After dinner, Feng Xian, Qin Yi and Wei Xu brought ten catties of meat to find Craftsman Li. I asked Li Su and Chen Wei to help me get some animal skins and needlework, and I planned to sew a neck sleeve for Nobita. Originally, I designed a neck cuff with a small pointed cone to look three-dimensional and protect the weak point of its throat. However, I don't have such skills, so I can only sew a simple neck sleeve out of animal skins for the time being, and then ask a craftsman to help cast one when things are done.

I measured Nobita's neck, which was about a foot long, and then I cut out four strips of animal skin, less than three fingers wide, at a length of one and a half feet. Then, I stacked them tightly on top of each other, hammered them vigorously and repeatedly with a hammer to increase the tightness of the overlap, and finally sewed them tightly with a needle and thread.

At this point, I was only halfway through my work when the three of them returned. Feng Xian said: "Brother Xian, the matter is done, just now we went to find Old Craftsman Li, he promised to purify the gold for us, and he will cast weapons for us afterwards." ”

As soon as I heard the good news, I said, "That's great, when are you going to start?" ”

Feng Xian smiled: "The sooner the better, I plan to take the gold now." ”

I nodded and said, "Okay, by the way, how much labor fee does Craftsman Li plan to pay?" ”

Feng Xian replied: "What he means is to give, for my brother thinks that he is a craftsman, we will always be able to use the weapons in the future, so I will give him a pound of refined pure gold, what does the virtuous brother think?" ”

I nodded and said, "Okay, brother, you can just look at this matter, so how is his craftsmanship and the quality of the equipment he plays?" ”

Feng Xian smiled and said: "Hehe, don't worry, Brother Xian, Craftsman Li is proficient in the method of refining, and the weapons cast are absolutely excellent." ”

The so-called hundred refining is to repeatedly fold and beat the materials of casting equipment hundreds of times, which is often referred to as 100 steels in the industry. The quality of the equipment cast by this steelmaking method is indeed excellent, but the process is very time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it takes at least several months to build a piece of equipment, and it is impossible to customize it in large quantities.

I couldn't help frowning and shaking my head and said, "No, it's too slow to build equipment with the method of hundred refinements, and the equipment of hundreds of people has to be fought until the Year of the Monkey." ”

Feng Xian was a little surprised when he heard my words, but said, "Isn't it that the virtuous brother wants to use the armor of the people and horses under my command to use the method of hundred refinements?" ”

I said undeniably, "That's for sure, otherwise how can you be invincible?" ”

Feng Xian was immediately dumbfounded, but he heard Qin Yi say: "If it is according to what Brother Cheng Lian said, I am afraid that this matter is really wishful thinking!" ”

I smiled and said, "If you use the method of refining you said, it will definitely be unrealistic, don't worry, I have a faster casting method, called the steel filling method; Okay, let's take the gold to purify it first, and I'll talk to Craftsman Li about building equipment later. ”

They couldn't help but look at each other, with a suspicious look on their faces, and then Feng Xian nodded and said, "Since that's the case, then okay." ”

Immediately, they pulled out the gold and carried it directly to Craftsman Li's house, and I continued to sew the neck cover in my hand. Then, I removed the only button from the pants I had worn earlier and used it on Nobita's neck cover, and by the time I finished all the work in my hand, it was already the middle of the night, and Nobita was crawling on the ground, looking at what I was holding with curious eyes.

Normally, tigers go out at night to feed, but I don't dare to let them out, because if they eat other people's animals, or accidentally hurt the villagers, then I will be guilty of a great sin.

Later, I tried the finished neck sleeve on Nobita's neck, but it was just right. I smiled and said, "Let's take it first, and when I have the conditions in the future, I'll make you a better one." ”

But I saw that it squinted its eyes, cocked its tail, and roared in a low voice, saying: I understand, I am very happy.

I stroked his head, tied him up, and said, "It's not early, go to bed quickly, and shout at night if you want convenience." ”

Then he lowered his head, his beard drooped, and his ears pressed down, indicating that he obeyed.

Nowadays, I don't dare to sleep at night, because I am afraid that I will accidentally open the wormhole again and run to some unknown place. After all, this is in ancient times, if I dream of the emperor's bedroom and see something I shouldn't see, it is estimated that I will probably be regarded as an assassin and arrested everywhere by the imperial court. Of course, this is just a matter of thinking.

The next morning, I got something to eat, and then I took Nobita to Craftsman Li's house to see how the work was progressing. The so-called soldiers who surrender without a fight are talking about this effect. However, such a thing is not a good thing in the current situation. I couldn't help but smile and said to him: "The king is destined to be lonely, and I wonder if we will depend on each other in the future." In response, he held his head high, his beard upturned, and roared softly, saying: I am lonely, I am proud.

Then, the two of us came to Li Jiang's house, and they were busy at the moment. I asked, "How long will it take to get it all done?" ”

Feng Xian said: "I practiced some last night, and I practiced some more this morning, but it is only one point, and the remaining nine points will take five or six days to finish." ”

"Hmm." I nodded, I couldn't help but look at the materials used by Li Craftsman for alchemy, it turned out that the gold stripping liquid he used was mercury, and then water was added as an oxidant, and then sulfur powder was added for heating and volatilization. It's no wonder that there is a pungent smell in the air, and this method is really easy to operate, but there is a little bit of a bad thing, inexperienced people can easily cause mercury poisoning, even experienced craftsmen have to be careful.

I said, "Okay, you guys keep busy, be careful not to get poisoned, I'll take Nobita out for a walk." ”

Feng Xian nodded and said, "Don't worry about it, you can go." ”

After that, I took Nobita for a walk. The sky here is very blue, the air is very fresh, in addition to the dry climate, in general life here is relatively comfortable.

It is said that this village is located at the foot of the northern foot of the Zhoushan Mountain, and about ten miles to the north is Qiyan Mountain, but the villagers here call it Qibao Mountain. There is a cave in the belly of the mountain, called Qibao Cave (later Qiyan Cave), there is an ancestral hall built in front of the cave, called Huiying Holy Mother Temple, which is built by the descendants to commemorate the generation of martyr Molu Lady in the Spring and Autumn Period. There is a pond in the cave, called the Seven Treasure Pond, from which the name of this mountain and a cave comes from.

There is also a hole on the mountainside less than thirty miles to the south, called Yuwang Cave. It is said that in ancient times, a great flood broke out here, when Yu ruled the water, it was inhabited in this hole, and because there is a stone statue of Yu in the hole, it is called Yuwang Cave. Legend has it that Dayu has tied a boat on the top of this mountain, so this mountain is called Zhoushan.

For these legends handed down from ancient times, I think there should be such a thing, but it will certainly not be as divine as people say, unless the previous ancients had superpowers, otherwise the things in the myth can only be nonsense.

However, later scientists have analyzed the genes of human beings and found that thousands of years ago, human beings had as many as 1,000 pairs of gene chromosomes in their bodies, while modern humans only have 23 pairs. That is to say, human beings have been degrading themselves for some reason since ancient times, or earlier, and the specific manifestation of this is that in the process of degradation, generation after generation has lost their original special abilities.

"Zhou Yi" has a saying that "the extremes of things must be opposed". If this is true, then when human beings have evolved to a certain extent, they will begin to degenerate.

"Zhou Yi" also says that "the cycle repeats". If this is true, then when human beings degenerate to a certain extent, as long as certain conditions can be met, they will turn to re-evolve.

At this moment, I can't help but wonder that maybe my father studied time travel for another purpose, and that was to find out what caused the degradation of humanity.

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