In the early morning, the whirring lee swept over the castle, and with the sound of a loud brass flute, the busy scene of yesterday was restored in the Madao Stone Fort.

However, what was different from the usual days was that a group of sergeants who were about to climb the fort wall to perform sentry posts and go out for drills lined up one after another in the open space outside the hundred households; The sergeants with fire/guns on their backs, with iron helmets on their heads, looked solemn.

The craftsmen who were eating flatbread rolls and pickles around them skillfully occupied the higher terrain in various places, chewing in their mouths while eagerly exchanging glances with the people next to them, and everyone was watching another scene of military law with great interest.

Next to the two coptis trees outside the hundred households, Sun Xiaoming, who had a gloomy face, lined up with more than a dozen black-clothed guards, standing tall and crossed; The six guards beside him, with wrist-thick sticks in their hands, were full of depression; The guards are enforcing military law in the stone fort, and they are drawing lots, these six guys are too lucky, and they want to punish their immediate boss today, and it is false to say that they are not depressed.

Qin Shi and the six knives were brought to the phalanx early, and their shirts were pulled off one by one, revealing their sturdy upper bodies, and there was no one on their chests and backs who did not have scars, but the tendons and flesh were bulging and terrifying; Especially the scars on the back of the knife, although they are already very shallow, but the old scars that are almost patched together, even Sun Xiaoming's scalp is numb when he sees it.

This slave brought back from the steppe had been tortured by Tartars many times before, and it was rare for him to survive until now.

Raising his eyes and looking at the sky, the time had come, Sun Xiaoming coughed, and said loudly, "Qin Qianhu six people, go out to perform military affairs, act without orders, military law is like a mountain, the hundred households have orders, each of them thirty military sticks, immediately executed,"

As his words landed, twelve guards escorted the six perpetrators and pressed them down on the plastered floor; The six guards beside Sun Xiaoming gritted their teeth and stood beside Qin Shishi with wooden sticks, raising their eyes to look at the door of the hundred households.

Without the military order of a hundred households, this military stick could not be avoided, and after waiting for a few breaths, the guards knew that they would not be able to fight if they didn't fight, so they raised the wooden stick and hit the flesh on the ground fiercely.

"Bang, bang," the sturdy wooden stick as thick as a wrist, the sound of hitting the **, no one thought it was a show, but it could be seen that these six black-clothed guards, but every time they were ruthless, they couldn't wait to break the wooden stick once.

From the first day in Shiguantun, although Xiao Ye gave the sergeants high salaries and tried his best to take care of them on weekdays, but in terms of military discipline, he couldn't help but be harsh, otherwise he was a teenager, how could He De control these soldiers under him.

Fortunately, in Shiguantun, he Ximen Xiao Ye ate and lived the same as the big guy, and he could also keep everyone fed and clothed, and he had a sharp firearm in his hand, plus he took the lead in the conflict with the Tartars, so he was able to hold Shiguantun; The rest of the matter can come to the present step by step.

Therefore, anyone who disobeyed military discipline and military law, even a thousand households like Qin Shishi, Xiao Ye had to raise a military stick to set an example, even if they received a generous reward last night, but the merit was two books, and they should be beaten.

Lying on the cold and biting ground, although Qin Shi and the knife were beaten by the military stick and screamed, but their faces were red, their hearts were still beautiful, and the pain of skin and flesh was inevitable for them above the first-order sergeant; It's just that the thousand taels of silver tickets that have already arrived, one thousand taels per person, are enough for them to bow their heads and confess their guilt, and no one will object to Qin Shishi's proposal.

You must know that last night, Xiao Ye pointed to their noses, and calculated the cost of feeding these people in Gujia Village for a year, as well as the loss of no less than 200,000 taels of Gujiabao who went out in vain, even the knife that has always been indifferent, and he is also sweating profusely.

The consequence of not following the rules of the military order is to make the hundred households ruined, Qin Shi and they finally got the hang of it, and they regretted it.

Xiao Ye is very realistic, he has to be realistic, from Shiguantun to Madao Shibao, the food consumed every day, as well as all kinds of expenses, no one gives him a penny in vain, all of which he needs to work hard to obtain, even at the expense of offending the Tartars on the grassland, as well as Zhang Zhong in Gansu Town.

