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Chapter 23 Return Date(1/2)

It was already evening, and Ying Zheng did not return to Xianyang overnight, but instead rested in the Biezhuang for a night.

The palace is definitely not as comfortable as the palace, but Ying Zheng is not the one who cares about this, and he rests comfortably at night.

The next morning, Ying Zheng got up early, and someone came to help him wash and change clothes. He changed into casual clothes and asked casually: "Have Fusu got up?"

The serving man hurriedly replied: "Young master is up and is practicing swordsmanship with Dalang of the Li family."

Ying Zheng was intrigued and asked people not to disturb Fusu, so he went straight to the past.

Fusu and Li You are indeed practicing swordsmanship, which is enough to develop the good habit of practicing diligently when he wakes up early. Li You has always been his companion.

When Zhang Liang was there, he would also be with him to gesture. Now that Zhang Liang left, the two of them were left to practice together without any impact.

Ying Zheng stood on one side watching the two children compete in swords.

Practicing swords is not as good as playing football. In this matter, Li You obviously gave in to Fusu, and mostly guided Fusu to take action.

Although Li You looked cold and taciturn, he was actually bold and meticulous in his work, and he was not impatient with the half-sized kid who was a child of Fusu.

Ying Zheng did not ask for a stop, and he always stood under a plum tree to watch. Fusu noticed Ying Zheng's arrival first, took the sword and went forward to greet Li You.

Ying Zheng praised Li You: "You practiced swordsmanship well, and it will be more sharp to exercise later."

Li You naturally expressed that he was willing to go into battle to kill the enemy in the future.

Ying Zheng looked at Fusu and saw Fusu's stubborn look with a look of "It doesn't matter if I don't praise me, I don't need anyone to praise me." He couldn't help but be happy. He raised his hand and rubbed Fusu's head, and asked deliberately: "You are still a little short of swordsmanship. How are you learning bows? Can you pull the bow?"

Fusu said: "...of course."

Since Ying Zheng mentioned it, the two of them went to the open space where they usually practiced riding and shooting to demonstrate the effect of practicing riding and shooting to Ying Zheng.

Fusu's accurate head is actually very good. He is that he is so old that he can't pull the bow that is too heavy and cannot shoot the arrow too far. Compared with Li Youyi, who has always been diligent, he will inevitably be at a disadvantage again.

This time, Ying Zheng did not attack Fusu again, but instead gave Fusu a few words of kind words for the first time.

After Fusu cried like that yesterday, although the father and son did not become intimate all of a sudden, they felt that they were much closer.

After breakfast together, Ying Zheng was about to go back. Before leaving, Ying Zheng looked at the clear sky that was cloudless and casually set a return date for Fusu: "When it snows, come back."

Last year, Fusu was also a palace that came out when it snowed.

Fusu agreed immediately: "Okay."

It is still uncertain when the first snow fell this year. Fusu was even busier after seeing Ying Zheng off and rushed to finish everything he should do.

Through more than half a year of teaching, the official soldiers in Yunyang County have already mastered the common characters in official script. Even rural villagers in the Beizhuang area can write their names and simple words they usually use.

Although the gap between literacy and illiteracy seems to be very small, when some people want to find a good lie in the county, most people choose to read people; there are also a group of people who first learn to read and go to the army, and not long after writing a letter from home, they said that they also have a good time in the army, and they are all benefiting from being able to read and calculate.

As such cases gradually increase, the influence of the academy lived inside and outside Yunyang County, and more and more people came to listen to the lectures on ten days. After hearing that children could be sent to the academy to go to school, they even gritted their teeth and devoted their efforts to bring them to the slap in the family.

Who doesn’t expect your children to become successful?

As for where Shu Xiu was saved, look at the farmers in other villages. The farms in manure and farmland have achieved a bumper harvest. You can also grow another crop of vegetables and get the pigs and feed them to celebrate the New Year.

I’m a little busy, but by the end of the year, people have too much food and meat, so why worry about not being able to get such a little bit of repair?

I heard that those who didn’t catch up this year all said that they would definitely send their children to the school in the New Year.

Who doesn’t care about this life?

For ordinary people, as long as they have a little hope in life, they can work in the fields every day.

Therefore, once the results are out, there is no need to promote them by Fusu itself. People from neighboring counties come to learn the "Yunyang Experience".

By the end of the year, the farmers handed over one of the pigs they raised, and each family happily began to slaughter pigs, drying bacon with bacon, and making sausages with bacon. More often than not, they asked the whole village to taste the meat flavor together when they encountered happy events. Everyone felt that life was never so good.

As the weather gets colder, cumulus clouds gradually come from the sky.

Most people in Yunyang County have heard of Wei Liao's class on watching the clouds and rain. They guessed that there were so many clouds in the sky, and they were about to snow. They loved to run towards Fusu more and more, for fear that they would never have the chance to see Fusu again.

The second most popular one after Fusu is Li You, mainly because the farmers all raise pigs. When they see pigs, they think of Li You, and when they think of Li You, they think of his outstanding character when castrating pigs.

So, after knowing that Li You was leaving, they were worried: What if the pig castration next year is not good?

Many people have pulled Li You to express this concern and have also talked about their concerns with Fusu.

Li You fell into silence.

Fusu was as good-tempered as ever. After listening patiently to what they were worried about, he said that he would print a portrait of Li You for them. They would post it at home and see it more, and they would feel at ease.

