When I come back from Lanling Mansion, I will always pass by the pond behind Zhuangzi, and almost every time I can see the busy figure of the cloud girl, clearing the pond, releasing water, drying the pond mud, more than ten old men jumping up and down on the edge of the pond, and the girl and the steward of the cloud mansion stand aside to command, and change the hands from time to time.

According to the Yun family's current background, as long as it is not a busy time, Yun Yatou can enjoy the blessings at home, and leave the outside affairs to the next person. Layuetian stood by the pond and suffered enough, even if the sun was low, he could feel the wind crossing the pond on the shady side, blowing on his body and pulling it over with a knife.

Every time I see this, I can't help but feel that the two boys of the Yun family are too ignorant. It stands to reason that I shouldn't have asked about other people's affairs, but the two sturdy young men ate and drank at home, and it was freezing cold to call a weak woman out to suffer, which is not like words! My sister, I have been pulling up my two younger brothers for all these years, and others don't know about these hardships, but it's not clear when I am a younger brother?

I finally grew up, and the family business also rose, so I should come out to share some of the burden for my sister, why don't I have a conscience when I am arguing, no wonder the fourth child can't see it, and Lian Ying occasionally holds a grievance for Yun Yatou in private. Of course, when Ying feels unfair, Steward Qian will immediately have an opinion on the future successor of the Yun family, and as soon as something goes out of Steward Qian's mouth, the taste will change, and the two unconscionable boys of the Yun family who are lazy are now notorious.

"It's a pity, if this girl is a man, the Yun family would have developed a few years ago." Steward Qian was bringing a few people to the local area, and when he saw me coming, he immediately pointed to the Yun girl by the pond and began to hold grievances in front of the local officials, and said to everyone: "A few brothers don't know, many years ago, the Yun family suffered a fire, both parents died, and the family property was completely lost, and they were in debt. So what is the situation of ordering a little girl to pull the two younger brothers? Bitter! If it weren't for the Hou Ye and Mrs. who helped repay the debt, they would have let the creditors who came to the door sell them, how could there be today's scenery. ”

Steward Qian is the leading figure in the local area, and a few small officials saluted me for a while. What kind of nonsense about Wencheng Wude, Zefu Cangsheng and the like, I am overjoyed, and I ordered Haosheng to entertain a few unqualified adults. This is what it should be, no matter how prominent the Wang family is, the local relationship must be handled well, and everyone can not put up a shelf in the township to make people settle down.

As soon as I got out here, I turned a corner on the path at the mouth of the pond and was discovered by Yun Yatou. He waved at me as he trotted over. Just wanted to shout that you were busy with your ...... remembered that this line was plagiarized by Zhang Fu, and wanted to change the greeting, but the girl had already arrived.

"There is no rest in the wax moon sky?"

The girl's face was blown dark red by the pond wind, and she carried a basket containing a few fresh lotus roots to my hand. Yun Yatou is interesting, she sends water chestnuts in the season when water chestnuts are produced in the field, and she sends lotus vegetables on the days when lotus vegetables are produced, always from her own fields. There is no need to be polite on a blind date in the township, and it has nothing to do with each other's identities.

"I can't let go of my words. The little girl is so busy that she can't sit still at home, so she comes out and sees. One look is a day. Yun Yatou took it for granted, picked the messy hair in front of her forehead and smiled generously, "You just went on a business?" ”

"Oh, it's not bad." He put the basket on the ground. I didn't have anything to say: "What will the younger brothers do after the marriage?" ”

"Chun is busy and will do it," Yun Yatou looked in the direction of her house with a happy face, and asked cautiously, "I don't know ...... big brother of the Wang family when the time comes."

"Go, definitely go. My wife and I are going, this is a great event for our Zhuangzi, and we can't delay it. When your younger brothers get married, you can let go of this burden; It's time to be brisk, and these years are not easy. It's time to find a suitable person to enjoy Qingfu. Saying that, he subconsciously looked for a group of old men by the pond, Xie Bao, the idiot, was really there, he was squatting on the corner of the pond and didn't know what to do, it seemed that he was hiding from me.

