Chapter 326 What does this girl mean? She said it was delicious without tasting one bite
Chapter 326 What does this girl mean? She said it was delicious without even tasting it (please subscribe and vote)
After dragging his exhausted body back into the house, Cheng Chubi lay down for a while, then heard the voice of the housekeeper, Uncle Fu, and then stood up to greet him.
Uncle Fu, the housekeeper, looked at Cheng Chubi's tired face and couldn't help but advise.
"Sir, you have worked too hard these past few days... If you need anything, just tell the boys. Why do you have to do it yourself?"
"It's okay, Uncle Fu. I'm almost done with what I should be busy with. The rest is up to you, Uncle Fu." Cheng Chubi said with a smile.
Then he picked up the list he had drawn up in detail from the desk, and pointed to the desk.
"Uncle Fu, I will read it and you will copy it."
Uncle Fu, the housekeeper, glanced at the piece of paper in the third young master's hand and twitched his eyes as he looked at the writing on it that looked like ghostly drawings.
I don't know why the third son of my family was so talented and wrote poems that made even the scholars of the Tang Dynasty feel ashamed.
But the word Third Young Master really cannot be described in words. Well, it can no longer be described by ugly words.
Because the things written by the Third Young Master look like worms from a distance, but look like centipedes up close, and they look like a bunch of unknown lines.
However, the Third Young Master could just look at the lines and speak a lot of words. For this ability, Cheng Fu felt that even if he searched all over the Tang Dynasty, he would not be able to find anyone else.
When Uncle Fu, the butler, sat down, Cheng Chubi picked up his manuscript and started reading.
Uncle Fu, the housekeeper, was responsible for transcribing what Cheng Chubi said, and then hurried to purchase it.
For example, the white cloth needed for the bandage, the oil paper used to wrap the sterilized bandage, and the gloves that have been produced as samples are indispensable.
Although after the contributions and statements of Li Jing and Cheng Yaojin, Li Shimin, who had personally fought on the battlefield for many years,
Of course, he also realized the role of this glove and immediately approved the promotion of gloves in the military.
He also asked the Ministry of Industry to speed up the production of gloves so that they could be distributed to the soldiers who were about to go on the expedition before the army marched westward.
However, the quality and workmanship of Lao Cheng's customized version are naturally far superior to the batch products produced by the Ministry of Industry.
In addition, Cheng Chubi also customized a batch of stretcher cloths and gave them to the Cheng family's soldiers and generals.
As long as you insert two long weapons or wooden sticks into it, you can get a simple stretcher.
Allow the injured person to lie flat on it for easy transfer and transportation.
In addition, a military plaque was ordered for the servants of the Cheng Mansion, which was a piece of copper.
The name, age, and blood type of each soldier and general are engraved on it.
What's more, each person will have an epaulette customized for them, and the epaulette also records the same content.
Of course, this is just in case. If the military card is dropped during combat, you can know it on the epaulette.
While the housekeeper, Uncle Fu, was recording, he looked at the third young master, who seemed a bit nagging, and saw that he was racking his brains and thinking.
After mumbling for a long time, Cheng Chubi finally let out a breath and said worriedly to Uncle Fu.
"Uncle Fu, please read it to me again and I'll see if there's anything I've missed."
After the housekeeper Fu Shu finished reading, he persuaded the relieved Cheng Chubi, "Third Young Master, don't worry too much."
Cheng Chubi nodded, stood up and said with a smile, "Okay, I know, I'm just doing my best."
Watching Uncle Fu, the housekeeper, leave, Cheng Chubi was stunned for a long time, and finally he let out a sigh.
...This is reality. Whether it is a thousand years ago or a thousand years from now, war will always be a theme for mankind.
Cheng Chubi couldn't stop it, even as the Tang Dynasty, which dominated the world and dominated all barbarians.
Nor can it stop the ambitions of those ambitious neighbors.
Once ambition begins to burn and begins to turn into actual actions, those unsheathed swords and galloping horses will set off waves of wars.
Unless, the Tang Dynasty was so powerful that it made everyone despair and all the neighboring countries.
Losing hope of confronting the Tang Dynasty or plundering resources and wealth from the Tang Dynasty.
Let’s wait and see about the future. Cheng Chubi took a deep breath. The first thing he had to do was to do his job well in a down-to-earth manner.
No matter what, we must look for opportunities to promote surgery in the Tang Dynasty. If we can't even do this well, it's nonsense.
Although medicine cannot build a country, it can at least strengthen it.
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Wu Meiniang finally waited until Cheng Chubi appeared at the Imperial Medical Office again. She took light steps and swayed her slim waist to the small courtyard of Cheng Taichang.
"Shunzi...can't afford it...I want to...live..."
