Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

Fortunately, in this dynasty, the punishment for burglars who broke into people's homes was quite severe. Just from the two provisions, "Anyone who intentionally breaks into someone's house or dwelling, gets on someone's car or boat, or pulls someone with the intention of breaking the law is either a rapist or a thief and shall be punished with 80 strokes of the cane. If anyone is killed immediately by the host, no mercy will be given." and "Anyone who breaks into someone's home at night shall be killed without mercy", it is at least obvious that the legislative intention to protect the tranquility of private residences is very clear.

It was with the blessing of the law that Lin Xiaoyue came up with the idea to connect the crossbows loaded with arrows one by one, and use the machine to make them fire continuously, achieving the purpose of unmanned operation and self-alertness.

In this way, if someone with bad intentions takes advantage of the situation, we can only wish for the best.

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After finally tidying up the "Xianyu Villa" inside and out like an iron barrel, Lin Xiaoyue had just laid down and was caught red-handed by Doctor Qiao and others who came to the house before she could even catch her breath.

Lin Xiaoyue: ...

Okay, next time I’ll remember to lock the gate.

Doctor Qiao and others: …

Of course, in order to prevent accidental injuries, Lin Xiaoyue still took everyone for a walk around the farm, and carefully reminded them of where she had made arrangements and where they should be careful.

Looking at the ingenious mechanisms, they did not guard carefully, nor did they criticize her for being too defensive. Instead, their eyes lit up, and they were very interested in the burst firing and self-alert settings of the crossbow.

Doctor Qiao looked at it coldly for a while, and without beating around the bush, he made a direct request, "Since this mechanism is so useful, you should also make arrangements for the houses of me and my senior brother."

Everyone's mouth twitched when they heard this. Is it so direct?

Chun Xing and the mute medicine boy also held their breath nervously, suppressing their pounding hearts, and looked at Lin Xiaoyue expectantly.

This mechanism is very cleverly designed. If you can set it up at home, then no matter what kind of emergency happens, you can rest assured, right?

Xiaocao, Ergouzi and the lame coachman Di Qing, who had not yet returned to the imperial city and had been following them to arrange matters for the village chief's mansion, all became active in their thinking.

Although they all learned how to make bows and crossbows, the unmanned, self-arming machine-fired crossbow was another major innovation.

Regardless of whether it is widely applicable, but as it stands now, it never goes wrong to learn more.

Therefore, Di Qing, who had originally planned to return to Beijing in two days, quietly postponed his return trip.

Well, I have to pass a message to the contact points of the Seventh Uncle in various places and ask them to feed back the information about the new mechanical inventions that the Lord of Le'an has tinkered with.

Oh, by the way, when I go back to learn, I have to tell the village chief about this good thing, and I have to decorate the Seventh Prince’s farm with it.

Although they had not been together for a long time, it was clear that the village chief was not a person who kept his knowledge secret. The improvement of the crossbow and gunpowder weapons alone was enough to show that the village chief of Le'an was a person of great wisdom and kindness.

It has to be said that Di Qing's understanding of Lin Xiaoyue was somewhat biased.

The reason why Lin Xiaoyue publicly improved the crossbows and firearms was naturally for self-protection. Moreover, her public exposure of hot weapons was limited to the most basic iron lumps filled with nitrate, disulphur and charcoal.

She is still holding on to the improved grenade which is smaller, more powerful and safer.

Of course, as the terminator of the cold weapon era, the iron lump was an absolutely deterrent to the people of this dynasty.

As for the attack on the way back to Wanbao Town and the raid on the secret hideout where private soldiers were kept, the existence of grenades was exposed.

She knew Doctor Qiao and the others well, so they would not leak the secrets to others, nor would they ask her any more questions. As for Di Qing, who was sent by the Seventh Prince's uncle to be their groom, he was a trustworthy person who kept his mouth shut and would not rashly ask about secrets.

In short, after coming back, since a lot of things had happened, everyone just let it go and no one was tactful enough to bring it up, so Lin Xiaoyue was naturally happy to play dumb and move on from this.

Of course, Lin Xiaoyue thought she was keeping a low profile and pretending to be a pig but actually many people noticed her existence, openly or secretly.

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Doctor Qiao and others rested in Xianyu Villa for one night. The next day, the two old doctors took Lin Xiaoyue and asked her to lead the way up the mountain to collect herbs.

The others were sharpening their knives and preparing to go up the mountain to hunt.

The more they play with bows and crossbows, the more addictive they become. They go up the mountain not only to hunt, but also to practice their accuracy.

Lin Xiaoyue: ...First, calm down your eagerness to try and your excitement, then maybe I will believe in you.

Just like that, everyone went up the mountain together, dragging Lin Xiaoyue, who was feeling sleepy and still trying to take a nap.

The sunlight shines through the gaps in the leaves, creating mottled light and shadows.

Several people walked in the mountains for several hours. Near noon, they found a mountain stream with clear water and stopped to rest there.

The mountain stream here is about five or six meters wide. Except for the relatively shallow water on both sides, the water in the middle is not only fast-flowing but also very deep.

The water in the stream is so clear that you can see the bottom. From time to time, you can see palm-sized fish swimming around. However, when people get close to try to catch them, they slip away.

Ergou and Di Qing were straightforward people. They could not do such elegant things as Doctor Qiao and Doctor Li broke off some short branches and made their own fishing rods to fish. Instead, they simply rolled up their trouser legs and jumped into the stream, holding sharp branches and stabbing the fish that were swimming around their feet quickly and accurately.

It's worth mentioning that although Di Qing was injured in the war and his leg was lame, he had practiced and his skills were still good. Although the fish was very clever and kept darting around, it was better than Ergou who could never find a good opportunity and had to rely on his feeling to fish.

Not long after, when Ergou was jumping up in frustration, Di Qing stabbed up seven or eight fish, making Ergou so angry that his eyes turned red.

Chunxing and Xiaocao were catching shellfish by the shallow stream. Although they were not big, they had a good harvest, enough to add to a dish.

After a while, the few of them caught enough fish, and most of their clothes were wet.

Lin Xiaoyue lit a fire and asked everyone to come over and warm themselves.

Although it is spring, there is still a slight chill in the wind. If the men keep wearing wet clothes, they may be able to hold on, but the two girls, Xiaocao and Chunxing, are afraid they will suffer.

Because they were prepared to go up the mountain, everyone brought all the tools they needed. The ginger soup in the earthenware pot was boiling, so they just poured it out and let the two drink it first.

The thick ginger soup was so spicy that the two little girls choked.

After everyone had started drinking, Lin Xiaoyue took out the ground chili peppers and cumin and asked Ergou and the others to prepare the fish and the pheasants they had caught on the way up the mountain. They had barbecue at noon, accompanied by river soup.