Qu Chi walked out with the pig people who had eaten and drunk enough.

Tianfeng looked at Ayi who was leading a group of women to clean up the room and smiled at Tianhao: "The people of the Pig tribe are really good at eating, this kind of appetite... tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk

Tianhao did not hide his point of view: "You can fight and have strength. As long as you have stuttering, you can do whatever you do. They are the kind of people I need."

He lowered his voice, approached Tianfeng's ears, and gently pointed his fingers at the side of his forehead: "The most important thing is that most people in the Pig tribe are not very smart."

Tian Feng looked at him with a sense of understanding and nodded slightly in agreement: "This is a good thing for us."

After a moment, Tianfeng looked thoughtful and thoughtful: "But I don't quite understand why you have to let them dig peat? We can't use that much at all."

Tianhao smiled meaningfully: "Actually peat is valuable."

Tianfeng was stunned. He didn't believe this sentence at all: "How is this possible?"

"No matter what object is recognized in this world and a need-interest relationship will have value."

Tianhao did not explain in detail: "Be patient, you will see."

...

The peat mine is not far from Panshizhai. With the normal walking speed of the northern barbarians, it takes about thirty minutes to reach one-way.

Looking at the road in front of me, Qu Ya raised his foot and stepped on it, stomped it hard a few times, and couldn't help but exclaim: "Did you repair this road specially? It's so flat and the hardness is not to be said. And... why did you even sweep the snow specifically? Look at the road clean, tsk tsk tsk tsk..."

The flat mud (cement) road extends from the north exit of Panshizhai to the distance. There are clear traces of cleaning on the road surface, and snow piles up high on both sides of the road. Xu Kun, who is responsible for leading them to the excavation site, smiled and pointed at the rolling mountains in the distance. His words were full of pride: "This was built by Ahao with us. In the past, he transported peat back from the mountains and carried people on his shoulders, but now it is much easier. Just load it into the car and push it away."

The thick cracked teeth in his arms raised his foot and walked a few steps. Suddenly, he bent down, looked down carefully at his feet, and screamed as if he had discovered a new continent: "Uncle, Uncle Quchi, look, there are ditches on the road."

Strictly speaking, it cannot be regarded as a ditch, but a dense and neatly arranged horizontal grooves along the road surface.

Looking at the group of Pig people who looked down at the ground and looked at each of them with a surprised expression on their faces, Xu Kun felt that he had too much knowledge and experience beyond them, and his smile and explanation also brought a hint of spirit and arrogance: "With these ditches, they can prevent slippage, and it is not easy to fall when walking on the road. It can drain water on rainy days, so you can walk this road for a few more years."

This is the knowledge obtained from Tianhao. Not only Xu Kun, but everyone in Panshi Village knows it.

Qu Chi felt that he couldn't understand this, so he kept shaking his head: "This is a waste. If you have time to do this, it's better to go to the mountain to find more food to come back."

Different logics have completely opposite understandings of the same thing. But Qu Ya must admit that this path is indeed easy to walk, and the foot does not slip, and the speed is much faster than directly in the snow, one step deeper and one step shallower.

The excavation site is a large valley. To the northwest is a cliff with a height of more than 100 meters, and the deposit extends south along the edge of the cliff bottom. The ore veins were originally in an open-air form. The Niu people in Panshi Village have been digging here for hundreds of years. Now the surface part has been excavated. Six black holes like monster mouths appear at the bottom of the cliff, with some black peat slags scattered around it.

Qu Ya weighed the iron pickaxe in his hand. He was very satisfied with the metal utensils with occasional dark blue light on the surface. He bent down and picked up a rattan basket that was more than one person tall from the ground, stepped on the scattered ice flowers on the ground, and strode into the dark cave.

Headed by him, all the pigs took up their own tools, arranged in sequence, and quickly disappeared at the bottom of the cliff like the mouth of a monster.

