Chapter Forty-Eight: Four Meals for Breakfast

The sun shines through the clouds, the smoke is accompanied by the rooster's cry, and the rain is sunny and the sky is clear.

When they got up early in the morning, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan took their families with them, bringing ten palace guards and the former officials who were driven away because of disobedience.

These officials are obviously better than those who stayed, and they are also serious in their work, and it is because of this that they will be driven away.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan take the approach of employing capable people, and those with bad quality can help him improve them, and those that are too rigid are used in places that need to be rigid.

The group rode horses and ran to Yaowang Mountain, which was officially named.

Some of the local people who did not have to harvest wheat and those who arrived from other places were continuing to build roads in the mountains, and the old people who could not do heavy work were also busy weaving baskets.

Zhang Zhong still spent money to buy it, a day to weave fast, but only two or three baskets, a penny to buy, next to the special counting of people, see the basket count, do not look at whether it is strong, this is not need to see, the old people are not for money to make up, the work is their relatives, in case of bad baskets, something happens, the unlucky is also their relatives.

Eat well here, there is the old man who doesn't want to go, always falsely report the number, make up three and say that it is two, one has been counted, and the person who counts is staring like a thief, and it is absolutely not okay to underreport, so there are often people on both sides of the dispute over whether a basket has been counted, which is a strange thing.

When Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan came, they were just in time for a time, a person who was the fastest in basket weaving, usually able to weave four baskets a day, after weaving a few more times a day, these days, they actually sent seven baskets today, let people count four.

The old man was reluctant, saying that he used to be four a day, how could he make up seven, and they quarreled with each other.

After Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan understood the situation, they were dumbfounded, the world is so big, there are no surprises.

"Xiaobao, why do you look a bit like the gentleman's kingdom of mirror flowers?" Wang Juan looked at the two people in the dispute with a smile and said to Zhang Xiaobao.

Zhang Xiaobao looked at Wang Juan blankly, "What is the mirror flower?" ”

"It's just one, it says that there is a person, and when he goes to some houses and sees different things, the gentleman eats one of them, and the people there buy and sell, and the seller will give the best goods and ask for the least money, and the one who buys will take the worst goods and give the highest price.

I only felt that this was, full of loopholes, inconsistent with reality, and only today I saw that there is such a thing, the people want to let but the officials are unwilling, if the people and officials of Datang can be like this with each other, and then unite some more, practice martial arts diligently, then the whole world will become Datang. ”

Wang Juan said yearningly when he watched the two people pulling each other like fighting, just for three more and three baskets.

Zhang Xiaobao also smiled, "In that case, the society will never progress, competition can have development, human nature is just that, people who can do this show that they know what the eight ends are." ”

"Also, filial piety, loyalty, faithfulness, courtesy, righteousness, honesty, shame, what the people can do, but the officials who know the book may not be able to do it, there should be a difference between internal and external, look at today's noon dishes."

Wang Juan sighed with emotion, pulled Zhang Xiaobao, and walked towards the place where he was cooking, the two of them didn't want to take care of the dispute, so it was a kind of entertainment, otherwise the days would be too dull.

Before the two people approached, a strong cucumber smell reached the nose, and then smelled, it was still the smell of cucumbers, and when they got closer, there were leeks and bamboo shoots, plus a small amount of eggs.

Look at the staple food again, it is some millet, it can be seen from the color that it is aged rice, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan's brows wrinkled when they landed, and a few kinds of green vegetables looked good, but at this time the cucumber had come down, and it was the most worthless time.

It's okay to eat these usually, now is the time to do heavy work, only eat vegetables, plus some eggs, can't make up for the consumption of the body, the daily food is arranged, there are meat and vegetables, where is the meat.

Zhang Xiaobao's face sank, and he glanced at Erniu who followed next to him, Erniu understood, and immediately shouted: "Where is the person in charge?" Come here. ”

"Here, here, you're looking for me?" The steward was chatting with the basket weaver when he heard the greeting and ran over to ask.

"Just looking for you, where's the meat?" The two cows pointed to the place where the dishes were cooked.

The person in charge knew the identity of Erniu, and thought that something was wrong, but when he saw this, he breathed a sigh of relief and replied: "The meat was fried when it was delivered in the morning, put it in the jar next to it, and wait for it to be eaten in the evening and in the middle of the night. ”

Erniu went over and opened the jar to see, there was indeed fried meat in it, and he didn't know what to say now, it seemed that there was no food for the workers.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan don't see it that way, what does it mean to have a meal in the middle of the night? Zhang Xiaobao pretended to be curious and asked, "Can't you sleep at night and get up for a meal?" ”

"yes, what else do you eat at night?" Erniu also discovered the problem.

