Abandoned Prince Survival Guide

Today is a ten-day break, no classes.After dinner, Xiao Yu was going to see the bobbin cart.The master carpenter came over today, and Xiao Yu was going to study and discuss with the master to improve the bobbin car and improve its operating efficiency.

When Pei Linzhi heard that he wanted to see the bobbin cart, he resolutely objected: "Your Majesty can't go anymore, I'll go for you."

Xiao Yu said with a smile: "Why can't I go? If I don't climb up, it won't work if I look down." This is a bobbin cart designed by him, and Pei Linzhi may not be able to help.

"Then I'll go with you." Pei Linzhi was afraid of the well rope after being bitten by a snake for ten years.

"Okay." Xiao Yu knew that he would not want to go to see the bobbin cart alone in the future.

When they went out, Ji Hai and Meng Sigui were practicing in the yard.Seeing them going out, Ji Hai just glanced at them and continued to concentrate on practicing, while Meng Sigui asked, "Master, when are we going to practice?"

Pei Linzhi glanced at him: "Whenever your senior brother stops practicing, stop practicing."

"Oh." Meng Sigui looked sad and looked at Ji Hai helplessly. He seemed to have gone crazy for the past two days. He practiced whenever he had free time, and he would not even think about resting until noon today.

After leaving the courtyard, Xiao Yu said with a smile: "Sigui is smart, but his temper is too quick."

"It needs to be polished." Pei Linzhi obviously agreed with him.

Xiao Yu asked casually, "Among your apprentices, who do you look up to more?"

Pei Linzhi pursed her lips and did not speak.

Xiao Yu knew that he actually had a steelyard in his heart, but he didn't draw conclusions easily.

Xiao Yu discussed and researched with the carpenter, and finally found the problem. During the improvement process, the person climbing up and down became Pei Linzhi.

After two days of modification, the barrel car finally started running smoothly, and the automatic rice pounding machine can also work. From now on, the wife of the Wu family will no longer have to worry about pounding rice.

When the villagers saw that this big, twirling creature could carry water in a car without manpower, and it could also pound rice at the same time, they all felt that it was a novelty, and they all ran to watch the excitement.

Li was stroking his gray beard, and said with a smile: "This cart is really a good thing, and it will save a lot of effort in the future. Mr. Xiao, can you come here to pound rice and collect money and rice?"

Xiao Yu said: "I don't need money or rice, it's free for everyone to use. I just have one request, you must cherish it, and don't waste it just because you don't spend money. And the most important thing is peace, you can't fight, you need to use it." Just queue up, first come, first served, don’t jump in line or quarrel.”

All the villagers smiled and nodded in agreement. This drum cart may not be practical for irrigation. After all, there is no canal, which means that the nearby fields can be irrigated. Such a labor-saving good thing, who would not want it.

In the future, when the rice needs to be pounded, just send the millet over and ask an old man or a child to come over and watch it, so there is no need for strong labor at home.

Therefore, the installation of the bobbin cart is not only a good thing for Xiao Yu's family, but also a great thing for the whole village.This can be regarded as the first public facility that Xiao Yu built for the village.

Yu'er responded most positively, and soon asked his brothers to carry the rice over to pound the rice. When everyone saw it, they hurried home to carry the rice to try the new rice pounding tools.

So the bobbin car was officially put into use and became the new favorite of the whole village.

The master carpenter worked hard for nearly a month, and finally finished the bobbin. When Xiao Yu counted his wages for him, the master carpenter said, "Xiao Langjun, can you see if this works? I won't accept your wages. You Send me this blueprint, and I’ll take it elsewhere to repair the bobbin truck.”

Xiao Yu was overjoyed when he heard that: "Yes. I didn't invent this cart, but there are few people who can do it now. You are the only one. If you want, you can teach a few more apprentices and spread this method. Come, it can be regarded as my humble contribution to the people of Yazhou."

Hearing this, the master carpenter quickly agreed: "Sure, sure, I will definitely teach a few more apprentices so that bobbins can be seen everywhere in Yazhou. I also want to tell people that this is the bobbin made by Mr. Xiao Lang. , let people remember your merits.”

