Reborn as a Cube Man in the Late Ming Dynasty

"Did the Immortal Lord feed you divine fish?" Looking at the rosy faces of the militiamen, the leader of the villagers from Liujia Village asked in confusion.

fish!

Upon hearing this word, the militiamen turned pale, their stomachs churned, and they began to dry heave uncontrollably.

After recovering a little, one of the militiamen spoke in a trembling voice, "Sir, you guessed right. The immortal grandfather fed us fish."

Hearing them call him "sir," the villagers of Liu Village were quite pleased. He grinned and said, "Hey, I'm not worthy of being called 'sir.' Since you've eaten fish, let me take you to see where we work."

"Alright, I'll do as you say, sir."

Leading Gao Feiguang and the others to the vicinity of the water source, the villagers of Liujia Village found several foremen who were working there and asked them to lead the work.

When it was Gao Feiguang's turn, the villagers of Liujia Village took a few more glances at his painted face.

"You can stay with him for now."

"Okay." Gao Feiguang nodded silently.

As soon as the villagers left, the foreman and militiaman who had brought Gao Feiguang said indifferently, "Come with me."

He knew Gao Feiguang, but he had no liking for this arrogant and domineering guy and naturally didn't care about what happened to his face.

The foreman was elected based on the militia's daily performance and the evaluations they received from the laborers.

Gao Feiguang followed them, carrying the clods of earth to the outskirts of the village, and naturally saw the white monster that had broken his leg earlier.

They also learned that the monster they had to call "Iron Mountain God General" and that the demon that had tormented them before was the "White Immortal Lord" that the villagers had spoken of.

Compared to the time he spent underground, where he merely did manual labor, Gao Feiguang felt like he had inexhaustible energy, and he worked hard.

However, this might not be an illusion. Ever since he went blind and was given a bucket of what was supposed to be milk, he felt very relaxed all over. Even the distant things that were previously difficult to see became much clearer.

The foreman was initially worried that their team's progress would be severely slowed down, but when the evening settlement came, they were actually among the top teams.

When it was time to rest, Gao Feiguang lined up and received his dinner.

"Did you come back from the Immortal Lord's place?" The villager serving food asked in confusion upon seeing the unfamiliar face.

Seeing Gao Feiguang nod, the villagers muttered, "No wonder they don't remember much. Newcomers, if you're not full, just come back for more, there's plenty!"

After receiving a bowl of hot noodles and a few steamed buns, Gao Feiguang returned to his squad and squatted down. Just as he was about to put the noodles in his mouth, the other members of his squad stopped him.

"Wait a minute, our team moved a lot of blocks today, so we're sure to get eggs. Wait a bit, we'll eat them after we get ours!"

Gao Feiguang worked very hard, which changed other people's opinions of him; otherwise, they wouldn't have bothered to remind him.

"Haha, thanks to Brother Gao, we still have fish to eat today!"

Soon, their leader returned cheerfully carrying boiled eggs and a bowl filled with fragrant fish.

"There's even fish! Hey, Brother Gao, what's wrong? Wait here, I'll go get someone right away!"

The others looked excitedly at Gao Feiguang, only to see him immediately cover his mouth and gag when he saw the fish.

"No need, it's an old problem. This fish, ugh, you guys can share it." Gao Feiguang panted, picked up an egg, and ignored the fish.

"Well, alright." They exchanged a glance, then happily divided the fish. They first smelled it, then tore off the fish skin, wrapped it in steamed buns, and stuffed it into their mouths.

"It smells so good, this fish is so delicious."

After tasting it, they buried the fish meat under the noodles, intending to save it for last.

Gao Feiguang quietly moved to a different spot until he could no longer smell the fish. After a while, he began to swallow the noodles in his bowl.

After finishing his noodles, Gao Feiguang used a steamed bun to scrape the soup off the edge of the bowl until there was hardly any oil left to scrape before he ate the last bit of the steamed bun.

I'm about half full.

Gao Feiguang licked his lips contentedly. He ate too fast and could only stare blankly at the line of people still getting their food while holding his bowl.

He could ask for more rice, but he didn't really believe it. In this year of drought, Gao Feiguang was already very satisfied with just a bowl of hot noodles.

Before, even getting a meal was a problem.

"Aren't you full? You can ask for more noodles and steamed buns. Just take your bowl and go get more if you want some." The boss looked at Gao Feiguang, who was in a daze, swallowed the noodles in his mouth, and hesitated for a moment before saying this.

Gao Feiguang hesitated for a moment, then slowly shook his head.

This doesn't look like someone who's full. He usually snatches food from others, but now he's shaking his head. Where did Gao Feiguang go?

The boss thought with some doubt.

Although we don't know why he changed so much, we were able to eat fish thanks to him, so we decided to help him out.

"Wait here," the leader stuffed a mouthful of noodles into his mouth, handed his bowl to someone else to hold, took the bowl from Gao Feiguang's hand, and went to line up.

When he returned, the bowl was already full of noodles, and there were also a few steamed buns.

"If you can't finish it, just let me know. I'm too lazy to make another trip to get more noodles anyway." The boss handed over the bowl, picked up a steamed bun from it, took his own noodles, and started eating.

"Thank you," Gao Feiguang replied hesitantly.

Huh? Did I hear that right?

The boss looked up in surprise, staring at Gao Feiguang in disbelief.

Gao Feiguang thought he hadn't heard him clearly, so he repeated, "Thank you."

The leader waved his hand with a strange expression and said unhurriedly, "You're too kind. We should be thanking you. If it weren't for you, how would we have been able to eat fish?"

"Eat up. If you want more, just let me know and I'll get you more."

Gao Feiguang responded and then started eating his noodles.

The rest of the group had another bowl of noodles, and with some room left, they started eating the last bit of fish in their bowls.

They carefully tore off pieces of fish meat and chewed them in their mouths, even nibbling on the fish bones for a long time until they had no taste left before reluctantly spitting them out.

After everyone had eaten their fill and were free to move around, they sat in a circle and chatted.

"Phew, I'm full. This is such a comfortable life."

"Yeah, unlike back in the garrison, where there was so much work to do, and we never even got a proper meal. Before, they deducted more than half of our pay, and that was bad enough. Now they're not paying us at all; we haven't seen our pay for months! Meanwhile, the higher-ups are raking in the profits. They don't treat us like human beings at all!"

"Exactly! I couldn't escape back then, and I thought I was doomed. Thank goodness the Divine General broke my legs!"