Being watched by so many people, Kou Qiaoyi's face suddenly turned red, and she subconsciously wanted to hide behind Xu Zizhen. Her shy look even caused the sound of swallowing in the audience.
Seeing everyone's reaction, Xu Zizhen smiled secretly in his heart, but kept a calm expression on his face, and said leisurely: "Whoever can reach the top of the mountain first, then I... will give the girl in Qiaoyi to him!"
Wow!
There was a commotion in the whole place. Those horse thieves had stayed in the small town of Renduoquan for so many years and had seen many more mares than girls, let alone beautiful girls. Although most of them already had wives, they had grown up.
They looked like they could only turn out the lights before going to bed. As for the recruits, it was the same. Although Lanzhou Prefecture was not a small place, it was in the northwest after all. The climate was dry and windy, and the girls in the city either had red cheeks or long hair.
A tall and thick girl from Sichuan like Kou Qiaoyi is a rarity at all, and I'm afraid I won't see one in hundreds of years.
Send? If I could marry a wife like this, I would be willing to cut off my legs, let alone climb mountains!
At that moment, almost everyone jumped up, gearing up and preparing to climb the mountain with gleaming eyes.
Completely opposite to them, Kou Qiaoyi's pretty face instantly turned pale after hearing these words, and two large tears were already visible in her eyes. She looked at Xu Zizhen and trembled in disbelief: "Master, you
...Do you dislike Qiaoyi?"
Xu Zizhen secretly yelled that the joke had gone too far, and quickly lowered his voice and coaxed: "Don't cry, don't cry, I lied to them, you are destined to be mine in this life, even if you are willing to leave, I won't let you go!"
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Kou Qiaoyi's cheeks suddenly turned red, "You are destined to be mine." These words seemed to have wings, drilling straight into her heart, making her feel a sweetness and warmth in her heart.
Now that the misunderstanding was cleared up, Kou Qiaoyi no longer had any negative emotions. Bu Fen accompanied her to the top of the mountain first. There were also lunch prepared by the gang leader army. The five hundred hungry wolves could no longer hold back and started howling.
Jumping up the mountain, I completely forgot about the sore back and legs caused by the training just now.
Those who ran slowly had no food, and those who ran fast had beautiful girls. This comparison of in and out allowed them to fully unleash their potential. Even if they could no longer run, they had to run up with their hands and feet and gritted teeth.
Xu Zizhen followed them leisurely. When everyone reached the top of the mountain, the slowest ones looked ashen as mourning, while the first one to the top was ecstatic and stared straight at Kou.
Qiaoyi even turned a blind eye to the two large buckets of food next to him.
But Xu Zizhen, who followed him, said something that made his face fall: "Ben Dutong keeps his word, and now I will give Miss Qiaoyi to you... as my sister."
That man was one of Bu Fen's brothers. When he heard this, he immediately jumped up, pointed at Xu Zizhen and shouted: "Brother Xu, you are so shameless!"
Xu Zizhen chuckled: "When did I cheat? You jumped out without hearing clearly. Who made you lose your soul when you saw a beautiful girl?"
"You, you, you..."
Xu Zizhen's face tightened and he shouted: "Everyone stand at attention!"
Everyone was startled, and then immediately stood up straight. Now they could understand Xu Zizhen's commands, and they were deeply afraid of his devilish training. In order to avoid suffering again, they all behaved like a group of dolls.
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Xu Zizhen glared at the horse thief: "You dare to use your brain on my girl? You are tired of living, aren't you?"
Everyone burst into laughter. Xu Zizhen wanted to hold it back, but he laughed out loud in the end. After half a day of training, he had already seen the difference in physical fitness among these 500 people. The more than 200 new recruits had not been trained and their physical fitness was much worse.
But those horse thieves are different, they have good physical fitness and rich combat experience.
While following the people up the mountain, he was also observing secretly. At this time, he clicked his fingers and selected the dozens of fastest people, and formed a separate team of them. From now on, they will be dedicated to investigating, which is commonly known as scouts.
He named the horse thief who climbed the mountain first as the leader of the scout team. All the boy's unhappiness immediately disappeared and he started to smile again.
Seeing that the pretty girl was out of the picture, the others simply gave up and looked at the food eagerly. However, Xu Zizhen ordered that the food should not be served for the time being, and that everyone should hold their hands in the air first.
Everyone was confused, but they soon understood - strenuous exercise and an empty stomach would make people's hands tremble, so Xu Zizhen selected the fifty ones with the steadiest hands to form a firecracker group.
As for the others, he immediately made arrangements, including those responsible for sniping, those responsible for assault, and those responsible for responding. But one thing is that no matter what group they are, everyone will continue to receive this cruel training.
Everyone was chattering underneath, everyone was envious of the fifty people who were selected to be the fire gun team, but the next words from Xu Zizhen made them suddenly quiet down.
"Starting from today, I will award fifty taels of silver to each of the top five in training every day, and one hundred taels to the top one!"
Quiet, absolutely quiet, everyone looked at Xu Zizhen dumbfounded. They all knew that the monthly salary of an ordinary soldier was only a few taels of silver, but Xu Zizhen was rewarded with 500 yuan as soon as he opened his mouth. This made them unbelievable.
The same horse thief who was chosen as the scout team leader asked tentatively: "Brother Xu, are you... not kidding us?"
Xu Zizhen said with a smile: "I don't have many girls, but I have a lot of money." He took out a few banknotes and distributed them directly to the first few people who went to the top of the mountain just now, and the horse thief really got a hundred taels.
"Do you believe it now? If you follow me as a soldier, you will never be poor!"
Wow!
The whole place suddenly became commotion again. This was real silver. Xu Zizhen was not cheating this time, he was serious.
Xu Zizhen looked at them very proudly. He had brought hundreds of thousands of silver from Kuizhou, and he still had a thick stack of banknotes in his arms. He knew very well that loyalty alone is not enough when leading an army.
If some benefits are added to the stimulation, the effect will definitely be much better, and now, he has seen the real effect.
The role of the silver was definitely huge. After confirming that he was not joking, everyone finished the meal as quickly as possible, and then started practicing again despite the soreness of their backs. Whether they were horse thieves or the new recruits, it was all hard haha
Coming from a commoner background, no one can care less about the money.
Looking at those crazy boys, Bu Fen shook his head helplessly, Kou Qiaoyi pursed his lips and snickered, and Xu Zizhen looked at his masterpiece proudly.
Just when Xu Zizhen was thinking about other ways to train them, suddenly a fast horse ran out of the military camp. Sitting on the horse was Qian Tongzhi, whom he had not seen for a long time. He ran up to Xu Zizhen and before the horse could stop,
He quickly turned over and jumped down, panting: "Xiao...Xiao Xu, I found you."
Xu Zizhen suddenly burst out in joy and shouted: "Old Qian!" He opened his hands to give him a hug.
But Qian Tongzhi's expression was not very good. He did not respond to his hug. Instead, he grabbed him and said urgently: "My cousin is dying of illness. You... you should go and see her quickly."