"No, no, this is really not the bobbin car I built, so you don't need to promote it for me." Xiao Yu quickly waved his hand and refused. This is the wisdom of the working people, and he dare not take credit for it.

However, no matter whether Xiao Yu agrees or not, later on in Yazhou and even in the land of Shenzhou, the bobbin carts were called Xiaoche, this is something for another time.

After heavy rain and a few days of cooling, the brick kiln can finally be opened. I don't know how the green bricks will be fired, Xiao Yu is quite looking forward to it.

He picked a sunny day to open the kiln, and all the masters came over. Everyone opened the kiln door cautiously and nervously, and all they saw was a red color. The master said regretfully, "Xiao Langjun, is this color wrong? Isn't it?" Cyan."

As Xiao Yu approached, he could still feel the heat emanating from the inside. The remaining heat hadn't dissipated yet. The outer bricks were not the expected blue bricks, but rather purple red bricks, which hadn't been fired successfully. Or is there no water splashed on the periphery, so there is no change?

Xiao Yu said: "This is red brick, not blue brick, but it doesn't matter. Red brick can also be used, but it's not as strong as green brick. I won't be able to come out today. First, turn on the kiln to dissipate heat, and be careful not to burn it."

Now that the bricks are fired, it's time to get ready to build the new house.How to build the new house, Xiao Yu and Pei Lin had already started discussing, whether to build a big yard on the basis of this house, or build a new yard on another site?Since the current location of the house is relatively front, it is a bit cramped to build further forward. Finally, it was decided to rebuild a courtyard next to the house, and to expand the scale in the future, add another courtyard in front of this courtyard, and so on. .

The structure of the house was also discussed and decided by Xiao Yu and Pei Linzhi. There are three main rooms in the middle, the living room in the middle, and bedrooms on the left and right. The left and right rooms will be separated from each other to ensure enough privacy. The kitchen and dining room are built into a courtyard.

In this way, the batch of blue bricks that Xiao Yu burned would probably be used up, and there would be nothing left for Wu Xingyi.But it doesn't matter, Wu Jiayuan didn't plan to build the house now, the plan is to burn it to him after autumn.

Xiao Yu also plans to sell green bricks. The burning of green bricks is more complicated than lime, but the demand is greater. It should be popular with rich families, and it will definitely sell for a good price.

Xiao Yu has always been a person who can do whatever he thinks of. The blue bricks are ready, the doors and windows are already ready, and it's time to dig the foundation.The foundation uses limestone as the cornerstone and glutinous rice mortar as the adhesive.

When the foundation is about to be repaired, the bricks in the kiln over there will be lifted out. The outer layer is reddish-purple bricks, but the inner layer is black-green bricks. The color is very good and quite durable.

Red bricks can be repaired on the inner layer of the house, because the inner wall will be painted, and the outer layer can be made of blue bricks, which does not need to be painted.

The carts of blue bricks were pulled out, and then pulled into the yard of Xiao Yu's house, which attracted the crowds of the villagers. Xiao Langjun always brought you countless novelties, whether it was lime, paper, drums, night The classroom, or the current blue brick, is an eye-opener for people.

So much so that the eyes of the villagers were raised extremely high, and they were very calm and indifferent when they saw everything in the future, because they believed that, except for Xiao Langjun, no one else could do anything that surprised them.

House repairs were in full swing. Xiao Yu spent every day on the construction site except for class. He was a designer, and the masons had to listen to his instructions.

One day, Yu'er suddenly came to Xiao Yu: "Mr. Lang, come and take a look at our silkworms. They are all crawling on the ground. What should we do?"

Xiao Yu hurriedly ran to the silkworm room to see that the white and fat silkworms had shortened and turned yellow at the moment, and they were struggling to crawl out of the bamboo plaque. , to be clean."

I was busy building a house during this time, so I forgot about it. A more professional way would be to weave some special tools for silkworms to weave silk and cocoon.

"What do you need straw for?"

"Silkworms are about to make cocoons, so we have to prepare cocoon mountains for them."

