Little lucky girl from the peasant family: Queen Splendid

Chapter 474 Blossoms Everywhere

There was nothing to say all night, Cheng Dayou got up the next day and couldn't wait to find Chu Laosan and asked for a small team of soldiers to guard him, and finally went to find people to investigate around.The two men who had worked in the kiln, although they didn't know what the wife asked them to do, they guessed that it had something to do with the kiln.It was still too early to see the hostess, so I simply went into the mountain with Cheng Dayou.

Ding Wei, on the other hand, had breakfast, waited and waited, but no one came, so she sent Danggui to inquire, only to find out that not only the two kiln workers, but also Old Man Li and Old Man Wang were taken to the mountains by the impatient Cheng Dayou.

When Mrs. Cheng heard about it, she wanted to make amends, but Ding Wei waved her hand.It's not that the glass is going to be fired immediately, and it's okay to delay for a day, so there's no need to blame the most capable and loyal subordinates.

The rest of the people in the stone castle were still planting, cleaning, and cooking. They stayed until the sun went down, and the team training was over, and the two halls on the first floor were crowded again.There are even a few more women than before. Don't look at anything else, just say that Sister-in-law Lin was promoted by the stewards to be a small boss just after she learned to write her name.There was nothing to do at night or so, and the young women all coyly followed to learn a few strokes.

Ding Wei heard the sound from the first floor, stood on the roof and looked at the dark night, finally turned her head to look at the worried lady Cheng, and comforted, "Don't worry, Cheng Guanshi is not a reckless person, there must be something on the road Delayed."

Mrs. Cheng thought of her eldest son who was living away, and then thought of the father of the child who had been in the mountains for a long time, and her heart was like the leaves on the branches in autumn. She couldn't stop trembling. She hugged her younger son tightly and forced a smile. , "Master, don't worry, I'm not worried, I just..."

Before she finished speaking, she heard someone yelling loudly at the gate of the stone castle, "Cheng Guanshi is back!"

Ding Wei took a few girls and hurriedly looked over, isn't it? The torches lit in front of the Shibao gate clearly showed the disgraced Cheng Dayou and others.

Bai Shu turned around in surprise and called for Mrs. Cheng, but she was nowhere to be seen.Bai Shu then covered her mouth and laughed, "My sister-in-law said she wasn't worried, but as soon as she heard that he was coming back, she immediately ran off."

Yunying nodded her forehead, unwilling to let her make such a joke.You don't feel it when you are not married. Only after you get married do you realize how important the person who sleeps with you and eats with you is.

Ding Wei was relieved, sat down and ate a few fruits, taught Dabao and Fu'er a few arithmetic problems, and Cheng Dayou came upstairs with a whole body full of travel and dust.

Yunying hurriedly lit two more lanterns, and the things Cheng Dayou put on the table were clearly illuminated.

"Master, I have gained a lot from this trip. Taoyuan Island is simply a treasure island, and there are too many good things hidden." Cheng Dayou's face flushed with excitement, "I am not very clear about some things, and I beg the master to call Master Li and Master Wang came up to discuss together."

"Okay, Bai Shu will invite two masters." Ding Wei nodded, and soon, the two master masters and two kiln workers followed on to the roof.

The four of them didn't dare to look around, and stood upright after kowtowing.

Ding Wei rewarded the two masters with seats and asked, "Tell me about what you have gained this day."

Cheng Dayou didn't hesitate, pointed to a yellowed stone and said, "Master, there is no need to transport saltpeter from Quanzhou anymore. There is a mountain only twenty miles away from here. Most of the mountain is filled with saltpeter. It must have been here many years ago." Erupting volcano."

Ding Wei was delighted to hear that everything in Taoyuan Island is good, if there is a disadvantage, it is that it is too hot in summer.Saltpeter can cure ice, and ice can cool down, so it is naturally a good way to escape the heat.But transporting saltpeter from Quanzhou is really too much work.Now the saltpeter mountain is guarding next to the stone castle, but it couldn't be better, wouldn't it be an inexhaustible amount of ice in the future.

"Okay, that's good news."

"Master, I don't know, there are better discoveries." Cheng Dayou pointed to a few twigs on the table, "Master Li folded them back, including golden nanmu, chrysanthemum pear, and even a piece of agarwood. This is so rare, the silver taels sold by a forest is enough to build the city."

Donghao's palace would have burned some agarwood, but since she was pregnant with twins, she vomited when she smelled the spice, so Gong Zhiming ordered the palace to ban incense.Although she doesn't have much contact with it, she also knows this very precious tree.

"The location where the agarwood grows must be kept secret. Remember to keep this matter secret. Now we are short of manpower, and there are still pirates to deal with. If the news leaks out again, it will not be worth the loss if we attract more foreign enemies."

Cheng Dayou was not an idiot in the first place, but he was dazzled by joy, he immediately woke up when he heard what the master said, got up and confessed his crimes, and then went downstairs quickly, and came up again within a short while.

"Master, don't worry, I have already instructed you. The people who will follow you today are trustworthy..." Halfway through speaking, he suddenly looked at the two kiln workers.

