Chapter 368: Master and Grandmaster

became a habit, so gradually you lost [something]. 。“How else could this be possible After giving birth to the third daughter and the second son, there’s been no movement for so many years. I heard t...Ye Wen remained at Qiaoguo Pavilion until dusk the following day before leaving. The next day, he went again and stayed until dusk. 。For a whole five days, an extremely simple mechanical clock appeared in the Qicha Pavilion, looking quite easy to understand to Ye Wen at night. 。Of course, five hours is not enough to make a watch, especially when you have nothing and start from scratch. 。But Ye Wen provided them with gears and some necessary parts. 。These parts were not conjured with magic, but were instead forged in the alchemy room of the Yanhuashan Palace, with assistance from Master Lǐfēi. 。 She gave Qiqiao Pavilion the following order: "It was already made before, so just keep it in Qiqiao Pavilion and use it when needed." 。She also drew up blueprints of how to make the gears and parts, and diligently taught them to the people in Qichao Pavilion. 。As for the body, it was crafted by a carpenter according to the drawings. 。The new clock no longer measures time in twelve hours, but instead adopted the later method of dividing the twelve hours into twenty-four, and explaining the meaning of these twenty-four periods, as well as the comparison with the twelve hours. 。The clock has a pendulum and strikes a clear, pleasant sound at every hour. 。 And in order to balance practicality and aesthetic performance, Ye Wen also made two birds on the clock face. When it strikes the hour, the two birds will stretch out from the clock face, flap their wings, and peck at each other. 。Everyone at Qiaqiao Pavilion was dumbfounded. They even spent two more nights comparing the new clock with sundials and water clocks. 。When the time of discovery was found to be completely identical, even more precise than those two, everyone knelt before Ye Wenyan and shouted in unison: "Ancestor!" At this moment, they completely forgot that Ye Wenyan had also promised to teach them the method of refining gold, as well as the advanced polishing and forging techniques of later generations. 。Zhuier was particularly excited about this, but Yè Wényán didn't want to accept the title "Ancestor". 。She told people, “I am not a master craftsman, I just happen to know how to make these things.” 。And the reason I'm bringing this to you is quite clear: I want the two of you, skilled artisans as you are, to do a job for me. I have my eye on your uncle Yingnan. 。"Hearing this, Yingnan was extremely excited. She bowed her head to the ground and called out, “Master!” Ye Wen thought for a moment and didn't refute her. " 。She is unwilling to take a physician as a disciple, but that doesn't mean she cannot take a skilled craftsman as an apprentice. 。The Night Family in their past life also raised several skilled craftsmen. This was because Master Ye Xuan, the head of the family, needed artifacts for... 。At that time, it was no longer an era of frequent appearances of magic weapons. Almost the entire world had lost its pure land. Cities and villages built with steel and concrete couldn't accommodate a world where magic existed. 。Therefore, the Xuan脈 Night Clan could only make their own artifacts. If they wanted the artifacts to look good, they could only rely on the hands of skilled craftsmen. 。She was skilled in many crafts, largely because she had learned from the several artisans who lived with her family. 。Seeing that Ye Wen didn't refuse, Yingnan was overjoyed. Though this master was much older than him, it didn't matter. He knelt before Ye Wen, not feeling at all that the other was just a girl who had just come of age. 。As if it were destined, she was his master. Everything felt so natural. 。"Please, Master, continue choosing people." 。"Yingnan reminded Yè Wēn, "It's not just two, Master wants to pick as many as he wants." 。All those who have been chosen, including myself, will go to the county office tomorrow to file a case, hand over our deeds, and from then on, follow our master for life. 。Ye Wen listened to his words, his gaze swept over the crowd of skilled craftsmen, finally landing on the young man who had argued with Ying Nan earlier. 。"What's your name" she asked the other person. 。That year, the person's spirits lifted, and they loudly answered, "My name is Shangguan Xiaoya, and I am eighteen years old!" Ye Wenyan nodded. "Good, then count you in..." 。Some members of the Ying family were a little unhappy because at first, Ye Wen had said he would choose two members of the Ying family. Now, Shangguan Xiaoya had taken away one spot, leaving only Nanshi Shu as the chosen member of the Ying family. 。Ye Wen noticed their emotional changes, so he proactively spoke to them: "Going out of the palace with me isn't necessarily a good thing, and staying in Qiaoguo doesn't necessarily mean there won't be any losses." 。I only ask you, did the Qichaogong used to listen to Mr. Yingpeng's words Now, who do they listen to People answered: "Now we listen to Southern Uncle Master, but if the master leaves, we have to choose another responsible person." 。”

Ye Wenyan thought for a moment, and asked them: "Can I be responsible"

The people were stunned, then immediately became happy: "Good! Of course! If Master could personally be in charge of Qiaoguo Pavilion, our skills would certainly be able to improve further, and Qiaoguo Pavilion would become a truly unique Qiaoguo Pavilion, second to none!"

