Chapter 52: Frog Jump

Zhao Zizhong walked over and asked the guards, "How many people have returned?" ”

"Sixty-five."

After a little more waiting, the eightieth man arrived. Zhao Zizhong asked the guards to take these people who passed the test to the open space in the west to line up, register them, and write down the basic information of each person.

An hour later, the displaced people returned. The guards made great efforts to get these people lined up, and then counted the number of people, and there were quite a few of them. Zhao Zizhong walked to the phalanx and said to the displaced people:

"Everybody's doing really well, everybody's done. Now let's go back and rest, someone will take you to work tomorrow. As long as you work hard, we will divide the land among everyone in the future, and it will not be a problem to marry a wife and have children. Now go back! ”

After listening to Zhao Zizhong's words, the displaced people felt that there was still hope, so they were not so depressed. The guards returned to the camp with a large group of men.

Zhao Zizhong came to the front of the eighty winners, scanned the queue with a sharp gaze, and said after a while: "Don't think that you have been chosen, the escort team only needs fifty people, and you will continue to eliminate thirty people!" ”

He paused, seeing that these people were a little confused, and then continued: "Starting today, we will start a special training period of ten days, and those who do not perform well will be eliminated until there are fifty people left. Now let's start training right away, Dalang, and lead the team out. ”

An Dalang nodded in agreement, and shouted: "All line up in two columns, target the beach, go!" ”

An Dalang left with the quasi-guards, and Zhao Zizhong said to Wei Hongye, Boris, and Du Dalei: "Let's go back and check the files, first pick fifty peasants to Boris, and the remaining craftsmen and peasants to Lao Wei, and start construction tomorrow!" ”

Wei Hongye said: "I will take people to start striking iron tomorrow and find a place to build a kiln factory, and the construction of the camp will not be managed. ”

Zhao Zizhong didn't have any opinions, "These days, the craftsmen of the Cui family and the residents of the island have been able to build houses skillfully, so you don't need to keep an eye on it, just leave it to Hu Shuiyang to manage." You're going to do something more important. Da Lei, you have to be serious, help Lao Wei share some work, don't be a fool of yourself anymore. ”

Du Dalei immediately patted his chest and blurted out with bold words: "Boss, don't worry, I, Du Dalei, am nicknamed 'Incomparably Reliable Xiaolangjun', and I will definitely not pull the and swing the belt, and I will definitely help the second brother to work hard and work quickly, and strive to realize the four modernizations as soon as possible." ”

Boris kicked him, "You can blow the cows to death, stay and don't waste everyone's time." ”

The group returned to the camp with a smile and a smile on their back, to a wooden hut where the files were temporarily stored. The door opened, and a servant of the Cui family greeted them and asked everyone what was the matter.

Wei Hongye said: "We have to check the files and select people, you don't have to watch here, go to the kitchen to get us some food, and bring some tea." ”

When the servants went out to gather food, the four of them began to look through the files, and they singled out all the former peasants, and there were more than two hundred servings. He also checked the list, and drew out the people who had been selected by the convoy one by one and put them aside individually.

With nearly 200 files left, Wei Hongye asked Boris: "How do you want to pick out 50 people?" ”

Boris thought for a moment, "I don't care, it's just work, let's randomly select fifty files, there's nothing to pick." ”

Thinking about it, everyone randomly drew out 50 copies, and Wei Hongye began to write the list. After a while, the servant brought food, and everyone ate together.

After the list was written, Boris picked it up and looked at it, "I'm going to gather these people now, talk to them, and make them work hard to make a good living." By the way, how to determine the treatment of salt drying workers? ”

Zhao Zizhong thought for a while, "I think so, the people who dry the salt will take one-third of the standard of the escort team, and each person will be given a consistent amount of money every month." Food and accommodation are free, and each person will be given 20 acres of land after five years, and he will be given to his wife after three years. The son let them give birth to themselves, and we will not send it. ”

Everyone laughed, and Boris went out with the list. Zhao Zi flipped through the file for a while, felt a little bored, and said to Wei Hongye: "Old Wei, I can't help here, you and Da Lei discuss the allocation of manpower, I'll go to An Dalang to have a look." ”

Du Dalei quipped: "Boss, I didn't expect you to be lazy too." ”

"As soon as I see these files, my head is big, and I might as well go to the training ground and have a good time."

Zhao Zizhong went out and walked to the beach, walked outside the camp, and saw Boris talking to the fifty displaced people who had been selected, and they all looked a little afraid, obviously afraid of Boris, who was burly, blond and blue-eyed.

Zhao Zi thought seriously, this is good, the homeless people are afraid of Boris, they will not be lazy in their work, and they will not dare to make trouble, so it will be a lot easier to manage.

