Coming out of Kaifu Temple, Zhao Xian got on his horse and went straight to the Ordnance Division, silent along the way, and Side was not easy to ask what happened in the temple, but he just fell tightly behind, guarding the young master Zhao who seemed to have something on his mind.

The death of the old emperor caused Kyoto to be full of plain, and the streets and alleys were full of mourning, which greatly reduced the activity of the recovery of all things in early spring, and a faint sadness shrouded in the faces of the clan literati.

It was noon when I walked to the Ordnance Division, and the warm sun shone on the compound of the Ordnance Division, and the two guards were still squatting at the door fighting crickets, lazily unable to lift their spirits.

Zhao Xian was not interested in watching the two of them fight crickets today, so he stepped directly into the house on the west side behind the main entrance, and glanced left and right, Liu Feiyue was not there, only his sister Liu Yan'er stood alone next to the huge grinding plate in the house, rolled up her sleeves and pushed the wooden handle thicker than her white and tender arms, her purple clothes were faintly sweaty and stuck to her back, and she had to stop and wipe her incense and rest for a long time after taking two steps.

Zhao Xian quietly walked behind her and glanced behind her, but saw that there was a yellow gravel in the dustpan next to her, and after a little look, she was sure that it was sulfur, and under the grinding disc was a sieve of fine sand holes, which was covered with sulfur crumbs, obviously just crushed, and below was a box of sulfur powder.

A hint of surprise flashed in Zhao Xian's eyes, and he looked at her a few times unexpectedly, women in this era pay attention to the ladylike temperament of knowledge, virtue and virtue, and Liu Yan'er's father is the prefect of Changzhou. It is said that he is also the child of an official family, why do you fiddle with these things all day long?

Zhao Xian saw that she had gathered enough strength to push the stone mill hard. looked funny and pitiful, and couldn't help but say, "What are you doing?" ”

"Yikes!" A strange man's voice came from behind the surprise question. Liu Yan'er, who was gritting his teeth, jumped up, turned around and took a few steps back to look back, but saw Zhao Xian with a little smile.

Her face was red, as a woman, she fiddled with these indecent things, and was seen by outsiders, which was really funny.

Secretly kicked the small box on the ground under the grinding plate, Liu Yan'er patted her chest and felt palpitations: "Zhao Da...... Zhao Xian, who are you trying to scare when you walk quietly? Miss Ben has nothing to do here, do you need to take care of it? ”

Speak so impulsively. Did I mess with you?

Zhao Xian didn't know that in the Changzhou restaurant last year, Liu Yan'er next door lost such a big person, and seeing that her words were very polite, he said with a straight face: "Lord Ben is now appointed by the imperial court to renegotiate the matter of Songjiang Mansion with the envoys of Dongying, and the Ordnance Department is temporarily in my full control. The execution will be carried out by the official himself, so get down. ”

After that, Zhao Xian took the bamboo ruler next to him and patted it on his hand, and glanced at her little ass a few times with bad intentions.

Liu Yan'er immediately changed color. The nickname of a flower in Changzhou is not blown out, and those who are sick can show the beauty of a beauty's anger, and she turned her hand to pick up the small hammer on the stone mill. Vigilant and angry: "Nonsense, when I haven't read the law of the Great Liang, can't I? There's no such thing in it. You... If you dare to beat me, my brother will not bypass you. ”

Zhao Xian just scared and scared her. really held Liu Yan'er down and spanked her, and she had to make an undying enmity, besides, she was weak, and she was as strong as a cow, and she would be in big trouble if she was beaten to death.

"Just kidding, don't take it seriously." Throwing the bamboo ruler on the huge wooden table next to him, Zhao Xian changed his serious expression and asked, "Miss Liu, is Brother Feiyue here?" I'm looking for something with him. ”

Liu Yan'er found a backlit place to sit down, wrapped the white shawl on the small chair to avoid the cold, and asked, "My brother is out to meet friends, and he can't come back for a short time, what do you have to tell me?" ”

Zhao Xian shook his head: "My daughter's family should stay at home, playing the piano, embroidering, reading and reading is the right thing, my affairs can only add to the chaos if the woman and the Taoist family interferes, hurry up and call your brother back, delay my affairs and hit the two of you." ”

Liu Yan'er was immediately displeased, and snorted: "What's wrong with the woman's family? In ancient times, talented women did no less than men, and women who were knighted as officials were not unprecedented, why do you look down on women? They won't tell me what the matter is, so let's just say that I will only cause chaos, and you are the one who will only cause chaos to the court. ”

Zhao Xian was dumbfounded by her words, he has never had the psychology of male superiority and inferiority in his two lives, but since people are divided into male and female, they have their own division of labor, you have to let women stand and pee, and men get pregnant and give birth to children to show that men and women are equal, that is a brain problem. What Zhao Xian wants to make is firearms and gunpowder, which is originally a dangerous thing, and he can't do it without a little strength, so let Liu Yan'er, a woman who is sick and scare Lin Daiyu, insert it, isn't it to add to the chaos?

