Li Chengzhong came in and started talking to Jie Li. As he was speaking, Fatty Wang Er switched to Khitan dialect.
"You know, I am in the Bailang Mountain, and the supply road leading to Yuguan is blocked by you Khitans..."
Jie Li had heard Li Chengzhong say something similar before. Seeing him bring up this topic again, he nodded, but he was very happy in his heart: "It would be better if your supply line is completely sealed!"
Not long after he felt happy in his heart, he immediately knew that he was happy too early. He only heard Li Chengzhong continue to say: "...So there is not much food in the military camp, and there is no way to feed the disabled. I can probably ask you about everything I want to know.
It’s over, I really don’t know what use you have.”
Jie Li's heart immediately rose to his throat, and he quickly said: "I am the most trusted tarma of Qijin in the tribe. I have said this before. You can exchange me for cattle, sheep and war horses. You can definitely exchange a lot. Trust me.
, the tribe is willing to pay a high ransom price for me."
Li Chengzhong shook his head: "Not to mention whether your words are credible, even if your sudden attack department is really willing to pay for your ransom, it is not realistic at the moment. After all, I am fighting with the Pinbu department now. Do you think the Pinbu department will be happy to see so many
Cattle, sheep and war horses enter White Wolf Mountain?"
Xie Li was silent. He understood that what Li Chengzhong said was indeed the truth. This area is the territory of Pinbu. If the Sudden Department wants to redeem itself, it must negotiate with Pinbu. Under the current circumstances, Pinbu cannot
It is possible that these materials were allowed to fall into the hands of the Bailangshan military camp.
Li Chengzhong stared at Xie Li for a while and said, "If you can't tell me what else you can do for yourself, I will have to stop your food supply from tomorrow."
Xie Li's mind was a little confused. He tried hard to recall everything about the Khitan tribes, but he found out that he had already told the other party everything he knew. He really couldn't find any information that could be used in exchange for food. He was very worried.
Is he unwilling to do so? Could it be because he embarrassed the other party during the snowball fight today, so he provoked the other party to retaliate? Thinking of this, he felt depressed for a while.
There was silence in the cave for a moment, and suddenly Li Chengzhong said: "Actually, you are quite a man. I really can't bear to see you die like this. Let's make an exception. But starting from tomorrow, you have to do things and use your
Trade your hands for food..."
Jie Li grabbed this life-saving straw in panic and nodded hastily. His heart was at a loss. He didn't hear clearly what the other party said after that, so he was taken back by the guarding soldiers.
Returning to the cave, Xie Li sat blankly in front of the fireplace. Suddenly he slapped himself hard twice and pulled his hair hard with both hands. After a while, he huddled up in a pile of hay. He didn't understand what happened to him.
Well, as a warrior with a reputation for bravery in the tribe, how could he degenerate to such an extent and become as afraid of death as a coward!
Early the next morning, the fat man Wang Er took Xie Li out of the cave and handed him a broom made of branches. So Xie Li got his first job in Bailang Mountain, cleaning up the accumulated waste in the school grounds.
Xue. At this time, several people were waving brooms and starting to clean the school grounds. Xie Li's task was to clean up an area. Fatty Wang Er told Xie Li that after cleaning this area, he could earn one work point.
The "work point" system was proposed by Li Chengzhong to Feng Dao. Since the Bailang Mountain Military Village implements a material rationing system, a reasonable plan must be made on how to distribute materials, so that no one will starve to death, and at the same time, the people's labor must be stimulated.
With enthusiasm, those who work more will get more, and those who work less will get less. According to Li Chengzhong, this is called "distribution according to work." After listening to this, Feng Dao's eyes lit up. He believed that this kind of "work points" comes from a certain sense.
In fact, it is equivalent to making money. People earn "work points" through labor, and then use the "work points" to purchase materials. The difference is that the "work points" system not only solves the current problem of moneylessness in Bailangshan, but also
It is conducive to organization and deployment, and makes it easier to concentrate on doing big things.
