Lord of the House

The next day, when Ge Siyu arrived at the Yamen Yingmao, he brought the bamboo craftsman Zhao Zuiguier from the city to the mouth of the Jinchuan River.

Zhao Zuigui'er was not much younger than Ge Fu's, his unkempt beard was frosty white, his clothes were ragged, and there was a sour stench all over his body. When he was in the car, other people who met him on the side of the road would only think he was a homeless person or a beggar.

Zhao Zuigui'er was obedient in front of people, and his tongue was knotted when he spoke. When he saw the soldier with the sword, he wanted to hide to the side. He didn't have the spirit of a master craftsman. When Ge Fu came over from the prison island by boat, He was a little more courageous and asked, "Old Ge, you asked me for a drink, why did you ask Lord Shulingshi to drag me to this ghost place?"

It is extremely difficult for a craftsman to break away. He was born as a craftsman, and he is a craftsman all his life. An old man, a widower, is a drunkard. When he is old, he has no strength to work. If it weren't for the help of the Ge family, he might have died on the street sooner.

Ge Fu also knew that Zhao Zuigui'er's bear-like appearance made people doubt his ability, so he only said to Lin Fu: "You give him a drink, as long as he is 50% drunk, then look at his ability..."

Lin Fu asked people to prepare a banquet on the Hekou side, and he didn't think that Zhao Zuigui'er was full of filth. He invited him to join Ge Fu, Ge Siyu, Zhao Shuhan and the others. Zhao Zuigui'er was timid by nature. Seeing Ge Fu's face, after drinking three glasses of wine, he changed his mind and had the guts to interject.

"You can't let him drink any more, he'll be in trouble if he drinks too much!" Ge Fu said. Lin Fu listened to Ge Fu's words and asked Liu Yue'er to remove the wine glass in front of Zhao Zuigui'er's table. During the banquet, he talked about building a bamboo hall on ten acres of land at the mouth of the river.

Lin Fu wanted to build an academy imitating the Xixi Society at the mouth of the Jinchuan River to promote miscellaneous arts and craftsmanship, but the Jiyun Society was too shy, and couldn't squeeze out too much money to build a magnificent palace and attic terrace, and the thatched house was too shabby. . He saw that the old man Ge Fu built a bamboo hut to live in in only three days with ten people on the prison island, so he thought of building a bamboo hall on the river mouth side for teaching the scriptures. There is a large bamboo forest in the northwest corner of the prison island. The materials and labor are free. Building a bamboo hall here can save the old nose money.

Zhao Zuigui'er is timid by nature, which is precisely the reason why he was born for a lowly craftsman to beat and scold the servants for no reason. It truly shows the style of a generation of master craftsmen.

Lin Fu said that he wanted to build a bamboo hall. Although Zhao Zuiguier was timid, when he got off the carriage, he saw the terrain around the river mouth. At this time, he pushed the dishes away on the table to make a piece of it. He dipped his fingers into the soup, and while drawing figures, he told Lin Fu how to build the bright hall, wing rooms, and elegant houses in this bamboo hall, how to build it, how to arrange it, and how to arrange it in a suitable and elegant way, and how many people were arranged to cut bamboo and how many people made bamboo devices by hand. It was very detailed, and even a layman knew it when he heard it. He also suggested that Lin Bie build a small bamboo pier on the river beach for mooring boats, and cut bamboo to make steps to attract tourists to the bamboo hall on the shore...

The more brilliant Zhao Zuigui'er said, the more heartbroken Lin Fu was. When the world's famous people were full of moral articles, the real famous teachers and craftsmen did not even have the courage to speak normally in front of people when they were sober. At the moment, it was finalized with Ge Fu, and the construction of the bamboo hall was supervised by Zhao Zuiguier. Speaking of which, it wasn't that Zhao Zuigui'er was sober when he was drunk, but that he really didn't have the courage to show his talents in front of others when he was sober. Lin Jingzhong was usually very busy, and Lin Bie asked him to assign an honest and obedient guy and ask Ge Fu to designate one. The craftsmen who can respect Zhao Zuguier assist Zhao Zuguier to supervise the construction of the bamboo hall, and ask Lin Jingzhong to pay extra attention to respect Zhao Zuguier in his words and deeds.

On the island of prison, Ge Fu built a bamboo house by himself and his son Ge Siyu began to write "Supplementary Notes to the Sutras", which was actually a much more arduous project than writing "The Book of Prison".

Ge Fu did not know much, but he was a skilled painter. He was responsible for drawing the large and small parts of the palace, buildings, bridges, and the patterns of various components accurately and accurately according to memory.

The old man Ge Fu was very knowledgeable in his life. In his later years, his memory is no weaker than that of young people. He is also a generalist craftsman who is proficient in all kinds of work. He even drew all the components of the big spinning wheel for prison island. , Some memories are not accurate, so I thought about making the components out of wood to prove it. Although it was time-consuming and labor-intensive, Lin Bie felt more and more that he had picked up a treasure.

