Chapter 51: The Beginning of the Edge
Without asking Gu Beijun to investigate the reason for those carriages, Xi Mo obediently returned to the palace with him. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info As soon as he arrived at the palace, Gu Beijun hurriedly went to the study to find Gu Jin, Xi Mo was sure that there must be something wrong with the carriage.
However, Gu Beijun, a businessman, why does he have anything to do with these messy things?
In the afternoon, the phantom Leng Chen finally returned, and Xi Mo was talking to Gu Beijun's mother, Shen Pingting, when she happened to see them hurriedly entering the study.
"How? Where did that carriage go? β
Gu Jin saw the phantom Leng Chen come in, and asked with a solemn expression.
"Back to the prince, the carriage went to Jade City."
When Phantom Leng Chen's words fell, Gu Jin looked at Gu Beijun overjoyed.
"Beijun, as you expected, their secret place is indeed in Jade City."
Gu Beijun mentioned his thoughts when he talked to him just now, he thought that if Xi Zhongyun secretly helped the Queen Mother cultivate the rebel party, they would definitely not choose a place too far away, because the affairs of the previous dynasty were changing rapidly, and raising troops for a thousand days would inevitably focus on emergency relief. Moreover, Xi Zhongyun, as a wealthy merchant in the capital, often haunts the Jade City when he comes in, which also arouses Gu Beijun's suspicions.
"Did you find a good chance to see what's in the carriage?"
"Back to the lord, we took the opportunity to stop halfway to rest and they were negligent in guarding to see, there is grain and grass inside."
"Grain and grass?"
Gu Beijun was silent, and his hand kept tapping lightly on the table.
"Could it be that they have a large number of people in Jade City? Xi Zhongyun's mansion transported food to them? β
Gu Jin concluded.
"The minister and the phantom think so too."
Leng Chen spoke, and their identities were undoubtedly explained in their words.
Phantom Leng Chen is inseparable from Gu Beijun, on the surface, they are Gu Beijun's trusted subordinates, but in fact, their identity is the henchmen of Emperor Gu Che, the carefully selected Imperial Forest Army.
"It's not going to be that simple."
Just when they reached a consensus, Gu Beijun suddenly raised an objection.
"Oh? What did you find? β
Gu Jin asked.
"Last night, I entered the courtyard where the carriage was placed in Xifu, and the carriage in the courtyard was on a horse, looking ready to go, and I thought it was because I was there, so Xi Zhongyun changed the departure time. But I lifted the curtain of the carriage, and it was empty, but the horses stood on the dirt road, and the footprints were so deep that as you can imagine, the cart was heavy. Today I looked down in the restaurant next to the city gate, and the mark of the carriage was also very heavy, and I felt that there was something wrong with the carriage itself. β
"There is nothing in the carriage, could it be that Zhong Yun has the ability to reach the sky and can make the things in the carriage invisible?"
Gu Jin felt that Gu Beijun was too worried.
"If you are transporting grain and grass, why do you need to mobilize so many people? Naturally, there are more oxen or horses in the open than in horse-drawn carriages. So, there are absolutely hidden secrets in the carriage. β
After Gu Beijun finished speaking, Phantom Leng Chen thought for a while, then hesitated and said:
"The minister thinks what the lord said makes sense. On the way, Leng Chen and I discovered such a thing: the carriage traveled very slowly, and it was only two hours to Yucheng, but they stopped a few times halfway, and even deliberately took out water for the horses to drink, which shows that the carriage is very heavy. But if it was only the grain and grass that Leng Chen and I saw, its weight would not be so heavy at all. β
"That's really strange, could it be that the carriage is made of stone."
Gu Jin was puzzled, and this matter was delayed.
...
When Gu Beijun returned to the room, Xi Mo was sketching on the paper, he looked strange and asked:
"What the hell are you?"
"What is a ghost drawing! It's called architecture, and architecture understands. β
Xi Mo drew a drawing on the paper, with a lot of numbers and circles scattered on it, Gu Beijun could see that she was drawing the restaurant she went to this morning. The style of that restaurant is very good, and I think Xi Mo is summing up the advantages of others.
"What conclusion can you draw from this?"
"I'm calculating the materials of the interior of this house and the construction of the wheels of the house."
The topic was a little profound, Gu Beijun picked up the paper with curiosity and looked at it seriously.
He is not proficient in civil engineering, and this picture is even more incomprehensible.
"Can you tell the inside of a building from the outside?"
"yes, but it's extremely precise."
"You are a girl's family, how can you understand the way of civil engineering."
In the Gu Dynasty, civil engineering was the foundation of all construction, and the state had special departments and people to specialize in this aspect of the problem, and because of the cumbersome and technical nature of the way of civil engineering, even Gu Beijun, who was very involved, did not know the secret of this.
"When I was not married, I had nothing to do at home, and I didn't like poetry and songs, but I liked things that I specialized in this art industry."
Xi Mo said lightly, sweating in his palms, for fear that Gu Beijun would ask deeply.
In modern times, Xi Mo, as one of the few talented women in civil engineering, has always been very good at architecture. So drawing a picture and calculating the values is a piece of cake for her. Different from the ancient calculation methods, because of the 5,000-year-old cultural inheritance of the Chinese nation, the modern calculation methods are far more advanced and simpler than those in ancient times.
"So, have you learned about the inner workings of the carriage?"
Gu Beijun really didn't ask deeply, but he threw her a difficult question.
