Chapter 169

On this day, the people in the village were still busy with their work in their fields, but Tian Yuqiao's family was relatively idle. Because their land is going to be dug into a pond, now Fang Wenhao is busy at the foot of the hillside with two brothers, two yuan and ten soldiers.

Wang naturally had trouble letting these soldiers help his family in vain, so he even hired them at the price of 30 Wen a day.

At noon every day, he took care of a meal and made meat and vegetables for them. During this time, they have been very familiar with Tian Yuqiao's family. They have found the warmth of their home here.

Everyone worked very hard when they started working. A large pond has been basically completed in less than half a month. During this time, Fang Wenhao was at the edge of the pond. While supervising those people to dig the pond, he moved out the small blackboard and continued to teach everyone to read.

"Brother Hao'er, you see we are monks. There's no need to learn so many things?" Yuanji whispered.

"No, that's what my mother said. She said you two would go out and make contributions in the future. Didn't she say your dream is to be a general?" Fang Wenhao looked old and pedantic.

Tian Yuqiao, who came to deliver food to them, immediately smiled and said, "yes, a monk who doesn't want to be a general is not a good cook."

All the people were petrified and didn't understand what Tian Yuqiao meant.

The roads in the village are getting longer and longer. Originally, those villagers who were not close to the avenue would rather go around and walk home from the main road in order to take this newly built spacious road.

Originally, everyone was a little afraid of soldiers, but through this period of contact, the villagers found that in fact, these officials with knives were not as terrible as the legend.

Gradually, many villagers became familiar with those soldiers.

There are also some old women who pick the pretty young man and even move their minds to tell their daughter to others.

However, it is naturally impossible for the army to make soldiers private for life, otherwise they will be punished as traitors. So after several twists and turns, the villagers finally stopped thinking like this.

That day, the gravel path in the village was finally paved to the end and connected with the official road outside. Those broken stones were thrown into the soil by soldiers with the back of a knife or a hammer, so they are still strong.

After it was done, a layer of clay was sprinkled on it. Then several soldiers dragged a large trunk with horses and walked back and forth on the road several times.

The road is basically flat and solid. After all this, the busy farming season has passed, and every family's fields have been planted.

The pond of Tian Yuqiao's family has also been completed. On the edge of the pond, soldiers have surrounded it with more broken stones, which makes the small pond look particularly beautiful and good-looking.

Basically, the women and children in the farmer's house can do the work of weeding and fertilizing in the field, so the old men are idle.

After Fang Wenhao asked Lao Jiu for instructions, he set up a sign at the entrance of the village the next day. What is written above is naturally the news of recruitment, which was made according to Tian Yuqiao's proposal before.

Dig stones, one Wen per basket, and the specifications of stones must meet the standards. Logging, a standard trunk of more than ten years, give five Wen.

Many of the villagers were illiterate, so the two brothers, Eryuan, stood in front of the sign and patiently helped the villagers answer some related questions.

At this time, an old monk in rags suddenly crowded into the crowd. In addition to his shiny head, the old monk's shabby monk's clothes also emit black oil.

I don't know how long he hasn't washed the clothes. They were originally made of coarse cloth. It's estimated that they have become leather jackets now! There is a layer of oil stain on the top. It is estimated that the wind proof effect will be improved a lot.

"Where's the crazy monk from? We're recruiting workers in the village, but we don't have any spare money for you, monk."

"That's right. Stay away from me."

The villagers dislike the dirty old monk, because at this time, Buddhism seems not to have flourished, so the status of monks is not very high.

Except for eminent monks like master Huiyuan, ordinary monks are not much different from beggars in people's eyes.

Seeing a monk, others can dislike it, but the two brothers Yuanji and Yuantong can't.

"Amitabha, master, I don't know where he came from?" Yuan Ji put his hands together and came forward to salute his younger generation.

The old monk wiped his oily and scratched hands on his body. Now everyone knows how he got his clothes~

He stretched out a pair of dirty "claws" and made a gesture of closing his hands: "Amitabha, poor monk Hui Kong came to find my senior brother Hui Ren. I didn't want to see that it was very busy just passing by, so I planned to come and ask one or two questions."

Hearing what he said, the two brothers suddenly became dumbfounded. There was surprise, joy and doubt in their eyes.

Although his master was a little abnormal at the beginning, compared with this martial uncle, at least Huiyuan's monk clothes were clean. This martial uncle seems to be more abnormal than his master. It's like a madman.

However, they know that people can't judge by appearance. Often the more abnormal looking monks, they are all those with great skills and wisdom.

"Dare you ask, master, are you really huikong? You have another senior brother named Huiren?" Yuanji confirmed again and again.

"Amitabha, that's good. My senior brother is similar to me. He likes to travel around all day. But when he met me last time, he said that he had a place to live in Huai'an county. The address must be near here."

After listening to the crazy monk, the two brothers immediately fell down and worshipped, and read: "martial uncle is up, disciple Yuanji and Yuantong have seen martial uncle."

When they finished, they began to kowtow to the crazy monk, while the monk looked at them with a smile and didn't let them get up.

"Come on, come on, your martial uncle, I haven't eaten for several days. You two boys should be filial."

With a wave of huikong's big hand, he put on the airs of martial uncle to Yuanji and Yuantong, which annoyed Fang Wenhao.