Chapter 138: Before Dawn
Gardi sighed helplessly and complained to Qi Ge'er, "What kind of brother do you see? I would have thought that I would covet his wine. After speaking, he looked at Brother Ming with a wicked smile, "Boy, you don't know, right?" Your wine isn't as good as mine! β
After that, he laughed.
What the?
Brother Ming immediately put down the wine bag in his hand and ran to Galdi's side, snatching the wine bag in Galdi's hand before he could open his mouth. Gardi reacted quickly, just not letting Ming Ge'er catch it.
Qi Ge'er couldn't help but laugh when he saw them making a mess.
"Okay, don't fight, Brother Ming, you too, you've been here for so long, can't you drink good wine and bad wine? Even if I could bear to give you a bad wine to drink, Gardi wouldn't be able to bear it. You hurry up and drink and get down to business, and the craftsmen don't know when they will start work, so they're all waiting. β
Qi Ge'er said, and sat down on the chair next to Galdi.
Gardi pushed Brother Ming away in disgust, "That's it, listen to your brother, don't come to rob me of wine, you still have something to do." β
Brother Ming was also tired from tossing, and sat down on the chair next to him, "Didn't you just bring the craftsman here?" What's so hard about that? β
Gardi pushed Qi Ge'er with his elbow, "If the craftsmen are asked to work harder, on the basis of the original underground camp, it should be completed in less than three months, right?" β
Brother Ming on the side said with a smile: "Where can it be used for three months, if those craftsmen are as handsome and chic as me, it will definitely be completed in less than a month." β
Qi Ge'er and Gardi both glanced at Brother Ming with disdainful eyes, "The amount of alcohol is getting worse and worse, you, you started talking nonsense after only two sips." β
Gardi looked at Qi Ge'er.
Qi Ge'er thought for a moment and said, "The camp under this land where we are originally an underground castle, this secret Batu doesn't know yet, if it doesn't have his interference, it will be faster." However, I have always felt that it is more appropriate to build something solid underground, after all, in the future, all of us will have to hide in it, and even our belongings will have to hide here. If those craftsmen rush to deal with it, repair it on the original basis, fool the past, or only do some superficial work, it will be us who will suffer when the time comes. Most importantly, we had to expand the underground camp, which was a huge project and required a lot of care from craftsmen. β
Gardi nodded, "What you said makes sense, I will supervise it more." β
Qi Ge'er put the wine bag in his hand back on the table and got up.
"Where are you going?"
Brother Ming was curious and got up.
Brother Qi turned around and instructed Brother Ming: "You stay, I'll go see how the workshop is doing recently." After the destruction of Batu, many workshops need to be repaired, and there are relatively few craftsmen, and there are not enough people, so I see if I can transfer some more people to help. β
Gardi stood up and patted Qi Ge'er on the shoulder, "I'll go with you." β
Qi Ge'er nodded.
Brother Ming was not happy, "Why can Gardi go with you, but I can't?" Who is your brother? β
Gardi turned his head to Ming Ge'er and quipped: "Because you still have an important task tomorrow, and it's not early, you better hurry up and wash up and go to sleep." β
"Isn't it just to bring craftsmen over, what's so difficult about this task? You must have gone to the bonfire behind my back, and you guys are so unkind. Brother Ming looked aggrieved, and at the same time quickly got up from the chair and hugged Galdi's arm tightly, with a great momentum of where Gardi is going and where he is going.
Brother Qi looked at Brother Ming and said in a brother's tone: "Don't mess around, tomorrow's task is not so simple, to ensure the safety of all craftsmen." There are many people, the target is big, and if it is discovered by Batu's people, it will be troublesome. β
"Will Batu find out that those craftsmen will also embarrass us? Brother, where is Batu so boring? What's more, it's too late for him to heal his lame leg now, where will he have time to intercept our craftsmen. β
The more Qi Ge'er and Gardi rejected him, the more he wanted to follow him to see what was going on.
However, after seeing Brother Qi'er's firm eyes, Brother Ming hesitated, and had to say helplessly: "Okay, just leave me an unlucky guy to guard here." β
After muttering, he sat back in his chair and continued to drink.
Gardi and Qi Ge'er walked through the night to the nearest workshop.
Lights were on in the workshop, and artisans were working overnight to make the utensils that had been destroyed by Batu's men.
Seeing that Gardi and Qi Ge'er were coming, the craftsmen hurriedly stopped their men and came over to salute.
Gardi asked the craftsmen to sit down without formality.
There were shavings and sawdust everywhere on the floor, and there was not even a clean stool, and Gardi and Qige'er didn't care so much, just like the craftsmen, they sat on the floor.
"You don't have to be in such a hurry, you can do it again in the day." Qi Ge'er saw an old man, his eyes were not very good, but he was still persistent.
The old man smiled at Qi Ge'er and Gardi, and the wrinkles on his face were piled up together, and he looked extremely kind under the light of the oil lamp.
"The sooner this workshop reopens, the better, my grandson and other children over there all say that they want to eat canned food, and this canned food on the grassland sells very cheaply, and every family can afford it, which is the best way to coax children's mouths. As soon as the crying child heard that there was canned food, he immediately stopped crying. But now, all the workshops have been destroyed by Batu's people, and there are no more cans, and many children are crying in the house. β
What the old man said was true, and several times when Gardi passed by the bazaar, he saw many children clamoring for his father and mother to buy canned food.
