Chapter 22: The Three Retainers
"Qiu Niang, let's move these bones to our workshop as soon as possible!"
Looking at poor Lian Po couldn't help but wink at herself, Qingyang couldn't help but be speechless for a while, Qiu Niang looked at the appearance of Wen Jing and virtuous, with a gentle and elegant appearance, who knew that once it broke out, it would not be the same thing at all. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Qing has its own utensils workshop, and also processes some common bone tools.
Before going up the mountain, Qingyang told Qiu Niang to arrange the workshop to prepare first, and when she came back, she started work overnight, and now Qingyang feels more and more that time is pressing.
Qiu Niang glared at Lian Po fiercely, and then said to Qingyang: "Lord, soaking these alien beast bones for a period of time is more conducive to grinding and processing, we only need to take a few to process first, and then we can come over and carry them at any time!" ”
Better tools make good work.
It's a pity that Zhong Bo, who is now the best at making bone tools, and several other soldiers have gone to northern Xinjiang, and only three farmers have a little bit of craftsmanship in processing bone tools, and the manpower is far from enough.
Since the production of the bone scythe was about to begin, there was no need for the eighteen male slaves to continue to work hard and waste their physical strength.
It's better to call over and help a few farmers make tools together, no matter how bad the craftsmanship is, it's always a good thing to have more people.
It wasn't until this time that Qingyang knew that although the farmers were Chinese, they had no surnames but only names, and the slaves didn't even deserve to have names, what a miserable group of people!
Qingyang felt that the means of winning people's hearts could be used, so he said to the three farmers: "Since there is no surname, then add a surname in front of your name, and you will be called Pulin, Guihe, and Wenbo respectively!" ”
"Thank you for your surname!"
The three farmers knelt down suddenly with ecstasy on their faces, and the 'bang bang bang' was just a few rings, which made Qingyang suddenly swoop, didn't he give the three of them a surname?
What are you doing with all this nonsense, hurry up and get to work!
A farmer was kicked on the butt by the lord, and he actually smiled happily, and then took a dozen envious male slaves to work, and the other two farmers who were not kicked actually took the initiative to pout their butts and come up, which is really unusual!
"Lord, just now you gave their surnames, which means that they will be accepted as retainers, our family so easily recruited a few farmers to be retainers, I am afraid that we will be ridiculed by the world!"
Lian Po's black face was a little sullen, and the retainer also meant that he had a close relationship with the main family, and he was regarded as the first retainer of the new generation of the Qing family, of course, he was unwilling to accept some miscellaneous fish as retainers.
Qingyang was stunned!
No way! And such a rule? I just want to win hearts and minds!
Now that it's all done, regretting it will only provoke ridicule, and now Qingyang can only pinch his nose and admit it, it seems that he really can't talk nonsense in the future, and he still needs a deeper understanding of this world.
However, when Qiu Niang heard the conversation between the two, her expression was calm.
She stroked the hair on her cheeks and laughed softly: "The Lord doesn't need to blame himself, there is no one at home now, although these three people are farmers, they can not deviate from the temptation of the Ji family, they should be loyal people, and being accepted as a retainer can be regarded as an example for recruiting people in the future!" ”
With Qiu Niang's words, I am much more relieved, and Lian Po will naturally stare at the processing of bone tools, Qingyang continued to enter the study to study words, and took the initiative to ask Qiu Niang about etiquette.
Qiu Niang was full of satisfaction and took out dozens of heavy purple bamboo slips: "Lord, these are the latest editions of the Book of Rites approved by the Son of Heaven in Zhongzhou twenty years ago!" A gentleman's elegant deeds and elegant words are all here! ”
"・・・・・・" Qingyang was speechless, I just wanted to know some basic etiquette norms.
"The lord is not good!"
Shortly after Lim Po left, he ran back with a bone.
