【Khan Chapter 3】Eldest sister-in-law is like a mother

Chu Jiao's glare was not intimidating, but Huluoyan still stopped.

He regretted it after he stopped.

He was the most ruthless grassland king in Mobei! Who wouldn't be terrified and throw away their armor when they met him! How could he be frightened by a yellow-haired girl! ?

Huluoyan raised the water bottle and didn't intend to listen to Chu Jiao.

Not to mention that this little princess was not his wife yet, even if they really got married, he, Xianbei Khan Huluoyan, would never be a henpecked man who was ridden on by his wife!

"Big Beard," the woman's voice was right beside his ear, Huluoyan knew that she was calling him, "Do you know that we have a saying in the Central Plains..."

Huluoyan didn't say anything. But he pricked up his ears.

"It's called 'eldest sister-in-law is like a mother'," Chu Jiao said faintly, "You are the brother of my future husband, and I will not harm you. You have to be obedient."

Huluoyan spat out a mouthful of water.

Damn 'eldest sister-in-law is like a mother'! Damn 'obedience'!

The guards around Huluoyan who knew his true identity all stepped back two steps.

They were afraid that their Khan would act impulsively and break the neck of this princess who spoke without knowing the consequences.

However, their Khan did not break the princess' neck, but only crushed the lid of the water bag.

"What kind of water does the princess want to drink?" He gritted his teeth, "This wilderness is not like your Great Chu Palace."

"Don't be impatient, I will not force you." Chu Jiao was not angered by the man's ridicule, and said slowly, "This stream water is drinkable, but it needs to be processed first."

Chu Jiao turned around and told Hong Xiu to get some things. Although Hong Xiu didn't understand what the princess wanted those ordinary small items for, she didn't ask much and nodded.

After a while, Hong Xiu brought all the things over.

Chu Jiao sat on the mat, spread out the things, and then stretched out her hand in front of Hu Luoyan, "Bearded man, give me the water bag."

The tone was natural and intimate, as if the two had known each other for a long time.

Huluoyan also wanted to know what Chu Jiao was up to, so he ignored the strange feeling in his heart about her attitude and handed the water bag over.

The soldiers who were chewing dry food and resting around gradually gathered around, curious to see what this high-ranking princess wanted to do.

Most of these soldiers were Xianbei people who had lived on the grassland since childhood. Although they had long since gotten rid of the primitive life of eating raw meat and drinking blood, they only knew how to cook cattle and sheep and stir-fry wild vegetables. The products in Mobei were not abundant, so being able to fill their stomachs was enough for them.

As for water, of course, it was taken from nature, whether it was stream water or spring water, as long as it looked clean and drinkable, it was enough.

Chu Jiao couldn't explain bacteria and infections to the ancients, so she could only use a common sense that everyone knows to show them how dirty the stream water is

. That is a very simple physical filtration method.

In front of Chu Jiao were some daily necessities: a rice-white silk handkerchief, a handful of fine sand, a little charcoal, a pair of scissors, some gravel, and two exquisite glass cups.

Among these things, only the two glass cups were the most valuable, and everyone's eyes were fixed on them.

Chu Jiao first poured Hu Luoyan's water bag filled with water into a glass cup, and soon the water cup was filled with water.

She raised the cup. Unlike the clear stream water seen in the water bag, under the sunlight, all the impurities in the stream water in the transparent glass cup were exposed. Everyone could see that in the seemingly clear water, there were countless visible sand particles, waterweed debris, and floating flakes of unknown substances.

"What's the matter? We all drink this kind of water, and it's okay!"

Someone in the crowd disagreed, and most people agreed with him.

"This princess is so coquettish. She is so particular about drinking water, and she uses such a precious vessel!"

Someone began to whisper.

"What are you talking about?!" Hongxiu wanted to argue for her master, but was stopped by Chu Jiao.

"Princess, you are a rich woman, you shouldn't drink this stream water," Biluo looked at the suspicious looks of the people towards the princess, and felt that the depression from being scolded in the morning finally dissipated a little. She began to try to help her master out of trouble, but inadvertently aroused Chu Jiao's hatred, "I'll go find you if there is any Tianshan spring water brought out of the palace!"

"Did I say I wanted to drink Tianshan spring water?" Chu Jiao didn't care about the doubts around her, and warned the heroine again, "Biluo, shut up, I don't want to repeat what I said this morning for the second time."

This is the benefit of identity. It doesn't take much effort to govern the heroine.

Biluo lowered her eyes in grievance and stopped talking.

But what she was thinking was that she had already advised the princess, and if the princess made a fool of herself later, it would not be her fault.

Huluyan glanced at the master and the servant, and this time he did not speak up to help the maid out.

Although he was not sensitive to things happening in the inner house and the backyard, he was also the master, and the maid had indeed overstepped the line.

Thinking of how he had broken into the tent and taken the initiative to help in the morning, Huluyan rubbed his nose and thought that he might have misunderstood the little princess.

