The three of them walked to the door, but saw a one-foot square object standing outside the gate, covered with a tarpaulin, and the details of it were not clear.

Jiang Weidao: "Dare to ask sir, do you want to carry it into the mansion first, and then open it to watch?" ”

Zhuge Liang remained silent and said indifferently: "Let's open it here." ”

Lifu on the side got the order, stepped forward and slowly removed the tarpaulin, and the new silk loom revealed the true face of Lushan.

At this time, Ma Jun quickly stepped out of the queue under Jiang Wei's push, bent over and said respectfully:

"Well... Mr. Haojiao knows that this is a new weaving machine that Jun has just researched. Can... You can use twelve shoes instead of fifty or sixty feet. The effect remains the same, please correct me. “

Zhuge Liang has been in charge of the internal affairs of Yizhou for several years, and he has seen a lot of things, and he recognized this as a loom at first sight.

Until this time, he finally knew that Jiang Wei and Ma Jun were not "bribing officials", and his first reaction was to take a long breath, and a sense of relief was born in his heart.

The corners of his mouth lifted slightly, and he turned his attention back to the loom.

Zhuge Liang is a pragmatic character, seeing that this thing is so delicate and small, it is really difficult to judge what Ma Jun said, and after a little contemplation, he said:

"Why don't you carry this loom into the workshop, and I'll find out."

Then he turned to the boy and instructed, "Invite the lady to the workshop, and only say that there is a distinguished visitor." ”

With that, he stretched out his right hand and personally led Jiang Wei, Ma Jun and four wrestlers carrying looms to a spacious house. This house occupies a large and spacious area, and the smell of wood fills the nose.

Jiang Wei looked around, and saw that the four walls of the room were covered with drawings with strange symbols, which looked like drawings and manuscripts; From the content point of view, it is involved in large buildings, medium to instruments, and small to joints.

There is also a rectangular carpentry table in the middle of the room, on which a dense drawing is laid out.

There is a row of shelves in the right corner of the carpentry table, on which there are neatly arranged axes, shovels, chisels, saws, drills, files and other carpentry tools with iron wooden handles.

There is also a row of shelves under the wall in the left corner, displaying many strange objects, some of which are in complete condition, some of which are coarsely made in half, and are only in a semi-finished state.

Other than that, there was nothing left in a huge house.

Seeing this, Jiang Wei couldn't help but say that this is not so much a famous minister's mansion as it is more like the home of a famous master craftsman.

Finally, he knew that Zhuge Liang liked to study utensils, and he was not surprised for a while; But Ma Jun's breathing suddenly accelerated, and his face showed a look of surprise and joy, looking left and right, looking around, looking at his appearance, as if he had seen the most wonderful scenery in the world.

Zhuge Liang looked at the expressions of the two of them one by one, shook the feather fan lightly, and said with a smile:

"I and Clumsy Jing are quite good at studying some mechanical equipment on weekdays, so we have a workshop at home. It made Boyo and Deheng laugh. ”

Jiang Wei and Ma Jun were busy and didn't dare.

Zhuge Liang said: "There is no need to be restrained, just wait and see." ”

When Ma Jun heard this, he was relieved and walked quickly to the carpentry table to observe the drawing. Seeing this, Jiang Wei had to shake his head helplessly.

Just when Lux was able to set up the new silk loom, a woman who was about thirty years old and wore a jinghai cloth skirt, but it was difficult to hide her bright eyes.

Jiang Wei and Ma Jun knew that she was Zhuge Liang's wife Huang Yueying, so they stepped forward one after another, lowered their heads and hugged their fists, and saluted by name.

Huang Yueying also returned the salute.

After the two sides finished saluting, Zhuge Liang pointed to the silk loom and said with a smile: "This is a new loom invented by Deheng. I invite Madame to come, just to bother you to give it a try and see if it works. ”

Huang Yueying bowed her head slightly, her eyes moved to the silk loom with her husband's pointing, and with just one glance, her originally calm eyes suddenly lit up.

