Today's tofu workshop business is stable, and it has only been a long time since the New Year, and the orders have been scheduled for half a year. In addition to the tofu workshop, the soap workshop can also be built quickly, and as for the mechanical workshop, although it is not difficult to select and build the site, this skilled craftsman is not just a matter of finding it.

They are people who have direct contact with the drawings, and they must be reliable, otherwise, today Shumin handed over the drawings to them, and they privately rubbed and sold them to others, isn't this shooting themselves in the foot?

If Chun Quan is here, it would be the most suitable to hand it over to him, but he is now the apprentice of the Hou Ye, and there is a Hou Ye in the capital with a bright future, how can he return to this small village?

Except for Chunquan, the only person Shu Min knows is Lao Li Tou.

At that time, because of Chunquan's affairs, Lao Li Tou suffered a lot and was always unwilling to betray Chunquan. Later, the royal army threatened his family, and he had no choice but to confess Chunquan, and then he felt guilty and apologized for his crimes.

Of course, it didn't die, but it also proves that this person is affectionate and righteous, and he is a trustworthy person, not to mention, all the current mechanical designs are made in his Tiegui Li Iron Shop, and he and Baili Village can be said to have a long-term cooperative relationship.

It's just that if he wants to give up the heirloom iron shop that has been running for several generations and take charge of the machinery workshop in Baili Village, can he agree?

On the thirteenth day, the weather was as sunny as ever.

The snow had long since melted, turning into clear water and seeping into the soil, gently waking up the seeds that were sleeping under the soil, and far and near, you could see dots of green coming out.

"Spring is coming soon!" Shumin was in a happy mood, went to Taibaiju in the city, bought a jar of fine wine, and went to visit Lao Litou.

The blacksmith shop was not officially opened, Lao Li Tou and a few of his apprentices were cleaning up inside, and when they saw Shumin coming, they hurriedly welcomed her in.

As soon as she sat down, tea was served.

Shu Min looked at the blacksmith shop, there was a large open-air courtyard inside, and there were seven or eight stoves cut in it, all of which were some years old, and these stoves had been blackened by charcoal fire. The shop of the blacksmith that I had just passed by, facing the street, was filled with all kinds of iron tools: hoes, hammers, kitchen knives, and even one or two weapons, all of which, apart from those two, were no different from the utensils displayed in the other blacksmiths in the town.

Across the courtyard, where Shumin now sits, is a simple hall for receiving guests. It is mainly used to entertain important guests or discuss things.

"Mrs. Qin, it's good for you to come, why do you still bring such a valuable wine?" Although Lao Li Tou said politely, he hugged the wine jar tightly with both hands, and grinned so much that his mouth was grinning.

"It's just some sake, where is it valuable. Seeing that he was addicted to alcohol, Shumin pursed his lips and smiled, "Is my aunt's body better?"

She heard that Lao Li Toudi's wife has always been relatively weak, so he has no children and no daughters. But he never gave up on her, and the relationship between the two is still enviable.

"She's still the same, and the tonic has never been broken, but she has always sighed" Speaking of his wife, Lao Li's hand holding the wine loosened, and he sighed and said.

"The ancestor of Dr. Hu in our village is the imperial doctor, so you might as well ask him to take a look. Shumin suggested. At that time, Hui'er was locked up in a small black house and almost died, but fortunately, Dr. Hu rescued him in time and survived, and later he gave the ancestral secret recipe to Shumin for free, and this dish completely cured Hui'er.

Dr. Hu's medical ethics and medical products, Shumin admires and respects them very much.

"That's great!" Hearing this, Lao Li Tou was very happy, "Then I'll take her to Baili Village for a walk another day." ”

"Well, go where I stay for a few days, and let Dr. Hu help him recuperate. Shumin said enthusiastically.

"Mrs. Qin didn't just come to me to invite me to drink and help my wife introduce doctors, right?" said Lao Li Tou with a smile, he was so good that after so many years in the town, he still had a little bit of the ability to see people.

"Our relationship can be regarded as friends, so I won't beat around the bush, I came to you today, and I really have something to do. Shumin blushed, it was the first time she had done such a thing as digging into the corner of the wall. Besides, this time I still want to dig up the boss of the iron shop.

"Madame, don't be embarrassed, there is a place where I can help, you can just say!" Lao Li Tou was very arrogant, and he admired Shu Min very much, when Chu Chun Quan provoked the royal army, it was Shu Min who had been maneuvering, so that he had the life to wait for Hou Ye to come to the rescue.

Chunquan has a good relationship with him, if Chunquan really lost his life that time, I am afraid that he will feel guilty for the rest of his life, so in his heart, he is also very grateful to Shumin.

