CHAPTER XXVII
A large group of bare-bottomed old men were playing in the bathhouse, and the steaming heat wafted out of the window. In North Korea, there was no chance to take a hot bath. North Korea doesn't have such a big hot tub!
The bathhouse is built a little below the hot pool, and the hot spring water flows down the pipe into the large pool. Hundreds of old men soaked in the pool, and all kinds of obscene topics were overwhelming.
Li Xiao had to blast Xiaobai out, and in just a short period of time, he learned several swearing. You can't learn well with these bastards!
It's so fucking comfortable to soak in the pool. I feel that the skin all over my body is itchy, and after soaking it hard, everyone can almost rub off a pound of mud.
You can't soak anymore, the pool needs to be changed, otherwise it will become a muddy soup.
Li Xiao remembered the days of the recruit company, the first time the recruit company took a bath. It's also the first time I've seen a female soldier outside the bathhouse, uh......! To be exact, it was the first time he saw a female soldier, and Li Xiao's eyes were not enough. The female soldier who had just taken a shower had a flushed pink face. It is at the age of seventeen or eighteen years old, and the temptation to subdue is absolutely deadly.
The result of the voyeurism was a slap in the face by the squad leader and a roar: "That's your old squad leader!" ”
Because of this voyeurism, Li Xiao was ridiculed for a long time.
It was also like now, more than two hundred bare-ass lads were crammed into a huge pool. I don't know how many people have been washed by that water, and they are almost muddy. There were three or four people squeezed under a lotus canopy, and they had to watch out for the broken tiles under their feet. One of his comrades-in-arms accidentally cut his foot by a broken tile. Be the first wounded soldier of their class of recruits!
At that time, I was quite envious of that kid, after all, I didn't need to train if I injured my foot, and I didn't have to kick the right step. When you run five kilometers, you can also rest in the house in the open.
Whenever he was tired and tired, Li Xiao felt that it was not he who was the one who tied his feet to the hair.
The scene in front of me is alive and well, but it's just that there are bare-assed old men here. Everyone has a head of long hair, and when he looks at the back, Li Xiao has a feeling of looking at a woman.
It's not the first time that the idea of shaving his head has appeared, but Li Xiao really doesn't dare. In these years, the parents who pay attention to the hair and skin of the body, except for the monks, no one shaves their heads. Regardless of whether it is male or female, as long as there is nothing wrong with it, it is a head of long hair.
Li Xiao touched the long hair on his head, and he felt awkward.
Brainstorm, take care of it!
must go out, Xiaoyu has run in eight times with Li Hao.
Sit on a chair and let Xiaoyu comb her hair. The little girl's green little hands passed through the thick hair. Then use a wooden comb to comb meticulously!
didn't comb it twice, and the wooden comb was thrown to Li Hao. Stick to Li Xiao's arms and let the eldest brother tell him a story.
"Big brother is going to participate in the celebration banquet in a while, and I'll tell you in the evening." Any strong heart will be defeated by a little doll carved in pink. Li Xiao reluctantly asked his sister for leave, and he couldn't help but attend the celebration banquet for a while.
"Not good! Big brother, tell a story! Tell a story! "Xiaoyu is tired of being coquettish in Li Xiao's arms, and she is unrelenting.
"At night, tell Xiaoyu at night. Big brother is going to attend the celebration banquet in a while! ”
"You drank too much at night and slept like a dead pig."
"No, no! Come back and tell Xiaoyu two stories, let's tell the story of Agarwood splitting the mountain to save her mother! ”
"I still want to listen to Sun Monkey fight the Bull Demon King!"
"Good, good! Let's talk about Sun Monkey fighting the Bull Demon King. ”
After getting his sister, Li Hao also combed his hair. The brothers went to the big restaurant together!
The food on Phi Dao can be regarded as the best in these years, with 16 dishes for eight people at one table. More than 200 tables are lined up, and there are many water and land on the table. Leaning on the island, it would be too bad if you couldn't eat seafood. Each table has a two-foot-long mackerel with a huge pig's hind elbow. This time, he brought back a lot of frozen pork from North Korea, and Li Xiao prepared to eliminate it all for this dinner.
The fat but not greasy pork head meat mixed with cucumbers, and the fat and thin braised pork have an appetite when they look at it. The boneless grilled chicken is crispy and sweet, the rarest thing is. There are vegetables to eat on Phi Island, which is a great blessing for northerners who can only eat dried vegetables or turnips and cabbage in winter.
Because Phi Dao produces glass, greenhouse vegetables are popular. The water is smart and dipped in pickles, and the emperor Lao Tzu may not be able to afford to invite more than 200 tables this year.
The liquor is a sorghum wine produced by Phi Dao, nicknamed "Burning Knife". After drinking in his mouth, he stabbed it along his throat like a red-hot knife. That taste, as long as you drink a sip, you will never forget it in your life.
Seeing Li Xiao walking in with a few of his brothers, there were more than a thousand and hundreds of people in the huge restaurant who couldn't even hear a cough.
