On April 29, the 47th year of Wanli, it was sunny.

In the morning, Li Jinzhong came in with Li Chaoqin. After saluting, Li Chaoqin presented a note. Zhu Xiaoqi opened it and looked carefully, the beginning paragraph was four and six, and he didn't understand it halfway, and he barely knew that it was a sycophant. The latter group was according to what he said, and the three old men each led a group of nine people. Then the bonus part gets a little interesting. The group that first makes a flintlock firebolt is rewarded with five taels of silver, a silver tael for ten steps up in range, a one-tael of silver for an increase in range, a one-percent increase in hit ratio, an increase in the number of reloads in a quarter of a time, and a decrease in one part are awarded five taels of silver. With such a reward, it is a hell of a craftsman who can work hard, and it is only a few months for ten people to be able to divide one tael or five coins of silver, and each person can have as much as possible.

"Li Dujian, I want to say two points, first of all, when grouping, you should choose a clever young man, don't choose a person who is too wooden and serious, the old craftsman is called the team leader. Then there is the reward that is too little. The first to make a flintlock torch will be rewarded with fifty taels, and the others will be rewarded with ten taels. As for you, within three months, you will be rewarded with a hundred taels of flintlock, and one tael will be awarded for each day you advance. Note that it is a firecracker that can be used, and it is better than an arquebus, not just an ignition device. If it doesn't work in three months, then I'll have to ask for another master. ”

Li Chaoqin nodded again and again, and vowed to make the fire gun that His Royal Highness Taisun needed within three months. Then he confidently returned to the military battle bureau to supervise.

After breakfast, Li Xuanzhi came to see Zhu Xiaoqi rarely. This is a good-looking, beautiful woman. About twenty-five or sixteen years old. She first asked the Hakka family: "Does the grandson still have nightmares at night?" ”

"Return to the election waiter, God willing, His Royal Highness the Taisun has not had any more nightmares for six days."

"That's good! It's not a holiday, my sister goes early, I have to serve the prince, I don't have much time to take care of him, thank you. ”

"It is the duty of a slave to take care of the grandson, and I should not thank him. The slave maid has taken care of the grandson for more than ten years, and I hope that he will be free from illness and disaster, and he will not dare to slack off on weekdays. ”

Then she asked Zhu Xiaoqi about the situation these days, and heard that Li Jinzhong followed him every time she went out, so she said: "Li Jinzhong has always followed his sister, and there is nothing to say about loyalty." He is a capable governor, and he is indeed a good companion, so he will follow his brother in the future. Li Jinzhong, if you follow your brother, you have to protect your brother, if your brother loses a hair, I want you to ask. ”

Li Jinzhong knelt down and thanked him: "The little one followed His Royal Highness Taisun, even if he lost his life, he didn't dare to let His Highness be a little frightened, please rest assured." ”

As he was talking, a little man with pink makeup appeared at the door, about seven or eight years old, combing his horns and two big flickering eyes, looking at Zhu Xiaoqi timidly. hummed quietly: "Brother, are you ignoring Yuanyuan?" ”

This is Li Xuanshi's daughter Zhu Huiyuan, who usually has a good relationship with Zhu Youxiao and often plays together. Zhu Xiaoqi saw her for the first time. Just at first sight, she had already conquered Zhu Xiaoqi, because her appearance was very similar to his sister Zhu Suqin. and the timid look at people, which is exactly the same. It's just that my sister's weak posture is all fake, always in "Brother, don't you like Qinqin?" Followed by "Brother, I want to eat ice cream, if you don't buy it, I'll tell my eldest brother that you are bullying me." "Brother, I want you to carry the qin on your back to buy ice cream." Immediately transformed into a super witch, tormenting him to cry and laugh, but also enjoying it.

Zhu Xiaoqi woke up from his memories, immediately showed a smiling face, and stepped forward to hold her hand, "How can my brother ignore Yuanyuan!" My brother has a lot of things to do these days, and he doesn't play with Yuan. Is it okay for my brother to take Yuan Yuan to play outside today? ”。

When the little girl heard that she was going to play outside, her big bright eyes widened. "Really, does my brother want to take Yuan Yuan to play outside?" The two words on the outside bite are extraordinarily heavy. Then she turned to look at her mother. Li Xuanzhi smiled: "It's okay for my brother to take Yuan Yuan to play, she is also bored when she is locked up in the palace every day." You have to be obedient outside, otherwise you won't be allowed to go out with your brother next time. The little girl nodded like pounding garlic, and her face bloomed with a smile.