Under this system, regardless of adults or children, all people who are capable of working must participate in labor to obtain work points, and then exchange the work points for goods stored in the Bailang Mountain material warehouse, including grain, clothing, salt, and preserved meat.
Etc. To this end, Feng Dao called together three elders, Zhang Laojiang and Hongshang Wang Er, and spent three days working out various tasks based on the intensity and time of labor and the results achieved by labor.
scores, and the scores of various materials were determined based on the existing material reserves in Bailang Mountain.
Xie Li also heard about this work point system, but he didn't know how much food one work point could be exchanged for. The fat man told Wang Er that one work point could be exchanged for a piece of bread or a bowl of porridge. So Xie Li began to work hard for this work point.
stand up.
Xie Li spent an hour cleaning the assigned area, then piled the cleared snow onto a wooden cart, and then pushed the wooden cart to a ravine in the back mountain to dump it. He ran back and forth.
After several trips, he emptied the snow and finally found a small piece of bamboo, which meant that he had gained a work point.
He exchanged this piece of bamboo for a piece of flour cake at the door of the warehouse, and stuffed it into his stomach in two or three mouthfuls. Then, he felt even hungrier. He went to see Fatty Wang Er again and asked if there was anything else he could do.
, Wang Er led him to the back mountain, pointed to the four cabins and said, "Have you seen those bathrooms? It will be time to take a bath in a while, and I have already applied for the care of the two cabins for you.
, every time someone comes in to take a bath, you have to fetch a bucket of hot water from the hot spring on the side and send it to the bathroom. Every time you complete a group of soldiers' bathing, you can earn one work point."
It is a mandatory requirement issued by Li Chengzhong that the soldiers bathe at least once every three days. These soldiers are extremely unhygienic. Most of them rarely wash their bodies once a month, which Li Chengzhong cannot accept. Especially since the training, every day
He was surrounded by the smell of sweat, which was really unbearable. Since there are natural hot springs in Bailang Mountain, why not make full use of the resources? Therefore, he did not care whether the soldiers were used to it or not, and regarded bathing as a military activity.
order and enforce it.
"How long does it take to take a bath?" Xie Li asked.
"Just a quarter of an hour," Fatty Wang Er said.
Xie Li calculated that there were fifty soldiers in a team, and if they were divided into two wooden houses, there would be twenty-five soldiers in each. Each soldier would have a quarter of an hour, so it would take more than three hours to wash them all.
"I want to take care of all four bathrooms, is that okay?" Xie Li asked.
In order not to pollute the hot springs, the bathrooms were built on the edge of the ravine far away from the hot springs. The nearest hot spring is about three hundred steps away. In other words, if Jieli takes care of all four bathrooms by himself, he will be there.
Within an hour and a half, he had to carry fifty buckets of water and run 300 steps repeatedly. This was a lot of physical work, so Fatty Wang Er asked: "Can you take care of me?"
Xie Li nodded. He needed to shorten the time to fight for work points as much as possible. It didn't matter even if he was a little tired. He really wanted to eat more.
…
The fat man Wang Eryin led Xie Li for three days, helping him get familiar with various jobs and get to know the people in charge of each type of work. Xie Li also worked hard for three days, and all the work points he earned were converted into food.
In my stomach, although I have been tired for the past three days, I have eaten more than before, so I feel pretty good, and my life is more fulfilling than before. It is not as boring as being locked up in a cave dwelling all day long.
In the following days, Jie Li began to rush around for his own food. He swept the school grounds and warehouses, felled trees in the mountains, took care of and fed the war horses, cleaned the latrines and bathrooms, and dug ice in Xuanshui to fish.
He even followed Wang Dalang to harvest hay outside the mountains... After working hard every day, Xie Li could fill his stomach until he was six or seven times full. During the labor process, Xie Li still did not find a chance to escape, and there were always two guards.
His soldiers followed him.
Fatty Wang Er couldn't always be Jie Li's translator, so he also taught Jie Li some simple Chinese. Unexpectedly, Jie Li was very talented in this area and learned it very quickly. He could learn it in less than a month.
