poor family prodigal

"What kind of tricks can a man with muddy legs create? He can dig a big hole for the Yang family!"

Yang Shuo dismissed it: "Is it possible that someone dares to sell him salt?"

"That's not it!"

Liu Zhiping said cautiously: "But on the first day when he went to Feicang, he bought salt for two or three times the price on the market. Although he went to Lao Feizhuang the next day, he still asked people to go to the town to buy salt and paid four times or more. Five times. On the third day, people go to various villages and bid six or seven times. Today is the fourth day. People go to every household and ask for ten times the price."

"Bastard!"

Yang Shuo slapped his hand on the table, and his body was full of fat. "What does this mud-leg guy want to do? Does he want to disturb my Yang family's foundation? He is so courageous. Jia Tou and Zao Hu didn't react at all!"

Don't say ten times, just twice. If the Yang family didn't suppress it, Jia Tou and Zao Hu would immediately switch sides.

"Jiatou wants to sell salt, but thinking about the favor of the Yang family, he can barely bear it!"

Liu Zhiping whispered: "But the lives of the kitchen households are miserable. When they heard that the salt harvest was ten times higher, they all started to make a fuss, saying that they would not sell even a grain of salt to the Yang family. Everyone threatened and lured them, and promised to increase the price by one kilogram. It took only one penny to pacify the kitchen owner!"

"One pound goes up to one penny!"

Yang Shuo was furious: "Who promised them? Every year, the Yang family collects [-] million jins of salt from the Fei warehouse. If a pound of salt increases by one penny, there will be an extra [-] taels. Tell those first-timers that even a penny will cost them. It can’t go up.”

Liu Zhiping was worried: "But what if the Zaohu sells the salt to that boy?"

"Inform the Salt Transportation Department that they won't go through the formalities!"

Yang Shuo sneered: "Those kitchen households are all poor people who have had one meal but no next meal. If they can't sell the salt, they won't be able to survive for a few days. Sooner or later, they will ask the Yang family to give them a bite of food!"

Liu Zhiping flattered him repeatedly: "Why should a bunch of miserable kitchen households fight with the Yang family? Third young master, you can kill them with just one word!"

"Humph!"

Yang Shuo's face was full of fat and ferocious: "Let Jia Tou spread the word, if any village causes trouble again, the price of salt will drop by one penny when collecting salt, and the Yang family who makes such a big fuss will drive them away, so that they can't sell a grain of salt!"

"promise!"

Liu Zhiping hesitated to speak: "But what should I do with that kid? We can't let him continue to make trouble like this!"

"If he continues to increase prices arbitrarily, someone will go to the government office to sue him and disrupt the market price of salt!"

Yang Shuo narrowed his eyes and said, "As for digging the well, let him dig it. The old Feizhuang salt well is empty. He can't dig out the brine even after ten years of digging!"

"Third Young Master, you still have to be careful!"

Liu Zhiping frowned and said: "Our spy said that he didn't send people to dig into the well, but made some kind of big frame chisel, but the spy couldn't get close to see it, but the movement of the well was quite loud!"

"What's the use of being bigger!"

Yang Shuo dismissed it: "I don't believe that a new brine can be dug out of a mined salt well!"

"Third Young Master, it's not good!"

At this moment, a servant rushed in: "There is news from Feicang that Lao Feizhuang has dug a new salt well, and a lot of brine has been produced. One well is worth ten others!"

pat!

Yang Shuo shook his hand, and the official kiln teacup worth thirty taels of silver fell to the floor and shattered into pieces. His fat face became extremely ugly!

How is it possible? The brine in Lao Feizhuang has been harvested dry, how can new brine be produced!

Liu Zhiping turned pale.

When new brine comes out, Lao Feizhuang can make salt. That kid has salt!

The servant kept talking for a while, and Yang Shuo's face became more and more ugly, and finally his expression turned ferocious: "Zhiping, don't you want to avenge your eldest brother and nephew? Now you can do what you want!"

"Thank you, Third Young Master!"

Liu Zhiping's eyes were filled with murderous intent!

……

Boom!

On the Fei family's salt well, a large wooden frame was erected, a rotating log wheel with a rope winch wrapped around it, and a two hundred kilogram iron drill bit tied below!

As soon as the rope was released, the big drill bit hit the bottom of the well, and a huge sound was heard.

The horse trough and donkey trough rotate the winch, and with the effort saved by the movable pulley, the two hundred kilogram drill bit can be easily turned up from the bottom of the [-]-meter-deep well!

thump... thump...

Repeat these three days again and again!

The four younger brothers of the three men and two young men went down the well to pull up the gravel in wooden barrels with ten stoves and a full cart. The two young men Duolu and Laifu transported the gravel away.

"It's dug another ten feet deep!"

Laifu's excited voice came from the bottom of the well!

The six brothers were sweating profusely, unable to hide their exhaustion, but their faces were full of joy.

Fei Niu rubbed his waist, his face full of smiles, and his whole body changed.

Three days ago, he thought Wang Yuan was acting on a whim and agreed just to repay a favor.

After Wang Yuan drew the blueprints, carpenters and blacksmiths worked overnight to build this set of tools, which directly increased the efficiency of well drilling by more than a hundred times!

It was dug five feet deep the day before.

I have become more and more proficient in the past two days. Yesterday I dug eight feet deep, and today I dug out five feet deep in just half a day!

More and more brine is seeping out of the salt well. Although there is no big brine yet, the seven brothers see hope!

Not far away, the two tigers and two dogs guarding the outside all raised their heads and chests high.

A group of ignorant guys didn’t believe Brother Yuan at first, but as soon as this set of tools was made!

