Meng Wei observed the reactions of Yu Qing and the others from the corner of his eyes, pointed at the man and said: "So you can only do hard work in this life! Everyone is going to see Yuanshan in the next few days. Those who can read and write don't need to carry the burden. More
Just have a few pairs of eyes to help guard the team.
You are also considered the team leader. When you see the warning, you must be able to remind everyone in time. You can’t violate the rules of the mountain by being ignorant. After all, we can’t take you with us everywhere. Just two or three, do you have one?”
As soon as he heard that he was going into the mountain as usual, he didn't have to carry a burden, and he could also be the leader, which meant that he had more room for activities. Yu Qing was the first to be excited. He stepped forward and nodded and said, "Sir, the younger one can do it."
a little."
Are you familiar with it? Meng Wei raised his eyebrows slightly, turned around, pointed at the table, "Then give it a try."
"Hey." Yu Qing trotted behind the table, looked at the things on the table, and asked, "How to try?"
Meng Wei pointed to a book on the table, "I don't expect you to have any knowledge. If you have that ability, you don't need to do this. Just make do with it. You can just turn a page by yourself, find a paragraph and copy it, okay?
You’ll know it at a glance.”
It's really simple. Yu Qing responded, immediately opened the page, then dipped his pen in ink, put down the pen, and copied a paragraph, which was only a few dozen words. It was done in a few seconds, and then he put down his pen and reported: "Master
, do you think it’s okay?”
After Meng Wei motioned for him to write his name, he took his hand and looked at it, and said hummingly: "It's not bad, not bad, you can read at first glance. Okay, let's wait for the assignment."
"Hey." Yu Qing walked back.
Seeing that it was so simple, several people immediately shouted, wanting to try it. Even Nan Zhu and Mu Aotie waved.
Yu Qing was quite dissatisfied. He didn't regard these people as competitors at all. How could a group of coolies write like this? He still had some confidence in his own handwriting. As long as the people in charge here were not blind, he would be able to tell who the person was.
better.
After a while, everyone, including those who could make out crooked strokes and put words together, had finished writing. Meng Wei signaled everyone to leave first and wait for arrangements.
After everyone left the warehouse, Meng Wei quickly folded Yu Qing's words and stuffed them into his sleeves, then left quickly and went straight to the room upstairs.
When he found You Lingluo, he took out the calligraphy and presented it to him.
When You Lingluo got it and took a look at it, he couldn't help but exclaimed with joy, "It matches the charm on the examination paper, it is indeed that guy. This guy is quite arrogant, bullying no one here, and his handwriting is not covered up at all.
of."
Meng Wei smiled bitterly, "It's really hard to find a place through iron shoes. It took no effort to get here." After confirming it, it obviously gave him a headache.
"This guy is just joining in the fun. He is really looking for trouble." You Lingluo also pinched his forehead and finally snorted, "Since he likes to act, let him act to his heart's content. There are still a few days left, so don't let him
He has nothing to do. Let’s start from tomorrow and let him enjoy the physical work to his fullest.”
Meng Wei hesitated, "Sir, is this appropriate?"
You Lingluo: "They themselves are blind, do they think others are blind too? Do they think they are just like porters in shabby clothes? That big fat man is like a rich man. He can fool ordinary people, but when he is well-informed and careful to take precautions,
Can you look past others? Give them a layer of starch."
Meng Wei raised his hand to cover his forehead and laughed.
So, a group of people who were hired temporarily dispersed and let them officially come to work early tomorrow morning.
The three brothers once again looked for a place to stay, but they all became coolies. It was not suitable to stay in an inn, as it would easily make people suspicious.
The three of them wandered around the county and found an old house to rent, which was cheaper than anything else.
The next day, the three people came to the shipyard to work. When the steward saw the three people, he immediately said to the foreman beside him: "Just in time, there are three here, you can take them with you."
The foreman immediately greeted the three of them: "Follow me."
The three of them looked at each other, and Yu Qing couldn't help but ask the steward, "Where are the others?"
Steward: "How can there be so much nonsense? You can still be idle when you come here, so naturally you have to work."
The three of them were speechless and had no choice but to follow the foreman and were taken directly to the dock outside the city.
Several large ships were parked at the pier, and the boatman of one of the ships was rolling up raincloths, revealing neatly stacked sacks filled with beans.
The foreman took the three people on board and told them what they were going to do. They should first unload a large boatload of sacks and pile them on the open space, and then load the pile of stones on the side. The work must be completed before dark today.
"It's just the three of us who can handle such a big ship?" Nanzhu asked in surprise.
Foreman: "I don't think you look like a worker. Who recruited you? These are the jobs. If you can do it, do it. If you can't, get out and replace it. Don't delay things."
"You can do it, you can do it." Yu Qing quickly intervened to smooth things over.
The foreman threw away his hand and left.
The three of them looked at each other, what else could they do? In order to keep their jobs in the mountains, they had to work.
However, none of them had ever done this kind of loading and unloading work, so they had to ask experienced boatmen for advice. Finally, a springboard was set up, and the three brothers began to carry sacks from the boat to the bottom.
Going back and forth this time is a struggle.
After working until noon, I finally finished unloading the ship, and then followed the people working on other ships to find a place to have lunch.
It was time to suffer when we came back. Loading the stone was much more tiring than unloading the sacks. The sun was shining brightly in the sky. The three of them pushed the stone in the wheelbarrow and rushed up the springboard. Even with their advanced skills, they were sweating like rain.
