At dusk, the northern pass. Zhu Qing rode a wind-chasing horse, and there was wine and women on the horseback. When passing by the Yuan family's iron shop, Zhu Qing tightened the reins of the horse, "Huh! The wind-chasing horse immediately stopped his hooves and stepped out of the yellow sand.

"Brother Qinglong? What the hell is going on? "Yuan Ruo jumped off the horse, looking at the iron shop in his house empty, really everything was hollowed out." Wasn't it okay the last time we passed by? Didn't you promise us to come back as soon as we nailed the horseshoe? Yuan Ruo asked with a sad face. After all, this is her home, where she grew up.

Zhu Qing didn't answer her, he took out a pot of wine from his waist and took two sips, he rarely drank alcohol anymore, this pot of wine was bought by Zhu Qing on the street after meeting Chen Yuanyuan just now. Seeing Yuan Ruo crying bitterly in front of the abandoned Yuan family's iron shop, Zhu Qing called, "Let's go, I asked Lin Bai and them to move." The tone was cold, without the slightest hint of sympathy.

"Why? Why are you doing this? Yuan Ruo asked, she suddenly felt that Zhu Qing in front of her was no longer the big brother Qinglong she admired.

Zhu Qing didn't explain too much, and said lightly, "Uncle Yuan agreed." ”

"I don't believe it, my father worked hard to run the Yuan family's iron shop, and it is impossible to destroy it." Don't look at Yuan Ruo, who is usually very well-behaved, but now he is a little stubborn.

"You don't believe it? Hmph, if you don't believe me, go back with me and ask your father. Zhu Qing smiled slightly and stretched out his hand to Yuan Ruo.

Yuan Ruo watched the sky gradually darken, and the wind was blowing again, she hesitated, wiped her tears, Nunu mouth, and grabbed Zhu Qing's hand. Zhu Qing pulled Yuan Ruo onto the horse, took a sip of wine, and continued on his way.

Because the wind-chasing horse began to gallop again, Yuan Ruo consciously hugged Zhu Qing gently this time, "Didn't you say that you don't drink when you go out to run errands?" Yuan Ruo asked.

Zhu Qing did not answer.

"Is it because of Miss Chen?" Yuan Ruo asked softly again.

"Driving !!" Zhu Qing still didn't answer, he rushed to Shanhaiguan with his chasing horse, and finally arrived before sunset.

"Big brother!"

"Big brother, you're finally back!" Lin Bai and Cheng Li led all the soldiers to greet them. I haven't seen him for a month, and the soldiers seem to miss Zhu Qing very much. Although everyone knows that after the eldest brother comes back, there will be no good fruits to eat in training, but Zhu Qing's return makes them feel a sense of security that they have not felt for a long time. Especially in the special period when Jinzhou fell and the border passes were unpredictable.

After Zhu Qing hugged Lin Bai, Cheng Li and others, Lin Bai said excitedly, "Brothers, the ban will be lifted tonight, everyone have a good drink and catch the wind for the eldest brother!" ”

"Good, good!" All the soldiers cheered and cheered.

Unexpectedly, he was suppressed by Zhu Qingyang, "Brothers, I understand everyone's intentions, but I believe everyone should have heard that General Yang was defeated, and the three thousand brocade brothers led by Lord Killing Wind are now missing, as fellow apprentices and brothers, how can we still be in the mood to carnival here?" I have been traveling for days, and I am very tired, I think I will be free of this wind wine, and when the brothers win the battle in the future, I will definitely return it double! Do you think it's good?! ”

Although the wine is in the soup, Zhu Qing is right, there are many things that are more important than drinking and being happy. So everyone fell silent for a moment. Cheng Li still knew the general situation, and after knowing what Zhu Qing meant, he called loudly, "Listen to the eldest brother, drink it another day, it's all dispersed now, rest early, there will be more intense training waiting for us tomorrow." ”

Cheng Li said this, and the soldiers dispersed one after another.

After the soldiers dispersed, Zhu Qing said to Lin Bai, "You send Miss Yuan in." ”

"Yes, big brother." Lin Bai said excitedly, hurriedly stepped forward to take Yuan Ruo's package, and pulled Yuan Ruo to go inside.

"Wait." Zhu Qing screamed, Yuan Ruo broke free from Lin Bai and said, Nu muttered, "Brother Qinglong called you." ”

"What's the matter, big brother?" Lin Bai hurriedly turned around.

"Call Uncle Yuan to my room." Zhu Qing said lightly.

Seeing Zhu Qing's expression, Lin Bai nodded, he knew that Zhu Qing had something to say, so it was inconvenient for him to ask in public.

