A cauldron spit white mist, the two invited cooks worked hard to burn the fire, and the fragrance of porridge and steamed buns wafting out of the shack area was transmitted to the shack area for a while, and soon it was like a fried pot, hungry people poured out, and the surrounding area of the cauldron was immediately surrounded by water, a group of ragged adults and children looked at the cauldron and drooled, Lu Donkey, Dai Zhenggang, and Hai Dog took out their knives and stood on the side, but no one dared to rush up to grab it.

Chen Xin nodded to Zhang Dahui, Zhang Dacheng turned around and howled loudly at the people around him: "Ladies and gentlemen, my young master is here to recruit nursing homes, our young master has a good heart, and he will give a tael of monthly money every month, no credit, and there are five buckets of rice every month to ensure that your family's old snacks are full." The crowd immediately stirred, and one tael of silver and five buckets of rice per month were added, and if they were not deducted, they would indeed be able to feed the family.

Chen Xin didn't dare to blatantly recruit troops near the Beijing Division, if this was known by the Yanguan, he would not be able to finish eating and walking around, so he had to do it in the name of recruiting nursing homes.

Zhang Dahui continued: "When you get to the place, there is still land to divide, mother-in-law and children at home can farm the land, you only need to practice once a day, there are bandits to fight bandits, how can there be such a good thing in this world, let you encounter it." ”

The crowd was originally listening quietly, but at this time, there was a buzzing discussion, and a slender man hesitated and asked: "This brother, we are not afraid of that bandit, but if he is killed and disabled, what will the mother-in-law doll do." ”

"If he is injured and dies, he will have thirty taels of silver to pay for, and if he has a child, the adult shall be responsible for feeding him until he is sixteen years old."

"Thirty taels!" The man exclaimed, as if he was a little surprised that his life was worth so much.

Zhang Dahui laughed and said: "That's right, thirty taels, not only silver, but also land in the future, that land is leased to you for a long time, and the rent must be lower than that of the landlord in your hometown." ”

The slender men talked a lot, Chen Xin looked at these people on the side, they were all lean figures, standing in groups, obviously they were piling up according to their fellow villagers, and there were one or two leaders in each group, and everyone gathered around him to discuss. Chen Xin paid special attention to the scattered few people standing and noted their appearances.

After one of the group of slender men with a large number of people finished deliberating, a leading slender man with five big and three thick came out and asked, "Then this brother, how far is your place?" ”

"The place is far away, on the other side of Shandong, not by the canal."

The leading slender man asked again: "Then let's go, can you give some coils first, and we are ready to go with you." ”

Zhang Dahui's eyes rolled, this person obviously came to take advantage of it, and he gave it to him, and ran to find it, he shook his head and said: "If you want to go with us, we will arrange the journey, besides, my young master gave such good conditions, and he also wants to choose someone, not just come if he wants to." ”

The dense slender men around were hesitant, after all, these people had never seen each other, and they were holding sharp blades, they came to recruit people for no reason, and no one knew what it was.

Zhang Dahui said unhurriedly: "You can think about it, if you are willing to stay here and starve to death, you can also follow you, if you are willing to follow my young master, maybe you can have a future, this is my young master, a talent, both civil and military, follow him, you are a blessing from the previous life." Zhang Dacheng pointed to Chen Xin beside him, dressed luxuriously, and he was indeed a talent, but he couldn't see it both civil and military.

The leader of the gang came up and asked Chen Xin: "This young master, how many people do you want?" ”

Chen Xin is very uninterested in this leader, he has few people, of course he will not recruit people in a group, otherwise these people will unite, how to manage themselves, he has already decided in his heart that he will not want this leader.

Chen Xin said to the people around him: "I am the owner, if you want the mother-in-law and doll to eat, follow me, as long as I am selected, you can eat porridge immediately, there is a meal of meat tonight, and in the future, I will take care of the family and the hospital, and you will not be less to eat, I will recruit a total of fifty people, and if the selection is full, you don't want it." ”

These people only recruited fifty people when they heard it, and there are thousands of slender men here, and some of them have not yet arrived, if there are too many people, there will be no chance, and some people are in a hurry, and the crowd is ready to move.

"I'll give it a try, young master, see if I can eat meat." An ordinary-looking, twenty-year-old slender man walked out and said loudly.

