frightfiction Chapter 417: Fate with Buddha
Chapter 417: Fate with Buddha
Shen Youyou also listened to these honest words in silence.
Fu Huaian and A Chi had mixed feelings. This group of honest and down-to-earth people could barely afford a few dishes for each meal, yet they were already thinking about others.
As she ate, she really wanted to say, "General Fu, please include these in your memorials, so that the nobles in your court who eat more than a dozen dishes in one meal will not always be obsessed with the little things in our hands."
She even thought that even if she handed over the shoe soles in the future, she would teach them to civilian workshops for free, and she would have to teach more.
Let them produce more so that it will no longer be a luxury for ordinary people to wear shoes.
Shen Zhiqiu noticed that the atmosphere was a bit low, and he habitually began to cheer up the atmosphere. There was no other way. As the leader, he was the soul of the entire team and had to cheer everyone up from time to time.
He said, "Eat quickly, General Fu, try this pumpkin steamed duck. The duck meat is sweet, fragrant and tender. Ah Chi, you should eat more too."
Fu Huaian nodded, and Ah Chi stood up and answered, "I ate it, Brother Shen. Your cooking skills are unparalleled. No wonder the owner of Guangyuanlou is willing to let you invest. It's very wise."
Fu Huaian and A Chi ate a lot during this meal. Although the ingredients were very homely, they tasted really good.
In the iron room in the afternoon.
Fu Huaian and A Chi's behavior made Shen Youyou look sideways.
After dinner at first, the two of them took a group of little kids to ride horses for a while, and then Shen Youyou went directly to the hairpin workshop with her sisters.
When she felt that the time was about right and her brothers should have gone to school, she came out and prepared to take them to the blacksmith room.
When I asked, I found out that the two of them had already gone to find a blacksmith's shop on their own.
As soon as she entered the room, she saw Fu Huaian, with his upper body shirt undone and tied around his waist, bare-chested, working on the iron.
She was not embarrassed at all. She had seen many shirtless men. Not to mention modern times, even in ancient times, many uncles and brothers worked with their shirts bare.
When other sisters saw it, they would blush and run away, but Shen Youyou adapted well, as if she didn't see it.
But she didn't expect that Fu Huaian could help with the ironwork by himself, and he looked very skilled at it. This was what surprised her.
Fu Huaian was shocked. He raised his arms in the air and forgot what to do for a long time. He just stared blankly at Shen Youyou who came in.
But Shen Youyou didn't look at him much, but turned and went straight to Shen Tietou who was also working on the iron: "Uncle Tietou, what's wrong?"
Shen Tietou was also shirtless. The flames in the iron furnace were roaring. It was so hot that even without clothes on he would sweat all over.
"Yo Yo, you came just in time. Is the hole in this bucket big enough?"
Shen Youyou leaned over and looked down: "Almost, this is fine, the upper and lower holes should be staggered a little."
A Chi is helping to make the mold with sand, and will make steel to make gears later.
He looked at the young master's stiff hands, and hurriedly took the waistcoat that was already hanging and put it on the young master, and even chose one that looked like it had just been washed and had not been worn much.
She was wailing in her heart, "Shen Zhiqiu, you really treat your daughter like a son. Why don't you do anything when your daughter goes to a blacksmith's room full of shirtless men? Although your daughter hasn't reached the age of marriage yet, she's not young anymore at eleven or twelve years old!"
Shen Youyou checked the progress of other parts, turned around, and saw Fu Huaian wearing a coarse cloth waistcoat, and burst out laughing.
That image is even worse than being shirtless, like a man herding sheep in the mountains, the only difference is that he has a cloth hat on his head.
Fu Huaian was so amused by her smile that his iron-forging movements became unnatural.
"Ahem." Ah Chi coughed dryly a few times: "Miss Shen, you are a girl, it's not good to go in here."
Shen Youyou is not a child who really knows nothing. Of course, she knows what Ah Chi means: "You think too much. We are farm kids. There are many elders in our family who work shirtless. Besides, I am still a child. What can I understand?"
I was so choked up by Ah Chi that I didn't know what to say. I complained in my heart: "If you didn't say the second half of the sentence, I would have believed it."
Seeing Ah Chi was speechless, Shen Youyou said maliciously, "As the Buddha said, beauty is like withered bones. In my eyes, no matter whether it is a man or a woman, no matter how beautiful the skin is, there is only a skeleton underneath."
Ah Chi was impressed by Shen Youyou's courage. In the end, he could only mutter in a low voice: "If you are like this, who will dare to marry you when you grow up?"
As luck would have it, Shen Youyou actually heard it. She smiled and moved closer to A Chi: "Brother A Chi is right. I, Shen Youyou, have no plans to get married."
He controlled his voice very well so that his uncles and brothers wouldn't hear it. I guess only A Chi could hear it.
Ah Chi was stunned: "You are a heretic!"
"Brother Achi, you are General Fu's servant, so be more open-minded. Who told you that a woman who doesn't marry is a heretic? I believe that no matter whether you are a man or a woman, you can choose your own way of life.
If a woman doesn’t get married, she can’t do anything else. Besides, from ancient times to the present, those predecessors who are as brave as men are no worse than men even if they are women.”
Ah Chi admitted this. Their old lady, Her Royal Highness the Princess, was better at leading troops in battle than many men.
But he didn't completely agree: "Didn't she get married later?"
"Those are people who share the same feelings with each other. Look at the female masters in the nunnery. They have seen through the mundane world and are more relaxed and at ease."
"That person has seen through the world, and you have also seen through the world at such a young age?"
"Yes, I have seen through the mundane world. If you don't believe me, go find a master to take a look at me. He will definitely say that I have a connection with Buddha."
The two of them got together and whispered to each other, and every word fell into Fu Huaian's ears. It's true, he felt relieved after being bullied by these two funny guys.
In his opinion, Shen Youyou is just a child at her age who knows nothing but pretends to know everything.
But little did he know that Shen Youyou really understood and really thought so.
She really didn't think anything was wrong. After all, she often came into the ironworks. Didn't she see that the uncles and brothers treated her as air? These two were the only ones making a fuss.
But soon, Ah Chi had no time to bicker with Shen Youyou, because Fu Huaian had to train steel to make the pivot.
No one else can do it, so Achi has to help.
Fu Huaian selected the high-quality iron ore and threw it into a pottery jar without hesitation, melting it with a raging fire.
As the fire grew more intense, the iron ore was gradually melted into hot liquid metal.
Fu Huaian felt that it was almost time, so he skillfully picked up a long crucible and asked Shen Youyou to stay away.
Then he carefully scooped up the boiling molten iron and poured it steadily into the ingot mold that had been prepared long ago.
The next step is to clamp the mold with pliers and quickly immerse it in ice-cold water to quench it.
With a "hiss" sound, water vapor rose up, accompanied by a pungent smell that spread.
This is not the end, because at this point it can only be considered as iron ingots.
The so-called "steel is made by repeated tempering" means that the iron ingot has to be hammered over and over again to remove impurities and turn it into fine iron. The process is very slow and has to be repeated many times.
After the impurities are finally knocked out, it has to be melted again. When there is no impurity at all, some suitable mineral ingredients are added before the steel mold can be cast.