Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Chapter 164 Thyme's Father (Part [-])
"Yes……"

Thyme replied in a low voice.

"I love so much."

Wu Liang nodded with a smile, and asked again, "Where did you inherit this craft from?"

"Going home, my father was a well-known carpenter in the village. He came to my father for help with any carpentry work in eight villages. Everyone said that the carpentry made by my father was beautiful and durable."

Thyme still said softly and weakly, "However, besides the ordinary carpentry work, my father also does many unusual things, but he never shows it to outsiders. After my younger brother and I are a little more sensible, he will start to use it. The craftsmanship was passed on to the two of us, and we were also instructed not to mention it lightly in front of outsiders, let alone reveal it, otherwise we might cause trouble."

"Oh? Then where did your father's craftsmanship come from?"

Wu Liang continued to ask.

"My elder father (grandfather), I also heard from my father. As for where the elder father's craftsmanship came from, my father didn't tell me, so I don't know."

replied Thyme.

It seemed that it was not feasible to ask for more information through the girl's family background, so Wu Liang changed the direction and asked, "Apart from this crafting ball, what skills do you know?"

"No more... My father only taught me and my younger brother how to make this ghost ball, and usually taught me and my younger brother how to read and write. My father said that I will not be able to learn until my younger brother and I can make such a small wooden ball to nine layers. It's a pity that my hands and feet are clumsy, and now I can only reach the fifth floor, but my younger brother is talented, and he was able to reach the seventh floor of the ghost work ball when he was seven years old."

Thyme went on to reply, and she felt bitter while talking, "It's a pity that my father was arrested as a young man, and my mother fell ill and died of a serious illness. Then some strongmen came and took my field and house, and took me and my younger brother. After being driven out, my younger brother starved to death on the way to exile, if I hadn't been captured and sold as a slave, I'm afraid I would have starved to death too..."

"..."

Another sad story, such stories can be found everywhere in troubled times.

Wu Liang is also a protector in his heart, the feeling when hearing outsiders talk about these things is completely different from hearing Thyme talk about these things, looking at the shy and quiet girl in front of him, he felt inexplicably distressed.

However, from Thyme's description, Wu Liang discovered some very important details...

Thyme's family background is not simple, at least the ancestors should not be ordinary people!

Just because in this era, the four words "literacy and reading" are luxury items that are out of reach for most ordinary people. conditions and opportunities.

And Thyme's father was able to teach Thyme and her younger brother to read and write.

This shows that he has also received education and inheritance in this area before. Although he has been a carpenter with good craftsmanship all his life, if he looks back decades or hundreds of years ago, he may be from the high-ranking noble class. Disappeared for some unknown reason.

Besides that, there is one more unusual thing.

Since Thyme's father knew some "unusual" carpentry work, he asked Thyme and her younger brother not to show it easily to outsiders...

This also has some meaning of "ancestral training", which is very likely to be related to the experience or identity of their ancestors.

It's just that it's hard to deduce the specific situation. After all, there is too little information from Thyme. for myself.

She just knew so little.

After all, when her father was arrested as a strong man, she should not be too old, and she has not yet reached the age to keep a secret. Her father may not have time to tell her and her brother the secret of the family...

but.

Wu Liang noticed another detail: from the beginning to the end, Thyme only said that her father was arrested, but never said that her father was dead!

That is to say, although it is unlikely that her father survived the war after being captured by a strong man.

But there is still a little possibility of being alive!
Although it is still uncertain to what extent Thyme's father's craftsmanship has reached, it can already be seen from this "ghost ball".

For Wu Liang, this was a very rare and scarce talent.

With the help of such a craftsman beyond the times, many of his ideas may be realized, making future tomb robbery even more powerful...

And it's not just an improvement in the tomb-robbing tools.

It should be known that as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, Lu Ban had already produced a mysterious device called "machine seal", which used mechanical methods for burial and anti-theft.

Although Lu Ban's "machine seal" has not been popularized because Confucianism advocates thick burials, and Wu Liang has not found any powerful mechanism traps in the tombs he has stolen so far, but he believes that since the mysterious device "machine seal" is made Once it comes out, someone will definitely use it.

Always walking by the river, this kind of thing will meet him one day.

Even without mentioning Luban, the Han Dynasty also had some powerful mechanism masters, the most famous of which was Zhang Heng who invented the "Seismograph", "Armillary Sphere", "Ruilun Pod" and "Solo Flying Wood Carving". After the invention is modified and used in the mausoleum, it will definitely bring a devastating blow to his tomb robbery work.

At this time, a senior craftsman who is good enough at "woodworking" becomes especially important.

then.

"Xiang'er, what is your father's name, do you know who arrested your father in the first place?"

Wu Liang pondered for a moment, then asked again.

"My father's name is Bailiji. My mother said that it was Dong Zhuo's soldiers who captured my father, but I don't know who it is..."

Thyme bowed her head and said.

These topics once again brought back her memories, her eyes turned slightly red, and her little hands no longer rubbed the corners of her clothes, but clenched into fists.

"Dong Zhuo..."

Now the scope of the search is slightly larger.

Now that Dong Zhuo is dead, some of his troops have been taken away by Lu Bu, Niu Fu, Li Jue, Guo Si, Zhang Ji, and Fan Chou.

Among them, Niu Fu, Dong Zhuo's son-in-law, has died, and the soldiers and horses under his command were obtained by Li Jue, Guo Si, and Zhang Ji, all three of whom are currently in Chang'an.

After Lu Bu was defeated this time, he now led his army to the south of Xuzhou.

And Na Fan Chou was also in Chang'an, controlling the government together with Li Jue and Guo Si.

It is really not easy to find a person among these people's trilogy, and it may be a soldier, or even a person who has died in battle.

Also, speaking of Zhang Jilai...

In history, Boss Cao occupied Zhang Ji's widow, which caused Zhang Ji's nephew Zhang Xiu to rebel suddenly with a grudge, and finally implicated Cao Ang, Cao Ti, and Dian Wei to die in Wancheng.

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