Liu Cheng walked out of the city gate with a sword hanging on his waist, a bag of rice on his shoulder, and a large sack in his left hand.
In the morning, the young master personally gave this peerless sword to himself!
Liu Cheng was really shocked by the sharpness of this knife! After he sharpened the edge with the file stone given by the young master, the young master directly asked him to use his original knife and this precious knife to cut each other! The result made everyone dumbfounded!
Cut iron like clay!
His knife, which had been with him for more than ten years, was suddenly broken into two pieces!
This made the Liu An brothers next to them so envious that their eyes turned red!
Fortunately, the young master did not favor one against the other. The young master actually made five of them. After sharpening the remaining four, he also gave one to each of Liu An and Liu Ping!
Master, you are so generous!
Such a magical sword was given to the three of them!
He went back to the slum area to investigate. Liu Lin just said something more and asked him to go to the street to buy some things for the fellow villagers. The young master directly gave him the thank-you gifts he had received these days and asked him to carry a bag. Polished rice!
He was so moved that a man would die for his bosom friend!
After leaving the city, we crossed the wooden bridge over the moat and entered the place where the refugees gathered.
Seeing the things on Liu Cheng's body, the refugees were a little commotion. If they hadn't seen the long knife on Liu Cheng's waist, they would have swarmed him.
Liu Cheng walked forward nervously, moved his right hand to his waist, and pulled out the long knife. The blade glowed blue under the sunlight.
"Brother Liu!"
Three strong men shouted and came over, but they were the same three people who had repaired Huang Xiao's inner house that day.
Liu Cheng breathed a sigh of relief and stepped forward quickly.
"Let's go back with Brother Liu."
"Okay! I just want to get together with my brothers. Have you found any jobs these days?" Liu Cheng asked.
"It's okay, but there are too many people coming here now, and the wages are very low. If Brother Liu hadn't taken us to work at Master Huang's house a few days ago, it would have been a fucking miserable life."
"Yes! Master Huang is so generous. He gives enough wages and food. Wow, my mouth is watering just thinking about it!"
"That's right. We all exchanged the polished rice given by Master Huang for millet. It's enough to last for a few days!"
The three of them talked to each other, and Liu Cheng felt very comfortable listening to them.
"I won't go into detail about my young master's kindness, but there are always people who want to go against him! I came here this time just to ask you to help me!"
Liu Cheng told the situation, and the three men immediately became angry, patting their chests and promising to find this person!
As they talked, they arrived at the shantytown. Everyone was very enthusiastic when they heard that Liu Cheng was back. Liu Cheng also distributed all the gifts, and rice was distributed to the weak, old and young. Everyone was grateful to Huang Xiao, but this was Huang Xiao didn't expect it.
At this time, in the Liu family inn, the Song Yingxing brothers were both shocked, because the eunuch delivering the order actually said that the emperor had ordered to see them!
The two of them followed the eunuch into the palace in an anxious mood.
The two of them arrived in front of a magnificent palace. On the palace plaque were the words Qianqing Palace. Qianqing Palace was the residence of the Ming Emperor and the place where he worked daily. There were two rows of armored Han generals in two rows, which was extremely majestic.
Song Yingxing quietly raised his head and looked up, but his eyes met the eyes of a young man wearing bright yellow uniforms standing at the entrance of the palace!
This is Emperor Qi of the Great Tomorrow!
Song Yingxing lost his etiquette and immediately knelt down. Song Yingsheng also knelt down quickly.
"Song Yingxing and Song Yingsheng pay their respects to Your Majesty!"
"Haha! Please get up, dearest ladies! I am truly blessed with double happiness today. You go inside to have tea first. I will wait for Wang Zheng and Wang Qing to come over, and then I will talk to you in detail!"
Zhu Youxiao quickly stepped forward and helped Song Yingxing up with his own hands. When he went to help Song Yingsheng again, he had already thanked him and stood up.
Such courtesy from the emperor made both of them dizzy with excitement, and they entered the Qianqing Palace under the guidance of the eunuch.
"You two, please have some tea!" The eunuch came over to serve tea.
The Song Yingxing brothers thanked him anxiously, but they really didn't know what the emperor wanted to talk to them about.
