The rice has to be scooped out, and now people are holding stone pestles to scoop it. Rice making is an extremely tiring and hurtful job, and if you keep doing it all day, your arms will soon be wasted. If left untreated, she would even die. Therefore, in the Qin and Han dynasties, one of the heaviest hard labor for women was to punish the rice.

However, later generations soon improved the rice licking tool, such as using the lever principle to use the foot pedal to drive the lever to lick the rice.

Just as stone grinding is to wheat, with the easier and more labor-saving tools for rice making, rice can later become a staple food in the south.

Although machines have been used in later generations, these ancient tools were still used before some mountain villages were electrified to alleviate poverty. Zhu Xiang has seen a lot of them, and he can't make them himself, but he can draw a rough outline for the craftsman to study.

These tools are very simple, but people nowadays don't think about it in any way for the time being. When Zhu Xiang drew the drawings and explained the principle, the craftsman quickly made the new rice tools.

In order to eat new rice today, Ying Xiaozheng personally served as the boy of Chung Rice.

He sat on a chair of the right height, stepped on the lever with both feet, snorted and stepped on it more than a dozen times, and then collapsed from exhaustion, and was lifted up by Zhu Xiang and shouted "Zheng'er is amazing".

Zhang Ruo, who came to Hubei from Yunmengze to eat, couldn't help but keep twitching the corners of his mouth.

Meng Wu took off his shirt and tied it around his waist: "Zheng'er has a good start, let's look at Uncle Meng next!" ”

Ying Xiaozheng kicked his sore legs and cheered Meng Wu up: "Uncle Meng, work hard!" ”

Li Mu blew on the floating tea leaves in the teacup, took a sip of tea, and sighed deeply.

Why do you have to cook rice now? When will he be able to eat this meal?

But Zhu Xiang was just joking, after Meng Wu made a little new rice, Zhu Xiang took the new rice, as well as the rice that had been scooped out a long time ago, to cook.

Ying Xiaozheng was transferred to Li Mu's arms by Zhu Xiang, because Meng Wu smelled of sweat.

Zhang Ruo looked at Gongzizheng, who was very naturally holding Li Mu's arms and sitting in the arms of his elders as a chair, and stopped talking.

Ying Xiaozheng said with a straight face: "What does Zhang Qing have to say to me?" ”

Although it is not the first time that Zhang Ruo has seen Ying Xiaozheng's face change after Zhu Xiang left, he is still very unaccustomed to it.

Shouldn't he be dragged by Meng Wu to eat?

"Nothing, nothing." Zhang Ruo didn't dare to say it, he felt that Gongzizheng was spoiled a little too much.

However, the people who taught Gongzizheng felt that it was no problem, and he was not easy to say.

Ying Xiaozheng bowed slightly: "It's okay if there's nothing to do." ”

Li Mu put down the teacup and smiled: "Zheng'er, don't scare Zhang Gong." ”

Ying Xiaozheng immediately denied it: "I didn't, the teacher is talking nonsense." ”

Li Mu said: "You have." ”

Ying Xiaozheng frowned: "I didn't, it's not a scare, it's a joke." ”

Zhang Ruo: "? ”

Meng Wu poured tea, wiped his mouth and said, "Zheng'er, have you noticed that no one can find out about your so-called jokes?" ”

Ying Xiaozheng thought for a while and shook his head: "No, my uncle can find out every time." ”

Zhang Ruo: "?? ”

Meng Wu said: "Well, except for your uncle, no one found out that you were joking. ”

Ying Xiaozheng said: "That's you stupid." ”

Meng Wu asked, "Zheng'er, are you joking now?" ”

Ying Xiaozheng shook his head: "No, I'm telling the truth." ”

Zhang Ruo was confused, not knowing what the conversation in front of him meant.

What are you kidding? When did Gongzi Zheng joke with himself?

Li Mu explained Zhang Ruo's confusion: "Zheng'er deliberately answered Zhang Gong with a straight face, and called Zhang Gong Zhang Qing, he was joking with you." ”

Zhang Ruo: "......" Who can see this!

Ying Xiaozheng smiled and crooked: "Zhang Weng, it's rude!" ”

Zhang Ruo: "...... No no. ”

Li Mu gently pinched the little chubby face of the disciple in his arms.

Ying Xiaozheng didn't know when, but he had an interest in "joking". But except for Zhu Xiang, no one could tell if Ying Xiaozheng's suddenly majestic and unfamiliar face was joking with others.

Li Mu sometimes suspects that Ying Xiaozheng is not joking, but simply practicing the unfathomable uncertainty of the monarch and not letting others peek into his heart.

However, no matter what the truth is, Ying Xiaozheng will sit in the position of King Qin in the future, so this kind of "joke" is not harmful to him.

Ying Xiaozheng teased Zhang Ruo, who had been quietly observing him, and then pleaded Li Mu to teach him the art of war.

Meng Wu also mixed up with the chess pieces and acted as Li Mu's opponent.

Zhang Ruo couldn't hold back, so he also participated in it, and joined forces with Mengwu to fight against Li Mu.

Ying Xiaozheng twisted around in Li Mu's arms, commanding indiscriminately.

Li Mu really listened to Ying Xiaozheng's indiscriminate command, which finally led to a fiasco, making Ying Xiaozheng so angry that he screamed.

Zhu Xiang brought out a plate of rice stuffed cakes halfway to cushion their stomachs, and kept laughing at Ying Xiaozheng when he saw this.

