Reif didn't go home to rest. He was alone at home and there was no need to spend time walking back.
The duty room next to the construction site has tables, chairs, a fire pit, and most importantly, a hot stove. The old man on duty is very easy to talk to. As long as you bring your own food, he doesn't mind helping you get some while preparing lunch for yourself. There is hot soup, a warm meal, and then a walk to bask in the sun, or chat with a few co-workers, and the afternoon is over.
The food that Laifu brought was golden vine powder, and the other workers had similar food. The old man on duty originally helped them make pancakes. Later, during an inspection, the mayor said that lunch would need some oil, so he had some oil delivered. With oil, you can make pancakes, which taste much better and are much more comfortable on your stomach.
As for the soup, the old man on duty is very particular about his soup. He uses rye flakes and small green vegetables to stew the soup. There is also some minced meat in the soup from time to time - the rye flakes are his own, and the small green vegetables are from a "winter planting" research project at the magic school. "It was a gift from a student, and the minced meat was a gift from Mr. Qiao Xiu.
Different from the big shots that Reiff had seen in the past, the new big shots in Huishi Town were all very friendly. The key was that they were willing to distribute benefits to the poor, and they were not just polite in words.
The young magician who would bring some green vegetables every one or two days once said that the Masked Void Master taught them that if you really care about others, you should show it with actual actions and just stay with your words. It is tantamount to cheating. This young man believed in the teachings of the great god, so he originally only needed to plant one experimental field, but he planted two.
"Of course two fields have their own advantages." Steve, who had just learned basic magic, wrote in the report, "The two fields can be compared with each other to improve the efficiency of the experiment."
As for the difficulty of cultivating two fields, he, who comes from a farmer's family, doesn't take it to heart.
Felix was also quite satisfied with this student. Although compared with other classmates, Steve is a little clumsy and his learning and comprehension of magic is slower, but he has a calm personality and is diligent. His rigorous style and redoubled efforts are enough to make up for his innate deficiencies.
If we take the traditional mage route, then people like Steve who are born with slightly lower intelligence are destined to not be able to go very far. But the "Magic Cannon" is an alternative mage that is extremely focused on fighting. It pays more attention to agility and careful thinking, and does not have such high requirements for intelligence. Even if Steve can't become an excellent magic gunner, he can at least become an excellent battle mage.
In fact, if Felix could break through the limits and enter the legendary realm, it would not be difficult to promote a less talented but diligent and careful student. "Talent" is an insurmountable barrier for ordinary people. For extraordinary people, at least the gap between "mediocre people" and "talented people" can be bridged. It's just that the step from "talent" to "genius" is unimaginable.
For most professions, "talent" is completely sufficient.
It's like a digger, and Reif is the most talented of the diggers. Even wearing thick protective clothing, he can adjust his body well. The burden on his body is smaller for the same work, and the workload is greater in the same time.
The pickaxes they use are enchanted tools that are stronger than ordinary pickaxes and can also record the number and power of swings - this is the key to calculating rewards.
More than a month has passed since the start of the work. When the wages were settled, Reif earned nearly 20% more than the average excavator. This means that for the same eight hours a day, his workload is equivalent to more than nine and a half hours of work for others.
It's a pity that he can only immerse himself in hard work and is not good at interpersonal communication and management. Otherwise, Felix would still want to promote him to be the captain of the diggers!
"What a pity!" At a certain meeting, she specifically mentioned this outstanding excavator. "He is obviously a very good talent, but it is a pity that he is clumsy and not good at management."
"There are always some people who are not good at anything except working hard and doing their job better than others." Sui Xiong said with a smile, "By the end of the year, we can issue them a 'Model Worker' 'A medal."
"Model worker?" Felix's eyes lit up, he thought carefully for a while and nodded.
Humans are not pigs or dogs, and they don’t just need to eat enough and drink enough. As the mayor, she not only wants to increase residents' income and improve their living conditions, but also gives residents hope and motivation to move forward, making their lives more glorious.
It is really a good idea to give medals to outstanding workers like Reiff!
This kind of thing happens all the time in the army. Some outstanding soldiers will still be awarded medals even though they have not accomplished meritorious service enough to be promoted. Of course, the gold content of this kind of medal is much lower than the medal for meritorious service, but a medal is a medal, and no matter what, it is a rare honor.
Moreover, soldiers who can receive such medals will be highly respected by people after they retire, because it means that they may not be outstanding enough, or they may lack opportunities, but they must be good and reliable people.
