Uncle Guo, your heart thief has been promoted again

Chapter 180 Stone Paint
Jiang Baoyu's questioning stopped Aman.

"The secrets of the Ministry of War, how can we people find out at will? Originally, I thought that you were acquainted with the son, maybe he would tell you."

As Aman was talking, he suddenly thought of something, leaned over and whispered, "But Mu Shangfu went to see the emperor, didn't he? The emperor values ​​her so much, maybe she will know something?"

"Cough cough."

The three of them were discussing how to get the words out of Mu Gui, but Mu Gui suddenly appeared in the small courtyard, standing behind the three of them.

Xiao Hei and his adopted son Xiao Qing haven't seen their owner for a long time, and now they all gather around and rub against her.

A Mang and Xu Qingmeng hurriedly got up and saluted with Mu Gui.

Mu Gui told them to get up, told them to ignore her, continue to work, and went into the house by themselves.

Amang and Xu Qingmeng didn't dare to stay any longer, they left without saying a word.

Jiang Baoyu called Aman to stop.

"Didn't you just say that Sister Feihu asked you to go to the East Palace to deliver things tomorrow? I brought some things to Sister Yuhua, you can bring them there for me."

As she said that, she went into the house and took the things to Amang before sending her and Xu Qingmeng away.

But she didn't go back to the house immediately, but knocked on Mu Gui's door.

"My lord, are you asleep?"

Mu Gui was very tired today, had already changed clothes and was about to fall asleep, but when he heard Jiang Baoyu's voice, he told her to go in.

After Jiang Baoyu went in, he saw Mu Gui taking off his socks, so he tactfully helped to scoop up water, and while waiting for Mu Gui, she boiled hot water by the way.

"My lord, let me wash your feet for you, my little girl."

Jiang Baoyu said, and brought the water basin to Mu Gui's feet, ready to do it.

But Mu Gui put his feet under his buttocks, squinted his eyes and said to her, "There's no need to do this. If you want to ask anything, just ask."

Jiang Baoyu pulled his lips and smiled innocently, and asked tentatively: "Did your lord hear what happened in the Ministry of War during the day?"

Mu Gui sighed lightly, shook his head and looked at Jiang Baoyu and said, "Is there really so many people you care about?"

First it was Cui Baoyu, and now it was Shui Hanzhou.

If things go on like this, how much thought does this girl have on making clothes?

Jiang Baoyu was a little embarrassed, thinking that getting information from Mu Gui was really useless, so he was a little discouraged, and lowered his head, ready to run away.

Mu Gui still spoke to her.

"It is said that during the construction of the canal in Guangling, ore that may contain stone paint was dug."

"Stone paint?"

Jiang Baoyu used to do business with Uncle Yongfu. He also saw stone lacquer, which was born on the edge of water. recorded content.

In order to open the eyes of Cui Baoyu and the others, she brought back some, and later made a little gadget, which was very effective for hunting in the fields.

It's just that most of the stone paint is buried deep in the ground and is in the form of a paste. Is there any hidden in the ore?

"Well," Mu Gui nodded, "it's that kind of thing. It is said that it can be refined to make new weapons. It is so powerful that it will make neighboring countries dare not do it again."

Mu Gui sighed while speaking.

"The emperor was very happy when he heard it for the first time. In order to keep it secret, he took out his small treasury to make weapons for the prince. As a result, he was unfavorable. Not only did he fail the test this morning, but he also burned up the lacquer ore he brought back."

Jiang Baoyu looked shocked, although he wanted to build a weapon that had never been done before, failure was inevitable.

It's just that Shui Hanzhou was so unlucky, and on the day when the general came back, the weapons workshop exploded.

"Couldn't all the lacquer ore be blown up? Someone as smart as Shui Hanzhou must still have a backup."

Mu Gui nodded, "It's a good thing he just brought a small amount of ore back for testing, otherwise the emperor would go crazy right now."

She said, then looked at Jiang Baoyu and said: "In short, the general is back now, and the prince gave him such a big gift again. The emperor is now in a state of desperation, and he has no private money, so the weapon manufacturing can only be postponed."

Jiang Baoyu fell into deep thought when he heard this, no wonder the emperor didn't even want to see his most beloved brother-in-law.

It would hurt her to burn so much money.

But thinking of Shui Hanzhou's lonely back standing in front of the imperial study room, Jiang Baoyu still felt a little distressed.

But she did not forget her duty. After Mu Gui finished talking about Shui Hanzhou with her, she still washed Mu Gui's feet.

Mu Gui was not used to serving her, but Jiang Baoyu insisted on doing it.

"Isn't it right for an apprentice to serve the master and wash the feet of the elder master?"

Upon hearing this, Mu Gui hurriedly withdrew his foot again, and said unhappily, "Let's go, I'm still young, how can I be old?"

Jiang Baoyu waved his hands indifferently, pulled Mu Gui's feet back, and smiled while washing: "It's older than my aunt, why isn't it considered older?"

Seeing that Mu Gui was still struggling, Jiang Baoyu's eyes suddenly turned red, and he almost begged, "Let me wash it for you, I want to wash it for you. I want to do it while I can. I will do everything with you, and I don’t want to regret it when it’s too late.”

Jiang Baoyu was always in charge of the funeral of Mrs. Zhou's funeral. She was very calm throughout the whole process, and she hardly showed any sadness.

So much so that Mu Gui didn't realize that Jiang Baoyu was actually very sad, and even when he remembered that he hadn't been able to accompany Jiang Rongxi on the last journey, he must have been very painful.

She misses Jiang Rongxi.

So Mu Gui didn't struggle anymore, not only let Jiang Baoyu wash her feet, but also asked her to take off her socks and wash them together.

Jiang Baoyu did not refuse, and immediately took off his socks, his four feet stepped on each other in the basin and made a noise, the whole room was filled with the laughter of both master and apprentice.

After serving Mu Gui to wash her feet, and watching her lie down and fall asleep with his own eyes, Jiang Baoyu came out of the house with a basin and returned to his room.

However, she did not fall asleep directly, but took out a pen and paper, and drew a drawing based on her memory.

After discovering that Shiqi was flammable and indestructible when exposed to water, she worked with Cui Baoyu and the others to develop a small field hunting tool, named artillery.

It is a method of using the principle of ejection and impact to smash the glazed beads coated with stone paint into a slender bamboo tube, and generate heat through friction, so that the stone paint on the glazed beads burns rapidly in the process of flying in the bamboo tube. A large amount of heat is generated, so that the glazed beads fly out at a speed of hundreds of times and thousands of times.

The strength used is much smaller than that of archery, but the accuracy is several times that of the arrow.

Moreover, when glass beads bounce into the prey, the damage is often very small, and relatively complete animal skins can be obtained.

But this was just a small gadget they made at the time. After all, stone lacquer was not often available, and glazed beads were a bit extravagant for hunting.

Moreover, bamboo tubes are flammable, so they can't be reused after being used once, and it's quite troublesome to make.

As they grew up, they put aside the little thing they studied together back then.

Now that I heard that Shui Hanzhou failed to use stone lacquer to study weapons, Jiang Baoyu remembered this little thing.

If it can be replaced with more suitable materials and then adjusted in size, the power of the cannon can be doubled, and the number of times it can be used can also be increased. If this method is handed over to Shui Hanzhou, will it help him?
(End of this chapter)