After returning to the county guard's mansion, Ao Lie locked himself in his room and instructed his personal maid Shuang'er to guard the door and not let anyone enter the room. For the temper and temperament of her second son, Shuang'er was not surprised, and left the room in response.

When Ao Lie was left alone in the room, he walked over to his desk and studied the ink while recalling the shape of the Takahashi saddle, the bilateral stirrups, and the horse's iron hooves. After a while, Ao Lie had a general idea in his mind, so he splashed ink and drew on the silk cloth. Fortunately, in his previous life, Ao Lie had seen and heard a lot, and he dabbled in almost everything related to martial arts and ancient history, so he quickly integrated into the unique atmosphere of the Eastern Han Dynasty in this life. At this moment, with the memories of his previous life, it was effortless to draw a few things such as Takahashi's saddle.

Soon, the three pieces of silk cloth were already painted by Ao Lie with the motif of Takahashi saddle, bilateral stirrups and horseshoes. Looking at his masterpiece, Ao Lie nodded with satisfaction, and then sighed softly. Although the Eastern Han Dynasty is now stormy, the Yellow Turban Rebellion swept through China, but it has not yet reached the time of the chaos, according to the development of history, the chaos in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty should have started after the death of Emperor Ling, Dong Zhuo entered Beijing. It's still a few years before the death of the Spirit Emperor in history. If you don't have a big chaos, you can't organize your own army, and without an army, these advanced equipment of later generations will naturally not be able to expand large-scale production.

For Dong Zhuo, Ao Lie is not very upset in his previous life and present life, a warlord who can only speculate, and he also vainly tries to take charge of the Han Dynasty? This has already violated the bottom line in Ao Lie's heart. Although he traveled back in time, Ao Lie has always been proud of being a Han Chinese. Although the Han people of later generations generally referred to the people of the whole country, the meaning is not exactly the same as that of this life. However, the title of Han people has been handed down since the Han Dynasty. If Ao Lie traveled to other dynasties, maybe he would have planned to establish a regime by himself, but in the era of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ao Lie had no such idea at all, just because the name of this dynasty was Han! Those who commit strong men will be punished even if they are far away! This sonorous slogan has continued more than 2,000 years later. It is precisely because of this that Ao Lie positions himself as a capable minister in the world, rather than a hero in troubled times.

Retracting his thoughts, Ao Lie folded the three pieces of silk cloth, put them in his arms, and then said to the door: "Sister Shuang'er, come in." "Shuang'er is Ao Lie's personal maid, since Ao Lie was born, she has been by Ao Lie's side to take care of him, nominally a maid, but Ao Lie has always treated Shuang'er as a sister, and even Ao Lie's monthly money is kept by Shuang'er.

The door was pushed open, and a girl in the mood for love walked in, dressed ordinarily, but with a good figure and a delicate face, she looked like she was fourteen or fifteen years old. When Shuang'er walked in front of him, a flattering smile appeared on Ao Lie's face: "Sister Shuang'er, that, I have something to do tomorrow, you see, can you give me some money?" ”

Shuang'er stared at Ao Lie for a while, and said softly: "The master has always advocated frugality, and every application in the family is carefully distributed by the lady through calculation, and the second son's regular money is thirty yuan every month, but last month you created a new sword, not to mention this month's regular money, even last month's regular money, you have spent it all." Ao Lie drooped his head in distress and muttered in a low voice: "I knew that you would say that, but isn't there still last month's money?" I didn't build any weapons last month. Shuang'er looked at Ao Lie's embarrassment, laughed, and said: "Second son, you are really embarrassed to say, you have built three swords and two big guns in the past six months, not to mention the money last month, even the money that Shuang'er has worked hard to save in the past six months has been spent by you, you don't know how expensive oil and rice are, and now the price of a pound of iron is almost the same as a pound of silver, plus the manual cost of a blacksmith."

"Okay, okay," Ao Lie hurriedly waved his hand to interrupt Shuang'er's verbosity, and said with a bitter face: "I know what I said, Sister Shuang'er won't talk about me anymore, I'll figure out what happened tomorrow myself." Shuang'er shook her head lightly and said: "The way of the world is not good now, that is, in our Jiuyuan, the master is well governed, and the lives of the people are quite passable. ”

"What?" Ao Lie was shocked by Shuang'er's words, and his heart felt a pang of grief. Dahan, has it declined to this point? He waved his hand in a depressed mood and said to Shuang'er: "I know that I won't spend money in the future, Sister Shuang'er, I'm tired and want to rest." ”

Shuang'er didn't say anything, quietly put some copper coins on the table, and then turned and walked out of the room. For Ao Lie, Shuang'er knew that he had always regarded himself as a sister, different from the sons of other families, not to mention that the sons of other families were kind to the maids, and it was already very good if he didn't beat or scold. Even some sons and daughters don't treat the maid as a human being at all, but as a tool to vent their desires, and many sons and young masters of the family, the first experience of men and women is in the body of the personal maid. Actually, for Shuang'er, she has always regarded the second son as a younger brother, but she didn't dare to say it on her lips, after all, she wanted to talk about dignity and humility. The copper coins left on the table just now were not Ao Lie's regular money, but her own commission.

