It's a ticking time bomb that explodes again at some point.

Zhao Ping's heart sank, and his brows suddenly furrowed.

Uncle and Zhao Jie's father and son looked at the barking yellow dog, looked at each other, and their faces became heavy, especially Zhao Jie's father and son, who suddenly looked embarrassed.

The uncle muttered, "My own house is in the light, and the thieves are in the dark, what should I do?" Report to the official, this gang of thieves is obviously the troublemaker of the county, and there is a background behind it, so it seems that the appointment is not big. ”

Zhao Ping thought to himself, now that the defense of Zhaojiazhuang must be upgraded.

One is to strengthen the wall and make it indestructible!

This must be immortal cement.

The second is to make the courtyard strong, to be able to detect and act early against thieves and bandits, and must not be invaded by thieves and bandits twice.

It's time to set up a security corps.

However, there are many difficulties in the two, and fairy cement is a very difficult technical work.

However, if the number of security regiments is small, it is not enough, and if the number of people is large, the government must agree.

But these are the capital to save your life, and no matter how difficult it is, you have to think about it.

Back in Zhaojiazhuang, Zhao Ping suddenly asked Zhao Jie: "Bo Weng, may I ask, how is the progress of that Xie Shen's immortal coke?" ”

Zhao Jie bowed, and then replied: "Tell Xiao Langjun, the old slave asked Xie Shen twice, and now the coking workshop that Xiao Langjun said has been built, according to the technology he provided by Xiao Langjun, plus the skills he has mastered, it should not be a big problem to refine immortal coke, and now he says that there are still some small problems that need to be solved by Xiao Langjun." ”

Zhao Ping nodded, thinking that he was a little too impatient.

It's only been a month and a half now.

The fairy coke workshop is on the right of Zhaojiazhuang.

As soon as he opened the room, Zhao Ping felt the heat wave coming from afar, and more than a dozen craftsmen were sweating profusely to observe the leakage, add coal, and stand about a zhang away from the furnace to feel whether the furnace temperature is required by the human body!

Zhao Ping couldn't help but sigh that although there were no thermometer sensors in ancient times, smart people used the human body to feel the temperature required for the production of immortal coke through a certain distance.

Xie Shen wiped his sweat while pointing to a building about one zhang high and three zhang wide, and said: "Tell Xiao Langjun that the villain is completely built according to the drawings you draw, and the walls are completely made of blue bricks. This is a sealed furnace with heating chambers on both sides, there is a coaling hole above the heating chamber, a coking chamber in the middle, the coking chamber also has a chimney that can be opened and closed at any time, and below the coking chamber is a regenerative chamber. Now the villain has basically mastered the required temperature and time. Now a new problem has emerged, and Xiao Langjun is still needed to come up with a good method. One is that the lime on the wall is very easy to fall on the fairy coke, resulting in the impurity of the fairy coke; The second is that the heat is very easy to leak, resulting in unstable firepower. ”

After speaking, he looked at Zhao Ping.

In the eyes of the edicts and craftsmen here, Zhao Ping has become a symbol of omnipotence, and it seems that any problem can be solved here.

Zhao Ping pondered for a while, and said to Xie Shen: "You bring the burned immortal coke to me to see." ”

Xie Shen took out four or five black things in a room, and Zhao Ping took them in his hands one by one and observed them carefully, and found that some of them turned gray, some of them had coal falling out, and some of them were gray in appearance, etc.

Seeing that this appearance was gray, Zhao Ping was overjoyed, isn't this fairy coke?

However, compared with the same volume of coal, it was found that its weight had not changed much, and it was obvious that this was only coke on the outside, and it was still coal on the inside.

Zhao Ping took a hammer and knocked it open, and sure enough, it was fairy coke on the outside, and coal on the inside.

Seeing the scene in front of them, Xie Shen and his men couldn't help but bow their heads in shame, feeling that they had eaten and drunk for nothing, but they had not done what Xiao Langjun needed.

Zhao Ping looked at everyone's dejected looks, pointed to those gray parts and smiled slightly: "Everyone, please see, these gray parts have become immortal coke, and you are about to succeed." Don't be discouraged, as long as you find the cause and correct it in time, the fairy coke will definitely be able to be refined. ”

Hearing Zhao Ping's words, Xie Shen thought for a while, and then said: "My own family estimates that due to the lack of heat in the stove, I don't know if Xiao Langjun can have a targeted method?" ”

Zhao Ping looked at the lime falling on the stove, and circled around the stove, thinking that it would be good if there was cement, which is not only easy to condense, but also can withstand high temperatures below 1,000 degrees.

Thinking of this, Zhao Ping couldn't help but take a beat, and then couldn't help but smile slightly.

Zhao Jie, who was used to seeing Zhao Ping's smile, came over and asked, "Congratulations to Xiao Langjun, have you come up with a way?" ”

Zhao Ping smiled slightly, held his chin with his right hand, looked around and said, "I have a little bit of an idea." In the past few days, I have been thinking about it again and trying to come up with a safe way. ”

Back in the backyard, the mother looked around, her face was pale and a little scared, and she said to Zhao Ping: "Ping'er, the outer wall of Zhaojiazhuang was actually punched by thieves, can you have a way?" ”

Zhao Ping thought for a while and said: "Mother, I have something that can make the wall indestructible, and the key is that it is much cheaper than the city wall that is prepared with lime, glutinous rice juice, and other adhesives for the cracks in the city wall. I want my uncle to be the manager, do you think it's okay? ”

Hearing that there was such a thing, the mother suddenly forgot about the injury on the footboard, and immediately left the chair and stood up, and suddenly couldn't help but "hum" softly in her mouth, Zhao Ping and Cuizhu Lan'er supported the mother together.

