They went to the dock in the town. Two big men carried a large wooden box off the boat. When Cao Xiangnan saw such a large box, he looked at Shen Zhengyang with some doubts in his eyes, asking him what was inside.
Shen Zhengyang gave Cao Xiangnan a mysterious smile in return, "Guess.
" A light flashed in his mind, Cao Xiangnan's eyes lit up, and he had a guess in his heart, it couldn't be what he thought. Facing Shen Zhengyang's eyes, he asked, "Is it what I think?"
"..." I didn't say anything, how do you know it's what you think, Master Shen stared.
That's it! Cao Xiangnan smiled widely, it was really great! He shouted happily, "Let's go, load it and ship it back, we'll go back and take a look."
It's inconvenient here with people coming and going, let's ship it away first.
The boxes were loaded onto the carriage one by one, and they headed back.
They went to the garment factory, and the unloaded boxes were carried into the workshop, where there happened to be a small room. They opened the boxes and moved the things inside. The master who came with them led people to install the parts at the corners. Cao Xiangnan couldn't help but step forward to help.
The brothers standing aside looked at such a strange thing and didn't know what it was. Li Mei didn't know either, but he saw that their boss was so happy and even went to help personally. Since this thing was transported here, it must be related to their garment factory, and it must be a good thing.
This is a hand-cranked loom. It was the drawing Cao Xiangnan gave to him years ago. After a winter, the master made the drawing into a finished product. The whole spinning machine is made of wood and assembled from parts. So many small parts require the craftsman's patience to make it. The surface is polished and smooth, which shows the master's meticulousness.
Cao Xiangnan thanked the master, and the master shook his hands and said that it was his duty. He asked someone to send the master outside to rest first, and the people left inside were his own people. After all, this thing does not belong to this era, so it is better to keep it secret. It is not good for too many people to know except for his own people.
Fortunately, the workshop in the garment factory is not open to anyone. Except for the guys working in the workshop, people who work outside and are responsible for other parts of the work cannot enter the workshop. When the time comes, we will give the order not to let anyone in here casually.
"Boss, is this a loom?" The guys discussed it and felt that this thing looked familiar, but it was a little different from the looms they had seen before. Li Mei, who was pushed out, asked on behalf of everyone.
"You guessed half right. This is a loom, but it is different from the looms you used before." Cao Xiangnan was very satisfied with the assembled spinning machine, but he didn't know how it would work.
He studied mechanics in college and was particularly interested in mechanics. At that time, he studied the machines used in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution. He couldn't understand why China, which had been using looms for thousands of years, had always remained in the small-scale farming era and could not engage in industrial production.
The reason was that the people in the small-scale farming era were too satisfied with their current lives, which led to the lack of innovation and progress.
The same machine, if it changed a small place, could change the production of an era.
Here, due to the limitations of the conditions of this era, they could not make large machines of the large industrial era, but they could still make and use this kind of preliminary manual machinery, at least there was no problem in increasing production.
"Li Mei, Wu Yue, all of you come here, I will tell you how to use this thing and how it is different from the looms you used before." Cao Xiangnan waved his hand to let the brothers come over, and he told them the working principle and how to use this hand-cranked spinning machine.
The brothers felt incredible after hearing it, staring with wide eyes and listening carefully, afraid of missing a word. Cao Xiangnan told Li Mei and the brothers how to use this spinning machine, and then he was waiting for these brothers to use this spinning machine with their wisdom and ability.
The brothers listened carefully, eager to try, wanting to use this spinning machine to see if it was really as magical as their boss said.
Li Mei believed their boss's words without a doubt. He felt that this loom would be just as their boss said.
Then it would really be...
Li Mei's heart was immediately excited. Looking at the loom in front of her, it was like seeing a mountain of gold in front of her. She couldn't imagine it.
"Li Mei, I'll leave this workshop to you. If you have any questions, just come to me. Yes, I may go to Nanyang in a few days. When I leave, I will notify you all in advance. You can arrange a few people to follow me to Nanyang." Cao Xiangnan planned to go to Nanyang. When he went, he would take a few people on a business trip and take these brothers to see what the world outside was like.
He hoped that any of these people under his command could take the lead for him in the future, and it would not be in vain that he had spent so much effort to train them. He could see the gradual progress of these brothers, which made Cao Xiangnan feel very relieved.
"Don't worry, boss, I will make arrangements by then." Li Mei replied.
"Yes." Cao Xiangnan also gave a few instructions to Li Daguanshi, and reminded him not to let outsiders in casually, including those they did not trust. After all, there were many brothers working in the workshop. In addition to the original ones, many people were recruited later. No one knew who was who, so it was better to be careful.