The seven brothers were dumbfounded, Young Master Wang was shocked, and Miss Hu blushed!

Everyone knows that Brother Yuan is awesome!

Wang Chonglou was lying in the luxurious carriage. Lao Feizhuang had no railings. His wife and daughter were ugly, and the beautiful Miss Hu belonged to Uncle Yuan. He could only hide in the carriage and wait for his return home.

And Wang Yuan became the king of children!

At the beginning of the village, a group of children were queuing up, with several basins of water in front of them!

Dahu and Wang Sihai were carrying water and constantly changing the dirty water in the basin!

Wang Yuan took soap and towels and taught the dolls how to wash their little hands and faces.

Then these children happily rushed to Hu Mengying and received a piece of candy!

Not far away, the households looked on with smiles, and some kept wiping away tears: "Young Master and Miss are both great good people, good people like Bodhisattva,"

These days, this young man and young lady from out of town has visited almost every house!

Give candy to the children, rice, flour and oilcloth to the women, and invite doctors to give medicine to the sick old people.

They were moved and scared, and they didn't understand why this young man was so kind to them.

But after several days of contact, I heard a lot from those bodyguards!

This young master is also from a commoner background, but he is a scholar with a good reputation and a university education. Even the number one scholar in the county admires him and calls him a brother!

Because everyone couldn't eat, the young master couldn't bear to see it, so he gave up his writing and went into business to make money.

Not long after they followed the young master, each of them was earning several thousand dollars a month. Their homes were all built with bricks and tiles, they all ate meat twice a day, and they all wore satin instead of linen. .

The kitchen households all cried when they heard that the young master was the reincarnation of Bodhisattva and came to save them!

See, Wang Yuan doesn’t mind the dirty dolls, he teaches them to be clean and gives them candies!

Each kitchen household kept chanting: "Please God bless me, bless the young master and young lady to live a long life, and bless them to have a son soon!"

Hu Mengying's face turned red with embarrassment. She looked at the happy and smiling faces of the children, and then looked at Wang Yuan who was serious. The tight string in the Hu family completely relaxed, and she felt relaxed like never before. She even wanted to stop at this moment forever. !

As soon as the set of tools was built, she lost the bet!

I don’t know what the young master asked her to do, something that made her very embarrassed!

Which one is it?

But the young master doesn’t look like that kind of person!

"Finally finished washing!"

After washing the hands of the little ones, Wang Yuan rubbed his waist and shrugged!

The kitchen households came over quickly and took away all the children who didn't want to leave!

Wang Yuan waved goodbye to his children!

Suddenly, two small hands put their shoulders and began to rub them gently: "Master, are you tired?"

A faint fragrance came, and the soft little hands brought warmth to the aching body. Wang Yuan's whole body tensed up: "I was a little tired just now, but after you pressed me like this, I immediately became energetic!"

"Then I'll wait more!"

Hu Mengying changed the subject and said: "That set of drilling tools is hard to find, so let the Fei brothers keep it a secret! It's best to sign a deed with them. If the brine is boiled out of the salt well, all the salt will be sold, except for what the government confiscates." Give it to us. Favors are not as effective as deeds, we must be prepared!"

Wang Yuan closed his eyes: "You are right, but let's not mention the deed for now. I don't know how deep this well is and the brine will come out. If there is no brine out for another day, we will go back to the county town!"

Hu Mengying nodded softly and gently rubbed Wang Yuan's temples with her little hands, so tenderly!

Wang Yuan snored slightly!

Not long after, there was a sudden loud shout of "Brine is out", and the whole village was boiling.

"It's out of steam!"

Wang Zhonglou climbed up from the carriage, rushed to the salt well, took a look, and murmured to himself: "Uncle Yuan is really amazing, no wonder he asked me to hold his thigh tightly for the rest of my life!"

"Humph!"

Erhu and Ergou all raised their heads and chests, as if they knew something was going to happen!

"It's out of steam!"

Hu Mengying's beautiful eyes brightened, and she pushed Wang Yuan, who was sleeping soundly, and said, "Young master, you are pregnant!"

"Oh!"

Wang Yuan responded and twisted his neck: "Press your neck, harder!"

"..."

Hu Mengying's little hands froze in mid-air.

Wang Yuan remained calm!

This well-drilling method was called the fifth greatest invention in ancient China!

It is called percussion drilling method.

These salt wells in Feicang are all shallow salt wells, dug manually!

Using percussion drills to drill wells, it is possible to drill "zoom wells" hundreds of meters deep, or even go one step further, drilling kilometers-deep wells that can automatically spray brine and natural gas.

However, this set of tools is only the basic version.

To dig a "Zhuotong well" or even a thousand-meter deep well, more complex tools must be made.

"It's out of trouble, it's out of trouble, our old Fei family can stand up again!"

"We can make salt ourselves, and we no longer have to go to other villages to work as helpers!"

"Dad, did you see it in the sky? Fei's salt well is working again!"

The seven brothers held back their tears, and then, led by Fei Niu, they rushed out of the yard.

When many old Feizhuang kitchen households heard this, they immediately burst into tears and felt like they had seen heaven.

The salt well in Jia Tou is filled with brine, and he is a man of righteousness. Everyone's life is better.

Fei Niu, with his seven brothers and the kitchen owner, rushed to Wang Yuan and knelt down with a plop: "Young master, it's time to make salt. Your great kindness will never be forgotten by the old Fei family. All the salt boiled by the old Fei family is at a low market price." Sell ​​it to the young master for one penny!"

"One penny lower!"

Wang Yuan shook his head: "No!"

"what!"

Fei Niu was stunned and gritted his teeth and said, "That young man, I'll sell you for two cents!"