Afterwards, Zheng Quchi made a rough assessment of his previous actions.
"Am I...walking right into a trap?"
The county only recruited stonemasons, but she managed to squeeze herself into the stonemason team through various means and connections. In the end, she was sent to the Thousand Graves to repair the city wall along with the other stonemasons.
Dan Bian's expression was even more mournful than hers: "Fine, for the sake of the mission, I have no choice but to walk into the trap!"
He reluctantly pressed his fingerprint on the document, which could be succinctly summarized in four words: "Life and death are your own responsibility."
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This time, the craftsmen's journey was different from the last. There were no carts to pick them up. They lined up and walked along the mountain path, climbing for nearly an hour, until they arrived at a temporary rest hut, where they also saw the soldiers waiting to assemble.
They first counted the number of people. When it was Zheng Quchi's turn, they were first surprised, and then they looked at her with a strange and amused look, probably because they were disgusted by her small size.
Zheng Quchi was already used to this kind of discriminatory gaze. She had a good attitude and thought that if she saw a dwarf in the land of giants, she would definitely take a good look at him.
She decided that she would increase her food intake by 20% when she ate later. She was still growing, and compared to Brother Sang's height, she refused to believe that her genes would mutate and she would stay short forever!
Soldiers led the way, maintaining order along the route as they traversed mountains and valleys.
Zheng Quchi noticed that each of these craftsmen carried one or two tools with them.
But she and Shan Bian were the only ones who came empty-handed, with nothing to their name.
Their tools are generally made of iron. Iron is a controlled substance, which is not only very expensive, but also not something that can be obtained in large quantities through ordinary channels.
Therefore, Zheng Quchi thought the government would assign these tools to the stonemasons, but judging from their posture, it seemed that they would have to provide these tools themselves.
She quickly asked Shan Bian, "You didn't bring any tools either?"
Dan Bian seemed to realize the problem as well: "I've never done stonemasonry before, how would I know what to bring?"
Zheng Quchi thought for a moment: "Just two hammers, a steel chisel, a hammer, a chisel, and the like."
“I don’t have any of these. At worst, when we start work, the two of us will be responsible for moving the stones. Besides, if you take these things, you’ll know how to forge and quarry stones.”
He doesn't know any of these things anyway; he's not a jack-of-all-trades craftsman who can shine in any field.
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