Chapter 40 The fire at the weaving factory in Richangyuan

A team of 100 horses quickly left Hangzhou City, galloping on the official road to Qiantang, there was only one carriage in the team, and the rest of the people were all riding horses, and suddenly someone fell off the horse and fell to the ground, and everyone had to stop to check the person who fell off the horse.

The person who fell off the horse was very embarrassed, apologized to everyone with a flushed face, patted the dust on his body and wanted to continue to get on the horse, but was stopped by an old man in the crowd.

"Mr. Xiao should ride in the carriage with the bottle, and there is no need to insist on riding a horse." It was Su Bi, the master of Su Mansion, who spoke, and the one who fell off the horse was Xiao Ming, although the horse was not difficult to ride, but it was not too easy to control and control it freely, Xiao Ming didn't dare to do it anymore, so he could only obediently get into the carriage.

Seeing Xiao Ming coming in the carriage, Shen Bei'er covered his mouth with his sleeve and chuckled, Xiao Ming was quite embarrassed, Shen Bei'er laughed and felt that it was rude to make fun of Xiao Ming in person, so he sat upright, the more she was like this, the more Xiao Ming felt a little embarrassed, and couldn't help but start to blush again, Xiao Ming himself felt strange, he once thought he was the thickest skinned person in the world, his mother once said that he would never blush in his life, and he didn't know how many girls he would deceive in the future, but Xiao Ming himself knew that daring to joke with female classmates did not mean that he was flamboyant and thick-skinned, Just like the female classmate Lu Yuqing said about him, it's just a kind of cynicism, no one will think that he has depth, where are the girls now!

When I think of Lu Yuqing, I think of my mother, I don't know what happened to them? I don't know what my expression is after I know I'm missing? Do you talk about him all the time?

Seeing Xiao Ming in a daze, Shen Bei'er asked softly, "What are you thinking?" ”

"Oh," Xiao Ming was a little flustered, and returned to reality in a trance, "I'm thinking...... Miss your weaving mill......"

"The weaving factory in Qiantang is very big, called Richang Garden," Shen Bei'er explained to Xiao Ming, "I don't know how happy Cai'er will be when she sees you in the past!" Shen Bei'er said faintly.

"What a strange woman was in ancient times! Could it be that the intersection of these two times will also have emotional sustenance? Isn't it child's play? Xiao Ming couldn't figure it out, he had no love history, he didn't know the twists and turns in it, and of course he wouldn't take the initiative to ask, he wanted to joke with Shen Bei'er, but he felt that Meng Lang, so he shut up and lowered his head to think about things.

Xiao Ming was thinking about An Daoquan's matter, An Daoquan and Gongsun Sheng must have come for the treasure map, the two of them returned to Hangzhou one after the other may have found some important clues, and the clue may be the piece of cloth on Xiao Ming's body, thinking of this, Xiao Ming took the strip out of his arms and looked at it carefully.

"What the hell is written on this?" Xiao Ming muttered,

Shen Bei'er stretched her neck curiously to watch, and suddenly chuckled: "Don't you know the Golden Drum Text?" ”

"yes, you know?"

Shen Bei'er tilted her head to look at him, with a naughty expression on her face.

Xiao Ming suddenly showed a pitiful expression, and said with a bitter face: "Do you understand?" I'm in a hurry."

Shen Bei'er grinned and said, "I can only see a few words, but I have a way to recognize all the characters on it!" ”

"Really?" Xiao Ming was extremely excited, and couldn't help but invade his body forward, "Good bottle!" Tell me how to recognize it."

Shen Bei'er's face turned red as soon as he "Teng", Xiao Ming's "good bottle" was really intimate, but the relationship between the two was just average, Xiao Ming's name was like this, and it had the taste of ridicule at all.

Shen Bei'er lowered his head and said: "You have a great kindness with us, and you have saved the lives of the slave family, even if the bottle is broken, you can't repay it, if you have any requirements, we will definitely comply, why bother you to ask for it softly......"

Xiao Ming said: "I have 10,000 respect for Miss, only those who respect themselves, I will plead, Miss, don't blame me for calling your maiden name, it's good to be too abrupt, but I'm a person who doesn't want to be too restrained, and it's okay for our brothers and sisters to be commensurate in the future?" It's a little kinder for everyone."

