Chapter 1026
: The Imperial House Construction Team Arrives [5]
Chapter 1026: The Imperial House Construction Team Arrives [5]
Qin Xiaomi was born into a family of military generals in her previous life and knew very well the necessity of winning battles.
So, even though she kept Yunfu's warning in mind and was well aware of the dangers of the emergence of firearms, she was about to die. Shouldn't she use a weapon?
So it’s better for people from Dongmo not to come and let her live a peaceful life making money.
Otherwise, once she was trapped, she would definitely use firearms to clear a path, escort her family, and escape to Taizhou Mansion.
What if I can't escape?
Then she would definitely use firearms and poison to kill the enemy and drag more people down with her and her family.
That’s right, she has had this kind of hot temper in all three of her lives.
If she is unhappy, she will kill whoever she wants.
Zhu Yiqing, who was in the room, saw that she was reading a letter with murderous intent and felt a little worried... The boss had been behaving abnormally more frequently recently.
I have to find an opportunity tomorrow and let Xiao Baiying take the boss's pulse and prescribe some medicine for him to reduce his liver fire, so that he won't lose control and chop the table or door frame.
"Yiqing, why are you looking at me?" Qin Xiaomi noticed Zhu Yiqing's complicated gaze and asked in confusion.
"Master, please forgive me. I saw you gritting your teeth while reading the letter. I was worried that you were unwell, so I wanted Xiao Baiying to take your pulse." Zhu Yiqing told the truth.
In the Dong family's place, concealing something is equivalent to betraying the master.
So as long as the boss asks, they will tell the truth.
Ha, Qin Xiaomi smiled, looking relieved, and said, "I'm fine, I just want to kill all the people in Dongmo. Who told them to eat well and have nothing to do but come to disturb my life of making money."
The pretty girl started talking about slaughtering an entire country... I was even more worried!
Zhu Yiqing sincerely suggested: "Master, wait for Mr. Xun to come back and let him take a good look at you. I beg you."
"Why are you so worried?" Qin Xiaomi laughed. "Okay, okay, I'll ask Aunt Chen to take a look at it for me some other day."
Zhu Yiqing: "No, we can't let Nanny Chen take the master's pulse... She is from the Guan family, it's safer to use one of our own to take the pulse."
Qin Xiaomi's mouth twitched: "Are you really worried that I'm sick? Don't worry, I'm not sick, I can live for another hundred years. Okay, I'm sleepy, let's go to sleep."
"Yes." Zhu Yiqing had no choice but to let it go and wait for Qin Xiaomi to rest.
The next morning, Qin Xiaomi got up in high spirits, but Zhu Yiqing was even more worried. Qin Xiaomi found out after asking.
She had a dream last night and shouted: Kill, kill all the enemies, there will be a huge reward, remember to finish them off, don't be killed by the enemies pretending to be dead!
She was so murderous that Zhu Yiqing wanted to chant some sutra for her.
After hearing this, Qin Xiaomi finally took it seriously, took her own pulse, wrote a prescription to relieve dryness and calm the mind, and handed it to Zhu Yiqing: "Go to the herbal medicine shop to get the medicine, brew it and give it to me to drink."
It’s okay to have a strong desire to kill, but talking in your sleep is a huge disadvantage and must be treated!
"Yes." Zhu Yiqing breathed a sigh of relief. As long as the young boss was willing to take medicine to treat his illness, that was good.
"Don't tell my grandparents, otherwise they will become sentimental again." After Qin Xiaomi finished giving the instructions, she opened the door and walked out of the room. After finishing her breakfast, she went to the medicinal materials workshop with her family to work.
Nowadays, the medicinal material workshops are extremely busy. They have to prepare medicinal materials, make new anthelmintics, wound medicines, quick-reducing fever medicines, cold medicines, cough medicines, and diarrhea medicines; and they also have to purchase medicinal materials.
After paying the grain tax this autumn, the herbal medicine shop began to purchase medicinal herbs.
Because Taifeng Town has become famous, there are a lot of people coming to sell medicinal herbs this year. Even people from Tianmang Prefecture are carrying medicinal herbs to sell.
