"These are ironwood?"

Qingyang carefully looked at the dozens of black wooden strips on the ground, which were as textured as Lian Po's two-handled wheel axe. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Picking up one is as heavy as iron, but it is still about a quarter lighter than iron, and other than that, it is dark and shiny, and there is almost no difference between it and steel.

Lian Po replied respectfully: "My lord, these are considered to be high-quality ironwood, the more high-quality ironwood is, the heavier and black it is, most of the weapons used by the city guards under the command of Beilin City Lord Cheng Dafu are made of ironwood, and the quality is not as good as these!" ”

Qingyang nodded slightly.

He had seen the sharpness of Lian Po's two-wheeled axe, Xingguo iron tools were too expensive, and it was more cost-effective to make agricultural tools from this kind of wood comparable to steel, and iron wood had even more rust prevention advantages than steel in addition to its poor ductility.

After repeatedly selecting for a long time, these woods still could not satisfy Qingyang.

They were all small boards less than two feet long, and the width was only three fingers, which would be fine if they were used to make small scythes, but they were still far from the extremely efficient, five-foot-long giant scythe he wanted.

After all, there were only twenty-one adult men in Ququ, and they needed to give full play to their abilities as much as possible.

If so many adult men wielded a huge five-foot-long scythe in front to cut down the grain stalks, and the women and children helped to clean up and carry them in the back, the harvest would be much faster.

"Shall we just chop ironwood and make tools?" Qingyang felt that since there were many ironwood trees in the back mountain, it was better to cut them down at home, so that they could be processed no matter how they were processed.

Lian Po was a little embarrassed: "Lord, this iron wood is extremely tough, and it is extremely difficult to cut down, and the wood in front of me is still left by Zhong Bo when he helped me make this pair of big axes, even if I want to cut down an iron wood branch, it is very difficult!" ”

Lian Cang said in a milky voice: "Lord, Uncle Zhong once said that Tiemu is extremely tough, if you want to cut Tiemu, you must at least be a seventh-grade subordinate soldier, big brother, he is not enough to see!" ”

"You can do it!"

Lian Po was a little unhappy that his younger brother was exposed, he glared at the milk baby Lian Cang fiercely, but he held his breath in his heart, he must practice hard and become a Shangjia like Zhong Bo as soon as possible.

Qingyang ignored the small contradiction between the two brothers, he was surprised by the difficulty of cutting ironwood?

Lian Po is already the number one master of sealing the land at present, who can still make a move if he can't even cut Tiemu with his strength of a thousand catties? Not to mention processing into tools.

Things got stuck.

I have a good material that I like, but I don't have the ability to process it.

Not far away, a huge animal shoulder blade on the wall attracted Qingyang's attention, "That's a cow bone?" ”

This shoulder blade is huge, the width alone is enough to be two feet, and when you get closer, you can see that there is a huge cow leg bone on the wall, which is more than three feet long, and it is estimated that the size of this cow is not small.

"Although these cow bones are not long enough, they are better than those ironwood bars just now!" Qingyang thought that it seemed that he had a lot of bones made of bone tools in his house, but he was a little dissatisfied with the bones in front of him.

Lian Po said: "Lord, this is the remnant of a Northern Wilderness buffalo that Zhong Bodong hunted last year, but unfortunately this cow has soft bones and is easy to grind bones, but the strength of the bones is much worse." It's okay to use it to make utensils, but if it is sharpened into knives for harvesting grain, I'm afraid it won't take long! ”

"It's rare to have both ways in the world, if only there were bigger and harder bones!" Qingyang shook his head helplessly.

In fact, I still blame myself for this, I thought that most of the grain had been harvested when I saw the grain stacks in the grain field like a mountain, but who knew that those grain stacks were only more than 200 acres of grain, and there were nearly 1,300 acres of grain in other well fields that had not been harvested.

This is good, with the 20 or so laborers on hand now, it is good to be able to ensure that the public endowment field is harvested on time.

Considering the tight time, there is not much time to prepare, and it is really impossible to use the existing materials to process a batch of sickles out of the harvest.

"Does the lord want bigger, longer, harder bones?" Lian Cang's eyes rolled, and he suddenly spoke.

He blinked his big eyes, and his chubby little finger pointed to the large mountains and forests in the northwest, and said crisply, "There should be a lot of big bones in the dragon sparrow's lair!" ”

Hearing this, Lian Po suddenly shuddered, turned around and reprimanded viciously: "Xiao Cang, don't talk nonsense!" Lord Dragonsparrow has a bad temper! Don't listen to Kokura, let's think of other ways! ”

"No matter how bad the temper of the dragon bird is, after all, it is my Qing family's retainer, so he won't make a move on me, the head of the family, right?" Qingyang didn't understand.

"Lord, Lord Dragon Sparrow has a very strange temper, he has always been moody, five years ago, several farmers in the sealed soil went into the mountains to collect mountain treasures, and accidentally approached Lord Dragon Sparrow's lair, but when Uncle Zhong arrived, the five of them had been torn into a pile of minced meat!" Lian Po was worried, bent on dispelling the idea of his lord approaching the Dragon's Nest.

"Lord, Lord Longque has a bad temper, and Brother Zhong is not at home, so you better not go to the mountains and forests!" After hesitating, Qiu Niang, who got the news, threw down the work in her hand and hurried over, and even her hair, which had always been neat, was in a hurry at this moment, and her bun was a little crooked.

With the arrival of Qiu Niang, a number of soldiers' families rushed to get the news, and a group of women wanted to persuade the lord to think twice, they knew too well about the strength and ferocity of the dragon bird, and who dared to approach the powerful giant bird except Zhong Bo in the past few years.

At first, Qingyang was still a little hesitant, but with the increase in the number of persuasions, he made a decision in his heart: "Don't say it, although Longque has a strange temper, but after all, it is my Qing family's retainer, and he receives the Qing family's Yulu, I don't believe it doesn't care about my identity as the head of the family at all!"

Moreover, the autumn harvest is in a hurry, the farmers have already left, the water in Shiozawa is blocking the roads, and the Ji clan is eyeing us outside, and we have no chance to recruit the wild people from outside, so we can only rely on all the forces we have.

How can such a small person complete this year's harvest without good tools? Maybe one day the autumn rain will come and last for more than ten days, will everyone watch the grains growing in the fields rot and go hungry all winter? ”

Even with such an excuse, Qiu Niang didn't want Qingyang to take risks, but in the end, Qingyang used a 'public endowment' reason that she couldn't refuse and had to agree.

"In that case, Lord, the concubine will accompany you!" Qiu Niang thought about it, and her eyes gradually became firm, "It just so happens that Lord Longque will come back in the evening when he goes out hunting again!" Even if you come back early and encounter it, you won't believe it and lose your temper with us! ”

"Qiu Niang, I'll go with Lian Po! You'd better prepare at home! ”

"Mother, I will go with the lord, and I will definitely protect the lord! Besides, the lord still has the talisman left by the old master's mother! The black-faced boy puffed up his chest and promised.

Qiu Niang hesitated for a moment and said softly: "In this case, you still have to be careful, you must go out of the mountains and forests before dark, the mountains and forests are not as good as the house, and you will not encounter strange beasts within a radius of fifty miles, but there are many poisonous insects and miasma in the mountains and forests, and the lord must protect the talisman left by the old master's mother, so that you will not encounter too much danger!" ”

"Amulet?"

Qingyang didn't know how many times he had heard the topic of amulets, and he quietly touched his chest according to Qiu Niang's words.

There hung a quail egg-sized piece of sparkling white jade with silk thread, which I had always thought was an ornament, but now it seems that it is not so simple.