The familiar sound of playing cards came through the courtyard door. The handyman quickly greeted the courtyard and then opened the door, letting the female military doctor enter the courtyard.
Cheng Chubi could only reluctantly put down his cards and let Cheng Ji go for the time being. Cheng Li, the two unlucky guys who were not very familiar with the operation of Landlords, had been tortured to the point of black lines on their faces.
"Brother Cheng San..." Wu Meiniang poked her head into the room, looking at Cheng Sanlang seriously and carefully with her rippling eyes.
Cheng Sanlang's expression seemed normal. He stood up and waved to Wu Meiniang to sit down.
Wu Meiniang looked at Cheng Sanlang's facial features carefully. Some people can react from their facial features when something happens.
When they are so angry, their noses will flap, some people will frown when they are angry, and some people will widen their eyes when they are surprised.
But the problem is, Cheng Sanlang's expression looks very normal, so normal that Wu Meiniang is a little doubtful about life.
He saw Wu Meiniang keeping her eyes furtively looking up and down at her.
Cheng Chubi couldn't help but feel a little confused. He lowered his head and glanced twice. There was nothing wrong with him. "Is there anything wrong with me?"
Wu Meiniang laughed, shook her head, and smiled sweetly. "No, I just think that Brother Cheng San, you look a little different today?"
"Is there any?" Cheng Chubi touched his face. As the good-looking person of the old Cheng family, he was still so handsome.
Wu Meiniang rolled her eyes covertly and rolled her bright eyes. "Hmm...it's okay, um...have you read the "A Thousand Words to Knock on the Heart" I gave you?"
Cheng Chubi chuckled and walked to the bookshelf nearby, picked up the book "A Thousand Words That Knock on the Heart" written by Wu Meiniang and waved it up.
"Looked at it a little bit."
"Oh, did you see anything?" Wu Meiniang narrowed her eyes, like a cat watching the feathers swaying in front of her eyes.
Cheng Chubi was a little confused, so he opened "A Thousand Words to Knock on the Heart" and flipped through it.
There's nothing wrong with it, I'm just talking about some things that men and women need to pay attention to when getting along.
There aren't many people of the same age around me, there are just a bunch of rough guys of the same age, so I don't have any use for this thing, okay?
Looking at Cheng Sanlang's expression, Wu Meiniang felt more and more something was wrong. "Show me..."
After receiving "A Thousand Words to Heart" handed over by Cheng Sanlang, Wu Meiniang only glanced at it twice, and her expression immediately changed.
"This this……"
"What is this?" Cheng Chubi said somewhat unhappily. "You can see clearly that it is neither damaged nor altered."
Wu Meiniang's face turned a little dark, and she looked at Cheng Chubi and forced a smile. "Well, did you give the other copy to the prince?"
Cheng Chubi looked at Wu Meiniang with suspicious eyes, always feeling that there was something wrong with this girl.
"Well, didn't you say that one of these two books is for me and one is for the prince? Is there something wrong?"
"Ah, of course there is no problem. How could there be a problem?" Wu Meiniang denied subconsciously.
But when she thought that the book she gave to Third Brother Cheng had actually fallen into the hands of the prince, Wu Meiniang felt extremely crazy.
After taking deep breaths frequently and calming down, Wu Meiniang asked kindly.
"Brother Cheng, what was His Highness's reaction after reading it? Well, I just want to know if what I wrote is helpful to His Highness?"
Cheng Chubi chuckled and said, "It must have helped, but he could tell it was a woman's handwriting.
However, fortunately, I reacted quickly and quickly said that I had found someone to copy it for me, so he didn’t let him see any flaws."
Seeing Brother Cheng's smug expression, Wu Meiniang, whose face turned a little dark, just laughed.
"What about the others? What else is there?"
Cheng Chubi stood with his hands behind his hands, recalling the scene at that time and couldn't help but smile proudly.
"By the way, he also said that a gentleman doesn't take away what others like, only to return it to me.
Huh... He thought I couldn't tell, he was clearly trying to defraud someone."
"Ah? What are you lying to?" Wu Meiniang fell into deep confusion. She always felt that something was wrong...
"He is a guy who is about to get married and has sex with women.
Of course, he wanted to pretend that I had no experience with women of the same age, and then use the opportunity to laugh at me."
"Fortunately, I discovered his sinister intentions in time. With his brain, he wanted to fight someone like me, Cheng."
If there hadn't been a woman in front of him, Cheng Chubi would have taken a big sip to express his disdain for the prince.
Wu Meiniang, who has an extraordinary mind and is best at reasoning and calculation, looked on dumbfounded.
Looking at Cheng Sanlang, who is extremely confident and well-founded in his analysis, one is speechless.
Then he leaned weakly on the table and looked at this stupid piece of wood with dull eyes.
