Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Swan
Let Qiao Mu see, this thing is still a high consumption so far. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the entire Yancheng, only those nobles or gentry can afford to use it, but there are groups of girls and servants around these people. There are people who do these rough jobs for them, and these people don't know how to fetch water by themselves, so they don't care much about this thing, and the manpower in these years is much cheaper than bronze.
If it weren't for the fact that this was an emerging thing, it represented a bit of identity or something, maybe no one would press it at all.
The key is that this thing is promoted by the city lord and recommended by the main force of the young city, and everyone gives face.
For ordinary households, knowing is a good thing, who doesn't use water, but bronze, for ordinary families, is equivalent to putting a pile of silver in the water, and the silver is really not there in the first place, and it will not be put like this.
Don't look at the high water level in Yancheng, there are not many households that can dig wells.
Generally, it is a village, a Zhuangzi and two deep wells. That is, Yancheng is rich in the city, and there are wells in the courtyards of small households, and there are more wells.
Hey, this is a lack of understanding of market research, failure is insufficient preparation, and insufficient understanding of the whole world.
Qiao Mu also recently learned that Yanyang put a lot of silver into it for this water press, and Yancheng's decree was issued to say so, a village promotes a water press, and the city lord's mansion subsidizes half of the silver, and the remaining half of the silver has to be raised by the village.
And half of the silver subsidized by the city lord's mansion was subsidized by the private treasury of the young city lord himself.
Of course, the reason for this is only known to a few people in the City Lord's Mansion.
Although it cost money, this is also a matter of buying people's hearts, and Yan Yang will not do such a thankless thing under his father's nose. If it sounds good, it is for the country and the people, and if it is not good, it is seeking power and usurping the throne to buy people's hearts.
Therefore, it is rumored that the subsidized silver is subsidized by the city lord's mansion.
Qiao Mu knew about this because her mansion had finally hosted the first wave of guests except for Yan Zi.
This wave of guests came from the City Lord's Mansion. It's Yanyang's brothers and sisters with high necks.
The person who came with his neck raised clearly told Qiao Mu that we can come here to give you face and support you.
And they came for their brothers. It's just to give their brother face. It has nothing to do with your arbor. In this regard, Qiao Mu can only say in private, I really don't want to welcome them, this attitude, why did you come, it is simply to add to your own blockage.
When Qiao Mu saw these people, he thought about going back and raising a few big white geese by himself, and let them take them home to compare, the real image of the neck is high.
Can you tell them that you don't need their lifting, can you say that you don't need to give me face?
Qiao Mu's eldest sister and second sister have already married outside, and it is said that they are married very well, but they seem to be political marriages, and they may not be able to return to their parents' homes in a year or two.
Right now, Qiao Mu is Yanyang's third sister, two sisters, and three brothers. Yishui's little beauty, a little handsome guy, made Qiao Mu sigh that the reproduction ability of the Yan City Lord was super strong.
Fortunately, he was the lord of the city, otherwise who could afford to raise so many children.
Steward Qiao heard that the young ladies and young masters of the city lord's mansion had passed over, and they began to keep their feet on the ground early in the morning, but it was too expensive, and they were very nervous. The kitchen starts to work early in the morning.
Qiao Mu led a few people to his yard to see the plum blossoms. The attitude can be regarded as warm and thoughtful.
There is no good place to go, and on a cold day, Qiao Mu didn't let his subordinates toss around.
There are only three courtyards that people can visit, one is where the craftsman lives, one is the main courtyard, there is nothing to see, and the rest is her plum garden, but the arbor dislikes the homonym of the plum word, which affects the inheritance, and her yard now does not even have a name.
It's not that Qiao Mu has no goods in her stomach and can't come up with a name, but that all the names she said were rejected by the girl's fellow managers, including Yan Yang.
Tibetan beauty, arbor thinks it's good, how good the connotation is. Give yourself back a foil, it's too expensive to deny it first, you better keep a low profile.
Qiaoge, Yan Yang moved his nose when he heard it, and the little family was very angry. Qiao Mu was angry and named the carrier, Yan Yang glared, do you deserve it, don't say that you are Qiaofu, it is Yancheng, and no one dares to use such a name, you want to rebel.
Qiao Mu has a black face, isn't it just a place to live, what is the name, that's it. Sister doesn't want to bother with her brains.
Yan Yang didn't even bother to say anything to her, so he left directly, and was busy. Whatever you love to call, you can die hard.