"The texture of the alien beast bone we brought back is still too hard, although it can be processed, but it takes too long, I'm afraid it won't be able to do it in a month! Even the bones of those buffaloes in the Northern Wilderness are quite tough, and it will probably take ten days to grind them out! ”
What the? It takes at least ten days to make a scythe? Seeing that there is still more than half a month to go to the autumn rainy season, won't the daylily be cold by then?
The group hurried to the workshop, which was not far from the creek, and was also a rough shack made of large logs.
More than a dozen women and one or twenty little children were watching the excitement here, and Qingyang saw at a glance that the milk baby in Lian Cang was pointing and talking to a few little children.
Ignoring these little dolls, Qingyang personally tried it, and couldn't help frowning: "The most important thing is that these grinding stones are a little soft, calculate the calendar, it will be almost half a month to the autumn season, and when the autumn rain continues, I'm afraid it's too late to harvest these grains!" ”
"Wouldn't it be better if we replaced it with a batch of harder stones?" Lian Po scratched his head and asked.
"Lord, even if you change a batch of hard stones, I'm afraid it's too late!" Pulin, the eldest of the three farmers, suddenly spoke, "After all, the speed of grinding bone tools is so fast, if there are three or five times more manpower, maybe it can be sharpened all the time!" ”
"The manpower can't be increased for the time being!" Qingyang couldn't help but shake his head.
Now this situation is really tricky, the passage out of the sealed land is blocked by the Ji family, and they don't dare to recruit people easily, but if they don't increase the number of people, they can't make enough sickles in time.
"Puff-puff-" Not far from the stream, there was a sound of playing in the water.
Looking up, it turned out that the tortoise did not flee back to the mountains and forests after being released, but stayed in a waterhole in the creek by the sealed soil and did not leave.
Please, you're a tortoise, why do you stay in the water all the time? This guy is still very comfortable catching fish to eat, and he is really a foodie.
Lian Po was noisy, a stone was thrown over, the tortoise suddenly fled away with a gray face, Lian Cang and a group of little children suddenly brightened their eyes, their eyes gurgled and rolled, and they didn't know what they were thinking.
Qingyang noticed that not far upstream of the waterhole where the tortoises played, wasn't it a natural dam, this is a good hydraulic processing point!
After a little tidying up and installing a water mill, you can use water to polish the bones!
Qingyang explained his idea carefully, Qiu Niang was first overjoyed and then worried: "I'm afraid that those night falcons will disturb everyone at night!" ”
"Mother, as long as we hang the amulet left by the old housewife, those falcons will not dare to approach!" The little guy in Liancang straightened up his small chest and suggested.
At this time, Qingyang had to be glad for the rich inheritance left by his cheap mother, not to mention that Lian Po, Lian Cang and He Jia all had amulets, and even most of the soldiers and servants in the fiefdom also had their families.
If everyone doesn't go out at night, as long as they put together these amulets, this thing will be counted as alive.
Eliminate all hidden dangers, just do it! Qiu Niang decided to start work overnight!
The night was originally dark, illuminated by dozens of huge torches, and a large pottery brazier was placed at each of the four corners.
In the past, the oily branches and fruit shells collected from the mountains and forests were burning, and sure enough, not a single predator falcon dared to approach this hot place.
That's when the benefits of Limmer Hercules become more and more apparent.
Under Qingyang's guidance, Lian Po used a chisel made of iron and wood to quickly process a water turbine.
Qiu Niang also asked Pulin, Guihe, and Wenbo to take the slaves to complete the dam processing and stacking together according to Qingyang's instructions.
There is no stone mill?
Isn't there a stone mill in the sealed soil?
The shape is basically the same, but it's a lot flattened!
It took a lot of saliva to finally make Lian Po understand what the water mill was going on in general.
The baby picked up the wheel axe and 'crackled' at a few pieces of green rocks, and the group of heroes retreated in the flying stones, and then the black-faced young man said proudly: "Lord, it's been done!" ”