Flickering, the narrow, dimly lit room was lit with firewood, reflecting the figures of Heifu and his sister-in-law.

In these years, the lighting basically relied on fire, and the rich and noble people used animal fat "paste" and beeswax and insect wax to plug a twist to ignite, but the light was not big, and the lamp was generally like a bean. Like the Heff, they could not light those things at all, but only carefully dyed a small firewood with flint when needed, and had to be careful when lighting the house in case the house was set on fire, and the chance of fire in this year was much higher than in later generations.

Under such lighting conditions, the whirlwind tiptoed out a large basket of heavy things from a corner of the house......

You don't need to look, you just need to listen to the sound, and Heifu will know that this is money, full of half a basket of half taels.

"Heifu, this is the reward that the county gave to the county, guess how much?" Tsuki lowered his voice.

Heifu didn't bother to guess, he had already counted the money today, so he only glanced at it in the dim light, almost ten wisps, and said with a smile: "Ten thousand dollars? ”

"Yes, it's 10,000 dollars!"

Lu is a simple craftsman who rarely goes out of the countryside, and he has never seen so much money in his life. After he just received the money back today, after being excited for a while, he began to be suspicious again, and he always felt that there were people out there who coveted him.

So he simply locked the money in the house, and he stood alone outside the door, pacing like an ant on a hot pot, looking suspiciously at everyone who passed by, waiting only for the return of the blackman and let him have an idea.

Heifu has indeed seen the world, after all, he only got more than 15,000 rewards in the morning, and gave away 4,000 in the blink of an eye in the afternoon. So he wasn't too surprised, and just asked, "Is there any other reward besides money?" ”

"Yes, yes."

Seeing that his brother-in-law still did not change his face in the face of such a huge amount of money, he couldn't help but admire, took out a piece of brown silk and said: "I was also worshiped as a duke, and in the future, I will be the same as you ...... Heifu."

Speaking of this, Lu found that the top of Heifu's head had been replaced with an earthy red scarf, and he couldn't help but be stunned: "You are already made?" ”

"The knight who was just promoted at noon today." Heifu touched the bun on his head and smiled indifferently: "I was about to tell my sister-in-law that today, my family is double happy!" ”

At this time, Lu was even more happy and danced: "That's right, it's a double happiness, if your mother, eldest brother and your sister know, I don't know how happy they will be." ”

When Lu was alone and happy, Heifu sighed quietly on the side, because he felt that the first-class title, plus 10,000 yuan, was a huge reward in Lu's opinion, but Heifu thought that compared to the usefulness of stepping on the mill, these rewards were still less......

According to the demonstration in the county warehouse that day, stepping on the mill can be done properly, which can nearly double the efficiency of the valley, and the work done by the two concubines with the pestle mortar in the past can now be done by one person at the same time.

If this is put to future generations, it can be rated as a "major invention of the year", right?

"It seems that although the Qin State attaches more importance to skills, the status of craftsmen is still low, and a little knighthood reward can be sent away, and the income from this invention is not very high." Heifu sneered.

What he didn't know was that after the two of them dedicated the tabu to the county, Cangqifu thought that this thing should be rewarded with ten thousand dollars, and the county engineer thought that it was more appropriate to reward the first-class knighthood. The Anlu County Order couldn't decide, and felt that the function of this thing might not be able to be evaluated in the county, so the imitation of the two stepping documents was reported to Nanjun together.

After reporting to the county, the county guard asked the county engineer of Gangneung City to weigh the value of the treadmill, and then decided to reward the double reward, the knight and the money together.

At this time, after thanking Heifu again and again, Lu pushed the money in the basket to Heifu's side, and said: "Heifu, although you warned me, if you want to say to outsiders, I came up with it myself, and it has nothing to do with others. But you and I know the truth! It was your idea, but it was given to me, and it was a great honor for me to get the title of duke, and you take the money! ”

"Sister, I have already received a lot of money for catching tomb robbers, and since this money is given to you by name, how can I take it?"

Lu was very stubborn, and he had to accept it, but Heifu couldn't shirk it in the end, so he had to promise Lu that the money would be divided between the two of them. But he didn't do it, he had to divide it into ninety-one, he was one, and Heifu was nine.

The two of them were pushing and giving way, and Lu remembered something again, and hurriedly put down what was in front of him and asked Heifu for advice.

It turned out that in addition to the title and money, because of his human duty and craftsmanship, he was favored by the county engineer in the county to help make the stepping stone, and let him stay in Anlu County as a craftsman, so that he could take his family and move his household registration to the county.

I didn't know what to do for a while, and I wanted to ask Heifu to help him get an idea.