"That's right, Baili Village has talked about a big business, which needs to make tricycles and other machinery in large quantities, and Tie Guan Li has limited manpower and space after all, so we want to build a mechanical workshop outside the village, once completed, this workshop will have at least hundreds of furnaces, and hundreds of people can work at the same time. It's just that, in this way, we lack a person who can take charge there."

"Madame wants to invite me to Baili Village to be the principal?" Old Li Tou frowned when he heard this. Lao Li Tou blacksmith is his ancestral business, and the business has been good, his family is in the same lineage, and the most hope is to carry forward this blacksmith.

If someone else came to persuade him, he would probably have turned his face and denied him. But it was Shumin, and he frowned in embarrassment.

"I know you can't bear to do this, but I can't find anyone else I can trust except you. Shumin was also very entangled in his heart.

"This blacksmith is my grandfather's life's work, and I will never turn it off. My old Li Tou is not the kind of person who does not repay his kindness, but the stakes are very high, if I promise you, I will go down to see my ancestors without shame. Lao Li Tou couldn't bear to see her embarrassed, but for the sake of the ancestral family business, he had to refuse fiercely.

"Alas, I also know that I am a strong man. Sorry. Shumin heard his refusal, and although he was disappointed, he was also relieved.

Although she really wanted to pull Lao Li Tou into the gang, she also understood Lao Li's difficulties.

"Madam, don't say that, this matter is my old Li Tou can't stand you, if you have any use to get my old Li Tou's place in the future, I promise never to refuse. Lao Li Tou saw that she immediately gave up persuasion and respected her decision, but his heart became uneasy.

"Whereever, you've been helping me all along, and I'm grateful. Shumin said humbly.

She really thinks so, if it is Lao Litou, no matter how earth-shattering her design is, there is no way to attach to the action.

The two continued to chat for a while, and Shumin got up and left, and before leaving, he also handed him the design of the pressurized mercury and asked him to help her make a few as soon as possible.

The tofu workshop needs one, the soap workshop also needs one, the Minyuan also needs one, and the uncle's family can't be left behind

The mechanical workshop is not so quick to use, and these things have to be bothered by Lao Litou.

Lao Li Tou looked at the precise manuscript paper and the imaginative design, and his eyes flashed with deep surprise and emotion. Unexpectedly, after she rejected her, she still trusted herself as always, regardless of her previous suspicions.

"Madame, don't worry, I will help Madame forge it as soon as possible. But can Madame tell me what this thing is used for?" The design of the mercury pressurized water is not complicated, and Lao Li Tou can understand it, but he can't imagine what this thing does.

"It's a pressurized mercury that can be installed to connect the well water directly to the surface. Shu Min pointed to a handrail on the top of the sketch and said, "Just press this handrail up and down." ”

"How is this possible?" The water flows downward, and this small thing can bring water directly from the ground to the ground?

Looking at Shu Min's distant back, he suddenly began to wonder if his insistence just now was right?

Since helping Shumin create those strange things, he has gained a new understanding of blacksmithing, and his skills have improved a lot.

If he often has such drawings for himself in the future, will he become a generation of grandmasters in the forging industry in the future?

This small blacksmith left by his ancestors, is his intention really to let future generations keep this small piece of sky, or use it as a springboard to break out of a bigger piece of sky?

"Alas, I don't want to. Lao Li Tou was entangled in his heart. He took a big sip of wine from the wine jar.

This is obviously the best burning knife in Taibaiju, why does it taste a little wrong! Lao Li smacked his lips, feeling that the burning knife was also tasteless.

Out of the iron corner, Li hit the iron shop, and Shumin walked on the slightly empty street a little bored. It's only thirteen today, and the tradition here is that it won't open until fifteen, so except for some restaurants and other shops that make food, most of the shops are closed.

In an inconspicuous alley, several strong men surrounded a young man in shabby clothes.

"Hero, hero, I don't dare anymore!" the young man cried and begged for mercy.

"Now you don't dare to do it, then how dare you still show up in your grandfather's field?" one of the big men had a fierce face and beckoned the young man who had fallen to the ground with a fist the size of a bowl.

"I really don't dare anymore. The young man's nose was bleeding, his face was blue and purple, and his mouth was swollen and high, and he looked miserable.

"Don't talk nonsense, let him lose money!" said a tall, thin shrewd man next to him. "If you don't say anything, you'll pay us twenty taels!"

"Spare my life, I have won less than five taels of silver in total, and those five taels have been taken back by you. When the young man heard that he would have to pay twenty taels, his heart was miserable.

"If you don't have money, you will pay with your life!" The lean man's eyes showed a fierce light, and he kicked him in the stomach, and the young man suddenly felt bitter in his mouth, and spit out bitter bile all over the ground.

"I really don't have any money!" Before he could finish vomiting bitter bile water, the lean man gave him another kick, but fortunately this kick was only kicked in his leg, except for a bruise, which hurt terribly, it was not a major injury.

"No money, just wait for us to die!" (To be continued.) )