Chapter 146 Money-Adding Bird

The two talked about some other trivial things in the temple. When it was completely dark, they lit the oil lamp and ended the conversation.

Zhineng did not return to his house, but went to the yard behind the house.

The yard was very large, with several tiled houses and sheds used as laboratories, which were filled with equipment such as machine tools he purchased.

He looked at the time and it was already 10:25. He stood in the yard patiently waiting.

Suddenly, a black shadow flew over the horizon, silently, and landed beside Zhineng. It was a huge owl.

The owl was grayish white in color, about the height of a person, with a box on its back, and a sleeveless shirt on its chest, which read "Owned by Wushan Mechanical Institute, and will be punished if killed!", and the signature was a black mountain mark.

"It's you, Huijiu." Zhineng obviously knew the owl and gently patted the owl's beak.

"Meet Master Jinchui." The owl said with a strange accent.

Because Zhineng won the "Golden Hammer Award" for three consecutive years when he was in school, and no one has broken it so far. In addition, Zhineng was born as a young monk, so he has the reputation of "Golden Hammer Master".

"You deliver the goods to this room." Zhineng entered a side room and lit the oil lamp and said.

"Extra labor, you have to pay extra!" Owl said with his head tilted.

"... You want to pay extra for this distance?" Zhineng looked at the owl speechlessly.

"Our king taught us this way, saying that when we go out, people often trick us into working for nothing. We work hard and risk our lives to deliver goods, and we are also being taken advantage of for free. It's really too unprincipled. So our king said that no matter what we do, we have to pay." Owl said confidently.

"I didn't expect that bird classmate back then would become like this." Zhineng couldn't help but think of the owl classmate when he was in school 20 years ago. He couldn't even calculate the gears well, and he often copied his homework. He didn't expect that the transport birds under his command were all like desperate for money.

"Hey~ Master Jinchui, you seem to be complaining about our king." The owl called Huijiu's eyes lit up and continued: "Master Jinchui, you have to pay hush money, otherwise I will complain when I go back! If the king is angry, no one will deliver letters to you."

"Your king and I are classmates, what do you know!" Zhineng said: "Come in quickly."

The owl Huijiu shook his head and said: "No money, no work! Don't even think about making me move a step."

"..." Zhineng had to coax it and said: "Come here, I'll give you money."

"No, I was cheated like this last time."

Damn, which bastard classmate cheated these express birds earlier than him.

"I didn't see you say you wanted to pay more last time!" Zhineng had no choice but to return to the room, take out the silver, and stuff it into the pocket of Huijiu's sleeveless shirt.

The owl was immediately overjoyed and jumped into the room that Zhineng mentioned. It gently opened its wings, then rotated its head 180°, and pecked the mechanism behind it with its beak. The box slid down its wings.

This was an exquisite rattan box, which Zhineng opened neatly, and then saw letters from several teachers and friends, as well as several books. In addition, there were some exquisite parts.

The most advanced equipment for the steam power of the entire Ming Dynasty can only be produced in Wushan. Naturally, these parts are very expensive.

Although Zhineng has some machine tools, it cannot process things that are too precise, and still needs to be purchased from Wushan. For so many years, the gold and silver he and his senior brother Zhichi have saved, except for supplying some dignitaries, the rest is to buy these things.

He put a few letters in his arms first. He eagerly opened a few books, which were the internal weekly and monthly magazines of Wushan Mechanical Institute, all of which were the latest achievements of Wushan Mechanical Institute.

His steam wooden fish was also published as a way of thinking, and received many complaints from teachers and friends.

Seeing his teacher Linglong Jixian's comment: "Such a good talent, why do you want to be a monk!"

Zhengneng smiled at the comments under the teacher and friend magazine. Fortunately, there is a courier bird that allows him to keep in touch with these teachers and friends. Looking at the front page of some monthly magazines, some people have proposed the idea of ​​steam aircraft. I think there will be experimental results in a few years.

Huiqi touched Zhineng with his mouth and said, "Master Jinchui, if there is no cargo, I will go back."

This interrupted Zhineng's thoughts of reading, and he remembered that this was not the time to read. He said, "Why is there no cargo? I have a few letters and a few things for you to take back."

"It costs more!"

"Aren't you taking it along the way?"

"The king said that the cargo that comes along will also cost more!"

"Is your king taking the wrong medicine! He wants money for this and that! He is obsessed with money!" Zhineng said angrily.

"The king has recently taken a fancy to a princess of the peacock clan, and the bride price others want is very high!" Huiqi gossiped about his king.

"Is he an idiot? What's so good about a female peacock!"

"But... I think female peacocks are really pretty." Huiqi said.

"..."

Birdmen are all birdmen!

"Wait for me for a moment. I'll write a letter to criticize your king." After saying that, Zhineng returned to the house, picked up a charcoal pencil, and began to greet classmate Owl.

Perhaps there were too many things he wanted to complain about, so he wrote the letter quickly. He put it in a box with other things and gave it to Huiqi.

In front of Huiqi's piercing eyes, he stuffed a few silver ingots on his sleeveless shirt.

God knows what these birds want silver for!

Oh, yes, to save up the dowry for their king.

I am really impressed. What kind of bird needs a dowry for marriage.

"Master Jinchui, I'm going!"

The owl saw the silver and said with satisfaction, then flapped its wings and flew away. Zhineng knew that this owl, which is a specialty of Wushan, flies silently and can fly more than a thousand miles in one night, which is very convenient for delivering goods.

He returned to the hut with great expectations. The monthly magazine just now was very exciting and had many ideas, which made him feel itchy.

Suddenly, he saw a person in his room holding a weekly magazine under the oil lamp, and reading it with relish.

"Who are you?" Zhineng looked at the red-eyed and white-haired man in front of him vigilantly. He put his hand on the hidden buckle on the wall at the door. As long as he buckled it, a few muskets would hang down from the beams and kill the person in front of him!

"I am a curious passerby. I saw the steam wooden fish today. I also want to see if there are Cyber ​​West Heaven, Mecha Bodhisattva, PDF Sutra?"

What the hell is this mess! He who suddenly came in the middle of the night is not a good person.

With a "click", he pressed the hidden button. The beam of the hut turned over, and several black muskets stretched out.

"Who are you? Tell the truth, otherwise the muskets may..."

Before he finished speaking, he saw that in the blink of an eye, the person in front of him seemed to move, but also seemed not to move, and the muskets were twisted into a knot.

With a "thump", he knelt down and said: "The immortal has come to my humble home, what can I do for you?"

"..."Tang Yu looked at this monk, he was quite sensible!

Mouth! It's absurd to ask for a gift for a bird's marriage!