Chapter 346.

The long winter in the northwestern region was finally coming to an end, Ren Xiaosu saw that there were plants sprouting new shoots beside the river, and he also saw that the dormant insects in the soil gradually began to awaken.

The spring floods are coming, the snowy mountains in the northwest that stretch for thousands of miles will gradually melt, the sunlight will turn the snow and ice into tens of thousands of streams, which will then converge together from west to east and become fast flowing rivers.

Some people say that this water comes from the sky and runs eastward never stopping.

The river valley area that had been dry for many months would get the most abundant water in the spring, which was the best time for them to farm and irrigate, and at that time, the huge river water would fill up a gully and turn the earth-colored depression into a riverbed.

Ren Xiaosu would have to lead the bandits to make enough bricks and mortar before the spring floods arrived.

As soon as the spring floods arrived with the trees upstream, they could start the kiln to burn the bricks.

Some people say why so hard to burn bricks ah, build a little adobe house is good, we have been so live over it.

But Ren Xiaosu said, “Why should we not be able to live in a brick house when the walled people can? And not only to build houses, but also to build fortifications.

A straggler asked whether to build a new barriers, Ren Xiaosu froze for a moment, he smiled and said the wilderness is not quite good, why do we all circle.

When he said this, the stragglers were silent, but they all worked a little more diligently.

Bandits put down their guns, one by one barefoot in the river valley side of the silt digging, basket after basket of silt digging up, in the ground to make into brick blanks.

Dredging this thing think quite easy, but do it is difficult, the bandits brought all the firearms, not even a shovel, want to dig silt all rely on the hands.

The weather is cold, a fierce bandit freezing like a grandson, but still insist on doing.

“If you push them so hard, will they give up?” Yang Xiaoguan asked.

“No,” Ren Xiaosu smiled and said, “The more tired they are, the more they believe it’s all real, and the easier it is, the more they’ll instead suspect it’s all a lie.”

“Then they will find out one day later,” Yang Xiaoguan said.

Ren Xiaosu turned his head to Yang Xiaoguan and said seriously, “I want to build a home here, before this idea wasn’t so clear, but when I saw them working, this idea gradually became clearer, and when the time comes, I will give them an explanation.”

And this, is also Ren Xiaosu’s first step in training these bandits, he wants to first let these bandits who are used to eating and loafing and looting days, turn their habits around.

Let them suffer here, and then build up a strange emotion called shared suffering.

After a tiring day, the bandits complained one by one, even Jin Lan started to waver, he looked at the mud on his hands and feet and was on the verge of crying from exhaustion, “Why don’t we just go back to being bandits and not go to the laborious 178 barriers, it’s too much of a pain in the ass!”

“Right,” someone sat powerlessly on the edge of the riverbed, looking up to the sky in disbelief, “What are we trying to do here.”

The two people, Jin Lan and Zhang Yiheng, were now the captain of the first team and the captain of the second team respectively, and when some people saw that the captains were starting to waver, they wavered even more.

At noon, some stragglers from the settlement suddenly came over with baskets, they put the baskets on the ground, Jin Lan asked curiously, “Old folks, what’s this?”

An honest straggler smiled shyly and said, “Before you helped us dig the aqueduct, I never had the time to thank you, this is the nest that I made myself, it’s not good, don’t dislike it.”

Jin Lan froze for a moment, he did not know how to deal with such a scene, the words to the mouth suddenly cursed: “blind fucking polite what ah, do not need to be polite with me, put it there, there is still work need to help squeak a voice.”

Jin Lan a old man is not to help you, I just want to work expression, the stragglers dislike a blank stare.

At this time, someone asked Jin Lan, “Captain, let’s run, just for tonight?”

As a result, Jin Lan hesitated for a moment and said, “Hold on for two more days to see how things go, it’s not too late to run after two days! Look, the villagers are giving us food, let’s at least build a house for them!”

At the end of the day, everyone was spread out on the ground and didn’t want to move, Ren Xiaosu came to the river and looked at a piece of brick blanks clamped in a wooden board: “Get up, come to get the bullets, one by one, they only recognize their own brick blanks, ten for one.”

People are just very strange, obviously this bullet was originally theirs, and the bullet is not worth much, and they don’t really look at it when they are working, but the moment they realized that they could exchange it, everyone was still a little happy.

Jin Lan got up and said, “Me! I made thirty brick blanks today, the silt was too hard to dig up, otherwise I could have made more!”

Ren Xiaosu nodded, “Well, three bullets for you.”

Jin Lan looked at the three yellow bullets in her palm, and surprisingly felt some inexplicable emotion and sense of accomplishment in her heart ……

But this is clearly three ordinary bullets, what’s going on?

This was Ren Xiaosu’s idea, if he just buried his head in his work, these bandits would be frustrated because they couldn’t see any “progress” or “end” at all.

But when he broke the process down into 100 bullets, and allowed the bandits to measure their own results, there was a goal to look forward to.

Jin Lan began to calculate that he could take three bullets a day, and when he became more skillful, he might be able to take four or even five a day, and he would be out of his misery in less than a month.

How long is a month? Thinking like this, Jin Lan suddenly felt that he could hold out for a little while longer, but the big deal was that he could leave again in a month’s time, so there wasn’t much time to lose.

At this time, he looked at the others and laughed out loud when he saw that Zhang Yiheng only had two bullets in his hand, “You old boy can’t do it, why only two bullets.”

Zhang Yiheng’s face turned red with anger: “I’m not skillful, I’m sure I’ll have more than you tomorrow.”

Then Zhang Yiheng took a look at the side, there was someone else who didn’t have any bullets in his hand, he was also happy: “I’m not the worst!”

Ren Xiaosu also didn’t show anything, didn’t criticize the one who worked less, and didn’t praise the one who worked more.

Jin Lan smiled and went up to him, “Big brother, what do you think of me, I worked the most today.”

Ren Xiaosu said noncommittally, “You have to understand, it’s because you want to pass the examination that I’m giving you guys this opportunity, not to help me with anything.”

After saying that, Ren Xiaosu turned around and left.

Jin Lan stayed behind Ren Xiaosu for a long time before saying in a daze, “Thank you big brother for giving us this opportunity!”

“Thank you from Jin Lan, +1!”

Suddenly, Jin Lan turned his head and roared, “It’s still dark, you guys retreat first, I’ll work a little longer!”

The bandits looked at each other in dismay, they had been tired for the whole day and suddenly had a little motivation again, but it turned out that Yang Xiaoguan came at this time, “Don’t work, wash all your hands and prepare for class.”