Such people may not be competent in key positions, but at the grassroots level and in the local area, they must be respected and loved pillars. To exaggerate, they are the load-bearing pillars supporting the building of "society."
Felix and Qiao Xiu specially sent vegetables and fat to the diggers, mainly to win over the hearts of these strong laborers as soon as possible. Sui Xiong told them that money is secondary, and people's hearts are the key to doing things. So they all thought of some ways to win people's hearts as much as possible.
For example, right now, Qiao Xiu is patrolling the forest near Huishi Town with his men. They used the magic compass developed by Satan, the leader of the mage group, to find the gathering points of negative energy. They nailed a special purification pillar into the ground during the day, and then activated the power of the pillar. Not only could this gathering point be temporarily destroyed, In turn, a temporary purification node can be established.
This is done to reduce the possibility of skeletons appearing around the town at night, and thereby avoid the annual "Shuo Night" tide of skeletons.
"Ji Shuo Night" is an astrological concept. Generally speaking, between mid-autumn and late autumn every year, there will be a night when negative energy is extremely active. Such a night is called Jishuo night.
In the Ash Forest, every year during the New Year's Eve, an endless army of skeletons would emerge and launch a crazy attack on all the people who settled here. Many pioneer villages were destroyed in Jishuo Night, and no one in the village was alive. Even a town with strong defenses like Four Towns would not be able to stop the terrifying tide of skeletons on Jishuo Night if it were not built close to the edge of the Ash Forest.
When Sui Xiong first came ashore, he witnessed the tide of skeletons on Jishuo night. For ordinary people, it is really a terrible disaster.
Not only that, but on the first night of every month, small-scale skeleton tides often occur. This kind of skeleton tide is nothing to the towns, but it is still very threatening to the villages.
Qiao Xiu and the others destroyed the negative energy gathering points around the town one by one and established purification nodes. The ultimate goal was to build an extremely large-scale purification circle.
This is the topic that Master Satan is currently researching. He has chosen the direction of "purification" as the key to breaking through the legendary realm. According to his calculations, if this extremely large purification array can succeed, it will mean that his ideas If the calculation is correct, then if you want to step into the legendary realm, you only need enough magic power.
For a scholar-type great magician like him, magic power is not a problem, it is nothing more than a large-scale ceremony. The key is to make sure you are heading in the right direction to avoid ritual failure.
If his research can be successful, it won't be long before the Church of the Mask of the Void will have a truly legendary mage, a wise man who can use his wisdom to assist this ship in sailing steadily through the long river of time.
The people in Huishi Town don't know these things, but they know at least one thing - what Qiao Xiu and the others do will be of great benefit to Huishi Town.
Great benefits!
This made the residents of the town suddenly have a better impression of the scary red-haired man who could shoot sparks from his nose. They also had a better impression of Mayor Felix who ruled the town, and the Church of the Mask of the Void behind the mayor. trust.
Compared with the past rulers who just built a city wall and didn't care about the life and death of the people outside the city wall, this new group of rulers obviously sees further, is more humane, and has everyone's interests in mind.
Raising wages, stabilizing prices, repairing houses, rebuilding farmland, exploring mineral veins, and purifying the environment... Mayor Felix and her partners and subordinates are indeed doing things that are beneficial to Pyroxen Town.
Some of the things they have done have achieved good results immediately, some of them may not see any effect temporarily but will be very good in the long run, and some of them have been wanted for a long time but have never been possible. owned.
With all these measures taken at the same time, the residents of Huishi Town naturally chose to trust and support Mayor Felix. Whenever she appears in the town, the residents will take the initiative to salute her. At this time, what they had in their hearts was not fear, but admiration.
Not only that, the Church of the Void Mask’s influence in Huishi Town is also rapidly increasing. Many residents who had no clear faith in the past were willing to listen to the priests of the Church of the Void Mask, pray with them, and praise this great god with a somewhat strange appearance.
When the special mushrooms in the first tunnel grew vigorously and the soil around it began to purify, seeing the ground fade away from the gray and black color and regaining the color of the soil itself, and watching the vegetables grown on the ground sprout, Hui Hui The residents of Shizhen finally couldn't hold it back any longer and cheered so loudly that they burst into tears.
"You are such an amazing person... uh, an amazing god." In the sky, the goddess of wealth, whose figure was covered by her divine power, said to Sui Xiong, "I have never seen a god who can win people's hearts in this way. In my opinion , you don’t look like a god, but like a virtuous king who never really existed in human legends.”