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Chapter 43 The plan to escape

Mao Geng was too lazy to pay attention to Xiang Yixuan. Anyway, the happy events he said were definitely not good news for him.

Xiang Yixuan saw that Mao Geng was short of interest, so he had to sing and play by himself:

"Actually, Lord Qu's Dong had long been intending to marry his daughter to Military Advisor Mao. Military Advisor Mao became the son-in-law of the Dong, and he could even call the wind and rain in the big village. His future prospects were unlimited. I just learned that Lord Qu's idea had been decided and he wanted to choose an auspicious day to hold a happy event for the military advisor. I would like to congratulate Military Advisor Mao!"

When Mao Geng heard this, he felt angry and hatred in his heart. He was afraid that the bandits would use this trick. He had a bandit leader's daughter as his wife. Although it was forced, his relationship with Qu Lai San was still chaotic and could not be explained clearly.

Mao Geng immediately said seriously:

"Haha, Lord Qu Dong is asked to be a military advisor, don't you ask what you mean? Brother Xiang, you should know that you are making a magic weapon. Before this magic weapon is successfully made, you must not be close to women. Once there is such obscene thing, it will definitely cause disaster to the clerk. Lord Dong doesn't know the power of it, but Brother Xiang doesn't know it either!"

Xiang Yixuan smiled bitterly:

"Mr. Mao, you also know that in this mountain village, people are slight and no one listens to their words. Besides, the Lord of the Cave is not as brave as an ordinary person, so he may not believe in the sayings of ghosts and gods. The Lord of the Cave decides, but it is afraid that it will be difficult to change."

After a change of tone, he said:

"Hehe, how many people want to be our Lord of the Cave and cannot stand up to you! Lord of the Cave and he likes you, that's a great appreciation. Military Master Mao, Lord of the Cave treats you very well, but you must be polite!"

After hearing Xiang Yixuan's words, Mao Geng suddenly felt relieved. In this village, Qu Lai San said one thing, and the others were indeed unable to explain it.

Suddenly he sighed to Yixuan and said:

"Originally, the right leader Yaolong, also thought that he should not be anxious for a moment. He said that Military Advisor Mao was above the top and he didn't think of the treasure daughter of the Lord of the Cave. If Military Advisor Mao was disgusted by this, things would be no longer beautiful. Alas! Our daughter of the Lord of the Cave is good at everything, but her appearance is a bit flawed. The black mole on her face is slightly bigger and her mouth is slightly tilted, but her figure is very enchanting!"

This daughter of Qu Laisan is a mother, and she looks very good anyway. What does Xiang Yixuan mean? This guy dares to say behind his back that the daughter of the Lord of the Cave looks ugly, it must be really ugly. No wonder Qu Laisan asked this daughter to stay in the deep boudoir and refused to see others. The daughters of the Yao family are used to showing up in public. It turns out that they are ugly and refuse to go out.

But why did Xiang Yixuan tell himself the truth? Could it be that he just couldn't see it? Or was he sympathized with this military advisor? Or was he really opposed to forcibly recruiting a son-in-law for the sake of the Lord of the Cave?

Thinking about staying with an ugly woman every day, and even being forced to have skin kinship, Mao Geng got goosebumps all over his body.

But under the eaves, who dares not bow his head, especially in the bandit's nest. The Lord of the cave holds the power of life and death, but I'm afraid it's still the same - he has to follow him, and he has to follow him even if he doesn't follow him! Then he remembered that the wife Zhuge Liang married was also known as an ugly woman. Could it be that there must be an ugly woman behind every successful military advisor!

Xiang Yixuan left and said:

"Military Mao, this is a big happy event after all. Why is Military Mao so sad? I will say goodbye, and I will have to arrange your happy event. It will take a long time! Seven or eight days, at most ten days later, Military Mao will become the groom in a grand manner. Haha! Congratulations! Congratulations!"

Mao Geng felt that this time-traveling life made people cry without tears, and he felt a little regretful for a moment. This barbaric land is not a place for long. It would have been great if he had known that he would have been invited by Yuelu Academy to teach! Qu Lai San might not have been able to go to Changsha to commit the crime!

After Xiang Yixuan left, Mao Geng stood alone for a long time, dazed intently. After thinking about it, he had no choice but to make up his mind to compromise and sighed again.

Mao Geng had to devote all his time and energy to the trial clock. Mao Geng took turns to let Qu Quan, Qu Deyi and Qu Deer help him to cast the escapement wheel, escapement hook, and make accessories. Soon the first escapement mechanism was assembled.

