Volume 1 Born Out of Thin Air Chapter 3 Confronting the Crisis

Li Xiang has been coming to this time and space for more than a year, and it is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and Mingyue Village ushers in the most beautiful moonlight. Li Xiang took a petty bourgeoisie, made a few mooncakes and a few side dishes with his own hands, and took Liu Susu to watch the moon for half the night.

The river is sparkling and the water is tinkling. Liu Susu, who was sleepy, leaned on Li Xiang's shoulder, and in the grass behind him, Xiong Chengwu and Yang Jianchuan, who were staring, widened their eyes......

Mengxue, the thatched huts that served as makeshift classrooms are long gone, replaced by two large, three small and five adobe houses.

The two large rooms are male and female classrooms, the two rooms are the bedrooms of Li Xiang and Liang Susu, and the remaining one is for some miscellaneous items and the like.

These five adobe houses were built by the parents of Mengxue teenagers, together with craftsmen such as carpenters Zeng and Lei blacksmiths, and Li Xiang paid the price of hundreds of fish.

At this time, Li Xiang and Liang Susu were standing on the edge of the leveled playground, pleasantly watching the teenagers, girls and young people who were sweating profusely in "121". Li Xiang's income on the fish passage did not move at all, and all of it was used to subsidize the food of these young people, which many people did not understand.

Li Xiang had to do this, he had found the slash marks left by Lao Huang at the bedside, and knew that he was facing a threat of death. Self-preservation is the most important thing, in addition to the feelings for these bear children, these teenagers themselves are also his great dependence.

In the youth camps of Mengxue and similar military academies, more than 20 teenagers have increased in size and weight after their nutrition has been guaranteed. In just over a year, some teenagers have surpassed Li Xiang.

It's embarrassing to think about it, Li Xiang is already tall and straight, can it be said that the physical condition of the Great Zhou people is so good? What he didn't know was that the average height of northern men in the Han and Tang dynasties in this time and space had reached 178, and according to this standard, Li Xiang was just qualified.

Since Yudao was handed over to the Mengxue and Youth Camp in the cottage, the Mingyue villagers, who are quite Chinese-style and smart, have driven their young people to Li Xiang, and even the girls are not spared.

Li Xiang is happy to do this, so that he can influence their family through his young age.

Liang Susu found that Li Xiang looked at him again, and he looked intoxicated again, and he was about to flow out, so he had to forcibly interrupt him. "Hey! What are you thinking? ”

"Oh, didn't think about anything, what's wrong?"

"How did you come up with this Chinese pinyin, it's a little weird, but it feels very easy to use. And the Alaper number and multiplication table, even more powerful, I can't tell you're quite smart. ”

"It's nothing, it's all commonly used in our hometown, and there are a lot of things that haven't been taken out, so it will scare you. The other one is called Arabic numerals, thank you. ”

"You me! You've always said that your home is far away, where is your home? ”

"In Cheng... No, in... Australia! Li Xiang was careless for a while and almost said Chengdu.

"Huh? You're playing with me..."The two of them were fighting again, and they looked like they didn't guess. The relationship between Liu Susu and Li Xiang has grown by leaps and bounds, and the last layer of window paper is missing.

Li Xiang is often lewd, Lao Tzu is 19 years old this year, Su Su has just turned 16, and it will be just right in two or three years, it is really providential!

After having a fight with Su Su, Li Xiang took the teenager who had finished his long-distance run to take a bath in a bathhouse not far away. The public bathhouse and the canteen of the soldiers were also suggestions made by Li Xiang to the lord of Liu Zhai, because the huge advantages of saving firewood and charcoal were very popular with the villagers.

Due to the concentrated use of fuel and materials, the bathhouses and canteens have achieved good results, saving a lot of charcoal and supplies. Li Xiang has been in this world for more than a year, and because of his relationship, Mingyuezhai finally began to change a little.

Since Liu Susu was sent to Li Xiang's side to help, or monitor, Li Xiang began to understand that Mingyue Village was not as utopian as it seemed. At least judging from the controversy between the middle and high-level in the village relayed by Liang Susu, there are many small and medium-sized groups in the village.

When there are many people, there will be groups, which is normal, and if the interests of groups are not aligned, there will be fights and conflicts.

The fish passage discovered this time is not very profitable, and it is backed by Su Su and the owner of the village. But Li Xiang is only barely trying to keep his interests, but what about next time?

After thinking about it, Li Xiang found that the key to breaking the game was still in these bear children. Hehe, your children listen to me, and you still don't bow down?

Da Zhou is not calm, and the young people who cultivate Mingyue Village in this era are absolutely not good at just learning literature. Therefore, Li Xiang decided to gradually master an armed force.

Although he does not know much about military affairs, Li Xiang is still clear about the training, establishment, and tactics of the modern army. After all, Li Xiang has also undergone military training, and he has conceived a training outline in a short period of time, which is enough for these young people for the time being.

