Female special forces soldiers in ancient times

In the capital of the Great Xia Dynasty, as the year drew to a close, the first snow began to fall in a flurry.

The entire palace was covered in a blanket of white.

The palace maids and eunuchs were busy shuttling between the corridors and passageways.

A eunuch was seen holding a broom in his hand.

He was bending over, sweeping the snow from under the eaves.

The broom made a "rustling" sound as it swept across the snow.

Snowflakes splashed onto his blue cloth boots.

It quickly melted into a damp mark.

However, he still occasionally tiptoed to look around.

They were afraid of delaying the delivery of the freshly picked winter plum blossoms to the imperial kitchen.

Several palace maids carried copper basins filled with freshly starched silk fabric for palace lanterns.

They made quick, light steps towards the east and west side halls.

The gold thread embroidered on the silk shimmered with tiny sparkles in the snow.

Beside the stone steps at the corner of the palace, a young palace maid in a green jacket was squatting on the ground.

Carefully brushing away the snow from the bonsai,

He was muttering to himself:

"This pot of red plum blossoms is the Empress Dowager's most precious treasure."

"Don't let the branches freeze."

The two palace maids holding New Year's paper-cut window decorations nearby heard this.

Unable to resist striking up a conversation: "I heard that this year's New Year's Eve banquet..."

The Empress Dowager said she would bestow quite a few gold ingots as a reward.

And arrange annual leave, if we handle the job well,

Maybe I can get even more reward money to take home.

As soon as they finished speaking, they caught sight of the head maid walking away not far away.

They were all so startled that they quickly covered their mouths, exchanged knowing smiles,

But he quickened his pace.

"Xiao Yan, you lead the way quickly, I want to see what she's up to."

She spends all her time in the blacksmith's workshop; how can she give up her status as Empress Dowager?

Did he go and learn blacksmithing and weapon making to become a craftsman?

Mrs. Lin held the mischievous little devil in her arms,

He was cursing and swearing in the hallway.

Madam Liang, who was behind her, hurriedly followed behind while smiling apologetically.

"Oh dear! Third Sister-in-law, please don't get angry yet."

Let's figure things out first, no rush.

"I don't want to rush things either. Her second uncle came back last night and said..."

Tingya has been spending all her time in the blacksmith's workshop lately, neither attending the morning court session nor taking care of the baby.

Look, when we came into the palace this morning, this child was still being held by the wet nurse.

Xiao Yan, who was leading the way, was in a real bind.

On one side was her mistress, Empress Dowager Li Tingting, and on the other side were the Empress Dowager's two aunts.

Both sides are powerful figures, especially Madam Lin.

She was both the matriarch of a powerful and influential family and the person who raised Li Tingting single-handedly.

Naturally, she spoke with great confidence; she was astonished to hear that Li Tingting dared to neglect her duties.

Early that morning, he invited Lady Liang to storm into the palace.

"Ladies, please calm down. The Empress Dowager may be..."

Ah, maybe the flintlock pistols in the military camp are broken.

So I was in a hurry, and I rushed to fix it.

After all, those were weapons urgently needed in the military camp.

Xiao Yan thought about it and decided that she still needed to give her master some buffer zone.

To avoid her taking her anger out on me after being scolded by Madam Lin.

But she didn't know how to say it, and stammered for a long time.

In the end, they still managed to secure the best, and most perfect, excuse for Li Tingting.

Yes, the military camp urgently needs weapons, that's a good reason.

Upon hearing this, Madam Lin and Madam Liang immediately burst into laughter.

"What good would firing a gun do? Her second uncle once told me..."

In the barracks, it's not even as useful as a fire poker.

"That's right. Even if the weapon is broken, there are blacksmiths, aren't there?"

"How could the Empress Dowager, a figure of great stature, tinker with such things?"

After Mrs. Lin finished complaining, Mrs. Liang also laughed in exasperation.

As for Li Tingting herself, she had already gone to the blacksmith's workshop early on.

As soon as she entered the house, she buried herself in her AK47 project.

Last month, Wang Yuyan and Su Zihan visited Da Xia Interactive as a return visit.

After returning to Da Zhou, Li Tingting couldn't wait to start developing firearms.

For the past month or so, she has been working entirely in the blacksmith's workshop.

They managed to overcome the first major hurdle: converting a smoothbore to a rifled one.

Refined iron repeatedly quenched in the blacksmith's forge

Using his special forces experience from his previous life, he painstakingly filed out the spiral patterns.

The old problem of bullets flying everywhere has been solved;

Following this, the gunpowder formula was improved, eliminating the excessive smoke produced in the palace.

The weak gunpowder, relying on the formula from memory...

It was mixed with saltpeter from the Imperial Medical Academy and sulfur from the alchemy workshop.

They invented a new gunpowder with double the power;

Finally, they figured out the magazine feeding mechanism.

After dismantling more than a dozen quivers to make models, we finally got rid of the trouble of single-shot loading.

At that moment, she was squatting on the ground, clutching a fine file in her hand.

He carefully polished the unfinished gun barrel in front of him.

Beads of sweat trickled down his cheeks from his forehead.

It landed on the scorching hot iron and hissed, emitting white smoke.

Suddenly, Madam Lin and Madam Liang, along with several others, arrived outside the blacksmith's workshop.

Seeing the group approaching menacingly, several guards rushed forward to stop them.

"Your Excellencies, Her Majesty the Empress Dowager has decreed that no one is to approach."

It would be inconvenient for Mrs. Lin to lose her temper while holding the child.

She glanced at Madam Liang casually.

Upon seeing this, Madam Liang's face instantly turned cold.

He uttered only two extremely cold words, "Get out of the way!"

Upon hearing this, the guards quickly took a step back.

It's not that they weren't loyal enough to Li Tingting, but rather that they didn't want to die yet.

According to ancient court etiquette, even though Madam Lin and Madam Liang were elders of Empress Dowager Li Tingting,

They were not allowed to force their way into the ironworks where Li Tingting worked.

However, many of the palace guards were actually members of the Li family.

Those people were either related to the Li family or relied on the Li family's power.

Otherwise, it would have been impossible for him to become the head of the palace guards.

Therefore, as the Li family in the capital, Madam Lin and Madam Liang held absolute power.

Their words are the rule here.

Soon, everyone rushed into the house. Madam Lin took a closer look,

I was completely stunned; I was both annoyed and amused.

I couldn't help but exclaim, "Oh my! My darling!"

What are you trying to do? The Empress Dowager, a figure of immense power, is here in this ironworks?

"Looking all disheveled and dirty, what kind of appearance is that?"

Mrs. Liang looked at the messy, cat-like face on Li Tingting's face.

He laughed so hard he almost fell over, "Ting, are you going to switch careers and become a blacksmith?"

"Uh..." Li Tingting first looked up at the two of them.

Then he gave a slightly embarrassed, awkward laugh.

"Second Aunt, Third Aunt, what brings you here?"

"Why can't we come? Look at you, always fiddling with this thing."

What use is it? Isn't this a craftsman?

You skip the morning court session and don't even take care of the kids. Is this acceptable?

Li Tingting simply gave a brief reply, but was met with a fierce counterattack from Madam Lin.

Upon hearing this, Madam Liang immediately pulled Madam Lin away and glared at Li Tingting.

"Ting, why don't you go out and wash your face?"

Look how angry you've made your second aunt!"