But he didn't seem to realize it, and he held the bowl steadily.

Yan Xiaoyi's heart was sour, and her eyes were also hot, so she quickly lowered her eyes and blinked a few times quickly.

Rong Xiu saw that she was absent-minded, her eyelashes kept blinking, she didn't know what she was thinking, her heart seemed to have been pinched by someone, and even the hand holding the porcelain bowl was forced, as if she wanted to crush it: "Are you so worried about the Nine Emperor Princes?" ”

Yan Xiaowei was stunned: "Huh? ”

Looking at the complicated look in his eyes, Yan Xiaowei quickly reacted to the meaning of his words, and his helpless and uneasy appearance just now in the woods flashed in front of him, and suddenly he wanted to explain to him.

She was patient and soft, "I'm very worried about him, but the worry I'm talking about is not the same as what you imagined in your heart. ”

Rong Xiu's obsidian-like eyes kept locking on her, as if he wanted to suck her in with a powerful attraction: "Which one is that?" ”

Yan Xiaowei looked at the bottom of the bowl that was already empty, and reached out to take the soup bowl from his hand and put it aside.

"Originally, our plan to clear Qingyun Mountain this time was not originally planned for you to familiarize yourself with the terrain on the mountain first, and then cooperate with Brother Pan under the mountain! But there was an incident of the Nine Emperor Princes in the Gu on the way, and his actions were somewhat affected. You have to take care of the poisonous Gu on his body all the time, and you don't dare to push the bandits too hard, for fear that they will jump off the wall in a hurry. If anything goes wrong with the Nine Emperors, none of us can afford it, so I'm worried. But now, knowing that the Gu in him is not a difficult poisonous Gu, and he no longer has to be controlled by others, he can finally let go of half of the heart that has been hanging, and the next thing is estimated to be very smooth, so I feel relieved. ”

Yan Xiaowei smiled lightly: "So, you don't need to be jealous!" ”

Rong Xiu's handsome face suddenly flushed, and he suddenly pulled up the quilt on the side to cover her, wrapping her around: "Whoever is jealous, sleep on you!" ”

Yan Xiaowei was pressed on the bed by him, looking at his embarrassed appearance and bending the corners of his mouth with joy.

Rong Xiu sat beside her in annoyance for a while, as if he suddenly remembered something, suddenly his eyes lit up, and the corners of his mouth curled up with a pleasant arc: "You explained to me so clearly, does it prove that you have begun to admit me?" That's why you don't want me to misunderstand? ”

Yan Xiaowei was uncomfortable with his strong eyes, and hurriedly shrunk her head into the quilt, and said angrily: "Who said it, it's not, I don't want you to talk nonsense, it's not ruining Miss Ben's reputation!" ”

Rong Xiu looked like he was smiling, leaned over and rubbed her head, and said softly: "After sleeping on the same couch with me for so long, your reputation has long been ruined!" Little Wildcat, it's so hard for you to admit that you have me in your heart? ”

Yan Xiaoyi's face was red, and her heart was fluttering, so she simply closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep.

Rong Xiu chuckled lightly and dropped a light kiss on her forehead: "You go to sleep first, I'll go to Teng Chun's place." ”

Yan Xiaowei is crazy in her heart, you can go and tell me something!

Maybe it was the bowl of brown sugar ginger water that was drunk in time and played a role, and she was wrapped in two thick quilts by Rong Xiu, and when she woke up the next day, except for a few coughs, she was already well.

The weather outside was gloomy and gloomy, layers of dark clouds seemed to crush the whole cottage, and the air was filled with a rich salty and wet smell.

Yan Xiaowei stood at the window with her clothes draped and looked at it for a while, and sure enough, in less than a pillar of incense, the sky suddenly darkened, like the sky in the evening, in a dimness, there was a flash above the woods, and then, the rumbling thunder suddenly split down, and the rain that was only three or two drops at the beginning suddenly turned into a torrential rain.

The autumn wind swept the rain into the window, splashing her arm wet.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door latch, and Rong Xiu walked in from outside with a body of rain.

He put the oil-paper umbrella in his hand and put it at the door, turned around and saw the person standing by the window, twisted his eyebrows, walked over in three steps and two steps, and closed the window without saying anything.

He glanced at her dissatisfied: "I think my body is too good, isn't it!" I just suffered from the wind chill yesterday, and I finally got better, and today the cold wind blows again! ”

Yan Xiaoyun pouted: "It's too boring to stay in the house, occasionally open the window to let in the air!" ”

There were more or less raindrops on her eyebrows and shoulders, and she took out a handkerchief from her cuffs and wiped it for him: "I haven't asked you yet, where did the heavy rain go?" ”

Rong Xiu leaned down slightly to match her height, with a slight smile on his face: "I'm going to look for a baby in the cottage!" ”

As he spoke, he touched his hand in his arms and took out two paper bags.

"I don't know if I'm wet!"