While he was thinking about it, Zhu Youxiao walked in, followed by an official in his fifties or sixties.
The Song Yingxing brothers stood up quickly.
Zhu Youxiao laughed loudly, walked to the imperial case and sat down
"I had to rush eight hundred miles to summon Wang Qing to the palace yesterday, but I didn't expect that Wang Qing would just go back to Beijing to resign, and the Song brothers are also in the capital. This is really great!" Zhu Youxiao said excitedly.
Wang Zheng said: "I wonder why your Majesty is so anxious to recruit ministers?"
Song Yingxing also looked up and paid attention to Zhu Youxiao's answer, because he was also very curious, because he had not even passed the examination and was not a Jinshi. Even Zhu Youxiao's title of Aiqing praised him.
"Yesterday I heard that Wang Qing and Song Qing are both top-notch talents in our dynasty, especially in machinery manufacturing and mineral smelting. They have amazing knowledge, so I specially called you!"
"Your Majesty, thank you!"
Zhu Youxiao smiled slightly and said: "No need to be polite. I actually have the same hobbies as you. In fact, I can be regarded as a fellow student, but I am not as knowledgeable as you. Come up and take a look at this."
The three of them stepped forward cautiously.
I saw the wooden art train that Huang Xiaosong gave to Zhu Youxiao placed on the imperial desk.
"Your Majesty, this carpentry is so ingenious! I have heard that your Majesty has superb craftsmanship, but I have never seen it with my own eyes. Now that I see your Majesty's masterpiece, I am really amazed!" Wang Zheng praised sincerely.
Song Yingsheng praised: "Your Majesty's ingenious ideas are beyond my reach!"
Song Yingxing said: "This wooden art seems to be a car, walking on the track? It is indeed a very strange toy! Your Majesty is extremely smart! The students admire it!"
The three of them all thought that Zhu Youxiao called them here just to show off his woodcraft works, and they all praised him, but they were not flattering. In fact, the woodcraft was indeed extraordinary.
Zhu Youxiao laughed and said, "Song Qing is wrong!"
Song Yingxing was terrified and didn't know what was wrong.
Zhu Youxiao said: "This is not a toy, but a model train that can travel thousands of miles a day and carry hundreds of thousands of kilograms! I came to you because I want you to help me complete this!"
"Traveling thousands of miles in a day? Carrying hundreds of thousands of kilograms? Is this...possible?" Song Yingxing was so shocked that he stuttered!
Wang Zheng looked at it carefully and said, "This is called a train. Could it be powered by firepower? But how can firepower possess such huge power?"
Zhu Youxiao smiled lightly and said: "Wang Qing is indeed proficient in mechanics, yes! This train is powered by firepower."
"Let's take a look at this drawing to see if the train I said is an exaggeration." Zhu Youxiao put the drawing of the steam engine on the table and spread it out.
The three of them looked over curiously.
The more they looked, the more shock in their eyes, and finally they all looked at Zhu Youxiao in shock!
Especially Wang Zheng and Song Yingxing, who have already studied machinery, the principle of the steam engine is like a piece of window paper, and now it was suddenly exposed by Zhu Youxiao!
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! What a genius!" Wang Zheng was so excited that his beard trembled.
Song Yingxing knelt down with a plop and said: "The locomotive designed by Your Majesty is the greatest invention in thousands of years! Students can be sure that such important equipment will be passed down through the ages! Thousands of years later, Your Majesty's reputation will be passed down forever. !”
Wang Zheng also knelt down and said: "This thing has extremely wide applications! Please keep this blueprint as a secret and never let it out! I am willing to do my best to build this thing for Your Majesty!"
Song Yingxing bowed and said: "Your Majesty, please let students participate in it! Students can participate in your Majesty's great invention and benefit all people, even if they die, they will have no regrets!"
Zhu Youxiao smiled happily!
Song Yingsheng stayed there. He didn't love machinery as much as his younger brother. Although he thought it was mysterious, it was difficult for him to be like his younger brother.
When Zhu Youxiao saw Song Yingsheng's appearance, he smiled happily and said, "Haha! Song Qing is not one of our colleagues, so it doesn't matter! You go back first and prepare well for the exam. I will be of great use to you in the future!"
Song Yingsheng turned red with embarrassment and left in a hurry.
