Chapter 38: The Martian Pea
After helping Li Wei move, Hua Zixuan and Gasol returned to Wu Ling's courtyard. Wu Ling was already waiting for them with a black cloth bag containing energy crystals.
The two of them leaned over, and their strength quickly recovered.
Wu Wei inadvertently slipped into Hua Zixuan's pocket and revealed a woolen thread.
"Huh?" she quickly pulled out the things in Hua Zixuan's pocket.
It's the mittens, also known as the stuffy hands.
"Hey!" Wu Wei put the gloves on her hands, hooking her hands, which were very suitable and cute, "This is a pair of women's gloves?"
The implication of her words is that I am the only woman in the family, so she must have bought it for me?
Hua Zixuan hesitated: "Uh...... That ......"
Gasol Nunu said, "Oh, Zixuan, you just tell people that you bought it for your sister." ”
Wu Wei's expression darkened, although she barely managed to keep herself smiling.
She looked at Hua Zixuan, as if asking, "Really?"
Hua Zixuan is not a person who doesn't look at things, he can't let Wu Wei not get off the stage, he said resolutely: "No, this is what I bought for Sister Wei." ”
Wu Wei is not stupid, how can she not see that it is Hua Zixuan who is taking care of her face. She smiled even more fakely, her beautiful brows frowned, she returned her gloves to Hua Zixuan, and said, "I don't want it, I hate this style!"
Hua Zixuan was relieved and said, "Then next time I go to the Black Market Valley, I will buy you another style." ”
"Uh-huh!" Wu Ling coughed dryly, very playful.
"Black Market Valley?" Wu Wei turned her head to look at Wu Ling, "Dad, why don't you take me with you when you go to Black Market Valley?"
Wu Ling's face was embarrassed, "He...... This one...... You, aren't you going to the slave auction house? ”
Wu Wei: "You deliberately split me, right?"
There were tears rolling in her bright eyes, "I feel like I was born by my father!" She turned back to the room angrily, Hua Zixuan grabbed her and said:
"Sister Wei, Dad didn't take you, that's also a momentary negligence, why don't you take it as an example, give us a chance to change?"
Wu Wei shook off Hua Zixuan's hand and said, "Change your sister!"
Hua Zixuan looked back at Gasol and Wu Ling, with a helpless expression, "What's the matter with my sister?"
Wu Ling reproached: "Zixuan, you are so idle, mention your sister's black market valley!"
Hua Zixuan shrugged: "That's it, what should I do?"
Wu Ling: "Alas...... Leave her alone and let her sulk for the night. ”
The second day, June 17 of the Martian calendar, is 3 days before the day of going to Madame Hu's farm.
As usual, when Wu Ling was still bright, he called Hua Zixuan and the three of them to get up to train.
They practiced from morning to noon, and tortured them to death.
Li Weilai called them for lunch.
Everyone is curious, Li Wei can cook?
It turned out that the newly bought slaves, Wang Ben's uncle and nephew, were not engaged in construction on the construction site, but made big pots of rice for the workers. So, let's try their craft.
Hearing this news, Wu Wei was the happiest, if it wasn't for Wu Ling forcing her to cook, she would have picked a pick.
When I came to Li Wei's courtyard, a lot of new ores were added to the courtyard, as well as some unknown gravel and soil.
Li Wei's arrangement was like this, he let the two new slaves, his uncle Wang Ben be in charge of everyone's food at home, and his nephew Wang Guang went with him to mine raw materials for fertilizer.
The newly rented courtyard has five rooms, one for the kitchen and dining room, one for Li Wei's laboratory, and the remaining three for Li Wei and his servants' bedrooms.
The production of fertilizers is carried out in the courtyard, because it does not rain on Mars, so there is no fear of getting wet when working in the open air.
The landlord's house is still very well furnished, and there are matching stone tables and benches in the dining room.
The family sat down around, Wang Ben was a local cook, although his cooking skills were not distinctive, but practical. In addition to a pot of baked potatoes, there are two plates of stir-fried greens on the table.
Wu Ling took a few bites and praised the taste of the greens, and he said to Li Wei: "The greens are very expensive on Mars, what about you, the funds are limited, so you can save them." ”
Li Wei: "Brother, these greens are not bought, they are wild ferns unique to Mars. I have tested it, not only is it not toxic, but the vitamin content is still very high. He pointed to one of the dishes and said, "This dish is a bit like peas on the earth, it has a high content of protein and starch, and can be eaten as food."
These two kinds of wild vegetables are not eaten on Mars, so they are very easy to obtain. ”
Wu Ling: "That's great, in the future, you will let Wang Ben be responsible for cooking and collecting wild vegetables for our family." ”
Li Wei: "It's just ...... I bought Wang Ben to let him mine the raw materials for me to make fertilizer, and if he was asked to cook for everyone, then I would have to buy more slaves, and my budget would not be enough. ”
Wu Ling: "Hehe, you, I understand what you mean, you want money, right? So, in the next Servant Match, if we have a box office share, I'll give you additional investment, okay?"
Li Wei was overjoyed, "Okay, thank you, brother!
After Wu Ling and Li Wei finished chatting, they were just about to pick up the fried wild vegetables on the plate, but they were already empty.
Wu Ling looked at Hua Zixuan, Gasol, and Wu Wei, frowned, and said, "You guys, are you still a little human, I haven't eaten yet, old man?"
The three of them were munching on baked potatoes, and they chirped, "You don't eat it, we thought you didn't like it!"
