Chapter 39:

The low roar of wild beasts came from the woods, the evening breeze blew, the leaves were whirling, the sound of "rustling" in the ears, the moonlight was not too bright, half covered by dark clouds, Yang Zian could only lead people to light a fire on the ground , Rest for one night before going on the road.
When he left Zhuangzi, he brought only two people with him, but when he returned, he brought close to fifty.
This has to start with finding Zhang Shicheng.
But they weren't called Zhang Shicheng, but Zhang Jiusi, because the name was wrong, Yang Zian looked for a long time before finding it.
Zhang Jiu Si also has three younger brothers, Zhang Jiuwu, Zhang Jiuliu, Zhang Jiuqi, and some good brothers. Gu both dragged his family with each other, and Yang Zian only delayed a lot of time.
They all rely on shipping salt for a living. Zhang Shicheng smuggled salt to sell in order to subsidize his family. Some wealthy people didn’t want to pay, so they said they wanted to report him to the court for smuggling official salt, and they would beat and scold him. In addition to this, there is also a salt supervisor named Qiu Yi in the salt field, which not only deducts the salt workers' wages, but also pays tribute to him every month. Any omission will inevitably result in constant beatings.
Since ancient times, officials have died in the first grade, not to mention Zhang Shicheng and the others are not officials. The common people can only hold their stomachs and continue to live hard.
"Let's eat something, it's been a day's journey." Yang Zian asked someone to take the dry food from the ox cart.
Lin Yuan asked someone to prepare these dry food for him. They were all dried cakes and dried meat. Find a pot, put some water and add some salt to boil it. Nowadays, it is a warm and satisfying meal.
The people sitting on the ground took their bowls and waited, and some couldn't wait, they took the dry cakes and ate them directly.
Zhang Jiusi was a little ashamed. After all, these people were brought by him. He also wanted to hunt these few days. However, they would not stay in one place for too long. It was useless to arrange traps. There was no time to hunt. He sat in Yang. Next to Zi'an, he was a little hesitant and said, "Your boss, did you really say that I had a relationship with him?"
But he didn't remember Lin Yuan at all.
Yang Zi'an: "My fourth brother said that he had a relationship many years ago. He is a kind-hearted person. He can't see anyone suffer, or he only met with you a few times, or said a few words, you It’s normal not to remember."
Zhang Jiusi touched the back of his head, and he felt that Yang Zian was looking for the wrong person. After all, he was looking for Zhang Shicheng at the beginning. Zhang Jiusi had also heard of Yang Zian’s name there. He was generous and was a foreigner. He came all the way to find someone, and he was looking for an ordinary salt man. He said that he hadn't seen that person for many years, and Zhang Jiu-si had discussed with his three younger brothers at home and decided to try his luck.
I don't know why, when Yang Zi'an heard that he still had three younger brothers, whose family depended on boating and transporting salt for a living, he insisted that he was the one he was looking for.
Zhang Jiusi originally just wanted to have a meal—after all, every time someone came, Yang Zian would at least ask someone to eat a meal.
Many people pretend for this meal, although they also know that their impersonation is impossible.
But Zhang Jiusi succeeded. Not only did he succeed, Yang Zian wanted to take him away.
According to Yang Zian's words, he was full of three meals a day. This alone made Zhang Jiu Si a little shaken.
He transports salt every day, but the wages he gets are pitiful. Together, the four brothers are just enough to feed them, and sometimes they have to help friends. He is also very embarrassed and often beaten and humiliated. I don’t even have money to buy medicine. I can go to a place where I can eat three meals a day without being beaten or scolded. It also provides shelter. I can’t even think about it.
But when he thought that he was leaving with his younger brothers, and that the brothers who had good relationships were still suffering, Zhang Jiu Si tentatively asked Yang Zian what he meant.
Yang Zian had been told by Lin Yuan before, and he nodded in agreement without asking much.
Although Zhang Jiusi still had some doubts, Yang Zian's promise was too good. He just wanted to refuse and didn't know how to open his mouth.
Before giving him a chance to repent, Yang Zian took them away from Xinghua.