During the chat, he learned that the old man Ge Fu still had his life experience as a master craftsman in the Ordnance Bureau of the Jiangning Ministry of Industry. Lin Bing could only temporarily suppress the urge to let the old man Ge Fu draw the pattern of the three-bow crossbow or even make the components.

Ge Siyu sorted out the regulations and regulations of the Jiangning Ministry of Industry and regulations and the various algorithms and measurement data related to the construction.

In addition to Cao Wenlong, the son of Cao Ziang, Lin Fu also selected three literate teenagers from the children of the migrant workers to serve as assistants to Ge Fu and his son in the bamboo house on the island of prison. Literacy alone is not enough for Ge Fu and his son to be assistants. Ge Fu and his son have to teach them some basic construction knowledge first, which can be regarded as four elementary school apprentices.

In the following days, Lin Fu never mentioned the massacre of the refugees. As if he had forgotten about the incident, he began to prepare for Zhao Shuhan's lecture after the initial construction of the Bamboo Hall.

The Jiyun Club has to dig a deep water channel under the Jiangya where the stack dock is located before the spring flood comes and the river rises, so that the Qianshi ship can come in and berth directly to the Jiangya. Because this section of the Jiangya is very High, the vertical drop from the river beach is nearly 11 or 20 feet. Even if the main mast of the Wanshi ship is counted, the surface is only 11 or 20 feet high. From Jiangya, you have to drive down a stone ladder to follow the moored river When the ship is docked, platforms of different heights must be opened according to the water level changes in different periods.

Ge Fu and Ge Siyu have made great changes and optimizations to the previous excavation and construction plans based on their experience, but it is very optimistic that Jiyun Club can build a berth before the rainy season, estimating the amount of work.

When he went to Chaotianyi to recruit refugees to work, although only 100 people were allowed to bring their families to settle in Moling County, Lin Bie thought carefully and chose those refugees whose brothers or fathers and sons were prime-aged people. After the massacre of refugees, the casualties and the people who were sent to the city to take care of the wounded, nearly 30 households of refugees were seriously affected. Among the remaining 70 households, there were still more than 180 middle-aged men; She is a refugee woman, forced to make a living, and there is nothing to say that she can’t make a public appearance. The actual labor force available at Jiyun Club is as many as 300 people. The remaining hundred or so old, weak and young children can also be summoned to do some easy work. The Jiyun Club is paid half a liter and a half meter for half a laborer, and the refugees naturally accept it with joy.

Lin Fu wants to continue to hide his strength. Except for Cao Zi'ang and some refugees with high prestige to be selected as foremen, the brothers Ge Cunxin and Ge Cunxiong are also mixed among the refugees as ordinary laborers; With frequent exchanges, Lin Bie prepared an additional Wu Peng boat and a paddle boat at the river beach and the prison island pier, and only then selected Ge Cunxin, Ge Cunxiong and others to serve as boatmen.

Three hundred laborers, two hundred people dug the river beach and built stone ladders, and one hundred people transported the sand, gravel and river mud to the shore and built mud walls to build houses. Working hard, the rice grains these refugees get every day are barely enough to fill their stomachs, but Jiyun Society has taken out 40 acres of land and distributed it to each household for a quarter of the land to build a house, which is needed for building a house. The sand, gravel, mud and clay of the river are naturally provided free of charge, and other materials such as bamboo, wood, grass felt, slaked lime, etc. are also provided by Jiyun Society for free. What other luxury can the displaced people who have come from thousands of miles away from hunger and cold? In such a short period of time, it was precisely after the tragedy of the refugees that they had a stronger sense of dependence on Jiyun Club.

Many migrant workers work on the riverbanks during the day, and go ashore at night, and continue to build houses for themselves or help their neighbors by the dim light of campfires and stars and moons. These people usually rest for two or three hours a day. With such a high labor intensity, three liters of rice a day is not enough for a strong man to fill his stomach. No matter how Lin Bie wanted to squeeze the laborers, he had to feed them so they could work. Besides, the loyalty of these refugees is by no means comparable to the labor force raised from Jiangning. Even if they spend money, they will also provide a certain amount of vegetables, oil and salt. On the contrary, fish and meat are the least expensive. It can supply three or four hundred catties of anchovies here.

Naturally, there is no need for Jiyun Club to pay for bamboo, wood and grass mats. There are large bamboo forests and jungles on Prison Island to be reclaimed as vegetable gardens, and the grass mats are also woven by prisoners. Even so, to build a berth before the rainy season, the refugees must be resettled as soon as possible, and the manpower is still very short. Jiyun Club still hires people from the suburbs of Jiangning at the cost of 4 liters of rice or 15 yuan plus a meal per person per day. Four hundred prime-age laborers.

