centurion's approval, so he hurriedly went to find Liu Bei and Li Mengxi.
Li Mengxi returned to the manor and was watching Liu Bei chop the chicken and throw it into an earthen pot, and then threw in the peppercorns, pepper, star anise, salt and other spices. Li Mengxi was not yet well, but his younger brother Xiaozhuan looked at him, already very worthless, and his mouth was watering.
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At this moment, Xiang Yong, who was covered in sweat and out of breath, ran over and said, "My lord... my lord! Military advisor! Something bad is going to happen!"
The refugees are afraid that they will rebel!"
Li Mengxi and Liu Bei immediately looked at each other, and their hearts trembled.
Liu Bei hurriedly called to the villagers in the manor, took weapons and went to the battlefield.
When Li Mengxi and Liu Bei were riding on the same horse, Liu Bei was riding in front, and Li Mengxi was holding on to Liu Bei's clothes tightly for fear of falling.
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When we hurriedly and slowly arrived at the river, the scenes of riots and bloody killings did not appear.
The refugees sat on the riverside, bored and did not fight.
Li Mengxi was dumbfounded. There was no riot here.
Li Mengxi immediately wondered at that time whether the country warrior had lied about the military situation.
You see, Li Mengxi is still a bit immature when it comes to handling things, and he is suspicious of others.
Liu Bei, on the other hand, carefully looked at the scene and suddenly smiled, "Thanks to Shi Chang's timely report, the conflict was able to be suppressed early."
Liu Bei's first instinct was to think that Shi Chang had lied about the military situation, but then he thought about it, why did Shi Chang run out of breath just to lie about the military situation? It doesn't make sense, the logic doesn't make sense.
Something must have almost gone wrong by the river before.
Liu Bei stabbed the gun in his hand smoothly, turned over and dismounted, and then Li Mengxi also jumped down with a thud.
Liu Bei just left.
Behind him, "Where's the gun? Don't you want to take it?" Li Mengxi reminded Liu Bei to take the gun.
Liu Bei chuckled, "No need!"
Then, Liu Bei stepped on the sand beside the river beach and walked towards the refugees.
Before the people approached, Liu Bei had a smile on his face, "Everyone, have you rested?" Liu Bei greeted the Yellow Turban refugees with a smile.
Judging from what he said, it was the same tone as when the host was seeing off the guests at a rural banquet, and said, "Are you ready?" This was the same tone. Liu Bei did not give the Yellow Turban a bowl of porridge.
He felt that the Yellow Turban owed him something, and he was a bit arrogant because of it.
The Yellow Turban refugees all knew Liu Xuande, and knew that this man was the one who helped the refugees and gave them porridge. The refugees knew that life and death depended on Liu Bei's thoughts. When Liu Bei came over, the refugees all stood up with a roar.
The refugees did not dare to question Liu Xuande, but they were grateful for Liu Xuan's kindness in serving the porridge, so they all looked at Liu Bei in silence.
Liu Bei came to the crowd and said, "Everyone, my military advisor said, whenever there is a disaster or epidemic, you are running around for days, and your bodies are covered with dust. The sun is in the sky, and the water is drying your clothes.
Isn’t it cold?”
With that said, Liu Bei walked directly to the river. When he walked to the river, everyone in the Yellow Turbans looked at him, "Everyone, get in the water and take advantage of the good water in the river to wash up!" Liu Bei turned around and faced the Yellow Turbans proudly.
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After saying that, he walked directly into the river without taking off his casual shoes or clothes.
After Liu Bei's move, no more words were needed. The Yellow Turban refugees no longer had any scruples. They took off their clothes and shoes and went into the river.
Li Mengxi shouted from behind, "Get your clothes and wash them together! No one will care if your clothes are left on the beach and can't be found for a while!"
Yellow turban refugees have little awareness of hygiene. They may not want to wash their clothes, but what if they hear that the clothes have to be put on the shore and someone else can take them away? When the yellow turban refugees heard this, they thought no problem and simply took their clothes and went into the water.
Even if you don't wash your clothes in water, they will be much cleaner if you soak them in water and rinse them twice.
Countless men took off their clothes and ran towards the river. Because of this opportunity, the Yellow Turban refugees got closer to Liu Bei, and many of them came up to talk to Liu Bei.
Because Liu Bei jumped into the river, he also untied his bun and washed his hair.
Although Li Mengxi wanted to take a bath, he was too embarrassed to go down.
He was by the river and saw river mussel shells in the sand on the beach, and thought about picking some up for his brother to play with.
"Xi'er, come down and wash up!" Liu Bei waved in the middle of the river.
Li Mengxi shook his head and refused.
After picking up a pile of clam shells, Li Mengxi couldn't pick them up anymore. When he went back, he wanted to put them in his horse's trousers before picking them up again. Then, Li Mengxi saw a young man. Others were in the water. He didn't go, so he was special.
Li Mengxi frowned. This young man was not much cleaner than others. It was for their own good to be clean and to avoid getting sick. Why didn't he cooperate?
From a distance, the young man seemed to be cautious, leaning sideways, with his head lowered, standing nervously and kicking the sand with his feet.
Li Mengxi passed by.
"Why don't you go wash it?"
The sudden sound startled the young man.
The young man turned around in panic, with a dirty face and eyes full of fear. When he turned around and saw a child, the young man was no longer so scared.
Li Mengxi looked at the boy carefully. This boy, who was probably only twelve or thirteen years old, was dirty and unkempt.
Li Mengxi looked the boy up and down and said, "Why don't you go wash it? You are injured and cannot get wet?"
Li Mengxi asked doubtfully.
The young man lowered his head and said nothing.
"Go and wash yourself. You'll avoid getting sick if you wash yourself." Li Mengxi frowned.
The young man remained indifferent, lowered his head and said nothing.
Hey, I'll go. Li Mengxi ran out of patience and called to Xiang Yong beside him, asking Xiang Yong to come over and ask the people to be driven into the water.
As soon as Xiang Yong came over, the young man was frightened and tried to run away, but Xiang Yong held him back with a gun.
The boy who was held captive by the gun was so frightened that he stood still and did not dare to move. Even though the two village heroes were smiling and pointing the butts of their guns at him, there was no malice at all.
Li Mengxi was stunned.
Chapter completed!