Seeing that Lu Yuan was not angry and disappointed, Lu Yun'er finally relieved herself, she was actually very afraid that she would suddenly become a high-ranking official in Hui'an Mansion, so she had always been very low-key.

Except for occasionally going to see Jin Yuanwu, he rarely has personal contact with other officials, and his hobbies are only food and some small playthings.

However, she also asked her adjutant Fan Zhe to buy these things, and she went out as little as possible, among all the officials in Hui'an Mansion, she could rank second in terms of mystery.

The only one who can beat her is her grandfather Wang Gui, except for Lu Jieshuai's summons, Wang Gui basically doesn't go out at all, and is immersed in shipbuilding research all day and night.

At Lu Yuan's request, his recent research direction has shifted to using steel to build ships, of course, it is not a pure ironclad ship, and it is impossible for him to build it now.

He is now working on the replacement of certain shipbuilding materials with steel, thereby strengthening the ship's defenses.

However, the progress of research in this area is very slow, and it is not possible to build such a ship for a while, and the main force of the shipyard is still the sea falcon ship.

At present, there are three sea falcon ships under construction, and as long as these three ships are built, the combat effectiveness of the Hui'an Navy will be greatly improved.

Walking in the workshop of the Engineer Academy, Lu Yuan looked at the cloud crossbow being made and asked, "How many cloud crossbows are there in the arsenal now?" ”

"Fifty-one." Lu Yun'er replied immediately.

Lu Yuan nodded and said, "Select thirty cloud crossbows and put them in the carriage, and I will send someone to fetch them later, Muzhou City needs these very much now." ”

"Yes, I see." Lu Yun'er replied.

She had also heard about Yu Xun's capture of Muzhou City, which was the first battle in which the sea falcon ship built by their arsenal had participated, and everyone was honored with Yourong, and they liked to talk about this battle after tea and dinner.

After spending an afternoon in the Arsenal, Lu Yuan returned to Jiedu Mansion. Recently, the situation in Hui'an Province has been temporarily stabilized, except for the Eastern Route Army, which is actively preparing for war, and the generals of the other Route Armies are training and recruiting soldiers.

Lu Yuan's main energy has also shifted from war to development, especially the imperial examination, which is his current greatest concern.

The time for the imperial examination has been set, and the opening time of the examination is set for the first day of the second month, which is only a dozen days away from now, and the tribute courtyard for the examination is also being built, and it will not be long before it can be used.

Lu Yuan has always been very interested in the ancient imperial examinations, if he can, he really wants to participate in it under a pseudonym, but unfortunately his face will be recognized as soon as he goes out.

Thinking of this, Lan Liuyi's face suddenly appeared in his mind, when she pretended to be Su Liuying and entered the prison, she didn't see the slightest flaw, if only she were there, Lu Yuan thought silently.

She should still be developing her Qinglou in Hangzhou now, and she still has an agreement with her, but at the moment he can't go to Hangzhou to complete the agreement, so he can only wait for Hui'an Mansion to be completely stable in the future, and then consider going to Hangzhou.

January 20, Mu holiday.

In the back house, Lu Yuan took advantage of the rare leisure days, lying on the recliner in the courtyard of the back house, reading a book leisurely.

There was a sound of footsteps, but it was Su Liuying and Qin Youyu who walked out of the main house, Su Liuying looked at Lu Yuan and said with a smile: "Xianggong, don't you really want to listen?" Wan Yulan's singing is really good. ”

She was going to take advantage of the holiday to listen to the opera, and Lu Yuan only recently learned that she had a hobby of listening to the opera.

"Go ahead, I'll read the book." Lu Yuan looked up and said.

At this time, he noticed that Qin Youyu was carrying a basket and seemed to be about to go out, and he was quite surprised: "Yu'er, are you going to listen to the play too?" ”

Qin Youyu shook his head and said with a smile: "No, I'm going to General Wang's house to have a look." ”

Lu Yuan nodded, since Wang Meng's family took it over, Qin Youyu would often go to see them, although he really wanted to go with Qin Youyu, but at this moment, lazy cells were spreading in his body, and he didn't want to move.

"Then you go and come back early." Lu Yuan instructed.

"Miss Li, let's go." Qin Youyu walked away and greeted Li Ruozhen. She is the person who talks to Li Ruozhen the most in the back house, except for Lu Yuan's brothers and sisters.

Because Li Ruozhen is relatively cold to people and sometimes ignores people, several women gradually don't take the initiative to talk to her, but Qin Youyu has no scruples, even if she ignores them, she won't take them too seriously.

Li Ruozhen rarely didn't go out to investigate the case today, and was sitting on a stone chair reading a book, reading a book called the world's first goddess catch, the author's name is Zhilan.

Lu Yuan secretly read this book, and wrote a story about a female arrester solving a case, this female arrester is simply an ancient version of Superwoman, not to mention the first in the world in martial arts, not to mention the first IQ in the world, by the way, the appearance is also.

Lu Yuan often suspects that the reason why Li Ruozhen likes to read this book is because he regards the protagonist in it as himself.

"Hmm." Li Ruozhen responded casually.

After Qin Youyu and the others went out, Lu Yuan suddenly remembered a question and asked Li Ruozhen who was not far away, "Senior sister, do you know how to cook?" ”

"No, it won't." Li Ruozhen looked at Lu Yuan strangely, as if he felt that he shouldn't ask more.

