The Demon Queen of Divine Doctor is not to be trifled with

Chapter 367 Master and Grandmaster

Ye Wenyan stayed in Qiqiao Pavilion until evening before leaving. He went there again the next day and stayed until evening again.

After five days, a mechanical clock that looked very simple to Ye Wenyan appeared in the Qiqiao Pavilion.

Of course, you can’t make a watch in five days, especially when you have nothing and everything starts from scratch.

But Ye Wenyan provided them with gears and some necessary parts. These parts were not conjured up by magic, but were made in the refining room of the underground palace of Yanhua Mountain with the help of Master Liyuan.

In response to this, she told Qiqiao Pavilion: "It had already been made before, and was kept for use in Qiqiao Pavilion."

At the same time, she also drew blueprints of how to make these gears and parts, and carefully taught them to the people in Qiqiao Pavilion.

As for the body of the clock, a carpenter was hired to build it according to the drawings.

The new clock no longer uses the twelve-hour system, but adopts the method of later times, splitting the twelve hours into twenty-four hours, and explaining the significance of these twenty-four hours and how to compare them with the twelve hours.

The clock has a pendulum, and every hour it makes a clear, pleasant sound that is neither too loud nor too soft.

In order to take both practicality and ornamental value into consideration, Ye Wenyan also made two little birds on the clock face. When the clock strikes the hour, the two little birds will stretch out from the clock face, flap their wings, and peck at each other.

Everyone in Qiqiao Pavilion was stunned. They even spent two days and two nights comparing the new clock with the sundial and the dripping pot.

When they discovered that the time was exactly the same, and even more precise than the other two, everyone fell at Ye Wenyan's feet and shouted, "Ancestor!" At this moment, they had completely forgotten that Ye Wenyan had originally promised to teach them how to purify gold, as well as the advanced polishing and forging techniques of later generations.

Zhuier was very excited about this, but Ye Wenyan was not willing to accept the title of "ancestor". She told people: "I am not the ancestor, I just happen to be proficient in the manufacturing method of this thing. The reason why I teach it to you is very clear. I just want two skilled craftsmen from the Ying family to help me, and I have chosen your uncle Ying Nantian."

Ying Nantian was very excited when he heard this. He knocked his head to the ground and called her, "Master!"

Ye Wenyan thought about it and did not refute her.

Just because she was unwilling to accept a doctor as her disciple did not mean she could not accept a skilled craftsman as her apprentice.

In the previous life, the Ye family also employed several skilled craftsmen, because the head of the Ye family was Xuan, and he needed to use magic tools. At that time, it was no longer an era of frequent magic tools. There was almost no pure land in the whole world. Cities and villages made of reinforced concrete could not tolerate the world of law. Therefore, if the Xuanmai Ye family wanted magic tools, they could only make them themselves. If they wanted the magic tools to look good, they could only rely on the hands of skilled craftsmen.

The reason why she is proficient in many crafts is that many of them were learned from the skilled craftsmen employed by the Ye family.

Seeing that Ye Wenyan did not refuse, Ying Nantian was very happy. Although this master was much younger than him, it didn't matter. He knelt in front of Ye Wenyan and didn't feel at all that she was just a young girl.

It was as if it was destined that she was his master and everything happened so naturally.

"Master, please continue to select people." Ying Nantian reminded Ye Wenyan, "There are more than two. Master can select as many as he wants. All the selected people, including myself, will go to the government office tomorrow to register, hand in their indentures, and follow Master for the rest of their lives."

Ye Wenyan listened to his words, his eyes swept across the group of craftsmen, and finally fell on the young man who had previously argued with Ying Nantian.

"What's your name?" she asked. The young man was excited and answered loudly: "My name is Shangguan Xiaoya, I'm eighteen years old!"

Ye Wenyan nodded, "Okay, you'll be one of them."

The Ying family was a little unhappy because Ye Wenyan originally said to choose two members of the Ying family, but now one of the spots has been snatched away by Shangguan Xiaoya, and the only one chosen from the Ying family is Uncle Nantian.

Ye Wenyan noticed their mood changes, so he took the initiative to say to them: "Leaving the palace with me may not be a good thing, and staying in Qiqiao Pavilion may not be a loss. I just want to ask you, Qiqiao Pavilion used to listen to Mr. Ying Peng, so who do you listen to now?"

People answered, "Now we listen to Uncle Nantian, but if Master leaves, we will have to choose another person to take charge."

Ye Wenyan thought about it and asked them, "Can I take charge?"

People were stunned for a moment, then they became happy: "Great! Of course! If the Grandmaster can personally take charge of the Qiqiao Pavilion, then our craftsmanship will definitely be able to improve in the future, and the Qiqiao Pavilion will become a real Qiqiao Pavilion, unparalleled in the world!"

