After being raised in the Wuda tribe for a year, Zhao San's body completely recovered and he was nearly forty years old.
His marriage to Lady Yun was also facilitated by Shitou.
He had seen too much life and death as a slave in Xuyang Grassland, and he was no longer young and ignorant. He still felt that the dead were gone and the living were the most important.
His biological father has been dead for six years. As long as his mother has a stable life, he can work hard and avenge his biological father when he has the opportunity in the future.
Since Madam Yun and the other three had already made their decision, Song Liyun naturally didn't say anything. She gave them some silk money as a congratulatory gift.
Facing Song Liyun's blessing, Zhao San knelt down and said: "Young madam, you saved Yun Niang, and you also saved me and Shitou. You are the lifesaver of our family of three. Yun Niang and I have discussed it, and you will be ours from now on.
Master."
As he said that, he took out a piece of paper from his arms and handed it over: "I asked Miss Wan to help me write a deed with my fingerprint monogram on it."
Song Liyun looked at Mrs. Yun and Shitou. The mother and son obviously didn't know about this and were a little surprised.
Although Yunniang and Shitou have an extraordinary relationship with Song Liyun, they are not slaves. Now that Zhao San has married Yunniang, he is willing to give her a physical bond.
Before Lady Yun got married, Song Liyun had accepted this, but now she was in a dilemma. She couldn't let Lady Yun's husband be her servant.
Only slightly shocked, Lady Yun knelt down with tears in her eyes: "Young madam, I and Zhao San are both homeless. By following you, we will have a backbone!"
Zhao San had asked her before if she was the young lady's slave.
At that time, she said that the girl did not want the body bond between her mother and her son, and also told some things that had happened in Broken Gold Town.
Zhao San fell into deep thought when he heard that Lady Yun reported to Baolinju on a snowy night and was taken in by the young lady.
If he wanted to have a certain status in Song Liyun's heart in the future, he would have to find another way instead of relying on Lady Yun's kindness.
Selling yourself as a slave was the most common practice in the Wu Dynasty.
So Zhao San wrote a personal contract.
Shitou did not kneel, but whispered: "Young madam, my adoptive father is willing to follow me, so you can accept it!"
He and Zhao San had a life-saving friendship before, and now they were both on Song Liyun's staff. It would be a good thing if Zhao San could be taken seriously.
Seeing that the three of them were sincere, Song Liyun accepted the body deed that had not been sealed by the government.
Lady Yun followed him as his personal nanny, while Shitou and Zhao San went in and out freely to pass on news.
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Along with Abu Wan Youyou, in addition to Shitou's family of three, there were also the craftsmen and the maid who served Wan Youyou.
Aunt Xu originally wanted to come, but Mrs. Wu Ya said: These carpets are to be presented to the Queen Mother, so Aunt Xu needs to put more effort into keeping them.
Kara Mountain now has two wind-driven spinning locomotives. Not only can all the wool of this tribe be spun and woven into carpets, but the wool of other surrounding tribes is also in short supply.
Seeing that it was the sheep shearing season in summer, the tribe was about to get busy. Aunt Xu was in charge of the carpets, so she couldn't leave even if she wanted to.
The arrival of the master craftsmen set off another labor wave in Mida City, and all the caravan guards who stayed in the city started their second careers.
The wood has been prepared long ago.
A month ago, Song Liyun had people transport trees and stones from distant mountains to build a platform by the river.
Now the craftsmen have rich experience in erecting windmills, and the second windmill has been modified to be more suitable for the wind conditions on the grassland.
Originally, Song Liyun thought that the Mida River would freeze in winter, making it impossible to use the waterwheel. Unexpectedly, Wan Youyou and the craftsmen only thought about it for a few days and came up with a plan to erect the windmill on the river.
In this way, instead of relying on water impact, the four-season wind will be used as power.
The rotating shaft drives the drum car and the overturning car to lift the river water ashore, and then flows into the city through ditches hidden underground.
