Chapter 104 Investigate Ning Zhuo
After checking a lot at the moment, he said with some relief: "It turns out that Ning Zhuo, this child, has already shown his talent for mechanisms."
The first piece of information said: Ning Zhuo's mother, Meng Yaoyin, is a mechanism monk. Although she died early, she left Ning Zhuo with many classics of mechanical skills. Ning Zhuo regarded these classics as his mother's relics and cherished them very much, and often fell asleep with them in his arms when he was a child. After growing up, he was influenced by these classics.
When Ning Zhuo was a child, he began to show a strong interest in mechanical skills. He often went in and out of the Salesian Garden to watch Li Leifeng's puppet show.
The Salesian Garden is an orphanage that houses homeless children in the Fire Persimmon Immortal City, and is jointly funded by the city lord's mansion and various large households in the city.
This is a national policy of Nandou Kingdom.
Li Leifeng is the director of the Salesian Garden, he has Lei Linggen, and he is also a mechanical monk. The mechanism tower he built could absorb external thunder and lightning and turn it into power to maintain the operation of the mechanism tower without consuming any spiritual power. When it comes time to face the enemy, the power stored in the mechanism tower will burst out with lightning, like a whip chain, locking the enemy and continuously shocking and scorching.
"Li Lao's puppet show is indeed a must." Seeing this, the head of the Ning family sighed sincerely.
He has seen many puppet shows of Li Leifeng and is breathtaking!
Perhaps influenced by Li Leifeng, Ning Zhuo has liked puppets and such toys since he was a child. The dolls he often plays with are Yilu, Erlang Legs, and Sanmao.
When he entered the family school, he was most interested in mechanical arts, diligent and inquisitive, which led to being overwhelmed by himself, and other subjects became worse and worse.
It wasn't until he was ten years old that his performance in various subjects gradually improved, and he gradually ranked up in the middle and upper classes in the school.
The Ning family prioritizes talismans, and Ning Zhuo's uncle and aunt naturally do not want him to go into the evil path and destroy his future, so they strictly discipline him.
But although Ning Zhuo was contained on the surface, he still seized every opportunity in the mainland to study mechanical techniques. He would even take the initiative to go to some government workshops to do child labor, even if he didn't need wages. For him, it was a happy thing to be able to come into contact with mechanical creations.
Perhaps because of persistence and love, Ning Zhuo's mechanical skills have been growing.
When he was fifteen years old, a mechanical parrot made by Ning Zhuo had exceeded the level of all his classmates, and was accidentally seen by an old man in the school and praised him on the spot.
But Ning Zhuo, who was originally slightly expected by some family elders, performed abnormally in the family exam.
"He's so nervous!" The head of the Ning family looked at the jade slip and sighed.
What is in the jade slip is the specific scene of Ning Zhuo's family exam.
"Yes." Ning Xiaoren agreed, "At that time, the thread was accidentally knotted, but Ning Zhuo didn't see it. When it was time to make a move, the strings were entangled, leaving Ning Zhuo with no room to play at all."
"If I were the invigilator, I would definitely be accommodating once and let Ning Zhuo retake the exam."
The head of the Ning family shook his head: "The invigilator made no mistakes. According to the rules, candidates should check more before the exam. If this happens, Ning Zhuo should be responsible."
While the father and son were talking, a servant came to report: Feng Jiqing is here.
"Please come in." The head of the Ning family nodded.
Feng Jiqing was a middle-aged man with squinting eyes, long blue hair, tall and thin, and a windmill-like knife wheel on his back.
Feng Jiqing is the root of Feng Ling, and he has a mobile phone to pass the attainment. Although he is not an orthodox mechanical monk, the mechanical wind falcon he made and controlled was as fast as lightning and as fast as a gust of wind, very sharp.
After the Ning family failed to recruit customers, they never stopped absorbing foreign talents.
Until recently, the Ning family continued to increase their weight and finally recruited Feng Jiqing. He is the biggest achievement of the Ning family so far in recruiting talents with foreign surnames.
"Patriarch, Young Patriarch." Feng Ji bowed lightly, his waist straight. He himself is at the peak of foundation building, he knows the market of the institution monks, relies on his own value, and has a general attitude towards the two senior officials of the Ning family.
Young Patriarch Ning Xiaoren smiled: "Master Feng, I invite you here this time to let you identify the hot monkeys of these two mechanisms, and evaluate the people who created and made them, and what kind of institutional attainments they have."
Regarding the fact that Ning Zhuo is the inventor of the hot monkey of the mechanism, the head of the Ning family and the young patriarch father and son did not want to leak it too quickly.
On the one hand, Ning Xiaoren also wants to fake his own image by pretending not to know, so that Ning Zhuo can feel his "full sincerity".
On the other hand, the matter of the hot monkey in the agency is related to Fei Si after all. If it leaks out, it will make it difficult for Faith. The Ning family didn't want to offend Faith because of this.
The latter, as the immortal official who actually handles the daily affairs of the Fire Persimmon Immortal City the most, has great power and is not easy to mess with.
The concealment of the two inadvertently caused some misunderstandings to Feng Jiqing, and he couldn't help but guess: "Could it be that the Ning family wants to hire Chen Cha with a lot of money?"
Of course, Feng Jiqing didn't want this to happen, so he remained calm and began to test the two mechanisms of the hot monkey.
