Reborn girl from poor family

Chapter 94 Qingmei comes to help (2)

"May I ask where Mr. Shen is employed and how to write his name?" Yuan Yutao's voice turned cold.

"Shen Huai, I will take up a sinecure position in the Hanlin Academy." Shen Huai responded calmly as if nothing had happened.

Yuan Yutao looked shocked. He gave Su Ya a sharp look before saying, "So you are Shen Hanlin from the capital."

"Brother Yuan is well-informed."

"Zhou's house exploded and people died on the tidal flat. Everyone in the city knows about this," Yuan Yutao said: "I occasionally help in the Miscellaneous Manufacturing Bureau. I heard yesterday that you had summoned people from the Ordnance Bureau, but you didn't find out the clues. ?”

"There is no source of this pig iron in the Ordnance Bureau's files."

"They don't know, how could I know?"

Yuan Yutao refused, turned to Su Ya, and said reproachfully, "Are you so brave now? Are you willing to get involved in anything?"

What he meant was to warn Su Ya not to mix things up.

"I can't help it," Su Ya said with a smile: "The group who threw the gunpowder bombs took Uncle Liu away. Mr. Shen was blocked on the beach to save Uncle Liu."

Yuan Yutao was greatly surprised, his eyebrows slowly rose, his face became a little scary, and he asked in a deep voice: "Then where did you hurt your leg?"

"I was injured when they chased me on the boat." Su Ya had no intention of hiding it. With Yuan Yutao's mind and character, if he kept such an important matter from him, he would probably fall out immediately.

In a few words, Liu Sandian was arrested for Xue Jun. After being released from prison, he treated Shen Huai's illness. Later, he was kidnapped for unknown reasons. Shen Huai and himself went to rescue, but were blocked on the beach. A series of events followed the sequence After everything was said, Yuan Yutao's face became darker and darker the more he listened, and in the end he was almost livid.

"...That's about it," Su Ya blinked her eyes and said flatteringly: "The matter has come to this, if we don't find these people now, let alone Uncle Liu, I won't be able to escape. Today I have been hiding secretly Those who go out in the carriage will not dare to get out of the car until they stop at your door."

She blinked and blinked, and almost said: So, please help me!

The flattery was palpable, and Shen Huai looked on from the side, which was very annoying and he coughed heavily.

Yuan Yutao rolled his eyes and looked at the two people in front of him. One had an injured leg and the other had an injured shoulder. He immediately felt soreness in the roots of his teeth and felt a pain in his heart. He asked Su Ya: "You and this Mr. Shen have only known each other for more than a month, why do you have such a bad relationship?" Dare you be involved so deeply?"

"It's a long story," Su Ya said with a wry smile, "Let me tell you about it later, but let's talk about the hidden weapon first."

Now that he knew that Su Ya was involved, Yuan Yutao no longer shied away. He stood up and took out a fist-sized iron block from the drawer at the back and placed it next to the two hidden weapons on the table. "Look."

Shen Huai's expression straightened and he picked up the iron block and looked at it. Su Ya immediately moved closer to take a closer look. She only felt that this iron block seemed to have many connections with the two hidden weapons, such as color and texture. She also felt that the iron blocks should be roughly similar. , just as he was thinking about it, he heard Shen Huai say with certainty: "This is the same batch."

Yuan Yutao was obviously a little surprised. Isn't this person a scholar? He actually has some understanding?

"Pig iron is brittle and can be cast but not malleable. It is often used to make firearm bases and gun barrels. Each batch has slight differences," Shen Huai said, not to show off. "My ancestors were also in the military. My grandfather loved weapons and once took me with him. I identified it carefully."

Su Ya and Yuan Yutao couldn't help but look at Shen Huai in surprise.

According to court regulations, all military households must be hereditary. If there are many sons in each generation, the eldest son will be enrolled in the military. After the eldest son dies, the second son will be naturalized, and so on, until the family is extinct. For example, Su Ya's family has no male sons, and they are free. , but Yuan Yutao is still free because his elder brother is An Ran.

In this way, the inheritance of military households bound by generations, unless they have military merit or other accumulation, and the descendants can be more blessed, otherwise they will be trapped in the garrison for life, fighting in the north and south, and when corruption is rampant, they often cannot even get military pay. In time, or even deducted, the families of military households were really miserable at this time. Soldiers like Cao Bing who traveled north and south on the canal every year even had to pay the fees out of their own pockets, so nine out of ten people had a The dream of deportation.

