Chapter 0010 - Who's Greedy
"That's right, young master! You can't leave the management of the fiefdom to the Ji family! I think that at the beginning, the eldest prince Ji Zhong was wild, not scheming, and he was not bad, but he died early. This second son, Ji Hua, is humble and humble on weekdays, and seems to be very kind, but he is the best at attacking the heart and scheming. You and the Ji family are not the same kind of people! ”
"Oh—I understand! I also realized that on the way when the two of us came, I heard someone talking about the father and son of the Ji family, which can cause you to be angry! ”
"Hmm!"
Yun Xiaoshui and Leng Yue both had a scene at that time in their minds-
When the two of them left the county guard city and had lunch in a small restaurant, they heard a few discussions among the diners, all of which revolved around the fact that the county guard sent people to deliver prescriptions to various places. The cure of the disease, the prevention of the disease, the four ballads that are said to prevent infection were written by the second son of the county keeper himself.
It's nothing, I heard that the two of them were happy with one mind, for the people, for the county guard, and for the second son, Ji Hua.
However, the more I listened, the less I liked it.
Even the shopkeeper in the restaurant participated in the discussion, and someone said:
"God favors the people of our Bohai County, and as soon as he heard that there was a plague here, he immediately sent a great god to give a dream to the youngest son of the county keeper to teach him a good prescription for healing, and then, the little young master wrote out the prescription to treat the people!"
"Yes! I heard that the youngest son in the county guard's mansion is a disciple of an old immortal...... It's a child prodigy! ”
Someone immediately retorted, "But...... However, I heard from relatives in the county town that the county keeper was also sick, and it was a young man named Yun Xiaoshui who passed by to cure the adult's illness and passed on the prescription......"
Someone else said, "That's not right! Our lieutenant chief, pavilion chief, and the three elders are all talking about the prescription prescribed by the child of the county guard, who has heard of any Yun Xiaoshui? Who has seen it in Xiaolang? There are very few old men who are as rare as his mother's three-legged toads! ”
"Yes! Our county master there all said that the young master of the county guard prescribed medicine, and the plague was eliminated in Bohai County! ”
"Smack!" The small tea bowl in Leng Yue's hand suddenly shattered on the tabletop, and the tea inside splashed, which also wet Yun Xiaoshui and the two of them. Those who were talking about it smacked for a moment, and their eyes were focused.
Yun Xiaoshui hurriedly explained: "It's a slippery hand!" We lose money! "Everyone didn't take it too seriously, and after paying and walking out of the restaurant, Yun Xiaoshui asked Leng Yue what happened?
"Young Master! I thought that the county keeper and the second son were such good and humble gentlemen, but who knew that they were so insidious and filthy behind their backs! It's obviously your credit, but they take it for themselves and hide it from the sky! ”
"Don't be angry! This is also the face of all the officials in the county guard's mansion, especially his own official position and prestige. ”
"You think! Who is I? Who knows the people here? What a great thing it is to know how to heal, how have you ever seen it in a teenager? So, they had to say so! ”
Seeing that Leng Yue was happy again, Yun Xiaoshui hit the horse and hurried away.
Pulling back the thoughts of letting go, Yun Xiaoshui decided to complete this experiment of mixing soil and stone with rammed earth, and then return to his hometown to hand over the management of the fiefdom to Fang Bufang's guy, and the officials of the counties did not move.
After dinner, when Yun Xiaoshui changed Leng Yue's dressing, Leng Yue insisted on washing the strip of cloth that tied her wound and keeping it, Yun Xiaoshui didn't understand it for a while, why don't you throw it away? A strip of rag with blood still sticking to it.
Leng Yuexiao blushed and said: "This is a piece of cloth on your underwear, sir, for me to bandage my wounds, I want to keep it, forever!" ”
"Shhhh Bring sand to the beach! Looking at people in front of them every day, what do you do with a piece of cloth? ”
"Can I see you at night? Can I see you when I'm alone? ”
Yun Xiaoshui shook his head helplessly, thinking, this woman's mind is too complicated!
As soon as Tianming came out of work, Leng Yue reminded Yun Xiaoshui that there was still a game with Fat Liuniang at noon! Yun Xiaoshui was stunned for a moment, then remembered, so he first went to the tool yard to find two carpenters, and made two wooden tools according to the tool graphics he drew.
Returning from the construction site, Yun Xiaoshui came to the servant's kitchen tent with two tools. Under the notarization of more than a dozen people, the steamed bun competition with Fat Liuniang began.
"We won't go together either, I'll let Leng Yue compare with you alone, woman to woman, one person to one, fair and just!" Yun Xiaoshui said and commanded Leng Yue to do his work.
Mix the noodles with water, mix some wild vegetables, and then put in a little salt, and start to stir the noodles in the mixing wooden box, the mixer uses the crankshaft principle, which is fast and labor-saving.
