While the princess was staggering at the value of the soldiers' equipment, another person was circling around the desk like ants on a hot pot.

Lin Zhennan really understood at this time what it meant to be a goose that had been beaten all his life, but he was pecked blind by a goose. Three days ago, the road from Dongfang Port to Cham Port was officially completed, and he was invited to watch the opening ceremony as a partner of Dongfang Port. On that day, these people of the Oriental Port built a large platform on the south side of the bridge, and told in an incredibly large voice that they had built the road for the benefit of the people. The next day he realized that something was wrong, and the people who came to his shop to buy the cool oil were gone overnight, for three days in a row. He didn't think about it, and when he asked the servant to go out and inquire around, he came back to find out that the Dongfang Port Business Station was selling a large amount of cool oil at this time, and the retail price was more than ten times lower than his wholesale price. Master Lin in the rampage directly found Qian Longzhou, and asked him why he blatantly violated the terms of the contract, not only selling cool oil himself, but also destroying his Lin Zhennan's pricing power.

"Nope!" Qian Longzhou looked innocent, "This is outside the terms of the contract, we have not violated the contract at all!" ”

"Why not?" Lin Zhennan was almost mad, took out the contract and pointed at it, "This is written in black and white, and I also gave you three thousand taels to buy out the franchise of all the cool oil sent by your Dongfang Port!" ”

"Yes, I know, but the channel through which we delivered the goods did not meet the terms of the contract." Qian Longzhou was annoyed in his heart from time to time that he sent someone to buy cool oil last time, and now there are nearly one ton of cool oil sent by land this time alone, and there are 100,000 copies as a 10-gram pack, this Lin Zhennan can't do it even if he wants to pick up the trick of buying last time, because of the lack of transportation capacity in Dongfang Port here, there are still five tons in the warehouse that have not been transported.

"Could it be that this batch was transported by land?" Lin Zhennan was a little dazed, is there such a large land transportation capacity? "What kind of car do you use to carry so much cargo?"

This is the masterpiece of Bao Bao, the chief of Bao Dao, who chose a straight line to the south, without any major turns along the way, and in the process of building the road, he found that it is better to use the train transportation method than to transport it one by one. So he designed a connector himself, which can connect more than ten double ** cars into a vehicle like a train, and haul it through multiple oxen, and the slightly troublesome thing is the brake problem, and the person who escorts the car will get off the car as a human brake from the place when he is about to arrive. The goods are transported directly to the bridge. Although many residents of Champa Port have come to watch or try on it, it is still a dangerous bridge according to the standards of old time and space, and he does not want to see a major safety accident involving the bridge and the goods falling into the water, so the goods transported from Dongfang Port to the south are directly unloaded in a large stack on the north side of the bridge, and then hired laborers from Champa Port to carry them to the cargo warehouse in the port.

After a few days, the popularity of the bridge gradually appeared, at first there were some young and strong laborers waiting for work on the north side of the bridge, and it didn't take long for women and children to come to visit and deliver food, a few days later there were tea stalls that provided drinking water and rest, and then a few days later there were grass huts that were erected, and people actually lived here, then there were mules and horses, freight stations, restaurants, and finally gambling houses and secret doors began to appear.

Bao Bao smiled from ear to ear as he watched the town that began to appear in a short period of time, he loved to play games like SimCity on weekdays, and was most keen on the sense of accomplishment of watching the shacks that rose from the ground gradually turn into a small town, and at this time, a new transportation city known as Beiqiaotou Town in the future was emerging in front of him. In addition to inspecting the road conditions every day with his southern highway construction and maintenance team, he and his subordinate highway construction and maintenance team walked around the town of Beiqiaotou, watching the workers who were doing the work squatting or sitting at the door of the Oriental Port Warehouse waiting for work, and watching the workers who got the money happily swinging around the town with silver coins of different denominations......

"Sir!" A timid voice suddenly came from beside him, he quickly turned his head but didn't find anyone, and quickly looked down to find that it was a six or seven-year-old boy. The little boy tugged at the hem of his bag, dressed in a green training uniform, and looked at the tall man.

"What's wrong?" This is the first time to communicate with indigenous children, and I saw that although this child is very clever, it is probably because he can't eat enough all year round, and his body is quite thin. The little hands that grabbed the hem of his clothes were so slender that they felt like chicken feet were grabbing their own clothes. It's almost winter, and the temperature has reached 20 degrees Celsius on weekdays, and many of the people don't need to take off their training uniforms when they work at this time, and this boy is actually naked. The ribs on his chest are very conspicuous one by one, the collarbone protrudes outward, and he feels that if a drop of water falls into it, he will definitely not be able to slip out, his lower abdomen is deflated, a rope is tied to his faded shorts with a hole in his buttocks, there are no shoes on his thin feet, and the bag at this time can even see the thick calluses on the soles of the child's feet.

