The oath of rebirth not to be a concubine

Chapter 295 Catapult

Her eyebrows are like black, her lips are like vermilion, her face is like peaches and plums, and her eyes are like clear streams.

During this period of time lying in the mansion, I seem to have gained a little weight, and also a little taller.It's early summer now, and it's been a few months before my birthday, the days go by so fast...

The breeze swayed gently, blowing up the corners of my moon-white clothes. In the bronze mirror, Ivy stood behind her with her head down, her eyebrows lowered and her eyes pleasing to the eye, and she was very obedient to her duty.

I stroked a strand of thin hair hanging by my temples, and after a daze, I thought of the green pearl again.

In the past, as long as I stood in front of the mirror, whether I was skinny like bean sprouts when I was a child, or grown up, she would happily praise me...

Counting the time, she is almost five months pregnant.

Pregnant in October, if the plan is successful, I will be able to see her soon...

"Qingteng, tell the steward to prepare the carriage, I'm going out..."

"Yes." She replied, walked away in small steps, and came back to report after a while, saying that everything was ready.

I replied, went out, stepped on the sapphire horse stool, got into the car, turned a corner and went to Rong Laowang's mansion.

I haven't seen him for a few months, old prince Rong is in good spirits, his half-white hair seems to have darkened a lot, he is holding a birdcage in one hand, and a gold silk porcelain flower pot in the other, humming a little tune happily.

Seeing me coming, he was immediately overjoyed, "Hey, little Qingmu is here, hurry up, come and see my new Iron Overlord."

Iron Overlord?what……

I stepped forward in doubt, probed into the jar, and smiled immediately.

In this golden porcelain flower pot, there is a big and black long-bearded cricket...

"How about it, isn't it beautiful?" He closed the net cover strangely, and the crickets inside protested twice, but it was loud.

I nodded and said, "Qingmu doesn't really understand these things, but it looks good."

"Of course!" The old prince Rong was even more happy, "This thing is a treasure, it is sensitive and smart, and we rarely have it in Xiqi. It has been sold for 3000 taels on the market, but it is all There is a price but no market."

Seeing that he was happy, I chatted with him, "Since there is a price but no market, how did the prince get it?"

He chuckled, and whispered, "This is a gift from a new friend of mine."

New friend, Xiqi didn't...

My mind moved, and I asked with a smile, "My friend, my lord, it's really generous to be able to congratulate such a thing that has no market."

Mr. Rong took out a thin grass stick, poked it in through the gap of the net cover, poked it twice and laughed, "This thing grows in the depths of the grass. If it was brought from him, it would not be worth 3000 taels. .”

Deep in the grass, new friends...

The southern border is vast and there are many grasslands. Tuobaqing first came to Shengjing...

This old prince Rong's new friend must be him without a doubt.

I became suspicious yesterday, Nanjiang came to make a marriage proposal, how could there be no voice of opposition in this huge court.Looking at it now, even Prince Ronglai, who has not been in court for a long time, gave gifts as he liked, and other important officials...

Ah……

This Qing Tuoba really cannot be underestimated.

"Hey, little Qingmu, is your illness completely cured?"

Mr. Rong played for a while, then raised his head, and belatedly said a word of concern.

I smiled and nodded and said, "Okay." He gave a few more instructions, and then dragged me to play chess.

On weekdays, I would have coaxed him to play two rounds, but today I had other things to do, so I told the truth and postponed it.

The old prince was not angry, he asked me to come and see him often, and he personally sent me out of the door. Before leaving, he thought of the rice wine and fairy drunk I sent from the target county, and praised me for thinking of him in his heart, and said that he was better than his family after he left. , it's much better to be a little brat who doesn't believe in it...

He cursed angrily, his brows were slightly frowned, and the scratches under his eyes were clearly visible.

It suddenly occurred to me that when Rong Ziyang got into trouble when he was a child, he held a bamboo piece engraved with "Disciple Rules" and pretended to hit Rong Ziyang, chasing him around my back garden...