Horses can’t be bought. No one in Xinghua sells them. Yang Zi’an bought a few donkey carts. The old people and children were sitting, and the young people walked on their legs. No one complained on the road.
Zhang Jiusi is now beginning to fear again, what if he is found out that he is not the person they are looking for?
I haven't seen each other for so many years, maybe I can't recognize it?
He struggled all the way. For a while he felt that he shouldn't be so greedy, and for a while he was lucky, and felt that he should not be able to find out that he was a fake.
Yang Zi'an was not afraid that they would rob him. The main reason was that except for the dry food and these donkey carts, his money was basically spent. These people are not desperadoes, and they will not rob him without killing him.
When he arrived under the city wall of Zhuangzi, Yang Ziancai finally breathed a sigh of relief. It has been nearly half a year since he left Zhuangzi, and he does not know what is going on in Zhuangzi now.
The time he delayed in Xinghua was too long, but the length of this time did not allow him to allocate it.
Zhang Jiusi and the others looked straight. They didn't expect that there would be such a place in the wilderness, it was like a paradise.
The people on the observation platform couldn't see Yang Zi'an's face. They only knew that these people weren't from Zhuangzi. They were about to sound the horn, but Yang Zi'an shouted, "I'm your second brother Yang. I'm bringing people back. Go. Tell me fourth brother!"
The man was taken aback, and roared: "Then you wait first!"
Lin Yuan is teasing a little baby at this time. He already likes children. Now as long as he comes to tease the child when he is in a bad mood or irritated, his whole person's mood will be much better. There are a pair of little babies that are better than adults. With black and white eyes, the eyes of adults are more muddy, but the eyes of children are very clear.
At this time, Lin Yuan was being held by the baby’s fingers, and the baby was laughing with her mouth open. The baby’s mother was sitting on the side, and a woman smiled and said,
This child knows to please his host at such a young age. He has grown up. It must be a sweet person too."
The child’s mother also laughed: "Her eyes look like me."
Lin Yuan looked at it carefully, and felt that the child looked more like a mother, but he couldn't be sure at such a small age.
Some children are like mothers when they are young, but they are like fathers when they grow up.
But a child of this size doesn't even have eyebrows, and a small face is plump and tender, and looks pretty no matter what.
There is no milk powder now, and breastfeeding can only depend on the mother's breast milk. When the breast milk is not enough, I feed some rice soup, which turns out to be pretty good.
It's just that the lanugo is a little yellow, which is nothing to do.
Two and two ran in from outside the house and said to Lin Yuan, "Master, Brother Yang is back, and he has brought a lot of people. Now they are all waiting outside."
Lin Yuan stood up at once. It was estimated that the movement was a bit loud. The baby girl noticed that the fingers she was holding were missing, and her mouth curled and began to cry.
Lin Yuan could only say to the baby girl's mother: "You coax her, I will go first."
Her mother smiled and said, "Go to the boss, I must take good care of her."
Yang Zian and the others basked in the sun for a while, only then saw the door slowly open.
When Lin Yuan came out from the door, the first thing was to give a warm hug to Yang Zian. Yang Zian was taken aback, and patted Lin Yuan on the back, and smiled: "I brought you back for you, money. used up."
"You have been away for so long, I am still worried that the money is not enough." Lin Yuan smiled, "Go in first."
Speaking, Lin Yuan walked in with his arms around Yang Zian's shoulders, and asked as he walked, "Who is Zhang Shicheng?"
Yang Zi'an: "Can't you recognize it?"
Lin Yuan opened his eyes and said nonsense: "That was all years ago, I can't remember."
Yang Zi'an: "I didn't find Zhang Shicheng. I found Zhang Jiu-si. He also has three younger brothers. I think otherwise, you have a wrong memory. All the surnames are Zhang."
Lin Yuan thought, yes, Zhang Shicheng used to be an ordinary salt man, how could the people at the bottom have a serious name.
He hurriedly followed Yang Zian's words and said, "I should have remembered it wrong."
Yang Zi'an: "But he brought back a lot of people."
