"Yes......"

Thyme replied quietly.

"I love it."

Wu Liang nodded with a smile and asked again, "Where did you inherit this craft?" ”

"If you go home, my father was a famous carpenter in the village, and he came to my father for help with any carpentry work in ten miles and eight villages, and everyone said that my father's carpentry was beautiful and durable."

Thyme still said in a soft and weak voice, "But in addition to those ordinary carpentry work, my father will also do many uncommon things, but never show it in front of outsiders, and after my brother and I are a little sensible, he will start to teach the two of us the craft, and also instructed us not to talk about it in front of outsiders easily, let alone show it, otherwise I am afraid of getting into trouble." ”

"Oh? So where did your father's craft come from? ”

Wu Liang then asked.

"My eldest father (grandfather), I also listened to my father, as for where my father's craftsmanship came from, my father didn't say, and I don't know."

Thyme replied.

It seemed that it would not work to ask for more information through this girl's family background, so Wu Liang changed the direction and asked, "In addition to this ghost ball, what other skills do you have?" ”

"No...... My father only taught me and my younger brother to do this ghost ball, usually taught me and my brother to read and write, my father said, when my brother and I can do such a small wooden ball to the ninth layer before learning, but unfortunately I am stupid hands and feet, now I can only do the fifth layer, but my brother is talented, seven years old can do the ghost ball to the seventh layer. ”

Thyme then replied, saying and bittering again, "It's a pity that my father was arrested and my mother fell ill and died, so a strong man came and took my family's field and house, and drove me and my brother out, and my brother starved to death during the exile, and if I hadn't been caught and sold as a slave, I'm afraid I would have starved to death......"

“……”

Another sad story, such stories abound everywhere in troubled times.

Wu Liang is also a short-term person in his bones, and the feeling when he hears outsiders talk about these things is completely different from when he listens to thyme talk about these things, looking at the shy and silent girl in front of him, he is inexplicably a little distressed.

However, from the description of thyme, Wu Liang found some very important details......

Thyme's family background is by no means simple, at least the ancestors should not be ordinary people!

Just because of this era, the four words "literacy and study" are unattainable luxuries for the vast majority of ordinary people, and the right to "read and read" has basically been monopolized by the royal family, and only they have the conditions and opportunities to learn.

And Thyme's father was able to teach Thyme and his younger brother to read and write.

This shows that he has also received this education and inheritance before, although he has been a carpenter with good skills all his life, but if he goes to turn it decades or hundreds of years ago, maybe it is also a high scholar class, but it has declined for some unknown reasons.

In addition to this, there is another point that is also unusual.

Since Thyme's father knew some "unusual" carpentry work, he told Thyme and his younger brother not to show it to outsiders easily......

This also has some "ancestral teachings" meaning, which is very likely to be related to the experience or identity of their ancestors.

It's just that it's not easy to deduce what the specific situation is, after all, there is too little information from Thyme's mouth, but Wu Liang believes that Thyme didn't hide anything from herself, otherwise she wouldn't have been able to make a ghost ball for herself.

She just knew too little.

After all, when her father was captured, she should not have been too old, and she was not old enough to keep the secret, and her father might not have had time to tell her and her brother the secrets of the family......

But.

Wu Liang noticed another detail: from beginning to end, Thyme only said that her father was arrested and Zhuangding, but did not say that her father was dead!

That is to say, although her father was captured and went to war, it is unlikely that he will survive.

But there's still a little chance you're still alive!

Although it is not sure to the extent of thyme's father's craftsmanship, it can already be seen with this "ghost work ball" alone.

This is a very rare and scarce talent for Wu Liang.

With the help of such a craftsman who was ahead of his time, many of his ideas could be realized, and the future work of tomb robbing would be strengthened......

And it's not just about improving the tools of tomb robbing.

It is necessary to know that as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, Lu Ban had already created a mysterious device called "machine seal", which was buried and anti-theft by mechanical means.

Although because Confucianism advocated thick burials, Lu Ban's "machine seal" was not popularized, and Wu Liang had not found any powerful traps in the tomb he had stolen so far, but he believed that since the mysterious device "machine seal" was manufactured, someone would definitely use it.

Always walking by the river, this kind of thing will one day come across him.

Even if you don't mention Luban, the Han Dynasty also had some powerful masters, the most famous of which is Zhang Heng, who invented the "geodynamic instrument", "armillary sphere", "Ruilun pod" and "Dufei wood carving" and other strange things, if these inventions are transformed and used in the mausoleum, it will also bring a devastating blow to his tomb robbery work.

At this time, a senior craftsman who is good enough at "carpentry" becomes particularly important.

Thereupon.

"Xiang'er, who is your father's surname, do you know who arrested your father in the first place?"

Wu Liang pondered for a moment, and then asked again.

"My father's name is Bailiji, and my mother said that it was Dong Zhuo's soldiers and horses who captured my father, but I don't know who it is......"

Thyme said with her head bowed.

These topics once again reminded her of her memories, her eyes turned slightly red, and her little hands no longer rubbed the corners of her clothes, but clenched into fists.

"Dong Zhuo, ......"

Now the scope of the search is a little larger.

Now that Dong Zhuo is dead, the soldiers and horses under his command were taken away by Lu Bu, Niu Fu, Li Dao, Guo Yan, Zhang Ji, and Fan Chou.

Among them, Dong Zhuo's son-in-law Niu Fu has been hung up, and the soldiers and horses under his command are obtained by Li Dao, Guo Yan, and Zhang Ji, all three of whom are currently in Chang'an.

After Lü Bu was defeated this time, he now led his army to the south of Xuzhou.

And that Fan Chou is also in Chang'an, and he controls the government together with Li Dao and Guo Yan.

It's not easy to find someone in the midst of these people's tribes, and it may be a small soldier, or even a person who has died in battle.

In addition, speaking of that Zhang Jilai......

In history, Boss Cao occupied Zhang Ji's widow, which caused Zhang Ji's nephew Zhang Xiu to suddenly rebel with a grudge, and finally Cao Ang, Cao Yu, and Dian Wei died in Wancheng.