Ma'am help, the general is in trouble again

Chapter 154 Solving Puzzles
Some people wanted to ask Mu Gaoyi and Shi Hetong for information, but seeing them also looked dazed, they knew that these two people probably didn't know much more than they did.

That's right, this person was sent by Wei Jinwei in the past two days, and he has never met Mu Gaoyi and Shi Hetong in the past.

When they first came here, they arranged for them to be handymen. I don't know what happened later, and the relationship developed by leaps and bounds.

"It is estimated that he escaped from the home of an expert in the world?"

"Stop talking nonsense, everyone accepts apprentices, but the rules are very strict, how can you let the disciples wander outside and serve as handymen?"

"But he doesn't look like a wild carpenter. I guess he must have been taught by a master, maybe he hasn't officially started."

Other craftsmen sneaked in and chatted there.

On the other hand, Mu Gaoyi and Shi Hetong wiped off the sweat from their brows, looked at people and whispered to each other.

"Hey, Hetong, we guessed right, she might be a student of Jixia Academy, otherwise, at this age, how could she know so much woodcraft?"

"I feel the same way. I heard that Jixia Academy only accepts those students with not simple backgrounds and strong talents. We were the ones who failed the exam and failed to pass the exam."

Mu Gaoyi said that he should not be too envious, he smacked his mouth and said: "Look at him, he has a bright future at a young age. The car he designed is simply wonderful, and he doesn't know how to make it in the end. How shocked."

But Shi Hetong thought more than Mu Gaoyi, he wondered: "But he is so selfless, let us all participate, and he doesn't name him, isn't he afraid that the final credit will be taken away by others? Is it the fate of the design graphics being impostors?"

"Does he need to be afraid?" Mu Gaoyi rolled his eyes: "Just ask, can you afford to offend the people behind him?"

They all thought that Weiyao, Runtu, or some master craftsman was behind Ah Qing, but they couldn't guess that the man standing behind Zheng Quchi was the Yuwen who could subvert the entire power and political circle of Ye State with a single sentence. Sheng.

But then again, who would have thought of that.

"Okay, okay, in fact, we also understand these things. If you say that he is powerful, he is indeed powerful, but there are many powerful craftsmen in the Seven Kingdoms, so you don't have to focus on our little achievements to dig."

"this point?"

"Okay, it's huge, okay."

Thirty or so of them worked hard for three full days, not to mention day and night, but that was to the point where they forgot to sleep and eat.

Only then did the parts, panels, and corner joints of the car finally come out.

But the remaining time is still urgent, and one minute and one second cannot be wasted.

Seeing that it was almost time, Zheng Quchi asked Runtu for a gentle horse, planning to ride it to Fuxian Workshop.

Runtu escorted her all the way, and saw that his wife entered an iron shop familiarly, greeted an old blacksmith with white eyebrows, and then the other party came out with a bag of heavy objects.

The old blacksmith looked quite old, but he had an inverted triangle body, and his arms were particularly muscular.

"This deal has almost exhausted the old man and his apprentices."

"Thank you for your hard work. The things are done very well, exceeding my expectations. Next time I have a chance, I will come to take care of Grandpa Tie's business."

"That's good. But, I remember, it was a little girl who made the decision before, right?"

"Oh yes, she is my younger sister, and she does things for me. I thought she couldn't move the goods, so I picked them up by myself."

"That's it, okay. Since you are satisfied, the old man can rest assured. You are too particular about the craftsmanship of these things, and the pattern is something the old man has never seen before. It is too much trouble."

"I'm born once, I'm familiar with it twice. Next time, Grandpa Tie will definitely be more skilled. I'll leave the mantissa here. Then I have something to do here, so I'll go first."

"Hey, young man, you paid too much money."

"Not much, the rest is the expedited fee."

Zheng Quchi was so strong that he didn't need Runtu's help. He picked up the big bag and strode forward. Finally, Runtu found a carriage and transported her and the things back to the camp.

On the carriage, she carefully inspected the custom-made batch of bronze parts. There are round and square corner decorations, reinforced edge strips, canopy hooks and other things.

These are all made by her after drawing the graphics, marking the size, and asking the blacksmith to melt the copper to cast them. She specifically confessed that they must be old and of good texture. decorations.

When the craftsman saw Ah Qing coming back with a big bag of things, he felt strange.

