I traveled through time and space and found a mute boy: That’s enough, I feel sorry for him

"Master, you don't know yet?" The waiter excitedly introduced the cause, process and result.

"Three days ago, a strange disease suddenly broke out in Yichun Building in our town."

"I heard that the patient's body will be covered with red spots at first, and after about an hour, the red spots will turn green, the skin will gradually harden, and the patient's movements will become slow, like a walking corpse."

"The county magistrate personally went to check on the situation and sealed the building that night. People inside couldn't get out, and people outside couldn't get in."

"Everyone in the town thought that Yichunlou would be doomed after this incident."

"Unexpectedly, Doctor Qi from Huimin Hall was able to bring the patient back to health. He found the prescription in just three days. Although the prescription is a bit expensive, Yichun Tower is a wealthy place, so it is not impossible to save the patient even if the patient is bankrupt."

"But I didn't expect that right after the illness was cured, the county magistrate led people with swords and entered the building to capture that old woman Wang."

"Master, do you know this old woman Wang? She cheated and deceived countless innocent girls and boys. She is not satisfied with this and even opened a gambling house to cheat the money of those who want to redeem their children."

Xu Shu was puzzled: "Since they wanted to redeem the boys and girls, why did they get cheated out of their money?"

The waiter laughed, "Oh, who doesn't have a dog-skin plaster in their family? If there is nothing wrong at home, how could they let their daughter and son go to such a place to entertain guests?"

Xu Shu nodded thoughtfully, and then heard the waiter sigh: "But fortunately, the county magistrate was wise and directly arrested that old woman Wang and put her in jail. She will be tried soon. I heard from people who were present that when that old woman Wang was arrested, she was crazy and seemed to have gone crazy."

"Evildoers will be punished." Xu Shu nodded and asked, "Now that Mrs. Wang has been arrested, what will happen to Yichun Tower?"

"Originally, since Granny Wang has been arrested, Yichun Tower should be closed down, and the people inside should be driven out. Those who have homes will go home, and those who don't...tsk tsk tsk, are just waiting to die."

Xu Shu interrupted him: "But I heard that before Wang Po was found out, a nobleman asked the county magistrate to buy Yichun Tower, along with all of Wang Po's assets."

"Well, I've heard a little about this, but all of Mrs. Wang's money has gone into the pocket of the miracle doctor. How much money is left for that nobleman?" The waiter wrapped up the thirty taels of silver notes and several dozen taels of change in a box for Xu Shu.

"But I heard that the nobleman didn't pay much, maybe only... one hundred taels? One hundred taels for a building is a good deal. Sir, keep your money."

Xu Shu took the silver with a smile, and pointed to the shoes on the counter that had been wrapped in a brocade box: "When you send it over, please tell them something for me."

After thinking for a while, he shook his head again: "Just tell him to eat well and get some rest."

The waiter was totally confused. It was obvious that Huimin Hall was not far away, so why didn't Mr. Xu go to sleep by himself?

However, the waiter didn't want to ask too much about the guest's affairs, so he just agreed with a smile.

After leaving the cloth shop, Xu Shu went to Wu Yong's restaurant to have morning tea, and then slowly returned to Shiqiao Village.

He first went home and put the money that Xiao Ran and Yichunlou had given him, part of it in the main house and the rest in his backpack.

Then I went to the back mountain to see how the house was built.

According to Jiang Xiao, at least one pottery kiln had been built, but when Xu Shu arrived, Jiang Xiao was not there, and it was Jiang Da who was in charge.

Seeing Xu Shu, Jiang Da hurriedly came over with a smile and explained to Xu Shu: "Jiang Xiao is going to his mother-in-law's house to see his brother today. He won't be here until the afternoon. I'll help him keep an eye on him here."

Xu Shu nodded and didn't ask any more questions about this. Instead, he asked about the location of the pottery kiln and followed Jiang Da to take a look.

The pottery kiln is located in a relatively remote area, surrounded by a three-meter-high wall. There is a lot of space inside, which is reserved for opening more pottery kilns in the future, but now there is only one large kiln in the innermost corner.

Xu Shu couldn't figure out the trick, so he could only simply test whether it was strong or not. He punched it twice, and it was definitely stronger than the wall of Qi Huairen's house.

He looked at Jiang Da and said, "Let's build a small house here, too. It doesn't have to be too big. One main room and one wing room. Make it comfortable so that you have a place to stay if you need to keep watch at night. Don't worry about the money. I'll give you another twenty taels. Just let Jiang Xiao keep the accounts."

Jiang Da agreed one by one.

"The wall around the main house can be put aside for now. The key is to finish the house first. Do you know any good furniture makers? Can the guy who made bamboo furniture last time make wooden furniture?"

"Sure." Jiang Da recalled and said with a smile, "Have you finished your work with Brother Xu? I heard that Yichun Tower..."

"Yes." Xu Shu explained briefly, "Little Mu Jin is with Qi Huairen recently. Let him learn something from Qi Huairen, so he won't be bullied easily in the future."

"Qi Huairen?" Jiang Da was shocked. "Is that the miracle doctor? This Mu brother is going to be very successful in the future."

Xu Shu smiled and said, "Introduce the furniture maker to me and I'll go find him later. Also, do you still have the construction drawings? I want to build a stable behind the yard and raise a few horses."

"Please wait, I'll get it right away." Jiang Dalian hurried to get the blueprints. As he ran, he thought, it's only been three days since we last met, how come Brother Xu has become so generous again?

Xu Shu confirmed the layout of the house with Jiang Da again. In addition to the small courtyard and stable mentioned earlier, he also wanted to improve the well and replace it with the manual pump that was commonly used in the village before.

He suddenly remembered this when he was fetching water while living at Qi Huairen's place.

Water from this well needs to be drawn with a wooden bucket. Although the ancients could use the principle of leverage to save effort, it was still too strenuous for Mu Jinghua.

Seeing Qu Xiu working hard for a long time that day and only able to fetch three buckets of water, Xu Shu remembered the kind of water pump used in the countryside in his hometown.

It is labor-saving and convenient. Just add a little water into your mouth and you can pump out water from ten meters underground.

The most coincidental thing is that their research institute has changed its base several times, and once it chose a base in the countryside. It was difficult to get water at that time, so the institute stockpiled a lot of these water pumps.

Later, when I moved to a new place and no longer needed them, I gave them to him as year-end bonuses. Xu Shu happened to have two of them in his backpack.

Xu Shu thought of using one for himself and disassembling the other to study the principle. If the technological level of this world is up to standard, he could try to produce a few more to improve everyone's living environment.

He recalled how to dig the water tank, explained some precautions to Jiang Da, and then went to find the village chief.