Chapter 42 Floating Cloud State
In the old house west of Songyang City, after Lu Chong made a batch of small flying objects, he estimated that Zhong Ao would come to pick up the goods in the next few days, so he came to Songyang City early to wait. Lu Chong sat at the long table under the big locust tree, took a sip of hot tea, and picked up a letter on the table to see it.
The letter was handed over to him by Gao Lanfeng of Changxing Escort Agency. The letter said that the Eryimao reduced the losses of the escort agency during the Escort Agency and hoped to continue to support her. It also mentioned again that Su Jianzhong, the general of Liuyun Prefecture, wanted to meet Lu Chong, and asked Lu Chong to take time to go to Liuyun Prefecture as soon as possible.
Lu Chong has always planned to go to Liuyunzhou to check the situation. After all, it is a big state with eight cities under its jurisdiction, and it is a big place that he has never seen in his life. He has a passionate yearning for Lu Chong, who has lived in a small village since childhood.
Lu Chong believed that the army might have had great interest in the second-wing cone, otherwise Su Jianzhong would not have urged Lu Chong to meet in Liuyunzhou again. Lu Chong remembered that when he was in Lufang, Huanglong City, he had secretly made the second-wing cone with Lu Zhi and others. Perhaps the South Courtyard did not dare to make a large amount of production, but there was no channel to reach a deal in the military of Liuyunzhou.
This may be a good opportunity. Not only can we establish a relationship with the army, but we can also establish channels for small wooden flying objects. The next step is to push the channels into the imperial city along the northwest direction and establish a network.
Just as he was thinking about the matter, the housekeeper Huang Linfu came over and told Lu Tong that Lu Kai from Lu Fang was coming. Lu Tong nodded and agreed. He turned around and saw Lu Kai, who was full of smiles on his face, quickly walked over and said excitedly: "My junior brother, let me tell you a good news. I have successfully practiced the meridian technique of the right hand. Thank you so much."
Lu Chong was also happy for Lu Kai, so he asked the housekeeper to bring a chair to Lu Kai, handed him a cup of hot tea, and then said, "This is really a good thing, worth celebrating! What are the plans for senior brother?"
Lu Kai said: "Of course I have to have a drink with my junior brother, but I will go to Qinghe City for an examination next year and must be awarded the title of Wooden Artist. Then we will participate in the Lu family's senior position selection competition at the end of the year."
Lu Chong said in a little confused: "What's going on?"
Lu Kai also realized that after all, Lu Chong spent a short time in Lu Fang and was not clear about many internal matters, so he explained to Lu Chong in detail: "Oh, that's right, our Lu family will rotate the managers of the four major Lu Fangs every ten years. The rotation method is to pass the selection competition. Any children of our Lu family who have won the title of engraver or woodworker are qualified to participate in the competition."
Lu Chong asked: "Are there any procedures and requirements?"
Lu Kaiying said: "This is not the case. There are records in the case files of the Zong Parliament of the Wood Arts House in Qinghecheng. The month before the selection competition will be notified in advance, and the content of the competition will be passed on to every person with the title of teacher in the form of documents."
Lu Chong asked again: "What is the content of the competition?"
Lu Kai shook his head and said, "I don't know much about the specific content. I change the content of the competition every year. However, the main body is generally three items. Anyone will issue a document next year. I will contact you in advance. However, anyone who obtains the position of manager of various colleges in Lufang will record it in the genealogy of the clan, and the descendants will automatically become clan children. I like your little brother."
Lu Chong nodded. This was something unexpected. Since he accidentally obtained the information about the mutant animal skin, Lu Chong's ideas have also changed a little, but there is no need to take it to heart now, so he went to a restaurant called "Xinghuaxiang" with Lu Kai.
At night, Lu Tong returned to the room of the old house in the west of the city, took out the original one to read, and wanted to first understand the geographical and customs conditions of Liuyunzhou, but Lu Kai's words about getting the Lu Fang manager and making descendants become children of the clan, which really made Lu Tong feel a little moved.
After all, no matter who it is, they all hope to become a relative in the clan. That is the glory passed down by the ancestors.
However, the Lu family has Lufang in four cities, each Lufang has only one archer, one major manager and four hospital managers, and the rest are basically deacons or teachers. The situation like himself is just an accident. All of these people are carving masters and wood tools masters, and all of them should have more than one hundred people. The archer and the archer are directly appointed by the sect council. In other words, if you want to be qualified for the custody, you must enter the top sixteen in the competition. This is not easy for the elites of the family who hide the dragon and crouch the tiger.
However, Lu Tong thought of another thing. In fact, if you want to go further after reaching the teacher level, you also rely on the success of the meridian technique. As long as you strengthen the practice of various meridian techniques and practice more successfully, the skills of the wooden instrument will also be improved rapidly. This will have no adverse impact on your future development. Therefore, the most important thing now is to improve your meridian technique practice. Thinking of this, Lu Tong calmed down.
A few days later, Zhong Ao brought his men to the old house west of Songyang City, and brought important news to Lu Chong. It turned out that Zhong Baihua has reached the age of hairpin this year. Last month, a hairpin ceremony was held at home, indicating that Zhong Baihua has grown up and will make a marriage choice next.
Originally, Zhong Baihua's father and aunt had already booked a marriage contract for Zhong Baihua, Lu Yong, a clan's son of the Lutongs in Lufang, Huanglong City. However, due to Zhong Baihua's excellent business performance over the past year, Zhong Baihua also stated that he would choose his future husband within one year, so Zhong Baihua's father finally agreed to terminate the engagement.
Zhong Ao told Lu Chong that the wooden flying objects are sold very well now, and he also told Zhong Baihua to ask Lu Chong to study the book carefully, saying that this is the young lady's efforts to study the types of wood materials, allowing Lu Chong to understand the mystery and will be of great help in the future.
Lu Tong had to nod his head with a wry smile and was also happy for Zhong Baihua's lucky life. So he told Zhong Ao about his plan to go to Liuyunzhou and asked Zhong Ao to ship the freight back to Qinghe City and immediately go to Liuyunzhou to meet up. Because the military contacts in the future require someone of special trust, Zhong Ao agreed happily.
Next, Lu Tong kept Zhong Ao for a few more days. Lu Tong locked himself in the backyard without anyone disturbing him. He carefully made an extremely beautiful wooden flying crane in the backyard. Five days later, Lu Tong went out and handed the crane to Zhong Ao, and asked Zhong Ao to take it back to Qinghe City and hand it over to Zhong Baihua as a gift to congratulate her on her adulthood and hairpin. At the same time, he told Zhong Ao that this would be the development direction of wooden flying objects in the future.
When Zhong Ao first saw the crane flying in the air, he was completely shocked, because the crane was not only extremely simulated, but also unimaginable that such a huge wooden crane could fly in the air for such a long time. When he thought of the sales situation in the future, his eyes were full of shining stars flying around with coins.
Zhong Ao took his people away early the next morning, and Lu Chong simply packed up a bag, bought a dark horse, and rushed to Liuyunzhou with fast horses.
Chapter completed!