She opened the system panel and found the multifunctional jacquard textile machine structure diagram in the tool category, and smiled.

110 prosperity points, which was just enough for her now.

She clicked on the panel and the existing prosperity points were directly deducted, leaving only 7 points.

Shen Zheng felt a little melancholy when looking at the remaining prosperity points. It was like going back to the time before liberation overnight.

But what can she do? She has to work hard to develop and earn points!

Then she opened the drawing in her hand and examined it carefully.

This set of drawings consists of eight drawings in total, including a full picture of the textile machine, parts and components, silk thread, and disk drawings, etc. Each drawing is extremely detailed and breathtaking.

Shen Zheng could only understand half of it, so she didn't want to bother herself with it any more. It would be better to leave professional matters to professionals.

She folded the drawings carefully and put them in the box.

The sooner the better. Tomorrow she will ask Xu Zhubu to go to Liuyang Mansion to find the craftsman.

……

The next day, after everyone had breakfast, Shen Zheng directly called Xu Zhubu.

"Let's go to Liuyang Mansion to find the craftsman today."

Xu Zhubu pondered for a moment and said, "The county is seventy miles away from Liuyang Prefecture. We can't walk there. Let me go to the carriage shop and rent a carriage first."

Shen Zheng slapped her head. She had been in Tongan County for so long but had never traveled far away, and she couldn't think of this matter for a moment.

She asked, "How much money does it cost to rent a carriage?"

Xu Zhubu had never rented a carriage before, so he could only give her an approximate price: "About one or two taels of silver."

"One or two?!"

Shen Zheng screamed in surprise, she thought it would be just a few hundred coins at most, how could it be so expensive!

Xu Zhubu nodded and said helplessly: "There are not many carriages and horses in our county. Each one is a treasure of the carriage and horse shop. Of course, the scarcity makes it valuable."

Shen Zheng was somewhat reluctant to rent one anymore. It was too expensive. If she rented it often in the future, the rental money would be enough to buy a carriage.

Buy one?

She moved.

"So if we buy the carriage from the carriage company, how much silver will it cost?" Shen Zheng asked.

She really wanted to buy a horse-drawn carriage for their county government, so that when there was something going on in the county in the future, the detectives could just unlock the carriage and use it.

Besides, she has never ridden a horse before. It would be great if she could experience it in the future.

Xu Zhubu didn't expect that she, who was so stingy in her daily life, would take the initiative to offer to buy a carriage.

He replied, "It should be no more than a hundred taels. If you want to buy it, I will go back to the book office to get some silver notes. We will go to the carriage shop to see if there is a suitable carriage."

Seeing that Xu Zhubu had no objection, Shen Zheng immediately became excited. There should still be several thousand taels of silver in the county government's account, which could be considered a small asset.

She urged, "Go quickly! I'll be waiting for you at the gate of the county government office!"

......

As soon as the two of them stood at the door of the carriage and horse inn, they were seen by the servant.

The servant threw away the hay in his hand and ran over. The horse he was feeding was not full yet. Seeing that the servant had only fed half of it and left, the horse was so angry that it kept barking in the stable.

"Mr. County Magistrate! Mr. Chief Clerk! Come in!"

As soon as Shen Zheng entered the carriage and horse shop, she smelled a unique scent of this place.

The body odor of horses and donkeys, mixed with the faint fragrance of grass, was not pleasant, but it was a world she had never been exposed to before.

The neglected horse snorted at Shen Zheng and the others, expressing its dissatisfaction.

Shen Zheng looked at it and smiled. The little thing was quite smart.

The waiter asked the two men why they came, and when he learned that they came to buy a carriage, he jumped up with excitement.

"Please wait a moment, my lords. I cannot make the decision on this matter. I will go get the boss!"

After he said that, he ran out of the door, leaving Shen Zheng and the other person alone with the horse.

Shen Zheng looked at the horses in the stable and said with a smile, "This guy really isn't afraid that we will just take the horses away."

Xu Zhubu squatted on the ground, picked up the hay that had just been thrown away by the waiter, and put it in the trough.

He bowed his head and said, "Your Excellency, do you know how people in our county call you now?"

Shen Zheng was stunned. Did everyone give her some nickname?

"I don't know, maybe it's some female Yaksha or something like that."

She thought that when Liu Buckya was tried in court, the punishment would be severe. If she left the impression of being a vicious monster on everyone, she would have no way to defend herself.

Xu Zhubu chuckled softly in his throat. Sometimes he really wanted to know what was in the mind of the person in front of him.

Sometimes smart, sometimes dull.

He said, "Your Excellency, you really don't care about these things. Now our county people all respect you as a goddess. Can a goddess steal the things of believers?"

After hearing this, Shen Zheng's hair stood up in embarrassment: "What immortal or not, stop making fun of me."

She just relied on the power of the outside world to do what a parent official should do. How could she deserve this title?

Just as Xu Zhubu was about to speak, he was interrupted by the owner of the carriage and horse company who came rushing over.

"Oh, Mr. County Magistrate! Mr. Chief Clerk! Your presence really brings honor to our little shop!"

He was drinking tea in Man Niang's teahouse when the waiter came to him and said that the county magistrate had come to the carriage and horse company.

He was startled and immediately stood up and rushed to the carriage shop. Halfway there he remembered that he had not paid for the tea. Thinking of Man Niang's hot-tempered temper, he had to touch a few coins and give them to the waiter, and then he ran over without stopping.

He was still breathing heavily when he arrived, and hurriedly asked Shen Zheng and the other person to sit on the chairs in the yard.

"I was just talking to a friend in the teahouse in the west. I neglected you two, and I hope you can forgive me."

Shen Zheng looked at him with sweat all over his forehead and said to comfort him: "Nothing, what's your boss' name?"

The owner of the carriage shop raised his sleeve to wipe the sweat from his forehead and answered respectfully:

"My last name is Jia. Do you two need horses today? We have two nice horses in our store. You two can just ride them."

Shen Zheng didn't expect him to be so generous, but she still declined his kindness and told him her purpose.

"Don't be afraid of being laughed at by Boss Jia. I don't know how to ride a horse. We came here today to buy a carriage."

Boss Jia thought he had misheard and repeated: "Buy a carriage?"

He had never sold a single horse in his carriage business since it opened. When wealthy families in the county were in urgent need of something, they would simply rent horses or carriages.

Shen Zheng nodded: "Boss Jia heard it right, you want to buy a carriage, how much is it worth?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Boss Jia's expression instantly became excited, but at the same time he was also troubled.

He thought they were here to rent horses, so of course he would not charge any money. It was an honor for his carriage and horse agency to lend the horses to the county magistrate for his business.

But now they came to buy a carriage, so he didn't dare to give it to them directly. He would have to go to his grandmother's house.

But this price...

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