Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Hard-Headed Copper The sea of calamus is still frozen.
This made Meng Yuanzhi very worried.
Because the sea of calamus seems to be completely frozen by the ice, the sergeants go to the sea of calamus to get water, and they need to chisel through the three-foot-thick ice to see the clear water.
This is not a good sign, it is not only the iris sea that is frozen, but also the Peacock River, although not as thick as the ice on the calamus sea, is enough for the carriage and horses to drive on it.
All you need to do is pull the horse, and the horse can be replaced with a special farrier to achieve this goal.
Meng Yuanzhi was very nervous at the thought that Mu Xin could reach Loulan by taking the road all the way from Shanshan.
Huo'er took the gunpowder to the upper reaches of the Peacock River and tried to bomb the ice, but unfortunately, the effect was very bad, even if the ice was blown up, after a night of severe cold, it would freeze again.
The scouts have been dispatched for more than 200 miles, and it is very hard.
The sea of calamus is still a barren place, and as far as the eye can see, only a few reeds planted in the summer are scattered around the lake.
In winter, the cold wind howled, the dry grass was whirling, and the hair of the jackal was blown by the cold wind, walking and stopping, looking up at the vast Gobi from time to time, and then still walking briskly into the distance.
Hardy wild donkeys and wild camels grazed the withered reeds along the frozen lake.
These two large herbivores are not something that one or two jackals can deal with.
Tongzi got up early in the morning, in fact, his father got up earlier, and the coughing in the north room never stopped, which made Tongzi very worried.
A thin green mist rose from the mouth of the well, and after a large bucket of water was brought up, the copper took a sip from the wooden barrel, and the cold well water drove away all the remaining sleepiness of the copper in an instant.
The copper plate is sitting on the kang with a clay knife to carve words on the cement, and a lot of commonly used words have been carved next to it, which are placed on the flat plate, neat and neat, very good-looking.
When Tong Pan saw his son coming in, he pointed to the clay movable type on the kang; "Pingyin characters have come out, a total of four editions, three genuine editions, one edition for spare, let's burn them today.
If there is deformation and damage, it is better to repair it as soon as possible and add it. ” Tongzi smiled: "Daddy, don't worry, don't work too hard, this winter has the government to support us, just take a winter break, and want to open the printing shop, at least next autumn."
Now, even if we have stencils, we don't have ink, we don't have paper.
The child has asked the government, there is a subsidy for the printing workshop, but this year is very bad, Loulan is going to fight, and the rest of the things have stopped, otherwise, with the help of the government, our printing workshop will soon be able to support it. ” Tong Pan sighed and said: "It's because I heard that there is going to be a war, so I carved these templates day and night, just in case."
This time, you listen to me, if the army here can't stand it, you will take your daughter-in-law and children to Qingxiang City, I will stay in Loulan City to guard the house, you go to the Tie family aunt, there will be a way to live, this is not the time to be hard. ” Tongzi smiled and said: "Daddy, you think too much, General Meng will defend Loulan, I heard that General Meng is the first fierce general of my Hami, and his subordinates are all tigers and wolves, which is completely different from those soft-footed shrimp in the Great Song Dynasty." ” Tong Pan smiled and said: "This is true, Dad thought that those rich families and businessmen would run away when they heard about the war, but I didn't expect that none of them left, even the government is still working, and there were people who went door-to-door to check the population yesterday."
Their faith was great. ” Tongzi smiled: "The child thought that I would be incorporated into the armor by the government, and I would help defend the city when the time came."
As a result, people don't look down on us people who don't know anything, and I heard the big brother say that in Hami, those who fight are wars, those who work are working, those who do business are those who do business, and if they go to war, they are going to add chaos, not helping.
Our family is working, as long as we do our work well, we are loyal to the country, and nothing else has anything to do with us. ” Just as the father and son were talking, Tongzi's daughter-in-law brought breakfast.
There are not many people who eat breakfast in Hami, and the problem of the copper plate family is learned from the Tie family on the other side, and after eating for more than ten years, I have long been used to it.
Breakfast is actually very simple, just a piece of naan, a bowl of gruel, and a pickle, and a family of five people began to eat breakfast around the kang table.
Tongban took a sip of porridge and said to his daughter-in-law: "The porridge is thick, just load the gruel on it for me in the future, you and Tongzi have to work for a day, and you don't dare to owe anything in food." ” As he spoke, he dropped his son's bowl and his own bowl one by one, and he could see clearly that there was only one bowl of thin soup in his son's bowl.
Tongzi knew that he couldn't resist his father, so he didn't shirk it, and fished out the few grains of rice in the bowl with a wooden spoon for the two children to disperse.
Only then did he soak half a piece of naan in the clear soup and snort and eat it.
There are many things to do today, and I will go to the chief to lead the bamboo chips to take fifteen neighbors to continue collecting firewood outside the city, and my wife will also follow the wife of the chief to the weaving yard in the city to continue spinning wool.
