Zhao Kang said: "Brother Guo, you don't come to see the construction progress during this time, I'm worried that something will go bad, and it will be difficult to rework when the time comes." ”

Guo Dalu said with a smile: "Uncle Zhao, I can rest assured, the sewer project is mainly leak-proof, anti-blocking, and nothing else, since we have a high-temperature furnace, Uncle Zhao fired out of the quality of the pottery pipes that are leveraged, I am very relieved." ”

Zhao Kang said with a smile: "That is, these water pipes are all used in our own homes, and the boys under my command are staring at the drawings and drooling every day, and they all say that being able to live in such a house is really a blessing that has been cultivated for several lifetimes, you see, when you move into a new house, there must be a matchmaker to say goodbye to our young man." ”

Zhao Kang hesitated for a moment: "Brother Guo, it's okay to use a clay pipe for this sewer, but it costs too much money to use a copper pipe for water, it's a good copper, if it's cast into copper coins, how much does it cost, even if we have a copper mine in our hands now, it's too wasteful." ”

The copper mine was discovered by a landless farmer in the wilderness mountain not long ago, because the snow sugar shops in various places told them that the strange stones found and sent to the snow sugar shops could be rewarded with "RMB", so Houlong Village discovered and occupied the copper mine.

Guo Dalu nodded: "Uncle Zhao is right, I am thinking with Uncle Li about making cast iron pipes, this thing is much cheaper than copper, but it is easy to accumulate scale, in addition, if you don't deal with the problem of sand hole and interface, it is easy to leak in the later stage." In fact, Guo Dalu wanted to use galvanized steel pipes, but the process could not solve them, and cast iron pipes were much easier to deal with.

Zhao Kang and Guo Dalu chatted a few words about the construction process, for example, in order to speed up the construction period, the original bamboo cement floor slab was replaced with a wooden floor slab, so that the construction is more convenient, fast, and can also reduce the weight of the building, Zhao Kang is most puzzled by those big windows, the windows are too big, and the best window paper is easy to break, Guo Dalu smiled silently, he next wanted to make glass, another big killer, and now he is collecting raw materials, but he doesn't have to rush to tell Zhao Kang about it.

Guo Dalu found that in fact, the Great Li Dynasty has glass, he once saw in the jewelry store that there are glass beads for sale, the glass beads are slightly larger than the rice grains, the color is messy, but the asking price is very high, many inquiries, only to know that this glass is the natural formation of the thunder on the beach, in addition to the thunder, a very small part of the pottery cellar, very occasionally will also fire out of the glass pieces, but the number is even rarer, each piece is a family heirloom.

The craftsmen of the Great Li Dynasty can make their own glass, and Guo Dalu is more confident - glass, mirrors, greenhouses, out-of-season vegetables, and by the way, the plastic greenhouses of Tianyi Pavilion can also be updated, and a lot of silver is going to be in hand again!

Guo Dalu stayed on the footstand for a while, telling everyone to pay attention to safety, and then went downstairs and went to the field with the girls who had been waiting impatiently.

After the seven cotton seeds were buried in the field, with the influx of the power of merit, they soon grew into half-human-high cotton branches, bearing snow-white cotton peaches, and then blooming.

Chen Qingdai stroked the white cloud-like cotton on the branches: "It turns out that this is cotton, this flower is really curious, so soft." ”

Guo Dalu said: "This cotton has an advantage, that is, it can grow in saline-alkali land and arid land, and the greater the temperature difference between day and night, the better the growth." "This 21st century is transmitted, but high-quality long-staple cotton, which is most suitable for weaving, which is much better than the original short-staple cotton native to the Western Regions of Huajia.

The aunts picked off the cotton flowers one by one, peeled out the cotton seeds carefully, and then replanted them, so that Guo Dalu once again urged them to grow, so that after five times, the original seven cotton seeds have grown out of several mountains of cotton fields, at a glance, as if white clouds fell to the ground.

The girls then peeled the cotton seeds by hand is too difficult, Guo Dalu hurriedly found Zhou carpenter, let him make a cottonseed peeling machine - the principle of this thing is very simple, Guo Dalu still remembers a little story about it was invented, the inventor is from the fox with sharp claws through the bamboo shed to pick out the inspiration, with a fast-rotating pole with sharp claws, across the iron railing to pick cotton peaches, the slender and soft cotton fibers are removed, leaving large cotton seeds that can not pass through the railing.

The newly picked cotton was piled up in several warehouses temporarily erected with bamboo mats, and even the old village chief Zhu was also alarmed, and rushed to look at each other, he stroked the soft cotton, and sipped in surprise: "This thing is fresh, can it really represent linen?"

Guo Dalu is a crazy person, and he likes to show off in public, and said to the old village chief Zhu: "The spinning and weaving machine has not been built for a while, but I will show the whole quilt to the old village chief first." ”

Guo Dalu beckoned, and the carpenter next to him immediately handed over an object similar to a longbow, Guo Dalu put the bow on his shoulder, and the strange thing was that he was facing the bowstring forward, and he was holding a hammer-like thing in his hand, he raised his hand and knocked the hammer on the bowstring, and suddenly made a buzzing sound.

