"Rod, when did you become so humorous?" Several girls laughed, but Rhodes took a deep breath of cigarette and said, "I'm not laughing, there were house slaves who couldn't meet the lord's requirements before, and they were roasted by the lord." It is more popular to say that roasting, but in fact it is burning at the stake. The atmosphere was sluggish, and everyone thought it was incredible, but combined with the current situation of this different world, everyone knew that what Rhodes said should be true.

The smoke that Rhodes exhaled was like a black-gray ghost, and it was also like a demon's outstretched claws, making it difficult for everyone to breathe. There was nothing they could do, so they had to ask Duan Lingzi to do psychological counseling for him. And until sitting at the dining table in the second-floor building at night, Lin Qiang still saw the last puff of smoke that Rod spit out in front of his eyes, just like the fire that the lord set off when Rod died, which made people feel heavy.

"To be honest, family, old Rhodes is not bad to us. Although I am tired every day, it is much better than being locked up in prison. Lin Qiang said slowly. I know what you're going to say, but have you thought about it, Brother Qiang, how do you want to help him? 300,000 tons of ore, that's an astronomical amount. Han Xu said.

After a deep silence, Han Xu spoke again: "Although it is ruthless, we still have to plan early, that lord can be so cruel to many years of house slaves, if Rhodes is punished and no one protects us, we don't know what will happen." ”

"Sister Xu, maybe I have a way." Liang Shuopeng, who had never spoken, said slowly: "But first of all, I have to solve two problems, the first is smelting, and the second is coal." ”

"You mean?" Han Xu, who also studied engineering, widened his eyes.

Liang Shuopeng smiled and said, "Well, that's right, steam engine." ”

The next day, instead of going directly to the miner captain's place to report, several people ran to Rhodes early in the morning. "Old Rod, old Rod, come out quickly." Lin Qiang, who had a loud voice, shouted. Rod pushed open the door suspiciously, invited a few people into the house, and asked, "Why did you come to me early in the morning when you didn't go to work?" I'm telling you, I don't have anything to eat here until I don't go to work. Rod feigned anger, but although he was joking, everyone could still see the desperation under his forced composure.

"Of course, it's for you." Liang Shuopeng stepped forward, he took a roll of parchment paper from Zhao Huiying's hand, and spread it on the stone table in Rhodes' courtyard: "No, this thing can help you." ”

Rod looked at the parchment in Liang Shuopeng's hand in surprise, looked at everyone again, and asked Liang Shuopeng, "What are you doing?" Liang Shuopeng explained with a smile: "This thing is called a steam engine, which burns fire and boils water, produces water vapor, uses steam to generate thrust, and then continuously produces power." It can be said that with the existence of a steam engine, it can replace manpower to a certain extent, and people will be tired, but this thing will not. ”

"With steam..."Old Rod muttered, staring at the design drawings drawn by Zhao Huiying on the parchment under the guidance of Liang Shuopeng overnight, his eyes were full of disbelief, but in an instant he realized something, and excitedly took Liang Shuopeng's hand and said: "Oh my God, you are simply a genius!" ”

Liang Shuopeng was a little embarrassed, he said in his heart: "Don't say that, Watt is a genius." But he couldn't tell Rhodes about it, for fear of having finished speaking, and Rodre asked him who Watt was. He quickly interrupted the incoherent Rhodes and said, "Mine owner, don't be too happy too soon. I'm just a blueprint, and there are two more issues that need to be solved in order for him to work. ”

Rod came back to his senses, calmed down and asked Liang Shuopeng: "Which two questions?" ”

"First, this steam engine can't be made of wood and stone, it has to be made of smelted steel, preferably steel, which is the kind of material used to make armor." Liang Shuopeng slowly explained why the steam engine needed good materials, seals and the like, and explained to Rhodes.

Rod nodded and said, "No problem, this is easy." In fact, you don't know that there is a blacksmith shop behind the mountain, but because it involves military aspects, I haven't told you about it. The blacksmith shop smelts and processes ore every day, and the iron tools such as pickaxes in our mine are also made by the blacksmith shop in the back mountain. Rod thought for a moment and said, "The second question is fire, right?" Is firewood not good? ”

Liang Shuopeng was surprised this time, he looked at Rod with admiration, and he was a little embarrassed to see this honest and simple old man. Rod hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Don't look at me like that, I don't know magic, so sometimes I think about something evil." After thinking about it for a while, Rhodes said: "In our world, we generally use a kind of black stone to burn a fire, like a blacksmith shop, this kind of smelting requires a large fire, and it is generally used black stone, which is very forbidden to burn. ”

"It's not coal." Gao Ting said. "You told him, he didn't know, he said it was a black stone." Tsuneishi gestured for a moment and asked Rod: "Doesn't that feel a little scum, and the contact of your hand or something will be dark?" ”

Rod nodded. Everyone looked at each other and smiled knowingly.

