Poor family mother and son

Chapter 673
Only five shovels and picks were lost in three days, but the dry food was not lost. It can be seen that it was petty theft, not a big criminal gang, and the target was tools.

Xiao Bao said, "When did the Voss go into the water to pick jade?"

The boys said one after another: "They usually come at the end of March or early April. They have to change from the winter pasture to the summer pasture, and then come after the change."

"It will take fifteen to 20 days for a transition, and people will be sent here after it is over. But this year they came early, and they came as soon as the freeze was thawed. The number of people who came was actually not many, and they were all in the upper reaches of our river. "

"They are afraid that the rocks upstream will rush to our side!"

"What's the use! We've scraped the river bed down, and they can't stop it from flowing down!"

"We should change the batch of pickaxes. The pickaxes are blunt and not easy to use. In fact, the good ones are all down there. I found that the deeper the pickaxes are, the bigger they are. The good ones all sink to the bottom!"

This group of boys has a shortcoming, that is, "kill but don't bury", let them use tools to do work, but they don't have the patience to repair and maintain tools.

The same is true for making milk powder, have the patience to boil and stir slowly, and have no patience to wash dishes and pots.

All these things depended on Xiaomu and his half-grown children who couldn't do it at all.

To sum up, combined with the way the Voss people came to pick jade with only a pocket, Xiaobao thinks that some of them want to learn from Daxuan people and use tools to get more jade.

It's better to dry vegetables, just stew a big pot hot, put some minced meat in it to borrow the flavor.

And they stayed on the river beach all day long, taking advantage of the lack of water before the snow mountain melted, they collected as much jade as possible, and sometimes they didn't go back to the camp at night to avoid delaying time.

The stone huts had no doors, and it was impossible to make doors, and it was a waste of wood, so the guards were looking for places to hide not far away. After blowing the cold wind for most of the day, it can be regarded as progress.

In this way, they are like the people of Voss, and their dry food during the day is bread.

"Hey! I can't hold back my violent temper!" Qiao Wanqi wanted to kick his big feet in their faces: "I'm so poor and picky!".

The Voss people who are used to eating dairy products are not interested in dried vegetables, but in dried meat and cheese, but the boys are not, those things are bought from herdsmen, they are not delicious at all, they are pickled according to Baoqingsheng Warehouse The system is far worse, and it is easy to not poop and become constipated after eating that stuff.

During the first interrogation, as Xiaobao judged, they were just jade pickers sent by the fourth prince.

There were people guarding the stone shack, and it was quiet for several days, and there was no loss of tools.

The fourth prince hired such a person to pick jade, and only had to pay a very small cost - two meals of dry wheat cakes a day.

"These two came to steal the pickaxe, and the two of them split into two groups. I really thought no one could see it!" Xiaobao's guard said.

I saw two Voss people rushing to this side, and behind them, Xiaobao's guards chased them frantically.

After all, the food is good, but the vegetables are few, and all that can be transported are dried vegetables, and the boys try to save food, because it takes time for the caravan to resupply every time, and when the weather is bad, such as white snow, the merchants The team is also very dangerous and will delay many days.

Xiaomu was not happy: "The pancakes you eat are not made of grass? You are eating grass yourself, and you still despise us!"

With Qiao Keli's head-on interception, the two Voss could no longer break through, and were pushed to the ground by everyone: "Little boy, can you run away?!"

"Am I wrong?" The younger Worth man didn't worry about his situation at all: "You eat grass, what's delicious, we're not used to it!"

If they can dig out the surface stones like the Daxuan people, it will increase their chances of harvesting.

The tone was firm, as if arresting them was a mistake made by Daxuan.

They are so poor, why do they only steal shovels and picks but not food?Seeing the eyes of the two Voss still greedily staring at those shovels and picks, everyone was very puzzled.

Now they just stole the shovel, but they haven't stolen it yet, so why hold them back?
"Would you like to leave? That's fine. Let one go back and return the shovel that was stolen from us before the other can go. You two can decide for yourself. Who will go back?" Qiao Keli said.

The older man said: "We didn't take your food, let us go!"

The two Voss men didn't even talk back, they just lay on the ground and gasped for air—they ran too violently just now.

The caravan arrived, and this time it was Qiao Keli who led the team: "Xiaobao, you've lost weight again! Hurry up, eat some good supplements!"

Although Chuqing's caravan has been providing food, and the engineering team has three meals a day, the food is not much better.

This time, the caravan brought a lot of moso bamboo in addition to food. Moso bamboo is a good material for building tents or seedlings. I heard that Xiaobao went to the river beach. Qiao Keli brought some snacks specially prepared for Xiaobao. Delivery.

Xiaobao got up and was about to chase, but Qiao Keli held him back: "Eat yours!" Before the words fell to the ground, the man had already jumped out.

Xiaobao was breaking snacks with Xiaomu and the others to share, when he heard shouts not far away: "Where are you going! Brothers, stop them!"

"People can live without a shovel, but they can't live without food. If we steal food, you will find out and fight with us?" said the older man of Voss.

On the seventh day, Xiaomu brought Qiao Keli over: "Shan Zhang, Brother Qiao and the others are here."

The younger one said: "What is there to steal, you eat the same as us, and you don't have cheese and jerky!"

This is the thinking pattern of the Voss people. If you steal cattle and sheep, it is a felony. Stealing food is also a crime, but it is not very serious.

But stealing other people's cow dung is not considered a crime. As long as you can get it back, at most you will be scolded, and if you can't get it back, you will be beaten.

These jade pickers are the poorest of the various tribes. They are like the tenants of Daxuan. Maybe a snowstorm will kill the cattle and sheep they depend on for survival, leaving them with nothing and can only rely on food. Others graze hard to survive.

"During these days, I took people to guard the stone shed to see who was stealing; you don't have to worry, there are still shovels in the warehouse, just go and get them, and I will ask them to send you some new ones for you to use later. " Xiaobao said.

At this time of year, the snow on Yujing Mountain has not yet melted and gathered, and the people of Voss do not go into the water, but only pick it up on the river beach. That is all based on their eyesight.

This time, the man in Voss is silent. People are poor and short-sighted, and horses are thin and long-haired.

"We didn't take it! Find whoever took it!" Two Voss shouted: "We didn't take it again!"

Only then did Qiao Keli understand that the two savages kept saying "take", so why don't they admit that they came to steal things?I was so angry that I kicked my feet up: "When you are human beings, the Lord will give you a chance to return your things. You are really shameless!"

The younger Voss man was about to struggle and jump up immediately, he shouted: "What do you pay back? How many jades have you stolen from us, you should pay them back!"

"Hey, what the hell! You have a hard mouth, brothers, beat me up!" A kid couldn't bear it anymore, and yelled loudly.

(End of this chapter)