Chapter 4: Coolies in a gravel yard
Early the next morning, a young monk in blue woke up Xie Ling, who was still asleep, and said that he would take him to the 'smelting room', the trial site he had been assigned.
Xie Ling perked up and followed behind the self-proclaimed Senior Brother Mo and headed southwest.
"Do you see that tall chimney?" Senior Brother Mo pointed to a huge chimney that reached into the sky not far away.
Xie Ling nodded, how could such a big target not be visible, he had noticed it when he entered the Refining Academy yesterday.
"That's where the 'smelter' is. Senior Brother Mo said.
The two walked as they talked, and after a while, they arrived in front of a square courtyard.
"Is Uncle Qiu here? I've brought a new trial student. Senior Brother Mo said to a disciple of the Refining Academy who was on duty outside the door.
"Senior Uncle Qiu is talking inside!, Senior Brother Mo should go in and find him by himself!" the disciple pointed inside.
Senior Brother Mo nodded and walked into the courtyard with Xie Ling. From afar, I heard a rough voice shouting loudly: "How many times have I told you, pay attention to the heat, you can't cut the material if the heat is not enough, you, you still have you, the heads of the three of you let the door clamp break, such a simple truth wants me to say again and again, Xiao Mo, go back and deduct ten contribution points from each of them, if you make the same mistake again next time, get out of the 'smelting room' for Lao Tzu, I don't need such waste here!"
Xie Ling saw that the faces of the three teenagers who were not much older than him were like ashes, and their whole bodies were constantly trembling, as if they were frightened.
"What are you doing here?" said the middle-aged man who spoke suddenly at them.
"Mo Xueqin has seen Senior Uncle Qiu!" Senior Brother Mo gave a salute first, and then pointed to Xie Ling behind him and said, "This is Xie Ling, a new trial student assigned by the dean to you, Uncle Xie, please arrange it!"
"Xie Ling has seen Uncle Qiu!" Xie Ling bowed and bowed.
"New trial student, hehe, another useless person with a low-grade immortal root, okay, I know, you go back to your life!" Senior Uncle Qiu glanced at Xie Ling and said.
"Thank you, Uncle Shi, that disciple will go back to his life!" Senior Brother Mo saluted again, and then turned to leave.
"Come here, and look at this fleshy and tender flesh. Senior Uncle Qiu glanced at Xie Ling again, and then said to a tall blue-clothed young man: "Xiao Mo, you take him to the gravel yard and let Hao Mingli train him well." ”
"Yes, this junior brother, please come with me!" Xiao Mo said.
Xie Ling followed in response, but he was thinking in his heart, it seemed that his inferior immortal root was really rotten, and he was directly called a useless person, and his confidence could not help but be greatly hit.
The gravel yard is on the right side of the yard, and a wide door is opened in the middle of the wall, and a bucket truck full of ore shuttles between them, and a loud sound of ping-pong inside is heard from a long distance, Xie Ling noticed that the ore in the bucket truck is the size of a fist, and curiously follows Xiao Mo around the bucket car and enters it.
This is a huge yard about 20 zhang wide, except for a room at the entrance, the rest of the place is full of black and yellow ores, and there are two ore mountains against the wall on the opposite side, one side is a blue-black oval ore, and the other side is a blue-yellow flat ore, they all have the size of a grinding disc, each weighing about fifty catties!
In the middle of the courtyard, dozens of teenagers dressed like themselves were placing the large stones on the iron piers and smashing them into fist-sized pieces with hammers, while others waited for the gravel around them to reach a certain distance, shoveled them into the bucket carts, and then carried them out of the doorway in the middle of the earthen wall to a large house where the huge chimney was.
"Senior Brother Hao, I'll bring you a new person over. Xiao Mo rushed to Dahan Dao, who was instructing a trial student, from afar.
The man glanced back and saw that it was Xiao Mo, and a smile appeared on his originally stiff face: "Why is Senior Brother Labor driving, can't you call someone over to inform you." After speaking, he threw the hammer in his hand on the ground and stepped forward to greet him.
"This is the new trial student Xie Ling, Uncle Qiu arranged him to you, and asked you to train and train more!" Xiao Mo pointed at Xie Ling.
"Don't worry, I will definitely train him well, what if Senior Brother doesn't have anything to do and come over for a cup of tea?" Hao Mingli said after glancing at Xie Ling.
"No, I still have to go over to restore my life, yesterday's furnace of material was early, and I must refine it today, so I'm busy!"
"Senior brother is busy, I have time to come and sit down that day, here are you here to give advice, those boys must have benefited a lot." Hao Mingli's appearance was a little close to flattery, Xie Ling didn't expect a person who looked martial arts and martial arts and had a dignified and honest appearance to be like this, and he felt a little disgusting in his heart.
"Senior Brother Hao has a good reputation!" Xiao Mo just smiled slightly, and then turned to leave. Obviously, he had long been accustomed to hearing such beautiful words, and he did not care.
"Let's go! Hao Mingli saw him go away, and a smile on his face turned away and he rushed to Xie Lingdao.