Yan Xiaowei stretched out her hand to open the paper packet, a package of light yellow powder, a package of black powder, and she looked up happily: "Sulfur powder and plant ash?" ”

Rong Xiu nodded: "The sulfur powder was found in the cottage, and the plant ash was specially dried by Teng Chun from the skin of the willow branches, and collected after ignition. Without the oil in the bark, it burns faster! ”

He stretched out his hand and pointed to the iron pot that Yan Xiaowei hid under the bed: "If the nitrate is made and the gunpowder is prepared, how long does it take according to your opinion?" Now that he knows what kind of Gu is among the Nine Emperor Princes, there is no need to drag it out in Qingyun Mountain. I have already drawn the map of the cottage, and I have already asked Teng Chun to pass it on to Pan Shu, and the important location of the fortress has been marked. When the gunpowder on your side is ready, we can move. ”

Yan Xiaowei estimated: "If you want to blow up the wall of the cottage, the dose of gunpowder can't be too small, and the soil in the pot basically has to be boiled in order to have enough nitrate." From now on, the fire will not stop, and it is estimated that it will have to wait until the evening and then prepare it according to the proportion...... Well, the results won't come out until early tomorrow morning. Coupled with the time spent in the cottage, you tell Brother Pan to act again tomorrow. ”

Rong Xiu pondered: "You just suffered from the wind and cold, and you need to rest, and if you overwork, your body may not be able to bear it." Why don't you wait a day or two? ”

Yan Xiaoyan hurriedly shook her head: "Then how can it be done, staying in the cottage for a while will be more dangerous, we must hurry up!" ”

She said that she would do it, took the fire fold from the table, and walked to the stove to make a gesture to order the stove.

Rong Xiu sighed slightly, and took away the fire fold in her hand: "I'll do these rough jobs, you just need to command them on the side." ”

As he spoke, the tall figure squatted by the fire, lit a ball of dead grass with a fire breaker and stuffed it into the stove, and when the flame burned red, he threw two sticks of wood into it.

Yan Xiaowei instructed him to put the iron pot on the stove, add water to the soil, boil it over a warm fire, and keep stirring it with a wooden stick.

I don't know how long it took, the leaky bell rang more than a dozen times in a row, Yan Xiaoyi's head shook, and she woke up from her dream suddenly.

She sat up from the bed and looked at the people who had been standing by the fire in confusion.

She clearly remembered that she had been staying by Rong Xiu's side, when did she sleep on the couch?

Rong Xiu heard the movement, turned his head, and smiled mildly: "Are you awake?" ”

Yan Xiaoyan glanced at him: "You put me on the couch?" ”

Rong Xiu turned his head again, and fanned the stove with a pu fan: "It's not who I am, do you still want a second man to hold you like that?" ”

Yan Xiaowei glanced at him angrily, but seeing that he still maintained the previous sitting posture, his neck was a little stiff, and he suddenly felt a little distressed, and walked over to take over the work in his hand: "Okay, now I'll come, you go and lie down on the couch." Now that the water has basically evaporated, don't worry about it, just take it to a cool place and wait for it to settle on its own. ”

Rong Xiu didn't give her a chance, and took the pot off the stove before her and put it in the corner.

Extinguishing the fire that had been burning, Rong Xiu raised his arm and straightened up, and after a lazy waist, his arm suddenly touched Yan Xiaoyi's shoulder: "Okay, it's almost now, let's go back to the couch and lie down." ”

Yan Xiaowei put his hand away and flashed to the side smartly: "Whoever is with you, if you want to lie down, you will go by yourself, I will sleep well!" ”

Rong Xiu didn't relentlessly entangle her, regardless of her struggles, she uprooted her upside down like an onion and carried it on her shoulders: "My daughter-in-law is always duplicitous, but she actually likes it in her heart, I know it!" One, two, three, let's go! ”

Yan Xiaowei was extremely angry, it was useless to punch him, and he was thrown on the couch at once. Before she could sit up, Rong Xiu reached out and wrapped the quilt around her, and then put his long legs and hands together and hugged her tightly through the quilt.

Yan Xiaoyi's body was tightly and heavily clamped by him, and she couldn't move at all.

"Rong Xiu, you let go of me!"

Rong Xiu "shh ”

There was a deep sleepiness in his voice, like a coquettish and a scoundrel.

Yan Xiaowei was wrapped in the faint fragrance of orchid grass on his body, listening to the sound of the raindrops crackling on the roof of the house, and the thunder rumbling from time to time, he suddenly felt that no matter whether it was windy or going down outside, this man's arms seemed to be stable all the time.

When the two woke up again, the whole room was dark, and there was still lightning and thunder outside.

Rong Xiu lit the fire, opened the lid of the pot placed in the corner of the wall, and shone it with the lamp in his hand, and a thick layer of small white particles condensed on it.

Yan Xiaowei used a wooden stick to dial them onto the oiled paper and officially began to prepare gunpowder.

To be honest, although she has always sworn to make this thing, in fact, she has only seen it in books, and she doesn't know anything about the actual operation, so she can only explore it little by little.

Since she didn't know the exact proportions, she could only make gunpowder in different proportions according to her own ideas, put them in bamboo tubes, mark them one by one, and then leave a lead with cotton thread on the outside.

But what the effect will be after ignition, no one knows!