After listening to what Qiu said, Zheng Quchi remained silent for a long time.
All she could think about were the 108 generals who were forced to rebel in Liangshan. The word "forbearance" was a knife in the head. It was too bullying. If an honest person is pushed into a hurry, it would often become a disaster...
She raised her head, forced out a smile, and said with a twist: "It seems that for the sake of my little life, I can only sacrifice those two insignificant people."
...If you don’t want to laugh, don’t laugh. At first glance, it looks like an unjust ghost seeking his life.
Qiu Jian knew that she felt uncomfortable after hearing this, but he was stupid and couldn't think of any good way to remove the wrinkles in her heart.
Pursing his lips, Qiu gave his most sincere guarantee: "Zhizi, as long as you haven't done anything to betray the Mo family, I will always protect you."
The word "huan" in his words was somewhat prophetic, but Zheng Quchi didn't pay much attention to these details.
Zheng Quchi wanted to say, between the two of them, little Kami, the lowest level member of the Mo family, who can protect the other?
She didn't believe it in her heart, but she didn't show anything strange on her face. She just said perfunctorily: "Don't worry, I don't want to be chased by people from the Mo family, so I won't act randomly."
Qiu could tell that Zheng Quchi didn't have a good impression of the Mohist family, and was even very resistant to it.
Every time I see him, I subconsciously show impatience and rejection.
Qiu was a little hurt. He wanted to say that the Mo family was the Mo family and he was him.
But in the end, he didn't have the courage to defend himself, so he just said dullly: "I'll take you back first."
Speaking of this matter, Zheng Quchi suddenly remembered: "Why are you here? Did you sneak into Wei Yao's side?"
Qiu shook his head: "No, Wei Yao is cautious and resourceful. He has thoroughly investigated almost everyone who can stay by his side. Ordinary people cannot get close to him at all."
So the person Wei Yao sent to take her back was not Qiu.
"What about that soldier? Did you kill him?"
When Qiu heard this, he stared at her with a somewhat dissatisfied expression: "Except for missions, I never kill people casually."
Hearing this, Zheng Quchi breathed a sigh of relief.
Seeing that Qiu was a little angry because of her misunderstanding, she suddenly felt that Qiu was not hopeless.
So she tried to discuss it with him: "Qiu, if Yuan Sui and Yin Xiao don't have the ability to repair the city wall, do we have to kill them too?"
Qiu told her very bluntly: "It is not up to us to decide whether to kill or not."
Zheng Quchi understood it completely now.
Yes, the mastermind behind this is the man named "Shi Shi". He wants to ask these little guys to destroy the city wall at all costs. She doesn't know what the purpose of doing this is, whether it is for personal enmity or for the sake of conflict between countries. Interests?
"The Mohist family, which country are they loyal to?" she asked.
Qiu Que said with certainty: "The Mohist family does not belong to any country, but Mohist disciples come from all countries."
This sentence is quite interesting, and it also caused Zheng Quchi to think deeply.
If the Mo family really didn't get involved in the disputes between other countries, then why would they bother to catch Ye Guo's troubles? As far as she knew, any organization established has an organizational goal and then achieves that goal.
Although she didn't know the ultimate goal of the Mo family, she could guess that it was definitely different from the "Mo family" in her world, which had a chivalrous spirit of peace, non-aggression and love.
Just looking at the orders they issued every time, you can tell that they were all centered around some kind of interest or conspiracy.
Qiu rode Zheng Quchi back to Guixuanling, and then mysteriously disappeared again.
But before leaving this time, he told her that when he fabricated a new identity and met again next time, he would be able to follow her openly.
Zheng Quchi said that she was not really looking forward to it.
The crossbow bag Qiu brought her was too big to bring back to the shanty town, so she took the wrapped crossbow into the mountains and found a recognizable earth bag to bury it.
After finishing this task, the sky was already slightly bright.
Seeing this, she let out a long sigh.
She was so busy that she was like a flying top. She didn't even have a chance to squint her eyes and rest, so she had to join the team of craftsmen and start a new round of trench digging.
She was responsible for digging. Seeing that there were some old craftsmen around her, she got interested and asked them: "Brother, do you know where there is Hanshui Stone (gypsum)?"
Some people have never heard of the name Hanshui Stone, while others happen to recognize it.
"Oh, this thing seems to be sold in the market, but not many people use it, but pharmacies occasionally buy it."