Slingcotton bow. This is the slingcotton bow.

In the 21st century, it is rare to see the old craftsmen who play cotton in the streets and alleys, but in a place called the Intangible Heritage Museum in Yongcheng, these old-fashioned handicrafts are still on display.

At this time, he painted the gourd in the same way, spread the cotton on the bamboo mat in front, and then buzzed up, the light cotton was vibrated by the bowstring, and slowly fell, layer by layer evenly spread, and soon, a very soft new quilt was formed, and there was still a faint fragrance of new cotton on the quilt.

Guo Dalu used twine to press out the warp and weft threads on the outside of the cotton quilt, and deliberately pressed a Chinese knot in the middle with red silk threads, and then clapped his hands, "Okay, the cotton quilt is finished." ”

Everyone pointed at Guo Dalu and laughed, Guo Dalu was stunned: "What's wrong? What are you laughing at?"

The big girl couldn't help but smile and stepped forward to pick out a lot of tiny cotton wool from under Guo Dalu's hair horns and collar: "You are full of cotton, just like a white-bearded grandfather." ”

Chen Qingdai jumped on the quilt and rolled over: "It's so comfortable! This is much better than any hemp, silk, or fur! This cotton is really a treasure! Yes, in addition to the quilt, this cotton can also be used to make cotton clothes!"

Guo Dalu said with a smile: "Daiyu is right, it's just that the gap in the linen cloth is too big, the cotton is easy to drill out, and you have to wait for the good cotton cloth to be woven, don't worry, in a few days, I will ask Zhou Carpenter to build a spinning machine and a loom, and it has to be hydraulic, and if you want to do it, you can do it in one step." ”

Chen Qingdai snatched the slingshot from Guo Dalu's body, and shouted to play a quilt for herself, this cotton quilt is very simple, and it will be something at a glance, and for a while, the sound of buzzing and banging cotton became one.

Guo Dalu cast two more meritorious powers to urge the growth of cotton, until he was tired, and the activity of the light gold particles in his body decreased significantly, so he stopped, with these cotton seeds, it was barely enough, but cotton planting is not like potatoes, it can be planted everywhere, and the most suitable for cotton growth is still in the northwest.

Guo Dalu was worried about how to further promote cotton planting, and suddenly a horse-drawn carriage hurried into the village, and it was Li Bo who drove the car, he looked at the three-story scaffolding, and looked at the cotton like white clouds, and exclaimed: "I haven't been back to the village for a few days, what new things have come up here?" As soon as the curtain of the car was lifted, someone smiled and said: "Brother Guo can always give people unexpected surprises, let me see, but what is a new thing?"

The person sitting in the car, whom Guo Dalu recognized, was one of the four great irons in life - Lou Dalang, who had prostituted together. No, Guo Dalu was killed and didn't admit to prostitution, he didn't even touch Xiangxiang's little hand at that time, but he just looked at it a few more times, not to mention, now Xiangxiang is Guo Lanying and has become his own disciple.

Guo Dalu scratched his head: "Shopkeeper Lou, why are you here? I heard that you have already gone back to the northwest? What, but what's the trouble in the snow sugar business?"

Lou Dalang hugged his fists: "Brother Guo - no, now it's time to call Guo Shangxian, when it's really Shibei three days should be impressed, Guo Shangxian's science gate is now famous all over the world, who in the world doesn't know that it is Guo Shangxian of the science gate who has found the god bean from the heavenly realm for the people? Speaking of which, this time the villain came to Houlong Village, didn't Guo Shangxian specially recruit the little ones to come and meet?"

Ah?What??I recruited you to meet?I, Guo Dalu, and you Lou Dalang don't have any special friendship, could it be that I came to you to ascend to Tianxian Pavilion again?

Guo Dalu was at a loss, and Li Bo next to him smiled and said: "Brother Guo, didn't you let us visit the relatives of Cen Shangxian in the Tianyi Pavilion in the mortal world? Say that you want to repay him well? Disciple, I have been looking for a long time, but I said that I have stepped on the iron shoes and have nowhere to find it, and it takes no effort to get it, it turns out that the shopkeeper of Lou Dalang Lou is the only surviving descendant of Lou Cen Shangxian!"

Guo Dalu opened his mouth, Lou Cen Zhi and Lou Dalang are both surnamed Lou, but he has never linked the two together, Lou Cen Zhi is an immortal, how can his descendants also have some glory and wealth to enjoy, how can they be a merchant at the end of the three religions and nine streams? Could it be that Li Bo made a mistake?

Lou Dalang looked at Guo Dalu with a strange expression, what kind of person he was, and immediately guessed what Guo Dalu was thinking, he sighed and said with a wry smile: "Originally, there were some things that were not suitable for outsiders, but Guo Shangxian and I hit it off at first sight, and there was nothing to hide." Alas, there was an immortal in my family, which was originally a matter of great luck, but the descendants were not filial, relying on the identity of the immortal's family and the support of the government, bullying men and women in the countryside, forcibly levied and plundered, and did all kinds of evil. (To be continued.) )