But Liu Yan'er's words, Zhao Xian really couldn't refute it, thinking that most women were afraid of firecrackers and the like, so he took out his half-finished firecracker and said viciously: "Do you know what this is?" Gun! It's much more powerful than a cannon battle, and you can knock a woman's head off casually, are you afraid? ”

"Poof!" Liu Yan'er couldn't help but be afraid, and was amused by Zhao Xian's pretended fierce appearance, looking at the wooden handle iron pipe in his hand, he covered his lips and laughed silently: "You... Is there really something wrong with it, can you knock down mosquitoes by imitating such a small artillery? No, it's a question of whether it can sound or not......"

It's no wonder that Liu Yan'er doesn't know it, the technical blockade of the girder in the Northern Qi Dynasty is quite strict, and few people can recognize it at a glance, and Zhao Xian's self-made fire gun is really miserable, and the burning sticks are better than his.

Dare to underestimate me? Zhao Xian snorted coldly: "Look at it." He rolled up his sleeves and aimed the firearm at a locust tree in the yard, his eyes secretly watching Liu Yan'er, waiting for her panicked screaming reaction and pulling the trigger fiercely......

Liu Yan'er's beautiful eyes condensed slightly, and she looked curiously at Zhao Xian, who was in a very handsome posture.

The results speak for themselves, the past few days have been jumping into the river and raining, and it is really a miracle to be able to sound.

Zhao Xian patted his forehead in frustration, threw the fire gun on the table and looked at Liu Yan'er: "Okay, the master is unlucky, just tell you, I need a group of craftsmen to help me make a sample of the fire gun, you know the fire gun, you know?" It is to put gunpowder in a steel pipe, and the loaded steel ball shoots it out through the thrust of the gunpowder, and you can't even carry a hammer at home, how can you help? I have to pay for the medical expenses if I play with gunpowder and spend my face, so come back to your brother. ”

Liu Yan'er snorted lightly: "Don't underestimate people, it's just a small artillery, who said that Miss Ben can't help, my brother has learned piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, four books and five classics since he was a child, and he has never studied these strange and obscene skills, and it is true that he can't help." ”

Zhao Xian thought about it a little, and felt that there was some truth in her words, Liu Feiyue was a great talent in Jiangnan, and she was good at painting and writing, so that he could make guns and cannons not necessarily as ordinary people. Last time, I heard that Liu Yan'er couldn't go out because of her weak body, and she liked to stay at home and play with these things since she was a child, maybe she could really help.

Thinking of this, Zhao Xian walked to the table and said with a slight smile: "Okay, Miss Liu, I will believe you once, now I will tell you what I want to make first, whether you can understand it or not depends on your talent." ”

Liu Yan'er was satisfied, stood up and walked to the table to observe carefully, only to see Zhao Xian draw a tube with a ruler and slowly outline and perfect, the brushwork is really miserable, and the naughty boy who is not a few years old is good-looking. Liu Yan'er knew Zhao Xian's talent, and couldn't help but be surprised: "Zhao Xian, your handwriting is very good, why do you paint like this... So special? ”

"Just look at it, so much nonsense." Zhao Xiancai is not interested in discussing these things that he is not good at, he has never learned to draw at all, and it is also a comic to draw, if he can enter the eyes of a scholarly lady like Liu Yan'er, it would be really strange.

Liu Yan'er didn't mind, and continued to look curiously at Zhao Xian's serious painting.

After a while, Zhao Xian probably drew the prototype of the arquebus, the flintlock pistol was too advanced to give it to Dongying, but the arquebus was okay. Dongying fights at sea all year round, and storing gunpowder is a problem, and when the climate is cold and humid, it is good to be able to fire ten shots with an arquebus, not to mention the accuracy of the 'Zhao Xian' arquebus that slaps the heel in the face.

However, whether it is an arquebus or a flintlock pistol, it is not something that can be made casually, Zhao Xian pointed to the drawings and said to Liu Yan'er: "This, it is an arquebus, I know that you have never seen such an advanced thing, the casting method is very cumbersome, not to mention anything else, this barrel alone is very troublesome, it must be a straight, hollow, seamless steel pipe, when I cast it back then, I wasted countless mold materials, and it took several years of hard work to successfully cast a qualified steel pipe......"

Zhao Xian is very lacking in creative thinking helpers, with 5,000 years of cultural precipitation, it is not easy to instill the wild ideas in his head into the minds of craftsmen of this backward era, I am afraid it will take a lot of effort to explain the principle, as for Liu Yan'er, I don't expect her to hear it at all.

After listening to Zhao Xian for a long time, Liu Yan'er really looked inexplicable, and her little hand lightly raised to stop Zhao Xian: "Wait, the pipe body of this fire gun can be rolled with wrought iron, rolled layer by layer around an iron rod, and then heated and forged into one, and then the iron rod is pulled out, and the inner chamber can be wrenched with a reamer, and the craftsmen who make artillery in the army can do it, you... Why did it take you a few years to forge one? ”

Zhao Xian immediately petrified, slowly turned his head to look at her, and frowned: "Are you sure?" ”

"What did I lie to you?" Liu Yan'er nodded, turned around and ran out with Nana: "If you don't believe me, I'll ask Lao Wang to come and take a look...... Ah! Lao Wang went to the land of fireworks and had no money to be detained, so I went to find Ge Laolai......"

The voice faded away, Zhao Xian clenched the brush in his right hand, looked at the drawing and was stunned, and only after a while did he shake his head and smile, the blacksmith in the army is a professional, which saves a lot of trouble, and he doesn't need to rack his brains to find a way. (To be continued......)