Miss Yan San is a beautiful beauty, in Qiao Mu's opinion, the most eye-catching thing on Miss San's body is her white neck, one is long, and the other is high. This is not a derogatory term, it is like a real swan, the key is that the identity of the person is also worthy of the swan.
It is not very clear how the brothers of the Yan family are, at least the sisters of the Yan family, now they are all looking at this third young lady.
Miss Yan San picked up the teacup, just touched it for a while, obviously didn't look down on the coarse tea here Qiao Mu, Qiao Mu secretly rubbed his shame: "I don't know how many young ladies come over, Qiao Mu is not fully prepared." ”
Yan San didn't raise his eyelids: "So it's our sister and brother who are abrupt." ’
The words are gentle, but the meaning in it is definitely not gentle, Qiao Mu dares to nod This third lady may not be able to do something.
Qiao Mu: "Don't dare, don't dare, Qiao Mu means that he knew that Miss Yan was going to the house with the young masters, even if he was preparing for half a month, it was not enough to show Qiao Mu's fear." "This is enough sycophancy, humble enough.
It's a pity that Miss Yan San's face didn't ease at all, she used to tease her eyelids twice, but now she doesn't even want to lift her eyelids, and a woman who doesn't even have any backbone is worthy of letting their sister and brother put on a show.
Qiao Mu didn't know why this ancestor's face was cold, and he didn't say a bad word. The atmosphere was so awkward.
If you want to say that this is Yanyang's eldest brother, he is the most kind: "I heard that the Qiao family's organ technique has been famous for a long time, I don't know why we have never heard of it." ”
If someone asks this question in another way, Qiao Mu must have dumped him: "That's because your vision is too narrow." ’
can be replaced by this questioner, or in order to relieve the embarrassing atmosphere for himself, Qiao Mu replied much more seriously, of course, to put it bluntly, it is much more serious to make up, but very slowly: "This young master Yan doesn't know, the existence of the Qiao family is no longer exquisite, even I don't know how long the family has been in seclusion." There should have been a brief history of the family, but because of the special skills of my Qiao family, whether it is this ability or the brief history of the family, it has been passed down by word of mouth throughout the generations. From the ancestors to the present, the ancestors are all talents who are obsessed with technology, and the rise and fall of the family has been passed on less and less. It's almost unheard, and what has been handed down today is just some tricks that the ancestors have repeatedly used after hundreds of years of tempering. ”
After finishing speaking, I was depressed, and I figured out my own sentences in private, and then gave myself a thumbs up, and made it perfect.
Great, tenacious, and technical talents who do not seek fame and fortune, is there anything better than this and proper life experience?
And if you want to do tricks, you have to keep yourself alive, and the skills are all in his arbor's mind. There is no information, no one knows, hehe, hey, so talented.
Not only Yan Yang's eldest brother nodded, but also Miss Yan San, who had a bad face, glanced at Qiao Mu.
It turns out that this Qiao's muscles and bones have been used in the study of mechanism techniques since their ancestors. It is inevitable that the teaching of juniors is lax, no wonder this woman is a little rougher, her temperament is worse, and her character looks a little lacking. Luckily, there's something in my head, otherwise it's useless.
Qiao Mu didn't know that he had been upbringing the Dajin girl for more than two months, and in the eyes of this person, the rest was so much worse.
Among the Yan children who came to visit Qiao Mu, the youngest brother was only an eight or nine-year-old child, and when he heard what Qiao Mu said, he was very interested in speaking: "In this way, don't you have a lot of puppets in your hands, but you can also make a puppet like the big iron bull." ”
It's all over the big eyes, can you get it, hurry up and give me one. It's so cute.
Qiao Mu looked at the fat doll, there is no problem with giving you a toy or something, I am also very generous, the problem is that your brother does not cooperate, he refuses to let you go home to the mall to help you buy it: "Well, in principle, it is possible, but due to the shortage of raw materials when I first arrived in Guibaodi, many things cannot be made, especially objects like the big iron cow." Do you know that the water press we use now should also be made of iron pipes, but because our foundry workshop can't make such pipes, we use the current bronze pipes. ”
The kid didn't understand, but he did, he couldn't have a toy of his own. Depressed.