Lin Bai sent Yuan Ruo back to the room, and Zhu Qing followed Cheng Li back to Zhu Qing's room. It seems that Zhu Qing is going to hold a backbone meeting tonight.

Zhu Qing passed by the door of the room where the race was moving and knocked lightly.

"Who?" Sai Shiqian didn't go downstairs just now, so he naturally didn't know that Zhu Qing had returned, so he changed his sentence in the house.

"Me." Zhu Qing only had one word, and he heard Zhu Qing's voice during the game.

"Qinglong, are you back?" Sai Shiqian said, immediately opening the door, "Come in!" ”

"No, you clean up and sit in my room. I heard that you trained hard today, so remember to bring your own drinks. Zhu Qing looked at the game and smiled, this is Zhu Qing's special reward for the game, he knows that wine is the daily routine of the game, without wine, it seems that he can't jump up during the game. Zhu Qing said, glanced at Cheng Li, and the two looked at each other and smiled. Cheng Li told Zhu Qing that since the time of the game moved for more than a month, he has trained harder than anyone else. This may be because of the light work of the game time shift, but the reason why the internal kung fu needs to be strengthened. In any case, Zhu Qing was still very relieved to see that Sai Shiqian was so motivated, so he would look like Sai Shiqian a little, after all, the tasks that Sai Shiqian had to perform were different from ordinary soldiers.

Zhu Qing and Cheng Li came to the room and sat for a while, and several backbones were present. Uncle Yuan also brought a box with him when he entered the door, everyone looked at the box in Uncle Yuan's hand and was curious, only Zhu Qing smiled slightly, signaling Lin Bai to close the door, usually Zhu Qing rarely closes the door even if he talks about things, this time he is so cautious, he has to make everyone feel the importance of the meeting.

Wait for everyone to take their seats. Zhu Qing got straight to the point, "I hurriedly summoned everyone because the situation is really tense now, and I believe everyone knows that I was trapped by Li Zicheng in Tongguan for nearly a month." ”

Everyone nodded, and Lin Bai said seriously, "Three days after you left, Miss Yuan wrote that you didn't return to Beijing, so we knew that something might have happened to you, and we sent Brother Shi Qian to inquire about it, knowing that you were besieged by Li Zicheng in order to rescue the emperor." Originally, Vice General Cheng and I were going to lead the brothers out of Tongguan, but Brother Shi Qian and Uncle Yuan didn't agree, and then something happened in Jinzhou, so we ......" Lin Bai said and lowered his head, he seemed to blame himself for not rescuing Zhu Qing in time.

Zhu Qing patted Lin Bai's shoulder and smiled slightly, "It's a good thing that you didn't go, otherwise my family would have collapsed." ”

Everyone smiled lightly.

"General Yang was defeated, and we were very passive. Now Zu Dashou has rebelled again, and the whereabouts of the master are unknown, so this time I asked everyone to discuss, first, to find out the whereabouts of the master and the three thousand Jinyiwei brothers, and second, to prepare for the worst plan for Ning Yuan's accident. Zhu Qing said. Zu Dashou surrendered, Wu Sangui, as Ning Yuan's guard, happened to be Zu Dashou's son-in-law, judging from Wu Sangui's usual grievances and entanglements with Shanhaiguan, everyone knows it, although they can't easily suspect a general, but they are not afraid of 10,000 just in case, this is still understandable. After Zhu Qing finished speaking, everyone nodded.

"It's better to leave it to me if you want to kill the wind, I knew some thieves when I was in the rivers and lakes before. I think they're going to have some wind. "The time of the race took the initiative to ask for help.

Zhu Qing nodded, "That's exactly what I mean, but you must be careful, after all, your current identity is different, and once it is exposed, it will be very troublesome." ”

"I know, that's why I've been practicing my skills lately, isn't it Adjutant Cheng?" Shi Qian said, glanced at Cheng Li, and everyone laughed.

"Oh, join your troops, I've got a lot more enemies in the race." Sai Shiqian sighed.

Everyone smiled slightly.

"Uncle Yuan, in the end, it's up to you. I think, everyone is so curious, you won't let us down tonight, right? Zhu Qing looked at the box in Uncle Yuan's hand and asked with a smile.

When Zhu Qing said this, everyone paid attention to the box in Yuan Bo's hand. I don't know what's in there.

Yuan Bo smiled slightly, "Then the old decay will be ugly." As he spoke, Uncle Yuan pulled open the lid of the box, and a fire gun slowly appeared.

"Wow!"

"Firearms!"

"Uncle Yuan, what did I say you brothers are hiding in the iron shop in the back mountain all day long, it turns out to be this thing!" Lin Bai exclaimed.

