It was night, Xu Qingwan finally returned home after a busy day in Yingfengsheng.
While changing her clothes, she asked Wei Changtian, who was drawing a "cannon design" next to her: "Have you said when you will be back?"
"return?"
Wei Changtian replied without raising his head: "He's not coming back."
"ah?"
Xu Qingwan was stunned when he heard this, and the movements of his hands also paused.
She was not that reluctant to leave Lao Zhangtou, but she was a little worried about Ah Gou: "What about Ah Gou? Are you okay today? Are you crying?"
"No, you should eat and drink."
Wei Changtian curled his lips: "This little girl is quite tolerant. I want to see how long she can hold it in."
"You......"
He gave Wei Changtian a dumbfounded slap, but Comrade Xiao Xu was still a little worried: "What should I do if I'm so depressed? How about I go and comfort her."
"It's up to you, but I don't think she needs your coaxing."
Wei Changtian stretched: "Some things will get better with time."
"That's true......"
Xu Qingwan nodded slightly, but still planned to come back early tomorrow to talk to Agou.
After a brief chat, the two continued to do their own business, and there were only some slight noises in the room.
Until Yuan'er and Qiuyun walked in carrying copper basins.
"Sir, madam, it's time to wash up."
"oh."
Nodding, Wei Changtian put down his pen and admired his "masterpiece" happily.
Yuan'er, who happened to walk behind him, also saw this "cannon design" and asked curiously:
"Sir, what is this painting?"
"cannon."
Wei Changtian gave the answer casually while washing his face.
And obviously, the word "cannon" is obviously not in Yuan'er's vocabulary range.
"cannon?"
She looked carefully up and down, left and right, at the pattern that looked like something: "What is a cannon?"
"Whoa! Whoa!"
Wei Changtian, who was busy washing his face, had no time to explain. Instead, Xu Qingwan next to him smiled and replied: "My husband said it is a kind of weapon."
"Huh? Weapons?"
Yuan'er pouted and whispered: "It doesn't look like a weapon, it doesn't look serious..."
"Pfft!"
Xu Qingwan and Qiuyun were immediately amused by this sentence, and they laughed from ear to ear for a while.
Only Wei Changtian felt so humiliated that he took the towel from Yuan'er's hand angrily.
"What have you been thinking about all day?"
"Okay, I'm done washing, let's get out!"
"Yes, Master~"
Yuan'er deliberately drawled a long note, smiled, picked up the copper basin, and walked out of the house with Qiu Yun.
But just as she turned around to close the door, she blinked and said something to the room.
"Sir, will Madam be able to see your cannon tonight?"
"???"
"Come on, come on! Not only can she see it! You can see it too!"
"Giggle! I don't want to see it!"
"Master and Madam, please rest early~"
"..."
The laughter outside the house gradually faded away, but after all, Yuan'er and Qiuyun did not stay to enjoy the "cannon" with Comrade Xiao Xu.
Wei Changtian was both angry and amused, so he returned to the table and looked at the design drawing he had drawn carefully.
It didn't matter if he didn't read it. The more he looked at it, the more he realized that Yuan'er's words made sense, and even made him feel a little unconfident.
If this thing like Nima is really created, then its greatest lethality would probably be to make the enemy laugh to death!
"Wan'er, does this really look like... that object?"
After scratching his head, Wei Changtian was ready to ask Xu Qingwan for his opinion.
The latter did not answer, but kept covering his mouth and laughing.
"Why are you laughing!"
Wei Changtian suddenly became anxious: "I am asking you very seriously, please tell me if it looks like it!"
"Goose goose, it's not like..."
Comrade Xiao Xu smiled more and more enthusiastically, but at a certain moment he suddenly turned red.
She slowly picked up the hard pen on the table, and then added a few strokes on the design under Wei Changtian's puzzled eyes.
After the modification, nothing else about the cannon has changed, except that the barrel has become much longer.
"This, this is like..."
"????"
A night of silence.
...
...
The next day, Ning Yuke and Qingxian returned from the south.
Wei Changtian was a little afraid of the queen now, so he did not go to the palace. He just found an accompanying official to briefly understand the situation in Datong City.
The new city has begun full-scale construction, and it is estimated that the city wall will be built in three months.
As long as the city wall is built, the monsters can basically start to "move in" one after another.
Of course, this matter must not be exposed so early, so let’s build it like this first...
Another day.
Du Chang sent back news that the troops had entered Shiwan Mountain as planned and had seen the 10,000 monsters.
The demon clan is very cooperative, but there are some minor problems.
For example, some monsters are unwilling to become mounts for soldiers with lower strength than themselves.
For example, some soldiers are unwilling to ride monster beasts.
Another example is that some soldiers fell from the sky while riding flying monsters, etc.
After all, it was the first time for humans and demons to cooperate, and it always required an adaptation stage, so Wei Changtian didn't pay too much attention to it. He asked Liang Zhen when he would come back and then stopped caring about the details of training new troops.
Just like that, one more day has passed.
On the third day after Lao Zhangtou left, Chu Xianping finally came back.
His negotiation this time could be described as a "resounding victory" and he borrowed a full 200,000 craftsmen and coolies from four surrounding states.
Of course, they said they were borrowing them, but in fact they were asking for them. Wei Changtian never thought about giving these people back.
In the future, these 200,000 people will enter Shuzhou as "refugees" and then go straight to Datong to participate in the construction of the new city.
Wei Changtian will provide them with generous rewards and a piece of "own fertile land" within the boundaries of Shuzhou.
With the land and money, these people will most likely not go back, and will only think about bringing their wives, children, and children back to Shuzhou to live.
At that time, there will undoubtedly be another wave of population influx.
Therefore, Wei Changtian, who had already realized the importance of population, was very satisfied with this, and decided to go to the south to personally "inspect" the construction situation of Datong City in full swing.
However, his spur-of-the-moment inspection never came to fruition.
Because just an hour before he was about to set off, news suddenly came from Dafeng—
After several days of marching, Daning's 400,000-strong army finally arrived at Fengyuan City yesterday.
After a night's rest, the army officially began an all-out attack on the city at dawn today.
When the spies conveyed this news, the first wave of siege battles had already ended. In just one confrontation, no less than 30,000 soldiers from both sides were killed.
And these are not the key yet.
What shocked Wei Changtian the most was the last sentence of the intelligence.
Emperor Dafeng Li Qi personally visited the city wall to supervise the battle, but was attacked by an unknown second-level master. He was seriously injured and his life was on the line.