15. Ling Ning's depression
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Ling Ning has been depressed recently, he and his wife Zhuo Ying are a pair of old donkey passengers, and the husband and wife's biggest hobby after work is to run everywhere in the world, and they have basically run all over the great rivers and mountains of the motherland over the years. After coming to the Ming Dynasty, they were also assigned jobs, Ling Ning was running around every day to assist the various professional groups to do physical work, while his wife was arranged with other girls to the logistics team to work hard every day to solve the food of all the crossing people.
The grain carried on the ship was basically exhausted, and everyone began to eat the local grain seized from the county warehouse. Rice is produced in Hainan, and the traversers were lucky enough to arrive just after the harvest season, and directly took the year's reserves of Lingao County for themselves. There was a lot of unhulled rice piled up in the storeroom, as well as a lot of other miscellaneous grains.
On the ship, they found a rice hulling machine, the product of Tieling, Liaoning, which uses roller rubber rollers to huddle, and the processing capacity can reach 500 kilograms per hour, and it also comes with a rice polishing function - in addition to spare parts, there are also several bags of whitening agent found at random, of course, there is no need to whiten what you eat at home.
By adjusting the spacing of rubber rollers, it can also process other miscellaneous grains, and even peanuts can be shelled at most. Let Wang Ruobin's small machine tool temporarily stand aside, use a wind turbine to drive the hulling machine to work for half a day, and get enough rice to eat for a month.
The problem of staple food is solved, but the non-staple food is a nerve-wracking problem. The vegetables and meat stored on the ship had long been eaten, and there were only a few large vats of pickled radish strips and old pickles, which were obviously not satisfactory to the people of the city. Everyone brings some travel food when they go out to travel, but this amount is only enough for a week at most, and Xie Xi and others have repeatedly asked everyone not to use modern food that can be stored for a long time, in case of emergency in the future.
So for a while, the recipes of the cross-cutting crowd were rather miserable - pickled radish strips in the morning, radish strips and pickles at noon, slightly better in the evening, with more pieces of tofu, and in the middle of the night if you were hungry, you could only chew dry pot. Unless someone can occasionally hunt game or catch fish, everyone can see some meat in their rice bowls.
In fact, the desolation of Hainan Island also has the advantage of being desolate - not far from the city is the primeval jungle, and all kinds of wildlife are quite abundant. If the traversers were willing to devote manpower to hunting and fishing, their gains would certainly not be small.
If they hadn't been able to take the warehouse in Lingao County in the first place, the traversers would probably have to allocate a large part of their manpower to do these tasks. But now, since there is no danger of starvation, Xie Xi and the others, who are in charge of dispatching manpower, have not focused on this aspect, and they almost ate too much. After waiting for Wunanhai's farm to take shape, it should be possible to solve the problem of non-staple food.
But one day, everyone suddenly found that there was an extra layer of oil stars in the vegetable bucket, and there were several large pieces of meat, which were pork! It's a little bit of a bowl for everyone, but it's exciting enough.
"Has a wild boar with no eyes fallen into a trap?"
Although I don't have time to hunt specially, it's okay to dig some traps outside the city and lay some traps, Scout Beiwei has made a lot of such traps before, but the harvest is not good. After all, it's too close to the city and there are no big prey. Back and forth, foxes, weasels and other little guys chewed bait, and several times they caught the local residents. Can you hunt a wild boar today?
"It's not hunted, it's bought, bought pork!"
Ling Ning's wife Zhuo Ying triumphantly reported to everyone, there happened to be a market today, she and a few other girls couldn't help but go out shopping, because they were all girls, the locals finally ran away without seeing them, and actually let them successfully buy a mouthful of pigs from the local residents.
"Are they willing to do business with us? How do you negotiate a price? ”
Xie Xi is very concerned about this news, being able to do business means being able to communicate, as long as he can communicate, he believes that with his ability to fool customers for so many years, he should be able to establish a relatively smooth communication channel.
"There was no bargaining, we gave the pig a piece of silver, and he let us carry the pig away. A whole pig! ”
A girl named Zhu Yueyue next to her said with a smile, but the faces of Pang Yu and the others became a little strange:
"A whole ingot? Are those silver ingots found in the warehouse? ”
"yes, didn't you say copper coins aren't allowed?"
After capturing Lingao City, a lot of copper coins and silver taels were seized from the county government and other places, and the copper was to be used to cast bullet shells, which belonged to strategic materials, but the silver was useless for the time being, and no one took it seriously when it was thrown in the warehouse.
However, when they heard that these losers actually took a whole large ingot of silver to buy pigs, the men were still dumbfounded.
"You stupid girl, that silver ingot is fifty taels of Kuping silver, and you slaughtered people as pigs!"
Ling Ning scolded his wife, Zhuo Ying sighed, and asked innocently:
"Expensive? I can't understand what they say, it's not good to bargain......"
