From Chief to Ball

After hearing Chen Jian's words, Yue Mei joked with the people next to her, "This is called fishing out of water."

After hearing these four words, I felt sorry for the fish and shrimps in the lower reaches of the river for no reason. I am afraid that the smallest fish and shrimps will die because of the dryness of the river. Maybe I have never seen winter snow, spring willows, summer cicadas and autumn geese.

Thinking of this kind of unreasonable pity, she couldn't help being a little disturbed, not because of pity itself, but because she knew that Chen Jian hated this kind of pity the most, but she couldn't help it.

She stood there blankly for a long time, until the whistle to go to school blew, and she ran away in a hurry.

In class, a teacher no older than them was talking about the third text. He was talking about morning clouds and rain, and evening clouds and sunshine. By the way, he took out the notes written by Chen Jian and talked about some simple things about looking at the clouds and knowing the weather. .

When a few clouds in the shape of fish scales were drawn with white talc on the dark wooden board, there were suddenly loud noises outside. The people in the class were not afraid at all. Some people's dogs are too lazy to bark.

Yuemei looked at the time, and thought that this group of people worked so fast, why was it so long before the noon was agreed?

When it was time to eat at noon, the inland river that had no water in Yuemei's eyes was already sparkling, and the turbid water gradually rose, filling the canals that were originally used for digging clay and firing bricks. The workshop and the construction area are connected together.

There were constant noises coming from the lower reaches of the original small river in the distance, presumably they were catching fish there while the water receded.

On the muddy water, strange wide-faced boats were sailing on them. The ones from the river above were filled with stones, and the ones from the brick kilns below were filled with red bricks.

Where the waterways intersect, a person waving a black and white flag stands there, staring at the water surface over the construction area. When red bricks are needed, the black flag will be lowered first to let the ships filled with red bricks pass. A lot of bricks have been piled up, let the ships full of stones pass first.

The construction area where only the foundations had been excavated was already full of people, busy in an orderly manner. Three brick walls half a person's height had risen on the three foundations that had been filled yesterday.

A group of ten people cooperated with each other, and the one who was laying bricks was obviously from Xiacheng, because his clothes were better than those of the other nine.One workshop worker was in charge of delivering the bricks upwards, and three people were in charge of carrying the red bricks by the inland river. The three were mixing the mud there, and the other two carried the yellow mud mixed with lime on ceramic plates for the person above to take.

Occasionally, there are shouts for adding more water or more ash to the mud, but the speed of building is not slow at all. With a long water tank leveling, like ink lines standing on both sides, the entire wall All straight.

Farther away, a group of people are walking towards this side carrying a pile of triangular wooden shelves. Each wooden shelf seems to be the same in shape, the same height and the same length, and even when they are together, there is no difference. What's the difference, the mortise and tenon bayonet is some tight and some loose, the tight one comes from the veteran and the loose one comes from the novice.

All of this is like a frozen picture, except for the ever-increasing walls, everything else seems to look the same after an hour.

Not only Yuemei, but also those young people who were about to eat were shocked, they had never seen such a scene before, and this speed shocked them even more.

A few days ago, it was still chaotic and no progress, but it suddenly became orderly on this misty morning, and what was even more frightening was that it was like eating without biting your own tongue - the speed of filling the foundation was always faster than the speed of building the house Fast five, and five is the number of people who build the house at the same time, no more, no less, exactly the same.

I thought it would be a waste of a month to carry the bricks, but with the sound of a few gunpowder, it disappeared invisible, saving people and time for carrying the bricks.

Beside Yuemei, Su Tang stared blankly at all this, and murmured: "Excavating soil to burn bricks, filling pits with water, transporting bricks and stones, bricks and mud, taking mud and water nearby... the original five things turned into one." piece? Jixia was planning to do this from the beginning? Or was it a temporary idea?"

Yue Mei rolled his eyes at him, and snorted, "Of course I planned to do this from the beginning. Ji Xia asked us to learn, not just the things in the textbooks, we also want to learn these things."

Su Tang sighed, shook his head and said, "I thought that Ji Xia could only finish building the house we live in before winter, but I never thought that he could build houses for so many people on the island. I'm glad I came so early Well, these damp houses made of mud are not in vain.”

Yue Mei was very happy when she heard such praise, she smiled and looked away and walked to the place where they ate.

Lunch was as she expected, a variety of fish.Fried small fish with meat, steamed medium fish in sweet and sour sauce, and raw large fish with wasabi.The soup was clam soup, and the after-dinner dessert was a weird mixture of baked, smashed fish and shrimp minced meat mixed with flour, but it was delicious.

She raised her chopsticks and hesitated for a while, finally she picked up a pitiful little fish that was one finger long, stared at the white, small, protruding, and round eyes that seemed to be restless, looked at it for a moment, and then sighed. , stuffed into the mouth.

Chapter 1 Passive confrontation

As the construction of Shanjiao Island gradually entered the right track, Chen Jian's mood gradually improved, and his hoarse voice could finally make sounds that were not like birdsong.

But this good mood didn't last for two days. First, the workshop workers on the promontory island didn't know it was a habit passed down from that clan. During their breaks, they gathered together to barbecue and smell the hemp leaves, which is a kind of weaving hemp. Thread hemp.

Originally, it was just something that the primitive priests of a clan used to smoke to keep their minds clear or to communicate with the gods.

These workshop workers are exhausted from life and can't afford alcohol, so they have to relax in this way. Anyway, they don't have much hope to live, and they can't want to do big things like those people.