After being silent for a while, Ao Lie shook his head vigorously, the decline of the Han Dynasty has begun to emerge, it seems that he has to speed up his pace, he must find a way to have his own personal guards before the death of Emperor Ling, so that it is possible to turn the tide and help the building to fall in the coming chaos. Otherwise, if according to the natural development of history, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan competed for power, and the Sima clan took advantage of the fisherman's profits, which would lead to a situation of chaos and misery for hundreds of years, and the Han people would suffer for hundreds of years and live in dire straits every day.

Forget it, let's talk about it later, let's solve the problem in front of us first. Ao Lie knew that because of the weakness of the emperor of the Han Dynasty, prices had risen indiscriminately, but he didn't expect that the price of a pound of iron had risen to the point where it was almost the same as a pound of silver. In this way, the weapons I have built these days have indeed cost a lot of money, and I am afraid that my own money is not enough, and Shuang'er has privately cushioned a lot.

"Hey, these money" Ao Lie finally saw the copper coins that Shuang'er had placed on the table before leaving, and his heart couldn't help but be greatly moved. He understood that the money must be Shuang'er's own commission, the commission in the Eastern Han Dynasty was not very rich, and Shuang'er advanced a lot of money for himself in normal times, but he still left this money. Although it is not much, the kindness of sending charcoal in the snow made Ao Lie extremely moved.

Picking up the copper coin on the table, putting it in his hand and checking it, Ao Lie suddenly had a bold idea, just use the money to make an investment, even if it is the principal of Shuang'er, if you make money in the future, except for the daily expenses such as building your own weapons, the rest will be left to Shuang'er as a dowry. However, what kind of investment can be made to invest less, achieve quick results, and achieve large returns?

After thinking about it for a long time, Ao Lie didn't come up with a specific solution, and couldn't help but feel distressed in his heart. At this time, Shuang'er's voice sounded from outside the door: "Second son, Shuang'er should wait for you to wash." Ao Lie replied casually: "Come in." Frost walked into the room with a basin of water, and then carefully took out a folded handkerchief in her bosom and carefully placed it on the table. He turned his head to Ao Lie and said, "Second son, Shuang'er saw that you were very depressed in your heart today, so I brought some homemade incense to help refresh your mind." Ao Lie looked down at Frost's open handkerchief, which was wrapped in a few large brown leaves, shaped like banana leaves. Suddenly, Ao Lie stood up like an electric shock, and his tone was full of surprise: "Sister Shuang'er, you say, this is incense?" ”

Shuang'er blushed and said in a low voice: "Yes, no, this is the homemade incense made by the people in our hometown, and the real incense of big families is incomparable, and this kind of incense is also relatively large when it burns, if the second son doesn't like it, I will take it." ”

"Don't be busy, don't take it away first, burn it first, let me smell it." Ao Lie hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop Shuang'er, and said in a loud voice. Shuang'er put her mind at ease, stretched out a pair of jade hands to put the earth incense leaves into the incense burner, and then lit them with a flint. In a moment, the earthy incense leaves in the incense burner were fully burned, and a wisp of green smoke rose from Nana's incense burner.

Ao Lie approached the incense burner, took a few breaths vigorously, and inhaled the green smoke into his nose. In an instant, a faint smell of choking came to my face, and a slight feeling of dizziness occurred in the depths of my brain. Ao Lie was completely stunned, this, how is this possible? This is clearly tobacco, doesn't the history books say that tobacco was transmitted from Nanyang more than 1,500 years later? Why did tobacco appear in the Eastern Han Dynasty?

Turning his head to look at Shuang'er, Ao Lie asked, "Sister Shuang'er, how did these earthy incense pieces be discovered?" How do you use it?" Shuang'er saw that Ao Lie was interested, and secretly happy in her heart, and her tone was much more relaxed: "This kind of thing is very common in my hometown of Youbeiping, but I don't know what Lu Dao is for, but it is rare in other places. It wasn't until two years ago that the lord was promoted to the Taishou of Jiuyuan, and I followed the master to Jiuyuan that I found the incense of earth on a small hillside in the suburbs. In my hometown, the richer people mix and burn some low-grade spices with local incense, which will taste better, and the poor people are just like me now, just use it to burn, but the taste will be worse. ”

Ao Lie asked again: "Then are these earthy incense the way they are now?" Shuang'er shook her head and said: "No, these earthy incense were not originally withered yellow like now, but verdant and dripping color, but they are not easy to burn, so they must be plucked and placed in the sun before they can be used for earthy incense." ”

"Ha Luha, this time it is developed." After listening to Shuang'er's narration, Ao Lie couldn't help but laugh, and then asked Shuang'er: "Sister Shuang'er, how many of these earthy incense do you still have in your hand?" Shuang'er replied without thinking about it: "There are many more, it is not easy for me to go out of the city once, so I picked a lot last time." ”

Ao Lie said excitedly: "Sister Shuang'er, immediately, immediately, take me to your room now, we have something important to do." Shuang'er's face was flushed by Ao Lie's words, and she hurriedly lowered her head and pinched the corner of her clothes, and whispered: "Second, second son, no, no, you are still young now" Ao Lie stood on the spot, only to realize that what he just said was too ambiguous, which made Shuang'er have a beautiful misunderstanding. No way! Although my brother is only eight years old in this life, my brother has thirty years of life experience in his previous life, how can he make such a low-level mistake? Didn't even say a word neatly? also misunderstood Shuang'er, who regarded herself as her own sister, how could this make her brother's affection embarrassing?

PS: Speaking of which, I changed my pen name, which is to determine the name of "Kun Da Shao". In addition, I have been busy these days, so I will pass on a few more chapters today.