The cold winter in eastern Liaodong has passed, and the flowers and trees that have been holding back for several months have bloomed in time to bloom and sprout. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

A group of dozens of people rode Turkic horses, which were not tall and unattractive, to the foot of a hill and began to chop wood for cooking.

Around the hill you can also see a lot of barren fields, withered yellow weeds growing green shoots from them, some small saplings are three feet high, it can be seen that these fields have not been cultivated for several years.

A young man left the crowd and ran towards the hill in front of him with a horizontal knife in his hand.

"Eryang, don't run far, there may be Goryeo rebels around here."

"Brother, I'll go to the mountains to have a look."

Zhang Xiaofan trotted up the hill with great interest, the hill in front of him was only more than 20 zhang high, and the tallest tree was only a few zhang and a few inches thick, and there were not a few such trees.

Most of the hill is overgrown with weeds, and now in spring Zhang Xiaofan's unknown wildflowers are blooming, yellow and blue.

A few quarters of an hour to the top of the mountain, raising his eyes to look everywhere is a piece of spring, not like the snow country scene when he came to Liaodong with his father and brother more than ten days ago.

Except for the few mountains in the west, the other three directions are lush and lush forests.

"Whew......."

"There are tigers!" Zhang Xiaofan was startled, fortunately, the voice came from the mountains and forests in the east, and it was quite far away, so he didn't have to worry too much.

Zhang Xiaofan's family lives in Guanzhong, the entire Guanzhong Plain has been reclaimed into cultivated land, and there are people moving all year round where there are mountains, and I have never heard the roar of large beasts since I was a child. But when I came to Liaodong, I had even seen tigers a few times, let alone bears and leopards. Fortunately, there were many people, and the tiger only glanced at them and ran away.

He snapped his chest and exhaled deeply, clenching the horizontal knife on his waist to strengthen his courage.

Zhang Gensheng heard the roar of the tiger and stopped what he was doing, "Da Yan go and call Eryang back, there is a tiger near here." ”

"Okay Daddy." Zhang Dayang threw down the firewood in his hand, took the bow and arrow from the horse, and ran in the direction of Eryang.

Zhang Dayang's real name is Zhang Dafan, and his father also knows some commonly used words, and the two brothers are too lazy to bother with the name, so in order to make it easier to remember, they are big and small, anyway, their family has been ordinary for generations.

The Zhang family has been a craftsman for generations, with family prospecting skills, and is also well-known among the craftsmen under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry, with exquisite craftsmanship.

But in this era, no matter how good the craftsman is, he has not read any books, does not have a high level of education, and is just a pure craftsman. It is destined that he will not have any fame, and he will not be valued by the emperor and the high-ranking officials in power, just like Li Chun, he only built the Zhaozhou Bridge once in history, and his life deeds are not seen in any historical materials at all.

Only when craftsmen become brothers like Yan Lide and Yan Liben who are born in wealthy families, have a lot of skills, and can dance and write in ink can they achieve high-ranking officials and leave history according to their technical names.

This court has changed for several generations, and their Zhang family has indeed been looking for mines and smelting for the imperial court for generations, and it will always be the unchanging Ministry of Industry who manages their skilled craftsmen. Once the court was in need, they would be immediately requisitioned to do their best work for the court.

When King Yan opened the mansion, their Zhang family was named by King Yan and attributed to the name of the palace, and they have found a lot of mineral veins for King Yan in recent years.

Now that he was transferred to Liaodong, where the situation was uncertain, King Yan gave Zhang Gensheng a map of Liaodong and designated him to take people to look for iron ore between the Taizi River and the Yangliu River since Liaodong City.

"Eryang, where are you, Dad told you to go back quickly, there are tigers in the nearby mountains and forests."

"Brother, so-and-so is here, come and see." Zhang Xiaofan stood up from the grass halfway up the mountainside and waved at the eldest brother.

"Eryang, what are you doing here?"

"Big brother, what do you think this is?" Zhang Xiaofan raised a rock in his hand.

Zhang Dafan took it and looked at it: "Isn't this a red rock?" ”

"Big brother, have you forgotten that Ah Weng and Dad taught us the basic tips of prospecting?"

"The mountains have ochre on them, and iron under them; There is a silver ...... above, and there is a silver below" Zhang Dafan read it out involuntarily, and suddenly froze, his eyes stared at Eryang and said: "You mean that there is iron under this mountain?" ”

"If the trick is correct, there must be iron under this mountain."

Zhang Xiaofan took a stick to remove the weeds, "Brother, look, the mountain is full of this reddish-brown stone and soil, presumably there must be an iron mine under this mountain." ”

Zhang Dafan casually pushed away the grass around, and sure enough, as Eryang said, reddish-brown stones could be seen everywhere.

"Big brother, let's go back and tell Dad, we may have found the iron ore that the king wants us to find."

"Let's go." The two brothers ran down the mountain in high spirits, if this was really an iron mine, then they didn't have to sleep in the open field, always be vigilant against the Goryeo rebels and beasts, they could go back to the king to return to their lives, and our father's reward.

