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After the singing of the Fengchun class, Fu Qiufang remembered that it was difficult to walk at night, so he placed the troupe in the servant group room in front. Wine and food were always hot on the stove, but Li Weijian and Yan Fengzhen never left Zhiyuan Hall.

Fu Qiufang pondered, and saw Xiu Ying pacing back and forth anxiously on the left like a headless fly. It's Xiuying's night, but you don't have to be so anxious, right?

Just thinking about it, Xiu Ying leaned forward and said, "Auntie, it's been this hour, why don't I go and call Gongzi again?" ”

Fu Qiufang said: "Go, if the master is busy with business, then don't disturb." ”

"Well, I'll save it."

Xiu Ying walked out of the second house, picked up the lantern and walked all the way to Zhiyuan Hall. When I arrived at the Zhiyuan Hall, I saw the Ding brothers carrying whistle sticks, guarding the left side like door gods.

Look inside, good guys! The clouds are steaming, like a fairyland! You can still smell a faint smell of sulfur between your noses. Xiu Ying blinked, thinking in her heart, could it be that Gongzi moved in the alchemy furnace at that time? Is this an elixir?

There is a way for a person to ascend to heaven, and if the son refines the elixir, I don't know if he can share one of himself. If you're waiting for a good life tonight, you guess there's always one of yourself, right?

Xiu Ying's heart became more and more anxious, but she hesitated and didn't dare to go in.

Ding Rufeng wondered: "Miss Xiuying, if you are looking for a son, just go in and find it." ”

"Huh? Doesn't it get in the way? ”

"It doesn't matter." Ding Rusong said.

Xiu Ying said, "Then why don't your brothers go in?" ”

Ding Rufeng said disgustedly: "It's full of the smell of burning coal, and it's steaming, who is impatient to go in?" ”

Xiu Ying became more and more hesitant: "This ...... Will it disturb Childe's alchemy? ”

"Huh?" The two brothers were happy, and Ding Rusong said: "Miss Xiuying went in and saw that it was really not alchemy. Tsk, brother, don't say it, looking at it from a distance is really like alchemy. ”

Seeing that the two of them swore an oath, Xiu Ying hesitated to enter, and the heat wave and humidity on her face made the smell of sulfur more and more intense. Beyond the white fog, I saw Li Weijian and Yan Fengzhen standing by the boiler, one staring at the mercury column in the glass tube, and the other twisting the valve.

"How much?"

"Almost three."

Li Weijian immediately stopped the valve, pulled Yan Fengzhen and the newcomer Xiuying to retreat far away, and after a while, he saw that the valve and pipeline had never leaked, so he smiled and breathed a sigh of relief: "Yes, it runs smoothly under the pressure of the three standards, and I will go back and measure the limit." Calculate that this steam engine is at least six donkey power. ”

"Donkey power?" Yan Fengzhen frowned and said: "This word is really harsh, I think it is better to change it to horsepower." ”

Li Weijian said happily: "You don't understand. ”

In another time and space, a few years later, Watt built a steam engine, and in order to make it easier for him to calculate the power, he used horsepower as a unit. As a result, the donkey used at the time, and then Watt thought that the power of the donkey was equivalent to half the horsepower...... So the fun came, and the horsepower of a real horse was about ten to fourteen horsepower, and a full-grown strong man still had four horsepower.

This double-expansion steam engine, Li Weijian carefully fiddled with it in his previous life, and its thermal efficiency is about 8 percent. What does eight percent thermal efficiency mean?

Newcomen was only 0.5 percent, and Watt's improved steam engine was only 3 percent, and it was not until the middle of the nineteenth century that successive improvements to the steam engine could achieve this efficiency.

As mentioned above, if he wants to carry out industrialization in the old empire of Dashun, Li Weijian's opponent is not Xiyi or a system, but extremely cheap labor with a population of nearly 200 million.

Unless his steam engine was far superior to manpower from the beginning, it could not be popularized at all.

The second son squatted at the door, looking at the steam engine running smoothly inside, his heart itched, his shoulder touched Li Weijian, and he smiled flatteringly: "Resurrection, this steam engine-"

"The drawings are in the Arsenal, Brother Jingwen wants it, just go and build another one."

Yan Fengzhen blinked and sneered: "Wouldn't that have to wait for two months?" ”

"The molds are all ready-made, this time it won't take so long, there is a month to the sky." After that, Li Weijian suddenly remembered that Yan Fengzhen seemed to have little money. He only has twenty taels of silver every month, and in addition to smashing into the practical creations he likes, he also has to allocate a part of it to buy rouge gouache for his concubine Le Yan, so naturally he is more and more poor.

Because it was Li Weijian and said: "My friend has the righteousness of making money, so I will order two more units when I go back, and I will share one with Brother Jingwen." ”

Yan Fengzhen was immediately overjoyed: "Resurrection is really a righteous person." You are a rich man, so I will not be polite to you. ”

Li Weijian was about to say something, when he suddenly saw Yan Fengzhen's whole face blackened by soot, except for a pair of white eyes behind the glasses, he remembered the comedian, and he was immediately overjoyed.