Under Xiao Yu's command, the little girls brought a lot of straw, and grabbed off the lower layer of straw, leaving clean grass cores for the silkworms to climb the mountain to cocoon.Overnight, many silkworms went up the mountain and began to weave silk and cocoon.

The little girls raised the silkworms for more than a month, and now they finally see the silkworms spinning, and feel extremely miraculous and feel a sense of accomplishment.

The silkworms raised by the lady of the Meng family went up the mountain a day later than theirs, and she also cooked them according to the law, preparing straw for the silkworms to cocoon.

In just a few days, almost all the silkworms spun silk and cocooned. Some silkworms did not take the usual way, and even climbed along the wall to the beams of the house to cocoon. It is really amazing.

Xiao Yu looked at the small white light bulbs hanging on the straw, like the flowers in his heart, and he could be covered with a light and warm silk quilt this winter.

But is it silk quilts or silk reeling and weaving?The number of silkworms this year is limited, and even for weaving, I am afraid that we cannot weave a few bolts of cloth.Moreover, it is far from enough to rely on their two families to raise silkworms. All the people in the village must be mobilized to raise silkworms.Silk weaving may have to wait until next year.Xiao Yu decided to solve the urgent need first, making silk quilts, and then reeling and weaving if there were more.

Of course, we still need to study how to reel silk and weave cloth.Xiao Yu once glanced at the video, reeling silk seems to be boiled silkworm cocoons, and then pull out the silk, several pieces of silk are put together to become a silk thread.

He tried several times, either the pumping was thick or broken. After trying several cocoons, he finally found the trick to remove the messy threads on the outer layer of the cocoons, leaving only the firm and tight cocoons inside. Out of the clues, with the clues, it is easy to get rid of the cocoons.This is a job that requires a lot of patience. Xiao Yu figured out a way, so he left this matter to the little girls.

There is no need to rush to deal with the cocoons used to make silk quilts. Xiao Yu remembered that soon after the silkworms made their cocoons, the pupae would turn into moths and they would bite through the cocoon by themselves.In order to save more silkworm eggs next year, Xiao Yu decided to wait for the silkworm moths to come out before dealing with the bitten cocoons, so that the quilt would not be afraid of broken silk.Only the spun cocoons should be disposed of before the chrysalis turns into silk moths, or boiled to death first, and then slowly spun.

Spinning silk is a delicate job, and Xiao Yu found that the disabled girl named Hui'er was the fastest and best at it.She was crippled by soft foot plague, walked with a limp, seemed very inferior, spoke softly, and never dared to meet people's eyes.

In fact, Huier is an ingenious girl, she is also very cute, she has big eyes on Xiaoyuan's face, she is very serious in class, she is very receptive, she can learn things by analogy, and she writes her homework very neatly.Xiao Yu likes to ask her to answer questions, he hopes to use this method to encourage the child and cultivate her self-confidence.

Recently, this little girl has become more cheerful and laughs a lot, because the teachers always praise her, she has finally found what she is good at.Because of her inconvenient legs and feet, she couldn't do a lot of manual work, so she often helped wash and feed silkworms, and also helped the Wu family's wife weave linen.

The lady of the Wu family also admired her very much, and told Xiao Yu more than once that Huier's cloth was well woven.Xiao Yu thought that silk weaving is a particularly delicate job, maybe Hui'er can do it, but she is a little younger.

This side is busy peeling cocoons, and the house is also in full swing over there.Xiao Yu hoped that the house could be repaired before the typhoon came, but there was indeed a lot of rain in spring. During the construction of the house, there were two heavy rains, and the work had to be stopped for three days. It took nearly 20 days intermittently. The main body of the house Finally finished, only the roof remains.

The tile roof was hired by the same master last year. According to the progress of the roof last year, the roof may not be finished within a month.To Xiao Yu's surprise, the master brought seven helpers this time.

It turned out that after the master built the tile roof from Xiao Yu, he spread his glutinous rice mortar bonding technology everywhere. Many people rebuilt the tile roof according to this method. His business was booming, not only took two apprentices, but also absorbed three so his team has become the current eight people, and it is really fast and good to work now.

