Infrastructure maniacs from the East

Xu Tian calmed down the next day - Baibu must be found, in this era without sulfur soap, this medicinal material is a powerful tool for killing head lice, but the problem is that people here not only have lice on their heads Ah, there are lice growing on their bodies, the bodies of animals, and there is a creature called pubic lice... Lord Xu can say with certainty that only he and the two knights beside him in this world have no lice. Others have both head and body lice and pubic lice.

What kind of world is this?

Xu Tian, ​​who was born in New China and grew up in the city, did not have the concept of lice before. When he came here, he did not pay attention to these small things. Now that he thinks about it carefully, his scalp is numb. Lord Xu is very lucky now I still maintain the habits from modern times, and I fooled the housekeeper here at the first time, and the priest didn't come out and beep something like 'lice are a gift from God', otherwise he would definitely go crazy.

Originally, he complained about his hard stone bed—yes, most of the beds here are made of straw, while some nobles cover straw with cloth, and some directly build stone beds. Xu Tian slept on it. It was the stone bed left by the previous lord. Because it had been padded with blanks before, the lice were not active on the stone. Lord Xu was lucky to escape the lice.

After thinking about the environment here, Xu Tian felt that it was impossible for him to get rid of lice completely, but it was still feasible to get rid of some of them—how many bugs were there in the haystack? When the conditions of thorough cleaning are met, it is impossible to completely break away from the bugs, and it is impossible for people here to clean their houses every day.

But is Xu Tian afraid?

There was a fierce light in Lord Xu’s eyes, and he told the world with his actions that he would never admit defeat—let a knight bring his sackcloth sheet—he didn’t look like he woke up one morning and found that his body was full of blood. Jump around on these nasty little things and scratch around like a madman.

"You know who shaves their heads?"

Xu Tian found the almighty butler again, and got an unexpected answer, "Doctor?!"

After the housekeeper’s detailed explanation, Xu Tiancai knew that generally speaking, the barber and the doctor are the same person—the main treatment method is bloodletting, and the barber often uses knives on people’s heads, so in a sense , the doctor is the sideline of the barber.

After hearing this, Xu Tian stubbornly did not faint, and asked the housekeeper to go to the doctor with a pale face, telling him that there was a big deal to be done here.

Yes, Xu Tian intends to solve the problem from the source - the head lice live on the hair, so they all shave their heads bald!

"Go and shave the men in the castle, as short as possible."

The doctor was dressed in shabby and dirty black clothes, holding a pair of rusty scissors in his hands, and his hair was filthy like everyone else's, which made people want to frown.

No way, let the doctor go to the blacksmith to sharpen the scissors first, and then ask the carpenter to cut a few notches with wood chips to make them look like a comb, so as not to hurt the person who is shaved—in this world, shaving is generally a warrior because many times after the scissors are swiped above the head, there will be a pile of blood on the head, and bleeding in this era can be fatal.

After finishing the sharpening of the knife and preparing the hair clipper, Xu Tian rolled his eyes and decided to have a sense of ceremony. After all, he paid a lot of money to invite the doctor here, so it shouldn't be too much to make a joke... right?

Riverside in the afternoon.

Xu Tian asked the housekeeper to notify everyone of the order to shave their heads. When the servants arrived, a fire had already been lit with pottery embryos burning inside. Two thin and long wooden boards, and the butler was already sitting on the ground, with his eyes closed and his back turned to the doctor.

The jumping flames, the dignified atmosphere, the strange slaves, the servants who were talking couldn't help but shut their mouths tightly, and consciously stood in a row. The lord sat a little far away, but looked at the butler.

"let's start."

Following an order, the doctor combed a handful of the butler's hair with a comb, and with a few clicks of the polished scissors, a strand of hair fell out, and was quickly caught by the slave with a wooden board, and thrown towards the housekeeper with a raised hand. On the fire, the flames flickered slightly, and after a brief crackle, the unique smell of burnt protein wafted out.

"There are clouds and water in between..."