To be honest, these canning workshops on the grassland are not very profitable, and if they do not operate well, they will lose a little money. However, Dong Rong just wants the poor children on the grassland to be able to eat canned food, so she would rather lose a little bit, mark the price lower, and open these workshops.
A young man shyly said, "I don't want to be paid, I'm here to help voluntarily." β
"No, what should be given must be given." Qi Ge'er insisted, this is also the truth that his mother taught him.
The young man hurriedly waved his hand, "No, no, no, I just want to get the workshop open early, so that I can buy two cans of canned food and go back to coax me to pass the door...... Wife ......"
Hearing this, everyone burst into laughter, and Brother Qi, who had always been strict, also had a smile on his face.
Qi Ge'er gently patted the shoulder of the young man beside him, "You can just take some cans from us and go back." β
After that, Qi Ge'er asked the man to take out five cans from the workshop warehouse, which were just a few surviving goods, wrapped them in a burlap bag and handed them to the young man.
"Go back, you've just gotten married, and it's time for the two of you to need sweetness." Qi Ge'er said seriously, and at the same time took out a little bit of broken silver from his coat pocket and put it in the young man's hand.
The craftsmen all laughed and coaxed, "Go back, there is still a daughter-in-law waiting for you." β
"Hahahaha, let's go back."
The young man scratched the back of his head embarrassedly, laughed twice, bowed to Qi Ge'er, and then to Gardi, and then left the workshop.
"Did the people of Batu come to trouble the workshop again?"
Seeing that everyone was a little quieter, Gardi asked.
The craftsmen shook their heads and said no, and the other workshops were not attacked again.
Gardi nodded, suddenly thought of something, and said to Qi Ge'er: "It's not a way to go on like this, in case Batu's attention is on the workshop again, won't we have to rest the workshop again?" Why don't we send some troops around the workshop, so that Batu's men have nowhere to start. In the past, patrols were used to protect everyone's safety, but there were still pros and cons to doing so, and Batu could not be completely deterred. β
Qi Ge'er nodded, "Tomorrow, we will transfer some soldiers and horses." β
Qi Ge'er filled the remaining more than 20 cans in the warehouse, let the other craftsmen divide them, and brought them back to satisfy their children's hunger.
After finishing this qiΔ, it was already midnight, and Gardi and Qi Ge'er went out of the workshop.
Gardi knew that Qi Ge'er came to the workshop in person, and it was definitely not as simple as just looking at the situation in the workshop. However, he couldn't guess Qi Ge'er's thoughts, so he had to follow Qi Ge'er silently.
The moonlight was faint, and Galdi and Qige'er walked through the silent streets, and the grinding sound of their feet on the dirt was particularly clear, like the bones of the earth being trampled.
Galdi, who was following behind Qi Ge'er, suddenly understood, "Do you want to check again on the main road that Brother Ming will pass through tomorrow to ensure that Brother Ming can arrive safely with the craftsmen tomorrow?" β
Qi Ge'er nodded, but also sighed helplessly, "This road is too long, all we can do is to ensure the safety of a radius of dozens of miles, Batu is becoming more and more cunning, and more and more uncompromising means, we must be careful." β
Gardi nodded, "Don't worry, there are our people in other places, and they will protect Brother Ming." We are getting better and better, and more and more people are coming to us, and Batu manages people by no means and is extremely cruel, and many people dare not let their relatives go to him to serve as soldiers when they hear about it. If we go on like this, we will get better and better. β
Qi Ge'er nodded, "I hope so." β
The next day, Brother Ming set out early to greet the craftsman.
Along the way, Brother Ming was very relaxed, occasionally unknown birds flew by, Brother Ming would whistle a little, tease the birds, and provoke the birds to flutter and fly out a few feet away. Brother Ming laughed when he saw the frightened appearance of the bird.
Brother Qi is really careful, isn't it just to pick up some people, seeing that he is nervous, he also forced him to go to bed early.
Especially when he saw the teams arranged by Qi Ge'er and Gardi to protect him on the way, Brother Ming felt that Qi Ge'er and Gardi were too sensitive. Batu is now lame, and even he can't outrun his brother Ming.
"Drivingβ"
"Drivingβ"
Riding the horses, the speed of the procession is getting wider and wider. Brother Ming is like a loose horse, running on the grassland, laughing and blowing a cheerful whistle......
Gardi and Qi Ge'er stood on a high place and saw Ming Ge'er's team moving farther and farther. Gardi patted Qi Ge'er's arm, "Don't worry, although that kid is a little arrogant and does things a little bit more aggressively, he is not a foolish person." β
Qi Ge'er frowned slightly.
Seeing that he didn't react, Gardi asked with concern, "What's wrong?" β
Qi Ge'er's face was full of worry, "I always feel that Batu won't really be quiet this time. β
Gardi advised him, "Don't worry too much, Batu doesn't know what those craftsmen do, so why can't he get along with a group of craftsmen?" He's been a lot more relieved since his leg last time he's lame, don't worry, he's not going to do anything. What's more, even if we do something, we can handle it. β
Qi Ge'er was still worried, and his eyes kept looking at Brother Ming'er's back farther and farther away.
Gardi's gaze also fell on Brother Ming, who was getting smaller and smaller, and suddenly understood Brother Qi'er's worries. R638