After Cheng Chubi analyzed the wave confidently and calmly, he looked down.
"???" Why is this girl so sad? Her expression is so numb and her eyes are so dull.
"Meiniang, what's wrong with you?" Cheng Chubi quickly sat down and looked at Wu Meiniang carefully.
"It's okay, I'm okay." Wu Meiniang felt that she could still be saved, so she forced a smile and sat up straight again.
"Well, apart from this, is there anything strange about the prince..."
"Strange?" Cheng Chubi touched his chin and recalled it seriously, and finally remembered.
"There's nothing else out of the ordinary, but he seemed to have a cold that day."
"When I saw me just now, I was either choking on the water or coughing non-stop. Oh, poor young man..."
"He is just too thin. People like this are most frail and sick. Colds and coughs are normal."
"???" Wu Meiniang's pretty face, as delicate as a spring flower, instantly turned black as the bottom of a pot of honey-refined loquat ointment that had been simmered for three years.
I had a terrible cold and cough, and I choked on the water.
No wonder the Crown Prince would say that a gentleman does not take what others like. This is clearly because His Highness the Crown Prince has read from the customized and enriched version of "A Thousand Words That Knock on the Heart".
I already know the little secrets I wrote to Brother Cheng.
The result was that Third Brother Cheng continued to be self-righteous, and His Highness the Crown Prince must have used various means to cover up his embarrassment.
In the end, Wu Meiniang left with a dark face. Before leaving, she picked up the inkstone and stayed there for a few breaths before putting it back.
Such behavior made Cheng Sanlang feel fearful. When he watched the girl leave, she still looked slim and graceful.
Cheng Chubi shook his head and sighed, women are indeed a mystery, and women who pretend to be fierce are even more cruel.
"Who is that, Cheng Ji?" Cheng Chubi suddenly thought of something after Wu Meiniang's figure disappeared outside the courtyard gate.
"Hurry up and give this packet of dried incense to Miss Wu. I forgot to give it to him just now."
"Who else is there? Cheng Li, please come here and ask around later to see if there are any wooden inkstones for sale."
"What?" Cheng Li looked at his young master in confusion. "The inkstone seems to be made of only stone..."
"Is it made of wood?" Cheng Chubi glared at the guy unhappily.
But Cheng Li was a real person and stubbornly shook his head. "This really doesn't happen."
Cheng Chubi immediately became hairy and shot him with the tip of his toe.
"I said if you have it, you must have it. Go quickly. Even if you don't have it, let them carve one out of wood for me."
Cheng Li could only agree with a sad face, and rushed out of the Imperial Medical Office to buy a wooden inkstone.
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Just as the charming Wu Meiniang was walking slowly forward with a despairing heart and a face like the bottom of a pot, she heard a cry from behind her.
Turning around, he saw Cheng Ji next to Cheng Chubi holding an oil paper bag and handing it over with a smile on his face.
"My young master asked me to give this to you, girl. He said last time you said that the scent of dried anise was too strong."
"This time, he reduced the amount of star anise and added more peppercorns. He said, girl, you will definitely like the taste."
Wu Meiniang raised her hand to take it, put it in front of her nose and sniffed it, her originally gloomy pretty face gradually regained its vitality.
However, Miss Wu, who had to go to the prince to die because of social deaths, still had some feelings in her heart and said dullly.
"Why doesn't he send it to me himself?"
Cheng Ji looked at this beautiful girl with picturesque features and said in his heart: I don't know, but as a loyal servant of the Lord.
Cheng Ji decided to defend Cheng Chubi.
"Well, he was just explaining the matter about Cheng Li... Hey, Cheng Li, where are you going?"
Cheng Ligang walked to the side with a depressed look on his face. He first nodded politely towards Wu Meiniang, and then complained to Cheng Ji.
"Young master asked me to buy a wooden inkstone."
"I said this really doesn't exist, but the master is still not happy. Even if it doesn't exist, it must exist. Let me find a carpenter to carve one..."
With a puff and Wu Meiniang's sudden laughter, Cheng Ji and Cheng Li were startled.
Wu Meiniang quickly covered her pretty red lips, her bright eyes full of smoke.
"Girl, what are you..." Cheng Li asked suspiciously.
"I'm fine, I'm fine. By the way, brother Cheng Ji, please tell your third son.
Well... the dried fragrant he made this time is much more delicious than the one he made last time, thank him for me."
After saying this, Wu Meiniang turned around lightly, and the hem of her swirled skirt was as light as the shadow of a butterfly, swirling without a trace.
Watching this girl Wu who seemed to have changed into a different person, she hummed a cheerful tune and walked away.
At this time, Cheng Ji muttered softly.
"What does this girl mean? She didn't even taste a bite, but she said it tasted better than the dried fragrant young master made last time. Is this brain..."