Inside the study room of the side hall of the carrier hall.

Xu Yi stood by the windowsill, quietly looking at the flames burning in the copper basin at his feet.

Even though the copper basin is burning with the fruits of his night's hard work.

There was no emotion on his face.

Some things, from the moment they are born, are destined to return to the final destination.

When the black smoke in the study room in the side hall gradually chokes people, it means that the rice paper with the public and private ways is about to completely turn into ashes.

More than ten years later.

Xu Yi held the iron skewer and slowly stirred the paper in the copper basin, making it burn more and more thoroughly.

After all the paper was reduced to ashes, Xu Yi once again dialed the iron skewer in his hand to make it no longer trace.

After making sure everything goes wrong.

Xu Yi pushed open the windowsill and let in the fresh morning air outside the window.

As the windowsill slowly opens.

Inside and outside the window, there is an exceptionally clear sense of splitting.

Inside the window, black smoke billowed out, and every now and then ashes flew into the air.

Outside the window, the sun is shining, and the birds stay in the open pot from time to time to rest their feet and smooth their hair.

Xu Yi stood quietly on the edge of the windowsill for half an hour.

No one knows how many thoughts have tumbled through his mind in this short quarter of an hour.

Half a quarter of an hour later.

Xu Yi, who was full of tiredness, slowly closed the windowsill.

Then he turned around and walked towards the temple.

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Yanwang Mansion Changchun Palace.

Wang Qiujin, who was dressed in a plain skirt, squatted on a stool in the kitchen of the side hall with two extremely round black circles.

The upper and lower eyelids playfully attack each other from time to time.

But his gaze remained motionless at the clay pot on the stove.

The curling green smoke brought up bursts of fragrance, and always stayed in the kitchen of the side hall.

Wang Qiujin got up slowly, lifted the clay pot and gently stirred it with a wooden spoon a few times, then turned around and walked towards the door.

"Tan'er, hasn't the prince come back yet?" Wang Qiujin stood at the door of the kitchen, poked her head out and looked at the personal maid more than ten steps away and asked.

Hearing this, the maid Tan'er bowed and saluted, "Back to the princess, the prince has not returned yet."

"Oh." Wang Qiujin whispered, and then turned around and returned to the kitchen.

Seeing this, the maid Tan'er looked at Wang Qiujin with distress, and opened her mouth several times in just one or two breaths, and then closed it again.

Seeing that Wang Qiujin was about to turn around and leave.

Tan'er finally mustered up her courage.

"Otherwise, the slave and maid will look for someone to go to the front of the carrying hall to ask." Tan'er looked at Wang Qiujin's back, bowed down and said.

It is different from the palace maid rewarded by Emperor Zhengde.

Tan'er was bought by Wang Qiujin on Xu Yi's road to the domain.

To a certain extent, Tan'er is more reliable than the palace maids who are rewarded.

What's more, in terms of the situation at that time, Wang Qiujin was equivalent to having a life-saving grace for Tan'er.

Wang Qiujin paused slightly, and then replied softly without looking back, "No need, I think he should have something important to do, or don't bother."

Tan'er sighed in her heart when she heard this, and then said, "Princess, you haven't slept for a day and a night, or let the slave maid make porridge, you go and take a nap."

"You look like this, the prince will feel distressed when he sees it."

Wang Qiujin chuckled, "He loves to eat my cooking."

After the words fell, Wang Qiujin didn't say anything more, and walked straight to the stove.

Take out a clay pot from the stove, as well as polished rice, red dates, longan, lotus seeds, hawthorn and other things.

After some cleaning, Wang Qiujin rekindled another stove.

On the side of the stove, there are several identical clay pots.

Although those clay pots have been cleaned, if you smell them carefully, you can still smell the red date mountain

The sweet taste of hawthorn longan lotus seed soup.

After the flame was lit, Wang Qiujin slowly sat the clay pot in the stove.

Then he turned around and lowered the flame in the other stove a few points more.

When everything is done.

Wang Qiujin returned to the side of the stool again, waiting silently.

Just as its upper and lower eyelids became more and more playful.

Xu Yi's figure suddenly appeared silently outside the Changchun Palace.

As soon as Fang stepped into the Changchun Palace, a faint smell of fragrance struck straight towards him.

Xu Yi waved his hand slightly and stopped the maids in the palace from saluting.

Then he slowly walked towards the kitchen in the side hall with the smell of fragrance.

As Xu Yi got closer and closer to the kitchen in the side hall, the tiredness on his body continued to subside.

Before the word "Wang" Tan'er could be spoken, Xu Yi waved his hand to stop him.

Then he walked towards the kitchen of the side hall without stopping.

Fang and his party went to the kitchen door of the side hall.

I saw a graceful figure squatting on a low stool, nodding up and down from time to time.

