When Yin Erhu came back again, the door opened without waiting for him to knock on the door. Xiu Niang was guarding on the other side of the door.
“I’ll ask you questions later before opening the door.”
"No need to ask, I can hear your footsteps."
"I made delicious pork soup cakes, do you want to eat them?"
Yin Erhu said: "From now on, soup cakes will be called noodles."
Xiu Niang pinched the corner of her clothes and said, "Do you want to eat pork noodles?"
Yin Erhu said: "Eat, I have a big appetite, so pack more."
Soon, Xiu Niang brought out a bowl of noodles from the room. This time, the bowl of noodles had a lot of pork.
Yin Erhu took a bite, savored the taste and said to Xiu Niang: "Sprinkle some pepper next time, the soup will taste better."
Xiuniang lowered her head and said, "There is no pepper."
Yin Erhu thought for a moment and said, "Then put some dogwood powder."
Xiu Niang nodded and lowered her head to eat her own small bowl of noodles.
Yin Erhu had eaten wontons and was not too hungry, so he picked out some noodles from the bowl and put them into Xiu Niang's bowl.
Xiuniang glanced at him and said nothing, and the two of them quietly slurped noodles in the dilapidated courtyard.
Yunchu was also having dinner.
He also had saozi noodles, but the content in his bowl was much richer. There was no chili, so the cook added a lot of pepper to it, causing the bowl of noodles to lose its color.
"Don't go out recently. If you want to play, just play in Jinchangfang. The same goes for everyone else. If you can't go out, don't go out."
Yun Chu took a bite of noodles and warned his wife and girls that he was not worried about his wife, as a pregnant woman could not go out, but Naha, on the other hand, had been running around Li Shen's house recently.
"Why can't you run?"
"Because five hundred kilograms of gunpowder were lost in the gunpowder workshop affiliated to the Wuyan Institute. Now everyone is panicking. God knows where and how it will explode."
Yu Xiurong was stunned for a moment and said: "In this case, isn't Liu Rengui full of disasters?"
Yun Chu shook his head and said: "It's none of Liu Rengui's business. After the gunpowder demonstration was completed at the school military field, Liu Rengui quit his job in the gunpowder workshop and now he is back to be his magistrate of Chang'an County."
Yu Xiurong counted the days and lowered his voice and said, "Isn't that the day after Liu Rengui quit his job?"
Yun Chu put a chopstick into his mouth and ate the noodles, then said: "Since the advent of gunpowder, there has never been a day to relax.
I have to admire Lao Liu, knowing that if he continues to take care of this matter, countless lives will definitely be taken out, so he retreated bravely and avoided a disaster."
Yu Xiurong looked around and saw Naha who was immersed in eating next to her, so she whispered: "Liu Rengui knows the formula of gunpowder, right?"
Yun Chu nodded and said, "It's because he knows the formula that no one suspects him."
Yu Xiurong sighed and said: "Husband, these Chang'an officials are getting more and more boring. Husband, I will just become a minor official so that the family can be quieter."
Yun Chu nodded, feeling that what Yu Xiurong said was very reasonable.
As long as the old monkey returns to Yun's house, he will be in a state of hibernation, sleeping for at least ten of the twelve hours a day.
But it was strange that even though he was always sleeping, he actually knew clearly what Yun Chu had just learned.
"Five hundred catties of gunpowder were lost?"
When Yunchu arrived at Old Monkey's room, he closed his eyes and suddenly started talking.
"Yes, now everyone wants to know where these five hundred kilograms of gunpowder have gone, and the person who wants to know where the gunpowder has gone the most is the emperor."
The old monkey said lazily: "Either the emperor himself shouted to catch the thief, or Changsun Wuji did it. There is no possibility of a third party."
Yun Chu said: "Is this necessary for the emperor?"
The old monkey opened his eyes slightly, looked at Yun Chu and said: "If it was really the emperor who took it away, then your majesty is not simple."
"What if Changsun Wuji took it away?"
The old monkey grunted: "Then, his death has come."
After finishing speaking, he closed his eyes and fell asleep again.
When Yun Chu came over, he wanted to ask if the old monkey had taken away the gunpowder from the Wuhan Institute. Since the old monkey said that it was either the emperor or Changsun Wuji who took it away, it proves that it was not the old monkey who did it.
After returning to the study, Yun Chu had been weighing the weight between himself and the five hundred kilograms of gunpowder.
Finally, I came to the conclusion that I was not worthy of someone using 500 kilograms of gunpowder to kill me, and I felt better all of a sudden.
Yu Xiurong, the mother-in-law, probably thought so just now, so she said gently that the family did not need a big official, and a small official was enough to support the appearance.
Yunchu once again told Naha not to go to Li Shen recently. If the gunpowder was taken away by Li Zhi, she might use the gunpowder to test her brother when she was bored.
He has been in Datang for several years, and according to his understanding, the Li family has some psychological problems.
She is especially keen on killing her brothers and sisters, just like Wen Wen always wants to kill a few of her own family members, and then feel the complex emotions of sadness and happiness rippling through her body.