Everything is low-grade, but if you have a good academic record, if you want to get out of the military, there is another way besides running away, which is to take the imperial examination.

The Shen Huai family obviously followed the most noble path.

Su Ya thought to herself, it turns out that this person has some connection with her, maybe her ancestors fought side by side many years ago.

Yuan Yutao didn't say anything. He just continued the topic, turned the iron block over, pointed to the small words cast on it below, and said: "This batch is the one who just entered the Zazao Bureau recently. "

"So, shouldn't there be one in the Ordnance Bureau?" Su Yaqi asked, "Why did the steward and the chief military engineer say there wasn't one?"

"They didn't lie. This batch only entered the miscellaneous manufacturing bureau."

Yuan Yutao checked the two hidden weapons and said: "This hidden weapon is not cast in batches. It is of different sizes and shapes. It is obviously leftover scraps."

"Is it easy to take out the scraps from the miscellaneous manufacturing bureau?"

"Same as the Ordnance Bureau, they must be registered in the books and dare not leak out."

"Who will manage this batch of waste?" Shen Huai asked.

"The manager of the Zazao Bureau, Lao Zhaotou." Yuan Yutao said, "He is also an old subordinate of the boss, Lai Guojin, and is quite trustworthy."

When Su Ya heard this, she hesitated to speak. Shen Huai had always had her in his sight. He glanced at her calmly, chatted with Yuan Yutao for a few more words, and prepared to leave.

But Yuan Yutao asked them to wait and went into the back room. After a while, he came out with a small cloth bag and stuffed it into Su Ya's hand. "You hurt your leg and can't go out to work. It just so happens that my brother misses your craftsmanship. I'll clean up the work in the iron shop in the past two days, and then go to your house to find food. You can take this."

Su Ya opened the mouth of the bag and found a bag of scattered silver.

She was immediately dumbfounded. This money was enough for Yuan Yutao to live for three to five months, right?

"Brother Yuan..."

When she was about to return it, Yuan Yutao glared and said, "Ask Aunt Yan to buy you some supplements for the rest. Since you are being targeted, your home must not be safe. I can keep watch over there, so I will leave some firewood." Just give me a room to sleep in."

"But……"

Before Su Ya could explain, a hand came over to hold her hand down——

"Ya'er, this is Brother Yuan's heartfelt wish. You just accept my brother's love." Shen Huai said slowly, "I will ask Gao Jun to send some gifts in return to Brother Yuan later."

"What nonsense are you talking about? You're still in high spirits, aren't you!" Su Ya rolled her eyes, not giving in to his drama at all, and said, "I handle my own affairs by myself, why do you need to give me a gift in return!"

Ever since he met Yuan Yutao, this guy has been saying "ya'er" in return and sometimes returning the favor. Do you really think she is someone easy to rub?

Shen Huai's face darkened, but Su Ya stared back and mouthed: "Be honest!"

She glared so well that Shen Huai could detect a hint of embarrassment, and then he curled up the corner of his mouth and fell silent.

Seeing that he was honest, Su Ya turned to Yuan Yutao and said, "Brother Yuan, my mother and I have not been living at home these days. We are very safe."

She took out two pieces of broken silver from the cloth bag and stuffed the rest into Yuan Yutao, "I'll have enough to buy delicious food here, you don't have to worry about it."

Yuan Yutao saw the two of them going back and forth, silently took the bag and put her on the carriage. Before leaving, he threw the bag in through the door curtain and said, "I'll see you in a few days."

They arrived in such a low-key manner that Su Ya couldn't chase them out. She watched Yuan Yutao striding back to the iron shop through the gap in the curtain with her mouth agape.

"Tsk, tsk," Shen Huai sighed behind him: "Falling flowers are intentional, flowing water is ruthless, this brother is too stubborn and not suitable for you."

"You don't need to worry about it," Su Ya looked back at Shen Huai while holding the bag, "The owner of the Zazao Bureau, Lai Guojin, is the natal brother of Cao Kaihe's seventh aunt."

I’m very diligent today. Are you surprised or surprised?~

(End of chapter)