When Su Qingluan heard Mu Xingzhi's words, she couldn't help but feel a thump in her heart: As expected of a man who is full of tricks, you really can't hide it from him. Are your intuitions so sharp?
Thinking this way, she still wanted to struggle and fool herself, so she wanted to drink tea to hide her feeling of weakness. But she was so preoccupied with how to round out her words that she forgot that Mu Xingzhi had just poured the cup of tea for her. As a result, she was burned from her tongue to her throat after one gulp.
Seeing Su Qingluan crying and gasping for breath after being scalded, Mu Xingzhi asked Song Bo to bring her cold water to relieve the sting caused by the hot water scald.
Su Qingluan drank a few sips and finally suppressed the uncomfortable energy. She was about to cry but said without tears: "Why do I always make a fool of myself in front of you... ugh..."
Forget it, as the saying goes, if you have too many lice, you are not afraid of being bitten, and if you are too embarrassed, Su Qingluan also thought about it: "Forget it, forget it, I have no image in front of you, and this time is not bad...Songbo too, Laugh if you want to.”
The latter sentence was said to Songbo, who was trying his best to keep a straight face, but was not good at holding back his smile.
However, Song Bo didn't really laugh after all, but when he saw that Su Qingluan didn't stand up to leave, he knew that the other party probably wanted to discuss something with Mu Xingzhi, so he found an excuse to go out.
But Su Qingluan heard a "chichi" sound coming from outside the door when Songbo closed the door.
... Laugh, laugh, laugh whatever you want. Su Qingluan curled her lips: Who told her to be careless?
Jokes aside, business matters still need to be talked about. Sui Qingluan put the piece of paper in his sleeve on the table and pushed it towards Mu Xingzhi: "Here, your thank you gift as promised - this thank you gift is not only to thank you for saving my life, but also to thank you for saving me." My sister, thank you for saving my family from those people in the Xie Mansion."
After hearing this, Mu Xingzhi put down the tea cup in his hand, stretched out two slender fingers to pick up the thin piece of paper casually, and teased with a half-smile: "It's a life-saving grace, not to mention repaying it with a spring of water." , but isn’t such a piece of paper too perfunctory?”
Although he said this, Mu Xingzhi knew that Su Qingluan's attitude was very determined, which meant that the "thank you gift" in his hand must have a considerable degree of weight.
However, when he opened the paper, he was still surprised by the content inside. The gentle and playful smile that had originally been there had completely disappeared, replaced by the feeling that Su Qingluan had felt when he first met Mu Xingzhi. That kind of deep look that seems to be able to see through everything.
Seeing the other party's expression, Su Qingluan was silently relieved: at least the other party immediately realized the key role of these things in improving the strength of his troops - after all, not just anyone can do it all at once. There are even fewer people who accept new things that they have basically never seen before and can see through them at a glance.
Mu Xingzhi's sometimes shown tolerance for new things, novel ideas, and foresight in new theories gave Su Qingluan, the time traveler, the illusion that the other person had also time traveled from some other highly civilized plane. .
If it weren't for the fact that after many trials, it was proved that Mu Xingzhi did not have the possibility to go beyond the knowledge of this plane, Su Qingluan would have wanted to ask him what plane he came from.
Su Qingluan was thinking wildly here, and Mu Xingzhi asked: "Qingluan, this piece of paper..."
"I haven't shown it to others, I haven't told anyone to hear it, I don't even have a clue. You are the first and the only one." Before the other party finished speaking, Su Qingluan automatically completed the supplement, and then said " Are you stupid?" He looked at the other party with an expression on his face, "You don't think that anyone can accept my unconstrained thinking like you do?"
To put it bluntly, even if Su Qingluan talks about something that will be invented later and will help improve productivity or make life easier, whether there is a way to make it is one thing. It is simply about how many people can believe it, and It's hard to say whether I can accept it.
After all, going from geocentric theory to heliocentric theory has burned a lot of people, which shows how difficult it is to change the ideology.
Mu Xingzhi laughed when he heard this: "Qingluan thinks so highly of me."
"It's not that you look down upon it, but that you know that you can accept new things rationally and objectively - neither being confused nor completely rejecting it. And..."
"And what?" Su Qingluan was thinking of the right words, so she didn't look up at Mu Xingzhi's side at all. So he didn't notice that the other person was looking at her very intently, as if he wanted to see something through her face.
Su Qingluan carefully analyzed the pros and cons: "Look, although I know these messy things, they are used in warfare after all. Ordinary people know that I, a peasant girl, am involved in such things, so it's better not to think about it. If you think too wildly, you might want to label me or even my whole family as a rebel."
"Aren't you afraid that I think the same way?"
"Please..." Su Qingluan said speechlessly, "Although I don't know if you want to be the commander yourself or assist someone, but..."
She looked outside the door. After all, she didn't say it directly. Instead, she lowered her voice and asked softly: "A person who doesn't ask the people about ghosts and gods is not worthy of being worshiped by the people, right?"
"Don't ask the common people, ask the ghosts and gods...what a good person, don't ask the common people, ask the ghosts and gods!" Mu Xingzhi recited the meaning of this poem, with a somewhat mocking smile on his lips.
"You are different," Su Qingluan spread out his hands, "Although I don't know how far you can go, but you are a person who does great things. If you can see how to use this kind of thing, it should be yours. ——But if this thing is to be effective, it cannot be achieved overnight. Anyway, you have been in Huaxi Village for six or seven years, so you don’t need this little time."
"So, where is Qingluan?" Mu Xingzhi put the precious piece of paper into his arms and looked at Su Qingluan, "Qingluan gave me this great gift. It is really too precious. Qingluan thought What do you want as a thank you gift?"
Su Qingluan knew that Mu Xingzhi would definitely be able to see her "asking for something" - not to mention that she had no intention of hiding it. When it comes to playing tricks in front of smart people, she can't play with ten of them, so she just lies down and says whatever she wants, so that she can be replaced without suspicion.
So she thought for a while and asked: "Most people probably can't give me the thank you I want, unless it reaches that level..." This is a clear question of the other person's depth, "Can you make the decision?"
Mu Xingzhi probably didn't expect that Su Qingluan really asked such a straightforward question. He was stunned for a moment, then nodded with a smile: "I can." There was no show off or proud expression, but a very calm tone. , as if this is just a common sentence without any special meaning.
Su Qingluan raised his eyebrows when he heard this: Sure enough, compared to someone's assistant, the person in front of him is still suitable to be the leader himself.
So she smiled and said: "Actually, I have already said it."