Shen Bei'er felt sweet in his heart, but he was a little sad, and said secretly in his heart: "He respects me, but he is only willing to be commensurate with my brother and sister, I don't know if Sister Cai'er is like this in his heart" Because he and Su Cai'er are similar in appearance, he unconsciously always compares the two.

"Then the bottle will call you Brother Xiao from now on, right?" Shen Bei'er said.

"Hehe, okay, what's that—tell me about the bottle!"

Seeing Xiao Ming's appearance of scratching his ears and cheeks, Shen Bei'er smiled again, and said softly to Xiao Ming: "It always makes people laugh for no reason...... I only recognize a few words on this strip of cloth, it seems that there are two words of thunder pool, well, this is the word water, but the others don't recognize."

"Thunder Pool...... Water! What does that mean? Xiao Ming was at a loss.

Shen Bei'er said: "But it doesn't matter, as long as I find Uncle Jin, I am not afraid of not being able to recognize any word, he is a master in this regard." ”

Xiao Ming was overjoyed, "Great, your Uncle Jin is in Qiantang?" ”

Shen Bei'er shook her head and didn't know, seeing Xiao Ming's disappointment, she couldn't help but tell him again: "If you want to find Uncle Daojin, you need to find Cai'er's sister to help."

Since he can find someone, Xiao Ming is relieved, since this "Uncle Jin" can know Shigu Jinwen, he can save a lot of trouble, and he doesn't have to wait for Ding Jianpeng to come back, and "Uncle Jin" is obviously also a person who is growing brightly, for him, that is his own person, of course his own people help his own people!

Soon after, the Qiantang Wharf Richanglong granary arrived, Richanglong arranged the account manager and others here, took stock of the stock of Dayun Rice Village and took over all the business, and the steward immediately welcomed the big shopkeeper "Shen Beier" and others, and took out the account documents to report immediately.

The façade warehouse and the granary of the wharf of the Dayun rice village were found to have a total of 450,000 quintals of stock, the rice pot sacks are not counted, plus the door and so on, it can be described as a large amount of wealth, the transport fleet belonging to the rice village has been incorporated into Richanglong's own fleet, and the contact details of the account and rice merchant customers across the country are all there, and Richanglong has made a fortune.

Originally, the assets of Dayun Rice Village should be regarded as the property of the Demon Sect, but now it has been stripped away entirely, for fear of the Demon Sect making trouble, all the granaries and other places are guarded, these people are the martial artists of the Guardian of Richanglong and hundreds of villagers in Qiantang County, so far they are safe.

According to the agreement between Xiao Ming and Lingyin Temple, the warehouse immediately arranged for 50,000 loads of grain to be loaded and sent to Lingyin Temple, and the Demon Sect is now short of food, in order to prevent them from raiding and robbing grain, Xiao Ming sent people back to the iron factory to summon another 300 tiger guards to bear the safety of the wharf granary.

The matter was quickly dealt with, and everyone continued on the road to Richanglong's weaving factory, Richangyuan.

Qiantang County has been renamed Renhe County since the Northern Song Dynasty, the current Qiantang County is the first county of Hangzhou, with Nanyang, Beiguan, Anxi, Xixi 4 towns and 11 townships, Richangyuan Weaving Factory is located in Nanyang Town, the terrain here is flat, there are rivers and streams flowing before and after, a variety of mulberry trees of nearby people, silkworm raising is the main livelihood.

But when everyone just arrived at the entrance of the town, they saw the smoke rising from the direction of the Richangyuan weaving factory, and it was obvious that things had changed suddenly, and everyone's complexion changed greatly.

"Not good! Something happened to the weaving factory! Su Bi shouted.

Everyone rode their horses and galloped, but the carriage made by Xiao Ming and Shen Bei'er was left behind, Xiao Ming swore that he must practice horseback riding, or he would always eat dirt behind people's backs, what is it?

When I arrived at the gate of the weaving factory in Richangyuan, the result was chaos, the bangs and gongs were striking loudly, people were calling for fire everywhere, many craftsmen and weavers in the weaving factory were busy carrying water to put out the fire, and many people were full of gray smoke.

The weaving factory itself was built on the courtyard of the farmer's arcade, and after the scale was expanded, the weaving of confidential cloth did not even think about the fire protection facilities, and in the event of a fire risk, the houses of this bamboo and wood building could easily be set on fire.