At this time, Boris's voice came: "Our eldest brother said that your treatment is to give each person a consistent amount of money every month. Food and accommodation are free, and clothes are distributed. After five years, each person will be given 20 acres of land, and after three years, he will be given to his mother-in-law. Sons, give birth to yourselves, and we will not send them. ”

The homeless people were excited, and there were such good things. Everyone rushed up to Boris and asked loudly if it was true, and some of them were tugging at his clothes. The guards next to him beat with wooden sticks, and the homeless people ran around with their heads in their hands, and after a long time, they lined up at the guards' sticks and fists.

Zhao Zizhong walked up and shouted loudly: "What you hear is true, as long as everyone works hard, we will definitely fulfill our promises, I, Zhao Zizhong, swear here, if I can't fulfill the conditions promised to you in the future, I will be hit by five thunders in the sky, and I will go to hell after death!" ”

The homeless people breathed a sigh of relief, the people of this era are still very awe-inspiring about ghosts and gods, Zhao Zizhong made such a poisonous oath, and everyone believed Zhao Zizhong's words.

Zhao Zizhong explained a few words to Boris and walked out of the valley. Thinking about things all the way, I came to the beach after a while. There were many footprints on the beach, and Zhao Zizhong walked along these footprints for more than ten minutes and saw a spectacular scene.

On the beach, eighty men were doing push-ups, and An Dalang and the guards patrolled through the crowd, and when they found some lazy and slow-moving, they took them out mercilessly and beat them, and then threw them into the sea to soak and not be allowed to go ashore. By this time, the weather was already very cold, and several people standing in the sea were freezing enough, and they were crying out.

An Dalang saw Zhao Zizhong coming over, walked out of the crowd to meet him, and said loudly: "Brother, I am training according to the method you taught me, everyone did a hundred sit-ups just now, and now they are doing a hundred push-ups, and it is estimated that it is almost completed." ”

Zhao Zi nodded emphatically, "I will practice physical strength in these ten days, and let go of the others first, and I will be assessed once every three days, and ten people will be eliminated each time." After three times, there were fifty people left, which was exactly what we were supposed to do. In addition, you tell the eliminated people not to lose confidence, and in a few days the second group of displaced people arrives, and we have to recruit people, and they can continue to participate in the selection. ”

An Dalang agreed to come down, and at this time, the homeless people finished a hundred push-ups one after another, and they all lay on the beach, and no one got up.

After waiting for a few minutes, Zhao Zizhong asked the guards to help everyone up. One by one, the guards dragged the homeless people up from the ground and stood up, many of them shaking their arms and grinning in pain.

Zhao Zizhong walked in front of everyone and said loudly: "You are doing very well, I will tell you a good news, you can eat meat tonight, or fat pork." ”

The homeless people's eyes lit up, and some of them were still swallowing. Zhao Zizhong continued: "There is also bad news, you are going to frog jump back to the camp, and the last ten people who arrived have no meat to eat, now follow me and go!" ”

Zhao Zizhong squatted down with his hands behind his back, straightened his waist, and jumped like a big toad in the direction of the valley. The homeless people were dumbfounded, not understanding what kind of plane the big leader was doing. An Dalang shouted: "Follow along!" In the end, the ten people who went back didn't give meat to eat, and they all heard it, hurry up! ”

Everyone suddenly realized, squatted down one after another, and jumped back like Zhao Zizhong. For a moment the scene was spectacular, eighty men jumping on the beach, and their mouths were shouting, startling countless seabirds, hovering in the sky, looking at the stupid hats on the beach, and refusing to fall for a long time.

More than 20 minutes passed, and the team gradually lengthened the distance, and there were people behind who couldn't hold on anymore and lay motionless on the ground. An Dalang asked the guards to set up people and go back, and asked one of the guards to run back to fetch a few carriages, and he estimated that there should be many people who could not hold on.

An Dalang waited in place for about half an hour, and the guards returned with five carriages. An Dalang threw the tired and paralyzed men into the carriage and asked the guards to write down their wooden numbers.

The carriage started and headed in the direction of the valley, and along the way they found people who had fallen to the ground, and the guards carried them one by one into the carriage and recorded the numbers of the wooden signs. When he returned to the camp, the carriage was crowded with people, and one of the guards said to An Dalang: "Da Lang, a total of thirty-six people have been collected on the road, what do you think?" ”

"Let's get them some water to drink first, let them slow down, and I'll discuss it with my eldest brother." An Dalang walked through the homeless people lying on the ground, looking for Zhao Zizhong.

Under a tree, he saw his big brother panting. Zhao Zizhong said with a wry smile: "I haven't practiced this for a long time, and I really can't stand it." I almost didn't stick to it today, so it's a big mess! ”

An Dalang kneaded the muscles on Zhao Zizhong's thighs and asked, "Brother, there are a total of thirty-six people who haven't finished it, what do you think?" ”

Zhao Zi thought about it again and said, "If you can't finish it, give it meat, everyone did their best today." You tell them that if you train hard, you can eat meat! ”