403 Ten miles of kilns

"Dad, it's time to go!"

The girl heard the sound of the carriage stopping, and called softly, and she had already run to the door, threw her burden onto the car, and said with a smile: "Uncle Zuo, hello!"

The girl's smile was like sunshine, and her voice was soft and soft, like a cloud.

It was still dark, and thick clouds were pressing down on the sky, and it was expected to be a cloudy day. But the girl's smile was like the sun rising in advance, which made people feel warm in the cold wind.

On the wheel sat a long-faced man, with one leg bent and the reins in the other, in a very leisurely manner.

He looked at the girl and smiled happily and asked, "What about your father?"

"Still sitting there, looking at what's coming over there. The girl snorted into the house.

"Then we'll wait for him for a while. The long-faced man said.

He has broken eyebrows and eagle eyes, even though he has a spring breeze on his face most of the time, but when his face is slightly cold, he can make people feel a sense of coldness, full of anger.

But at this time, he sat down and said that he would wait for a while, but he was very tame, as if he could wait forever if the master of the house did not come out.

The girl looked through the earthen window into the house, where her father was sitting cross-legged on the clay kang, contemplating a roll in his hand.

His eyebrows tightened, as if he was wondering, as if he was deep in thought.

After reading this part, his hand relaxed a little and moved on to the next part.

So the scroll of this part hung down, revealing in front of the maiden what was written on it.

It was a scroll of drawings, I don't know where it was copied, it looked like a long scroll, but in fact, many drawings were integrated and continuous.

The girl had seen many drawings before, and even drawn some under her father's guidance, but the contents of this scroll were very different from the ones she was used to.

They are more concise and systematic, and most importantly, the girl has seen some more specific instructions next to these graphics.

The girl had read the instructions carefully, and she could feel that there were more essential things involved, which were really different from what she was used to. She hadn't thought of these things before, but she could vaguely feel its value, but she couldn't fully express it yet.

Her father, of course, could see that he had barely been able to put it down these days, and she hadn't seen him so engaged in it for a long time.

One day, her father hid the book for a while, and said to himself thoughtfully, "Where did he learn this? Could it be that someone is born to know......?" Everything is fixed?"

She understood the first half of the sentence, but she couldn't understand the second half. But even so, there was still a secret pride rising from her heart, which occasionally could not help but reveal in her words.

After a while, her father finally remembered that he was about to leave today, put away his things, and walked out of the house.

Soon the carriage was set up and began to leave the mountain village and head off into the distance.

The girl glanced back, and now it was getting dark, and a thin blue mist filled the village, and white cooking smoke shook above the cave, and there was a hint of life in the tranquility.

The cave here is different from the rest of the place, it plunges inward, and the three walls of the mountain are like three walls, each with three or four layers of curved doors. There is a trail outside the upper cave door, the outside of the trail is bricked into a half-person high parapet wall, there are brick/square pots on the wall, you can build a frame on both sides to plant grapes, and you can plant some side vegetables in the middle, which is very convenient.

"What a great place. The girl muttered.

"At the beginning, Shi Guangming was one of the best potters in this area of Wulian Mountain, and Shili Village was his final settlement place and his pinnacle work. Why do you think Shili Village is called that?" her father asked her.

"I don't know. The girl shook her head.

"The caves and caves of Shili Village are connected, and they are continuous for a total of ten miles, so it is named. In the second year after the construction of Shili Village, bandits attacked the village, and the villagers hid in the caves. Father said slowly.

"Ah, haven't you found any?" asked the girl, whose eyes lit up as she heard the story.

Father's jaw.

"Why didn't you tell me when you lived in the village, then I could go into the cave and have a look. The girl complained, and then curious, "The bandits can't find it, there must be a twist in the cave, won't the people in the village get lost?"

"Shi Guangming has left detailed maps, and the dark places in the cave also have their own instructions. But the real secret of Shili Village is not here. Father said.

"What's that?" the girl asked curiously.

The father didn't speak, just looked at her and smiled.

"Is this going to test me?" the girl laughed as well, her index finger tapping her chin and thinking.

After thinking for a while, her eyes suddenly lit up, and her right fist smashed into the palm of her left palm: "I know! The three-story cave, the big hole and the small hole are still connected together, and the place to support it must have become less! The real great thing about Shili Village is not the ten mile cave...... No, it shouldn't be said that, the great thing about Shili Village is how the ten miles of Liandong hold up!"

"There is no mistake. The daughter thought of the key so quickly, and the father showed a happy smile, "The secret is Shi Guangming's stunt, and I have never been able to know." I came here this time, but I didn't expect him to be dead for many years......"

The father did not continue, but sighed softly.

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"Shili Village, surname history?"

Shi Yue'e followed them on the road, Uncle Luo pondered for a while, and suddenly turned his head and asked.

"Yes. Shi Yue'e replied cautiously.

"What does Shi Guangming have to do with you?" asked Uncle Luo.

"It's my father, who died seven years ago. Shi Yue'e replied quickly.

"Seven years? I had heard of his name for a long time, and I thought that there would always be a chance to meet, but I didn't expect ...... "Uncle Luo is a little regretful."

"This mountain is called Wulian Mountain, Shi Guangming is a well-known craftsman in Wulian Mountain, the best at connecting kilns, and has a unique job. The kiln he built can be connected for ten miles, and Shili Village is named because of this. He introduced it without looking back, obviously telling them about it.

"Even the kiln, ten miles in a chain, does it mean that the caves are connected, more than ten miles?" Xu Wen was a little puzzled at first, but when he thought of the basic common sense of the cave that Hu Zhenshan casually mentioned to him, he suddenly realized.

"Yes. Uncle Luo nodded.

"If the kilns are connected, the stress area of the wall will become smaller, and the stress situation will become very complicated, how did he solve this problem?" Xu Wen instantly thought of the key.

"Hehe, this is Shi Guangming's real mastery, except for him, no one knows. There are many words in Xu Wen's words that do not belong to this era, but Uncle Luo understands it strangely, and says with a smile.

What about his daughter Shi Yue?

Xu asked the three of them to look at Shi Yue'e together, and the woman hurriedly shook her head: "My father said, these things are passed on to men and not to women, and they can't be left to me!"

"I remember that your father doesn't have only one daughter?" Uncle Luo was surprised.

"Hmm. Shi Yue'e replied softly and didn't say much.

Uncle Luo looked up at the sky and sighed after a while.

Xu Wen didn't speak, he looked at the rolling land next to him and the occasional steeply rising stone, thoughtful.