A knife in love

Chapter 1399

Li Qiufeng said: "The owner of the Wang Zhuang is anxious and righteous, and I admire it. If the owner can use it, he can order it at any time."

The owner of the Wang Zhuang said: "Young master Zhu is a distinguished guest, how can he do such rough work? You should go back to the village to rest, you don't have to swallow the wind and ashes here."

As soon as the owner of the Wang villa finished speaking, he saw a Zhuang Ding running over to him and said: "Master the owner, we will dig the foundation according to the two gray lines you drew, but there are stones three feet underground at the northeast corner, and we can't excavate them." If you don’t want to move, please ask the master to go and see for himself, and then tell us how to deal with it.”

The owner of the Wang Zhuang promised, and he wanted to follow Zhuang Ding to check it out.It's just that he had just taken two steps, and then he remembered that Li Qiufeng had also come here, but he stopped, turned his head and said to Li Qiufeng: "Young Master Zhu, just take a look here, I will go back when I go."

Li Qiufeng said: "The owner doesn't need to worry about me, you can go and do your work."

Zhuang Zhuang nodded his head and followed the Zhuang Ding to the northeast.Li Qiufeng thought for a moment, then followed.At this time, among the hundreds of people who were busy building temples on Motianling, in addition to more than 100 Zhuang Ding from Wangjiazhuang, there were also [-] or [-] platoon helpers sent by Majiazhuang.Other carpenters and masons were invited by the owner of the Wang Zhuang from Dongliao County.When these people saw the owner of Wang Zhuang approaching, they stepped aside one after another and stood there with their hands down, very respectful.

Li Qiufeng paid attention to the surroundings while walking, and saw that the ground had already been drawn with grass ash on this open space. From the mountain gate, courtyard wall, front yard, main hall, back hall, wing rooms, etc., everything was complete, fully occupied over half of the peak.Although hundreds of civilians worked together to dig the foundation, only a very small part of the main hall was excavated.But at the northeast corner of the main hall, more than 20 civilian husbands gathered at this time, looking at a shallow ditch just dug on the ground, with a little surprise on their faces.

The owner of the Wang villa walked up to the crowd, and a man in charge of the Wang family village hurriedly came forward and said in a low voice, "I want to report to the owner of the villa, there is a big rock below, we really can't dig it, please ask the master to make a decision." .”

Owner Wang stood by the ditch, bent down to look at it for a moment, then reached out to take a shovel from a farmer, and then plunged into the shallow ditch.There was only a loud "dang" sound, and sparks splashed in the shallow ditch.But it was the shovel that hit a big rock at the bottom of the ditch, which made Master Wang's arm numb.The owner of Wang Zhuang had never practiced martial arts, but his hands felt hot, and he could no longer hold the shovel. With a "pop", the shovel fell into the shallow ditch.

Li Qiufeng stood behind the owner of Wang Zhuang, only to hear him say loudly: "Even if there are rocks in the ground, we must try to dig out the rocks. Everyone must keep in mind that if the temple of Master Zhong Kui cannot be built, everyone will They will all be trapped to death in Dongliao County."

All the husbands looked at each other, with embarrassment on their faces.Many people thought to themselves, it's easy for you to speak, you only need to touch your mouth with your lips.But to dig a good foundation, we have to shovel away the soil one by one.You tried it just now, and when you shovel it down, you can only leave a white mark on the stone.And this stone is afraid that it will be connected with the whole Motian Ridge.How easy is it to dig out the stone?

The owner of the Wang Zhuang saw that everyone showed embarrassment, and after he finished speaking, no one started digging, and he was extremely unhappy.He only heard him snort, and said in his mouth: "Is it necessary for me to do it myself, so that everyone is willing to continue working?"

Seeing Master Wang's gloomy face, everyone was a little terrified.Zhuang Ding of Wangjiazhuang saw the opportunity very quickly, picked up the pickaxe and grabbed it to the side of the shallow ditch, and smashed it down on the stones in the ditch.Just listening to the loud sound of "Dang", sparks splashed out of the ditch.That Zhuang Ding was so shaken that his mouth was bleeding, and he cried out in pain.

The face of Wang Zhuangzhu looked better now, and he said to everyone: "If you think about it again, you will always be able to get this stone out. If you do a good job, I will add two pieces of meat to each of you at noon."

All the folks cheered and started to work one after another.Everyone thought in their hearts, whether it is possible to dig out the stone and talk about it, let's make a show first, and it would be best to get some meat to eat.

Li Qiufeng saw that everyone was working enthusiastically, and he thought to himself, since the Khitans, Jins, and Tartars had all built cities on the top of Motianling.It stands to reason that if there are huge rocks underground, the foundation cannot be excavated when building the city.But these people just dug up the stone, which is too strange.

Originally, he wanted to have a look at Qiangou, but it was because the owner of the Wang village stood in front and watched the peasants work. If he just went forward to watch the excitement, the owner of the Wang village might feel unhappy.So he suppressed the curiosity in his heart, turned and walked to the other side.While watching everyone working in full swing, he thought to himself, after Wang Yuanwai left, it would not be too late for me to go and have a look.

Li Qiufeng had an idea in his heart, so he walked around the top of Motianling to have a look.After touching a stick of incense, he has roughly deduced what the Zhongkui Temple will look like after it is completed.This temple is built on the right side of the official road, occupying most of the open space on the top of Motianling.The entire Zhongkui Temple is a courtyard with three entrances, surrounded by a high stone wall outside.On the left side of the road, a land temple will be built. Although the scale and layout are much smaller than the Zhongkui Temple, it almost occupies all the open space on the left side.Li Qiufeng thought to himself, whether it was the Yamen's idea or the Wang Zhuang's own idea to build such a large-scale temple here.However, the money for building the temple was raised by the owner of the Wang Zhuang himself. Presumably he didn't want to build the temple so big.It is likely that Li Zhixian and Master Pan conspired to build a large temple on purpose.Because the bigger the temple was built, the more money they got in their hands.

Li Qiufeng walked up and down the ridge casually while thinking.Before he knew it, he had reached the northernmost end of Motian Ridge.Standing on the top of the peak and looking far away, you can see that the north of Motianling is a boundless flat land, and you can see the official road extending from the top of Motianling to the north, and finally disappears in a mist.On the flat ground, rivers and roads criss-cross each other, making the most of its vastness.

Li Qiufeng looked at it for a long while, and thought to himself, no wonder the Khitans, Jins and Tatars all wanted to build a city on Motianling.As long as you stay here, you can really say that one man guards the gate, and ten thousand men can't open it.If the enemy attacked Dongliao County from the north, it would be more difficult than reaching the sky to capture Motianling.I don't know how the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty broke through the city on the top of the mountain, and finally killed all the Tazi soldiers.

When Li Qiufeng was thinking about himself, he suddenly heard Qi Jiu whispering behind him: "Brother Li, you must not turn back, I have a few words to say. You must leave Motianling immediately and return to Wangjiazhuang. Tonight at Haishi, we will Meet at the wooden bridge on Wangjiazhuang Foreign Official Road."

After hearing this, Li Qiufeng didn't turn his head back, but still looked north with his hands behind his hands.Hearing the sound of footsteps gradually going away behind him, he turned around pretending to be nonchalant, and saw Qi Jiu carrying a log walking towards the east side, and soon mixed into the busy crowd.

(End of this chapter)