Xu Yi sighed slightly in his heart, and then stopped slowing down.

Strode towards Wang Qiujin.

Wang Qiujin, who was originally drowsy and self-reliant, hurriedly turned her head to look at the moment she heard the footsteps.

"You're back." Wang Qiujin's tired face suddenly bloomed with a bright smile, and then quickly got up.

The corners of Xu Yi's mouth showed a long-lost heartfelt smile, and he replied, "I'm back."

The words fell.

Xu Yi strode forward and hugged Wang Qiujin who was coming towards him into his arms.

Then he lowered his head and whispered in Wang Qiujin's ear, "I had something important to deal with last night, so I delayed the time."

Feel the heat wave coming from the tips of your ears.

Wang Qiujin's ears instantly turned crimson.

"I know, it's important to get down to business." Wang Qiujin breathed in the smoky smell of Xu Yi's body, and replied softly with a blushing cheek.

Xu Yi smiled and hugged Wang Qiujin tighter.

I don't know how long it took.

Xu is a quarter of an hour, Xu is more than ten breaths.

Wang Qiujin gently broke away from Xu Yi's embrace.

"Hungry after a busy night?"

"I cooked you lotus seed soup, eat it while it's hot, and rest well after eating."

"I haven't seen you for a few days, and you seem to have lost a lot of weight, and you have become much haggard."

Wang Qiujin spoke softly, turned around and walked to the stove on the side.

After opening the clay pot, a bowl of fragrant and steaming lotus seed soup was served for Xu Yi with a wooden spoon.

After pouring honey, Wang Qiujin slowly walked to the dining hall with lotus seed soup.

As he walked, he said, "If it's not enough, there's still in the pot."

Out of the corner of Xu Yi's eyes, a few clay pots flashed on the side.

Then he stepped forward, padd the pottery ear with a wet towel, and slowly lifted the clay pot.

Wang Qiujin saw that Xu Yi had not responded for a long time, so she couldn't help but turn her head to look.

"Leave me alone." Wang Qiujin slowly put down the lotus seed soup in her hand and walked towards Xu Yi briskly.

Xu Yi chuckled: "Go get the chopsticks and honey, I haven't been close to dropping rice for a long time, but I'm hungry."

"Okay." Wang Qiujin didn't say much when she heard this, nodded and couldn't help but speed up her pace and walk to the kitchen.

It didn't take a while.

The husband and wife sat at the dining table, eating the lotus seed soup that exuded a fragrant fragrance without hurrying.

The two glanced at each other from time to time, adding a touch of warmth to this ordinary breakfast.

Soon.

Xu Yi's big bowl full of lotus seed soup was completely bottomed out.

"Don't eat too much in the morning, add half a spoonful." Seeing a hint of unfinished expression on Xu Yi's face, Wang Qiujin said softly.

Xu Yi nodded slightly and said, "Okay."

A quarter of an hour later.

The husband and wife both walked out of the kitchen, talked and laughed and walked into the dormitory.

"Sleep quickly." Wang Qiujin gently withdrew the black regular clothes for Xu Yi.

Xu Yi nodded slightly and said, "Okay, let's sleep together."

"This ......," Wang Qiujin glanced up at the sky with a blush on her face when she heard this.

Xu Yi seemed to know what Wang Qiujin was going to say, and quickly said: "In my own family, no one dares to chew the root of the tongue, not to mention that you haven't slept all night, and now that I'm back, you should also rest."

The words fell.

Don't wait for Wang Qiujin to say anything more.

Xu Yi squatted directly and picked up Wang Qiujin.

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Not from time to time.

When the sun is scorching.

Xu Yi slowly opened his eyes on the bed.

Slowly withdrew his slightly sour arm, and then lightly stamped a seal on Wang Qiujin Bai Zhe's face.

Xu Yi got up slowly, just as he was about to get out of bed.

Wang Qiujin, who was sleeping exceptionally sweetly, suddenly opened her eyes.

The big eyes of the fluttering spirit slowly blinked and looked at Xu Yi, who was tiptoeing off the bed.

It didn't seem to say anything, but the big fluttering eyes seemed to say a lot.

I saw Wang Qiujin wake up.

Xu Yi suddenly had a feeling of being a thief for some reason.

"I'll go to the workshop outside the city, and you can sleep again." Xu Yi laughed dryly twice and then spoke.

"Oh." Wang Qiujin nodded obediently, and then asked softly, "Will you come back at night?"

"Back." Xu Yi replied categorically.

After the words fell, Xu Yi quietly lowered his voice and added, "It may be a little later."

It did not mention the words that let Wang Qiujin sleep first.

As for the reason, it is very simple, he knows that no matter how late it is, Wang Qiujin will wait for him to come back.

