Chapter 156: The First Shovel
Is there a word called 'long live understanding', Lao Liu is now almost up to the standard.
After a long time, Liu Yiyi came back to his senses, nodded at Lao Liu, and said very sincerely: "Thank you, Dad." Then he carried a chair into the house.
"This kid," Lao Liu chuckled and shook his head, and then followed him with a chair.
"Daddy doesn't care about you digging wells, but you still have to listen to Daddy about some things." Lao Liu put down the chair, then bent down and sat down, looked at Liu Yiyi solemnly and said: "Your trip to Chang'an has been a whole month, and there is very little news of you at home." Your father-in-law's family is even more worried. Your eldest brother has made no less than ten trips to our house in the past month. Now that you're back, you have to take the time to go to their house and tell them that they're all safe, so that they can all put their hearts down. ”
"Well, I know Dad, I'll go to Xiaoxinzhuang tomorrow, no, I'll go to Xiaoxinzhuang tonight." Liu Yiyi nodded and agreed, Zhang Chuwen that this nerd would come so frequently, there must be someone by his side who kept urging and begging, this is someone who cares about him and thinks about him.
Liu Yiyi's heart didn't feel a very sweet feeling, just like when he was on a business trip before, Min Min often called in the middle of the night to say that he missed him, very warm.
"Dad, I still have some things to do in the afternoon, and I don't have much time to spare, so I'll bother my dad to help prepare more gifts, and I'll bring them to my father-in-law in the evening. Well. Remember to be richer, and it's better to bring two more bottles of good wine, and I can have two good drinks with my father-in-law and brother-in-law. Liu Yiyi sat down and said to Lao Liu.
"Mmmm, this is going to be done, you wait, Dad will go and buy it for you, and keep it properly." Lao Liu is also an acute son. said that the wind is the rain, ** just sat on the chair, stood up again, said hello to Liu Yiyi and Liu He, and raised his feet to go out.
"One, what is your father going to do? How did it get so hot? This old man," Liu He came out of the back room with Xiao Hui in his arms, looked at Liu Laoshi's hurried back, and asked Liu Yiyi with some confusion.
"Hehe, mother." Liu Yiyi stood up, helped Liu He to sit down on the chair, and said with a smile: "I'm going to go to Xiaoxinzhuang in the evening to visit my father-in-law and mother-in-law." No, as soon as I finished speaking, my father was in a hurry to buy a gift. ”
"Oh, that's right. This is also the way it should be. Hearing this, Liu He nodded. Put Liu Xiaohui on the ground, let her play by herself, and then said to Liu Yiyi with a smile: "You, you really should go and see, in the past month, your father-in-law and his family have been worried about you." ”
"Especially Chu Chu's girl, every time my mother goes to her in-laws, Chu Chu will pester my mother. I asked sideways for a long time. I'm afraid you'll have some accidents outside. This girl. It's really hearted, and I haven't passed the door yet. I know that I feel sorry for people, and I will hand you over to her in the future, and my mother will be relieved. You can't treat others badly, otherwise don't talk about your father, even your mother won't be able to spare you! ”
Listening to Liu He's tone, there was still a hint of coercion, Liu Yidi couldn't help but shed a drop of cold sweat on his forehead, nodded his head busily, and was also thinking in his heart, didn't they all say that this mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were enemies? Why is their old lady so happy with this future daughter-in-law? It seems to be closer than to his own son.
"Okay, my mother has to go to the silkworm room to take care of the silkworms, so I won't accompany you, so you can go too." Liu He stood up, said something to Liu Yiyi, and pulled Liu Xiaohui into the small silkworm room next to the stove room. There are still thousands of mulberry silkworms waiting for her to feed them in the silkworm house, and Liu He's family is also busy for a while.
Liu Yichi got up and went into Liu Erjo's study, asked Liu Erjo for some paper and pencils, and drew a picture of the most suitable well digging tool for use now - an iron shovel.
Yes, the shovel is an indispensable agricultural tool for modern agricultural work.
Yanagichichi has long noticed that in this era, there seems to be no such thing as a shovel in the world. Usually, when people dig the ground and turn the soil, they use a kind of cutting edge called the ground thing, the wooden body, the wooden surface, and the iron edge. It looks like a garbage hopper that people commonly use nowadays, and it is called a laborious one, and if you use it to dig a well, it will take two months to dig and you will not be able to dig water.
Besides, the structure of the shovel is simple, and the production is not complicated, only a wooden stick and a shovel are needed, and the blacksmith in the village should be able to make it easily. With a stroke of his pen, Liu Yi drew the general outline of the shovel, which was much simpler than the picture of the zigzag plow.
