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When Yin Erhu came back again, before he could knock on the door, the door opened, and Xiu Niang was guarding the other side of the door.

"Ask for clarification later before opening the door."

"Don't ask, I can hear your footsteps."

"I made delicious pork soup cakes, do you want to eat them?"

Yin Erhu said: "From now on, we will call the soup cakes noodles."

Xiu Niang pinched the corner of her clothes and said, "Do you want pork noodles?"

Yin Erhu said: "Eat, I have a big appetite, so pretend to be more."

Soon, Xiu Niang brought out a big bowl of noodles from the room. This time, there was a lot of pork in the noodles.

Yin Erhu took a bite, relished the taste and said to Xiu Niang: "Sprinkle some pepper next time, the taste of the soup will be even better."

Xiu Niang lowered her head and said, "No pepper."

Yin Erhu thought for a while and said, "Then put some dogwood powder."

Xiu Niang nodded, then lowered her head to eat her own small bowl of noodles.

Yin Erhu had eaten wontons and was not too hungry, so he picked some noodles from the bowl and put them into Xiuniang's bowl.

Xiu Niang glanced at him, but didn't speak, the two of them quietly sucked noodles in this dilapidated small courtyard.

Yun Chu is also eating dinner.

What he ate was also Zongzi noodles, but the content in his bowl was much richer. There was no chili, so the cook added a lot of pepper to it, which caused the bowl of noodles to lose its color.

"Don't go out these days. If you want to play, just play in Jinchangfang. The same is true for the rest of you. If you can't go out, don't go out."

Yun Chu took a bite of the noodles, and warned his wife and sister that he is not worried about his wife, a woman with a big stomach can't go out, but Naha, who has been running around in Li Shen's mansion recently is not a shame.

"Why can't you run?"

"Because the gunpowder workshop under the Academy of Martial Arts lost [-] catties of gunpowder. Now everyone is panicking. God knows where and how it will explode."

Yu Xiurong was stunned for a moment and said, "So, isn't Liu Rengui in trouble?"

Yun Chu shook his head and said, "It's none of Liu Rengui's business. After the demonstration of gunpowder in the school's military field, Liu Rengui quit his job in the gunpowder workshop, and now he's back to work hard as his Chang'an magistrate."

Yu Xiurong counted the days and lowered his voice, "Isn't that the day after Liu Rengui quit his job?"

Yun Chu put a chopstick of noodles into his mouth and ate it, "Since the invention of gunpowder, there hasn't been a single day of rest.

I have to admire Lao Liu, knowing that if I continue to manage this matter, countless lives will surely come out. Therefore, I have to retreat bravely, which can be regarded as avoiding a disaster. "

Yu Xiurong glanced around and saw that Naha was the only one beside him who was buried in his meal, so he whispered, "Does Liu Rengui know the formula of gunpowder?"

Yun Chu nodded and said, "It's because he knows the formula that no one suspects him."

Yu Xiurong sighed and said, "Husband, this official in Chang'an is getting more and more boring. Husband will be a small official so that the house will be quieter."

Yun Chu nodded, feeling that what Yu Xiurong said was very reasonable.

As long as the old monkey returns to Yun's house, it's like falling into a state of hibernation, sleeping for at least ten of the twelve hours a day.

But it was strange, even though he was always sleeping, he was actually very clear about what Yun Chu had just learned.

"You lost five hundred catties of gunpowder?"

As soon as Yunchu came to the old monkey's room, he closed his eyes and started talking abruptly.

"Yes, now everyone wants to know where the five hundred catties of gunpowder went, and the person who wants to know where the gunpowder went the most is the emperor."

The old monkey said lazily: "Either the emperor himself called out to catch the thief, or the eldest grandson Wuji did it. There is no possibility of a third person."

Yun Chu said: "Is it necessary for the emperor?"

The old monkey opened his eyes slightly, looked at Yunchu and said, "If the emperor really took it away, then this His Majesty is not easy."

"What if Changsun Wuji took it?"

The old monkey grunted, "Then, his time of death has come."

After speaking, he closed his eyes and fell asleep.

When Yunchu came over, he wanted to ask if the old monkey took away the gunpowder from the Martial Arts Research Institute. Since the old monkey said that it was not the emperor who took it, but Changsun Wuji took it, it proves that it was not the old monkey who did it.

After returning to the study, Yun Chu kept weighing the importance between himself and the five hundred catties of gunpowder.

In the end, I came to the conclusion that I was not worthy of being killed by others with five hundred catties of gunpowder, and my mood immediately improved.

Yu Xiurong, this woman, probably thought so just now, and she said gently that the family does not need a big official, and a small official is enough to support the appearance.

Yunchu once again told Naha not to go to Li Shen recently, if the gunpowder was taken away by Li Zhi, maybe he would use the gunpowder to test his younger brother when he was bored.

It has been several years in Datang. According to his understanding, the Li family has some psychological problems to some extent.

