Chapter 348, what to pretend

The first two days of digging silt to make brick blanks, everyone exchanged either let’s run, let’s go back to being a bandit, or let’s go against it!

As a result, on the third day, the discussion suddenly changed: “How many bullets do you have?”

“Hey, 10,” said Jin Lan, “I feel sure I’ll be able to get a gun in less than a month!”

Obviously they already had guns, and they had to work to qualify to get them again when they got here, which sounded particularly absurd, but everyone was suddenly happy about it.

Being able to hold a gun or not seemed to suddenly become an honor.

At first, there were many people who were lazy, all of them were pretending not to make any effort, and when others were working, they just lay down on the riverbed and slept in the sun, or watched others work.

But to the third day is a little different, before not working also feel a little shame, other people rest when they are still working, just in order to make up for the progress of the first two days to fall.

Otherwise, by the time others have taken the gun, they are dry and empty two hands, too damn embarrassing.

Moreover, Yang Xiaoguan said that if one less person didn’t finish, they couldn’t teach the class.

This makes Jin Lan muttered, he and Zhang Yiheng now each in charge of more than a hundred people, under the hands of who progress fast, who progress slow, that is clear.

Jin Lan and Zhang Yiheng totaled it up, some people are really a little bit more poor, so Jin Lan took the lead and opened a small meeting, “It’s like this, our goal is all to save up a hundred bullets to get a gun as soon as possible, but some people’s progress is falling behind, I won’t care about them if they’re still slacking off, but as you can see they’re also very anxious about it themselves, it’s like this, as the captain I’m going to give them a donation of one bullet.”

After saying that, Zhang Yiheng also said to the second team, “I will also donate one bullet that I earned.”

The bandits looked at each other in disbelief and waited for a long time before someone hesitated, “Then I’ll donate one as well, but say in advance that I’ll have to return it later!”

Not a moment later, a large group of people donated five or six, and although there were still gaps, they had closed some distance.

Jin Lan nodded in relief, “Our brothers are all good, keep working!”

Ren Xiaosu watched from afar, he suddenly said to Yang Xiaoguan beside him, “I once saw a book in the library of the 88 Barriers, it was tucked away in a corner, it’s called The Ravens.”

“There’s a sentence in this book that says that once a person is in a group, their IQ is severely lowered, and in order to gain acceptance, individuals are willing to abandon right and wrong, and exchange their IQ for that sense of belonging that makes them feel safer,” Ren Xiaosu continued, “Maybe that’s why it’s easy to be brainwashed when you’re in a group. ”

Yang Xiaoguan said calmly, “You mean that’s what’s happening to them today?”

Ren Xiaosu shook her head, “I prefer to believe it’s the power of hope.”

When a group of people had a common goal, these bandits who had shared their suffering were also looking for ways to reach that goal as soon as possible, and that was when camaraderie arose.

Jin Lan and the others were working when he suddenly realized that there were two newcomers next to him, and when he fixed his eyes on them, they turned out to be Ren Xiaosu and Yang Xiaoguan.

But saw Ren Xiaosu and Yang Xiaoguan took off their shoes and rolled up their sleeves, Jin Lan and Zhang Yiheng rushed to say: “You two don’t need to work ah, you two masters take a rest, we can do it.”

Ren Xiaosu smiled and said, “It’s alright, neither of them are pampered people, the brick blanks that the two of us make can be equally divided between your two teams, your captains will distribute them to the group members themselves.”

The bandits were stunned for a long time, they never thought that Ren Xiaosu and Yang Xiaoguan would follow them to work together.

This big shot should not be in the back rest, in the past in the factory, the foreman that is half of the work does not do, down the coal mine, the foreman is sitting outside resting to supervise the work.

And in front of these two can be more powerful than the foreman, these two are transcendent ah, especially Yang Xiaoguan, this is still a woman, even the woman followed them to work together, this sister-in-law is really a little different ah.

Ren Xiaosu’s face sank, “What are you still standing there for, slacking off?”

Jin Lan was happy: “No no, brothers keep working!”

The bandits worked silently, the work was still the same, the goal was still the same, but the moment Ren Xiaosu and Yang Xiaoguan jumped down to the river ditch, there seemed to be a little bit more something.

There was a little bit more of a human touch.

Just at this moment, there is a clamor of smoke and dust lifting up outside, Ren Xiaosu is too familiar with this scene, there are new bandits arriving ah.

According to Yang Xiaoguan’s estimation, there should be more than 3,000 bandits in the entire Guanshan, Tangwang Mountain and Daban Mountain line, and they have only collected more than 200 now, which is still far away.

Although they know that the further north the more bandits there are, they are located in the south, there are fewer bandits.

But yesterday there were no new bandits, Ren Xiaosu was still a little disappointed.

The new group of bandits probably has more than thirty people, they saw a large group of people working from afar, and they were ecstatic in their hearts, there are so many stragglers in this settlement, they are getting rich!

From a distance, Jin Lan, Zhang Yiheng, Ren Xiaosu and their arms and legs were covered with mud and water, and they didn’t even have a gun in their hands, so what are they if not vagabonds?

And in this wilderness, stragglers are the most obedient, just as catchable as livestock.

Only, when they arrived in front of them, this bandit leader suddenly felt that something was wrong, he saw Ren Xiaosu and the others all straighten their backs and calmly look at them as they approached.

The bandit leader suddenly muttered, “Why do I feel that they are not afraid of us at all?”

And at that moment, Jin Lan sighed, “Damn it there’s going to be another newcomer, they haven’t even started saving a single bullet yet.”

In his heart, Jin Lan already knew the fate of these foreign bandits, and he was just a little bit heartbroken for himself ……

That bandit stopped his motorcycle next to the river ditch, he pointed his gun at Ren Xiaosu: “All of you get on the bank, haha, still in the damn mood to make brick blanks, who gave you permission to make brick blanks?”

Jin Lan and Zhang Yiheng looked at each other, then at the same time both started to mourn for this new bandit leader.

After half an hour, the bandit leader with a blue nose and swollen face rolled up his sleeves in the river gorge, he asked Jin Lan with swollen eyes, “How many brick blanks do we have to make every day?”

Jin Lan said in a bad mood, “You people are holding us up, you know that? I’ll tell you what, if you don’t make thirty bricks today, you won’t be able to sleep.”

At this time, the bandit leader glanced at Zhang Yiheng next to him, “Wait, I know you, aren’t you the big bandit leader from Shanxi slope of Dabanshi, why are you here?”

Zhang Yiheng also didn’t have the good sense to say, “Dig your silt, cut the crap.”

This new bandit leader felt too stifled: “Aren’t you all bandits, what are you pretending to be vagabonds here ah, if I want to know that so many of you are here, I won’t come!”