Chapter 21: Youthful spirit, bold and decisive

He Zhaojun wiped her mouth and said, "Then you should ask Cheng Shaogong. I don't know how to tell fortunes."

Ling Buyi took out his knife with a clang and threw it on the table. He Yong and his five brothers overturned the table when they saw this scene. Each of them held a weapon to protect He Zhaojun.

"General Ling, are you really going to fight here? Are you going to bully my He family and talk me down?"

He Zhaojun, holding the bowl of porridge that had escaped the disaster, was furious. "If you have anything to say, talk it over nicely. Don't overturn the table. This amount of food is enough for an ordinary family to eat for a day, and you're wasting it like this... He Zhong, take it and feed it to He Wangcai."

After waiting for the six iron towers, they moved to the side hall to continue eating. Only Ling Buyi and He Zhaojun were left in the room. Ling Buyi bent down and saluted He Zhaojun.

"Please enlighten me, young lady. Si Niang...she..." Ling Buyi kept talking to her for a long time but couldn't make out what was going on. She was like a gourd with a sawed mouth - she couldn't explain it.

He Zhaojun quickly signaled everyone to serve breakfast again: "Come on, come on, come on, when the Lou Mansion invites Mr. and Mrs. Cheng to discuss the cancellation of the engagement, I'll be waiting at the door. If Shao Shang is bullied, I'll definitely help."

"But you can rest assured. Aunt Xiao can fight a group of people alone. Not to mention, Si Niang is not the type to be bullied."

Ling Buyi received a positive response, and gradually revealed his true colors: "I heard that the young lady wants to open a restaurant specializing in Jiaodong cuisine?"

He Zhaojun shook her head. "Yes, and no. This is just the beginning. If I told you that within the next ten years, I could build a cargo ship capable of sailing to Jiaodong, bringing all of Jiaodong's fresh fish and seafood to the capital, bringing prosperity to the people of Jiaodong, would you believe me?"

"By then, business in Jiaodong will be smooth and travel will be convenient. When the monsoon comes, the wind will blow the sails, and traveling between the two places will be much faster by ship than by horse-drawn carriage." At this time, the lower reaches of the Yellow River below Mengjin had not yet had serious siltation. The terrain on both sides of the river was flat and the river channel was wide, so it might be worth a try.

Most importantly, after the crown prince was deposed, he was exiled to Jiaodong. The queen was unable to see her son for years, feeling depressed and ultimately died young. She was not sure she could reverse fate, but she also wanted to do something for this heir to the throne.

Ling Buyi frowned: "This is not easy."

Of course I know it's not easy, but since Niao Niao is here and I have this human-shaped plug-in, not everything is impossible.

He Zhaojun patted his shoulder and said, "General Ling, Si Niang has always been willing to study these mechanisms, and I have some ideas I want to tell her. At noon on the day of the full moon[9], if you want to come, I will arrange for the servants to squat on the courtyard wall. You can take a look quietly and relieve your longing."

Maybe she saw it wrong, but she felt that Ling Buyi was blushing.

——

On the day when the Lou and Cheng families broke off their engagement, He Zhaojun was sitting in a carriage and saw Cheng's mother and daughter rushing into the Lou family angrily and rushing out angrily, but she was unable to help at all.

On the morning of the second day, Shaoshang arrived at the He family residence as scheduled. He Zhaojun thought that Lou Yao would cause a rift between them, but unexpectedly, Shaoshang did not think otherwise and was firm in his decision not to cancel the engagement.

"...Stop talking so much. I went to the military camp a while ago and felt that the chariots and siege equipment were too outdated and cumbersome. The casualties among the soldiers were heavy. I couldn't bear to see good men die at the hands of the enemy. Would you be willing to work with me to improve the chariots?"

He Zhaojun sat at the desk without any concealment and handed the drawn drawings to Shao Shang.

She was stunned: "What?"