Seeing the houses being built one by one, the stone steps going down one step at a time, and the deepening and widening of the waterway day by day is really exciting, but looking at the daily account book, Lin Jingzhong is really hard to get excited. The feeling of spending money like water.

"Even if you don't put in large quantities of materials every day, the money for manpower, food, and straw bags and other items that need to be replenished every day cost thirty or forty taels of silver, and thanks to the concerted help of the township party, the silver that was lost in the tragedy And almost all the pension money was borrowed from them to make it up, and that's it, nearly 3,000 taels of silver have been used here," Lin Jingzhong carried the thick account book to the Hekou Thatched Cottage to look for Lin Fu, and reported the account to him in a heartache. "With this support, we can only last for another month, and there is no hope for the money to buy a boat. Gujia's new tea will not be available until early April, and if you want to get money from there, it will have to be delayed until at least June. Uncle has discussed that he can move 3,000 taels of silver to us for emergency first, and the money that Gu's new tea gets after it goes on sale will be made up for him, and that's it, it's far from enough...

These days, Lin Fu has come to the Hekou side to take care of official business even during the day, and the prison island is also close to him. If he has something to do, he will come here in the blink of an eye. His office in Hekou is also a simple thatched shack. He calls it thatched cottage. The only thing that is more comfortable than Prison Island is that Liu Yueer is here to serve, and Zhao Shuhan also brings people over here. A visit is a joy in life. Lin Bie reached out and took the account book from Lin Jingzhong's arms and turned it over.

Liu Yue'er helped Lin Jingzhong make a cup of tea, and stood aside to look at the account books, her hair was slightly tilted to one side, her face was soft, and she whispered, "It's such a waste of money! I thought there was a prison island. I can save some money..." She went out of the city and rushed into Lin Fu's arms in front of everyone. Although she made a big misunderstanding, she didn't dare to raise her head in front of others for several days. In the end, she settled down at the mouth of the river and served Lin Fu wholeheartedly, but she always remembered her identity as a little widow who was observant. Except for occasionally looking at Lin Fu with affectionate eyes, she never allowed him to gain an inch.

Lin Bie raised her head and looked at Liu Yue'er. The girl didn't feel that living in the Hekou was hard, and she had a rough meal. Instead, she had white and tender skin, plump and plump skin, red lips and white teeth, and beautiful eyes. That day, there was a tenderness in her heart, and she couldn't help it. After holding her in his arms and giving her a struggle, there is no chance for a beautiful woman to fall into his arms again.

Lin Jingzhong didn't care about Lin Fu and Liu Yueer's frowning, he still thought about the account book in his heart, took the account book back, and said, "There is support from the prison island, which is to save money for the old nose, grass felt, logs, bamboo, fish meat every day. There is a steady stream of supplies, and I have saved hundreds of taels of silver in the past month. I keep a detailed account. However, we have delivered materials, equipment, piglets, lambs, etc. to the island these days. , at least it will cost thousands of taels of silver, and I also keep a detailed account..." Of course, Lin Jingzhong also knew that at this time, he had provided supplies to the prison island, and the return that the prison island would bring to Jiyun Club in the future would far exceed the input at this time, but He couldn't quench his thirst from afar, so he was eager to speak when he wanted to overcome the difficulties in front of him. The fact that Lin Bie set up his own business in Jiangning is beyond the control of the clan. Even without the Seventh Lady, no one wants to offend Gu Wuchen at this time. It is considered that this situation is acquiesced, but Lin Meng is strictly forbidden to help. Lin Mengde has been in Jiangning for some time now, and there are some words in the clan that can be ignored, but in the end, he can't directly invest money here.

"It seems that we still have to find a way to get money." Lin Fu stood up and stretched, "Go ahead and find Lord Cao and Lord Crow..."

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Qu Wuyang tries his best to suppress the anger and worries in his heart every day, but after a lifetime of hard work, Lin Lao has no one to inherit the family business and inherit the lineage, so how can he feel at ease? He knew in his heart that there were many people in the clan who coveted this family business. Even though Qu Wuming came to greet him every day, how could Qu Wuyang not know what this cousin was thinking? Qu Wuming has three sons, four daughters, and one grandson. After his side is cut off, what excuse is there not to pass on the family business to Qu Wuming's line? Qu Wuyang even disregarded his old face and asked his old wife to question his daughter-in-law and the concubine and maid that his only son used to play with. He also hoped that he would still be able to grow new shoots from the old tree, and he found a few good-looking women to come to the house, and he cultivated several times a day, even if the old bones were about to disperse.

Qu Wuyang just climbed down from a woman this day, his feet were half soft, and he was really unable to do what he wanted, and the woman's unsatisfied expression further aggravated his irritability. He slapped the woman and drove him out of the room. Putting on his clothes and sitting up, he heard the old butler running outside and shouting: "Master, there is news from the young master, someone just dropped the letter into the yard..."

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