Chapter 37: That's not for cooking
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"Oh, I said that your place is really difficult to enter, if you don't have your ninth brother to pick it up today, I'm afraid I won't be able to get in." As soon as she saw Zheng Nan coming out, Hong Xuanjiao glanced at the two Red Army guards at the door who looked like clay sculptures and stone sculptures, pouting and shouting. She is not what she used to be now, not to mention the series of titles of Prime Minister and Tianjing Town Guard, the women's battalion she mastered in the past has also expanded from less than a thousand people to nearly 6,000 sisters, and she is responsible for the inspection of the entire Tianjing City.
How could I have thought that he, the military supreme commander of Tianjing City, would not be able to do anything at all when he arrived at the new camp. First at the gate of the first road, he was interrogated by several guards of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, because he did not have a guard on his body, if he hadn't fortunately met Li Fuyou, he would have been stopped there. When they arrived at the door of the armory of the camp within the camp, they said that they had said everything, and the guard only said respectfully, "I'm sorry, no one can enter without a special pass." Then he ignored them at all. The dozen or so female knife players who followed her were so angry that they rolled their eyes, and they couldn't wait to go up and beat them up to relieve their anger.
Hong Xuanjiao looked at Li Fuyou for help, Li Fuyou stuck out his tongue and spread his hands, saying that he was powerless, but he still entered the gate by himself and invited His Royal Highness King Ning out.
"Hehe, it's the Lord Hong Zhenshou who is here, there is a loss of welcome, there is a loss of welcome." Looking at Hong Xuanjiao's puffed out, Zheng Nanlian bowed and played haha.
Hong Xuanjiao snorted and was amused, "You literati, you speak sourly, as if you are polite, but no matter how you listen to it, it seems to be hurtful." ”
Zheng Nan smiled, "Ouch, you have wronged this king, where does this king dare to harm the first woman of our Celestial Empire." Definitely a heartfelt, heartfelt welcome. As he spoke, he bowed down and stretched out his hand to make a gesture of please.
"That's it, huh?" Hong Xuanjiao shook her head, signaled the knife players behind her not to follow up, and walked into the gate by herself, "When you get to your territory, you can't get in the door, and you're welcome, hum!" ”
Zheng Nan laughed and explained as he led her towards his office, "There are too many secrets here, otherwise it won't work." Besides, if you are coming, you should say hello in advance, isn't this kind of thing happening? ”
Seeing that Hong Xuanjiao was still silent with a pouting face, he hurriedly said: "That's it, if the girl likes to come here in the future, I will issue you a pass when I go back, and it will be convenient in the future." ”
Hong Xuanjiao finally showed a smile at the corner of her mouth, "People don't mean to complain about you, of course, this kind of place is guarded as strictly as possible." However, what kind of pass did you promise me yourself, not what I insisted on, so you won't have to lose it in the future. ”
"Of course, of course." Zheng Nan laughed.
Hong Xuanjiao walked and browsed this mysterious place. In the distance, there was a simple thatched hut, in which from time to time there was the sound of various iron tools colliding, and there was a strange roar. A little closer, rows of neatly covered houses are being built. What caught her attention the most was the big chimney standing by the thatched hut, so thick and high, with thick and thick smoke emitting outward.
"Why, do you need such a tall chimney for cooking?" Hong Xuanjiao glanced at Zheng Nan beside her and asked strangely.
"That's not for cooking." Zheng Nan gestured and said, "How can I say it, steam is being produced there, and this steam is very useful." Just as a heavy cart needs a horse to drive it away, with a horse-drawn cart, a lot of manpower is saved. The same is true for steam, which can drive the machine qì, saving a lot of manual labor of craftsmen, which is fast and trouble-free. ”
"That's the case," Hong Xuanjiao covered her mouth and smiled, "I thought you had a lot of people here, so there would be such a big smoke coming out of cooking." Besides, it's not enough time to cook. ”
When she came to Zheng Nan's office, Hong Xuanjiao never thought that it would be so simple. It was just one of a row of tents, and in addition to the dozen or so chairs that should have been, there was a large table, probably prepared in a hurry, the surface of the table was relatively smooth, but the legs were so rough that they were not even painted. On the table were pieces of paper with drawings of the Tao that she couldn't read. On one side, Lu Jing was writing something, and when she saw her come in, she just looked up and smiled, even if she said hello, she was busy with her own affairs again.
"Please be seated, Sister Xuanjiao." Zheng Nan looked at Hong Xuanjiao's slightly surprised gaze, beckoned the guards to come in and pour her tea, sat down and smiled, "Doesn't it look messy?" No way, there will always be a process at the beginning, just take your time. Today's girl, is there anything going on? ”
"Oh," Hong Xuanjiao agreed mechanically, and then smiled gracefully, "Can't you come if it's okay?" ”
"Yes, yes." Zheng Nan took the water brought by the guards and delivered it to her.
Hong Xuanjiao gently took a sip of hot tea, and her heart was warm. Nothing to do is not to go to the Three Treasures Palace, of course she came here because of something. "If Brother Jiu has a room, you will be busy with you first, I will sit here and rest for a while, I am not in a hurry, I just want to come and see you." As she spoke, her face flushed slightly and she lowered her head slightly.
"Okay, sister-in-law sits down first, I'll deal with the matter at hand and then chat with my sister, and I'll invite my sister to eat with me for dinner." Zheng Nan stood up with a smile, cleaned up the drawings on the table, and called the guards at the door in.
Looking at King Ning, whose eyes were full of red silk and his face was obviously rusty, Hong Xuanjiao's thoughts suddenly returned to the Heavenly King's Mansion last night.
As soon as she finished dinner, the second brother sent the female official to call her to the imperial study. As soon as he saw the second brother, he looked him up and down carefully, looking at her both inexplicably and shyly.
"Second brother, what's wrong with you?" Hong Xuanjiao sat down in disgust, and there seemed to be a needle on the chair.
Hong Xiuquan smiled, "I want to see if my sister is still not the girl who used to be in the boudoir." ”
Hong Xuanjiao snorted from her nose. It's okay not to talk about this, but when she talks about it, she feels sour in her heart. She is different from her brothers, she doesn't like red clothes since she was a child, and she has a headache when she sees pen inkstones and female workers. She likes to dance with knives and swords, and for this reason, she has also practiced a good martial arts, and has become a rare good assistant for Hong Xiuquan in advance. She can indeed be called the first woman of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, not because of anyone's light, but because of her agility and fickleness when she went deep into the tiger's den, and her courage and fearlessness when attacking the city, she won the praise of everyone for herself.
It was a pity that her own life's work was sloppy and did not do what she had imagined. For political purposes, she was aggrieved by Xiao Chaogui. It can be said that for the so-called great cause of her second brother, she has completely abandoned herself. Now, she has a faint feeling again, this feeling was felt when the second brother persuaded herself to commit to Xiao Chaogui.
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