"Tried it?"

"I'm annoyed when I talk about it." Chen Xingqi said: "If you don't say it, you have to have a lot of eyes, what you expected is really good, among the people under my command, there are really Yan people's spies, who were found out two days ago."

Fortunately, I listened to you earlier, and separated the steps of making gunpowder, and the spies had been in the artillery army for three months and did not understand the specific formula of gunpowder.

But because of this spy, I couldn't try anything I was supposed to try.

The Ministry of War ordered the artillery corps to conduct a thorough investigation, and I came out to hide and relax. ”

"I see." Meng Changqing added tea to him, "I'll just say, how can you think about my birthday." ”

"Hey, you have no conscience in what you say, whether I think about it or not, anyway, I came to the door with a congratulatory gift today, and I think about you more."

Meng Changqing: "Let's drink tea." ”

"I'm going to stay with you for two days, and then I'll go back when the camp is cleaner."

"Nope." Meng Changqing said, "In case you die here, the court will still entangle me with the Yan people." ”

Chen Xingqi stood up and slapped the table, "A dog can't spit out ivory in his mouth!" ”

Meng Changqing said, "Let's go back after lunch, I'm not peaceful here." ”

Chen Xingqi's pretended momentum immediately dissipated, "Why is it not peaceful?" Are you a bandit here like Yangmen County? ”

"It's not like bandits, it's just that I don't have enough people here, so I can't protect you if something happens."

"You don't have enough people here? There are more than 100 soldiers in a county. ”

Meng Changqing lowered his voice, "It seems like so much, but there are only those thirty or forty people who can really believe it, what if there are more ill-intentioned people among the more than a hundred people?" That's what catches you off guard. ”

Chen Xingqi looked at Meng Changqing and sat down again, "Are you the one who can allow your subordinates to be disloyal to you?" If you don't think it's credible, why don't you change people? ”

"I can't give them a good life, I can't give them a good future, and I don't necessarily have to be loyal to me if I change people."

"I can think about it."

Just as he was saying this, Bafang and Laicai came over with a food box, "Young Master, Young Master Chen, lunch is ready, will you put it on now?" ”

"What? Don't you eat with your wife? Chen Xingqi said, "As soon as I came in, I only cared about talking to you, and I didn't go to greet Mrs. Meng, which is really rude." ”

Meng Changqing knew her mother's intentions, since she became an official, she should make her own decisions when she treats people and customers.

In addition, people of the same generation eat together, without the elders by their side, they are more comfortable to speak, and they don't have to take care of everything.

"Mother has her business to do, after dinner, I'll take you to meet her."

"That's not good, it's rude." Chen Xingqi insisted, "Take me to greet me first, and then come to dinner." ”

Meng Changqing said to Laicai: "Tell my mother first, and we'll come later." ”

Bafang: "Then this meal will be put on the table later?" ”

"Wait a minute."

Meng Changqing took Chen Xingqi and walked slowly from the front ya, not forgetting to introduce all the way, "The front row, facing the gate is the main hall of the yamen, where the case is raised, there is a conference hall on the left, and then to the sides, together with the opposite rooms on the side, is the place where each ministry is on duty.

In the back row, as you can see, there are receptionists, there are study rooms, there are storerooms, guest rooms, and a few rooms for the time being. ”

Chen Xingqi pointed to the guest room and said, "Can't you let me stay here for two days?" ”

"I'll give you a lunch break." Meng Changqing said: "Let's go, enter this courtyard gate, there is a fork in the road." That's where the soldiers and the Guards live, and this is where our family lives. ”

"Not bad." Chen Xingqi nodded as he walked, "You have a lot of houses, why are there mud houses in the brick house?" ”

"When it was first built, it was still sturdy and I didn't plan to tear it down, and now it's used to store some farm tools or raise some chickens and ducks."

"There are still chickens and ducks in the yamen?" After Chen Xingqi finished speaking, he turned the corner and saw with his own eyes that not only chickens and ducks, but also many vegetables were planted in the yard.

"This ...... If I hadn't just come from the front, I would have thought I had entered a farmhouse. Chen Xingqi said, "This thing smells heavy, how can Mrs. endure it, it is better to build a separate courtyard far away and send a trustworthy family member to take care of it." ”

Speaking of which, I just saw Bafang coming out of the next room, "Hey, your Bafang is very good." ”

"Young Master, Madame, please come in."

Chen Xingqi spoke out of tune in front of Meng Changqing, but he was very respectful in front of Wen.

"Thank you for remembering the evergreen thing." Wen said, "Since you have come here and eaten, let him show you around." ”

Just because Wen said such a sentence, Chen Xingqi was like having received a holy decree, and after eating, he had to ask Meng Changqing to take him out for a walk.

Meng Changqing looked at the things in front of him day by day, and didn't think there was anything unusual, but Chen Xingqi was different, when he came in March, Meng Changqing still lived in the cave, but now he lives in a decent yamen.

Out of the yamen, across the open space, there are houses on both sides.

Beishan County is early in winter, this time to step up the construction of houses, and then to September, the temperature is colder than a day, and then it will be too late to build, and in September to be busy harvesting the grain in the field, there is no time at all.

Chen Xingqi followed Meng Changqing for half a street, and the people he saw were basically repairing their houses.

"How do I look at the digging holes? How do you get addicted? ”

Meng Changqing: "That's the cellar, which is used to store grain." ”

The two turned out of the residential area and saw a large area of grain about to mature in the field, "Okay, Meng Changqing, don't look at you, there are not many people, there is a lot of grain in the field."

Is that a sweet potato vine? Chen Xingqi ran over and wanted to pull it out, "I want to get some food in autumn, who knows that I can't find it all over Weishan County, but I can find it here, you dig two baskets for me, and I'll take it back to eat." ”

"It's still too young." Meng Changqing said, "You dig less, and I'll send someone to you next month." ”

"It's stingy." Chen Xingqi pulled out two small sweet potatoes with the vine, "Is this your land?" Can I dig? ”

"It's too late for you to ask, don't worry, you're standing just in my enclosure."

When Chen Xingqi heard this, he was really not polite at all, and he squatted down and dug with his bare hands.

Children of a family like him have a common problem, when others put sweet potatoes in front of him, he won't think they are delicious, but once he is allowed to do it himself, whether it is digging it himself or cooking it himself, the things made are absolutely top-notch delicious.

Meng Changqing looked at the sky, "You can't take it away if you have more, let it grow in the ground." ”

"Okay, that's it."

"Go back and find a sack and put it up for him." Meng Changqing stepped forward and helped Chen Xingqi, "It's not too early, you should go back." ”

"In this foreign place, how can we be friends since childhood, and we refuse to let me stay in your yamen for one night."

Meng Changqing asked him rhetorically, "Have we been friends since childhood?" ”

Chen Xingqi was speechless.

Meng Changqing: "You are now in an important position, you can be said to be the treasure of the beam, you really can't take risks, and I have to look for the city wall later, I don't have time to care about you." ”

"Okay, then I'll go back." Chen Xingqi finally compromised, and when the two returned to the yamen, there were only close guards before and after, and he suddenly asked Meng Changqing, "Have you received a letter from the prince?" ”