Yan Fengzhen thought that there was something on his face, so he wiped it indiscriminately, and suddenly became a big face. Laughing and laughing, Li Weijian knew that he was afraid that he would not be able to do it, so he immediately dragged Yan Fengzhen to Qingzhai to bathe.

Who would have thought that Yan Fengzhen suddenly became ashamed when he entered the pool, and he had to soak in the small pool by himself. provoked Li Weijian to be surprised, what can't you see people?

He glanced at his lower body and thought, could it be that the second son is afraid of inferiority?

After soaking in the warm soup, the two of them were already so hungry that their chests were close to their backs, and they used their meals indiscriminately, so they went to rest. The steam engine tested its limits, and we will have to talk about it later.

The night was dark, and Li Weijian was dressed in a middle coat and entered the main room with his hair in a bun. Xiu Ying looked at it, estimated the hour, and whispered, "Childe, or ...... Tell me more about tomorrow? ”

Li Weijian had the intention to tease, and smiled and bowed his head: "Okay, it's still Xiuying who is considerate, knowing that I am tired today." ”

Xiu Ying answered, although she didn't say anything, but she looked at that little mouth that seemed to be able to hang an oil bottle.

The two of them got on the bed, only covered with a blanket, and Xiu Ying turned around towards the outside of the bed, with her back to Li Weijian. Li Weijian lay down for a moment, then turned around and quietly stretched out his hand.

The firefly was smooth and greasy, changing the style at will, and after a while, Xiuying's snort became heavy. She suddenly turned around, and looked at Li Weijian with a pair of autumn water: "Childe, isn't it an explanation?" ”

Li Weijian leaned over and pursed his lips, and said in a low voice, "I'm afraid you can't wait." ”

After saying that, she deceived herself, Xiu Ying was surprised and delighted, and opened her arms to meet it with a greasy snort. After a while, he suddenly dropped something from the bed, and looked closely, but it was Mr. Horn who came from nowhere.

There is a poem here as proof:

The first bath in the Qingxing soup is over, and the submersible yarn is fresh again;

Just because he was trapped and invaded Lang Shan, he won the Yijia brocade tent.

In the main room, a diamond foot stepped on the edge of the bed, and the round and jade toes tightly buckled the edge of the bed, and suddenly the arch of the foot was tense, and the diamond foot trembled.

After waiting for a long time, the diamond foot was soothed. The snort was soothed by the rapidity and then soothing, and the two wrapped themselves in blankets and hugged each other.

Mr. Horn was stuffed into the corner, and there was a water bladder next to each other.

The gauze tent was put down, and the inner species whispered.

"Childe...... That's nice. ”

"You're just ...... Lost? ”

"Hmm." The female voice was ashamed.

The male voice became more and more surprised: "Weird." ”

"What's weird? Is there something wrong? ”

The male voice said after a long time: "No, it's good." "Can you lose your soul if you go through the back door? It's really weird.

There was silence inside, only the sound of crickets outside.

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Turning the day, when I got up in the morning, I saw Xiuying's face ruddy. She was originally a wild girl in the countryside, and only after following Li Weijian did she know that she used rouge gouache, and her skin was slightly rougher than that of Qingwen and Xiangling.

Xu was the result of the diligent irrigation last night, and this morning, Xiuying's skin on her face was white and red, which was extremely delicate.

Not only that, Xiu Ying felt that Li Weijian was favored, and since then she has been assured, so she is a lot more confident in her gestures, and she looks like two people with yesterday's Han girl.

Xiuying's change naturally made Qingwen and others amazed. Taking advantage of Li Weijian and Yan Fengzhen's dinner, Qingwen asked Xiuying. Where did Xiu Ying dare to say it? It's just vague, but Qingwen complains.

Li Weijian and Yan Fengzhen had breakfast, and the second son urged him to leave for the Armed Forces Institute. Yan Fengzhen loves machinery and is more willing to fiddle with it at home. Yesterday, I got Li Weijian's promise, and I wanted to start as soon as possible.

Li Weijian was not good at giving the silver ticket directly, and it was expected that this move would definitely hurt Yan Fengzhen's face, so he had to rush to Beijing with his horse. On the way, I suddenly thought about it, and yesterday I had an idea with Jia Huan, and I don't know what the situation in Rongguo's mansion is.

A woman like Daiyu, even if she can't marry, she can't be dragged down by Baoyu. He took advantage of the trend again and again, and carved the name of Baoyu's greedy and lustful flowers, and everyone knew that he could let him move out of the inner house in advance with a little persuasion. In this way, it is also lest Daiyu get along with her day and night, and then forget the previous discord.

After making up their minds, the two of them went to the Armament Institute first, Li Weijian had a conversation with Director Chen, set the price of two hundred taels of silver for a set, and placed two more sets of orders.

