Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 117 The Second Choice

   Fei Qian and Pang Tong stood outside the Huangjiayin courtyard.

  Come to the Huang family, this is the second choice given by Pang Tong.

  Although people have already arrived here, Fei Qian still felt a little uncertain in his heart, and asked Pang Tong again: "Are you sure you are looking for the Huang family? Do you owe the Huang family?"

  Pang Tong is a little helpless, you have asked this question three times, okay? But still said: "No! Sure not!"

Originally, Pang Tong's idea for Fei Qian was to do it directly according to the wishes of the Cai family. It was simple and convenient, and owed favors at most. The way, happened to be that Pang Tong remembered what happened in Liu Cai's marriage a few days ago, so he brought Fei Qian to Huang's house.

   It is no wonder that Fei Qian is skeptical. Favors are very difficult to deal with. Sometimes a favor will play a key role in later generations, let alone the Han Dynasty, which pays more attention to face.

   Owing a favor is not too big, and it is not too small, but what if it is taken out at a critical moment? Although the Cai family currently occupies half of the political circle in Jingxiang, but when Cao Cao arrives in the future, if there is something wrong with the Cai family, when Fei Qian is asked to return the favor, will he return it or not?

Therefore, Fei Qian felt that he could not owe the Cai family any favors, and tried not to owe it as much as possible, but why he would not owe the Huang family when he went to the Huang family, which made Fei Qian puzzled. , there should be no problem...

  Pang Tong and the Huang family are actually very familiar. If he came by himself, he could go in directly without reporting, but now he brought a Feiqian, so he had to let the concierge of the Huang family go in and report first.

   Not long ago, two people came out from the yard, one of them was Huang Chengyan, the head of the Huang family, and the other was a middle-aged strong man whom Fei Qian had never seen before and did not know.

A middle-aged man with Chinese character face, slightly protruding cheekbones, thick and short eyebrows, unremarkable appearance, but unusually sharp eyes, although Fei Qian only looked at it briefly, he was noticed by him, and followed Fei Qian's gaze , actually made Fei Qian faintly feel a sting...

  The middle-aged strong man crossed his hands as a salute to Huang Chengyan, and said, "Thank you, Patriarch! Farewell!"

Huang Chengyan nodded, and sent the middle-aged man away first. Fang turned his head and said to Pang Tong: "Hey, you are so polite today, are you still waiting outside? Did you get scolded by Mr. Pang for using me as a shield?" Let me tell you first, the balance is not in my hands now, don't ask me for it..." While joking with Pang Tong, he nodded at Fei Qian.

"That's not true! By the way, Tianping... Oh, forget it, we have business today..." Pang Tong ran to Huang Chengyan, the head of the Huang family, and said something in a low voice, as if explaining to Huang Chengyan the purpose of He Feiqian's visit .

   "What? Oh... oh..." Huang Chengyan looked at Fei Qian with some surprise while listening to Pang Tong's explanation.

   Fei Qian had a request for someone, so he naturally smiled and bowed to Huang Chengyan.

"...So, hey, this place is not the place to talk, come in first...Shiyuan, you take Ziyuan to the side hall first...Well, I have some things to collect, and I will be here in a while..." Huang Chengyan ordered, and then Asking Pang Tong to entertain Fei Qian for him, he went to the backyard by himself.

  Anyway, Pang Tong was familiar with it, and he didn't shirk it, so he took Fei Qian to the side hall and sat down.

   A group of servants brought some dried fruit and some tea, Huang Chengyan came back from the backyard, and with a smile on his face, he said, "It's been a long time! It's been a long time!"

  After taking his seat, Huang Chengyan didn't say much nonsense, and said to Fei Qian, "No need to worry about Ziyuan, my Huang family will take care of this matter!"

   Agreeing so easily?

   Fei Qian really couldn’t believe it, but since Huang Chengyan, the patriarch of the Huang family, said it, it must mean it, so he left the table to thank Huang Chengyan, but was stopped by Huang Chengyan...

"It's just a few trivial things, Ziyuan doesn't have to be like this." Huang Chengyan laughed and said, "It's still Ziyuan's luck, if it's usual, it's still a bit difficult to produce 40,000 arrows in a month, but now it happens that the craftsman It's well staffed, so don't worry..."

  Pang Tong blinked his eyes, "Ah" and said: "But it coincides with the Huang family's final exam? Haha, it's really... By the way, what new and ingenious things are there this year, let me learn a lot?"

Huang Chengyan laughed, but without hiding it, he casually took a small bronze tube from the wooden frame behind him, handed it to Pang Tong, and said, "This is the item of this year's new master craftsman, Shi Yuan, you You might as well review one or two…”

  Pang Tongtong took it, and said with a smile: "Mr. Huang made fun of me again. I just opened my eyes. How can I taste it...Well, looking at this style, could it be that the engraving is missing? Hmm? There is a mechanism here..."

After all, Pang Tong was smart, and he understood the beauty of the omission at a glance, and he couldn't help but praised: "Sure enough, he has a clever idea. In this way, only one omission is needed to calculate three kinds of time. It is convenient and easy to use. What a wonderful thing! A clever thing." !" Seeing Fei Qian stretching his neck aside, after asking Huang Chengyan for a signal, he handed the missing mark to Fei Qian.

   It is the first time that Fei Qian has seen such an exquisite ancient timer.

  The small bronze tube is not big, but it is gorgeous in shape. It has three small feet, the body of the tube is engraved with cloud patterns, and there are patterns on the top of the handle. It is really very beautiful.

There is a small water outlet under the barrel, and a small mica sheet with scales is installed on the water spout, which can be rotated to control the water output. It must be one of the three different standards of time that Pang Tong said just now use.

  There is also a small hole on the lifting beam, and a long stick like a ruler is inserted in the hole. Three different numerical values ​​are engraved on the stick, which should be used to subdivide the time and intuitively reflect the change of time...

Such a tube of water can be like an hourglass. Under the control of the mica sheet of the water spout, it can roughly calculate three different lengths of time. Break down the time and give an intuitive performance...

   But, the scale of this ruler...

   Fei Qian slightly frowned.

  Huang Chengyan, who was observing Fei Qian, noticed this expression, and asked Fei Qian, "Did Ziyuan find something wrong? Let's just say it, don't have any worries."

Fei Qian thought for a while, just now Huang Chengyan, the head of the Huang family, promised to help him so readily, so it would be bad for him to be twitchy now, anyway, this is just a small problem, and it shouldn't matter if you talk about it, so he said: "Huang Gong , this ruler, the difference between the upper and lower scales is the same..."

   Isn't that what it should be, and this is also a problem? Huang Chengyan looked at Fei Qian with some puzzlement...

  (end of this chapter)