Wen Cong, a contract worker of the Sizhou Branch of the "Northern Grain Bank" of the "Rishengchang" Chamber of Commerce, a native of Sizhou, although he was born in Beiqu County, northwest of Hexi (that is, the north of Ji County, Linfen City, Shanxi Province), is quite a distance from the place where he now works, which is Aocang in the northeast of Xingyang County, Henan County—that short distance can even exceed the distance required to reach Bingshuo Erzhou from his hometown, but he is still a native of Sizhou with a household registration book, and with such an identity, Became a member of the Northern Grain Bank, and after a few years of hard work, he has now become a small leader, with more than a dozen laborers of the same identity as him, responsible for the loading and unloading of grain and related materials.

If the situation is urgent, I will occasionally make a cameo appearance as a guard, but because I am not a professional, I am cautious every time I am along the way, and every time I go down, I will say loudly to the people around me: "I will never do this kind of work again next time, this trip, half my life is almost scared, and my father is still waiting for me to send him to the end." ”

Of course, when it comes to the next time, it will still be put into battle again because of the high reward given by the comptoir.

Therefore, he was often teased by the workers around him because of this incident, and every time he was haha, he repeatedly said loudly, "I will not go again next time, I must stomp my feet again, I must stomp my feet, and you must stop me" so that no one will really take it seriously, and in the end, the little boss basically took out a few big dollars to invite everyone to drink a bowl of hot wine.

Because of Wen Cong's boldness and hospitality, although there are such and such small flaws, it has not affected his good popularity among the big guys, and the team he leads is also the team that completes the work the fastest and has the best quality, and can often get the praise and reward of the branch manager.

Probably because of this. He has the money to invite everyone to drink a lot.

Unconsciously, with the evening breeze blowing, the day's work came to an end, although everyone was not idle, but the momentum of the work was obviously slackened a lot, even a foreman like Wen Cong. Instead of urging his men, he began to joke with them or discuss where to go tonight.

This time, along with the lunch break, is known as the most active time on the construction site.

After that, it's time to pack up and get ready for work.

They can walk away at some point, but some people are not so lucky.

There are also some people who clearly belong to the accent of the Central Plains region are working overtime - loading all kinds of materials on various vehicles, and then even if the sky is already dark, there is still no way to stop them from driving all kinds of vehicles, including but not limited to all kinds of carts driven by livestock, and along the chasm that has not been completely cut off, of course, the Han people prefer to call it the Wolf Tangqu all the way to the southeast.

It has to be said that the large amount of sediment brought by the Yellow River from the Loess Plateau is simply a super artifact, which has passed through the Warring States and Qin and Han dynasties for hundreds of years. If it weren't for the fact that Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty had made great efforts to renovate the Yellow River and the river channel of Bianshui, this ancient canal that sounded familiar and incomparably tall would have been completely silted up by yellow sand and loess.

I really want to @ the sand mining boats on the Yellow River, although the private sand mining boats will affect the safety of the river in the eyes, after all, their unplanned excavation behavior will make a huge difference in the depth of the river, which may cause all kinds of undercurrents in the river, but for those who are eager to transport the materials here to their destination. Faster speed is obviously much more important than paying for some ship losses and casualties. And perhaps more importantly, they don't have to pay greedy businessmen to hire someone as obviously "uncle" as Wen Cong. Workers from areas under the jurisdiction of the state army.

In fact, this statement is somewhat excessive, after all, during the working time, those workers from the north are still very conscientious and responsible, and there is no laziness and slippery situation, and even because of the emphasis on division of labor and cooperation, their work efficiency per unit time is much higher than that of their counterparts from the south.

It's just that on one side is stuck ten hours and five hours of work. At noon, they can also get an hour's lunch break, which is half an hour, for lunch and rest, while on the other side, they even have to work sixteen or seventeen hours a day under the supervision of the overseer, so even if those workers from the south are a little lazy when working, under the accumulation of a lot of time, their work effect is naturally more beautiful. It also naturally makes those who only look at the results and not the process secretly slander themselves.

It's a pity that they can only dare to be angry and dare not speak out about such a situation, first, the wages of those northern workers are the responsibility of those northern merchants, and they naturally have no right to speak if they don't pay. In the second place, those southerners really can't squeeze out more strong labor to come here to carry out this kind of heavy labor - they need to leave enough manpower in the farmland to ensure that they will not have a food shortage in the second year and then be threatened by the merchants of various places and even the powerful families under their control, and the battlefield in front also needs a large number of cannon fodder to fill the gap left by the large number of new recruits who died in battle, so that the strong labor here will naturally be greatly affected.

If it weren't for the fact that the businessmen who had merged with the state thought that they could make a good profit by coming here, so they chose to send labor to help in the spirit of "sustainable development", otherwise how could the businessmen who are naturally profit-seeking be so kind.

