Now Ji Qing understood more and more what was happening outside.

With all the movements just now, Li Erlang was probably fighting with others with his bare hands just now.

So Ji Qingyue's thoughts wandered to the question of whether to prepare some weapons in the painting after criticizing the finished manuscript. He was not good at fighting, but he could pass the knife! It's better than letting Li Erlang fight with his bare hands!

Li Erlang didn't know what Ji Qingyue was thinking. At this time, he was standing on the eaves of the fourth floor, on the fifth floor, looking at the direction in which the man in black was escaping.

The window next to her was suddenly pushed open. The female guard in the room had already heard the fighting outside. She waited until the noise subsided before opening the window and sticking her head out. Unexpectedly, she was staring at Li Erlang.

Li Erlang smiled awkwardly but politely. This female guard looked familiar. She was one of the female guards beside Miss Lu.

He ignored the other party's cold gaze and flatly made a request to meet Miss Lu: "Although now is not the time, please tell your lady that Li Jiaxiang has something to report."

Before the female guard could take her head back, Lu Lu, who was behind the window, agreed and agreed to let him pass.

Li Erlang nodded, turned around, climbed down from the eaves, and returned to his room in twos and twos.

At this time, the building became quiet again, and few people seemed to know that there was a fight outside the window facing the street. After some investigation, the guys neither found a fire point in the inn nor caught the guy who made the noise. The innkeeper and the waiters could only admit that they were unlucky and tried their best to calm the guests' emotions before falling back to sleep again.

Li Erlang opened the door, walked in the corridor where people came and went during the day, went around the stairs and went up, and soon came to the stairs leading to the fifth floor.

There were six male guards standing at the top of the stairs. They had received the order from the young lady to see the young farm boy, and they allowed Li Erlang to walk up without raising a hand to stop him.

The candlelight was rekindled in Lu Lu's room, and the window paper reflected a vaguely dancing light. Two female guards guarded the door. They opened the door for Li Erlang without any warning and made a "please" gesture, so Li Erlang could pass through. Unobstructed access to the room.

The first time he came in, he saw the imperial concubine's couch in front of the window. It was through this window that the female guard had poked her head to check. It was not far from where the man in black was standing before disappearing.

At this time, the cave was empty, and Lu Lu, who was lying on the cave just now, had already avoided it.

Li Erlang turned to look at the compartment. The compartment connected to the inner room not only placed a gorgeous wooden screen, but also lowered the bead curtain to prevent outsiders from directly seeing the situation inside.

Two female guards stood outside the compartment to prevent the visitor from going any further.

Li Erlang didn't want to stay long, so he clasped his fists to show respect, and then revealed all the truth behind the unusual movement in the inn. A man in black took advantage of the chaos and tried to climb up the window to attack, but he stopped him and climbed onto the roof to escape. "Although the silk thread is thin, two or three pieces folded into one are very tough. If you grab it hard with your bare hands, it will easily break the flesh. When I was fighting with the man in black just now, he had caught the silk thread with his bare hands. The thin thread will definitely leave traces in his hands. "

The female guard Hu Xiao asked carefully: "Which hand caught the thin line?"

Li Erlang thought for a while: "It's the left hand with a crossbow tied to it."

Hu Xiao pursed his lips: "Scars caused by thin lines can be easily covered, but if we are clever, we may not be able to see the marks with the naked eye."

Li Erlang had already thought of a way: "If you don't think my method is stupid, you can dip their hands in garlic juice."

"Pfft" laughter came from inside. Xu Dan and Lu Lu didn't expect such a method at all. Li Erlang would think of such a "damaging" method, but it sounded very interesting and very useful.

"Thank you."

Li Erlang waved his hand, told them to be careful, and then went downstairs to go to bed.

The night is too long, it's almost daybreak after so much work.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Li Erlang returned to the room, he was scolded by Ji Qingyue: "Who swore not long ago that you should be careful and pay attention to safety? If someone hadn't admitted it, I wouldn't have known what happened! Fighting against walls or high in the air? Forget about fighting, how dare you fight with bare hands! The opponent is still a guy with knives and arrows. You can ask me to get a wooden stick before taking action!!"

Li Erlang laughed a few times and found that Ji Qingyue was still so angry that he wanted to come out and lecture him face to face immediately, so he had to coax him with a coy face and admit his mistake obediently: "Yue Lang, I was wrong, I shouldn't be so reckless. But Yue Lang said this, but it reminded me that the dagger move that the man used just now was very good. If I hadn't been interrupted midway, I might not have been able to parry it in the end."

Ji Qingyue laughed angrily: "Then you still chased me out in a daze!"