He is especially keen on killing his own brothers and sisters, just like Wen Rou always wants to kill a few of his own family members, and then feel the feeling of mixed emotions of sadness and happiness rippling in his body.

They are all perverted.

Wu Mei's chubby daughter Yu Nu'er suddenly stood up with a pair of fat legs yesterday, and shouted two meaningless "mother" words from her mouth.

No one taught her to say these two words, which may be a natural instinct after birth.

In almost all languages, mothers are called in the same way.

It's a pity that the mother of this little fat child doesn't want to see her.

Yun Chu suspects that this may be because Wu Mei has a very strong sense of guilt for this child in her heart, so she does not want to see her, because as soon as she sees this child, she will think of the vicious thoughts she once had.

Children who escaped from the dead usually have Tian to take care of them, so this child is actually very easy to feed, as long as they are fed and hugged, she will not cry or make trouble. Sometimes, Yunchu even thinks that this child knows that he is A child abandoned by his mother.

Yun Chu has been deliberately cultivating the relationship between Li Hong and Yu Nuer, so even if Li Hong likes to use girls as meat pads, he never stops him.

For a brother, a girl who grew up watching her grow up and a girl who grew up on her own back are completely different emotions.

In this regard, Yunchu is very experienced.

Looking at Naha, whose own sister kept rolling her eyes at him because she was grounded in Jinchangfang, Yunchu raised her hand and wanted to slap her.

Seeing Naha shrinking back, shrugging her shoulders and preparing to receive a slap, Yunchu's heart softened, and he stroked her hair and said, "Play at home obediently, if you are obedient, brother will make you a cake later."

"I just asked Li Shen to ask him to make two jade plaques for me and keep them for my little nephew and niece. The old monkey said that some jade stones will produce wisdom after wearing them for a long time, and they will become a person's second. fate."

Yun Chu sighed and said, "If you make a brand, make a brand, don't let Li Shen fool you with your good jade.

Although he is the prince of the Tang Dynasty, after seeing good jade, he has no humanity to lose. "

"I won't be deceived." After Naha gave her brother another big roll of her eyes, she went to the old monkey to complain.

Every year in May and June, there will be a rainstorm in Chang'an, and it seems that it will be June, but this rainstorm still hasn't come.

The water in the river is much less than in previous years. Even the waterwheel that Yunchu set up on the artesian canal last year could not draw water.

At this time, what people can do is to use overturned cars to draw water from the low river.

Where there are not enough rollovers, people can only rely on people to carry water.

The farmland was very dry. In order to keep the few farmland and cotton in Wannian County, Yunchu had to organize the people of Wannian County to work in corvee.

This time the corvee workers were urbanites, not farmers.

According to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, people in the city are actually obliged to pay corvee, but it has not been implemented for many, many years, so that the people in the city think that they do not need to pay corvee.

Now, Wannian County has issued a decree of corvee service, and all households in Wannian County must send a strong man out of the city to fetch water, save the crops that are about to harvest, and the cotton that is growing.

I thought it would be difficult to implement this decree, because there are too many high-ranking officials and nobles in the half of Chang'an City that Wannian County belongs to.

The housekeepers of many people can ignore Yunchu, a small local official. As for such things that make them suffer, they probably won't agree.

The result was beyond Yunchu's expectations.

Although Li Shen and his family had only one strong man in such a big mansion, it was indeed a little bullying, but they were indeed following the laws of the Tang Dynasty.

The same is true for the rest of the big families, the honorable families. A family with hundreds or thousands of people, as long as there is no division, they will have a strong man, which is nothing to them at all.

Therefore, it is ordinary people who are really embarrassed by this policy.

If the family has a large population, one person can still be sent there. If the family has a small population, it will be pitiful. When the man leaves, the family business and the way to get money will stop. Five days of corvee will be a difficult threshold to cross.

There was no way, even if Yunchu didn't want the grain in the field anymore, the cotton had to be kept no matter what.

When the county government issued an order, Wannian County was really crying. The mother-in-law and the child were crying with the man in the family. It was really like parting from life to death.

The advantage of Wannian County is that there are many people. Therefore, when the river is full of people, the water in the newly built canal in Wannian County has never been dry.

After Wannian County did this, Chang'an County immediately followed suit, and the decree was issued equally smoothly.

Just when Yunchu felt gratified by the empathy of the dignitaries of the Tang Dynasty and the big households, Liu Ren, who was standing by the side of the canal to check the water conditions, said, "Who wouldn't be afraid of five hundred catties of gunpowder?"

Yunchu looked at Liu Rengui, who was skinny with only a few bones left, and asked Liu Yi to come over with a handful of bamboo chips and handed him: "The food at your house is basically not oily, and you want to eat fatter and stronger. , It depends on the canteen."

Now that Liu Rengui accepted the bribe from Yunchu, he didn't feel any resistance at all. He looked at the bamboo chip in his hand and said, "It's not enough. Your sister-in-law, nephew, and niece have been worrying about me these days, and they haven't eaten well. They are all thin. It’s amazing, and it needs to be remedied.”

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