Because he wanted to take the little guy out to play, in addition to Li Jinzhong, he also brought two palace maids, Chun Tao and Chun Mei, and two little eunuchs, Xiao Li and Xiao Deng. A group of seven people left the palace, still coming to Qipan Street. The first thing to sweep is the street snacks, what sesame halva, dried apricots, fried cakes, coke rings, sugar fire...... The little girl sees the same, a small body, but has the potential to be a foodie. Zhu Xiaoqi was afraid that it would be bad for her to eat too much, so he only let her eat one of everything, and if she thought it was delicious, she would buy some and take it back to eat. Even so, I tasted twenty or thirty kinds.

The little guy patted his slightly bulging belly with satisfaction and said, "It's so delicious!" Brother, let's come and eat every day, okay? As soon as he finished speaking, he knew that he had said the wrong thing, so he hurriedly lowered his head and said: "It's not good, my brother is serious, and I'm wrong." The pitiful appearance made Zhu Xiaoqi's heart ache for a while, and he hurriedly said: "It's not okay to eat so much every day, the mother will talk about you." It will also be bad for the body. But what you like to eat, I'll bring you some back every time I come out, okay? ”

The little girl was overjoyed, and said: "It's just that every time it's like this, it will trouble my brother!" I don't want to. While talking, he peeked at Zhu Xiaoqi, Zhu Xiaoqi saw it in his eyes, and was secretly funny. patted his chest and promised that it was okay, no trouble, and that as long as he came out and had time, he would definitely bring her a few favorite things. The little girl smiled: "I know that my brother likes Yuan Yuan the most, and my brother is the best for Yuan Yuan." ”

The little guy was full of food and drink, and remembered to buy a sachet, so everyone came to a purse shop with large bags and small bags. As soon as I entered the door, the road was narrow, and the girl who threw the sachet last time happened to be looking at the silk thread with a ring. Zhu Xiaoqi sighed in his heart, and hurriedly looked down at the ground, as if he wanted to find a few ants to play with. The little girl stepped forward directly and said to the girl enviously, "Sister, you are so beautiful!" This sachet of yours is so beautiful! "It turned out that the girl was comparing the silk threads with her own sachet. It was the sachet embroidered with the word Yan that fell in front of Zhu Xiaoqi last time.

When the girl saw Zhu Huiyuan, she praised it in her heart, a beautiful porcelain doll: "My sister is really beautiful." This sachet of mine is broken, and I want to make a new one. When his eyes swept over Li Jinzhong, he already recognized him, and then saw Zhu Xiaoqi, who was thinking about how to conjure ants on the ground. Seeing this culprit, although the girl's face did not change, her eyes had changed. snorted, and the coldness in the snort made Zhu Xiaoqi's heart tremble.

In desperation, Zhu Xiaoqi had no choice but to stand up straight, bow deeply at the girl, bow down and say, "That day was the kid too Meng Lang, and today I am here to apologize to the little lady." Please also ask the little lady to forgive. This was just a reproduction of what he had said to her brother that day, but he was deeply apprehensive, and it was a man who apologized directly to a woman, which can be said to be rare in this world. When the girl saw him like this, she was not happy in her heart, and hurriedly gave a salute and said, "Those who don't know are not guilty, but the jewel is too much, and I don't deserve such a great gift from my brother." The little girl was puzzled and said, "Sister, what are you doing with my brother?" This sentence made the orb blush. He gave another indiscriminate salute, and the silk thread was no longer chosen, and he went out with the ring as if he were fleeing.

The little girl's inquiring eyes made Zhu Xiaoqi very uncomfortable, so he had to find a reason to prevaricate. So her attention quickly turned to the sachet, and everyone picked it for a while, and finally chose a sachet that satisfied the little girl. After putting it on the body, everyone went out.

Not far from the door, I saw the orb again. But she wasn't waiting for them to come out, a scholar wearing a soft scarf and a draped belt around her waist, and a shirt stopped her. The scholar was saying to her: "The little lady is naturally beautiful, and the little girl wants to recite a poem to express her longing." Little lady, listen up. The little girl rushed up, and waved her little hand: "Don't listen, don't listen, you prodigal, stay away from my young lady." The scholar pushed Yahuan away, and Yahuan staggered backwards and almost fell to the ground.

Zhu Xiaoqi couldn't help but scream in his heart: "It's really true that there is nothing new under the sun, so this opportunity to brush up on prestige is really suitable." So he took two steps forward, kicked at the scholar's leg, and shouted solemnly: "You whore, you whore, actually molested women from good families in broad daylight, do you still have a royal law!" ”

He was not Li Jinzhong, but he kicked the scholar's leg, but he shook his foot to the point of pain, and the scholar only shook it twice, did not fall, came back to his senses, and kicked it back. Zhu Xiaoqi yelled that it was not good, pretending to be 13 but being abused, he couldn't dodge, and he was about to make a fool of himself. The scholar's foot touched another foot, which was Li Jinzhong's foot.

