After coming out of the council hall, it was already evening, and the red candle flame in the tunnel was very similar to the sunset on the horizon.

Li Po and the others were inconvenient to appear, so they were accompanied by Li Greed to live below the tunnel, and tomorrow they would go out of the city together and go to the altar where Fengyun had been lying in the back mountain for half a year.

"I don't have the kind of shellfish you mentioned here, but there are still a few in Li Qing's family, which were left by his grandfather. The clan doesn't need that, and it's troublesome to obtain, so you have to go to the beach. But since you can use it, why didn't you go find some boiled salt this time and bring it back?" Jiang Xiang said as he walked towards the witch tent.

Coming back to his senses, Fengyun smiled: "It's okay, I'm just going to see what it looks like." ”

It was getting late, and most of the houses had fires lit, but some of the thatched huts were pitch black. Outside such a room there would always be one or two skinny children, pinching lice out of their hair and stuffing them into their mouths, biting them out with a crunchy sound, while greedily sniffing at the smell of food wafting from other people's homes.

Along the way, when he saw such a child, Jiang Xiang always stopped and asked them to go to the witch tent to find Li Xiaoyue to ask for millet soup to drink, and then watched them run towards the witch tent in a swarm. Jiang Xiang was not at ease, and let Li Chou follow.

"They are all orphans who have no adults in their families, and the most people who died in previous years were such children. Jiang Xiang sighed and said: "If there is a top person in the family to take care of these children when they grow up, they may not have a good child like a greedy child." ”

Fengyun shook his head lightly and said: "If I had known that you were having such a difficult time, I would never have agreed to kill so many ploughing cattle in the first few days, a living cow is much more useful than a dead cow......"

"It's us. Jiang Xiang pointed out the mistake in Fengyun's words, and said with a smile: "Then I don't blame you, the leaders of the old sect of the send-off banquet are all present, how can the patriarch let them see the emptiness in the clan? And if the kind of corn you contributed can really produce as you said, the situation will soon improve, and having hope is the simplest and most important happiness." ”

Fengyun was stunned, and almost bumped into Jiang Xiang in a trance.

Li Qing's house had already arrived, and the sound of knocking could be heard outside. As the best stonemason in the city, his house was all covered with polished and smooth stone slabs, which was even more beautiful than Li Rong's house.

Chiyou City, who are all members of the same clan, obviously doesn't care so much about security, out of trust in Li Greed, Chiyou City's defense work is basically done by the old witch wars who live around, which is obviously not a healthy management environment. However, at this moment, there were actually two witch wars sitting outside Li Qing's house, although they were just chatting, obviously not believing that anyone could go deep into here to make trouble, but they could also see that Li Zhan attached great importance to the stone mill.

Inside the house, Li Qing was knocking on a large round bluestone with a stone axe, and he didn't notice Jiang Xiang and Fengyun coming in intently. In just one afternoon, he actually used a rough stone axe to make a rudimentary shape of a grinding disc. There was a half-sized man opposite him, who was chiseling another piece of bluestone with a stone hammer, and had dug a circular pit, and when he had dug it, he drilled an eye in the middle and fastened it to Li Qing's bluestone to make a simple stone mill.

This stone grinding is very labor-intensive, and requires two stones of the right size, and a certain gap must be left for grinding grain, which requires a high level of craftsmanship.

Fengyun stepped forward and touched the half-sized chiseled grinding disc cover, although the tentacles were rough, the regular raised lines obviously proved the craftsman's excellent craftsmanship. Although this is only a semi-finished product, being able to deal with the texture when chiseling is undoubtedly very beneficial for the polishing work after chiseling.

Noticing Jiang Xiang and Fengyun, Li Qing stopped what he was doing, wiped his sweat and stepped forward, explaining: "Grandma Wu, this is my son Li Bian, I can't be busy alone, so let him help me do it, he has been knocking stones with me since he was a child, he is definitely a good hand, and I didn't let other children in." ”

Li Bian didn't speak much, just stood there with a stone hammer and laughed.

