The Peerless Servant

When Huo Chenan finally squeezed into the woodshed, he found that Uncle Fu was arranging people to carry the body away.

"Wait a minute, can I take a look?" Huo Chenan said.

Uncle Fu knew that the Su family was in trouble. The young lady in front of him trusted him deeply. In the morning, the young lady had specifically told him to cooperate with her.

Uncle Fu nodded and let Huo Chenan in.

Huo Chenan saw that the corpse was purple and blue, which was a sign of suffocation. There were obvious marks of strangulation on the neck, but in addition to the marks, there were also marks of nail scratches. It seemed that he had struggled desperately before his death. At least his hands were not tied.

Huo Chenan took another look at the hemp rope on the ground next to him. The marks were basically consistent, but he seemed to find a few places on the hemp rope that were obviously darker in color, like oil spots.

So he picked up the hemp rope and observed it carefully, and even smelled it.

"Roast chicken?" Huo Chenan smelled the smell of roast chicken. This dish was taught to the chefs in the kitchen after he became the head of the kitchen.

Huo Chenan immediately picked up the corpse's hand and smelled it. It was indeed the smell of roast chicken.

Then he opened the corpse's mouth again, and he found a chicken bone stuck in the throat of the corpse.

"Uncle Fu, report to the police. This is not suicide, it is murder."

With a "buzz", the whole audience was in an uproar.

Butler Fu was also puzzled, so Huo Chenan told everyone about his discovery.

"If he wanted to commit suicide, where did the roast chicken come from? Why didn't he swallow the bones before committing suicide? This doesn't make sense, so the person must have been killed."

Everyone was impressed by Huo Chenan's explanation.

Only the eldest brother who said he wanted to stand upside down and eat shit was crying silently.

The person next to him comforted him: "I think it's not the Su family that is offended, but you are a slut."

"Wow," the eldest brother cried even more sadly.

...

The remaining work was naturally handed over to Uncle Fu to handle, and Huo Chenan rushed to the back kitchen again. After summoning all the chefs, Huo Chenan asked, "Who made a roast chicken today?"

Zhu Yizhi immediately stood up and said, "Master, I made a roast chicken for the second room."

"The second room." Huo Chenan understood.

"Bring me the food collection record and the meal delivery record."

Soon these two things were placed in front of Huo Chenan.

...

The second day of the 15-day deadline.

Huo Chenan was very satisfied with the more than 20 carpenters brought by Uncle Fu in the morning, and then led everyone to Qixia Mountain.

When Huo Chenan arrived, Mr. Wang had already brought more than 30 people to the riverside, and the team became more than 50 people, which was of great help to improve the construction period.

Huo Chenan first asked someone to find a piece of wood and pasted the waterwheel drawing he drew overnight the day before on the wood.

Everyone looked at the waterwheel drawing with curiosity, and they didn't know what was drawn on it, and they had never seen the expression method of three views before.

After Huo Chenan's detailed explanation, everyone finally understood what was designed on the drawing.

The waterwheel is also called a skywheel. It is more than 10 meters high. It is supported by a 5-meter-long, 0.5-meter-diameter axle with 24 wooden spokes, which are radially spread out in all directions. Each spoke has a scraper and a water bucket at the top. The scraper scrapes the water, and the water bucket is filled with water. The river water rushes in, and the spokes are slowly rotated by the inertia of the water. The water buckets are filled with river water and lifted up step by step. At the top, the water buckets naturally tilt again, injecting water into the aqueduct and flowing into the irrigated farmland.

After understanding the structure and principle of the waterwheel, Mr. Wang looked at Huo Chenan with a look of great joy.

"This kid must be dug up by the Ministry of Industry! This waterwheel is definitely a genius design that benefits the country and the people."

Huo Chenan assigned tasks to everyone, and then led everyone to work enthusiastically. In one day, the prototype of the waterwheel has begun to take shape.

Looking at the big guy with a diameter of ten meters lying on the ground, Old Wang frowned and asked, "How will this big guy stand up in the end?"

"Depend on this!" Huo Chenan casually drew two circles on the ground.

"What is this?" Old Wang asked puzzled.

"You will know in two days, old man." Huo Chenan pretended to be mysterious.

"Hey, stinky boy, you are so mysterious all day long." Old Wang laughed and scolded.

The fifth day of the fifteen-day deadline.

After several days of hard work, the basic structure of the waterwheel has been completed. The rest is to assemble the big guy on the ground onto the bracket.

Old Wang has been looking forward to this for several days. He wants to see what magical tricks Huo Chenan has.

I saw Huo Chenan ordered people to find several tree trunks more than ten meters high to support the ground. A pulley was fixed on the upper end of each tree trunk. A hemp rope was folded in half and passed through the pulley and tied to the upper end of the tree trunk. In addition, the hemp rope also passed through a movable pulley, which was fixed on the waterwheel.

With Huo Chenan's skillful operation, the waterwheel was successfully erected and installed on the bracket.

As the river water hit, the waterwheel and the bracket rubbed against each other, making a creaking sound, and gradually turned.

As the first bucket of water was thrown into the air, a gorgeous rainbow appeared in the sky, and everyone cheered at this moment.

Old Wang excitedly pulled Huo Chenan's hand, and the admiration in his eyes was undisguised, which made Huo Chenan's heart tremble.

"Old man, what are you doing? I don't have the good of Longyang!"

"Stinky boy, go to my house for a drink, today is a big day. Hahaha." After saying that, Old Wang laughed heartily.

…

In the Su family farm, a figure in a black robe appeared in front of the farm manager.

"You?!" The farm manager looked at the person in surprise.

…

The second house of the Su family.

"Is there any movement in the big house?" Su Youshou asked.

"Su Linglong has been ill and hasn't been seen for several days. The grain merchants in the city didn't sell her a grain of rice. I don't think she will be able to cause any trouble this time." Su Jianqiang said sinisterly.

"Be careful and you will be safe."

...

That night, Old Wang and Old Li took turns to fight, vowing to get Huo Chenan drunk.

"You are really amazing, I, Old Li, admit defeat. Tell me, what do you want me to do?"

"I want to buy 10,000 stones of grain." Huo Chenan also drank a lot and told the old man his thoughts without being polite.

Old Wang was very surprised. He wanted to take this opportunity to help Huo Chenan get rid of slavery, but he didn't expect that this kid would make this request.

And Old Li was very indignant.

"Who are you looking down on, kid? I won't sell it."

"Old Li, are you going to break your promise?" Huo Chenan stared at Old Li drunkenly.

"I won't sell it, but I'll give it to you. I'll give you 20,000 shi."

"That's nice. Cheers."

The two drank another full glass of wine.

"Ha, old man, you're so stingy. You treat me with this inferior wine." Huo Chenan said drunkenly to Old Wang.