Chapter 372: Help in Times of Need

Everyone was chatting animatedly.

Both Xinbao and the twins listened with great joy.

Moreover, when elder brother Yuan talked about politics, it was not easy to talk about it openly now, and the children would not understand. But when grandpa and uncle talked about the underworld, it was so legendary and passionate that the twins were very excited to listen to it. They brought their small stools and squeezed over to listen.

Tuanzi was also praising him: "Grandpa's Kung Fu is really good, and it looks great when he fights! He's almost as tall as Uncle Shen!!"

Grandpa Lin was quite helpless, and smiled at Master Shen, "Children can't tell good from bad."

Master Shen laughed and said, "Who said that? Xinbao is the most accurate. It's almost the same!"

Xiao Tai said sourly: "Xinbao just thinks Shen Er's kung fu is the best! He compares everyone to him! Why don't you say that your kung fu is about the same as mine?"

Yan Shenjue suddenly said: "Maybe it's because you are no match for Uncle Shen?"

"Hey, you little Yan demon!" Xiao Tai pointed at him angrily, but he couldn't hit him, so he said angrily: "I'm too lazy to talk to you literati! Why are you butting in when I'm talking to Brother Lin!!"

Then Xiao Tai started to denounce how annoying the literati were, and talked about how good the warriors were.

Everyone likes to talk about the military camp. For a literati like Liang Ruoxu, this is a state affair, and for people in the martial arts world, it is very interesting.

Xiao Tai's life can be divided into two stages. He was born at the border, lived there before the age of 20, and lived in the capital after the age of 20. Therefore, he not only understood the border and the border troops, but also understood the Beijing guards. Once he started talking, he had endless things to say.

Xinbao listened with great interest and continued listening even when his eyelids were glued together due to sleepiness.

As a result, she didn't expect that her great uncle was extremely unreliable. He was so excited that he wanted to feed her dumplings with chopsticks dipped in wine... She was the one being fed. Although she tried hard to refuse, she was still fed two chopsticks of food. She didn't know if she was a little drunk, but she closed her eyes and fell asleep at that time.

After getting up, she was in a daze for a long time, always feeling that there was something important that she had not done.

When she washed her face and went out, Xiao Tai was walking around downstairs. When he saw her, he stretched out his hands: "Oh dear ancestor, you finally came down. You got drunk with just two drops of wine. You scared your uncle to death. You don't know, someone attacked me when you were drunk yesterday. My back was bruised. I think it must have been that Yan Xiaoyao..."

Xinbao was carried to the railing by Yuru, who said, "Children can't drink alcohol, it will make them stupid! Now I can't remember what I wanted to do yesterday!"

Xiao Tai caught her casually, "What's the matter? Yesterday you asked me about the border army... or something?"

"ah!!"

Xinbao remembered it immediately.

Xiao Tai said that the life of the border soldiers was hard. In the summer, there were so many mosquitoes that they could carry people away. After a shift, their bodies were covered with bruises. In the winter, their hands were frozen and full of deep cuts. They also had frostbite, which left holes on their fingers. Moreover, frostbite would appear once a year and would recur every year, so the hands of the border soldiers were like rotten radishes.

Tuanzi didn't even eat his meal and ran next door to get his medicine.

Now they are growing here, and we have added two more cabinets to the pharmacy here. The medicines are very complete, but it is still not enough if we buy in large quantities.

Fortunately, she now has a shadow guard, who does things for her without asking her for money... Anyway, after she said that, the shadow guard went to buy the goods.

Tuanzi has already thought about it. Since he is going to give gifts, he can't just give them to his eldest brother, he has to give more.

After all, my great uncle’s father…what was his name?

Since he was here anyway, she would have to make more. As she thought about it, she asked Xiao Tai, "Uncle, when Xinbao is done, can you help deliver it to the border? Can you deliver it to my big brother?"

"Yes!" Xiao Tai said with a smile, "My uncle can even deliver a needle to someone's hand!"

Xinbao was satisfied, and then she thought to the shadow guard, "I also want some small purses, firm enough to hold a big incense pill." She gestured, "This size will do!"

The main medicinal materials of mosquito repellent sachets are mugwort, mint, perilla, calamus, patchouli and the like, but she does not plan to make ordinary mosquito repellent bags. Instead, she will boil the medicine into a concentrated form, which does not take up space and is convenient to carry around, and is also more effective.

Make some powder that can be sprinkled, and then you can set up camp anywhere to repel mosquitoes, insects, and snakes... It is more effective than simply sprinkling realgar.

On the contrary, it is not necessary to apply the ointment. Just look at Xiao Tai and you will know that they are not particular about it. Instead, you can make some seasoning powder like last time, which can be drunk by mixing it with hot water. It will taste better if you add some oil. She can also modify the recipe and add some herbs that can prevent common diseases such as dysentery to make the taste stronger.

But you can also make some medicinal materials, for example, for snake bites, heat stroke, etc...

Just do these now, and when winter comes, you can make soups to drive away the cold, and you can also make ointments to treat frostbite and heal cracks.

Wow, there are so many things to do! Xinbao took Zhong Limin's orders again and wrote down what she had to do so that she wouldn't forget it later.

Now that there are many shadow guards, after buying the herbs, they set up a big pot in the back to boil them. Xinbao is very busy and Baigusheng is also very busy...

There is strength in numbers. Within half a month, everything was ready. Then Xiao Tai sent people to deliver it to the border at full speed.

There is no wrong version in the 1619 book forum!

So, Brother Tang, who had already become a centurion, received several large carts of things and a thick letter from home.

As soon as he opened it, he knew that the reason why it was thick was because it was written by Tuanzi. The whole article was full of random things, without any serious matters, just repetitive...

Big brother, Xinbao misses you so much! I miss you so much!

Brother Tang didn't know that this was intentional, because the things that happened at home were a bit serious and it was not easy to write them in the letter, and they were also afraid that it would affect his mentality, so they wrote them in an obscure way.

But the obscure feelings of those who knew the situation, in the eyes of Brother Tang who had no idea what was going on, were all just childish talk. "A very handsome man, as handsome as my dad, came to our house..." Who could have imagined such words?

But it was also said later that there were some snacks on the first cart that could be shared with everyone to satisfy their hunger.

The second and third trucks were all filled with medicines, including 10,000 mosquito repellent sachets, 2,000 packets of insect repellent powder, 300 bottles of medicinal materials for treating heatstroke... and so on.

The third and fourth carts are filled with soup packets, oil, etc.

All of them contain usage and recipes...

With a temper like that, Brother Tang was like a fish in water in a military camp. Although he was a new soldier, he got along well everywhere, so even the sentry came to put his arm around his shoulder and said, "Hey, what a good thing, don't forget your brothers!"

"Don't worry!" Brother Tang said with a smile, "No matter who you forget, you will never forget Brother He!"

While chatting and laughing, he hurried to find the captain of the team.

After all, there are too many things. If he divides them up on his own, that would be seen as forming cliques. Wouldn't his boss be pissed to death?

The point is, why should he divide such an important thing among himself? This can be exchanged for military merits, right? At this moment, the commander of the border, the old prince, also received a report from his own soldiers.

Yes, in order to prevent the news from leaking, it was a concealed version, something like: "The prince only said that this was something his eldest nephew, and his family asked them to send it. The prince asked us to escort it over, but not to reveal our identities..."

(End of this chapter)