I am engaged in construction in Datang

The place where we ate was not far from where the well was dug, and the ox cart slowly arrived there.

The master chef led everyone to start digging a well, and Zhang Da taught Zhang Liujin how to be lazy with his own actions.

In the blink of an eye, it was noon.

"Manager Zhang, is there any food at noon?" A man was hungry.

The yamen runner named Zhang looked up at the sun and said, "Yes, but it's not time yet."

The man was a little disappointed. By then, what does by then mean?

Could it be that the time will come when the sun sets?

He dug the soil twice and felt the sun was burning too hot and he was exhausted all over.

"How about eating a couple of bites to fill my stomach?" he thought, so he took out a dry biscuit, took two bites, then put it down and continued working.

In the distance, Zhang Da saw this man's actions, his heart sank, and he turned to Liu Jin and said, "Look, your father was right, that manager Zhang must have said that there was no lunch."

"Aye, you are amazing." Liu Jin said, "That meal in the morning was really just a trick."

"Aye, why don't we eat too?"

Zhang Da thought about it, then glanced at the yamen runner beside him and said, "Okay, you can eat secretly first, and Aye will dig this side."

When Liu Jin heard this, he quickly opened the cloth bag. The dry biscuits he had eaten in the morning had no oil or water, so he was getting hungry quickly.

He took two bites of the dry biscuit, then two more bites...

The yamen runner over there was the one who drove the ox cart in the morning. He looked at Liu Jin secretly eating the dry biscuits and shook his head.

He can certainly eat six pounds, but why is his strength so weak?

Liu Jin had just eaten half of a pancake and was about to call his father to come and eat together when he saw a yamen runner running over, beating a gong.

"Go, go, go! Hurry up and get on the bullock cart. It's time to eat!"

"!" Liu Jin looked at Aye helplessly.

"..." Zhang Da.

In an instant, all the men dropped their shovels and hammers and ran towards the ox cart.

Zhang Da saw Liu Jin was stunned and had no time to explain. He quickly grabbed Haodaer's hand and ran towards the ox cart.

Everyone got on the ox cart, panting.

"Liu Jin, you have to remember that even His Majesty can't take care of every meal. I guess he'll come every three to five days." Zhang Da was a little embarrassed, but he couldn't let down his dignity as a father, so he had to teach his son according to his own experience.

He spoke in a low voice and only two men from the same village nearby heard it.

"Boy, listen to your father more." said the man. He thought so too.

"Your uncle is very experienced and knows what to do much better than you do." Another man agreed.

Liu Jin dispelled his doubts, his eyes were pure and firm: "I know, I always listen to Aye."

After that, he touched his stomach and sighed.

I guess I won’t be able to eat much for lunch today.

But it’s okay, Aye said the lunch might not be that good…

When we arrived, people from other villages were already eating.

"What are you eating? How many dishes are there?" The man who had just persuaded Liu Jin saw an acquaintance and asked casually.

"Big pot of food, come quickly, there's some fat meat!" The man ate with such relish that he didn't even want to look up.

When the man heard this, he ran away, completely forgetting the words he had just said to Liu Jin.

Liu Jin was alone and disheveled in the wind.

Looking again, he saw that the figure following closely in front of him was actually his own Aye Na's running back.

Everyone was still using the aluminum basins distributed in the morning. The eldest one served his own rice, while others just served the vegetables.

Liu Jin took his own bowl and cooked the rice.

"Boy, you are so strong, why do you only eat so little rice?"

The person serving the food scooped a spoonful of vegetables and said, "Are you full? I'll give you two more slices of fat meat."

"With such a small amount of rice, there's no need to scoop out vegetable soup for you!"

"I..." Liu Jin felt uncomfortable and was about to speak when Zhang Da took over the conversation.

"Hey, I just look intimidating, I don't eat much, and I don't have much energy. Hehe..."

Zhang Da held his aluminum basin, which contained a large bowl of rice. He looked at the big piece of fat meat in the dish with shining eyes: "Brother, give me a little more fat meat."

The person serving the food looked at Zhang Da, then at Liu Jin, with a look of pity.

What's the point of this kid looking so intimidating? He still has to rely on Aye for everything.

"Okay, I'll give you two more slices."

After dinner, the two found a place to eat.

Liu Jin thought to himself that he must have dinner with Aye tomorrow and couldn't eat first.

In the afternoon, a group of men were digging a well when someone pulled over a bucket of herbal tea.

"Everyone take a break, come and have something to cool down."

Just like at noon, everyone threw down their shovels and ran over there with their aluminum basins.

This time it was an old man who scooped the tea.

"Father, is this tea also given to us by His Majesty?" Zhang Da took a sip of the cold tea.

Hiss—cool and sweet.

"It's not tea. It was given by the woman who made the farm. I was hired by them to make tea." The old man spoke slowly. He earned forty cents a day!

He will come tomorrow morning as well. He just started today and is learning how to make tea in the morning.

"Nuzhuang?" Zhang was confused. Which manor was this?

"Yes, I heard it's a manor in the capital, it's quite powerful."

The old man said, "All the things in the women's farm have the word 'woman' printed on them. Look at the bottom of your aluminum basin. Is there a 'woman' logo?"

General Zhang drank the herbal tea in one gulp, and when he turned around, he saw an icon that looked like a seal.

This is a very soft word.

The lines are rounded, and at first glance it looks like a student, but the figure is graceful, with the top of the head reaching to the sky and the feet standing on the ground. Although it is not sharp, it gives people a surprising sense of momentum.

Zhang Da felt around for a while and said, "It's really nice. How come it looks like someone is reading?"

"Everyone in the female village, both men and women, is well-educated, and the owner of the village is even more knowledgeable about astronomy and geography. There is nothing she doesn't know."

"Ah!" Zhang was very envious. He also wanted to ask Liu Jin to study, but he couldn't afford it.

I heard that some kind of newspaper is very popular in the city recently and it’s very cheap, but he couldn’t get any of it.

"The owner of the manor is a young lady?"

"Yes." The old man nodded: "The newspaper in the city is also from the women's farm, published on behalf of the emperor."

"I don't know what the people in the women's village are like..."

"What is it like?" The old man smiled and shook his head: "If you don't see it, you can't imagine it at all!"

"Anyway, he's more noble than the most noble person you've ever met."

When he was learning how to make tea in the morning, it was a woman from the women's village who taught him.

The woman took a sip of the herbal tea and knew what the problem was. She solved it immediately and then hurried away in a carriage.

When he left, he glanced inside the car and saw that people were reading!

The noble ladies of other families were all in the backyard, while the women of common people's families did not go out of the village within five miles.

But the ladies in the women's village, big and small, wore glazed hairpins on their heads, blue clothes and black boots, and traveled all over the country without any makeup.

After drinking some herbal tea to cool off, everyone continued digging.

The old man over there was still guarding the wooden barrel, and everyone went to ask for a bowl of tea to quench their thirst when they were tired.

Zhang Da no longer imparted his experience to his son, nor did he nag him anymore.

The bailiff said that from now on, the two meals a day would be of the same quality as today, and there would also be herbal tea to relieve the heat.

Now he felt that he had endless energy.