Chapter 64: If you have food, you will have to be scolded
"Don't move!"
"Whoever moves kills whom."
"If you want food, don't die, squat obediently."
After the convoy went on the trail for several miles, there was an open space, and Xiao Xinru was gathering more than 500 men together, ready to explain something.
Who would have thought that at this time, more than two hundred young men with sharp blades suddenly came out of the surroundings, obviously Qin Tie had been in ambush all night.
"Those little thieves from Black Mountain Cottage have come down the mountain, run!"
Hundreds of big men suddenly panicked and wanted to escape, but looking at the bright guns around them, they had to squat down honestly with their heads in their hands.
In the end, four or five hundred men were escorted by two hundred young men with spears, and the cart turned around and returned to Montenegro.
When Old Man Wu received the news, gathered all the families, and arrived with more than 100 inspectors, the convoy had already passed the town.
The last time Wufeng Village attacked Black Mountain Village, dozens of people died and returned home, everyone heard about it, and it was almost dark again, so they didn't want to chase it.
Old Man Wu caught a big man who escaped by luck and came over to ask, and learned that Xiao Gongzi was not captured by the bandits, but was released, and he had to take people back.
In fact, the big man was deliberately put when passing through the town.
After returning to the town, Old Man Wu was also very angry in his heart, and the entire Blackstone Town had long been regarded as a forbidden place by his Wu family.
Even the strong men of the Black Tiger in the past didn't dare to rob under his nose like this, which was really hateful.
At that time, Xiao Gongzi didn't mention the guards, so he didn't say anything, who would have thought that the ten miles of road would be exploited.
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A whole thousand stones of grain were carried up to the cottage, and all the teenagers were cheering.
400 stone of rice, 300 stone of wheat, and 300 stone of miscellaneous grains were open to eat, and more than 200 people and dozens of horses could eat for four or five months.
Hundreds of big men almost fainted from exhaustion, but Qin Yu didn't treat them badly, and each of them was given a pound of rice as a reward.
In the days that followed, the teenagers were full of energy, and the trees were cut down one by one and transported to the cottage.
The blacksmith shop was also officially opened, and the blades captured in the two wars were almost 1,500 catties of wrought iron, and it was estimated that they could make hundreds of firearms.
The flint firing structure, the two brothers couldn't figure it out for the time being, so they had to make the arquebus first.
The arquebus is much simpler, the two brothers are completely fine, the only thing that makes Qin Yu dissatisfied is that the barrel is too slow.
As for Miss Guo, staying in the mountains was a complete waste of food, so she put the food as soon as she bought it.
The gate of the wall.
More than a dozen teenagers were fortunate to return.
"Chief, the people of several nearby villages are unwilling to work for us, and some hunters have warned us not to go to their villages in the future, otherwise they will not be polite to us."
"Have you made it clear to them about their treatment?"
Qin Yu frowned, it was too slow for the teenagers to work, and he also wanted to build a stone wall.
So he thought about recruiting some nearby villagers to work, so that he could not only speed up the speed, but also leave a good impression, so that he could recruit troops in the future.
"I said it, the brothers said that their saliva was dry, but they just didn't believe it, saying that we didn't have a good heart."
"What a fucking headache!"
Qin Yu touched his chin, with a helpless expression, wearing the hat of a bandit and a bandit, it was not easy to do anything.
When I bought food, I had to cheat first, and when I came back from the robbery, I recruited some people to work, but no one was willing to come.
He had already inquired about the situation in the villages from the mouths of the six women, and had also sent the teenagers to investigate, but he could really only describe it with a tragic word and a poor word.
Almost every day, they eat wild vegetables and coarse grains, most of which are isolated from their families, and they still owe debts to the landlords in the town.
"In this way, you go again tomorrow, carry the grain, and tell those villagers who are willing to come to work, you can send the grain first, half a catty for adult men, two taels for strong women, and two more meals, gloupe in the morning, white flour steamed buns and vegetable soup at noon, Lao Tzu will not believe in evil!"
Qin Yu gritted his teeth and said.
The next day, the three captains each took 10 people and carried the rice to the nearest three villages.
The nearest Liujia Village, which is also on the edge of the creek six or seven miles to the left of the Black Mountain Village, has more than 50 households and more than 200 people, and there are dozens of acres of paddy fields and 100 fields of dry land.
The paddy fields are all owned by the landlords in the town, and they are planted with rice, and they need to pay 60% of the tenant rent, but the dry fields are their own, but they can only grow wheat, and the yield is frighteningly low.
