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The next morning, before it even got light outside, the person sleeping next to me got up.
Lu Mingfei woke up as soon as the people next to him made a noise. He sat up in bed and watched Zhao Lang standing in front of the bed getting dressed. "Are you leaving so early?"
"Yeah." Seeing the young man wake up, Zhao Lang took two steps forward while tying his belt, put his arms around the young man, and kissed him on the lips.
He looked at his young man with reluctance in his eyes.
If he had a choice, Zhao Lang would also like to stay and be with the one he loves.
However, the current situation does not allow it, and their position does not allow them to spend all their time on love affairs.
"It's still early, you can sleep a little longer and get up later." He raised his hand and touched the young man's face before retracting it. He was afraid that if he didn't stop, he would be reluctant to leave.
"I'm not going to sleep anymore. Let me help you get dressed." Since he couldn't sleep anyway, Lu Mingfei simply got up from the bed, picked up a piece of clothing and put it on himself, then took the clothes hanging on the hanger and put them on Zhao Lang one by one.
After fastening the last waist belt, he pulled Zhao Lang to sit in front of the dressing mirror and picked up the comb on the table to comb Zhao Lang's hair.
Again and again...
The two people's eyes met through the mirror. Lu Mingfei looked at Zhao Lang and told him, "You must come back safely."
"Okay, I will." Zhao Lang grabbed the young man's hand and kissed it on his lips.
Lu Mingfei pulled his hand back and continued to help Zhao Lang tie up her hair. After tying it with a hairband, he took out a hairpin from the drawer and showed it to Zhao Lang, "This is a new hairpin I made."
"Look here, there's a hidden weapon. I've put a poison needle in it. After you pull it out, press hard on this spot and the poison needle will fly out, killing people without them even noticing."
"Remember not to hurt yourself accidentally. The antidote is at this end of the hairpin. Just pull it out and you'll get the antidote." He prepared the antidote because he was afraid that Zhao Lang would accidentally hurt himself or his people.
"Okay." Zhao Lang still admired their Lord Lu's occasional brilliant ideas and the little gadgets he made. He himself did not have the skill, let alone come up with these things.
"If you don't become a civil servant, you can still get a position in the Ministry of War or the Ministry of Works with this skill."
"I am now a master of both civil and military arts, and I am also a skilled craftsman." Lu Mingfei took the hair crown and put it on the bun, passing the hairpin through the middle. "You must remember, nothing is more important than being alive."
"Put aside your heroic ideals and the idea that war should be conducted with integrity. The enemy won't talk to you about morality or rules."
"Zhao Lang, my only request to you is that you come back alive to see me."
"Okay, I promise you." Zhao Lang looked at the serious face of the young man in the mirror. He knew that Lu Mingfei was affected by his last poisoning and was afraid that something would happen to him again.
The person outside heard the sound of the master getting up in the house, and came outside with water for washing to remind him, "Sir."
"Come in." Lu Mingfei asked Zhao Lang to stand up and straightened the collar of the handsome prince.
The bedroom door was pushed open from the outside.
He asked the guard who brought in water to go out, and after the two of them washed up in the house, they went out together to have breakfast.
While they were having breakfast, the supplies in the house were carried out by the soldiers who came in.
These are the supplies that Fu Lianxin sent last time, just enough for Zhao Lang to take with him when he leads his troops on a trip.
After breakfast, Lu Mingfei escorted Zhao Lang to the door and said to him, "If you need anything, send someone to Tong County to get it, or send a message to me."
"Be careful of the deposed emperor and the emperor."
"Okay, I got it. Wait for me to come back." Zhao Lang nodded, raised his hand to touch the young man's face, then put his hand away, turned around, got on the horse, sat on the horse's back, took one last look at the young man, and rode away.
At this time, the city gate had already been opened.
Zhao Lang rode his horse and led the soldiers behind him out of the city gate. After meeting up with the soldiers waiting outside the city, their team secretly advanced towards Kyoto Prefecture.
After Zhao Lang left, Lu Mingfei stood in front of the door of the house for a long time.
Returning to the house, he looked at the empty room and sat down on a stool. His eyes felt a little sore and his heart felt a little sore as well.
He lay on the table, thinking about the person who was sleeping in the same bed with him in this room just a moment ago. The more he thought about it, the sadder he became.
The guard outside took a peek into the house, then retracted his head and dared not look inside again.
***
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone in the yamen returned to their normal duties.