Those merchants who came to trade, once he couldn't get the materials, he might turn his face faster than turning a book, and he could see it better than anyone else.

At the end of each month, the account book taken from the account office, the consumption figures on it, every time Xiao Ye read it, he had an urge to roll up the money and flee into the mountains; Well, where exactly he can escape, he hasn't thought about it, the three holes of the cunning rabbit, he will always find those two holes.

The piercing sound of the brass flute on the wall of the stone fort also woke up Gu Yanwu in the military house, last night, like everyone, he was fascinated by watching the play, even if his hands and feet were numb from the cold, he almost forgot where he was, and for a while, most of the resentment towards coming to the Madao Stone Fort dissipated.

He and the old men in the village, as well as Liu Yi's family, were called into the military house to rest, the room in the stone fort was tense, and the other families in Gujia Village, a total of one hundred and seventy-two households, most of them lived in the thick cowhide tent; At this point, the open space in the stone fort was also crowded with tents, and the sergeants had to go to the top of the hill to the west.

is older, and there is less time to sleep, after getting up and washing, he explained to his family, Gu Yanwu just walked out of the small courtyard, and saw Liu Yi and a few old people in the village, and hurried over; "Patriarch, the hundred households want to punish Qin Shi and them, let's hurry over and see if we can ask for a favor,"

"Oh, it seems that the military discipline of this Ximen hundred households is still very strict," Gu Yanwu, who had his hands in the sleeves of his cotton coat and was talking, had a trace of disdain flashing in his eyes, in his opinion, this was just a trick on face; If he didn't know that everyone in Gujia Village could survive the harsh winter in the fort, I'm afraid he wouldn't even want to say this.

Several people hurried to the outside of the hundred households, crowded in the crowd and looked inside, and at a glance, they couldn't help but gasp, but it was only four or five zhang away, and the six men lying on the ground had bruised stick marks on their backs, oozing with traces of blood, where was the posture of acting.

Looking at the black-clothed soldier who marched again, the wooden stick he raised smashed down, clearly like the momentum of beating these six men to death.

"Pap, pop" Every time the raised wooden stick was smashed, whether it was the visitors of Gujia Village or the craftsmen who were used to seeing it around, they were all watching silently, and their hearts were a little more in awe of the hundred households that opened the courtyard door.

"Twenty-nine, thirty," Sun Xiaoming, who sang and counted the military sticks, finally survived until the military sticks were finished, and with a wave of his big hand, more than a dozen medical soldiers hula stepped forward, picked up the knives on the ground, and ran to the medical hall with a roar.

"Shame on you, you can't do this in the future, even if you go to work in the mill, you won't be beaten with a stick," said the six men with their heads drooping, letting their faces be covered by their loose buns; The stick wounds on their bodies were easy to treat, and they were relieved after half a month of recuperation, but the tragic situation of being beaten with military sticks made them unable to look up and see people.

It's just that, thinking about the military stick outside the hundred households, as well as Wang Hu and their thousands of households, hundreds of households, Qin Shi and the knife are balanced in their hearts again, everyone has lost face here, then don't laugh at fifty steps and laugh at a hundred steps, be careful in the future.

Liu Shuihe, who was far away in Eagle Claw Fort, soon received a notice from the letter post, and immediately felt that they were still very lucky to be able to stay away from Madao Stone Fort for military affairs, and they didn't have so many complaints.

Those military men who came to watch the big drama for the New Year, I'm afraid they will have to publicize it everywhere when they go back, so that the few thousands of families who are working hard feel that their sins are not in vain, at least they don't have to be beaten in public.

Until Qin Shi and them were helped away, and the sergeants of several phalanxes were also taken away by the hundred households, those craftsmen and old people talked and laughed and left separately, and at this time, Gu Yanwu and the others had not seen Xiao Ye's figure.

"I'm afraid, the military law in this Madao Stone Fort has always been like this, and the tortured soldiers don't have resentment, this Ximen Xiao Ye, maybe he can really do what he says," After standing for a long time, Gu Yanwu sighed and turned his face to look at Liu Yi, "You took the dozen or so Lang Zhong from Gujia Village and went to the medical center, I heard that the food and salary are very rich,"

"Do a good job, it's up to you to live up and down Gujia Village," patting Liu Yi on the shoulder, Gu Yanwu took a few old men and walked slowly towards the military house; They also have to discuss how Gujiacun will gain a firm foothold here in the future, and how much benefit they can fight for with Xiao Ye.