"Ah Qing, where did you go so early in the morning?" Mu Gaoyi ran over, his eyes darting around her bag.

"Go work as a coolie."

She placed things on the ground in front of everyone, and immediately became fooled, listening to the sound of rubbing like a fine metal piece.

"what is this?"

"have a look."

She took them apart to reveal the contents, and they couldn't help but marvel: "This, isn't this the decorative copper parts painted on the car? You have already made them?"

"Well, the time is urgent. I asked a blacksmith to make a custom order earlier. I have checked all these, and there is no problem. After the assembly is complete, we will follow the design drawings and nail it to the top."

"Okay, we're pretty motivated right now."

"that is!"

"Then let's assemble it next."

Everyone gathered in a circle, because Zheng Quchi always thinks ahead when doing things, and she has been working hard for the past two days. Whenever someone gets stuck in a bottleneck, she can step forward and give a push, so they sometimes ask about it unconsciously. her opinion.

Zheng Quchi said: "Well, I think it will take almost a whole day just to assemble and correct the parts."

"I made an estimate just now, and it's similar to your opinion. By the way, we have to set aside a day to test the car in all aspects. Otherwise, something went wrong. Wouldn't it be ridiculous?"

"Sure enough, the time is still too tight."

The assembly alone needs to be divided into three parts. First, the parts are assembled, then the assembly is carried out, and then the overall assembly is carried out. Finally, various appearance modifications and brushing with tung oil are carried out.

In order to prolong the service life of the wood, the outer layer of nature still needs to be painted with a layer of paint. After the paint is painted, it can be air-dried for a while, and the performance can also be tested, as long as you pay attention to it.

These are all time-consuming and labor-intensive tasks, because this part is not the more people the better, but it is done by the technical personnel assigned by Zheng Quchi at the beginning, and they have to adjust while installing.

Especially the important parts must be spliced ​​in the same way according to the design drawings.

It is necessary to pick out the mortise, reduce the mortise, rough grind the special-shaped parts to find the shape, check whether the mortise and tenon are suitable in size, whether they are tight, whether there is any skew or warping, etc.

Zheng Quchi didn't go to help with the assembly this time. Others thought she was unfamiliar with this part of the fortification, but in fact she felt that she had other important things to do.

That is - engraving.

This art is most concerned with aesthetics and craftsmanship. A few sculptors who are good at this aspect are working overtime to catch up. Others still have time to chat, but they don't even have time to catch their breath until Zheng Quchi joins in. .

"Hey, look, that Ah Qing has gone to the carving team again."

"She can't even do this?"

"...It's hard to say."

After a while, someone said angrily: "What the hell, she really knows it!"

Carving a line is more time-consuming than any process. To put it bluntly, if wood carving is to be carved carefully, it can take a hundred days or a year.

But what they want to get is not the kind of craft decoration that is so fine that it takes a year to carve, nor does it use a whole piece of wood to make fine reliefs, but building materials.

In order to save time, it must be aesthetically pleasing, but it does not have to be too strict.

The wood carvings designed by Zheng Quchi are arranged on the car body in the form of buckles to decorate the doors, windows and bare car panels.

Of course, this is not only for the overall beauty of the model, but also to reduce the overall weight of the cabin. She combined wood carving panels with solid wood panels on the doors, windows and panels to reduce the pressure on the chassis.

The woodcarving she designed is based on one of the most traditional Chinese auspicious patterns.

The lion rolls the hydrangea.

Lion Rolling Hydrangea is a composition of two lions and a hydrangea.

According to legend, the lion is the king of beasts, a symbol of power and majesty, and the ball made of textile imitation hydrangea is regarded as auspicious and festive.

Originally, she wanted to design something more grand, but she felt that it was too much to go too far, the whole thing was so bland, that others couldn't understand it and had to bother to explain the content, it would be better to make some on the car body. Something familiar.

People can know what it means at a glance, and it is easier to achieve the effect of word of mouth.

Sculpture requires full concentration, and Zheng Quchi sat for hours at a time, during which time her eyes, hands and mind were all on the wood.

Sweat dripped from the forehead, Zheng Quchi wiped it off, but suddenly felt something sticky on the back of her hand, she froze.

Raising her hand, she saw that the thing on it was... It's over, her disguise was washed away by her sweat.

She immediately put down what she was doing and covered her face: "I, I'll go wash my face first, you continue."

Seeing that she was leaving, they were not calm at once.