Lin Yuan looked back, Zhang Jiusi and his party walked behind very restrained, but they kept looking left and right.
"Not too much." Lin Yuan briefly said about the previous incident, "We are just short of people."
Some time ago Jiang Guang came here according to his words and brought the three horses he had said before. By the way, he exaggerated and exaggerated the jade that Lin Yuan gave him, and took a few pieces away, indicating that Lin Yuan must be asked for it before the winter The people who brought it were afraid that there were too many five hundred, and Lin Yuan could not manage it.
Lin Yuan told him to just send it, they can naturally take care of it.
Yang Zi'an said: "The dormitory is not enough, right?"
Lin Yuan nodded, thinking that Yang Zian was simply the roundworm in his stomach: "Sure enough, you still understand me. I think the new dormitory must be built. Fortunately, although the craftsman who built the house last time has gone, there are Many people built it along with them. They have experience and know how to do it. This time, you don’t have to go outside to get people. The bricks will probably require you to find someone to burn again."
Yang Zi'an: "It's not a troublesome thing. It's better to build three floors and fix a few more."
Lin Yuan nodded: "But it won't last long. At the end of next year, we have to move out."
Yang Zi'an was taken aback: "Where to move?"
Lin Yuan just smiled: "I will know then."
It’s too early to speak now. It’s normal to wait until the Red Scarf Army's uprising next year, when the world prevails, and it’s normal to follow the rod. At that time, it will become normal for them to attack Xinghua again.
Yang Zian couldn't tell, so he didn't ask.
Zhang Jiusi and the others were looking at this piece of fertile fields and the crops on it. They were a little too slow. Li Liu said next to Zhang Jiusi, "You really have a name called Zhang Shicheng?"
Zhang Jiusi also whispered: "It may not be me."
Li Liu was surprised: "Isn't this a lie?"
Zhang Jiu Si: "You speak quietly!"
Lin Yuan walked over to Zhang Jiusi at this time. He was different from the people around him. As long as he had eyes, he knew that this was the owner. Lin Yuan now looks a little bit like a son, and he doesn’t go to work. It is not in the wind or the sun, and the facial features are not bad, so he looks like a white-faced boy.
But this is just to compare with the others in Zhuangzi.
"Zhang Jiu Si." Lin Yuan called Zhang Jiu Si's name.
Zhang Jiusi stood out from the crowd, and Lin Yuan looked at him up and down. He remembered that Zhang Shicheng was a person with "less bravery and arrogance" in the record.
In fact, in essence, there are many similarities with the original owner, but he lost his way after success.
Zhang Jiusi looked at Lin Yuan.
Lin Yuan said: "You come with me."
Zhang Jiusi looked back at his brothers again, and finally walked out with Lin Yuan.
Lin Yuan took Zhang Jiu-si to a relatively secluded place. He knew that Zhang Jiu-si was willing to come with Yang Zian because at this time Zhang Jiu-si had already been forced to the road of desperation, and he was still in a position to resist. Margin, but Zhang Jiu-four is not a person who has no fear of imperial power, otherwise he would not be forced to turn back until 13 years.
That's why Yang Zi'an released a rope that symbolized the way of life, and he would grab it when he knew there were many doubts.
"You are not the person I am looking for." Lin Yuan said.
Zhang Jiu Si was taken aback, he was a little flustered, after all, he didn't often lie.
Lin Yuan said again: "But it's all here, so just stay at ease. Although I haven't found my friend, but you are all here, naturally I won't call you back again."
Zhang Jiusi looked at Lin Yuan with a good look, wondering what kind of living Bodhisattva descended to earth?
"It's just your brothers." Lin Yuan said, "You can't make trouble for me."
Zhang Jiusi patted his chest and promised: "That's natural."
Zhang Jiusi and the others were assigned to the dormitory, but they couldn't live in a family room, they had to live separately, and they had to go to the kitchen when eating.
Zhang Jiusi and their four brothers plus one Li Liu were assigned to a dormitory where three people had already lived. When they entered, the three people who had lived there greeted them enthusiastically and learned that they were Congxing. Those who came from over there became more enthusiastic.
