Lisko’s American Life

346. Mysterious mortise and tenon technique

The tired mercenaries had already gone to rest with their families, and David also led all the cowboys on the ranch over.

"gentlemen."

Not neatly saying hello, all the cowboys took off their hats and greeted Lisko.

"Why are you here? Has the ranch kept anyone?"

Lisko watched almost all the cowboys he knew come over.

"I've made arrangements sir, the ranch is done, it's cowboys' rest time."

David answered Lisko with a smile.

"You all need an extra job."

Lisko teased the cowboys.

"You know sir. I have a family."

David replied, then crossed Liscoe, arrived at the trailer and waited.

"Sir, I need money."

Jimmy scratched his hair, smiled innocently, and then walked over.

"Sir, the materials for sculpture are very expensive."

Hammer smoked his pipe.

"Sir, I also want to buy a house."

Weiss shrugged.

"Sir, I recently made a girlfriend, and the expenses have increased a lot."

This is Humber.

“Alcohol in the bar is also expensive.”

The cowboy prodigal Oonekin also walked past.

Lisko looked at everyone dumbfounded, and could only wave his hands helplessly, motioning for everyone to start working.

In fact, salary is not necessary for the cowboys, they just want to give back to the boss who has always been good to everyone within their ability.

Lisko watched with some pride as everyone began to get busy. People’s hearts are full of flesh. When you give something to others, and then you can get gratitude and feedback from others, you will feel that everything you do is worthwhile. Not in vain.

Moreover, there seem to be few such ways of getting along with the cowboys of Lisko and Li's Ranch. The relationship between everyone is more of a relationship of employment and being hired, rather than the relationship of becoming friends and family members.

However, Lisko's kind attitude did not make the cowboys feel that they could commit crimes, but instead showed more respect to Lisko.

Although Payne felt very tired, he felt much better when he returned to the ranch. Instead of going to rest with the mercenaries, he directed the cowboys to carefully remove the logs with their things from the container one by one. Remove it from the inside and place it firmly in the tent.

David was driving the crane, and the cowboys skillfully tied the front end and tail of the log with ropes, signaling David to start raising the boom and moving the car.

Everything is fast and skilled.

There are also cranes in the basic facilities of the ranch, which are needed in many places.

With the concerted efforts of everyone, one hundred logs were completed in only two hours.

And those Buddha statues made of stone carvings were also unloaded together.

"Thank you for your hard work. Let's take a rest, and there will be nothing else to do later. David, arrange to supply beer to everyone."

Lisko never left, holding his arms, watching everyone finish the work.

After all, this is not a simple log. It would be a bit embarrassing if the things carried in it were scattered all over the ground because of everyone's excessive movements.

While he wasn't afraid of the cowboys knowing these things, it wouldn't be good if they found out.

And the reason why he has been guarding here is also because of this. If there is any change, it can be dealt with in time.

Fortunately, everyone's movements were light and neat, and the situation that Lisko expected did not appear.

This also made Lisko and Payne Qiqi, who had been watching, heaved a sigh of relief.

The cowboy's job is just to transport these things from the container to the tent, and they can't help with the following things.

Watching the cowboys walk to the dormitory with shoulders and shoulders, David still took a few bottles of Liscott's good wine from the wine cellar to comfort everyone. It seemed that everyone was planning to drink and carnival.

"gentlemen."

Payne stood next to the log, watching Lisko come over with great excitement, and directly lifted the cloth covering the log with his hands.

Lisko looked up, down, left, and right, but found no clues at all. With his level, he couldn't see how the log was hollowed out to put things in it.

Payne saw Lisko's doubts, smiled mysteriously, hugged the upper part, and twisted to the right, the logs that were tightly closed were separated to the two ends, and a golden light shone.

"Hiss~"

Lisko immediately stepped forward to watch. Instead of shifting his gaze to the gold inside the log, he squatted on the ground and looked at the log.

"This is called sǔn mǎo".

Payne proudly read out these two words, and Lisko recalled it carefully, only to realize that the other party was talking about the ancient Chinese furniture craft mortise and tenon.

"There is a Chinese in the mercenary team. His parents have been doing this, so he is very familiar with these things."

Payne introduced that at the beginning, everyone was worried about how to hide things secretly. A Chinese team member Li Kui came up with an idea. It took him a few minutes to make the joint of two logs into a mortise and tenon joint, and then close them together. Then paint with the paint that has been mixed with the color of the trunk.

There is no trace of it, and these ignorant foreigners call it a miracle.

Of course Lisko knew about it. He remembered that this structural method was very popular in his previous life, and he also went to check this information on purpose.

The purpose of Payne's original introduction was to see his boss's surprised look, but Lisko's reaction completely exceeded his expectations, which made him a little disappointed.

The two worked together to pour out the gold from the opened log, and the scattered gold ornaments were piled up into a small pile, with Lisko's eyes shining.

Fortunately, it is now covered by tents, otherwise this scenery will definitely attract many people to exclaim.

"It's spectacular,"

Lisko touched the gold. These things have been a symbol of wealth since ancient times. I don’t know how many people worked hard for it, lost their lives, and sold their souls.

Lisko was absent-minded for a while, and suddenly felt very dull, and threw the gold in his hand on the ground.

He picked up the sledgehammer next to him and beat the Buddha statue vigorously.

once, twice,

The inside of the Buddha statue was smashed open, and the precious stones and gold ornaments inside were poured out in the rain.

Fortunately, a thick blanket was placed underneath it from the beginning, otherwise it would definitely be damaged.

Lisko picked up the gem closest to him, which was a sapphire. He held it and looked at the sun. This blue color was like the sea, deep, mysterious, and graceful.

The entire area is as big as a quail egg, and the gemstones with such a good appearance are worth more than gold of the same weight.

According to Payne's statistics, this batch of treasures includes more than 5,000 gold chains weighing 2.5 kilograms, 8 gold crowns, nearly 10 tons of gold ornaments and various jewelry, and 35 kilograms of gold coins from the East India Company period. , 25 Napoleonic coins and gold ornaments weighing more than 8 tons, as well as 9 baby elephants made of gold, and countless gemstones of various colors.

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