Chapter 8 Ender's Work
"Chirky——,chirky——”
In the early morning, the crisp and melodious chirping of birds accompanied by the sunlight penetrated from outside the house.
There were still some tears at the corners of Ande's eyes, which made Ande's eyelashes sticky on his upper and lower eyelids, making Ande feel a little uncomfortable. Ande got up, scooped out the bucket and washed his face, pushed open the window, and looked out the window in a daze.
The sky outside the window has begun to turn white, but the sun has not yet risen, and only the morning glow is bright.
Ande felt sad.
Over the years, he could feel the spiritual connection with himself and Liu Tong at every moment. Even in his deepest sleep, that feeling has always been with him, making him feel that he is not alone.
This is also the main reason why Ender cannot go out to play and make friends like other children, but he is not autistic at all, and does not have any awkward personality.
There is such a big magical world that opens his eyes, and friends with soul complementary souls are always by his side. With Teacher Xixue's teachings, Ande doesn't feel lonely at all.
However, after all, people have to grow up. No matter how close the two souls are, they will eventually embark on their own paths.
However, although his mind was broken with Liu Tong, Ande believed that no matter how long it took, as long as he could see him, he would definitely recognize him at a glance.
Perhaps only by breaking through the realm of great success as Teacher Xixue said, can I achieve the level of self-development and creation of the world, can I condense into a true spirit and cross the Mother River of Life to find them - that is an almost impossible task.
You should know that the so-called great realm of the infinite path means that the body can be transformed into a northern and western empire to hide mountains and seas, and a breath of true energy in the chest can cover the sky and the earth, infinite, without beginning or end.
Even so, it is only a state of great success, and it cannot condense the true spirit. All conditioned laws can only end here. If you want to go further and condense the true spirit, you must create your own laws and reach the state of independence without changing, and pervading without danger - that is to open up the world in the world and support an independent world.
Only in this state can one be qualified to gather the true spirit, transcend time and space, and meet Master and Liu Tong again.
Ander had a headache when he thought about this.
You know, even the gods who hold high the kingdom of God may not have such a level. Although Ande thinks he is good, he wants to reach this level - although he is full of confidence in Teacher Xixue when bragging, when he calms down, Ande feels a little arrogant.
The sun emerges, and the fiery red morning glow turns into bright sunshine, and it is a new day.
Crossing the Mother River of Life and looking for the universe where Master and Liu Tong are located is too far away. Before that, the work at hand must be completed seriously - the road must be taken step by step, the meal must be eaten at a glance, and every day must be cherished!
The river water is about to freeze, and the logging yard should be closed because after the river water freezes, even if the wood is cut off, it will not be transported out.
It is too difficult to transport wood by carriages. Although the roads here have been renovated, they are just dirt roads compacted by rammed earth. If transported by carriages, the roads will have to be bumpy in three days, and the staff for repairing the roads will have to be increased by more than ten times.
Only by water transportation can the wood be transported to the wood processing site in Hank Town at the lowest cost.
Before transporting wood to Hank Town through the river, the logging data for this quarter must be clearly counted.
Thinking of this, Ender got up and put on his clothes, pulled out two charcoal pens from the pen holder, and picked up a few blank thin wooden boards from the long table - this is the paper that Ender used to record the amount of logging today.
Ander walked out of the room and headed towards a site where the wood was piled up in different categories, preparing to start today's statistics work.
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The logging field is along the river with a spacious gentle slope.
Seven areas are artificially divided here. Except for one area located upstream of the river and a pier that can be anchored in small and medium-sized ships, in the other six areas, wood of different materials is classified and neatly stacked on the shore, and is firmly blocked at the bottom of the wood pile with triangular wooden wedges so that the wood will not roll along the slope into the river.
The loggers in the logging yard were divided into six groups, each with a foreman.
In addition to calculating wages based on the value of the cut wood, loggers also have an incentive additional income, determined based on the total value ranking of trees cut in each group.
For example, in addition to normal wages, the first-place group has an additional 30% income, while the second-place group can only earn 10% more than the normal wages they should receive.
The three groups ranked third, fourth and fifth below can only get normal wages. Although there are no punishment measures, as the foreman of the group leader, he often feels lost on his face.
As for the group that ranked last, there is no loss for ordinary lumberjacks in the group, but as the leader of the foreman, he will be recorded by the Molma supervisor of the logging farm. Last quarter, a foreman was at the end of his performance because the group was not successful, so he had no shame to continue working and left.