"Hahaha, didn't Vice General Lin notice that there were fewer and fewer two small coal mountains in the back mountain last time?" Cheng Li glanced at Lin Bai and asked with a smile, Cheng Li has always been good at observation, so this point can't escape his eyes at all, but Zhu Qing explained clearly when he left, and the idle people can't get close to the iron shop.

"It's still Vice General Cheng's heart." Yuan Bo stroked his beard and said with a smile.

"Uncle Yuan, tell everyone about this thing." Zhu Qing said.

"Yes, sir. My brothers and I studied the "Artifact Spectrum" almost behind closed doors, and it took nearly a month to figure out this thing, according to the description on the "Artifact Spectrum", it is called the Purple Gun, and General Qi Jiguang had used it to fight against the Japanese Invaders before, and now the one you see is Zhao Shizhen's improved performance, and the bolt with mechanical rebound installed in the gun has the characteristics of "before dialing, the fire burns and returns". The performance has been greatly improved compared to before. Yuan Bo loaded his load as he spoke, and handed the fire gun to Zhu Qing, "Your Excellency, you might as well give it a try?" ”

Zhu Qing took the firecracker, my good man, this is an antique, Zhu Qing touched the gun, it was also the time of military training in college. I think of that time, I was still famous for a while. Now that I wear it, I feel this kind of antique, although it is a bit handy, but I still feel it. Zhu Qing opened the back window, and everyone gathered around to watch. Zhu Qing followed the moonlight, glanced at a tree in the back mountain, and gently pulled the trigger, "Poof! With a muffled sound, a small tree in the back mountain broke down, and the night bird suddenly flew and screamed. The whole post station was in a commotion, thinking that the enemy was sneaking in.

Seeing that the power of the fire bolt had become much greater than before, everyone was full of admiration. Zhu Qing smiled slightly, and handed the fire gun back to Uncle Yuan, "Just a handful?" ”

Yuan Bo smiled slightly, "You can't hide anything from Lord Qinglong." This is just a sample, and our brothers also tinkered out the fire guns such as Eagle Yang, Zhen Die, Winged Tiger, Sanchang, Qisheng, Xuanyuan, and Nine-headed Bird according to the "Artifact Spectrum", all of which are new firearms that have been improved by Zhao Shizhen. Of course, everything is just a sample now, and as long as we make these models, they can be produced in batches, so there is an important issue at the moment, in addition to labor, which is the safety of the model. It took a lot of effort for us to put a lot of effort into the Artifact Spectrum and these models, and if they fell into the wrong hands, it would be difficult to do. ”

"Lin Bai, Cheng Li." After listening to Uncle Yuan's words, Zhu Qing screamed solemnly.

"General!" The two stood solemnly.

"You all understand what Uncle Yuan said?!"

"Understood!"

"In the future, the iron shop must be strictly guarded! Don't be careless! ”

"Yes!"

"Also, Uncle Yuan, if I'm not mistaken, it's estimated that there is also a shortage of raw materials such as coal and iron, right?" Zhu Qing asked.

"What the general said is very true. This iron and other raw materials we used to make iron shop can be regarded as having a source, but this coal, if it is a big operation, it is really not enough. Yuan Bo said.

"Adjutant General Cheng."

"The end will be."

"Continue to transport coal outside the customs. Remember, in the name of training. Kill two birds with one stone. ”

"The last general understands!"

"Well, since everyone knows the urgency of the matter, I don't need to say more about keeping it secret and grasping these words, right?" Zhu Qing said slowly.

"Wait for you to understand!" Everyone assured Zhu Qing.

"It's late at night, let's go back and rest first, there are still many things waiting for us to do tomorrow." Zhu Qing smiled slightly and said.

Everyone retreated.

"Uncle Yuan." When everyone was almost gone, Zhu Qing suddenly stopped Uncle Yuan.

Uncle Yuan stopped and turned around, "What else does the general command?" ”

"I want a bigger firearm, how about it? It's not difficult, right? Zhu Qing said leisurely, drawing a big outline in front of Uncle Yuan, and smiled slightly.

"This ......" Yuan Bo hesitated, glanced at Zhu Qing's eyes, and then shook his head, "It shouldn't be difficult." ”

"Good. I'm waiting for your good rest. Zhu Qing smiled and patted Uncle Yuan's shoulder.

Yuan Bo nodded slightly and turned around and went out.

"Uncle Yuan, don't forget to tell Miss Yuan, she always thought I forced you to come." Zhu Qing smiled at Uncle Yuan's back and said. Yuan Bo nodded without looking back. Get out the door.

Zhu Qing picked up a cup of hot tea on the table, and slowly followed out while blowing, Zhu Qing stood in the corridor and watched the participants walk into their respective rooms, he smiled slightly, took a sip of hot tea, turned around and entered the house, and closed the door.