She moved the lotus step lightly, slowly circled around the silk loom, suddenly raised her head, faced Ma Jun, and asked in a loud voice:

"Waiting for idle looms, every warp and every tipping has its own use. If you want to weave plain weave, you must have two healds; If you want to weave twill, you must have three healds; The more repetitive the pattern, the more comprehensive it requires, and the warp and foot also increase...... The gentleman will greatly reduce the number of tiptoes, but is there any basis for this? ”

Speaking of the instrument itself, Ma Jun suddenly came to his senses, and his anxiety was gone, and he didn't even heal his stuttering problem with medicine.

But when he came to the edge of the loom, he stretched out his hand to introduce it, and replied:

"Old... The old loom used heald to control the grouping, upper and lower opening and closing of the warp threads, to... So that the shuttle can weave back and forth...... The warp is controlled by the tiptoe, so... Therefore, when the weaver operates the loom, he relies on his eyes to screen, and then... Stepping on the pedal with your feet back is not only time-consuming and laborious, but also prone to errors. ”

"Jun... Jun has a whim, thinking about double... Feet... Where is the best way to be nimble? Therefore, in the past few months, I have tried to simplify the tiptoe with my feet, and change... Instead, the shuttle is controlled by the '桄' (i.e., the opening movement mechanism) and both hands, so that only... Just keep adjusting your hands, and you'll be... You can weave complex patterns. Moreover, compared with the old loom, it is easier to get started, saving time and effort. ”

Huang Yueying didn't blink, listened carefully, and couldn't stop bowing.

It just so happened that the loom was still wrapped with the unused silk thread of Jiang's mother, and the half-finished product that had been half woven, and as soon as Ma Jun finished introducing it, she moved a stool and sat straight on the loom, ready to operate it herself.

Ma Jun was afraid that she wouldn't understand the subtleties, so she couldn't help but give instructions.

Zhuge Liang looked at his beloved wife with a smile, his eyes full of tenderness.

He knew that his wife had been intelligent since childhood, proficient in all kinds of crafts, and brocade weaving was also one of her specialties, and the brocade woven by her own hands was so beautiful and strong that it was sold on the market, and a horse could be worth 20,000 yuan.

There was no other property in the family, and he lived close to him, and in many cases the brocade woven by his wife became an important source of supplementation for the family.

Therefore, it was only fitting that she could test whether this new silk loom was useful.

Huang Yueying operated and asked, only a cup of tea, that is, he had already comprehended the operation outline of the loom; After half a cup of tea, I saw that she couldn't take her eyes off it, using her hands and feet at the same time, and she was knitting faster and faster; The more you weave, the more skilled you are.

This scene shocked Ma Jun deeply.

Under his careful guidance, it still took five full days for Jiang Mu to initially master the most basic operation of the loom; But the little-known military lady in front of her actually spent less than a stick of incense to skillfully manipulate this new loom.

At the moment, I couldn't help but sigh in my heart: "Mrs. Strategist, if it weren't for her daughter, she would definitely be able to become a contemporary famous teacher!" ”

About half an hour later, the original fine thread group on the loom became denser and denser, and gradually showed a rough pattern of a wedge pattern - this is the most complex and difficult to weave a pattern in Shu brocade, which has always been purchased and used only by the princes and nobles.

After a moment of weaving, Huang Yueying suddenly paused, and her face was as red as if she had drunk a fine wine.

She got up slowly, bowed to Ma Jun, and said solemnly:

"This loom is simple and easy to get, and it has the effect of doing twice the result with half the effort, Mr. Ma is really a great talent in the world!"

After saying that, he turned to his husband Zhuge Liang again, and said with a smile: "With the ability of a concubine, it would take half a month to weave a brocade; But with the help of this loom, it only takes five days to weave an identical brocade. ”

Zhuge Liang knows the talent of his beloved wife, since she praised this loom so much, it seems that Ma Jun's words are not an exaggeration at all.

(Goddess Huang Yueying appears!) ）