EBE Chapter 162 Another Wave of Bandits
Chapter 162 Another Wave of Bandits
After a heated discussion, more than 80% of the people agreed to this major project.
Village chief Ma made the decision directly on the grounds that the minority should obey the majority.
Village Chief Ma asked Xia Shengsheng to help analyze how these people should be arranged?
Xia Shengsheng thought for a moment before speaking in detail.
All villagers aged 15 and above and below 45, regardless of gender, had to help build the city wall.
Village chief Ma calculated that there were 540 people in the village. Based on this calculation, there were 380 people who could help build the city wall.
These people were matched according to gender and age, and then divided into ten teams, with a total of 38 people in each team.
Every two teams are responsible for one area, and the entire village is divided into five areas in total.
Do your own work, so you can avoid the situation where you do more and I do less.
The most important thing at the moment is to build the city wall first, but we also need to arrange people to patrol day and night.
All patrols must be men, and they will be selected randomly from those who are working.
Although everyone is building walls and patrolling for the entire village and their families, some reward systems must also be set up.
Otherwise, it’s okay in a short period of time, but if it lasts for a long time, no one would be willing to do useless work.
Village chief Ma also agreed. He had more than ten taels of silver in his hand, which belonged to the village.
This money can be used for misappropriation now.
In order to increase everyone's enthusiasm, Village Chief Ma made an agreement with everyone.
The two teams that complete their assigned areas the fastest will each receive a reward of 20 kilograms of cornmeal.
The second team to finish will be rewarded with ten kilograms of cornmeal per person.
The third person to finish will be rewarded with five kilograms of cornmeal.
The fourth person to finish will be rewarded with three pounds of cornmeal.
The last person to finish will be given a consolation prize of one pound of cornmeal.
Village Chief Ma definitely doesn’t have so much cornmeal, but Xia Shengsheng does!
All the cornmeal that Qiqi buys every month is contracted to Xia Shengsheng.
Now there are tens of thousands of kilograms of food stored at home.
Xia Shengsheng would sell it to Village Chief Ma at the price of three cents per pound, which was also a way of supporting Village Chief Ma's decision.
Now the patrollers are counted as part of the various teams working together.
After the city wall is built, patrollers will also be rewarded. The details will be decided later.
As for building a city wall, it can not only protect the safety of my family, but also get corresponding rewards.
And in terms of age, almost every household can provide five or six people, and some can even provide seven or eight people.
If so many people got the highest reward, 20 kilograms per person, then each family would have more than 100 kilograms of food.
With the current grain prices, that would be several hundred coins in income.
So even those who had complaints before are now happily accepting this result.
Starting from the next day, the village chief began to organize people to officially start building the wall.
No one in Xia Shengsheng's family did anything special.
In addition to Yiyi and her six children, including seventeen-year-old Tao Siyuan, and two people who had rarely worked, Mr. Yang and Master Li, all of them were ready to go.
After all, if you live in this village, you are a part of it. How can you possibly do anything special?
Xia Yi and the other ten people were all strong young laborers with muscular bodies.
In addition to helping build the city walls, they were also responsible for selecting personnel for patrols.
The whole village was bustling with activity.
But the situation for other villages except Kaoshan Village is not optimistic.
On the tenth day after everyone started building the city wall, another wave of bandits looted several villages in succession.
Among them are the villages where two daughters-in-law from other villages came from.
For this matter, they specially asked for leave from Village Chief Ma to go back and visit.
Everyone knew about it only after they came back.
The bandits who looted the village this time were completely different from the ones who came to their village before.
But the good thing is that they only looted money and food and did not harm people's lives.
Actually, it’s neither good nor bad. We have lost all our money and food. How are we going to survive in the future?
Some people even think that it would be better to fight the bandits to the death. If they die, they die. After 18 years, they can still be heroes.
Now it's like being half dead.
Only then did the villagers of Kaoshan Village realize how important it was to build a city wall.
Some people who had disagreed before are now grateful in their hearts. They are grateful for the reminder from the Xia family, grateful for the rescue from Han the hunter, and grateful for the suggestion from Village Chief Ma and Xia Shengsheng to let them build the city wall.
Only when the city walls are built and patrols are arranged can their money, food and lives be better protected.
Now he works even harder.
Xia Shengsheng didn't care about what everyone was thinking. Looking at the city wall that had just taken shape, he felt a little anxious. He wondered when the city wall would be completed.
It is said that this time the bandits did not come to their village to rob.
Could it be that they heard that the previous wave of bandits were defeated in Kaoshan Village, so they dare not come?
This is the best way, as it will give everyone enough time to prepare.
Although it is late autumn, the sun is still very hot at noon.
Xia Shengsheng asked Yiyi and others to cook some mung bean soup for their team.
It’s not that she was reluctant to give those things to the whole village to drink.
It’s true that a few kids like Yiyi can’t make mung bean soup for hundreds of people.
So I can only let others suffer.
Some people were also envious, envious of those who were assigned to the same team as the Xia family.
But there is no use in being envious. Even if you look up, you can only continue to work hard.
Ma Kui's daughter looked at her good sister working not far away, and the hot sweat flowed down to her neck.
Looking at the mung bean soup that I have already drunk half a bowl of.
He ran to find Xia Shengsheng with the bowl in his hand.
"Aunt Xia, can I give some of the remaining mung bean soup to Lamei? Lamei has been weak since she was young, and I'm afraid she can't stand working in such a hot day."
When Ma Kui's family heard her daughter say this, they hurried over and held her daughter.
"Xiaoxue, if you can't drink that much, just drink half a bowl next time. Don't make things difficult for your aunt. If you give it to Lamei, and others do the same as you, what will happen?"
Xia Shengsheng wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at the big guys who were working so hard.
I also feel a little bit reluctant in my heart.
“Don’t talk about the kids.
"Xiaoxue, go! Send some to Lamei!"
After hearing this, Ma Xiaoxue happily ran towards Lamei with the bowl in her hand.
"Mom, drink some too!"
Yiyi served the mung bean soup to everyone and only took Xia Shengsheng's bowl at the end.
Xia Shengsheng did not take it directly.
"You drink first. I'll go look for your Aunt Ma over there. I'll be back soon."
Many people from Village Chief Ma's family came out to work. They were building the city wall at the entrance of the village.
Xia Shengsheng is at the end of the village.
I searched all the way from the end of the village and saw Ma Dajia finally lifting a stone. After the holiday, he suddenly felt dizzy when he stood up again and almost fell down.
Fortunately, her son was quick to catch her and prevent her from falling.
"Mom, how are you? Are you too tired? Take a rest."
Ma Dajia shook his head.
"It's okay, hurry up! We have to take the lead in our family. I was just tired and hot, and I feel a little dizzy. I'll do it slowly, it's okay."
Xia Shengsheng hurried over.