Traveling through books: Traveling through time with a golden finger to become a soft rice man

When Tianpu saw Yang Yuanzu coming out, he put down the book in his hand and went forward to greet him: "My lord, I found a cart. We can put the things on it and transport them in."

"here you go!"

Yang Yuanzu showed the borrowed token and took the things to pass the inspection at the door. Tianpu wanted to come along to help push the cart but was stopped outside by the guard. Yang Yuanzu told him to go home and he could go alone.

After the two of them left, the guards on duty at the door couldn't help but whisper to each other, "Isn't that the number one scholar who came in this year?"

"Yes, you read that right."

"I heard he fell on his head?"

"I don't know, but since everyone has spread this, I think it should be true."

"He was really lucky that he broke his head after he won the first prize in the imperial examination."

"Don't worry about your head, just stand guard!"

"Yes!"

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When Yang Yuanzu was pushing a cart passing by the Agricultural Department, he happened to see Li Nongshi, who was sitting at the door, looking up and outside. As a result, he saw him pushing a cart - passing by, and then went straight to the Ministry of Industry next door. Li Nongshi's eyes widened with shock. Now he doesn't even try to hide it?

Sir Yang, do you still remember that you are from the Agricultural Department?

Yang Yuanzu went straight to Lord Shi and showed him what he had brought.

After Lord Shi looked around at the things Yang Yuanzu brought, he said, "You asked me to borrow the token just to bring these things in?" Then he pointed at the miniature dam and said, "And where did you find such a big stone? It's polished very smoothly. Stones of this material don't seem to be common." Lord Shi touched the miniature dam.

Yang Yuanzu took out the token in his arms and returned it to Lord Shi, then showed him the hardness of the cement micro dam.

Yang Yuanzu picked up a few stones and threw them at the miniature dam. Except for some marks on the surface of the dam, the inside was completely unaffected, just like a real hard stone.

It was not enough to just show the hardness, so Yang Yuanzu dug a ditch beside the pond in the yard to simulate the scene of a dam blocking the water.

Some people from the Ministry of Works stood around and watched the fun.

Mr. Shi suddenly realized what was going on. He asked in disbelief, "You don't want me to find a big rock to block the river, do you?!"

Yang Yuanzu nodded upon hearing this and said in a serious tone, "That's right!"

"I thought you were joking today. Where in the world can such a big stone come from!" Lord Shi was about to leave after saying this, but Yang Yuanzu stopped him and said, "To be honest, this big stone in my hand was made by myself."

When everyone heard this, they didn't believe what Yang Yuanzu said, but as a court official, it was impossible for him to talk nonsense in front of everyone, unless he didn't want to continue his career in the future.

Lord Shi was skeptical when he heard what Yang Yuanzu said. Yang Yuanzu did not give him the impression of a man who made wild statements. On the contrary, he was a humble and low-key person. So he asked, "Are you serious?" Then he emphasized, "This is not a joke!"

"really!"

Yang Yuanzu asked Lord Shi to give him some time. Lord Shi nodded and told Yang Yuanzu to hurry up and not to procrastinate and waste everyone's time.

The onlookers also took a step forward curiously, wanting to take a closer look at how Yang Yuanzu made this big stone.

Yang Yuanzu started as soon as he received the order. He asked a young official in blue who was watching the fun in the corner to fetch water for him. He mixed the mud and sand according to the proportion and poured them together, stirring them. After the water came, he began to mix it.

After the cement was mixed, Yang Yuanzu of course started to demonstrate. At first, everyone was confused, until Yang Yuanzu made a little prototype, and then they began to discuss:

"Isn't this just building a wall?" Although the red bricks used by Yang Yuanzu were very different from their blue bricks.

"Alas, Lord Lu is wrong. Did you notice the red bricks and mortar used to build the wall in Lord Yang's hand?"

"It really looks different now. How is it different from the lime mortar we use to paste walls?"

"I don't know either. Lord Lu, just calm down and wait and see."

Yang Yuanzu was laying bricks, and Lord Shi curiously picked up the red bricks that Yang Yuanzu brought to check them out. It seemed that these red bricks were no different from blue bricks except for the color.

Mr. Shi observed the red bricks for a long time and found that they were good, so he asked, "How did you make these red bricks? How much did they cost?"

As expected of the boss, he hit the nail on the head with one sentence. Yang Yuanzu replied, "The cost of red bricks is half of that of blue bricks."

As soon as Yang Yuanzu said this, everyone was excited and couldn't help picking up red bricks from the ground to check. Some even used red bricks to hit the ground to test it. The ground was paved with blue bricks, and the hardness of red bricks was surprisingly comparable to that of blue bricks.

The red bricks on the ground were picked up one by one by everyone and looked at. There were not many left on the ground. After Yang Yuanzu used up all the red bricks on the ground, he began to take the red bricks from the adults and put them on top of the bricks on the ground.

Everyone thought Yang Yuanzu was building a wall, but after watching for a long time, they only saw that he had made a square rectangular block. Everyone saw Yang Yuanzu finished the work and said, "After it's done, this pile of stones can be used as a bench, but it's hard to move."

After Yang Yuanzu finished making the product, he went on to explain to Mr. Shi that it would take three to five days for the stone to dry.

Lord Shi was not in a hurry for the next few days. He only ordered everyone in the Ministry of Works to cooperate with Yang Yuanzu and not to cause trouble in the Dashitou area. Yang Yuanzu felt it was not safe. Lord Shi thought Yang Yuanzu had too many things to do, so he sent someone to guard here.

During the days waiting for the cement to dry, people always came to this place, looking around the big stone made by Yang Yuanzu as if they were visiting, and tried to touch it, but were stopped by the people sent by Lord Shi to guard it.

The guards did not dare to offend these adults directly, so they not only mentioned the name of Lord Shi, but also explained that the cement stones could not be touched until several days later.

Everyone suppressed their curiosity and decided to wait, it would only take a few days.

Even Lord Shi himself had looked at it a few times out of curiosity in the past few days. This stone was built in the yard of their Ministry of Industry, and he couldn't help but take a few glances at it whenever he passed by.

Yang Yuanzu is not good at making cement bricks and tiles, but he is good at making a rectangular stone similar to a park bench with bricks. The inside of the stone is made of bricks, and the outside is covered with a layer of cement. It really looks like a big, flat and regular stone.

After five days, the people from the Ministry of Works did not see Yang Yuanzu come to their place. Without Yang Yuanzu's order, they did not know whether the big stone was dry or not.

Moreover, Yang Yuanzu had asked people to sprinkle water on the big rock before, saying it was a 'maintenance' step, which confused them. Since you want to wait for it to dry, why do you still need to sprinkle water on it?