Fu Tang

The sentence "shut up" came to his lips, and Li Congjia swallowed it abruptly, because he saw that Shi Xueting took the blow without any resistance.

Based on years of understanding of each other, Li Congjia knew that Shi Xueting would not be so obedient for no reason, and there must be a reason for him to be so respectful to this old man.

What's more, that old man looks really old, and he probably doesn't have much strength, and probably won't be in pain... right?

After finishing beating Shi Xueting, the old man raised his head and saw the door collapsed, his eyebrows straightened instantly, and he roared angrily: "Where did the melon skin come from, you have to beat it?!"

Li Congjia was stunned immediately, and felt that he should overthrow the speculation just now, that there is no such thing as being old and weak, and it doesn't exist at all. Just by shouting at this old man, he knew that the old man was very energetic!

Standing by the side, Shi Xuehe found it very difficult. According to reason, Li Congjia was scolded by someone, so he should rush to teach that person, but now that Shi Xueting is standing there, Li Congjia didn't say anything, and Shi Xuehe didn't know what to do. Done.

Shi Xueting was also very surprised to see Li Congjia, walked over and asked, "Why are you here?"

Li Congjia was expressionless: "Curiosity, Master Xuehe said you are here, so I'll come over and have a look."

Of course, the main reason is to see if Shi Xueting has a golden house, but this place...he might as well go to the east of the city to see it!

Seeing Li Congjia's expression, Shi Xueting knew that he was unhappy, patted his head and said, "Then let me introduce someone to you."

Before Shi Xueting finished speaking, the old man over there came over aggressively and said: "You two melon skins, pay me!"

Li Congjia's eyebrows twitched, and he turned his head to look at Shi Xuehe. Without further ado, Shi Xuehe took out more than a dozen Yuanxi Tongbao and handed them to the old man, "Here, it's more than enough for you, isn't it?"

The old man shouted: "What do you mean? Is it amazing to be rich?"

Li Congjia:? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Is this really sick?Let them pay the door, they lost, is this not satisfactory?

Li Congjia narrowed his eyes and looked at Shi Xueting and said, "I'll give you ten breaths of time to explain, if you don't understand the explanation, just wait for me to go back and deal with you."

Shi Xueting was rather dumbfounded and said: "Don't be angry, this one is like this, didn't you say before that most capable people have a bad temper?"

Capable person?A capable person would live in this kind of place?

Before Li Congjia raised his question, the old man suddenly said: "Hey, you are a big boy."

Li Congjia simply said: "Speak in another place."

He really couldn't stay in this place any longer, he didn't care about Shi Xueting turning his head and left after speaking, as for what kind of expert Shi Xueting said this is, he didn't quite believe it.

Of course, the most important thing is that this dilapidated house doesn't even have a door. It's really not safe to talk here, especially when it comes to more confidential things.

The old man stared at Li Congjia and said, "This... this melon skin..."

Shi Xueting clasped his hands together and saluted the old man, "Don't blame me, this is my lord. He is a bit more delicate, but he keeps his word. Didn't you always disbelieve me before? Now it's time to talk to my lord in person. .”

The old man looked at Shi Xueting suspiciously for a while, and then said with his hands behind his back: "Let's go, the old man is naked, who is afraid of?"

Shi Xueting stretched out his hand as a gesture of invitation, and when he went out, he saw Shi Xuehe standing at the gate of Xinghuafang and said helplessly, "Your Majesty, Wanlixiang is here."

Shi Xueting nodded and was about to take the old man over, when he saw a guard next to Li Congjia driving a carriage and said: "Guo... Mage, Mr. Lang ordered me to take the two of you there."

Shi Xueting breathed a sigh of relief, he was really worried that if the old man got angry and refused to go, it would be very troublesome.

After arriving in Wanlixiang, Li Congjia originally wanted to go to his own private room. Anyway, the old man might not be able to see what was going on, but after thinking about it, he went to the ordinary private room. He really didn't want to hear that the old man Let me say something like "it's amazing to be rich".

