Chapter 352, Seeds of Faith
As the bandits converged here, the originally depressed drifter settlement suddenly seemed to have a little more life.
Although there were bandits who went to the homes of the stragglers to steal sun-dried corncobs, the stragglers didn’t say anything when they found out, but it was Ren Xiaosu who gave the bastard a severe beating and confiscated all his bullets.
The villagers also advised Ren Xiaosu not to be so heavy-handed, causing the bandit to be beaten up and ashamed of himself.
Later, this kind of thing never happened again.
Instead, there was someone in this group who bullied the other groups, and went to other people’s homes to eat like a jerk, but Jin Lan couldn’t stand it, so he beat up these jerks and took them to the bandits to be reformed…….
These assholes are okay with bullying stragglers, but bullying bandits is something they don’t even dare to think about.
Brick and stone houses rise from the ground, the bandits all have all the strength, work especially fast.
Ren Xiaosu watched Xu Jinyuan directing the building of the house, next to him was a female drifter looking at the bastard with affection, he turned his head to Yang Xiaoguan and said, “He’s one of the pile of people you said had problems before, right?”
“Well,” Yang Xiaoguan nodded, “but there doesn’t seem to be much thievery left.”
Previously, Yang Xiaoguan was still thinking that this group of people would not make any trouble, and had been secretly observing these people, at that time, she also wondered why Ren Xiaosu wasn’t worried, and as a result, she realized that she was worried that it was actually superfluous.
Seeing Xu Jinyuan now day by day Baba looking forward to exchange bullets.
This time, they built twelve houses in one breath, this desolate wasteland wilderness, finally once again there are brick houses rising from the ground, Ren Xiaosu looked at all of this, there is a complex feeling in her heart, those sturdy brick houses, as if to symbolize the continuation of human civilization.
Each house was about 28 square feet, and a house needed about 1900 bricks, and could house more than ten people.
Although the houses were still a bit small compared to the number of people they had, the bricks from the second kiln had already begun to burn, and they could be taken out in a couple of days to continue building the houses.
Jin Lan and Zhang Yiheng had bragged to the stragglers yesterday that they would let everyone have a house to live in.
Ren Xiaosu laughed at that time and asked him, “By the time you’ve all saved enough bullets, will you still be building houses?”
Jin Lan was embarrassed and said, “We can’t watch the villagers continue to live in kilns, there are still so many small children, living in kilns is very damp, it’s not good for their health.”
Zhang Yiheng answered, “We can also build a school, build a factory ……”
Ren Xiaosu was happy: “Building an ass factory, we don’t have the technology to build a factory.”
“What if we have it later,” Zhang Yiheng muttered.
At this moment, Ren Xiaosu walked towards the masonry houses that had just been completed, and he asked Jin Lan, “Count how many bullets everyone has?”
It’s been about twenty days since the bandits started working, many of them should have saved up enough bullets, Jin Lan came back after half a day of counting and scratched his head, “Because there were new brothers joining us some time ago, we’ve absorbed quite a lot of bullets for them, so each of them is still short of roughly two or three, so tomorrow, everyone should have enough after another day of making bricks and mortar.”
It was indeed because the new bandits had slowed down everyone’s progress, otherwise counting some extra costs for moving bricks, mixing the clay agent, and sowing seeds, these bandits should have saved up enough bullets a long time ago.
Luckily, there have been no new bandits joining in lately, and the number of people is almost controlled at around four hundred, of course there are also those who escaped, but they are few and far between.
Ren Xiaosu and Yang Xiaoguan said that there should be bandits in the north who have moved southward, or else they wouldn’t have had no new bandits for more than ten days.
So I’m afraid that the next thing they will have to face is friction with the northern forces to see who can outwit who.
Until this time, Yang Xiaoguan would only recall that they had come to fight the bandits ah ……
But now is not the time to think about this, Ren Xiaosu laughed, “You haven’t counted the bullets for building the house today, I said before that each person participating in the building of the house will get 15 bullets, and I’m as good as my word.”
Saying that, Jin Lan and the others suddenly got excited, after working hard for more than twenty days, this payment was finally going to blossom!
If Ren Xiaosu had returned the guns to them at the beginning, they definitely wouldn’t have gotten excited, because those firearms were originally theirs, and they were still given by other forces for nothing.
But now it was different, saving up enough hundred bullets for the firearms was like an honor, and the reason they were excited wasn’t the gun, but that qualification of being able to hold a gun in this settlement.
As if this qualification was worth a thousand pieces of gold, they weren’t this happy before when they robbed the merchants, and they weren’t as proud as they are today, because this is what they have exchanged with their sweat.
Ren Xiaosu asked Jin Lan to bring people to carry the arms over: “What are you going to do with these guns?”
Jin Lan said excitedly, “Robbery, with several hundred of us and such unity, we can definitely sweep the entire south!”
Jin Lan didn’t say too much, after all, there are several groups of bandits in the north that are still very fierce.
Ren Xiaosu was silent for a moment, he pointed at the nearby stragglers who were watching them and said, “Robbery? Rob them?”
The onlookers froze for a moment after hearing this, and Jin Lan hurriedly explained, “Not robbing you guys ah, why would we rob you guys.”
“But there are many others like them,” Ren Xiaosu said, “They also have children and wives.”
At this point Xu Jinyuan was puzzled, “Then what are we doing with guns?”
“Protecting them,” Ren Xiaosu said with a smile, he pointed at the female drifter who hooked up with Xu Jinyuan every day, “Protecting Xiao Cui, protecting the villagers, protecting the family.”
Xu Jinyuan did not speak, Xiao Cui was outside between shyness to send him a fierce eye ……
Ren Xiaosu picked up a gun to hand Xu Jinyuan with both hands: “Take this gun, we are a family, is a comrade in arms, is a brother, is a family.”
Xu Jinyuan squirmed and took the gun, followed by Jin Lan and Zhang Yiheng who had an excited look on their faces.
They hugged the black, cold firearm as if it was a treasure, and Jin Lan said to the villagers, “Don’t worry, with me, Lao Jin, no bandits can rob you!”
Yang Xiaoguan silently watched all this from the side, looking at the teenager who was like a protagonist in the center of the stage, she had said that it was hard to get a group of bandits to find conviction, and that it would be good to be united.
But surprisingly, after only twenty days or so, a collective concept was quietly formed, and a belief in “guardianship” was also quietly born.
There is no grandiose national sentiment, Ren Xiaosu to the bandits to pass the belief is to guard, guard their own property, guard their own family, guard their friends, everything from the perspective of self-interest.
There was no need to defend world peace or anything like that, such things didn’t have much to do with them.
Of course, no matter the strength, will or belief of this group, it was still just a small seed.
Really away from Ren Xiaosu, a powerful individual, and away from a rope that held them together, I’m afraid that they would still quickly fall apart and go their separate ways.
Or if they met a strong enemy right now, they could also be quickly defeated.
But Yang Xiaoguan felt that Ren Xiaosu being able to bury this seed was amazing.