Zuo Tiejian glanced at Lu Yuan, and saw that Lu Yuan was just a young man, although he was wearing a brand-new dark blue brocade robe, but he didn't look like a military attache who practiced martial arts or a scholar with a meritorious reputation, so he thought that Lu Yuan might just be an ordinary gentleman, so he didn't pay attention to it, and only continued to hammer, but he couldn't help but get bored in his heart.

As a craftsman who used to make armor and lighters in the military department, let him hit some anchors, rivets and other things in Linqing City every day, even if he had no worries about food and clothing, Zuo Tiejian felt bored.

"Zuo Tieji, this is Lu Gongzi from Zhananfang, he has something for you to make", Yang Blacksmith shouted first.

Zuo Tiejian replied without raising his head: "Not available!" ”

"Hey, how can there be a business like you, let me tell you, Mr. Lu is not a stingy customer, if you are willing to make things for Mr. Lu, your benefits are indispensable."

Blacksmith Yang didn't expect Zuo Tieji's attitude to be so arrogant, and he said with some puzzlement.

Lu Yuan stood up and handed a piece of paper in front of Zuo Tieji: "One or two or five dollars a month, come to me to be a mechanic, a mechanic is a craftsman, and I will bear the cost of iron and charcoal, you make these things for me, how about it, do you do it?" ”

"What kind of new firearm is this?"

Zuo Tiejian was stunned, swallowed his tongue as if he had seen a woman without clothes for the first time in the Qinglou, looked up at Lu Yuan and said, "I, I am willing." ”

Lu Yuan smiled, he could see from the tired expression of the left iron arm just now that this left iron arm was not a craftsman who was willing to make ordinary iron tools here, so he simply handed the firearm drawings that he had taken time to draw these days to this left iron arm to see.

I didn't think about it, but as Lu Yuan expected, this left iron arm suddenly became interested.

"If your blacksmith workshop doesn't move first, you don't have to go to me now, I'll have someone come to you tomorrow to sign the deed, and then you will make whatever I want you to make, understand?"

Lu Yuan said.

Zuo Tiejian nodded hurriedly and laughed: "Understand, son, don't worry, I will definitely give you a good fight when the time comes!" Creating that thing is my ancestral craft, and even Zhao Gong (Zhao Shizhen) praised my grandfather back then! ”

Lu Yuan also smiled, and then asked Zuo Tiejian to build the steel spring that he had asked Blacksmith Yang to build for himself first, after all, he has not yet established a complete industrial system, and there is only the demand for springs in the demand for metal mechanical parts.

Determining the craftsmen needed means that Lu Yuan has established a complete industrial system and has begun to have the most primitive prototype, because now he not only has a factory like a weaving workshop, but also a mechanical manufacturing team, and what he needs now is just to grow step by step.

After Lu Yuan returned home, it was already late, but in the autumn of Xiao Suo, the Lu family was not as deserted as before.

In the south room next to the shadow wall, there are still workers assembling and manufacturing flying shuttle looms, the lights are flickering, the figures are building, and from time to time there are three or two human words, four or five noises.

There is also a constant sound of machines in the weaving mill outside the west wall, and the cloth shops that lead to the streets and alleys along the east wall are still bustling with people haggling.

Lu Yuan knew that he was no longer nothing.

Lu Yuan walked into the weeping flower door and saw that the autumn chrysanthemums were in full bloom in the courtyard, and Lu Kang's mother, Lu Kang, was watering the flower garden with a gourd scoop.

"The maids and servants of the Lu family were all dismissed because of the ruin of the Lu family some time ago, and now my mother can only do everything herself, and I have to find a few maids for my mother."

When Lu Yuan thought like this, he saw Erniu coming over with a red face, glanced at Lu Yuan, and then lowered his head shyly: "Madam, I'll come." ”

"Good!"

As he spoke, Lu Kangshi got up and handed the gourd scoop to Erniu: "Erniu, have you figured it out?" ”

The second girl nodded, then glanced at Lu Yuan again, and her face turned even redder.

"What's wrong with this girl today, why did she become so shy, she didn't help assemble it in the south room, why did she come to the north room?"

Lu Yuan simply glanced at the two girls.

The second girl hurriedly lowered her head, laughed secretly, and poured a gourd scoop filled with half a scoop of water in her hand and poured it on her pants.