"Stand up!" Ao Canghai shouted, and everyone, including Man Gui, stood up.
"Sit down!" Li Xiao walked to the front of the stage and pressed down with both hands. Everyone sat down!
"Don't say more, it's about to be the New Year. Everyone also saved a lot of military salaries, and everyone worked hard for a year at the end of the year. I discussed it with Ao Ye Manye, and each of them gave a reward of ten taels of silver. If you have fought in North Korea this time, add another five taels.
It's the New Year, and I know that the big guys want to go home. But the island can't be left unguarded, no! This year, three out of ten people can go home and the other half stay on the island. There is a boat that will take everyone back to their hometown, but they all remember. The holiday is only twenty days, after you return. The other 30 percent will be able to go home. And so on! Everyone takes turns going home!
As for who goes home first, who goes home later. The company commanders of each company went back to organize it, and everyone drew lots. Go home first or go home later, it's up to your luck. If there is injustice, you can come to me Li Xiao, and I will administer justice to everyone.
Today is our celebration banquet, and the big guy will rest when he gets drunk. But don't delay tomorrow's morning exercises, and start handing out silver tomorrow morning. Whoever can't get out tomorrow morning will be at their own risk if they delay receiving the silver! ”
"Buzz!" The following immediately fried the pot, and there was no cost at all on Phi Island. A month's military salary can basically be accumulated! I didn't expect that there would be a reward at the end of the year, which added up to seventy or eighty taels of silver.
If you farm in your hometown, you will have an income of ten taels of silver a year. That's a well-off life! Everyone was excited, and many of them were thinking about drawing a good lot. Go home early to show off, and some plan to buy more land at home. There are even more people who want to go home and marry their daughters-in-law, and one by one they have their own plans, and they have a warm exchange below.
Today is a dinner, and Ao Canghai is no longer about discipline. Everyone is thinking about making money, and they all have a temperance in drinking. No one wants to have a morning exercise tomorrow!
Man Gui was adjacent to Li Xiao and saw Li Xiao sitting over. Suddenly, he said: "Big boss! Brothers, I have a request, I don't know what you mean. ”
"Oh! Something to say! Li Xiao knew that the brothers Man Gui was talking about were the Mongols under him.
"The brothers want to take the family over, you know that Xuanfu is poor. The brothers don't want their families to live that kind of hard life! ”
"Yes, yes, but you said our island is so big. You can't herd sheep if you want to! ”
"Herding sheep? Who wants to come here to herd sheep! It's better to go into the factory and do something than to farm in your hometown. The days of Xuanfu were too hard. ”
"Oh, let me think about it." Li Xiao said thoughtfully.
Man Gui looked at Li Xiao with a look of hope!
Ao Canghai looked indifferent, anyway, it didn't involve him. This product has long been cultivated to the realm of a lonely family where one person is full and the whole family is not hungry.
"Brother Man, I really won't tell you. Our island is so big, and the workers in various factories are also recruited craftsmen. It's all crafted, and it's not appropriate to insert it. ”
Man Gui's face changed, he didn't expect Li Xiao to be so faceless.
"And! Even if I agree, you know how many people can live on the island. Your brothers can only bring their immediate family members with you. The rest of the siblings, or other relatives, have to suffer in their hometown! The palms and backs of the hands were full of flesh, breaking the bones and connecting the tendons. Who do you say you want to take with you, and who you don't want to take with you? ”
"Uh......! That's just as well! So what kind of charter are you! ”
"What charter? Master Man, do you remember Changxing Island where we met with Yuan Chonghuan? ”
"Remember! What's wrong? ”
"Changxing Island is big enough, and I want to station some people on it. Just tell you about this, it is better to let your people move to Changxing Island, where the place is suitable for cavalry training. Second, you also helped me watch those people in Lushun. The fifth master said that those people in Lushun hooked up with the Tartars.
The most important thing is that Changxing Island is so big. You have a hundred brothers, even if one person brings a hundred people. I can live in it!
In the first year, I took care of all the grain, and in the spring, I sent people to build a house, and the cement pipe was enough for you. You can herd sheep on the island, or you can fish. There is fresh water on the island, and you can farm whatever you want. What do you think? ”
Li Xiao had long thought about developing Changxing Island, but unfortunately there were not so many people. Changxing Island is 30 kilometers long from east to west, 11 kilometers wide from north to south, and has a coastline of nearly 100 kilometers around the island. Such a large island, if Li Xiao does not seize it, it will not be long before it is occupied by the Tartars.
With such a large island, even if Mangui's brothers bring in 20,000 people, they will definitely be able to live in it.
"That's true!" Man Gui's eyes lit up. To be honest, the work in the factory is all craft work. I can't do anything, I can't do it!
"Naturally, take it seriously, when did I miss what Li Xiao said. But let's say well, in the first year, I will use all the food, and the second year will be halved. In the third year, it will be halved, and from the fourth year, I will not care. ”
"Huh! If you can't support yourself for four years, you deserve to starve to death! Here, a toast! ”