The next morning, Xiaojiu obediently took his sister and other beggars in the yard to the place where they were yesterday. As expected, when they went out, they saw that Feng Mazi, who came yesterday, had already been at their door. Waiting outside.
It seems that they were told not to care about them yesterday, but if they don't go, the people from the Spirit Snake Gang will definitely catch them.
snort! What those Jinwu guards said was nice, allowing beggars like me to choose, but they still didn't give them a chance to choose. They just didn't know what His Highness the King of Shu wanted them to do. I hope it wasn't hard work! He wasn't afraid, but his sister was too young.
After they came out, Feng Mazi didn't say anything, he just watched them go out and walk to the place where the notice was posted yesterday.
When they arrived at the location, the carriages were already waiting here. There were two carriages in total. As the beggars around them rushed over, they quickly squeezed onto the two carriages.
Xiaojiu looked carefully and saw that almost all the beggars around him were here, including the older ones.
Everyone was crowded into the two carriages, and the smells were similar. No one disliked the bad smell. It would make them warmer if they were squeezed together. After all, the weather was still a bit cold in the morning.
The carriage staggered toward the west city gate. When it reached the door, Xiaojiu discovered that there was already a long procession of carriages lining up at the door to leave the city. The carriages pulling the same beggars as themselves.
The team that left the city dragged their feet to a very far place. With so many people together, Xiao Jiu was no longer afraid.
When they were almost at their destination, Xiao Jiu saw some refugees with luggage appearing in the distance, but when they arrived at the industrial area, they were divided into two groups.
When we were still far away, the driver started shouting: "Get off the bus, get off the bus, and when you get off the bus, go to the side and line up."
Xiaojiu jumped out of the carriage skillfully, then carried her sister out of the carriage, and then walked to the queue next to her.
There are uniformed soldiers here to maintain order.
Xiao Jiu noticed that the beggars were divided into six teams, and then everyone was walking forward slowly.
In front of them were six large wooden houses. There were some tables in front of the wooden houses, and people sitting behind the tables did not know what they were doing.
The team moved forward little by little, and it wasn't until Xiaojiu arrived in front of the table that he discovered that sitting behind the table was a scholar wearing a scholar's shirt.
The smell on his body was unpleasant, but the other party didn't seem to show any disdain. Instead, he looked at the two of them first and asked, "What's your name?"
"My name is Xiaojiu." He answered honestly.
"surname?"
"No." Xiaojiu shook his head.
"What about you?" The other party looked at the skinny little girl Xiaojiu was holding in front of him.
"Xiao Shi." The little girl replied, and then sucked in the snot that flowed to her mouth again.
"Does anyone remember this?" The other party looked at Xiao Jiu again and asked.
"She's from Chang'an. As far as I can remember, she's from Chang'an. I picked her up outside Chang'an when she was about five or six months old." Xiaojiu replied.
His hand holding the pen paused, as if he was exerting force, and his knuckles turned a little white, but soon returned to normal. Xiaojiu didn't know why he was like this.
"His Highness said that if you don't have a surname, His Highness will give you the surname Li, are you willing?" The scholar raised his head and looked at him, took a deep breath and asked.
Xiaojiu was stunned for a moment, could he... could he have the same surname as His Highness? It doesn't matter to him, any last name is fine, but his sister is still young and cannot have a last name.
"Yes, thank you, Your Majesty, Your Highness." Xiao Jiu said quickly.
The scholar looked at him again. Would he still use honorifics? "You are very good at using honorifics. Who did you learn from them?" As he asked, the scholar took out two wooden plaques with numbers 86 and 87 from the side, and then started writing on them with a brush.
"That's what I heard. If you speak nicer, you can get more food, otherwise I won't be able to feed her." Xiaojiu scratched his head in embarrassment. No one had ever praised him before.
The scholar did not ask anymore, but silently wrote two names on the two wooden signs: Li Xiaojiu and Li Xiaoshi.
"This is your name, this is Li, and this is Xiaojiu. Your sister Xiaoshi doesn't sound like a girl's name, so I changed her name to Xiaoshi, which means poetry." The scholar held up two wooden signs and gave them Xiaojiu explained, oh, it should be called Li Xiaojiu now.
"Little poem, Li Xiaoshi, this sounds nice! Thank you, Sir!" Li Xiaojiu looked happy and hurriedly bent down to salute.
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Li Xiaoshi also saluted along with Li Xiaojiu.
"Well, take these two signs with your names on them and follow them to the back." The scholar nodded and pointed to the back.
Picking up the two wooden plaques, Li Xiaojiu tried his best to memorize the words on them. In addition to the names he had just given them, there were also two strange characters written with a brush on the wooden plaques, but he did not recognize them.
When he entered the wooden house at the back, he heard some screams. Xiao Jiu was immediately startled, but there was already a middle-aged man waiting for him here. Seeing his appearance, he smiled and said: "Don't be afraid. , I’m giving you a bath inside. There’s too much dirt on you, and if you gather together, it’s easy to cause a plague. Is your sister...sick? "
"Well..." Li Xiaojiu nodded hurriedly.
"I am the doctor, so she needs to take a bath. Separate from here. This is the woman. You go this way. After you come out in a while, after eating, come to the medical center to find me. I will prescribe medicine for you, remember? ?If you can't find a medical clinic, just ask someone, or look at a red gourd, which is very conspicuous." The middle-aged man said with a smile.
The gourd was a symbol of the doctor in ancient times. Just like the modern red cross logo, Li Ke naturally used it directly, but painted it red. This is how the idiom "hanging the pot helps the world" comes from.
"Ah, okay...but she's too young." Li Xiaojiu hesitated. He had also taken a bath, but it was in the river outside the city, and he couldn't take a bath twice a year.
And Xiaoshi rarely washes it, that is, he scrubbed it when he was a child.
"It doesn't matter, there is a maid inside to help her wash." The middle-aged man nodded.
Li Xiaojiu hesitated for a moment, then nodded and agreed. Once he came here, he had no right to resist. He bent down and explained a few words to Li Xiaoshi. Although he was only three years old, Li Xiaoshi had experienced hardships in the world and was very sensible. She nodded obediently. , and then walked in from the side door.
Li Xiaojiu also walked into the cubicle. After entering, he saw someone guarding here.
"Take off all your clothes and throw them into this basket." Seeing him come in, the other party directly ordered.
There were already a lot of tattered and dirty clothes piled inside. He took off all the clothes on his body honestly, and he was not shy. He had nothing to be ashamed of. He even ran around naked when he had no clothes to wear.
Throwing all the clothes inside, he hesitated and asked, "What should I do if I can't find my clothes at that moment?"
"Your Highness is kind, I will have new clothes for you soon." The man was happy and cupped his hands in the direction of Shu Wangzhuang.
"Thank you, Your Highness." Li Xiaojiu was smart and thanked Li Ke before walking inside.
When he came inside, he knew why he heard the scream just now. It was someone rubbing the beggar's back, and he didn't know what he was using, and it could make a lot of bubbles on the body.
However, because they have not bathed for many years, their bodies are covered with scabs. Even if there are bubbles, they have to rub them hard.