It's a shame to say that the wife who earns the most money in the family now is the wife.
The war is coming, and the weaving institute has made great contributions to the convicts from the Great Song Dynasty who can make them bold to stay.
There were few women in Loulan City, and one was counted as one, and all of them were sent to the weaving yard to spin wool.
I heard my wife come back and say that the wool in the weaving yard was going to be piled up into a mountain, and the more than 40 huge warehouses were full of wool that had been combed and cleaned, and it was as white as snow.
All the women of the city had to do was to spin all the wool into wool, which was then transported back to Hami by the city convoy and woven into thick wool.
Tongzi's wife has seen wool, and the soldiers who came are wearing wool, although it looks rough, but it is very thick and warm.
She really wanted to buy some cleaned wool and get warm clothes for her father-in-law, husband, and children.
The son and daughter-in-law are gone, the copper plate hugged the two grandsons on the warm kang, let the two play on the kang, he picked up the carving knife again, continued to carve, only occasionally raised his head to look outside, listened to the movement, muttered - the thief embryo who killed a thousand knives, and then continued to engrave.
If there was no war here, Tongban thought that it would be good to settle down here, there was land outside the city, and there would be shops in the city immediately, so he thought about this for many years, but it was not realized in Tokyo, and he didn't expect that it would be easily realized in Hami.
When Tongzi went out of the city, he was delayed for a while, because another army came from Hami.
The huge convoy into the city took up a lot of time.
Although there were some delays in going out of the city to work, Tongzi and his neighbors had no complaints, and for them, the more troops came to Loulan, the better.
The people who entered the city were all cavalry, and all of them were bright and bright, which made Tongzi and his neighbors, who had never seen a large group of heavy armored cavalry, excited.
With such a strong army in Loulan, they were even more at ease.
Loulan is surrounded by desert, so finding firewood is a very important part of the city's work.
Seeing that after the army had passed, another supply convoy was about to enter the city, so the city gate officer opened the side gate and told them to leave the city as soon as possible.
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Populus euphratica cemetery, is a full more than ten miles of a radius of a dead wood woodland, in the past when the calamus sea and water used to grow here a large area of poplar, as the calamus sea gradually dried up, this poplar forest also a large area of death, standing here has been hundreds of years.
Populus euphratica is hard wood and makes good firewood, so it is not easy to cut it down.
After only pulling the big saw for an hour, the copper head was steaming, not only him, but the rest of the people as well.
Sun Sihai, the strongest man in the crowd, took off his hat, revealing his bare brain, sat on the sand and gasped: "Rest, this is going to be fucking exhausting." ” Tongzi wiped the sweat from his face and said: "Old Sun, this is Loulan, you can just take a moment, you can't find an easy job here for the time being." ” Ma Sheng on the side said in a weird manner: "Old Sun, keep working, is it possible that you still want to fight here?"
Besides, you don't have a capable mother-in-law, who can not only warm the quilt but also earn a lot of copper money. ” Tongzi stood up with a smile on his half-cut stick, looking like he was going to find Sun Sihai's bad luck, so he walked past Ma Sheng's side, and when he turned around, the stick in his hand had already knocked on Ma Sheng's face.
The unprepared Ma Sheng was still ready to watch the joke, but he didn't expect that Tongzi didn't intend to urge the lazy Sun Sihai at all, but vented his anger on him.
The stick hit Ma Sheng's nose, and Ma Sheng fell to the ground with a scream.
Tongzi was still laughing and groaning, but the wooden stick in his hand did not stop, and raindrops fell on Ma Sheng's body.
Ma Sheng begged for mercy while crawling all over the ground with his head in his hands, and he felt that this usually good-natured guy seemed to be going to beat him to death today.
Sun Sihai and his colleagues were also surprised, a good man who was usually a good man on weekdays would do such a poisonous act today.
Tongzi was tired, and Ma Sheng also felt that he was dying.
The copper who threw away the wooden stick sat on the knotted wooden stake and said with a smile: "I have wanted to beat you for a long time, a lawsuit that specializes in sowing discord, and dares to provoke Lao Tzu?"
On weekdays, if you say some meat words, Lao Tzu will treat you as a joke, and it doesn't hurt to refresh the big guys.
Now I dare to instigate Lao Sun to beat the stuffy stick, Lao Tzu will beat your stuffy stick first to let you taste it.
Everyone says that Lao Sun hurt Tianli by beating a stuffy stick, do you fucking know that Lao Sun is raising money for medicine for Lao Niang?
There is no one in his hands, although he has violated the king's law, he has not violated the rules of heaven, and thunder in the sky does not split this kind of filial piety.
Speaking of which, we're not fucking good people, and since God opened his eyes and gave us a chance to start over, don't let it go.
Ma Sheng, Lao Tzu is going to bury you alive here today, and when the official asks, he will tell the official what you just said.
The lord in the yamen hates you the most is a thief and ruffian who is so bad that you are in the bones, Lao Tzu buried you alive and promised that the official would not say a word. ”