A somewhat hoarse voice sounded, and the servants subconsciously looked at the lord. They couldn't understand Chinese, but inexplicably got goosebumps. This voice was like the singing of a siren, attracting them involuntarily.

"Crack-"

"There is dust on the fingertips..."

Xu Tian made a seamless connection. Seeing the bewildered expressions of the servants, he smiled silently in his heart.

"I checked the [-]-revolution flying light..."

"Crack-knock-"

The barber in black, the housekeeper with his eyes closed, the sound of lice popping, the smell of scorched protein, sparks popping out from time to time, Xu Tian's singing voice that no one can understand but has his own rhythm, constitutes an extremely strange scene. In the scene, none of the people present dared to speak out, and they didn't know what they were afraid of.

"……mad--"

The doctor finished cutting the last bit of hair, and Xu Tian just sang the last sentence. The butler opened his eyes, and the wooden stick was thrown into the fire. The slave politely brought a clay basin filled with clear water. After washing her hair, she raised her head and shook the water beads, and walked steadily towards the castle.

The water in the clay pot changed color, but the slave did not pour it out casually, but carefully took out a pottery bowl, scooped up half a bowl of water and poured it into the flames, but the flames did not diminish as the servants imagined. , but it burned more violently in an instant, and then returned to its original state. This process was repeated by the servant whose hands were shaking more and more. It was not until the water was poured that the slave ran away holding the clay basin and bowl.

Xu Tian’s joke was also made, and now he’s not in the mood to stay after he’s over interested, he said something to the doctor who didn’t know what he was thinking, and left with his two knights—his voice roared yesterday. It was so hard, it still hurts so much.

Doctor... The doctor is dumbfounded now. When Xu Tian said to cooperate earlier, he agreed without even thinking about it, but he didn't expect it to be such a big scene. Just now, his hands didn't listen to him at all, and the lord's voice was hurried His hands are fast, his voice is slow, and his movements are slow. All the rhythms are in perfect harmony with the lord, so there are no accidents. It's all because of the comb blocking it.

So what did the lord just do?

Thinking of those songs that he couldn't understand and can't remember now, and looking at the sun that was about to set, the doctor trembled, not daring to think about it anymore, and beckoned to the next person to come over and shave his head.

The servants are not calm now.

The butler actually asked them to come in batches, but no one wanted to be left behind, so everyone came together, but they never expected to see such a strange scene, and they couldn't help but start to figure it out.

joke?

How could the lord joke with them, and after the steward left, the lord also left. These things must have some effect that they don't know.

"...perhaps a demon."

One of the oldest servants suddenly said that there was already a servant sitting in front of the fire cutting his hair. The doctor just clicked a few times casually, and the dirty and tangled hair fell out one after another, but no one Throw them into the fire, and no one makes him wash his hair after cutting them.

The old servant was the one who had worked the longest in the castle, and it was said that he was once the most powerful assistant around the steward. He also told many stories that the servants here had never heard of before when he was drunk, and his words were always highly credible.

"This is impossible!"

The first servant who had cut his hair came back. For some reason, he picked up his cut hair with a branch and wanted to throw it into the fire, but was stopped by the slave—the fire was burning Pottery, what if it breaks?

He exploded when he heard what the old servant said, with an angry look on his face, but a sense of fear welled up in his heart.

"impossible?"

The old servant wasn't sure at first, but he was so directly denied by the young man, so he naturally wanted to save some face.

"Then why did the fire explode when water was poured in?"

The servant who retorted was silent for a moment.

Water can put out a fire, so why does the fire grow bigger when water is poured into it?

This is the doubt hidden in everyone's heart, but just now, the old servant suddenly figured it out.

"There are demons in those waters!"

This time the tone became decisive, the old servant looked at the hair on the ground in panic, and suddenly subconsciously moved away from everyone.

"why?"

When the old servant's words fell, several servants' faces changed drastically, and they also stayed away from the large army without hesitation, but most of them still didn't understand what the fire had to do with the demon.

