Chapter 14: Drunk and found a Balala Magic Castle
Zhou Tinglan tried hard to recall what he had done last night before he lost consciousness, but found that his mind was blank and he could not think of anything.
Seeing her daughter coming over, Mrs. Qiao stood up and said, "Lan'er is awake. Do you have a headache? I've warmed up some hangover soup for you in the kitchen. I'll bring it to you."
After Qiao left, Zhou Yiming saw Zhou Tinglan still standing there in a daze, and called out, "Lan'er, come and sit down."
On both sides of the table, father Zhou Yiming and Xie Zechuan sat opposite each other. Mother Qiao sat on his father's right before leaving. Zhou Tinglan thought for a moment and finally sat between the two.
"Did I do anything shameful last night?" Zhou Tinglan asked Xie Zechuan.
Zhou Yiming snorted coldly and said, "It's not shameful, the whole Beijiang City knows about it."
When Xie Zechuan heard Zhou Tinglan mention what happened last night, his expression froze: "Lan'er, how much do you remember about last night?"
Zhou Tinglan recalled, "The wine in the restaurant was fragrant and delicious. I drank too much, and then, then I seemed to..."
She was just about to say that she seemed to remember kissing the valuable knives in the modern workshop several times, but Zhou Tinglan changed her mind and realized that she was now in the Northern Frontier City of Dazhao Kingdom, so where did she get those valuable knives in her collection?
When Zhou Tinglan hesitated, Xie Zechuan did not urge her and waited for what she would say next.
"After I finished drinking, I felt like I was chewing a chicken leg."
When Xie Zechuan heard this, his expression almost froze and he sighed inwardly, Lan'er, you're not just holding a chicken leg.
"You drank too much last night, and the entire jar of wine on the table was empty. You even wanted the waiter to bring two more jars."
Zhou Tinglan comforted herself in her heart: She had never heard of herself getting drunk and crazy after going to the bar with her sisters. It's okay, it's okay. This must be her illusion.
"When I noticed you, you were sitting there, holding the empty jar of wine." Xie Zechuan paused for a moment, and finally emphasized again: "Really, you didn't look drunk at all. I thought you were too tired to fall asleep."
Zhou Tinglan was suspicious: "Why am I so honest after drinking?"
My heart was slightly relieved, but it was shattered when Qiao came out of the kitchen with some hangover soup.
"If only you were that honest, drink the hangover soup while it's hot."
"Thank you, mother."
Zhou Tinglan took the bowl handed to him by his mother and took a big sip. The sweet taste of white radish and sugarcane blended together, and the dizziness in his head subsided.
Zhou Yiming smiled and said, "Your mother is right. It would be great if you were really that honest."
Zhou Tinglan was choked and coughed violently. Xie Zechuan beside him hurried forward to help Zhou Tinglan calm down.
"Drink slowly."
"We all heard General Xie talk about what happened last night. You were waving a dagger and acting crazy in the restaurant."
Zhou Tinglan felt like she was about to dig out a Balala Magic Fairy Castle by digging her toes into the ground. She looked at Xie Zechuan, hoping that he could tell her what happened last night.
Xie Zechuan smiled and said, "Not really, it's very cute."
"I saw you weren't moving, so I wanted to go over and wake you up and take you home, but who knew..." Xie Zechuan picked up the teacup on the table and took a sip: "You just shook my hand away."
Zhou Tinglan was already shocked when he heard this, but the next moment Xie Zechuan actually stood up from his seat.
"If I just explain the following scene to Lan'er, she might not understand it."
Next, Zhou Tinglan saw Xie Zechuan pointing his finger at her forehead. He rushed over to her and said, "Go away! Who said I was drunk? I can drink a thousand cups without getting drunk. Last time at the party, I got them all drunk. Do you know who won in the end? Who was it?"
Xie Zechuan's tone was calm, without any strong ups and downs, but to Zhou Tinglan it was like an explosion, and he wanted to escape from this space and time.
"I went up to you and tried to coax you into saying 'it's you, it's me', but you swung your arm towards me and shouted 'it's me, yes, it's me'."
