Splendid Pastoral: The Strong and Hot Wife

Chapter 112 Oil Pressing
Qiu Zhongxiang walked over and kicked the assassin, but found that there was still no response.He knelt down to check.

Xiao Wu quickly helped him up and stood aside, the soldier who came in with Xiao Wu squatted down and turned the assassin's body over.

He saw bright red blood flowing from the corner of the assassin's mouth.The soldier stretched out his finger to dip a little, took it to his nose and sniffed it.

He got up and took a look at Qiu Zhongxiang, and saw Qiu Zhongxiang looking at him intently.He hurriedly stepped forward, clasped his fists and bowed his head, and said, "General Qi! The assassin has taken poison and died!"

After hearing this, Qiu Zhongxiang looked at him in shock and asked, "Do you know what kind of poison he took?"

The soldier still clasped his fists and bowed his head and replied: "General! This poison is not owned by me, Da Zhou, but it was made by Cheyue Kingdom's palace—'Shi Jian Xue'!"

Qiu Zhongxiang stared at him with wide eyes, and asked incredulously, "What is 'removing blood'?"

The soldier replied: "General, the so-called blood transfer means that after taking this poison, as long as you move one step, it will affect the heart and arteries, and the toxicity will attack!"

Qiu Zhongxiang felt weak when he squatted down, and said lazily: "So, there is such a powerful poison? Then where did he hide the poison, and how did he take it under our noses? "

The soldier squatted down, made a figure eight with the thumb and index finger of his right hand, pinched the assassin's mouth open and looked.

Said: "One of the molars on the left side of the assassin's mouth is empty, and the poison should be hidden in this empty tooth.

When the general was questioning him just now, he bit the wax that sealed the poison with his teeth, and brother Xiao Wu kicked him again, and he leaned forward before he died from the poison. "

After hearing this, Qiu Zhongxiang felt that this inference was reasonable, and thought that anyway, now that he knew that the person who attacked him was not, he was sent by that person; nor was it sent by Prime Minister Zhong Chushan!
When foreign enemies come to invade, he is [-]% sure to defeat those who dare to challenge him!

Qiu Zhongxiang looked at Xiao Wu and said, "Okay! You guys go down! Drag the body out and bury it!"

Xiao Wu and the soldier clasped their hands together and said in unison: "This subordinate will leave!"

Just when they dragged the corpse and turned to go out, Qiu Zhongxiang suddenly asked, "What's your name?"

The man hurriedly put down the corpse in his hand, turned around and cupped his hands to Qiu Zhongxiang and replied, "Return to the general! Your subordinate Cai Mao!"

Qiu Zhongxiang looked at him and said with a smile: "Cai Mao! Good! From now on, you and Xiao Wu will stay by my side! Go out first!"

Cai Mao clapped his hands happily and said, "Yes!"

After speaking, he and Xiao Wu walked out of the general camp, each dragging the assassin's arm.

In the evening on the Daqing River, in Xu Xiaomi's newly built mill, Qiu Yongzheng, Wu Yue, and Xu Xiaomi's uncles and cousins ​​all stood by the wall and looked at the wooden cow and horse that Xu Erqiang had just arrived in the mill.

Wu Yue looked dumbfounded, and his mouth opened into an O shape.It was the first time he saw that a cow made of wood could move freely.

Wu Yue leaned on Qiu Yongzheng who was beside him with his elbow, and asked softly: "Hey! Brother Zheng, look, look, look! This cow is made of wood! How did they make it move by itself? "

Qiu Yongzheng proudly glanced at this talented elder brother out of the corner of his eyes.He said without hesitation: "What is this? You haven't seen such a wonderful thing!"

He said in his heart: If it wasn't for Xiaomi not letting me tell about the fact that she helped me deliver food and grass, once this matter was made public, it might really scare a lot of people to death!
Who would dare to believe that a man can make a wooden cow fly?snort!Are you surprised now?Were you still not convinced when I praised Xiaomi?

Thinking of this, Qiu Yongzheng proudly asked Wu Yue: "Brother now thinks that girl Xu Xiaomi is unmatched by everyone in Da Zhou?"

Now Wu Yue was curious and replied casually: "Maybe! But maybe!"

Qiu Yongzheng gave him a pale look from the side, and said nothing more, thinking: Humph!I would like to see who in Dazhou can be better than Xiaomi?
Xu Xiaomi, grandfather Zhou Xuewu, and Qiu Qiming stood at the gate of the mill, watching as Xu Erqiang fastened the wooden ox inside and was turning on the switch in the mouth of the wooden ox and horse.

She could clearly hear the conversation between Qiu Yongzheng and Wu Yue and what was in his heart, but she didn't take these innocuous words seriously at all!

She saw her father withdrawing his hand and went into the crowd standing aside, and saw wooden cows and horses starting to walk around the stone mill in a leisurely manner.

At this time, Xu Xiaomi fed the dried Tongren in the dustpan to the grinding mouth with a wooden spoon.