But in this kind of dry land, even if the villagers want to work for the landlords and gentry, they are too lazy to ask for it, and it is not cost-effective to plant it themselves, so it has really become a burden.
Because even if you don't plant, the tax and silver are indispensable, and if it weren't for the villagers' frequent hunting subsidies, I'm afraid they would have gone bankrupt long ago.
"Big Tiger, no, those little thieves on the Black Mountain are here again..."
"Straight sissy thief!"
As soon as the teenagers crossed the river, the village was shouting and shouting, and hundreds of young men and women came to the entrance of the village with all kinds of clothes, and they were holding a big iron fork in their hands.
"Brother Tiger, do we really want to do it later?"
"If they don't enter the village, we won't do it, and if they dare to come in, we will fight out, and we will be careful when we start."
"Look, they're still carrying things? What the hell? ”
A group of villagers pointed and pointed.
Seeing that the villagers were eyeing them, the boys did not go in, but stopped at the door.
According to Qin Yu's instructions, Qin Tie ordered someone to open the bag, revealing the white-flowered rice inside, holding a bamboo tube in his hand, scooping up the rice and pouring it in, while shouting inside.
"I heard it clearly, those who are willing to work tomorrow, the men will send half a catty of rice now, the women will send two or two rice, and tomorrow morning when they arrive, they will drink a bowl of porridge, two white flour steamed buns at noon, and vegetable soup..."
"Brother Tiger, do you say what these boys said is true?"
"Alas, that kid, do you really want to send rice now?"
"Is there really a white-flour steamed bun at noon?"
The villagers looked at each other, and when they heard that there were white-flour steamed buns to eat, almost all of them subconsciously swallowed their saliva.
"Of course it's true, if you don't believe it, you can come out and sign up, I'll send it to you now!"
"Good!"
A man subconsciously wanted to go out, but was quickly stopped by a few people on the side.
"Sledgehammer, you are looking for death, they are bandits, can they give us food?"
"Yes, I'm afraid it's not something like a moth, and in the end it will blackmail our food, and we can't get out."
The villagers chattered, but no one went out.
Seeing that no one had come to sign up at noon, the teenagers simply set up the pot and cooked the rice.
A pot of rice, steaming hot, made the villagers' stomachs growl.
If it weren't for the fact that everyone had wives and children, they were afraid of the revenge of the teenagers, and they were afraid of the shining spears in their hands, and they would have rushed up to kill them and robbed them of rice and rice.
"I forgot to bring the dishes and chopsticks today, who borrowed a few pairs of dishes and chopsticks, Lao Tzu will wait for him to return half a bowl of rice." Qin Tie carried his waist knife on his shoulder, came to the door and smiled at the people inside.
"Ergou, go get ten pairs of chopsticks."
The man named Dahu glanced at Qin Tie and said to the thin young man beside him.
Ergou immediately rushed out, and after a while, he brought ten pairs of dishes and chopsticks and handed them out.
The teenagers took the dishes and chopsticks, and immediately ate a lot of food, each of them ate two large bowls, eating a round belly, and then returned the unfinished food in a bowl.
"Alas, little brother, why don't you want that pot?"
"Auntie, don't you see, it's all confused."
"What's wrong with the muddle? Can't you eat it if it's paste? Loser, don't bring it to your aunt..."
When the aunts saw Qin Tie, they wanted to throw the pots with the big basin into the river to feed the fish, and immediately jumped to their feet and scolded them.
Hundreds of villagers instantly divided the three bowls of rice and a piece of pitch-black pot that were handed in.
At most, each person will have a small mouthful, which is not enough to stuff their teeth, if it weren't for the prestige of the big tiger, I'm afraid it wouldn't have been fought earlier.
"Mother, I still want to eat rice..."
"Daddy, I want to eat pot..."
After the children licked the bowl clean, they cried at the adults next to them.
A few big men can't help it, as long as there is rice, they are afraid of a fart, and when the time comes, they will say that they were captured by bandits to work.
"Boy, Lao Tzu will do a day's work for you tomorrow and give me half a catty of rice."
"Okay, the big one is just half a catty, and the small one is two or two."
Qin Tie was not ambiguous, and directly scooped up the bamboo tube, and the big man hurriedly pulled his clothes to pick it up, and then rushed home wrapped in rice.
Not much.
A small bag of rice was distributed, and Qin Tie returned with someone.