Chapter 049 Jin丨Exclusive publication by Jiang Wenxue
Xue Chen also felt very suspenseful. The system was right. Thermal weapons were a flash in the pan for this world. No one used them to change the world, let alone mass production. Even fewer people remembered them.
It was faster to blow up the furnace yourself than to expect to buy a Gatling gun on the black market.
Xie Heng improved the formula of the pill furnace, adjusted the ratio of the required "six-one mud", and increased or decreased the saltpeter, sulfur, and wood ash used in refining pills. He went against the knowledge of refining pills in his memory, deliberately stepped on the pit, and made batches of failed pills. Finally, he could blow up the furnace as he pleased.
However, the power of the blast furnace is not as strong as that of the thunder bomb. Xie Heng asked someone to bring a few thunder bombs to continue his research.
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Liu Yixuan went around Dadu and memorized the general roads and several hidden paths so that he could connect with people in the future.
He reduced the frequency of begging. After eating the wheat cake, he pretended to be trying to find a job. He went to several shops that were not short of people to recommend himself, but he was rejected without exception.
On the surface, Liu Yixuan had run out of food.
He had been starving himself for two days, and his body had obviously become thinner. The linen clothes that originally fit him looked empty. His pretty face was a little out of shape, and his chin was pointed.
Liu Yixuan came to the front of the wall of Prince Zhao's mansion, sat against the wall and closed his eyes to rest.
Xue Chen: [I finally know why my uncle didn't show much surprise when he was unconscious before. This child has a little hypoglycemia, right? I guess he has fainted many times before.]
System: [Are you okay?]
Xue Chen: [Not bad, Xiao Liu will not be disconnected for the time being. If I hadn't sneaked into Prince Zhao's mansion today, I would have to find a way to get something to eat.]
System: [Come on!]
The side door of the mansion opened, and a team of guards came out. It seemed that they had just finished their shift and their movements were quite casual.
They gathered in twos and threes, speaking in a strange language. After walking a few steps, they saw Liu Yixuan squatting by the wall, shouting in not very fluent Chinese: "Where did you come from, beggar? The palace is an important place, and you can't come here. Why don't you get out of here!"
Liu Yixuan slowly raised his face, with a blank look in his eyes.
Before coming, he specially lit up the [Makeup] skill and spent 3 skill points to upgrade it to level 2. He
also drew some clean water from the well at the entrance of the alley, washed the dirt off his face, and revealed some of his original skin color. His hair was tied up fluffy, with a few strands of hair hanging naturally, messy but beautiful, which matched his thin face very well. Even though it was still dirty, his whole body was full of weakness and helplessness.
The Jurchen guards fell silent for a moment, and their eyes no longer looked so hateful towards Liu Yixuan. Some of them even seemed to sympathize with him.
Liu Yixuan smiled apologetically, stood up with the help of the wall, and suddenly stumbled and fell forward.
System: [What a fake acting.]
Xue Chen: [It's obviously very real. I have fainted several times. It's like this! You have seen too many routines and have preconceived ideas.]
System: [When you faint, you are directly disconnected...]
Xue Chen: [Stupid system, I'm talking about before the time travel! 】
A guard was quick to come over and support him: "Are you okay?"
Liu Yixuan closed his eyes tightly, and opened them after a while. He smiled gratefully at the man, and stood up against the wall, looking a little stubborn.
The guard asked: "Are you waiting for someone?"
Liu Yixuan nodded hesitantly.
Guard: "Who are you waiting for? Tell me your name, and I will pass the message on for you. Don't stay here, you may be caught as someone with bad intentions."
Liu Yixuan looked at him timidly, pointed at his mouth, shook his head and waved his hands, and pointed at the guard's hand again.
Guard: "What do you mean? You can't speak?"
Liu Yixuan slowed down his movements, touched his hand, and wrote a few strokes on it. Before he finished writing a single word, the man withdrew his hand.
Liu Yixuan thought he was angry, and looked up at him. Unexpectedly, this tall and strong Jurchen was a little embarrassed.
The guard met his eyes and explained, "I, I can't read."
Liu Yixuan nodded.
System: [He looks well-dressed, but he can't read!]
Xue Chen: [This is normal. It has been less than a hundred years since the Jurchen script was created. They must have prioritized the popularization of their own script. They don't have that much energy to learn Chinese characters.]
System: [Then how do you plan to communicate with them? Xue Chen
: Don't worry, they will find a way themselves. By the way, help me click on skills like Jurchen language.
As a spy of the enemy country, how can I not know the other side's language!
If the skill points were not enough, Xue Chen would have wanted to click on both Khitan and Mongolian. Wouldn't it be easy to steal intelligence then?
Spending 1 skill point and lighting up [Jurchen language], Xue Chen could almost understand what they were saying by guessing.
The guards didn't pay any attention to him at all. They were discussing where to eat
later. The guard who had just come to help out of sympathy returned to the palace and called out a woman dressed as Han Chinese. Then he left with his companions.
The woman smiled when she saw Liu Yixuan. She did not look down on him because of his clothes. She said gently, "Come in and talk."
