I just want to build a city

Are you kidding me, is there a new way to distribute mission rewards now?

Thinking of this, Qingshu-kun slowly turned his head and looked outside. The Qingtian doll hanging there by Kaito-kun under the eaves seemed to see Qingshu-kun looking at it, and happily shook his rag body at him.

No, no.

Qingshu-kun shook his head, it's just that the wind is blowing outside.This sunny baby is just a little monster who came to him for help, and it is not his mission reward. His mission reward must have reached Zhuangmin's hands through some means, and he will not contribute until some opportunity is triggered. Give him this look.

Well, it must be so.

"So, now that your body is healed and you have a clean face, leave the realm of human life as soon as possible tomorrow." Mr. Qingshu said this, without looking at the reaction of the little Qingtian doll under the outdoor eaves , cleaned himself up, lay down in his clothes and went to sleep.

After Mr. Qingshu fell asleep, a small bubble appeared quietly on the map of Cairo: QAQ

The next day, Mr. Qingshu who got up early in the morning's first reaction was to look at the eaves outside the dormitory, and was satisfied to see that the Qingtian doll that was hanging on it last night had disappeared, and it seemed that he should have left.Qingshu-kun, who took it for granted, had no intention of clicking on the map to confirm it at all. After dressing and taking care of himself in a good mood, he was ready to move to have breakfast.

However, after waiting in the living room for a short time, the breakfast that was always on time in the past was not served.After breakfast was late, Xing frowned and reported to Qingshu-kun, and retreated to the kitchen to check the situation.

Without keeping Qingshu-kun waiting for too long, Xing came back with his attendants. The attendants held his breakfast in their hands and visited him one by one on the table in front of him.Although Qingshu-kun is half a foodie, he is not too picky about food, so when he saw that today's breakfast was simpler than before, he didn't say anything, but directly started to use the food in front of him. this breakfast.

Qingshu-kun's attitude also made the maids who came with the trays a little relieved. It seems that something must have happened.

Qingshu silently finished the breakfast, cleaned his mouth with tea, and before the waiting maids took down their plates, he asked, "So, what happened this morning? Why did today's breakfast come late? gone?"

Before Xing could answer, the three maids who were going to tidy up knelt down on the ground, with panicked expressions on their faces.

Qingshu-kun wanted to talk about their panic-stricken temperament, but felt that it was not good to say it now, so he turned his attention to Xing who was aside.Xing went to the back kitchen to investigate the situation before, so she should know something.

Xing bowed to Mr. Qingshu, and replied: "Today's breakfast is the same as in the past. The cook prepared it on time, and brought it up after you finished washing. But when the maids were about to bring it, I found There was a hole on the edge of the original good noodle, about the size of a knuckle, because I don’t know if the other breakfast food was also touched by dirty things, so I had to temporarily remove it and make some simple ones and send it up first .”

Obviously, the people in the back kitchen thought that the noodles had traces of being eaten by small objects, and that they had been bitten by mice.However, when the maid is carrying it, may some mice run to the wooden tray and steal it?

Qingshu-kun frowned, and clicked on the Cairo map consciously. Sure enough, he saw that the little monster Hiyoribo that he picked up yesterday had not left his manor, but the map showed that it was right in front of him.Mr. Qingshu glanced at the table in front of him, then he seemed to inadvertently lifted the table and put it on a temporary pad, so as not to stain the cloth of the table, he saw that lying under the table was a rag that had been mended. The doll, under the hanging cloth, exposed a piece of dough the size of a fingernail.When he lifted up the covering cloth on the table, Qingtian Doll stood there strangely, obviously there was no red string to hang it, but it was able to stand like this.

Under Qingshu-kun's gaze, the Qingtian doll, who obviously also realized that she had been captured, dragged the pancake to the rag bit by bit, and the rag stirred a few times before it stopped moving.Under the shadow of the desk, the well-behaved smiling face that was just mended yesterday looked at him so pitifully.

Qingshu-kun was silent for a while, put down the cloth in his hand, and waved to the maids below. "Tell the back kitchen to be more vigilant next time. The corner is cleaned up, so let's take the things away. It's fine to keep Xing."

In the morning, Kai Teng-kun was going to the samurai mansion to study, and he had to teach the patrol soldiers characters, so he was not in the manor, and Nakatahara had to arrange a day's work in the manor, and the only thing left was Xing.

"Lord Lord?" Although Qingshu-kun didn't show anything wrong on his face, Xing still sensed something, and after everyone stepped back, she stepped forward and carefully removed the cotton cloth covered by the case.As soon as she moved it away, she found the sunny doll she sewed yesterday.