It has been a year since Rong Ziyang left, old prince, he must be missing him...

Farewell to Mr. Rong, I asked the driver to go straight and turn right, and passed through a few streets. I stopped in front of a flower shop and went in to have a look. I saw two pineapple plants in the corner that were not bad, so I called the shopkeeper to find out. It is the property of the store and is not for sale.

I really wanted this flower, so I talked about it for a long time with a smile on my face, and finally I bought it.

The store owner is a caring person. He told me that the orchid is a delicate flower. When I buy it back, I will let it bask in the sun and water it regularly.

I made a promise, took the flowers and returned to the carriage, and soon arrived at Lu Fuzi's house.

After knocking on the door, the boy went in to report, and after a while, led me into the mansion.

The last time I came to Lu Mansion, it was winter, and at a glance, the courtyard was full of dead branches and leaves.Now in early summer, the flowers and plants in the courtyard are blooming green, and many novel flowers have budded, and clusters are crowded on the branches, just waiting for the morning sun, and they will be fragrant and fragrant.

Walking through the courtyard, from a distance, one can see Lu Fuzi concentrating on playing with something under the banyan tree. When he gets closer, he can see that it is a complicated wood, which looks like a table and a chair, which is quite strange.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, he turned his head to look at me, and when he saw the thing in my hand, his eyes lit up immediately, and he ran over to the thing thrown in his hand.

"Oh, this is a precious thing." He hastily and carefully snatched the basket from my hand, held it up and looked at it carefully, his face immediately turned into a flower.

"Okay, okay!" He looked more and more happy, turned around and put the orchid on the stone table, walked briskly to the house, took two exquisite purple clay pots and a small flower shovel, and carefully transplanted the orchid.

He did it very carefully, every movement was cautious, for fear of a negligence, he would break the leaf.

This Lu Fuzi has one obsession and two addictions.

Crazy, naturally means that he is obsessed with mechanism kit Kat, is he addicted to...

One is that he likes antique porcelain vases, and the other is that he likes exotic flowers and plants.Although I don't know much about flowers, but seeing his careful appearance, I understand that the shopkeeper must be reluctant to give up.

I waited quietly beside him for a while, until he had planted all the two orchids, and then said, "Master Lu, you are a guest, I will give you orchids, don't you want a cup of tea?"

Lu Fuzi snorted and said, "Hmph, I don't know you yet? I went to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing. Last time I sent a bottle to help you almost set the house on fire. Now I sent these two treasures. There must be something to ask for."

I chuckled, blinked my eyes and said, "That's not necessarily true, maybe Qingmu... I just wanted to come and see you, Master."

"You?" Lu Fuzi curled his lips, "If you can simply come and take a look, then today's bright sun must be rising from the north. Tell me, what's the matter?"

I chuckled, "Master, I want to drink tea."

Lu Fu was overjoyed, "I'm begging the old man to do something, and you still want to ask for tea? Okay, let's drink tea. Laifu, bring the old Pu'er that you have treasured..."

"Yes, master." The servant replied, and after a while, he came over to look at the tea soup.

I took the teacup and sipped some of it. The tea soup was rich and mellow in the mouth. It was really good tea.

Lu Fuzi took a sip of tea, turned his head and said, "I've finished the tea too, if you have something to say, tell me quickly, if you dare to say that you're eating here, I'll kick you out."

I chuckled, and leaned over to ask, "Master Lu, when you were in the Qinglan Pavilion, you always studied something that can throw seven big stones in a row, right?"

Lu Fuzi nodded regretfully, "But at this time, the old man spent five or six months, after much deliberation and practice, to successfully research the catapult. The old man is full of ambition and wants to add more to this thing." It was cast, transported to the border, and made into a military item, and later... hey!"

