Chapter 1495: Northwest
Chapter 1495: Chapter 1495: Northwest
Gu Jinli was stunned, and after realizing it, she quickly grabbed him: "No need for medicine, I’m fine."
Come on, don’t do such embarrassing things, I’ll explode!
Qin San Lang saw her looking like she wanted to find a hole to crawl into, smiled helplessly, sat back down, and hugged her to comfort her: "We’re a married couple, Xiao Yu, there’s no need to be shy."
Gu Jinli was angry: "I’m not shy, it’s just..."
Just what, she couldn’t find the right words at the moment.
Qin San Lang cleverly replied: "Hmm, Xiao Yu isn’t shy, I won’t get the medicine, don’t worry."
Gu Jinli, hearing this, finally felt happy.
Qin San Lang, concerned for her, took the chance while she was happy to ask bravely: "Xiao Yu, does it hurt a lot? Don’t get angry first, it’s serious, I don’t want to hurt you."
Last night he was too reckless, and when he woke up this morning and saw the marks on her body, he was shocked.
But her skin was good, and when he looked again in the afternoon, the marks had faded a lot, no longer green and purple, but a faint red.
Gu Jinli glared at him through gritted teeth, but knowing he was really worried, she spoke in a gentle tone: "It only hurts a little, much better than the wedding night, I’m fine, don’t worry. Now move aside, don’t block me from finding the dumpling."
After speaking, she pushed him away, persistently searching the bed for her fallen dumpling.
Qin San Lang chuckled at this, bent down to pick up a dumpling from the floor, and held it out to her: "Stop looking, it’s here."
Gu Jinli looked up and sure enough, it was her dumpling.
But it couldn’t be eaten, so Qin San Lang placed the dumpling on the table and replaced it with a clean one for her.
"Cabbage and egg filling, I mixed some vinegar sauce for you, eat up." Qin San Lang had finished last night’s dumplings, these dumplings were newly made, he used chopsticks to pick up a dumpling, dipped it in some vinegar sauce, and fed it to her mouth.
Gu Jinli, wrapped in blankets, opened her mouth to eat, after eating six, she stopped: "I’m full."
Qin San Lang laughed, pulled her over, and rubbed her stomach.
Gu Jinli glanced at his hand and said: "Doing this, won’t you set something off?"
"What do you mean?" Qin San Lang didn’t understand what she meant, just felt that rubbing her stomach was comfortable.
"Nothing." Gu Jinli wisely didn’t say those four words again, looking at the completely dark sky outside the window, she asked: "Are we leaving at noon tomorrow?"
Qin San Lang: "No, the time has changed, we’re leaving the day after tomorrow at dawn."
Originally, they planned to leave before noon tomorrow, but with accompanying soldiers, families, and children getting injured and sick, several Company Commanders and Chief Commanders gathered to discuss, and decided to delay another half day to allow the injured to recuperate well.
Gu Jinli asked: "Won’t it delay the journey?"
Due to the bandit incident, they had already delayed the journey by two days, and delaying the departure time might cause even more delays.
Qin San Lang said: "It won’t. Tomorrow everyone will prepare dry food, medicine, and water, so when we set off, we won’t waste too much time cooking, just heat them up and we’ll have more time to travel. And the injured soldiers, families, and children won’t be able to bear it, we have to let them rest, otherwise there’ll be fewer people once we reach the Northwest."
The soldiers and families from the Tianfu County Soldier Station were well protected, but those from other Soldier Stations had people who died on the road.
"Alright then, we’ll set off the day after tomorrow." Gu Jinli turned around, lying on his shoulder, closed her eyes.
Qin San Lang held her soft body and laughed: "Xiao Yu, are you tired? How about I take you out to have some fun?"
Gu Jinli opened her eyes and asked excitedly: "Where are we going to play?!"
"Just within the manor, let’s go." Qin San Lang found clothes for Gu Jinli to put on, then took out a beast skin cloak and put it on her, and gave her a beast skin hat and wrapped a thick scarf around, using it to cover her face: "This way is fine, no need for an acne patch."
Gu Jinli ran to the bronze mirror to look at herself, nodded: "Wrapped like a ball, only two eyes showing, definitely no need for an acne patch."
She turned back with a smile: "Let’s go!"
Qin San Lang picked her up and left the house, heading outside the courtyard, and only after passing through the second courtyard did he put her down.
Outside the main courtyard was a large open space, You An, You Ping, Uncle Mu Tong, Nanny Tao, Aunt Xiong, and nearly all the Gu Family servants were present.
You An, seeing them, ran over and asked: "Master, everything’s ready, can we start?"
Qin San Lang nodded: "Let’s start."
"Yes!" You An immediately walked over to talk to three people wearing straw raincoats and helmets.
Gu Jinli frowned and asked: "What new trick have you pulled behind my back?"
Qin San Lang held her hand and said: "You’ll find out soon."
Sure enough, not long after, a series of crisp yet rhythmic iron hitting sounds came. Those three people wearing straw raincoats and helmets moved and scooped something from a fire basin with an iron spoon, and struck the spoon with a wooden stick.
Boom—!
The molten iron from the spoon was struck into the air, scattering apart, countless golden sparks falling from the sky, looking like suddenly exploding fireworks, incredibly beautiful.
"So beautiful!" Xiao Ji, Siqing, Qing Pu and several maids exclaimed happily at the sight of the beautiful display.
"It’s iron flower throwing!" Gu Jinli exclaimed, looking at Qin San Lang and asked: "Where did you find these people? Stop it now, iron flower throwing can hurt people if not done by experts."
Though iron flower throwing looked beautiful, it was dangerous.
Qin San Lang smiled: "Don’t worry, these three are all servants from the manor, they used to make a living throwing iron flowers in their old home in the Northwest, they’re skilled and won’t hurt themselves."
Indeed, the three masters moved skillfully, dodging the scattered iron flowers and with helmets for protection, were not hurt at all.
However, Gu Jinli didn’t let them do it too many times, each did it three times, satisfying everyone’s eyes, then she had them stop.
"Stop now." Qin San Lang ordered and You An had the three stop, giving them a reward of ten taels of silver each.
"Thank you, Master." The three masters were very happy, as in their old home, after a night of iron flower throwing, covered in blisters, they wouldn’t earn a few taels of silver either.
Because iron was precious, they had to deduct the cost of buying iron, leaving them with little profit.
Aunt Xiong then instructed them: "Go to the main kitchen to get your meat, everything’s ready for you. Take the meat and enjoy a good meal with your families."
The three, hearing this, were even happier and followed Aunt Xiong to the main kitchen to get meat.
As soon as these three left, people from the Niu Family’s courtyard started heading over.
"Oh my, Company Commander Qin’s courtyard is throwing iron flowers, it looks great, let’s hurry, we should go have a look too!" Mrs. Kuang urged the women from various households to rush over.
Unfortunately, they came late, and by the time they reached the main courtyard gate, most people had already dispersed.
Qin San Lang had already taken Gu Jinli back to their living quarters.