"Zhiqiu?" Xia Qingyun looked at the woman in the water in disbelief, "Why are you here?" ”

Zhiqiu hugged her shoulders with some embarrassment, "Miss Xia, please turn around first." ”

Even though they were all women, she was embarrassed to get out of the water naked.

After getting dressed, Zhi Qiu asked, "Miss Xia, why are you here?" When did it arrive? ”

Listening to Xia Qingyun tell her story, she said with a smile: "No wonder, I went to Yuzhou the day before yesterday and rushed back early this morning. ”

Xia Qingyun looked at the brass mask in her hand and asked tentatively, "Your son-in-law is General Zhenyuan?" You were among the four men in black who saved me that night? ”

Zhiqiu nodded, and said with some annoyance: "I'm going to be scolded now!" If Childe had known, he would have lost his temper with me. ”

"Then let me ask you again, did your son-in-law be injured in the mountains last spring and was shot in the back by an arrow?"

"Huh? You know about that, too? Zhiqiu asked with a slight surprise.

"I've seen you with a bamboo tube of a messenger bird in your hand." Xia Qingyun explained, and then asked, "What the hell is going on?" Why did he know that my tea garden was short of manpower, and why did he rush to the village to save me so coincidentally? Have you been spying on me? ”

Zhiqiu wanted to speak and stopped, and thought for a while before replying: "It's not surveillance, it should be said to be covert protection." That day, you helped Gongzi release the messenger bird, and we soon found the cave, and we also saw you breaking branches on the stone platform above. Childe asked me to follow you and want to know who my savior was. I followed you until you left your cabin. ”

"You've been hiding from me ever since?" Xia Qingyun was a little displeased. Although there is no malice, it feels very uncomfortable to think that my every move is being watched by others.

"Not all the time, I have other tasks to do, and I only visit your house every few days. At that time, Gongzi led people to suppress bandits in the mountains, and occasionally he would go over in person" She realized that she had spoken, her voice lowered, and she looked at Xia Qingyun with some embarrassment.

Xia Qingyun's eyes widened and he asked in disbelief, "He has also been there?" I never knew! Who is your son-in-law? No, who the hell is he? Alas. I mean"

"Do you want to ask. What is my son-in-law's name? Zhiqiu raised her eyebrows and asked.

"Yes, what's his name? How old is this year? What does it look like? Why do you all have to wear masks? Xia Qingyun asked in a row.

"I wear a mask to hide my identity when I am on a mission, and I can't answer these questions about my son-in-law, otherwise my son-in-law will blame!"

"Why? Could it be that General Zhenyuan is an ugly monster? Old and ugly? Afraid of people seeing him? Xia Qingyun said casually.

"Nonsense!" Zhiqiu suddenly became a little angry. "My son-in-law is young and handsome. Even the entire Great Qi Kingdom can't find a few people who can surpass him, how can it be ugly! ”

She picked up the mask and put it on her face, and said in a somewhat unceremonious tone, "I'm leaving!" You'd better not run to ask Childe. Otherwise I'll be punished! ”

After speaking, he raised his feet and left, walked out two steps and suddenly stopped: "Curiosity kills the cat!" There are some things that the less you know, the better! ”

Then, without looking back, he burrowed into the plantain bushes.

Xia Qingyun was a little inexplicable, they were all acquaintances, but just a joke casually, why be angry!

She sat down by the pond and looked at the duckweed in the water.

I saved him, he secretly protected me, but I was just an ordinary peasant girl, he was a general wearing a mask, and his hidden identity did he have another identity?

It doesn't seem to make sense, in the mountains, except for the soldiers of the Zhenyuan army, there are no outsiders, why should a general hide his face in front of his subordinates?

Puzzled, Xia Qingyun returned to his tent with many questions in his heart.

When she was depressed, a soldier came to spread the word that the general had returned and asked her to come over.

Xia Qingyun picked up the cloth bag wrapped in a short gun and followed the soldiers to the military tent.

Zhiqiu had already regained her dress as a man in black, and when she saw her coming, she quietly made a gesture, meaning to warn her not to say much.

"You came to me in the morning? Is there something wrong? The general asked.

Xia Qingyun listened to his cold tone, and felt a little unhappy in his heart, obviously doing so many tricks behind his back, but he still had to pretend to be cold!

That's it, the overall situation is important, don't worry about him first.

She put the cloth bag in her hand on the table, and said indifferently: "General, look at this." ”

He opened the cloth bag, took the short gun in his hand and looked at it over and over, "This is a firebolt?" ”

"Oh? Do you recognize? Xia Qingyun was a little surprised.

"I've seen it a few times in the hands of outsiders before, but it's not the same as this one, it's longer and thicker here." He pointed to the barrel of the gun and gestured, "Where did it come from?" ”

"I drew the drawings and let the blacksmiths in the tunpu build them."

"Oh?" This time it was his turn to be surprised, "Is that the blacksmith I helped you find?" ”

"Not bad. General, do you want to see how powerful it is? ”

In the open space next to the camp, Xia Qingyun ordered someone to carry out a table, and six porcelain bowls were placed on the table.