Li Congjia sat in the box and waited. After a while, Shi Xueting brought the old man over. The old man in Li Congjia's imagination saw that the luxurious furnishings in the private room had not happened, and the old man stood at the door and looked around. , and then he walked in and sat down and said, "Where's the meat? Where's the wine? And two bowls of Xaozi noodles!"

Li Congjia was dumbfounded, who the hell is this?Is it so invisible?Are you really not afraid of being thrown out if you rely on the old to sell the old?

Shi Xueting was afraid that Li Congjia would blow his hair, so he hurried in to appease him and said, "Let me introduce some, this old man's surname is Gongshu, and he is good at making looms."

Loom?Li Congjia thought that the wool that Shi Xueting had said before was stuck on the bottleneck. Could it be that he came to the old man for this?

After hearing this, the old man Gongshu snorted and said, "As the loom goes, there is no one in Chang'an who is my opponent."

Li Congjia couldn't help being a little nervous: "What about outside Chang'an?"

The old man Gongshu stared and said: "Chang'an is the capital of the Tang Dynasty, and the best talents gather here. I have no rivals in Chang'an, and naturally I have no rivals outside."

Li Congjia couldn't help raising the bar: "That's not necessarily the case, what if there are leftovers from the mountains?"

The old man Gongshu curled his lips and said: "Then the court is incompetent, such talents can't be recruited, are all the princes in the court useless?"

Li Congjia was scolded as a waste out of nowhere. The problem was that he asked others to raise an argument, and he wanted to get up and leave for a moment.

Shi Xueting and Li Congjia sat at the same table and pressed him tightly, and said with a smile: "Maybe, after all, the Tang Dynasty is full of waste, old man, this winter is so cold, old man, don't you really care?" Do you appear on the face of the struggling people?"

The old man Gongshu suddenly asked: "People in the world? Are you sure that cashmere yarn will be valued when it is spun?"

Li Congjia asked: "You don't need to care about this matter. I am more concerned about whether you can really make a qualified loom?"

At this time, Xiaoer just served a jug of wine. The old man Gongshu smelled the wine and his eyes lit up. He couldn't wait for Xiaoer to pour a glass of wine, then took a drink from the glass, then shook his head and said repeatedly: "Good wine, Good wine."

Li Congjia... Li Congjia felt that he was very calm now. He would not be angry again if this old man did anything. He just looked at him quietly and thought about how to throw him out.

Shi Xueting said to Li Congjia in a low voice: "Before, there was no way to weave real cashmere yarn. Later, we used Mr. Gongshu's improved loom to weave a little bit."

Li Congjia secretly asked: "Can't anyone else do it except him?"

Shi Xueting shook his head slightly: "I also went to the Ministry of Industry to find someone before."

Li Congjia scolded MMP in his heart, but on the surface he waited patiently for the old man to drink enough. He was always patient with capable people, otherwise he would have been as early as the old man Gongshu started to raise his eyebrows. Turned around and left.

Of course he won't admit that he has the idea that this old guy might be able to talk when he's drunk!

After the old man Gongshu drank two glasses of wine, his face was flushed, and his nose was even more red. Li Congjia looked down at the reading on the wine jar, oh shit, it actually read 65!

Of course, this 65-degree standard is definitely different from the 65-degree standard of later generations. Li Congjia is not very clear about how they set the degree, but this degree is definitely very high. I've been poured over the wine before, I just thought it wasn't wine, it was alcohol!

After drinking two cups of Gongshuo, the old man seemed to be quite sober.

Li Congjia took the initiative to pour wine for the old man Gongshu, and said while pouring: "Since Mr. Gongshu is a great talent, it is a bit wronged to live in the small Xinghua workshop. If you can improve the loom, no matter what you ask, we will do it for you." be satisfied as much as possible.”

Shi Xuehe looked at Li Congjia in surprise, then at Shi Xueting, and found that Shi Xueting was sitting there quietly, without any intention of speaking, so he couldn't help holding back what he wanted to say. He felt that Li Congjia's promise Made it a little bigger.

