"Save people! Save people! Brother Li is still down there——"
"Call the fire department——"
"Call the police! Call the police quickly——"
Noisy, restless, chaotic... everything quickly returned to calm, calm in the dark.
"Ahem... vomit -"
The light returned to his eyes, and his whole body was wet and cold, mixed with the smell of river mud, which made Li Jie retching immediately. There was a buzzing in his head, and high-frequency tinnitus like cicadas, making him very irritable.
.
"Isn't it a printing and dyeing factory site?"
Images of explosions, landslides, and flying dust kept flashing through his chaotic mind.
In his groggy state, a woman's voice rang out. He could hear her speaking, but he couldn't quite understand it. It was a bit like the Wu dialect, but not exactly like it.
Just as Li Jie was about to ask, the high-frequency tinnitus that sounded like cicadas suddenly became more intense, and his whole vision went dark, motionless like a dead dog.
The woman exclaimed, put down the bamboo basket in her hand, stood up, and shouted something loudly.
Not long after, a large number of young women also came over carrying bamboo baskets. Without exception, the bamboo baskets were filled with fabrics and clothes.
"Ajie is going to Nansha?"
"Yes, there are big crucian carp there, you can catch some."
"If you catch a loach, I'll give it to you in exchange for ramie."
"Can."
Li Jie nodded and agreed. The land along the river is often called "Sha", because people don't live in cities and towns, so it is also called "Shaye".
From the north of Gusu City to the east along the river and coast, there are hundreds of "sands" of various sizes. The people who live here are all "savages".
After the one-month trial period of time travel, Li Jie didn't have to worry about not being able to integrate into this world similar to the ancient times.
Because even if a "savage" runs around naked... it's normal.
"Savages" are rude.
The person who "picked" Li Jie up was a Huansha girl. The "savages" outside Gusu City, in addition to collecting, planting, etc., mainly provided services to "city people" in exchange for rewards.
Huansha means washing clothes for "city people".
There are two types of Huansha women. One is the well-established Huansha women in Gusu City, who mainly wash clothes for nobles; the other is a private enterprise, usually "city people" are the bosses, and then use "urban and rural people" to
"The difference in labor costs between" to earn profits.
"Savages" generally work for private enterprises.
Besides, no one with organized personnel would "pick up" Li Jie and take him back.
The main purpose of Huansha women in "Shaye" "picking up" strange men is to mate and reproduce offspring. The stronger the better, and being handsome is secondary.
Coincidentally, Li Jie is very strong, after all, he is a foreman.
If the foreman is not strong, how can he delay the payment of wages to workers and beat down workers who ask for wages one by one? Anyone who hires bodyguards to surround and beat workers asking for wages is not a foreman, that is an entrepreneur.
The Huansha girl who "picked up" Li Jie is from "Baisha". "Baisha" is not big, it just formed a settlement, not a "village" yet. The nearby "Shaye" is often called "Baisha"
inside".
Residents in Baishali do not have surnames, only first names.
There are all kinds of strange names. The girl who "picked up" Li Jie's daughter was called "Dan" because she was born in the morning.
Li Jie thought to himself, if this person's surname was Sha, wouldn't it be called Sha Dan?
Dan has a younger brother. When he was born, an eagle snatched one of her chickens, so he was named "Diao". So it is not difficult to see that Shadan's younger brother is called Shadiao...
It sounds very friendly upon hearing it.
Neither Dan nor Diao can read.
Even in Gusu City, there are very few literate people.
Li Jie thought to himself that he had graduated from the Textile College after all. Although he later became a foreman, this did not prevent him from considering himself a cultural person.
Then when he went to Gusu City to sell aquatic products and mountain products, he suddenly realized that he was indeed a "savage", he was a younger brother, and he was also Shadan's younger brother...a sand sculpture.
He knows the big seal script... but he doesn't know the characters.
However, the fact that Li Jie gave Dan and Diao surnames still caused a bit of a sensation in the "Shaye" near Baishali.
Because this sounds a bit lofty, but Li Jie thought that these satan and sand sculptures still couldn't scream. Others might think it was nothing, but he felt his balls ached and his spirit was quite twisted.
The "savages" were trying to come up with their own surnames, which made people in Gusu City find it strange, but they didn't care that much.
