"I'm going to take Tongtong with me this time!" Before leaving, Fu Tingye suddenly told her his decision.
"Take Tongtong with you?" Hua Qingxue was a little worried.
"Well, don't worry! It'll be okay!" Fu Tingye comforted her. He would never let Hua Qingxue be alone if he didn't have to.
"Yes! I will speed up the production of the new type of thunder!" Hua Qingxue felt a little uneasy.
"Pay attention to your own rest and don't use your brain all the time. I'm not here. If you need anything, remember to see the emperor!" Fu Tingye warned her again and again.
Hua Qingxue watched Fu Tingye get on the horse, feeling a little reluctant: "I'll wait for you at home!" Hua Qingxue choked up as she spoke, and her eyes were a little moist. She was used to the man in front of her staying by her side, and now that she was leaving, My heart felt like I had knocked over a five-flavor bottle.
Fu Tingye paused, his resolute face submerged in the dark night, and the emotions on his face could not be seen.
"Madam, go back. It's very cold in the night. The general has us, so don't worry!" Qin Laowu glanced at Hua Qingxue and said some words of comfort.
"Let's go!" Fu Tingye shouted and clamped the horse's belly.
"shelf!"
The fast horse galloped, and a cloud of dust rose up in front of my eyes.
Hua Qingxue stood there motionless until she watched Fu Tingye's riding figure disappear into the night.
After an unknown amount of time, she turned around and wanted to walk back into the house, but her legs were already numb from standing! His little face was also red from the cold.
"Madam, why are you here?" Huan'er looked at Hua Qingxue, who was leaning against the door, with some doubts in her eyes, but she still went over to support her body.
"My legs are a little numb!" Hua Qingxue held Huan'er's arm and walked a little unsteadily.
"Look how cold Madam's hands are!" Huan'er helped her walk toward the house step by step.
Back in the house, Hua Qingxue quickly got into bed and wrapped herself in the quilt! Huan'er poured her a few cups of hot water, drank it, and then went back to the house to continue sleeping.
Hua Qingxue tossed and turned but couldn't fall asleep. The side of the bed was empty, without the comforting embrace before. At this moment, she actually missed the feeling of Fu Tingye hugging her to sleep! Only then did she realize that she had regarded Fu Tingye as an indispensable part of her life.
Hua Qingxue's eyes turned red, and she secretly cursed herself for becoming so pretentious.
Early the next morning, Hua Qingxue appeared in everyone's sight with heavy panda eyes!
"Master, you..." Shaowen was a little surprised when he saw Hua Qingxue's dark circles under his eyes.
Hua Qingxue lay on the table listlessly, not even having the appetite for breakfast.
Seeing her like this, Liang Wensheng quickly grabbed Lu Zhengqing and showed her to Hua Qingxue.
"You guys should go back first. Madam is fine, she just hasn't had a good rest. I'll ask someone to bring something to soothe the nerves later!" Lu Zhengqing came in and saw Hua Qingxue like this. He was stunned for a few seconds and realized something was wrong, so he Send those two away.
"Don't stay here with me, I'm fine." Hua Qingxue was a little tired. She didn't sleep all night, and she felt a little weak.
Liang Wensheng and Su Shaowen wisely ran to the laboratory to continue developing Zhentian Lei.
"What's wrong with you? Are you worried?" Seeing the two of them leaving, Lu Zhengqing sat down and asked Hua Qingxue.
"Fu Tingye has gone to collect water!" Hua Qingxue's voice was so muffled that it made people feel a little distressed.
"When?" Lu Zhengqing was a little surprised.
"It should be far out of the city." Hua Qingxue rubbed her temples tiredly. The feeling of insomnia was so uncomfortable!
"Don't think about it, it will be fine. I will bring you a bowl of sleeping tea later! Just have a good rest in your room today!" Lu Zhengqing comforted her and left.
"Hua Qingxue!" As soon as Lu Zhengqing left, Li Jingnan came.
"Why are you here?" Hua Qingxue looked at him with heavy dark circles under her eyes.
"Can't I look at you anymore?" Li Jingnan looked at her with raised eyebrows and snorted coldly, "Hua Qingxue, what did you do last night? Are the dark circles under your eyes so heavy?"
Li Jingnan looked at her dark circles under her eyes, frowning, and asked him with concern.
"It's okay, I just have insomnia." Hua Qingxue smiled tiredly.
Li Jingnan probably guessed something when he saw that Fu Tingye was not around. He looked at Hua Qingxue with some confusion, with a little struggle in his eyes.
"Then you have a good rest, I'll go back first!" Li Jingnan warned her.
Hua Qingxue looked at Li Jingnan funny, "Okay, okay, I'm fine!"
Li Jingnan snorted coldly, with an arrogant look on his face, "I'm going to leave now. I'll come back to you another day."
"Well, go back quickly!" Hua Qingxue raised her hand and touched his head with a smile on her face.
After the little emperor left, Hua Qingxue drank the soothing tea brought by Lu Zhengqing and then lay back on her bed and fell asleep.
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Fu Tingye returned to Panshui and found that many soldiers' morale was a little turbulent after they heard that the Liao Dynasty had bought Da Qi's Zhentian Lei.
"What are you doing?" Fu Tingye's face was cold, with a trace of anger in his eyes.
