"What is this?"

He asked.

"It's a hoe."

"Hoes?" Prime Minister Fu was even more surprised, "It does look like a hoe this way, but it doesn't look like what I saw before."

"That's right." Shen Yuxin said quite complacently: "This is made of iron, which is sharper, lighter and easier to use, and it will be easier to dig the ground with it."

"I see." Prime Minister Fu stroked his palm and smiled, "I didn't expect that I was just looking for a random place to hide from the snow, old man, and I was really lucky to meet a genius craftsman like you."

"Oh, no, no."

The two chatted for a few words, Shen Yuxin was busy striking iron, and Prime Minister Fu Cheng sat next to him and watched seriously, asking a word or two from time to time, the two got along well, and looked like friends for many years.

"However, Brother Shen, you are a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people, in my opinion, this thing can be recommended to the imperial court, and I can be regarded as a talkative official in the imperial court, if you are willing, I can recommend Brother Shen to the emperor, so that you can become the imperial craftsman of the imperial court, once this thing is promoted, you will definitely be able to live through the ages!"

Seeing his excited look, Shen Yuxin smiled honestly.

"You're such a good officer."

"But—" He shook his head, "It's better to enter the palace, anyway, I'm the same as ironsmithing now, I heard that there are a lot of things in the court, and I have to deal with a lot of people or something, I'm stupid, I don't know how to get along with people, so just be an ordinary blacksmith."

"Hehe, Brother Shen is really innocent." Prime Minister Fu Cheng smiled, "If everyone in this world is as simple and simple as Brother Shen, then how many incidents should there be in the world."

"Hehe, if it's all people like me, wouldn't it be a mess."

Being praised by strangers like this, Shen Yuxin was very happy, and unconsciously said more: "Everyone in this world is different, a noble person like you is destined to be a big official in the court, and what you do is for the community, for the people of the world, for people like me to have a stable living environment, without you, how can I, a blacksmith, strike iron so steadily, right, it is precisely because there are all kinds of people that we can live a good life."

"Brother Shen, I'm ashamed!"

Prime Minister Fu suddenly stood up very solemnly, and bent down towards Shen Yuxin again, "I didn't expect that I could get this advice today, it's really enlightening, Brother Shen, you are my nobleman."

"You can't do it!" Shen Yu was taken aback and quickly asked him to stop.

"I don't know if I have the honor of making friends with Brother Shen." Prime Minister Fu sat down again and said with a smile.

"Why can't that?"

Shen Yuxin waved his hand, "As long as I can't go out, I will come over every day to strike iron, you can come over whenever you want."

"Okay, it seems, I'm a little older, if Brother Shen doesn't dislike it, you can call me Brother Hu in the future!"

"Okay, Brother Hu."

At this time, inside the palace of the Great Prince.

"The people I asked you to find still haven't been traced?"

The eldest prince was furious, and his face was extremely ugly, "That man said, we only have less than a month, and now we have wasted several days, and if we can't find anyone again, I will let you all go down together to accompany that guy!"

Several guards shuddered and immediately knelt down.

"Your Highness, there are already some clues, we have heard from several people, they have seen an unusually handsome young man, but every time I inquire about the specific address, there is no news at all, and it seems that someone is deliberately concealing the news, we just found a little clue on the front foot, and when the back foot went to investigate, nothing was different."

"It must be Qi Jingxing's ghost!"

The eldest prince sat down and sneered: "But now that he has left here, it is impossible to think of any big moves, so there is no need to be afraid during this time, if you find anything abnormal, you can catch it directly, or use some tough means."

Okay, anyway, no matter what, within seven days, you have to find that boy, understand!"

"Understood!"

"Also, hold this picture."

He turned around and took out a painting, and said, "His Highness has drawn it according to his memory, and the real person is about seven or eight points like the painting, so I will find it according to this!"

The guards took the painting and glanced at the people on it, and their eyes lit up.

This young man is really handsome, if he didn't know that he was a man, just looking at this painting, I am afraid that I would not be able to tell whether he is a man or a woman.

At night, Shen Youqiu continued to practice the method of controlling fire.

It is not easy to compress the flame very thinly, and the heat distribution on the flame must be very even.

But what discouraged Shen Youqiu the most was that the warmth of this method seemed to be a little poor, she tried to wrap her arms with flames, her arms were only a little warmer than wearing cotton clothes, and it was not obvious, but if the heat was increased, the clothes would be at risk of being burned.

I can only practice slowly, and it's okay anyway.

At night, when the snow was still falling, she stood in the room and looked out the window, and the white expanse made the night seem dark at all.

I don't know how Qi Jingxing is now, whether he has arrived at the place.

At this time, Qi Jingxing was sitting in a delicate room, with a charcoal basin at his feet, and his brows were slightly furrowed and he looked out of the window.

Today all the way to the road, the snow on the road has not stopped for more than half a minute, to this side, people are almost unable to continue walking, in some places, the snow directly flooded the root of people's thighs, on the road even horses have frozen to death several horses, passing by some villages and towns, he also found a lot of farmers who were frozen to death in their own homes, and the rest of those who did not freeze to death, are also worried, because their food and firewood are left.

All this indicates that the year of catastrophe is approaching.

In the coming year, it is unknown how many people will be displaced and killed.

This time, the grain, grass and manpower they brought were obviously not enough, so they could only rely on the local people to make a temporary transition, thinking about it, the local granary still had something.

The next day, the county order received Qi Jingxing very warmly, but when Qi Jingxing explained his intention and wanted to see the county's grain stockpile, the county order was obviously hesitant.

"My lord, I'm afraid that even the lower officials won't be able to help too much, if it weren't for that, I wouldn't have turned to the court so quickly," he said a little embarrassedly, "If you don't believe me, follow me to the granary to have a look."