Chapter 19, Recovery and Survival
The consequences of soul searching are very serious, and Chen Zhiyuan has not been able to fully recover after so many days. Now when Chen Zhiyuan's mind is overfocused, his head still hurts faintly, and the most important thing is that the sequelae caused by soul searching are still obvious, that is, Chen Zhiyuan's body will be half a beat slower than his consciousness no matter what he does.
Rubbing his somewhat swollen head, Chen Zhiyuan silently wrote down the money in his hand. After more than ten days of begging, Chen Zhiyuan has saved about 150 copper leaves, and there are almost two silver leaves when converted, and there is a whole stack of silver leaves stacked together.
Old man Cao is right, in this world, as long as you are open-minded, then it is not difficult to make money. It's like now, obviously I just go to the door of the restaurant with Brother Baozi to squat every day, and I have so much money in half a month, which is much more than the monthly money when I was a junior in the store before.
Of course, Old Man Cao also said, "Be a real person, don't be a giant in thought or a dwarf in action." Therefore, Chen Zhiyuan feels that he has almost recovered now, and it is estimated that there will be no improvement if he continues like this anyway, so let's start to realize what he said before.
The first thing to do is to improve the place where he lives, not to mention that the place where Brother Bao lived before is small, it is still dirty and smelly, and Chen Zhiyuan has also cleaned up a lot of garbage one after another these days, but it is not enough.
Today, Chen Zhiyuan took Brother Baozi to buy eight large logs, and in order to make the porters willing to send them to the slums, Chen Zhiyuan also gave each wood an extra copper leaf.
When the wood arrived, the first thing Chen Zhiyuan had to do was to build a shelf first, and it didn't have to be too complicated, how to build the cowshed when he was in the countryside was now, Chen Zhiyuan felt that he would definitely have to take Brother Baozi to change places in the future, and now he was just temporarily building a place to live.
Bumps and bumps, after a long time, the shelf can barely be built, and Chen Zhiyuan does not pursue any beautiful or not, just be strong.
If you buy a big cloth again, the big cloth is more expensive, and it cost more than 70 copper leaves, and at the end of this day, Chen Zhiyuan's money has shrunk by more than half, and now there are only more than 30 copper leaves left.
It's pointless to feel sorry for money, you have to be willing to spend it when you should spend it, otherwise what will you do with the money?
Chen Zhiyuan used the knife he bought when he bought wood to sharpen a few long wooden cones, and then pressed the four corners of the long cloth and nailed them down. Clap your hands and look at your masterpiece, well, it's indeed much better than before, but it's just a little windy on all sides.
After a lot of calculations, I didn't expect that in the end, I really missed one point, that is, the new residence was covered, but there was only a piece of cloth on the ceiling, and the four walls were empty, just like a brand new cowshed.
It was a little embarrassing, but Chen Zhiyuan still used the remaining money to buy some wood and come back, and surrounded the four walls, which was considered complete.
Carry everything of value with you, find a wooden board to use as a door, and you are not afraid that someone will come and steal things. Although Chen Zhiyuan is only begging in Nanfeng City these days, he also runs around every day and finds out the general situation of Nanfeng City.
Seeing that it was not too late, Chen Zhiyuan took Brother Baozi to the river to take a bath and then came back to sleep.
Lying in a clean new nest, looking at the new ceiling above his head, Chen Zhiyuan thought, tomorrow, go to a construction site to move bricks, so that he doesn't have to give up his face to beg, and he won't waste the strength he has grown in cultivating for so many days.
Before dawn the next day, Chen Zhiyuan woke up. Originally, Chen Zhiyuan planned to go to the construction site by himself and come back at night, but as soon as he thought of doing this, Brother Baozi seemed to have no one to take care of, and Bacheng would go to the door of the restaurant to beg for money or pick up things thrown away by others to eat, Chen Zhiyuan felt that he couldn't go.
After thinking about it, Chen Zhiyuan decided to take Brother Baozi to the construction site together, so that he could have fun near the construction site, and he could take care of it not far away, and he didn't have to be forced to be looked at by others.
The city of the south wind is very large, and there are many people, so there are many people who build houses and demolish houses, and there are also embankments repaired by the river. Considering that everything he does is a slow half-beat body, Chen Zhiyuan feels that it is better to find a few physical jobs, after all, he will definitely not be able to do fine work, if he follows others to repair the embankment, it can only be regarded as a day job, and the money earned is not enough to beg.
Chen Zhiyuan didn't come late, the sun had just appeared, Chen Zhiyuan had already gone to the construction site to line up, but there were too many people who wanted to receive this job, at this time the line on the construction site was already long, and Chen Zhiyuan was just in the middle.
Brother Baozi followed behind Chen Zhiyuan, looking around, Chen Zhiyuan was afraid that he would run away, so he kept saying to him with a bun in his hand: "Wait a while, you will take the bun, you will go wherever I go, do you understand? Don't run around, be careful when the bun runs away." ”
Brother Baozi nodded, but his eyes kept staring at the bun in Chen Zhiyuan's hand, and he didn't know if he had listened to it.