Although he and Xiao Ye are just one-sided friends, Xiao Ye can't get benefits, and his temperament of not committing easily is still clear; Of course, this kind of frank way of exchanging interests, although not very comfortable, is always more straightforward than guessing.

There are more than 1,000 medicine households in Gujia Village, although they live in tents, felt blankets, bedding and clothes and other food and housing supplies, as well as the settling-in allowance promised by Qin Shishi, Xiao Ye provided all of them, but on the account book in Luan Fengying's hand, each family has a handprint, and the price of one thing is stated in advance, and if he will be repaid with labor or medicinal materials in the future, Xiao Ye does not need to pay it with money.

In the Hundred Households, after Xiao Ye practiced the family knife technique in the martial arts arena, he was steaming all over his body, and strode into a side room along the corridor, taking off his thin shirt and trousers, revealing his strong muscles; Two guards with big scoops scooped out cold clean water from the water tank and poured it on the hundred households from the beginning.

"My lord, just now the medical soldiers came, saying that Li Langzhong had seen it, Qin Shi's injuries were not serious, and their skin injuries would be good for more than ten days," the guards who poured clean water on Xiao Ye said as they scooped out the incomparably precious water on the edge of the grassland from the vat without care.

There are dark grooves under the stucco floor, and the water will flow into the dark ditch outside the hundred houses, and finally collect in the remote corner of the valley outside the stone fort.

"Well," Xiao Ye snorted while smearing soap on his body, "Let them think about it, and when they are healed, they will go to the sentry, and there will be no leave for half a year,"

"Yes, my lord," the two guards snickered, pouring purified water on Xiao Ye more and more diligently; Xiao Ye was able to take out some scarce soap, but it wasn't enough for Lina and the others, and now he could only use soap to wash his body like everyone else.

Changing into a thick and warm winter field uniform, wearing short-waisted leather boots, and eating a few bites of breakfast, Xiao Ye came to the hall in the front yard; In the hall, Wang Dali, Wang Meng, Wang Hu, Wang Ziliang, and Xin Rulin have been waiting for a long time.

There is a table of eight immortals in the middle of the hall, with high chairs on both sides, Wang Meng and Wang Hu on both sides of the lower head sit on the left hand, and Xin Rulin as the leader sits on the right hand.

"Hehe, everyone, it's early, it's late, it's late," Xiao Ye walked into the hall, laughed with everyone, walked to the table of the eight immortals and sat down, and a guard served hot tea.

There are two charcoal braziers lit in the hall, even if it is cold and windy outside, the temperature in the house is still quite suitable, and everyone is wearing silk short coats, or winter field uniforms, sitting here with hot tea in their hands, looking at the bleak winter scene outside, if you want to say that your heart is steady, you can count Wang Dali.

Of course, knowing the solidity on the faces of everyone in the warehouse, Xiao Ye was also very relieved; At least this winter and spring, things can be arranged in an orderly manner inside and outside the stone castle.

After greeting the Lord of the Hundred Households, everyone sat down and began to report their respective work to Xiao Ye in order.

As the shopkeeper of the Shijia shop, Xin Rulin has hoarded a batch of goods in the past few days, just waiting for the people in Gujia Village to buy it, not to mention anything else, the silk cotton coat that has been discounted by half, and other goods, can make Gujia Village bear another debt, in that case, Xiao Ye's heart will be much less guilty.

And Wang Dali is still supervising the production of the badge, and now after receiving Xiao Ye's military order to prepare for the new Gujiabao, he has also begun to mobilize craftsmen to prepare geotechnical bombs, tools and other things, and he will leave for Eagle Claw Fort in the next two days.

As for the thousand-man team of the two brothers Wang Meng and Wang Hu, there were nearly eight hundred Tartar sergeants mixed in it, but after a month of drills and run-ins, the powerful hundreds of households, Shi Chang, and Wu Chang were enough to take care of them, and the medicinal effect of the primary powerful potion was the key to Xiao Ye's pride.

Wang Ziliang's report is still sloppy, he has to report the information on the sand table with Xiao Ye every day, as well as the news from Shiguantun and Eagle Claw Fort, as well as the things of the Shadow Team and the Haiqi Team, but it is inconvenient to take it out.