"Dad, we've found an iron mine......"

"What are you talking about, good boy?" Zhang Gensheng didn't believe it, he looked for a mine for most of his life, and he didn't find a mine that could be mined for a few days in a radius of dozens of miles around here.

The other craftsmen and the sergeants of the guards who were preparing lunch were also attracted by the loud voices of the two eldest sons.

"Zhang Eryang, did you really find an iron mine? If so, I'll give you a headhunter tonight, not a month's worth of stinky socks. ”

"Hahaha......" The big men present laughed when they heard Lin Teamzheng's words, Lin Teamzheng's socks are not changed once for ten days and a half months, and they can smoke people to death when they take off their shoes. Two nights ago, Zhang Xiaofan was retched for half the night by Lin Teamzheng's stinky socks.

Zhang Xiaofan's face turned green when he heard this, and the others were even happier when they saw this.

"Let's go, let's go see if Xiao Hao has really found an iron ore?"

Team Lin came over and hugged Zhang Xiaofan with one hand. Zhang Xiaofan couldn't pull away from the big hand he held on his shoulder, and he was involuntarily coerced to go up the mountain. Especially the foul smell that came out of Team Lin's shoes from time to time, Zhang Xiaofan's head was a little dizzy, and his body became more and more weak.

"Bang Bang!" Team Lin was snapping three times in a row, and Zhang Xiaofan, who was dizzy, said: "Your kid has long eyebrows and beautiful eyes, why are your bones so weak?" It's as if you're going to collapse after walking a few steps, and when the iron ore is found, follow me to practice. Otherwise, if you marry a lady, you can't do her at night, isn't this forcing people to find a man outside? ”

"Hahaha......" Behind him, a group of sergeants and craftsmen laughed back and forth, and all kinds of ridiculous words were said, and the Lin team was rumbling with laughter.

Zhang Xiaofan bit his lip and blushed, enduring the stench without making a sound.

"Huh?" Team Lin was laughing and came back to his senses and looked down, the handsome color in front of him moved: "Xiao Hao, why do you look like a little lady with a red face, did you cast the wrong baby?" Look at this thin skin and tender meat, it all makes me want to pamper you. ”

"Poof!" Zhang Gensheng, who was drinking water behind him, squirted out a mouthful of water without squirting out of his stomach, and he didn't care about Da Yang coming up and patting his back, and appeared next to Lin Team Zheng in two steps and one step. In the Lin team, he pulled Zhang Xiaofan over without paying attention.

"Lin Teamzheng, the first time a certain Eryang went out with a certain person, he was a little timid if he hadn't seen the world, so it was better to follow a certain person for a long time."

"Oh? Team Zhang doesn't have to worry, I'm not going to eat your son, don't I just cultivate his manhood? Hahaha! ”

"Then there is the Laulin team, let's take a look at the iron ore that Eryang said first."

"Indeed, Team Zhang is the team leader of the exploration team appointed by the king this time, I am just a guard, and I usually like to joke, and I ask Team Zhang not to take it to heart."

Team Lin turned around and shouted, "What are you still doing in a daze?" I quickly confirmed that it was good to eat. ”

Everyone saw that Zhang Gensheng was anxious to protect his son, and the team that had a strong atmosphere suddenly became a little depressed.

"Hey!" Seeing the group hurriedly walking towards the hill, Zhang Gensheng looked at his young son and sighed. I really don't know if it's the ancestors who have accumulated virtue in their previous lives or what, their Zhang family, whether male or female, looks average, but their second son is born with bright eyes and bright teeth, heroic and jade.

gradually grew up, and the gossip of the neighbors around him increased, and wherever he took his second son, he said that he was his son, in exchange for suspicious and unbelieving eyes. If you are straightforward, you will say directly: This can't be your Zhang family's species!

So much so that sometimes he suspected that his wife had a seed with another man, and as a result, his wife Liu almost died after hanging herself several times. Calm down and think about it, if Erjun is not his own species, he can't find the woman who is thrown into the crowd and has a little big mouth, which handsome Jun will look at it?

Searching the surrounding neighborhood, no one has ever seen a handsome man come into contact with the Liu family. In the end, the surrounding neighbors unanimously came to the conclusion that there was green smoke coming out of his ancestral tomb of Zhang's family.

Erlang has become the target of a lot of rough teasing by the elders wherever he goes, not to mention that he is now in this exploration team. In addition to the eldest son, he is either a fierce military man, or a big man who has been drilling holes and mining for many years, with a rough body and a dark and ugly complexion.

There is a handsome young man with red lips and white teeth in the prospecting team, and it is okay to be teased by them at all, but the words surnamed Lin just now suddenly made him a little worried, and those men who have not been able to meet women all the year round have lost their precious son.

"Dad, is Team Lin just as good as a male male?" Zhang Xiaofan asked with some fear.

"Don't ask if you don't know."

"Oh."

"Da Yang, do you know that you always follow Eryang before you go back?" Zhang Gensheng turned back to his eldest son beside him.

"Okay Dad!"