Chapter 220: 135 Acting Cute (Second Update)
Lady Gu vented a significant amount of anger in the ancestral hall, so that everyone in the Marquis Residence knew that Gu Changqing had confined his two younger brothers in the ancestral hall.
However, the Marquis Gu had no idea about it. Recently, he had been tangled up with minor affairs in the Ministry of Works and hadn’t returned to the Marquis Residence in several days.
“Lord Gu, the Ministry of War is urging again.” one of the officials under the Marquis Gu said.
The Marquis Gu sat in his chair, looking at the piles of official documents on the desk, feeling overwhelmed: “Urging, always urging! Aren’t we already casting? It’s only been a few days?”
The official, suffering through no fault of his own, being rebuked from both sides, and feeling deeply aggrieved, said: “The Ministry of War says our pace is too slow, they can’t wait two months.”
Marquis Gu angrily replied, “Even if they can’t wait, they have to! The weapons they want are made of iron, not shaped from mud! Can it be so quick?”
The official nervously said, “The Ministry of War said they could only give you a month maximum, you must forge those long swords in time…”
“A month? They’re daydreaming!” Marquis Gu wasn’t refusing to make those swords for the Ministry of War, but their current technology was limited. If they had the latest water draining technology from the Liang Country, perhaps the amount of iron forging could greatly increase.
The official added: “But the Ministry of War said that even a civilian iron shop could make this amount of weapons, so why can’t our Ministry of Works?”
“The civilian iron shops can produce them?” Marquis Gu laughed mockingly, “Is the Ministry of War resorting to fabricating rumors for the sake of weapons?”
The official embarrassedly said: “Actually, Lord Gu, this humble official seems to have indeed heard of this. There is a box being produced by civilians, which is more efficient than our court’s water draining system, produces stronger wind and higher heat, and can smelt ten times more iron in a day.”
“Ten times?” Marquis Gu waved his hand, “No, no, no, that’s absolutely impossible.” Not even the Liang Country could do it; the water draining technology the Liang Country transferred to Zhan Country was in its early stage, but it wouldn’t lead to a ten-fold difference.
The official asked: “Should we… send someone to investigate first? I heard it’s happening in a place called Qingquan Town in Youzhou.”
Marquis Gu waved his hand: “Heh, that’s even more unlikely. I just came from Youzhou! If there was such an impressive technique, would I be unaware of it?”
Marquis Gu decisively chose not to investigate.
However, the Ministry of War couldn’t wait and directly sent someone over.
In early November, a light snow fell in the Capital City.
As soon as Xiao Jingkong stepped out of the door, he slipped and fell due to not looking at the road.
Since leaving the mountain, Xiao Jingkong seldom stumbled, and Gu Jiao almost forgot that he was widely known as the tumbling little monk.
However, his falling skills were as skilled as ever. Holding his head and bending his knees, he rolled around the courtyard like a small ball.
Gu Jiao had just come out of the kitchen.
Xiao Jingkong rolled to her feet, then sprawled himself on the ground, looking at Gu Jiao adorably.
Gu Jiao picked him up and brushed the snowflakes off his body: “You tripped again?”
Xiao Jingkong was lost in Gu Jiao’s embrace: “Because Jiaojiao is so beautiful, I was dazzled by her beauty!”
Had the tumbling little monk transformed into a cheesy line-spouting little monk?
Xiao Jingkong’s hair was short; to prevent him from catching a cold, Gu Jiao had bought him a tiger-head hat. With its large and round eyes, it made Xiao Jingkong look adorably menacing when worn.
He generally did not wear it in the Academy, as he thought it was childish.
But in front of Gu Jiao, he not only wore the tiger-head hat but also a tiger-head vest and tiger-head shoes.
After acting cute and receiving a kiss, Xiao Jingkong hopped back to his shared room with his brother-in-law.
After ending his business early in the morning, he reverted back to Nuerhachi·Jingkong and headed to school with a serious face!
After several days of rest, Gu Yan’s health was much better and he could go to school.
Gu Jiao prepared hand warmers for everyone. One for grandmother, and one each for Xiao Liulang and her three younger brothers.
Xiao Liulang took Xiao Jingkong to the Guozijian while Gu Jiao sent Gu Yan and Gu Xiaoshun to school.
Upon leaving the house, Gu Yan was looking around.
Gu Jiao asked: “Who are you looking for?”
“No one.” Gu Yan looked up at the sky.
Still denying it? He had been doing this every day, looking down the alley from the entrance of their house. As his sister, how could she not understand what was on his mind?
However, the person who had saved Gu Yan hadn’t shown up again since then.
After dropping the two off at the Academy, Gu Jiao went on a trip to Chang’an Avenue.
Having been here for so long, she was already very familiar with the surroundings.
She had decided that, although they still had a thousand tael of silver in hand, they couldn’t sit idly at home given the high cost of living in the capital city.