"General, if Zhentian Lei is sold to the Liao Kingdom, wouldn't we be like ants?" A soldier said what everyone was thinking.
"Then you don't believe me or you don't believe Mrs. Si Bing?" Fu Tingye glanced at the somewhat loose soldiers with his sharp eyes.
With just one sentence, everyone stood upright, not daring to say another word, and the frustration on their faces was instantly wiped away!
Fu Tingye's words were like a reassurance, making all the soldiers' hearts sink. It was time for drills and patrols, and everyone returned to their posts to perform their duties.
Fu Tingye looked at the map in front of him in the tent with a solemn expression.
"General, according to the soldiers patrolling ahead, the Liao army has been a little restless recently." Qin Laowu said to Fu Tingye from the side.
"It seems that the day when the two countries go to war is not far away!" Fu Tingye sighed.
"Madam's place..." Qin Laowu paused and did not continue.
"It will be delivered before the war begins!" Fu Tingye said with an unquestionable tone.
Master Hua Qingxue and his apprentice worked day and night to make the Thunderbolt. However, when they were making the Thunderbolt, they thought of the barrel, which was a bit heavy when it rolled down from the front. Then they thought of Xiao Han picking up the hot air balloon...
Hua Qingxue and the iron-making master were building the cannon barrel. The preliminary model had been decided, but the cannon barrel had to match the Sky-shaking Thunder in order to maximize its power.
"Madam, what do you think of this?" The master's superb skills made Hua Qingxue's worried brows relax a lot.
"That's it. There should be at least thirty barrels!" Hua Qingxue told the iron smelting master, "We must reduce the resistance to the minimum and increase the friction of the bottom plate."
"Okay madam, I understand!" The iron smelting master's eyes lit up after hearing this. All the difficulties can be easily solved by Si Bing's wife.
"Master, master! Zhentianlei's output is slowly increasing." Liang Wensheng happily ran over and reported to Hua Qingxue.
"Don't be too eager for success. There should be no mistakes in the middle. You must work rigorously!" Hua Qingxue looked solemn. The last explosion had caused a lot of trouble. This time, we can't be careless.
"I know Master, I will also supervise my junior brother so that there won't be any mistakes again." Liang Wensheng also knew what she was worried about, so he took away the smile on his face, Zhentian Lei is not a joke!
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In the palace, the little emperor was reviewing the memorial in the imperial study, but he was a little absent-minded, with a hint of confusion in his cloudy eyes.
"Bang!" The teacup accidentally knocked down when he was lost in thought, which suddenly brought him back to his senses.
"Is it okay, Your Majesty?" The eunuch kneeling beside him asked Li Jingnan.
"What are you doing there, Silly Pestle? Why don't you ask someone to come in and clean it up!" Li Jingnan was in a bad mood, with a hint of impatience in his tone.
"Yes, yes, this slave is going to be cleaned up now!" The eunuch was so frightened by Li Jingnan's roar that he couldn't care less and called the maid who specially cleaned the imperial study room to clean up the broken cup bit by bit. .
"Go and help me call Chen Yuan, the general manager of the Royal Forest Army!" Li Jingnan sat on a chair and ordered the eunuch next to him.
"My slave obeys the order." The eunuch bowed and went out.
Chen Yuan happened to be playing with Aster on the rockery in the back garden.
"Can you, a woman like you, be more gentle? Every time you see me, you act as if you want to murder your husband!" Chen Yuan looked at her with some dissatisfaction, with a look of carelessness on his face.
"What nonsense are you talking about? This is the palace, can you be more careful when you speak?" Zi Yuan gestured and slapped her, and her beautiful eyes shot a cold gaze.
"Look, look! This is not the murder of my husband, what is this?" Chen Yuan hid, avoiding her slap that was about to touch him, and said with his tongue.
"You're still talking nonsense, let's see if I don't tear your mouth apart!" Zi Wan said and rushed over, the anger in her eyes rising out.
When Chen Yuan saw something was wrong, he quickly ran away. While escaping, he did not forget to smile and wave to Zi Yuan and said, "I have something else to do, so I'll leave first!"
Zi Yuan was so angry at the back that she stared at his back fiercely, wishing that there was a hole in his face.
"Aunt Zi Wan, the Queen Mother is looking for you!" A little palace maid panted and ran over to look for Zi Wan.
Zi Wan withdrew her gaze and turned around to catch a glimpse of a little palace maid.
"Aunt Ziyuan, why did I see a figure just now?" The little palace maid said and asked in the direction where Chen Yuan disappeared just now.
"Listen less, look less, talk less! Do more!" Zi Wan glanced over, and the little palace maid was so frightened that she immediately shut up and looked away, and followed Zi Wan cautiously, for fear that she would accidentally lose her head.
"Why are Master Chen here?" The eunuch searched for a long time before finding Chen Yuan. He took a breath and looked at him with some dissatisfaction in his eyes.
"What do you want from me, father-in-law?" Ignoring the dissatisfaction in the eunuch's eyes, Chen Yuan looked at him with raised eyebrows and lowered his head.
"The emperor is looking for you." The eunuch glanced at Chen Yuan with a hint of unpleasant arrogance, but Chen Yuan smiled nonchalantly.