Spring comes to the desperate place

Chapter 351 Large Firecrackers

No one else knew that Feng Shichang had been here except Gu Fengyun and his wife, Song Chunlin himself, and the guards and servants. After seeing Feng Shichang off, Song Chunlin did not return to the courtyard where the Song family lived. He always lived directly in Gu Fengyue's house here, so when the Song family got up the next morning, they did not notice that another big thing had happened in the Marquis' Mansion last night.

Only Old Madam Su noticed that her son was always distracted while eating at the breakfast table. However, she thought that her son was tired from entertaining guests yesterday, so she didn't think much about it and even came over to remind her son to take care of himself.

"It's dangerous for a woman to give birth, and it's even more difficult for you brothers to give birth. You have to take good care of your body so that you can live a long life. Don't be like mother. Not only did you not take good care of the confinement period, but you and your elder brother were not even six months old when I was already bedridden. Fortunately, I had the ginseng that the marquis gave me. I only ate some of the ginseng roots and my body got much better. I didn't get sick much last winter."

Su Fuqing smiled but said nothing. He didn't dare tell his mother that the ginseng was put into the chicken soup he usually cooked for her. The ginseng hired by Gu Fengyun had been eaten up long ago, and what he gave her now was the second-rate ginseng in the warehouse. However, if he took the first-rate ginseng this time to sell in a medicine shop outside, he was afraid that it would be a top-grade product that could be sold at a sky-high price.

Su Fuqing was not a doctor, but he was not stupid. He could certainly see that those ginsengs were not ordinary ones. He just didn't understand why there were so many top-grade ginsengs in the warehouse of the Marquis' Mansion.

The Song family did not leave until they had lunch at the Marquis' Mansion. Song Chunlin did not follow them. He went to the military camp. The place where Feng Shichang was thrown was not far from the military camp. He received instructions from Gu Fengyun to find Feng Shichang there and interrogate him about how he had managed to sneak into the Marquis' Mansion. You must know that since Feng Shichang came out of prison, Gu Fengyun had sent people to inquire about Feng Shichang's current situation. At that time, Feng Shichang had just been out of prison not long ago. He was penniless and had no home. He had nowhere to go and finally had to become a beggar.

The spy sent by Gu Fengyun said that Feng Shichang was down and out and had fallen to the point of competing with dogs for food. But when he saw Feng Shichang yesterday, he was dressed neatly. He didn't remember asking the housekeeper to give these temporary servants a bath, so Feng Shichang had to wash himself. But as a beggar, where did he get the money to take a bath in a bathhouse?

In late autumn, it was even more impossible for him to risk going to the river to wash, as catching typhoid fever by accident could cost him his life.

Gu Fengyun thought about it over and over again and did not sleep well the whole night. His intuition told him that there must be someone else behind this, but he had not yet found out who was behind it. He felt uneasy, so he called Song Chunlin to the study early in the morning and asked him to go find Feng Shichang.

Song Chunlin first used his mental power to sense it. Very good, the old man was still alive, but he was breathing out more than breathing in. He had now crawled to a puddle and was drinking the rain water in the pit to quench his thirst.

I have to say that this old man is really lucky and should be able to hold on until he gets out of that pit.

Song Chunlin's mental attack is also limited by distance. The farther the distance, the greater the side effects it will bring to him. Song Chunlin didn't want to cause trouble for himself, so he could only trouble his legs and walk slowly.

He walked all the way towards the military camp. The Song family thought he was just there to report for duty and didn't take it seriously. They just told him to come back early. Song Chunlin said yes and left.

Song Chunlin was a fast walker and had a car, so he soon arrived at the foot of the mountain where the pit was. He tried the distance and it seemed okay, not too far, so he immediately used his supernatural powers to attack Feng Shichang's spiritual sea.

Feng Shichang, who was lying unconscious on the ground, suddenly twitched twice. His eyes opened and closed, and when he opened them again, the spirit in his eyes disappeared instantly, and he became like a newborn baby, ignorant and confused.

Song Chunlin, who had already obtained Feng Shichang's memory at the foot of the mountain, was in a trance for a moment. He stood there for a long time before he dug out a long-lost name from the depths of his memory.