Yun Yatou was embarrassed by what I said, her face turned purple with embarrassment, and she said embarrassedly: "Big brother Wang said that he was laughing." There is no boundary, at this age, I don't dare to climb the right people. Always return the surname Yun. The younger brothers are busy with their studies. I didn't dare to distract them, the two brothers and daughters-in-law who didn't pass through the door were the daughters of good families. They can't do things that show their faces, and they can help in the family business for a while, and they don't dare to think about it elsewhere. ”

What is a good girl? Yun Yatou is the daughter of a good family, and she can't pick out the second one from far and near. Age is not a problem, there are two places to be chosen, these years have long been taken off the immaturity of the girl, not squeamish and pretentious, simple and generous and capable, who marries back who enjoys happiness, where to find such a good girl?

Smiled and shook his head, "It's time to think about yourself." The affairs of the family should also be handed over to them, there is no reason to let my sister work for a lifetime, which is unreasonable. ”

Yun Yatou shook her head and hurriedly explained: "You misunderstood, misunderstood." Everyone is busy with their own things......" As he was talking, the handsome guy Zhang Furen appeared on the road like a horse, and the cloud girl stood next to me and began to wave again.

"You're busy, don't come!" Zhang Fu, this idiot's brains are not enough, Yun Yatou and I are obviously standing on the road, and he still has such a voice, which makes Yun Yatou a little undecided, I don't know whether to laugh or not.

"Come here!" It's good that I'm a relative, and this IQ really doesn't deserve this outfit, shame. picked up the lotus vegetable basket on the ground and threw it to Zhang Fu, "Send it home, wait for me in the study." ”

Zhang Fu helplessly twitched the corners of his mouth at the Yun girl, and pointed his fingers and said: "The younger brother is heading towards the Yun family, and the two students are still waiting, and there are important things to discuss with Miss Yun ......."

"What's the business?" Look at Yun Yatou, and look at Zhang Fu, I haven't noticed it for a few days, and it has developed to the point of entering the house? There are important things here, Xie Bao, who are the two fools who still pretend to be laborers on the corner of the pond and create evil.

"Gadget," Zhang Fu saw that my expression was strange, and the cloud girl coughed like a whooping cough, and quickly explained, "The pumping thing is different from what you think." ”

"What do I think? Whose water is pumped? "I also learned to cover up, the pool is full of water, and the Yun family is pumping something, bullshit doesn't work.

Yun Ya was embarrassed, and hurriedly interrupted Zhang Fu's explanation, "The brother-in-law of the Wang family misunderstood again, it is indeed a pumping machine." Pointing to a lotus pond in the east, he said: "The north is high and the east is low, it is easy to irrigate in spring, but it is difficult to drain water at the beginning of winter, especially in the east dozens of acres of ponds, even if the irrigation canal is gone, the water can not be drained cleanly, and the water is hard to clean up the pond in winter, and it is easy to get sick after a long time." In the winter of the previous year, the younger brothers went to the engineering school with Mr. Zhang, and when they opened their eyes, they saw the pumping equipment used on the boat and got an idea. I wanted to imitate a set to help drain the lotus pond at home. ”

"What implement?" As soon as Yun Yatou explained this, her credibility immediately increased, and she looked at Zhang Fu and asked, "Why don't I know?" Is it good to use? "The Wang family also has a lot of lotus ponds, although the management is not as meticulous as the Yun family, but with the pumping of what can improve efficiency, try to let farmers soak in the water as little as possible, Dr. Zhou often reminds to beware of joint disease.

Zhang Fu breathed a sigh of relief, "Gadgets." It was brought back by the people who went by sea from some small state on the other side of the sea, and it was originally used to pump the water in the cabin when the boat was sailing. However, the Datang Dynasty has a huge open-sea boat, and although the small mechanism made by the foreign country is exquisite, it can be put on the big ship like a drop in the bucket, so it is planned to improve it in the same way. ”

"I don't understand, you can make it clearer." Competitiveness overcomes curiosity, Zhang Fu was taught by me, and now I can't take a strange thing to Teacher Meng. Even if you are stronger than me, you have to give me permission, and if you don't make a sound, it's a big rebellion.

"Gadgets, I can't say whether they are useful or not." Compared with the new crossbow machine, this kind of small machine is obviously not the focus of Zhang Fu's concern, or everyone who sails has taken it back for a few years and there has been no movement. Now he threw it to the two suckling boys of the Yun family to fiddle with. "After several improvements, it is better than before, but it is not easy to pump water from such a large pool." Talking and looking at the cloud girl. Make a few small gestures.

Yun Yatou understood, and hurriedly invited me to her house to help with advice, firstly, to avoid suspicion, and secondly, to remove the rumors that her younger brothers had nothing to do, killing two birds with one stone.

