Riding and chopping: Overlord of the Han and Hungarians

195 Chapter 193, workers
Shanhaiguan construction site.

The hardest mountain terrain is built first.

Tens of thousands of workers started working at the same time, stretching the construction site to one or two miles.

Cut stones, shape terrain, and dig foundations.

The work is extremely tiring, but there is no resentment on the face of each worker, but a smile of hope in the eyes.

Eight people jointly lifted a huge and stubborn stone snatched from the ground, and with all their strength, they picked it up to the open space with shouts.

In addition to cement bricks, some places in Shanhaiguan also use huge stones from local materials.

After all, it is a mountain range, so stubborn.

The eight people carefully put the stone down on the ground, loosened the burden on their shoulders, and everyone let out a sigh of relief.

The straw hats on top of their heads were practical, and several people took them off to fan the wind to relieve the heat.

One of the older ones said with a smile: "The straw hat General Zhang taught us is quite practical. It can do everything for the sunshade fan, and it looks simple. I will make a few of them and put them at home. It will definitely be useful when the farming is busy." .”

Another person took over the conversation: "Isn't it true that the general is a rare good man, he not only takes care of food and drink, but also pays three coins a day. After two days of work, he can exchange meat for the family. This month, that little boy in my family has seen His grandma is happy every day with growing meat."

"Hahaha, my family is also the same. The cubs are full every day, and their skin is very skinny, but the older ones are also sensible, helping the family to tidy up the fields. This year is a bumper harvest year."

When one person spoke, several people around who had stopped to rest also joined in, talking about the changes in the family.

It was already noon, and it was almost time for dinner, so the supervisors didn't go forward to chase them away, but chatted together.

"Hey, do you know, I heard that the Huns came to invade the border again this time, General Zhang led the troops to guard the front line, and not a single Hun ran over!"

"That's right, don't you look at what kind of person General Zhang is, what happened to us in Northwest Liaoning last year, if I hadn't cleverly brought my family into the city in advance, I might be where it is now, fortunately we With General Zhang, this year will definitely be a year of peace!"

"Well, it must be a peaceful year!"

The people around were a little bit resentful. Many of them were immigrants from the Huns who invaded the border area last year, and they knew a thing or two about the dangers of Border County.

Fortunately, they were sent to western Liaoning, where General Zhang was in charge, so they were not looted this year.

For a moment, the image of Zhang Qi in everyone's hearts once again became stalwart.

Seeing that the scene was a bit sluggish, the person who spoke before started to laugh.

"Haha, with General Zhang here, you are still worried about what the Huns are doing. I think it is the Huns who are worried. How many of them are enough for General Zhang to kill.

Let's not talk about this, Wu Er Er, how are you doing these days? I have been working for more than a month, have you saved enough money to marry a wife? "

The topic changed.

The second Wu who was named had a blush on his face: "Enough is enough, the amount is not tender, the whole family is not hungry, and the amount is enough for one month to save enough money to marry a wife, which has been entrusted to the village head My matchmaker, Xue, has a girl who is willing to live with me, and she already wants to go to her."

"Ah, yes, that's a happy event. Second Wu, you have to recognize your elder brothers. We brought you here for this work. You are not allowed to invite us to your house for a wedding banquet when you are married."

"Yeah yeah."

"Haha, congratulations, Second Wu."

There was a burst of congratulations around.

The second Wu who immigrated here has a very strong accent, but everyone can understand it. After all, the people here are not living here for generations, and they have all immigrated here one after another.

The face that was scratched by the congratulations turned even redder, and the second child Wu waved his hands: "We must invite you to drink the wedding wine, but the wine is too expensive, and there is no guarantee that you will be able to drink to your heart's content."

"Haha, it's enough for you to have this kind of heart. For wine, my brother can help you get some. Do you want the woman's family to think highly of you? Do you think so?"

"Extremely extreme. My family still has two jars of fruit wine brewed last year. Although it's sour, it's still wine. I'll bring it with me when the time comes, and we can drink it together."

"Haha, my family has it too, but there's only half of it left. Don't be disgusted with Wu Er Er when the time comes."

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Congratulations here.

There's fun talking elsewhere, too.

As long as they can eat enough, these people at the bottom of the society can find interesting things from around them, and they can chat happily for a while.

"It's dinner time!"

The ox carts drove up the mountains slowly, and each ox cart can provide food for two to 300 people.

Hear the sound of dinner.

These workers who took advantage of the noon break swallowed their saliva one after another, and then lined up familiarly.

They are not afraid that they will not be able to eat at the back of the queue. After a month, they all know that there is enough food.

The person in charge of putting the rice opened the lids of several wooden barrels, and the aroma of the food immediately filled the air.

After a whole morning of work, everyone was very hungry. Now that they smelled the fragrance, their saliva could not be stopped.

Let’s start sharing the meals. In fact, it’s not enough to say how good the food here is. Let’s just say that today’s pancakes are all soybean meal left after Xianbei beans are processed into tofu, but the soybean meal is not squeezed as dry as before.

In addition to soybean meal, there are also some ground sorghum noodles in the pancakes, which are not fine and have large particles, and the proportion is not much.

In short, these pancakes are made of a mixture of many grains, which are not delicious, but they are anti-hunger.

While distributing the pancakes, the person who served the rice opened the lids of several other wooden barrels. These lids were better sealed because they contained soup.

Since Xianbei's shipyard built sailboats one by one, Liaohe Bay has become Zhang Qi's port, and countless ships go out to collect seafood from there every day, the most of which is kelp.

Therefore, what these workers drank was kelp tofu soup. Of course, the tofu didn't cost much, but there was a lot of kelp, and with enough salt, the soup tasted very good.

The people who received the meal sat in a group while eating and chatting. In each person's hands, there were three or four multigrain cakes the size of the face plate, which would definitely fill the stomach, and then slipped around the salty soup, not to mention What a treat.

After eating, the supervisors reminded the workers that they still had half an hour to rest, and told them to take the time to sleep. When the work started, if they were lazy, their wages for that day would be halved or even not.

It is a matter of self-interest, everyone understands, so they all nodded to the supervisor.

"I know."

"Don't worry, Manager Qu, I will urge everyone."

"We won't be lazy, General Zhang is such a good person, we can't lose that conscience."

The workers all patted their chests to reassure, and Supervisor Qu nodded. In the past month, he has been familiar with the people in charge of him, so he didn't say much.

(End of this chapter)