After all, Li Congjia has different identities, and he can give too much. What if her husband loses and wants an official position?Want a title?

After hearing this, the old man Gongshu opened his eyes slightly and looked at Li Congjia and said vaguely: "It's useless, it's useless, I know, you guys will only promise now when you feel hopeful, and if the progress is unsatisfactory, you will immediately make a promise." Turn your face, don’t think I don’t know! Do you think this thing is very simple? Which tool in this world can’t be developed and improved by craftsmen after years of exploration? But ah, there are always some people who are impatient and afraid of investment. I don't believe it either, I don't believe it!"

Li Congjia looked at the old man Gongshu yelling and patting the table, helplessly convinced that this man probably really drank too much.

If I knew it earlier, I wouldn't let him drink. How can I talk about things?

Shi Xueting didn't expect such a development, so he could only whisper to Li Congjia: "Leave this matter to me, you go back first?"

Li Congjia shook his head: "Find someone to send this old gentleman back first, you can't talk about anything if you stay, oh, buy him some food and clothing, a skilled craftsman with such a shabby life is indeed a court official dereliction of duty."

Shi Xueting looked at the old man Gongshu holding the flagon and murmured something, and felt that he seemed unable to talk about things in this state, so he agreed with Li Congjia's statement, sent someone to send the old man Gongshu back, and then followed Li Congjia back. the palace.

On the way back, Li Congjia asked, "Do you know his origin? Is he from the Gongshu family?"

Shi Xueting said: "I originally thought he was from the Gongshu family, but he himself denied that he was not, it just happened to be Gongshu."

Li Congjia thought for a while: "The surname is Gongshu, and he knows something about looms. I don't believe that he has nothing to do with Gongshu. Isn't the Gongshu family always good at these institutions?"

Shi Xueting said: "Perhaps the mechanism is still different from the loom."

Li Congjia shook his head: "It doesn't matter, whether he is willing to admit it is his business, as long as he is a good citizen of the Tang Dynasty, wait... is he a good citizen?"

The people living in Xinghuafang are generally people who handle low-level slaves. Li Congjia is very worried that the old man has committed a crime. Of course, this is not the point. The point is that the old man seems to have a bad temper and looks very lonely. Let him contribute.

Fortunately, Shi Xueting found out all these things clearly, and said directly: "No, he lives there just because he has no savings, and the houses there are the cheapest."

Li Congjia couldn't help but asked, "Does he have no family?"

Shi Xueting shook his head: "Without a wife and no children, he has been studying tools all his life. He not only studies looms, but also other things, such as waterwheels, which are all beneficial to people's livelihood. I am shy in the middle, have no theory, and I don’t have much time to practice, which is why the new loom can only weave a small section.”

Li Congjia couldn't help being awed: "He is a pure person."

Shi Xueting nodded in agreement and said: "What he said today is probably because he was drunk. I have invited him several times before, but he didn't agree. He obviously helped us modify the loom before. I made a move, and now I invite him to go to special research instead of going, I am also very surprised, now that I think about it... I am afraid that someone has invited him to go out of the mountain before, but there is no result in a short period of time, and there has been an unhappiness with the master."

Li Congjia sighed: "No matter what time it is, people who devote themselves to research have a hard time."

From the old man Gongshu, Li Congjia thought of the days when he ran around doing archaeological research, earning very little, not to mention getting married to support his family, it would be nice to be able to support himself.

Li Congjia suddenly asked: "I heard...you hid your beauty in the golden house in the east of the city? And you hid a lot?"

After hearing this, Shi Xueting was taken aback, with a puzzled expression on his face: "Who said that?"

Li Congjia waved his hand: "Don't care who said it, just say if there is."

For some unknown reason, Shi Xueting asked suddenly: "So what if you have it, so what if you don't have it?"

Li Congjia looked at him expressionlessly. According to his previous thinking, he should answer at this time if he agrees or comes and disagrees or breaks up. Anyway, the two of them spent a very happy time together and supported each other until today. Xue Ting really has someone he likes more, he should let go, the two can still be friends.

