Chapter 45: The Artificial Oven
Ye Chuliang turned his head to look at the villagers who seemed to be crazy, and sighed helplessly: "Alas, people's hearts are ......."
"Chu Liang, I've been bitter for you these times, Fifth Uncle...... Fifth Uncle I'm sorry for you. After the fifth uncle finished speaking, he raised his hand and secretly wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes.
Ye Chuliang hurriedly said: "No, I don't blame you for this matter, I know that you were also forced." ”
The fifth uncle burst into tears, "This ghost weather, it's either floods or droughts, and locusts, what kind of crime has our Xiantang Village suffered?" ”
Ye Chuliang comforted: "Fifth uncle, rest assured, this natural disaster will pass one day." ”
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When Hongshao arrived with the officials, the villagers were still frantically grabbing water.
When they heard that all the people who stole water should be arrested and imprisoned, all the big guys scattered and ran down the mountain.
In order to set an example, the official still arrested a few people who took the lead in stealing water and had a very rude attitude.
When leaving, the official told Ye Chuliang that she would go to the yamen to meet the county magistrate when she was free, as if the county magistrate had something to discuss with her.
After the official left, Hongshao looked at the destroyed home, and she was angry.
"Who are these people, look at the destruction of this place." Red Tree distressed to pick up the simple living facilities.
Ye Chuliang smiled optimistically, "It's okay, we can continue to build if they destroy it, anyway, what they broke is very simple, since it has been destroyed, then we will build a better one when we build." ”
The three of them all looked at her with some confusion.
Ye Chuliang smiled mysteriously.
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The next day, for some reason, Ye Fengyang did not appear.
Ye Chuliang gathered all the people to work together on a huge construction work - artificial oven.
She borrowed from the process of making an artificial oven that she had seen in an online video before, and worked with everyone to gather the materials first.
Since there are no beer bottles now, she decided to leave a gap directly in the layer where the beer is stored, and use the air to slow down the rapid dissipation of the temperature.
She first drew a sketch from memory, and then after consulting with three people, she made a slight modification.
Then she repaired the raw materials that Dongfang Yan and they had gathered, and the angular stones were also trimmed to make it easier to build.
Fortunately, there is a lot of red clay around, so you can build not only a cave under the oven, but also an oven on top.
Since this is not a task that can be completed in a short period of time, they did not forget to repair their own farmland and build a bamboo passage for the hot springs behind the mountain.
With the people of the county government as the backers, the villagers under the mountain no longer came up to the mountain to make trouble, but the weather continued to be fine, and the drought situation became more and more serious.
The daily sun exposure made the construction of the artificial oven faster, but it was only a few days, and it was already being built decently.
A few days later, Ye Fengyang came again, his face was unusually bad, and when he saw Ye Chuliang, he seemed to want to speak and stop.
When Red saw him, she turned away, pretending not to see him.
He pulled Ye Chuliang and said with an embarrassed face: "Otherwise, you better run quickly, I'm afraid that if it's a little later, the people from the county government will come to arrest you." ”
Ye Chuliang looked at him inexplicably, "What do you mean?" Why are you arresting me? ”
Ye Fengyang hesitated for a moment, and then said as if he didn't care: "Qiu Lao Er went to the county government to sue you, saying that because you were dissatisfied with him, you found someone to beat him last night, and now his leg is also broken, and he still has a big bag on his head. ”
"Why did he say that I was looking for someone to beat him?" Ye Chu was puzzled.
"It seems that Xia Jing told him, did you say something in front of Xia Jing that you shouldn't say? She also insisted that you wanted to kill her husband. After Ye Fengyang finished speaking, there was a quarrel not far away.
After a moment of hesitation, the officials had already come up the mountain.
Ye Chuliang, the official at the head, has seen her several times, and he used to look arrogant when he saw her, but since Wu Bing specially reminded him to take care of her, that person had a flattering expression every time he saw her, and he still did the same when he saw her today.
"Miss Chuliang, the county order asked us to invite you to the county office, first, he has something to discuss with you, and second, there is a case today and you want to help investigate." The official bent down slightly and said with a smile.
Hong Shao stood beside Ye Chuliang and said indifferently: "We are not free today, can we go tomorrow?" ”
The servant smiled all over his face, "Miss Chuliang, don't embarrass us slaves in this matter." ”
Ye Chuliang patted Hongshao's shoulder, "Don't worry, I'm just going to catch up with the county master, no problem." ”
"But......" Hongshao's face was tangled.
Ye Chuliang shook his head slightly, signaling Hongjian not to mess around.
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After Ye Chuliang was taken away, Hong Shao hurriedly called back Dongfang Yanhe and Sikong Yu to go to the yamen together.
Along the way, Ye Chuliang found that there were many people gathered at the door of Ma's house, holding a basin in their hands, and shouting to open the door.
Ye Chuliang asked suspiciously, "This is?" ”
The official at the head glanced at it, and then said with a smile: "The only well in this village that still has water is in the big courtyard of their Ma family, and the villagers are all red-eyed, and they all gather at the door early in the morning to clamoring to go in to fetch water." ”
"Hmph, their Ma family has taken advantage of it over the years, and it's time to pay for the villagers." Ye Chuliang said.
"But isn't it, all the fields in this village belong to their Ma family, and when this natural disaster comes, it is not the common people who suffer, their family always has food and drink." There was deep displeasure in the officer's words.
Ye Chuliang pondered, this Ma family probably just settled Wu Bing, and these officials estimated that they hadn't taken it seriously.
There is nothing good on weekdays, how can they say good things about their Ma family?
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Wu Bing did not take Ye Chuliang to the court, but to the back hall.
He unusually politely invited Ye Chuliang to sit, and then sat on the chair opposite her very affectionately.
"Miss Chuliang, this time the official came to you, in addition to asking you for important things, but also because of Qiu Laoer, he came to beat the drum early in the morning, saying that he wanted to sue you for hurting people, and this official is a parent official, this kind of thing can't be ignored, right?" Wu Bing's face was embarrassed.
"The adult is serious, Chu Liang is just a civilian, how can he be treated like this by an adult, I really dare not be." Ye Chuliang bowed his head slightly.
Wu Bing stood up, paced in place for two steps, and then stood opposite Ye Chuliang, "Miss Chuliang, do you know that there is a king with a different surname in the imperial court today?" ”
Ye Chuliang looked confused, looked up at Wu Bing for a moment before shaking his head slightly, "I've never heard of it." ”
"Oh......" Wu Bing looked suddenly enlightened, but then he asked curiously, "Is it true that the girl of Chuliang was raised by the Ye family?" ”