Jiang Xiang nodded and said: "It's okay, the stone mill is related to the livelihood of my Li clan, as long as you do a good job of this stone mill, I will report to the ancestors to give the name Li Mo to the flat stone." ”

"Oh! Then thank you Grandma Wu!" Li Qing was overjoyed, as soon as Jiang Xiang's words came out, it meant that his son could specialize in making a living in the future. There is no need to dig in the soil to eat, and to eat by hand, this is almost the best way out for a clansman without magical powers. Li Qing kicked Li Bian and scolded: "Don't thank Da Wu yet? ”

Li Bian was kicked by his father, scratched his head and said with a smile: "Thank you, Grandma Wu." ”

"Thank you, I watched it grow. Jiang Xiang said with a smile, but Fengyun stepped forward and touched the upper fan grinding plate under Li Bian's hand, and said thoughtfully: "Don't worry. ”

Li Qing was stunned, he didn't know why Fengyun would block him, thinking that Li Bian had made him unhappy, so he couldn't help but look anxious, and kicked Li Bian on the ass again, kicked him to the ground, and scolded: "What stupid! I can't even say a word!"

Fengyun raised his head and said with a smile: "Julong Guan, don't be angry first, let me ask a few questions." ”

A Ju Long official screamed that Li Qing's bones were three points lighter, and he couldn't help but straighten his chest.

Li Bian got up from the ground with a frown, lowered his head and did not speak, Fengyun stepped forward and pointed to the lines in the grinding plate of the upper fan and asked him, "These lines are all knocked out by you with this stone hammer?"

Li Bian peeked at Li Qing, but he didn't understand his eyes, and nodded hesitantly.

"Not bad. Fengyun nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "Your skill is too wasteful to knock stones, learn to strike iron with me!"

"Who are you hitting?" Li Bian scratched his head blankly.

Fengyun laughed and said: "It's not about hitting anyone, it's about iron, to be precise, it's smelting." Iron is actually a kind of stone, but it is hidden in the depths of the stone, and it has to be smelted out by some smelting methods, and the tools made from it are much harder than stone. ”

Li Bian didn't understand, Li Qing was also at a loss, Fengyun thought for a while, and said, "Let's say so! Have you seen the copper knife and copper axe that the patriarch brought back?"

Li Bian looked dazed, but Li Qing became excited, nodded violently and said: "I know, I know, that axe is so beautiful! Even my most carefully crafted stone axe will be easily cut by it, it is simply an artifact......!

"That's right. Fengyun nodded and said, "That thing is made by smelting methods, and it has not yet reached the level of iron." Real iron is more than twice as hard as that, let alone steel. ”

"Isn't that harder than that? Isn't that as hard as the head of the clan witch war?" Li Qing took a breath of cool air, and became excited again in an instant, and stammered and asked, "You mean that Flat Stone can learn that from you...... That ......"

"Smelting. Fengyun looked at Li Bian with a smile and asked, "I don't know if you want to?"

Li Bian peeked at Li Qing again, and obviously squeezed his eyes, so angry that Li Qing kicked again: "What do you see me doing!

"I ...... Would you like to?" Li Bian said uncertainly.

"Are you still here?" Li Qing was about to get on his feet again, Fengyun hurriedly grabbed him, and said with a smile: "Brother Li Qing, then I'll treat him as if he is willing! Don't worry, I will teach him some simple smelting methods before leaving, as long as he can find ore." ”

"Huh, are you going out?" asked Li Qing.

"Uh......" Knowing that he had slipped his mouth, Fengyun looked at Jiang Xiang, Jiang Xiang understood, changed the topic, and asked, "Qingzi, are those shellfish coins left by your grandfather still there?"

"Oops, I forgot where I put it, I'll look for it!" Li Qing thought for a moment and walked to the back room to rummage through it.

Li Bian looked left and right, and then ran to jingle and knock, Fengyun was helpless, and Grandma Jiang Xiang looked at each other, so they could only stand and wait.

After a while, Li Qing took out a handful of broken shells and said, "That's all left, the hemp rope has been bitten off by mice, fortunately, the shell coins are still intact." ”

Fengyun pinched a few pieces and looked at them, and found that they were all natural seashells similar to crab claws, each with an eye in the middle, apparently originally threaded together with a rope.

