Chapter 69: The Gilgi Family
The Bolt family lived on a relatively low floor of the living quarters of the city of Miluse, and the building was located on the "shell" of the city of Miluz.
The entire city of Miluse is built in an all-encompassing structure, with a large skylight in the center of the city dome to let in the light, and the changes in spring, summer, autumn and winter have nothing to do with here.
The location of the Bolt family is not awkward, they live here on the outskirts of the city, but the buildings are below the horizon, they do not enjoy the convenience of the central city, and because they are underground, they cannot open the windows to see the sun, because they are close to the core area of the giant magic ore furnace on the lowest floor, and they are disturbed by noise.
Driving the Bolt, Yi Hui was guided by Huck to the area where the Bolt family lived, and the bolts and nuts that had been loosened by maintenance steps and the metal walls that had fallen into disrepair caught Yi Hui's eye, and what Yi Hui saw here was in great contrast to what he saw at the entrance. "Slums?" This was the first thought that flashed through Yi Hui's mind.
"Master Yi Hui, you're finally here!" One of the little gnomes who had followed Huck had returned home early and informed Gilji, who was the patriarch, of Yi Hui's arrival in advance, and the overjoyed Gilji immediately led all the mechanics of the Bolt Family to line up in two lines on the way to the family's residence. Seeing the orange-yellow bolt number, Gilji hurriedly greeted him.
Yi Hui lowered the bolt number first, took the short Huck out of it from the cockpit and put it on the ground, and put the bolt number into the space ornament.
"Gilji, you have suffered these things." Yi Hui squatted down and looked at Gilji and said.
Gilji blinked, sighed softly and said, "Don't talk about this yet, let's go home first." In Gilji's memory, the first meeting with Yi Hui was also like this, and the tall Yi Hui also squatted down to talk to him like this, which made his heart tremble again. Such a move made Gilji feel the respect from Yi Hui.
"Okay, let's go back and talk about it." Yi Hui stood up and followed Gilji into the Bolt Family.
The little gnomes parked their mechs in the mecha parking lot one after another, and walked home behind the elders of their families.
Entering the residence of the Bolt family, Yi Hui found that although it was a little dilapidated, he also saw the traces of recent careful cleaning, and it was also very clean and tidy.
Along a spiraling staircase, Yi Hui and Gilji led a group of mechanic representatives of the Bolt Family to the Bolt Family's meeting hall. Although the size of this hall is not small, it is very crowded with hundreds of dwarf mechanics to stop inside.
"Everyone!" Gilji stood on the podium in the center of the hall and shouted loudly, and as Gilji's voice sounded, the gnomes in the entire hall stopped talking to each other and listened intently to the speech of the patriarch Gilji.
Gilji raised his right hand, and pointed at the place where Yi Hui was standing with his palm facing up, and said loudly: "Everyone, this is the Master Yi Hui I mentioned at the previous conference, although he is not very strong in the hands-on aspect of mechanical production, and is not even as good as the most basic mechanical apprentice, but his understanding of mechanical design and some of the concepts proposed can provide great help for our mechanical development." It's like we're walking in the fog with the lights of a lantern shining in front of us. Now, Master Yi Hui is here, he has come to Miluz as promised, and he will lead our bolt family to open a new chapter. Most of us have experienced something with Master Yi Hui in the Silverspring Valley Mine of our last partner, but of course, others may not be very familiar with Master Yi Hui. However, please believe in me, Jirji, and Master Yi Hui, we will definitely be able to create miracles together. ”
As soon as Gilgil's words fell, the old dwarf fellows who had returned to Miruz from the Valley of Silver Springs all applauded in unison, and the others were convinced of Gilji, the patriarch of the Bolt family, and they all began to cheer and shout. The cheers and applause were endless.
Let the clansmen below rejoice for a while, Gilji stood on the high platform and pressed his hands down twice, the crowd returned to quiet, Gilji said: "In the next time, I propose to let our Master Yi Hui rest and rest, Grenoble is far away, Master Yi Hui is also tired, let's disperse first, everyone go home, and then notify everyone to gather." ”
The dwarfs scattered in twos and threes, and there were also dwarfs who wanted to stay with Yi Hui for a long time and refused to leave, wanting to take this opportunity to listen to Yi Hui's strange talks. Gilji still had something to discuss with Yi Hui in private, and he blew his beard and stared at a patriarch who let out a patriarch's "Wang Bazhiqi" and blasted these guys home on the grounds that "Master Yi Hui needs to rest, let's talk about it another day".
Back at Gilji's quarters, Huck shouted first, "Master Yi Hui is here!" Master Yi Hui is here! He rushed over and opened the door. Yi Hui followed Gilji into the room.
