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Chapter 1187 Bitter Winter Day ([-])

Southwest corner, Wenpu County.

Before dawn, the night watchman walked through the dark long street, and some scattered figures were also active in such a silent street.

Hanging small, orange lanterns and pushing carts through the streets, there were some shabby and plain women. Most of them were shabby, and some of them were barefoot, stepping on the sewage in the early morning. street.These women each have their own paths. They stop under the familiar eaves or on the side of the road, pick up wooden barrels one by one in the agreed, inconspicuous corners, hang up the carts, and continue to push the carts to set off.

The first ones to get up before dawn were the night-scented women in the small town.

The old town did not have a sewer system for fecal discharge. Pouring Yexiang is a cheap business that people are taboo to talk about, but to be honest, the income is not small. Some women from poor families or widows came out to manage this matter when they were desperate. They can also earn enough money to survive for themselves and their family members. In some places, Yexiangfu also has a fixed "sphere of influence" for contracting business, and sometimes it even leads to conflicts due to competition for customer sources.

But at this moment before dawn, most of the women who were pushing the carts to collect the night incense barrels were quiet. They walked along the predetermined route in the dim city, and then gathered in a dilapidated courtyard outside the city's south gate.

A man wearing a bamboo hat would take away the night incense they brought in barrel by barrel and give copper coins as a reward.

Excrement is an indecent thing, but in the past, some people collected it in a centralized manner, but since the Huaxia Army came over, because the people who collected Yexiang in the past were scared away, the business here was taken over by the people from the Huaxia Army - although there is no trouble Why did the Huaxia Army of the Qing family have a great business to take over this kind of thing, but after a period of time, most of the women who sold Yexiang knew that this place became the property of the "public", and even the person who collected Yexiang seemed to be the Huaxia Army. a member of.

The Huaxia Army's collection of Yexiang is actually better than that of the rogues who received Yexiang in the past. They don't make too much trouble for Yexiang women, and they give money clearly and easily - this was not the case in the past. Most of the people who buy Yexiang have a rude background. They often interfere with the "qualification" and "sphere of influence" of Yexiang women. The little widow, and will tease.This kind of thing is absurd and ridiculous, but it is also a real thing happening at the bottom of society.

After the Huaxia Army came, these things disappeared.In the past, it seemed that the people in charge of collecting feces from the Huaxia Army did not look down on the interests of this area, and had no intention of intervening in these matters. In the past two months, with the replacement of a new manager at this Yexiang Station, it was unexpectedly connected. The dilapidated yard has gradually become organized.

The visits of various items were orderly, and when the Yexiang women came over in the early morning, they smelled that the surrounding environment was not as stinky as usual.This new member of the Huaxia Army reinforced the rack on the side of the yard with the huge dung bucket, and washed the road with water every day. Ye Xiangtan, although not skilled, seems to have an easy-going temperament, and it is not difficult to speak.

Within a month or two, Ye Xiangfu's temperament and sophistication quickly started to talk to the other party, asking about the other party's origin, whether he was an official member of the Huaxia Army, and why the gentlemen of the Huaxia Army wanted to accept him. Shit... Wait for the question, this middle-aged man named Tang Minjie did not hesitate to answer it. He was originally a northerner, and naturally he was not a formal member of the Huaxia Army. As for why he collected the feces, it was The Huaxia Army built a farm in the nearby Xiaoye Village. He needed to hoard excrement to study things like fertile land, so he took the wages and came here to do odd jobs.

"Oh..." The Yexiang women also understood these things and nodded: "Then... the person in charge of your previous management should be a regular worker of your Huaxia Army... I said, he is not many. made……"

Relatively speaking, the "regular worker" at Yexiang Station in the past did not have the enthusiasm to devote himself to this position wholeheartedly, and the "public family" had a arrogant attitude. Even the women who had dealt with the dung gangsters in the past were a little scared. , without much communication.At this time, a "temporary worker" came. The status of the two sides was similar, but the words were more. The temporary worker would occasionally ask them about their life and experiences over the years, and some old women laughed. Talk about things in life.

Although the work of pouring Yexiang is disgraceful, after getting used to it, life is not too embarrassing.Or it can be said that embarrassment has always been a part of life in these years. Most of these women are silent when they receive Yexiang in the early morning. When they reach this Yexiang Station, they are happy when they talk about some things in life. Yexiang in the early morning. In the station, the laughter of women could be heard occasionally.

After the feces are dumped at Yexiang Station, the Yexiang women who are pushing the carts will go to the tributaries of the nearby river to clean the Yexiang barrels - this is also part of Yexiang's work. bonus points.Some women continued the conversation by the river, occasionally mentioning the "temporary worker" at Yexiang Station.

"You can't tell by age..."

"Thirty... more than 40?"

"Sophisticated words, people who have seen the world..."

"People are nice..."

"The body doesn't look good..."

"Well, watching him cough, he almost couldn't breathe once, and the incense barrel fell on him..."

"Is there something wrong..."

"It's not a tuberculosis, you see he doesn't keep coughing..."

"Eating public dinner..."

"Look at what he does... I think it may turn positive in the future..."

"I look good too... You said, why don't you tell him about Xiaoqing? Xiaoqing looks good..."

"Xiaoqing is strong and able to give birth..."

After older women express their appreciation to men, the topic mostly comes here.

The Xiaoqing in the population is a new night fragrance woman. She is 27 years old and has a fair appearance. After her husband passed away, she took a daughter to live. But the woman has a tough character and was soon recognized by others.

