As mentioned last time, Liu Hou heard a conversation between the two people, which aroused his interest:

"Alas, there have been a lot of merchants coming in lately." One of them is humane.

"So what, there were many great battles before, and the city gate was closed for a while, but now that the city gate has been reopened, those merchants who have delayed their trade will definitely come in to do business." Another humane.

"So what? There are more merchants, there are more competitors, and my business is naturally not so good. Isn't that big enough? "The previous humane.

"Not really, my business is still as good as before, it doesn't seem to have affected much. Doing business is also about credibility and word of mouth. My Wang's Warehouse has been operating in Jingzhou for so many years, but it has a good reputation, how can those new merchants steal my business lightly. "The man in the back.

"It's strange to say, my business doesn't seem to have been affected in any way, it seems to be a little better than before. This shouldn't be, there are so many merchants, how can our business be affected somewhat. Isn't it that there was a backlog of buying and selling some time ago, and now everyone is making up for the previous orders? "The previous humane.

"What do you care about, anyway, you just have to do it yourself, come and come, drink, drink." The man in the back.

Liu Hou's heart moved when he heard this, and he finally heard some useful information. The number of merchants has increased a lot, but the buying and selling has not been affected. The origin of these merchants is suspicious.

So, Liu Hou said to Fei Yi: "Mr. Fei, Mr. Fei." Liu Hou called twice in a row, and Fei Yi reacted from his contemplation.

"Shizi, you called me something?"

"Well, there have been a lot of foreign merchants in Jingzhou City recently, but the trading volume doesn't seem to have changed much, you send someone to check it out, don't be mixed in."

"No, when I go back, I'll arrange for someone to investigate. By the way, Shizi, what you just said, I thought of a solution to the problem. If the rolling log gets trapped, we add another layer of rolling wood on top of it, and we believe that the problem will be solved. He verbally agreed to investigate, but immediately changed the topic, obviously his mind was not here, Liu Hou hoped that he would not forget about it as soon as he turned around.

Liu Hou understood what he meant, the first layer of rolling wood was trapped in the sediment, because the area of the rolling wood is large, it can disperse the pressure, so it is equivalent to laying a layer of sleepers on the sediment. Then put a layer of rolling logs on top of it for rolling, which is indeed a solution, provided that the bottom of the river where the wreck is not muddy, but relatively solid sand.

"That's okay, I hope the wreck is a sandy beach, and if it's deep mud, then you might as well give up as soon as possible." Liu Houdao.

"Yes, I'll go to the site tomorrow to see how it goes." Fei Yi said.

At this time, Liu Hou didn't have time to pay attention to him, because he saw a beautiful woman, uh, a beautiful girl. It was a singing girl, who was 13 or 4 years old in her cardamom years, with pink and delicate eyes, a pair of wonderful eyes that could convey affection, willow eyebrows curved like crescent moons, teeth like braided shells, skin like coagulation, and melon seed face.

It can be seen that she has no makeup, her forehead is glowing with a natural luster of white, and her pink cheeks are ruddy and natural colors, which looks elegant and refined, not like a singer at all, but like a fairy who does not eat fireworks in the world.

The girl grabbed a small handkerchief in her hand, looked ashamed, looked strange and pitiful, only to see her lightly open her lips and babble and sing a song that Liu Hou didn't understand at the table. An old man beside her was holding a pipa and "rubbing" to accompany her.

Although Liu Hou couldn't understand the lyrics of Wu Nong's soft words, he noticed that this girl's voice was very good, giving people a feeling of softness and weakness, which made people feel pity when they heard it.

Pan Jun, who was doing nothing next to him, saw Liu Hou staring at the singer intently, and his eyes turned a few times, and he had an idea. When the singer had finished singing, he beckoned the old and young singers to come over and ask her to sing a song.

Pan Jun saw that Liu Hou didn't speak from beginning to end, just stared at the girl, secretly thinking that he had finally done the right thing this time, and finally found the appetite of Shizi, it turned out that Shizi liked this type.

The singer babbled and sang two songs, and Liu Hou basically couldn't understand those who sang in his previous life, not to mention this older singing voice mixed with dialects. It is better to say that Liu Hou is listening to the song, but he is admiring the beauty and fresh temperament of this girl.

