Poor family mother and son

Chapter 672 Losing Things

When the camel thorns began to turn green and the Populus euphratica began to sprout, two small leaf buds had grown out of the beans that the young men worked together to plant under careful care.

Soon, the caravan will arrive again. I heard that they have brought a lot of bamboo, and the beans need supports, which makes the boys feel more at ease.

Those who went to the river beach to pick jade began to gain something.

Chu Qing said at the beginning: All stones with good color, translucency, fine and smooth, as long as they meet one of these criteria, they will be kept. It can be said that the range of choice is too large.

The boys who are used to scraping the land will transport a large number of leftover stones to the vegetable field to surround the low wall. This journey is very long, but everyone is used to it.

The Gobi Desert is very windy, and it is difficult for vegetable seedlings to grow without shelter from the wind and sun.

Chu Qing's expenditure on the jade mining project seems to outsiders to be regardless of the cost, but in fact, Chu Qing and Xiaobao know it well.

Regardless of the fact that there are caravans and engineering teams, thousands of people travel back and forth, and it costs a lot to eat and chew horses. However, judging from the popularity and price of high-quality jade in Daxuan Kingdom, these expenses are not worth it. It can be earned back with a few pieces of jade the size of a head.

It is not much investment to exchange a few pieces of jade for a large quantity of jade.

In fact, these boys are greedy, the river beach in Shilidi is very big, you don't need to go into the water, you can just pick it up on the rocky beach on both sides.

"Guessed for three days? What do you mean?"

"Our river beach is only about ten miles away. We have always explored in the deep water in the middle of the river. Otherwise, the edge alone would not be enough for us to dig so much."

"We can only dig the ground more than one foot deep at most. If it is deeper, it will be difficult to dig. The main reason is that it is not worth it. In the wet season, there are many pits under our feet, and we are also in danger;
So we all go into the deep water, as long as we don't miss our waists, we try our best to pull the rocks underneath to the side. "

"We built a few stone huts by the river beach, and when we were about to go into the water, we piled up the shovels and picks in the huts, and put the dry food we brought inside," said a kid, "but the dry food was not lost, the shovel and the Lost the pickaxe."

There was a lot of booing: "Nonsense! Who can't sleep with their eyes closed?"

The boys chattered and said: "I suspect they are soldiers. They are not like those who pick jade. They all have fierce faces and don't speak."

A boy slapped his thigh: "I will do this! The back of my head is injured, and I will sleep with my eyes closed!"

They found that "matching wits" with the Voss savages to earn their money brought great satisfaction and a sense of accomplishment.

Then gossip with everyone and let them relieve the tension of reporting work with heart.

"Xiaomu, what are you laughing at? Did you guess it?" The boys all like Xiaomu now, he has a good temper and is diligent.

"Ah~~ Can you still guess like that?"

Xiaobao just laughed: "Oh, I don't know enough words! Then I won't take the word test, and I'll make another one—how does a person with an injured back of the head sleep?"

"Yeah, can you change it to something simpler?"

Everyone used to care about: "What's wrong, why are you listless?"

Not many were lost, in three days, a total of five were lost.

On the border of Voss, whenever there is a conflict with other people's citizens, they have no ability to resolve it.

Only those big businessmen who can afford it, such as the four major families in Jiangnan, no, now the three major families, they have already received the "glorious deeds" of Chu Qing's "noisy" to hand over the mining rights at the court meeting.

"But the answer is correct, no matter where you are injured, you have to close your eyes when you sleep!"

Xiaobao said: "Come on, let me give you a few questions to see if you have learned a lot! Listen carefully: there is a word, it is not difficult to guess, Confucius guessed it for three days, what is the word?"

Their "spokespersons" in the court are already disgraced, and they have no chance.

This question stumped Xiaomu: "Shanchang, the back of the head is injured, and you are sleeping on your stomach?"

The small tender green leaves add a touch of coquettishness to the gray-brown rough earth background.

Everyone laughed and made a fuss, and the boys who transported stones came over, not in a very good mood.

And when they transport migrant workers, they also need to provide corresponding tools, which is a large investment, and judging from the current situation, it seems that they can't spend much jade.

"Every day," the boys said, "Isn't it because we pulled back a lot of stones last year? I guess the people of Voss are greedy. Last month, there were many Voss people on our river beach, and they rode back and forth around the area on horseback. "

The boys stared and thought hard: "Confucius has been guessing for three days, how can we guess it?"

This place can't produce much food, and it can't feed so many "big eaters" who do heavy physical work every day, but this is hope.

But it's different for other merchants, needless to say, small merchants, they can't afford jade business.

Chu Qing's investment "regardless of cost", and the boys of the engineering team spared no effort. During the long winter, when they couldn't mine jade, they dug up land to open up wasteland, bought milk and leather goods, made dairy products, drew pictures and storytelling...

"Oh... I see! Confucius guessed 'three days', three 'days', and the word 'crystal'!"

Xiaobao was very relieved to see that everyone was full of energy, the bad temper of those rogues in the past were gone, and they were very united with each other, and they were no longer aggressive.

The boys objected: "Sleep on your stomach, block your nose? Stop panting?"

Xiaobao ordered someone to be on duty at the transit warehouse, so nothing was lost on the warehouse side; but on the other side of the river beach, it was all tools that the boys took care of themselves, and there was no special person to take care of it.

The place is not big, just over two acres, but the dig was deep, more than two feet, and the inside was filled with soil more than one foot thick. The ridges were neat and straight, and every five ridges were separated by a low stone wall. , Said to be for wind protection.

Another said dejectedly: "On the first day we thought it was washed away when we entered the deep water, but we lost two of them when we didn't go to the deep water the next day, and lost another one today."

The remaining stones were pulled to the vegetable field to build a low wall, and a low wall was built every five ridges to protect the seedlings from the wind.

"Growing vegetables in the pit can at least block the wind and sand." The boys said.

Xiaomu said: "Confucius guessed for three days, and he has a ready-made answer."

But this group of boys relied on the large number of people to engage in batch operations. They first dug a big pit, introduced water, and then hung stones in a basket to rinse.

Xiaobao "visited" the place where they grew vegetables.

"Did you guess three days? That's two words!"

The division of labor for digging stones, one person is in charge of one area, to see who digs more; then the division of labor for washing stones, to see who can rinse faster; finally, the division of labor for picking stones, to see who picks better.

So they said something, which made Xiaobao feel bad: for three consecutive days, the spades and picks were lost.

The tools transported by the Chu family are sufficient, and it is only because of the abundance that they are attractive.

Xiao Bao asked: "Is there anyone near your shack?"

The jade mine was not theirs, so even if they brought in migrant workers, they thought about contracting a part of the mine, and didn't say clearly whether they would let it go, but just transported people to Voss and stayed there for a long time, the rations were not small.

Xiaomu grinned, and the young master of the mountain was playing tricks again.

Xiaobao: "What kind of Voss people?"

"What does that have to do with whether the back of the head is injured or not?"

Now at this time, the Shanyu team can't go up the mountain, and only a few dozen people are sent to repair the rope roads, so except for the businessmen, almost the rest of the people are on the ten-mile river beach.

Such efficiency made the Voss gnash their teeth.

More than a thousand people are in charge of ten miles of river beach, and hundreds of Voss people are in charge of ten miles of land. Can it be the same progress?

Now the boys just don’t have the tools to use. If they were given an excavator, it would take three months to dig all the ten miles of land to a depth of two meters. Then they don’t have to wait for three years to expire, just go back to Daxuan.

(End of this chapter)