The scholar howled and fell to the ground. Holding his leg and crying, "Ahhhh Li Jin was loyal to the Lord and shot extremely hard, but it was not to the point of kicking his foot and breaking his leg, so he didn't worry, just protected in front of Zhu Xiaoqi. Seeing that the master was humiliated, the two family members next to him rushed up together, Xiao Li and Xiao Deng caught them and fought together. The jewel walked to Zhu Xiaoqi, and Ying Ying saluted: "Thank you brother for your help, the jewel is polite here." Zhu Xiaoqi incarnated as a humble gentleman and replied: "I can't see such frivolity the most, just when I meet it, of course it is incumbent on me to help." Yahuan glanced at him, thinking to herself as if you were not frivolous. But it was indeed Zhu Xiaoqi who helped them, so she also thanked them.

Li Jinzhong saw that the two little eunuchs couldn't clean up the house, so he stepped forward and kicked the two family members into a rolling gourd, and then retreated to Zhu Xiaoqi's side. The scholar may not have had such pain in his feet, and scolded: "You dare to kick me, do you know who my grandfather is?" Zhu Xiaoqi couldn't help sneering when he heard this, he didn't believe that anyone could compare to himself compared to his grandfather in this world.

At this time, the young man in the long shirt just arrived, and when he saw Zhu Xiaoqi and his sister together, he was furious: "It's you kid again, I won't let you go today." Rushing up was a punch, Li Jinzhong took his hand, held his fist, and then sent it forward hard, and the long shirt took three steps back before he stabilized his body.

Baozhu hurriedly stepped forward, grabbed his clothes, and explained in a whisper, and the long shirt realized that Zhu Xiaoqi was wronged this time. So he saluted Li Jinzhong and said: "Under Zhang Cheng, Fang was reckless, and please ignore the villain." Zhang Cheng thanked him for taking care of his little sister. Li Jinzhong hurriedly returned the salute, Zhu Xiaoqi finally pulled back a city, and said triumphantly: "How can you worry about it." This is what we should do. Because my sister said that this kid was the first to help, so although Zhang Cheng was tired of him, he still thanked him. Baozhu listened to him say something strange, and he couldn't help but smile. Zhu Xiaoqi looked at the bright smile like spring, his eyes were straight, and he shouted in his heart: "She smiled, she smiled, this little lady is so beautiful." ”

At this time, I only heard a cough that was obviously pretended, and then Zhu Hui's voice was narrow: "Brother, be careful that your eyeballs fall out." Zhu Xiaoqi also coughed and glared at the little girl. At this time, the scholar spoke appropriately to resolve the embarrassment: "My grandfather is the Duke of Dingguo, you dare to beat me, wait for bad luck." Zhu Xiaoqi was righteous and awe-inspiring: "The prince is guilty of the same crime as the common people, what is wrong with you being the grandson of Dingguo." The scholar looked at Zhu Xiaoqi with disdain: "Boy, what's the use of your powerful mouth, you wait, you will soon know that it is powerful." Li Jinzhong smiled slightly: "Next time, I will ask Xu Xi how he disciplined his juniors, and he actually did something immoral on the street." The scholar was stunned, the person who dared to call his grandfather's name on the street, of course he knew that he couldn't afford to mess with him. Looking at Xiao Li Xiaodeng's appearance again, his leg didn't dare to hurt anymore, and he walked away with his subordinates, not even daring to say anything cruel.

Zhu Xiaoqi saluted Zhang Cheng and said: "The boy Zhu Xiaoqi, a member of the Shuntianfu family, has always studied behind closed doors at home, and recently he has gone out with his servants to experience the world and open his eyes. "Secretly explained the last gaffe again. The little girl glanced at her brother, her eyes flashed, and she didn't make a sound. Zhang Cheng was helpless, others apologized repeatedly, and helped his sister twice, although the young man was a little unstable. But he was still young, so he had to do it. Thank you again and take my sister away.

As soon as they left, the little girl stopped: "Brother, you lied to people." You are not called Zhu Xiaoqi. ”

"It's not a lie, some people know my brother's name, and it's not good to say it. So I re-named it so that it would be easier to get outside. ”

"Then I want a new name too, so it's easier to be outside." The little girl immediately hit the snake with the stick.

Zhu Xiaoqi thought for a moment and said with a smile: "Okay, you can call Zhu Yuqin." "It doesn't seem very reliable to put the name of his sister in his previous life on his sister in his current life, but he just likes it, and he likes this sister as much as he likes that sister.

"Okay, okay, I'll be called Zhu Suqin in the future. My brother has a flute and I have a piano, and people know that we are a family when they hear it. The little girl with the new name was so excited that she couldn't wait to go back and show off, so everyone went home after a while of shopping.