After transmigrating into the book, the prime minister always wants to farm with me.

Chapter 127 Dare to steal his wife?
Zhao Baoye arrived suddenly and left even more hastily. After eating a lunch prepared by Qi Yulu, he rushed back to town, saying he had something important to attend to.

Pei Yuanjun watched as Zhao Baoye hurriedly boarded the carriage and rushed back, a meaningful smile appearing on his face.

Who dares to steal his wife? He had already received a message from the capital via carrier pigeon that the Marquis of Chengjun's mansion had chosen a daughter of an official family as Zhao Baoye's wife, and they were going to present the betrothal gifts in the next few days while Zhao Baoye was away.

Naturally, his people stirred things up and told the old lady that Young Master Zhao had taken a fancy to a peasant girl in Qingtan County and wanted to take her back to be his wife.

Therefore, he was reluctant to go back and even brought back a portrait, which was none other than Qi Yulu.

Lady Hou then became anxious and hastily and hastily began to find suitable daughters from official families for Zhao Baoye.

Zhao Baoye also received the news suddenly and was so frightened that he rushed back to the capital overnight to make sure he could return before his family arranged the betrothal for the girl.

It's too late. If he goes back, he'll already be engaged. Then it'll be a high-ranking family breaking off the engagement, causing discord and offending people.

Qi Yunran didn't care that Zhao Baoye had said hello and left in a hurry.

She is now directing the bricklayers to place all the finished brick blanks on the brick-laying platform to dry them before firing.

Seeing that they were already making brick blanks quite well, Qi Yunran started stomping on the mud to prepare for making tile mud.

Among the people Pei Yuanjun found, one was a master tiler who knew how to make blue tiles.

Qi Yunran let them do it, and she would also offer her own ideas. The old bricklayer originally thought that she was just a young girl and didn't know anything.

However, he criticized this old craftsman who had been making tiles for decades, and had some complaints in his heart, but in the end he listened to Qi Yunran's advice.

When his eyes suddenly lit up and he saw that the clay bricks and blue tiles fired using Qi Yunran's method were harder, more practical, and lasted longer than his ancestral craftsmanship, he changed his opinion of her.

I'm absolutely in awe of her. I almost wanted to become Qi Yunran's apprentice.

Soon, the brick and tile blanks were almost finished thanks to the bricklayers' hard work over several days. Following Qi Yunran's firing method, the charcoal fire burned for seven days and seven nights, and finally, cold water was poured in.

As soon as they came out of the kiln, they were met with gasps of surprise; it turned out that all that had been fired were blue bricks.

It's incredibly hard, like stone. I've never seen such a hard and amazing brick before!
Pei Yuanjun picked up the brick and tested its hardness.

A smile appeared on Mo Tong's face. Indeed, it was quite good. Much harder than the bricks of the imperial city walls.

When Pei Yuanjun saw that Qi Yunran had successfully fired the bricks, his eyes gleamed with admiration. In his mind, however, he was calculating how much of an attack these bricks could withstand if they were used on the city walls of the border town.

For a moment, everyone looked at Qi Yunran with the same fervor as if they had found a treasure.

If this firing method were promoted nationwide, it would not only reduce the suffering of the people from disasters, but also allow their young master to quickly silence the treacherous officials in the court who were maliciously attacking him. It would be a great achievement!
Qi Yunran looked at them with inexplicable admiration and fervor.

However, she didn't mind and asked Pei Yuanjun.

Pei Yuanjun told her that the bricks in Louqu Kingdom were now fire bricks, which were red bricks fired with firewood, and were not as hard as the blue bricks she fired.

When Pei Yuanjun looked at her with deep eyes and asked her why she knew this ancient brick-making technique that had been lost, Qi Yunran jokingly deflected the question.

Louqu Kingdom was once very powerful, but after being attacked by several countries, the current retired emperor led his people in a tenacious and desperate resistance.

Although the lost territory was recovered, countless people died and were injured, and many treasures and traditional crafts were lost.

The method for making blue bricks has been lost for a long time, and later generations could only produce bricks that were not hard enough based on the remaining manuals and practical experience.

Unexpectedly, the problem was with the fuel; it shouldn't have been lit with firewood, but with coal.

(End of this chapter)