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Chapter 3 Timber When Broken from the Middle

"on the carriage"

Zhou Yuncheng was not used to riding a carriage for the first time for the second generation.Before thinking about it, no matter how busy she was, she insisted not to work on the means of transportation, including but not limited to cars, trains, airplanes, and ships.The main reason is that she is very prone to motion sickness, airsickness, and seasickness. Whenever she reads on these things, looks at the phone, or looks at the computer, she will definitely vomit.

I didn't expect that once I crossed over, I would actually have to read the account books on the carriage under pressure.The more Zhou Yuncheng thought about it, the more depressed he became.When the carriage arrived at the gate of Prince Jing's Mansion, Zhou Yuncheng's face was already pale, and his stomach was overwhelmed.

"Are you alright?" Madam Zhou Yuncheng looked at the poor condition and said, "Is the poison still clear?"

"It's okay, I'm motion sick." Zhou Yuncheng waved his hand and replied.

"Have you finished reading it? How is it?" Madam continued to ask.

Before Zhou Yuncheng could answer, someone had already come out and walked to the carriage.

"Who are you! How can you park at the gate of Prince Jing's mansion at will?" A young servant pinched his throat and shouted.

"We are Daokou Zhou's family." Old Zhang's voice sounded politely: "We are here for the wood in the attic of your mansion, please inform me."

"It's you guys, wait a minute." The boy went in after he finished speaking.

After a while, a housekeeper came out and welcomed them in.

"Mrs. Zhou, Miss Zhou, this way please." The housekeeper was more polite than Zhou Yuncheng expected.In her impression, the prince's mansion in TV dramas is almost bossy and superior to merchants.

"Madam Zhou please wait here, our prince and concubine will be here soon." The butler led them to an apparently unfinished garden and left.

Zhou Yuncheng looked around and saw that some gardeners were arranging the garden one after another, some were transplanting trees, and some were turning the soil to prepare for planting flowers and grass.

"This garden is quite monotonous, with small bridges and flowing water, and nothing in the pavilions and rockeries." Zhou Yuncheng read.

"You can't compare like that." Mrs. Zhou replied, "It's pretty good here."

"The materials you provided them should be to build the attic, right?" Zhou Yuncheng looked at the columns in the middle of the yard.

"Well, let's go and have a look." Mrs. Zhou raised her leg and walked over after speaking.

Zhou Yuncheng followed Mrs. Zhou, and soon arrived at the place where several pillars were.There is not a single worker here, except for a few red columns that have been erected, and some logs are neatly stacked beside them, but one is scattered outside.Zhou Yuncheng looked up and took a closer look. There were two or three wooden beams that had been erected, and there was a beam in the middle that hadn't been erected yet. Instead, there were some sawdust scattered right below.

At this time, a group of people came in a mighty distance.Zhou Yuncheng saw the men and women in brocade clothes walking in the front from a distance, presumably they were the prince and concubine.Most of the people who followed them were dressed as servant girls, and there were also a few servants.As expected of the palace, even the servant girls, their costumes are much more quality than those of the servants of the Zhou family.Zhou Yuncheng was thinking this way, but his eyes fell on a sneaky boy in bunts who walked at the back, who looked to be in his twenties: this man is too out of place.

"I've met Prince Jing, Concubine Jing." Madam Zhou took the lead in bowing and bowing when the visitor approached.Zhou Yuncheng and others followed suit.

Prince Jing nodded slightly, and said: "Mrs. Zhou, your master's business is so big, and you are the queen mother's guest, we were very relieved to buy and hand over the materials for the new garden repair to you, but we never wanted to make trouble. Something like this happened."

Mrs. Zhou frowned after hearing this, and after thinking carefully, she said, "My lord, if there is any problem with the materials we supply, we shall take full responsibility for it, but" Mrs. Zhou paused deliberately when she said this, with a low voice. He raised his head slightly, looked straight at King Jing and said, "Now there is no conclusion on this matter, but your mansion has already asked the mansion to take my master away, is there something wrong?"

Prince Jing has always known the temper of Mrs. Zhou's family.She and her master have been in contact with each other since the time when the emperor ascended Qianlong. After the emperor ascended the throne, he originally intended to let the Zhou family be an official.However, he has no intention of becoming an official at all. On the contrary, this wife of the Zhou family, with her good craftsmanship, not only firmly grasped the Queen Mother's heart, but also helped her husband open many restaurants and created a rich foundation.

Then, relying on their relationship with the royal family, the two couples began to develop their business into the supply of materials for the construction of the imperial city.Seeing this, many royal family members and high-ranking officials also entrusted them with the materials for the repair of their homes. On the one hand, they are reassuring, and on the other hand, of course, they also take this opportunity to show their favor to the Queen Mother and the Emperor.

"Mrs. Zhou, it's not the government office we have notified." Princess Jing took two steps forward when she saw this, and gently pulled Mrs. Zhou past her. It was not too big or too small, and everyone who happened to be next to the pavilion could hear it. Volume said: "It's really a fatality. The little worker who died happened to be the nephew of the foreman. The foreman is always a jerk. Before he reported the news to us, he had already gone to report to the official, saying that it was the wood. The poor quality caused the beams to break during installation and killed his nephew."

"Mrs. Zhou, you don't have to worry too much. I sent someone to ask just now. Your master is fine for the time being. As long as you can produce evidence to prove that this matter has nothing to do with the materials you provided, otherwise," Prince Jing continued. Before he finished speaking, he was suddenly interrupted by a person.