After coming out of the Armed Forces Academy, Yan Fengzhen still wanted to follow Li Weijian back to Xiangshan, so Li Weijian said: "Brother Jingwen, regardless of living or living permanently, you have to prepare some change of clothes." In addition, she happened to bring Le Yan with her, which also let her relax. ”

Yan Fengzhen immediately clasped his hands and praised: "It's still thoughtful about resurrection." Okay, then I'll go home...... What about resurrection? Not going to see my father? ”

Li Weijian shook his head and said: "Yesterday Baoyu fell into the water, and today I have to explain to a few elders." In this way, after that, I will go to your mansion to meet Brother Jingwen, and then we will go to Xiangshan. ”

"What do you have to explain to some shabby settlements?" Yan Fengzhen knew that he couldn't persuade him, so he agreed: "It's okay, then I'll go home first, and I'll wait for my resurrection." ”

When they entered the inner city, they parted from each other. Li Weijian led Wu Zhong on horseback and rushed towards Rongguo Mansion.

After half an hour when he arrived at Rongguo Mansion, Menzi Yu Liu hadn't seen Li Weijian for a long time, so he immediately stepped forward to greet him warmly, and said some auspicious words without saying anything.

Li Weijian was in a good mood, and immediately threw away a broken silver reward, so happy that Yu Liuzi smiled.

The horses were thrown to Yu Liu, Wu Zhong stayed in the gatehouse and waited, Li Weijian Shi Ran entered the Rongguo Mansion, thought about it, turned around and came out, and entered the East Cross Courtyard from the black oil gate.

The person in charge knew Li Weijian, and on the one hand, he stepped forward to greet him, and on the other hand, he sent people to pass inside. After a while, the little guy returned, and led Li Weijian to the outer study of the eldest man Jia Yu.

"When did the virtuous nephew come back? I didn't say a word in advance, and I could also explain the preparation of the banquet in the house. After the eldest lord Jia Yu sat on the bookcase, half of his face was smiling, and half of his face was wooden, looking very weird.

Li Weijian smiled and arched his hand: "I also just arrived, don't you come to visit Uncle Shi immediately?" Uncle Shi, have you been in good shape lately? ”

"It's okay, it's okay, the virtuous nephew is sitting down."

Li Weijian sat down according to his words, and waited for the servant to serve tea, and then said: "Uncle Shi also knows that yesterday was the son of a little nephew, and he didn't want to go wrong in the middle, and Brother Bao fell into the water." Although it was a false alarm, the Treasure brothers claimed that someone had kicked them in the back...... The little nephew ordered someone to search, but he never found the villain. Therefore, this time I am here to explain to the elders. ”

Jia Yu frowned and said, "Where is the virtuous nephew?" That Baoyu is crazy from time to time, and he may be distracted and fall into the water. Where did the villains come from in broad daylight? ”

Li Weijian smiled and bowed his head and said, "Uncle Shi said what the little nephew said. But Uncle Shi also knows that Brother Bao is very favored by the old lady, and I am afraid that it will not be good to share it with the old lady, so I came to ask Uncle Shi to help talk about it. ”

There is a saying that cannibalism is the shortest, and the hand is short, and the eldest lord Jia Yu still owes Li Weijian 8,000 taels of silver.

After a few words, Li Weijian got up and said goodbye: "Uncle Shi, the little nephew still has to go to the second uncle to talk about it, and after a while, I would like to ask Uncle Shi to go to Rongqing Hall again." ”

"It's easy to say, my wife and I will be there in a while."

Bidding farewell to the eldest lord Jia Yu, Li Weijian turned out of the black oil gate and entered the Rongguo Mansion from the main gate. After looking for the steward, I heard that Jia Zheng was engraved in Mengpo Zhai, so he passed the instrument gate and walked towards Mengpo Zhai.

The little guy didn't say anything, and after a while, Li Weijian sat down in Mengpo Zhai.

Li Weijian hadn't said anything about yesterday, so Jia Zheng said with a guilty face: "Resurrection, that evil obstacle has mixed up your good and decent child, and I really can't help it."

Yesterday, I was going to teach a lesson or two, but my mother stopped in front of me. ”

"It's good that Uncle Shi doesn't blame me."

"Where? It's all the iniquity that the obstacle does for itself! ”

Li Weijian's mind turned, and he suddenly thought about it, and said: "Uncle Shi, Brother Bao is smart by nature, but he has grown up in the hands of women in the house since he was a child. ”

Li Weijian meant something, and Jia Zheng understood after thinking about it. At this time, when the two men are in one place, there must always be one who is the husband. This is mixed with his daughter's family all day long, and he can't say that he will go to his daughter's house......

Thinking of this section, Jia Zheng suddenly felt a chill down his spine.

Li Weijian observed his words and looks, and hurriedly said: "According to the little nephew, Brother Bao has already known about people, and it is not good to mess around in the inner house anymore, so it is better to move out and live separately." ”

(End of chapter)