"Li Tangsheng, is it useful for us to do this?"
Astena and a group of guards were waiting boredly at the gate of the garrison, looking at the ten standing trees. Each standing tree weighed at least two hundred kilograms, and the distance from here to the city gate was at least three miles. Wanting to complete This challenge is no easy one.
More importantly, can the local people trust them?
Li Lin smiled confidently and said: "As the saying goes, there must be a brave man under a heavy reward! Just wait and see."
Astena and the other guards looked at each other, then shrugged and continued to wait.
The whole morning passed like this, and soon, at noon, the sun came out for a rare moment today. The snow on the road showed signs of melting, and the air became colder.
However, at this moment, a person suddenly walked towards the end of the deserted street.
Li Lin smiled slightly when he saw it, and immediately said, "Come here!"
Astena and the others, who had been waiting for a long time, also showed excited expressions. Soon the man came to the gate of the garrison, looking at Astena and the others with obviously fearful expressions.
Li Lin smiled when he saw it, took the initiative to step forward, and said with a smile: "Are you here to move standing timber?"
When the man saw that a young man from Song Dynasty came to ask him what he wanted to say, his expression immediately relaxed a lot. He nodded immediately, and then asked cautiously: "Is it true that you will be given 100 kilograms of grain if you deliver a standing log to the city? ?”
Li Lin nodded: "Really!"
"Don't lie to me?"
"No lie!"
The thin man took a deep breath, then nodded heavily and said: "Okay! I want to challenge, any method will do, right?"
Li Lin smiled and said: "As long as you are alone, no matter what method you use, as long as you reach the city gate, I will give you a hundred catties of grain immediately!"
Li Lin said this with full confidence. After they sent the signal the day before yesterday, the nearest Feiyun Trading Company sent them the activity funds allocated to them by the Yunzhou County Yamen.
He and Zhang Zheng each received 50,000 taels of silver, or the grain equivalent of ten cents per catty, while the others only had one thousand taels of silver or the same grain of ten cents per catty.
So now that he has a lot of food in his hands, he has enough confidence!
However, the food has not been sent to the city for the time being. It has been placed outside the city and will not be sent in until the right time.
After the thin man listened to the rules, he immediately walked to the ten standing trees and looked at them all over. Finally, he chose the one that seemed to be the lightest. He hugged it with both hands and put it on his shoulders with one force. Go towards the city gate!
Although this man may be thin, he does have a lot of strength, but his steps are a little sloppy. I don't know if it's because of hunger.
Li Lin immediately signaled. Immediately some Tatars followed and watched all the way.
Soon, the young man came to the street carrying the wood, and the movement outside quickly attracted the attention of others.
Many people came to the window and looked at the figure of the thin man carrying the standing wood towards the city gate, and started talking about it.
"Dad, this man really did what those barbarians said, and went to fight against the wood. Look, the barbarian is still following him. Could it be that if he hasn't finished it, or is about to finish it, the barbarian will kill him?"
"How do I know this? Let's take a look first!"
"I hope it's true. There's only a little food left at home. Alas..."
"well!"
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On the street, the thin man carried the two hundred kilograms of standing wood for two miles. When he was only one mile away from the city gate, he finally lost his strength and dropped the wood to the ground. He watched it roll to the ground. Li Mu on the side turned to look at the barbarian who had been following him. The thin man swallowed hard and took a step back.
The guard looked at him very strangely and asked in confusion: "Why are you looking at me? Are you not going to continue the challenge? Or are you giving up?"
The thin man was stunned when he heard this and said in surprise: "You won't kill me? Can I continue to challenge?"
The guard suddenly became even more confused and said in confusion: "Why should I kill you? I'm just here to confirm that you really brought the wood to the top of the city. Why should I kill you? Besides, our Li Tangsheng has already said that no matter what kind of wood you use, The method is just to get the wood to the top of the city.
If you can't carry it anymore, just drag it. As long as you get to the top of the city, there is no time limit, and there is no limit on whether you can stop. "
The thin man and the people peeking around looked at the guard with his mouth wide open in surprise, unable to believe that what he said was true.
But after a while, seeing that he really had no intention of killing him, the thin man gritted his teeth and thought about the hundred kilograms of grain. He ran over and grabbed one end of the standing tree and headed towards the city gate with all his strength.
As expected, the guard did not stop him from continuing the challenge and followed him all the way.
Finally, half an hour later, the thin man finally dragged Li Mu to the city gate by force. Suddenly, he collapsed without any strength and lay on the ground, gasping for air.
After the guard confirmed that the wood had been dragged to the city gate, he immediately whistled for an eagle and passed the news back.
Then he said to the thin child who was still breathing: "Congratulations on completing the challenge, your food will be here soon!"
When the man heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up.
After a while, the eagle came back, and the guard took out the signal gun from his body and pulled it away. After a sharp whistle, there was an explosion in the sky.
After a while, there was the sound of horse hooves, and a horse came from outside the city. When it came to the city gate, it dropped a bag of grain and then turned and left.
And the moment he saw this bag of grain, the thin man's eyes were shining!
The guard picked up the grain and walked over to the man who was already cooking it and asked: "Can you still carry it? Do you want me to help you carry back one hundred pounds?"
The thin man shook his head repeatedly: "No, no, no, I can carry it, I can carry it!"
Then he took the grain with excitement on his face and put it on his shoulder with a flick. He was no longer panting just now, and ran towards the city with the grain on his face with a smile on his face.
That action was nothing like the one he had just been lying on because he was exhausted. The guard's mouth twitched when he saw it.
And the figure of this thin man running back carrying the food was also seen by everyone along the way.
"Is he carrying food?"
"Did he really get the food? Aren't those people lying?"
"Could it be that the content inside is not food at all, but soil, and is it deliberately deceiving us?"
"That's nonsense! I've been farming all my life, what's in that bag? I can tell just by looking at the shape on the outside, it's definitely food!"
"Really!"
"It's true!"
Everyone was talking about it.
And when the thin man returned to the gathering place carrying the food, everyone in the gathering place was shocked.
I quickly opened the bag and took a look, and it turned out to be food!
The yellow flour just appeared in front of everyone.
"It's noodles! It's fine white noodles! It's actually real! It's real!"
Looking at the bag of flour, everyone couldn't help but swallow their saliva.
But the thin man was the most direct and started looking for guys to make noodles.
"Everyone, get up, let me make some gnocchi soup first!"
Everyone was suddenly awakened and rushed to help!
That night, everyone in the gathering place had a big bowl of gnocchi soup.
My stomach felt warm after not eating for a long time, which made me feel very comfortable during these cold winter days.
And everyone also had ideas in their hearts.
There are only ten pieces of wood, no! Now there are only nine!
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(End of chapter)
