Spring nights are both quiet and lively.

The beautiful and shining little stars scattered all over the black, blue, black and blue night sky, reflecting each other with a round of bright moon, bringing boundless imagination to people, and also making Lan Niu, who was sitting by the window and looking up at the night sky in the Ruijun Palace, no longer feel lonely.

Although she walked in the darkness, the light of the stars was also brilliant, and the corners of Lan Niu's lips were drawn in a beautiful arc, and she seemed to hear the breeze and the clouds turning.

Lilac, who walked in with a cup of hot goat's milk, pouted her lips disdainfully, what is there to see in the sky? I haven't seen enough on the island for more than ten years? In her opinion, only those girls who have too many unrealistic fantasies love to look at the stars and the moon, just like the girl in front of her who wants to be the queen.

"Girl, drink goat's milk," Lilac walked over with a smiling face, "don't say, it's really useful to insist on drinking goat's milk, girl, your skin is much whiter and tenderer." ”

Lan Niu nodded proudly: "I was very white when I was a child, but the sun was too hot in our place." She didn't know if drinking goat's milk could turn white, she just slowly faded the black on her skin. Lan Niu has been away from the beach for so long, and she is raised in this deep house compound every day, eating all kinds of good things, and it is doubtful that she will not be white.

"Yes," Lilac smiled flatteringly, and suddenly changed the subject, "the girl is going to see the lord and Mr. Yu tomorrow, and you don't plan to let us know where your musket is hidden? ”

Lan Niu snorted coldly: "Of course the musket is carried with you, the lord can see it at first sight, what are you doing hiding it?"

"Take it with you?" Lilac was shocked, she had been with Lan Niu for a while, how could she see a musket? When Lan Niu arrived in the capital, she carried a package, in addition to a few clothes, it was a locked wooden box, presumably containing jewelry, silver, and maybe something she could easily use.

I saw Lan Niu smile contemptuously, put down the goat's milk in her hand, and walked to the cabinet to get her wooden box out.

Lilac was even more shocked, wouldn't it? Shouldn't the musket be a big guy? At least it had to be the size of a big knife, right? What does Lan Niu mean by coming out of this wooden box?

With a "snap", Lan Niu opened the wooden box, and there were no jewels in it? There were a few silver tickets, and the rest were iron and wooden blocks of various shapes, large and small, and, as she thought, some small bottles and jars that should be easy to use.

Under Lilac's gaze, Lan Niu picked up the iron pieces and put them together, and after a while, Lan Niu held up something that was two palms long and one of her palms wide at the top, and the black hole of the round tube was facing her head......

Lilac was surprised and delighted: "This is the musket?"

Lan Niu let out an "um" and aimed out the window: "Do you see the plane tree with the lantern hanging on it? If you stand there, I can shoot you through the head with this musket." Of course, it has to be loaded with gunpowder. In fact, the musket is not the most powerful, the bomb is powerful, throw one into the enemy pile, and you can destroy a dozen or even dozens of people in an instant. ”

So powerful? Lilac looked at Lan Niu's eyes and was suddenly full of adoration. No wonder the lord values Lan Niu so much, and even does not hesitate to let the princess give way. With this musket and any bomb, each of them can deal with dozens or hundreds of people, so why worry about the great cause of the lord? What internal and external troubles, what is not justified, there is such a powerful thing in the town, how can anyone dare to offend and dare to question?

"Girl, put this thing away, you have to get ready to rest," Lilac said, "I'll go get ready first, and we'll go out early tomorrow morning." ”

"Go, I don't need you to wait here," Lan Niu replied lazily as she wiped the musket with a muslin cloth. She knew very well that Lilac not only got the answer she wanted, but also saw things with her own eyes, so she naturally had to go on an errand. It just so happened that she also needed to reassure the lord and Mr. Yu through her relay to make sure that they would show up tomorrow.

The carriage was made early in the morning of the second day, and as Lan Niu expected, the windows on both sides of the carriage were nailed with thick cloth from the inside, so that the outside could not be seen at all.

"I'm sorry girl," said Lilac, "I can't see the scenery along the way today, you can rest with your eyes closed, the road will take nearly an hour." ”

"It doesn't matter," Lan Niu shrugged, "I just woke up early today, and I need to catch up on my sleep, so you can call me when the time comes." "Why is she remembering the road? Uncle, they already know that they will see that lord in the next few days, so they will naturally send someone to keep an eye on them. And the master and the uncle and the second master have already locked the target, but they just need empirical evidence, isn't the on-site bag grabbing the best empirical evidence?

Since the sixth day of the first lunar month, she took Lilac to visit the Ni Dress House, not only bought a bunch of beautiful and expensive dresses, but also brought back a piece of information sewn into the skirt. Every few days, she goes to Ni Xiangju or Proud Building or Painting Building to buy and buy. The more pampered and vain she was, the more reassuring those people became, and she not only collected money for her master's shop, but also generously sent and received information under Lilac's nose, not to mention how happy she was.

Seeing that Lan Niu, who was a little pampered on weekdays, did not lose her temper today because the window was closed, but obediently closed her eyes to rest, Lilac nodded secretly, although this girl does not have the demeanor of everyone's ladies and grew up on the island, but she knows the current affairs, knows how to advance and retreat, and can be regarded as smart and has a sense of the overall situation, plus she has mastered the skills of making muskets and firearms, and I heard that she also knows many secret recipes unique to Taoyuan Realm, and she is worthy of their family lineage. Speaking of which, the so-called beautiful piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are really useless.

Nearly half an hour later, the noise outside the carriage gradually died down, and the carriage became more and more bumpy, and Lan Niu, who was taking a nap with her eyes closed, estimated that they should have gone up the mountain road, and secretly slandered herself: That lord would not be so careful to find a cave to meet and negotiate with her, right?

Fortunately, the carriage did not seem to have traveled long on the mountain road, and in less than two quarters of an hour, the road began to smooth out again. After a quarter of an hour or so, the carriage stopped, and Lilac called softly, "Here we are, girl, let us get off." ”

Lan Niu opened her eyes and got out of the carriage with Lilac's support, and the sight in front of her let her know that they had entered a mansion.

Lilac walked ahead with a package with a musket on her back, "Girl, please come with me," she hadn't been to this place either, but she saw Mr. Yu standing in the distance under the big tree in front of her.

Mr. Yu was dressed in a gray brocade robe and a black mask standing there, but there was a bit of Confucian elegance, seeing Lan Niu and the two approaching, he slowly stretched out his left hand to lead Lan Niu: "The lord is waiting inside, Miss Nie, please," The palm was up, and a red cloud-shaped birthmark directly entered Lan Niu's sight.