"What's going on outside now?"
"You have salt, you must be rich."
Zhang Jiusi and the others looked at the bed that had been made, and they held them down for four or five points, and another five or six points were hanging in the air. They couldn't get up or get down when they fell. My eyes are full of surprises, I have never seen a bed like this in my life.
"This is the way our boss thought of." The aboriginal in the same dormitory laughed. "The boss said that there are too many people and there is no place to take care of it. The bunk beds can be used to sleep so many people can write, and there is no need to crowded together. A bed, comfortable."
Zhang Jiusi asked him: "What kind of person is your boss?"
The man said: "Speaking of our boss, come, sit down, and listen to me."
The other two smiled and said, "Brother Zhao talks a lot, please listen, he won't let you go if he doesn't say a lot of things."
The person known as Brother Zhao said: "I was a refugee before. Like me, the two of them couldn't stay in their hometown. They walked here with others. It was snowing at the time! Masters in the city. Regardless of us, I don’t know how many people died of freezing and starvation. It just so happened that the owner wanted to recruit people to build a house. This is where we live. I built it myself."
"Originally, after the house was built, the craftsmen were gone. We had nowhere to go, so we asked the owner to let us stay."
Brother Zhao patted his thigh: "The owner didn't blink, so he told us to stay."
Zhang Jiusi asked quickly: "Then what do you do on weekdays?"
Brother Zhao: "It depends on what group you are in. I am in Guanshi Jiang's group. I have to train in the morning and do farm work in the afternoon. For other groups, there will be training in the morning and fishing in the afternoon and hunting in the morning and afternoon. Do everything, you can distinguish clearly."
This is similar to their salt farms, each has its own division of labor, but they don't need training.
"What are you training?" Zhang Jiu Si asked.
Brother Zhao said: "There are too many, what kind of push-ups and leapfrogs, there are so many tricks, the boss said, this is to exercise our physical strength, and sometimes the boss will train with me."
Zhang Jiusi asked again: "Why do you need training?"
Brother Zhao: "Do you think it's very peaceful here? What if there are bandits coming? Don't we have to go?"
Zhang Jiusi swallowed.
Brother Zhao smiled and said, "It's no big deal, I've never been afraid of it, man, I'm afraid of being an egg!"
The roommate dismissed him mercilessly: "Last time someone came, you almost peeed your pants in fright. If we didn't support you, you might be a deserter."
Brother Zhao: "Bah! Am I peeing my pants?! Then I just sweat a little bit!"
Zhang Jiusi glanced at his three younger brothers.
Zhang Jiuwu said: "Brother, I'm here anyway. I want to do so much, so I don't have to be hungry."
"Yeah, what do you eat in the cafeteria?" Zhang Jiuqi, the youngest, asked Brother Zhao intently.
Brother Zhao: "We usually eat multi-grain steamed buns and stir-fried vegetables. The oil and water are enough. Our Zhuangzi can squeeze the oil and eat meat once every seven days. If someone from outside comes to beat us, or which one did we beat? Bandit villages can eat all the fine grains and meat."
Zhang Jiuqi's saliva was about to drain, but when he thought of wanting to eat meat, he had to work hard, and he was a little scared when he was excited.
He asked: "When do you eat today?"
Brother Zhao said, "We will have dinner two hours later, and then I will tell you about the rules of eating."
Zhang Jiuqi was taken aback: "There are rules for eating?"
Brother Zhao nodded: "That's natural. Here, there are rules for shit."
The four brothers and Li Liu were all taken aback. This place is so strange? There are rules for eating and shit?
Brother Zhao took them to the corridor and told them to look at the toilet next to the dormitory: "That's the Gongsho, where you usually have to and pee. You have to wash your hands at the door when you come out.
"As the owner said, it is easy to get sick and dirty if you don't wash your hands!" Zhao Ge held his head high, with a proud expression that he knew better, "What the owner said makes sense! Our owner has read books!"
Zhang Jiusi looked at the Gongsuo like a house with a psychedelic expression.
