Three Kingdoms

Fei Qian and Pang Tong stood outside the Huang Family Hermitage.

Coming to the Huang family was the second option given by Pang Tong.

Although people had already arrived here, Fei Qian still felt a little uncertain in his heart, and asked Pang Tong again: "Are you sure you are right to find the Huang family? Don't you owe the Huang family any favors?"

Pang Tong was a little helpless. You asked this question three times, okay? But he still said: "No! I'm 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 at most he owed favors. However, he didn't expect that Fei Qian, who had been around in later generations, didn't like to owe favors, so he asked Pang Tong to think of another idea. The solution was that Pang Tong happened to remember what happened about the marriage between Liu and Cai a few days ago, so he dragged Fei Qian to the Huang family.

It's no wonder that Fei Qian is doubtful. Things like favors are very difficult to deal with. Sometimes a favor will play a key role in later generations, not to mention the Han Dynasty, which paid more attention to face.

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

Therefore, Fei Qian felt that he could not owe the Cai family any favors, as much as possible, but why he would not owe the Huang family anything when he went to the Huang family? This puzzled Fei Qian, and Pang Tong refused to say it clearly, but since Pang Tong repeatedly affirmed , there should be no problem...

Pang Tong is actually very familiar with the Huang family. If he came alone, he could go in directly without reporting. But now that he brought Fei Qian with him, he had to let the Huang family's concierge go in first to report.

It was not long before two people came out of the courtyard. One of them was Huang Chengyan, the head of the Huang family, and the other was a middle-aged strong man who Fei Qian had never seen before and did not recognize.

A middle-aged man with a strong Chinese character face, slightly protruding cheekbones, and thick, thick eyebrows. His appearance is unattractive, but his eyes are extremely sharp. Although Fei Qian only looked at it briefly, he was noticed by him and followed Fei Qian's gaze. , actually gave Fei Qian a vague feeling of being stung...

The middle-aged man crossed his arms to Huang Chengyan as a salute and said, "This is how I thank the master of the family! Take my leave!"

Huang Chengyan nodded and sent the middle-aged man away first. Then he turned around and said to Pang Tong: "Hey, you are so polite today and you are still waiting outside? Did you get scolded by Pang Gong and use me as a shield?" ? Let’s talk first, that scale is not in my hands now, don’t ask for it from me..." While joking with Pang Tong, he nodded at Fei Qian.

"No! By the way, Tianping... Oh, forget it, I have business today..." Pang Tong ran to Huang Chengyan, the head of the Huang family, and said something in a lowered voice, as if he was explaining to Huang Chengyan and Fei Qian purpose of coming.

"What? Oh...oh..." While listening to Pang Tong's explanation, Huang Chengyan glanced at Fei Qian in surprise.

Fei Qian had something to ask for, so he naturally smiled and offered his hand to Huang Chengyan.

"... So, hey, this 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 back in a moment..." Huang Chengyan ordered After saying this, he asked Pang Tong to entertain Fei Qian for him and went to the backyard.

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

A group of servants served some dried fruits and some tea. Not long after they served some tea, Huang Chengyan came back from the backyard. With a smile on his face, he said: "It's been a long time! It's been a long time!"

After Huang Chengyan sat down, he didn't say any nonsense or go around in circles, and said to Fei Qian: "Zi Yuan, don't worry, my Huang family will take over this matter!"

You agreed so easily?

Fei Qian really couldn't believe it, but since it was Huang Chengyan, the head of the Huang family, who said it, it must be true, so he left the table to bow to Huang Chengyan and thank him, but was unexpectedly stopped by Huang Chengyan...

"It's just a little thing, Ziyuan doesn't have to be like this." Huang Chengyan laughed and said, "It's still your luck, Ziyuan. If it were normal, it would be somewhat difficult to shoot 40,000 arrows in a month, but now it happens that the craftsmen We have enough manpower, so don’t worry…”

Pang Tong blinked and said "Ah": "But it happens to be the Huang family's big exam? Haha, that's really... By the way, is there anything new and clever this year that I can learn more about?"

Huang Chengyan laughed, not hiding it, and casually took a small bronze tube from the wooden frame behind him, handed it to Pang Tong, and said: "This is the gift of this year's new master craftsman, Shi Yuan. You might as well make some comments..."

Pang Tong took it and said with a smile: "Huang Gong is making fun of me again. I just want to open my eyes. How can I appreciate it... Well, looking at this style, could it be that it is omitted? Huh? There is a mechanism here... …”

After all, Pang Tong was smart. He understood the beauty of the oval at a glance and couldn't help but praise: "It's really clever. In this way, only one oval can calculate three kinds of time. It's convenient and easy to use. What a good thing! What a clever thing. !" Seeing Fei Qian on the side stretching his neck, after getting Huang Chengyan's signal, he handed the oval to Fei Qian.

This was the first time Fei Qian had seen such an exquisite ancient timepiece.

The small bronze barrel is not big, but it has a gorgeous shape. It has three small feet, a barrel body engraved with cloud patterns, and patterns on the handles. It is indeed very beautiful.

There is a small water outlet under the barrel, and a small mica sheet with a scale is installed on the water spout. It can be rotated to control the amount of water output. It must be one of the hours that Pang Tong mentioned just now for calculating three different standards. 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 wooden stick, which should be used to subdivide time and intuitively reflect the change of time... …

In this way, a tube of water can be roughly calculated like an hourglass under the control of the mica piece at the spout. At the same time, with the floating ruler on the handle, the three different times can be calculated again. Moment is broken down and given an intuitive performance...

However, the scale of this ruler...

Fei Qian frowned slightly.

Huang Chengyan, who was observing Fei Qian, noticed this expression and asked Fei Qian, "Did Ziyuan find anything wrong? You might as well say it, don't have any worries."

Fei Qian thought for a while. Huang Chengyan, the head of the Huang family, was so willing to help him just now, so it would be bad for him to be coy about it now. Anyway, this is just a small problem. It shouldn't matter if he talks about it, so he said: "Mr. Huang , the difference between the upper and lower scales of this ruler is the same..."

Isn’t that how it should be? Is this also a problem? Huang Chengyan looked at Fei Qian with some confusion...