The steward sighed, "Now that it is hot, they have eaten dinner, rested for a while, and will work until the ugly hour, and then they will eat another meal and go to bed, and get up again before the hour, and continue to work, saying that they can't take so much wages in vain." ”

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan understood this time, high-intensity labor, so they ate four meals a day, but this meal didn't look very good, this time Wang Juan spoke, "This meal is delicious, right?" I'll taste it later. ”

"Yes, how is this rice Chen rice?" That is, Erniu is so clever, he usually has a lot of contact with Zhang Xiaobao and the two of them, and he knows what it means, and he can't think of a simple sentence to ask something.

The steward knew that the people who worked more in the county order were good, so he had to continue to explain: "This rice is Zhan Zhubo, oh, it was sent by Zhan Wenwen, and it was good rice when it was sent. ”

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan sighed at the same time, they really don't know how to describe what they think in their hearts, so simple, work more, take advantage less, if you treat him well, he will always remember.

"What to do?" Wang Juan's lips moved.

"Let's see." Zhang Xiaobao can't let people add vegetables at this time, people who want to come to work will not agree, so they can only make up for it from elsewhere, if they eat four meals a day, two meals with meat, and this meal with eggs at noon, it's okay, it's just a shorter rest, and when the last meal is finished, it's just seven hours of sleep.

Doing physical work and resting for such a short period of time is an act of overdrawing vitality in advance.

"It's okay, you do your thing." Seeing that the little boy and the little lady no longer continued to ask anything, Erniu held hands and walked forward, said a word to the person in charge, and beckoned the guards to follow.

The steward thought about it and followed behind, he knew what the identities of the two little ancestors were, and if he asked something out of curiosity, he would have to run over.

Zhang Xiaobao and the others walked all the way to the place where they worked, without being urged by others, even if they were newcomers to do things, they worked hard, without the slightest intention of being lazy.

It was hot, and many people took off their shirts, threw off their arms and waved their shovels and pickaxes there, and there was a river next to it, which was about the same as the flow on the other side of the pier, and even slightly larger, and divided into a small river, leading to here, which was crystal clear.

"It seems that the formation of a lake in the future is the reason for this river, originally this place was concave, as long as there is a natural disaster, such as an earthquake, the river is rerouted, and it becomes a lake."

Zhang Xiaobao observed the surrounding terrain and whispered to Wang Juan, Wang Juan also agreed with this statement, walked to the small river, squatted down, and touched it with his hands, cool, and a soft feeling.

"It's better to repair the mountain road, after the view is completed, let them get this side out of the lake, our family also has to make some benefits, and we can't give up all the benefits."

"That's what I plan, and rocking boats back and forth on the lake and setting up some herbal medicine stalls by the lake is also a long-term income, so that the local people can do it."

Zhang Xiaobao also thinks that it should be so, in the future, raise some fish in the lake, there is nothing to fish, tourists will like it more, when making fish, let people with some herbs, get out of the medicinal diet, and more can promote Yaowang Mountain.

While the two were talking, one of the workers accidentally stepped on the air, fell from a steep place, and hung in the air again when everyone was frightened.

The person in charge at the back patted his chest, and without waiting for the little ancestor to ask curiously, he took the initiative to come up and said, "Anyone who works in a dangerous place will have a rope tied to his body, even if he accidentally falls down, he is not afraid." ”

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan knew this clearly, it was still proposed by them, human life is more important than the sky.

The man was pulled up, walked down, squatted directly by the river, washed the soil on his body, as well as the wound he had just scratched, and finally wiped his face with water, looked at the people around him with a smile, and said, "It's okay, it's much more comfortable to wash." ”

After speaking, he stood up again, went back to work, and the others laughed and joked, and the sweaty man also came to wash it, picked up the water with his hands, splashed it directly on his body, and rubbed it a little, and one by one the mud balls were frustrated down and bounced into the water.

With the leader, others also came to wash, and the water that was originally clear became muddy after they washed it, except that they stirred up the mud and sand when washing, and their bodies were too dirty.

This kind of behavior is naturally not lazy, it is cool, and the work is more profitable.

Zhang Xiaobao looked at it and suddenly said to Wang Juan: "I know what to do, even if I sleep less a day, I can relieve fatigue." ”