"Yue Lang, don't blame me!" Li Erlang said in a rare soft tone, wagging his tail like a big dog: "I thought about the pros and cons of catching up, not as straightforward as Yue Lang said. Leng Leng. This is an inn, and there is a street outside. It is extremely easy to alert other people. I only need to ensure that the villain cannot be killed with one blow. He has many more worries than me. If I don't even have this assurance, what on earth will happen? You have the nerve to claim that you want to go to the military camp to serve as a soldier and make great achievements? Don’t you think so, Yue Lang?"

Ji Qing was more convinced and his tone softened: "As long as you are sure of yourself, you must protect yourself next time."

"Yeah! I remember!"

After putting this matter aside, Li Erlang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then heard Ji Qingyue ask about the gangster: "Can we find out that person tomorrow?" He really didn't want to feel the burning sensation like labor pain again. Yes, when he tortures others, he is also tortured. It would be best if this matter comes to an end as soon as possible.

Ji Qingyue was already looking forward to Lu Lu's smooth return to Chang'an. He didn't want to be frightened like this again.

"If the man in black last night is someone close to Miss Lu, he can probably be found out."

The watchman on patrol passed by on the street at night, banging his clapper five times to remind him that it was already the fifth watch: "Go to bed early and get up early, take care of yourself——"

It would be dawn soon. Ji Qingyue urged Li Erlang to rest quickly. The two of them were worried all night. It was almost dawn and they still couldn't close their eyes and fall asleep.

The dark night finally passed, and the beautiful morning glow appeared in the sky earlier than the sun. The number of people on the street gradually increased, but it did not wake up Li Erlang who was catching up on his sleep.

This was a rare and novel experience for Li Erlang to get up after the sun was shining brightly. Ji Qingyue got up earlier instead. After finishing the work in the field and feeding the lambs, he opened the chicken coop and let the poultry out to let them find a place to dig. Food.

Half a year later, the little fry has grown to one or two fingers long. It is a lively period and gets along well with the swimming ducks and geese.

Ji Qingyue had expanded the fish pond before, but if they continued to grow like this, the fish pond would be really overwhelmed and filled with fish after a year and a half.

The wood bought by Li Erlang yesterday has been delayed and has not been disposed of. The design has been revised, and now it is time to make the actual object.

Manual seed remover, also called manual cotton remover.

The main body of the doffing machine is the same as the main body of the noodle press. The gap between the rollers is adjusted well. The cotton lint can easily pass through the gap after being squeezed. If the cotton seeds are too hard, they will be stuck on one side of the gap and cannot pass through. , the right side is the transmission wheel connected to the pedal, and the rope is connected to the pedal to drive the roller to rotate.

Ji Qingyue cut the wooden strips of the cylinder into two sections, used cotton seeds to measure the width of the gap between the two roller sections, and fixed it on the bracket. Because there was no ready-made round shape, he could only use a wide wooden board to make a little Cut and polish to form a circle. Drill holes in the corresponding positions between the wooden boards that make up the circle. Embed a small wooden strip slightly larger than the hole in the hole. Put several wooden boards eye-to-eye into one piece. Round board, this "circular method" does not easily separate the wooden boards, saving wood.

Ji Qingyue learned these carpentry skills from Li Aweng.

A batch of newly harvested rice is drying in the yard, and nearly two thousand kilograms of three staple foods including wheat, rice and millet are piled in the granary. Not long ago, Ji Qingyue suddenly discovered the beans that he had forgotten. They were given to him by the sister-in-law of Erlang's family last year. There were sesame seeds mixed in the grain bags. He had forgotten to plant these. He only discovered them when he was cleaning the grain house. They lay pitifully in the corner.

Glutinous rice was used when making maltose last year, but unfortunately it was ground and shelled, and it was given to Li Erlang by someone else. There are no glutinous rice seeds that can be sown yet.

Glutinous rice is a type of rice. It is difficult to survive in the northwest. Most of them are shipped from the south. As a result, not only is the price of rice ridiculously high, but glutinous rice is even rarer. If you want to get the seeds, you have to ask the caravan going south. , asking them to bring them back from the south in order to get rice seeds.

Ji Qingyue was making cotton removers and planning to plant beans and sesame seeds in the yard when he heard Li Erlang wake up and mutter: "Why is it so noisy outside? It's almost noisier than the sheep in the backyard at home."

The room facing the street is like this. Whenever the market is open, it is very noisy.

Ji Qingyue sat by the stream and tinkered, "I seem to hear someone shouting Huihe or something. Is General Yang, whom Shiro has been longing for, coming?"

Li Erlang got up and went to open the window, only to see that during the morning meal, the stalls on the street downstairs and the nearby restaurants were already overcrowded. It seemed that all the people who did not go out often came out at this time.

It is rare to encounter a scene where the streets are empty.