The two kiln workers were stunned for a moment, and quickly knelt down to express their loyalty, "Mrs. Mingjian, we will never tell. We found the clay and inkstone on the table. Clay can be used to burn pottery, and inkstone can be used to make ink blocks. "

"Ink stone?" Ding Wei always felt that this kind of ink stone looked familiar. When she picked it up and looked carefully, her eyes lit up immediately.

When she was a child, there was a pencil factory near her school. Because the business was not good, sometimes there were not many people in the whole factory.Children are naughty and always run in to have a look.So I learned that the pencils they use for writing do not use lead as the material, but graphite and clay mixed together to make the refill.

No, Taoyuan Island has these two raw materials.

No matter how good the wood is, shrimp and crab paste and dried fruit preserves are not monopoly products after all. Once the business is good in the future, there will definitely be businesses in Quanzhou to follow suit.

But if the pencil is made, it will be the only one, Scorpion Baba.

"Yunying, the exploration team has worked hard today, and everyone will be rewarded with two taels of silver."

Ding Wei was in a good mood, and asked two kiln workers, and then rewarded them again, which made the four craftsmen, old and young, very happy.It's not because of the two taels of silver, but more because of following such a generous and sympathetic master. As long as they work hard faithfully, they will definitely not go wrong in the future.

Ding Wei looked at the things brought back by everyone, and she knew what she wanted, and she remembered her dream of a glass house, so she talked to the two kiln workers carefully.

Later, the night was too dark, so we let the tired people leave.

When the sun rose above the sea again, the stone castle was still full of smoke, chickens and dogs barking, but it seemed to be different from the past.

On the downwind side of the stone castle, at the foot of the mountain, Cheng Dayou brought a lot of people to start building workshops and fire kilns.There are women and half-grown children who are responsible for delivering water and helping with chores, and there is a lively mobilization of the whole people.

Cheng Dayou thought of the kind of pen that the master had mentioned in the morning, and couldn't help feeling hot in his heart. If it is real, it will be sold all over the world, and the island will be prosperous and prosperous only by this "special product".

After so busy for a few days, the shrimp paste workshop was built, the wood workshop was built, and the fire kiln was also built.

In fact, it is a workshop, rather it is a big house made of bluestone. After all, the wind and rain are too strong here on the island, and all buildings must be able to withstand the wind and rain.

Sister-in-law Lin commanded several women to pour the fish and shrimp brought back by the fisherman on the bamboo plaque and dry them in the sun. Now the sauce in the tank has not fermented well, so it’s a pity to let the fish and shrimp rot, it’s better to dry them After that, whether to transport it back to Donghao for sale or to use it for other purposes is fine.

In the candied fruit workshop next door, men kept coming in with wild sugar cane. Angelica held the prescription in his hand and watched the women squeeze the syrup. After boiling it, they put the local rare fruit into it.It’s just started now, and I don’t know how the finished product will be, so I’ll do less and wait until the time comes to see the results.

The busiest workshop is the third workshop. The bamboo forest is the most densely populated area near the stone castle. The best bamboo shoots are plump and tender. The flowers are cut into pieces, boiled, and thrown into jars to pickle. It will take less than half a month. Delicious and delicious sour bamboo shoots are ready.

The busiest thing is the wood workshop. The old man Li has already started work with a group of apprentices and children and grandchildren. The wood left over from the construction of the stone castle has been moved over, dried in the shade, sawed and cut, and soon It became table legs, with square bottoms, carved patterns, and lacquered colors.

Half-grown children flocked to find the most beautiful seashells on the beach, washed off the mud and sand, dried them and poured them into boxes according to their size.From time to time, a carpenter came to choose, and every time he chose the one he liked, he would touch the children's heads, or give a fruit, and the happy children ran to the beach more diligently.

Ding Wei entrusted Dong with the chores on the third floor and several children. She found an old dress, went to jewelry, braided her hair into a whip, put on a straw hat, and followed the craftsman into it. Fire Kiln Workshop.

It is said that a person without ideals is not as good as a salted fish. Ding Wei feels that she is working hard to not be a salted fish. Although her ideal is to have a glass house, or even just a few glass windows, no matter how big or small the dream is, it is good to have it.

Unfortunately, there is always a gap between dreams and reality, and this gap is still ruthless and powerless.

The whitest and purest sand on the seashore, mixed with soda ash, is sent into the kiln, and when it is taken out, it is either pitch black, or a lump that cannot be seen clearly at all.But those pottery pots and pottery bowls were burned so that they were all "glowing red", which was annoying.

Originally, when the craftsmen saw the master's wife coming to the workshop, they were so frightened that they didn't dare to bare their arms.However, seeing the master and wife suffering from the same heat and having many blood blisters on their hands, but still insisting on doing it every day, I felt a little more admiration in my heart. No one was willing to be vague about what could help.

After working together for ten days, changing countless recipes, and burning many kiln pottery, finally in one afternoon, a group of pure green glass balls was "born" with difficulty.

A kiln worker didn't care about burning his hands, picked it up and held it up to the sun, and said excitedly, "Ma'am, is this the kind of gemstone you want? It's really fired, it's fired!"

(End of this chapter)