Seeing Liu Hou staring at herself, the singer couldn't help but glare at Liu Hou fiercely. It made Liu Hou embarrassed.

Liu Hou retracted his gaze in disdain, took out a piece of broken silver, rewarded the singer and let them go. The old man who played the pipa bowed his waist and nodded, and he thanked the singer and left. However, they didn't walk a few steps away when the cliché appeared:

"Chick, come here!" A middle-aged uncle with a fat head and big ears at a table next to him stood up and shouted loudly to call the singer over. When the singer saw his menacing appearance, she was obviously frightened, and hid behind the old man and refused to go over.

"Come here, come here, sing a few songs to the uncle." The middle-aged uncle took out an ingot of silver with 5 taels, raised his hand to the old and young, and motioned for the two to come over.

The singer didn't dare to move, and the old man kept giving the middle-aged uncle a trick, and he didn't know what to say if there were words in his mouth.

"What? If you don't give me a face, I will come over if I ask you to come, and I won't come to Uncle You are good-looking. Uncle Fat Pig slammed the silver on the table, and the horizontal flesh on his face was shaken by the shock, which looked particularly hideous.

Liu Hou frowned secretly when he looked at him, thinking to himself, could it be that this fat pig uncle was sent by God to cooperate with me to play the role of a hero and save beauty?

The old and young were frightened, and trembled over to the table. "Come here." The middle-aged uncle pointed to his side and called the singer over. The singer walked to the middle-aged man's side, and the middle-aged man threw the silver ingot in his hand and smashed it on the singer's body, the singer screamed in pain, dodged sideways, but did not dodge.

The silver ingot fell to the ground after smashing into the singer's body. The old man bent down to pick up the silver, and kept nodding his head, muttering something like gratitude and reward.

The girl was pulled to the front by the old man, and shyly sang a song "Peacock Flying Southeast" with the accompaniment of the old man:

"The peacock flies southeast, wandering for five miles. Thirteen can weave, fourteen learn tailoring, fifteen play gonghou, sixteen recite poetry books. Seventeen is a gentleman's wife, and her heart is always bitter and sad. The gentleman is a government official, and he keeps the festival unswervingly, and the concubines leave empty rooms, and they often see each other. The rooster crows into the weaving, and the night does not stop. Five horses were broken in three days, and the adults were too late. If it is not for the weaving to be late, it is difficult for the wife of the Jun family! The concubines are unbearable and have nothing to do, so they can be sent back in time by the white grandmother......"

"It's not good, it's not good, it's too sad, change the song." Uncle Fat Pig said.

Frightened by the uncle, the girl showed a panicked look, and hurriedly changed to sing a song of Han Yuefu's "Jiangnan" style:

Jiangnan Kecai lotus,

Lotus leaf He Tian Tian!

Fish play among lotus leaves,

Fish play lotus leaf east,

Fish play lotus leaf west,

Yuxi lotus leaf south,

Fish play lotus leaf north ......

"It's not good, it's too monotonous, change the song for the other." The uncle shouted again.

If so, the girl changed 5 or 6 songs, Liu Hou supported her cheek with one hand, watching it with relish, and thought to herself: "Hurry up, hurry up, the bloody plot I am looking forward to will be staged soon, so that I can jump out and finish the scenes such as the hero saving the beauty, the prince and Cinderella, the rich and handsome and the cock silk girl counterattacking at one time." ”

Liu Hou watched attentively, and he didn't even have the heart to listen to the few questions asked by Fei Yi during the period, but he just dealt with them casually, but this made Fei Yi bitter.

"Shizi, do you know any way to lift the wreck from the bottom of the water? Please speak up and let me refer to it. This is Fei Yiti's question.

Liu Hou replied casually: "Make a lot of big airbags, tie them to the sunken ship, and then inject air into the airbags, and when the airbags rise, you can naturally bring the sunken ship to the surface." ”

"This ......" Fei Yi was speechless.

Yes, this is indeed the right way to salvage shipwrecks in later generations, but with the level of materials and processing in this era, how to make so many airbags? Even if there is an airbag, how can you inflate the airbag under the water without a high-pressure air pump? Do you blow with your mouth?

"Is there any other way for the prince?" Fei Yi obviously knew that this method was difficult to achieve.

"Use the principle of pulley block to make an oversized crane and lift the boat directly."