When everyone finished speaking, Xiao Ye coughed and put down the teacup in his hand, "Everyone, Qin Shi and they have done good things, I think everyone has heard of it, this time, we are working with Jinyi Weiming, and the Gansu Town Government will not give up,"

"Maybe after the fifteenth year, there will be no more caravans coming at the Madao checkpoint, and it will be a blessing if the Ming officials and soldiers don't come," Xiao Ye steadied his mind and looked at Wang Meng, "The Madao checkpoint will be closed from today, and the garrison will be replaced by a Tartar sergeant, if the Ming army dares to trespass, whether it is dead or alive, call back to this officer,"

Even if the Madao checkpoint is closed, Xiao Ye is convinced that those big merchants will have a way to come and trade with him, and those small merchants who have no power, he can't do anything.

This is the sphere of influence of the Mongolian Tatars, thinking of the courage of the Ming army and the government, this is just a notice, the protest on the mouth, Xiao Ye did not raise his eyelids at all.

During the time he spent with Xin Rulin, he obtained a lot of news, as well as the sporadic words from his father-in-law, which made Xiao Ye's courage bigger and bigger.

"Yes," the steady Wang Meng, since marrying his wife a few years ago, has become more and more calm, and he has begun to grow a beard on his chin, which makes Xiao Ye's eyes quite hot, and the beard on his lips now does not look much different from the previous two years.

The meeting was very efficient, and Xiao Ye turned back to the backyard when it was okay, and the others did their own things, only the solemnity at the corner of Xin Rulin's eyebrows became more and more intense.

In the afternoon, Gu Yanwu, who was hiding in the military house to recuperate, finally couldn't sit still, those old and young masters of Gujia Village, together with the mothers-in-law, heard that they could take credit in the Shi family's shop, but they were interested; As a result, when I went to the shop, every household took some of it, whether it was soap, matches, or odds and ends, and there were many more stamps in the account books of the deacons of the shop.

The logistics team is about to set off, and with them is the Hong family opera troupe, this troupe of more than 20 people, Xiao Ye at the price of thirty taels of silver per scene, so that they have the courage to go to Eagle Claw Fort and Bailong Lake, as well as the two tribes to set up a stage to sing.

Along with the logistics team, there were also two hundred armed sergeants, who were going to return to their respective stations, and by the way, escorted the logistics team and the troupe to Eagle Claw Fort, and the three Qin Shi, who were trembling, also followed the team on horseback.

"Gu Jiabao? Going to lay the foundation now? Gu Yanwu, who was standing in front of Xiao Ye, originally came to discuss the matter of credit with Xiao Ye, but when he heard the news, he glared in disbelief and asked suspiciously.

If you owe too much, you can't help yourself, but the Gu Jiabao who was given away for nothing, but he deserves it, so he has to go and see what he says.

So, Gu Yanwu, who hurriedly returned to the military house, gave an explanation to a few old men, and then took five or six sturdy juniors and followed the team in a carriage.

The busy mill, the stones that the carriages kept transporting, the crisp sound of reading in the private school, the faint sound of fire/gunfire in the distance on the top of the mountain, and the messengers who shuttled between the communication team and the hundred households from time to time, and the figures of old and young people shaking on the edge of the vines and grass outside the stone fort, indicated that the Madao Stone Fort had entered normal operation again.

When the army rushed out at the entrance of the valley at the edge of the grassland, the sky began to darken, and the pillars of light that lit up one after another illuminated the road under their feet; Heavily guarded scouts weaved back and forth, protecting the team as they slowly advanced towards Talon Castle.

Wang Dali, who was sitting in the carriage, leaned on the car gang with half-squinted eyes, chatting with the old military household next to him about the Hong family's class, and the sergeant on the side waved his lamp and looked around curiously illuminating the rattan grass not far away.

The bright light swept by, and the dense stinger on the vine grass branches, Wang Dali inadvertently glanced at it, and couldn't help but jump slightly in his heart, "Huh? Although he is old, his eyes are very good.

The long and short stingers on the thick branches were originally mostly blue-black, and the longest was no more than half an inch, but now not only the stingers have grown by almost an inch, but even some of the colors have also become purple-black.

If it weren't for the coptis trees planted on both sides of the road, so that there was no trace of vines and grass on the road, I am afraid that Wang Dali would have to stop the carriage and take a closer look at the stingers on the side of the road.