Having said this for the last few rounds, I think it is quite reliable, especially when the woman named He Qing was there, everyone made fun of it. Seeing that the other party was just blushing and silent, without scolding, they knew how much the woman felt about that. The temporary worker was "okay", so after a few days, an old woman who was best at socializing privately raised her concerns with the other party.

After being silent for a while, Tang Minjie sighed again and again, and then told the other party that he was not in good health, especially last year when he got a serious illness and almost died. How can you implicate a good opponent?

His words were sincere, and after speaking, the old woman felt that the combination of the two was not suitable in addition to a few words of comfort.Going back and reporting to everyone, mentioning this "Xiaotang"'s physical problems, she couldn't help crying. The woman named He Qing was silent after learning that the other party was "too weak" and "often sick". Stop paying attention to this.

People everywhere have their own lives.

After the sky was getting brighter, the surroundings of Yexiang Station returned to calm.

Tang Minjie began to pack up the sundries and briefly cleaned the inside and outside of the yard. Then he set up a mule cart and transferred the huge dung bucket supported by a wooden frame at the back of the yard to the mule cart.Due to the height difference of the wooden frame, this work is not laborious.

The mule carts used to transport dung are the main wealth of Yexiang Station, and it is also a manifestation of the "rich wealth" of the Huaxia Army. The mule carts will drag one to two barrels of Yexiang back to the experimental farm nearly ten miles away every day. To verify the pros and cons of various composting techniques, and to selectively experiment with the properties of various substances—of course, all of this is not really mature, especially in the field of fertilizer, even in the Huaxia Army, it belongs to Ning Yi has mentioned some ideas about "cheap industry", and many people have proposed ideas, but the experiment period is long, the overall clue is not clear, and there are not many participants, which is not as organized as the direction of "breeding selection".

The farm located here is named "Huaxia Army 223 Agricultural Research Institute". It is close to a village where hundreds of people live. It is obviously not a key project in the Huaxia Army's agricultural experiment territory.The small number of people, the small area, the vague research direction, and the weak will of the members to fight are things that Tang Minjie can see at a glance when he comes over. The director of the research institute is called Chen Cirang. A literate literate should be a Confucian scholar who has read the book, arranges things fairly well, and has a relatively gentle personality—of course, perhaps only this kind of personality is suitable for conducting agricultural experiments.

Drag it back to Yexiang in the morning and pour it into a large septic tank. According to the work arrangement of the farm, there will be different composting experiments.Due to the working rhythm of the farm, most of these things are dirty. For Tang Minjie, it is not very tiring. Of course, as a person who has worked in the hinterland of the Jin Kingdom for several years, there is a distorted part of his spirit. The standard of tiredness is not consistent with that of ordinary people, and it is difficult to tell whether it is objective or not.

Since I wake up early in the morning, there is often not much to do in the afternoon.

Although there is no distinction between high and low work, but the matter of collecting Yexiang will inevitably make people smell bad.In the month or two he came to the farm, Tang Minjie didn't make any friends - this was his own wish.During work meetings, he will pay attention to sitting a little farther away from others. When he meets colleagues on the road, he simply greets him, and when he eats in the cafeteria, naturally, no one wants to sit next to him. No discrimination, and the taste is also unappetizing.

The injury brought back from the north has not fully recovered. His body is still weak. Occasionally, he feels that he is unable to do physical work. After being assigned here, in the process of adapting to the work, he asked Director Chen to borrow some Judging from the books and materials of agricultural research, the overall understanding is not difficult.

In the afternoons when the sky is clear and nothing happens, he often crosses the groves on the edge of the farmhouse and sits on the edge of the pond to see the situation in the opposite village. Opposite the pond is the grain drying yard in Xiaoye Village, and beside the grain drying yard is a stone mill , men, women and children in the village often gather there. Some people grind things there, some chat, and some children play and play.

The sun shines down on him, it's late autumn, but the warmth in the sun will still radiate the chill in his heart, the chill bursts out, clashes with the sun in his body, suffers on the skin, and rattles in the bones .

In his eyes flashed the Northland that he could still see every night, the madness of those who died in their bones, those who died in all kinds of abuse, those slaves who had been stripped of their skins Called, thousands of miles apart, they are still clearly visible and within reach.They often blend in with everything in front of them.

The villagers on the opposite side of the grain drying field would occasionally look at him curiously. Once or twice, the old man from the village walked along the pond and seemed to want to chat with him and smell his scent. also walked away.

The life after arriving in Wenpu County did not exist in any of his previous expectations.During this time, his mind was messy. Many times he woke up in the middle of the night, and suddenly felt as if he was still in the clouds. He listened to the movement outside, and even rushed out of the yard to look for weapons. It would take a while. When he realized where he was, sometimes the women of Yexiang laughed, and he was dizzy as if in a dream, and the people on the other side of the sunbathing field always reminded him of the villages to the north where the Han slaves gathered.He would habitually grope the neckline, but there was no poison inside.

After placing him here, the people outside seemed to have completely forgotten him, so one afternoon in October, three soldiers of the Huaxia Army came to Xiaoye Village on horseback, led by Peng Yueyun.

"Brother."

At this time, Peng Yueyun can be regarded as one of the representatives of the young soldiers in the army, and also has the representative significance of inheriting the mantle and mantle of the Western Army. He has the title of colonel and has a bright future. However, he still did his best to face the guilty Tang Minjie. A military salute.Tang Minjie looked at him for a moment and woke up from his dream.

"It seems that I can't be called Xiao Peng now. What's the name?"

"Everyone is on your own, so be casual." Peng Yueyun said, "Just call me father."

"……Hey."

After subconsciously answering, Tang Minjie hesitated.Kicked over.

(End of this chapter)