In the courtyard, Wang Zhi cordially received the tooth man.

"The little one lives up to the master's trust, and has found a suitable house." The tooth man said respectfully.

"Where?" Wang Zhi hurriedly asked, he couldn't wait to move out of here, this place is too small to do anything.

"Twenty miles south of the west gate of the county seat, there is a Li Jiagou, next to the Li family ditch, there is a Sun family courtyard, built by the mountain and the water, originally owned by the Sun family, the eldest son of the Sun family in the south as an official, the Sun family moved the family to the south, leaving only some old servants to take care of the house here, the Sun family seems to have encountered something in the south, half a year ago sent someone back to sell the property left here, and now there is his ancestral house and this courtyard." The tooth man explained the situation of the house.

"Take me to the field!" You can't hear the general idea just by listening, and you still have to go to the field to find out if it's agreeable.

"Yes, little old man, I'll take the master there."

After calling the four captains of the family to instruct them to guard the house, Wang Zhi followed the tooth man to see the house.

Out of the west gate of Changhe County, walked more than ten miles to the south, saw a big river, continued to walk along the embankment, saw a village on the opposite side of the river that was sandwiched between two mountains, Yaren introduced: "This is Lijiagou, the people here are simple, so the Sun family will build another courtyard here." ”

The mountain in the east of Lijiagou, there is a flat land at the foot of the mountain, there are several rows of tile houses built on it, it looks very magnificent from a distance, there is a wall outside, a huge yard is enclosed, the river beach is in front of the door, and the mountainside is behind the house, it is indeed by the water next to the mountain.

"This is the Sun family's courtyard, with 36 rooms and an area of five acres." The tooth man introduced.

Standing on the embankment, looking at the fairly stable river below, Wang Zhi asked Yaren, "What is the name of this river?" ”

"This river is nameless, and everyone calls it a big river on weekdays."

"Oh, take me to the courtyard!"

The two went down the embankment, crossed a stone bridge, and reached the opposite bank.

This stone slab bridge is located between the Sun family courtyard and Li Jiagou, and after crossing the river, the tooth man said to Wang Zhi: "The master waits, and the little one goes to find the person who cares about the courtyard to open the door for the master." ”

After speaking, the tooth man went in the direction of Lijiagou, and soon brought back a well-dressed farmer, who should be the servant of the Sun family who was in charge of taking care of the other courtyard.

The three of them went to the courtyard together, the servant opened the door, and then took Wang Zhi and the tooth man to look inside, "The little old man in this courtyard often comes to clean, it is quite clean, the beds and furniture are all homely, and there is a well in the backyard, the well water is not dry at all times, and my lord used to like to use the water in this well to make tea." ”

"Not bad." After looking at it inside and out, Wang Zhi was very satisfied, and asked, "How much silver is in this courtyard?" ”

"The man from the Sun family said that he would ask for 800 yuan, in addition to this mansion, including the mountain behind."

Wang Zhi is not short of money now, so he responded: "I bought it." ”

It was the first time for Yaren to see such a bold buyer, and he immediately smiled and said, "The Sun family is in the city, do you want to go back to the city now and sign the contract." ”

"Go back."

"Yes, yes."

Yaren immediately took Wang Zhi back to Changhe County, met with the Sun family in an inn, and called a person in charge of the Yaxing and a clerk in the yamen, under the witness of the Yaxing and the government, Wang Zhi gave the Sun family a box of silver, and then handed over the title deed.

After the transaction, the Sun family left with the silver, and Wang Zhi gave the silver to send away the person in charge of the tooth shop and the yamen clerk, and finally only the tooth man was left, and after giving him the reward, Wang Zhi said to him: "Do you know who in this city has the fastest carpentry work?" ”

"In this Changhe County, the best carpentry work is the Lu carpenter in the east of the city."

"Take me to him." Wang Zhi wanted to find a carpenter to order a batch of wooden beds, otherwise it would be too humid to sleep on the ground.

The tooth man immediately took Wang Zhi to the place where the Lu carpenter lived, which was also the place where he worked, in an alley, the courtyard gate was wide open, and through a gate, an old carpenter could be seen chiseling a piece of wood with a chisel, and when he saw the person, he immediately stopped what he was doing, "What are you two doing?" ”

"Can you do this?" Wang Zhi took a drawing to Carpenter Lu, on which three views of the plank bed were drawn. This plank bed is different from the conventional bed, that is, the planks are nailed to two square logs, and the structure is very simple.

"It's easy, but how much is the size of each place?" Carpenter Lu asked.

"Seven feet long, two feet wide, and three inches high. It takes 150 pieces, how long will it take to get them all done. ”

"It will take at least five days." Carpenter Lu said that although the structure of this thing is very simple, it also takes time to see the planks.

"How much does this one cost?"

"One piece, including the material and wages, costs at least forty wen."

"Forty wen, one hundred and fifty pieces is six thousand wen, which is six yuan, and I will give you twenty taels of silver, can you make it all and send it to my house before tomorrow night."

"Isn't this embarrassing little old man?" Carpenter Lu said with some embarrassment: "The work that can only be completed in five days cannot be completed in one day even if the little old man is a starry night." "He also wants to earn twenty taels of silver, but the key is that he can't earn it!

"If you can't do it alone, won't you call someone else? You must be more than one carpenter in the entire Changhe County, you can ask other carpenters to do it for you, I will give you twenty taels of silver, even if you give these six wages to other carpenters, you can still earn fourteen dollars. Wang Zhi gave Carpenter Lu a suggestion, he didn't care whether he let Carpenter Lu take advantage, he only cared about whether the one hundred and fifty people under his command could sleep in the bed before dark tomorrow, "Can this be done?" ”

"It's okay to do that, but ......"

"Don't do it, can you not do this?" Wang Zhi directly took a piece of silver collar and put it on the wood that the carpenter Lu was originally chiseling: "Fifty taels of silver, all for you, tomorrow I will see one hundred and fifty wooden beds, and send them to the Sun family's courtyard next to the original Lijiagou, can I not say a word." ”

"Okay, okay......" Carpenter Lu nodded again and again like a chicken pecking rice, and couldn't take his eyes off the big silver collar.

"I'm going to see something tomorrow before dark."

Wang Zhi returned to the rented yard alone, gave everyone a few hours of science education, that is, the natural content of the primary school level, and explained to them various natural phenomena and natural principles with simple and easy-to-understand truths, from astronomy to geography, from agriculture to industry, from the advanced nature of pragmatism to contradictions.

The students below also listened with relish and fascinated, and they listened to what Wang Zhi said as an immortal.

After the class, I had a sumptuous dinner with white rice with pickles and luncheon meat, and the first time I ate luncheon meat, many girls were moved to tears, and they had never tasted meat since they were children.

After eating, it was almost dark, the boys and girls were going to sleep, Wang Zhi also returned to the main world, and he fell asleep as soon as he went to bed after almost two days of sleeping.

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These chapters are a bit messy, and the development process is not outlined, and the next chapter will return to the content of the outline, which will be better.