Chapter 31: Watering
Xin Whale waited for them to finish their discussion and hurriedly went to the workshop. He had a feeling that he was going to seize his chance now, and he had to catch Xinkun.
"What's wrong?" Xin Kun was working on her heavy sword in the workshop, and yesterday it was only a prototype, and last night, the old man designed the best shape.
Xin Kun just wanted to honestly complete the heavy sword, but Xin Whale came again, and now she really feels that this person's name is not wrong, which is really "shocking".
"No, cousin, the clan is done. The sixth uncle became the patriarch, and the mansion and the workshop were the family property, and the mansion would be made into a family study in the future. Xin Whale hurriedly reported.
"Oh, that's good!" Xin Kun nodded, thinking that this was quite good.
"Cousin, you ......"
"Oh, I think it's really good. By the way, can you tell the people in the village that the water used to wash vegetables and rice every day is put in a fixed large tank, just at the door, and I can carry it. ”
"Why?" Xin Whale didn't understand.
"It's dry, you know?" Xin Kun looked at him, don't the people here know what it means to care about current affairs?
"We are a craftsman village!" Xin Whale was a little helpless, why should he care about the land?
"It's the land of the clan now!" Xin Kun smirked at him.
"Didn't you say that we could hire tenants?"
"Now you have not hired anyone, and if the land had been the way it was, you would not have been able to recruit tenants to do the work." Xin Kun glared at him.
"Got it, I'll let everyone save water." Xin Whale didn't want to argue with him for this, so she smiled at him.
"Yes, save water, and save the used water for me by the way." Xin Kun took a deep breath.
"When do you want it?"
"Just put it in the big vat at the door, I'll pick it up." Xin Kun really felt tired of talking to this person.
"When?" Xin Whale asked again.
Xin Kun originally thought that he was the only smart person in the village, but now it seems that he really looked down on him.
"Don't pour the quenching water used for striking iron, it will be poisonous." Xin Kun misses the golden crown fool a little now, maybe he's not really stupid, it's not hard to talk to him, he's just a little noisy.
Xin Whale saw Xin Kun's reluctance, responded with a smile, and hurriedly said goodbye.
Xin Ye has actually been listening to it on the side, he has already read all the documents that Xin Kun brought back, he likes Xin Kun's practice, he didn't give it away for nothing, but for the clansmen, they have to pay, and they should cherish some in the future.
And just now, he heard their conversation. Unlike Xin Kun, Xin Ye is very familiar with every family in the village. As the sixth patriarch, he was very suspicious that this village would be fine in the future.
Then look at Xin Whale, this is the only child in the village who went to study in the county, and he also secretly gave Xin Whale's father money. Before, he thought that Xin Whale would be a promising child, but now, he felt that he was wrong.
Because he actually saw what his son looked like back then in Xin Whale's body. I don't understand anything, but I think I'm the only smart person.
"Why did he come over to tell you?" Xin Ye couldn't help but ask.
"Who knows?"
"You let the whole village accumulate water, what are you going to do? Do you want to fetch water from one family to another? Xin Ye felt that this was too much, the child in front of him was his granddaughter, not a stupid boy.
"Of course, our family has too little water to store. In fact, I want everyone to work together, watch the land change together, and finally learn to cherish it like me. But now, I doubt I can do it. ”
"No, that's good. We've done our best, let them go! Xin Ye gently patted his granddaughter's back, "I'll bear the water with you." ”
Xin Kun agreed, but she knew that she would not let the old man carry the water with her.
There are no golden-crowned fools, and there are no insatiable clansmen, Xin Kun is concentrating on making her heavy sword except for going to each house every night to carry water and water the ground.
Xin Ye is a strict person, and he uses the most traditional way to re-polish the heavy sword.
But let her do the quenching, after the rough grinding, paste the clay around the blood trough, and after it is red, quench it with cold water from the old man's secret recipe.
Because the clay in the middle, the temperature will have a buffer regardless of the upper and lower levels, so the clay of the middle sword ridge is shoveled off, and the stiffness of the middle and both sides is different, which is also the quenching method for making Japanese swords. Carefully grind out a beautiful twist pattern, and the whole sword reveals a simple and heavy.
The old man put on the handle and scabbard of his sword, and the workshop was full of cheers.
"It's so pretty." A small worker's face was amazing.
Xin Kun thought that the old man would make a literati sword, but in fact, the old man was a professional. Very professional, no matter how decorated a heavy sword, it is impossible to become a literati sword.
The old man used beech wood for lining, which had a relatively low deformation rate, and a layer of snakeskin on the outer bread, plus his carefully polished brass sword edge and sword ring.
So the old man made this more like an ancient sword. It's similar to the old scabbard system that Xin Kun saw in the museum, and the old man deliberately made it old.
Just from the scabbard, no one would be willing to use this sword to cut people. This should be offered in front of the tablets of the ancestors, and then tell the world about their "heroic deeds"!
"It's so pretty, old man, is this for me?" A very familiar voice.
Hearing this voice, Xin Kun's good mood disappeared all of a sudden. In her mind, she hadn't seen this one in a few days. Then with a sigh, it's only been a week.
"Uncle Guo." No matter what she thinks in her heart, her politeness is not lacking, and she honestly gives Guo Peng a deep look.
"You're welcome, you're welcome, sir...... I've been going to all the affected places these days to see what happened. Guo Peng said, and arched his hand at those masters, "By the way, masters, thank you for supporting the county government." If it weren't for your families taking the lead and wanting to grow millet, I don't know when! ”
"You mean, except for our family, all the millet is planted outside?" Xin Kun frowned slightly.
"Well, we have specially gone to Beijing these days to find some recipes that can grow millet to take a look, after all, we have not planted them in several places in Gyeonggi." Guo Peng hurriedly explained to Xin Kun.
"Oh, those tricks want to ask you, why are you so upside down? I just noticed, it seems like I've been turning over the ground again these days? By the way, why is your land so oily, and where do you get to water it? ”
Gu Hong didn't want to deal with Guo Peng, they came back to see the land of the Xin family. And when they entered the village, they noticed that it was already a black land, and the land seemed to have been turned over again, and the point was that the land was very oily, as if it had not been affected by any drought.
"The fertilizer is planted deep underground, and I have a small spray of water these days." Xin Kun nodded, this Gu Hong seems to be really in charge, and the prince is here to mix things.