PDLP Chapter 196: Patiently
Chapter 196: Patiently
Li Da smiled and said, "Yueyue, with such favorable conditions, I believe many people will want to come."
"Well, let's do this. After Uncle Li has recruited everyone, you will stay in the village for a while to teach martial arts, so that everyone can at least have some self-protection skills, preferably life-saving moves on the battlefield. Uncle Li, you know."
Li Da nodded: "I understand, Yueyue, by the way, in the neighboring Shangyang Village and Qiaojia Village, there are several comrades who also retired due to injuries like me.
Now they are busy working on the land in the village during normal times, and go hunting in the mountains in their spare time.
I can go ask a few people, and then recruit some young and strong people. If they agree to come, I can let them teach.
I will go to the city with you guys, and when it’s about time, when we go back to the village to pick up the goods, I will come back to take a look.”
Zhang Yunyue was delighted when he heard this and said, "Uncle Li, if they can really come, you will be the captain at that time. I will increase the monthly salary to five taels. I hope Uncle Li will try his best to persuade them, so that the team will be more combat-effective."
Li Da: "Don't worry, Yueyue, I will go find them when I get back."
"That's fine, Uncle Li. You can use the carriage at home to save time. For now, just recruit about 20 people."
Li Da nodded.
Then he said to Zhang Xingyun: "Brother, you will be in charge of this team."
Zhang Xingyun nodded to show that he understood.
After saying this, Li Da harnessed the carriage from next door and set off directly to Zhujia Village and Shangyang Village.
Li Da visited Zhujia Village and Shangyang Village in one day. Under his lobbying, five comrades on the battlefield agreed to come.
After Zhang Yunyue got the news, he, Zhang's mother and Zhu cleaned up the old house next door and asked them to live in the old house after they came to Zhangjia Village. Otherwise, they would have no time to teach people if they had to travel back and forth between the two villages every day.
On the same day, the families of several people packed their luggage. The next day, Li Da personally drove a horse-drawn carriage to take them to the Zhang family's old house in Zhangjia Village and settled them down.
The day before, Li Da asked his two sons to spread the news in the village, asking those who wanted to join as guards to come to the Zhang family's house early the next day to sign up.
Unexpectedly, on the second day, in addition to some young and strong men from this village, some people from neighboring villages also came. Li Da and several of his comrades selected fifteen young and strong men who looked relatively strong and powerful, including Zhang Lei.
It should be because life at home has improved in the past two years, so I have grown taller quickly and have become stronger.
Then it was handed over to Li Da's colleagues to train in the village every day, hoping that they could start the work as soon as possible.
There are horse carriages and donkey carts at home, and we can teach each of them how to drive them.
On his part, Zhang Yunyue notified the earthenware workshop in Qiaojia Village to send a lot of pottery jars, which would then be delivered to the provincial capital.
The day before returning to the city, Zhang Xingyun went to the town's carriage shop and rented four carriages. They agreed to go to Zhangjia Village as soon as the city gate opened the next day.
On the day of returning to the city, Zhang Chao and Li Dasan and his son arrived at Zhang's house early with their luggage.
This time, none of them asked their family to send them off.
The carriage rented from the horse-drawn carriage company in the town drove out of the city gate as soon as it opened and soon arrived at Zhang's workshop.
Zhang Xingyun stood at the door of the workshop, while Zhang Xingzhong arranged for workers to move the goods onto the cart and secure them, and also asked people to move large and small pottery jars onto the cart and put them away.
After moving the things, Zhang Xingzhong checked the carriage, then walked to the door of the workshop and said to Zhang Xingyun:
"Xiao Yun, the goods have been loaded. Have a safe trip to the provincial capital. Be careful." After saying that, he raised his hand and patted Zhang Xingyun on the shoulder.
"Got it, then, cousin Zhong, I will take the carriage home first, and then set off directly back to the capital city in a while. We will meet again next time I come back."
"it is good."
After seeing Zhang Xingyun off, Zhang Xingzhong turned back to the workshop and closed the door again.
Zhang Xingyun brought four carriages and stopped at the gate of the house.
There were also two carriages parked at the door. Everyone's luggage had been placed on the carriages, and people were talking in the main hall.
Various instructions were repeated over and over again, but the listeners still did not get tired of it. After all, this was the elders' earnest concern for their children who had left home.
When Zhang Xingyun came in, Grandpa Zhang and the others knew that the children were about to leave.
So everyone escorted the man out the door.
Grandma Zhang: "Xiaoyun, Yueyue, Xiaohao, please take good care of yourselves."
Zhang Yunyue: "Don't worry, grandma, we know."
Zhang Yunyue looked at Li Da's colleagues standing nearby and said to one of them, Zhao Hu:
"Uncle Zhao, please train them during this period of time."
Zhao Hu clasped his fists and said loudly, "Don't worry, young lady. We will definitely not let you down."
The others also clasped their fists and nodded.
After saying that, several people got on the carriage.
"Grandpa, grandma, take care of yourselves, we will be back soon."
After saying this, he waved to everyone, then opened the curtain of the sedan chair, entered the carriage and sat down.
After everyone got on the carriage, Zhang Xingyun saw Li Da also sitting in the front of the carriage. He took the lead, raised his hand, waved the whip, and walked in front.
The carriage behind also waved its whip and set off.
A group of six cars drove from Zhang's house into the small road and soon entered the official road.
At noon, everyone arrived at the county town. Zhang Xingyun drove the carriage to the hot pot restaurant. Everyone tied the carriage at the door and asked the waiter to feed some grass. Then everyone went into the restaurant to rest and prepare to have lunch.
After lunch, during the break, Zhang Yunyue went to the backyard and called Hu Donggui and his family.
When Hu Donggui and his family heard that the boss was coming, they left the kitchen.
Hu Cailing immediately ran back to the room, picked up the bag she had prepared earlier, and went to the yard.
Zhang Yunyue saw the bag Hu Cailing was carrying: "Uncle Hu, Aunt Zhao, do you agree that Cailing can go to the capital with you?"
Hu Donggui smiled and said, "Yes, Master, it is a blessing for Cailing to follow Master, and it is also a blessing for us."
Hu Cailing also smiled and said, "Boss, I have wanted to go with you for a long time. Since you remember me this time, I will definitely go with you. Dad and Mom can take care of themselves in the county town, and there are so many people in the store."
"Okay, Uncle Hu, Aunt Zhao, don't worry, we will take good care of Cai Ling."
Zhao was moved and said, "Well, I'll trouble you, Master." Then she looked at her daughter and said, "Cai Ling, when you stay with Master, you can't cause trouble for him, okay?"
Hu Cailing nodded repeatedly: "I know, I know, mother, you have said it so many times in the past two days, my ears are almost callused."
"Then Uncle Hu, Aunt Zhao, we are leaving now."
"Hey, Boss, Cai Ling, please be careful in the city."
Zhang Yunyue took Hu Cailing back to the lobby.
After everyone had rested enough in the hot pot restaurant, they set off again to the next destination.
"Cai Ling, I know you have learned a lot about dim sum from Aunt Fang in the past two years, and you have also figured it out on your own. From now on, you will be responsible for being the dim sum chef, specializing in teaching people how to make dim sum.