The Emperor of Qin gave six handsome men
Chapter 4 Typography and Wayfinding
After making paper, Qin Xingfu, with a responsible attitude, started to work on movable type printing. Iron and bronze tools were controlled items, so he first made a plate with wood and then showed it to Fusu and Meng Tian.
"Just use it. I'll teach you. Arrange the words you want like this, then apply ink, spread the paper on it, and make a rubbing. You can make hundreds or even thousands of copies this way."
Meng Tian just thought these were trivial matters and not good at all.
"Do you have any idea to build the Great Wall?"
Qin Xingfu thought he wouldn't ask this, and then smiled.
"If you have any, then tell me, what does it look like to be so frivolous?"
Qin Xingfu moved closer to Fusu.
"General Meng, I had an idea, but I lost it when you got angry."
Meng Tian looked at the little girl, rubbed her face, and forced a smile and said.
"Miss Qin, please teach me."
Qin Xingfu looked at the expression that was uglier than crying.
"Forget it, forget it. I am a villain who does not bear grudges. But my method requires some materials. Let me ask, is there a place called Luliang nearby? If so, can I go and have a look? There is something there that can be used to bake something. With the addition of steel bars, it is thick enough that even cannons cannot penetrate it. Hehe..."
"There is such a place in Luliang. May I ask what a cannon is?"
Meng Tian was curious and Qin Xingfu waved his hand.
"Don't worry, don't worry. There's no rush. Just do it one by one. Sigh...everything I do will change the future course of Chinese history. If I suddenly disappear one day, that's normal."
"You are talking nonsense. Do you really think you are from the future? Then who can tell me why it is called China instead of Daqin? Tell me why. If you can't explain it, don't mention it again."
Meng Tian yelled at her, and Qin Xingfu shrugged helplessly. What could she say? She said that the First Emperor only had one or two years left to live, Fusu was going to die, and you, the general, were going to die too. This world would be replaced by a man named Liu Bang, and the Qin Dynasty would be replaced by the Han Dynasty.
She had no doubt that if she dared to say that, she would be killed the next moment.
"Alright, alright, stop arguing, let's send this to our father!"
Qin Xingfu waved his hand.
"Whatever you want, go ahead and have fun while I go check on what I planted."
She didn't dare to show too much of her mechanical talent for the time being, for fear of being noticed by the First Emperor. In fact, what she feared most was the sinister villains Li Si and Zhao Gao. She might as well stay hidden for now, and do more things that benefit the country and the people for Fusu, but she would also have the confidence to resist Zhao Gao, Li Si and others. If she showed them all now, she was afraid that they would all hit her, which would be terrible.
Fusu presented the papermaking and movable type printing technologies, and many people had already begun to inquire about who did it. Meng Tian and Fusu had already issued orders that no one should be allowed to reveal Qin Xingfu's affairs to anyone, and anyone who violated the order would be punished by military law.
Originally, Qin Xingfu was not supposed to be in the military camp. Meng Tian had sent her to her wife's place before, and when he entered the house to talk to his wife, he almost lost Qin Xingfu.
"How come you don't even know how to walk? Where's your brain?"
When Meng Tian found the person, he saw her looking around in a daze.
"I didn't want to disturb your world of two, so I walked out the door. When I saw the nice scenery over here, I walked straight over. I really walked straight, but why are there several more roads on the way back?"
Seeing that she was a woman and spoke very sincerely, Mrs. Meng Tian quickly comforted her.
"My dear, I think she has forgotten the way. You should take her back. I'm afraid that one day I won't be able to find her if I don't keep an eye on her."
"I have a poor sense of direction. If I go out without someone to lead me, I can't get back home."
She has a severe problem with directions. She is good at everything and learns things quickly, but she cannot tell east from west, south from north, and cannot find her way home without navigation.
"Shut up! Go back and don't run around."
Meng Tian and his wife took her back for a meal, and then brought her back. Every day she lived in a tent not far from the military camp and not far from the planting area.
At the beginning, she needed someone to lead the way every day. After she became familiar with the environment, she ran back and forth between the fields and tents every day. Fusu and Meng Tian would come to her when they had something to do.
Three months passed in a flash. During this period, Qin Xingfu made labor-saving tools such as pulleys and levers. Apart from that, she felt that Fusu was a little too kind, like a white lotus in the prosperous ages. As a woman, she couldn't stand it.
When he saw the horse giving birth, he felt that it was not easy for the mother, and his eyes were red. Qin Xingfu was there to sterilize the horse, so there would be no pain. But Fusu felt that it was against the will of nature. If a mare did not give birth to a foal, wouldn't the breed be extinct?
