The thin spring rain fell intermittently for a few days, and the wonder of clouds and mist appeared in the mountain city. The entire city was shrouded in white fog, and the flying eaves and corners of the houses were looming in the fog, which was intoxicating.
The new buds of green trees quietly climb over the branches of the trees in the white mist; the flowers that are about to bloom slowly spit out their stamens. The souls passing through the house are wet and unable to see them.
As soon as Xiao Shizhu came back, he heard a refreshing good news. It was not that the crisis in the country of Takao was lifted or that the country of Takao fulfilled its promise, but that Ying'er gave birth to a brother of different races and surnames.
For twins.
When he climbed up the mountain city and came to the locust tree bar, the ghost mother had already brought Gui Qian'er and Ruochen to the store earlier than him; she was teasing two Xiaoying tricks that looked like foals.
"You're back." Xiao Shizhu stepped into the bar, and the joyful ghost mother came up, took his hand and looked at the two, or the two were a little nervous because they saw a stranger, and hid in the face.
Behind Ying'er, he walked over to the little demon soul on the corner of her clothes tightly. He continued to say, "Come on, come on, come on, how cute they are."
But all the other two Xiaoying moves were smaller than Yingzhao and Ying'er and their skin was tenderer.
They also had four hooves and hands, and had a human face on their horse's head. Xiao Shizhu couldn't tell that such a demon soul was so cute?
But since the ghost mother spoke and was the child of his sworn brother, he had to smile and respond: "It's really cute." In order to act in a foot show, he also stretched out his hand to bend over and bent down, touched it.
Those two Xiaoying's heads.
"Has you named it?" After a while, Xiao Shizhu straightened his back and asked Ying Zhao who was smiling foolishly.
"Take it, take it." Yingzhao scratched his head and said a little embarrassedly: "The boy is called Ying Lingxing, and the girl is called Ying Lingyue."
"It's not bad." Xiao Shizhu thoughtfully said slightly, and after praising her sincerely, he waved to Gui Qian'er and said, "Your dad is taking care of my mount at the door, go and see him
;He misses you very much too. Then he brings him in and has a meal together.”
Gui Qian'er didn't say anything, first looked at Guimu with expectant eyes; but when she saw the other party's forehead slightly, she said, "Go." After signing up for agreement, she smiled and expressed her gratitude, and then looked out the door.
And go.
"Brother, do Lu Wu and the others have a task?" At this time, Ying Zhao came over and asked Xiao Shizhu: "After I saw that they came back, the entire Xiao family army was launched, why did he keep me?"
"Your wife has given birth to children, you should stay to testify the miracle of the birth of two new lives." Xiao Shizhu smiled slightly, raised her hand to pat Yingzhao on the shoulder, and said lightly: "Besides, Lu Wu and the others are just going out to sea
Just training, no big move.”
"Don't always think about fighting." The ghost mother gave Ying a blank look and echoed: "We have already started a family, so we have to care more about our family." She and Xiao Shizhu said one by one, "
De Yingzhao had to smile awkwardly.
Xiao Shizhu sat down at the window in the store, looked at the scenery outside the window, and smiled and said, "I'm hungry, do you have any skewers?"
"Some." Yingzhao said, then turned around and headed towards the kitchen: "This is for you to prepare."
"Prepare more and let our new friend Guigu try it." Xiao Shizhu explained, and also stood up and followed Yingzhao to the kitchen.
"How is it?" The ghost mother came over, sat down next to Xiao Shizhu, and asked, "You didn't explain the matter about Zhurongguo in your secret letter."
"Don't worry, it's all done." Xiao Shizhu took her hand, gently stroked the back of her hand, and explained the details of the trip to her one by one.
"Hu Hui performed well this time, so did the ghost captain. He also explained to me what the souls of those who claim to be old gods are." Xiao Shizhu smiled at the ghost mother who stared at her, and saw Gui Qian'er and Gui Hu again.
After walking into the store, he said, "So I have several plans. The first is to let the ghost caps replace Aoki and become a thousand-household family."
The ghost captain was stunned, and a look of astonishment appeared on his face. He vomited "Ah?" and interrupted Xiao Shizhu's words.
"Why don't you want to?" Xiao Shizhu pretended to be angry, asked back viciously, and then said, "Where is my Yazi?"
"Yueying has already tied it up for you." The ghost captain waved his hand and quickly explained: "It's not that I don't want to, but I haven't worked in Qianhu, so I don't know if I can do it well?"
After following Xiao Shizhu to Zhurong Country for a while, the ghost captain who had been used to being demoted from princes to horsemen, now his tone of speaking is not as stiff as before, and he seems to be more friendly.
"Then you have never been a prince back then." Xiao Shizhu chuckled and said disapprovingly: "It seems that he has never been a groom. Didn't he feed my Yueying to a white and fat person?"
After hearing what he said, the ghost captor thought for a while and felt it was reasonable, so he replied, "Then I'll give it a try."
"It's not that you want to try." Xiao Shizhu stood up, walked slowly to the ghost captain, slapped the other person's shoulder with his palm, and said in a calm tone: "From today, you will be the Qianhu of the Xiao family army,
Do your best, and hand over the infantry tactics you are good at to your subordinates, and then spread them throughout the army."
After speaking, without waiting for the ghost captor to respond, he turned to look at the ghost mother and asked with a smile: "Is that OK?"
"You've finished talking, then you asked me in a fake way." The ghost mother gave him a blank look, smiled and said, "You have the final say in the military matter."