But in fact, Li Congjia opened his mouth and said, "If it's true, then confiscate the tools used to commit the crime. I'd like to see what's the use of having a house full of beauties?"

Li Congjia said very seriously, but Shi Xueting responded with hilarious laughter, and hugged him and kissed him by the way, Li Congjia was bewildered by his kiss, he didn't know what was going on with this guy, and looked at him blankly , I really want to ask: Brother, are you okay?Did you hear that you were so happy to be eunuched?

Shi Xueting hugged Li Congjia and said with a smile: "Don't think about it, those are just weavers."

Li Congjia immediately knew that his jealousy was of no level, his face blushed, and he stared and said, "What's there to hide? Why didn't you say it earlier?"

Shi Xueting just laughed there and didn't speak, Li Congjia had no choice but to say: "Don't be in the city, it's not safe in the city, I remember I still have a Zhuangzi, we don't go there much, just..."

"Your Zhuangzi is all registered by the royal family, and a bunch of women suddenly moved in. I'm afraid the censor will look for trouble again."

Li Congjia stroked his chin and said, "Use Yang Xin's name to build a Zhuangzi, and then buy all the tools that the old man Gongshu needs by the way."

Shi Xueting asked: "Are you so sure that he will come?"

Li Congjia laughed and said: "I wouldn't come originally, but we have prepared everything he needs, will he still not come? Don't worry, no craftsman can resist having such a workshop, just like your senior brother." We look at your martial arts arena very envious."

Shi Xueting didn't understand at first, but after Li Congjia gave an example, he seemed to understand something.

Li Congjia asked again: "Do you know what he needs?"

He just remembered that Shi Xueting didn't study this, so he probably didn't know much about it.

Shi Xueting touched his face and said: "I don't know, but I can go to the Ministry of Industry and ask. Craftsmen like them need similar things, right? If it's really impossible, I can get it directly from the Ministry of Industry. If you can’t, ask someone to make it.”

Li Congjia said resolutely: "There is no hurry to order the ones that are made to order, and bring them first if you can get them. At least lure the old man over first."

Shi Xueting deeply agreed.

The next day, Shi Xueting went to the Ministry of Industry to rob, and even the minister of the Ministry of Industry came to Li Congjia crying, Li Congjia smiled and said, "Don't worry, has the teacher paid you?"

The minister of the Ministry of Industry said bitterly: "It is given, but those things are what we need to use. If we don't have them, we have to customize them. If the national teacher needs them, I will let them order them. Why bother to grab them? "

Yes, Shi Xueting simply became a robber for a while, and of course he didn't leave anything to the Ministry of Industry, otherwise the Minister of the Ministry of Industry would have been assigned to the National Teacher's Mansion.

Li Congjia had no choice but to say: "I asked the national teacher to get it. The national teacher has other uses. Don't make trouble. First find someone to order it. If you don't have enough money, go from the internal treasury."

Minister of the Ministry of Industry: ...

When the minister of the Ministry of Industry went back, rumors began to spread in the court that the emperor liked to do carpentry. It was fine at first, but then it intensified. Even the cabinet ministers looked at him with a look of hesitation.

Li Congjia saw that they were uncomfortable and said simply: "The national teacher found a strange person among the people, and those things are for the strange person."

Fan Zhi heaved a sigh of relief, as long as the emperor didn't like being a carpenter, Wei Renpu asked, "Which strange man is he? Why don't you just recruit him into the imperial court and go directly to the Ministry of Industry. Isn't the Ministry of Industry more complete?"

Li Congjia curled his lips: "Odd people always have a bit of a temper. If he is willing to enter, why should I be so devious? No matter how the national teacher interceded before, the other party never nodded in agreement, so I had to make this bad plan first. If this person can succeed, say Maybe after a few years, the people of Tang Dynasty will be able to save their lives in the bitter cold weather!"

