Although Yu Moji's arm was broken, he didn't want to be a useless person in the barracks.

She doesn't think she's a useless person. After all, the process of using the enemy's mecha box to counterattack with a lot of effort that she had worked so hard to come up with was still quite useful.

Yan Zheng returned safely from the mountains and forests that day, and after discussing with Yuan Yizhi, he didn't know which tendon in his brain had changed, so he had to learn her method of "making bombs on the firing line" from Yu Mojian, saying that it was to be evaluated, improved, and then promoted to the whole army.

I don't know if I can't bear to fire at Yu Moji, who is a wounded, or if I suddenly understand the ingenuity of Yu Moji's method of making bombs, when Yan Zheng studied the technology, he was very modest, and the sharp-toothed and sharp-mouthed spirit on weekdays was actually restrained, as if it was someone else who mocked Yu Moji in the past.

It's just that although her works are still exerting residual heat, she herself has to retreat to the rear - Yuan Pingzhi asked her to recuperate from her injuries, and Yan Zheng said that if she wanted her to stay in the camp as a technical consultant, she was not allowed to go back to the line of fire.

Yu Moji's military rank was not high, he couldn't even see the battle report, and he had nothing to do, so he simply dragged his arm tied to the steel plate to the armory every day to report for duty, and was especially keen to get his hands on several thousand-machine crossbows.

Yuan Pingzhi heard about this and deliberately found an opportunity to ask her.

"When the captain of the surprise attack team was killed, the mountain bandits used a cross-socket bow that could shoot continuously, and the strength could penetrate our heavy armor." Yu Mochen recalled, "The crossbow arrows shot by that mountain bandit are really staggering......

In fact, in addition to this, she also felt more and more that she might not be suitable for using the saber on the armor. She didn't think at all that the Cardinal's idea of making armor was mostly for male sergeants, and of course there were many discomforts for women to use it; She only blamed this problem on her limited physical strength, and under the weight of heavy armor, it was difficult for all kinds of melee weapons to be used as handy as Yan Zheng. After thinking about it, she felt that under the current injury, it might be very difficult to forcibly improve her physical fitness, so it was better to delve into more long-range weapons and make good use of her more advantageous mobility ability.

It's just that she always refuses to admit that she is inferior to Yan Zheng, and she is embarrassed to tell Yuan Zhizhi about this.

"So?" Yuan said, "You want to improve our weapons again?" ”

Yu Moji nodded, "Although our Thousand Machine Crossbow can also fire continuously, it seems that it is not as flexible as the opponent's weapon when used. As she spoke, it suddenly occurred to her that the Thousand Machine Crossbow was the work of the Master of the Cardinal's Academy, and it was not clear that Yuan had participated in the design.

She didn't have the courage to accuse Yuan Yizhi of the results of his work, and hurriedly made up for it, "Maybe the other party didn't have an advantage in weapons, but he was only able to kill our cadres because of his experience." But it seems to me that the experience of facing the enemy is really a very abstract thing. The outcome of a war cannot be determined solely by experience. ”

"That's right," Yuan approving, "experience is important, but it's also unreliable. One of the reasons why our Great Qi army values Yanjia so much is that it is to minimize the risk by relying on the reliability of the mech. ”

"So I thought," Yu Moji continued, "if I can improve the Thousand Machines Crossbow, so that a person like me, who has neither experience nor courage, has the margin to shoot accurately when facing the enemy, I may not be so embarrassed when I encounter this situation in the future." ”

"That's a good idea," Yuan said, "but how do you plan to make it happen?" ”

"This ...... Actually, I haven't figured it out yet......" Yu Mojin scratched his head in embarrassment.

Yuan Pingzhi smiled, "Don't be nervous. This kind of thing even the masters of the Senate have to think about for a long time, and you don't have to force yourself to come up with a solution right away. "Besides, I have a more urgent matter right now, and I need your help. ”

Yu Mojin hurriedly said, "The general just orders." ”

Yuan said, "I have found out the source of the thousand-year-old gold in the hands of the mountain bandits. Sure enough, it was an undercurrent of smugglers of Chitose gold. ”

Yu Moji was shocked, "You are busy all day long, and you still have time to investigate this matter?" She said that she hated herself for not doing anything serious while recuperating from her injuries.