Eagle Claw Fort, which is more than twenty miles north of the team, is standing at the entrance of the stone fort with several hundred officers at this moment, looking at a corpse on the ground; The corpse, which had been accidentally discovered by the scouts, appeared to have been dead for several days behind a high slope northeast of the Stone Castle.

They are not afraid of corpses, they have seen many dead people, but this corpse is almost shriveled and withered, there is no trace of wild things gnawing, but it is light and fluttering less than ten pounds, which is very weird.

"The corpse has no identification, a short knife for self-defense, dry food and drinking water are enough for five days, and the skin is black and purple, maybe moderate," the sergeant who skillfully examined the corpse was none other than the old Orion called from the Night Stalkers, and he couldn't tell why this person died, so he could only roughly guess.

The old hunter's words made Liu Shuihe tighten up on them, and he couldn't help but look at the empty grassland around them, and near the stone fort on this grassland, they were all covered with vines and grasses that could not be inserted into their feet.

Soon, the old hunter found more than a dozen stinger-pierced wounds on the legs and feet of the corpse, so the cause of death of this unknown spy was guessed; Dare to forget to drill in the vine and grass, no matter how tightly wrapped the body is, there will be a time when it is dense.

"Lord Qianhu, my subordinates are in the north of the stone fort, and they found that the vine grass seems to be still growing, and it has grown to eight miles away from the stone fort, and as for the east and west sides, it has exceeded fifty miles," the careful scout stepped forward and reported to Liu Shuihe in a low voice; The scouts have to go out every day to investigate the enemy's situation, whether it is the Tartars or the Ming army in the east, they are all within the detectives, and they can naturally find the abnormality of the vine grass.

"Si," Liu Shuihe was suddenly shocked, and waved his hand to let the corpse be carried into the fort, the logistics team and the troupe were about to arrive, it was better not to make a noise about this kind of thing, and report it to the hundred households to deal with.

Madao Stone Fort, in the backyard of the Hundred Households, although it is night at this moment, the lights on the martial arts arena are bright, and a large number of guards and guards are surrounding a big yellow guy, talking about it.

Kang Hongyuan and the others spent a day transporting the C-shaped stone mill from Dongdao, which had been quietly taken away by Wang Dali, and this big guy, everyone had never seen it.

There is no wheeling like a carriage like a carriage underground, but there are glass-like windows in the front and back, left and right, and you can see that there seem to be seats inside, but I don't know how to open it.

Stepping on, Xiao Ye came over with two guards, he went to see Xiuxiu just now, Xiuxiu, who was taken care of by the Gu family, was about to give birth in half a month; Xiao Ye couldn't help it even if he was worried, but fortunately, the Gu family came, at least he didn't have to toss around blindly with the mothers-in-law in the tun.

The guards who followed behind Xiao Ye were carrying an iron box in their hands, which was the kind of iron box for geotechnical bullets, and then there were Mei'er and Lina, who came to see the rarity, and they were now walking steadily, with a radiant face and a female guard accompanying them, obviously pregnant with Xiao Ye's species.

After many days of hard work, the two daughters lived up to expectations and brought hope to the Simon family, which was also the expectation of everyone in the castle.

In front of everyone's eyes, Xiao Ye walked to the iron bump, looked at the big guy with a smile, and said loudly, "This object is for assault vehicles, scouts," the title in the picture was originally called a tourist car, and he was quite disdainful, so he changed the name directly.

What kind of title is divine thunder, Xiao Ye just dares to think about it, and will never take it out and be excused by outsiders.

As he spoke, he saw Xiao Ye walk to the side of the assault car, press twice on the back of the car, and open the back cover, revealing two square black boxes inside; Twisting open the top cover of the box, the two guards stepped forward and neatly packed the black cylinders in the iron box into the black box one by one at the signal of Baihu.

No more, no less, there were fifty black cylinders for hand lamps, filled two chests.

After covering the box and closing the back cover of the assault car, Xiao Ye stepped forward and opened the car door, got in first, pushed open the door on the other side, and beckoned Sun Xiaoming to sit in as well.

After tinkering in the car for a while, Xiao Ye, who rolled down the window, asked the big guy to stand farther away, and then twisted the key under the steering wheel; With a low buzzing sound, the seemingly inconspicuous assault vehicle slowly left the ground and suspended half a foot above the stucco floor, causing everyone around to scream.

