CHAPTER XXXV

35Two days later, in the open space outside the mill, Zhou Dao called his millers and the men of the chicken coop, and all those who were not on duty came to a meeting. Everyone is already familiar with this new word: that is, everyone talks about things together.

Zhou Dao cleared his throat, "I will mainly talk about a few things today: first, from tomorrow onwards, there will be annual leave in the mill, and after the meeting, everyone will go to the Wang Steward to settle this month's wages." "The guys in the chicken coop will take turns to take a vacation from tomorrow, and this matter will be arranged by Xu Wa'er. Those who work during the Spring Festival will be rewarded with 20 wen per day in addition to their daily wages and 20 yuan per day, calculated according to the number of days. Zhou Dao said in the middle of the crowd, and the workers around him were very happy to hear this, and they talked about it one after another, which seemed lively. Hey, it's so comfortable to raise chickens, we millers have no money to get on vacation, they not only have money to earn when they go to work, but also bonuses, and all the good things are accounted for by them, so I just raise chickens. "As far as you talk a lot, you don't want to grind rice, I'll exchange it with you, which turtle son won't change." "Speaking of playing, you Zhu Shun is still serious, there are so many and it stinks, I would rather earn two less than fight with you." Zhou Dao saw that they were almost making a fuss, so he said, "Is there anything else to say?" If you want to speak, raise your hand and say it one by one. No one raised their hand, and the crowd fell silent.

"Second, recently, the government has been collecting grain and husbands because of the war. We also have four husbands here, which four? Raise your hand and let me see. "Four people in the crowd raised their hands, San Xi'er, Xu Ding, Yang Xiong and Wu Disaster." How lucky are you, have any of you been drawn? Zhou Dao asked, no one said anything, and the atmosphere changed from the giggling just now to a little more serious. What are you going to do, and when are you leaving? Several of them looked at each other, and Wu Disaster spoke, "We have discussed, continue to carry the work for the owner, and will not go anywhere." He licked his lips, "We have calculated, if you don't go, you have to pay six times per person, anyway, you have the strength to do it, and you will be back in three or four months." A group of workers also nodded their heads and said yes, and they began to talk again, "That is, it will take several months to transport grain, and it is still unclear how many months it will be." "Yes, it's better than pulling it to the south to die. "Alas, asking you to transport grain is not asking you to fight, and whoever sends it will die." "It's hard to say, a bow and arrow don't have long eyes when you fight. I had to rush the trip, I didn't eat or drink, I didn't sleep well, I didn't say that I was often beaten by officers and soldiers, and I would definitely not be able to run. "Zhu Shun, who raised chickens, opened his mouth and waved his fist, which made a few people next to him stunned." Lao Zhu, what you say is like the truth, make it up. "Phew, Huo Zuiliu, your kid is a stinky mouth, I have transported grain as a people's husband, otherwise how would I know so clearly." If you don't believe it, hurry up and take the six times they give you, and go for them. As he spoke, he used a pair of big hands to pull Huo Zuiliu's hair, and Huo Zui Liu jumped to the side like a monkey, "I'll go, I'll go to your uncle, shovel your chicken shit." The crowd laughed again.

Zhou Dao also laughed. He raised his palms, and everyone fell silent again. "Everyone, since you follow me to make a living, your business is my business, and I will share your difficulties, and I will pay half of your husband's money for you!" "Ahh "Oops!" The atmosphere was lively. "Don't thank the owner yet!" "The owner is really kind-hearted!" In the praise of everyone, the four of them saluted Zhou Dao, and the other guys also followed suit, who was not happy to meet such a good owner. "Yang Xiong, you don't have to thank me, you still have to go on this errand of transporting grain and levying husbands. "Huh? "

"Huh?" Everyone was a little stunned, what does this mean? "Yang Xiong, do you remember that day when Bai Shoucheng became Bai Ye and brought someone to our mill for the first time?" Zhou Dao asked. Yang Xiong was stunned, his face turned red with his face, and he stood in a daze. "I asked you who came to me, and I asked you twice, and you were so scared that you didn't dare to say a word, so you just stood aside and watched, and it really came to the point where we could count on you? Zhou Dao's eyes turned to everyone, "Although Li Dazui is a little reckless, it can be seen that he is still affectionate and righteous, and he can be relied on at critical times. So a few days ago, he was almost healed from his injury and had to go to work, so I asked him to rest, not in a hurry, and it was not too late to start the new year. He has a share in the wages that everyone deserves! And take it according to the highest! Follow me around, you must not be left alone, he is crippled, he can't do it, I will raise him for a lifetime! If I have a dry mouthful, I won't let you drink it thin, I just want people to know that I am thoughtful and righteous, and how others treat me, I will double it! In the end, Zhou Dao almost roared out, deafening!