It's not a big deal, just stop it in time, but when a group of people sat around the room and listened to Chen Jian's talk about the dangers of smoking, several guards in black came in and said a few words to Chen Jian.

At that time, there were more than a dozen people sitting in the room, all of them were high-level people in charge of many workshop workers on the promontory island. They didn't know what the guard in black and Chen Jian said.

But then they knew that this matter was serious, because this was the first time they saw Chen Jian get so angry.

With a slap on the wooden table, a white pottery bowl on it was smashed to pieces, and the palm was covered with blood from the pottery shards.

Red Fish hastily called the people from the Medical Department to bandage him up. When the pottery fragments were clamped out, Chen Jian seemed to be unconscious at all.

Since he became the leader, everyone has never seen him get angry like this, and he has always been reasonable. It's not just these people, even Hongyu, who has never seen such an extremely angry appearance.

While cleaning the wound, Red Fish quietly dragged a black-clothed guard outside, and asked quietly, "What happened? Why is he so angry?"

The black-clothed guard shook his head and said, "I can't tell. Ji Xia didn't ask me to tell others, so I can't tell others."

Red Fish gritted his teeth, but he was helpless. When he was about to ask Chen Jian himself, he heard Chen Jian shout: "Come in, and tell everyone what happened."

A black-clothed guard walked in, and the other two stood guard at the door.

"Something happened to the farming department. All the newly burned wheat fields on the farm have been planted early."

The following group of people have all been farmers. Wheat ears are a symbol of Xiacheng, and every old countryman in Xiacheng is familiar with it. This is the basis for Xiacheng to get out of the mountains and start to settle.

When the black-clothed guard said this, the group of people understood everything.Planting too early and growing too fast before the wintering period will result in insufficient tillers, and the wheat seedlings will be slender and unable to survive the winter at all.Even if there are those who survived the winter and survived the winter, they will basically lose production in the second year.

But it's not like this kind of thing hasn't happened in Xiacheng, so why is it worth getting so angry?Even if a village farm fails to produce, it will not affect the life of the next year. Anyway, now Yucheng is nourished by Xiacheng's workshops, so it will not starve to death.

After hearing what the black-clothed guard had said, Chen Jian tore off the half-wrapped sackcloth on his hands, startling the woman who was bandaging him.

"You are all people who have grown wheat. Even in Xiacheng, you know the difference between a sunny slope and a shady slope, and the difference between a river and a valley."

"I said earlier that the climate here is not the same as Xiacheng. It is warmer than Xiacheng. When planting wheat, we should pay attention to the timing. It is best to divide it into several patches and set a date for large-scale promotion next year. The result What? All of a sudden, thousands of people in the village community and farm have been busy for so long, and all their efforts have been wasted!"

Red Fish quickly persuaded him: "It's worth being so angry? Anyway, I don't expect those village farms to support the workshops in Yucheng this year. Hasn't Xiacheng also suffered from frost and early frost? Look at you, there are people doing it on weekdays. My fault is much bigger than this, and I don't see you being so angry."

The people below also nodded one after another, feeling a little puzzled.

Chen Jian gritted his teeth and pointed at the black-clothed guard, "Talk to them. When you asked, what did that Manyuan tell you? And what did he tell the group of people in the village and farm?"

Manyuan is a Xiacheng native who is in charge of the village farm.Man, casting a net in broad daylight; shaft, the pole of a cart.This was one of the first dozen or so surnames that Xia Cheng had at the beginning, and the character "Yuan" at the back was obviously a name he picked up himself after Xia Cheng had a car.

Everyone is familiar with this name. As an extremely smart young man in the clan who first learned to cast nets besides the four surnames of Ji Qin, he has done a lot in Xia City and is also famous in the school. He was the first to follow Ji Song After leaving Xiacheng, he went to the lower reaches of the Dahe River. When he came back, he saw the bullock cart and changed his name.

I came to Onozawa very early, and was also one of the first batch of people who could read and count who were sent by Chen Jian to a deserted village and farm.

Everyone was very curious about what kind of words Manyuan said to make Chen Jian so angry.

The black-clothed guard cleared his throat and said, "He said, he said that Jixia asked him to go to the village farm to teach these people how to read and write and guide the farming season. Jixia once said that the autumnal equinox is the right time to plant wheat, and now this is also written Regarding the textbooks, Ji Xia has always been right. Of course, wheat must be planted at the autumnal equinox. He also told the group of people in the village farm that this is Ji Xia’s order, and they must plant at the autumnal equinox in the future. Don’t do this It's against Ji Xia..."

Boom!

Another clay pot was thrown to the ground by Chen Jian, and he cursed: "Listen to what is this called? I also said that there are snow-capped mountains and flowers under the mountains. How could he forget?"

"Ask him to go to the village farm to teach those people how to read while farming. He is reluctant, but he can't stop me. Well, didn't you, Jixia, let me go to the farm? I will let you have no harvest! I call you, Jixia My name is against you, what can you Jixia do to me? Anyway, now that there are textbooks, is it possible that you, Jixia, are willing to tear up the textbooks and say that you are wrong? Didn’t you, Jixia, want those people to learn to read? They think you're an idiot! When the time comes, other people will have something to eat, but the farm won't. Whose fault is it? It's not your fault, Jixia? You said that the autumnal equinox is the right time for planting wheat!"

Chen Jian finished speaking angrily, and roared: "The villages and farms are all the same. Could it be that he, Manyuan, is the only one?"

"Who is Man Yuan? Have all these people heard what they can say?"