Ancient paintings connect the present, I hoard goods to support the villain Wang

As for Guo Wen, Xiao Jingyan asked him to sneak into Qianshuo and find a mountain where coal could be mined for him, and then buy it from Xiangshuo.

His task was the most difficult.

He had to survey the mountain, bargain with the former great master, and most importantly, he could not reveal his identity as a member of the Xiao family army of Dayong.

Among them, Guo Wen's family is engaged in business. Even though he is now in the army, his business acumen has not diminished at all.

What's more, he is the one who speaks the best among them.

But even so, Guo Wen was still worried that his poor language skills would expose his identity, so before leaving for Qianshuo, he specially found a translator.

Three days later.

Early in the morning, Guo Wen dressed up as a rich man and prepared to head to Qianshuo with his caravan.

The translator he invited was waiting at the entrance of the military camp early.

It was none other than the familiar Gu Yehe.

Guo Wen was also surprised when he saw that the person coming was Gu Yehe.

Although he had never met Gu Yehe the last time he came to the military camp, he was already familiar with his name.

"Gu Ye and you are not only able to make thunder bombs and read solar energy blueprints, but are also proficient in Qianshuo's words. You are really a hidden talent!"

Guo Wen felt that apart from their prince, he had hardly ever seen such an omnipotent person.

"It's just some little tricks to make a living, not worth mentioning."

Gu Yehe touched his head and said embarrassedly.

"By the way, our prince really liked the thunder bombs you showed us last time and wanted you to produce them for us in large quantities. Why did you refuse?"

"Is it really to gain a good reputation? But if I follow the prince, wouldn't it be easier to get close to him?"

Guo Wen really couldn't understand why there were so many people in this world who wanted to curry favor with the prince, but he, Gu Yehe, actually refused them all!

Ever since Gu Yehe came to the military camp and demonstrated the power of thunder bombs, Xiao Jingyan asked Zhiren to find him again, wanting him to help produce large quantities of thunder bombs.

Xiao Jingyan can ask Shi Xi for the supplies needed to make thunder bombs.

But Gu Yehe refused on the grounds that he wanted to concentrate on his studies and pass the imperial examinations.

At that time, Xiao Jingyan felt regretful for a long time.

He even ordered to find a second person who could make thunder bombs.

Unfortunately, in the huge Lingyao City, there is only Gu Yehe.

Although Xiao Jingyan has been very busy, he has never taken the matter of finding someone to make thunder bombs to heart.

Guo Wen and his subordinates understand him.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to meet Gu Yehe today, Guo Wen asked a question on behalf of Xiao Jingyan.

Gu Yehe sighed helplessly:

"If the prince has other orders, I will not hesitate even if it means going through fire and water."

"It's just that I don't want to use my skills to make money when it comes to making thunder bombs!"

His words are very literary.

But Guo Wen retorted:

"What does it mean to amass wealth?"

"Do you still want to take this opportunity to blackmail the prince?"

Guo Wen said jokingly.

Gu Yehe also laughed and said, "How dare I."

Seeing he couldn't refuse, he could only temporarily coax Guo Wen and said, "Let me go back and think about this matter. If it is confirmed, I will come to meet the prince as soon as possible."

Guo Wen finally breathed a sigh of relief and nodded.

"Don't worry, if you are willing to make thunder bombs for the prince, we will definitely not treat you unfairly."

"Look, we have food and warm supplies in our army!"

As he spoke, Guo Wen patted him on the shoulder, asked him to mount the horse, and walked towards Qian Shuobian together.

Hearing that Xiao's army had food and supplies, Gu Yehe was really tempted and wanted to come and work for Xiao Jingyan.

Famine has already begun in their Lingyao City.

He was a scholar, and according to the rules, he could get one liter of rice from the court every month.

But the government office had no more grain in stock, and he hadn't distributed rice for several months.

A lot of silver was distributed, but the current situation in the city was that even if one had money, one could not buy rice.