Qin Xingfu was speechless. During this period, she tried to change his three views. Sometimes they were talking at cross purposes. She finally understood why the First Emperor was so angry that he sent him to exile. Sometimes when he was stubborn, Qin Xingfu would beat him with force. She was strong and had learned some moves from Meng Tian, so it was relatively easy for her to beat Fusu. After the beating, she would slowly talk to him about reason.
Fusu was soft-hearted and could not bear to blame her every time. He even felt that what she said made sense and gradually he was willing to listen to her carefully.
Sometimes Meng Tian would get itchy and fight with her, but he was always defeated by her brute force.
Today Meng Tian came to hang around in front of her again.
"General Meng, why do you come to my place? Here, I'll give you this hoe. I'll take you to collect your things today. Is the young master here?"
"I don't know. I'm a general, and I hold a sword in my hand. What's the use of holding a hoe? It seems that the young master has gone over there."
"Okay! Let's go check it out together! I'll make you something delicious tonight."
Qin Xingfu carried a hoe and walked towards the base. Today he would harvest potatoes and sweet potatoes first. There were only six or seven pounds of potatoes left in the bag. He planted them in more than half an acre. He didn't know how much he could harvest.
"Sir, you ran very fast today. Come, let me see the results of my work over the past few months."
Qin Xingfu found the location and prepared to start digging.
"Wait, will this damage anything?"
Fusu quickly called her and Qin Xingfu shook her head and said.
"It's okay, sir, stay away from me, I might get hurt."
He started digging as he spoke, dug hard a few times, and then pulled it out. Qin Xingfu looked at the potato that was as big as his fist and danced with joy.
"Haha... Great, great, a nest like this weighs about ten kilograms. Just dig it out like this."
Fusu and Meng Tian were jealous and wanted to take action. They didn't expect that such a small piece of land would grow so many clods of earth. First they wanted to see if they could be eaten. If so, how many people in the world could be fed with such a high yield!
Soon, the potatoes were harvested, and Meng Tian asked people to weigh them. Qin Xingfu roughly estimated that there were about two thousand kilograms. However, Fusu Meng Tian on the side was going crazy. This little more than half an acre of food weighed nearly five thousand kilograms!
"General, how much is this? Did I calculate it correctly?"
Meng Tian looked at the numbers and swallowed.
"Four thousand six hundred kilograms! Sir, we have calculated it many times."
Qin Xingfu led people to harvest sweet potatoes. There were only a few pounds in the sweet potato bag. She grew vines first and then used the vines for planting.
The planting area is two and a half acres. Looking at the huge pile, almost ten thousand kilograms, Qin Xingfu smiled happily.
"Sir, General, these potatoes are about 1,000 to 2,000 kilograms, how can there be 4,000 to 5,000 kilograms?"
Then she thought that the two people might have different weight units. Qin Xingfu thought about it and it seemed that one catty for Qin = 250g, while one catty for her = 500g, she said with a smile.
"You guys keep going! There's still a lot of them over there. I'll take some to make something to eat."
While they were stunned, Qin Xingfu put some potatoes and sweet potatoes in his clothes and took them to the kitchen. He fried the potatoes and made shredded potatoes with green peppers. Seeing that there were pheasants, he made potato and chicken nuggets. He boiled the sweet potatoes directly in water and made porridge.
These past few months have been difficult for her, a person with average cooking skills, to learn how to cook. The food she made was barely edible, and she was really not used to the food cooked by others. The lard was made from wild boar meat they used for hunting.
Fusu and Meng Tian had just returned and could smell the fragrance from far away.
"You guys are really good at keeping track of time, wash your hands and come eat!"
Qin Xingfu served three bowls of porridge, then knelt down. After Fusu and Meng Tian arrived, they started eating right away.
"This is fried potatoes, this is pheasant stewed potatoes, this is green pepper potato shreds, this is sweet potato, a huge pile of them, you can fry them or boil them, I'm too lazy to cook so I just boiled them. Peel them and eat them, and when they are planted all over the country, you can feed them to pigs and make wine."
Meng Tian was eating when he was talking about feeding the pigs, but suddenly he felt a little disgusted. Fusu first watched how Qin Xingfu ate.
"This is sweet, this is spicy, if you don't like it, don't eat it."
Qin Xingfu pointed at the green pepper and potato shreds and started to eat. Hmm, the taste of home, I want to cry⊙﹏⊙
Qin Xingfu wiped her tears while eating. Can she go back? She missed home, but she couldn't even remember the direction she came from. How could she go home?
Fusu Mengtian was stunned. Why was this person crying? Qin Xingfu saw them looking at him and smiled.
"It's okay, it's okay. I just suddenly missed home. You guys eat. I'm full."
Qin Xingfu was eating sweet potatoes while walking, looking at the moon in the sky, wondering how Yanyan and the teacher were doing.
In modern times, since Qin Xingfu disappeared, the teachers and senior sisters and brothers mobilized people to search for ten days, and they were just short of digging the grave, but they still couldn't find the person.
