Glancing at the uncertain look on Chen Xiaomu's face, Su Xingran felt angry and amused in her heart, and couldn't help but mocked: "What? Husband, are you still not happy that we two princesses and a queen are waiting for you?"
Chen Xiaomu didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "I'm happy! I'm just not happy!"
Su Xingran chuckled at this, and was about to speak again when Li Gui hurried over and said, "Your Highness, a group of carpenters and blacksmiths came over there and said they made an appointment with you to come to the princess's mansion this morning."
Chen Xiaomu nodded, "Yes, you take them to the front yard of the Princess Mansion and wait. I'll go to the back to change clothes, get some things and then come back to find them."
"Here" Li Gui agreed, bowed and turned to leave. Chen Xiaomu glanced at Su Xingran with a smile and said, "Honey, let's stop bickering here. We have to hurry up and do our business now!"
Su Xingran glared at him and angrily said to Furong who was standing next to her: "Let's go!" Then she took the lead and walked towards the princess's house with the Fengming Sword. Furong glanced at Chen Xiaomu timidly and hurriedly dragged her away. Rake quickly followed.
Chen Xiaomu paused on the spot, remembering that the drawings drawn for the blacksmith and carpenter were still at their residence, so he followed them in a hurry.
Returning to the princess's residence, Su Xingran threw the Fengming Sword with the scabbard in his hand onto the desk with a thump, and said bitterly: "This scoundrel actually went out behind my back to engage in promiscuity! What a shame!" I'm furious!"
Furong followed behind and quickly ordered the new maid Xiaowen to pour a cup of hot tea. Then she brought it to Su Xingran and persuaded her in a gentle voice: "Princess, aren't all men like this? They are all playboys. Nowadays, even some small squires with a little wealth in their families are married to three wives and four concubines, let alone a handsome man with both talent and appearance like the Prince Consort, isn’t he even more rare?"
Su Xingran gouged out Furong, couldn't help but slapped the table and said angrily: "Furong, who are you talking to?"
Furong was startled, and couldn't help but tremble, but she still had the courage to lower her head and muttered: "Isn't this slave afraid that the princess will be so angry that she can give her some peace of mind?"
Su Xingran hummed and said, "I want you to take care of it!"
Furong was so frightened that she stood back against the wall, lowering her head and not daring to say anything. After a while, Chen Xiaomu walked into the room and saw Su Xingran sitting on the Taishi chair, her eyes closed and her chest rising and falling, ignoring him. When she was angry with him, she winked at Furong and Xiaowen and asked them to go out first. Furong hesitated for a moment, and finally quietly left with Xiaowen while Chen Xiaomu kept winking.
Chen Xiaomu walked to Su Xingran, bent down and picked up the fire shears leaning against the stove, picked up two pieces of charcoal and put them in the heating stove, then smiled at Su Xingran and said, "What? Is my wife still angry with my husband? "
Su Xingran turned her face to one side and ignored him. Chen Xiaomu suddenly squatted down and picked up Su Xingran's whole body. He turned around and walked towards Ruantan. Su Xingran was startled and quickly struggled out of his arms. Chen Xiaomu smiled. He threatened in a low voice: "Don't move, Fu Rong and the others are standing outside! If there is a big movement, it will be easy to bring them in, and then it will be really ugly!"
Su Xingran fluttered in his arms with a pair of round almond eyes, staring fiercely at Chen Xiaomu's angular handsome face, biting her lips and cursed quietly: "You little thief, why don't you go find your little prodigal who has become the queen?"
Chen Xiaomu laughed softly and said: "Wife, no matter how many women there are, I only like you, wife!"
Su Xingran sneered: "Don't talk sweet words. I'm afraid you'll say more disgusting words in front of that little prodigal than me, right?"
Chen Xiaomu immediately made a grimace and vowed: "No, absolutely not, I will only keep these disgusting words for you!"
Su Xingran paused in Chen Xiaomu's arms and said, "Okay, no matter whether you go to war or go to Hubei again, in short, as long as you go to a place where you will be away from me for more than two days, you must take me with you!"
"Of course." Chen Xiaomu took the opportunity to lower his head and kiss Su Xingran's red lips, and readily agreed to her conditions.
