Chapter 59: The Legend of the Mermaid

White marble is rare in the Central Plains, but there are many in Youzhou in Liao.

When the Great Song Dynasty built the Sheji altar, whether it was the Xiannong altar or the prayer hall, the white marble stones needed were transported from Youzhou.

Chen Liu naturally couldn't find such a stone, but fortunately, bluestone was produced on the edge of Rushan.

And there is nothing left on Rushan except the ancient limestone.

Tie Xinyuan has been very busy these days, and has devoted himself to the mining of bluestone.

Several times when Zhao Wan and Tangtang traveled together, they could always see Tie Xinyuan standing on the quarry site covered in dust, working hard with the group of laborers.

Tie Xinyuan was very dissatisfied with the quarrying efficiency of the Great Song Dynasty, first used a large amount of firewood to heat the stone, and then poured water to cool it down, according to the principle of thermal expansion and cold contraction, let the stone crack along the place where the craftsman had made the hole, and finally polish it.

This kind of work can exhaust people, but not many qualified stones can be mined in a day.

So, Tie Xinyuan bought a lot of gunpowder from the Great Song Dynasty, poured gunpowder after drilling holes, and then ignited it, and after the gunpowder emitted a puff of black smoke and a stream of dark red flames, the boulder remained unmoved......

Brother Qiao looked at Tie Xinyuan and said nothing.

Tie Xinyuan squatted on the stone, looking at the group of stone-mining people and didn't know what to say.

Quarrying is the hardest work on the construction site, and the hands of those stonemasons are different from those of others, and each palm is extremely thick.

Such hard work will make people live short.

However, this is Tie Xinyuan and Brother Qiao's opinion.

The stonemasons didn't see it that way, and they stood to the side and crossed their arms to watch the Iron Heart Source's experiment.

The failure of the experiment did not seem to be unexpected to them, and the old stonemason, who was no longer able to tell his age, saw that the experiment had failed.

With a wave of his big hand, he beckoned other stonemasons to go to the construction site again.

Passing by Tie Xinyuan's side, he bowed and said, "Little Xianggong, you can't think too much about work, and it's not the right way to always think about using tricks."

If the craftsman does not have the rule of diligence. It's not a craftsman. ”

Brother Qiao looked at the old stonemason who coughed and climbed the stone mountain again, and smiled at Tie Xinyuan.

Tie Xinyuan let out a long breath and said, "What the old man said is right." “

"So you're not going to take out your gunpowder?

Even if you don't take out gunpowder, you can take out gasoline to help them burn stones, either way it's much easier than using firewood. ”

Tie Xinyuan glanced at Brother Qiao and said, "If these two things are taken out, our brother will definitely not survive."

Think about how your father and mother died, and you will understand where my inexplicable fears come from. ”

"This is the Great Song Dynasty, not the Western Xia infested by savages!"

"What do you know, civilized people do dirty things, a thousand times more terrible than barbarians, remember that if you don't want to be locked up by others to make gunpowder and gasoline for a lifetime, forget about it quickly."

Brother Qiao looked at Tie Xinyuan's face blackened by gunpowder and said, "If you don't take it out, you won't take it out." You better go to the edge of the waterhole and wash, your face is as black as a night wanderer.

It's not a thing that you always avoid Tangtang, that Nizi has been listless these days, I feel distressed when I look at it. ”

"No hiding!"

"Get out of here, the blind can see it, my aunt asked me why I didn't see you at dinner last night, and I almost ran out of excuses."

His face was dark, and Tie Xinyuan deliberately avoided the main road and walked through the pine forest. When he came to the edge of the waterhole, the weather was hot, and he thought it would be better for him to take a bath.

Annoyedly, he ripped off his shirt and jumped into the pool with a pop.

Completely submerge yourself underwater. Embraced by the cold spring water all over, there is nothing more pleasant to do on this hot day.

The crescent-shaped waterhole is not large, and the water nature of the iron core source is enough to dive from one end of the waterhole to the other side of the waterhole.

It felt like his lungs were about to explode, and Tie Xinyuan came out of the water. Before he wiped off the water stains on his face, he saw a pair of white legs appear in front of him.

Zhao Wan covered her mouth and tried not to let herself call out, and she saw it when Tie Xinyuan came over.

