Chapter 255: She asked him casually, but he was too serious

We are all here in exile, not to work.

If you want to work and can make it to Laos alive, there is plenty of work for you to do. You can work every day for the rest of your life. Why show off your abilities here?

After drinking the hot water, a few people rubbed their hands and quietly observed how the Xie family worked. Gradually, they discovered that smoke was coming out of their heads while they were working.

"They don't even complain about being cold." Someone nearby muttered.

"How about we do the same as them?"

"Do you have that much physical strength?"

"Try it, they feel so hot from working that they don't even feel cold."

Several people imitated the Xie family's work and unknowingly moved closer to them. Once they were close to the Xie family, they couldn't help but be assimilated into the speed of their work. They worked faster and faster, their bodies moved, and soon their blood became hot, and smoke came out of their heads without them noticing.

Several people whispered to each other, getting closer and closer to the Xie family. At some point, they started talking to the Xie family's guards, breaking the barrier and chatting as they did it.

These people had been in exile all the way and had not had enough food, so they didn't care about the work, but their physical fitness really couldn't keep up, and their subsequent endurance could not keep up with the people of the Xie family.

We were all men of similar age, and we were all equally disheveled when traveling. But when we compared ourselves when doing the work, there was a world of difference. I couldn't help feeling ashamed for a moment.

Xie Wuying, the clever little fellow, discovered this quietly and went to tell his sixth brother and his master about it as a joke, and at the same time, he sincerely thanked his beloved family god for his protection.

Xie Yuchuan raised his eyes and looked at the other half, a few young fugitives who were whispering with the Xie family guards, his eyes darkened.

Zhang Dayi whispered, "The general needs people to do his job. I think these young men who are doing the work are good."

Xie Yuchuan understood what Zhang Dayi meant.

After a moment's hesitation, he said to Xie Wuying, "How many rough cakes are left for lunch?"

"Yes, there are four or five more."

"Put a spoonful of pickled vegetables in it, and ask those people to help our Xie family finish the work as soon as possible."

Xie Wuying: “…”

"Go ahead." Xie Yuchuan turned around and urged him.

Xie Wuying rolled his eyes, as if he understood something, and immediately went to find Old Madam Xie who was watching the luggage. All the things were there.

After a while, he returned and, according to Xie Yuchuan's instructions, exchanged those rough cakes with fillings for five heavy laborers.

The five people tightly grasped the food in their hands, followed Xie Wuying with confused faces, and thanked Xie Yuchuan.

Xie Yuchuan waved his hand and said calmly, "The Xie family is burdened with too much burden. I'm sorry to bother you brothers with your help."

help?

Oh no!

The five people listened to Xie Yuchuan's words with mixed feelings. They really didn't know what to say at this moment. The guards asked them to work and beat and scolded them, and the Xie family asked them to help, and they actually gave them a stutter? !!!

The few people who were exhausted from working just now followed Xie Wuying to a construction site that the official had specially assigned to the Xie family. The five people were in a daze and took a big bite of dry food before working.

The five people were stunned on the spot...

You look at me, I look at you, each of us chewing on some dry food, saliva dripping from the corners of our mouths...

Oh my god, why is this dry food salty?!

The five people huddled together, excitedly took a bite of the dry food, and took a closer look.

Wow!

What are these emerald green salty lumps?

They secretly looked at the guards of the Xie family who were working hard, and then looked at the dry food with pickles in their hands, and they all thought in unison, no wonder the Xie family had such good physical strength.

People eat dry food with salty pickles!

The next second, several people wolfed down a pancake and helped the Xie family with their work with full sincerity.

Maybe it was because there was food in my stomach that my energy was replenished quickly. I don’t know if it was because I ate something salty, but I had more energy to work.

The five people silently made up their minds to keep an eye on the Xie family's needs in the future, as perhaps there would be another opportunity like this.

People are always prone to herd mentality. Many people saw the five of them getting benefits and were very jealous. Some of them were brave enough to finish their own work. Then they turned around and saw that there was still some work left on the Xie family side. They turned around and asked, "What other work do you have? I can do it. Just give me half a rough cake."

Zhang Dayi stroked his chin and looked at Xie Yuchuan, who looked up and down at the burly man in front of him.

"Can you help the women fetch water?"

"That's not difficult."

Except for the first five people, the people who came later only had bread but no pickles. Xie Yuchuan asked his guard Zhou Chuan to exchange them with the officials for silver melon seeds.

The officials also scolded the Xie family for being so stupid. If they had known this would happen, they would have respected them earlier. Why did they have to do the most work and ask others for help?

But Xie Yuchuan had some impression of the man in front of him during his exile. When he came back from helping the women of the Xie family, he specifically asked Xie Wuying to give him some dry food with added ingredients.

The other party took his "reward" from Xie Wuying, didn't even say thank you, turned around and left, eating as he walked, swallowing it in just a few bites.

The sturdy figure suddenly stopped and paused, then turned to look at Xie Wuying.

Xie Wuying was so young that he was not used to being stared at like that. Fortunately, the man quickly turned around and walked away.

Xie Wuying rubbed the back of his head and said, "Hey, this guy is quite the personality."

On the other side, after Xie Yuchuan heard the question from the house god, he didn't know how to answer for a long time. He kept working on it and pondered for a long time but still couldn't figure it out, so he asked Zhang Dayi for advice.

"Sir, do you know how many dan and dou are in a ton?"

"What?"

"ton."

"squat?"

The well-read Hanlin scholar was stunned by the word of measurement that suddenly came out of Xie Yuchuan's mouth.

An old man and a young boy, taking turns to build a piece, worked together in silence for a while.

Zhang Dayi said ashamedly, "General, please forgive my ignorance. I really don't know how long this squatting is."

Xie Yuchuan pondered for a moment.

"Xie Yuchuan: May the family gods forgive my sins. I don't know how many dan and dou this ton is, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to report back."

Tu Huan, who had been walking around the huge wholesale market and had already placed orders for a lot of various candies from wholesalers, saw the message from Xie Yuchuan and stopped in the middle aisle.

Then open the search engine...

She had just asked casually before, but she didn't expect Xie Yuchuan to ask so seriously, which made her unable to help but check how much weight one ton was equal to in ancient times.

The first thing that pops up is the ancient unit of measurement for one stone.

Uh...it's different in different dynasties.

Taking a middle number, one stone is about 100 jin?

Tu Huan thought about it and sent a message to Xie Yuchuan:

"Forget it, let's not talk about that. Let's talk about something you can understand. How many stones of sugar are enough for you to trade?"

After hearing this, Xie Yuchuan's expression finally changed clearly and distinctly.

He had a hunch, but he wasn't sure if it was right.

He always felt that the "ton" mentioned by the household god seemed to be much more than one stone.