I had a simple conversation with someone. In order to reduce and avoid misunderstandings during work, and to get as much benefit as possible from work, Xie Li decided to go to Feng Dao’s class in the evening to learn how to speak Chinese and understand
Simple Chinese characters.
There were everyone in the class, including ordinary Han people, Han soldiers, and even some officers. Xie Li did not face any discrimination or rejection in the class. Everyone listened intently and paid no attention to him.
After all, Jie Li's Chinese level was very poor, and he couldn't quite understand him many times. However, Feng Dao seemed to be somewhat partial to him and spoke very slowly and clearly. Jie Li had the courage to ask questions several times.
, Feng Dao also tried his best to answer the questions in the most understandable way. After a month, Jie Li's Chinese level improved by leaps and bounds.
As the language barrier gradually disappeared, Xie Li's life finally improved. He began to have simple conversations with some "workmates", and successfully participated in several labors that required collective cooperation, and even made a few friends among the common people.
A friend - well, strictly speaking, it was just an acquaintance. The Han people seemed to always be wary of him, but to Jie Li, being able to talk to each other was already considered a friend.
In addition, Xie Li also met a woman.
The woman's life is very hard. In addition to herself, she also has to feed two children who are not yet able to work. When they first met, the woman was full of hostility towards him. She didn't quite understand the explanation. It was only during a casual conversation with the people that the woman came to know him.
Knowing that this woman was a widow, her husband was killed by the Khitans, and she was left dragging her two young children to escape into the White Wolf Mountain. After knowing this, Jie Li suddenly felt guilty, and began to help consciously.
This woman, for example, would try to choose the same things as her, take the initiative to help her share the heavy physical work when doing things, or save one or two noodles and secretly give them to her two young children.
As the days passed, the woman's hostility towards Jie Li gradually disappeared, and the two finally started talking to each other. However, when talking about the past, the woman would always think of her dead husband, and Jie Li would feel even more guilty. The past.
The matter is irreversible. Although the woman's husband died in the hands of Pinbu and was not killed by Jieli himself, Pinbu is also a Khitan and belongs to the same clan as Xieli. Therefore, Jieli decided to use actions to make up for the crimes committed by his own people.
He made a mistake. He worked harder in exchange for more food to help women raise their children.
One day, Xie Li was carrying snow water from the back mountain to fill the bucket in the woman's cave dwelling, but he saw the younger child crying loudly. Xie Li had taken care of the two children for so many days, and there were already
Feeling emotional, he quickly asked what was going on. The woman said that the child was not sensible, so Xie Li asked him why he was not sensible. The woman said that the child was clamoring for meat, but no matter what she said, she could not make sense, so she beat him. After Xie Li heard this
There was silence for a long time after that.
Xie Li has not tasted meat for a long time. The prices of the dried meats in the warehouse are very high. A piece of dried meat that is less than one tael actually costs ten labor points. Even for fish, the price of each piece is as high as five.
Xie Li could not get so many work points even if he worked hard all day. When Xie Li returned to his cave dwelling, he couldn't help but ask the soldier guarding him: "Those dried meats require so many work points, who can eat them?"
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The soldier said: "Generally speaking, only us soldiers can get enough work points to exchange for meat."
"You soldiers also have to earn work points?" Xie Li was very curious.
The soldier smiled and said: "Those who perform well in training, or who have achieved military exploits when performing missions, will be rewarded with work points."
Jie Li thought for a while and asked: "What does it mean to be considered excellent in training?"
The soldier said: "For example, the one who walks the most energetically in the queue will be selected to have ten brothers after training every day, and each will be rewarded with two work points; another example is when training for combat, there will be a whole-battalion confrontation every five days, and each one will be rewarded with two work points."
The top ten will also be awarded five work points each; or during the archery competition, if five of the ten arrows hit the target, two work points will also be awarded."
After listening, Xie Li returned to the cave and tossed and turned all night long.