"King Pingnan? How could it be him? He has lived in the south for a long time. Logically, he shouldn't be so long-reaching. Moreover, why would he use Feng Shichang to get rid of the young master?" Song Chunlin was a poor student. He thought about it for a long time but couldn't figure it out. So he simply gave up thinking about it. So he wrote this title on a piece of paper and let the vines send it all the way to Gu Fengyun.

Unlike Song Chunlin's doubts, the moment Gu Fengyun saw the note, he realized that everything was traceable. Ever since the people from Southeast Asia came to steal grain seeds, Prince Pingnan had been planning something. However, Gu Fengyun did not dare to think about his specific intentions. He just sat on the stool from dawn to dusk, and did not return to the Marquis' Mansion until late at night.

Su Fuqing had finally coaxed the child to sleep, but he noticed that Gu Fengyun, who rarely came home late recently, had not returned yet tonight. He couldn't help feeling worried. Just when he wanted to send someone to the Ministry of Justice to ask what had happened, Gu Fengyun came back shivering with cold.

"Why are you back so late? Do you have any difficult official business to attend to?"

Gu Fengyun didn't look into his eyes, but just hummed softly.

His silence tonight made Su Fuqing think that he was really facing a very difficult case, although it was not wrong to think so.

The next day, Song Chunlin rarely met Gu Fengyun in the military camp. As soon as the two met, Gu Fengyun went straight to the point and asked him if he could increase the military strength of Dajing Capital in a short period of time.

Song Chunlin was confused by his question: "Increase the strength of the troops? I'm not, I can't do that. At most, I just read from the book and train them according to some of the basics I have seen. If I really want to improve their individual combat capabilities, uh... it will probably take another year or two."

"One year."

"What?" Song Chunlin couldn't help but pick his ears, somewhat unable to believe what he heard.

"Just one year, no more, Chunlin, this situation is urgent, we must prepare early."

"No, brother, what happened? Is it related to what happened last night?"

Gu Fengyun nodded. He didn't want to say anything else. The more Song Chunlin knew, the more dangerous it would be. This kid was a reckless person. He was always the first to rush forward when encountering danger. He and Fengyue had not yet been married. He didn't want her to encounter any danger. How would he explain to his brother then?

Seeing that he didn't want to say anything more, Song Chunlin stopped asking and could only promise him that after a year, he would improve his combat power as much as he could, and at worst he could use plug-ins.

When Gu Fengyun saw that Song Chunlin agreed, he breathed a sigh of relief. After repeatedly telling him not to tell anyone, he hurried away.

After watching the other party leave, Song Chunlin put away his usual nonchalant expression, then clapped his hands and sharpened his knife to kill the pigs and sheep.

So the three thousand archers were the first to suffer, because they found that the people who used to fish for three days and rest for two days suddenly became extremely diligent, coming to urge them to get up and train before dawn every day. They were simply not human beings.

Even the Song family gradually noticed that something was wrong with Song Chunlin's abnormality. Song Dazhuang looked at his son who went out early and came back late every day, and felt that he seemed to be too diligent.

Not long after Song Chunlin started working diligently, he received feedback from the Lin family.

All the books that he had asked the publishing house to print were handed over to the ancestor of the Lin family. Mathematics, physics and chemistry, which the ancestor had never been exposed to, made the old man completely fascinated. However, because there was no systematic teaching, everything was figured out by everyone slowly. It was not until the other members of the Lin family could no longer bear it and mobilized the disciples of the Lin family to study and discuss together that they gradually sorted out the thread.

Hearing that the Lin family had already completed the most basic courses, Song Chunlin couldn't help but admire this group of persevering ancient people. Who said that the ancients were all stupid? They were not stupid at all. At least they were many times smarter than him, a poor student.

So Song Chunlin quickly had another batch of textbooks printed and asked the Lin family to mobilize their students to recruit more students. Unexpectedly, they actually discovered several promising students studying science, including a young lady and a young boy.

The ancestor of the Lin family originally did not want to accept the two children. In the end, it was only after other family members of the Lin family came to beg him that he reluctantly agreed to let the young lady and the young boy go to school together.