The hazy sky is filled with snowflakes, and there is no wind. The white substance formed in the low temperature environment feels cold on the face. It is not very cold. It is rare for the Winter God to have such a gentle time, just like a finger gently brushing across the cheeks. It is like a lover's lips that have just drunken beer, but it shows the coming drunkenness. I don't know when I will sprinkle the cold, rough, wild, and illogical in the midst of tyranny and madness.

Tianhao walked slowly from the direction of Panshi Village, and as usual, a group of guards surrounded him. It was not because he was afraid of death and was attacked by people or wild animals, but because he was at his current position, and some of the pomp and even if he was unwilling to do so, he had to show it.

Physical strengthening is his exclusive secret. Even the Pig tribe who is as strong as Quchi, who is hardworking, is not his opponent.

"All went down?" Looking at the black caves in the distance, Tianhao released a faint white mist from his mouth and nose, with a smile in his eyes, as sharp as a knife.

"It's all gone." Xu Kun nodded and walked forward two steps to Tianhao. He hesitated a little and kept changing the shape of his lips in silence. After hesitating for a long time, he lowered his voice and asked: "Captain, why should you invite these pig people from Gushan Village to come from the village all the way? In fact, our village is not short of fuel. The peat dug out in summer and autumn is enough to last until next spring."

"You are right, we are indeed enough." Tianhao was very calm, making Xu Kun feel an indescribable fear and a sense of mystery that could not be seen through.

"If you want to survive the cold winter, you need food, and even firewood and peat." Looking at Tianhao in the distance, he looked at the focus of his expression. The male voice with magnetic force was a little deeper: "There are trees everywhere, and you can cut them back and chop them up as long as you spend your energy. Firewood without charcoal will smoke, and people will feel uncomfortable staying in the house, and even suffocate to death. Peat is different. This thing is very resistant to burning. More importantly, at present, only our cattle tribe has the territory."

Xu Kun felt that he had grasped the core of the problem, and was careful, subconsciously using honorific words: "What do you mean is that we can sell the peat they dug out?"

Tianhao never looked on Xu Kun's face. His smile was contempt and unknown arrogance. He was more of a feeling of seeing through the world: "This peat excavation site has existed for many years. The situation in the mine is very complicated. Only in the deepest part of the hole can the purest peat be dug out. Someone must go down to explore the situation. The elderly and children cannot do these silly laborious work, so... it is better to leave it to professionals."

Xu Kun felt that his brain was running faster. He could understand some of Tianhao's thinking, but he didn't understand some special words in his words: "Chief, do you mean... those pig people are very professional?"

"They are born to eat this bowl of rice." Tianhao shrugged: "We can't let our people do it! They all said that it is very dangerous under the mine. Even if there is no movement now, something will happen sooner or later. The men in our Panshi Village are very expensive, all skilled blacksmiths, and the Pig tribe... Being a miner is always much better and safer than fighting on the battlefield."

To describe an extremely dangerous thing as a huge benefit, this is the wisdom of the rulers of the civilized era.

"What's more, their asking price is not high and it's very cheap. A bowl of fish soup and a piece of mixed bread can make someone work for you. How cost-effective is this kind of thing?"

He was sighing quietly, sounding like he was laughing, and obviously with a little regret.

...

The first basket filled with peat was sent out from the hole, just the beginning.

The transportation method is very primitive: a few hooked hemp ropes are thrown down from the hole, and the loaded basket is tied up, and the people on it are pulled up together. The whole process is like using a bucket to fetch water in a well.

The Pig people did have amazing physical strength and endurance. In less than an afternoon, they dug out a huge amount of peat. Xu Kun arranged twenty people to pull baskets on the surface to pick up the basket. They were soon exhausted and out of breath, and their hands and feet were sore and had to send someone back to the village to ask for help, and then they pulled all the peat they dug out from the surface.

Stepping on a soft ladder made of steel frames and rattan ropes, his huge curved teeth climbed up step by step. The afterglow of the setting sun illuminated the front of his body, and his black, bare and tattered leather robe rolled into a ball, tied with an iron pickaxe with a rope behind him. He looked very hot, sweaty, from his cheeks to his shoulders, arms and belly, and dark peat residue was applied all over his body, washed from top to bottom by the sweat seeping out of his pores, and thin traces of light color as small as earthworms appeared.

