Zheng Quchi recognized the sound as a single flat piece.
The man in black had been secretly observing what was happening in the camp and naturally knew that Shan Bian and she were irreconcilable enemies. Now that he had come looking for her in such a hurry, the two sides had run into each other, and the situation was hard to explain.
Besides, as partners who were both traitors, she couldn't allow them to meet under these circumstances.
After all, in order to continue to live a life of hiding, she had already secretly become a double agent.
"Someone must have noticed I wasn't in the barracks and came looking for me. This pool of blood on the ground is too suspicious. I'll go and distract him. You should leave too."
Wei Yao had been wondering who had sent him, whether it was one of her scorpion tribe accomplices or a spy from the Julu Kingdom, but they were currently in a very delicate balance. If he insisted on staying, he might only provoke them into a desperate act.
It's not worth the risk.
In any case, Sang Xuanqing and his group are determined to win it over from Mo Ye of Julu Kingdom. As for dealing with the other scoundrels, there's no rush.
He pretended to know nothing and nodded: "Alright, I'll be going now."
But after taking only a few steps, he turned back and earnestly advised her, "You should show more respect to that person in the future."
Zheng Quchi was taken aback.
She felt that "Liu Fengmian" was Yuwen Sheng's strategist, Tiechui. Judging from the way the man in black was so secretive about him, he must either be of high status or have sophisticated methods.
For someone like her, a technical professional, it's best to avoid straining relationships with political advisors, as they are easily vulnerable to being sabotaged.
"I understand."
According to her modern-day aquaman friend, men and women are essentially the same when they're angry, whether in the workplace or in life.
Talking to him about principles won't work. The most effective way to resolve past grievances is to humble yourself and coax him.
Although she had never coaxed anyone before, she only needed to imitate her playboy friend's coaxing techniques.
When Shan Bian found Zheng Quchi, he first looked around and, finding nothing amiss, asked, "Are you alright?"
When Zheng Quchi saw that he was wearing a cloak, a hat, and his face was covered, and he was completely covered in black, the corner of his mouth twitched.
She was so naive to think he would come looking for her without any preparation. Little did she know he had already prepared an escape route, fully armed, striving to make a safe retreat.
"I'm fine, what brings you here?"
"It's Qiu. He came to the barracks covered in blood, asking me to come and save you. What happened?"
Upon hearing this, Zheng Quchi felt a sharp pain in a certain part of his body.
But she quickly slapped him away. The worst thing a double agent can do is to develop a saintly feeling for the side they are betraying. Zheng Quchi is now a heartless idiot.
She feigned a puzzled expression and guessed, "This matter is not simple. It seems that the person who kidnapped me deliberately lured Qiu out. He thought he had successfully killed Qiu, so he released me. Do you think he might be Qiu's enemy?"
Da Yuanzhongqiu has once again been unfairly blamed.
After being guided by her words, Shan Bian also felt that it made sense. He saw that she was standing in the wilderness, dressed in thin clothes and shivering from the cold, so he was about to take off his cloak... but after thinking about it, he withdrew his hand.
Zheng Quchi, who was about to reach out to thank him, was speechless.
"Taking off the cloak would easily expose my figure, and who knows if someone is secretly watching me," he said cautiously.
Zheng Quchi's expression froze.
...What a ridiculous, superficial colleague relationship! No wonder "Brother Qing" didn't hesitate to take action against you. It's just a pity you were unlucky and got killed by the watcher Qiu first.
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Qiu must have been seriously injured, as he did not return to the barracks until the next day.
Dan Bian said he would find a secluded place to heal his wounds and that there was no need to worry about him.
With one less pair of eyes constantly watching him, Zheng Quchi felt much less of a thorn in his side.
Ever since she was kidnapped without anyone noticing, Shan Bian seemed to realize something and became even more cautious.
He made full use of his bald head's ugly appearance, and whenever he had the chance, he would ridicule and slander her, trying to draw a line between them that they were not familiar with each other.
Zheng Quchi rubbed his forehead, feeling that he had overdone it.
Zheng Quchi is now an outsider in the local camp. Everyone thinks she comes from a wealthy family and has superb carpentry skills, but her actual skills are clumsy.
Therefore, Lei and Qing would sometimes come to her to solve problems, but they never let her get involved in the work.
But Zheng Quchi wasn't idle either. She wandered around the camp, sometimes following the stonemasons to quarry stone, sometimes watching the carpenters saw wood, and sometimes building with hammers and sledgehammers. Now she was squatting at the camp gate, watching the laborers work hard to dig trenches.
Trenches are used for military defense and to block traffic.
With cheap labor, they dug shovel by shovel, and more and more soil piled up around them. Moving and removing the soil became the most time-consuming and laborious task.
The laborers worked in deep ravines, with people lowering bamboo baskets down from above, filling them with soil, and then laboriously pulling them up the slope. The efficiency of this back-and-forth process was extremely low.
Seeing this, an idea came to her mind.
This only requires installing a pulley mechanism, which can save a lot of trouble. In addition to earthmoving, pulley mechanisms can also be used for material transportation in high-rise construction, land irrigation, and so on.
This would be a very meaningful thing in terms of construction efficiency.
If you think of it, you do it.
Zheng Quchi rolled his legs up like a flying wheel and ran to the official's barracks, where he borrowed Xuan paper and a brush.
The foreman, perhaps acting on orders from above, gave her whatever she asked for without a word.
Zheng Quchi drew a diagram of a fixed pulley on paper from memory, and then combined the fixed pulley with a lever to draw a soil-lifting device that was similar to a well frame.
It consists of an upright frame with a long, thin lever attached to it. The fixed pulley in the middle is the fulcrum, the end is a drag rope, and the front is a bamboo basket or hanging rope for carrying things.
By utilizing both levers and fixed pulleys, the weight can be increased while reducing manpower consumption.
With limited time, she built a relatively simple crane to speed up the project.
When she handed this simple "earth-moving tool" that could be made quickly to the foreman, he was initially unimpressed. But after she explained its uses and its derivative uses, his eyes lit up and he was so surprised that he slapped his thigh.
"I... I once heard that the farmers in Beiyuan were the most relaxed and carefree, tirelessly drawing water to irrigate hundreds of areas all day long. I heard that they saved labor by using machinery. Unfortunately, although I was very excited when I heard this, I couldn't steal this technology to benefit the people of my Fuxian County!"
steal?
In this day and age, intellectual property rights are extremely valuable. If someone dares to steal someone else's technology, that person might just turn on them and attack.
Seeing his overjoyed expression, Zheng Quchi seemed to have forgotten that these were not blueprints he had gotten for free from Beiyuan, but rather designs she had just created.
"My earth-moving tool is quite different from those of other countries. Would you be so kind as to allow me to make it?"
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