Su Xingran nodded with satisfaction, closed her eyes and let Chen Xiaomu put her on the soft bed. The two of them cooperated tacitly and slowly enjoyed the short happy time before the storm was coming.
At this moment, snowflakes began to fall outside again, and the heavy snow fell heavier and heavier. After Chen Xiaomu and Su Xingran had a good time, they immediately got up from the soft and warm bed, put on their clothes, turned around and kissed each other hard and lay in the hot bed. Wanting to hide it but still ashamed of the beauty, he quickly put the pile of drawings on the desk that he had spent all night drawing on last night, sorted them briefly, put them in his arms, opened the door and rushed into the heavy snow outside.
Under a corridor in the front yard of Princess Qingfeng's Mansion, there were more than a dozen men, old and young, dressed in coarse cloth, standing crowded together. Their faces were all red from the cold, their whole bodies were shaking, and their teeth could not stop clicking. "Shuddering, in this era without cotton, in this cold season, most of the officials, merchants and wealthy businessmen would use various precious animal skins or silk to make all kinds of fur clothing and clothing. All kinds of close-fitting silk jackets are used to resist the severe cold. Ordinary families can only rely on putting on single clothes layer by layer to keep warm. Those people from poor families have no choice but to use their own physique to resist the winter. The younger ones can barely endure it. During the cold season, the old and infirm have no choice but to ask God to save their lives. Therefore, countless people freeze to death in various countries every year!
Chen Xiaomu kept spraying hot air from his mouth. When he walked under the corridor, the heavy snow fell on his body and turned into a snowman. Li Gui, who was waiting for him under the corridor, hurriedly came over to help him brush off the fallen things. snowflake.
Chen Xiaomu didn't say much. He took out the drawings from his arms and sent them to them according to the categories of blacksmiths and carpenters. The group of people shook their heads and took them to take a look. They were all stunned. They had never seen such a piece of paper in front of them. There were a variety of strange-shaped objects. After being shocked, these people began to whisper to each other, and no one stood up to ask Chen Xiaomu questions.
After waiting for a long time, the group of people were still chattering to each other. No one asked any questions. Chen Xiaomu couldn't help but asked: "Everyone, please take a closer look and report your wages later. Our princess mansion will definitely not be short." Everyone is paid for a penny!"
At this time, yesterday's blacksmith named Zheng Jiang boldly stood out from the crowd and said to Chen Xiaomu hesitantly: "Master, don't mention whether the wages are paid or not. The paintings you drew on this paper look strange. We won’t do weird things at all!”
Chen Xiaomu was stunned by this. He was still full of hope just now, but in the blink of an eye, he was hit by a bucket of cold water. It took him a long time to realize it, and he tentatively said: "If I give you fifty taels of silver per piece to make it for you, can you Can't you make it for me? "
''Wow! Fifty taels of silver a piece! "Everyone couldn't help but marvel. You must know that nowadays, these blacksmiths can only make an iron farm tool with materials and workmanship for about 50 cents. The best farm tools cost no more than 100 cents, unless they are for the army or government officials in the imperial court. The weapons made are more expensive, but the most expensive one does not exceed 500 taels of silver. This fifty taels of silver is equivalent to 50,000 taels of silver, which is equivalent to a full hundred times increase. This shows the shock of these craftsmen. How powerful.
Zheng Jiang still scratched his head with an expression of embarrassment, and said hesitantly: "I'll tell you the truth, I want to take the objects you drew on the drawing back to Master first. Maybe he has a way to make them."
When Chen Xiaomu heard this, a glimmer of hope immediately rose in his heart. He nodded repeatedly and said, "Okay, you can take it back and show it to your master first. I will finish my business and then visit your master."
Zheng Jiang quickly raised his hands and said, "I would like to thank my master for your kindness, and I will leave first." "After that, he took the few people who came with him and left in a hurry in the heavy snow.
Chen Xiaomu turned to the old man who was the leader among the carpenters yesterday and smiled: "Master Yu, can't you make the objects I drew in this picture?"