"Hey......" Wu Ling put down his chopsticks and said to Li Wei: "You go and ask Wang Ben to fry half a plate of the wild 'Martian peas' just now, I can't eat any more." ”
Li Wei went with him.
Wu Ling looked at the three foodies and reprimanded: "Do you know how to respect the elderly? It seems that in the next step, in addition to training your physique, we will also build your moral civilization." ”
Hua Zixuan chewed the potatoes and said, "Dad, if I say something, don't you don't like to listen to it." With your moral standards, what qualifications do you have to 'build' us?"
"Haha......"
"You three, think the other way around, right?"
After lunch, Li Wei asked Hua Zixuan to take him to the "Old Jinan Forging Room" to build tools.
Wu Ling approved. Hua Zixuan didn't forget to bring a titanium alloy knife before leaving.
Hua Zixuan took Li Wei and traveled from the southeast city to the northwest city.
When he arrived at the forging room, Hua Zixuan directly took Li Wei to the backyard to find Chang Kui, and the shopkeeper knew Hua Zixuan and did not stop him.
Chang Kui was drinking afternoon tea in the backyard, coaxing his two little grandsons.
Hua Zixuan introduced Li Wei to Chang Kui.
Li Wei came with drawings and a meteorite wrapped in energy crystals.
Li Wei handed over the drawings to Chang Kui to see, and Hua Zixuan leaned over, only to see that they were a few "chisels" with graphics, which were used to mine ore.
Li Wei instructed Chang Kui to use the metal (meteorite) he brought himself.
Chang Kui saw the metal brought by Li Wei and was full of praise, this kind of hardness material is difficult to find on the earth.
Li Wei took out another drawing, which was a drawing of a machine, which should be used to crush ore.
The machine makes use of the principle of the bar, one end of the lever is a sledgehammer, below the hammer is a large iron mortar, the other end of the lever is a set of gear design, the power of the gear comes from a rope, after the person pulls the rope, you can drive a group of gears to rotate, the gear rotates and swings up and down with the lever, and the swinging lever moves with the sledgehammer, so as to achieve the effect of crushing the ore.
The machinery designed by Li Wei greatly saves manpower and improves efficiency.
Chang Kui asked: "To build this set of machinery, do you provide the iron you need yourself, or do you use mine?"
Li Wei: "Of course it's yours." ”
Chang Kui nodded, his eyes never leaving the drawing, "You designed this drawing?"
Li Wei nodded.
Chang Kui sincerely admired, "It's really ingenious! Oh, you drink tea first, and I'll go to the front store to calculate the cost with the shopkeeper Lao Liu, including how much iron and how much labor to use." ”
Li Wei agreed and let Chang Kui go.
After Chang Kui left, Hua Zixuan picked up the "Southern Mars Daily" on the stone table
I rummaged through it, but I didn't find any news that the ninth-ranked Silver Kettle was going to challenge Andromeda.
Hua Zixuan wondered, didn't find it? It stands to reason that if the Silver Kettle is to challenge his own team, it should be released?
He muttered, "Maybe Daddy is right, Silverpot is really just trying to fool the fans, they don't want to waste too much energy on us weak teams." ”
Hua Zixuan continued to flip the news, there is one:
"An inspection team from the Department of Commerce mysteriously disappeared, led by Director Kato himself. Director Kato is the younger brother of the lord of Kato Castle. The castle lord Kato already knew about it, but there was no news in the castle lord's palace. This newspaper will continue to follow this matter. ”
Hua Zixuan knew that the inspection team of the Commerce Department that disappeared mysteriously was the people who were buried alive by Wang Heng.
Look at one more:
Di Meng, who only announced his retirement two days ago, announced his comeback in a high-profile manner on the 16th, and he announced the two teams that will be challenged next, Cheetah and Houxing. It is reported that these two teams defeated Cetus Giant during Di Meng's absence. Di Meng's intention is obvious, he wants revenge.
Didn't Di Meng's ankle be torn, and how could he take revenge? This newspaper will continue to follow up on this matter for you. ”
Hua Zixuan continued to read the newspaper, and at this time, Chang Kui came back, and he calculated the cost of the machinery.
Chang Kui: "For Wu Ling's sake, I will pay the price of iron, and I will only collect wages." The cost of a machine is 500 gold. ”
Hua Zixuan listened, his jaw almost fell to the ground in shock, "Uncle Chang, do you want to slander people, the lion opens his mouth, and asks for 500 gold coins!" He touched the titanium alloy knife on his waist.
Chang Kui pointed at Hua Zixuan, "What do you want to do, you want to use the knife, your knife is still given to you by me!" This price, that is, for the sake of Wu Ling's face, if someone else comes, I want 800 gold coins." ”
Hua Zixuan flattered: "Let's get a two-fold discount!"
"You kid is deliberately slandering me, right?" Chang Kui was angry.
Li Wei hurriedly said: "No, you say, the price I estimated in my heart is about the same as this."
I don't plan to make this machine now, I just want to know its price first, so that there is a goal to strive for. ”
Li Wei said to Chang Kui again: "Boss Chang, you first do my chisels, mechanical things, and when I save enough money, I will come to you to do it." ”
Chang Kui nodded, "That's okay!"
Li Wei and Hua Zixuan said goodbye.
As soon as he took two steps, Li Wei remembered something, "Alas, Uncle Chang, I have something for you, do you like it?"