Liu Yixuan followed her inside, passed through a small door, and came to the servant room inside.
This person probably had some status in the mansion. She did not live with other people and had her own separate room. There were simple tables and chairs in her room, with pens and ink on them.
She pulled Liu Yixuan to sit down, "I am Liu, the manager of the palace, in charge of the dispatch of slaves. I know a few words. If you have anything, you can tell me."
Liu Yixuan picked up the pen and wrote: I didn't come here to look for anyone, but I was really hungry. I heard that the princess was a very kind person, so I wanted to come and see if I could meet her and ask for something to eat.
He didn't have the [calligraphy] skill, so his handwriting was just average. It was only with Xue Chen's memory that his handwriting was intact.
Manager Liu: "I think so. There are many people in this mansion that I don't recognize. I also have a general idea of who their relatives and friends are. You are honest and told me the truth without me asking any more questions."
Liu Yixuan wrote: If I can stay, you will know it sooner or later. If I can't stay, I'm afraid I will starve to death tomorrow, there is no need to hide it.
Manager Liu: "Where are you from?"
Liu Yixuan: Hangzhou, Zhejiang.
According to the original plot, it was already the Southern Song Dynasty at this time, and Hangzhou had long been renamed Lin'an. However, because of the integration of other plots, the emperor of the time was Zhao Ji of the Northern Song Dynasty, the capital had not yet been moved, and the imperial city was still in Tokyo Prefecture, and the name of Hangzhou had not changed.
Manager Liu raised his eyebrows: "Where is Hangzhou?"
Liu Yixuan: Qiantang County.
Manager Liu: "Not bad."
Liu Yixuan knew her reaction very well, but still looked confused and looked at her questioningly.
Manager Liu had no intention of explaining, and continued to ask: "You can't speak?"
Liu Yixuan nodded slightly.
System: [Set synchronization rate +1, current vest synchronization rate 13%, 10 skill points can be used. ]
Xue Chen: [Why does the early synchronization rate increase always carry a sense of mockery? ]
System: [It's none of my business! ]
Xue Chen: [I didn't say you. ]
He picked up the pen and wrote: I was born dumb and never spoke. Although my family was poor, my parents loved me very much and sent me to school to learn to read so that I could write down what I thought in my heart and communicate with others.
Of course, these are not true. He made them up before he set off to the Jin Kingdom and registered them in the machine speed room. There will be people to cooperate with him, and even if Wanyan Honglie sent people to investigate, it will not be exposed.
Manager Liu: "No wonder... What's your name? What can you do?"
Liu Yixuan: My last name is Liu Xuan. I can serve tea, sweep the floor and cook. I can also write some simple words...
He hasn't finished writing yet, Manager Liu, who has been staring at the paper, interrupted him and said, "Can you cook?"
Liu Yixuan nodded hesitantly.
Manager Liu: "Since you came to Zhao Wangfu just to have a meal, go to the kitchen and cook a few dishes. Remember, they must be home-cooked dishes that you are used to. If you cook well, you can stay. If you don't cook well, you can leave after this meal."
Liu Yixuan nodded.
Manager Liu did not take him to the kitchen immediately, but asked him to wash up and change into clean clothes.
This dress is the uniform maid's dress in the mansion. It is not very exquisite, but compared with the linen dress on Liu Yixuan, it is a world of difference.
Liu Yixuan washed her long hair, wiped off the water stains on her body, and put on her clothes one by one. The ordinary aqua blue maid's dress made him look like an immortal. His pale face was a little flushed because of the steam.
His legs and feet were weak, and he walked out holding on to the wall. It was completely dark in front of him, and it took a long time for him to recover his vision.
Manager Liu was looking at him with surprise on his face.
"I knew you were a beauty at first sight, but I didn't expect that you could be so beautiful after washing away the dirt." Manager Liu held his arm, "What an outstanding girl. If you could speak, you would have been successful sooner or later. But it's not bad now. Come on, I'll take you to the kitchen."
It was dinner time, and there was everything in the kitchen.
Liu Yixuan drank some hot soup and ate something slowly. His movements were elegant and unhurried. No one could tell that he had been hungry for many days and was about to starve to death.
After eating, his hypoglycemia was relieved.
Liu Yixuan stood in front of the stove: [System, click [Cooking], and put all his skill points into it! 】
While the system sighed that being a spy was not easy, it upgraded his cooking skills to level 4.
Liu Yixuan pondered for a moment, and made a steamed crab, a dish of radish with soy sauce, and a dish of egg swallowed with longan candy.
The food was taken away immediately after it came out of the pot. Liu Yixuan came out of the kitchen, found a place to sit down and wait for notification.
System: [Don't be nervous, you will definitely be able to do it. ] Xue
Chen: [I'm not nervous.]
System: [But you have been very silent since you finished cooking.]
Xue Chen: [That's because the food I cooked looks so delicious! This is my first time cooking! The food smells so good, but I can't eat it myself! I'm so jealous that Bao Xiruo can eat the food I made myself! 】
System: [……]
Xue Chen: [If my father and my brother knew, they would be so jealous that they would be unrecognizable.]
System: [……]