Zheng Quchi heard it and said, yes, that's it. In addition to being an industrial raw material, gypsum is also an anti-inflammatory and sedative traditional Chinese medicine.
Her eyes lit up and she asked a crucial question: "Is it expensive?"
"Rough stones are not expensive. There are no sellers, so the stock is small."
She just lacks this taste. Since it is available in the market, she will look for it when she takes a bath. If everything goes well, she will be able to make a simple version of cement in a few days.
At noon, it was time to take a collective break from work and have a meal.
Unlike other fortifications, workers are only provided with one meal a day. Since ancient times, many craftsmen have died of exhaustion or starvation due to overwork and often hunger.
But Fu County is fine, with two meals a day and enough food.
Zheng Quchi went to the food stall in the quarry and got two mixed vegetable steamed buns, and then he squatted down and ate them like other craftsmen.
When I go out to work, the conditions are just like this, no table, no chairs, primitive and rough.
She is not squeamish. It doesn't matter if it tastes good or not, as long as she can eat enough. This is also a habit she developed when she went to remote areas to work on projects in the past.
But this mixed vegetable steamed bun is made entirely of thick noodles, without adding fine noodles to balance it out. After steaming and shaping, it is really too dry. When you take a bite, you will find that it is all vermicelli, and it will not be eaten with water. It is true. Swallow dryly.
"Xiao Sang, you are so awesome. You can still eat two of them?" the person next to you said in surprise.
Zheng Quchi tirelessly hugged the wowotou and gnawed it: "I'm still growing if I'm not full after eating one..."
As soon as they heard this, they immediately glanced at Zheng Quchi's touching body with pity. Since she was usually a good person, no one laughed at her, but only comforting words.
"Actually... it's useless to grow too tall. You see, there are so many of us, but together we are not as strong as you alone."
"My opponent, being short has its advantages. At least if the sky falls, there will still be tall people to hold it up."
If you don't know how to comfort people, please shut up. Thank you!
Zheng Quchi glared at them with angry dog eyes: "You are all tall and strong, how can you possibly understand my feelings?"
When they saw that Zheng Quchi was about to go berserk because he was not tall enough, everyone finished laughing and exclaimed in fake surprise.
"Look, Master Yuan and Master Yin are here."
Following the direction pointed, Zheng Quchi turned around on his tiptoes and looked over.
It was indeed Yuan who came to the quarry with Yin Xiao.
They were dressed in a group of five and six at this time. They no longer acted submissively in front of Yu Wensheng. They straightened their waists and looked cold and arrogant. They were discussing matters with a work officer.
And this work officer was the one Zheng Quchi knew.
At this time, Muke turned his head and saw her at a glance among the strong men digging for food.
This is not difficult, just like a stunted "black beauty" mixed in among a bunch of green melons. Anyone who is not blind can see the difference.
He saw her round eyes, looking at him like a silly son of a landowner, twitched the corner of her mouth, and waved to her.
Zheng Quchi glanced around. Others saw something was wrong and hurriedly evacuated a vacuum area. She suddenly felt like an isolated island.
Seeing that she didn't want to rely on it, she pointed at herself, and until Mu Ke nodded in confirmation, she stuffed the remaining donutou into her mouth in several mouthfuls, got up and walked over slowly.
When Mu Ke saw her, he had a smile on his face. He introduced her to Yuan Sui and Yin Xiao: "This little Sang is the creator of the earth-moving tool. She may be able to help you this time."
Zheng Quchi was a little surprised. Is Mu Ke planning to introduce him to her?
Yuan Sui followed Master Li with his hands behind his back, and after looking at Zheng Quchi, he frowned so much that he could almost kill a fly.
The look of disgust is evident on his face.
Where did you get a black coal ball?
A man who is dark and ugly is a disaster if he is also short and weak.
I don’t know who recruited such a rat to mess around.
But...why does this black coal look so familiar to me?
"Mr. Mu, don't be joking. Even if she has some ideas and makes earth-moving tools by chance, we are not engaged in carpentry now, but in the construction of city defense."
Seeing that they didn't believe it, Muke explained: "In fact, the earth lifter is originally a lifting device. If it is modified by her, it can be used for construction and defense with less effort."
Muke is worthy of being a work officer, and his ideas coincide with Zheng Quchi's.
But there are always some fools in this world who occupy high positions, act tyrannically, and think they are right.
