After doing three days of ritual and carrying the leftover bags and small bags, Zhou Huai'an stepped back to the city after returning to the city, and there were two more unfamiliar faces. But it was the monk he abducted and took away with his three-foot incorruptible tongue in these three days.

One of them was the minor novice, who was said to be a little thicker than his peers, and was sent over as an adult monk to fill the number, and his Dharma name was Yuanjing; Because he was very young, he was given up to the monastery by his parents who could not support him, and he did the hardest and lowest work when he was a little older, even if he grew up a little, he was still a member of the lowest level of the monastery; So after listening to Zhou Huai'an's so-called story of his experience in the world, he planned to experience the taste of worldly life;

Of course, in Zhou Huai'an's eyes, he is actually a good target of exploitation, because he has done chores in the temple to copy scriptures and serve the canteen, so he can still be regarded as a rough text and can make simple calculations, and in the future, he can use it to lay down his hands and make him run, which can make himself a little easier.

The other is a complete surprise; The other party is a young monk of Baoning Temple in Guangzhou, who is a little higher than the little novice, and his situation is better;

However, according to his frank confession, the reason why he was sent to participate in this forced ritual was entirely the result of the exclusion and encroachment of his peers and brothers in this large monastery. Because they were not optimistic about the possibility of the comer being able to return alive, nor were they optimistic about the development prospects of the rebel army after occupying Guangzhou, but they were worried that they would be involved and suspected of being involved with the thieves and destroying the pure jade cultivation of the monks, so they simply used the means of black box operation to temporarily promote him, an unlucky man, to a pawn, and put on a dark monk's robe and stuffed it.

This result left him very frustrated and disappointed. But to add insult to injury, before he came out, he learned another thing through his old friend; It is said that in order to be able to get rid of him, a disciple who had served the thief, in the future, the two orders of the high-level of the monastery privately destroyed his monk disc and directory, and forbade many monks to talk about his name again; So he is no longer a homeless man in an empty door;

After the mage ended, he offered to follow Zhou Huai'an, an alien who seemed to be a deviant; Learning the foreign methods he brought back from Tianzhu, and by the way, assisting Zhou Huai'an to gradually organize the words and deeds of the late teacher who had traveled thousands of miles away from heaven and had seen a lot of knowledge in foreign lands, and gradually compiled them into a book in the future.

Of course, according to his rhetoric, if this work can be written in the future, it will not be able to become a masterpiece and heirloom treasure like Xuanzang Sanzang's "Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty" by Xuanzang Sanzang at the founding of the People's Republic of China, or "The Legend of the Buddha Kingdom" by the world's first scholar and monk, and "The Biography of the Monks in the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty" and "The Biography of the South China Sea Returning to the Inner Law"; That is enough to become a classic that will be sung for a while.

And the greatest ability of this aspiration is the qualifications he once brought in the translation academy, which allowed him to fluently read a variety of foreign languages and simple language dialogues, as well as the experience of making and printing books by himself. Even in Guangzhou, where the port of all countries is located, it is also a good means of livelihood and skills; And for Zhou Huai'an, this is also some kind of natural cover and vest.

Since there is this carrot hanging on him, Zhou Huai'an can completely use the experience summary in the knowledge system and throw it out little by little as bait, and drive and squeeze his ability and expertise for a long time.

However, when he returned to the location of the Camp of the Furious Winds, he was taken aback by the bustle and noise in it; It has only been three days, and there are already many new faces in the camp, and they are almost chaotic and full of the camp that has been initially renovated, and the camp that was originally clean and tidy has become messy and noisy again.

"Come over to the monk"

In this regard, Wang Pan, who hurriedly came out to greet the hermit and walked straight to the back door, also seemed to have a stomach full of bitter water.

"I'm finally looking forward to your return"

"Those accumulated chores can almost drive me crazy."

"What's the situation right now?"

Zhou Huai'an couldn't help asking.

"It's such a mess in the camp."

"That's not what old Deng came up with."

Wang Pan looked sad and sighed.

