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Chapter 3 Encountering Salt Ding Halfway

Only then did everyone feel relaxed. The sea is located in the Xue family, which is about 30 miles away. There are short slopes and hills in the middle, with lush trees and lush trees. Walking in it is very hidden. Everyone is relieved and can earn more than 70 or 80 cents of silver by walking thirty miles.

How much does it cost? Li Meng's concept is a bit confused. He always thinks that one tael of silver is just one dollar. Isn't it just a tael of silver to buy a candied haws in those movies and TV dramas?

After a little understanding of this era, I realized that this tael of silver can buy more than 100 kilograms of grain in a good year. It will take almost a month and a half to come to the Xue family. I have never seen even one tael of silver before. It sounds like a large amount of money. Li Meng himself estimated that this tael of silver is equivalent to a hundred yuan bill.

I was in a relaxed mood and more gossip. The group of people joked about each other, saying that Widow Zhou in the Xue family was beautiful, and whose eldest girl was beautiful, women were always a topic among men. A group of people laughed and laughed, and it was still Zhao Neng who looked older and looked older, and asked Li Meng next to him:

"Can you really make money this trip?"

"no problem."

Li Meng replied in a muffled voice. He had to push the chicken bus with all his energy, otherwise the more than 200 kilograms of salt would have to be turned into the ditch. Li Meng's shoulder was so painful that he was probably bleeding from the skin. Li Meng's only glad that he had been a soldier before, and his body could withstand such heavy physical labor. To be precise, he could barely withstand it. Li Meng could almost imagine what the pain would be when he went to bed at night.

After more than a month in this era, I could eat noodles without changing my life. I went outside the Xue family to collect firewood, boil salt at the seaside, pick up some shells, shrimps and crabs, and help the fishermen. Li Meng consciously adapted to this era, and he did the same thing as the young people in each garage.

If it is a little different, not only did the firewood and grass Li Meng picked for people to exchange for some food, but the shell shrimp and crabs he picked up were not all sold for money.

Every night, Li Meng cooked the fish and shrimps he picked. These things were used to be so-called pure natural and pollution-free seafood. But they were cooked without any seasonings, especially dry food without rice and flour. Just eat them like this and you will soon get bored.

However, Li Meng still insisted on eating it himself. Although he felt like he was vomiting every time, Li Meng felt that in this era, he must have a good body. A good body must have sufficient exercise and nutritional intake. Such a poor living environment can ensure nutrition is the fish and shrimps in the sea. As for sufficient exercise, Li Meng would practice what he learned in the army every morning and evening, from basic running, push-ups to military fist and fighting assassination movements, and repeat the repeated practices, and make sure to keep his physical fitness at the level of time travel.

Today, I was pushing these hundreds of kilograms of salt with my car. The wheel of the chicken bus is not the rubber pneumatic tires of later generations, but wooden wheels. It is very bumpy on the dirt road, but the road is also bumpy. When the wheelbarrow trembles, the shoulders and wrists are as painful as the heart.

While answering Zhao Neng’s question, Li Meng smiled bitterly and said in his heart:

"When reading novels, others travel through time and dominate, but I have to work hard for food and clothing. This gap is too big."

Just as I was thinking, I heard a young man in front of me laughing loudly and saying to Chen Liuzi:

"If I make money today, I will buy pounds of meat when I go back and let my parents eat meat when I go back."

When everyone heard this, they burst into laughter. Li Meng also swallowed and spitted. He hadn't eaten meat for a long time. If he made money today, he must buy some meat to reward himself. He wanted to buy some fat. He was so greedy.

It took me an hour and a half from now on my way. Li Meng estimated that he had walked about eight miles in three hours, mainly by carts carrying loads on the hilly terrain, delaying his speed.

Among these people, Zhao Neng is vaguely considered a leader because he is older. Zhao Neng stopped and looked up at the sky, looked around, and then turned around and greeted:

"There is a ditch on the left, where everyone rests and waits down the road."

After Zhao Nenggang finished speaking, these people breathed a sigh of relief. They leaned against the roadside, put down the shoulder pole, and found a dry place to sit down and rest.

Li Meng also took off the strap and thought to himself that he had finally stopped. If he left again, his shoulder would have to be scrapped.

Suddenly, six or seven people rushed out of the grass not far ahead, and ran towards this side with big strides, shouting:

"The inspection department will arrest private salt, and those who violate the law will be killed without any attention!"

The clothes worn by these six or seven people were much neat and new. Some were wearing felt hats, some were wearing cloth and heads, holding single swords and iron rulers in their hands. Li Meng was a little stunned and didn't know what was going on.

The quickest reaction was Chen Liuzi. This kid almost rose from the grass and ran towards the way he came. The others were not slow, and they all jumped up like rabbits and ran. On the contrary, Li Meng was a little confused and looked at the grass bags scattered around. This was nearly two thousand kilograms of salt. Could it be that they were thrown away like this?

After hesitating for a moment, he suddenly felt that someone had pulled him and his body was unstable. He heard Zhao Neng shouting at the top of his throat behind him:

"Silly, are you stupid? Run! This is a salt dog."

Just ran back like this. The military households like the Xue Family still had the courage to come out to sell salt. They were poor in the Xue Family for a lifetime. In a few years, they would either starve to death or die of military disasters?

Or you still die here, maybe you will travel back in time, maybe you will die completely, and you will be done with all your life... It’s better to be done with all your life.

The salt dicks who came to grab the private salt were getting closer and closer. Li Meng could even see the excited and distorted expression on their faces. These salt goods fell into their hands in vain. Of course, they were happy.

These salt scoundrels were all scoundrels gathered by the inspection. They relied on the power of the inspection to rampant the village. What Li Meng saw and heard this month knew that the actions of these salt scoundrels could no longer be described as fish and meat. The actions of innocent military households were clearly depriving goodness.

Li Meng was already out of sight, but he made up his mind that even if he died, he would bring the bastards in front of him to hell together. It would be a good thing for the Xue family to avoid disasters.

After a dozen steps, Li Meng picked up a shoulder pole next to him, stood in the center of the path, turned his body slightly right, and at the same time, he took a step forward with his left foot.

Zhao Neng, who had already run for dozens of steps, looked back and found that Li Meng did not move, but instead stood in the middle of the road, holding the shoulder pole. The seven other people were holding a single-knife iron ruler. You were holding a bamboo-board shoulder pole, what could you block? You couldn't help but shout:

"Li Meng, don't you want to live anymore, run away!!"

Li Meng seemed to have not heard what he said, put his arms in front of him, bent his right arm to hold the back end of the shoulder pole, and stretched his left arm to hold the middle section of the shoulder pole with its front end raised, and his body slowly leaned forward, looking like he was frightened.

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