Finally had the first one, Chen Xin breathed a sigh of relief, nodded slightly to Zhu Guobin, Zhu Guobin walked out, turned over the palm of the slender man, full of thick calluses, Zhu Guobin pulled away his tattered clothes again, and the right shoulder was also a scar, it should be a long-term hard work, Zhu Guobin looked at his face again, the slender man looked honest, but now he was a little nervous.

Zhu Guobin nodded, let him stand in front of Chen Xin, Chen Xin looked at him, as thin as Lu Donkey, with dark skin, Chen Xin asked him, "What's your name?" ”

"My name is Wang Changfu, a native of Shandong, I have been pulling fiber here for two years, and my life is big, and I didn't starve to death."

"There's no one else in the house."

"No, just one, my family is poor, and no woman wants to marry me."

"Okay, you can go and eat porridge, but next time remember, I can say whatever I ask you, and there is no need to talk about the superfluous."

When Wang Changfu heard this, he knelt down and kowtowed to Chen Xin, and Chen Xin also accepted it calmly, he didn't like this kind of etiquette, but now was not the time to change. After Wang Changfu kowtowed, he went straight to the pot, Zhang Dahui had already prepared a bowl of porridge waiting for him, Wang Changfu didn't care about the heat, he drank it, and sighed with satisfaction after two sips: "This porridge is really thick." Zhang Dahui smiled and handed over another steamed bun, Wang Changfu stopped talking and opened his mouth to chew.

When the slender men around looked at his eating appearance, they couldn't help it anymore, and ran out a few more around Zhu Guobin to sign up.

Zhang Dahui saw that the shape was good, and hurriedly said: "Okay, everyone is coming, just line up and come one by one." This Wang brother can eat, only recruit fifty people, and it will be gone when it is late, you don't want to think about it, what else can my young master deceive you for, what do you have to deceive? ”

The slender men hurriedly lined up, Zhu Guobin looked at them one by one, several of them were qualified, and asked them to come to Chen Xin's side.

Chen Xin's purpose here is mainly to let these people know that they are the ones who make decisions, and to establish a sense of authority from the beginning, and the other is to check the gates, especially if they can't recruit people from one place, and form a larger group in the team.

A few of them are singles, all of them have passed the double interview, run to the side of the pot to eat, the people around them saw that others had eaten, the saliva flowed for a long time, and the chaos came up, Lu Donkey held a knife and threatened him, so he could be regarded as roughly lining them up, these people are porridge from the government in winter, but the porridge is almost water, it would be good to be able to hang his life, I saw the steamed buns and thick porridge, who can bear it, and besides, as Zhang Da said, what do I have to deceive, and it can be more bitter than now. For a while, the crowd was boiling, and some of them came late, desperately squeezing forward, shouting and scolding.

Another slender man who was interviewed by Zhu Guobin came to Chen Xin, "Where are you?" How old. ”

"Small, the villain is from Zhendingfu, twenty-three this year."

"But I have family."

"Yes, we have a mother-in-law and two children."

The slender man bowed his head and said respectfully, Chen Xin looked at him carefully, twenty-three was as old as thirty-two, his hair was a little gray, but his body was strong, and he rewound with children quite early, and in his own era, twenty-three was still called a big boy.

Seeing that Chen Xin didn't speak, the slender man glanced at Chen Xin with some fear, and lowered his head again. Fear of power, but in line with Qi Dashuai's standards, Chen Xin is a future person after all, he has a little reservations about this, those later generations of the army have many means for the cultivation of obedience, and it may not necessarily be afraid of power, but he doesn't have much experience, so he should do it according to Grandpa Qi's standards first.

"How old are the children?"

The slender man stood in front of Chen Xin for a long time, becoming even more nervous, and his voice trembled a little: "One, one is three years old, and the other is five years old." ”

Chen Xin thought about it, the burden of the two children is a little heavier, he not only has to look at the soldiers themselves, he also has to make plans, calculate the economic accounts, these family members to Weihai after some use, women and children in this era are used as men, from here to Weihai, there are a lot of expenses on the road, this person is four, and in case this slender man is injured or killed, he has to raise three people, two children are also small, if there is a ten-year-old, it would be better.

