After making a lot of trouble, Guo Dalu knelt so hard that his knees hurt, and the ceremony was over.

Guo Dalu straightened his mouth in his heart, this emperor is so stingy, Lao Tzu invented the drip irrigation method, so that the people of the world can benefit, he just sent a worthless stone stele workshop - this thing can not be eaten or drunk, can only be used as a tourist attraction, real money and silver are only awarded a hundred taels of silver, stingy, really stingy.

Guo Dalu didn't know that the imperial court had its own manners, and Houlong Village was a group of flat-headed people, and rewarding them with a hundred taels of silver was already a top reward. What's more, the nominal drip irrigation method was invented by Cen Shangxian in the Tianyi Attic, and Houlong Village was just an auxiliary trial.

After the ceremony, the angel and the county magistrate who came to watch the ceremony were welcomed to the house of the head of Zhulao Village, to inspect the drip irrigation method on the spot, and at the same time to discuss how to send villagers to other areas to promote the drip irrigation method.

Guo Dalu has already arranged this matter, he has asked Li Dayan and Zhou Carpenter to train a group of villagers in advance, and at the same time let Li Hua print a batch of instructions, which are full of pictures and texts, and the method of how to make the drip irrigation method is clearly written, even if it is an illiterate old farmer, after reading the pictures above, he can also understand it clearly.

Guo Dalu returned to his house, but saw that Zou Ming was already waiting for him, and there was a villainous man standing beside him.

Guo Dalu was just about to say hello, when the big man suddenly knelt down with a thud, banged his head on the muddy ground, and shouted: "Thank you, Mr. Houlong, for saving your life!"

Guo Dalu looked at Zou Ming, who came with the big man, suspiciously: "Brother Zou, what's going on? I don't recognize him, where did this life-saving grace come from?"

Zou Ming stopped the big man and scolded: "You coarse goods, why are you shouting in Brother Guo's house? He turned around and said with a smile: "Brother Guo, this person's name is Wang Deen, his life was really saved by you, didn't you give me a bowl of alcohol a while ago? I was curious for a while, and tried alcohol on Wang Deen, he was originally injured on his arm, festering and worms, and his time was running out, but I didn't expect that after wiping your alcohol, the wound actually healed miraculously, so his life, was it not you who saved it?"

Wang Deen had already taken off his clothes, revealing the dazzling scar on his shoulder: "Mr. Houlong, without your alcohol, the villain would have died a long time ago!

A bowl of alcohol in exchange for a slave?

Guo Dalu was dumbfounded and looked at Zou Ming: "Brother Zou, this, forget it, if you really want to count it, this Wang Deen was saved by you, and alcohol will be popularized in the future, and there will be many people saved, do you have to come to my house to be slaves and servants? I can't afford to support so many people." ”

Zou Ming smiled: "This is different, this Wang Deen is the first person to be saved by alcohol in this world, and its meaning is not trivial, not to mention, he wandered to eastern Zhejiang because of the famine, his family died, and he died, and he was left alone, and accidentally encountered a thief and was injured, if it wasn't for the alcohol to save him, this Wang Deen's whole family would be dead, and he has nowhere to go now, and he can be taken as a slave by you, which is also his blessing." ”

Guo Dalu grinned, as an orphan, he couldn't see the tragedy of other people's families, and hesitated for a long time before saying: "Then, that's okay, but our family doesn't engage in slavery, that Wang Deen, you can be our family's servant, I will pay you every month, if you don't want to do it anymore, you can leave at any time." ”

Wang Deen kowtowed a few more times, and swore that he would only recognize Mr. Houlong as the master in this life, and he would not carry it for the rest of his life.

Wang Decheng got up and stood behind Guo Dalu, his eyes involuntarily drifted to Zou Ming, who was smiling and groaning, only he knew how terrible this weak scholar was.

A few days ago, Zou Ming suddenly found him and handed him a piece of paper, but on the paper was a letter dictated by Wang Decheng's old lady in Siming Mountain's old nest, and the bottom of the letter was pressed with the old lady's fingerprints.

It turned out that Zou Ming didn't believe what Wang Deen said about the theft in the mountains before, and quietly sent a master, leveled the small cottage with a drum, and put his old lady under house arrest.

Zou Ming's request to Wang Deen was very simple, in the name of thanking him for saving his life, he lurked by Guo Dalu's side and reported the news at any time.

Wang Deen is not a good person, he has several lives under him, but he is filial to his mother, and he has to listen to Zou Ming's words. As soon as he saw Guo Dalu, he was first surprised that Mr. Houlong, who had invented such a magical thing as alcohol, was so young, and then he found that this Guo Dalu was a bad person at all, and he did not have the slightest wariness of others.