Hao Yan felt extremely guilty and blamed herself every day. She knew that she was a directionally challenged person, so why didn't she think of following her? She called Qin Xingfu every day, hoping to get some news.
"Do you miss home? Tell me what your home is like?"
After eating, Fusu saw her staring at the moon in a daze, and Qin Xingfu looked at him.
"My home, I have two homes. Before I was ten years old, I lived with my grandparents in the old house. The old house was a two-story building. There was a large mountain behind the house that belonged to us. We planted some fruit trees, vegetables, etc.
When I was a child, my grandparents taught me to read and write. I learned quickly, but I didn’t find it interesting and didn’t like what they were studying. I liked to play with toys. I dismantled all the electrical appliances in the house and then restored them. Our neighbors asked me to help them fix things. I also designed some tools myself to help my grandparents. Later, my grandparents passed away, and I lived with my parents. They only had time to spend with me every weekend. Later, they had even less time. I went to college and was admitted to graduate school, so the family had even less time to spend together. Later, they fell ill. Counting the days they have been here, they have been dead for seven months and three days. ”
Fusu didn't expect that she had a miserable life and had no relatives left. Although he didn't understand some of the things she said, he still comforted her.
"Condolences!"
"It's okay! I'm still alive and well. Although I don't know why I came here, I will live well. My parents want me to be happy the most. Fusu, no one in this world can decide your life or death, not even your biological parents. Living well is the best thing. Promise me that no matter what happens, you will live well."
Fusu just thought that she was speaking from her heart and nodded in agreement.
"It's getting late, let's go to bed early! We can take out some of those things for everyone to try. It's June or July now. If the snow comes after October, we can hurry up and plant again. Planting depends on the weather. We will harvest other crops in a few days."
"Well, okay, I ate it today and it was delicious. I want to send it to my father as well. Can you write down the cooking method as well?"
"No problem. Can you have someone take me to find the way around tomorrow? I really want to go home. I shouldn't be here. The things I brought here will only be available hundreds or even one or two thousand years later."
Fusu pondered. He didn't want to let her go. She was really useful to Daqin. But he had promised before. After thinking about it, he heard General Meng say that this person seemed to have road blindness and would not remember the way here, so he nodded in agreement.
"Okay, I'll send someone to help you find the way tomorrow. If you can't find it, you can stay here later!"
Qin Xingfu sighed. Although it was unlikely, she still wanted to give it a try. That night she walked north all the way, and now she would walk south from the door to try.
"it is good!"
The next morning, Qin Xingfu wrote the cooking instructions and gave them to Fusu, then carried his bag and headed south with his men.
"Hey, something's wrong. Isn't there a big forest to the south? How can it be a road?"
Qin Xingfu turned his phone around and around, and when he felt that he was not mistaken, he continued walking.
"Miss, this is the road to Xianyang. We can't go any further."
When the accompanying soldier spoke, Qin Xingfu's face instantly fell, not happy at all, so she squatted on the ground and resisted silently, she wanted to go home!
"Miss Qin, go back! The young master and the general are both good people. You have made so many achievements, and you will definitely be promoted and make a fortune in the future."
A captain tried to comfort her, but he was afraid that she would run away. Although the young master agreed to let her out, the general said privately that she must not be allowed to leave!
Qin Xingfu looked up at the sky, picked up a stick and said.
"Hey... walk back slowly!"
When the group heard what she said, they quickly turned around.
Qin Xingfu followed him dejectedly, but when he took a look at the weeds on the roadside, his eyes lit up.
"Oh! Gynostemma pentaphyllum, come and dig this up. Just pull it like this. Gynostemma pentaphyllum is cold in nature and bitter in taste. It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, relieving cough, clearing the lungs and removing phlegm, nourishing the heart and calming the mind, and replenishing qi and producing essence. It can be used to lower blood pressure, lower blood lipids, protect the liver, promote sleep, and treat gastroenteritis, tracheitis, and pharyngitis."
The captain had no choice but to listen to her and dig herbs together. Qin Xingfu saw several more herbs, including bupleurum, forsythia, polygonatum, astragalus, soapberry, etc.
"Miss Qin, it's getting late, let's go back!"
If I don't go back now, I'm afraid I'll have to sleep in the wilderness tonight.
Qin Xingfu felt embarrassed to see that everyone was covered in dust, so he had no choice but to follow them back and threw all the herbs to the military doctor.
Fusu selected 100 kilograms of sweet potatoes and potatoes and sent them to Xianyang early in the morning, as well as 10 kilograms of side dishes such as chili peppers.
Seeing that eating too many sweet potatoes would cause people to fart, Fusu suddenly didn't want to send them as gifts anymore. After some hesitation, he decided to send them all together and wrote a letter to tell his father to eat less.
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