"I'm back, this is Master Yi Hui that I often mention, he just arrived here today. you, go get something to eat, don't let Master Yi Hui wait. As soon as Gilji entered the door, he shouted at his wife, like the head of a family.
"Domineering, real man." Yi Hui looked at the arrogant Gilji, shook his head and smiled, and said secretly in his heart.
Before Yi Hui could sit down, five little dwarfs rushed out of the back room with a "hula" and surrounded Yi Hui, chattering around Yi Hui non-stop, and even more daring even reached out and banged Yi Hui.
"Joseph, take care of your brothers." Gilji roared loudly at the eldest one, "Let Master Yi Hui sit down and rest first, and in addition, the adults will talk and the children will stay there!" ”
Yi Hui looked at the little dwarfs running around the house, and was surprised, this Gilji is simply too capable of giving birth.
"These are your children?" Yi Hui asked.
"Hmm!" Gilgi puffed out his chest proudly and said, "There are seven of them, two daughters, and the others are here." ”
In addition to mining in the Silver Spring Valley, Gilji would go home every few years from time to time to hand over the ore and magic energy ore to the Senate, and every time he came back, he would add a child to the family, and these children would jump out one by one like rolling potatoes. The oldest of these children was seventeen or eighteen years old, and the youngest was three or four years old. Among them is Mina, the eldest daughter of Gilgil's attempt to marry Yi Hui as his wife.
Fortunately, as the patriarch, Gilji has a lot of wealth, otherwise he would have eaten him alive just for the food of these bear children.
Among them, if you want to say that you are more talented in mechanics, you can count the third son Huck, which Yi Hui encountered, Gilji sent him to the Miluz Mechanical Research School at the top of the city for further study, but fortunately, Huck worked hard and ranked among the best in his academic performance, and he did not waste Gilji's key cultivation.
After a moment of greetings, Yi Hui finished dinner at Gilji's house, and he sat in Gilji's research room with Gilji behind closed doors to prevent these bear children from disturbing him.
"Come, look, I have made new improvements to the musket these days, after all, this is the force guarantee that we can successfully mine outside." Gilji showed Yi Hui a brand-new musket, and kept introducing various improvements, "You see, here I changed the butt to a retractable one according to what you once said, and it has become lighter. I added some light alloys to the barrel material, the strength has not decreased, and the wall of the tube can be made thinner......"
Yi Hui listened carefully to Gilji's explanation, and waited until Gilji stopped temporarily before interjecting a sentence: "What about our muskets before?" Did you hide it as I told you to? He understands the truth that wealth is not exposed, and the core competitiveness of muskets, which no one has, must not be easily shown before the situation is unknown, so when they were separated, he explained that Gilji should find a place to hide first.
"Oh, those, they've been buried somewhere halfway through, and haven't been brought back to Miluz. In addition, some of the mechs were also buried together, this time only a few of the old-fashioned mechs were buried, and most of us came back in minecarts, and we did as you ordered. Gilji said indignantly, "As you guessed, as soon as we old-fashioned mechs came back, we were targeted by those guys from the Wrench family, and they used the Senate to force me to hand over the blueprints, but fortunately, these are only the first products, and if they are given, they will be given." I've been on guard against these wrench guys for a long time. ”
"I heard that if you don't hand over your quota of ore next month, the Senate will expel you?" Yi Hui asked.
"Huck told you, right?" Gilji said, "This kid doesn't have a strict mouth, but what he says is true." Miluz is already under the control of the wrenchers, in their words 'useless idle gnomes', and we are in his eyes the workers who gather ore. At this, Gilgi paused, took a sip of the hot drink, exhaled a sullen breath in his chest, and said, "If the Bolt House and the Rivet House had not lost most of their people because of the war in the north, this city would not have been like this. ”
"You went to war?" Yi Hui asked puzzled, because in terms of the combat effectiveness of the dwarf clan at that time, participating in the battle was a dead end. "Why?"
"Didn't go to war." Gilji said, "It is only because our two families are mining on the border between the Hanseatic Empire and the Golden Horde, that the war broke out because of the plundering of resources and wealth, and our dwarf miners unfortunately fell victim to the war between the two countries. The history of the bolt family and the rivet family in the Senate can be regarded as starting from the establishment of the Senate, and later due to the scarcity of the clan, it was slowly squeezed out of place by the large number of wrench families. Now their Wrench family is the dominant one in the Milhome family, and they continue to suppress our Bolt family to this day. ”
"Oh, if that's the case, let them expel if they want to expel it." "This is an opportunity. ”
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