Although the old house of the Mu family is dilapidated, it used to be lived by a large family, so there are a lot of empty houses, and it is very convenient to store things.

Mu Qingqiu sorted the persimmons, put the ripe ones in the kitchen, and prepared them to be used directly, and the unripe ones were separated into a small part to be peeled to make persimmon cakes, and the rest were tied with ropes and hung under the roof beams.

Mu Qingqiu stepped on the stools stacked together like acrobatics, and hung the tied persimmons in a row, looking red and clear from a distance, which was particularly beautiful.

The day at the beginning of October was not long, and by the time Mu Qingqiu finished cleaning up, it was already nightfall, and he went into the house to rest after freshening up.

Mu Qingqiu didn't know that she saved Zhang Dacheng's hand by giving Zhang Dacheng's drawings. Zhang Dacheng is also sincere, and feels that it is labor-saving to pull the stone after the frame car is made, so he came out of Mu Qingqiu's house and went directly to the stone yard.

As soon as I went in, I was caught and beaten violently, and I was almost killed.

Those who work in the stone yard have a particularly hard life, and there are also those who borrow money, and the money is lent out, whether it is to pay off the labor or to repay the money, as long as the interest is calculated and repaid on time, the foreman will not say anything.

However, Zhang Dacheng missed work as soon as he borrowed money, and the foreman hated people who were not trustworthy the most, so there was a story that Zhang Dacheng was beaten as soon as he arrived at the stone yard.

After Zhang Dacheng was beaten, he was carried to the foreman.

The foreman planned to cut off Zhang Dacheng's hand and throw the person out directly.

Poor Zhang Dacheng was still precipitated in the joy of the frame car, and he didn't realize the foreman's intentions at all.

Although he was beaten violently, he didn't know the pain at all, and saw the foreman excitedly take out the drawings in his arms and hand them over, and kept talking: "Brother foreman, this is called a frame car, it is a good thing, if it is made, it will save time and effort to move stones in the future......"

The foreman saw that Zhang Dacheng's nose was blue and his face was swollen, but he looked stupid, and he didn't have the slightest awareness of doing something wrong, so he couldn't be angry. raised his foot to kick, but at this moment, in Zhang Dacheng's vague words, there were a few words that came into his ears.

'Rack car' 'time-saving and labor-saving'?

What is a 'rack car'? The carriage knew that if there was something like a carriage to move stones, it would indeed 'save time and effort'.

Thinking of this, the foreman couldn't help but retract his foot, took the blood-stained paper, and frowned deeply when he saw what was drawn with charcoal strips on it.

The paper was crumpled and scratched, and the charcoal marks on it were blurred, but the general outline of what was drawn on the paper was still clear.

Not to mention anything else, just the same wheel as the carriage, it makes the foreman's eyes light up, and if he brings the wheel, he is hooked with the car, is it really what Zhang Dacheng said?

Zhang Dacheng saw that the foreman looked serious, and said excitedly, so and so and so and so ......

After a while, the foreman's eyes lit up, and he understood, even if he had not seen the real thing, he had only heard Zhang Dacheng's description, and he had already concluded that this thing could be used, and it would be very useful to move stones.

Thinking of the situation after the promotion of the 'frame car' in the stone factory, the foreman was also excited, and used the car to move the stone, saving time and effort to do a lot of work, which is all money!

I was excited, and I couldn't help but look at Zhang Dacheng, and I didn't know where Zhang Dacheng got the drawings.

Seeing that his nose was blue and his face was swollen, he raised his eyebrows at the moment, glanced around, and said angrily: "Who beat him?" ”

"It's okay, it's okay, big brother foreman, I'll tell you, the frame car is done, you can tie a rope in front, the rope is coiled on your shoulder, and your whole body can exert force. You can also add one or two ropes next to it, and two or three people pull it together, running as fast as flying, which is labor-saving and convenient. Zhang Dacheng said what he heard from Mu Qingqiu, plus his own associations, as if he had seen it with his own eyes.

The more the foreman listened, the more enthusiastic he became, and immediately found a carpenter to rush to work overnight.

When the sun rose the next day, the first frame car was introduced.

The foreman was eager to try to get started by himself, let people fill the stone full, pull it, hey, it really moved, and then coil the rope on the shoulder, the wrist pressure was reduced, the shoulder was not too heavy, it didn't take much effort, and a large cart of stone was moved into place.

"Hahahaha~~~~ Great, great, Zhang Dacheng, you have merit, and you have a lot of rewards."

The foreman was happy and gave Zhang Dacheng ten taels of silver, and the debt of more than 100 yuan was naturally directly ignored.

Zhang Dacheng happily went home with the silver, handed over six taels of silver to his wife, left four taels, three taels for Mu Qingqiu's sisters and brothers, and left one tael for the pregnant daughter-in-law to secretly buy some delicious food.

The Zhang family was stunned by Zhang Dacheng's generosity, and in addition to being surprised, they privately pondered that if the seventh child could take out one six taels of silver, he would be able to have two or three six taels of silver, and maybe there would be more silver hidden in the seventh child's room now.

Thinking of this, the Zhang family was boiling, and the concubines took turns to go to the old seventh room to visit the door, and as soon as they entered, they looked around.

Mu Chengyu respected her sisters-in-law and talked all the way, but she felt a little chill in her heart, her husband didn't come home all night, and she was covered with injuries after getting up early, she was distressed to death, but no one in the entire Zhang family asked.

What's more, Zhang Dacheng just handed over six taels of silver to Gongzhong, and six taels of silver is enough for the Zhang family to spend a year.

The Zhang family didn't remember Zhang Dacheng's goodness, but remembered it, but really!

Mu Chengyu's sincerity to her husband is both loving and helpless, and the money is given, anyway, they are young and slowly saving, but giving the money provokes a lot of right and wrong, which is really not worth it.

After five or six days, the Zhang family saw that there was no movement in the seventh room, so they put out their thoughts without taste.

During this period, Zhang Dacheng helped Mu Qingqiu take back all the persimmons in the mountains.

not only helped Mu Qingqiu repair the house, but also bought a lot of things for Mu Qingqiu, and bought several urns for food alone, ensuring that Mu Qingqiu's sister and brother would not go hungry in winter.

After spending so much, three taels of silver were spent, and even the money that was originally reserved for his daughter-in-law to buy food was spent.

However, Zhang Dacheng is still very happy and full of enthusiasm, and now he is a celebrity in front of the foreman of the stone quarry, and he only needs to work for half a day every day to get the original day's wages.

Only doing half a day's work but getting a day's salary, Zhang Dacheng always felt that he was taking advantage of others, so he started to work, as if he was desperate, and ran faster than anyone else.

During this period, he also established a good friendship with the foreman.

After a period of time, when the rack car in the stone yard spread, it caused a sensation in the Ministry of Industry and even more in the imperial court.

The imperial court even sent officials down to investigate the field, and brought back the first frame car, which became the collection of the Ministry of Industry.

Of course, that's an afterthought.

Zhang Dacheng didn't know, and the foreman didn't know either, so someone naturally received the credit for them early.

、、、、、、

As Mu Qingqiu thought, the roasted food really sold better than the steamed food.

Yesterday, Mu Qingqiu didn't make sweet potato cakes, only persimmon cakes.

This persimmon cake is made of ripe soft persimmons and noodles, made into a cake shape, the baked persimmon cake is beautiful in color, soft in taste, with the tenacity of persimmons, rich in fragrance, and is very popular.