"Good!" "Fuck you! It's worth it! "Fuck! That's how it should be. Below, your mother shouted together, people clenched their fists and stomped their feet and gritted their teeth, and Zhou Dao could feel this heartfelt excitement and excitement. Li Dazui stood in the crowd, didn't say anything, his eyes were red. After a while, Zhou Dao raised his hand, and immediately quieted down, "Yang Xiong, you can take the three times I paid..." "Dongjia, I don't dare, I'm ashamed." Yang Xiong lowered his head and clenched his fists. Don't say you don't dare, I haven't finished speaking, you can take these three runs to settle down at home, go out to see and learn, and practice courage! Look at whether a man dies or not, a man just can't be too cowardly in the world! If you wish, when you come back in a few months, this place will be reserved for you, and then we will have not five mills now, but seven! Yang Xiong's face turned red, and he looked at Zhou Dao deeply.

Zhou Dao calmed down, "Third, the official office will issue a notice in the next few days, and the ban on the five soldiers will be lifted!" Although the ban was not strict before, but now the ban is lifted, why? He didn't need to answer, "because the people should be encouraged to keep weapons, because there is going to be a war." Is that going to hit us? I don't think so, at least not yet, but will it be called next time or in two years? No one can tell. This is a place of war, otherwise how could it only release the military ban on the four roads under the jurisdiction of the Sichuan Zhizhi Prefecture? The survival here is not as good as Jiangnan, it is not poetry and fame, it is more than whose knife is faster than who's knife! I agree with Pan Hu Pan Ye's words, he said: Walking in the rivers and lakes, he only recognizes the knife. "

If any of you has a way to move to Jiangnan with your family, I advise him to leave quickly, while there is still chaos. If you don't have that way, you have to think about it, don't just worry about eating two meals a day and heating the kang head for your wife and children, and plan for the future. How are you going to do it? You may ask, but it's really one thing: you have to protect yourself. Without sticks, knives and guns, and no martial arts, what do you do to protect yourself? With knives and guns on your family, can you protect yourself? If you don't talk about fighting, it's hard not to be bullied! So if you want to protect yourself, you have to practice martial arts, and you have to hold a group! Do you think that's the reason? Everyone said yes.

In fact, in the countryside, families have always been used to keep warm or fight with each other in the township, forming circles of different sizes, intersecting with each other, or loose or close. Following a proprietor like Zhou Dao, everyone is naturally happy, and the mood is also high. "yes, okay." Zhou Dao continued, "Now that the ban on the army has been lifted, this stick, knife and gun must be prepared, but there is no knife yet, and we have to wait until the official notice is issued." However, the sticks are still prepared, and each person has a stick, and if you want to fight with others in the future, don't take the flat shoulder again. The crowd laughed. It's not enough to have knives and guns, you have to be able to do it, you have to be taught, I asked everyone to have a coach, maybe everyone has seen it in the past two days, but I don't know what he does, his name is Feng Yi, and he is a golden man. The crowd was a little commotion, and Zhou Dao was not in a hurry.

"The Great Song Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom are feuding, and everyone hates the Jin Kingdom, I know. But the Jin Kingdom was destroyed by the Mongol Tartars for more than ten years, when the Jin Kingdom fought with the Great Song Dynasty, he was afraid that it was not as big as Hanwa, and he was afraid that the enmity between him and the Song people was not so big, otherwise he would not have fled to the Great Song Dynasty, and the government also recognized them as righteous people. Zhou Dao said with a dry mouth, and he didn't want to drink water, "Go and bring me a bowl of water." He said to Hanwa next to him. Before Hanwa turned around and entered the house, the water was handed over. Zhou Dao took two mouthfuls and continued, "The Mongols are much more powerful and ruthless than the Jin people, and the Jin Kingdom was destroyed by them." "It was the Song and Meng families who joined forces to destroy it, right? Someone muttered. Zhou Dao glanced at him and ignored him, "How many of our Sichuan Fourth Roads died in their hands a few years ago?" Countless! Regardless of gender, age and youth, just one word, kill. Zhou Daoxu remembered something, "What I said is not quite true. Tartars kill people sometimes, men and old people are killed, women are raped and sold, this is not what I said, I heard many old people in the town say, I don't know if it's the truth? "I've heard of it" "Tartars are beasts, and neither they nor the Jin people are good people." Some of the people nodded and some shook their heads. Zhou Liao frowned, "The Jin Kingdom has long been finished, the Mongols are fighting with the Great Song Dynasty in the south, if they really fight, then take a knife and gun and fight them!" Otherwise, it's a death, which one do you choose? Wherever you flee, he chases. In addition to his wife and children, Feng Jiaotou's whole family was killed by the Tartars, and his ability to beg for food in the Great Song Dynasty would never be to the Tartars, his hatred is greater than yours! As long as this golden man has the ability, I will use it. It's all about beating Tartars. If you can't beat it, you just play lip service, then you're not a fart. I'll put the words here today, it's okay if you don't accept it, if anyone is disrespectful to Feng Jiaotou, then you will immediately single him out, win him and get out, and if you lose, get out. I only raise chickens here, not messing with waste! After that, Zhou Dao looked at Feng Yiyi, who was standing far away from the crowd, "Sect Leader Feng, show your skills." "

Feng Yi wore an old dress found by the cook-in-law today, and did not speak, picked up a bundle of sticks from the ground and walked into the circle of people. His mother-in-law was holding the girl in her arms, standing at the door of the shack from afar, looking at her man.