They are all perversions.
Wu Mei's fat daughter Yu Nuer suddenly stood up on her fat legs yesterday and shouted two meaningless words "mom".
No one taught her to say these two words. This may be a natural instinct after birth.
In almost all languages, the names for mother are similar.
It's a pity that the mother of this little chubby child doesn't want to see her.
Yun Chu suspected that this might be because Wu Mei had a very strong sense of guilt about this child, so she was unwilling to see her, because as long as she saw this child, she would think of the vicious thoughts she had had.
Children who escape death are usually taken care of someday. Therefore, this child is actually very easy to feed. As long as he is given food and held, she will not cry or make trouble. Sometimes, Yun Chu even thinks that this child knows that he is
A child abandoned by his mother.
Yunchu has been deliberately cultivating the relationship between Li Hong and Yu Nuer, so even if Li Hong likes to use girls as meat pads, he will never stop him.
A girl that he watched grow up and a girl that he carried on his back were completely different emotions for the older brother.
Yunchu is very experienced in this regard.
Seeing his sister Naha rolling her eyes at him because she was banned from Jinchangfang, Yun Chu raised his hand and wanted to slap her.
Seeing Naha shrinking back and hunching her shoulders to welcome the slap, Yunchu's heart softened. He touched her hair and said, "Play at home and if you are obedient, my brother will make you a cake later."
"I just asked Li Shen to make two jade plaques for me to keep for my nephew and niece. The old monkey said that if you wear some jade stones for a long time, you will develop spiritual wisdom and become a person's second soul.
A life."
Yunchu sighed and said: "Just make a brand, don't let Li Shen cheat you of your good jade.
Although he is the prince of the Tang Dynasty, after seeing a good jade, he has no humanity to deal with."
"I won't be cheated." After Naha gave her brother a big look, she went to the old monkey to complain.
Every year in May and June, there will be a heavy rain in Chang'an. It's almost June, but the heavy rain still hasn't come.
The water in the river is much less than in previous years. Even the water wheel set up on the artesian canal in Yunchu last year could not draw water.
At this time, all people can do is to use overturned trucks to draw water up from the low river channels.
Where there is not enough capacity to roll over, people can only rely on people to carry water.
The farmland was severely overworked. In order to preserve the small farmland and cotton in Wannian County, Yunchu had to organize people from Wannian County to do corvee labor.
This time the people doing corvee work were city dwellers, not farmers.
According to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, people in the city actually had the obligation to perform corvee service, but it was not implemented for many, many years, so that the people in the city thought that they did not have to perform corvee service.
Now, Wannian County has issued a corvee order, and every household registered in Wannian County must send a strong man out of the city to fetch water and save the seedlings that are about to be harvested and the cotton that is growing.
I thought it would be difficult to implement this decree because there are too many high-ranking officials and nobles in the half of Chang'an City that Wannian County belongs to.
The housekeepers of many families can ignore Yunchu, a small local official, but most of them will not agree to something like this that would make them suffer.
The result was beyond Yunchu's expectation.
Although it is indeed a bit bullying for Li Shen and his family to have only one strong man in such a big mansion, they are indeed following the laws of the Tang Dynasty. Every family has a strong man, and he is not bullied.
The same is true for other large families and noble families. A family with hundreds or even thousands of people, as long as the family is not divided, it is not a big deal for them to have a strong man.
Therefore, it is ordinary people who are really embarrassed by this policy.
Those with a large family can still send one person, but those with a small family are pitiful. When the man leaves, the family business and the way to make money will stop. For these families who are silent, it is very difficult.
Five days of corvée would be a difficult threshold to cross.
There was no way, even if Yunchu no longer wanted the food in the field, the cotton must be kept no matter what.
As soon as the county government issued an order, the people of Wannian County really burst into tears. The mother-in-law and the children dragged the men in the family and howled incessantly. It was really as if they were parting from life or death.
The advantage of Wannian County is that there are many people. Therefore, when the river is full of people, the water in the newly built canal in Wannian County has never been dry.
After Wannian County did this, Chang'an County immediately followed suit, and the decree was issued equally smoothly.
Just when Yun Chu was pleased with the common sentiments of the nobles and wealthy households of the Tang Dynasty, Liu Ren was standing on the edge of the canal to check the water conditions: "Five hundred kilograms of gunpowder, who wouldn't be afraid?"
Yun Chu looked at Liu Rengui, who was so skinny that there was only a handful of bones left, and asked Liu Yi if he wanted to come over and handed him a large handful of bamboo chips, saying: "The food at your house basically doesn't have much oil and water. I want to eat fatter and stronger."
, you also have to look at the big cafeteria.”
Liu Rengui now accepted the bribe from Yunchu without any resistance. He looked at the bamboo chips in his hand and said, "It's not enough. Your sister-in-law, nephew, and niece have been worrying about me these days, and they haven't eaten well. They are all thin."
It’s so powerful that it needs to be replenished.”
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