'Moo! Moo! With the sound of cows, the villagers began to prepare for rice planting.

The wheat has just been harvested today, and the fields for rapeseed and ramie have been harrowed by oxen.

The horses and donkeys that were used before are now not used.

Horses try not to go into the paddy fields, horses are sick when the hooves are soaked in water, including donkeys, but it is actually okay to plow once in a while.

Theoretically, buffaloes are the best at cultivating paddy fields, have a lot of strength, and like water.

The village does not buy buffalo because the cow has to be used for other work, especially walking to pull carts, and the local summer weather is hot, and the buffalo is unbearable in the high temperature for a long time.

Another point is that buffaloes are particularly aggressive with their own kind, and have the advantage of being more powerful than scalpers.

At this moment, the oxen rake the ground again, and tomorrow they will plant the seedlings, and the people from other villages who have finished harvesting the wheat will live for another day, help them go home after planting the seedlings, and deal with their own land.

Zhou Zong took people to work together, Zhu Wentian took his friends to hide behind the mountain temple to practice guns, and the flintlock pistol was made, and there is only one at present.

Zhu Wentian made a lot of gunpowder and projectiles, and the projectiles of lead bullets were almost the same size, and the gunpowder was fixed, one pack at a time.

The flint stone is selected, cut into the same shape and size, and can be replaced at any time.

He charged in front, slammed it, reloaded it with lead bullets, reloaded, charged in the back medicine room, closed the fire door, aimed, fired, snapped a shot, and hit the bullseye of the paper target.

"Exactly! Hey! Zhu Wentian was satisfied.

"Okay! Brother Han is amazing! The friends clapped their hands and cheered.

"You're all going to try." Zhu Wentian changed the target paper one meter away in front of the gun and gave the gun to the next little friend.

Everyone tried one by one, and after a dozen times, they simply cleaned the hole of the lower fire door, and they were able to continue firing.

This is a long gun, with a longer range than a handcuff, the barrel is not rifled, and the bullet does not use Mini rounds.

The main reason is that the time is too late, and the rice has to be left immediately, and the prince of April 12 got married, and today is the seventh day of the fourth month.

After the rice planting tomorrow, I will take a boat to Nanjing early the morning after tomorrow, and I will go to the local place to check the etiquette with the etiquette officer, and I will be arranged to live in an inn.

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On the night of the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, many people in the village had insomnia, and the friends tossed and turned, thinking about going to the big city to play, and the village elders were also thinking about it.

The chief is reciting the etiquette over and over again, and he is afraid that he will forget it if he is nervous.

Only Zhu Wentian was snoring in the ancestral hall, he had nothing to worry about, he just had to look at the etiquette once, not to mention that with his identity, others would not do anything to him.

On the morning of the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, everyone had a hasty meal, changed into new clothes, new shoes, put on jewelry and congratulatory gifts for the crown prince and princess, gifts for His Majesty and Queen Ma, Sun Guifei, other harem women, and kings.

So three ships are needed, otherwise they won't be able to hold so many people and things.

Zhu Wentian took a bag and took care of a box, which contained a change of clothes and shoes, and silver ingots in the box.

This time, everyone brought 1,000 taels of silver, and when they saw what they could buy, they bought it and brought it back to the villagers.

The lieutenant had a long strip of cloth wrapped in his hand, and he got on the boat, muttering the contents of the etiquette.

Zhou Zong sat in the same boat as Li Chang, so he looked at the long thing on Li Chang's legs: "Zhu Li Chang, what is this?" ”

"Sticks, sticks with holes." The governor replied naturally.

"Where's the box under your feet?" Zhou Zong was very skeptical.

"Little balls of lead, stuffed into the holes of sticks, and powders of brimstone, saltpeter, and charcoal."

The lieutenant said unraveling, he can't take it with him at any time, this is a firearm, who are you going to assassinate?

When he opened it, an unpretentious flintlock pistol appeared in front of Zhou Zong's eyes.

Zhou Zong: "......"

He wants to scold, what stick? Did you make the handcuffs?

When he saw the real thing, he frowned again, what guns? I haven't seen it, but I've got you this kind of thing?

He knows what the handcuff looks like, a barrel, end, first put the lead, then put the medicine, put the projectile or arrow, light the lead, hold it up and wait, the lead burns inside, and hits out.

Why do you see it differently now? Didn't the master of the village learn? It shouldn't be! It's pretty simple.

He reached out and fiddled with it: "This gun...... What is it? ”

"The butt, this is the hammer, this is the trigger, it is the medicine pool, the lid, the plug rod, the flint, the fixed medicine pack, the medicine pool medicine pack, the lead bullet ......"

The lieutenant doesn't need to ask the other party one by one, he explains every part and extra things.

When he was done, he took the gun and began to actually operate, loading the gunpowder and bullets one by one, and the muzzle of the gun was not pointed at anyone.

"Put the butt on your shoulder, just pull the trigger, don't face people! To give. The lieutenant chief carefully handed the loaded weapon to Zhou Zong.

Of course, Zhou Zong understood the danger of firearms, and he took it with the same care: "What about fire? ”

"Didn't you tell you to hook directly, flint is fire, you find something to fight."

The lieutenant kept his eyes on the muzzle of the gun, ready to dodge at any moment.

Zhou Zong began to touch around, Zhu Taiyi and the others were on the boat, and when they saw him coming, they put their hands in front of them and waved them again and again.

"Uh...... The boat came to shore, fast. Zhou Zong stood up with his mouth in mind, and there was a tree on the shore in front of him.

The boat first leaned to the shore, the distance was about two or three meters, Zhou Zong jumped from the boat to the shore with a gun, ran forward, went to the front of the tree, and raised the gun to hook the trigger on the tree.

'Bang! A puff of smoke came out, Zhou Zong was startled, he quickly glanced at the tree trunk that had been hit, turned around and jumped from the shore to the boat that had just come.

"Zhou She is worthy of being a person with a knife, and he is very skilled." The lieutenant chief praised, and the others who were not targeted nodded their heads.

"This is the one you made with those three handcuffs?" Zhou Zong trembled with excitement.

He had just seen the smoke, he had seen the punched holes in the trunk of the tree, and he could smell the smell of burning gunpowder.

He swore that he had never lit the medicine twist with fire, but only hooked it with his finger and the lead bullet was shot.

The chief smiled and bowed his head: "It is too difficult to imitate the handcuffs sent by Zhou Sheren, and there is no way, so I can only explore some of the knowledge of the handcuffs I have learned."

This gun has too many defects, and it is not as good as the handcuff of the imperial court, so I think it can be used to make do with the village to guard against bad people. ”

Zhou Zong, Zhu Taiyi, and the shipwright in charge of the ship were speechless together, and they were bad! It's too bad.

After more than ten breaths, Zhou Zong laughed angrily, and said twice: "The handcuff is indeed not easy to imitate, but it is difficult for you." May I ask, do you think that fire used to point the lead is not easy to imitate? ”

"Yes...... Right? Well! The torch is inconvenient to tie, how to make the fire pleats? In the village, fires are usually lit with fire sickles, and there are flints in them.

And then we thought, yes! We don't know how to make fire folds, so let's put the flint on it, snap it, and the fire comes out. ”

While trying to think about how to make it up, the lieutenant came back with a sweat on his forehead.

"Yes, smack, boom, hey, hey, hey, hey!" Zhu Wentian estimated the time next to him, and it was time for him to speak.