"Zheng'er, after you become the monarch in the future, don't travel thousands of miles from Xianyang to support the generals on the front line, hahahaha, your stinky chess will stink for thousands of years."

"Shut up, uncle!"

"Hahaha, Zheng'er is annoyed and angry!"

"Shut up, shut up!"

Zhu Xiang happily drifted back to the kitchen, leaving Ying Xiaozheng to gnaw on rice stuffed cakes in a puff.

Then Ying Xiaozheng felt that something was wrong, and when he looked down, he saw that the rice cakes were full of blood.

Li Mu was shocked: "Zheng'er? What's wrong? Zhu Xiang, Zhu Xiang! Zheng'er vomited blood! ”

Meng Wu was so frightened that he hurriedly got up and ran over, and actually fell at such a short distance: "Zheng'er? Could it be that someone poisoned it! ”

Zhang Ruo knocked over the teacup in a panic: "Assassin? Where are the assassins? ”

Ying Xiaozheng covered his mouth, looked down at the blood on his hands, and couldn't believe it: "My ...... My ......"

Li Mu: "Zhu Xiang!! ”

Meng Wu: "Zheng'er!!" ”

Zhang Ruo: "Assassin!" ”

The guards were in a mess, and Zhu Xiang hurried out after hearing the shout.

Ying Xiaozheng: "My ...... My ......"

Ying Xiaozheng: "My teeth! Wow!! ”

The chaotic crowd seemed to have pressed the pause button, and the movements and sounds came to an abrupt halt.

Li Mu, who was stiff with fright, noticed that there was a small tooth sticking to the bloody rice stuffed cake that Ying Xiaozheng was holding in his other hand.

Meng Wu: "What? ”

Zhang Ruo: "Thorn ...... Assassin? ”

"Open your mouth and let me see." Zhu Xiang, who is most concerned about Ying Xiaozheng, is actually the calmest at the moment.

He squatted on the ground and looked up at his little nephew who covered his mouth with one hand and was teary-eyed: "Good, open your mouth." ”

Ying Xiaozheng covered his mouth and shook his head vigorously.

Zhu Xiang picked up half of the slimy rice cake in Ying Xiaozheng's hand and took off the little baby teeth: "I haven't seen you cry so much for a long time, I must write to you......"

Ying Xiaozheng: "No! Wow! My teeth! ”

Ying Xiaozheng couldn't help but open his mouth "Wow wow cry", revealing his front teeth.

Even if it is the first emperor cub, the order of tooth loss is similar to that of ordinary children, and the most conspicuous front teeth are lost first.

Looking at the big mouth in Ying Xiaozheng's mouth, listening to Ying Xiaozheng's leaky cry, Meng Wu sat on the ground with his hands in his hair: "I'm scared to death." ”

Zhang Ruo also slumped in his chair: "It's not an assassin." ”

Li Mu didn't say anything for a while, and he didn't know what expression to make.

Ying Xiaozheng lost his first tooth, which scared people enough.

"Okay, let's go rinse and change clothes first. Your mouthful of blood is terrifying. Zhu Xiang put away Ying Xiaozheng's teeth, "Where to lose the upper teeth, so that the teeth grow well?" Forget it, send it to Xianyang and let Xia Tong think about it. ”

Ying Xiaozheng burst into tears: "Why, why did you send it to Father?" ”

Zhu Xiang said: "Let your father witness your growth." ”

Ying Xiaozheng pursed his mouth: "Don't." ”

Zhu Xiang said with a smile: "Zheng'er's changing teeth is equivalent to starting to grow up, from a child to a handsome young man, and he will be even more powerful in the future." How can such a big happy event not be shared with your father and your aunt? ”

Ying Xiaozheng's mouth deflated even more: "Well, well, for my aunt, not for my father." ”

Zhu Xiang took out a handkerchief to help Ying Xiaozheng wipe the blood on his lips: "Okay." "But if you send it back to Xianyang, your father will definitely be able to see it.

After Zhu Xiang left with Ying Xiaozheng, Li Mu exhaled the breath that had not been exhaled in fright.

"Zheng'er has changed her teeth, and she has finally grown up." Meng Wu got up from the ground and patted the dust on his buttocks, "Why didn't my son ...... when he changed his teeth?"

He paused, and said with a strange expression: "When my son changes his teeth, it seems to be even more noisy." He cried and ran around saying that he was going to die, and the family couldn't catch up, so he scared his aunt out of breath, and asked the king for a royal doctor. ”

Li Mu was stunned, then held his forehead and laughed: "Really? It seems that my child will have to teach him well before he changes his teeth. ”

Zhang Ruo thought about the situation of his younger generation changing his teeth, and found that he couldn't think of it.

He fought early in the field, and when the heirs of the family were born and raised, he was mostly not by his side.

He didn't feel anything about it before, but now that he thinks about it, he has some regrets in his heart.

Should he write a letter to King Qin asking Zhishi to go home and spend more time with his family?

However, thinking of what Li Mu and Zhu Xiang were doing now, Zhang Ruo held down Zhishi's heart again.

He could see that Zhu Xiang and Li Mu would definitely be able to make achievements that ordinary people could hardly match. He wanted to follow them in this feat.

Now that Qianzhong County is living a good life, maybe he can take his family to his side?

Zhu Xiang took Ying Xiaozheng to rinse his mouth and change clothes, and took out the herbs that had been prepared long ago to reduce swelling and relieve itching, put them into cotton yarn scalded with boiling water, and made a medicine bag for Ying Xiaozheng to grind his teeth.