"I said, brother, everyone comes to the construction site to work, why don't you leave your fool at home and take him out to get in the way! If someone on the construction site accidentally smashes it and bumps into it while carrying something, then you can't rely on us!"
Seeing Chen Zhiyuan queuing up with Brother Baozi, and he didn't plan to let Brother Baozi come to work, the people behind him began to ridicule.
"That's it, you said that if you bring a normal mind, you can still notice, you brought a fool to the construction site, not that I said you, if something really happens, then you can't complain!"
When the people nearby heard this, they also started to coax, "Can a fool find a job to do?" "The foreman still needs a fool here?" Then I will also go home and call the fool next door!" These words kept ringing in all directions, disturbing Chen Zhiyuan's heart.
"The people I brought are not your business, okay? With this strength, it is better to save a little and wait to carry two more bricks, is it interesting to laugh at others?" Angry, Chen Zhiyuan was almost a little uncontrollable, but fortunately, at the moment he spoke, Chen Zhiyuan changed what he wanted to say, and his tone was as impulsive as possible.
Chen Zhiyuan was not so easily excited, but he thought that he was affected by the soul search, or it could be because of the sequelae of the previous seizure, or it could be both, but fortunately, he could still control it.
"If you have the ability, let's compare, see who moves the most bricks today, dare to compare and raise your hand, I will lose a copper leaf if I have more than me, and lose a copper leaf if I have less than me, how about it?" Although the control is controlled, Chen Zhiyuan doesn't intend to swallow this breath like this, why?
They are all a group of men with strong blood, and then compare Chen Zhiyuan's thin arms and legs, and he is such a large and strong muscle, how can this group of men be so cowardly? Even if he knows that this is a radical method, this kid may be tired, but the people who hear this can't bear this breath.
Moreover, everyone has a fluke mentality, so many people compare together, and they are not the worst, maybe this kid is just bluffing, anyway, if he is really embarrassed by then, it is just a copper leaf, what are you afraid of?
"It's better than that, I'm afraid of an egg, I'll compete with you today, so as not to be able to dominate anyone in this construction site!"
If one person agrees, then there will be a second and a third, and soon more than 20 people in front of and behind Chen Zhiyuan agreed to compete with Chen Zhiyuan, to see who moves more today, anyway, winning or losing is a copper leaf, that is, the money to move two bricks, and dozens of dollars can be moved in a day, which is not bad for the money of these two yuan.
Since you have agreed to the competition, you have to have rules. Chen Zhiyuan took a group of people to find the foreman, the foreman is a supervisor, and he doesn't need to contribute, so it's best to find him, and Chen Zhiyuan can also take the opportunity to let the foreman help him watch Brother Baozi. And if the workers at hand do more work, the foreman must also be rewarded.
The rules were quickly set, and there were a total of twenty-three people who participated in the gambling together, to be honest, this number was somewhat unexpected by Chen Zhiyuan, but it was not a big problem, he just had to work hard to move.
According to the rules, these twenty-three people who competed were taken to a construction site alone, otherwise it would be difficult to count the different places to move, and the distance between each person was different, and the results would not be comparable at all.
Now one side of the construction site has been piled up with bluestone slabs that were moved a few days ago, each bluestone slab has about 40 kilograms, and what Chen Zhiyuan and the 23 people have to do is to move the bluestone slabs from the place where they are piled up to another construction site, about 300 meters apart.
300 meters is not far away, and ordinary people may only need to walk for a while, but when you have to carry a 40-kilogram thing to walk back and forth for a day, it is completely two concepts.
Although winning or losing is a copper leaf, since they have participated in this competition, everyone who participates has no reason to lose to others in vain, although it is Chen Zhiyuan who bets on the opposite twenty-two people.
Carrying a stone slab hard, Chen Zhiyuan tried it, fortunately, it was not too heavy, it was acceptable, and he had been practicing for so long, although his body shape had not changed, but in fact, Chen Zhiyuan's strength was much greater than before, he used to feel very heavy when he carried something weighing forty kilograms, but now he felt that it was okay, and even two pieces at a time, but in this case, he couldn't hold on to it a few times.
Everyone started at the same time, no one wanted to lag behind anyone, Chen Zhiyuan worked hard to adjust his breathing, and then quietly gathered the spiritual power to the position of the calf, which would be much easier.
In the end, he is a novice, Chen Zhiyuan's walking speed is slightly slower than others, firstly, because he is still adjusting his body to slowly adapt to the feeling of carrying heavy objects, and secondly, he starts slower than others, because he thinks that he can walk, and his legs are still stunned and wait in place for a while before moving.
Seeing that Chen Zhiyuan was a little behind others at the beginning, the onlookers around couldn't help but sigh, he was really young, how could he be so impulsive to drink others to compete, those people worked on the construction site every day, could they still lose to you a new arrival?