"This ......" Fei Yi was speechless again, theoretically feasible, but such a heavy shipwreck, filled with hundreds or thousands of tons of water, how big a crane does it take? Is there a tree that big in the world that can be used to make a beam for a crane? This idea is even more unreliable than the previous one.

Looking at Liu Hou's absent-minded appearance, Fei Yi sighed deeply. In his salvage plan, the main force was to rely on tens of thousands of captives to tow the ship, intending to forcibly drag the ship ashore. It's just that the boat is deep in the bottom of the river, and the difficulty of towing is not small, if the wreck can be properly lifted so that it is slightly away from the silt, it can undoubtedly reduce the difficulty of towing.

It's just that these methods proposed by the prince seem to be correct, but they are unrealizable.

At this time, the singer sang another song of Han Yuefu's "Long Song Xing":

"Qingqing Garden in the Aoi,

The morning dew awaits the sun.

Yangchun Budeze,

All things are made of brilliance.

Often afraid of the autumn festival to,

The yellow flowers and leaves are declining.

From the east of the hundred rivers to the sea,

When will I return to the West?

Young and strong do not work hard,

The boss is sad. ”

"Little girl, it's really ugly to sing, but the little one looks good." After saying a classic line, the middle-aged fat pig uncle reached out and wanted to pinch the little face of the singer. The singer was so frightened that she ducked back, dodging the groping pig's hand full of fat.

Liu Hou became excited when he saw this scene, "It's coming, it's finally starting to move, work harder, and Brother Hui will be able to play." ”

Fei Yi saw Liu Hou's weird smile, and couldn't help but shiver in his heart, "Shizi, Shizi, what should I do if I can't make an airbag?" ”

"If you can't make it, you can use bamboo, isn't there air in the bamboo?" Liu Hou casually perfunctory and began to prepare for the performance.

"How dare you hide from me." Saying that, the fat pig uncle stood up, caught up with two steps, and slapped it over, and the singer raised her hand to block it when the uncle's big slap was about to touch his face. In this way, it was actually the uncle's hand that hit the girl's hand, and the girl's own hand was printed on her face. The girl fell to the ground with this force, covered her face with her left hand, and began to cry.

No one could see what was going on, but thought it was the uncle who slapped the girl, and the girl was crying after falling to the ground covering her injured face. You can even imagine that the girl's little white hand must be a red palm print. I didn't think about how such a small hand could cover the palm print caused by a big hand like a fan.

Even the uncle who beat people didn't think this singer was weird, but Liu Hou keenly discovered the abnormality. He also didn't see the girl's move of raising her hand to block Uncle Fat Pig, but he noticed the fact that there was no palm print on the girl's face, and thought to himself: "Could it be that this singer knows martial arts?" Things are getting a lot of fun. ”

At this time, the old man who played the pipa stepped forward to block the singer and kept apologizing to Uncle Fat Pig. Uncle Fat Pig said: "Look at this little girl's skin looks pretty good, follow the uncle in the future, be the uncle's 13th concubine, and the uncle guarantees that you will eat and drink spicy food from now on." ”

"Uncle, uncle, let us go, my Xiaoxue is still young and can't get married, please don't ......" The old man bowed and pleaded with Uncle Fat Pig.

Uncle Fat Pig didn't listen to his plea at all, raised his foot and kicked the old man to the ground, and said: "Uncle, I am willing to want you, that is to look up to you, don't be ashamed, make a price, with this money, you will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of your life, and your daughter doesn't have to show her face outside, she has been running around all day, what else do you want?" ”

The old man was half-lying on the ground, and he still gave his hands vigorously, "Uncle, my girl really doesn't sell, she doesn't sell it......"

"Bang!" With a sound, the fat pig threw a gold ingot weighing 5 taels to the old man's side, and said, "It's cheap for you, here are five taels of gold, take it, your girl will belong to me in the future." ”

After speaking, with a wave of his hand, 4 or 5 people who looked like family members poured out behind him to snatch the singer.

(ps. This chapter copied a few ancient poems, and deliberately wrote a long point to make up for the number of words, don't scold me for copying poetry and cheating the number of words.) In addition, for the sake of convenience, it is assumed here that 1 tael of gold = 10 taels of silver = consistent copper coins = 1000 wen coins).