The weather was getting colder day by day. Without enough food to eat and no fire in the house, no matter how much silver you had, you would still freeze to death.

What's more, he doesn't have much money!

Seeing that the Xiao family army had no worries about food and clothing, and even built a factory to make cotton clothes, Gu Yehe really regretted that he should have learned martial arts and joined the Xiao family army.

Having a wealth of knowledge is not enough to keep you from starving or freezing.

It really proves the saying that a scholar is good for nothing!

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In the past few days, the theoretical knowledge book that Shi Xi asked the driving school to help print has arrived.

She used the ancient painting channel to pass all the one hundred books to Xiao Jingyan.

Xiao Jingyan had already selected the first batch of 100 people to learn how to drive and had them familiarize themselves with the contents of the book.

Although there are 160,000 soldiers in the army, not many of them can read.

The soldiers had to read and memorize the books that Shi Xi sent by themselves, so not many people came forward to sign up.

The ancients were the same. When they heard that they had to memorize something, they felt uncomfortable all over.

Today is the day that Guo Wen leaves for his pre-master's degree, and it is also the day that Xiao Jingyan officially goes to Shi Xi to learn how to drive.

In the morning, before leaving, Xiao Jingyan specially put on the modern sportswear and flat shoes that Shi Xi gave him to make it easier for him to learn how to operate the clutch.

Shi Xi said that he could only wear ancient clothes and shoes again after he became completely proficient in driving.

If you don't have good skills, it is really inconvenient to drive with an extra-long Hanfu skirt and raised-toe Dengyun shoes.

When Xiao Jingyan arrived at the supermarket, Shi Xi's takeout had already been ordered.

"Come and eat quickly. This morning we're having our special snack, rice noodle rolls. Try it and see how it tastes."

Seeing Xiao Jingyan coming, Shi Xi hurriedly asked him to wash his hands and eat.

Xiao Jingyan was a little flustered for a moment. He felt that Shi Xi at that moment was like his own family.

"Okay, here we come."

He walked to the bathroom with ease, wet his hands skillfully, applied hand soap, rinsed them, and wiped them dry with absorbent paper...

This series of actions was as smooth as flowing water, just like the life he lived every day, and he was used to it.

This was Xiao Jingyan’s first time eating rice rolls. They were so smooth that he could eat the whole thing in one sip.

If his mouth was full, he would have swallowed them all.

Seeing him eating so happily, Shi Xi wiped her mouth and asked with a smile: "How is it? Is it delicious?"

Xiao Jingyan nodded like a chick pecking at rice.

"Hehe, I promised you before that I would improve the soldiers' food every week. This time, I plan to give everyone rice noodle rolls!"

Shi Xi said with a smile, her two peach blossom eyes curved into a cute little crescent.

"This thing is so delicious, the price can't be low, right?"

"Xixi, please don't spend any more money on us."

Three days ago, Xiao Jingyan told Shi Xi that he wanted to provide supplies to the people in the city.

It's already very expensive to support so many people, and I must not let her spend more.

"Don't worry, this thing is very cheap. I have plenty of money, enough to buy it for everyone in the city!"

Shi Xi raised her eyebrows in disdain.

He had just received money from Boss Qi two days ago. The three antiques he took to the capital for auction sold for another 2 billion yuan.

Apart from the money left to repay the bank debt of Zhongli Group, Shi Xi had as much as 1.7 billion yuan at his disposal.

This amount of money is enough to buy all the rice rolls in the country, let alone provide rice rolls for their 160,000-strong army?

Seeing Shi Xi being so generous, Xiao Jingyan also smiled knowingly.

He felt that his joy, anger, sorrow and happiness could all be infected by it.

"Oh, by the way, are the soldiers okay with the autumn clothes and autumn trousers I showed you last time?"

Shi Xi asked about this matter again, because the owner of the clothing factory only sold her a set of autumn clothes and autumn trousers. There were too many people on Xiao Jingyan's side, 160,000 people turning around to look at him, so naturally there was no response after two or three days.