"This wooden mill ..... the first time I made a rice mill, and some parts of the mechanism on the drawings were extremely blurry, so I had to do it while pondering, and the time had to be longer, and I couldn't tell the specific day." Carpenter Zhang is obviously not familiar with the name of the rice mill, but his eyes are very poisonous, and he can see at a glance that the drawings drawn by Changsun Hong from memory are not perfect, and he said after consideration: "How about this, after half a month, you can come and see, take it away when it is done, and wait if it is not done." ”

"Half a month?" Eldest Sun Hong was slightly disappointed, but then smiled generously: "No problem, as long as you do it, I'll just wait." ”

The drawings are drawn by him from memory, this thing is still an antique placed in the corner of the wall of his hometown when he was a child in the countryside, although he was naughty when he was a child, he still has an understanding of the structure inside, but time has passed, he has forgotten a lot, and he has redrawn it Zhang Carpenter can understand it and burn high incense, and it is normal for a longer time.

"One more thing, Uncle Zhang, I have to say it ahead." His smile was very bright, with the cheerfulness unique to a young man, and his tone was soft, which made the person who spoke to him feel very comfortable, but at this moment, the words changed, and a thick coldness flowed out between the words: "I won't shorten you with money, but this rice mill, you are the second person to see the drawings, there is no third person in the world, and I don't want a third person to see it, so you have to keep it well, it's better to hide it in a secret place if it's okay, and don't let outsiders know." When you do it, don't let others steal the craftsmanship irrelevantly, if I see the same thing outside, it is what your Uncle Zhang revealed, let's not talk about what will happen to me, it will also deface your reputation as a carpenter Zhang, right? ”

Changsun Hong had a smile on his face, but his eyes were full of coldness, which made Carpenter Zhang, who was facing him, nervously sure that if what he said really happened, I am afraid it would not be so easy to end well.

Carpenter Zhang frowned, looked Changsun Hong up and down, and felt that although this young man was the same age as a dog, he had a kind of majesty that was customary to superiors, and that kind of bearing was definitely not owned by the children of poor families.

Especially those eyes, I couldn't even look at each other.

Carpenter Zhang pretended to look down at the drawings, subconsciously avoided it, and said if there was a voice: "Brother Eldest Sun, don't worry, I, Carpenter Zhang, have never shown the drawings of guests to outsiders, so wouldn't that smash my signboard?" Rest assured. ”

"That's the best." Eldest Sun Hong said with a smile, counted out fifty copper coins from his pocket, and handed it to Carpenter Zhang: "This is a deposit, please collect it." ”

Carpenter Zhang hurriedly accepted it and said, "I'll go tomorrow to buy the materials I need, and hurry up the production, so as not to miss the time of the little brother." ”

After saying a few more words, Carpenter Zhang typed the receipt, drew fingerprints, and Changsun Hong took it into his arms, saw that there was nothing else, and left with the dog.

Look at the sky is still early, rush back but at noon, the two walked easily, from time to time also into the roadside woods, looking for some wild fruits to satisfy hunger, this dog is a master, this guy ran into the forest at will, when he came out, there was some food in his hands, and even took a long bamboo pole to poke a hornet's nest, wrapped honey in a big lotus leaf and ran away, so that Changsun Hong followed him and was chased by wild bees for more than two miles.

However, the natural honey is indeed sweet, eating in the mouth, the sweet honey feeling is endless, the two of them ate all the way, their mouths and hands were sticky, and they licked their fingers all the way and continued to walk.

"Dog, now farming, how many years does it take to harvest a year?" Changsun Hong stretched out his tongue and licked his fingers one by one, and took the time to ask, "How much can an acre of land harvest?" ”

"Two crops a year, tender and good." The dog said, his mouth was full of honey, slimy and a little uncomfortable, causing his accent to speak: "This is also thanks to the Champa rice seeds sent by the government She, so that it can be harvested twice a year, the old rice seeds in previous years, the growth cycle is long, only one ripening a year, and now it has doubled, and there is a stone harvest in a good paddy field on one acre, and it is tender and good." ”

"One stone." Changsun Hong touched his chin with wet fingers, thoughtful.

One acre of land can collect a stone of millet, if the rice milling machine is done, grinding a bucket of rice charges ten Wen, one stone of rice is a hundred Wen, one hundred acres of land is ten money, one hundred acres of land is only a hundred stone of millet, the Song Dynasty a bucket of rice converted into the jin of later generations, about twelve catties, one stone is one hundred and twenty catties, a small half a day can be milled, that is to say, after grinding a hundred acres of land and a hundred stones of millet, it takes about fifty days, it seems that just a rice milling machine is not enough.

It's time to find a shareholder, I don't have enough money in my hands. The eldest grandson Hong was calculating, he didn't know how much money his father and second uncle had left in their hands after selling that batch of salt, and he might be able to count on it if he told them.

The two of them stopped and stopped, playing all the way, and when they returned to the foot of the plane tree at the entrance of Lijia Village, it was three o'clock in the afternoon.

The dog went back, and the eldest grandson Hong also walked in the direction of home, the village is not big, several vertical and horizontal dirt roads, coming and going have long been familiar, the eldest grandson Hong returned to his own door after a while, looked up, but was stunned.

In front of the door, a few slave-looking people dressed in green clothes and short brown and wrapped in turbans stood there chatting, holding the gate, and the wooden door was hidden, and there seemed to be someone standing in the courtyard.

These people are not strangers, Changsun Hong has met in and out of Li Guanren's house, all of them are miscellaneous servants of Li Xian's family, they also saw Changsun Hong from a distance, and greeted him with a smile: "Erlang is back." ”

The eldest grandson Hong respectfully went over, saluted one by one, and said obediently: "Hello brothers, I don't know why you are here and what are you doing here?" ”

A family member lowered his voice, stretched out his hand and pointed to the door and said, "Li Guanren has come to your house, and he is standing in the courtyard with your father to talk about things. ”

"Oh?" Changsun Hong was surprised, Li Daguan's great reputation in Lijia Village, and it was also the Baozheng before Changsun Hao, the family wealth was second to none, the house of Changsun was given by him, and there were doors in the county and state, for ordinary farmers, that is, a general character who passed through the sky, and he wanted to give a big salute when he saw someone, but this person lived in a simple place, and did not come forward in general matters, and was handled by Changsun Hao and others, so these days, Changsun Hong has never seen it.

It was terrible that such a character actually came to his home, and Changsun Hong couldn't help but pause and asked a few people: "Then should I avoid it and not be busy going in?" ”

Several people laughed and said, "You are the son of Baozheng, this is your family, what can't you enter?" Just go inside. ”

Changsun Hong also felt that this was the reason, and waved to a few people, and said with a smile: "That kid goes in and pours a cup of tea for your brothers, and please wait." ”

Several people said no, let go of the door, Changsun Hong stepped in, and saw the people in the courtyard.

Changsun Hao stood in the courtyard, talking to a man in a brocade robe, looking at the posture of the two, it seemed that he had finished speaking, and was saying the last few words as he walked out.

Seeing his son come in, Changsun Hao hurriedly beckoned: "Erlang, come here, this is Li Daguan, you can study because of him, hurry up and bow and thank you." ”

The eldest grandson trotted over and saw the appearance of the man in the brocade robe, this person is a fat man, in these years, fat people are rare, so it is surprising to see one suddenly.

The fat man has a shiny face, squinted eyes, smooth skin without even a fold when he laughs, a garlic nose and ears, a blessing at a glance, two mustaches, a pair of merry eyebrows, and a figure that is not tall because of obesity, giving people the first impression that this person is a rich man, a big rich man.