So after half a month, the villagers began to see a group of young men with bamboo guns and big shields, walking around in a hurry. The soldiers and parents saw that these young people were serious and funny, and they pointed their fingers unconsciously.

But Li Xiang is not funny, and these trainings are far from being as simple as they seem.

In the bathroom, Xiong Chengwu and Yang Jianchuan were talking. Yang Jianchuan is the son of a small leader in the cottage, and Xiong Chengwu forms Li Xiang's second general. Together with Xiong Chengwu before, he helped Li Xiang discover the fish passage.

"Master's training is so strange, running also has frog steps, push-ups and so on. My father said that he didn't know about the bells and whistles, but he still had to fight hard. Yang Jianchuan looked like a little adult and whispered to Xiong.

Xiong Chengwu disdains to think about too complicated issues, and has always told the truth, "My father said that the master's training has great wisdom, let me follow and study hard, some of which even my father can't understand." No matter what happens, it's right to follow the Master. ”

"Yes, if you are well fed with the Master, you can still read and write. I heard that the master is trying to find a way to make winter clothes for us. Yang Jianchuan sighed, and then left the sprinkler to dress, thinking that he had lost his words just now.

Uncle Xiong Dachun said that he couldn't understand it, but he had an opinion, okay? Yang Jianchuan was delicate, thinking of what his father said and prudent, he secretly blamed himself for not remembering.

Equipping Mengxue's teenager with winter clothes is Li Xiang's idea after careful consideration. The winter of Dazhou is very cold, and the Xiangyang area can reach minus 15 degrees, and it is common for ordinary people to be unable to afford winter clothes and charcoal, and it is common for them to freeze to death.

In this society, where the textile industry is seriously unable to meet the demand, clothing, especially winter clothes, is a great burden even for the families of small and medium-sized landlords.

For the common people, it is enough to think about silk and satin, and cotton clothes are even more tribute. They could buy a piece of sackcloth and wrap some torn paper and sawdust for warmth, which was enough to be satisfied.

Many people, including Lao Huang, are waiting to see Li Xiang's jokes. Everyone has a winter coat, you think this is the Great Zhou Palace, and you can't afford to buy it if you sell it!

Li Xiang heard that the cotton in this era was very expensive and it was still a tribute, so he cut off the idea of making cotton clothes.

Fur? I sold myself, and I really couldn't buy a few.

Thinking of the down jacket of the original time and space, Li Xiang had an idea and hit the idea on the body of the linen, paper and feathers.

Mengxue and Gongzhong need a lot of paper, and Li Xiang began to study it with Zeng Carpenter last year. After hundreds of experiments, we finally made a very cheap paper from wood chips, bamboo boards and other scraps.

The embarrassing thing is that this kind of "bamboo and wood paper" can't use ink, but you can use a pencil, and it's very comfortable to wipe your buttocks. Ahem, so Li Xiang commissioned a mason named Zhen Laoshi to make a few batches of pencils, which were used first.

The carpenter proposed that dozens of pieces of paper be pressed and beaten with materials such as bamboo, wood, paper and linen produced by the village itself, and then brushed with tung oil together with the cork boards. A layer of animal feathers is sandwiched inside to make an armor-shaped thermal suit.

After repeated trade-offs and modifications, the final thermal insulation clothing sample is equivalent to a combination of monkey version of down jacket and paper armor. While keeping warm well, it also has a certain protective effect.

Cold-proof clothing and down jackets, this is the best way Li Xiang can come up with to keep out the cold, last year because he was not prepared, he froze half to death.

As soon as Li Xiang arrived at the beginning of spring after the freezing, he not only put a ground dragon in his house, but also after hearing that the Han water would be frozen this winter, he improved the plan with the carpenter and others every day, and strived to make practical cold-proof clothing as soon as possible.

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Lao Huang's threat was getting closer and closer, and Li Xiang felt that someone was secretly observing him many times, but fortunately he hardly went out alone. Li Xiang knows very well that the best way to ensure his safety is to constantly improve his value and status.

Therefore, even with fish passages and hunting as food sources, considering that Mengxue consumed a lot of materials such as rice, flour, salt and cloth in Gongzhong, Li Xiang still tried his best to increase the wealth of the village.

The cold-proof clothing has not yet been done and cannot be sold as a new source of income, so Li Xiang thought of hunting. After all, group hunting has a lot in common with fighting, and it is a very effective form of exercise, not to mention that you can get prey from time to time.

Because most of the young men and women were busy farming, and the soldiers had to guard the village, Li Xiang took a group of people from Wu Yangyang, but the harvest was good.

So Mingyue Village often has the scene of Li Xiang taking young people up the mountain to hunt, and the harvest is handed over to the public middle school, and the rest is also regarded as some subsidies. Embarrassingly, Li Xiang's increase in supplies always seems to be unable to keep up with the growth of the amount of food for children and teenagers in the village.