Yuan Sui sneered and said: "You put it simply, how can it bear the force in dangerous places and not slippery on slopes and rocks? How can it move hundreds of thousands of kilograms and move around flexibly? I think your earthenware vessels are just like this. It can only be used for digging and moving mud, and not for other heavy tasks."
"This..." Muke was scolded in the face by him. He looked embarrassed and humiliated, but he really couldn't come up with any solution for the moment.
Zheng Quchi was born with two kinds of people and would not tolerate them.
One is someone who bullied her family.
One type is a person who likes to be slapped in the face.
Especially Yuan Sui was so arrogant, thinking that everyone else was stupid and he was the smartest one.
"It's not that simple, it's just that simple."
A decisive voice interrupted the original follower, the work officer Muke.
Muke turned to look at Zheng Quchi with a hesitant expression, while Yuan Sui looked at him with contempt and ridicule.
Zheng Quchi continued, "This is a problem that can be solved easily and simply by modifying it on the original basis."
"Change? How to change?" Yuan Sui looked at her as if she were a fool.
Unexpectedly, Zheng Quchi also looked at him with the same look: "Add wheels to the base to withstand the force of long-distance transportation, lengthen the round rod to control transportation from far and near, and make it thicker to bear more weight. In short, everything is possible. The solution."
"Of course it's easy for you to speak, but do you know that with all machines, one hair can affect the whole body. Do you really think that we are amateurs who can be fooled by you?"
"Am I being fooled?" She felt funny.
Who is fooling me? If Yu Wensheng hadn't personally come to supervise the construction this time and exert pressure, the city wall that was finally repaired would have been nothing more than a pile of dregs. It would have destroyed itself in due time without the enemy pushing against it.
She looked at the two craftsmen in front of her, who were boasted by the county and rarely heard of on earth, and suddenly asked: "Do you know how long it will take for the mud to completely solidify in damp weather like winter after adding rice? , Remove the fixed scaffold? How much should be used to achieve a tight bond without overspending? If the rice is used up in the end, but the city wall is still not repaired, is there any other way to replace it? "
Yuan Sui and Yin Xiao were stunned by her sudden serious question.
What's all this? How did she know that they were going to add rice to the mud and use it as a binding material to strengthen the city wall?
And the questions she asked were sharp and precise, but they really hadn't considered them.
The two of them were momentarily stunned by Zheng Quchi's sudden aura of two feet tall. They ran through all kinds of speculations in their hearts. They couldn't think of this method thought up by "Master Li". Why could this little carpenter be able to see it at a glance? See the secret?
Zheng Quchi finally asked: "You have all the ideas, but you are trying to get it right in one step without actually doing it. Who is fooling you?"
Yuan Sui was furious and looked at her with an evil look: "You..."
On the other hand, Yin Xiao, who spoke less, was calmer. He pulled Yuan Sui and looked at Zheng Quchi with a strange and vigilant expression: "What you said seems to be very logical. Do you know this method?"
of course I know.
But even if she knew, she would not tell these two irresponsible construction leaders.
"I don't know. This is just a matter of two master craftsmen. Apart from being able to move stones, I also know how to dig ditches. How could I possibly know these things that even you are blind to?"
Muke was trembling with fear at first when he heard this, and a cold sweat broke out on his head.
Later, when he saw Zheng Quchi's words and a few words, from a professional and absolutely irrefutable sharp point of view, he was able to subdue the two craftsmen Yuan Sui and Yin Xiao, and he was both grateful and admired in his heart.
The smile returned to his face.
Well done, Xiao Hei, uh, no, it’s Xiao Sangzi!
Yuan Sui's face trembled, and he gritted his teeth and said: "I don't understand, then what you just said..."
"Why are you asking me?" Zheng Quchi interrupted Yuan Sui. Her brown eyes were as bright as a demon, and she asked with a smile, "Shouldn't you ask the person who taught you these methods?"
This sentence was like a thunder exploding in the eardrums of the original follower Yin Xiao, and their expressions suddenly changed.
First, he glanced at the surrounding people, and saw that everyone was avoiding their eyes, and quickly dispersed as if they were guilty but did not want to cause trouble, and then looked at Zheng Quchi with a look of shock and panic.
I bumped into a God of Wealth, why does she seem to know everything? !
Is this black coal ball, like "Master Li", some kind of great person who disguised himself to experience life at the grassroots level?
(End of chapter)