Jiang Xiang said on the side: "In fact, when I was in the Yan Department, shell coins were not a universal object, only the people of the royal vein were willing to exchange grain for some shell coins to play, and it was just a novelty, if you wanted, go back to the beach and pick up some." ”

"It's not the shells that I value, it's the meaning behind them. Fengyun looked at these most primitive coins and said with a complicated expression: "This is probably the most terrifying weapon invented in human history." ”

"Grandma Wu!" there was the shouting of some children outside the house, Jiang Xiang heard the sound and walked out, only to find that it was the children she had just called to the witch tent to get food.

"Grandma Wu, Li Xiaoyue is not here. An older boy said.

"Huh?" Jiang Xiang was puzzled and said, "Isn't she in the account?"

"We shouted, but no one in the tent answered. The boy said.

"What about Li Chou?" Jiang Xiang was puzzled, and the boy said again: "Uncle Chou is sleeping." ”

"How could that be?" Jiang Xiang became more and more puzzled.

Fengyun said: "Then let's go back and have a look first!" There is also a Kun spirit vein in the tent, don't have anything wrong.

Walking back to the witch tent quickly, Fengyun found out that something was wrong from afar, Li Chou's feet were exposed outside the animal skin curtain of the witch tent, and he could hear his earth-shattering snoring sound through the curtain.

"Li Chou, Li Chou!" Standing outside the tent, Jiang Xiang shouted twice, but Li Chou didn't move at all.

Strange, Jiang Xiang frowned and thought about it, raised his hand to open the curtain, and stepped in. As soon as half of her body entered the tent, Fengyun saw her body shaking, and only heard one word: "Qing!" to stop her body shaking.

Fengyun hurriedly stepped forward to help, and asked with concern, "Grandma Wu, what's wrong with you?"

Shaking his head, Jiang Xiang looked at him in surprise and asked, "Aren't you dizzy?"

"Dizzy?" Fengyun asked suspiciously, "Are you not dizzy?"

Shaking his head, Jiang Xiang leaned over, touched Li Chou's mouth and nose, and said, "He's fine, you go to see Xiaoyue first." ”

Fengyun nodded and walked into the tent, only to see Li Xiaoyue lying motionless on the bed.

Walking forward quickly, he probed his nose, Fengyun breathed a sigh of relief, and shouted behind him: "She's fine, she's just asleep." ”

shouted a few more times, Li Chou still didn't react, Jiang Xiang covered his mouth and nose at the door, and asked sullenly, "How can this be?"

The situation was the same on Fengyun's side, he looked at Li Xiaoyue's side, sighed and said, "Xiaoying is gone." ”

"Grandma Wu!

The sound of footsteps outside the tent came, but it was the guy who ran to the front and came in with a curtain.

"Fengyun, go and take a look! The Kun spirit vein you captured has run into the tunnel!"

"What's going on? How could she run down there? Isn't there a witch warrior watching at the entrance?" Fengyun asked Li Rou as he ran towards the council hall.

Li Rou ran around and said, "I don't know!" The patriarch was still talking to the town guards, and when he turned his head, he saw the little guy flying in, except for the chief and me, the other town guards all fell asleep at once, which was really strange. The patriarch asked me to come to you, but when I came up, I found that the guys guarding the entrance were also asleep......"

"Did she fly in?" Fengyun asked in surprise.

"Yes, it's fast! The patriarch can't catch her. Li Rou said.

Li Greed couldn't catch her? It couldn't be possible, right? When Fengyun ran back into the tunnel, what he saw was the scene of the little guy and Li Greed staring at each other.

"Da Da!" Xiao Ying was very happy to see Fengyun, with a flap of wings behind him, his body had already flown up dexterously, and he threw himself into his arms, two fleshy little fat hands wrapped around his neck, "Da Da, Da Da" screamed, and rubbed his chin with his face affectionately.

"What's going on?" Fengyun asked suspiciously, looking at the town guard who had slept on the ground.