She took the short gun, walked a hundred steps away, pulled the safety, raised her hand, took aim, and pulled the trigger! After a few gunshots, six porcelain bowls shattered!

General Zhenyuan and the black-clothed man behind him, as well as the soldiers around him, were all stunned, looking at the debris on the ground with disgust.

"General, do you want to try it?" Xia Qingyun hooked the corners of his mouth and raised his chin with a gun.

She patiently told him the essentials of the movement and precautions, put on a new box of magazines, pointed to the newly placed porcelain bowl on the table in front of her and said: "Steady your hands and don't shake, three points and one line!" ”

Shots rang out, three of the six porcelain bowls shattered, and three remained silently in place.

"Good results! It's great to hit three for the first time! Xia Qingyun applauded.

The general, apparently excited, ordered the soldiers to put a few more bowls on them, and in a short time he ran out of magazines for the few magazines he had brought.

The sound of gunfire attracted many soldiers, all of whom looked at the situation in horror, and their mouths were open enough to reach into a fist.

"Miss Xia, this fire gun is too powerful!" He looked at the short gun in his hand incredulously, "You can shoot six rounds of ammunition in a row, and if you are on the battlefield, you can take the opponent's head from a hundred feet away!" If the Zhenyuan army can be equipped with this kind of firearm, even if there are only a hundred people, they can be invincible! ”

Xia Qingyun said with a smile: "I'm afraid it won't work on its own, I call it a pistol, it's easy to carry around, and the range is about fifteen zhang." If you want to hit a target from a distance, you'll need a spear! In the tent, I'll go get it. ”

General Zhenyuan stopped her, waved his hand and called the man in black behind her, Xia Qingyun recognized it as Zhiqiu as soon as he saw his figure, nodded to her with a smile, and told her to move the oilcloth bag on the table and the wooden box on the ground.

The power of the spear once again shocked the soldiers of the Zhenyuan army! Especially Xia Qingyun's performance, she shot five times in a row, the gun hit a hundred feet away, and the humanoid target was temporarily tied with a tree branch, which caused an exclamation all around!

"Miss Xia, please come to the tent to talk!" General Zhenyuan's voice was obviously filled with irrepressible excitement, and he ordered his soldiers to collect the bullet casings scattered on the ground, and not a single one of them should be dropped.

Returning to the tent and sitting down, Xia Qingyun said first: "General, this time I brought a total of six long guns, three short guns, and more than a dozen boxes of bullets. I hope the Zhenyuan army can use it! ”

"Yes, that's great!" The general slapped the table happily, "The barbarians are good at bows and arrows, hidden in the dense forests on the mountain, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Therefore, it is difficult to defeat it in one fell swoop, and the southwestern frontier cannot be pacified for a long time. Now that there are spears, which have a longer range and more lethality than bows and arrows, victory is just around the corner! ”

His slender fingers ran back and forth over the jet-black barrel, and his affection could be felt through the mask.

"Miss Xia, this, this is what you designed? How could you have been to Fanbang? ”

Xia Qingyun stroked his forehead, he knew that you had to ask this!

She brought out a set of rhetoric about the fairy and the queen mother, whether she believed it or not, anyway, she was sure of it!

Sure enough, it was easy to deceive my father and mother in this story, but General Zhenyuan was suspicious.

She rolled her eyes and opened the topic: "General, you just said that the barbarians are hiding in the dense forest on the mountain, there are many of them, and now they only have six spears at hand, and the firepower is far from enough, but I still think of a method, maybe it can work!" ”

The general said: "It was also taught to you by the Queen Mother?" Why is this Queen Mother you know so interested in fighting? ”

Xia Qingyun pursed his lips and forced a smile to say, "What? You don't want to hear it? ”

"When did I say I wouldn't listen?"

"It's a simple idea, you can fill the gunpowder in a bamboo tube, make a cannon, light the fuse and throw it out. However, this method is also more dangerous, and it is easy to injure one's own people. ”

The general looked down and thought for a while, then asked, "How sure are you that you can do it?" ”

"Ten percent!" Xia Qingyun was determined. The heart said, what's so difficult about this, isn't it just a grenade! It's so much easier than building a gun!

"Good! If you need any materials, just let me know and I'll get them for you! How long does it take to get it done? ”

Xia Qingyun stretched out three fingers.

"Three days?"

"Three hours!"

In the evening, General Zhenyuan came to the outside of the camp with the men in black. Here the soldiers have dug a ten-zhang long trench, which can accommodate half of the body, and a two-foot-high mound of earth is piled up in front of the trench, and a dozen zhang away, a pile of bamboo poles and branches are densely erected to make targets.

The gunfire in the morning alarmed many soldiers, and the power of the guns spread throughout the camp quickly. The soldiers looked at Xia Qingyun's eyes as if they were looking at a fairy, with awe in admiration.

In order to avoid accidental injury, the general ordered all the soldiers to retreat.

General Zhenyuan and others jumped into the trench and lay behind the mound. Xia Qingyun stood at the other end of the trench, carefully took out an earthen grenade, lit the fuse and threw it at the target, and then squatted down and hid behind the mound. (To be continued......)