What is different from other government offices is that in the Li County government office, from the county magistrate to the petty clerks, everyone is very busy every day and has endless things to do.
For the next two months, except for young children who could not walk and the elderly who were too old to work, all the young and strong people in the city who were able to work were either farming outside the city, burning bricks in the brick kiln, or participating in repairing the city walls.
The young and strong men from various villages outside the city were also arranged to work.
Within half a month, large tracts of wasteland outside the city were reclaimed and planted with vegetables that could be harvested in a short time.
In the words of their adults, as long as they could grow and harvest anything that was edible, they would plant it. However, it was not suitable to plant millet at this time, so they could only plant vegetables.
Their adults also asked someone to dig a deep well not far away so that they would not have to run too far to use water and could get water nearby to water the vegetables.
When other crops are planted on these lands next year, there will be no need to worry about water problems.
Moreover, their leaders also said that the government will re-plan these lands next year and rent them to them for farming.
Seeing the vegetables growing little by little in the field, everyone smiled because their parents said that after the vegetables were grown, they could buy them at a low price according to the number of people in each household.
In addition, their city walls are getting higher and higher every day.
This time, the wall they ordered to be built is outside the old wall, and is separated from the old wall by a distance of three meters. I heard that after this wall is built, if the government has money in the future, they will continue to expand it outwards.
As for children from both the city and outside the city, as long as the adults in their families were willing to send them to the newly established private schools of the government, the teachers would teach them writing and arithmetic, and would not charge any tuition. Even if the adults wanted to go and study for free, the teachers would not turn them away.
The adults even gave each child who went to school a pencil and a notebook.
Before, some people doubted what their masters said, but seeing the little changes in Li County every day, the people of the city no longer doubted what their masters said.
In short, now they believe whatever their adults say.
After August, September arrived.
Lu Mingfei could feel that the weather here was getting colder day by day, especially in the morning and evening, he could feel that the temperature difference here was quite large.
That day he walked to a newly opened workshop in the city.
This workshop was a garment workshop opened by his adoptive father. It specializes in processing wool and sheepskin, and making wool into wool yarn, or into woolen quilts and woolen clothes.
As for sheepskin, it is also used to make clothes and shoes.
He wanted to solve the problem of food and clothing for the people in this area, and the best way was to grow crops and open workshops by himself. Then he mobilized the people in this city and arranged them to work in various positions.
So far, his method seems to be very useful.
"Mingfei, how come you have time to come here today?" Lu Qingfeng saw his adopted son and called him over to have tea with him. He had come to Li County some time ago to open a workshop and was still staying here.
"I just happened to be passing by, so I came over to take a look." Lu Mingfei and his adoptive father sat down on the chairs. After assigning the work to everyone, he himself was not so busy.
Lu Qingfeng placed the brewed tea in front of his adopted son and said, "Try my Da Hong Pao and see how it tastes."
"Hmm, delicious." Lu Mingfei picked it up and took a sip. In fact, he felt that this Dahongpao was not much different from other teas he drank in the past.
"Godfather, how long will you stay here?"
"Stay until the end of this month. I'll leave at the end of the month and leave your two cousins here to look after the workshop." Lu Qingfeng had been outside for a while and missed his wife and children at home.
He had not originally planned to stay in Li County to accompany his adopted son, unless he brought his wife with him.
"Well, it's better for the two of them to stay here, and you can go back to accompany your stepmother." Lu Mingfei nodded.
Ever since his second uncle and fourth uncle's families followed their family to Li County, his second uncle and fourth uncle no longer run a barbecue restaurant. Instead, they run a workshop in Li County with his father, and his two cousins came here to help.
Tong County is now their base camp, and the arrangements there are relatively complete and mature. The most important thing is that it is farther away from the border and safer.
Therefore, Lu Mingfei did not intend to bring his family and clansmen to Li County, and let the clansmen who followed them out of Beijing stay in Tong County.
Now that the outside world is in chaos, the North has become a peaceful place. Of course, except for the border.
Although he hadn't received a letter from Zhao Lang yet, he thought the situation in Kyoto was not optimistic. Furthermore, the feudal lords from various places were ready to make a move. As long as Kyoto became chaotic, he didn't believe that the feudal lords from various places would not try to get a piece of the pie.
That day, the father and son drank tea here for a while and chatted about things outside.
Lu Mingfei followed his adoptive father into the workshop and took a walk around. After checking the situation inside the workshop, he left.
After Lu Qingfeng sent his adopted son away, he turned around and went back to the workshop.
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