RPAGF Chapter 214 Firecrackers
Chapter 214 Firecrackers
Song Chunlin seemed to understand, but the chaos over there was also a good thing for this side. It was a good opportunity for them to take advantage of the internal strife on the other side to develop. Maybe in a few years, they would be able to fight back.
"Oh, let's not talk about this anymore. How is my family? Are my grandpa and his family doing well? Have my dad and uncle finished planting the land? Did my mom bring me any delicious food? And my brothers, do they miss me when I'm not at home?"
Song Chunlin's series of words were like a string of cannonballs, making Gu Fengyun's head buzz. He paused for a moment before he spoke slowly, "Everything is fine. The two old people are in good health and not sick. Your brothers are also...fine. As for whether they miss you or not, I don't know. Your mother and your grandfather did bring you some things and put them in your room...Speaking of rooms, Chunlin, why are you living with Xiaoer?"
Song Chunlin said as a matter of course: "If I don't live with him, then who should I live with?"
Gu Fengyun was silent. He turned around and glared at his silly brother. What a bastard! He took the girl to sleep in his own room when she was still young. Fortunately, we were in the border area and Song Chunlin dressed her up as a young master. Otherwise, if the Song family knew about it, they would have skinned the idiot alive.
Gu Fengyue touched his nose guiltily. Song Chunlin looked left and right, not understanding what the two brothers were talking about.
Just then the cooks came over and said that the whole roasted lamb was ready. Song Chunlin cheered and invited them to eat the whole roasted lamb.
Gu Fengyun walked leisurely behind, grabbed Gu Fengyue by the collar, and warned his brother fiercely: "Don't just bully him because he's young. Uncle Song will kill you later, do you believe it?"
Gu Fengyue begged for mercy from her brother: "Brother, I really didn't bully Chunlin. We were innocent for the whole night. Besides, am I worse than an animal in your eyes?"
Gu Fengyun snorted coldly: "You'd better not be, otherwise don't blame me for beating you first."
Gu Fengyue shook her body. Song Chunlin in front was already urging her. Gu Fengyun suppressed the ferocity on his face, turned around and put on a smiling face to greet him.
"Come quickly, I have sprinkled secret barbecue ingredients on these sheep, they are so delicious!" Song Chunlin led them to one of the big pits. The sheep inside had been roasted to a golden and fragrant taste, and the fat from the mutton dripped onto the charcoal fire, making a crackling sound.
Song Chunlin asked the people next to him to carry the sheep out and put it on the table that had been set up long ago. Song Chunlin didn't care about the heat, so he quickly took a large plate and used a knife to cut large chunks of mutton.
"Master Gu, try it. I guarantee you've never tasted this flavor before."
Gu Fengyun smelled it and found that it had a unique taste. People of that era had not yet discovered the uses of cumin, so this smell was also very novel to everyone.
Although it was novel, the taste was really delicious. Gu Fengyun tried taking a bite and found that it was indeed very fragrant. All the fat from the mutton had been roasted out, and there was no smell of mutton, and his mouth was full of the aroma of meat.
"Hmm, it's really delicious. There's a seasoning in it that I really can't taste."
Song Chunlin chuckled: "It's good that you can't taste it. This is my secret recipe."
General Qi came over to toast, and several people toasted each other. Even Gu Fengyue was forced to drink two glasses. Song Chunlin escaped because of his young age and just ate the lamb chops.
The meal lasted more than an hour, from dusk until the moon came out. If it weren't for the official business the next day, these men would probably drink until late at night. Fortunately, they didn't drink much. After returning to the government office, Song Chunlin couldn't wait to take out the various diagrams that he had found in the past few days. They were all modern improved cold weapons. He also had hot weapons, but the current production conditions did not allow the manufacture of hot weapons.
The two brothers of the Gu family listened to him talking about cold weapons and hot weapons. Their heads were still a little confused after just sobering up. Both of them said that they didn't quite understand what cold weapons and hot weapons were. Song Chunlin then started talking excitedly again and told them the difference between the two.
The Gu brothers seemed to understand what was said, but they were all extremely curious about the lethality of hot weapons.
Gu Fengyun: "Chunlin, is the bomb you mentioned really that powerful?"
Song Chunlin nodded frantically: "The lethality is great. A simple bomb can blow a person away. But this thing is too dangerous. I, a layman, dare not mix it blindly. But we can train some people who are interested in this aspect, starting with the smallest thing, firecrackers."
"I've only heard of firecrackers, what are firecrackers?"
