Chapter 4 Coolies in the Gravel Field
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Early the next morning, a young monk in blue woke up Xie Ling, who was still sleeping, and told him to take him to the assigned trial site, the 'smelting room'.
Xie Ling was refreshed and followed the man who called himself Senior Brother Mo towards the southwest.
"Have you seen that tall chimney?" Senior Brother Mo pointed at a huge chimney not far away that reached into the sky.
Xie Ling nodded. How could he not see such a big target? He noticed it when he entered the weapon refining academy yesterday.
"That's where the 'smelting room' is." Senior Brother Mo said.
The two walked while talking, and soon they arrived in front of a square courtyard.
"Uncle Qiu, are you here? I have brought a new trial student." Senior Brother Mo said to a disciple of the Weapon Refining Academy who was on duty outside the door.
"Uncle Qiu is giving lectures inside! Brother Mo will go in and find him himself!" The disciple pointed to the inside and said.
Senior Brother Mo nodded and led Xie Ling into the courtyard. From far away, he heard a rough voice shouting loudly: "I have told you how many times, pay attention to the heat. If it is not hot enough, it will not work."
You, you, you and you, the three of you have your heads broken by the door clamp. Such a simple truth requires me to say it again and again, Xiao Mo, I will deduct ten contribution points from each of them.
, if you make the same mistake again next time, get out of the 'smelting room', I don't need such waste here!"
Xie Ling saw three young men who were not much older than him, their faces were ashen, and their whole bodies were shaking constantly, as if they were frightened.
"What are you doing here?" The middle-aged man who was giving the lecture suddenly looked at them and asked.
"Mo Xueqin has met Master Qiu!" Senior Brother Mo bowed first, then pointed at Xie Ling behind him and said: "This is the new trial student Xie Ling assigned to you by the dean, Uncle Master, please arrange it for me!
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"Xie Ling has met Uncle Qiu!" Xie Ling bowed and said.
"The new trial student, haha, is another useless person with low-grade immortal roots. Okay, I understand, you go back and return to life!" Master Qiu glanced at Xie Ling and said.
"Thank you, uncle. I will go back and resume my life!" Senior Brother Mo saluted again, then turned and left.
"Come here, look at this thin skin and tender meat." Uncle Qiu glanced at Xie Ling again, and then said to a tall young man in blue: "Xiao Mo, take him to the gravel pit and let Hao Mingli
Teach him well."
"Yes, this junior brother, please come with me!" Xiao Mo said.
Xie Ling followed him in response, but he was thinking in his heart that it seemed that his low-grade immortal roots were really bad. He was directly called a useless person, and his confidence was greatly affected.
The gravel pit is on the right side of the yard. A door about a foot wide is opened in the middle of the wall. Bucket trucks loaded with ore are passing through it. Loud ping-ping-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong noises can be heard from a distance. Xie Ling noticed
The ore in the bucket was the size of a fist. Curious, Xiao Mo followed him around the bucket and entered inside.
This is a huge yard about twenty feet wide. Except for a room at the entrance, the rest of the place is filled with black and yellow ores. There are two ore mountains against the opposite wall.
On one side is a green and black oval ore, and on the other is a green and yellow flat ore. They are both the size of a millstone, and each weighs about fifty kilograms!
In the middle of the yard, there are bucket-thick iron piers standing in proportion. Dozens of teenagers dressed like themselves are placing the large stones on the iron piers and then smashing them into fist-sized pieces with hammers. In addition,
Some people waited for the gravel around them to reach a certain level, then shoveled it into a bucket truck, then transported it out through the doorway in the middle of the earth wall and sent it to a large house where the huge chimney was located.
"Junior Brother Hao, I've brought you a newcomer." Xiao Mo said to the big man who was instructing a trial student from a distance.
The man looked back and saw that it was Xiao Mo. A smile appeared on his originally stiff face and said, "Why is Senior Brother Labor so powerful? Just ask someone to come over and inform you." After saying that, he threw the hammer in his hand.
On the ground on one side, he stepped forward to greet him.
"This is the new trial student Xie Ling. Uncle Qiu has assigned him to you and wants you to train him more!" Xiao Mo pointed at Xie Ling.
"Don't worry, I will definitely train him well. Senior brother, if you have nothing to do, can you come over for a cup of tea?" Hao Mingli glanced at Xie Ling and said.
"No, I have to go over and get back to work. Yesterday's batch of ingredients was cooked too early. I have to practice again today. I'm busy!" Xiao Mo said.
"Senior brother, I'm just busy. If you have time that day, please come over and sit down. Those guys will definitely benefit a lot from your advice." Hao Mingli's look was a bit flattering. Xie Ling didn't expect a man who looked like a martial arts expert.
, a person who looks honest and honest would be like this, which makes me feel a little disgusting.
"Junior Brother Hao, that's too much praise!" Xiao Mo just smiled, turned and left. Apparently he was used to hearing such kind words and didn't take it seriously.