He suggested that I give the house of clean water to it. For the benefit of more rebel soldiers. ”

"As a result, it really fell into the eyes of the military government"

Speaking of this, Wang Pan couldn't help but show a hint of joy and faint embarrassment.

"Since then, I have not been allowed to re-expand my ranks."

"Therefore, these are all new soldiers in the camp who have been picked up in the past two days."

"I'm going to have to bother you to arrange and settle your family."

"Because Lao Deng's guy pulled back two or three times as many heads at once,"

"As a result, there were not enough people to control for a while, and it became like this."

"No, at the moment, many people still have to sleep on the white ground and continue to drink raw water and thin porridge to maintain."

"Profit, and people are constantly throwing things."

"By the way, there is also a military government named to reward you."

At this he clapped his hands and pointed in the direction of the newly expanded corral

"No, I heard that you have a bite to eat, and I will send a few mouthfuls of pigs and sheep."

"There is also a stone of rice noodles and a few horses of coarse silk, which are all placed in your house."

"Well, that's a bonus."

Zhou Huai'an thought so, he just got the two starters, and they haven't been able to settle down yet, so there are steps to send them up.

After briefly checking the new livestock in the corral, he immediately said on the spot that he would take out five of the pigs and hand them over to the public, which was considered a supplementary meal for everyone to celebrate; Leaving only a lean lamb and a ewe, the lambs can be raised to eat meat, while the ewes are lactating and can be used to provide a limited amount of goat milk per day.

And the stone of rice noodles and coarse silk in the room are also treated in the same way, leaving only a small part and leaving all the others to the public middle school, which can be regarded as a disguised plug in the mouth of some potential celebrities and other criticisms.

After all, it is reasonable to give this credit to monopoly and greed for ink in this era, but obviously the other party did not do it, no matter what the motive is, Zhou Huaian has to accept this feeling. Then these things go out of the teaching staff, and it is more convenient to put forward corresponding requirements and suggestions.

For example, the coarse silk left alone can be used to sew several sets of full-body clothes, and the dozen catties of brown rice and coarse noodles left behind can also be processed into portable rations during the journey.

With the return of Zhou Huai'an, the sequelae and side effects brought about by the sudden increase in military quotas were also in the noise and chaos of many disturbances, and slowly returned to calm and transformed into a larger-scale labor scene.

Because there was not enough equipment and equipment to train them, Wang Pan simply had an idea, and most of these new soldiers were temporarily placed under the deputy camp manager of Dao Zhou Huai'an, as the basic labor of various daily expansion projects and construction matters, until the corresponding equipment and barracks sites have been prepared and built.

For Zhou Huai'an, with two players who can communicate basically, in fact, his busyness and workload have not increased much; Despite this, he still tries to find time to exercise himself with simple equipment every day, do more of his own private work, and then use a posture that looks exhausted to deal with the concern and inquiries of the high-level leaders led by Wang Pan.

It's just that in life, although there is an unlimited supply of food every day, it can only be regarded as a coarse tea and light rice with a rather indifferent taste, and the only privilege is that there is tea and wine, and there is only a little oil and meat in the food;

The tea is a bitter and bitter tea soup in the morning, and the blackened leaves taste musty; The wine is a small half pot of light turbid wine without water in the afternoon, and the suspended matter and precipitated impurities in it are like sour gruel; As for the oil meat supplied every day, most of them are actually blackened dried dried dried foods and waxed products that have been put for an unknown amount of time.

There is only no limit to the daily miscellaneous rice and cakes, and you can take as much as you want, and you can also open a small stove to cook some soup for rice;

However, for Zhou Huai'an, this standard food is barely enough in terms of calories, but it is really unsatisfactory in terms of nutrients; Therefore, he often has to take advantage of the cheap privilege of living in the fire kitchen to carry out limited secondary processing before he can eat. For example, a duck egg is beaten in a sour wine, and the expired bacon is shredded and boiled into soup with the vegetable gang.

On the other hand, most people do not eat aquatic products such as river fresh, which can be used as a supplementary source of minerals such as protein and calcium, under the rule of the incidental output of practicing water and bathing, and are relatively sufficient in daily supply, after simple charcoal grilling, boiling, and boiling.

