"Mother's ......" Xiao Nuan moved to her mother step by step, afraid of it.

"What time did you go back last night?" Qin asked with a calm face.

"Before the hour." Xiao Nuan peeked at her mother's face, this is going to be a big deal......

"Didn't you say that you were going to talk about business with the Shaodong of the Jiang family in Suzhou last night, and who was the person who watched the lanterns with you?" Qin suppressed his anger.

"Yes......" Xiao Nuan looked up at her mother and swallowed secretly, "Mother said...... Who is it? ”

Qin sighed, "Xiao Nuan." ”

"Yes." Xiao Nuan immediately stood up straight.

"Tell the truth."

"Yes." Xiao Nuan didn't dare to lie, "Yes...... Third Master. How did my mother find out? ”

Qin Shi took out the purse that the third master gave to Xiaocao last night, and poured out eight golden beans, "Which one else will give the golden beans as a gift when you meet!" ”

The third master is a pit, a big pit! Xiao Nuan flattered, and smiled fearfully, "Mother......"

"I've learned to fight with my mother, huh?" The Qin family was really sad, "What did you say about the Shaodong of the Jiang family in Dengzhou to coax your mother, how did you and the third master get together?" ”

Xiao Nuan immediately leaned over and hugged her mother's arm and explained, "Last night, my daughter really asked Jiang Xicheng to discuss business, but later the third master asked her daughter to discuss something, so her daughter asked Green Butterfly to see Jiang Xicheng and went to see the third master herself." ”

"Nonsense!" Qin Shi flicked Xiao Nuan's forehead hard, "What's the matter with the third master, I want to drag you to the street during the big festival, and discuss it while looking at the lanterns!" ”

Fatal blow! Xiao Nuan could only generalize, "The third master got the news that there were evil bandits who had flowed into Jixian County and lurked on the street with bad intentions, so he asked his daughter to help find it." The mother also knew that her daughter had helped the third master find several lurking bandits, and the third master felt that his daughter was more useful in this regard, so he took his daughter there. ”

"Caught?" The Qin family believed a little, and the girl did help the third master catch several people, and also received a lot of rewards.

"Hmmm! It's the black-bearded old man who sells lamps at the head of the green water bridge, the third master let him be arrested, if my mother doesn't believe it, let's go over and ask the third master to interrogate the old man? ”

With the efficiency of the third master, people should have been interrogated now.

Qin sighed, "There is no way for the third master to find you something. But don't be idle and have nothing to do with the third master, the third master is a noble person, so don't make trouble with him. ”

Is this a fool? Xiao Nuan immediately hugged her mother's arm and said coquettishly, "My mother was going to scare her daughter to death just now......"

"Mother is scared to death!" Qin touched his daughter's little head, and said earnestly, "Mother is afraid, the third master has a high status, and he looks good, my mother is afraid that if you see him from time to time, you won't be able to tolerate others in your eyes, where can my mother find you a door-to-door son-in-law like the third master!" ”

There is no room for ...... Xiao Nuan was also worried, she had to hurry up and let the third master cross the road, so she felt so uncomfortable to coax her mother to kiss her, "Mother, there was another thing last night, my daughter didn't have time to discuss it with the third master, I want to ask you first." ”

"You say." Qin listened attentively.

Xiao Nuan said, "My daughter helped the third master check Jin Wuwei's account twice, and found that there was not much money in Jin Wuwei's account. I also heard from the third master that this winter, the old general, the little general and Wu Yu will be stationed in Mobei to fight again in the spring of next year, and they are afraid that they will not be able to survive this winter. ”

As soon as the Qin clan heard this, he immediately asked, "Send all the money in our hands to the third master?" ”

Xiao Nuan shook her head, "Our money can't fill Jin Wuwei's hole." And there are some things that money can't buy: one is a dish for soldiers to eat in Mobei for the winter, and the second is to keep out the cold. ”

The soldiers of the Mobei Expedition usually eat coarse grains, and the vegetables are rarely eaten once in ten days, and there must be fewer vegetables to eat in winter, so they will definitely not have enough nutrition, how can they have the strength to fight the Hun army?

The snow has begun to fall in August in Mobei, how can the soldiers survive the winter? Will the Huns take the opportunity to sneak attack?

There was no cotton in the Great Zhou, and the rich and noble families used expensive silk wool and fur coats to protect themselves from the cold in winter, but these were out of reach for ordinary people.

Ordinary people also have skins, but most of them are old sheepskins or dog skins, which are not the same as the lambskins or fox furs worn by the rich. More people's bedding or winter clothes are filled with "silk", that is, the scraps used for silk (not necessarily silk can make hemp silk), and the wrapping is also coarse cloth, called brown, the warmth effect of the cold clothes made of coarse cloth and broken hemp wadding can be imagined.

Zengzi, a well-known disciple of Confucius, had a poor family and wore this kind of clothing for the winter. Because his winter clothes were torn as soon as he lifted his arms, his elbows were shivering in the cold wind, contributing a very vivid idiom - overstretched.

Wearing such winter clothes, how do soldiers defend the land and fight in the severe cold of Mobei?

Qin Shi was also distressed when he heard this, "What do you say you should do?" ”

"My daughter doesn't have an idea about the dish yet, and I want my mother and aunts to think about it. Winter clothes to protect against the cold, my daughter has some ideas. Xiao Nuan seriously discussed with her mother, "My daughter plans to make all the long cotton in our Zhuangzi into warm cotton clothes and send them to Mobei, do you think it's okay?" ”

Qin Shi was stunned, and then his face showed joy, "Okay!" This is a good way, why didn't my mother think of it! ”

Qin stood up and turned in circles excitedly, "Our cotton can be woven cloth, and it can also be made into warm cotton clothes for the soldiers to wear!" The old general, the little general and the black feather cotton clothes, the mother has to make it herself, do we have to find someone to do it for other people, can your uncles and aunts in the village succeed? ”

"Of course, it's just that there is no way for my mother to be famous in the world with cotton." Xiao Nuan explained. In fact, she also has her own selfishness in doing this, if the cotton clothes made of cotton grown by Guo Niang can be sent to Mobei to keep the soldiers warm, and it may even help the soldiers win the battle, then in the eyes of the court, it will be greater than the credit of selling cotton cloth, and her mother will be more likely to be rewarded by the court.

But these are still uncertain things, and she doesn't want to put too much pressure on her mother.

"Compared to winning the battle, what is my mother's fame!" Qin felt that this was something that couldn't be compared together, "Mother's business, if it doesn't work this year, there will be next year, and if it doesn't work next year, there will be the year after tomorrow." Now it's almost time to send winter clothes to the soldiers, and our cotton is just right to make cotton clothes......"

Qin's thought was chattering, and he couldn't wait to go back immediately to pull down the cotton peaches that had not yet opened in the field and dry them, and immediately began to play cotton to make cotton clothes, "Let's go back, first make a cotton coat and show it to the third master, if the third master says it, let's start to work, it's a lot of trouble!" ”

Xiao Nuan's smile was warm, "Okay, but before discussing this matter with the third master, don't tell anyone about it, so as not to leak the news." ”