Even Xiuxiu and Lina, who were dignified, couldn't pretend anymore, their eyes widened and they shouted loudly, waving at Xiao Ye in the car from time to time, asking him to hurry down so as not to be hurt by this thing.

"It's okay, what's it called," Xiao Ye shouted outside, then lowered his head, and Sun Xiaoming and the two began to grope in the car, the assault car swayed from side to side, twisting and turning, and slowly moved forward on the martial arts field.

A steering wheel, a dashboard in front of you, two pedals under your feet, one accelerates and one decelerates, and the rest is gone, Rao is Xiao Ye has seen the simulation scene in the picture, and he is also tired and sweating, and it took a long time to touch the doorway, driving an assault car in the martial arts arena, turning around and enjoying it over and over again.

Xiao Ye didn't know what kind of amazing goods the chaotic processing center would bring him in the future, anyway, he was quite satisfied with this assault vehicle, although its fastest speed was not as fast as the charging speed of the war horse, but fortunately, it ran at a uniform speed, could shelter from the wind and rain, and it was not very cold inside, as a seat for scouts to go out, but it was much stronger than the war horse.

What satisfied him the most was that there were still two sergeants behind the assault car, scouts in groups of four, with enough water and food, and the continuous detective time outside would be much longer.

After a rare effort, Xiao Ye got out of the car and asked Sun Xiaoming and them to take turns to go up and drive, while the second Sun Xiaoming, who had just learned how to drive, sat in the car and didn't get down in the name of a professor, shouting and reprimanding those guards and guards, but he was too addicted.

In the end, Lina, who has a smart temperament, also went up to be a guest, and after two turns, she came down, pulling Mei'er and the two muttered and laughed for a while, I don't know what the two girls think.

After the assault car turned around the martial arts arena for more than 100 turns, the body slowly fell to the ground as the red light on the dashboard lit up and the buzzing stopped.

It should be that the battery is out of power, Xiao Ye, who was standing at the edge of the venue, asked people to call out Sun Xiaoming, who was sweating profusely, "Go, replace the battery,"

As a result, the black cylindrical object was called a battery from now on.

Open the black box, take out the gray and white cylinder, although it is still sturdy when pinched, but the weight is more than half light, after the guards replaced fifty batteries, everyone seemed to understand that this assault vehicle is driven by the batteries in the handlamp.

In the next test, there was an old craftsman involved, a small assault vehicle, after verification, it was learned that the weight of the plant could not exceed 600 catties, and it could not be driven if it was more, and the shell could not withstand the multiple shots of the fire/gun, especially the glass, which shattered a piece of the side with one shot, but Sun Xiaoming was distressed.

A few gun holes on the shell of the assault vehicle, some craftsmen can repair them with tung glue and yellow paint, but the glass is not easy to do, and the thickness of the glass taken out in the stone castle is not comparable, so only take a wooden board to block it first.

And the assault vehicle that can only run more than thirty miles at a time, and the frequent replacement of batteries also makes Xiao Ye frown, the black kernel in the warehouse is really not too rich, and the heating in the stone castle in winter has to be consumed a lot.

The next day, the sergeants and craftsmen in the stone fort were no longer talking about the hot troupe, but the Persian goods brought by hundreds of households, what was the assault car, but it was more stable than the war horse, and the carriage and ox cart could not be compared at all.

The assault car driven from the hundred households, in order to let the guards and guards practice, Xiao Ye left the car in the ear room and let them take it for public use, but they were absolutely not allowed to do private work.

So, from the hundred households to the medical center, the communication team, and even the shops and warehouses, even if it was to run errands, there were guys like Sun Xiaoming, who got errands by force competition, and drove assault vehicles to rampage in the stone fort, but the speed was really slow.

"Where did this Simen Xiao Ye come from, Persian? The craftsmen of the Persians are too skilled," Standing outside the military building, Liu Yi looked at the swaying assault vehicle and thought to himself. The old men next to him, babbling a lot of chatter, stared at the cart without oxen until they couldn't see it.

Some of the boys in Gujia Village couldn't bear it anymore and went to the hospital to help, even if they were grinding and loading pharmaceutical belts, they could also earn some hard-earned money every day, which he couldn't stop and didn't want to stop.