He sighed, "Later, several masters in the hall agreed that the old man's invention was useless, and said that the size of the stones in this cart was very strict. If the war was tight, there would be no time to choose stones of the same size. Fools are all fools who don't understand KitKat!"

The more he spoke, he swallowed the tea soup in one gulp, perhaps he was in a hurry and coughed several times in succession.

In fact, those masters who knew the mechanism were right.

Whenever a city is attacked, wooden stakes are generally used to hit the city gate, and large stones are thrown on the city wall to confuse the enemy's position and prevent the opponent's bow and arrow formation from hurting our soldiers and guards.

Lu Fuzi's invention, just like the last time he used a heating ball to ignite the brazier, is purely tasteless.

A siege array requires a lot of big stones. Although his invention speeds up the speed of throwing stones, it also increases the difficulty.

Mr. Lu has a stubborn temper. I heard that after that time, there was a big rift between him and several other masters. I also heard that he retired early because of this incident.

It's true, anyone who doesn't want to use their own strength to serve the country, and the research of the past year has been denied like this, everyone is angry.

I chuckled, approached him and asked, "Master, is your thing still there?"

He took a sip of Pu'er, squinted at me, "Why do you ask this?"

I said, "Naturally there is something to do, master, but your thing is still there? Qingmu wants to see it."

He will frown slightly, "What are you looking at, a pile of broken iron and rotten wood has long been broken and used as firewood. If you are bored and want to find someone to accompany you to relieve boredom, why not go to Mr. Su, that old man a few months ago He also retired, and set up a house in the middle of the street next door. You go to him, he has liked you since he was a child, and he can tell you stories for a day."

This old man is still so stubborn, if he is not in the right mind, he will see off the guest.

I nodded and said, "That's fine, then I'll go and study with Mr. Su how to use the catapult. The old man has read a lot of books and has profound knowledge."

"Wait a minute..." Lu Fuzi's eyes lit up, "You just said, use the trebuchet?"

"Yeah." I put down the teacup, held back a smile and got up and said, "Master Lu, Qingmu has something else to do, so I'm leaving now, and I'll see you again some other day."

"Hey, wait!" He stopped me, "Are you... sure you will use that thing?"

"Didn't the master say that the thing has been broken?" I looked at him and smiled.

He frowned slightly, looked at me carefully again, finally nodded and said, "Forget it, I'll take you there to have a look."

After that, he went to the house to get a key, told me to follow, walked sideways along the yard, walked through a corridor full of flowers, and came to a locked door.

Unlocking the lock, he stepped into the house.

There are a lot of weird things in this room, some of which I feel are new, but I dare not get close to touch them, fearing that there are some hidden mechanisms.

He took me to the shelf, wiped it somewhere, and the shelf opened to both sides.He strode into the darkroom, walked to the corner, pulled out four or five rag bags, looked up at me and said, "What are you doing standing there, don't come here to help."

I hurried over and together with him moved several big bags to the open space at the door.

The cloth bags were quite heavy, and there were wood and cast iron inside. Lu Fuzi tore apart the cloth bags and carefully pieced them together.After a while, something the size of a carriage, supporting a black iron cylinder, was pieced together.

Lu Fuzi picked up several vine balls the size of Cuju on the ground, put them into the lower end of the trebuchet one by one, and then lightly pressed the button...

With a "poof...", a takraw ball flew out of the cylinder, followed by the second, and the third...

The balls flew away one by one and landed lightly on the branches.

I frowned slightly, "Is the strength of this thing too small?"

"Hmph, I underestimated you, Lufu too much." He snorted, turned the cylinder to the ground, picked up two boulders from another cloth bag in the corner and put them at the bottom, and moved the button a few times. Down, poke lightly...

"Tom!"

The stone ball flew out with a burst of force, and broke like mud with a puff, followed by the one behind.

The two stone balls collided, and with a click, a trace of sparks burst out.

I was taken aback for a moment, and then I was overjoyed.

This thing has such a powerful force!

(End of this chapter)