"Big brother, what are you drawing? How does it look, so strange? Liu Erjo came up curiously, picked up the drawing paper on the table, and watched Liu Ichijo draw a big head on the paper, up and down, left and right, I don't know why.
"It's called a shovel, and it's ploughing
"Yanagi Ichichi stretched out his hand to ask for the drawing paper, and carefully tiled it to Yanagi Erjo and explained, "Its effect is similar, but it is a hundred times easier to use." If necessary, it can also be used instead of a plough to plough the ground. ”
Seeing that Liu Ertiao still looked puzzled, Liu Yiyi put away the paper, put it in his arms, and said to him: "These pictures are difficult to understand, and after He Bo in the east of the village creates it, you will know it once you use it." Well, I'm going to find Uncle Ho, and I'm going to start digging a well tomorrow, and I can't do without a good tool. If you just dig up, when the water is dug out, the daylily will not be cold. ”
"Daylily? What is that? Liu Nijo asked again.
"Uh, nothing, nothing, it's just a new dish in Chang'an City." Liu Yidi hurriedly fooled the past: "You study hard at home, and you will have to take the township exam in three months, so prepare well." Big brother has something to go out, and you take care of it at home. ”
"Well, I see, big brother." Liu Erjo answered and sent Liu Yiyi out of the study.
Back in the courtyard, Liu Yiyi said to Liu He's family, and then led Liu Wuxian out.
At the blacksmith Uncle He's house, Liu Yiyi took out the drawing paper, handed it to Uncle He, and said, "Uncle He, can you help the kid build this thing?" Boy, here is urgent. ”
He Bo took the paper and looked at it, and asked Liu Yi curiously, "Yiyi, what is this?" Is it? ”
"Uncle He is really a good eye," Liu Yiyi said to Uncle He: "This is a kind of new land, the name is 'Iron Shovel', the function is similar, but the whole surface must be made of pig iron, I wonder if Uncle He can beat it out?" ”
"No problem!" He Bo said lightly: "It's just a strange place, the structure is so simple, the old man only needs to hammer it up and down twice to come out." But, a little brother, are you sure you want to make it all out of pig iron? It's not cheap. Each one had to use at least half a pound of pig iron, and they were all worth twenty sharp blades. The price of pig iron alone is no less than 100 wen. ”
"This kid knows that as long as He Bo can come out, the price is not a problem." Liu Yiyi took out the usual silver money from his bosom and handed it to He Bodao: "Here is the boy's prepaid fixed money, and I bother He Bo to make thirty pairs for the boy." Don't know when it will be delivered? ”
He Bo stretched out his hand and put away the money, and said to Liu Yiyi with a smile: "This job is simple, you can come and get it tomorrow afternoon." ”
"So there will be a Raoh Bo." Liu Yiyi threw his hand at Uncle He, but he didn't mean to leave, he stood up and said to Uncle He: "Before that, I don't know if Uncle He can play a pair first, let the kid observe, otherwise the shovel played by Uncle He tomorrow will be different from what the kid thinks, and it will not be good." ”
"Mm-hmm, that's as it should be. A little brother paid a fixed fee, and the old man should also let you inspect the goods a priori. He Bo stood up and said to Liuyi, "Brother Yi, please come with the old man." ”
He Bo led Liu Yiyi to his forge, then got up the stove and said to Liu Yiyi: "You stand on the side first, don't get too close, lest the flames in the furnace burn you." If you have any requirements when you are about to take shape, just put them forward, and He Bo will not let you down. ”
As he spoke, He Bo pushed Liu Yi out, picked up a piece of pig iron and put it in the stove, and began to beat it little by little.
After beating for about half an hour, the prototype of an iron shovel was revealed, and this He Bo's craftsmanship was really not covered.
"Uncle He, this shovel should be thin in the front and thick in the back, leave a dimple on the top, and remember to leave a small hole in the tail at the back, and" Seeing the shovel forming, Liu Yiyi began to explain the detailed structure to Uncle Ho.
In this way, after about a moment of revision, the first pointed shovel that meets the requirements of Liu Yiyi is finally officially released.
He Bo took the big shovel and gently put it in the cold water, and a puff of white smoke came out.
After cooling for a while, Uncle He took out the shovel again, looked at Liu Yi and said, "One, this is the 'shovel' you want?" Well, it does look much better than usual, and it should be good to use, but it's a pity to use an all-iron structure. ”
"Hehe, this doesn't bother Uncle He. The so-called workers want to do their jobs well, they must first sharpen their tools, and Uncle He will play another twenty-nine for the boy according to the style of this one. Liu Yiyi was satisfied with this shovel, which was the first shovel of the Tang Dynasty, and looked at it over and over, feeling that although it was a little rougher, it was also a sharp weapon here.