However, the escapement mechanism made was not very successful. At the beginning, it was like a grab and a lever, but then it became messy. It seemed that the tooth shape had to be improved.

Mao Geng started drawing pictures again, summarizing the first problem of experimenting with the tooth shape design of the escapement wheel. After improving it, there will be direction. Mao Geng stayed overnight and finally drew the improved version of the escapement wheel.

The next day, Mao Geng was still sleeping, and Xiang Yixuan came again. This time, Xiang Yixuan knocked on the door first. After Mao Geng shook open the door, Xiang Yixuan noticed that Mao Geng was pale and said:

"Military Mao, you have lost weight these days and have a bad face. You should take care of yourself."

Mao Geng responded angrily:

"You don't have to worry about it! I'm not trying to make that magic weapon as soon as possible! There was no need to be so anxious, you were forced to do it."

Xiang Yixuan then smiled:

"There is good news to be reported to Military Advisor Mao. Good news came from Shaozhou. The 'Western China Contractor Team' took over two houses there. Although the two houses built together are only a dozen, the price is not bad. Haha, the idea that Military Advisor Mao is really wonderful. Now there are almost one hundred people who buy houses outside in Qujiadong."

People like the Song Dynasty accepted new things very quickly! Since there were people in Shaozhou, it was only a matter of time before more people in places accepted this way of contracting labor and materials. It can be seen that contractors also had a big market in the Southern Song Dynasty.

But Mao Geng immediately thought of a question:

"Shaozhou is the water and it is not easy to transport bricks to the water."

Xiang Yixuan waved his dry and blue veins with a proud swaying hand and said with a gaze:

"Hehe, Military Advisor Mao, do you know that the Lord of Dong personally went to Shaozhou, bought a mountainous land there, transferred dozens of people to burn bricks locally, so that he could burn bricks from Xinhua to Shaozhou. Thanks to the military advisor who came up with this method to burn bricks without having to build someone, haha! With the convenience of burning bricks on site, even in Lin'an, I can go there in the future."

Mao Geng slapped his head, yes! If this continues, the "West China Contractor Team" can travel all over the world, wouldn't it be a big hit in the construction industry of the Song Dynasty? Before this, at Mao Geng's suggestion, Qujiadong bought a mountain land that relies on water not far from Lianxi, and now the fired bricks are mainly there, which has an incomparable advantage in transporting bricks. Otherwise, if the bricks are transported from the Qujiadong Mountains, the transportation will be difficult, which will greatly increase the cost of bricks. Unexpectedly, these bandits learned from one example and came up with the trick of "on-site production".

Mao Geng felt that every time he took out something new, the students not only learned the wonderful uses, but also made great progress, and went further and even became uncontrollable. Mao Geng shook his head and said:

"This is of course a happy event for Qujiadong, but is it related to me? What do you say thanks to the idea I have made! Are there people who have given you advice like this? I am trapped in this mountain and can't go anywhere. My relatives and friends don't know where I am, and even if I am alive, I don't know anything. But your Lord of the Cave wants to marry his ugly girl to me by forcibly. Have you ever thought about how I feel?"

Xiang Yixuan said with confidence:

"Military Mao, when he arrives at the Yao family, he must obey the rules of the Yao family. To be honest, I am here, and I am a Han native. I accidentally went to Qujiadong, so I had to go to the countryside and follow the customs and marry a Yao family woman. Anyway, I have to marry a woman without marrying her. Isn't that great? Besides, isn't your cousin Wen Yuan the same? The Yao family recruits a son-in-law, which is the custom, let alone the master of my family likes you. If I hadn't been dissuading her with Brother Yaolong, I was afraid that I would have to wait until today as soon as I went up the mountain!"

When Mao Geng heard that Xiang Yixuan was also a Han Chinese, he must have been forced to get married when he went up the mountain. Thinking of this, he immediately said:

"Since Brother Xiang is a Han Chinese, he should help me. If Brother Xiang is willing to help me, he will be rewarded in the next day."

Sighing to Yixuan:

"Oh! I was also a scholar with ambition in the past. I was determined to take the exam for a good fortune. But I shouldn't have been obsessed with Guanpu. As a result, I lost money and owed Qujiadong a large amount of bets. I had to go up the mountain with them and fell to this point now. Do you think I just want to do the rebellion for the bandits? It's really a matter of love."

Mao Geng said that there was a play, so he said:

"Since that's the case, why don't we escape from this Qu family cave together! Brother Xiang, since you don't want to rebel, it's still time to stop."

Xiang Yixuan shook his head and said sadly:

"There is a handle left behind in the cave master, and it is useless to run away."

