Zhang Rui's words did not make anyone quit. On the contrary, it strengthened the determination of those present to stay.
In the eyes of everyone, whoever quits now is a fool. No matter whether you can pass the training or not, at least if you pass one day, you will get one day of money and food. This is thirty cents for two kilograms of rice, and food is included. It is not easy to have a meal to eat at this time, who is willing to quit at this time.
Zhang Rui waited for a long time and no one asked to withdraw or raise any objection, so he announced that the assessment was officially over.
The entire assessment probably took nearly an hour. At this time, it has entered Youshi, the sun is setting in the west, and the sky is already dusk.
At this moment, the people who can stay on the scene to watch the entire assessment, except for a very small number of people who are watching the excitement and don't mind it, most of them are related to the people who participated in the assessment. The rest are waiting here to see if Zhang Rui is still there. Please don't invite me to dinner.
After all, the feeling of being hungry is really uncomfortable. Many people don't even have lunch. Waiting here until this hour is really not an ordinary torture.
"Hungry"
Zhang Rui's stomach also growled.
Sure enough, during the long period of time, the stomach is particularly prone to hunger. After noon, Zhang Rui and Li Niushi ate a meat bun. You can imagine how hungry those half-year-old children who have not even eaten lunch must feel at this time.
"Will Brother Six invite you to dinner again?..."
Many people are wondering
"Brother Six will definitely treat us to dinner..."
Many people are affirming
"Brother Six, who is that? Don't you think that those who follow Brother Six will have no food to eat?..."
Many people are comforting
"We shouldn't invite you to dinner! There are so many people, even if Brother Six goes to change food, he won't be able to change so much food!..."
There are also people who are sighing helplessly
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Zhang Rui didn't know what everyone was thinking, but when he looked at the team members who had just passed the assessment and were looking at him, their eyes clearly asked whether they would like to invite you to dinner! So hungry.
"Okay, in order to express my congratulations to the one hundred and ten brothers who passed the examination, I decided to treat everyone present to have dinner. Please also congratulate them." Zhang Rui looked at the expectant eyes of everyone and said loudly
"oh……"
"Sixth Brother invites you to dinner!"
"Congratulations on passing the exam, and work hard to follow Brother Six..."
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There was cheering below
Looking at the cheering crowd, Zhang Rui thought: "Fortunately, I bought grain and can withdraw thirty dan, otherwise I really can't afford it. These thirty dan are nearly four thousand kilograms of grain. No matter how little it is, there must be three thousand kilograms." More than six hundred kilograms. If I didn't survive this time, I would be doing justice to the villagers by letting them eat one or two full meals. If I didn't survive, there would still be hundreds of stones of food waiting, so there was nothing to worry about. "
"In order to build a little glory for you, I have to spend a lot of money!" Zhang Rui murmured as he looked at the envious team members who were being praised by many villagers.
Then Zhang Rui gave Li Si a receipt for buying and delivering grain, and asked Li Si to take people to Li Decai's granary to bring out the thirty shi of grain.
Many people saw this situation and ran home quickly. There were also many people who gave various instructions to those who were rushing back home. They must call their own people, otherwise they will beat you every time they see you.
Seeing this posture, Zhang Rui still didn't understand that this was just a freeloader. Sure enough, the temperament of Chinese people is really "cute". Originally, he just wanted to treat everyone present to dinner, but now it seems that he has to treat people from three or four nearby villages to dinner.
"Hey, it seems that I can't say whether my thirty dan of food can last for a month." Looking at this scene, Zhang Rui no longer worried about the bandits and couldn't help but sigh.
Treating someone to a meal is never a matter of words, you have to take action.
How can we just have rice but no vegetables?
Liveliness has descended on Datong Village again.
Everyone followed Zhang Rui to Li's Mansion and Huang's Mansion. After Zhang Rui and their stewards bought the vegetables they planted on the vegetable plot by the river, one by one they enthusiastically helped to pick vegetables without feeling tired.
Zhang Rui also wanted to buy more meat, but Li's house almost ran out of meat yesterday, and the rest were smaller pigs, chickens, ducks, etc., which was not cost-effective to eat. The Huang Mansion only had a few chickens and a small pig for sale. For this reason, Zhang Rui once again spent several taels of silver to buy the meat and salt.
The dinner dishes are relatively simple: bone and vegetable soup, chicken and pork stewed with soybeans, onion-flavored tofu, fried fat meat with garlic, and fried vegetables with oil.
Big pot rice always makes people happy and lively. Stoves were set up one by one in the open space, and they cooked and fetched water by the river. One by one, villagers from Datong Village took out firewood from their homes, and many villagers from neighboring villages went to the nearby mountains to collect firewood. Many children without clothes were chasing and playing in the open space.
Xiaobao, the son of Wu Lei's family, is happily playing the "Mo Nong (move)" game with his sister and the children in Datong Village. At this time, Mrs. Wu Li, who was making a fire with other village women to make water-draining rice (similar to porridge, helping the cooked rice to drain the water) showed a happy smile and called the children to be careful.
One by one, water jars used to hold rice and vegetables were brought to the villagers' homes, and pairs of bowls and chopsticks were passed around from the homes of villagers in Li's Mansion, Huang's Mansion, Datong, and the homes of villagers in neighboring villages. No one is worried that the water tank will be broken or the bowls and chopsticks will be lost, because they believe that with the heroic and generous Sixth Brother around, they will not suffer any loss.
There are many elderly people who tell everyone when they meet that Sixth Brother is unparalleled in benevolence and righteousness and is a blessing to our villages. Most of them said that they had never seen such a feast since they were young. This is the "peaceful age".
Many sharecroppers who have not eaten meat for a long time are making serious bets with others: how many bowls of rice, how many meat stewed soybeans they must eat, and how many bowls of soup they must drink, otherwise they will be sorry for their stomachs.
Datong Village is peaceful and lively.
The overgrown and dilapidated Huaguang Emperor Temple in the distance was actually cleaned up at this time. The incense burner that had not seen incense for many years was actually filled with many burning incense.
In the opinion of the villagers in Datong Village, it must have been the appearance of Emperor Huaguang that led to the emergence of a figure like Liu Ge in their village. With such a good Feng Shui temple, how can I be worthy of myself if I don’t get some spiritual energy from it?
A gust of breeze blew in, and the worn-out hangings of the Taoist temple swayed in the wind. The temple, filled with smoke and smoke, was filled with smoke. It gives people the illusion that the statue of Emperor Huaguang sitting in the main hall of the temple is looking at the river and smiling slightly.
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Everyone is consciously helping to cook the meals.
Zhang Rui asked Li Niushi to lead a group of young men to build a large bonfire in the open space by the river, saying that if dinner was late, everyone could watch and eat. Then I went home and went to bed so I could sort out my thoughts.
Li Niushi followed Zhang Rui's words to the letter.
A large firewood stacking rack appeared in the middle of the open space.
