After feeding the exiled criminals, she was forced to reveal herself

Chapter 255 She asked him casually but he was too serious

We are all here to be exiled, not to work.

If you want to work, and if you can make it to Laozhou alive, there is plenty of work to do. You can work every day for the rest of your life. Why would you want to show off here?
After drinking the hot water, a few people rubbed their hands and quietly observed how the Xie family worked. Gradually, they discovered that smoke was coming out of their heads while they were working.

"They don't even complain about the cold." Someone nearby muttered.

"How about we do the same as them?"

"Do you have that much physical strength?"

"Try it, they feel so hot that they don't even feel cold."

Several people imitated the Xie family's work and unknowingly moved closer to them. Once they were close to the Xie family, they could not help but be assimilated into the speed of the work at hand. They worked faster and faster, their bodies moved, and soon their blood became hot, and smoke came out of their heads without them knowing it.

Several people were whispering to each other, getting closer and closer to the Xie family. At some point, they started talking to the Xie family's guards, breaking the barrier and chatting as they worked.

These people had been in exile all the way and had not had enough food, so they didn't care about the work, but their physical strength really couldn't keep up, and their subsequent endurance could not keep up with the people of the Xie family.

We were all men of similar age, and we all looked equally disheveled when traveling on the road. But when we compared ourselves to each other when doing the work, there was a huge difference. I couldn't help feeling ashamed for a moment.

Xie Wuying, this clever little boy, discovered this quietly and went to tell his sixth brother and his master about it as a joke, and at the same time, he thanked his beloved household god from the bottom of his heart for his protection.

Xie Yuchuan raised his eyes and looked at the other half, a few young fugitives who were whispering with the Xie family guards, and his eyes darkened.

Zhang Dayi whispered, "General, you need people to do your work. I think these young men are good."

Xie Yuchuan understood what Zhang Dayi meant.

After a moment's hesitation, he asked Xie Wuying, "How many rough cakes are left for lunch?"

"Yes, there are four or five more."

"Put a spoonful of pickled vegetables in it, and ask those people to help our Xie family finish the work as soon as possible."

Xie Wuying: “…”

"Go ahead." Xie Yuchuan turned around and looked at him and urged him.

Xie Wuying rolled his eyes, as if he understood something, and immediately went to find Old Madam Xie who was watching the luggage. All the things were there.

After a while, they returned and, according to Xie Yuchuan's instructions, exchanged those rough cakes with fillings for five heavy laborers.

The five people tightly grasped the food in their hands, followed Xie Wuying with confused faces, and thanked Xie Yuchuan.

Xie Yuchuan waved his hand and said calmly: "The Xie family is overburdened. I'm sorry to bother you brothers to help."

help?

Oh no!
The five people listened to Xie Yuchuan's words with mixed feelings. They really didn't know what to say at this moment. The guards asked them to work and beat and scolded them, and the Xie family asked them to help, but they even gave them a stutter? ! ! !

Several people who were exhausted from working just now followed Xie Wuying to a construction site that the official had specially assigned to the Xie family to be in charge of. The five people were in a daze and took out a big bite of dry food before working.

The five people were stunned on the spot...

You look at me, I look at you, each of us chewing on dry food, drooling at the corners of our mouths...

Oh my god, why is this dry food salty? !

The five people huddled together, excitedly took a bite out of the dry food, and took a closer look.

Hey!
What are these emerald green salty lumps?

They secretly looked at the guards of the Xie family who were working hard, and then looked at the dry food with pickles in their hands, and they all thought at the same time, no wonder the Xie family had such good physical strength.

People eat dry food with salty pickles!

The next second, several people wolfed down a pancake and helped the Xie family with their work. Maybe it was because of the food in their stomachs that their energy was quickly replenished. Maybe it was because of the salty food that made them feel energetic when working.

The five people silently made up their minds to keep an eye on the Xie family to see if they had any needs in the future. Perhaps there would be another opportunity like this.

People always follow the crowd. Many people were jealous when they saw the five of them getting benefits. They were brave enough to finish their own work. Then they turned around and saw that there was still some work left for the Xie family. They turned around and asked, "What other work do you have? I can do it. Just give me half a rough cake."

Zhang Dayi stroked his chin and looked at Xie Yuchuan, who looked up and down at the burly man in front of him.

"Can you help the women fetch water?"

"How difficult is this?"

Except for the first five people, the people who came later only had cakes but no pickles. Xie Yuchuan asked his guard Zhou Chuan to exchange them with the officials using silver melon seeds.

The officials also scolded the Xie family for being so stupid. If they had known this would happen, they would have respected them earlier. Why did they have to do the most work and ask others for help?

But Xie Yuchuan had some impression of the man in front of him during his exile, so when he came back from helping the women of the Xie family, he specifically asked Xie Wuying to give him some dry food with added ingredients.

The other party took his "reward" from Xie Wuying, and without even saying thank you, he turned around and left, eating as he walked, swallowing it in just a few bites.

The sturdy figure suddenly stopped and paused, then turned to look at Xie Wuying.

Xie Wuying was very young and was not used to being stared at like that. Fortunately, the man quickly turned around and walked away.

Xie Wuying touched the back of his head and said, "Hey, this guy is really unique."

On the other hand, after Xie Yuchuan heard the question from the house god, he didn't know how to answer for a long time. He kept working and thinking for a long time but still couldn't figure it out, so he asked Zhang Dayi for advice.

"Sir, do you know how many dan or dou is a ton?"

"what?"

"Ton."

"squat?"

The well-read Hanlin scholar was stunned by the word of measurement that suddenly popped out of Xie Yuchuan's mouth.

An old man and a young man worked together in silence for a while, taking turns to build a piece.

Zhang Dayi said ashamedly: "General, please forgive my ignorance. I really don't know how long this squatting is."

Xie Yuchuan pondered for a moment.

"Xie Yuchuan: Please forgive me, my god. I don't know how many dan and dou this ton is, so I'm afraid it will be difficult to report back."

Tu Huan, who had been walking around the huge wholesale market and had already placed orders for a lot of various candies from wholesalers, saw the message from Xie Yuchuan and stopped in the middle aisle.

Then open the search engine...

She had just asked casually before, but she didn't expect Xie Yuchuan to ask so seriously, which made her unable to help but check how much weight one ton was equal to in ancient times.

The first thing that pops up is the ancient unit of measurement for one stone.

Uh...it’s different in different dynasties.

Take an average number, one stone is about 100 kilograms?
Tu Huan thought about it and sent a message to Xie Yuchuan:
"Forget it, let's not talk about that. Let's change it to something you can understand. How many stones of sugar are enough for you to trade?"

After hearing this, Xie Yuchuan's expression finally changed clearly and distinctly.

He had a hunch, but he wasn't sure if his guess was right.

He always felt that the "ton" mentioned by the household god seemed to be much more than one stone.

(End of this chapter)