Mao Geng thought that Xiang Yixuan must have sued the letter of fame, but he was afraid he would never turn back, but Mao Geng still wanted to fight for something:

"Brother Xiang, why don't you convince Lord Qu Dong to stop the rebellion? Isn't it good for everyone to have a peaceful life?"

"It's impossible. Lord Qu's Dong is bound to rebel. Lord Qu had done a lot of excessive things in the past. He was very ambitious and was afraid of revenge from his enemies, so he would never stop." When Xiang Yixuan said this, he looked around. Even though he knew that there was no one around, he was still worried that someone would hear it.

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He waved his hand to let Mao Geng lean over and whispered:

"But, Brother Mao doesn't have to worry! As long as Brother Mao promises to take some risks to rescue Brother Mao."

At this time, Mao Geng asked two things to agree, which were seven or eight. As long as he could get out, Mao Geng would agree. Mao Geng nodded quickly to agree:

"I don't know what it is? It's not about killing people and setting fires! As long as it's not about doing evil, I will of course do my best."

Xiang Yixuan hesitated for a moment, and saw Mao Geng looking at him in a hurry, he whispered:

"The first thing to do is to ask Mr. Mao to accept. After leaving Qujiadong, he will also help Qujiadong with advice. At least Mr. Mao will not watch Qujiadong make no living, so he will go to work as a tea merchant again! Of course, this suggestion is not a waste of time, Qujiadong will definitely be rewarded. If Mr. Mao agrees to this matter, if Brother Mao has something to do in the future, Qujiadong will never stand idly by. Brother Mao has helped Qujiadong, and the people in my Qujiadong are also loyal."

Mao Gengxin said that this matter is not difficult. It is not difficult to help Qujiadong find more money with his own knowledge and insight. Zheng said at the moment:

"This matter is up to you. As long as you, Qujiadong, don't do anything to rebel, help Qujiadong come up with advice and let Qujiadong live a wealthy life. What's the point!"

Xiang Yixuan gave a thumbs up and praised:

"I will know that Mr. Mao has a lot of masters and will not care about Qujiadong's previous abrupt actions. Mr. Mao promised to do it with pleasure. I believe that Mr. Mao is kind-hearted and will take care of Qujiadong in the future. Qujiadong will definitely not forget Mr. Mao's grace."

Mao Geng smiled bitterly:

"What kind of grace is it! As long as Qujiadong can let me go down the mountain, it will be a great grace to me, Mr. Mao."

Xiang Yixuan said:

"It is not difficult to let Mr. Mao go down the mountain, but before going down the mountain, Mr. Mao still has to do one of his wedding. As long as Mr. Mao promises to do this wedding, Mr. Mao will just go down the mountain. From now on, the vast sky will be wide, and Mr. Mao can go anywhere. However, since then, a beautiful woman from our village will accompany Mr. Mao. Of course, if you marry a chicken, a dog, and a dog, you will marry a husband, and if you marry a husband, you will definitely follow Mr. Mao. Even if Mr. Mao wants three wives and four concubines in the future, he will let Mr. Mao go, as long as he does not forget to get married."

Mao Geng asked in confusion:

"Is this the second thing you said? Why do you have to do this!"

Mao Geng stared at Xiang Yixuan, Xiang Yixuan shrank a little and defended:

"Mr. Mao, this matter is a last resort, and it is not convenient to explain it next time. In short, I am also doing it for Mr. Mao. Alas! I am actually thinking about hundreds of families in Qujiadong. In short, Mr. Mao, I will definitely not be wrong when I hear me this time. Please think twice."

Seeing Mao Geng’s wooden appearance, Xiang Yixuan added another sentence:

"Mr. Mao, three days later, it will be a good time. When I go down, I will take Mr. Mao to agree. After the wedding, I will send Mr. Mao down the mountain with a gift."

Mao Geng didn't know how to answer for a moment, so Xiang Yixuan knew that Mao Geng was hesitant about this matter, and without waiting for Mao Geng to reply, he went straight away.

In the next two days, Mao Geng focused on the clock trial production, as if he wanted to vent all his energy on it.

People are always curious. Mao Geng asked Qu Quan privately, Qu Deyi and Qu Deer, who wanted to know what the daughter of the cave master looked like. Qu Quan and Qu Deyi followed the above instructions and refused to reveal a word. However, Qu Deer once missed two sentences, saying that the cave master had three daughters, two of whom were married, and one of the two married daughters did have a black mole on his face, which looked a bit ugly. As for the cave master's youngest daughter, even Qu Deer had never seen her, and there were very few people in the village who had seen her.

Mao Gengxin said, what is the mystery of this Qujiadong playing with!
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