But even so, those foremen were instructed before they came here that they should not be as active as they were when they were working in the areas under the jurisdiction of the Bingzhou Army, and although they could not blatantly slack off, they would never take the initiative to ask for work when they should rest.

Otherwise, would you let that bastard black-skinned dwarf get some more money?

You must know that the land they are working on now was still under the jurisdiction of the Merge State Army a year ago, and the various businesses also attach great importance to this place, and many families have also invested a lot of energy and financial resources, but because of the game at the top, although it cannot be said to be completely lost, it is definitely a heavy loss, after all, even if a certain black-skinned dwarf is very interested in many policies of the Merge State, he will not be so "generous" to the businessman. Not to mention anything else, just the various taxes can make the businessman sentence a certain black-skinned dwarf to death in his heart, not to mention letting these people take the initiative to pay for their subordinates to work hard.

After all, if you work for other people's and state armies, as long as you do well enough, you will have the opportunity to participate in the post-war spoils of war spoils. Even if those high-ranking generals often have their own ways, the spoils of war in the hands of a large number of ordinary soldiers are still a huge market, and the profit margins in them are even more amazing.

Well, of course, none of this has anything to do with Wen Cong, who was already sitting in a small restaurant near Aocang.

Of course, it is not quite correct to say that it has nothing to do with it, after all, the reason why Wen Cong was able to come here to invite everyone to drink was entirely because the boss had a good business, otherwise it would be impossible to take out those small sums of money to motivate employees' enthusiasm for work.

By the way, due to the arrival of a large number of caravans, the tertiary industry in the vicinity of Aocang has flourished - when the state army was under the jurisdiction of the state army, Aocang, which mainly radiates to the Central Plains, is not as prosperous as it is now. For those who are more affluent, there are always a lot of services that are of good quality and most importantly cheaper than those of the state.

The business of the restaurant is still good.

Although there are a lot of people, there is no surprising southern and northern accent of Tiannan and Haibei, although the tone of most people's speech is slightly different, but on the whole it is basically the same, those are all dialects from the Bingshuo area, because Li Shushi's Bingzhou army gradually became the master of a large area. The dialect of the people of the state also seems to be starting to become popular.

Of course, the most important thing is. Because Li Shushi "invented" the pinyin of the pronunciation, which made it easier to popularize the accent of Bingzhou, although the people in other regions still like their own dialects, but the unified accent can still bring great convenience to various production and circulation activities, although it has not been fully promoted and covered because of the relationship of time, but I believe that as long as the Bingzhou army can maintain the current pace of progress. Then one day, Li Shushi will be able to accomplish that great feat.

Speaking of which, in ancient China, it seems that no dynasty was able to complete the unification of pronunciation, even if it was not for the first emperor to unify the characters, and the three-dimensional square characters belong to the characters that are more difficult to change due to the different pronunciations, so that the rabbits of the flower growers will not be like the children of a super-heavy Europa goddess. Because of the difference in dialects, they had to turn into one pocket button after another, even if they were barely connected by threads, they were more like grasshoppers after autumn that were worn up - when a grasshopper couldn't get up, the whole string of grasshoppers was scrapped together.

Even the other grasshoppers are very industrious.

Well, of course, the above is just a joke, in fact, grasshoppers are really just infidels.

Therefore, many people joke that as long as they encounter a large group of people with similar accents in one place, then this group of people must be from the area under the jurisdiction of the state army.

Of course, this is just a joke, after all, don't other regions allow the emergence of "big waves" of people?

Even the fascists would not devote their limited energies to such a boring business.

The restaurant became lively because of the influx of guests after work, the sound of drinking and punching, the sound of wine bowls colliding with various materials, and the loud sound of all kinds of bragging, but for this qiē both the owner and the guests who came here to consume have become accustomed to it, or they originally liked this atmosphere very much, those who are not suitable for the environment here have to come here because of entertainment, most of them will choose some relatively remote small wine shops, order a bowl of hot wine syrup, Slowly taste the slightly bitter or sour turbid wine under the dim light, and experience the loneliness of life.

However, in such a noisy environment, there is one place that seems to be out of place with the atmosphere, and if it was not noticeable when there were few people before, it is now like a lighthouse in the ocean that points the way for ships, exuding a sense of existence that cannot be ignored.

In fact, even if it is a restaurant surrounded by all kinds of noisy noise, there is actually a private room open to VIPs, even if the sound insulation effect is not good, but for people who like to be quiet, it is enough to talk about. And the people at a table like this drank quietly, and occasionally whispered even if they talked - at least for the people around them, it was a bit difficult to tell what they were saying in the cacophony of voices.

