"Come, everyone is standing up, if you are willing to repair the embankment, everyone will pay ten taels of silver per month, and it will be distributed on time at the end of the month, three meals a day, and there will be white steamed buns and braised pork at one meal." The officers and soldiers looked at the bustling crowd and shouted loudly.

Hearing that ten taels of silver still had to eat braised pork, everyone was very happy, and said with a smile: "Today's imperial court is really good, not only for us to fight the flood, but also to give us such a high salary, which is really good." ”

"Sha Yi, ten taels of silver a month, the three of us have thirty taels of silver, so we only need a month to go back to our hometown." Waring looked at Sha Yi and said with a happy smile.

"Su Fan, your idea is still good, so that we don't have to beg, I believe we can return to the capital soon." Sha Yi was also very happy, laughing happily.

Sure enough, just as the crazy old man said, the officers and soldiers did not care about the old age and infirmity, nor any other conditions, as long as everyone was willing to go to work, they would take it as promised.

The three of them successfully applied for labor, and followed the officers and soldiers to a stone field, and saw that many laborers were beating stones there, so they talked sleeplessly: "There are a lot of people here, but why are all the people here yellow and thin, don't they have white steamed buns and braised pork to eat?" Why are you still so thin? ”

"I guess they've all been tired of fighting floods these days." Sha Yi looked at these yellow-faced and thin-skinned people, and said thoughtfully with his chin in his hands.

Only the crazy old man didn't say a word, he just frowned when he looked at these people, clicked his lips, and continued to pretend not to ask about the world, following closely next to Valing and Sha Yi.

An officer and soldier walked in front of Sha Yi and them, and when they saw Sha Yi and the three of them standing there and didn't know how to work, they were very angry and raised the horsewhip in their hands and scolded: "You three hurry up and work, I tell you, since you are here, don't stand stupidly for me, if anyone doesn't work seriously, don't blame me for whipping him." ”

The heroes don't suffer the losses in front of them, Sha Yi and the others saw that this officer and soldier were really powerful, so they were so frightened that they quickly shrank aside, for fear that they would become the unlucky one. The officers and men were afraid that the laborers would not be obedient, so they shook the long whip in their hands fiercely, and the beating was very shocking.

"Uncle officers and soldiers, you don't have to scare people like this, you must know that since we are here, we will definitely work hard." A young man who didn't know whether he was alive or dead looked at this officer and soldier and said very politely.

"What so much nonsense, hurry up and get to work." The officers and soldiers said viciously at him.

Seeing the fierce appearance of the officers and soldiers, the crazy old man whispered to Sha Yi and Waring: "Two sons, if you want to live, let's hurry up and work." Otherwise, if this officer and soldier get angry after a while, it is estimated that there will be no good fruit for us to eat. ”

"Uncle, in the end you are older, that's right, let's hurry up." Watting looked at the fierce appearance of the officers and soldiers, so he had to helplessly grab a stone next to him and put it in the basket.

"I tell you, give me some strength, Lord Zhang is coming right away today, if any of you don't work hard enough, I will leave you without food for a while, and you will be hungry." The officers and soldiers looked at all the laborers, kept waving the whips in their hands, and reprimanded loudly.

"Lord Zhang, is it the Lord Zhang who fought the flood?" Sha Yi couldn't help but say more, looking at the officers and soldiers and asking curiously.

"You fool, why do I say so many things about you, hurry up and work in peace, don't ask so much, be careful and whip you later." The officers and soldiers looked at Sha Yi always asking questions, and scolded angrily.

Sha Yi looked at the officers and soldiers who were angry and unwilling to answer, he was very unhappy, and muttered in a low voice: "Why are you so fierce, don't you just ask." ”

"You better hurry up and work, you must know that heroes don't suffer immediate losses, if you continue to fight with the officers and soldiers, it is estimated that he will really whip you." Waring looked at Sha Yi and said in a low voice, I hope Sha Yi will not cause trouble and annoy the officers and soldiers, so let's work silently first, and then make plans when we see the situation clearly.

Hearing Valing's words, in order not to provoke a war, Sha Yi had to slowly pick up the stones beside him and put them in the basket, looking at it as he did it, wanting to see what was going on.

"This quarry is so big, how can there be so many people working here, are they really taking these stones to build the embankment?" Sha Yi looked at the stone field of Nuoda, and couldn't help but discuss with Valing.

"It doesn't seem like so, you see that if you want to build a levee, you should use a lot of big stones, but you see that these stones are big and small, and they don't look like they are used to build a levee at all." Valing looked at these large and small stones, pointed to Sha Yi and said.

"Two sons, let me tell you, this is not a stone field at all, it is clearly a mine, you look at these large and small stones, all of them are our jade mines." The crazy old man pointed to these stones and said very seriously to Sha Yi and Valing.

