Gu Nianlan had basically dealt with the matter here, and Gu Ci and Su Qin simply brought her back to Yunyouzhai together.

Before leaving, Gu Ci obediently listened to Su Qin's words, asked Xun Feng to find two people, and gave them some monthly money, so that they could take care of the Gu family's good land from now on.

Gu Nianlan was grateful, and silently decided in her heart that she must be a good chef and not embarrass Su Qin and Gu Ci.

"Hey, you're finally back. You haven't seen anyone in the past two days, and many old customers have chased me to ask where you are, for fear that you will resign from the position of chef. If it weren't for the fact that I couldn't keep up here, I would have wanted to find you myself!"

Lao Li saw that Gu Nianlan was back again, and he was so grateful that he almost burst into tears.

Gu Nianlan was a little embarrassed, and said apologetically to Lao Li: "I'm sorry, I still have to rest when our restaurant is so busy, but the things at home have been dealt with, and I can continue to work with peace of mind."

"Very good, very good!" Lao Li nodded straight.

Gu Ci and Su Qin didn't stay here for long, they needed to complete the most important task of the trip, to invite the old craftsman out of the mountain.

"Didn't you say you knew the old man? Lead the way." Su Qin was very simple.

Gu Ci glanced at her quietly, and asked lightly, "You don't know where he is?"

"I don't know, should I know?"

Su Qin had already forgotten all the excuses he had made before to give Gu Ci the Hidden Blade, and asked rhetorically with confidence.

"It shouldn't." Gu Ci didn't say it explicitly, just shook his head and took Su Qin to find the blacksmith shop where the old man was.

Not long after, Gu Ci and Su Qin came to the old man's blacksmith shop.

The old man closed his eyes and was taking a nap, raised his eyes and saw that Gu Ci was coming, smacked his lips, and asked, "Why are you here?" Is there anything you need my help with?"

Asking, after a pause, he caught a glimpse of Su Qin, raised his eyebrows, and asked again, "The little girl came to me last time to make the sword for you and retrieved it, how is it, is it still easy to use?"

The old man's question made the doubts in Gu Ci's heart disappear in an instant, after all, Su Qin never knew where the old man's blacksmith shop was, and it was also possible that because he left the address when he left, the old man personally sent it to her.

"Easy." Gu Ci nodded, and he continued with a smile on the topic given by the old man, "Gu Mou does have something to ask for, but he is more presumptuous, I'm afraid you will mind."

"You've already said it or not, let's hear it, what's the matter?" The old man was lying on the rocking chair, his eyes half-open and half-closed, looking very comfortable.

When it came to this, Gu Ci was not polite, and said straight to the point: "We want to ask you to make a batch of equipment to defend the city, and we will provide drawings and materials here."

"Huh?"

When the words fell, the old man suddenly came to his senses, stood up and picked up the handpan on the side and wanted to greet Gu Ci's face, his movements were ruthless and very unpolite.

He was as if he had been stepped on the door of his life, and the whole person showed a very unhappy momentum, and he picked up the broom next to him with one hand and wanted to sweep Gu Ci and Su Qin out of the house.

Gu Ci and Su Qin didn't expect the old man to react so much, and they didn't react at the first time, so Gu Ci reacted a little faster and pulled Su Qin back.

Of course, the old man was just putting on a show, and he didn't really mean to do anything to the two of them.

"Alas, what's the matter with you, it's just to ask you, if you promise, you won't agree, if you don't agree, what are you doing?"

Su Qin reacted, twisted a pair of beautiful eyebrows and complained, and the old man was also stunned when he heard it.

This little girl is so bold that she dares to say that he is wrong, do you know who he is?

The old man glared at Gu Ci and pointed, "What's the matter with you kid, don't you care about teaching this lady in your family, how to talk to the elders, no big or small!"

"Gu listens to Mrs. at home." Gu Ci waved his hand, wanting to say that he couldn't help and couldn't do anything.

"You kid

！」 The old man's eyes widened, but he didn't expect Gu Ci to say such a sentence.

He wanted to say something, but Su Qin took the lead, she turned around, and said in a soft voice to Gu Ci pretending to blame, "What's the matter with you, didn't you say that this person was the previous waiter of the Ministry of Works? Why don't you look like you have no ability, and you still have such a big temper?"

The surprise in Gu Ci's eyes was fleeting, he secretly confessed to Su Qin on the way here, this person was Gong Shu, the previous secretary of the Ministry of Industry, why did Su Qin become a squire as soon as he opened his mouth?

However, Gu Ci turned his head and glanced at the old man, and found that he was angry after hearing Su Qin's words, and seeing that he was about to jump to his feet, he immediately understood the deep meaning of what Su Qin said, silently closed his mouth, and chose to be silent.

Sure enough, the old man looked very angry, blew his beard and glared at his eyes, and reprimanded with a painful face: "What kind of Ministry of Works, I was a Ministry of Workers twenty years ago! When I resigned, it was the secretary of the Ministry of Works!"

"Okay, Gongbu Shangshu!"

Su Qin clasped his hands in front of his chest, nodded with a smile and said yes, where is there still the angry look before.

The old man was stunned for a moment, and realized that he was being tricked, and hurriedly shook his head and denied it, "Bah, what is the book of the Ministry of Industry, I didn't say this sentence at all, you heard it wrong!"

"Uncle Gong, it's too late to regret it at this time." Gu Ci silently blocked Gong Shu's back road, which was very polite.

Su Qin persuaded and said, "Uncle Gong, we made this device because the war ahead is tight, and Gu Ci also said just now that it is used to defend the city, not to attack, and there will be no accidental injury to other innocent people."

Su Qin wanted to use the war as an excuse to lobby Gong Shu, but he didn't expect Gong Shu to shake his head directly without thinking about it, and said righteously, "Impossible! I've already said goodbye to my hometown, you two don't want to use these things to break my peaceful life!"

Seeing that Gong Shu's attitude was so resolute, Su Qin also knew that it was unlikely that he would easily agree, she shook her head lightly at Gu Ci, with a look of regret on her face, and waved her hand: "Alas, Gu Ci, if there is really no way, you can only let the general return to the court to borrow troops. I just don't know if those generals in Jincheng will be able to hold out until the day when the general returns. If it can't hold on, it will lead to the destruction of the city, what will the innocent people in the rear do!"...

Gu Ci's face sank like water, he frowned slightly, shook his head and said, "It's hard to say about this matter, after all, in the final analysis, it still depends on how the other party marches. If the other party is reckless, we can only fight with our bare hands."

"Let's go, let's go back and think of something else." Su Qin blinked and gestured.

Gu Ci nodded, didn't give Gong Shu a look, and turned around directly and prepared to leave.