I wanted to shout. A little shy, she hid her body on the other side of the pool, she felt that Tie Xinyuan should leave after washing her face.

Unexpectedly, Tie Xinyuan took off his clothes and plunged into the water.

Tie Xinyuan saw everything.

The previously astute brain seemed to freeze completely.

He never thought that the princess, who looked thin in the past, would be so material.

A dress of yarn can't cover the princess's delicate body at all, seeing the princess holding **** and squatting pitifully in the water, Tie Xinyuan felt a nameless flame rising from his heart, and just wanted to turn into a gray wolf and swallow the white lamb in front of him.

"Go away" The princess saw Tie Xinyuan's eyes looking at her body for a moment, and anxious tears flowed down.

The princess's voice was like a bucket of ice water splashed on Tie Xinyuan's head.

He immediately turned his head, and dived into the water again, swimming the way he came, and at this moment only the cold spring water could prevent him from being burned by the fire in his heart.

Leaving the waterhole like an escape, Tie Xinyuan picked up his clothes and plunged into the pine forest, running for a long distance before slowly stopping.

With blood dripping from both feet, he threw off his shirt and sat on them, fighting the pain to pull out the dead branches and rubble that had pierced the soles of his feet.

The fox came out from behind the tree, looked at Tie Xinyuan, who was only wearing a pair of obscene pants, and looked very surprised when the squirrel in his mouth fell to the ground with a click.

Tie Xinyuan naturally didn't shy away from the fox, and sat there with a gloomy face and got dressed.

The fox naturally didn't understand what was going on with Tie Xinyuan, who was flushed with his face, and immediately forgot about it, and pulled the squirrel with his paws to play on his own.

After putting on his clothes, Tie Xinyuan knocked his head with his hand and said to himself helplessly: "I have lived two lifetimes, and it is really embarrassing to see that a woman's body still can't be controlled like this." ”

Tie Xinyuan limped out of the pine forest, the fox stood proudly on his shoulder, not far away was the quarry, I don't know if it was out of guilt or what psychology, Brother Qiao put the iron pipe and didn't cast, but there he smashed the stone with a hammer.

It is dangerous to see the princess's nakedness, and this matter cannot be hidden from Brother Qiao, just as he never hides his relationship with other women.

Tie Xinyuan walked in front of Brother Qiao, but he couldn't open his mouth, and said after a long time: "The iron pipe has been cast?" ”

Brother Qiao put down the hammer and wiped the sweat on his head and said: "There is no bend yet, the main reason is that the sand in the pipe is too difficult to clean, besides, after cleaning the sand, many pipes are found to be leaky, and they can't be used, and it is very good to succeed in two out of ten."

I'm going to come over and sweat, maybe I'll be able to figure out a good solution to this problem.

What's wrong with your feet? ”

"It's nothing, I accidentally got pierced by a wooden thorn, I cleaned it up, and it will be fine in two days."

Brother Qiao smiled: "Okay, let's go, let's stay here, that old guy is already unhappy, thinking that we are supervising the work, and he has come over several times to ensure that he is never lazy in his work."

To stay here any longer is to look down on people, and we add to the chaos of other people's way of working. ”

Tie Xinyuan looked back at the stonemasons, opened his mouth and said: "Tomorrow, I will improve the gunpowder, greatly increase the nitrate content in the gunpowder, as long as the three materials, all the rest, the stone is mined as soon as possible." ”

Brother Qiao said suspiciously: "You just said that we can't just reveal the secret recipe of gunpowder.

Let's take my father and mother as an example, why did you change your mind after going out for a spin? ”

Tie Xinyuan said irritably: "I don't know." ”

Brother Qiao took a closer look at Tie Xinyuan, and then said categorically: "No!" ”

Tie Xinyuan was stunned for a moment, this was the first time that Brother Qiao had opposed his idea.

"Why?"

"You look like an idiot right now, and I think your idea now must be a fool's idea."

After speaking, he grabbed Tie Xinyuan's shoulder, let the fox climb on him and continued: "I have come up with an idea, I will come out when you are in a better mood, and forget it at this time."

I think you have two women fighting in your heart right now, and before they have a winner, you should just talk less and eat more. (To be continued.) )

PS: Chapter 2