Kai Fu Han

Chapter 245 Preface
November [-]th, noon.

Chai Gou has been digging a trench on the west bank of the Yellow River for ten days. Although he doesn't know what the use of digging such a trench is, if it is to divert water, the bottom of the trench is higher than the water surface of the Yellow River. Since ancient times, water has flowed downwards, so this It's definitely not used to divert water.

"All the excavated soil should be piled up to the west, not to the east."

Chai Gou looked in the direction of the sound. In the distance, a logistics engineer overseeing the work was directing the new workers who arrived today. The workers must have dumped the excavated soil on the lower east side to save effort.

Since Chai Gou's Dengzhou camp was defeated by the Xinghan League, Chai Gou has been doing "labor service" for the Xinghan League. From April to now, it has been half a year. Doing the math, according to the regulations of the Xinghan League , I can go home by the end of the year, it’s almost there.

Although the six months in the labor camp were hard work, the hard work paid off.Chai Gou is actually reluctant to leave now, because Xinghan League also pays workers who perform "labor service".Unknowingly, I had saved more than [-] kilograms of food stamps in the past six months.This number was something I could never dream of before.

"Clang! Clang! Clang!"

The crisp sound of the big iron bell rang, "It's time to put the food in! It's time to put the food in!"

Chai Gou looked up at the sky. The sun had reached the middle and it was time to have lunch.He picked up the thick cotton-padded jacket that was placed beside the trench he dug, put it on himself, then picked up his pottery bowl and chopsticks, and walked towards the cook who was serving the rice, so that he could have a warm meal early.

It's November, and the weather is already very cold. Eating hot food will make people feel more comfortable. This is why Chai Gou immediately put on a thick cotton-padded jacket after he stopped working. It's cold, and he can't keep warm after sweating. It will be easy to get cold.

When he walked to the cook, there were already a dozen people lined up in front of him. Chai Gou consciously joined the queue and did not dare to go forward to grab it, because there were soldiers from the Xinghan League guarding each cook.

"Brother Chai Gou, how much have you dug this morning?" Behind Chai Gou is a fellow villager who has basically the same experience as Chai Gou. However, this man is younger than Chai Gou and has better physical strength, but he is not very motivated. If Chai Gou is With his good physique, the amount of earth dug in a day can definitely be increased by at least [-]%.

"Five or six directions."

"Brother Chai is still very good. I only dug a little more than four square meters. I guess I won't earn ten kilograms of food stamps today."

The Xinghan League summoned these laborers to dig trenches not for nothing. In addition to providing food and housing, they were given a pound of food stamps for every square meter of soil dug.Chai Gou heard from ordinary people who were recruited at the construction site that they dug a square of soil and gave them two kilograms of food stamps.

Seeing that Chai Gou was not interested in continuing this conversation with him, the fellow villager was just about to start another conversation when the team preparing the meal had already arrived in front of the cook.The two could only prepare a meal first, then return to the place where they worked before, sit on the handle of the shovel and start eating.

"There is still meat today. The meat is quite good. It can't be beef, right?" the fellow villager said in surprise as he picked up a piece of thin meat.

Chai Gou had already eaten a piece and knew it was not beef.

"This is big fish meat. I heard that the leader of the alliance called this big fish 'whale'. It was hunted from the sea of ​​Japan thousands of miles away, and then salted and transported back to Dengzhou on a large ship."

Chai Gou used to work in Baishiwan and was among the first people in Dengzhou to eat whale meat.

"So this is whale meat. I heard that one whale weighs tens of thousands of kilograms. That's a lot of meat!"

Chai Gou stopped talking and just fried the marinated meat with cabbage and quickly devoured the brown rice in the bowl.The steamed brown rice was still a bit harsh on his throat. Chai Gou, who ate too quickly, choked and coughed violently.The fellow villager quickly took out his own bamboo tube to hold water, opened the stopper and handed it to Chai Gou.

Chai Gou took a few sips of water before he recovered. "Don't be so anxious. Now there's no limit. Eat as much as you want. You can go and fight again after you've eaten." The fellow villager laughed.

"I got used to it. When I was first captured, although I could refill my meals, I usually couldn't refill if I ate too slowly, so I developed the habit of devouring meals." Chaigou replied.

"I heard from the leader that eating too fast is not good for the stomach, so now we are given a half-hour lunch break so that we can eat slowly. Good times are coming, and you have to learn to enjoy it."

Chai Gou also knew this truth, but after suffering for half his life, he really couldn't enjoy it.

"Brother Chai, do you know? We dug this trench to defend against the attacks of the Tartars and the Puppet Qi." The fellow villagers said while eating, not worrying about the war in their words, as if they knew that the Xinghan League would surely win.

Chai Gou quickly finished the first bowl of rice, went to make another bowl, and then sat down to eat slowly.

"I heard about it, but I just don't understand what use such a small and shallow trench can be. It can be crossed in one step, and it is lower than the river level to store water." Chai Gou was not worried about the outcome of the war.

"I don't understand either, but I heard that this is the leader's idea. A godlike figure like the leader must have his reasons."

The two of them calmed down and ate for a while. After the fellow countryman had his second bowl of rice, he could not help but say again: "Brother Chai, let's work together. I see there are already several groups on the construction site." If it’s dry, the excavation will go much faster.”

Chai Gou also knew that by tying a rope on the shovel head and having one person pull it and another shovel it, the shovel could be shoveled quickly and effortlessly.There is also one person who is responsible for loosening the soil with a soil pick, and one person who uses a shovel to shovel loosen the soil can work faster than one person.

"You can promise not to be lazy. I don't want to work with you and earn less than I would on my own. I have seniors and juniors, and they rely on the food stamps I earn to support me. I am the only strong worker in my family now. "

"Brother Chai, don't worry. I promise not to be lazy. There is a notice posted at the door of the construction site camp. When the trench is dug this time, when the project is completed, anyone who digs more than [-] cubic meters of earth will be rewarded with a cotton-padded jacket. I want to earn this cotton-padded jacket."

"Really?" Chai Gou asked in surprise. He had been immersed in work all morning, and he didn't know how to read. He didn't know there was this notice at the entrance of the campsite.

"Really, I saw it when I came out in the morning."

"Okay, let's team up. After dinner, I'll get a pickaxe. You loosen the soil while I shovel it. We'll try to dig out fifteen square meters of it before dark this afternoon." Chai Gou's eating speed accelerated again. .

The tools used by workers are all distributed by the labor camp. You can choose the appropriate tools according to your own abilities and habits. However, the recipient will be asked to sign for confirmation when receiving them. When the tools are returned, the iron parts must be complete. , wooden handle is not required.

In the past six months, Chai Gou has learned to write his own name. It turns out that Chai Gou’s gou is the word for "dog", but the clerk of the labor camp changed the word for "gou". Ziqiang is much stronger. Chai Gou himself also likes the implication of "gouhuo" represented by this word, as long as he can live, it is good.

However, the clerk who changed his name said that the "Gou" he changed was the first character extracted from "Gou benefits the country's life and death", which means: "If it is beneficial to the country, I will not care about life or death." This is It is a poem written by the leader of the alliance.

This realm is too high for Chai Gou. He doesn't even understand what a country is now.

(End of this chapter)