As one of the shareholders of the ocean-going caravan, it is a responsibility to make more profits with a little more improvement.

I don't know if I don't look at it. I was shocked when I saw it, and my hand was shaking! Both of the boys had a lot of strength, and they became more and more excited when they saw me coming, and the bathtub-like pump was put in the small pond of the Yun family and shook hard, and the water flowed out along the trough on the edge of the bucket.

Pull the two boys apart and try it yourself. Feel the hand. Because strength is limited. It's hard to shake, and you can see it from above. The inside of the barrel is a propeller blade that is worn diagonally with a wooden plank, and there is no high-precision problem such as sealing, but it is a centrifugal water pump that uses the propeller blade to rotate at high speed and uses the pressure generated when the water enters the container instantaneously. So you have to shake the handle like crazy, and once you slow down, the water will flow back.

"How does this work on a ship?" Now I only care about this, as for whether there is water in the Yunjia Lotus Pond or not, it has nothing to do with me.

"Small boats are easy to say, but big ships are difficult to do." Zhang Fu squatted down in front of the pumping machine and forcefully put the barrel down, "The key is not to make it big." As he spoke, he shook the wooden handle and turned it idling, and as the speed of rotation accelerated, the wooden planks inside hit the wall of the barrel and rumbled, "Not durable." Wood is easy to rot after being soaked in water for a long time, and it is easy to dry out once it is out of water. It's okay to say that the bigger it is, the more likely it is to have problems. ”

"Show me the prototype you brought back from outside the territory, I want to know how this thing works on a ship." This thing in front of him is obviously tailor-made for his lotus pond, it looks very hanging, but it is not necessarily stronger than the existing drainage means on the boat, and it depends on other people's professional products.

Zhang Fu was very puzzled, seeing that I was urgent and difficult to refuse, he personally led someone to pull a big guy out of the palace that night, and put it in the courtyard like a coffin.

After studying for a long time, there is nothing new, the only difference is that several transmission devices in this coffin are metal parts, which are also limited, and can be more wear-resistant than wood.

"If you want to replace it with copper, will it be more durable?" Asked the subordinates to light the lantern lighting, and instructed a few people brought by Zhang Fu to help disassemble the pump, "Isn't it too difficult to replace the rocker arm and this spindle with copper parts?" ”

Zhang Fu frowned and shook his head, "Once you start to improve it, and plan to replace it with copper parts, I'm afraid it won't be a small expense." At present, the manpower in the engineering school is limited, and several parts of the armament are full of expenses, so there is really no extra energy to engage in pumping things. ”

"What's so difficult about this......" As soon as the words came out, he quickly stopped, and his tone was excessive. This is not the 21st century, with the current conditions to do this is really laborious, not only the problem of changing a few metal parts, once used on the ship is a life-saving machine, not repeated testing thousands of times without legal type, this not only costs money, preparation and material is enough to work in engineering for a while. Seeing that Zhang Fu was a little sullen, he quickly apologized, "I'm sorry." I lost my temper. Help me make a plan, see how many suitable people are needed, and estimate the overhead, if not, I will let the East Navigation Academy do it. ”

Zhang Fu immediately became embarrassed, and returned the salute: "Don't dare, don't dare." Since it was sent to the engineering school, there is no reason to push it to other families. Manpower, since you value it so much. The younger brother might as well be personally responsible, and the two students of the Yun family were just able to open their eyes with the younger brother in engineering. As for the expenses, you know that the budget for next year has already been reported a month ago......"

That's no problem, Zhang Fu and I are both eating under the same boss, our boss Lan has a benefit, a lot of money. Zhang Fu hurriedly went back to sort out the supplementary budget for the record, and I went to Boss Lan's house to get through the joints; As for the laborer Xie Bao, he is too lazy to look at him. Leave him to fend for himself, this guy doesn't need human rights.

What's the use of asking for human rights, it's not worth the pumping machine. The lessons learned from the two large ships that were wrecked many years ago show that the big ships have the advantages of the big ships, but the corresponding problems have not been properly resolved. One is the improvement of the hull structure, and the other is to improve the efficiency of the displacement ground.

As early as the Sui Dynasty, the hull of the semi-sealed compartment structure was used to improve the safety of the ship, and then it was difficult to maintain the hull if the discharge was not timely in the event of strong winds and waves. Drainage problems have become a major bottleneck in the shipbuilding industry. If all the problems can be solved by installing more efficient pumping equipment, the hull will be built larger, and it has the ability to travel farther, and the ocean income is also more lucrative, and the rich return will stimulate the rapid development of the shipbuilding industry, and the Wang family ...... Of course, the inner government will become more insatiable, and the virtuous circle will begin again.