Of course, he won't dispatch so many people when there are few jobs. Only when there are big jobs, will the whole team be dispatched, such as this time.

Xiao Yu originally thought that the roof would take more than a month to build, but this time it only took about ten days to build it, not only because of the large number of people, but also because the masters did a lot, and the technology was more exquisite than the first time. Quite a lot.

When Min Chong and Ji Shan drove the carriage back home, just in time for the completion of the new house, the family was setting up a banquet for the villagers.They almost thought that they had gone to the wrong place, and they had only been away for more than a month. They didn't expect that when they came back, there was already a new house.

The house with a black roof and green walls is even more beautiful than the governor's mansion. It is no exaggeration to say that this is the most beautiful house in Yazhou.In fact, it is a bit exaggerated to be the most beautiful. Xiao Yu has no money, and his house is incomparable to those of those rich and sophisticated families, at least the doors and windows are incomparable. They are all made in the most common style, without many patterns and carvings. , because those things really need money and work to do.

But even if the details are not exquisite, it does not conceal that this is an extremely beautiful house.

Xiao Yu, who was greeting the guests in the new house, heard the report from the children that Min Chong and Ji Shan had returned, and ran out to greet them with joy. When they crossed the threshold, they were so excited that their shoes were hung up by the threshold.

Pei Linzhi followed behind him, looked at the shoes on the ground, showed a helpless and doting smile, picked up the clog from the ground, and put it on the foot that was stretched into the threshold to find the shoe.

Xiao Yu smirked: "Run too fast, these clogs are not as convenient as straw sandals."

Pei Linzhi bought the clogs for Xiao Yu, because his previous straw sandals were worn out, and the new straw sandals were worn out, and it took a while to get comfortable. Pei Linzhi bought him the clogs. When he was in Kyoto, he also wore them in summer. .

Pei Linzhi said, "Then walk slowly."

Xiao Yu said: "It's hard to wait until they come back. I want to know if I have found suitable soil."

"You can't see it even if you look at it. You have to try it to know?" Pei Linzhi grabbed his wrist to prevent him from walking too fast.

As soon as he left the yard, he saw Min Chong and Ji Shan walking towards the new house within a few steps.Xiao Yu excitedly waved his hands and said hello: "Min Dangjia, Ji Shan, you are back, you have worked hard, just in time for dinner."

Ji Shan ran over excitedly: "Lang Jun, we're back. We're building a new house? It's so fast, we only started burning bricks when we went out."

Xiao Yu said: "Yes, the blue bricks were built as soon as they were fired. I was worried that a hurricane would come soon. Master Min, thank you!" Min Chong, who was leaving, cupped his hands.

Min Chong nodded slightly: "I brought everything back, in the car, you can see if you can use it."

"Looking back, you are all hungry, hurry up and eat. I'll cook two side dishes for you." Xiao Yu greeted them.

Pei Linzhi glanced at Xiao Yu, Mr. Lang hadn't been in the kitchen for a long time, although Min Chong and Ji Shan deserved to be entertained when they worked hard outside, but they still couldn't help feeling a little sour.

Xiao Yu greeted him: "Rin Zhi came to help me."

Pei Linzhi followed.

Xiao Yu said, "It's been a long time since I've cooked. I'll make something for you if you want to eat."

When Pei Linzhi heard this, his heart was filled with irony: "I like to eat whatever Lang Jun cooks."

Xiao Yu found some ingredients, went to the kitchen and made a dish of stir-fried clams, stir-fried shrimps, and sliced ​​mutton. The sliced ​​mutton is Pei Linzhi's favorite, and his taste is a bit northerly.

Xiao Yu said, "Will Lin Zhi eat with Min Chong and the others or alone?"

Pei Linzhi asked, "Where is your lord?"

"I'll eat with them."

"Then I'll eat with you."

"Okay, let's take it together."

They brought the newly fried dishes to the table where Min Chong and Ji Shan were eating, and sat down to eat together.Although the running water table had been open for more than half an hour, Xiao Yu and Pei Linzhi hadn't eaten yet, and now the guests had almost eaten, so it was time to eat by themselves.