Everyone felt that something was wrong when they came so far to sell medicinal herbs. As soon as the group arrived, they were captured by Captain Zhong's troops.
But after the interrogation, they were released. This was because they were all old military households, and because of Grandpa Qin's meritorious service and official appointment, they knew that the Qin family owned a medicinal herb shop, so they came to collect herbs to sell.
In fact, it sounds like two prefectures, but the county where the old military household is located is close to Baofu County, and it can be reached in less than half a month by car.
So more than fifty old military households discussed and decided to bring medicinal herbs to sell together.
The smallest amount sold was two or three taels of silver.
The more there are, the more amazing it is. There was an old military household who hid a wild ginseng that was fifty years old. It was bought by Manager Xue, and it immediately made enough money to feed three generations of his descendants. The old military household was so happy that he burst into tears.
However, fearing that the old military households would be robbed, the transaction was conducted in secret.
Therefore, among these old military households, the one that made the most money was not the wild mountain ginseng household, but the family that sold honey and beehives, which earned thirty-six taels and two mace of silver.
Many people from various counties who came to sell medicinal herbs wanted to find out who was selling honey and ask for instructions on how to extract honey from the honeycomb.
Fortunately, Captain Zhong promptly ordered his soldiers to beat gongs and shout a warning: "These are the old soldiers from Tianmang Prefecture who are guarding the border. The younger generation of their families are still serving in the army. Anyone who dares to bother the old soldiers will be beaten with a stick!"
As soon as these words were spoken, all the people who wanted to surround the old soldier and ask for advice on how to get the honeycomb dispersed.
Captain Zhong was very kind to the old military households. He not only drove away the people who were bothering them, but also acted as their guarantor and took them to stay in the Xue family's warehouse.
Have been staying here for two days.
Early this morning, when Qin Xiaomi, Qin Ershen, Qin Mei, Qin Ertao and others were taking a car to the medicine shop to work, they met Captain Zhong who was seeing off the old military households on their journey home.
Grandpa Qin was driving, and when he met them, he stopped to say farewell to the old military households: "Wait a minute, old brothers, here are some hard-boiled eggs specially cooked for you, two for each of you, to eat on the way."
Xu Zhengmao took two baskets of cooked eggs off the front deck of the car.
"Oh, so many eggs! You're really wasting your money, Mr. Qin. Your herbal medicine shop is already doing us a favor by accepting our herbs. How can we ask for your eggs for free?"
"Take it back, old captain, and use it as a side dish for the workers... Your family has nearly a thousand workers to support, and it's not well off. Please don't waste money on us."
They were scared just thinking about how much money it would cost to employ so many workers and collect so many medicinal herbs in a day.
Grandpa Qin smiled and said, "The workers have food to eat, my old brothers, don't worry. This is a little something from me to you old brothers, a New Year's gift, please accept it."
Zhong Baihu also advised them, "Let's accept it, so that Qin Laoqianhu can get to work at the herbal medicine shop sooner."
"Yes, yes, yes. Captain Qin's family still has to go to the herbal medicine workshop to work. We can't delay the Qin family." The old military households finally accepted the cooked eggs, thanked Grandpa Qin, and said goodbye to Captain Zhong: "County Lieutenant Zhong, thank you for your care. We will go home. When we get home, we will send a letter to the captain in charge of us and ask him to inform you that we have arrived home and have not wandered off."
Military households faced difficulties traveling, so they needed proof for each trip; upon returning, they had to report their whereabouts, and if their whereabouts didn't match, they would be punished with military flogging.
Captain Zhong is now the county lieutenant of Baofu County and will be stationed in Baofu County in the future.
But he didn't hold any banquets, and he didn't even live in the county magistrate's office in the county seat. He ran around the military headquarters, the township military hall, and Taifeng Town, and didn't live like an official.
But everyone liked him very much and was very fortunate, saying: With Captain Zhong as our county lieutenant, we will definitely be able to exploit less.
But he started to worry about the new county magistrate.
After Feng Xiancheng died, the position of county magistrate remained vacant. Everyone was afraid that a bad county magistrate would come and all the towns and villages in the county would have to pay tribute to him.
"Well, you guys go back." Captain Zhong was kind-hearted but cold.