Hearing this, Wang Qiujin nodded extremely obediently and said, "Then I'll make dinner and wait for you to come back, what do you want to eat at night?"

"It's okay, as long as you make it, I like to eat it." Xu Yi smiled and rubbed Wang Qiujin's slightly messy hair.

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East of the city of Fuyang.

Twenty miles away from Wang's camp, on a huge clearing.

Thousands of people braved the scorching sun and were constantly busy in the open space shirtless.

Not far away, on the dirt road, horse-drawn carriages laden with timber were connected into several long lines that could only see their heads but not their tails.

If you look down from a high place.

It can be seen that the huge open space has been artificially divided into three parts.

The first two plots are each 100 acres in size.

The one at the back is hundreds of acres in size.

At this time, the rudiments of the house were already in sight in the huge open space.

In a makeshift gazebo on the edge of a clearing.

Zhu Zongting, the eldest grandson of the Zhu family, and the slightly chubby brocade-clothed boy stood straight in the pavilion.

On the stone table between the two of them were basins of clear water, and scattered crystal-clear ice cubes floated in the clear water.

But even so.

The two were still sweating.

You can imagine how hot it is today.

"Tinger."

The slightly chubby boy in brocade looked up at the sky and wiped the beads of sweat on his face.

Then he slowly asked, "You say, will His Royal Highness King Yan come again today?"

Zhu Zongting slowly withdrew his gaze from the distance, and replied with affirmation, "The prince said that he would come today, so he will definitely come."

After the words fell, Zhu Zongting looked at the chubby boy beside him, and said slowly: "If Zongnian can't stand the heat, go back to the carriage first, and when the prince arrives, I will send someone to call you."

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Zong Nian wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, and then waved his hand slightly and said, "This move is disrespectful to His Royal Highness King Yan, so forget it."

Zhu Zongting paused slightly when he heard this, and then stopped pressing.

Just as every family will have some children with "unique hobbies".

As the first family of Shanggu County, the Zhu family naturally has no shortage of children with "unique hobbies".

Not only is it not lacking, but it is extraordinarily many because Yandi has no king for 20 years.

Such people are generally referred to by outsiders as "gentlemen."

However.

In the Zhu family's generation, there is such a child with a unique hobby but has never been called a gentleman by outsiders.

This person is Zhu Zongnian next to Zhu Zongting.

Others love the wind and snow, handsome men and beautiful women.

He has a lover of steel.

At the age of eight, he was able to craft swords, and the swords he produced were made of steel.

At the age of twelve, he reconstructed an armor that had disappeared for hundreds of years according to ancient texts.

The father who was directly frightened fainted several times.

This incident directly alarmed Zhu Huaimin.

If it weren't for Zhu Huaimin, he destroyed the long-lost armor in time and issued a gag order to all those who knew it.

I am afraid that the entire Zhu family will be implicated by it, and then fall into the quagmire.

After that, Zhu Zongnian was directly grounded by Zhu Huaimin for three years.

However, in the past three years, Zhu Zongnian has not been idle.

It took three years to recover a repeater that had disappeared for hundreds of years with the help of some ancient books.

This incident soon alarmed Zhu Huaimin again.

If it is said that Tibetan armor is a great sin for the nine clans.

Then hiding more than a certain number of crossbows without authorization will also punish the nine clans.

Pity the old man Zhu Huaimin, who is obviously in his sixtieth year, but he has to wipe his ass for Zhu Zongnian.

In the following years, Zhu Zongnian finally stopped completely.

And yet just last night.

Zhu Zongnian, who had been stopped for several years, made waves again.

forced his father to ask to see Zhu Huaimin overnight.

Fortunately, this time Zhu Zongnian brought no longer a fright, but a big surprise of the day.

Zhu Zongting froze his mind, then looked at Zhu Zongnian and reconfirmed, "Zongnian, are you sure you can really improve the blast furnace and greatly improve its iron production efficiency?"

Zhu Zongnian nodded extremely solemnly when he heard this, and then replied while wiping his sweat: "According to my estimate, it can be improved by at least fifty percent."

"It's a pity that the house doesn't have this condition, so I can't verify it myself."

As he spoke, Zhu Zong sighed with pity.

Then his eyes lit up and he looked at the blast furnace not far away, which was already half of it.

His eyes were full of eagerness.

"At least fifty percent." Zhu Zongting muttered in a low voice full of shock.

Although this is not the first time he has heard this sentence from Zhu Zongnian's mouth.

But for some reason, every time he heard about it, Zhu Zongnian's heart was uncontrollably shocked by it.

At least fifty percent?

What is this concept?

This means that the Zhu family can complete the task assigned by Xu Yi at least half of the time in advance.

The better the task is completed, the greater the benefits that the Zhu family can reap in the future!