Song Chunlin thought about it, and found a palm-sized firecracker from the space. The three of them went to the backyard together. In an open space, Song Chunlin lit the firecracker and threw it out. The crackling sound rang out, and the Gu brothers were all startled. The soldiers who were close to this side also ran over in a hurry, shouting as they ran:
"What happened? What's going on? Where's that noise?"
"Is the barbarian here again?"
Gu Fengyue hurriedly explained to everyone: "It's nothing, we are... playing with firecrackers."
"...playing with firecrackers at this time?"
“Where is the bamboo?”
Everyone looked at the ground at the same time. Apart from a few scattered red scraps of paper and a faint smell of sulfur in the air, there was no trace of bamboo.
Gu Fengyun snorted coldly and sent the man away casually. After everyone else left, he asked Song Chunlin for several strings of firecrackers. They were only as big as a palm and went off after a few bangs.
After seeing Gu Fengyun off, Song Chunlin anxiously took Gu Fengyue back to his room.
"I heard my parents brought me some local specialties. Where are they?"
As soon as Song Chunlin entered the room, he looked around and soon found the huge bamboo basket next to it.
"Wow, so many things, why are they all chili sauce and vermicelli?" Song Chunlin did not give up and shook out everything in the bamboo basket. Finally, he found a few small sets of clothes at the bottom. The clothes were tightly wrapped in a bag. When he opened it, he realized that they were all underwear.
Gu Fengyue blushed and turned around, reminding Song Chunlin to put it away quickly.
Modern people didn't notice anything wrong, he even unfolded them one by one and compared them, and finally said happily: "This one looks like it was made by my grandfather and my mother, it fits me perfectly, hehe."
Gu Fengyun's original date for his diplomatic mission to the Turks was ten days later. The weather was hot now, and the bodies of the Turks would stink if left there any longer. As they were in a hurry, Gu Fengyun could not bring many people with him, and Song Chunlin must be brought along. Gu Fengyue insisted on going with him, and Gu Fengyun felt his eyes hurt seeing his brother following Song Chunlin like a follower.
Five days later, Gu Fengyun's followers and subordinates hurried over. The team rested for a few days and set out at dawn on the ninth day.
This time, Song Chunlin took the main road, which was slower than crossing the Moon Mountain directly. Not to mention that there were several huge coffins following the convoy, which contained the corpses of those Turkic nobles. Although they were not so cruel as to chop off their heads, it was still quite crowded to pile three corpses in one coffin.
Because the two countries had negotiated in advance, Gu Fengyun was at most a porter. The group abandoned the carriage and all rode forward on horseback. Song Chunlin rode the horse he had robbed from the Tatars.
The horse under his crotch was reddish-brown all over, with shiny fur, a muscular body, fat and strong, and it was particularly obedient to Song Chunlin.
Of course Song Chunlin knew that this was the credit of the spiritual spring water, but this did not stop him from showing off. Facing the admiring and envious gazes of everyone, Song Chunlin just rode the horse out.
However, no matter how good the horse was, after riding it for a whole day, Song Chunlin felt his thighs were sore. He got off the horse with a grin. Gu Fengyue suppressed a smile and asked, "Do you want to take the carriage again?"
Song Chunlin gritted his teeth and said, "No!"
He just couldn't believe that he, a person with special abilities, couldn't tame a mere horse?
Dinner was a simple meal of dry food and hot milk tea. The milk tea was made from the milk tea powder contributed by Song Chunlin. It was commercial milk tea powder. Boiled water was poured in and stirred. It had a strong milky flavor and was not inferior to the milk tea sold in other milk tea shops.
Song Chunlin held a bowl and drank milk tea and ate dried meat. The dried meat was brought by him. The others ate compressed biscuits, which were also brought by Song Chunlin. He removed the outer packaging and wrapped it in oil paper. Who would have known that this was a modern product?
Although they were puzzled about there being only a small piece of biscuit for dinner, the others did not object. They just ate whatever the master gave them.
"This pancake tastes delicious, but the portion is a bit small. One pancake per person, I was hungry before midnight."
Another person disagreed: "Look at how solid this pancake is, like a brick. Maybe it's more filling."
Of course, no one believed this, but after taking a sip of milk tea and a bite of compressed biscuits, I actually felt full in my stomach, which surprised everyone.
Gu Fengyun was also eating compressed biscuits, which tasted delicious to him. After he finished, he wanted to take more, but was stopped by Gu Fengyue.
"Brother, stop eating. You've already eaten one piece. Chunlin said this thing will swell when it comes into contact with water. You've already drunk two bowls of milk tea. Your stomach will be full soon."