"Beautiful sister! Why do you look so bad? Are you okay?" It was the boy Zhou Yuncheng saw earlier who was wearing a bunt and didn't fit in next to him.He leaned in front of the pale Zhou Yuncheng and asked loudly.

Zhou Yuncheng was indeed motion sick and hadn't recovered from it. He was startled by his face suddenly appearing in front of him, and subconsciously backed away.I thought in my heart: Is this little boy desperate, so loud when the master is talking about business.

Unexpectedly, a maid standing outside immediately stepped forward: "My lord, why are you stealing the clothes of the handyman again? No wonder Fang's mother was looking for you everywhere just now."

"Your Majesty?" Zhou Yuncheng asked in confusion, but Mrs. Zhou interrupted her in time: "Yun'er, meet Prince Jing soon." She pinched Zhou Yuncheng's palm as she spoke.

That's right, this person is Luo Tian, ​​the only heir in Prince Jing's residence.

Zhou Yuncheng immediately understood, squatted down slightly, and said, "Hello, my son."

Looking up, he saw everyone's puzzled eyes.

"Miss Zhou, this is a good courtesy." Princess Jing said, "It's very special."

Zhou Yuncheng's heart skipped a beat: How did they salute just now?Oh yes, bow!Tsk.

Just thinking about how to get back, Luo Tian said: "Beautiful sister, what were you doing staring at that piece of wood just now?"

"Oh yes." Zhou Yuncheng quickly took over the conversation: "My lord, my concubine, I know what's going on. This time it's really not about the wood we supply."

"What proof do you have?" Prince Jing asked.

"Look here." Zhou Yuncheng walked to the pile of wood, pointed to the scattered wood and said, "If I'm not wrong, this is the wooden beam that happened, right?"

"Xiao Zhuo, you are here to answer." The butler said to a servant.

"Exactly." Xiao Zhuo lowered his head and took a step forward: "It was this wooden beam. The boss at that time, oh, our foreman, Lao Zhou, was letting his nephew Xiao Zhou stand on the beam to oversee the boss. I knocked it in, and suddenly the beam broke. And then Xiao Zhou fell from the top, and he was gone.”

"You're talking about the tenon, right?" Zhou Yuncheng pointed at the broken part of the beam.

"Yes." Xiao Zhuo replied.

"My lord, my concubine, look." Zhou Yuncheng stood up and said, "This is called a mortise, and there is a mortise on it. Fit the mortise to the mortise to complete the installation of this beam. However, the position of the mortise , but it broke."

"Isn't this a positive indication," Princess Jing said, "Is this a problem with the quality of the wood?"

"No, princess." Zhou Yuncheng continued: "If the quality of the wood is bad, if a person stands on a suspended wooden beam, the wooden beam will be broken from the middle."

"Why?" Luo Tian asked at this moment.A little displeasure appeared on Prince Jing's face: "You don't even know this?"

"It doesn't matter, my son, look." Zhou Yuncheng lowered his head and randomly found a relatively thin piece of wood, placed it in the air on two stones, and then stood on it.

"Crack", the wood broke without accident.Zhou Yuncheng staggered a little, and Luo Tian quickly supported her.

"Be careful, beautiful sister!" Luo Tian smiled innocently, then let go of Zhou Yuncheng, and lowered his head to pick up the wood on the ground: "Wow~ Dad! Mom! Look! It's really broken in the middle!"

"That's it." Zhou Yuncheng took the wood with a smile, thinking in his heart, I can't explain this problem with torque for you, so I can only do an experiment directly.

"But this beam is broken from the tenon." Zhou Yuncheng said: "So, this is not a problem of the quality of the wood, but" Zhou Yuncheng paused and said: "Man-made."

"What do you say?" Prince Jing asked.

"Because half of the section is neat." Zhou Yuncheng said.

"Section?" Everyone was puzzled again.

"It's here." Zhou Yuncheng pointed to the place where the tenon was broken. Sure enough, half of the area was neatly cut.She went on to say: "If the material is cut off by itself, there will be no such neat section. You can look at the thinner piece of wood that was just cut off."

Everyone looked at it with their probes, and sure enough, as Zhou Yuncheng said, the sections are uneven.

"So," Zhou Yuncheng finished explaining, glanced at everyone, and finally fixed his eyes on Prince Jing's face: "Someone first sawed the tenon in half, so the wooden beam couldn't bear someone standing on it and broke it. "

"Beautiful sister, you are so amazing!" Luo Tian spoke again at this moment, looking at Zhou Yuncheng's eyes full of stars of admiration.But Prince Jing and Concubine Jing still didn't speak, as if they still had some doubts.

"If you two still have doubts," Zhou Yuncheng continued, "We have complete procurement information, including the quality sampling of each batch, and I can check it with you." The materials sorted out on the carriage were presented to King Jing.

"Before I heard that the wife of the Zhou family was smart and capable, but I didn't expect that the daughter of the Zhou family is also so smart." Prince Jing praised.

"Prince Jing congratulates you." Madam Zhou saw that the situation was good, and said in time: "Then can you inform the government to release my master first, and then continue to investigate in the direction Yun'er mentioned?"

"Of course!" Prince Jing replied: "Come on, go to the government office and bring Master Zhou over immediately. Tonight, I will host a banquet for Master Zhou's wife, and this Miss Zhou will surprise you."

"Yes." The butler immediately took the boy and told Lao Zhang to take the account book and leave together.

(End of this chapter)