Chapter 24 Two captains, we are going to get rich
"Everyone line up, line up! Come one by one, we won't run out of food for you." A soldier directed the villagers to put down the food they were carrying, weigh it, and then register it.
After registration, they were directed to line up to receive food.
"Come, come one by one, uncle, how much food can you help carry back?" The young soldier who was distributing food asked the uncle who was the first in line.
The old man wiped his sweat while holding the pole, and handed over a note with a smile: "I don't know, the boss at the weighing registration said it, and I got so excited that I forgot... But it's written on the note!"
The young soldier took the note and looked at it: "Wow! Uncle, you are really strong!
He helped us carry back more than 160 kilograms, 50 kilometers of mountain roads, a full 100 miles. He is stronger than us youngsters!
According to what our master said, if you help carry back 100 kilograms, you will get 20 kilograms as compensation. Now you weigh 160 kilograms, so you should be paid 32 kilograms. Do you think it is correct?"
The old man said with a simple and honest face: "I don't know how to count. The number of pounds you say is the number of pounds. The leaders of the Eighth Route Army will not cheat us ordinary people."
The young soldier smiled and weighed 32 kilograms of food for the old man. At the end he added a little more to make the scale tilt up, and the old man was so happy that he squinted his eyes and could not see.
"Auntie, you weigh 80 kilograms, so I'll give you 16 kilograms of food. Take it..."
"Little friend, you can walk this far even with ten kilograms of food on your back! Here... these are two kilograms of food given to you.
Don't run around for a while! The meal is almost ready, and we'll have some big steamed buns to eat soon!"
"Brother, yours is 150 kilograms, this is the 30 kilograms of food you deserve, take it!
Lunch is almost ready. Although it’s a little late, it’s still lunch. Let’s eat big white steamed buns…”
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When Li Yunlong and Ding Wei arrived at the Scout School, they saw a lively scene.
"What's going on? There were only about a hundred people, but now there are more than 300 people including the elderly and children.
How much supplies did you seize?"
Li Yunlong asked Liu Qiang, and Liu Qiang knew how many guns and ammunition were seized, but now the people were carrying food, and he didn't know how much food there was.
"Anyway, there was only one big warehouse in the Zhang family compound, with a lot of food. I think there were about 8,000 to 9,000 kilograms!
At that time, we thought we couldn’t move it and wanted to distribute it to the local people, but Mr. Chen said, no!
Then he discussed with the common people and asked them to help move the food back, and then work for him here for two days. They would get food for the work and go back after the work was done.
But when discussing with the local people, there was a condition, that is, no one in Zhangzhuang could be left behind, and as long as they could all reach our base, they would receive a reward of 20 kilograms for every 100 kilograms of food they helped carry back.
At that time, the people were very happy, but we didn’t understand why Mr. Chen did this.
However, when we were about to return to the base, the scout who had stayed behind to observe came back and reported that he saw a large group of Japanese soldiers attacking Zhangzhuang at noon.
We finally understood what the gentleman meant, and this was what he was worried about.”
Ding Wei nodded in agreement: "Okay, this intellectual is very responsible for taking the safety of the people into consideration.
But does a maintenance guild chairman have so much food at home?
Where is your husband? I can't wait to see him now! "
Li Yunlong thought the same thing: "Hurry up and lead the way!"
What is Chen Xiao doing?
He assigned a task to Fang Dafu, asking him to arrange for the young and old men in Zhangzhuang to level the slope of the hill, open up the land, and build ridges.
In the past, crops could not be grown on these hills because there was no water. Although crops like wheat and millet are not as dependent on water as rice, they cannot grow crops without water.
But the potatoes given by the system are different. Kexin No. 1 is drought-resistant even in modern times, not to mention the seeds that have been optimized by the system.
Once these potatoes are mature and harvested, you can plant the next season.
We will try to roll out this grain variety as soon as possible. Although it is no longer within the mission scope, it would be good to be able to make a contribution.
So, when Li Yunlong and Ding Wei found him, he was planning the land with Fang Dafu.
When he saw Li Yunlong, he said, "Hurry up and implement it. Prepare the land. When you plant potatoes next season, you will learn from me, and as a teacher, you will teach the people how to plant them."
Then, he walked towards Li Yunlong , who laughed from a distance and said, "Scholar, I heard that you got rich, so I'm here to fight the local tyrant!
Just by attacking the chairman of the maintenance association, we were able to seize two Czech light machine guns and more than fifty rifles. We didn't get such a large amount of seizures even when we attacked the regular troops!"
Chen Xiao laughed and scolded: "You are the director of the clothing factory, and you still want to beat my local tyrant. Even if I give you the gun, do you have anyone?"
Li Yunlong was unhappy: "Xiucai, you said you are a cultured person, an intellectual, you don't hit people in the face, you don't expose their shortcomings when you scold them, don't you know that?
Okay, no more bullshit!
Let me introduce to you, the new commander of the New 1st Regiment, Ding Wei, an old comrade of mine when we crossed the grasslands during the Long March. From now on, you will be eating from the same ladle with him, so you have to curry favor with him!
Lao Ding is not as easy to talk to as me! "
Chen Xiao then noticed Ding Wei standing next to Li Yunlong. He was not tall, about the same height as Li Yunlong, with strong limbs, bright eyes, and a shrewd look. He was probably a cunning person like Li Yunlong.
"So it's Captain Ding who has arrived. I'm sorry for not welcoming you in person!"
Ding Wei looked at the fair-skinned scholar in front of him and felt that he was nothing like the man Li Yunlong had described, the one whose gun and cannon never missed their targets, and the one Liu Qiang had described as the man who could kill someone with one hand.
"Mr. Chen, if Lao Li hadn't told me, I would have thought you were just in your early 20s. I didn't expect you to be almost the same age as us."
Seeing Ding Wei's politeness, Li Yunlong felt anxious for him: "Don't be so pretentious, Xiucai is not such a reserved person.
You should say this, scholar. I heard from Lao Li that you are good at shooting with a gun, firing a cannon, and killing the enemy with your bare hands. I just came to see if you are a man with eyes like copper bells, a height of ten feet, and a body of ten feet wide.
I didn't expect him to be a weak scholar...
That's the right thing to say!"
Li Yunlong's joke instantly brought Chen Xiao and Ding Wei closer together.
"Alright! I asked you to come here, not to brag or chat, so I'll just shamelessly call you Lao Li or Lao Ding.
Let’s put it this way…we’re going to be rich!
Big fortune! ! "
Make a fortune?
Li Yunlong and Ding Wei looked at each other. For them, two regimental commanders, getting a 92mm rifle and a few heavy machine guns was just a small fortune.
I think Chen Xiao definitely understood this point, so as soon as he said this, it was immediately taken seriously.
Since Chen Xiao mentioned making a fortune, it might not just be a few heavy machine guns or one or two cannons.
No way!
Just by beating up the chairman of a maintenance association and killing three Japanese, you can get a chance to make a fortune?
Li Yunlong and Ding Wei's eyes lit up instantly.
"Tell me……"