Of course, if you are willing to give up the position of the foreman and become an ordinary member of the logging farm, but as long as you don’t have enough food to eat, few men from the North are willing to let this face go.
The wood from the logging yard cannot be transported out immediately after being cut down. The wood will be concentrated and transported together through the small river to the processing plant in Hank Town at a fixed period of time.
The method of transporting wood by Baron Hank is very simple. He doesn't even need a boat. He rolls the wood into the river and lets the wood float along the river to the wood processing farm outside Hank Town, where he fishes the wood out of the river. Not to mention this method of transportation, the transportation cost is definitely the lowest.
However, this transportation method is not always available. After all, this small river flowing from the Dragon Ridge Mountains is an important way for Hank Town to go to the Black Forest. Adventurers, herb collectors, hunters, and take boats from Hank Town to the Black Forest.
When someone gets a harvest and returns from the Black Forest, he usually chooses to take a boat - a ship provided by Baron Hank, at least in terms of personal safety and property safety.
If you throw wood into the river on weekdays, this small river is not very spacious and it is easy for floating wood to smash the passing ships.
You should know that these specially made flat-bottomed ships that can navigate in shallow water are all the property of Baron Hank. The annual income is a considerable amount of income just by collecting rent for passengers. If it is damaged, someone will be unlucky.
Therefore, after each working season is completed, a specific number of days will be agreed as a special time period for the wood to flow downstream. In autumn, this time period is the few days before the river water is frozen.
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"Hi, Ender, come and take a look. The most common ones are from our group. You have to help me figure it out clearly, otherwise they will not be convinced if they lose."
When I saw Ender coming from a distance, York showed his loud voice and greeted enthusiastically. York also grew up in Hank Town, and his basic combat skills were learned from Ender's father. The relationship between the two was different, so they were naturally closer than others.
"Okay, I'll be here soon." Ander responded loudly from afar.
"Nonsense, we cut the most red blood wood, we are the first one!" Another big man retorted York.
"What's wrong with red blood wood? In fact, red blood wood may not be much more expensive than fir wood. We have Wuji wood here, which is much more valuable than red blood wood. Maybe we are the first one."
Another foreman said unwillingly.
"Your Wujimu has only three in total. What if it is valuable?"
Six big men were wearing animal leather jackets, showing their strong shoulders and chests, laughing and scolding each other, waiting for Ande to come to count the results of this season's logging.
It is impossible to become a foreman in a logging farm led by Baron Hank.
These lumberjacks are all strong men and usually have two brushes. If the foreman can't hold back, the team will not be able to carry it.
(You can't do this job if you are not strong enough. There is no chainsaw in this world. Everyone cuts trees by logging axes)
If these six foremen are in the profession level, each of them is a warrior above level three. They stand in the cold wind in the north, their faces are red, their chests are open and their arms are exposed, without any intention of feeling cold.
And Ende, who was approaching, looked completely different.
On his head was a wolf-skin hat, with the brim hanging from both sides of his cheeks, and connected by a short rope at his jaw, covering his cheeks and ears firmly in the hat; his neck was surrounded by a scarf made by a fox's tail, so that the cold wind could not be poured into the collar; he was wearing a bear-skin coat, and even when he walked, he looked a little swaying.
Who doesn't know Ende? But if Ende is dressed in this painting, no one can recognize that the ball is the thin Ende.
"The weather is a little cold, but you don't need to dress like this, I said, "I should really follow my dad to exercise more. You don't look like our Hank-collar man now."
York said with a smile. He raised his hand just now and wanted to pat Ender's shoulder to show his intimacy, but when he was halfway through, he quickly put his hand down.
Ander is famous for his physical weakness in Hank Town. To be honest, many people have expected that Ender can live so big. Now, Ander not only grows up healthily, but also can work. Many people think it is the favor of the God of War.
York himself was having fun with his brothers on weekdays, so he was naturally not too serious. When he greeted the rudes, he slapped them and said, "Is the women a little bitch? Isn't it enough to eat?" - The name of a young man is hard to eat among the northerners.
But Ender is different. Strictly speaking, his outfit is probably not as good as the women in Hank Town. If he slapped him with the strength he used to greet his brothers on weekdays, wouldn’t he have to slap him?
"Brother York, you don't know that my body is much stronger than before, and it will get better and better in the future. When my health is better, I will follow everyone to exercise." Ender replied with a smile.
"Okay, everyone, we're going to start working. Two people will help me pull the rope." As he said that, Ander took out a long rope, and there was a red mark on the long rope every distance - this was the soft ruler made by Ander.
Chapter completed!