In the middle of the crowd, Feng threw the bundle of sticks to the ground, and scattered the wooden sticks, "Come six, just kill the hand, and everyone else should retreat away." Feng said expressionlessly, picked up a stick, and turned to Zhou Daoyi, "Zhou Gongzi, please." He made a gesture of please, and then he stood a little farther away, and all the people retreated far away, still forming a large circle.

"One to six?" Someone in the crowd muttered quietly. Soon four came up, and Zhou Dao's guys had a characteristic, that is, most of them were in their prime and full of energy. "There are still two left, Zhu Shun, you are here too!" Someone shouted, and Zhu Shun and another person also walked into the door and picked up the wooden stick. Zhu Shun is not like others, he practiced two hands in his early years, and he has some foundation. He put the stick flat, the head of the stick slightly on stilts, and tied his legs into lunges, and did not step forward, but waited a foot away. "Arm it all together, don't be beaten by him one by one." Zhu Shun calculated that this golden man had two hands, and said to the other brothers. "Hands and feet don't count, the stick on the body is finished, you have to see the stick as a knife and a spear, and if you are hit, you have to die. This is a competition, isn't it really to cripple anyone, set the rules first, and understand it? Come on. Feng Yi said with his feet open, his stick horizontally grasped, and he glanced around.

No one paid attention to him, Huo Laosan suddenly roared, rushed two steps and smashed it with a stick. As soon as Feng moved, Huo Laosan's stick had not yet reached the highest point, and Feng Yi stabbed at him, and the head of the stick poked directly under Huo Laosan's neck, and a little higher was his throat. In just one moment, Huo Laosan fell directly to the ground, and he didn't snort without snorting, and all his tears and snot came down. The onlookers were all shocked and a little stunned. Sharp-eyed people saw that both ends of Feng Yi's stick were wrapped in linen knots, if not? Looking at Huo Laosan, who finally cried, he couldn't help but feel a little numb. "Idiot, I've got it all together." Zhu Shun scolded, "Everyone shoots, go on!" When he shouted, he stabbed forward with his stick. Feng Yi moved in advance, he rushed to the person next to him and smashed it with a stick, the man hurriedly bent down and closed his eyes, and went to the stall with both hands, only to hear a poof, Feng Yi's stick did not fall, but the momentum did not decrease, he raised his leg and knees against the man's stomach, and bent on the ground with an "ouch" sound, it was Huo Zuiliu, who fell together with his cousin Huo Laosan. Zhu Shun, who was following Feng Yi, was stabbed just now, less than a foot behind Feng Yi's waist, and he didn't hit it, and several other people also hit or cleaned, but they all failed.

Feng began to wander around, looking for a lone or a side attacker, or harassing or attacking the virtual and real, and in the blink of an eye, he picked out a person. There were only three people left, and Feng Yi no longer wandered away, facing them head-on. He suddenly stabbed Zhu Shun, Zhu Shun hurriedly retreated, but this move was a false move, Feng swept towards a person next to him with a swing of a stick, and the person hurriedly turned from attack to defense and used a stick to fight. It was still a false move, Feng Yi flashed and stabbed on the side, lifted the stick upside down, and poked it on the man's lower abdomen, "Ah" The man screamed in pain, his eyebrows twisted together, Feng Yi smashed the head of the stick and knocked on his back, and the man squatted down. Feng Yi didn't stop at all, swept with a stick, and a person standing close to him raised his arm and raised a stick to block this hard blow, and his body couldn't help but take two steps back, Feng Yi didn't look at him, and suddenly turned his head, and Zhu Shun stabbed him obliquely! Rubbing Feng Yi's cheek, Feng Yi raised his leg and kicked at Zhu Shun's cross, Zhu Shun shrank back, and suddenly a flower appeared in front of his eyes, and a stick wrapped in linen paused in front of his eyes, the stick wind swept by, and the stick head was still trembling slightly. Bang, the stick fell to the ground, and Zhu Shun's face turned white. Feng Yi turned to look at the only remaining person in the field, who was holding a stick and looking at him nervously. "Boom", a stick flew and hit Feng Yi's back, and with a bang, it fell to the ground. Feng Yi turned his head and saw a person sitting on the ground, smiling at him with bared teeth, "You're dead!" "Huo Zuiliu, what are you fucking doing? You died first. "Someone shouted." I wasn't beaten with a stick, I was just kicked up. "But you lie down, do you want him to put a stick on your head?" It was Zhou Dao who asked, and his voice was cool.

Huo Zuiliu pursed his lips and was silent. Feng Yi turned around and stared coldly at the last person who was left, the man held the stick with both hands and pinched it, he looked at Feng Yi, swallowed his saliva, and then threw the stick away. Feng Yi looked at the people around him, and then looked at Huo Zuiliu, "If you don't accept it, you will fight again." Huo Zuiliu didn't move or make a sound. "I'm convinced." It was Zhu Shun who spoke.