"Hey, hurry up, ten of us are not as fast as you."

"well."

This kid is simply a treasure, the more he digs, the more he gets.

Zheng Quchi covered his face and hurried towards Fu Rong. Now he is the only one who can fix it for her, but he never thought that Fu Rong was not in the tent at all.

The guards even rejected her idea of ​​entering and waiting for someone, and watched her suspicious behavior suspiciously.

Zheng Quchi touched her face, it was uneven, and there were a lot of debris on the road. She didn't need to look in the mirror, she knew that her current appearance must be scary.

Originally, she wanted to go back to the main army tent to hide, but she didn't see Runtu, no one took her with this "disfigured face" and couldn't get in at all.

She had no choice but to be afraid of being seen, she turned left and right, and hid in a place where no one was around. She never thought that she would run to a very remote location by turning here and there.

Here, it seems to be... a water prison?
She had a topographical map of the camp in her mind, and after thinking about it for a while, she guessed where she ran to.

It is said to be a water prison, but after a hard winter in Changxuanpo, the running water has been cut off, leaving only a dry river bed in front, and a basement with a stone ladder carved out behind the big rock.

She also knows exactly who is being held in the water prison.

The question is, are people still inside?

She was just about to take a step, when a strong and cold figure appeared in front of Zheng Quchi, blocking it with one arm: "Ma'am, this is not where you should come."

Zheng Quchi was startled, his hair was about to explode.

"I just strayed into..."

Runtu nodded: "Of course, but if you take a few more steps, you will be shot and killed by the guards ambush in the dungeon as suspicious."

Zheng Quchi: "..."

Isn't it too insidious to lie in ambush in the dark?Fortunately, she couldn't stand the test anymore. She didn't want to go on an adventure just now, but planned to turn around and return.

However, will this person report behind her back?

"Don't tell the general about it, you know?" Zheng Quchi was frightened by Yu Wensheng's crazy criticism.

Before, she suspected that she joined forces with the Mo family, and almost slapped her into the cliff and smashed her to pieces. Now if he knew, she almost ran to the water prison to "visit" her old friend, and I don't know if he would go crazy again.

Runtu didn't say a word, obviously for him, the general is the object of all his loyalty.

Zheng Quchi narrowed his eyes and threatened: "If you dare to say it, I'll tell Yu Wensheng that it was you who didn't show up in time to stop me from intruding, which made me almost stray into a dangerous place. Guess he believes you or me? "

"...Madam, don't worry, Runtu won't say anything."

He seemed to have misjudged her before. The general's wife is probably not stupid and sweet, but she is just a sham.

Zheng Quchi knew that a stuffy gourd like Runtu would either refuse to agree, or once he agreed, he would not turn back.

Only then did she feel relieved.

"It's just in time for you to come. Look at my face. I need Fu Rong now. Do you know where he went?" She put down her hand and let Runtu look at her face.

To be honest, the current face is a mess, the facial features are jumbled together, it looks like a man and a woman, and it's really scary.

"Madam's face... Fu Rong went up the mountain to dig wild vegetables. If Madam is in a hurry, Runtu can take Madam up the mountain to find him."

"Hurry up, I still have things to do, but I can't see anyone with my face now."

She waved her hand, signaling him to lead the way quickly.

But Runtu stayed where he was.

"what happened?"

"Madam is going to go out like this?"

"What should I do?"

Runtu picked up a man wrapped all over his back, and leaped in the jungle with lightness kung fu. He identified the location by listening to the sound, and tracked it all the way according to the footprints left behind.

Zheng Quchi peeled off the cloth towels on his eyes, and saw many Ye soldiers passing by, digging around in the mountains and forests, looking for something to eat, and digging wild vegetables.

She asked Runtu, "Are we running out of food?"

"Go back to madam, the general will find a solution."

"Look, after this journey, almost all these streams have dried up, and there is no food in Fu County, so everyone will be hungry in the future." She looked at the dried fish on the river bed, panting The white stone is not a taste in my heart.

"The general will figure out a way."

"But your general... also needs someone to share his worries. He is still in pain in the morning and can't eat, and he has to go to Jizhou to work in the afternoon. Can you only rely on him to solve everything?"

Although he is the patron saint of the Ye Kingdom and the Ye Army, no one can be beaten with iron. If his body collapses, will the rest of the people have to eat cold?

(End of this chapter)