Brother Zhao: "If you go to the Gongsuo at night, remember to light the torch outside so that you don't fall into it. There was a hapless guy who fell into it last time. Who told him to grow so thin, he finally climbed up."
Everyone: "..."
That hapless guy is really unlucky.
They can all imagine how he crawled out of the pit.
Brother Zhao: "That's almost all, what else do you want to ask?"
Brother Zhao added: "By the way, if you work hard, there are rewards. The two people in each group who do the best every day can eat bonus meals. One cup of stew, if you save a bit, you can eat two meals. It's all big chunks of meat and a bowl of white rice."
These fifty-odd people have arranged their rooms. After all, they have just arrived in the new environment. Most of them are still a little uneasy. Fortunately, the people in the dormitory are very enthusiastic, and they are not as nervous as they were at first.
Can it be done without enthusiasm? During this period of time, Lin Yuan has been making repeated orders and complaints to them. After Zhuangzi, many people will definitely come. If they are looking for trouble, they will be sent out and go outside to rule the king. If they find someone oppressing the newcomer, as long as someone reports it, after verification, The whistleblower can also get a knife of meat and a bag of rice, as well as a bamboo rat and a fat chicken.
Therefore, even if you are not very enthusiastic about newcomers, you will not find fault. Now in this world, no one wants to be driven out.
Driving out is basically a dead word.
Even if you don't die, you can't live a good life like in Zhuangzi. Although every day is hard, you don't have to worry about food, clothing and housing.
Everyone also has two new sets of clothes each season. Although they are almost all the same size and color, poor people cannot wear a few new clothes in their lifetime. Where else can anyone choose this?
At dinner that night, Zhang Jiu-si and his brothers were assigned to a fishing group. There were also a few fellow villagers with them. They were newcomers, and they met the team leader during dinner.
The leader of the fishing team was surnamed Zheng, originally named Zheng Liuer. Later, he went to Lin Yuan and gave him a new name, Zheng Zhizhong. After he had a name, he would not allow others to call him Zheng Liu during working hours. Second, it must be called a big name.
"The owner said before that the daily catch is enough, and the more is our own." Zheng Liuer and Zhang Jiusi said, "If we fight more, we will share the more fish, without cooking. The guys can borrow the kitchen, which is convenient."
Zhang Jiusi asked, "What if you don't fight enough?"
Zheng Liuer smiled and said: "Where there are not enough fish, there are a lot of fish in that river, there are a lot in winter, the amount set by the owner is not high, usually it can be finished in one or two hours."
Some of the fish caught were taken directly to the kitchen, and some were dried and hung as salted fish, waiting to be eaten in winter.
Early the next morning, Zhang Jiu Si and the others heard a loud noise outside, and Gu almost jumped up in fright, only to regain their composure after touching the ceiling and bed board with their heads.
Brother Zhao and the others slowly got up from the quilt, rubbed their eyes and said, "This is for us to get up."
Zhang Jiusi and the others only breathed a sigh of relief.
"We are too lazy to fetch water, so we can wash by the stream. Are you with us?" Brother Zhao asked.
Zhang Jiusi smiled: "Naturally go with Brother Zhao."
Brother Zhao led them to wash their faces, had breakfast together, and then went to the square for training together.
In the first hour, they practiced obedience. They rushed wherever Lin Yuan pointed, and then took the knife. Lin Yuan gave an order, and they went over to chop the wood stakes that had been covered in bruises.
After an hour, I started daily training, running, push-ups, leapfrogging, throwing stones and so on.
When the bell rang during the lunch break, they yelled and rushed to the cafeteria.
Zhang Jiusi discovered that no one was lazy and no one was supervising the work. During the training, there was a team of ten people who supervised each other.
He is rather strange.
Brother Zhao said, "You are lazy. If you are reported by the same group, you can only eat one meal tomorrow, but he can eat meat!"
Zhang Jiusi suddenly realized.
This Zhuangzi was more hidden than he thought.
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Strive to make Zhang Jiu Si and the others famous soon.
It's all numbers, but I am afraid that readers will be tired.
Thanks: Ju Ziyi threw a landmine
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