Lu Yuan helped the six children up, patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Go change your clothes." ”

As he spoke, Lu Yuan looked at the other two again: "You guys should go too." ”

The three of them all nodded, took their clothes, and went down to change under Uncle Fei's guidance.

Lu Yuan got up and stood under the black eaves with his hands behind his back, staring at the patio.

The gaffe shown by Liuwazi, he naturally understands, after all, for an orphan like Liuwazi, he is afraid that he has never worn a new clothes of his own.

Lu Yuan is very honored for what he is doing at the moment, because he is caring for others.

It's just that what Lu Yuan doesn't know is that in another seven years, the Qing army will enter the customs, and the whole of China will be reduced to the slaughterhouse of the Eight Banners Jiannu, and whether he will still be able to care for the whole world like now.

But now he is just an ordinary weaver owner, with no official, no power and no fame.

Lu Yuan knew that he was not worthy of thinking about these things at least now, and the only thing he could do now was to strengthen himself step by step.

When Lu Yuan's thoughts were in the fugue, Uncle Fei led Xiao Wu and Liu Wazi and Yuan Zhonggui to Lu Yuan again.

"Uncle Fei, you can take your brother to the store directly, and explain what you should explain."

Lu Yuan commanded.

Uncle Fei agreed to take Yuan Zhonggui to the Lujia cloth shop.

And Lu Yuan glanced at Xiao Wu and Liuwazi here: "Follow me to the weaving workshop." ”

Xiao Wu and Liuwazi answered and followed behind Lu Yuan.

It is now September, affected by the climate of the Xiaoice River, the weather is as cold as winter, and the autumn rain is like ice needles piercing people's cheeks.

But because of the new cotton clothes, Xiao Wu and Liu Wazi only felt that their bodies were much warmer than before, and their chests were straighter than before.

Lu Yuan came to the weaving workshop to meet the three new weavers in the weaving workshop, and after saying some words of encouragement and warning, he came to the carpenter Zeng Dongsheng.

"Master Lu, you're here, please come in!"

Zeng Dongsheng was much more enthusiastic than when he first met Lu Yuan, because Lu Yuan made him now earn nearly one or two more silver every month.

This is already a considerable income for Zeng Dongsheng, a carpenter, and Lu Yuan is almost equivalent to his current God of Wealth.

Therefore, as soon as Zeng Dongsheng saw Lu Yuan coming, he hurriedly took out a pine chair that his father usually sat on, wiped it with his sleeve, and put it behind Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan sat down with a smile.

And Xiao Wu and Liu Wazi also stood on both sides behind Lu Yuan.

At that time.

Zeng Dongsheng put a bag of roller shuttles in front of Lu Yuan, and said with a respectful smile: "Childe, this is your goods, I never thought that you came so early this time, and it hasn't been long since you came to pick up the goods last time, so I haven't done much here." ”

"Carpenter Zeng, I'm not here to get my goods this time, I'm going to hire you as the mechanic of my Lujia Chunfeng Machinery Manufacturing Workshop, the so-called mechanic is to create some clever things, such as windmills, waterwheels or something, one or two or five dollars of silver per month, if you do a good job, you will add it later, are you willing?"

As soon as Lu Yuan said this, Zeng Dongsheng was stunned on the spot, although it was the first time he had heard of the title of "mechanic", but the monthly silver of one or two or five yuan a month was too tempting for him, you must know that he only earned nearly one tael of silver a month now.

"The little ones are willing!"

Zeng Dongsheng nodded, he was so happy that he was thinking about one or two or five dollars a month, saving a little by himself, and he could marry a daughter-in-law in three years.

"Okay, you will come to my Lu family tomorrow to sign the deed."

Lu Yuan left Zeng Dongsheng here as he spoke, except for Lu Liang, a carpenter who has now been hired by him as the new loom manufacturer of Lu's weaving workshop, plus Zeng Dongsheng, his current "technical team" can be regarded as having two technicians.

"Ouch, Master Lu, you're here! Please, I'll tell my family to pour you tea. ”

Blacksmith Yang saw Lu Yuan coming and hurriedly ran out, and half-bent over to welcome Lu Yuan into his shop.

Lu Yuan stood by the threshold and didn't go in, only turned to look at Blacksmith Yang.

Blacksmith Yang also looked at Lu Yuan with a smile, he had naturally heard about the resurgence of the Lu family due to a new cloth called "Spring Breeze Cloth", and also knew that Lu Yuan had repaid the Zhang family's debts, plus he had now made a lot of money by playing "springs" for Lu Yuan, so he didn't dare to despise Lu Yuan anymore, only stammering.

Lu Yuan also smiled: "Blacksmith Yang, do you know who is the best blacksmith in Linqing City?" ”

When Blacksmith Yang heard Lu Yuan ask, he immediately hurriedly bowed his hand to Lu Yuan and apologized: "Ouch, my son Lu, Brother Lu, my Blacksmith Yang is blind!" ”

Saying that, this Yang blacksmith slapped himself first, and then continued: "Why didn't I recognize Lu Gongzi at the beginning, you are the heir of Fan Li, and you mocked you for no reason, I also know that I am wrong now, Gongzi only begs you to let me continue to do this work for you for the sake of everyone being neighbors, I can charge less money, what do you think?" ”

Lu Yuan still just smiled slightly and didn't say anything.

And this Yang blacksmith simply knelt in front of Lu Yuan with a plop: "I'll kneel down for you, I'll kowtow to you!" ”

Lu Yuan hurriedly asked Xiao Wu to pull Yang Blacksmith up, and only said: "Yang Blacksmith, it's not that I don't want to continue to do this work of making springs for you, but your skills are still not good enough, the springs you make are too easy to break, and your blacksmith shop is too small to provide so much good iron, I will use iron in many places in the future, if you are willing to introduce me, I will give you a penny of silver for the introduction fee, if you don't want to, it's okay, anyway, I can spend money to inquire about it." ”

Lu Yuan turned around to leave as he spoke.

Blacksmith Yang was just crying at first, wanting to beg Lu Yuan again, but after thinking about it, he felt that what Lu Yuan said was also reasonable, if he didn't earn this money, the introduction fee of the silver would let others earn, so he hurriedly stopped Lu Yuan: "Lu Gongzi, I will take you to find Zuo Tieji, he is the best blacksmith in Linqing City, he used to fight armor in the military department, and now he has come to Linqing to do business, and he has also earned a lot of industry, Lu Gongzi, you don't spend a lot of money, I'm afraid that it will be difficult to ask him to make iron for you." ”

Lu Yuan just smiled and didn't say anything, only let Blacksmith Yang take him to a waterfront Zhuangzi near the canal outside the city.

The name of this Zhuangzi is Hejiazhuang, and Lu Yuan heard the sound of striking iron one after another as soon as he came here.

Lu Yuan walked in with the sound, and saw a big man with a beard waving a hammer against a piece of red-hot iron with his bare upper body, his arms were as thick as beams, and the muscles between the hammers shook directly, and then when the beads of sweat that were shaken off did not fall on the iron, it was hammered down again.

"Childe, he is the left iron arm", Yang Blacksmith pointed to the bearded man in front of him and said.