Ye Wenyan said again: "But after all, this is in the palace, and I can't come often. Even if the two of them follow me outside, they won't be able to see me often>>>" 。So among you, you still need to choose someone to replace Yingnan's position, and it must be a member of the Ying family. 。One still needs to stand firm in this palace. 。“ This is not difficult, and Nan soon had a candidate. 。He pointed at a man in his twenties and thirties to Ye Wen and said, "This is my cousin. Since the head of the house left the palace, he has been managing Qiaogao Pavilion with me." 。Now we are one outside and one inside, able to look after each other from both sides. Master can do whatever he needs, with people or otherwise, it's all convenient. 。" That person also stood before Ye Wen and bowed deeply, calling out, “Master!” 。"Then introducing himself, "My name is Ying Dongliu, and I am twenty-eight years old." 。I am honored and humbled to be entrusted with this important responsibility by my cousin and master. 。"Ye Wen didn't have any objections to this. Over the next two days, he imparted his knowledge of refining gold to a higher purity and more advanced techniques for hammering and forging it to the skilled artisans at Qiqiao Pavilion. 。By the time she was finally ready to leave with her people, Qiaqiao Pavilion had already treated her like a god. They believed their master, Ye Si Jie, was a fairy who had descended to earth because only a fairy could possess such miraculous skills that shattered the sky, and only a fairy could teach such impossible arts found nowhere in the mortal realm. 。They are truly blessed to have received the true teachings of immortals, and they should also be grateful to the head of the family for creating a good karma for them. 。They just don't know that the refining method of gold uses many chemical raw materials that were not available until later generations. The reason why ancient people couldn't extract high-purity gold is because they didn't master the production and use of those chemical raw materials. 。Those things that were easily bought in the past are now unavailable even to Ye Wen, so when she purified gold, she used the Xuanmai magical technique. 。So for the people of Qichaogong, what they truly mastered was only polishing and refining as well as new styles of forging. As for truly purifying gold, without Ye Wenyan's guidance, they were still incapable of doing so. 。Luckily, Ye Wanyi promised them that she would visit Qiaoguo every few days to personally refine some gold for crafting jewelry and ornaments. 。But she also issued a death order to the people of Qiaqiao Pavilion: refined gold, made into jewelry, could circulate freely. But if it remained in ingot form, they were forbidden under penalty of death to leave Qiaqiao Pavilion. 。Finally, she took Yingnan and Shangguan Xiaoya out of the palace. As for the personnel changes at Qiqiao Pavilion, this was really a big deal. She only asked Zhuier to go to the Immortal Palace once, find Wufei, and this matter was immediately handled clearly by Wufei. 。Now that it is March, the weather has warmed up, and people have stopped wearing winter clothes. They have all switched to thinner long shirts. 。But Ye Wen was still wearing her winter clothes because she was afraid of the cold. That deathly, bone-chilling cold made her shiver constantly. Under normal circumstances, she used warm jade and spiritual power to suppress it so people wouldn't notice. 。The person was brought out from the palace, but they still hadn't found a suitable place to open a jewelry shop in the outer city. 。Ye Wenyan bluntly told Ji Rong to go to the Shi family, what kind of things still need people to do, this kind of thing she would be troublesome, but the Shi family should be very easy to operate. 。Yingfu is located within the inner city. Yingnan took Shangguan Xiaoya, an official, to respond to the mansion for temporary residence. When parting, Yingnan still reminded Yexin: "Master must remember to go to the government office tomorrow, and it's better to get the body contract done early." 。" Night Wen Yan did not agree. She told them: "Since you called me master, then we are master and apprentice, not master and servant. " 。I cannot stand before Master, holding your indentures. 。Once a contract is signed, the two of you will become slaves from then on. For skilled artisans like yourselves to be reduced to slavery is simply unjust. 。As for whether or not I'm worried, firstly, I believe in my own judgment, and secondly, I trust the character of my family. 。Besides, they are just some crafted techniques. It's nothing life-threatening. Even if you leave my shop in the future, you will only be promoting my skills and craftsmanship, which won't bring any loss to me. 。“

Ye Wen was indeed thinking that way. The craftsmanship of a skilled artisan is different from medical skills. If those who accept her medical skills cannot follow her wholeheartedly and work for her, once they betray her, it is very possible that they will use the medical skills of later generations in the present world to create a great disaster>>> 。After all, the methods of Western medicine in later generations seem too terrifying to people nowadays. Once they leave the protection of her scope and lose the sterile space she has created with magic, it is very easy to get infected, and postoperative complications are completely uncontrollable. 。Therefore, she couldn't allow medical students to betray her and had to be extremely careful. 。However, the master craftsman is different. Her fundamental purpose in cultivating the master craftsman is to have them create jewelry for posterity, and then sell these pieces so that more and more people can wear them. 。It's not just the people of Lin'an, but also people from other provinces. In short, the wider the spread, the better. 。This was the method she had come up with ever since she got Feng Qingqing's handwritten notebook. 。From the moment she received the bottle to when she got that notebook, Ming Feng Qingqing has been trying every way possible to leave her mark on this world. She wanted there to be a way for them to see, to know she had been here, and to find each other. 。 。Everyone at the dinner table had their own thoughts, until Ye Wansheng and Xi Chun left. Only then did Jun Tao ask, "What was grandmother thinking about"The old lady didn't hide it from her, "I was...