Chapter 695: The Importance of Waterways

During the dinner in the evening, Xiao Han staggered into the dining room, followed by Xue Pan.

However, Xue Pan, who always looks happy on weekdays, is a little strange today, and he really wants to have an indescribable shyness on his face?

Xiao Han sat on a chair in the dining room and glanced at Xue Pan triumphantly, hehe, women fight with men? What else can you take advantage of?

Xiao Lian came in from outside, waited for Xiao Han to wash his hands, and then retreated with a red face.

The two of them were frolicking just now, and Xiao Lian also listened to it really, how could she not think of anything else after being in the land of fireworks for a long time? Only Li Shentong swaggered at the dining table, fiddling with chopsticks, while letting out a few cold snorts from his nostrils, and glanced at Xiao Han like a demonstration.

"Huh? Sister Xue Pan, why is your face so red? Sick? ”

Finally, Li Shentong, who was wide-eyed, noticed that something was wrong with Xue Pan, and couldn't help but ask with wide eyes.

was asked by Li Shentong like this, and two red clouds instantly rose on Xue Pan's face!

The place on his body that was touched by Xiao Han intentionally or unintentionally just now seems to be hot again!

"No... No! I'm not hungry, so eat first..."

said in a panic, Xue Pan hid his face and fled, leaving only Xiao Han with a wicked smile on his face, and Li Shentong who didn't know why.

"Huh? Sister Xue Pan?! ”

No matter how smart Li Shentong is, he is still a child after all, and his family disciplines him very strictly, how can he understand the little thing between men and women? Staring at the big eyes and just about to ask again, Leng Buding was hit on the head.

"Oops, who hit me!" Li Shentong touched his head and turned around angrily.

"Little brat! You know a? Hurry up and eat! Xiao Han, who was sitting on the side, rubbed his hands and scolded with a wicked smile! He is very cool now, although his body has been twisted a few times, but compared to the advantage he has taken, he still makes a lot of money!

However, Li Shentong was not happy at all, and he was beaten again for no reason, which made him angry in his heart, and he stood up and screamed: "I'm not a little kid!" ”

"Oh?" Xiao Han raised his eyelids when he heard this, and when he saw Li Shentong's appearance of opening his teeth and claws, he added slowly: "Little brat!" ”

"Ahem......"

At the moment, Li Shen's breathed little face was about to turn purple! Slam your chopsticks on the table!

“…… Hum! I'm not eating! ”

"If you don't eat, you won't eat, just save it for others! When you're hungry at night, don't look around like a rat to eat! Xiao Han threw a bean into his mouth and looked at Li Shentong playfully, somehow, he likes to tease this little guy lately.

Of course, this is only limited to being at home, as for taking Li Shentong to the battlefield? Xiao Han never thought about it!

On the battlefield, I don't know if he can get out of it himself! If you fold this little guy into it again, you won't say anything about it in your heart! Just say that the relationship between him and Li Jing's family, a mortal enemy is absolutely unravelable!

Seeing Li Shentong puff up and walk away, Xiao Han smiled, also dropped his chopsticks, found a clean big bowl, pulled the good dishes on the table, and hurriedly ran to Xue Pan's house again with the bowl.

At this time, a man must be shameless, right?!

Time passes little by little in a peaceful life, Xiao Han hopes that this peaceful life will continue forever, but everyone knows that in this era, this seemingly simple expectation is just a luxury!

Before a storm, it is often quiet.

Similarly, before the war, Xiao Han's life was extremely quiet, and the troops and generals outside seemed to have nothing to do with him, and those people also forgot Xiao Han's existence, the only difference was that there were inexplicably more letters sent home.

When the wheat planted in the field sprouted, the swallows also returned from the warm south, and now they are busy building their small homes with mud and grass every day.

I don't know why, Xiao Family Zhuangzi seems to be particularly fond of swallows! Since the beginning of spring, almost every household has a nest or two of swallows under the eaves, and every morning when you wake up, you can hear their chirping.

Steward Lu is very proud that there are so many swallows settled in Zhuangzi, and thinks that this is because of Zhuangzi's deep fortune!

For this reason, he also specially warned the children in Zhuangzi: If anyone dares to poke the swallow's nest, he will be thrown into the mountains to feed the wolves!

In this way, even the naughtiest children in Zhuangzi did not dare to touch these elves in black tuxedos!

When he saw Steward Lu inspecting the swallow's nest around Zhuangzi when he was fine, Xiao Han wanted to tell him that the reason why swallows like to build nests in Xiao's Zhuangzi is not because this is a blessed land!

They just like the high eaves of the Xiao family's Zhuangzi, after all, this is not like other places, as long as those two-legged things stretch out their hands, they can reach the small home they have worked so hard to build.

The spring breeze rises, the swallows return, and the farmland is busy!

In the current Xiao family Zhuangzi, except for the men who work and the sons who study, the others are spent in the fields almost every day.

Busy weeding, watering, and fertilizing the grain, the field was busy.

Fortunately, Old Man Hua went to Sun Simiao to study medical skills again, so Xiao Han could squat on the ground and watch others work, without being driven to the ground like a donkey.

"Master Hou! The boat you want has arrived! ”

The dusty housekeeper Lu ran over from the field road and bowed his hand to Xiao Han, who was squatting on the ridge.

"So soon?"

Xiao Han heard Steward Lu's voice, came back to his senses, rubbed his neck, turned his head and asked, "How many have you got?" ”

Steward Lu smiled bitterly and continued to arch his hand: "Back to Master Hou, there are a lot of boats found!" But there are not many big ones, only two can barely reach a thousand materials, and the others are small boats. ”

"Only two thousand material ships?"

When Xiao Han heard this, his brows couldn't help frowning, this answer was far from what he originally thought!

Since his family started to build ships in Hanzhong, Xiao Han also has a relatively intuitive understanding of the scale of the current ship, and knows that the so-called thousand-material ship in Steward Lu's mouth only refers to a ship with a load of about 200 tons.

This number sounds like a lot, but if you actually look at it, you will find that this thousand material boats are only about ten meters long, and they are only a little bigger than the fishing boats of later generations!

"It's too little! Such a big Chang'an, not even a few big ships? Xiao Han thought for a while, then asked Steward Lu with a frown.

He is also going to take the water transport this time, so that the equipment and materials can be transported to the vicinity of Luoyang quickly, but there is no ship now, how can he transport it?

Steward Lu still smiled bitterly when he heard this: "Master Hou, since ancient times, it has been the southern ship and the northern horse!" We people in this pass have walked on the land all their lives, and when they get to the ship, they get dizzy, so how can anyone be willing to build ships? These ships are still old slaves I wasted a lot of effort to find! ”

Reversal of perceptions is difficult.

Xiao Han had heard these words of Steward Lu once in Hanzhong, so when he listened to them at this time, he no longer had the excitement in his heart, but just a little sadness.

"Hey, Yang Guang dug so many waterways with his life, why didn't the Tang people know how to use them? Would you rather learn to carry a mule on your shoulders than choose a better, less labor-saving ship? ”