As the wooden ox turned, the powder that fell from the edge of the stone mill just fell into the iron trough that Xu Xiaomi specially asked his uncle to make.

The circular iron trough has a notch in the shape of a stone mill. When the powder in the trough is full, use a bristle brush to sweep the powder into the bucket placed under the iron notch.

The first process of squeezing tung oil is complete!

Then pour the powder from the stone mill into a specially made iron bowl, cover the lid and beat it with a sledgehammer to form a cake.

Then take out the tung powder cake and put it in a cylindrical hollow iron cylinder, and then activate the lever, so that the oil can be squeezed out!
Xu Xiaomi demonstrated the whole procedure, and all the cousins ​​stood aside and watched and learned.

After Xu Xiaomi finished, he asked everyone: "Have you all remembered? Actually, this is very easy to operate!"

After Xu Xiaomi finished speaking, everyone was silent and just looked at each other. Xu Xiaomi saw their reaction.He also said: "It doesn't matter if we didn't learn today, let's continue tomorrow! Everyone is tired today! Let's go back early and have a good rest!"

Grandpa saw that the tung oil he had dreamed of was squeezed out so easily.Looking happily at so many tools and so many processes, Xu Xiaomi may be fine by himself, but if it is a different person, there may be one more person.

So, he smiled and said to Xu Xiaomi: "Good granddaughter! There are so many processes, it may take two people for them to operate!
You see, it needs to grind flour, press cakes, and squeeze oil in a cylinder!It’s okay for you to do the demonstration alone, but if it is really going to be put into production, one person will be tired and unable to afford the output! "

"Yes! Yes! Yes!..." After hearing this, everyone felt that this was the reason!
"Grandpa is right! So much work can't be done by one person, so from now on, you will work in groups of three every day, and work together as one grinds flour, one presses cakes, and the other pulls the lever to squeeze oil! This is easy and fast. !"

Xu Xiaomi heard what Grandpa said, and said the arrangement plan that she had thought up in advance!
At this moment, Wu Yue was so surprised that he couldn't express it in words.Originally, if it was just a wooden cow, he could slowly accept it.However, after he saw the whole process of oil extraction just now, he was alone on the spot.

In fact, his family opened an oil mill in the capital.When he saw Xu Xiaomi finished the whole procedure by himself, he also saw that the oil was really squeezed out.He asked himself if he should worship Xu Xiaomi as his teacher.

He was also afraid that Qiu Yongzheng would make fun of him, so he could only open his mouth and think strangely: Shouldn't there be at least seven or eight people in this oil workshop?Why, she can do it alone.

Also said that there are usually three people?Moreover, didn't it take four or five big men to tamp it tightly when the oil was finally released?How could she do it so simply here?Is it that a chain pulls up an iron block like a mallet and pound it down, and the oil comes out?

Could these things have been thought of by a country girl?This fact, which he thought was impossible, made Wu Yue temporarily forget that he was in the countryside that he had always looked down upon.

Qiu Yongzheng has been paying attention to Wu Yue's expression all the time, seeing the unbelievable expression on his usually proud brother's face, it feels like there are 24 fans fanning him in his heart!
After hearing Xu Xiaomi's arrangement, everyone chatted about it!

"That's right! Xiaomi! With so many processes, you should have told us that we are in groups of three. I wouldn't have been so scared that I didn't even dare to speak just now!" said the fourth cousin with a smile.

"Yes! Xiaomi! Just now I heard you ask if we have all learned it. I was thinking, if this person is slow, he can squeeze out two oils a day? Hehe..." The second cousin said with a smile.

"When I heard Xiaomi's question just now, I thought it was operated by one person, so I didn't dare to answer!" The big cousin touched his head shyly and said with a smile.

When Xu Xiaomi heard everyone explain the reason for the silence just now, she smiled awkwardly and said: "I'm sorry! I didn't tell you that you can be in a group of three, because I hope that each of you can operate independently.

What should I do in case of special circumstances?So, please make sure everyone knows how to operate this program, you know?
Today, if not, I will tell you again tomorrow. If you don’t, let’s learn more from each other!A person's power is limited, only if we all work together, this power is invincible!

alright!Make it here today!Let's take our stuff home! "

Hearing Xu Xiaomi talk about going home, everyone took the tools they brought and drove the wooden cow home!
Qiu Qiming waited for everyone to walk out of the mill, and then he carefully looked at the things that Xu Xiaomi had made, and then asked Xu Erqiang to lock the door and walk back behind everyone!

Along the way, everyone walked and discussed who was with the three of them.

"Brother! You and I and the fourth brother, let's make a team of three!" said the second cousin, pulling the arm of the eldest cousin.

"No! The three of you are men, we girls can't be three women together! That's too tiring!"

After hearing what the second cousin said, the eldest cousin retorted.

"I think it's better to let my cousin arrange it!" said the fourth cousin.

Just as Xu Xiaomi was about to speak, Qiu Yongzheng said it first: "I think you should combine freely! Otherwise, there should be complaints by then!"

(End of this chapter)