Chapter 16: Busyness (Part II)

Now the place that has been divided by the treasures has been called a forbidden place, and no one is allowed to enter without a warrant from the princess. Now most of the female guards have been withdrawn, leaving only ten shrewd and capable female guards for Zhu Xiaobao to drive, and the rest are those craftsmen, all of whom are working according to Zhu Xiaobao's drawings and drawings.

However, there are still twenty female guards on duty on the periphery of the forbidden place to prevent anyone from entering without permission! From this point, it can be seen that the nineteenth princess attaches great importance to this project! Xia Zhen'er herself was also present at the scene several times, and even Chief Wu was a little surprised, as if the nineteenth princess had never attached so much importance to one thing!

It is said that it is a drawing, but in fact, Zhu Xiaobao spent the sketch on a piece of wooden board, sometimes it is extremely simple, he writes and draws on the spot with a branch, and those craftsmen can also understand it! However, these ten female guards are all impressed by this little fat man, don't look at the lack of strength, and there is no martial arts, but they are confident, and every step is arranged just right!

In ten days, those craftsmen summoned from Qingliang Mountain built the cellar furnace required by Zhu Xiaobao, and the ten female guards in the middle made a lot of efforts! These female guards are not ambiguous at all when they do their work, and they are very real-spirited, and there is absolutely no lazy behavior, but they all intend to rush to do it! Don't look at those craftsmen, they are also strong and healthy, but they are still inferior to these female guards!

Through these days of contact, Zhu Xiaobao has also slowly become familiar with these ten female guards, and has also learned some information! Seven of the ten female guards are slaves, and the other three are flat, the leader of them is a small rich family, her name is Wu Lijia, there is not only a husband at home, but also a maid, that is, she herself bought a slave to help the family take care of the more than ten acres of land! She followed the nineteenth princess, firstly, there was a commission, and secondly, she liked this kind of army life! The female guard was twenty-eight years old, the oldest of all the female guards. Wu Lijia's body is also the strongest, with a weight of 200 catties and a height of 1.85 meters, and the weapon she uses is a pair of copper hammers! It weighs eighty pounds, and each one is forty pounds!

Zhu Xiaobao carried Wu Lijia's copper hammer, and he could only lift one with both hands, if he wanted to move it, it would be impossible! Zhu Xiaobao couldn't help but speak, what kind of strength is this, if in the future, she is estimated to be able to participate in the Olympic weightlifting competition, and she will definitely be able to win the gold medal!

Of course, the food of these female guards is also relatively good, there is meat for every meal, and everyone has a large amount of food! This is very different from the woman in Zhu Xiaobao's impression! In this world, it is not to be thin for beauty, but to be proud of being strong! The youngest female guard is only sixteen years old, named Ying Xiuxiu, but she is already taller than Zhu Xiaobao, and the iron gun in her hand weighs more than 20 pounds, but she is still very immature, and sometimes she blushes when she talks to Zhu Xiaobao.

After the cellar furnace is built, it is not so busy, pile all the purchased coal into it, and under the condition that the air is not isolated in the kiln, the coal stacked in the kiln is ignited manually with the help of the ignition hole on the side wall of the kiln. Although everyone couldn't understand what they were doing, they still lit the coal according to Zhu Xiaobao's request......

In fact, this is the earliest soil method of coking, Zhu Xiaobao learned that the ironmaking of this period is still stuck in the block iron method, because the melting point of iron is higher than that of pig iron and steel, and the temperature at this stage cannot be reached, so it cannot be melted, and the iron ore can only be heated and then fished out for forging! Now all you have to do is melt the iron ore directly to get pure iron!

To raise the temperature, it is necessary to have a blast furnace and coke, which is why such a cellar furnace was built for coking! Of course, this is a relatively backward soil coking, but now it can't be managed so much, it is enough to be more advanced than the existing technology!

According to Zhu Xiaobao's memory, it should take eight to eleven days to become coke. So it's not that busy! These ten days are enough time for him to build a small blast furnace, which is why he mainly dug two meters into the ground, just for this small blast furnace, standing in a place where there is no excavation, just enough to feed into the blast furnace! And the construction in this big pit is not too conspicuous, don't look at it as a soil method, but it can be regarded as an absolute new technology. Be sure to keep it a secret! I have to say that Zhu Xiaobao is still very thoughtful!

After being free, Zhu Xiaobao began to use his brains to make some delicious food again! Because the food of these female guards is quite good, but those meat foods are really wasteful in the eyes of Zhu Xiaobao, basically stewed, there is no other way, those female guards are not picky, and they still eat very satisfied!