The old man smiled and shook his head, "Master, little old man, I have been doing carpentry work all my life, and I have never seen such strange-shaped objects as the master painted. I can make them, but it will take a lot of effort!" "
Chen Xiaomu understood as soon as he heard it. The old man just wanted more wages, but as long as he could make it, Chen Xiaomu didn't care about the wages. Compared with the money these machines would make in the future, this wages would be like a drop of water in the ocean. In addition, he sympathized with these poor craftsmen, so he waved his hand and said readily: "Master Yu, as long as you can make things according to my drawings, I will treat them equally and give you fifty taels of silver for each piece. wages.”
When several people heard this, they all smiled happily, and under the leadership of the old man, they rushed to bow to Chen Xiaomu to show their goodwill.
After the carpenters left, Chen Xiaomu and Li Gui found Wang Wu's residence, a small separate room in the courtyard of the Princess Mansion Guards. At this time, Wang Wu was standing in front of the door in a daze when they saw Chen Xiaomu and Li Gui coming to him. When he came, he hurriedly came forward to greet him and said with a silly smile: "Your Highness, why did you come to this noisy place like mine? If anything happens, just send someone over and call me!"
Chen Xiaomu patted the snowflakes on his body and joked: "Wang Wu, did you know that I was coming, so you ran outside the house early to greet me!"
Wang Wu stretched out his hand and scratched his head in embarrassment, and said with a smile: "His Highness, you are just joking. Your humble position is not a roundworm in your stomach, so I can know in advance that you are coming!" "
"Then it's snowing so heavily outside, why are you standing outside?" Chen Xiaomu asked strangely.
"This..." Wang Wuyi choked on his words and looked straight at Chen Xiaomu, unable to say a single word.
At this time, Li Gui came up from behind and scolded Wang Wu: "Captain Wang, do you know the etiquette? It's snowing so much outside, and you don't know how to ask His Highness to come to your house to avoid the snow!"
At this time, Wang Wu's old face was red from suppressing it. He stammered: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, my room is too small and messy inside. I'd better take you to Captain Lu's official room to sit down." Would you like to sit down? That place is big and clean, and there’s also a heating stove inside!”
Chen Xiaomu raised his brows, looked at Wang Wu, and said half jokingly and half seriously: "Wang Wu, look at how naive you are, you can't even tell a lie, don't play with me like hiding a girl in a shabby house. Is it a trick?"
Wang Wu was startled for a moment, blinked, looked at Chen Xiaomu, stuttered even more, and asked in surprise, "Your Highness, how, how did you know?"
Chen Xiaomu smiled slightly and stretched out his finger to give him a distant tap. "You guy, I left the injured female assassin to you last night. Do you think I forgot about it?"
"That's right!" Li Gui couldn't help but said angrily at the moment: "Wang Wu, you are not an honest guy. In order to save a female assassin, you almost killed me, and now my ribs are still faintly visible. It hurts!"
Wang Wu was startled and stopped stammering. He hurriedly defended: "Your Highness, this He Jiugu is actually a good woman. She came to the princess mansion to assassinate her because she was forced to come here. You must not Kill her!"
Seeing Wang Wu's panic, Chen Xiaomu chuckled and said jokingly: "Wang Wu, I think you have the potential to be a traitor. You are so obsessed with an injured woman that you won't even sit down." It’s on our side!”
Wang Wu lowered his head and lowered his hands, glanced at Chen Xiaomu secretly, and whispered: "Your Highness, Jiu Gu is really a good woman. In my humble position, I only ask Your Highness to show mercy and don't kill her. From now on, even if I am humble in my humble position, I must repay her kindness." Your Highness’s great kindness!”
Chen Xiaomu didn't want to waste any more time here, so he simply waved his hand and said: "Forget it, I already told you last night that this woman is left to you to deal with. You can kill or cut her up as you please. In short, I will not kill her." Yes, are you relieved now?"
"Really? Your Highness!" Wang Wu breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and for a moment he was as happy as a child, with a smile on his unshaven face.
"Can you take me to meet her now?" Chen Xiaomu said with a smile.
''Your Highness wants to see Aunt He Jiu? Wang Wu asked doubtfully.
Chen Xiaomu nodded, "Yes, I came here specifically for her."
At this moment, a sound of "crash" suddenly came from Wang Wu's room. Wang Wu slapped his head and shouted, "Oh no!" " Without even bothering to say hello to Chen Xiaomu, he turned around and ran into the house. Chen Xiaomu and Li Gui also hurriedly followed.