"When people catch witches, they burn them to death."

The old servant trembled his lips, and said something that everyone knew, and a few people reacted and left the large group.

"Fire purifies what is evil."

More people reacted, and people continued to disperse.

"Why throw your hair into the fire, because there are demons in those hairs!"

The old servant almost yelled out, he staggered back a little, and quickly ran towards the doctor.

"Isn't the sound after throwing it in the devil's scream?!"

"The strange smell that comes out, isn't it the smell of the devil after being burnt?!"

Human logic will be completed automatically, and the old servant's thinking becomes clearer and his words become smoother.

"The lord is not singing, that is expelling demons!"

The old servant believed in his own judgment more and more. Before everyone could react, he sat down in front of the doctor and begged the doctor to shave his head quickly. The fire, and quickly ran away.

He shaved his head, and threw his hair into the vicious fire. The demon should have been partially wiped out.

The old servant walked in a hurry, but his worries did not diminish at all.

"The butler washes away the remaining demons..."

"The water poured in is actually the body of the demon, so the fire will grow bigger..."

"￥%&￥%..."

When people believe in a certain conclusion, they will find more suitable reasons for it and form self-persuasion. The remaining servants gather together and whisper, and the first servant has run away, but this conclusion is getting more and more Clear, more and more complete...

The butler didn't go back to the castle. If these people caused trouble, he needed to settle it. So the butler was lucky to see the flame grow bigger and heard the servants' comments. This conclusion added fuel to the fire.

The next day, when everyone was having dinner, you talked to each other and pieced together a complete story.

The lord came from the ancient empire in the east (this is what everyone has heard, but it was confirmed by the steward), and he saw the devil (here everyone discussed how long and dense the lord's hair was and expressed their envy) , fortunately, the lord has the holy sound brought from his hometown (here, everyone is arguing endlessly about whether the lord is singing an exorcism song or a purification song, and finally use the most popular word, holy sound, to form a compromise).

So the lord called the doctor who exorcised the demon (if you are sick, the demon enters the body, and the doctor exorcises the demon, there is nothing wrong with it), and said that he would force the demon into his hair with holy sounds (otherwise why would he cut his hair), and the doctor's scissors would Gain the power to harm demons (the sharpened scissors cut hair super fast, and a large piece of it is brushed, and the speed of the doctor's scissors is also in line with the lord's song, and everyone said there is no doubt about this).

The benevolent lord knows how to purify the devil. He called the slave and asked him to pick up the devil with his mana-enhanced long stick (everyone thought of the expression of the slave, and quickly imagined a series of emotions such as fear), and used the sacred The flames purify the demons (no one denies this), but demons are not so easy to kill, so the lord asked the slaves to bring holy water (the servants debated the name of the water again, and finally decided to use the most popular holy water One word), it will make all the demons in the hair go into the water (think water that changes color, everyone nods silently).

The holy flame cannot purify all the devil's things at once, so the slave used the holy grail (well, everyone has no imagination, everything has a holy word) to purify the polluted holy water little by little according to the lord's order. The flame feeds on the demon's body, so the flame is strong, but the demon's body is limited, so it is only a moment (no one has a problem with this), and the demon disappears with the disappearance of the water.

This complete story was widely recognized as soon as it came out, and it was widely circulated among servants and slaves. Xu Tian's identity in his hometown was also speculated by many people, but no one dared to stab him in front of him, even if everyone They all heard Xu Tian's ballad, but they didn't bathe in holy water, and still felt that they hadn't got rid of the devil.

The author has something to say: After the small theater, Xu Tian finally found out about it.

"Ask the lord to give us holy water and help us exorcise demons."

All the servants and slaves knelt in front of Xu Tian with pious faces.

Xu Tian: ...

"Wan Shen Ji" is very nice, and the a cappella is really vast... Well, I admit that I wrote this song purely because I couldn't think of an old, weird, mysterious and sacred song. At the beginning, I actually wanted to write "Poppy Crown". It was changed because it felt inappropriate.