"This..." Xing opened her mouth, obviously a little bit at a loss, you must know that she made the desk and the cotton cloth, which were not available here at that time.Yesterday, she still felt that the Qingtian doll, which the lord and Kai Teng-kun called a monster, had not responded all the time. It must be that the two made a mistake. Unexpectedly, such a strange phenomenon appeared this morning.

Mr. Qingshu raised his hand, stopped what she was going to say, turned the round head of the Qingtian doll, and lifted the rags hanging under it. Of course, there was nothing. After pinching it up, the ground There was no trace of bread either.

been eaten?

Mr. Qingshu didn't investigate in detail how Rihefang used the body of Qingtian doll to eat the noodles. He put the body of Rihefang on the table that Xing moved away, and poked the little one with his fingertips. cute smiley face.

"Stop pretending, why didn't you leave my manor?"

The sunny doll didn't respond, and after a while, it seemed to be blown by the wind, and its round head rubbed against Mr. Qingshu's finger that poked it.

It's useless to act like a baby to him. Hey, I can't see your demonized appearance, I can only see a rag head rolling a few times.

Qingshu-kun didn't have the time to play word guessing games with it, and he didn't think about leaving any monsters around him. You know, a monster appeared in the manor that the Onmyoji had arranged. , Needless to say, it will bring about any disturbance inside the manor.Even a little monster like Rihefang, in the records, is a monster related to luck, weather, and farming.But in the heart of human beings, monsters are monsters after all, and there is a boundary between people and people, especially for ordinary people without spiritual power.

"Speak, you don't want to live here, do you?" Haruki-kun clicked on the pixel map and waited for the bubbles to appear in Rihefang to see what she meant. It was better than watching it tumbling around Good guess.

As soon as Qingshu-kun finished asking, a bubble appeared on Pixel Rihefang's head. It was a pitiful little expression with two suffixes: um.

Qingshu-kun held his head with some headache inside, acquiescing to keep it?If he didn't agree to it staying, he might wander around the manor just like this morning. If he stole food again and couldn't catch mice in the kitchen, it would cause a commotion, which would be really troublesome.Hiyorubo had neither malicious intent nor rebellion, and the formation technique left by Abe Seimei really did not pose any threat to it.That being the case, it can only be kept under the nose, lest it cause any disturbance in the manor territory.

Qingshu-kun took a deep breath, pinched the Qingtian doll, and let it lean against the teacup on the coffee table, so that it could face him squarely, well, it was a face-to-face conversation.

"You can stay if you want..."

"Master Qingshu?" Xing slightly opened his eyes wide.

On the pixel map, Rihefang brushed out a small bubble with the emoji of "Sahuaba".

"However, we want three chapters of the law."

'? ? ? "The little monster Rihefang doesn't know what three chapters are.

Mr. Qingshu couldn't understand the meaning of the question marks in its head, and said to himself: "If you want to stay here, first, you can only appear under the eaves in front of my bedroom. Second, even if the main body of the Qingtian doll is hung on the The one under the eaves, as the spirit body of a monster, can’t go to other places in the manor to cause trouble. Third, hang it under the eaves, treat me as an ordinary sunny doll, and can’t show strange appearances in front of others , let them guess that you are a monster. Can you do it?"

'QAQ'

Mr. Qingshu frowned, and asked, "What? Can't it be done?"

'Hungry……'

Does the little monster still have something to eat?So, the fingernail-sized pancake just now was really eaten by it.

Qingshu-kun was silent for a while, seeing that Rihefang didn't show any intention of leaving even though he might be hungry, he accepted his fate.The little finger tapped the tabletop of the desk.

"As long as you don't mess around, I'll let people hang some food under the eaves next to you, as an excuse to feed wild birds, and you can eat those."

' Chirp. '

"..." Mr. Qingshu pinched the Qingtian doll and put it in the palm of Xing's hand. "Let's hang it under the eaves outside, and hang some pancakes or pastries next to it every day. It's said to be used to feed birds."

"Yes." Xing walked out holding the broken sunny day doll, and had to hang the sunny day doll on the spot where Kai Teng-kun hung it yesterday.

Rihefang, which was hung on the eaves again, obviously did not feel unhappy because it was confined to this small place.Haruki-kun saw that within ten seconds on the pixel map in front of him, a bubble with a small smiling face would appear above Hiyorubo's head.He looked up to the outside, and saw the little thing with a small smiling face, bathed in the sun, facing him, combined with the bubbles of the pixel map, it was obviously very satisfied.

Forget it, just treat it as having a special pet.

In this way, Mr. Qingshu's dormitory area has now become a place where ordinary people can't get close to. In order to hide the existence of this little guy, after all, although Qingtian doll should be careful not to be discovered by others, but judging by its performance so far, Is it a stupid little monster, or Haruki-kun should keep his hand to make sure there will be no problems.