After some persuasion by me. Zhang Fu finally understood the value of the pump, nodded frequently, couldn't help admiring, in short, he was very eager, at least it made me feel that he was trying to make himself eager.

"It seems that you still don't understand," I smiled first, and raised my hand to pour him a glass. When you think about it, that's not the case at all. At least most people don't realize the benefits of the sea. ”

Zhang Fu drank it all and nodded. "At least the little brother can't feel it. Although many rare objects have been brought back from the ocean over the years, all of them are fat and oily...... "said here and quickly put a wall on his mouth, coughing embarrassedly.

"Cough what? Again, that's right. The Wang family got up because of this, and the whole world knows about it. He waved his hand and said with a smile: "There is no big reason to explain, as far as it is now, there is no other use except to make money." Naturally, the pumping machine is not as solid as the crossbow, don't say you can't look down on it, even I can't look down on it. But after a few years, it will be different, a hundred years and two hundred years are long, and fifty years will be known, and the name Zhang Fu will be worshiped by thousands of generations, not only the people of the Tang Dynasty, but also the people of the Tang Dynasty. ”

"Ahh These words made Zhang Fu a clever man, and his expression was like a soak of urine that suddenly went out of control halfway, which was cool and uncomfortable, difficult to face the consequences and wanted to pretend not to know himself. "You are joking, how can the little brother He De ......"

Raising his glass and muffled, "It's all about laughing." Oh, by the way, how water-based are you? ”

Zhang Fu shook his head, feeling that the denial was too hasty, and asked carefully: "Does falling into the pond when you were a child count?" The younger brother climbed up on his own. ”

"Well, your sailing dreams began in that little pond, right? When later generations write "The Biography of Zhang Fu", they have to give people some materials, so that they can write wonderfully. ”

"What dream?" Zhang Fu couldn't keep up with the rhythm, and said honestly: "Since I fell off that once, I have been having nightmares, every time I wake up...... Wake up...... All have water ......."

"It seems that you are indeed excellent in water, and you do have the ambition to cross the ocean. You haven't been dreaming about it lately, have you? ”

"......" Zhang Fu felt that he had been tricked, and laughed aggrievedly.

"Don't laugh, I'm happy to be like this without a stroke," he stretched out his hand to make a closing motion, turned the wine glass, and asked slowly: "What are the points between you and Yun Yatou?" ”

"Huh?" Zhang Fu opened his mouth, as if he had stuffed a green brick into it.

"Are there any further plans? The age is not young, the girl or what kind of words, how do you plan to settle the family? "It's not that I'm gossiping, and I don't have such a good impression of the Yun family, but in the end, Yun girl was rescued from the fire, and after watching her grow up day by day, I scolded the eldest brother of the Wang family for not being able to see the girl suffer.

"I haven't thought about it...... Zhang Fu was a little wilted, and said unwillingly: "Actually, I have thought about it." ”

"Do you want to? Do you want to, or do other girls want to too? ”

"Yes, I think." Zhang Fu brought the wine jug to him in annoyance, and blew a few sips on the spout, "You can't care about people's lives and deaths!" The gate did not go out of the door, and she entered the Zhang family and her way of life. Miss Yun loves to run up the field, and she loves to stand in the wind and rain looking up at the riverside, and people who don't even tie a towel under the sun, go to the courtyard of Zhangjiaqiong to listen to my mother's teaching? ”

"What do you mean by girl?" Seeing Zhang Fu's gaffe, he patted him on the shoulder and comforted: "It depends on whether the girl is willing to go back with you to live a moldy life." You can't be more sacrificial because you cherish others, people should be willing to go to Zhang's house? Would you like to be taught? "It's not nonsense, there are indeed people who are willing to do this, and there are quite a few. After all, it is a glorious thing to be able to marry into the Zhang family, as a daughter-in-law in the Guogong Mansion, the mother's family has been stained for several generations, and even the two old guys who were burned to death in the Yun family can get a corresponding head under the loess.

Zhang Fu smiled bitterly, "Miss Yun is afraid that she has had this idea. If she really wants to, the younger brother has also fought for the reputation of filial piety over the years and plans to fight with the second elder, but ......"

。 Three Heads M.