After all, "savages" are rude.
The surname Bai is Sha, which is the surname recently established in Baishali.
If the villages near Gusu City were doing this, the "urban management" would have come to fine them and the officials would have reprimanded them. But the "savages" in "Shaye" were fooling around there, so it didn't matter.
After all, "savages" are rude.
One of the reasons for Li Jie's "famous" is that he created the surname "Baishali". This is something that "savages" have never thought about before. It is mainly unimportant, because the main thing in daily life is to think
How can I get some more food?
One of the reasons why it is said that he is "famous" is because Li Jie is really famous because of his wife, who "picked" him back.
In addition to Huansha, Dan also helped people raise silkworms, and was the most beautiful silkworm girl in the nearby "Shaye". Even people in Gusu City would occasionally hear about the name of the beautiful silkworm girl.
However, Mei Canniang's parents are dead, and she still has to live with her little brother. Even if ordinary people want to live with Dan, they still have to think about having an extra mouth to talk to.
It is not that easy to support a young and a half-year-old.
Therefore, "picking up" a husband is an investment behavior with low investment costs but high long-term returns.
Besides, Li Jie is tall and powerful, and he looks like a capable man who can open up a hundred acres of land, which is more cost-effective than raising a cow.
Why not do it?
If it weren't for the fact that he had to borrow farm tools, Li Jie would have almost overestimated himself.
In desperation, in line with the idea of relying on the mountains and rivers, I took my younger brother Sha Diao through the probation period, and his main job was to catch fish and shrimps.
There is nothing else around Suzhou, and it is extremely rich in aquatic products. However, most of the common fish and shrimps have been eaten by the "city dwellers" in Suzhou and cannot be sold at a high price.
So when he caught big fish such as grass carp, Li Jie usually made salted fish by himself. The salt was exchanged, and he punted from "Baishali" to "Dongsha", where the "Shaye" was the main source of income.
Just to get salt for Gusu.
The land in "Dongsha" is thinner than that in "Baishali" and it is difficult to produce rice, so if you want to eat rice, you have to buy it like "city people".
Since there is no money, one can only barter. Salt, or to be precise, coarse salt, is a hard currency in any "sand wilderness".
Only by trading with "city people" in Suzhou can you exchange for a coin called "dysprosium". In addition to being used as money, "dysprosium" is also an arrow...
Whether it is Sha Diao or other teenagers in "Baishali", they all like money.
There is nothing you can do about it, because money can do anything.
"Diao, have you asked Yunting how many loaches you want for the fifth watch?"
"Ask, Brother Kun doesn't need to catch too many, 'Yunting' only needs twenty big loaches at the fifth watch."
It's really too far to go to Suzhou. It only takes one round trip in a day. This is because of my good rowing skills. If I just want to make real money, Suzhou City is the best place to go.
Apart from this, only towns and smaller noble fiefdoms could get money.
It's just that the officials and minor nobles in the towns don't actually have much money, and they mainly rely on cloth for payment.
Money is the best store of value, and it appreciates at every turn. So if you don’t particularly want something, few people are willing to pay with metal currency.
The only "rich" family that is closest to "Baishali" and is willing to pay with "dysprosium" is "Yunting".
"Wu Geng" is an official position. Not to mention the salary paid by the King of Wu, he is also quite powerful in the local area. The "dysprosium" paid for it also explains everything.
Not everyone can do the "Fifth Watch". To be able to do the "Five Watches", age is a threshold. Don't even think about it if you are under fifty years old.
Those who do the "Fifth Watch" are all elderly people over fifty years old in local towns.
The "Wugeng" here at "Yunting" is fifty-five years old this year. His teeth are not very good. It is normal to want to eat some soft loach.
But where is the loach so easy to catch?
However, the husband "picked up" by the beautiful silkworm lady "Baishali" can guarantee the supply of fresh and lively loaches, which are quite big.
What would happen if an ordinary farmer, as "Yunting", eats a few loaches from you? But after all, there are no ordinary farmers in "Baishali".
Savages don't know etiquette, so they can only use it to their advantage.
But for Li Jie, now he doesn’t even have a piece of paper to wipe his butt, so it’s better to just talk about money!