Because a large number of workers in the weaving factory are women, called weavers here, when the fire broke out, the water intake of the basin and bucket was also very limited, and the warriors of the nursing home came at the right time, and the men jumped up and down to immediately start fighting the fire, but the houses were too dense, and the fire did not decrease at all, but there was a tendency to expand.

Su Caier, accompanied by several assistant managers, also rushed over with a sweat, and after meeting everyone, they watched the firefighting together, and the fire came suddenly, Su Caier was a little caught off guard.

Su Bi, Jie Zhicong, Song Wu, Shen Bei'er and others stood in the recording room in the front yard, looking at the arcades behind them were spreading by the flames, and couldn't help but feel anxious, because there was living water in the front and back, there were no wells and other things in the weaving factory, although the craftsmen of Richanglong had moved the hydraulic water spray gun out, but the fire point in the high place was still out of reach.

"It is necessary to build an isolation belt, otherwise it will be ignited" Xiao Ming said on the side, the isolation belt is a fire isolation belt, due to the dense housing, it is a quick way to put out the fire by pushing the building that has no rescue value that has been on fire to isolate the fire source, but now it is all fires, and it is very dangerous to drill into the fire to make a fire isolation belt, and everyone still feels that it is difficult to do.

A figure suddenly rushed out, "suddenly" rushed into the fire, everyone exclaimed, only to see the fire in a dense place, suddenly some burned houses suddenly collapsed, the peripheral fire points were cleared one by one, the fire barrier was soon opened, and the remaining fire was finally slowly extinguished under the efforts of everyone.

At this time, Xiao Ming came out with a face full of soot, it turned out that it was he who rushed into the fire, seeing that he was unharmed, all the craftsmen and the martial artists of the nursing home cheered, and those who were willing to stand up in times of danger were always regarded as heroes.

The high-level people of Richanglong surrounded Xiao Ming and thanked him.

Shen Bei'er sighed secretly: "Why doesn't this guy know what danger is!" Richanglong owes him more and more, when will he be able to repay this favor! ”

She didn't know that Xiao Ming was familiar with the fire in the fire field, practicing the pace left and right, under the barbecue of the flames, he fully realized the trick of "cutting, turning, wiping, floating and other words" of this set of body methods, and when he touched the burning house, he used his hands to push the load-bearing walls and pillars to or inferred, others were worried that he was dangerous, but he was like playing.

After the fire, the cause of the fire in the weaving factory has also been ascertained, that is, there are Manichaean believers in the weaving factory, who instigated everyone to go to Hangzhou to participate in the rebellion, but they were captured by everyone and prepared to be sent to the government for punishment, but they did not expect that they broke the rope and escaped, and set fire everywhere before leaving, wanting to destroy the weaving factory.

After counting the loss, it was found that sixty percent of the looms in the weaving mill were burned, fortunately, the warehouse was fine, a large number of raw silk was preserved, otherwise the loss was greater, Su Bi and others regretted that the looms were the latest long beds made by Mojia craftsmen, and there were many upper and lower beds, this kind of bed can be erected up to five floors, branched out in the arcade, the upper and lower floors are operated, and the more vivid patterns and colors on the silk are completed in this way, and now they are all destroyed.

Xiao Ming said: "The old ones don't go, the new ones don't come, just replace them all with the latest power looms, our Gu Clan's Refinery can help you, Su Lao doesn't have to worry!" ”

However, Su Bi said: "The power problem has not been solved until now, and the method of water vapor you demonstrated to me last time was quite ingenious, but my experiment was unsuccessful." ”

Xiao Ming said: "Power problem, what's so difficult about this? Wheeled power can be converted by gears, can you use animal power first if there is no gas, just find some mules and horses! ”

Song Wu patted his head on the side and said: "Good idea, why didn't I expect that Master Jin would come over in a few days, and we will solve this power plant with him, right?" ”

Su Bi nodded yes, but Shen Bei'er said, "Is Uncle Jin coming?" That's great! Then he glanced at Xiao Ming very proudly, and Xiao Ming immediately suddenly realized that Master Jin was that Uncle Jin!

"Does it seem like things are going well? Hey! 600,000 catties of gold——! Xiao Ming couldn't help but smile happily.