"Know how the pig died? Stupid! What is the concept of fifty taels of silver in the Ming Dynasty......"
Ling Ning jumped up angrily to teach his wife a lesson, and the others next to him hurriedly persuaded him:
"Forget it, it's useless to throw this silver in the warehouse anyway."
"Yes, if you suffer a little loss, you will suffer a little loss, let the locals think that we are stupid and have a lot of money, and they will come quickly. Do you take advantage of a small loss? ”
Pang Yu thought about it far-reachingly, and after some discussion, everyone decided to let the girl come forward to purchase items in the future. However, in order to prevent these eldest ladies from shopping indiscriminately or being treated as Kai Zizai again, and also for the sake of safety, a man with a gun should be arranged.
Ling Ning was honored to get the job, so he now had to go shopping with his wife often, and then naturally became a coolie - and a group of women's coolies......
Fortunately, the bazaar was not available every day, and it was not possible to buy things every time, otherwise Ling Ning would have gone crazy.
After more than ten days of dispatch, Beiwei and Wang Haiyang finally returned safely to Lingao County. Originally, they had planned in advance that it would take only five days, but after the actual departure, they encountered some unexpected circumstances and delayed some time. Fortunately, they were able to use the walkie-talkie one after another, so they didn't worry too much.
However, the operation itself was very smooth, and Beiwei refused to say more details, but told everyone that they could rest assured that there was no commander in Danzhouwei, not even a middle-level officer.
"The range of a bullet reloaded with black powder is more than two hundred meters, and the reticle of the ruler will not match anything. In addition, there is too much residue, and it is necessary to clean the chamber once you use it. ”
When Beiwei returned the rifle to Tang Jian, he talked more about the issue of firearms, and Tang Jian nodded in agreement:
"That's right, so now XCMG is working on fire cotton, and it will be much better to use nitrocellulose as a primer in the future."
Several soldiers got together and talked for a few minutes, and outside, Ye Mengyan and a group of other little guys crowded at the door one by one, wanting to come in but not daring to come in. Beiwei noticed them, and a suspicious look appeared on his face - he set off for dry and wet work after the meeting that day, and he didn't know about Tang Jian's "training class".
"Oh, I'm teaching them martial arts, and they'd like to ask you to help teach them too."
These little guys have suffered a lot in the past few days, but they have practiced some of them, at least the ribs on their bodies are invisible, and they are quite energetic in their actions. At this time, they are eager to try, and they are full of energy.
Beiwei didn't shirk it, and took the people directly to the courtyard, poked their fingers one by one, and then heard the young men groaning, and the former scout shook his head very boringly:
"The ligaments haven't been opened, the movements can't be opened, what kind of fighting can I learn."
kicked the little guys down one by one, a hundred push-ups per person, and dropped another sentence:
"Want to learn Scout? It wasn't easy. Sit-ups, push-ups, lower back leg press and pull ligaments, first train your physical fitness, and then talk about the next step after a week when the ligaments are opened, otherwise get out. ”
After saying that, the cool brother turned around and left, leaving Tang Jian with a straight face and continued to supervise the training of the little guys, and there was a sigh and panting on the training ground.
Pang Yu has finally been able to spare time to do his own work recently. He has been very busy since he arrived here, but mainly to use his logical ability to coordinate and arrange human resources, and there are not many things that really use the profession of architect. Now that the most critical moment has passed, many things have been taken over by more professional personnel. Pang Yu was finally able to calm down and consider how much his profession could help the group.
Building a house is absolutely necessary for the current Lingao county, and there are only a few houses in this county that can be lived in - of course, according to the eyes of modern people. Even the warehouse they now occupy has nearly half of the roof leaking. Many of the walls are still made of mud masonry, and over time they have weathered into countless small holes.
The industrial team should have a special workshop, the chemistry team should be equipped with a separate room, and the girls in charge of cooking in the logistics team should not always cook in that dark and dark grass hut. Not to mention the large oil smoke, it is also easy to cause fire.
In addition, everyone can't always squat in the yard when eating, like a group of migrant workers, and the farm in Wunanhai outside the city is also about to open, and a place to cultivate seeds is needed. The geological exploration team led by Huang Jiancheng is also about to return, and the iron-making blast furnace must also be on the agenda at that time...... All of this requires the involvement of architects. There are so many houses to add.
Fortunately, overall management is the strength of architects, and the right is to make a complete set of planning and design. Pang Yu calmly listed the projects to be built on paper, and then categorized them according to their importance and urgency, so as to decide the priority.
In the end, it was decided to build some living buildings first. Because the structure of living buildings is relatively simple, the requirements for building technology are not high, and the effect is immediate. Of course, this is also related to Pang Yu's own personality - in essence, he is still a petty bourgeoisie who is more greedy for enjoyment.
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