Infrastructure: I survive in troubled times

Chapter 143 'Spying' (three more)
"It's not the scouring of the rainstorm. It's good that there are bluestone paving in the city. The dirt road outside the city is too muddy." Han Jihu said with a wry smile, "We are still riding horses, and we are all muddy. It's even more difficult for an ordinary person to walk." The light brown eyes looked at Cao Huaimin for a moment and said seriously, "Miss Hong just thought about what kind of paving is used for the official roads outside the city, so she walks. more convenient."

"Blue stone is unlikely, it's too expensive." Cao Huaimin looked at the two of them with dark eyes and said, after thinking about it, his eyes suddenly lit up, "Using pebbles, this beach is all over it."

"Pebble? Can it be done?" Lin Nanzheng looked at him with phoenix eyes and said.

"Is there no cobblestone paving in your house?" Cao Huaimin looked at him in surprise and asked.

"Yes, the paving in the yard is two or three steps wide." Lin Nanzheng thought for a while and nodded, then hesitantly said, "But walking on these cobblestones will hurt your feet, especially when you wear thin-soled boots."

"These ordinary people don't have thin-soled boots to wear." Cao Huaimin rolled his eyes at him and said, "It's all straw sandals. Even bare feet."

"So! The straw sandals prick the feet, and the pebbles prick the feet. Can it work?" Lin Nanzheng said worriedly.

"Their feet have thick calluses, and they are not afraid of thorns, let alone pebbles." Cao Huaimin said immediately after hearing the words, looking at his light and breathable lambskin boots, "Not everyone is like your feet. , white and tender."

"I said, old man Cao, I didn't offend you! How can you be so mean?" Lin Nanzheng looked at Cao Huaimin up and down and smiled, "I know why old man Cao has no hope of being promoted to the rank, but your mouth doesn't know how to offend you. How many are there?"

"Stinky boy." Cao Huaimin blew his beard and stared at him, "That's what they should scold!"

"Brother Cao, Brother Cao, don't be angry, don't be angry!" Seeing this, Han Jihu quickly persuaded, "Let's use pebbles!"

Cao Huaimin calmed down and looked at Han Yanhu and said, "These pebbles are not all the size of eggs, there are big ones, let's pick up big ones."

"Yes!" Lin Nanzheng said with a smile.

"There are some cobblestones pulled by a cart to pave a three-step wide road from the gate to the house, the hut, and the latrine. It's easy to walk." Cao Huaimin looked at them with sharp black eyes and said.

"Hey! That's not bad!" Lin Nanzheng looked at him with bright eyes and said, "Why didn't I think of it."

"What can you think of with that head?" Cao Huaili said bluntly, staring at the head on his neck.

"Old man Cao..."

Before Lin Nanzheng could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Han Jihu, "I will arrange for someone to lay pebbles tomorrow."

"Wait a minute, wait a minute." Cao Huaimin looked at him and said hurriedly.

"What's the matter?" Han Chuhu looked at him suspiciously and asked.

"You thought that pulling the pebble back and pressing it directly into the soil would be the end." Cao Huaimin's eyebrows jumped and he looked at the two of them and said.

"Isn't it?" Lin Nanzheng blinked his phoenix eyes and looked at him when he heard the words.

"My God, this water is flowing low, you have to level, level, slope, slope." Cao Huaimin patted his forehead and said, "This cobblestone is in a low-lying area, and it's a whole fart!"

"Old man Cao, you are also from an aristocratic family. This is a little more elegant." Lin Nanzheng looked at him in disbelief and said, "It's humiliating to Sven!"

"What's the matter, can't I tell?" Cao Huaimin glared at him and said, pointing to the short brown linen on his body, "Look at how gentle I am now."

"You say, you say." Lin Nanzheng looked him up and down and said, "In my memory, Mr. Cao was gentle and soft-spoken. Why is he so angry now."

"You climbed out of the pile of dead people, and your temper is still better." Cao Huaimin said angrily.

"Understood, I understand." Han Chuhu looked at him with kind words and said.

"But you can't look down on anyone! We didn't offend you." Lin Nanzheng said sullenly with round eyes.

"I'm sorry!" Cao Huaimin bowed his hands to them, "I can't bear to see your child's play like this."

"Master Cao is good at this, but we don't understand, how can you blame us in turn." Lin Nanzheng looked at him with puffed cheeks and said angrily.

"Min Cao is really not as easy as you think. It's not as if the people were forcibly confiscated, pointed at a piece of land, excavated or buried." Cao Huaimin looked at them with dark eyes and said, "At least we have to go over mountains and mountains. to survey the terrain." Putting his index finger on his lips, he pondered for a moment and said, "It's like sending scouts before you fight to spy on the enemy's situation, so that you can know yourself and the enemy."

Cao Huaimin looked at them with bright eyes and said, "I also want to spy on the enemy's situation, but my 'enemy situation' is river, terrain, and many unknowns."

Hearing this, Lin Nanzheng looked at him with awe, straightened his back, and asked humbly, "Unknown?"

"You don't know that a problem suddenly arises." Cao Huaimin said with a straight face, "You have so many military books and strategies for fighting, "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and "36 Strategies", how many battles have been fought from ancient times to the present, and how many sums have been summed up. Experience. But do you know how many written records are there on water conservancy and how to calculate the earth volume?"

"I don't know." Lin Nanzheng shook his head like a rattle when he heard the words, and said simply and easily, "This is all you need to do! It's time to pull enough."

Cao Huaimin sighed heavily, he really couldn't talk to him.

"Look and sigh again." Lin Nanzheng looked at him with a frown and said with a smile, "We don't understand, Master Cao just understands."

"Forget it, I can't talk to you guys." Cao Huaimin looked at him with desolate eyes and said, "You pull the cobblestones, and I'll smooth it out. The ground needs to be leveled, so don't let you do white labor."

"That's great." Han Yanhu said happily, and then said again, "The crops in the ground are fine, and the rain is heavy and it is impossible to go to the ground, so take advantage of these few days to spread pebbles."

"Why can't we go down to the ground?" Cao Huaimin looked at them suspiciously and asked.

"Haha..." Lin Nanzheng smiled unkindly, "It turns out that Mr. Cao is not omniscient!"

"I'm not a god!" Cao Huaimin looked at him angrily and said.

"It's raining too much to get off the ground!" Han Chuhu laughed, "The cultivated land is soft and muddy."

When Cao Huaimin heard this, he patted his forehead, "Look at me, we! I've never planted any land before."

"Yeah! It's the first time I've picked up a hoe." Han Chuhu patted his shoulder.

"I'll leave it to Master Cao for this matter." Lin Nanzheng said respectfully, looking at Cao Huaimin with his hands clasped.

(End of this chapter)