Mr. Buqingshu sat in the corridor, flipping through the books in his hands, watching the shadow of the sunny doll swaying in front of his eyes, and couldn't help but think of one thing: I don't know that seeing Hiyorubo can bring good luck The legend is true or not.

……

Mr. Qingshu didn't know whether the legend of Rihefang was true or not, but on the second day, Mr. Qingshu did receive a piece of good news.There may be some brows about the iron ore matter.

This is the news that the Santiaozong brought him early in the morning.It turned out that during the month-long mining trip last time, the group found nothing, but because of Haruki-kun's generosity, they lived in an exquisite brick and tile hut. The Ishikawa family and the Sanjo family felt guilty.These honest craftsmen who focus on their own work are different from those cunning traders, and a little kindness can make them grateful.

After that day, Haruki-kun temporarily put down the iron mine business and started busy with the upgrade conditions of the izakaya, but the two of them did not stop because of this.Today, the force of the territory has not yet been fully developed. The Ishikawa family may have been busy doing glass work secretly some time ago, but the Sanjo family was idle.

It can be said that Sanjo Zongjin has devoted his whole life to the craft of forging knives. Of course, the clue to the iron ore did not come from him, but was found by his nephew Sanjo Nobusuke.

Although Sanjo Shinsuke also learned the skill of forging knives from his brothers in the family, his heart was not so stable.When he was in Heianjing, he followed Genji's children and dealt with those foreign merchants from Song Dynasty.These foreign merchants from the Song Dynasty brought Ping'an capital, mostly porcelain, silk, and tea. These imported goods are better than money inside and outside Ping'an capital.The nobles of the clan are very fond of the imported goods from the Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, and these things also represent their status.It is far more useful to send these imported goods as gifts than some money.

In Mr. Qingshu's private warehouse, most of them are imported goods given to him by his grandfather and father. It is precisely because of the special value of these things that Mr. Qingshu never thought of selling them even when he was short of money. go.

However, the point is not this, because I have dealt with those foreign merchants a lot, and Santiao Nobusuke has been invited by those foreign merchants many times to go to the docks where they are stationed, or to visit the merchant ships, and once saw dozens of large ships. In addition to the porcelain and satin, we also saw some stones.Others might think it was stone, but Sanjo Shinsuke had learned how to forge knives, so he knew that those were iron ore.

It's not that they haven't heard of the many rumors of iron mines in the Song Dynasty, but he really didn't expect that there were so many of them being transported to other countries for sale by these greedy foreign merchants. '

Therefore, when he knew that the lord wanted to have his own way to get iron ore quietly, Sanjo Shinsuke thought of this matter that he had almost forgotten.As long as we can deal with the foreign merchant who can transport iron ore to other countries for sale, Tottori Prefecture is close to the sea, so why not worry about getting iron ore out of the sight of others?

Haruki-kun heard Sanjo-kun’s analysis of him, and he also understands that for Japan, which lacks iron ore, the technology in the Heian era was not enough, and it was not possible to go deep into the seabed for mining. Now, finding foreign merchants to purchase iron ore is the best way now. .

Iron ore, although the price may not be more expensive than porcelain, because they will not be easily damaged due to weather and other conditions like porcelain, tea, and silk on the way of transportation, but they are shipped from the Song Dynasty, plus The demand, the final price must be a lot of money, and for now, he probably can't afford it.

In the Heian period, most things were passed down from the Tang and Song Dynasties, and they had manufacturing techniques, such as swords, weaving, and so on.So, apart from money, what else can they exchange for scarce iron ore with these greedy traders?

Qingshu-kun thought so, and naturally asked the question.Santiao Zong rolled his eyes and said with a light smile, "Has the lord forgotten something? Only we have the glass to produce."

That’s right, he was the one who got into a dead end. He thought that colored glaze had already been introduced to Japan in the Tang Dynasty, so he ruled out glass. However, in the Song Dynasty, after the prosperity of the porcelain industry, there are very few colored glaze crafts among imported products.Similar to the history of Japan, the more transparent glass technology was introduced to the flower-growing country in later generations.Today, glass is the best item they can trade with these foreign merchants from the Song Dynasty!

"That's right, I've been a little confused recently, and I actually forgot about such a thing." Qingshu-kun raised his hand, knocked himself on the head with a small fan, and then cast his eyes on Sanjo Zongjin below. "So, Santiao-kun, can you contact the foreign merchant?"