Yuan Pingzhi smiled and said, "I don't have three heads and six arms. Most of the things in the army are in charge of the commander, and I just give him some reference advice on the application of Yanjia. These days, I'm mostly busy with Chitose Gold. After a moment's pause, he explained, "As far as I know, this matter involves a lot, and I am afraid that it has nothing to do with the merchants south of the Jiayuan River." This kind of thing requires a lot of skill to investigate, and I have to go to the Chamber of Commerce in person. As for you," he said, glancing at the ink marks, "if the wound can hold up, you'd better come with me." ”

"It's just an arm, and if it's scrapped, it's scrapped......" Yu Moji originally intended to show her loyalty, but when she looked at Yuan Yizhi's expression, she suddenly realized that what she said was too cruel, and hurriedly changed her words, "I'm recovering well, don't worry about this." But the general should also know that I am a stupid person...... How can I help if I go? ”

"You're always very unconfident, in fact, you're much smarter than you think." Yuan Pingzhi encouraged her a few words, and said, "And this time, I hope you can sing the leading role." Among the chambers of commerce in the south, there are also your old acquaintances. ”

"Do I have old business acquaintances?" Yu Mozhen looked dazed, frowned and thought about it, and suddenly reacted, "Wei Linyuan? ”

As soon as Yu Moji's calamitous arm was freed from the shackles of the steel plate, he followed Yuan on the boat bound for Qiongmen.

Qiongmen is the most prosperous city near Juping Mountain. The mighty Jiayuan River runs through the city, and further east you can reach the richest county of Linhai. And Linhai County is the place where Wei Linyuan and his legendary uncle are stationed for the Wei family.

According to Yuan Pingzhi, because the private merchants have been suppressed by the imperial government for a long time, it is actually very difficult for them to rise in the short term; However, in recent years, the Wei family has become more and more popular, and the Great Qi Empire has grown from east to west, from south to north, but almost all cities of a certain size, or areas around the trade road, have a Wei family's semicolon. The prestige of the Wei family among the people may not be inferior to the status of the Eight Pillars in the court.

There are even rumors in the market that people from the Wei family never need to go to other stores when they go out to run errands, eat, live and buy.

When Yu Moji heard this, he was very surprised. After all, when she was mourning, she hadn't heard Wei Linyuan say that their family's power in the Central Plains was already so strong; Even when she arrived in Linhai County, what she heard Wei Linyuan say the most was the difficulties of businessmen.

However, when she thought about it, even such a serious accident as the explosion of Feilu Sufeng near Gyeonggi could be suppressed by the people of the Wei family, so that Yu Moji had never heard anyone discuss this matter in the imperial capital...... Maybe the strength of the Wei family has really exceeded what she can imagine.

Since this is the case, it is not impossible for Wei Linyuan to be stationed in Linhai County, or to go to Qiongmen for some reason, or to really get involved in the undercurrent of the smuggler Chitose Gold mentioned by Yuan Pingzhi.

Yu Moji only worries about two things. One of them is that this time she and Yuan Pingzhi went to Qiongmen, although they claimed to represent the Cardinal, they were actually soldiers of the Great Qi Empire, and what they really wanted to ask was the source of the batch of thousand-year-old gold in the hands of the mountain bandits who made trouble; In this way, she and Wei Linyuan will not be able to stand on opposite sides.

Yu Mochen didn't dare to think about what kind of tests and blows the friendship between her and Wei Linyuan, which was not deep but not shallow.

After all, she has not completely turned into a white-eyed wolf, what Wei Linyuan helped her do in the past, she really remembers in her heart.