These two mechanical monkeys are exquisitely crafted and made of solid materials, which is the previous version. The other one was crudely made and had been damaged a lot, and it was deliberately revised after Ning Zhuo.
After Feng Jiqing tested it and said, "The main material of monkey skin is tinder rat skin, which is woven with traditional spiritual power embroidery. There is no need to mention traditional craftsmanship."
"Using Tianjin as a skeleton is a must, because to arrange the storage array, Tianjin is usually the best option."
"But if it were me, I would go one step further and choose the empty lungs of the cloud whale. In this way, the arranged magic circle can store living things, but now it can only store dead things."
"The mechanism fire monkey was designed to pick fire persimmons. Although the fire persimmon can be regarded as a fire spirit to some extent, it is essentially life and the fruit of the fire persimmon tree. Placed in the living creature reserve formation space, it is more suitable for them, so that they can guarantee a better taste."
Feng Jiqing only talked about the advantages of his plan, and never mentioned the rarity of cloud whale empty lungs.
"The body materials used for the mechanism fire monkey are good." One of the biggest highlights was overshadowed by Feng Jiqing.
"There are many formations in the palm of your hand, and the way of matching is relatively new, which is quite good." When Feng Ji had to praise him, he would try to reduce the words of praise.
"The walking projectile in the monkey's brain is the most eye-catching part of the design of this mechanism in my opinion."
Feng Jiqing quickly praised, and then immediately took a turn.
"However, although this selection of materials will save a lot of costs, it cannot be used unless it is the foundation building period, which greatly limits the number of buyers."
"If there is no such drawback, the sales of the hot monkey will increase several times, or even more than ten times."
"This design is flawed." Feng Jiqing concluded with one sentence.
The head of the Ning family and Ning Xiaoren looked at each other, the former did not speak, and the latter asked: "Can the designer's institutional attainments be considered strong?"
Cultivating a hundred arts, the mechanism is at the bottom.
The father and son have not dabbled in this, and they have always been high-ranking members of the family, and they are either entangled in many affairs or intrigues all day long, making it difficult to grasp the hot monkeys of the mechanism.
In fact, not to mention the mechanism technique, even a brand new pill formula, it was difficult for them to evaluate the merits and demerits.
They are not alchemists, nor do they specialize in mechanical techniques.
Fortunately, in ancient times, there were not many foundation-building monks. The family is generally weaker than the sect, and the cultivation kingdom is extremely rare, and in the first half of the long history, it is almost a flash in the pan.
But since the development of cultivation so far, the cultivation of various arts has become broad and profound, and for most monks, interlacing is like a mountain.
Feng Jiqing pondered: "Chen Cha has been running a frisbee workshop for many years, and it is difficult to hold back such a mechanical creation."
"It's rare."
"This mechanism is ingenious, but not much. Even if it sells well now, the fire persimmon picking business will definitely be bleak next year, and the use will be narrow."
"Overall, this mechanism creation is considered medium, slightly on the top."
"As for the people who make the mechanism, I won't comment much."
The head of the Ning family and Ning Xiaoren looked at each other again.
The former said in his heart: "Feng Jiqing is a foundation building monk, with a medium rating, and he is completely complimented by Ning Zhuo during the Qi refining period."
The latter strengthened Ning Zhuo's heart.
At the same time.
Salesian Garden.
Zhu Xuanji hid his figure and entered the garden.
An old man was basking in the sun in the garden, and suddenly frowned and looked at the invisible Zhu Xuanji: "Who is it?!"
Zhu Xuanji was stunned for a moment, and then revealed his figure.
He pinched his fingers, his eyes flashed with golden light, and he activated a certain reconnaissance spell to observe his surroundings.
"I see. The electricity flow in the small courtyard here is due to the invisible thunder and lightning potential difference. As long as I step in, the difference in electric potential is formed before and after, and you will sense it."
Zhu Xuanji stomped his feet while praising him.
The soles of his feet exploded like a small thunderbolt, blowing up a layer of soil, exposing the bricks inside. The runes on the bricks make people easily dazzled at a glance.
This kind of brick is laid under the ground every short distance, and it is not a formation at all.
It was precisely because of the lack of formation that Zhu Xuanji was difficult to grasp and could not be vigilant. Since entering the Fire Persimmon Immortal City, it was the first time he had been called out.
"It turns out to be Lord Zhu Xuanji, please sit down." The old man was still lying on the chair, motionless.
Zhu Xuanji had already appeared in public in the Fire Persimmon Immortal City before, and the whole city knew about it.
The strange thing is that the old man is only in the foundation building period, and it is only in the early stage of foundation building, but in the face of a golden pill like Zhu Xuanji, his attitude is very casual.
Zhu Xuanji didn't feel offended in the slightest, he came to the old man with a smile: "Senior Li Leifeng, the junior has long heard of your name and came to see you."
The old man Li Leifeng snorted coldly: "If you want to see the old man, it is too late for Zhu Shen to catch you."
"I said I was looking at it, but I actually wanted to verify whether I was the Black Shadow Demon Cultivator?"
Zhu Xuanji smiled awkwardly.
Li Leifeng sighed: "The old man has lived for so many years, and he has seen a lot of things. Lord Zhu, but it doesn't hurt to check."
Zhu Xuanji clasped his hands: "I was offended."