After giving instructions, he took Shen Zhengyang away from the garment workshop.
When their boss left, the brothers who stayed here knew the importance of this loom. They were very grateful that they could get the trust of the boss and stay here. They went over to touch this strange thing.
On the way, Cao Xiangnan met someone who stopped their carriage. Seeing that it was Liu Qiang who came over, and seeing Liu Qiang's anxious expression, he asked, "But what happened at home?" In his heart, he was worried about whether Wanfeng and the child had something wrong.
"No, no, someone from the compound came and said something happened, and the mistress asked me to find you, old man, and go back." Liu Qiang said.
"Oh, then let's go quickly." It would be good if nothing happened to Wanfeng and the child. Cao Xiangnan was still worried that something happened at home, and he didn't know what kind of trouble the compound had caused him.
Zhao Xue from the compound came over in a hurry to say that something happened. He had a brother at home, and he couldn't leave with two little ones. Qi Wanfeng didn't want to go to the compound in his heart. Thinking back to when her husband was hit by a carriage and was lying on the bed dying, who in that family cared about him? In the end, they drove the three of them out.
If they had no place to eat and no place to live today, I'm afraid that the people in the compound would immediately cut off all ties with them, fearing that their family would get involved with them.
Today, the past is the past. Qi Wanfeng will not think about those people and the past, but it is absolutely impossible for him to be enthusiastic about the people in the compound. Since someone from the compound came to say that something happened, Qi Wanfeng would not go there himself, but he also asked someone to find her husband to tell him so that he could come back and see how to deal with it.
On the way back, Cao Xiangnan asked Liu Qiang what happened. Liu Qiang couldn't explain it clearly, and it didn't seem to be a good thing.
Family disgrace should not be made public. Cao Xiangnan didn't want Shen Zhengyang to see the jokes about the mess in the compound, so he let him go back to his place first. He got on his own carriage and went to the compound.
His mother was crying in the yard, shouting "What a sin", and no one knew who she was scolding. Based on Cao Xiangnan's understanding of his mother, the person who was scolding was definitely not his good second brother, and she was crying without tears, which was a bit too fake.
"Okay, stop crying, you think my head doesn't hurt enough, right?" Cao's father shouted, his face was very ugly.
Chen Zhu, who was kneeling there crying and crying, was choked and stopped talking. He glanced at the head of the family from the corner of his eye, but didn't dare to say anything. When he saw his fourth son coming, he glanced at him from the corner of his eye, but didn't look at him
directly. Cao Xiangnan called out "Aun", and his mother reluctantly responded.
"Fourth brother." Cao Gaojin saw his fourth brother coming and called out, saying that his family's Zhao Xue went to his house to look for someone, and he was not at home. "Father, what happened? I met someone from my family who came to look for me halfway, saying that something happened here." Cao Xiangnan didn't want to listen to Cao Gaojin's nagging, so he interrupted him and asked his father.
On the way here, he heard Liu Qiang say a few words, but didn't know what exactly happened.
Father Cao's expression was a little cryptic. He sighed and only said that it was the second house, and that there was a conflict between your second brother and your second elder brother. He was brief and to the point, avoiding the main point and said, "Your second brother accidentally pushed your second elder brother. Unexpectedly, your second elder brother was pregnant, and the baby was gone after the fall."
"I was still in the fields at that time. It was not at home that my family called me back, and then I knew about it. So they asked the fifth brother's family to come to your house to find you."
Cao Xiangnan frowned after hearing this and asked, "What happened between second brother and second elder brother? If you have something to say, just talk it out. Why did you fight?"
"How is second elder brother's child now? Have you asked a doctor to see him?"
"We asked Doctor Sun to come and see him." Father Cao said.
Doctor Sun is a barefoot doctor in their village. His medical skills are not very good. If the headache and fever are not serious, two doses of medicine will be enough. If it is serious, you still have to go to the town to see a doctor.
Cao Xiangnan looked at his father's expression and didn't think it was just a simple conflict. Would he just push the child away? He didn't want to get involved in the affairs of the compound, so as not to cause trouble for no reason. But since he was here, he couldn't just leave. He waved for Liu Qiang to come over and told him to go to the town to ask Doctor Luo to come over.
Liu Qiang received his master's order and drove away in the carriage.
"Is the second brother in the room? I'll go in and see him." This room is terrible, and no one is reliable. Cao Xiangnan thought he should go and see how he is doing first, so that he doesn't die in the room like he did before and no one knows.
"This..." Cao's father wanted to stop, but he knew that this matter could not be kept secret. He sighed and said, "Go, it's inside the house." Cao Xiangnan also knew which house Cao Laoer lived in, so he walked towards that house.