When Yuan Yizhi was mourning, he also witnessed the friendship between Yu Moji and Wei Linyuan in the purchase and sale of homework. Although he decided to take Yu Moji with him because of this relationship, he also clearly told Yu Moji that he didn't want her to lose an important friend because of this incident.

"We are actually taking one step at a time now," Yuan Pingzhi said with a little apology, "You can decide for yourself how to act, don't think too much." ”

The second thing Yu Mochen was worried about was that with the current power of the Wei family, seeing her, a "woman who wants to climb high branches" who should not appear in front of Wei Linyuan, I don't know what will happen to intimidate her.

After all, the last time Wei Yeol sent Yi Xiaocheng to spy on her, although it was only a wake-up call for Yu Moji, it also managed to scare her hard.

Yu Moji and Yuan relied on a total of them, so she simply temporarily abandoned her own identity and name, and changed her appearance as a teenager. In addition, although she and Yuan Yizhi can be said to be the same family, this relationship is a bit complicated to explain after all.

The two decided to omit the real teacher Lu Chen for the time being, and Yu Moji directly became Yuan Zhizhi's protégé.

It's also about cheapness.

In the Great Qi Empire, there has always been a considerable gap between the status of men and women, only the situation in the imperial capital, probably because of the influence of the eldest princess, the situation is slightly better. For example, a girl like Ling Ai who is personable, confident, and capable is not uncommon in the imperial capital, and the people of the Cardinal Council also treat Ling Ai with a very appreciative attitude; Yu Moji's failures in the past due to her own lack of ability are rarely blamed on her womanhood.

The area south of the Jiayuan River is very different. Even though there are wealthy cities such as Qiongmen and Linhai County, the status of women has not risen with the accumulation of wealth and changes in living standards. Although Yu Mozhen hated this kind of nonsensical discrimination, the purpose of her visit this time was very clear - after all, she was following Yuan Yiyi to listen to the news, and she didn't want to be entangled with such relatively backward local customs.

In addition, Yu Moji pretends to be a young man, but he also has some unique advantages.

Yu Moji's appearance was concluded that it was "not good-looking" by Wei Linyuan early on. Although Yu Mozhen didn't care much about her face, which obviously couldn't be used to make money, when she chatted with Wei Linyuan in the past, she also talked about the impression she left on each other when they first met.

At that time, Wei Linyuan was still a student of the martial arts hall after all, and he had endless homework in his hand to ask Yu Moji to complete, so he deliberately made up for it when he explained. Wei Linyuan insisted that when he first saw Yu Moji, he was blind and speechless, Yu Moji's appearance was actually quite good, but his facial features were heroic, and he lacked a little bit of gentleness and softness that a girl should be born with.

In order to convince Yu Mochen that he was not talking nonsense, he also specifically said that this kind of heroic appearance could have been regarded as another different style of beauty, but Yu Mochen always has a pariah image with a frown and a low eye, and the only advantages in his facial features have been diluted.

Yu Mochen felt that Wei Linyuan was reasonable. But she is a girl's family, and the fact that she is not beautiful enough has been pointed out by Wei Linyuan in different ways several times is still a little unpleasant.

This kind of little daughter-like unhappiness has finally come to an end.

Because Yuan Zhizhi's evaluation was, "You are indeed very heroic in this dress, but if you look closely, you are actually still a girl with a very unique temperament." ”

His original intention was actually to ask Yu Moji to be prepared, in case his appearance was exposed and the identity of the woman was exposed, don't show his cowardice; However, his words were really beautiful, although they were not much different from the ivory forcibly spit out of Wei Linyuan's dog's mouth, they still made Yu Moji secretly happy for a long time.

Yuan Yizhi's style of doing things has always been easy, so he has already found a reason in advance to blend in with the many merchants in Qiongmen.

Yu Mozhen trusted Yuan Pingzhi too much, and she didn't want to do much for herself, so she never asked; It wasn't until Yuan Yizhi approached the Chamber of Commerce in Qiongmen that she heard the details.

Hearing this, Yu Mojian couldn't help but be half surprised and half embarrassed.