, it was steamed and dried to produce a layer of oil, and it looked quite hard-working.
"Isn't it said that if you can read and write, you don't need to do manual labor? Even if the two of us can't, can't you, Old Fifteen, be good at writing?"
"The devil knows. It will take a few days to go up the mountain. How can these black-hearted businessmen let people take a break and get paid, and endure it any longer."
When we finished work in the evening, the fat white man had turned into a red fat man, and the three of them looked like a gray man.
At least Yu Qing knew that it was not appropriate for people doing this kind of work to have a ponytail, and that their hair could not be tied up. People who carried large bags were not suitable to wear hairpins. Such coolies had to wrap their hair.
The three of them worked on similar tasks for several days.
At the end of the day on the fourth night, the three of them were informed that they would go into the mountain tomorrow. It was said that they saw that the three of them were hard-working people, which was quite reassuring. In addition, they were literate, so they were selected to be the escort team for entering the mountain.
After all the hard work, the three of them felt happy that their efforts were rewarded.
At this time, the three of them seemed to have changed. They were already tanned, with reddish tints.
When we arrived at the boat shop the next day, the three brothers all carried thick clubs. They said they would be useful when carrying things, but in fact they had weapons hidden inside.
As soon as they saw Meng Wei and were ordered to be escorted by Meng Wei on the spot, Yu Qing and Nan Zhu, who were holding sticks, immediately surrounded him like a dog-legger. Only Mu Ao was silent with his iron pestle stick and seemed to disdain the two fellow disciples.
Virtue.
Yu Qing and Nan Zhu actually hated Lao Jiu's appearance. They went there to get rich and find the cave of the Immortal Family. Is it interesting to act aloof? Can aloof be exchanged for money? They have the backbone but no cultivation resources, so they hide in Linglong.
Is it useful to practice meditation for so many years?
However, the two of them knew that Lao Jiu would always be like a dog that doesn't take shit, and it would be useless no matter what he said.
Some shops in the city were also delivering goods to the shipyard. At Meng Wei's signal, the three brothers Yu Qing called on all the coolies to help load the load, cut red silk and decorate the load with flowers.
After everything was ready, You Lingluo, the shipping company responsible for opening the port here, finally showed up, followed by two people dressed as guards.
You Lingluo asked about the preparations, and Meng Wei replied that they were ready. Then he called Yu Qing and the other two people over and introduced: "Sir, these three are all literate and hardworking. They are escorting the team on this trip. Sir, they are on their way."
If you have anything to do, you can directly ask them to do it."
Yu Qing and Nan Zhu immediately nodded and bowed, with smiles on their faces.
You Lingluo asked, "Who is Niu Youqing?"
Yu Qingxiao raised his hand, holding his waist in his mouth and said: "That's right, little one."
The young man with a mustache had a fawning look on his face. You Lingluo was choked and speechless for a while, then Fang coughed and said: "I've read what you wrote. It's true. It's a bit humiliating to do this job. From now on, just follow me."
Stay around and take your time."
Meng Wei hurriedly offered help: "Sir, you look at you differently, why don't you thank me quickly?"
Yu Qing, who was lost in thought, hurriedly nodded and bowed to thank him, but his heart was full of disdain. As soon as the purpose of this trip was achieved, he would run away immediately, and there was no way he would follow this old man.
Meng Wei immediately followed his words and identified Yu Qing as the number one escort, and even Nanzhu and Mu Aotie were under his control.
Lao Qi and Lao Ninth looked at each other speechlessly. The master just pointed out Lao Fifteen to be the leader. Why did he even appoint Lao Fifteen as their leader? Are scholars so popular?
Soon, several horses were brought in. You Lingluo, Meng Wei and the two guards all rode in front, while a group of coolies sat on the loaded cart. They didn't need to pick it up yet. The road was too long and they needed to save some energy.
.
The congratulatory gifts were loaded into eight horse-drawn carts, and they followed You Lingluo and others all the way away...
It wasn't until the carriage ran out of options that a group of porters got out of the car and picked up the gifts.
As the number one escort, Yu Qing carried a stick and kept shouting, "Hurry up, everyone, hurry up, we still have to cover dozens of miles of mountain roads."
While I was busy, I suddenly saw two old acquaintances that I didn't want to see. They were none other than Qin Jie and Cui You, the top shopkeepers of Jian Yuan Zhai.
It seems that they are here to congratulate them, but the lineup is far less large than the one here, with only four people in total.
Qin Jue and Cui You were also surprised. It was not that Yu Qing and the others appeared here unexpectedly, but the changes of the three of them. If some people's bodies were not too obvious, they would have been so dark that they almost didn't recognize them. It was unexpected that the three of them entered.
The identity of the mountain.
"These three guys are so tanned. They really spent a lot of money to get into the mountain. They are so cruel to themselves!" Cui You whispered a few words in Qin Jue's ear.
Qin Jue remained calm and led a few people into the mountain, as if he didn't recognize Yu Qing and others.
There are far more people entering the mountain than this. With just the preparation time of Bihai Shipyard, more than a dozen groups of people came one after another. Many of them were from numerous business houses in Luanzhou, and there were even some from Luanzhou.
officials.
The land of barren mountains and wild ridges suddenly became quite lively, with an endless stream of people coming.