Gu Fengyun didn't quite believe it: "Is it really that magical?"
Gu Fengyue: "Why don't you wait and see, here, have some jerky."
Gu Fengyun took the dried meat and said, "Okay, it's good to have dried meat."
The night on the grassland was a bit boring, so Song Chunlin simply closed his eyes and entered the space. Gu Fengyue thought he was asleep and adjusted his position to make him more comfortable.
In the space, Dabao was picking grapes with his butt twisting back and forth. There was a bumper harvest of grapes in the space. Song Chunlin planned to get some grape branches and try grafting. He remembered that the Ningxia dry red wine was quite famous in his previous life. This place was close to Qinghai, so it should not be far away. Moreover, he had observed that the long days and short nights here were also suitable for growing grapes. Not only grapes, but also Hami melons. Long sunshine means high sugar content, and the fruits grown here must be delicious.
"Master, why don't you first grow the cuttings into seedlings in the space before taking them out?" Dabao didn't quite understand. Isn't the success rate of seedlings higher than that of branches?
Song Chunlin: “…”
Yes, why doesn’t he just cultivate the seedlings and then transplant them directly into the ground!
Song Chunlin got to work right away. He grabbed Dabao and started to tidy up the space.
The land in the space that can be used for planting is full of things, not only various vegetables, but also various fruits and vegetables. Song Chunlin looked around and found that there were too many peanuts. He simply pulled the peanuts with Dabao and threw them at the foot of the mountain. They could thresh them after the mud on them dried up.
After pulling out the peanuts and loosening the soil with a machine, Song Chunlin took Dabao to the grape field to pull up the grape branches.
He snapped all kinds of grapes and cut off a hill of grape branches. Fortunately, there was plenty of spiritual energy in the space, and the grape branches that Song Chunlin inserted into the ground sprouted smoothly. But that was not enough, so Song Chunlin watered them with spiritual spring water, and the grape buds instantly grew into grape seedlings.
The grape seedlings had grown to half a meter high when they were ruthlessly pulled up by Song Chunlin and placed in the storage area, waiting for him to return from the Turkestan so that they could be planted directly in the fields.
After a busy night in the space, Song Chunlin wiped the sweat from his forehead, looked at the seedlings he had planted with satisfaction, and left the space with a smile on his face.
The team outside had already stood up. Song Chunlin drank a bowl of porridge handed to him by Gu Fengyue and ate a piece of naan, a local specialty.
"It's a little hard." Song Chunlin whispered.
Gu Fengyue leaned close to his ear and said, "The food here is all like this. It gets hard after being left for a long time. If you can't get used to it, find something softer for yourself."
Song Chunlin nodded, blinked his eyes, and waved to Gu Fengyue to open his mouth. Gu Fengyue did not suspect anything, and the next moment a round fruit was stuffed into his mouth. He held the grape in his mouth, bit it lightly with his teeth, and his mouth was filled with the sweet aroma of the grape.
Song Chunlin's eyebrows curved: "Is it sweet?"
Gu Fengyue narrowed her eyes slightly and said with a smile: "Yeah, sweet."
Gu Fengyun, who was forced to watch the whole process nearby, fell into deep thought. It seemed that his younger brother really didn't need him to teach him. Wasn't he quite good at coaxing people?
After finishing breakfast, the group continued on their journey. The Turkic Royal City was farther away than the Tatar Royal City. The last time Song Chunlin went to the Tatar Royal City, he was alone. He had a small electric scooter and a mountain motorcycle to ride, which were much more comfortable than riding horses. Now he could only ride horses with everyone obediently. He was dragging several large coffins behind him, so he couldn't go faster even if he wanted to.
After walking for three days, Song Chunlin's inner thighs were rubbed with blisters. He secretly rubbed spiritual spring water on them in the middle of the night while everyone was sleeping. Although the skin healed in the morning, the new skin was still painful from the rubbing the next day.
Once, Gu Fengyue caught him applying medicine in the middle of the night. The next day, she refused to let him ride the horse by himself and instead held him in her arms, lying sideways in front of her.
Song Chunlin was a little embarrassed at first and struggled to get off the ground, but Gu Fengyue slapped him in the face. He whispered to him, "Just walk for a while, and then go cycling by yourself after lunch, can't you?"
When Song Chunlin heard the gentle words, his face felt a little hot for a moment, but in the end he simply lowered his head and actually agreed.
After getting his approval, Gu Fengyue raised the whip, trying to walk faster in the morning so that everyone could rest earlier in the evening.