Chapter 1,146
Xiao Lintian and Commander Pang arranged things in the Queen Mother's Palace and rushed back to the temporary military camp in Guanjiabao.
Ling Yu is also back and is reassembling the ladder pulley with the craftsmen. The assembly work has come to an end.
This was reassembled to check for the problem.
Xiao Lintian stepped forward, took a look, frowned and asked, "Did you find anything unusual?"
Ling Yu rubbed her face vigorously and said with a bitter smile, "No!"
"Xiao Lintian, maybe it was my design mistake. I didn't consider the actual situation and made a calculation error... This is all my fault. You should punish me!"
"Last time you and Anzhe made a mistake, so you memorized the Ten Army Sticks! When the game ends tomorrow, I'll go get the Ten Army Sticks too!"
As soon as Ling Yu said these words, An Zhe and Pei Yu shouted: "No, how can I blame you! You didn't want to!"
Pei Yu said anxiously: "The wheel you came up with for us is a great achievement. Although we lost the ladder competition, this wheel can be promoted in the future!"
Zhu De, the chief craftsman, is a man in his early thirties. He is a bit short but has a pair of dexterous hands.
When he heard what Pei Yu and the others said next to him, he looked at Ling Yu and chuckled: "General Pei is right, the wheel you came up with, Princess Yi, can be used in many places!"
“Ordinary people can save time and effort when pulling carts with these wheels!”
"Besides, you are a woman, how can you compare with a man! If you hit him with a stick from the Tenth Army, your skin will be torn..."
"Prince Yi, although the princess's pulley is wrong, the designed wheel has merit, so let's make up for it!"
Xiao Lintian was a little irritated. Since he couldn't find the problem and he didn't find the traitor, something might go wrong in tomorrow's crucial game.
"You continue to investigate, you must find out!"
Xiao Lintian saw that some of the craftsmen were so hot that they were covered in sweat. With Ling Yu around, they couldn't take off their shirts to work, so he pulled Ling Yu out.
Pei Yu and An Zhe were also sweating profusely, so they came out to enjoy the breeze together.
After the four of them had walked far away, Pei Yu looked at Ling Yu: "Sister Ling Ling, you can't possibly not find anything!"
"You designed the pulley. We tested it several times before and it was fine. How could something go wrong during the competition?"
When Xiao Lintian heard this, he looked at Ling Yu and whispered: "Did you notice something strange? You just said you didn't notice it, just because you didn't want to alert the traitor?"
Xiao Lintian was thinking about Bai Cui. Ling Yu was careful and must have discovered something suspicious that Pei Yu and the others didn't!
Seeing how keen these two people were, Ling Yu smiled and nodded.
"I did find something wrong!"
"Tell me, I checked with you just now, why didn't I find anything?" An Zhe asked.
"The lifting pulley is composed of countless pulleys mounted on bearings. I have checked all of these pulleys and found no abnormalities. But there is a problem with the bearings. Although one piece is greased, the traces of friction on the pulley are very shallow!"
Ling Yu smiled coldly: "Such a heavy ladder is transported up by pulleys, and the friction is very high!"
"Pei Yu, An Zhe, you should have seen the deep marks caused by friction on other bearing belts! Why are the marks so shallow on the section I inspected?"
"There is only one answer. This bearing belt has never been used to transport a ladder!"
"But why does it appear here!"
After hearing this, Xiao Lintian responded quickly: "This should be what I put on afterward!"
"At that time, the problem with the lifting pulley was the bearing belt. As soon as we checked it, we knew that it had been tampered with, and we were able to catch the tampering person!"
"But if he had changed the bearing belt, we might not have suspected him!"
Among the dozen or so craftsmen who participated in assembling the ladder, who could be the traitor?
