Chapter 105 Marry your sister instead of being cannon fodder 13

Early the next morning, a steward came to urge them to go to work. The men mainly went to the beach to wash the sand, while the women were assigned to clean and dry the seafood.

Of course, there are also people assigned to fishing, ship repairs, etc.

The female members of the Li family are all assigned to polish pearls. This is a delicate job that is just right for ladies like them.

Polishing involves polishing the pearls on soft leather soaked in turpentine, grinding them with diatomaceous earth powder, placing them in clean diatomaceous earth for a short time, and finally polishing them with cooked leather and olive oil.

This will make the pearls more radiant and shiny.

Pearls are abundant here, and a large part of the military's salary comes from pearls.

The quantity is also specified, and at least 500 pearls must be polished in one day.

They still get money for hard labor, but the money they get is one-half less than that of ordinary workers.

And they don’t have holidays, workers have holidays.

On the first day of work, Li Sanye was so tired that he couldn't lift his hands. He kept shouting with a sad face, saying that his life was too hard.

Li Chongshu also looked pale, which frightened the eldest lady for fear that he would relapse.

"Yanyan, your body-building medicine will be finished soon. Chongshu's hard-fought recovery must not be undone."

Li Xin, who was outside the house, replied: "Auntie, I'm ready to endure it. My sister-in-law asked me to grab some more medicine before and said it will be more useful when I come here. I finally understand why."

Sure enough, prisoners in exile will not have a good life. After surviving the hardships along the way, it is only when they arrive at the place of exile that they really begin to suffer.

First of all, everyone can't stand the weather here. They are used to the changing seasons, and suddenly coming to such a hot place will definitely make them uncomfortable.

Secondly, people who have been exiled are naturally inferior to others. They cannot be lazy when doing dirty and tiring work. If they are lazy, they will be punished.

The whole family was in low spirits, but the women were better off. The first day was spent learning how to polish pearls, so the workload was not heavy.

Work will officially start tomorrow.

After the tonic was ready, everyone drank the medicine and lay down early to rest.

Li Chongshu got up at nine o'clock the next day. He called the men of the Li family to go out for morning exercises. Su Yan heard the noise and got up to take a look.

Seeing them moving their muscles and bones in preparation for Li Family Boxing, Li An and Li Mo were also responsible for teaching Li Chongyang and his son boxing techniques, one-on-one teaching, which was more efficient.

Just when Su Yan was about to go back and lie down and continue sleeping, he found that the eldest lady and Li Xin were also up and ready to come over and take a look.

"Have they started practicing boxing?" asked the old lady sitting on the mat.

"Well, the third uncle is up."

"Finally I've grown a lot." After saying this, the old lady lay down again and fell asleep peacefully.

The eldest lady and Li Xin looked at each other for a while. Both of their faces were filled with joy, especially the eldest lady's face was filled with relief, as if she had finally waited for something good she had been waiting for for a long time, and her whole person looked relaxed and happy.

At Chen time, someone would beat the gong to remind everyone to start work. Li Xin did not go back to sleep. She took the initiative to take over the task of preparing breakfast for everyone.

While the steward was beating the gong, the steamed buns she steamed were ready. Each person had a bowl of porridge and a steamed bun, and then went to work.

The old lady asked each of them to bring an extra steamed bun, as the rice porridge would not satisfy them. Now that they were starving after working hard, they would eat steamed buns when they were hungry.

There is no need for the female relatives to bring them. They polish the pearls without any physical effort.

While working, Su Yan found someone secretly hiding pearls on his body.

She said nothing, only observed secretly.

Sure enough, when I got off work in the afternoon, someone specifically responsible for inspection searched me.

The woman who had hidden the pearls in her hair turned pale when the steward asked her to jump three times.

When she finished jumping, the pearl also fell out.

Although there are only two, if you come a few more times, you will have a string of pearls.

The woman was dragged down and slapped ten times, and from then on she was not allowed to come to the pearl room to have her pearls polished again.

Only then did Su Yan realize that this job was not fixed for certain people, but was done on a rotating basis.

Just to prevent anyone from wanting to steal pearls, the work is usually done in turns. The Zhufang also likes newcomers to do this job, because newcomers are generally timid and do not dare to have other evil thoughts.