Li Erniu, who was usually very self-conscious about his body, seemed to regain his confidence as a man after hearing the cheers of the people around him. He suddenly became playful and used the crane as a seesaw, lifting his wife up and down.
"Li Erniu, you bastard, stop playing around and put me down right now, or I'll break your thing tonight!"
Hearing such bold words, the onlookers cheered even louder: "Li Erniu, you have really disgraced the men of Wuchuan. In all my years, I have never seen a Wuchuan man who is afraid of his wife."
Upon hearing this, Li Erniu was enraged and cursed, "What kind of woman is as wild as you? Today I'll teach her a lesson, or she'll know how many eyes the Horse King has!"
After saying that, Li Erniu leaped high into the air, almost knocking his wife away. His wife was so frightened that she quickly begged for mercy: "Brother Erniu, I was wrong. I will never dare to make fun of you again!"
Li Erniu ignored everything and continued to fuss for a while, making everyone burst into laughter and sweeping away the gloom of last night's fire.
Finally, at Lü Tu's behest, Li Erniu put his wife down. When he saw his wife running towards him, he quickly covered his head, thinking he would be given a beating as usual.
Unexpectedly, he was greeted with a big hug and a familiar voice said, "Husband, I won't scold you anymore. Let's make our lives better, that's more important than anything else."
Li Erniu looked up at his wife's rugged jawline, his eyes slightly moist: "Really, wife?"
His wife bent down slightly, leaned over, and gave Li Erniu a quick kiss on his stubble-covered face. A blush rose on her dark cheeks. "Satisfied now?" she asked.
Li Erniu happily bowed repeatedly to Lü Tu, saying, "Thank you, sir, for letting me be a real man again!"
Looking at Li Erniu, who was a head shorter than his wife, Lu Tu felt that the pair was ridiculous and couldn't help but laugh, "Alright, from now on, live a good life together and don't fight anymore."
"Yes, sir!"
Hu Delu came to Lu Tu's side and said with a smile, "Sir, your mechanism is really quite ingenious. With this thing, we can save a lot of energy whether we are transporting fine iron or the villagers are transporting wood."
Lu Tu explained, "This is called a crane. With your intelligence, you should know how to make it, right? Go back and make a few more for your own use."
Hu Delu grinned: "By the way, sir, what were you planning to have me make for you?"
“A mold.” As he spoke, Lü Tu squatted down and drew a cuboid on the ground with a few strokes.
"A long box?"
"That's right! I use it to make bricks."
"Understood, sir. I'll take care of it right away!"
"We need to be quick. Everything else can wait. Once this thing is made, it'll be a one-time solution. They're waiting to use it over there."
"Yes, sir!"
Lu Tu then taught everyone how to use the crane. Fortunately, the operation was simple, and the refugees learned it in no time.
Subsequently, near the storage of logs and the uncut forest, Lü Tu led his men to build several cranes, which greatly improved the efficiency of transportation.
Originally, it required manual labor to lift the load onto an oxcart, and then use the oxcart to transport it to the storage area.
Now all you have to do is roll it onto the crane's hoisting rope, and it can be easily hoisted onto the oxcart. This makes things much easier, but it's tough on the oxen and horses. Before, there was time to wait for loading and unloading, but now they don't even have time to rest.
If Lu Tu hadn't reminded them not to exhaust the ox to death, these guys, so engrossed in their new experience, wouldn't have noticed that the ox was already foaming at the mouth from exhaustion.
After all that commotion, the sky darkened again. Lü Tu felt that the days were passing by so quickly, and there was never enough time in a day. There were just too many things to do.
I needed to pee when I passed by the drill ground, so I decided to try Zhu Zhaojian's outhouse. The houses next door had all burned down last night, but this outhouse was still intact.
Before entering, Lü Tu had mentally prepared himself for a particularly dirty and chaotic environment, but to his surprise, it was much cleaner than he had imagined, except for the place where he could stand.
The fact that they were able to take such good care of public hygiene even without being reminded by Lü Tu shows that their efforts in promoting moral and ethical conduct have had a positive effect. It demonstrates that they consider this place their home, which is of utmost importance!
Just as he was about to pull up his pants and leave, he suddenly heard a very faint voice at his feet: "Help..."
"Huh? Is someone in the latrine?" Lu Tu forced himself to endure the stench and began peering down into the latrine.
Is anyone downstairs?
"have..."
Following the sound, Lü Tu indeed found a dirty boy weakly scrambling in the latrine.
Lu Tu was shocked: "Wait a moment, I'm coming to save you right away!"
As soon as he came out of the latrine, Lü Tu shouted to the people working in the distance, "Bring me an axe! Someone fell into the latrine!"
Upon hearing this, many people put down what they were doing and quickly ran over with their tools.
"Sir, who fell down?"
Lu Tu pointed at the latrine: "Come on, smash this latrine open!"
A man, eager to try, came over holding an axe: "Sir, let me do it."
The man smashed the wooden planks at the bottom of the latrine in a few swift movements and exclaimed to the people outside, "There really is someone there! Isn't that Sun Erwa? Quick, get a rope!"
Someone in the crowd shouted, "Erwa's mother, Erwa isn't dead! We've found him!"
"Erwa, my child, Mother is here!" Upon hearing this, a peasant woman burst into tears of joy. Ignoring everyone else, she pushed through the crowd to the edge of the latrine, disregarding the filth below, and called out to Erwa inside, "My child, Mother is here, don't be afraid!"
As she was about to jump down, Lu Tu quickly grabbed her: "Sister-in-law Sun, don't make things worse, let us save the child first."
At this moment, the villagers brought a rope. Lü Tu tied a knot in the rope and put it around Sun Erwa. Erwa struggled to hold the rope.
Lu Tu explained, "Don't grab the rope. Put it around your body and I'll pull you up."
Soon, they pulled Sun Erwa out. Erwa's mother didn't care about the dirty little boy and rushed over to hug him tightly, crying loudly, "May our ancestors bless us, may God bless us! You scared your mother to death!"
A bystander laughed and said, "Sister-in-law Sun, you should thank Lord Lü. If he hadn't failed to discover Erwa, the child probably wouldn't have made it through the night."
Sister-in-law Sun was startled awake. She quickly wiped her face, but it only made it dirtier. She immediately knelt down and kowtowed to Lu Tu, pressing down on Erwa, who was still terrified, beside her: "Quickly kowtow to Lord Lu and thank him for saving my life!"
Lu Tu quickly helped them up, took off his own coat and draped it over Sun Erwa: "Take the child to take a bath, and make sure he drinks plenty of hot water afterward."
"Thank you, Lord Lü. He is my only son. I am willing to serve you like a slave to repay your life-saving grace!"
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