Everyone was very curious, but Li Congjia refused to say anything. After all, the cashmere thread has not been written yet, and only a small and simple prototype has been produced. Now there are people all over the world, in case the textile cannot be formed in a short time Woolen cloth?Wouldn't his face hurt?

After explaining to the courtiers, Li Congjia went back and said angrily to Shi Xueting: "It's all your fault. I asked you to go to the Ministry of Industry to ask for it. Why did you rob it! I still have to tell everyone that I don't want to do it." Carpenter, I have no intention of not doing my job properly!"

Shi Xueting looked innocent: "I don't want to either, Minister of the Ministry of Industry is a glutton, I give him double the market price, but he doesn't give it to me, so I have no choice but to grab it."

Li Congjia... Li Congjia deeply doubts that if Shi Xueting is not a monk, is it more suitable to be a bandit?

Seeing Li Congjia's puffy face and not speaking, Shi Xueting had no choice but to say: "It's all set up. Weavers and Mr. Gongshu are in the same Zhuangzi but not in the same courtyard. They are far apart, so there shouldn't be any problem. These two clever boys are planning to give them back to Mr. Gongshu for him to drive. If Mr. Gongshu likes them, it would be good to accept these two boys as apprentices."

Li Congjia knew that the people selected by Shi Xueting must be selected from among the adopted children. These children are naturally attracted to Shi Xueting. If the old man Gongshu is willing to teach them, it will be a great joy.

After Li Congjia finished approving the papers, he followed Shi Xueting to Xinghuafang again. The door of the old man Gongshu’s house had been reinstalled, but it was still very broken. Waiting for Shi Xueting to knock on the door, but Shi Xueting went in without knocking?

After Li Congjia followed in, he found that the old man Gongshu was carving something with a carving knife. He looked up at Shi Xueting and Li Congjia, put down the work in his hand and said expressionlessly: "I have made it very clear before. I will naturally do what I want, but I may not be willing to do what you ask me to do, so go back."

Li Congjia said with a smile: "I know why your husband is worried, and I won't say those big words. I just ask you to come with us. Maybe you will change your mind then?"

The old man Gongshu said without looking up, "No."

Shi Xueting said: "Sir, you won't regret taking this trip."

Shi Xueting used to call the old man Gongshu old man before, and now he changed his name after Li Congjia, but he thinks there is no problem.

The old man Gongshu hesitated for a moment before he said, "Is there any wine?"

Shi Xueting clasped his hands together and said: "Good wine is enough."

The old man Gongshu immediately said, "Let's go!"

He only took one trip for the wine, but he didn't expect to go out of the city directly this trip. If he didn't see the big manor at the end, he would have suspected that these two people brought him to a Intimidation and temptation in remote places.

When the old man Gongshu saw the whole yard specially made for him, he froze in place. He knew what those tools were and how to use them, but he had never used them before. Such things are not consumables. He said that the price was so expensive that he could not afford it.

Li Congjia waited for him to come back to his senses before saying: "In ancient times, there were three visits to the thatched cottage, and now I and the mage together can be regarded as three visits to the thatched cottage. Of course, apart from this, I think sincerity is also very important. I let you read this just to tell you, I'm not afraid of a long time, as long as you are willing to study, I can provide you with the best conditions. If you don't believe me, we can sign the document, how about signing it for ten years? Of course, the terms of the document need to be studied carefully, the most rough The only thing is that I will provide you with the venue and tools, and the things you research will be mine, how about that?"

After Li Congjia finished speaking, he glanced at the old man Gongshu, and found that the old man had tears in his eyes. Li Congjia looked at Shi Xueting for a day at a loss. Just as Shi Xueting was about to say something, the old man Gongshu wiped his tears and turned his head. He said viciously to Li Congjia: "I demand that there be wine and meat for three meals a day!"

Li Congjia immediately agreed: "No problem!"

The old man Gongshu sat directly in the yard and said, "Then I won't leave today, and I don't need to prepare paperwork, I don't understand!"

Li Congjia: This... that's all right?Are all of you doing scientific research so straightforward?