Not only could hundreds of acres of land be irrigated, it could also provide water freedom in the city. Song Liyun was so happy that he rewarded the craftsmen well.
Wan Youyou, who has made the greatest contribution, does not want gold and silver, but only one request.
That is to be Song Liyun's student.
During the more than half a year she stayed in Kala Mountain, apart from teaching the tribal children to learn culture, she spent the rest of the time studying the book "One Hundred Thousand Whys", pondering over machinery every day, and she looked like an old scholar.
After working on the windmill, she saw Song Liyun teaching the children Chinese simple strokes, Arabic numerals and arithmetic, and she was immediately amazed.
She insisted on studying with Yiming and the others, and asked Song Liyun to be her tutor and teach her some physics and chemistry knowledge that she didn't understand.
Wan Youyou never thought that she would encounter something incomprehensible in this barbaric land after reading all the unique classics in the capital city where literary style flourished.
The City Lord's Mansion now has a group of children, plus Wan Youyou's maid and wife, and the previously empty and eerily quiet mansion suddenly became popular.
Every time Zhao Tingduo returns home, he can see maids and servants coming and going, as if he were in the city of the Wu Dynasty.
Especially in the main courtyard, you can always see a little girl who is only a few years old following Song Liyun.
Seeing the man of the house enter the house, Xiao Ye'er, who was sitting at the Kang table, drawing patterns for Lady Yun, quickly put down her pen and timidly saluted.
These children all have to learn the same skill. Brother Yiming is good at arithmetic, but Xiao Yeer is talented in painting. After learning from Wan Youyou for a few days, he was hired to do embroidery work for Yun Niang.
Song Liyun asked Xiao Ye'er to take a pen and paper to find Wan Youyou in the side yard, while he stepped forward to pour Zhao Tingduo a cup of tea.
Zhao Tingduo raised his hand to stop him: "Ayun, Mr. Yu and the others are back and are in the front yard. Can you go over and see them?"
Seeing that he was so excited that he even came to the main courtyard to look for her in person, Song Liyun knew that Mr. Yu and the others must have found something.
Since arriving in Mida City in March, more than a dozen Yu Lao and Wu Dan have been wandering around the grasslands in search of ores.
So far, there has been no reply. If a tribe had not seen them before, Mida City would not even know whether they were dead or alive.
Now it’s finally back!
In the front yard, Mr. Yu was sitting in Zhao Tingduo's outer study, packing his bags. In front of him was a pile of colorful stones.
Wu Dan squatted beside the charcoal stove, happily drinking milk tea.
When he was walking outside, he rarely had the chance to drink milk tea, but it made him so greedy that he felt flustered.
A few months after leaving, Mr. Yu, who was originally somewhat elegant and elegant, became dark and thin, but his eyes became sharper and more energetic.
As soon as he saw Zhao Tingduo and Song Liyun entering the study, he stood up and pointed at the ores and said: "Third Young Master, Madam Yu has fulfilled her mission and found the mine."
Zhao Tingduo rolled up his sleeves, picked up one of the brown stones with black spots and said, "What is this?"
Yu Lao said: "This is a flint! If it is ignited by fire, it can last day and night!"
The name of flint is a word used in the Wu Dynasty.
There are several mines that can be found in the Wu Dynasty, which are not easy to burn or extinguish.
It can be used for heating and cooking, but it has a pungent smell when burned, which is unacceptable to ordinary people. It can only be used to calcine iron and stone.
Discovering this stone in Dilu Grassland was also accidental.
While camping in a mountain forest, I found that the stone that originally supported the bottom of the pot had been burned red, and it was dark red and hot all night, and the smell was not strong.
Mr. Yu simply stayed there for a few days, specially picking up gravels of the same color and burning them together.
Song Liyun said in surprise: "Coal, is that place a coal mine?"
She took the stone from Zhao Tingduo's hand and looked through it carefully.
The surface is a fist-sized stone mixed with black coal. The sand and soil can be peeled off, revealing dark and shiny high-quality coal.
"Mr. Yu, where was this thing found? Is it abundant?"