Ye Wenyan said, "But this is in the palace after all, and I can't come here often. Even if the two of them go outside with me, they won't be able to see me often. So you still have to choose someone from among you to take over Ying Nantian's position, and he must be a member of the Ying family. You still have to gain a foothold in this place in the palace."

This is not difficult, Ying Nantian quickly found a candidate. He pointed to a man in his twenties and said to Ye Wenyan, "This is my cousin. Since the master left the palace, he and I have been managing Qiqiao Pavilion together. Now that one of us is outside and the other is inside, we can take care of both sides. It will be convenient for Master to hire people or do anything else."

The man also stood in front of Ye Wenyan, bowed deeply, and called out, "Grandmaster." Then he introduced himself, "My name is Ying Dongliu, and I am twenty-eight years old. I am grateful that my cousin and grandmaster think highly of me, and I will definitely take on this important task."

Ye Wenyan had no objection to this, and he spent another two days teaching the people in Qiqiao Pavilion the method of purifying gold and the more advanced polishing and forging techniques.

When she was finally about to leave with her people, everyone in Qiqiao Pavilion had already worshipped her as a deity, believing that their grandmaster, Fourth Miss Ye, was a deity who had descended to earth, because only a deity could have such means to cut through the clear sky, and only a deity could pass down these skills that could never appear in the mortal world.

They are truly fortunate to have received the true teachings of the gods, and they also want to thank the head of the family for creating a good relationship for them.

But they didn't know that the method of purifying gold used many chemical raw materials that only became available in later generations. The reason why ancient people couldn't extract high-purity gold was because they didn't master the production and use of those chemical raw materials.

Those things that were easy to buy in her previous life were not available to Ye Wenyan now, so when she purified the gold, she used the Xuanmai technique.

Therefore, for the people of Qiqiao Pavilion, they only really mastered the grinding and polishing and new styles of forging technology. They still couldn't really purify gold without Ye Wenyan. But fortunately, Ye Wenyan promised them that she would come to Qiqiao Pavilion every once in a while to purify some gold in person to make jewelry and utensils. But at the same time, she also issued a death order to the people of Qiqiao Pavilion, that is, the gold purified by her could be circulated as jewelry, but if it was still a gold nugget, it was not allowed to leave Qiqiao Pavilion even after death.

Finally, she took Ying Nantian and Shangguan Xiaoya away from the palace. As for the personnel changes in Qiqiao Pavilion, it was really a trivial matter. She only asked Zhuier to go to the Palace of Immortals to find Wu Fei, and the matter was immediately handled clearly by Wu Fei.

Now it is March and the weather is getting warmer day by day. People no longer wear winter clothes and have changed into thinner long gowns.

But Ye Wenyan was still wearing winter clothes because she was afraid of the cold. The bone-chilling cold made her shiver all the time. However, under normal circumstances, she used the warm jade and spiritual power to suppress it so that no one would notice it.

The staff were brought out from the palace, but a suitable location had not yet been chosen for the jewelry store to be opened in the outer city.

Ye Wenyan simply asked Ji Rong to go to the Shi family. Different people have to do different things. This kind of thing is troublesome for her to do, but it should be easy for the Shi family to do it.

Ying Mansion is in the inner city. Ying Nantian brought Shangguan Xiaoya to Ying Mansion to stay temporarily. Before they parted, Ying Nantian reminded Ye Wenyan: "Master, you must remember to go to the government office tomorrow. It is better to get the indenture as soon as possible."

Ye Wenyan disagreed. She told them, "Since you called me Master, we are just master and apprentice, not master and servant. I cannot be a master while holding your indentures. Once the indentures are signed, you two will be slaves from now on. It is unfair for you to be slaves for good craftsmen. As for whether I can rest assured, I believe in my own judgment and the character of the Ying family. Besides, it's just some craftsmanship, not a life-threatening matter. Even if you leave my shop in the future, you will just carry forward my craftsmanship, and it will not be a loss for me."

Ye Wenyan did think so. Craftsmanship is different from medical skills. If the people who accept the medical skills she teaches cannot stay by her side and work for her wholeheartedly, once they betray her, they may use the medical skills of later generations to cause disasters in the present world.

After all, the Western medical methods of later generations seem too horrifying to people today, and once they leave the range of her protection and lose the sterile space she created with her magic, it is very easy to get infected, and there is no way to control postoperative complications.

So she couldn't let those who studied medicine betray her and had to be extremely cautious.

But the craftsmen were different. The fundamental purpose of her training craftsmen was to make jewelry for her in the future, and then sell these jewelry to more and more people, not only people in Lin'an City, but also people from other provinces. In short, the wider the spread, the better.

This was the idea she came up with when she got Feng Qingqing's notebook.

From the time she got the message in the bottle to the time she got the notebook, everything showed that Feng Qingqing had been trying her best to leave her traces in this world, and then trying to be seen by them one day, so that they would know she was here and look for each other.