Not only him, but all the pigs who crawled out of the mine were like this. They were in no wisp and their dark faces could not distinguish between men and women. They could only barely see their gender from their physical characteristics.

"Why don't you wear clothes?" Tianhao asked with a smile. The naked teeth in front of him suddenly made him feel a little afraid that they were the real barbarians. In comparison, the Niu people in Panshi Village are more civilized.

Barbaric and crazy, these two words are actually not very different, and they are often even common.

"It's hot when you do your work, and you can't wear it." Quchi replied indifferently, took off the leather robe behind him with his back hand, wiped the dirt on his body like a rag, then shook the leather robe and put it on with his head.

Tianhao smiled. This smile seemed to others as passionate, and only he himself knew how false it was.

"Let's go! Go back and have a good rest." He hugged Quchi's shoulder affectionately, as if he hadn't seen an old friend for many years.

...

The huge iron bucket was filled with boiling water and steaming, and the building that temporarily used to house the pig tribe was shrouded in the depths of the rising fog.

Tianhao walked into a bathroom with his quench teeth and pointed to the giant wooden barrel filled with hot water in the middle of the house: "Go and take a shower!"

bath?

The big and thick curved teeth blinked, and it was difficult to understand this sentence.

"Why do you need to take a bath?" He shook his head and added: "It's winter now, it's too cold. We only take a bath in summer, and it's very cool to do that."

Tianhao thought for a few seconds: "It's tiring to dig peat in the hole, and taking a hot shower will help relieve fatigue, and you will feel very comfortable."

Qu Ya frowned tightly, his huge head shaking, and his attitude was very firm: "No, I won't wash it. This is our Pig people..."

"It's okay if you don't wash it!" Tianhao interrupted him without hesitation, and his tone became cold in an instant: "If you don't wash it, you will get paid. Anyway, you have already had dinner today. Now I'll take you out of Panshi Village with you!"

Qu Ya couldn't help but tremble, the threat was more convincing than putting a steel knife on his neck.

He turned around and took steps with the determination and determination that he was walking towards a cliff.

Looking at Qu's round buttocks, Tianhao suddenly felt that this guy was no different from a disobedient child. As long as he grasped the key points, it was actually not difficult to control.

...

The water boiled with snow is not as clean as expected. The color is a bit dark and looks dirty. But compared with the pig people who just came out of the mine, the word "purity" can be described.

Qu Ya never thought that the feeling of soaking in hot water was so wonderful that he couldn't help but moan. His relaxed body could not become nervous anyway. He even wanted to just soak in the bathtub and sleep.

Why have I never found the simple act of bathing so enjoyable before?

The curved teeth that rubbed the dirt on their body hard suddenly became suspicious of their past life experiences.

Perhaps, something that seems to me to be the right thing is most likely to be wrong.

The door opened from outside, and Tianhao walked in. He held a clean set of clothes and gently placed it on the chair next to the bathtub.

"Wear this one after washing later." His plain words sounded like a super disaster like the sky and the earth cracked: "I burned the robe before you."

"Ah?" The bent teeth opened their mouths in a daze, completely forgot what to say, and their mind was blank.

"Your robe is too dirty." Tianhao stood by the bucket and looked down at him: "I will give you a new one."

The high-hanging heart finally slowly fell back to its true form. Quchi felt like walking on the edge of the death cliff. He felt that he was increasingly unable to see through the young bull leader, and asked anxiously: "That...that other people..."

"They have them, and everyone has them." Tianhao waved his hand impatiently: "After washing, get up quickly and wait for you to have a meal!"

...

The dinner was also very rich.

Of course, this is based on the standard of understanding the word "fullness" by the Pig people.

It was still the thick soup made from a large piece of fish at noon. The dough was replaced with steamed buns, and there was another pickled cabbage.
Chapter completed!