"You ......" Chen Xin was just about to refuse him, but two children had already stumbled over, ready to go to the cauldron to drink porridge, but the slender man hurriedly stopped them and said repeatedly: "The young master hasn't agreed yet, wait." ”

The two children were poorly dressed, their hair was dirty like a mud-stained hemp rope, knotted together into a strip shape, and the outstretched hand was like dry firewood, and a thin woman with a similar appearance came from behind, pulling the two children, and said to Chen Xin: "Young master, forgive me, the child is not sensible." ”

The two children looked up at Chen Xin, with two tubes of snot on their dark faces, Chen Xin didn't even tell who was a boy and who was a girl, and the three-year-old child had no innocence in his eyes, only pleading, and he didn't know how long they had been hungry.

Chen Xin's word "you" was said for a long time, but he didn't say the next words, Lu Donkey, Zhang Dahui and others all looked at him quietly, waiting for him to decide.

"You ......" Chen Xin said another word, and stopped, he originally thought of an idea, that is, let them walk to Weihai by themselves, and then reacted again, this weather is far away, they will only freeze to death outside.

Song Wenxian was watching the excitement on the side, and when he saw Chen Xin hesitating, he said in his ear: "Brother Chen, it's better to recruit a bachelor, you don't need to give the pension money when you die, and it's not that there is no one right now, and if you can save thirty taels, it's thirty taels." Chen Xin raised his eyes and looked around, there was already a long queue of people behind him, and there was indeed no shortage of people.

Song Wenxian said again: "You just bring some outsiders to contain the locals, you don't need to bring them from a family, just these singles are the best, don't be afraid of anything." If you really can't bear it, let them eat here, even if you have done a good deed, from here to Weihai, with this useless woman and child, how much more money will be spent. ”

Chen Xin didn't speak when he heard it, he really had this thought, these slender men came from all over the world, and they had no relatives and no reason in Weihai, so they could only have one heart with themselves, and with them as the backbone, they could divide and contain the local military households. Song Wenxian is reasonable, singles are the best, not afraid of anything, but he looked down at the two children, two pairs of eyes full of pleading, his words of refusal can never be said, this is not his rejection of job seekers when the company interviews, those job seekers can continue to find the next one, now once he rejects this person, these two children are very likely to starve to death in this winter, although he is thick-skinned, but completely different life experiences, so that he can not be as indifferent as Song Wenxian, even if Song Wenxian may be right.

"You're damn it, just this once." Chen Xin scolded fiercely in his heart, and said to the slender man: "Okay, you have been chosen, and your family can go to eat porridge." Song Wenxian shook his head in the back.

The slender man waited anxiously for a long time, and finally got the good news, he and his mother-in-law knelt on the ground together, kowtowed again and again, Chen Xin didn't care about the dirty, helped the slender man and the child, and let their family hurry up to eat.

Chen Xin looked left and right, grabbed the sea dog and whispered to him: "Dog, you come here, Zhu Guobin chooses, you choose again, ask how many children there are, don't want more than two." Singles are the best, remember? The sea dog agreed with a smirk, Chen Xin was a little envious of this silly boy for the first time, he didn't have any pressure on anything, and he never had so many worries in his head.

Song Wenxian waited for the sea dog to leave before he said to Chen Xin: "Lord Qianhu can't bear it himself, so it's a good way to simply send a stupid boy to be this wicked person." ”

Chen Xinchang sighed and said: "Isn't there no way, if it weren't for Brother Song and you reminding me, where did I think of it, I had to stop reading it, who told me to be so good-hearted......"

Song Wenxian despised it in his heart, he obviously knew everything, but now he found a reason to remind him that he could beat Yang Weiyuan, who had never met before, to paralyze himself in bed, and actually complained that his heart was too good and his skin was too thick.

So in the later selection, there are three procedures, Zhu Guobin according to Grandpa Qi's selection method, just look at the physical condition and face, the sea dog reviews the family composition, and Chen Xin pretends to be at the end, saying that he is the one who makes the decision and establishes authority. In the middle, the few slender families who were not selected, all old and young hugged the legs of the fur seals and begged, crying profusely, but the sea seals still smirked and were unmoved. Chen Xin's psychological pressure has also been reduced, after all, he didn't refuse, if you want to blame, blame the sea dog for being too ruthless.

Chen Xin received the selected slender men one by one, and said a few words of encouragement, and those slender men ran to the pot to eat, Chen Xin watched the fur dogs drive away the disappointed slender man families without pressure, and said secretly: "I'm not a qualified politician yet." ”