"Uncle, are you telling the truth? Is this really a mine? Valing looked at the crazy old man and asked curiously, she didn't understand, how could a crazy old man know so much.

"Childe, you see that these stones are all glowing green, if you look at the sun, there are green things in them, this is really all ore." The crazy old man pointed to the stones very seriously and said to Valing and Sha Yi.

Listening to the crazy old man's instructions, Valing and Sha Yi each took the stone in their hands and looked at the sun, and exclaimed while watching: "It's really an ore." But what is so much ore used for? ”

"Fool, these ores have been taken by that Lord Zhang as his own, didn't you hear these minions saying that Lord Zhang will come in a while?" The crazy old man looked at Sha Yi and Valing and said.

This mine belongs to Lord Zhang, shouldn't it be the imperial court's? How could Lord Zhang own the mine privately? It's also incredible. Sha Yi looked at the old man and asked in surprise.

"Do you think this would be so mysterious if it were the imperial court? You don't see these officers and soldiers are like hungry dogs, they look at these people to death, you see those laborers are starving, they probably have run several times, you see they all have whip marks on their bodies. The crazy old man looked at the hungry laborers and said very unbearably.

Listening to the words of the crazy old man, Valing felt that the crazy old man in front of him was not a simple character, he observed things very carefully, and analyzed things very reasonably. So he couldn't help but echo: "Uncle, you're right, these people are really exhausted, and it takes a lot of effort to move a stone, and they all have yellow faces and thin muscles, and they look like they can't eat enough." ”

"I'll know if it's real or fake when we eat later. Do you still remember when recruiting laborers, didn't the officers and soldiers say that there were white steamed buns and braised pork in Dunton? You'll find out in a moment. The crazy old man looked at Valing and Sha Yi and said seriously.

When it was finally time to eat, I saw the officers and soldiers shouting loudly with these laborers: "Come here for dinner!" ”

Hearing that there was food to eat, these laborers gratefully put down their work and ran over to eat.

Looking at the thin porridge in front of him, as well as the hard wowotou, Sha Yi muttered to Waling: "Didn't you say that there are steamed buns and braised pork in Dunton?" How can this be given to us? ”

"Sha Yi, you idiot, if these officers and soldiers don't say that, do you think these laborers will come? Of course, we were all tricked here, and we will wait to starve to death here in the future. Valing looked at Sha Yi and said helplessly, she felt that if that was the case, she and Sha Yi would have died too unjustly.

"Oh my God, I think we're going to die of exhaustion, if not starvation. You know, I'm really tired after a morning of work this morning. Sha Yi shook his shoulders and scolded angrily.

"That's because you're stupid, you know that these people are not good people, and you're still working hard there, aren't you stupid? You should learn to pretend to be very energetic and then not work hard, so that you can conserve your physical strength so that we can escape by ourselves. Valing was very angry and told Sha Yi that she felt that Sha Yi was really stupid.

"Ah, are we going to run away? Why didn't you say that? Sha Yi looked at Valing and asked in surprise.

"Sha Yi, I said you're really stupid, if you don't run away, do you want to stay here and wait to be exhausted to death? Do you want to be a lifelong laborer for this bullshit Zhang? Sha Yi, who poked her scalp angrily, scolded angrily, she didn't expect that Sha Yi, who had always been smart, could become so stupid.

"No, I was just thinking, we can't just run away like this, we should let that Lord Zhang control the flood is the most important thing. You think that this flood has just been intercepted, and I believe that there will be a storm in the future, if Lord Zhang doesn't take measures quickly, what will happen when the flood comes again next time? Sha Yi looked at the wowotou in front of him and said very sadly.

"Sha Yi, what are you talking about, there will be a flood next, how is this possible, isn't the flood already coming?" Valing looked at Sha Yi and asked nervously.

"Su Fan, you don't know that it's the rainstorm season now, this flood is not over once, you must know that there are often heavy rains in this area of Jiangnan, if the rainstorm is very large, it will definitely cause floods again. If this bullshit Lord Zhang doesn't hurry up to repair the embankment, it is estimated that the people will suffer. Sha Yi looked at Valing and said worriedly, in fact, he kept saying that he wanted to beg and leave here, the purpose was still to think about the people here and want to do something for these people.

"Sha Yi, I'm sorry, I blamed you for it, I didn't expect you to think about these people." Valing looked at Sha Yi and said embarrassedly.

"So what's next? You must know that sandbags can only block small floods, and if a really big flood comes again, this Lord Zhang will not quickly organize people to repair the embankment, and I am afraid that all people will be trapped by the flood at that time. Sha Yi was very worried and said to Valing, when he thought of the flood coming again, he couldn't even eat.

Looking at Sha Yi's worried look, the crazy old man looked at him and asked, "What, are you familiar with floods?" ”