"Sister, that's a good thing."

Heifu said: "People go to high places and water flows to low places, you come to the county to do things, the future is definitely better than nesting in the countryside." ”

Lu hesitated a little: "It's just your sister......"

Heifu said: "Didn't the county engineer allow my sister-in-law to move her hukou to the county seat?" My sister has been yearning for the county seat for a long time, and she is full of praise for the silk silk in the county, and she will be happy to move to the county seat! Besides, after a month, I will be an official official, and I can let the county school office be a disciple and learn the law, and when the time comes, my sister-in-law and sister's family will be in the county seat, and I can take care of him......"

There is another reason why Heifu didn't say it, his sister-in-law has skills, and he is simple, and he has no bad intentions, and he is indeed buried in the small village. Hefu remembered the now-hot Tingwei Lis, the metaphor of the barn rat and the rat in the toilet: "The virtuous man is like a rat, in his own ears!" "In this world, people with the ability can only highlight their value if they go to the center of the times.

The skill of the whirlpool is placed among the craftsmen of the country, and it may only be medium, but there is also a black husband.

Because of Qin's unique household registration system, the soldiers who were in charge of plowing the fields and fighting the war were not allowed to play with their skills at will and get involved in commerce. So Heifu pondered, I'm afraid that in the future, I will have to borrow his sister-in-law's hand for what I want to do, so that Heifu can not only make what he wants to do, but also pull his own relatives by the way, why not?

So Heifu pushed the money that was pushed over in the opposite direction and said, "Sister, so you can keep half of the 10,000 yuan so that you can buy belongings in the county seat." Don't worry, no matter who my family is, the days ahead will get better and better, and the road will get wider and wider! ”

……

The head of the Heifu Pavilion in Anlu County thought that the turmoil of the dedication had finally come to an end. But he didn't know that this was not the end, but the beginning.

The day after they received the reward, in Gangneung Fortress, the capital of Nam-gun, outside the Gangneung Transmission House, the hub for sending and receiving government mail and official documents, two "tato-s" made in Gangneung locality, together with urgent letters indicating "urgency", were loaded onto a "transmission vehicle" that specialized in transporting urgent letters.

Then the horse drove out, passed out of the north gate of Gangneung Castle, and galloped north along the straight Tu Road......

"Don't stay with those who do this book, the book will start in the first month of the second month......"

The heirs in the car only had to glance at the date on the envelope to understand that it was an urgent letter. The trip had to be swift, and he had to be sent to the city of Xianyang before the end of the 10th of January, accompanied by a subordinate of the county engineer.

So from this day on, the wagon began to walk non-stop.

Qin system, 30 miles of a post house, 10 miles of a pavilion, the post can replace horses, repair vehicles, pavilion with accommodation building. The heirs could only stop in a hurry and let the pavilion father feed the horses, while he showed the talisman and passed it on, and ate the rations provided free to the officials on business trips. Because his title is made up, the food is good, and there are pickles, leeks, green onions and other rice.

According to the provisions of the "Law of Writing", the postal herme must record the distance traveled on that day and the distance through the city for later assessment. Therefore, when resting in the pavilion, the heirs can only use the light the size of a bean grain to write down their journey with difficulty:

It is one hundred and eighty miles from Gangneung to Dangyang......

Dangyang is one hundred and eighty-five miles from Yan County......

Yan County to Sanxi Canglang water 100 miles......

The waves of water to Deng County 240 miles......

They left the shores of the river and the Han River, where the water network was crisscrossed.

They drove into the densely populated Nanyang Basin.

They crossed the Wuguan, got involved in business, and entered the heart of the Qin State, the Guanzhong Basin.

They passed through Lantian and did not see the smoke of Yu Nuan, but they saw the heavily armed Qin army camp.

They went around the forest, crossed the Weishui, and saw from a distance the huge majestic city that was not protected by the city walls, but still looked magnificent......

On January 10, after a long journey of 20 days, before the final date, the messengers and messengers from Nanjun finally arrived at the end of the journey, the Xianyang Mission.

The Xianyang Chuan House brings together mail and books from all over the country, and in the early spring, it is warm and cold, but the small officials in soap clothes are sweating profusely to sort out all kinds of letters, and if something goes wrong, they will be severely fined.

The urgent letter from Nanjun was finally assigned, and an old postman who could run around the streets and alleys of Xianyang City with his eyes closed, according to the requirements of the letter, drove the carriage and sent the tabu and the letter to the "Shaofu" in the east of Xianyang City, and handed it over to a young official named Zhang Han......

PS: It's home, everyone has been waiting for a long time, and it will be updated normally during the Chinese New Year.