Despite such a rudimentary and shabby grass meal, it was enough to make most of the righteous soldiers jealous and drool.

After all, according to Zhou Huai'an's grasp of the family background situation in the short term, the overall level of the Angry Wind Camp is this level and upper limit; As peasant troops, they had a much harder time before; Eating only two or even only one meal a day, and even gnawing the bark and digging up grass roots when hungry or poorly supplied with sentinel food is also a common thing in my memory;

Now it is still thanks to the fact that most of the rebels have just conquered the prosperous and famous city of Guangzhou, and just this suburb is enough for the Angry Wind Camp to obtain a lot of relatively abundant materials. Therefore, whether it is the new and old rebels, or the first soldiers recruited from the local poverty, they are generally satisfied with and cherish the current situation.

Therefore, when Zhou Huai'an had the ability to turn decay into magic in cooking, and was able to turn the originally poor and unpalatable diet into "delicious food", the rumors leaked out through the handymen who worked in the fire kitchen; He and Lao Feng Tou had a few more middle-level leaders who came to spy on him, and then came over with a letter to ask for food.

As the price of the continuous expansion of the food group and the spread of some simple recipes such as "bamboo rice", "tea porridge", "stone bun" and "branded plate food", it was the sharp increase in the consumption of firewood and charcoal under his management, and the frequent records of the loss and damage of various iron products in the camp;

So much so that there were too many people running out at night, which alarmed Deng Cun, the brigade commander who patrolled the camp, thinking that something terrible had happened, and blowing the trumpet warning made a fuss and almost bombed the camp; Then Wang Pan, who hurried back after dawn, couldn't help but figure out that these middle-level leaders in the camp could gather secretly at night at the expense of burning candles, just to participate in the collective supper and dinner of the deputy "monk" who opened a small stove in the fire kitchen.

As a result, many people were reprimanded and punished for violating the rules of the camp, even Zhou Huai'an was no exception; However, as a punishment and remedy, he was responsible for re-establishing a long-term night stove system for soldiers and mid-level and above leaders who were on duty at night, providing hot food, soup, and other supplements.

Then, he took the opportunity to collect the iron products scattered in the battalion, and with the help of the newly recruited blacksmiths, he knocked and polished them with a little bit of hand, and finally built several sets of large pots and pans of cast iron to meet the processing needs of large-scale frying, steaming and cooking of at least dozens of people at a time.

In this way, he can finally take the opportunity to use public utensils for private use, and from time to time eat stir-fried vegetables with a lack of oil and salt and some rudimentary fried products, and even privately process deep-seated ingredients for cooking and stewing.

Then, in order to solve the emerging problem of sudden increase in fuel consumption, in addition to having people go up to the nearest mountains to cut more firewood and grass, he also began to try to have his masons and brickmakers build kilns to burn more light and durable charcoal. The large drum blast stove was redesigned with a bamboo frame and yellow mud to make full use of the calorific value and firepower. So, for the first time, he had hot water to use for bathing, instead of using cold water to wipe it with hot water, and the result was a thick layer of dirt on the surface of the cauldron.

In order to facilitate the transportation of the felled firewood, a simple path leading to the mountains was opened on the side of the road, and the structure of the trolley was modified to load and push more firewood on the mountain road, and then a firewood shed and a transfer yard were built. Even instructed the people in the camp who knew how to strike iron, and further improved and strengthened the existing knives and axes and tools.

Then, when the charcoal was burned in batches, a small amount of lime and mud bricks were burned by the way; In order to collect more iron materials and build new tools, he began to send people to the nearby villages one by one to "prepare" and buy... It can be said that the original development and solidified atmosphere of the Angry Wind Camp has become active and lively again.

In this series of passive or active guidance changes, the skills and division of labor of his subordinates have also been refined step by step, and Zhou Huai'an, who is the link and leading role in it, has gradually been pushed to a hidden and indispensable position.

In this series of movements, the original practice of sound practice and the angry wind camp was also in the sound of a labor trumpet, and gradually had a new nickname of "mason camp".