He noticed that there were a lot of people carrying baskets on the road today. When people met each other, they wanted to see how many things were in each other's baskets.

At this distance, Li Erlang could easily see the contents of the basket. When he saw clearly, he couldn't help laughing. People were really ready to "welcome" the Uighur envoys entering the city.

"Yuelang, it seems that today is the day when the Uighurs will enter Shandan. If we don't go home to find Sanlang and the others, let's watch the envoys entering the city with them! The exact day when they entered the city was not known yesterday. I didn’t expect that today would be the day, but we decided to book this room by accident, so we didn’t have to wait in the street to see it!”

Ji Qingyue also wanted to see the grand scene of the county with his own eyes, but fortunately he could come out in the afternoon.

Ji Qingyue silently prayed for the envoy team to enter the city in the afternoon. Li Erlang smiled and explained: "Yesterday, I said that General Yang is still half a day's journey from Shandan. I decided to enter the city today. I think he will rest in the city. The half-day trip will be longer." The preparation time before going up to the city is that it will take the sun to fall at the earliest. I think Yue Lang will definitely be able to come out and see the grand occasion of their entry into the city."

Now that Li Erlang said this, Ji Qingyue felt relieved and continued to make the cotton remover with peace of mind.

They went downstairs to pay some rent, and then went back to the alley to pick up Li Sanlang and others.

It could be seen that Li Silang wanted to wait outside for the envoy to enter the city. He kept begging his brother to take him out. After his brother refused, he could only sit silently and sigh.

There were an unprecedented number of people on the street, and most of them were angry. Under the pushing and crowding, Li Sanlang was asked to take the two children out alone. It was easy for him to fail to take care of them and cause an accident.

Fortunately, Li Erlang came back. Before Li Sanlang could ask what happened last night, he heard him saying that he wanted to pick them up to see the Huihe envoy enter the city.

Li Silang was happy now, holding Li Yu's hand and laughing happily.

"Why did I see him squatting in the corner and crying secretly just now?" Li Erlang saw through it and said so, teasing his younger brother.

Li Sanlang also laughed at him: "I was just wiping my tears quietly. Ever since I woke up and heard people saying that I was going back to the city today, I had been begging me to take them out. How could I dare to take them out with such chaos outside? Just lost it.”

Li Erlang raised his fist: "Next time you make trouble like this, I'll spank you!"

Li Silang was a typical person who would behave well when he got a benefit. He was not afraid at all. He asked when and where the team was entering the city to watch the team entering the city.

"Go to the inn and see. You two go to the alley to buy some snacks and come back. When you come back, set off. If there are still few people, hurry to the inn and wait, otherwise it will be difficult to walk on the road if there are too many people!"

Li Silang happily took the money and went to the pastry shop next door with Li Yu to buy some simple and cheap pastries.

Li Erlang got up late and had not eaten breakfast yet. He saw rice porridge simmering on the stove in the yard. The rice was mixed with a little millet and cooked until it was soft and glutinous.

Ji Qingyue took out a bag of rice and half a bag of millet before, as well as hundreds of kilograms of millet brought by Uncle Li, and placed them in the room. He told Li Yu and Li Silang that if they cooked multigrain porridge when they got up early, no matter what kind of grains they put in, just make sure that the amount of rice was more than the amount of other grains.

Li Yu cooked this pot of porridge as soon as he got up in the morning, including portions for Li Erlang and Ji Qingyue, and kept it warm on the stove until they came back to eat.

During breakfast, Li Sanlang couldn't help but ask about what happened last night. But speaking of it, Li Erlang didn't know much about what happened last night, so he had to choose some relatively clear things to tell him.

Judging from the results, Miss Lu's life is probably not in danger.

The matter was over after we talked about it. Neither brother took it to heart. Instead, Li Erlang was more concerned about his younger brother's studies. "Is it time to go to Qingshi Academy after these things are over?"

Li Sanlang nodded, he also remembered about studying: "The mountain chief wrote a letter of recommendation to me. If I can successfully pass the teaching examination of Qingshi Academy, I should be able to study there."

"That's good." Li Erlang finished a bowl of porridge in two or three mouthfuls, and then filled up another bowl: "Don't be too nervous. Just relax and take the exam like you usually do when you study."

"Yeah, brother, I know."

After a while, the two children ran back with pastry paper bags. Li Silang excitedly urged his brothers to leave quickly: "Second brother, third brother, just now Yulang and I heard that the grandma next door was going to wait for the Huihe envoy with a bucket of night incense. Here you go! Should we also... uh uh uh!!" Before he could finish his words, Li Yu covered his mouth.

Didn’t you see that Brother Li is still drinking porridge?

After being slapped twice on the buttocks, Li Silang finally calmed down from his excitement, hugged his buttocks and followed his brothers out of the house.

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