After the three of them supported her, the mother took a few steps, pondered for a while, and said with a sigh: "Your uncle's greatest wish is to be admitted to the Jinshi and become a protégé of the Son of Heaven, not to engage in the lowly profession of a businessman. His mind was always on the book. There is Yan Ruyu in the book, and there is a golden house in the book, which is completely suitable for him. Don't think about this idea, so Wei Niang thinks it's better to let the housekeeper participate in this matter. Zhao Ping sighed secretly in his heart, thinking that he had no choice but to do so.

The mother glanced at Zhao Ping deeply, smiled slightly and said, "Ping'er has grown up and knows how to think about things in many ways. No matter what Ping'er does, she will support you, but the most important thing is that you have to remember that the housekeeper's family is the last reliance of Zhaojiazhuang, and you have to let the housekeeper know everything. ”

Zhao Ping bowed deeply and saluted: "The child obeys, thank you for your mother's insult." ”

At this moment, Wang Gou'er suddenly knocked on the door and came in, saying that there was something urgent to report. Seeing his mother and Zhao Ping, Wang Gou'er suddenly knelt down, supported his right arm that was still hanging with his left hand, and then kowtowed and cried: "Master, the disciple's Weng Weng and mother-in-law have not eaten rice for many days, and the disciple borrows you a load of rice and begs the master for permission." ”

Zhao Ping waved his hand, looked at Wang Gou'er and said: "One day as a teacher, all day long as a father, your family affairs are also for the teacher's family affairs, and it doesn't hurt for the teacher to give you a load of rice that you don't have to pay back, but you have to explain the reason for the matter." ”

Wang Gou'er knelt on the ground with his feet on the ground, his head pressed against the ground, and said while crying, "Thank you Master for your generosity. I told the Master that there are four brothers and two younger sisters under the disciple. In addition to his parents, Weng Weng's mother-in-law and two uncles, one bucket of rice per day is not enough at all, two buckets of rice can barely eat one half full, and five buckets of rice are basically full. Because they have eaten too much, although the two uncles are already in their twenties, they have not yet married a wife. In the past, the family was barely able to drink porridge to live, but last year and this year's drought was particularly severe, how the parents and uncles at home worked hard to find a living, they also ate the last meal, and since the beginning of spring, even drinking porridge is also a luxury. Weng Weng's mother-in-law had to eat Guanyin rice (a kind of yellow mud), and now she can't wake up. ”

Zhao Ping couldn't help but point his finger at Wang Gou'er, and shouted loudly: "You are too stupid, it's not that there is no food here as a teacher, why didn't you take some food back to take care of your family?" Human life is a matter of heaven, human life is a matter of heaven. ”

Wang Gou'er's face turned red, and he secretly looked up at Zhao Ping and said embarrassedly: "I secretly took some rice, and I also secretly gave it to my younger siblings." But it's not enough. Zhao Ping couldn't help but scold angrily: "Why don't you take more rice?" Wang Gou'er said with a sad face: "Master, although I am your disciple, no matter how bold I am, I dare not blatantly resist the rice bag and go back. ”

Zhao Ping kept walking around the house, and then came to Wang Gou'er and said, "Rice bucket, rice bucket, you are not only a rice bucket, but the whole family is also a rice bucket." ”

Wang Gou'er's face was ugly, and he thought to himself that Master was so angry, wouldn't he give me rice. Will my Weng and his mother-in-law starve to death? The mother spoke at this time, smiled slightly, and said softly: "Ping'er, don't intimidate you, a proud disciple, you didn't see his face become pale." ”

Zhao Ping looked at his mother, then at Wang Gou'er, shook his head lightly and said, "I scared him because I hated him why he didn't say it earlier." Wang Gou'er, what can your father and uncle do? ”

When Wang Gou'er heard that there was a play, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and hurriedly kowtowed and said, "Tell the master that the disciple's father and uncle are bricklayers and blacksmiths, and they can do any hard, dirty, tiring, and difficult work. ”

Zhao Ping smiled slightly, looked at Wang Gou'er and said: "As a teacher, I am about to recruit people, invite your parents and uncles, you carry two bags of rice first, don't let your mother-in-law Weng Weng starve to death and become a joke for others." Wang Gou'er saluted and hurried to fight rice.

The mother looked at Wang Gou'er's back, sat there and smiled slightly, looked at Zhao Ping and said lightly: "Wang Gou'er is a child with affection and righteousness. At first, I saw him eating 100 family meals and fighting with Ping'er at the gate of Zhaojiazhuang, and I was not very optimistic about his character. The housekeeper Zhao Tian told me privately that when he took the extra dozen meals to help his family, he knew that he was about to run out of pots at home. I prevented him from delivering food to his home, and on several occasions he deliberately left the rice barn unlocked. Unexpectedly, the child would rather be hungry at home than steal rice. Actually, as long as Ping'er, a disciple, tells Weiniang, I will give it to him. It seems that this child is also a person who can be relied on. ”

After speaking, the mother looked at Zhao Ping with a smile, and Zhao Ping nodded.

It turns out that Wang Gou'er is a very affectionate person.

The next day, Wang Gou'er brought his parents and two uncles to Zhaojiazhuang.