“……”

Lu Yuan stroked his forehead, his senior sister really didn't match a woman in all aspects, but she still had such a look.

Just as he was thinking about what to eat at noon, Lu Yutong walked out of the room with three fishing rods on his shoulder, and said to Lu Yuan with a small face, "Brother, take me to fish." ”

"What's so fun about fishing?" Lu Yuan resisted.

"One of my classmates at the academy also has an older brother, and her brother will take her fishing." Lu Yutong was full of words.

"Alas, Yutong, my brother is so tired today, will I go with you another day?"

"That's not good, that's what you said last time."

"When did I say I was taking you fishing?"

"You said you would take me to fly a kite last time, but you didn't." Speaking of this, Lu Yutong was angry in his heart and began to pull Lu Yuan.

"Okay, I'll go, I'll go!" The little girl had great strength, and the chair was about to be torn over, so Lu Yuan hurriedly admitted defeat.

After making some preparations, Lu Yuan changed into his regular clothes, and took Lu Yutong and Li Ruozhen to the secret passage, if you want to fish, you naturally have to choose the big lake on Jiming Mountain, which is convenient and clean.

On the shore of the lake, Lu Yutong stared closely at the float swinging, fishing very seriously, Lu Yuan and Li Ruozhen both pressed the fishing rod with stones, one was lying on the ground with his head in his arms to sleep, and the other continued to read, looking like a family going out on an outing.

Before the time reached noon, Lu Yuan and Li Ruozhen naturally did not receive the goods, but fortunately, the little girl caught a lot of fish, and the three of them directly made a fire to roast the fish and dealt with a meal.

While eating fish, Lu Yuan asked casually, "Yutong, how have you been studying in school recently?" ”

"It's good." Lu Yutong lowered her head and said that she was afraid that her brother would take the exam, so she hurriedly changed the topic and said, "By the way, brother, Lin Renzhao said that he wanted to take the imperial examination." ”

"How old is he, why are you in such a hurry?" In Lu Yuan's impression, Lin Renzhao should only be about fourteen years old.

Seeing that his brother was successfully diverted by himself, Lu Yutong did not continue the topic and ate the fish silently.

Lu Yuan continued to think about the imperial examination, thinking about it, he felt a little itchy again, how good it would be if he could participate, not only to experience the ancient imperial examination, but also to secretly supervise whether the imperial examination officials were favoritism.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but ask, "Senior sister, do you know how to disguise?" ”

"No, it won't."

Just when Lu Yuan was disappointed, she added: "But I know one person will." ”

"Who?"

Li Ruozhen put down the book and said softly: "That person's name is Qi Guangzi, he lives in Xuanzhou, and he is the owner of the Knife Casting Mountain Villa. ”

Forge Knife Lodge? Lu Yuan only heard Hou Kaishan say before that there was a hidden sword villa in Xuanzhou, but he didn't expect that there was also a knife casting villa, and listening to the name, the people in it seemed to be good at casting knives.

Isn't this a blacksmith? Lu Yuan suddenly became a little more serious and asked, "Then I will send someone to invite him, do you think he will come?" ”

Li Ruozhen shook his head and said, "He has a very strange temper, he doesn't like to deal with the government the most, it's useless for you to send someone, and even if I go and arrest him, he won't give in with his temper." ”

It sounds like she knows a lot about Qi Guangzi.

Lu Yuan secretly thought to himself, Xuanzhou is not far from Hui'an Mansion, it is better to take a trip in person, Yi Rong is still secondary, the talent in casting is very valuable, we must find a way to get it, as for safety, just let the senior sister follow.

Thinking of this, he became a little excited, since he became the county magistrate of Hui'an Mansion, in addition to the experience of being escorted into Jinling, he has not left Hui'an Mansion for too long, and the last memory can be traced back to being taken to Changsha Mansion by Lan Liuyi.

Although that time was a little more thrilling, but in retrospect, Lu Yuan still missed it a lot, and this time he finally had the opportunity to go out again.

After returning home in the evening, he immediately began to plan to go to Ningguo County, although Qin Youyu and Sun Shaoqing did not object, but asked him to bring Ma Kongming, Lu Yuan naturally would not object.

So a few days later, Lu Yuan returned to Ningguo County again, walking in this county, he had a feeling of familiarity and strangeness.

Lu Yuan, the original owner of the body, grew up here, and this is also the first ancient city that Lu Yuan came into contact with in this world.

After more than a year, this place is not as prosperous and lively as Lu Yuan remembers, there are many fewer pedestrians, and the expressions on people's faces are also a little worried.

Lu Yuan knew that they were worried about the war.

At this time, he suddenly remembered Ning Guohou, although Feng Yanting had many shortcomings, he was really good to himself, and he played a key role in getting to where he is today.

It's a pity that he didn't even last to the day of the incident, and he died at the hands of the woman, one of his two sons was tortured to death, and the other became someone else's puppet, and the painstaking Ning Guojun also fell into the hands of Lu Weiyi.

Just feeling that he was in his arms, Li Ruozhen's voice came from Lu Yuan's ears: "Senior brother, is this where you grew up?" ”

Lu Yuan hesitated for a moment, but still nodded.

Ma Kongming looked at the street scene and said with emotion: "The last time I passed here, it was still a prosperous scene, but I didn't expect such a big change. ”

"yes." Lu Yuan also sighed a little emotionally, and said, "Let's go, let's go to the restaurant to have a meal first, and then go out of the city to the Knife Casting Villa." ”