"Master, there was a thief stealing your things just now." After the child finished speaking, he let go and left.

"What?" The bag couldn't help but flutter for a moment, and quickly rummaged through the pocket, but didn't lose anything. It seems that the thieves of this plane had no idea how Velcro opened or how the zipper worked, and walked away after a few circles around him. "This kid is not bad, and he knows to remind me."

He hurriedly stopped the child, "What's your name?" ”

"The little one is called a dog baby." The child bowed respectfully, bowed and was about to leave, but was stopped by the bag again.

"Come on...... Dog...... Baby, shall I take you to eat? As he was talking, a thin laborer who looked to be about fifty years old ran over not far away, saw Bao Bao grabbed the dog's hand, and quickly knelt at the foot of Bao Bao and begged: "Master, children are not sensible, you adults have a lot, don't be like a little doll!" ”

After asking, I learned that this laborer's name is Niu Dazhuang, but he is a man in his early thirties, his wife is farming, and he has three children, but one died during the last epidemic, and there are only two boys left. The cat boy is now fifteen years old, and he is helping at home, and the dog is a little smaller, so he didn't let him go to work, so he took him out to play and carry the work by the way. Just now, the dog baby saw a thief wandering around the bag, so he took the initiative to run up to remind the bag to pay attention, and the father saw that the old man grabbed his child, thinking that the dog baby had offended the old man, so he quickly ran over and begged for mercy.

Bao Bao comforted for a while, and then took the laborer and the dog baby to the side of the restaurant to have a meal, this dinner table really startled him, the child saw the rice noodles on the table, knelt directly on the stool and ate a whole bowl of rice noodles...... It was less than half a minute, and the dog baby looked at Niu Dazhuang while touching her belly that was not very bulging, and this thin Niu Dazhuang also looked at the child with an indifferent face, it seemed that he had not eaten a full meal for a long time. After a while, Niu Dazhuang still handed the bowl to the child, and the dog baby still solved the second portion of rice noodles in half a minute. He laughed awkwardly twice, bowed deeply to the old man and was about to leave, when he was stopped by Baobao. "Haven't you had enough to eat in a long time?"

Niu Dazhuang nodded with a blank face, Bao Bao looked at the clever child, and said: "In this way, you give the child to me as an apprentice, I will provide him with food and clothing, and give him one or two pocket money every month, do you think it's okay?" ”

Niu Dazhuang's face obviously flashed a trace of surprise, in this era to find a good master is simply an incredible thing, the master let the apprentice carry the work for himself, let the apprentice be his own free labor is a matter of course, often are tired and tired, the salary is let the master take it, until the end of the year to get a few dollars of silver home. If you meet a bad master, you will keep the key skills and teach them until you are dying or you are too embarrassed to take advantage of this free labor. But the old man in front of him said that he would accept his son as an apprentice, provide him with food and clothing for free, and give him one or two as pocket money every month? Did you hear me wrong?

Seeing that Niu Dazhuang didn't respond for a long time, Bao Bao thought that he hadn't made it clear, so he hurriedly asked again.

Niu Dazhuang confirmed that he had heard correctly, knelt on the ground again, and by the way, pulled his child to kneel down, "Quickly kowtow to the master!" ”

Thus the first nominal apprentice of the Crossing Masses was born.

When Niu Dazhuang went back, he went back alone with a large jar of raw rice noodles, but there was no plastic bag this year, so he could only carry it back with a large jar. When he came home and talked to his wife about the apprenticeship, his wife jumped up with joy, and asked Niu Dazhuang to take the cat boy to Beiqiaotou Town the next day to try his luck, to see if he could meet another master who accepted the apprentice, and the worry about his child's future would come to an end.

However, the fifteen-year-old cat boy is just eating rice noodles with his head down at this time, he has not eaten so happily for a long time, and before his father went out to carry the work, he has not even eaten a full meal, and he has to take care of his younger brother on weekdays. He didn't know what his younger brother's apprenticeship meant, but seeing his parents' eyebrows, he must have a good future, and it would be good for him, at least he didn't have to spare a lot of food for his younger brother.

Of course, what he didn't know was that the dog baby was sitting in the canteen of the people through the crowd at this moment, bareheaded, wearing a miniature version of the naturalized uniform, sitting next to the bag and eating the food from the master, the bowl of rice was covered with fragrant gravy, and there were many vegetables, and there were also fragrant fish cooked. The dog baby didn't have time to think about anything, and unskillfully took the wooden spoon in the bowl and desperately scooped the food into his mouth.

Bao Bao didn't eat at this time, stroked the little bald head twice, and said, "Since you have become my apprentice, you can no longer be called a dog baby, I have given you a new name - Newton!" ”