"Hongxiu, use gravel to grind these charcoals now." Chu Jiao stopped talking to Biluo and turned to instruct another maid.

Originally, activated carbon should have been used for filtering, but in this environment, she could only use the charcoal used by the cook to cook instead.

Fortunately, all other materials were complete.

Hongxiu quickly ground the charcoal into powder, and then, following Chu Jiao's unhurried instructions, she folded the clean handkerchief into four pieces and placed them on the mouth of Huluoyan's empty water bag.

After tightening the lid, Chu Jiao turned the water bag over and cut the bottom of the bag with scissors.

The guards beside Huluoyan gasped in pain.

That was a water bag made by the Khan from a water rhinoceros he had hunted himself, and there were only a few in the entire Mobei!

This princess! How could she cut it without any reason!

They took two steps back.

They were afraid that their Khan would impulsively pinch off the

princess's hands. However, their Khan did not pinch off the princess' hands. Instead, he held up the water bag, which was a bit heavy for the woman in front of him, and watched her sprinkle fine sand and charcoal into the water bag layer by layer.

"What are you going to do?"

Aren't you going to drink water? Why do you need fine sand and charcoal?

Huluyan had a guess in his mind, guessing that the princess wanted to make the water cleaner, but he felt that it was impossible to use the things in front of him.

"Do something useful for your march and war."

Chu Jiao answered this way, and Huluyan's heart moved, but everyone present looked down on it.

Chu Jiao pursed her lips, not paying attention to the eyes of the people around her, her delicate oval face was full of seriousness.

Huluoyan's eyes were originally on the water bag, but at some point, they moved to her face.

Thick eyelashes, a small nose, and eyes as black as obsidian filled with confidence made the already beautiful face even more attractive.

Chu Jiao did not pay attention to the man's gaze.

She asked Hongxiu to open her water bag that was full of stream water that she had not drunk yet, and suspended the simple water filter made of Huluoyan's water bag above another unused glass, twisted the lid of the filter, and then slowly poured the stream water into it from the opening at the bottom of the filter bag that was cut.

"What does the princess want to do? There's sand and charcoal everywhere. If you pour water into it, won't it just turn into muddy water?"

"Haha, maybe the princess is from a noble family and likes to drink muddy water?"

"Haha, haha!"

Everyone began to joke with each other in a low voice. They were not from the Central Plains and did not have much awe for the so-called princess.

Huluoyan frowned and turned around before he could warn them to be quiet. The laughter just now stopped.

Scanning the crowd with his eyes, Huluoyan saw the disbelief gradually rising in their eyes.

He turned around and saw that most of the stream water in Chu Jiao's water bag had been poured out. And the mouth of his water bag that was filled with sand and stones, the off-white silk silk had gradually become wet and began to ooze water.

Drops of water dripped into the transparent glass. Surprisingly, what seeped out was not the muddy water that everyone was sure of, but crystal clear without any impurities.

When all the water was filtered, Chu Jiao placed two glasses filled with water side by side.

One glass was water directly drawn from the stream, and the other was filtered water.

There is no harm without comparison. If the unfiltered glass is used as a comparison, the stream water can still be said to be clear, but compared with the glass of water filtered by Chu Jiao, the glass of water that Hu Luoyan was going to drink at first can be said to be turbid.

Hu Luoyan's face darkened.

What he was going to drink just now was such a dirty thing?

Why didn't he realize it before? !

Cough.

Fortunately, I didn't drink it.

After handing the filtered water to Yuchu to boil, Chu Jiao finally felt at ease holding the cup and sipping the water to moisten her dry throat.

The filter that Chu Jiao made casually now fell into Huluyan's hands. Several soldiers were surrounding him, doing experiments with shining eyes.

They deliberately added a lot of weeds and gravel to the water to make it turbid, and once again tested the filtering performance of this vessel. Seeing the clear water drops seeping out again, and the cloth that was originally clean but now filtered with impurities, several generals with some experience were overjoyed.

Seeing that some people understood her implication, Chu Jiao did not hide her secrets and further explained to them, "When you find a water source in the wild with floating foreign objects or turbid water, do not drink it directly. You can dig a pit about one person deep and wide three or four feet away from the water source, let the water seep out naturally from the gaps in the sand, stone and soil, and then gently take out the water that has seeped out without stirring up the mud and sand at the bottom of the pit, and you will be able to get relatively clean water."

Including Huluoyan's personal guards, the Xianbei soldiers listened carefully. It turned out that what the princess just said about "something useful for marching and fighting" was not empty talk!

Such a simple water purification device, used on the battlefield where water sources are tight, can save countless lives!

Their eyes suddenly became hot when they looked at Chu Jiao.

As expected, the Khan is worthy of being the Khan!

The Khatun he married is so powerful!!

Huluoyan: She is worthy of being the queen I chose, she makes me proud!

Chu Jiao: Haha, who just said that he doesn't want to be a henpecked husband?

Khatun: Queen in Xianbei language, that is, the Khan's wife.