But Zhu Xiaobao is not so satisfied! The first time I ate it, it was okay, after all, I hadn't let go of eating meat for a long time, but then I had no appetite, and he didn't do any work in the first place, so he didn't have that very strong hunger! So he's starting to use his brains to make something delicious again! Besides, these female guards get along very well, and Zhu Xiaobao has to let them try their own craftsmanship! Cook, it's better to be happy alone than to be happy!

Now that Zhu Xiaobao has someone in his hand, the vegetables, rice, oil and salt are directly sent to him, and these female guards from the province are running out to eat in the canteen! It's quite far after all! It takes more than an hour to go back and forth! Although the area of the princess's mansion is small, it also covers an area of 40 acres!

This time, Zhu Xiaobao made a simple slate burning, put a relatively good stone slab in it, and heated it with charcoal underneath. The coolest thing is Zhu Xiaobao's knife work, he cut the pork belly into a slice as thin as a cicada's wings, and then took out the sauce and washed lettuce he made, and this began a slate roast!

Don't look at the martial arts of these female guards, but they can cut the pork belly so thinly and at such a fast speed, which makes these female guards stunned! Of course, Zhu Xiaobao's chef's knife is also powerful, extremely sharp, with a slight stroke, a thin slice of meat will come down!

The ten female guards were all looking at this slate in a daze, looking at the sizzling and fragrant slices of meat, and they didn't know how to eat it! Or Zhu Xiaobao made a demonstration, sandwiched the meat slices, dipped them in the ingredients, wrapped them in lettuce, and then sent them to their mouths!

"Hmm...... Not...... Eat, just eat! It's delicious! Zhu Xiaobao was busy eating by himself, and then pointed to the barbecue on the board and shouted.

"I'll try!" The eldest female guard, Wu Lijia, was also very bold, and immediately started to do it herself, wrapped a piece of pork belly, and also wrapped it in lettuce like Zhu Xiaobao and put it in her mouth! After a while, the female guard exclaimed in surprise: "Sisters, hurry up and eat, it's so delicious, it's the best thing I've ever eaten in my life!" ”

"I'll taste it too!"

"I'll try!"

"Me too"

The atmosphere suddenly came alive, the ten female guards were all open to eat, and Zhu Xiaobao was processing quickly on the side, and pieces of pork belly fell on the stone slab like snowflakes! But this speed still can't keep up with the speed of these female guards, and Zhu Xiaobao still underestimates the ability of these female guards! It's definitely tougher than the average big man!

With barbecue, how can you do without wine, Wu Lijia took off the wine gourd on his waist, and poured a glass for Zhu Xiaobao, and then began to drink it in a big gulp! The other female guards also have their own wine gourds, and they also have their own characteristics, with different colors and shapes, and they are all their favorite objects!

"You...... You taste my wine too! Ying Xiuxiu, the youngest, was a little shy and sent the wine gourd to Zhu Xiaobao and said in a low voice.

"Hey, hey! Thank you! …… But your wine is really too light, that is, to relieve the heat, not interesting! Zhu Xiaobao poured a glass happily, and then made his own evaluation of these wines!

"Good wine is very expensive, our wine is brewed from the side of Qingliang Mountain, only the wine of Chief Wu and the princess is sent from the palace, and there are only one hundred jars every month! And so we are already content! Wu Lijia said with a little regret, although she is relatively wealthy, but if she really buys good wine, it is impossible!

"Then you all followed the princess from Qingliang Mountain? Why don't you come more? Zhu Xiaobao has heard about the place of Qingliang Mountain again and again, and he also knows that this is the biggest reliance of the nineteenth princess. But I'm still curious about these female guards!

"If you want to become a guard, how can it be so easy, and it is impossible to be selected if you don't meet certain requirements! We're all here to keep the princess safe! Wu Lijia said very proudly.

From these usual conversations, Zhu Xiaobao also learned more and more about the situation of the nineteenth princess, and what pleased him the most was that the consciousness of himself and the previous owner of this body was also constantly merging, and he could remember more things, but most of them were useless!

The original Zhu Xiaobao is indeed a useless waste! And because he was fat, he was often bullied by the maids and subordinates in the fourteenth princess's mansion, so it's no wonder that he was made a scapegoat and knocked the nineteenth princess into the lotus pond!

However, about the nineteenth princess, these female guards are reluctant to say too much, it seems that there are obvious precautions! Although Zhu Xiaobao is already very familiar with them, they can still strictly abide by the bottom line!

But now this group of female guards is much more active, and the difference is too big from when they were silent at the beginning! Of course, their greatest pleasure is to taste the food made by Zhu Xiaobao! It turns out that there are such delicious things in the world!

However, with the appetite of the female guards, Chief Wu was a little puzzled, now the meat and vegetables sent to Zhu Xiaobao every day have almost doubled, and there are only ten people in total! And now the work is not heavy, why is the amount of food soaring? Chief Wu was puzzled......