"Li Tangsheng, are we useful like this?"

Asterna and the other guards waited boredly at the gate of the garrison mansion, looking at the ten standing logs, each weighing at least two hundred pounds, and the distance from here to the city gate was at least three miles, and it was not easy to complete this challenge.

More importantly, can the local people trust them?

Li Lin smiled confidently and said: "There must be a brave man under the so-called heavy reward!" Just wait and see. ”

Asterna and the other guards looked at each other, then shrugged their shoulders in unison and continued to wait.

The morning passed like this, and soon, at noon, the sun was rare today, the snow on the road showed signs of melting, and the air became colder and colder.

But at that moment, a man suddenly walked at the end of the empty street.

Li Lin smiled slightly when he saw it, and immediately said yes!

Asterna and the others, who had been waiting for a long time, also showed excited looks, and soon the man came to the gate of the garrison mansion, looking at Asterna and the others, their expressions were obviously afraid.

Li Lin smiled when he saw it, took the initiative to step forward, and said with a smile: "Are you here to move standing trees?" ”

When the man saw that a young man from the Song Dynasty came to ask him, his expression suddenly relaxed a lot, and he immediately nodded, and then asked cautiously: "Is it really possible to give 100 catties of grain if you send a standing log to the city?" ”

Li Lin nodded: "Really!" ”

"Don't lie to me?"

"Don't lie!"

The thin man took a deep breath, then nodded heavily: "Okay! I'm going to challenge, any way is right? ”

Li Lin said with a smile: "As long as you are alone, no matter what method you use, as long as you use it at the city gate, I will immediately give you a hundred catties of food!" ”

Li Lin was full of confidence in what he said, and after they sent a signal the day before yesterday, the nearest Feiyun Commercial Bank sent the activity funds allocated to them by the Yamen of Yunzhou County.

He and Zhang Zheng were each given 50,000 taels of silver or 50,000 taels of grain according to ten wen a catty, and the rest of the people only had 1,000 taels of silver or the same ten wen a catty of grain.

So now he has a lot of food in his hands, and he has plenty of confidence!

However, the food was not sent to the city for the time being, and it was still placed outside the city, and it will not be delivered until the right time.

After listening to the rules, the thin man walked to the ten standing logs and looked at them, and finally chose the one that seemed to be the lightest, wrapped his hands around it, and put it on his shoulders with a single force, and walked towards the city gate!

Don't look at this man's thinness, but he does have a lot of strength, but his steps are a little frivolous, I don't know if it's because of hunger.

Li Lin immediately signaled. Immediately the Tatars followed, monitoring all the way.

Soon, the young man was carrying a log into the street, and the movement outside soon attracted the attention of the others.

Many people gathered to the window and looked at the figure of the thin man carrying the standing log towards the city gate, and the discussion began.

"His father, this person is really new to what those Hu people said, go to fight wood, you see that Hu people are still following him, will it be that if he doesn't finish it, or when it's almost finished, the Hu people will kill him?"

"How do I know this, let's see first!"

"I hope it's true, there is only a little food left at home, alas......"

"Alas!"

……

On the street, the thin man carried more than 200 catties of standing wood and walked two miles, and when he was only one mile away from the city gate, he finally lost his physical strength, and dropped the wood on the ground, looked at the standing wood that rolled to the side, and turned his head to look at the Hu people who had been following him, and the thin man swallowed his saliva and took a step back.

The guard was very surprised when he saw him, and wondered, "Why are you looking at me?" Don't you continue to challenge? Or are you going to give up? ”

The thin man was stunned when he heard this, and said in surprise: "You don't kill me?" Can I continue to challenge? ”

The guard was suddenly even more confused, and wondered: "Why did I kill you?" I'm here to make sure that you really got the wood to the city, why do you want to kill you, and our Li Tangsheng has already said that no matter what method you use, just get the wood to the city.

If you can't carry it, you can drag it, as long as you get to the city, there is no time limit, there is no limit to whether you can stop. ”

The thin man and the peeking people around him watched in amazement as the guard's mouth opened wide, unable to believe that what was in his mouth was true.

But after only a while, seeing that he really had no intention of killing himself, the thin man thought of a hundred catties of grain, gritted his teeth, ran over and grabbed the end of the standing wood and went towards the city gate.

The guards didn't stop him from continuing the challenge, and followed him all the way.

Finally, half an hour later, with a hard pull, the thin man finally dragged the standing wood to the city gate, and he collapsed directly out of strength, lying on the ground gasping for breath.

And the guard, after confirming that the wood had been dragged to the city gate, immediately called an eagle with a whistle and passed the news back.

Then he said to the thin child who was still panting: "Congratulations on completing the challenge, your food will be there in a while!" ”

As soon as the man heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up.

After a while, the eagle returned, and the guard pulled out a flare gun from his body, and after a sharp whistling, the sky exploded.

After a while, the sound of horses' hooves sounded, and a horseman came from outside the city, came to the gate of the city, dropped a bag of grain, and turned away.

And the moment he saw this bag of grain, the thin man's eyes were shining!

The guard picked up the food and walked up to the man who had already made it and asked, "Can you still carry it?" Do you want me to help you fight back with a hundred pounds? ”

The thin man shook his head again and again: "No, no, I can carry it, I can carry it!" ”

Immediately, he took the food with excitement on his face, threw it on his shoulder, lost the panting just now, and ran towards the city with the food on his face full of smiles.

That action didn't look like he had just been tired, and the corners of the guard's mouth twitched.

And the figure of this thin man running back carrying food was also seen by people all the way.

"He's carrying grain, right?"

"Did he really get food? Those people aren't liars? ”

"Could it be that it is not food at all, but soil, and it is deliberately deceiving us?"

"! Lao Tzu has planted the land all his life, what is in that bag? Just by looking at the shape on the outside, I could tell that it was definitely food! ”

"Really!"

"Pretty really!"

There was a lot of talking.

And when the thin man returned to the gathering place with the food, everyone in the gathering place was also stunned.

Hurriedly opened the corner of the bag and saw that it was food!

The yellowish flour appeared in front of everyone.

"It's noodles! It's the best white flour!! It's true! Really! ”

Looking at this bag of flour, everyone couldn't help but swallow their saliva.

And the thin man was the most direct, and he directly started looking for a guy to make noodles.

"Let's get up, let me make some gnocchi soup first!"

Everyone was suddenly awakened and hurriedly helped!

That night, everyone in the gathering place ate a large bowl full of gnocchi soup.

The stomach that hasn't eaten food for a long time is warm, not to mention how comfortable it is in these cold winter days.

And everyone has an idea in their hearts.

There are only ten pieces of wood, no! Now there are only nine of them!

……

(End of chapter)