Rhodes exchanged with them for a while about the details of the steam engine, then took them to the blacksmith shop in the back mountain, and shouted, "Lao Zhang, Lao Zhang." "Everyone is no longer surprised, the people of this world in the mines are indeed similar to them in various aspects, but they are indeed not the same race as their own world, and they are not the same as those who have crossed over. Everyone watched as a strong man with black hair and black eyes walked out and shouted in a fluent otherworldly language: "Rod, why are you free to come to me?" ”

Rod scolded, "It's okay, I can't come over, you bastard." I'll tell you something serious, I have something you need to build for me, can you do it? When the blacksmith Lao Zhang heard this, he grinned, revealing a mouth full of yellow teeth: "What should I do, I won't do anything else if you let me do anything else, but I am the best at letting me strike iron." ”

Rod nodded with satisfaction, and pulled Liang Shuopeng to introduce him to the blacksmith: "I am very optimistic about this young man, and the things I want you to help build are designed by him." ”

Blacksmith Lao Zhang watched Rhodes introduce Liang Shuopeng, and was a little disdainful at first. The favorite thing for those who do their job is the strong fat pestering muscles, but Liang Shuopeng is very thin, and the blacksmith looks at his "small body" and pouts. But as Liang Shuopeng introduced the design of the steam engine, the blacksmith Lao Zhang became more and more surprised, he looked at Liang Shuopeng's head, and his soul let out the same sigh as Rhodes at that time: "Genius! As a blacksmith, he understands the benefits of this thing. The grandfather of the magician may calcine a piece of iron ingot, and he has to use magic continuously, so the magician generally can't let go of the cheap job of being a blacksmith. But as an ordinary person, if he can have such a guy and provide him with a certain amount of help, such as repeated hammering and forging, then he will save a lot of effort.

The blacksmith patted Liang Shuopeng on the back and said with a heroic smile: "You guy is really good at braining." Don't worry, Rod, leave him with me for a week, this thing is guaranteed to be made. "Huh? A week? Liang Shuopeng's eyes were round. Rhodes consulted Liang Shuopeng's opinion, Liang Shuopeng looked at everyone pitifully, and everyone also looked at him sympathetically and said, "Brother, come on." ”

A week passed, and everyone still worked as usual, eating Northeast stew after work, and occasionally going to fart and chat with Rod. It's just that Lin Qiang occasionally asks when he is full of food and drink: "By the way, a few of us are crossing." Tsuneishi always picks his teeth and counts: "You and me, Sister Xu, Sister Lingzi, Sister Xueyuan, Huiying, Gao Ting, 7." "How do I remember that there was one less person coming?" Lin Qiang always frowned and asked. And Tsuneishi always replied, "No, who else?" ”

Early the next morning, Rod stopped them on their way to work: "Hey, you're not going to pick up your friends who came with you?" "Who?" Gao Ting opened her big ignorant eyes and asked with a wink. "That one is called Liang Shuopeng?" Rod covered his face and said. "Hey, really, what about Xiaoliangren?" Zhao Huiying asked.

Rod said helplessly: "Come on, what do you guys eat every day, why can't you remember anything, come with me!" Several people looked back at Han Xu in unison, Han Xu's eyes widened, and he raised his thin arms to make a gesture to fight: "What are you looking at?" Why, don't you believe me? Do I remember that the trabecular crossed over? Don't give me nothing to do there, it's not a pot of Northeast stew. ”

"Then Xu Xu, why did you tell me why Xiao Liang went?" Duan Lingzi stared at Han Xu's face with a slight expression, narrowed her eyes and examined. "Ahem, what, he's not... Did the purchase go, hahaha? Right, the purchase went. Duan Lingzi smiled and shook her head and said, "It seems that you don't know either." ”

"Hmph, I'll just say that you can't eat that thing, it's all for us to eat Alzheimer's." Lin Qiang complained. "Get out." Han Xu said angrily: "I'll tell you, if you force you to cook later." ”

A few people led by Rhodes to the back mountain, only to see that after another bang, a continuous "woo" sound sounded in the house, and then there was a crazy howl: "Haha! Hey, hahaha, whoa, whoa! ”

"Damn, what's going on?" As soon as Lin Qiang pursed his lips, he saw the door of the blacksmith shop being kicked open with a "pop", and then a blackened humanoid object with only pants and white glasses came out. The humanoid object laughed, and a gliding kneeled and pounded the ground fiercely, laughing: "Hahahahaha, I'm done, I'm done!" Lao Tzu is the first person in the world to invent the steam engine, hahahahahaha! ”

Then, the humanoid object turned his head and saw Lin Qiang and a few people, especially his eyes swept over several female comrades, he looked down at himself, stood up, lifted his pants, and his expression was numb.