Although the alcohol that saved Wang Deen was invented by Guo Dalu, Wang Deen did not have the slightest sense of gratitude at all, for the sake of his mother, even if Zou Ming ordered him to twist Guo Dalu's neck in public, he would not hesitate to act.

Guo Dalu didn't know that the newly accepted servant standing behind him had a crooked stomach, in his heart, it was good to have one more Wang Deen, Brother Hao, Silly Big Man, Li Bo and others around him were actually only half-sized, and it was really inconvenient to not have an adult helper, Brother Hao'er's serious injury this time was already a warning to himself. With Wang Deen here, some rough work will be done, anyway, he has small assets and can afford to support people.

Zou Ming told Guo Dalu that the first batch of rice used to make wine has been transported to the Sanjiangkou wharf, and it will be transported to Houlong Village in a few days, he said: "The last time I was in the workshop, I witnessed Brother Guo and Tianyi Attic steaming alcohol, I have a little superficial opinion, I think this wine steaming utensils, using pottery seems to have a better effect than using wood, so I recruited a group of potters to help Brother Guo steam wine." A few days later, they came to Houlong Village with grain and grass. ”

Guo Dalu was overjoyed, the villagers of Houlong Village were originally a defeated army, there were iron, wood, leather, cloth and other craftsmen, but there was a lack of potters, he took Zou Ming's hand and thanked him repeatedly: "This is great, the sealing of pottery is much higher than that of wood! When I let the potters build kilns and burn out a batch of special wine steaming utensils, the output of alcohol will definitely increase greatly." Thank you very much. ”

Zou Ming said: "Say thank you, this is a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people, and these potters are recruited by the imperial court, I just moved my mouth." By the way, Brother Guo, this alcohol, grain and other raw materials are supplied by the imperial court, and half of the steamed alcohol belongs to the imperial court, and half belongs to you at your disposal.

The grain and potters are all from the imperial court, and they just casually point out the process, and they can get half of the profit with alcohol, which is really a costless business, Guo Dalu nodded again and again: "Medium, medium!"

He has already thought that after the advent of alcohol, he can market the big Li Dynasty through the snow sugar shops distributed all over the country, in fact, now the snow sugar shop has long been no longer simply selling snow sugar, but has become a special product sales store in Houlong Village, in the store, you can buy straw paper, sanitary pants, new books, new underwear and other things, in the future, with Guo Dalu's "invention and creation" of more and more new things, this store will become a big grocery store. A lot of things in the 21st century will be reinvented and appear here.

After sending Zou Ming away, Guo Dalu suddenly found that there was an extra "tail" behind him - Huang Manyuan, Zhu Xiao Young Master **** had nothing to do, dangling behind him, and now there is another Wang Deen, these people are not like the children of Houlong Village such as Brother Hao, he can completely rest assured that he will hand over all kinds of things to them, like Huang Manyuan is a patient, he promised Huang Dianzhi to help him treat his illness, and he has no clue so far.

I have to find something to do it, let these three people do it, and save yourself from following you every day.

Guo Dalu suddenly thought of something, there is! This matter can be handled by these three idle guys.

Guo Dalu beckoned, called Huang Manyuan, and said softly: "Manyuan, I remember that on the day your father sent you to Houlong Village, you were trying to hatch bird eggs with your own body in your own home?"

Huang Manyuan lowered his head and snorted: "Brother Guo promised me that he would teach me how to hatch eggs in the future." ”

It was the first time for the young master to hear about this, and he couldn't help but burst out laughing: "Huang Manyuan, this fool, Brother Guo is coaxing you, how can a person hatch a bird's egg?

But the little young master soon couldn't laugh anymore.

I only heard Guo Dalu whisper softly: "Man Yuan, since I promised you to teach you the method of incubating eggs, of course I won't forget, but there has been no accurate thermometer before, so I can't teach you, but now it's different, I have a thermometer sent by Tianyi attic Taoist in my hand, and I measure it, and artificial egg incubation is just a trivial matter!"

Guo Dalu took out the jade Ruyi thermometer left by Lou Cen Zhi from his sleeve, pointed to the ice dragon and fire dragon at both ends and said: "Man Yuan, you see, the frozen end is zero degrees, the red end is 100 degrees, and the birds and beasts in the middle are different degrees. The most suitable temperature for this egg to hatch is between 35 and 40 degrees, you and Brother Xiaozhu, well, and Brother Wang Deen, go find an empty room, set up a fire pit, burn a fire at the bottom of the pit, keep the temperature of the pit between the temperatures I just said, and then put the eggs on the pit--"

Guo Dalu explained several key points of egg hatching, such as how to choose fertilized eggs - that is, eggs laid by hens trampled by roosters in order to hatch, and for example, eggs can be placed in salt water, sinking eggs are good eggs, floating eggs are bad eggs, can not be used for hatching, and put a basin of water in the egg incubation room to maintain the humidity in the room. (To be continued.) )