At the dinner table, Ji Shan gobbled up a few mouthfuls of rice: "The dishes made by Lang Jun are delicious."

"Eat slowly, the two of you have worked hard during this period of time, eating and sleeping in the open air, both of you have lost a lot of energy." Xiao Yu said.

Min Chong didn't speak, and ate in silence. He was always aloof, so it was hard to hear his attitude.

Jishan asked about the situation of the house, when it was built, and how much it cost, etc. It was just a small talk.Xiao Yu didn't hide anything, and gave a general answer.

After hearing this, Ji Shan sighed: "It seems that I want to repair the house is not enough."

Xiao Yu just remembered that his house had collapsed, and the three brothers and sisters still lived in his own house, but he had already arranged for their brothers and sisters to live in: "Now that the new house has been repaired, I arranged it like this: we all moved here , those little girls have also moved here, one of the original houses is for the old Wu’s family, and the remaining few are for the elderly and children, so it should be more spacious.”

Ji Shan beamed with joy: "I'll move here too?"

Xiao Yu nodded: "You and your younger brother live in a wing room, Min Dang's family lives in one, and the little girls live in one."

"Thank you, sir!" Jishan was extremely excited.

In the future, the old house will be equivalent to the Lonely Garden. It should be enough for a few old people to live in the room where Xiao Yu used to live and the utility room where Min Chong lived.The twenty boys lived in two rooms, which were much more spacious than before.

The kitchen is still on the other side of the old house, and the classroom is also in the hall there.

After the second batch of blue bricks are burned out, a few more houses will be built next to the old house. Sericulture, cloth weaving, pottery making, etc. can all be carried out in it, so that there will be houses and workshops.

This family is getting more and more stylish, Xiao Yu is in a very happy mood, and his life is still very busy.

Jishan ate seventy percent full, and began to talk about what they had seen and heard on the road. They found a lot of clay and stones, but they didn't know if they could be used.

After eating, Xiao Yu went with them to check the soil and stone samples they brought back this time, and the source of each piece of soil and stone was marked.How about the clay, we have to wait until after it is burned to know, but Xiao Yu knows a little bit about the stone, and he actually found quartz stone, feldspar, and even a piece of gypsum for them.

Xiao Yu picked up the piece of plaster, checked it over and over again, and was sure it was plaster. He said excitedly, "Where did you find this?" This plaster was used by southerners to order tofu. She used it. After calcining the gypsum, crush it and grind it into powder, add a little soy milk and stir it, then pour it into the soy milk, and the soy milk will solidify into tofu. Now you can make tofu, which is really an unexpected harvest.

Min Chong asked, "Is this useful?"

Xiao Yu nodded: "It's useful, this can be used to order tofu."

"What is tofu?" Jishan asked curiously, he had never eaten tofu.

Pei Linzhi asked: "Lang Jun, is this tofu made of?"

"I'm not sure if it's true, you'll know if you try it." Xiao Yu is basically sure that it is the gypsum for making tofu.

Min Chong said, "Then the other stones are useless?"

Xiao Yu quickly said: "No, no, they are all useful. These white stones should all be useful. I will try them first to confirm which one is useful, and then we will mine. Try to find a place as close as possible to save time and effort. "

Burning ceramics is not so fast, let's try to make tofu first.So Xiao Yu hurriedly called on Yu'er to grind beans to make tofu.

Grind soybeans with a stone mill, remove the bean shells, and soak them in water overnight.On the second day, use a stone mill to grind soybean milk, boil the soybean milk in a large pot with water, filter out the bean dregs with fine linen, put the calcined and ground gypsum into a little soybean milk and stir, then pour it into the boiling soybean milk, and wait for a while to cool It can be solidified into tofu brain.

Because he didn't know the specific gravity of the gypsum, Xiao Yu divided the soy milk into several parts, and finally made three kinds of tofu, one was very tender and barely solidified, the other was just right, which was the often eaten tofu nao, and the other was relatively soft. Old, this can only be used to make old tofu.

So on this day, everyone in the family ate smooth and tender tofu nao, and poured a spoonful of honey on the tofu nao, which made a group of children unable to resist licking their bowls.