As soon as the words fell, a slight breathing sound came from the store door: "I'm sorry, I'm late." The ghosts looked away and saw Lai Yueqi holding the door frame, standing at the door, patting her chest, and gasping for a while.
.Seeing her blushed face and a layer of fine sweat beads oozing from her forehead, she seemed to be trotting all the way.
"Lai Yueqi, you are here just in time." The ghost mother smiled at her and said, "We haven't started eating yet, let's sit down."
"Okay, OK." Lai Yueqi saw Xiao Shizhu also here and said, "Brother, are you back?" Afterwards, she lowered her head and walked to the ghost mother to sit down, so as not to notice the panic look that flashed on her face.
.
"Well, I'm back. If you have something to ask, I'll have someone to send you in advance." Xiao Shizhu also walked to the side of the ghost mother and sat down, looked around at the other souls, and said, "Sit all."
At this time, Yingzhao and Ying'er had put out the skewers with the fragrance one by one and placed them neatly on the table. The skewers were covered with layers of bright red peppers, drops of crystal sesame oil, and the aroma was filled with fragrance.
All the souls present were drooling.
"Don't be restrained." Xiao Shizhu grabbed a chicken leg with one hand and a rabbit head with the other, and swallowed it voraciously. After chewing it for a few times, he said vaguely: "When I was in Zhurong Country, I really wanted to eat skewers.
". As for his current starving ghost-like eating behavior, no one believed that he would be the noble son of God.
"Slow down, you won't be afraid of choking." After anger, the ghost mother hurriedly took out her embroidered handkerchief and wiped the oil stains and saliva at the corner of Xiao Shizhu's mouth.
"Okay, OK." Xiao Shizhu responded impatiently, turned the chicken leg in his hand, and handed the side that he had never bitten to the ghost mother's mouth: "Try it, Ying'er's craftsmanship has improved
.”.
"In front of so many ghosts, please restrain yourself." With anger, the ghost mother turned red in her cheeks, but she still slightly opened her lips, bit her chicken legs a little, chewed and tasted it carefully.
Such intimate actions really wiped out others; not to mention that Lai Yueqi cast envious eyes at them, even Hu Hui Guizang and others were the same.
"Why are you looking at me?" Xiao Shizhu scolded, and then they looked away and started to eat. However, they were still a little restrained, which was completely different from Xiao Shizhu's behavior of grabbing her directly.
After three rounds of wine and five flavors, Xiao Shizhu, who was still unsatisfied with the oil on his fingers, burped and said, "My second plan is to Lai Yueqi, you, try to renovate us.
The firearm is here.”
"Are you very dissatisfied with the current firearm?" Lai Yueqi asked nervously.
"The power and range are OK, but it cannot be used when it rains, which makes me very anxious. I will soon lead my troops to a rainy place. Your current firearm cannot fire a gun in that rainy area.
It's better to burn a fire stick." At this point, Xiao Shizhu leaned his back on the back of the chair, sighed, and said, "It's all because of the immortal emperor of Fengdu, which made the talented soul reincarnate immediately. If there is one,
The firearms on earth can be used even if it rains.”
"This is not difficult. You can improve the projectiles into sealed sub-guns, use fine steel to build the gun chamber and improve the structure, and then do waterproofing treatment mainly with wax soaked, so that it can be used even on rainy days." Lai Yueqi
After racking her brains and thinking for a while, she said, "But the only drawback is that I don't have such a good steelmaking fire." It sounds like her method is similar to the principles of modern weapons.
"Fire?" Although Xiao Shizhu didn't understand these things very much, he still saw hope and his eyes lit up. He hurriedly sat upright and asked.
"Well, it's not difficult to build a gun body with fine steel, but it's necessary to seal the sub-gun, and the temperature of the refining is very harsh. If there is help from the Zhurong clan, it may be possible." As he said that, Lai Yueqi showed more embarrassment.
Zhurong clan can control fire, not only control the changing shape of the flame, but also control the temperature of the flame, and use their talent to forge weapons. But after all, it was from other people, so she invited her.
Will be a little helpless.
Xiao Shizhu was also at a loss. Firearms were his trump card. Not only did he want to get these technologies for foreign countries, but he just formed an alliance with Zhurongguo, so it was not good to borrow people.
"Can you look at the fire lake in Linglong City?" Just when they were both helpless, Hu Hui suddenly said: "That fire lake was made by the ancient gods. The magma inside can be burnt with gold and flow stones, which should be used to make guns and cannons.
No problem.”
"But in this case, isn't even a forging furnace impossible?" Lai Yueqi asked in a hurry after hearing this.
"But the Fusang divine wood on the nearby plains is not afraid of the high temperature of magma, and can be used to make forging equipment." Before Hu Hui spoke, the ghost barbarian continued: "And you can build a workshop on the original site of Tiansha Palace, where there is an ice spring.
, not only keeps the island in the middle of the lake from being threatened by high temperature, but also uses ice spring water, so that the weapon after the forging is cooled instantly before it deforms."
"It's not bad." Xiao Shizhu smiled and said, "If it works, Hu Hui and the Ghost Barbarians will also remember one of their achievements."
"Well, the combination of water and fire is indeed a way to forge." Lai Yueqi nodded thoughtfully and said to Xiao Shizhu seriously: "My benefactor, this is indeed worth a try."
"Well, you are an expert in this area, you have the final say." Xiao Shizhu also pointed his head and said, "Tomorrow, I will choose the craftsmen you think are skilled and trustworthy, and go to Heilong County with you. I will prepare a book for Xia Xing,
Let her assist you in rebuilding Linglong City and completely build that area into an industrial city.”