Qiao Mu: "Don't be disappointed, young master, Qiao Mu believes that Yancheng is rich in land and talents, and sooner or later it will be able to cast more suitable tools for mechanical arts." ”
Yanyang's eldest brother pursed his lips and smiled, and the younger brother followed with a smile on his lips, and the two brothers made an official answer with a tacit understanding: "Young Master Qiao is right." ”
Miss Yan San glanced at Qiao Mu, and her ability to fool people is good: "Since Young Master Qiao knows that today's Yancheng can't make appliances suitable for water presses, why do you still want to promote water presses in Yancheng." Just to promote the reputation of the Qiao family, the young city lord took great pains and effort for the water press of the young master Qiao, and also put on a large amount of furniture, I heard that the subsidy went into a large amount of silver. Young Master Qiao is scheming. ’
Qiao Muzhen didn't know that Yan Yang even had a silver tie, thinking that the relationship between the two was not so disregardful, no wonder Miss Yan San didn't like him.
The brothers spent money, and he bought the reputation of the Qiao family, and he felt that he was not authentic when he did this: "Qiao Mu didn't dare to say, I heard the words of the third lady today, and I knew that the young city lord had bothered to work hard for this, and he could only be grateful to the Yan city lord Gao Yi." For Yancheng and for the people, regardless of personal gains and losses. ”
After speaking, he still arched his hand like a decent arch.
Miss Yan San didn't express an opinion on this, she didn't have much of a cold with this woman, and she didn't have much of a good impression. It's nice to say, isn't it him Qiao's who got the benefits?
It's just that they sat down and left, it was too expensive, they bothered to prepare food or something, and they didn't even touch it at all.
Qiao Muxin said, why bother, she Qiao Mu really doesn't need this kind of face. Next time, such guests should come less, and it is better not to come, obviously not all the way.
However, Qiao Mu suddenly saw that Yan Yang was good, are you afraid of comparison, compared with Yan Yang's brothers and sisters, Yan Yang is simply too good. The neck is not so high.
Seeing off these sisters and brothers of the Ang Neck family, Qiao Mu breathed a sigh of relief, and when Yan Chi came over, Qiao Mu knew that he wanted to thank more than one place in Yanyang.
First of all, people filled her water press with a lot of silver, and secondly, the water press machine was frozen and obstructed, and the upper echelons of Yancheng were already not very impressed with the Qiao family.
The reason why he hadn't come to Qiao Mu before he said it was because Yanyang's brothers and sisters came to visit. In the eyes of outsiders, although this is a visit, it has a different meaning, at least it represents the attitude of the City Lord's Mansion.
So it's good to spend money to buy a happy one, wait for the weather to warm up, and the water presser can be used, but it can't be used, and it can be regarded as selling it to the city lord's mansion to save face.
Of course, Yan Chi didn't say it in such detail, Yan Chi came over and just implicitly reminded Qiao Mu not to be too concerned about the unexpected attitude.
Qiao Da walked around a lot outside, and he couldn't find out anything, and besides, Qiao Mansion didn't have any strength in Yancheng, so no one hid it when he said this.
Not to mention that the rise of a family is not easy, Qiao Mu, a person with modern technology, has not been able to make a good start for himself, fortunately, there is a far-sighted Yancheng Lord, who has lost his face.
With these things, Qiao Mu's life has basically shrunk, and even Qiao Mu, who is celebrating the New Year, went to a New Year's banquet in the Yancheng Lord's Mansion, and left after a little sitting.
The rest of the time is spent looking at my own small book, looking for some small research, small mechanization that is more suitable here.
After the New Year, I went to worship the young city lord of Shaoyan for the New Year, and I don't know if there are these particularities here, but Qiao Mu is grateful to Yanyang for taking care of her, and he has done the etiquette he knows.
Yanyang's Shaocheng Lord's Mansion, Qiao Mu's first visit, the building facilities inside are almost the same as Qiao Mu's mansion, the only difference is probably Yanyang's mansion, which is closer to Yanshan than Qiao Mu's mansion. It's a little more secluded.
However, the seclusion of people is quiet in the middle of noisy, but it does not mean deserted.
Yanyang: "Didn't you say that you are afraid of the cold, and you don't want to go out and walk around, but today you want to move around." ”
Qiao Mu: "No matter how afraid of the cold, you have to go to the young city lord to ask for a lottery." New Year's greetings to the young city lord, ask for a red envelope, wish the young city lord a good New Year, all the best, and ask for a white and chubby beautiful lady in the coming year. ”
Yan Yang's good mood was ruined by the words later: 'That's the son who is fat for nothing, marry a fat man, are you sure you are not cursing me.' ”
Qiao Mu opened his mouth and smiled: "Fat is healthy, and it's good to have meat on your body." How good it is to look white, as soon as you are white and ugly, you have to marry a lady' (to be continued.) )