"It's... I haven't touched on it. β
Where are the horse-drawn carriages in modern times? Xi Mo secretly slandered herself.
Gu Beijun ignored her stubble and drew a carriage on the paper.
"Xi Mo, come and see."
In the painting, a horse is wrapped around a carriage, and below it is the land, and the soil is about ten centimeters without the horse's hooves.
"Hey, this carriage is so heavy, what's in it?"
Xi Mo saw the problem at a glance.
"There was nothing in the carriage."
"Nothing? Could it be that this carriage is made of stone. β
Xi Mo said casually, which was completely consistent with Gu Jingang's words.
"From the extent to which the horse's hooves have sunk into the ground, can you tell how much this carriage weighs?"
Gu Beijun asked.
"Well, the error will be very large, because there are many reasons to consider, one is the weight of the horse itself, and the other is the degree of softness of the ground."
Xi Mo said.
"A horse is about a thousand catties, and the ground is so soft..."
Gu Beijun struggled to recall the touch he felt when he entered the dirt road yesterday.
"The ground is so soft that I won't feel it collapse when I stand on it."
It doesn't seem that the land is too soft.
"You have one hundred and forty pounds?"
Xi Mo looked at Gu Beijun, who was about one meter eighty-five in height, with a perfect figure...
"Almost."
Gu Beijun was a little awkward when she looked straight at her.
"Okay, I'll do the math for you, but there will be an error of about fifty catties."
After Xi Mo finished speaking, he lowered his head and tried to calculate.
"Five hundred pounds!"
For a long time, Xi Mo shouted in disbelief after finishing the calculation, and then counted it again without believing it, it was still five hundred catties.
"You're saying that the empty carriage weighs five hundred pounds?"
Gu Beijun was also a little incredulous.
Xi Mo nodded, although she didn't believe it either, but she believed in her ability in this regard.
Gu Beijun looked at her in disbelief.
"Don't look at me, I can't be mistaken, but what kind of empty carriage is so heavy, could it be made of gold?"
Xi Mo looked at him with a grin.
Gu Beijun's brain suddenly seemed to be blown up, and he looked at Xi Mo in surprise.
"What are you doing?"
Xi Mo was stared at by Gu Beijun a little weakly.
"Give you the volume, will you calculate the weight of gold?"
Gu Beijun had a very bad premonition in his heart, and asked Xi Mo hesitantly.
"It's easy."
Xi Mo nodded. Modern formulas for calculating these can be applied casually, and they will not be counted for several days as in ancient times.
"You do the math."
Gu Beijun wrote down a number on the paper, and Xi Mo began to bury his head in the calculation.
Gu Beijun got up and stood by the window with his hands in his hands, with a bold guess in his heart.
He remembered that when he visited the side courtyard of Xifu at night, he saw a few cauldrons in the courtyard, and there was a little spark in the room of that courtyard. Coupled with the weight of the carriage calculated by Xi Mo just now, Gu Beijun suspected that Xi Zhongyun had someone melt gold in Xifu and pour it into the carriage of the carriage.
This matter was just woken up by Xi Mo's unintentional words, she said: "Could it be made of gold." β
"It's calculated, four hundred and twenty-seven pounds."
Because she knew the density of gold and the volume of the object, this number was calculated very accurately.
Gu Beijun suddenly laughed when he heard this number.
It seems that Xi Zhongyun did make a few "golden carriages".
In ancient times, there was a carriage at the back, but the carriage was not just one layer of wood, but two tiers with a gap in between. The carriages of the people who pay attention to the inside and outside are all of the best wood, and the inferior ones are the load-bearing wood on the outside, and the inner layer is perfunctory.
So, the number that Gu Beijun gave Xi Mo just now was the volume of those gaps in the middle of the carriage.
He suspected that the starlight in the courtyard of Xifu was a furnace for melting gold, and the gold was melted into gold water and poured into the grooves and crevices of the carriage, and the carriage became a golden cart.
"What are you laughing at?"
Xi Mo looked at Gu Beijun's smile a little hairy, that kind of smile was not as warm as usual, but a trace of demonic sin written, that kind of smile can make people frightened, it seems that some kind of strong conspiracy is brewing.
"It's nothing, Xi Mo, you impressed me today, I've been married for so long, for the first time, I'm a little..."
Gu Beijun smiled and stopped talking.
"Something."
"Forget it, don't talk about it."
Talking about half of what is the most appetizing, Xi Mo crossed his waist and widened his eyes and threatened him:
"It kind of makes me feel like I can't hold you."
"Haha."
After hearing this, Xi Mo smiled unceremoniously and bent over.
She wouldn't have been held by anyone, her ultimate goal was obviously to hold Gu Beijun, okay...
NaΓ―ve, Gu Beijun's thinking is too naΓ―ve, when did he hold her?
The more I thought about it, the funnier it became, and Xi Mo finally laughed out of tears.
Looking at the exaggerated appearance of the little thing's smile, Gu Beijun's brows unconsciously stretched, and he looked at her and smiled gently.
He didn't say it, he thought that Xi Mo was an extremely talented woman, in all aspects, she could always create all kinds of surprises, today's matter, if it weren't for her help, he might not have been able to understand the secret in the carriage, and he also saw her edge from this matter. He knew that if he gave her a piece of heaven and earth, in time, she would definitely be able to reach the peak.
But does he want her to break out of the world?
In men's subconscious thinking, they want women to teach their husbands and children at home, and Gu Beijun is the same. No matter how unattainable his identity, status, and ability are, he is just an ordinary man after all.