"Xinsuke has returned to Ping'an capital half a month ago, and people will send letters over every seven days. At present, there is no news of the foreign merchants from the Song Dynasty. But the time should not be too long. I will come and tell the lord This matter, I want the lord to send someone to discuss this matter with the merchant." After finishing speaking, Santiao Zongjin lowered his eyes and continued helplessly. "Nosuke knows those foreign merchants, so he can act as an intermediary, but he is my nephew, so I naturally know that Nosuke is unpredictable, if he accidentally exposes the news that the lord wants iron ore to outsiders... ..."

Needless to say other things, let alone whether he can contact foreign merchants to get iron ore at that time, on the contrary, he will first expose the news that he will prepare a large number of private troops.

Nowadays, there are many clans with their own armed forces, which is not so unusual, but Genji Yuxin's eldest son, who is not yet a child of Yuanfu, has this idea so early, I am afraid that it will catch some people's eyes.

Qingshu-kun nodded as he thought of the first time they met, the somewhat rash boy from the Sanjo family. "I will arrange for Kaito-kun to rush over to meet Sanjo Shinsuke as soon as possible. If this matter is successful, I must thank Sanjo-kun."

"Being loyal to the lord is what we should do."

The matter of the iron mine has a clue, and when Qingshu-kun came back, there was a smile in his eyebrows and eyes.Before returning to his bedroom in the main courtyard, the smiling face met another cute smiling face hanging on the eaves, causing the smile on Qingshu-kun's face to pause, and his brows were slightly frowned out of curiosity.

Wait, the legend of Rihefang bringing good luck this day, could it be...

Really?

No one can answer these doubts in Mr. Qingshu's heart.Probably aware of Qingshu-kun's good mood, the Qingtian doll hanging under the eaves of the corridor moved automatically without wind, with a smiling face, shaking her small body, as if to greet him again.

If so, this sunny doll is really a special handicraft sent by the system, and it also comes with a little monster.

Forget it, let's keep it like this.

After thinking about it, Mr. Qingshu turned and walked into his bedroom with a little smile on his lips.

Rihefang, which was shaking its small body under the eaves, didn't know that it had really settled in this manor in just a short while.

……

The next day, before dawn, Kaito-kun got on his horse and quietly left the territory of Tottori, taking the person that Haruki-kun handed over to him, and headed towards Heian-kyo.The people in the manor's territory are used to Hai Teng-kun going out from time to time. After all, Hai Teng-kun is the lord's trusted confidant, and it's not surprising that most things will be handed over to him.

In the follow-up, whether Kaito-kun and Sanjo Shinsuke have made any progress, Haruki-kun does not know.However, the weather is about to start to get worse now.

Before Yuko Tachibana came back as a qualified witch, Mr. Qingshu had a more accurate weather forecast, needless to say, of course it was the sunny doll hanging outside his dormitory.

As stated in the biography, Hiyorubo hates bad weather and likes sunny days, so he only appears on sunny days.So there is a rumor that if someone sees Rihefang, it will be sunny all day. After all, this little thing will never appear on a rainy day.

Even before it started to rain, the air was a little humid, and they started hanging from the eaves and crying.

If you want to ask Qingshu-kun why he knows, it makes him very helpless.

When the weather was a bit gloomy that day, Mr. Qingshu didn't like to read by candlelight, so he sat in the corridor and read the newly bought biography in his hand by the light outside which was not very dark.As a result, he hadn't read a few pages of the book before he felt that someone seemed to be staring at him all the time, giving him a creepy feeling.

Qingshu-kun looked around for a week, but couldn't find the owner of the sight, and finally set his sight on the Qingtian doll above his head.Different from the previous appearance where the sun was a little bit high and the little head was held high, at this time, Qingtian doll's round head is drooping down, and the black peas eyes should be staring at Mr. Qingshu in the drooping. The appearance of resentment.

Mr. Qingshu and its peasy eyes looked at each other for a while, then clicked on the pixel map, and looked at the small bubble 'QAQ' that refreshed every second.

Finally defeated, he clicked his tongue.Forget it, because he was obedient and didn't have to run around by himself.

Xing happened to be away again, so I went to exchange him for new tea.He could only hold the new book in one hand and raise it in the air with the other.

"Come down by yourself."

Just after Mr. Qingshu finished speaking, the red rope of the Qingtian doll that was hanging under the eaves was untied by itself, and it fell lightly into Mr. Qingshu's hands.He carried the little guy into the room with one hand, looked left and right, chose a place on the wooden shelf in a corner of the room, and hung it up.

Not long after Mr. Qingshu tied up the sunny doll, it suddenly started raining outside, and the sky became even more gloomy.

After the rain fell and it was tied together again, the little thing couldn't help shaking in front of Mr. Qingshu's eyes, looking happy.

Mr. Qingshu withdrew his gaze from looking outside, raised his hand to poke its bulging head, and said to Xing who came back in a hurry: "Close the outside room and light a candle for me."