Wang Dong was a little annoyed when he heard this, and he said carefully: "Zhang Shixun, remember this, my concubine is not called Gouweihua, her name is Zaohua'er."
"Okay, okay! Don't be impatient with me. It's you who's taking a concubine anyway. Just do what you like."
When they entered the yard, Xiaoqian, holding Naughty's hand, was already waiting in the yard. When she saw Zhang Shixun, she hurriedly greeted him and said, "Happy New Year, Uncle!"
"Happy New Year, sister-in-law!" Zhang Shixun returned the gift and waved to Taoqi: "Taoqi, uncle bought you a gift, do you want it?"
"Yes!" Taoqi ran over happily, grabbed Zhang Shixun's hand, and reached into Zhang Shixun's sleeve.
"Silly boy, how much can you fit in your sleeves?" Zhang Shixun led the horse over and patted the gifts on its back. "There are cakes, sugar figurines, sesame candies, firecrackers..."
Before he could finish his words, Taoqi had already hugged Zhang Shixun's legs, "Uncle, I want them all, all of them!"
Xiao Qian came over and pulled Taoqi away, scolding him, "You are so rude! Mom just taught you that you should kowtow and greet your uncle when you see him. How could you forget?"
"Oh! I almost forgot." Taoqi fell to the ground with a "bang" and kowtowed three times in a row.
"Haha! Get up, kid. The ground is covered with snow." Zhang Shixun patted the snow off his knees and took out a small silver ingot from his pocket and handed it to him. "This is the New Year's money your uncle gave you."
"Uncle is so nice! Better than daddy." Taoqi grabbed the silver ingot and smiled widely.
Hearing this, Wang Dong kicked him and said, "You little bastard, I bribed you with just a piece of silver."
Zhang Shixun gave the candy figurine to Taoqi, took the gifts he had brought from his horse's back, and said to Xiaoqian with a smile, "I came here in a hurry, so I just bought some gifts."
"Uncle, you are so polite."
Arriving at the living room, Xiao Qian poured tea for everyone and left.
Zhang Shixun saw that Ding Dusai and Feng Yunu were a little reserved, so he said to them, "You don't come to the countryside easily, go and take a look around."
Feng Yunu said, "I was just thinking of taking a walk. This is my first time in the countryside, and everything is so new... Saisai, let's go."
After the two men left, Wang Dong said, "Lao Zhang, ever since you left last time, I've been concentrating on making explosives..."
"Have you figured it out?" Zhang Shixun asked before he finished speaking.
"What do you mean by 'did you get it?' You should ask how much you got."
"Yeah, yeah! How much did you do?"
"I did it...why don't you come with me to take a look." Wang Dong stood up and took Zhang Shixun to a house in the backyard. He lifted the straw mat on the earthen kang and then lifted a wooden board, revealing a black hole.
Zhang Shixun asked in surprise, "Huh? The tunnel is finished too?"
"It's still a long way off. We've only built a portion. It'll take at least another six months to complete the whole thing." Wang Dong jumped onto the kang and turned to Zhang Shixun, saying, "Don't just stand there like an idiot. Follow me."
Zhang Shixun jumped onto the kang and saw a ladder at the entrance of the tunnel, so he followed Wang Dong down into the tunnel.
Wang Dong pulled out a tinder from somewhere and lit a lantern with a crackle. He said proudly, "I'm going to build a tunnel to every household and circle Gao Laozhuang twice."
Zhang Shixun said, "This project is quite large. Using all the manpower and material resources on this is a bit putting the cart before the horse, isn't it?"
"At the beginning, more people were naturally needed. Now there are only a dozen or so digging... I know what you're worried about. It's nothing more than worrying about delaying the construction of the explosives and steel workshops... Don't worry, the steel workshop will be up and running by spring. As for the gunpowder... hehe! That's what I'm going to show you now."
"Haha!" Zhang Shixun felt relieved, as long as it didn't delay the important business.
Wang Dong led him forward, and there were several forks in the road along the way.
After walking for a while, Wang Dong stopped and said, "We're here."
As he said this, he climbed up a ladder.
Zhang Shixun followed him up and came out of the tunnel. He saw an adobe house and asked, "Where is this?"
"A corner of Zhuangzi is specially used as the entrance and exit of the tunnel." Wang Dong answered as he walked to a wall, reached out and pushed, and the wall was pushed open.
"Since the explosives were outside, why did you take me into the tunnel?"
"I want you to visit my tunnel."
"Ha! What an ingenious design!" Zhang Shixun followed him in and saw rows of wooden boxes inside. He said, "So this is the storage room. I was wondering, since you have a tunnel, why don't you put the storage room inside it?"
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