Xie Lingxin said in his heart, why is he so unlucky, will the person in front of him teach him in the future?
"See, those two piles of small mountain-like ores, blue-black is black iron ore, and blue-yellow is bronze ore. Our work here is very simple, you can take one day off every month, and there are ten days left in this month, you only need to crush 50,000 catties of bronze ore or 80,000 catties of black iron ore. Of course, contribution points will also be distributed proportionally, understand?" Hao Mingli said.
"Broken stone, didn't we come here to learn how to cultivate?" Xie Ling was stunned, isn't this a joke! Brother is not here to do hard labor.
Unexpectedly, as soon as his words came out, most of the teenagers who were rubbing stones laughed. Even Hao Mingli, who had always had a gloomy face, laughed.
"Cultivation, isn't this cultivation!" Hao Mingli said with a smile.
"Isn't this just gravel, if it is said that it can exercise muscles and physique, I believe it, but I don't understand what this has to do with cultivating immortals, and I ask my senior brother to tell me. Xie Ling didn't feel embarrassed, if he didn't even know what he was doing, there was no point in continuing.
"Do you think there will be pies in the sky for no reason?" Hao Ming glanced at him and continued: "You are new here, I don't blame you for asking this, now I can teach you, don't you have a piece of the Blue Moon Order on your body?"
Xie Ling subconsciously took out the token and nodded.
"This Cangyue Order is not only your identity certificate in the sect, but also records the number of contribution points in the sect, like them, as long as you complete the quota task on time every month, you will get the corresponding contribution points. And these contribution points are the only things that can be exchanged for cultivation exercises in the sect, if you want to cultivate, just work hard and strive to accumulate enough contribution points. By the way, if you can't complete the task, you will have to deduct the contribution points proportionally, and when your contribution points are negative, you will be cleared. Of course, when every disciple enters the sect, there will be ten basic contribution points for you, so that you have a buffer stage, so that you will not be cleared out for some objective reasons. Hao Mingli said.
Xie Ling only now understands that it is understandable that the sect is doing this, just like Hao Mingli said, there is no free lunch in the world, and if you want to achieve yourself, you have to rely on yourself to fight for it.
"Okay, you understand now, pick a hammer and a cart that you can move, and go over there and find a place to work by yourself!" Hao Ming said after giving him a blank look.
Xie Ling looked at the row of hammers of different sizes and models standing in the corner of the wall, some of them had one empty space, and some of them had three or four empty places, it seemed that those were all chosen by the people in front of them. He has no bottom in his heart, although he has been imprisoned in the Xie family for a long time, he has never done physical work, and he doesn't know how much strength he has. So cautiously set his eyes on the smallest hammer on the side, which shone with a purple halo.
At this time, the other teenagers who were working looked at him curiously, and when they saw that he chose the smallest hammer on the side, they almost couldn't help but laugh out loud again.
They all had such an experience, knowing that the hammer there does not distinguish the weight by size, in fact, because of the different materials used, the smallest hammer is the heaviest in it, even Hao Mingli, who is in charge of the affairs here, couldn't bear its weight when he first came, and chose the empty hammer next to it.
"It's just right!" Xie Ling danced the small hammer in his hand a few times, and felt that it was just right, so he decided that it was it.
It's strange why there is no sound of gravel, at this moment the gravel field seems to fall into silence, and there is no sound for a while, and the atmosphere is very weird. He turned around, and saw that the expressions of everyone on the other side were almost the same, and he couldn't close his mouth in shock, and only after half a ring did he resume his work normally.
What's wrong with them, remembering that these people smiled so happily when they asked their own questions just now, and now they have such an expression, the people here are really strange, maybe it has something to do with this strange Senior Brother Hao in front of them! Xie Ling shook his head, picked a small cart for taking stones at random, and walked straight to a clearing with a hammer.
Hao Mingli came back to his senses for a long time, he didn't expect this guy with fine skin and tender flesh to have so much strength, but he didn't know that Xie Ling had been forcibly soaked in the 'Seven Insects, Seven Leaves and Hundred Poison Soup' that exercised the muscles and bones of the blood since he was more than six years old, and he soaked for three years, until the medicinal power could no longer affect the skin and bones, and his physique was much stronger than his peers.
At the beginning of the day's work, Xie Ling chose black iron ore, he had to smash the fifty pounds of black iron ore with the purple iron hammer in his hand, and each piece could not exceed the size of a fist, which was a little unbearable for the Xie family who had never worked, even if he was strong, he was a little unbearable, and at the end of the day, he only completed three thousand catties in the evening.
Xie Ling touched his head, judging from today's work, although he has more strength than those teenagers who arrived early, but his skills are much worse, so that at the end of the day, he can only achieve half of the number of others, it seems that it is a simple gravel, and it also contains a lot of knowledge in it, tomorrow I want to see how people do it, and I must not be as brutal as today.
(Ask for red tickets, ask for collections, during the new book, Guanyin urgently needs two magic weapons to rush the list, please!)