Everyone didn't know how to print the portrait, but when I heard that every household could get the portrait, the merchants happily went home and waited.

Fusu can draw horses, and naturally he can draw people. He quickly painted Li You's portrait.

He made a simple modification to Li You's appearance.

First of all, you need to be able to restrain people and get older.

Secondly, it is said that if you have no hair on your mouth, you should also add your beard.

Finally, since it is to make people feel at ease, Fusu equipped Li You with a very majestic pig tool set, and added some clouds, pig demons, as the background.

With such a fuss, a mighty young man with white face and black beard appeared on the paper, looking like he could not only castrate pigs, but also save the house!

Fusu was quite satisfied with this portrait, and after the painting was completed, he invited Li You to see the painting.

After reading the painting, Li You remained silent for a long time, pointed to the cloth bag spread out in the hand of the man in the painting and asked, "What weapon is this?"

The cloth bag is not an empty cloth bag. After it is unfolded, you can see a row of thin knives inserted on it, which looks just a little longer than the width of the fingers!

Li You really couldn't think of when he would use such a weapon.

Fusu said, "This is a castrated pig knife."

Li You: “…………………”

Fusu said: "You have been practicing martial arts since childhood. You are very quick to use a knife and a sword. The wound will not be too big. Recently, I have seen many people who learn to castrate pigs from you and have not controlled them well. They think that the part you want to cut is not big anyway, so it is better to make some small knives to be castrated as a pig knife. In this way, the wound after castration of the pigs is small, and it is easy to heal, and it also saves herbs. I have asked the blacksmith to make a batch in the past two days."

This is reasonable and evidence-based, and there is no problem.

This portrait is also majestic and admires it at first glance.

But why do you think he is holding a pig-castrated knife?!

Li You directly asked his questions.

Fusu explained to Li You considerately: "The senior brother should have felt everyone's reluctance to you these days. They all told me that if you are not here, they will feel uneasy. I definitely can't let my senior brother stay here, so I thought of this way to give you a portrait of you to every household! If they stick your portrait at home, their hearts will naturally be at peace."

Li You asked in disbelief: "How many hundred paintings do you want to draw in this painting?"

Fusu said: "Of course not!"

Fusu and Li You talked about the research they were doing recently. The current lamp oil includes lard, soybean oil, tung oil, etc., but everyone doesn’t have much oil at home, and most of them are reluctant to light the lamps.

Among several types of oils, tung oil smoke is the largest. This is a disadvantage as lamp oil. However, if used to make ink, the ink yield of tung oil is very high, which seems to be an advantage.

Recently, there is a lot of lard on the farm, so it is also possible to use lard to collect oil smoke, but it is just to produce less ink.

Anyway, no matter what oil you choose, the raw materials for the fume ink are easy to collect.

Fusu asked someone to collect oil smoke and make a batch of oil smoke and ink, which came in handy now: with the new ink made according to his ink making recipe, he just needed to find a skilled craftsman to carve Li You's portrait on a flat wooden board, and then use this carved plate to repeatedly print the same portrait!

Fusu briefly explained the printing principle to Li You.

Li You fell into silence.

Fusu said: "We will practice your hand first with your portrait. If this method is good, we can use it to print the agricultural books we have compiled in the future."

Although Zhang Liang left, Fusu did not forget the farm book he mentioned to Zhang Liang.

Of course, you have to do what you say!

Li You thought Fusu’s words made sense, that is, why did he have to practice with his portrait of a castrated pig knife?

The things that Fusu has figured out have not been made yet. Even if the middle may be a little twisted and sometimes fail a few times, the final results are very satisfactory.

If this kind of printing method is promoted in the future, everyone will discuss that the portrait that was first published through printing is the portrait of Li You castrated pig - Listen, is this a sign of it?!

Li You was full of displeasure, but he was always taciturn and very eloquent. For a moment, he couldn't think of a way to let Fusu dispel the words of practicing with this portrait.

Li You did not refuse, and Fusu thought he agreed, and asked Huaide to find a skilled craftsman to start making carvings on the same day.

No one has done the work of carving the carving before, but looking for it in the entire Yunyang County still allowed Huaide to find an old carpenter with great carving.

I heard that I was going to be carved in front of a painting, but the old carpenter said that this was simple and he started working after taking the portrait. In less than two days, the carving board carved in front of the portrait was formed. Although it was not as charming as Fusu's original painting, it was already seventy or eighty-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight-eight

Fusu was very satisfied and paid a generous salary to the old carpenter. He called a few reliable people to start printing this heroic statue of Li You castrated pig.

On the evening of that day, Fusu asked someone to send the printed portrait to each household.

Those who got the portrait were shocked because the painting looked really majestic and was really well painted. Although they were not as old as they were, they could still see that the painting was Li You whom they trusted extremely.

There is no need to say too much about Fusu, many people have posted this painting in the most conspicuous part of their homes.

Even if you don’t need to castrate the pig, the portrait itself looks very good!

The group of castrated apprentices taught by Li You all got the castrated knife set that Fusu asked someone to make for them, which looked exactly the same as in the painting.

Fusu is so considerate, naturally touched the merchants, and wished Fusu could stay in Yunyang County all the time.

Unfortunately, I am unwilling to face it anymore, so the separation that should come will come.

Early the next morning, snow suddenly started to fall.
To be continued...
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