Wu Chao: Take the whole family to escape the famine

Chapter 147 Obsessed with forging for four months
According to Concubine Rong's order, a young eunuch quickly moved a chair and placed it behind Ouyang Xue.Ouyang Xue didn't have the guts to insist that she couldn't eat, so she took advantage of the situation and sat on it.

After kneeling for so long, her legs were so painful that she couldn't stand up.

"Thank you, my concubine."

Mother said that little girls should be polite, and Ouyang Xue was very satisfied with her performance.

Concubine Rong was all smiles, she looked like a kind elder.

She opened the mouth and said: "A few days ago, it was Bengong's negligence. Now that you are here, you will live here. Bengong will let you live in a room next to Xiaowu, and you two sisters will get along well. .”

Seeing that her concubine mother and concubine did not help her punish Ouyang Xue, but let her live with him, the fifth princess immediately became unwilling.

She stood up and protested: "Who wants to live with this bitch!"

After shouting these words, the fifth princess flicked her sleeves and went out.

Concubine Rong smoothed things over and said: "Little Wu is arrogant, but you are well-behaved. I don't think you can blame her."

"When you get used to living here in this palace, I will call your mother and concubine into the palace to reunite with you once."

Hearing that she could be reunited with her mother and concubine, Ouyang Xue's face turned into a flower with a smile.

She confirmed: "Will you really let me meet the concubine mother?"

Concubine Rong smiled inscrutablely, "As long as the princess is obedient, I will naturally reunite you mother and daughter."

"Take the princess down and serve her well. If Ben Gong finds out that you have neglected her, be careful with your heads."

In the evening, Prince An's Mansion.

Ouyang Ming, Ouyang Jinhua and Jiang Shiying were sitting in the study discussing matters.

At this time a hidden guard came in, and the dark guard knelt on one knee and narrated everything about Ouyang Xue in the palace today.

Hearing that Ouyang Xue was being bullied, Jiang Shiying's eyes turned red with anger, she stood up and was about to rush out.Ouyang Jinhua quickly stopped her to comfort her.

Ouyang Ming also said: "Mother, don't worry, since Concubine Rong has brought Xue'er to her palace, she won't be bullied for a while."

"She definitely wants to use her sister to make us submit to the fourth prince. Before we enter the palace, she will definitely not let my sister suffer any more grievances."

Jiang Shiying was stopped, but her mood did not ease much.

Although they have been able to hear about Ouyang Xue in the past year, there are heavy soldiers guarding outside the mansion in the name of protecting them, so they cannot enter the palace to see Ouyang Xue.

Sometimes she was thinking, why don't you directly turn against the royal family! But now that the time is not up, they can only endure it.

In Guhuai Village far south of the Wu Dynasty, Jiang Zhiyue also received a letter from Ouyang Ming.

It was four days after Jiang Zhiyue received the reply.

When Jiang Zhiyue received the letter, she was still a little shocked.

She thought that even if Ouyang Ming replied, it would be through Li Wen's hands first.

But what Jiang Zhiyue didn't know was that what she received was the first letter, and Ouyang Ming's letter to Li Wen was still on the way.

In the letter, Ouyang Ming asked Jiang Zhiyue to do whatever she wanted, and to ask Li Wen directly if she needed someone.

The most important thing was the mine. Ouyang Ming said that he would send a few craftsmen to be at her beck and call.He also briefly talked about the situation in Beijing and China.

Even if Jiang Zhiyue was not in Beijing, she seemed to have seen the scene where Ouyang Ming was struggling.

Numerous natural disasters occurred in the Wu Dynasty last year, and the court did not send much food to relieve the victims.

The DPRK and China asked the Ministry of Households to allocate grain and grass funds to the border on the grounds that the border war was tight.

Because it was the ancestral family of the fourth prince who was fighting at the border, and now the emperor wanted to go west at any time, and the fourth prince was the most popular prince among the people, so the Ministry of Households did not dare not refuse to release food.

After being transferred by Concubine Rong and the Fourth Prince, all the food, grass and money ended up in their own pockets.

The national treasury is tight, and the people have no harvest. Now grain merchants in many places have started to drive up grain prices.

It's already May, and everyone is so busy that their feet don't touch the ground.

Except for Wulang Liulang and Ming Yixi, the rest of the Jiang family, Dalang to Shilang, have to take this year's college examination, and they are either in the school or in the study every day in the town.

But they didn't stop practicing martial arts and exercising their bodies.

A few days later, another letter that Ouyang Ming handed over to Li Wen and a few reliable craftsmen that Ouyang Jinhua found went to the camp in the mountains behind Guhuai Village.

Jiang Zhiyue also handed over the papermaking workshop to the Jiang family. She found a reason and went into the mountains, telling the Jiang family that the return date was uncertain.

In the letter Ouyang Ming handed to Li Wen, he explained the arrangements for the mine discovered by Jiang Zhiyue.

After Li Wen received the letter, he was busy, and the task of arranging mining was given to him.

Jiang Zhiyue plunged into the house to study higher-quality smelting techniques with the new craftsmen.

The few craftsmen who were arranged had originally heard that someone could forge iron better, and they also wanted to steal the teacher to learn the art.

It's just that when they saw that the master who came was a little girl, they were completely dumbfounded.

But they were soon overwhelmed by Jiang Zhiyue's ability.

The iron she extracted was actually much stronger than the iron extracted with previous techniques.Four months passed in a flash.

The temperature in the room was too high, Jiang Zhiyue wiped her sweat with her hands, the dust on her hands was stained with sweat, and a black mark appeared on her face the next moment.

A craftsman handed Jiang Zhiyue a glass of water, and said with a smile, "Miss Jiang, drink some water."

The craftsman is a middle-aged man in his forties, looking at Jiang Zhiyue with admiration in his eyes.

Not only him, but even the remaining few who were older than him admired Jiang Zhiyue.

When I first met Jiang Zhiyue, who would have believed that she was still a girl at such a young age, how could she have any real abilities.

But in the past four months, Jiang Zhiyue has brought them too many surprises, enough to make them change their attitude.

The most important thing is that Jiang Zhiyue has no secrets, and if she finds out something, she will tell everyone to study it together.

Although the steel has not yet been smelted, Jiang Zhiyue is satisfied with the ironware whose purity has been improved a lot.

Jiang Zhiyue took the cup and drank it down, then put the cup on the table.

"Thank you for your hard work."

Those craftsmen said with a smile: "Miss Jiang is too polite to say that. If you want to say hard work, you are the hardest. We old fellows also thank you for teaching us the real skills of eating without hiding your secrets."

Jiang Zhiyue walked out of the room and raised her hand to cover the sun, and asked Li Wen who came over, "How many months is it now?"

Li Wen smiled and said, "Miss Jiang, it's already the end of August."

end of august..
Didn't the eldest brother and the others have already participated in the courtyard test? Oops!
She had promised Saburo and the others that they would cheer for them when they took the exam, but she forgot about it.

"You can look at the arrangements for the rest of the matter. The mined ore can be used to make weapons, so I'll go first."

After saying this, Jiang Zhiyue hurriedly ran down the mountain before she even had time to change her clothes.

(End of this chapter)