Of course, these workers were very curious about the strange people mixed up among them. But he won't provoke for no reason, after all, several of those people have a fierce and vicious feeling when they look at their faces, and the little man with fine skin and tender flesh looks like the underage son of the big aristocratic family.

To sum up, it's completely the rhythm of people with status going out to play with all kinds of family bodyguards or something, for such people with status, let alone them here, even if it is an area that is at war, as long as they don't encounter rebels, they can go.

So even after pouring yellow soup and horse urine. They're also distancing themselves from the Sven guys.

At most, it's just a few more glances at each other, and then use the strength of the wine to satirize the bastards who make the atmosphere a little weird.

It's a pity that such ridicule is also not allowed to be said openly, because some people have noticed that the group of people put swords and other things in a slightly conspicuous position next to them, which obviously means that those guys are indeed not good at stubble, they are definitely a group of troublesome people, even if they are all from the territory under the jurisdiction of the state army, but they do not think that they are capable of provoking such people.

Of course, if the other party takes the initiative to cause trouble, these northerners will not be afraid. Those southerners in the Central Plains have been repaired several times by them openly and secretly because of provocations, don't look at it as just a group of stinky workers who have made great efforts, but among their foremen there are four veterans who have retired from the state army, even if they are already in their forties, but their ability has not fallen behind at all.

Naturally, when they were drinking, they would often talk about their past "great achievements", but the one who did the best in the army among them was only the one who was long, so they talked about great achievements. It's probably just bragging about it, or transplanting all the deeds of the robes that are really good on the battlefield to himself.

This approach is the essence of grafting. Presumably, if you can be reincarnated in the era before Li Shushi's crossing, you will definitely be able to become a good online writer, and at worst, you will also be a fan author who can get thousands of recommendations every week.

Because I still have to work tomorrow, it is impossible for such an indulgent time to last too late, not to mention that even if Aocang is not a county seat, it is a military powerhouse. There were still patrolling troops nearby, so it was impossible for the soldiers to go to bed while the workers were having fun, and if something like that did happen, it wouldn't be long before there would have been a mutiny.

Of course, another reason is probably that the soldiers guarding this place are basically southerners from the Central Plains, and their own villagers are still working overtime and working day and night. But these northerners actually spend all their time drinking here, it is really unbearable for uncles and aunts, although their chief may have spent a lot of time in the Bingshuo area.

No matter what it is, rest is also a good thing for the body when it's time to rest, allowing the body's organs to complete a series of rest and self-repair in a quiet environment, which is simply the most affordable health care that does not require taking medicine, and those who are reversed day and night, sleep when the yang energy is full, and stay up late to work overtime when the yin energy rises, even if they do not die of overwork, they will probably be riddled with diseases, so now in addition to the programming ape, online writers have also become a high-risk group.

Although the liver explosion is too ruthless, it can make the masses like it, but it is really necessary to be careful to explode the liver.

As a result, the originally noisy environment gradually subsided, as if the tide of the sea rose and flowed, but the speed of the change in the middle was obviously faster than the ebb and flow of the tide, and those who were not yet fully drunk helped those who had become drunk cats - even if it was not a high-concentration liquor, but there were always some reckless guys who poured white water, or talented guys who fell directly after just a few mouthfuls of cat urine, and finally had to ask those workers who were used to it.

But seriously, in fact, drinking too much vinegar in this era will be intoxicating, and because the fermentation is sufficient, there is no need to worry about problems such as excessive formaldehyde, and for some people who love this, it is a supreme product.

Yes, you don't have to look elsewhere, in addition to being famous for its wines, the old vinegar is also famous, although Li Shushi is not the kind of "control" family who can't do without vinegar, but Su Xiaololi's cold dishes are basically indispensable to this seasoning, and fanatics like Zhang Yang and Wang Ling can't do without it.

So it's an exaggeration to say that you're drunk, but it's not uncommon to feel like it's on top.

However, when leaving, Wen Cong noticed that the guests at the table who seemed to be a little special did not seem to have any intention of leaving, and the shopkeeper who was packing up and preparing to close did not seem to urge them.

What the hell are these guys all about?

It's just that Wen Cong, who is more sure of the other party's extraordinary, is not in the mood to get to the bottom of this kind of thing.

This is an era of troubles, so why bother with one thing less.

Naturally, he couldn't hear the comments from that table, "It's really a calm place without the slightest sense of battlefield."

And it wasn't until everyone was gone that the guests at the table seemed to wake up and seemed ready to leave.

They didn't settle the bill, but it seemed that neither the shopkeeper nor the shopkeepers had any intention of asking them for money, but silently cleaned up the leftovers and set up the somewhat messy tables and mats.

The night in Aocang finally became a little quiet. (To be continued......)