After the noodles are stirred, put them in the extruded wood, the big wheel drives the small wheels, quickly and effectively squeeze the noodles into a square shape, and then flow to the bamboo grate in the pot one by one, fill a layer, cover it with a layer of gauze and put another layer, so that a bamboo grate can be placed on three layers of cross-pressed steamed bread.
Leng Yue put a pot full of steamed buns and covered it, and the fat Liuniang over there began to put steamed buns in the pot, alternating between her two hands, and the speed was really amazing. But after all, pure labor can't catch up with semi-mechanization, even if it's a very simple hand-cranked wooden tool made by Yun Xiaoshui!
Eat it out of the pot, whether in terms of quantity or quality, Fat Liuniang's steamed buns are slightly inferior to Yun Xiaoshui's, and the difference in speed is obvious to all.
The judges cheered and unanimously judged that Yun Xiaoshui won.
"Poof" startled everyone, only to see Fat Liuniang kneeling down in front of Yun Xiaoshui uprightly, "Knock knock" After knocking her head three times in a row, she shouted in her mouth: "Master is on top, please accept the apprentice Fat Liuniang three times!" ”
But Yun Xiaoshui panicked, and he was a little overwhelmed! This fat Liuniang is really unambiguous, say one or the other!
"Get up! In the future, I will teach you more time-saving and labor-saving ways to cook! Yun Xiaoshui said with a "single" smile.
In fact, he also did what he said, after perfecting and refining the hand-cranked noodle mixer and steamed bun squeezing machine, Yun Xiaoshui drew drawings and guided the carpentry craftsmen to make a steamer, and one pot can boil several times the original steamed bun. There is also a wooden water tank, bamboo pipes and artesian water, which can be used to wash vegetables with live water.
While improving the food of the servants, it also greatly improved the food and living environment here, especially the sanitary conditions. These methods were soon extended to all wall builders.
After making so many improvements and creations, Yun Xiaoshui was asking the army for a silver reward, when suddenly a sentinel from a distance came to report:
"Newspaper - a team of people and vehicles came, waving flags, and I couldn't read the words on the flag!"
Xiang Junhou promised to give Yun Xiaoshui a bonus, and also promised to report the matter to General Meng Tian and ask him for a bounty for Yun Xiaoshui. Finally, after talking about the construction of the "Craftsman Design Room" in General Meng Tian's general tent, he went forward to greet the visitors.
"Could it be that Young Master Ji Hua has arrived?" Xiang Junhou blurted out, and Yun Xiaoshui thought the same thing.
However, when the group approached, the soldiers saw it clearly, and shouted: "Prodigy Craftsman Honor Guard"!
"Haha! The craftsman also has a special honor guard? Wouldn't that be as majestic as the emperor leaving the palace? Yun Xiaoshui immediately felt very proud and freely imagined in his heart.
"Virtuous nephew! Walk! Hurry up and take your guard of honor! In the future, I will no longer be able to call you a good nephew! Xiang Junhou was overjoyed and said hurriedly.
Yun Xiaoshui was stunned for a moment and asked, "Why?" ”
"You are a craftsman and a marquis, and your official position is much higher than that of the last general!"
As the two spoke, they went up to receive the order. A eunuch read out the holy decree, it turned out that the first emperor had returned to Xianyang, and sent someone to Yun Xiaoshui to send a "guard of honor for craftsmen".
The honor guard is complete, there are 60 black-armored guards given by the first emperor, 10 beautiful female servants, as well as carriages with umbrellas, gold, silver, grain and grass, full-time cooks, bookkeepers, housekeepers, and the banner of the "prodigy craftsman" in seal script.
The captain of the guard is called Fenglei, not tall, not short, not fat or thin, strong and alert, which makes people look ordinary at a glance and reassuring, and perseverance is inspiring.
The housekeeper is called complete, with a white round face, thin eyebrows and eyes, like a woman, she speaks like a sissy, and she walks like a woman, so Yun Xiaoshui frowned, and once regarded him as a middle-aged woman, he said that he was a man, and especially emphasized that he was not a eunuch, so he almost didn't take off his pants to prove it to the little master.
Mr. Jingda's name is Jing Da, a scholar about thirty years old, with a thin body, a long body, a handsome face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, but the hair on the top of his head is a little less.
It's really a coincidence, Yun Xiaoshui's master honor guard just came, and the messenger sent by General Meng Tian's central camp over there also arrived, informing Yun Xiaoshui that his master camp tent group, which is equivalent to a temporary craftsman's mansion, has been built, and asked him to live there in order to guide the construction of the entire Great Wall.
He can't stay in this camp anymore, this is also the order of the first emperor, and it is his duty to be Yun Xiaoshui. Yun Xiaoshui knew it in his heart, so he decided to set off today.
When I went to say goodbye to Xiang Junhou, I got a message that several women had come to the convict camp, some young and some old, and Guo Tie and Guo Junhou were going to kill them and were not going to stay.
Originally, it was just to listen, Yun Xiaoshui was not ready to ask, they were all state criminals! Suddenly, someone cried out, "Master, help!" ”