The light white cloth skirt was wet with water and clung to the skin, revealing her flesh color directly.

"Ahh

As soon as the instep of the second girl's feet was cold, she hurriedly came back to her senses and couldn't help shouting.

Seeing this, Lu Kangshi laughed: "Silly boy, how did you pour this, go and change your pants." ”

"Oh, yes, ma'am!"

The second girl hurriedly threw the gourd scoop in the wooden barrel first, reached out and pulled the pants that were attached to the meat at the thigh, and hurriedly ran into the east wing.

Lu Yuan, who also wanted to laugh, was stunned when he saw the second girl running into the east wing, and turned around and asked Lu Kangshi: "Mother, why did she run into my room to change her pants?" ”

"I have accepted Erniu for you to be your maid, Erniu herself is also willing, and your Uncle Fei has no opinion, I will let her take her own furniture and clothes to your house today."

Lu Kangshi walked over and said to Lu Yuan with a smile.

"I asked Erniu's wishes, and I also asked Uncle Fei's wishes, but I didn't ask me, do you think I won't refuse?"

Lu Yuan was a little surprised, this was the first time he felt that this world was different from the later generations after he traveled to the Ming Dynasty, and he not only had a fiancée directly, but also had a connecting room girl, and opened a harem in the name of justice? Stallion?

"Mother, is this necessary", Lu Yuan asked.

"It is very necessary, before you get married, let her sleep with you, so that you don't know what to do when you get married, and you don't have to let the Tang girl laugh at you."

Lu Kangshi replied with some seriousness.

"Mother, I'm a normal person, there's no problem, as long as it's a normal person, it's self-taught in that regard, you don't need to do more, besides, the second girl is so young, I'm afraid that she hasn't had her menarche yet, you just let her be my maid, don't you let me hurt people?"

Lu Yuan said helplessly.

"Where is this harmful, she is now fourteen, and she has reached the age of having children, besides, she is your Uncle Fei's daughter, Uncle Fei has worked hard for our family all his life, he does not seek fame or profit, he is such a daughter, you can't help but give him an explanation."

Lu Kangshi said a little angrily.

"Confession? Mother, what kind of explanation is this! However, speaking of confession, I also know that we can't treat Uncle Fei badly, so I plan to cancel his slave contract and make him a free man, but he will still be the housekeeper of our Lu family, I will not only give him four taels of monthly silver a month, I will also give dividends, as long as the Lu family is still rich, he will also be rich, his daughter Erniu is also my sister, I naturally will not treat her badly, and I will give her a generous gift as a dowry on the day she gets married......"

Before Lu Yuan finished speaking, he saw that Lu Kang's face was already frosty: "This can't be done!" If you do this, Uncle Fei will feel that you are not his own person, and the second girl, she is your Uncle Fei's daughter, the best destination is to become your concubine, if you don't accept her, it is equivalent to explaining to outsiders that her second girl is not a good girl, and if there is something inappropriate, she will be released and hire someone else! ”

"What kind of logic is this? Isn't it good not to be a slave and be a righteous husband and wife, what's the good of being a concubine? ”

Lu Yuan was a little puzzled, but seeing that his mother was already very unhappy, he couldn't say more.

"Yuan'er, the words of the matchmaker of the parents, you have to listen to me in this matter, this is filial piety and benevolence! You are not allowed to say such a remark in the future! ”

Lu Kang's family didn't seem to give Lu Yuan room to negotiate.

"Okay", Lu Yuan knows that filial piety is greater than the sky in this era, except for the monarch's father, the orders of his parents must not be disobeyed, otherwise he will be punished for a serious crime, in order not to cause family disharmony, he had to agree, thinking that he would just accept more women anyway, from a certain point of view, he doesn't seem to suffer a loss.

But Lu Yuan still couldn't help asking: "What about Tang Ying, she is about to pass through the door, won't she mind?" ”

"Tang Ying is everyone's best girl, I also watched her grow up, she has been sensible since she was a child, she will not make these seven rules, let you have a room early, or she suggested, so you are a good wife, you should cherish it more in the future!"

Lu Kangshi said and went back to the house.

Lu Yuan stood there for a long time and didn't come back to his senses, thinking that before he got married, he suggested that his mother-in-law let his fiancé accept a woman first, this feudal society is too good, right?!