Zhou Tinglan thought, it’s over, it’s over, Barbie Q is gone.
She pretended to be calm and said, "Then how did the other guests in the restaurant react?"
Xie Zechuan's expression became very strange at this moment. He asked uncertainly, "Lan'er, are you sure you want to know?"
Gritting his teeth, Zhou Tinglan said, "Go ahead."
She was already so socially destitute, she didn't believe it could get any worse.
"There are some older women around, and I heard them say..." Xie Zechuan cleared his throat: "General Xie, Miss Zhou is drunk, take her back to rest quickly."
"Also, hey, Miss Zhou is small, but she's quite strong even after getting drunk. General Xie will be blessed in the future."
“…”
sky!
Zhou Tinglan told Xie Zechuan to shut up as soon as he opened his mouth. How could Xie Zechuan say such obscene words from the woman without changing his expression?
Ahhhh——
She knew that some older women liked to talk about matters between men and women in the bedroom, but she didn't know that such remarks appeared just after she and Xie Zechuan were married by the emperor.
How can she go out and meet people?
She spoke with difficulty: "What else did I do?"
Xie Zechuan nodded: "You took out a dagger from somewhere, and I was afraid you might hurt yourself, so I asked you for it, but..."
"I'm not going to slap you again, am I?"
"No, you kicked me directly in the buttocks, then slammed the dagger on the table and shouted to the people around you that you wanted to compete."
Fragments of memory seemed to flash through his mind. Zhou Tinglan recalled that she was standing on the table, swaying to the bar and disco music, waving the dagger in her hand, and shouting that she wanted to duel with someone.
Xie Zechuan seemed to have thought of something else: "When I was trying to grab the dagger from your hand, there was a loud noise of something falling from the private room in the restaurant."
"Throwing things, could it be that someone is dissatisfied with us?" Zhou Tinglan asked suspiciously.
"That shouldn't be the case. Many of the guests heard the noise and looked up at the private room upstairs. The waiter also went upstairs to check. He came down and reassured us that it was just a guest who was upset about the food."
"Later, I heard the waiter muttering that the customer looked pretty but spoke really dirty."
"That's good."
"But," Xie Zechuan changed the subject, "guess what you were doing when you were drunk and looked in the direction of the sound, then ran out of the restaurant after finding nothing interesting. When I paid for the drinks and chased you out, Lan'er, guess what you were doing?"
"I collapsed at the door of the restaurant, you take me home."
Xie Zechuan couldn't hold back his laughter when he heard Zhou Tinglan's words. "I ran out of the door and saw you hugging the stone pillar at the entrance of the restaurant, calling out 'baby', and opening your mouth to chew on it."
Although Qiao already knew about Zhou Tinglan's embarrassing incident last night, she burst into laughter when she heard it again.
Zhou Tinglan now knew what the precious sword she was holding was. It was so embarrassing. Now the people in Beijiang City must know that she had gone crazy with alcohol last night.
After Xie Zechuan left, Zhou Tinglan's disconnected memory gradually recovered, and she discovered that Xie Zechuan had missed something.
Because she didn't want to give Xie Zechuan the dagger, while the two of them were pulling each other, she threw herself into Xie Zechuan's arms, and then she, she seemed to kiss him.
Thinking of this, Zhou Tinglan's face turned red and he secretly vowed that he would never drink again. Well, if he did drink, it would only be a little.
Zhou Yiming had just seen the interaction between Zhou Tinglan and Xie Zechuan, and knew that their relationship had taken a step further. He winked at Qiao and asked her to take Zhou Tinglan out for a walk.
Zhou Tinglan knew that his father wanted to talk to Xie Zechuan alone, so he obediently went out with Qiao.
Zhou Yiming and Xie Zechuan were the only two people left in the room. Zhou Yiming spoke first, "You and Lan'er were married by His Majesty. I have no right to interfere. The promise you made to me yesterday still stands."
"Don't worry, uncle. I will keep my promise."