When Song Chunlin heard this, he felt a little complicated. He originally thought that the old man of the Lin family was a very open-minded old man, but he didn't expect that the old man also had such a feudal and pedantic side. On the contrary, the family members of the Lin family were eye-opening.

Yes, since it is inconvenient for outsiders to come to study, why not let their own family members study by themselves?

Thinking of this, he immediately grabbed General Lin and told him his thoughts.

"Let our family members study together? Is that possible?" General Lin seemed a little hesitant. "I'm not trying to discourage you, Chunlin. My ancestors are actually quite reasonable. The girls and boys in our family have all been educated and can read, but none of them really study. Are you sure they really want to learn this?"

Song Chunlin glared at him: "You haven't even gone back to ask, how do you know they don't want to?"

General Lin scratched his head in embarrassment. "But when I was a kid, I studied with my sisters and brothers. They didn't like to learn those things. The things in these books are even more profound than those. Can they really read them?"

Song Chunlin was somewhat speechless: "Everything depends on human effort, but if you don't do it, how can you know the result? Go ahead, show them the most basic first. Besides, it's been so long since you took these textbooks back, how do you know that none of them are interested in this? Maybe some, but because you subconsciously think that they shouldn't learn these, they dare not ask, and thus miss out?"

Seeing that General Lin was still hesitating, he could not help but add one more sentence: "Confucius said: When three people walk together, there must be one who can be my teacher. This means that there must be something worth learning from others. This "other" does not only include men, but also girls and boys. Oh, and young ladies."

General Lin: “…” Is this the explanation for this sentence?

But no matter what, Song Chunlin managed to convince General Lin and successfully recruited a number of people who were interested in mathematics, physics and chemistry within the Lin family. Not to mention, the Lin family really has some of the blood of Wenquxing in them, and many of the Lin family's descendants are thirsty for these new knowledge.

It was also because of the Lin family's deep-rooted ideas that the girls and boys did not dare to borrow textbooks from the boys in the family. This time, with the encouragement of General Lin and the tacit approval of the Lin family's ancestor, the Lin family was filled with a strong academic atmosphere for a long time.

And the Lin family lived up to everyone's expectations. Finally, someone made gunpowder into the simplest bomb.

Song Chunlin ran over to take a look. The bomb was just placed in a bamboo tube and looked like a large firecracker. Its performance was not stable. Among the ten large firecrackers, six were duds, and only two of the remaining four exploded successfully. Two of them had their fuses not connected properly, one exploded prematurely and almost injured the person who lit it by mistake, and one fell off halfway through burning, resulting in an extremely embarrassing scene.

However, this result is already very good. Song Chunlin put forward some suggestions and wanted them to improve it into the kind of artillery that can be fired out, so that the range can be longer, so that they can strike the enemy by surprise.

On the way back, General Lin said nothing until he reached the gate of the military camp, then he started to ask Song Chunlin.

"Do you have any inside information? Are we going to fight again?"

Song Chunlin thought for a moment and shook his head at him.

"I don't know if there will be a war, but the situation at the border is tense right now. I recently heard from the Marquis that the Turks over there are very close to the Jin people, and the Xiongnu are also unwilling to give up. Instead of guarding against thieves all day long, it is better to strengthen ourselves. As for whether there will be a war or not... Don't worry, you will never go to the battlefield."

General Lin wilted when this was mentioned. His parents died early, leaving him as their only child. The Lin family's ancestor was afraid that his son's family line would be destroyed in his hands. Therefore, even though he became a general, he had never been to the battlefield. He felt guilty about being a general.

The Lin family has many uncles, aunts and brothers, and they have even more disciples and grandchildren, not to mention that many of them are already serving as officials in the court. As long as these people unite, he will never be able to go to the battlefield. He might be caught by his family as soon as he sets out. Even worse, they might find a person from an innocent family and force him to leave his offspring first.

Of course, that was the worst-case scenario, and General Lin didn't want to challenge the entire Lin family for the time being.

Song Chunlin looked at his depressed look and patted his shoulder in a mature manner.

"Don't worry, Brother Lin. I've already been to places you can't go to. I've already killed thousands of barbarians you can't kill. You can rest assured."

General Lin rolled his eyes and said thank you, but he didn't feel comforted.