Transcendent Dawn Chapter 815: Jenny
The latest website: Forest Kingdom, Sealand.
This is a port city with a good deep-water port. A large number of sailing boats are moored on the dock not far away.
There are five famous shipyards in the kingdom, two of which are located here.
Outside the city, on highways leading to other places, a large number of trucks pass every day.
In a town near the city, in a house, there was a sudden cry of a baby.
"The mother of nature bless, mother and child are safe..."
A craftsman wearing a filthy workman's uniform and dark-painted body was praying religiously outside.
Immediately, he saw the country mother walking out with a baby: "It's a daughter, give her a name."
"Well...I already thought about it. For a girl, it's Jenny! Jenny Black!"
……
In the blink of time, seven or eight years passed.
Little Jenny is different from other quiet girls. She has been lively and active since she was a child. She played with the wild boys in the town and made her father ‘Wick’ and mother ‘Helia’ upset.
Jenny's father was a craftsman, and his ancestors were blacksmiths. In his generation, he had gone to the city to learn handicrafts for several years.
In addition to hammering iron and repairing farm tools, he also builds simple machinery and even repairs clocks and watches. They are famous nearby and have a good family income.
At least, children who are hungry can't grow so tall and run so fast.
This day.
Mrs. Helia was carrying the basket and walking out of the house, and she saw little Jenny rushing over.
She ran so fast that she ran through the bottom of Mrs. Helia's skirt and almost made her fall.
"Jenny..."
Mrs. Helia angrily said: "You should learn to be a lady, look at other girls, there is no girl like you, even a shepherdess is more polite than you!"
She babbled and started to worry about Jenny's future marriage.
"I don't want to marry!"
Jenny is dressed like a little boy, wearing a peaked cap: "I will be a sailor in the future, an explorer and captain in the future."
Because of the proximity to the sea, many men here choose to become sailors.
Not to mention, with the development of the navigation industry and the discovery of a series of islands, many rumors of sailors becoming rich overnight have also spread, stimulating generations of young people to the sea.
"A woman can't be a sailor or captain!"
Mrs. Helia rolled her eyes.
"Good news! See what this is?"
Just then, Wick Black strode back, still carrying a ham in his hand.
"Oh!"
Jenny's eyes lit up: "Dad, shall we eat meat at night?"
"Yes, let's have a good evening meal."
Wick replied with a smile, looking very happy.
"My dear, what has happened to you?"
Helia took the ham from her husband and asked strangely.
Even if their family is affluent in the town, ham and the like can only be enjoyed during the holidays.
"The Zeeland newspaper has published the news... it is confirmed that the eastern colony previously discovered by the great captain Spencer is not an island, but a huge continent!"
Wick held Jenny excitedly: "It is very suitable for establishing tropical plantations, it is a very broad market... Although the local indigenous people are not very friendly..."
"Aboriginals? I heard that some of the natives in the colony look like monsters and even perform strange witchcraft... Is that true?"
Jenny asked immediately.
"Jenny!"
Helia glared at her, waiting for her husband's follow-up.
"So...the products that can be exported are expected to increase significantly in the future, and I have received another order for textile machines!" Wick said excitedly.
Although most textile machines are made of wood, there is also a demand for iron parts.
What's more, he is not unable to do carpentry work.
"That is indeed worth celebrating."
A smile appeared on Helia's face: "I'm going to buy some white bread."
In any case, it is always a good thing for the husband's income to increase.
Hearing this, even Jenny has a happy smile on her face.
……
A few days later, in the small workshop.
A small figure sneaked into his father's studio.
Although Mrs. Helia had severely warned Jenny not to disturb her father's work, Jenny apparently left it behind.
At this time, in the small workshop, there are tools such as lathes, hammers, wrenches, etc., which smell of oil, but in Jenny's eyes, they are like treasures.
She came to a spinning machine that had just been completed and tried it out curiously.
Looking at the spinning wheel, I feel very fulfilled.
"Who?"
Wick's voice suddenly came.
"Ah!"
Jenny now remembered that she was afraid and wanted to run away.
But her body touched the spinning machine, and the machine suddenly fell to the ground.
"Not good!"
Jenny saw her father walk in, her scalp was numb, she was so scared that she didn't dare to move: "I got into trouble."
"Jenny, are you here again...Huh?"
Wick walked in, looked at the spinning machine that was still spinning, and was suddenly stunned: "It's down... and it's also active. In this way... the spinning spindles can be arranged vertically in a row, which is even more improved. Efficiency...Haha! Haha!"
He laughed, picked Jenny around, and kissed her on the cheek: "You are really my lucky star."
Jenny took a long breath, as if she didn't need to be punished for it.
She thought for a while and asked: "Dad...may I come to study?"
"Do you want to be a craftsman?" Wick was startled: "There are no women in the craftsmen's guild...but...there is always no harm in learning a craft..."
He looked at the spinning machine and nodded: "Well...I allow you to learn from me."
"Thank you Dad!"
Jenny happily kissed her father on the cheek.
……
With this idea, the new spinning machine was completed very quickly and was well received by customers.
As a result, Wick was rewarded even more generously than before. She smiled every day when she came back. Jenny could also enter the workshop and learn the most basic crafts.
But the good times are not long.
Soon, a group of angry craftsmen surrounded her house one night.
"This is the person!"
"He made that tool~IndoMTL.com~it made us unemployed!"
The angry crowd shouted, rushing into Jenny's house and smashed.
Jenny was held in her arms by her crying mother, her eyes filled with puzzlement.
"Isn't technological progress a good thing? Why...why did it become like this?"
……
Early the next morning.
She came to the door of the smashed workshop and secretly made up her mind: "This is not my father's fault..."
"Jenny... let's go!"
Wick and Helia packed up a carriage, ready to leave this sad place.
"Father...I decided."
Jenny suddenly said: "I must become a great craftsman!"