Yesterday, Zhou Yiming pulled Xie Zechuan into a corner, and Xie Zechuan promised Zhou Yiming that he would only marry Zhou Tinglan in this life and would never take a concubine.
"I hope you can remember what I said today. If you dare to let Lan'er down, I will not let you go even if I am exiled here."
Xie Zechuan stood up and bowed to Zhou Yiming: "I swear on my life that I will never betray Zhou Tinglan, even if I want to betray the hearts of all the women in the world."
After resting for a morning, Zhou Tinglan felt that she had been able to accept the fact that she had died in front of the people of the whole city, so she returned to the forging class in the afternoon.
No one in the forging class mentioned what happened last night. Zhou Tinglan watched the students forging swords and thought about what to do next. After successfully becoming an iron official, her power would become greater and she would be able to do more.
Her sword-forging skills should not be limited to the forging class, but should be promoted. However, Zhou Tinglan was troubled by how to promote them.
So, Zhou Tinglan prepared to go for a walk in the city. When she walked on the street, she felt that people were looking at her from time to time, probably because of what happened last night.
She shamelessly pretended not to see anything and walked into a blacksmith shop next door.
Zhou Tinglan asked the busy shopkeeper behind the counter: "Shopkeeper, what are the best-selling kitchen knives here?"
"Miss Zhou, look at these knives. They are the best-selling ones in our shop. The butcher next door comes to our shop every day to buy knives. If you don't believe me, just wait a little while. He will come to the shop in a while."
Zhou Tinglan visited several blacksmith shops in the city in the afternoon. Most of the items sold in the shops were daily knives and farm tools used by the city's residents.
At the same time, she also used the convenience of her position as an iron official to collect information about the operating conditions of various blacksmith shops, the loss of forging materials, and to purchase some forged products.
At night, Zhou Tinglan lay in bed thinking about how to promote his skills. In modern society, it is often said that the people live by the people's livelihood, and the same was true in the ancient Dazhao Kingdom.
Most of the knives she currently forges are war knives, and the earliest knives made by the Zhou family were kitchen knives. After continuous innovation and transformation, different new and improved knives appeared.
Zhou Tinglan decided to start researching and improving common daily necessities tomorrow.
The next day, she looked at the short kitchen knife, the butcher knife, the plow rake... and fell into deep thought. Never mind, let them come one after another.
Zhou Tinglan picked up one of the kitchen knives, which the blacksmith shop owner said was the worst-selling one. The blade was indeed slightly sharper than other knives, but the price was much higher than others, resulting in few people in the city buying it.
The shopkeeper, Zhou Tinglan, explained, "The reason this knife is slightly sharper than the others is because after it was successfully forged, the blacksmith further carefully polished it by hand to achieve the purpose of a sharp blade."
What Zhou Tinglan has to do now is to integrate the solidity and durability of the forged sword into everyday knives. After re-studying the structure of the kitchen knife, she started to reshape it.
After countless repeated forgings, many samples were forged for testing and comparison. The fire in the forging furnace never went out, and Zhou Tinglan's hands never stopped moving.
Xie Zechuan knew that Zhou Tinglan had locked herself in the forging room for two days. Worried that she would forget to eat and hurt herself, he would go to the forging room himself to bring her food.
However, Xie Zechuan looked at the door of the forging room that slammed shut in front of him, and with the heavy food box in his hand, he silently pushed open the door of the forging room.
He often stayed in the corner of the forging room and waited for Zhou Tinglan to stop forging, and then forced her to come and eat. Zhou Tinglan also knew that Xie Zechuan cared about her and did not dislike his behavior.
But she was a little curious. Was there nothing happening in the huge Beijiang City barracks? Although Beidi was defeated now, as the commander of the entire barracks, Xie Zechuan should not be so idle that he would come to her every day.
A few weeks later, the forging room was filled with all kinds of daily knives, and the forging furnace was roaring from days of work. When an explosion sounded, Zhou Tinglan coughed lightly a few times to disperse the black smoke around him and looked at the forging table in front of him.
The toughness of the kitchen knives forged before was often not as good as expected. Now the forging furnace has exploded, and I don’t know if it was successful.
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