"Let's go! The new rookie." Seeing him walking away, Hao Mingli said to Xie Ling with a smile on his face.
Xie Ling wondered why he was so unlucky. Will the person in front of him teach him in the future?
"Did you see those two small piles of ore? The green and black ones are black iron ore, and the green and yellow ones are bronze ores. Our work here is very simple. We can take one day off every month, and there are still ten days left in this month.
, you only need to crush 50,000 kilograms of bronze ore or 80,000 kilograms of black iron ore. Of course, the contribution points will also be distributed in proportion, do you understand?" Hao Mingli said.
"Ruishi, didn't we come here to learn how to practice?" Xie Ling was stunned. Isn't this a joke? I'm not here to do hard labor.
Unexpectedly, as soon as his words came out, most of the teenagers who were crushing the rocks laughed. Even Hao Mingli, who had always been sullen, laughed endlessly.
"Cultivation, isn't this just cultivation?" Hao Mingli said, holding back his smile.
"Isn't this just gravel? If you say it can exercise your muscles, I believe it, but I don't know what it has to do with cultivating immortals. Please tell me, senior brother." Xie Ling didn't feel any embarrassment.
If nothing is clear, there is no point in continuing.
"Do you think pie will fall from 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 that you are not
Do you have a Cang Yue Token?"
Xie Ling subconsciously took out the token and nodded.
"This Cang Yue Order is not only your identity certificate in this sect, but also records the number of your contribution points in the sect. Like them, as long as you complete the quota tasks on time every month, you will get the corresponding contribution points.
And these contribution points are the only thing that can be exchanged for the practice of martial arts in the sect. If you want to practice, you have to work hard and try to accumulate enough contribution points. By the way, if you fail to complete the task, you will have to deduct it proportionally.
For those who contribute points, when your contribution points are negative, you will be kicked out. Of course, when every disciple enters the sect, there will be ten basic contribution points given to you, so that you have a buffer stage and will not be hurt by some
It was removed due to objective reasons," Hao Mingli said.
Only now did Xie Ling realize that it was understandable for the sect to do this. Just like Hao Mingli said, there is no free lunch in the world. If you want to achieve yourself, you have to fight for it yourself.
"Okay, you understand now! Pick a hammer and a cart that you can use, and go over there and find a place to work!" Hao Ming said after giving him a clear look.
Xie Ling looked at the row of hammers of different sizes and models standing in the corner. Some of them had one empty spot, and some had three or four empty spots. It seemed that those in front of them had been chosen by those in front of him.
I had no confidence in my heart. Although I had been imprisoned for a long time in the Xie family, I had never done any physical work, and I didn’t know how strong I was. So I cautiously turned my attention to the smallest one next to me, which was shining purple.
On the glowing hammer.
At this time, the other teenagers who were working secretly looked at him curiously. Seeing that he had chosen the smallest hammer on the side, they almost couldn't help but laugh out loud again.
They have all had this experience, knowing that the weight of hammers there is not determined by size. In fact, because of the different materials used, the smallest hammer is the heaviest. Even Hao Mingligang, who is in charge of affairs here,
When I arrived, I couldn't bear its weight, so I chose an empty hammer next to it.
"It's just right!" Xie Ling waved the small hammer in his hand a few times and felt it was just right, so he decided that it was the one.
It was strange that there was no sound of gravel. At this moment, the gravel field seemed to have fallen into silence. It was completely silent for a while, and the atmosphere was very strange. He turned around and saw that everyone on the opposite side had almost the same expression, and they were all shocked.
He opened his mouth, and after a while he returned to normal and continued what he was doing.
What's wrong with them? I remembered that these people laughed so happily when I asked the question, and now they have such expressions. The people here are really strange. Maybe it has something to do with the weird Senior Brother Hao in front of me! Xie Ling shook his head and picked at random.
He picked up a small cart for removing stones and walked straight to an open space with the hammer in his hand.
It took Hao Mingli a long time to come to his senses. He didn't expect this guy with thin skin and tender flesh to have such great strength. But he didn't know that Xie Ling had been forced by Ganoderma to train his muscles, bones and blood vessels since he was more than six years old.
He took Ye Baidu Decoction for three full years, until the medicine could no longer affect his skin and bones. His body became stronger than his peers.
At the beginning of the day's work, Xie Ling chose black iron ore. He had to smash the black iron ore weighing about fifty kilograms with the purple iron hammer in his hand. Each piece should not be larger than the size of a fist. This was something that had never been done before.
For the young Xie family member who had worked hard, even though he was strong, it was still too much for him. At the end of the day, he only finished three thousand kilograms in the evening.
Xie Ling touched his head. Judging from today's work, although he is stronger than those young people who arrived early, his skills are much worse, so that he can only do half of what others did in one day. It seems that
Even simple gravel contains a lot of knowledge. Tomorrow we have to see how others do it. We must not act recklessly like today.
Chapter completed!