Gasp! She's a Time Traveler Using Modern Tech to Improve Ancient Life-Chapter 749 - 744: Lin Wanwan’s Guard Captain Arrives

Chapter 749: Chapter 744: Lin Wanwan’s Guard Captain Arrives

As for those fermentation powders, let them be public, Lin Wanwan doesn’t care; after all, the Lin Family Manor has long ceased making money from them.

Thus, she had the Haydong Qing send a small note of agreement back with Xiao Chong.

Meanwhile, in the main hall of the County Government, Xiao Chong had just finished a court case and returned to Qinshenqing Hall for a little rest, brewing tea while listening to regular reports from subordinates.

"Are you sure that’s a Hu person?" Xiao Chong glanced up at the subordinate.

"To Xiao Mingfu, I saw very clearly. The leader was eight feet tall, high nose, deep eyes, with strangely colored pupils, very much like those Hu Shang at the wharf, definitely not a Han descendant."

"Hmm, continue."

"After passing through Wang Hucao, these people went straight to Le’an County Lord Mansion and then had a conflict with the group tracking them outside the Lin Mansion.

Though that Hu person was young, he was ruthless, with quick blade skills; by the time we calculated to move in, the trackers had already retreated, leaving only a pool of blood on the ground, likely with a grim outcome."

Those subordinates spoke of it with a hint of yearning on their faces.

Xiao Chong’s actions remained uninterrupted, he said blandly: "Got it, step back."

"Yes."

Once the subordinates were far off, Shuqí, who had silently stood by, spoke up: "Langjun, should I investigate the Hu person matter thoroughly? There must be detailed information at Wang Hucao."

"No need, since they’ve come to rely on the Lin Mansion, I’ll simply write and ask my cousin."

"Yes," Shuqí responded.

After a slight pause, Shuqí continued: "Langjun, those people might have alerted the snake by beating the grass."

Xiao Chong spoke indifferently: "No worries, I’ve already investigated those people thoroughly. Not touching them was just to catch the leader first. Now that the Village Lady’s people have discovered them, it might be good to stir things up a bit, show some fangs."

"Then, should we still capture the ones behind it?"

"Capture them, capture them today. Go, the task is yours."

Shuqí took the order and quickly responded before leaving.

Soon after Shuqí had gone, Dugu Di came to find Xiao Chong again.

The County Magistrate truly has no free moment. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

"Zifang, the flat furnace has been roughly built according to your drawings; when will you have time to take a look?"

"With Xiwen keeping an eye on it, there’s no need for me to worry further," Xiao Chong poured a cup of tea for Dugu Di, placing it across the table, motioning him to sit.

After obtaining the all-encompassing Divine Book, Xiao Chong himself focused mostly on civic issues, such as various foods, while assigning Dugu Di tasks related to steelmaking.

The flat furnace Dugu Di spoke of is a kind of steel furnace, originally invented in 1864 in his time.

Flat furnaces have heat storage chambers, enabling the melting pool to reach temperatures over sixteen hundred degrees, needed to melt scrap steel.

Of course, in addition to the flat furnace, suitable fuel is required. The charcoal and coal currently used in the Great Tang are not ideal fuels, each having obvious disadvantages.

Nevertheless, Xiao Chong was not in a hurry; matters need to be addressed step by step.

Dugu Di was working on the flat furnace, while Xiao Ce had been sent to research coke.

Ultimately, what weighed heavy in Xiao Chong’s mind was the development of weaponry. The dream of riding freely into battle was relentless.

The importance of good steel in the era of cold weapon warfare is self-evident.

The book sent by Lin Wanwan, to Xiao Chong, was akin to a divine book, he hadn’t stopped studying it for even a moment these days.

In fact, during reading, Xiao Chong discovered something quite peculiar. It seemed the book was infused with an urgent sensation.

The writer appeared driven by a belief to force-feed the most substantive knowledge into people using the simplest and most straightforward words.

An eagerness to teach everyone all they had learned at once, and then work together to escape poverty and weakness.

But as far as Xiao Chong observed Lin Wanwan, her easeful demeanor absolutely couldn’t have been fostered by an era of anxiety.

Thus, he speculated, these books must be from quite a few years before Lin Wanwan’s time.

The book’s outlook on future warfare, with terms like space technology, information technology, microelectronics, atomic nuclear energy, and cruise missiles.

Even someone as smart as Xiao Chong couldn’t imagine what those technologies really were.

Fourteen hundred years into the future, truly bewildering!

After traveling for a month from Chang’an to Mao County, Baye Feng finally arrived at Le’an Village Lady Lin Wanwan’s mansion.

Only after entering the mansion did he find he had come empty, as Lin Wanwan didn’t reside here these days.

However, he wasn’t in a hurry.

The other side clearly knew of his presence long ago; just like in the Chang’an Manor, this mansion had personnel specially assigned to receive him.

That person even asked him why it took so long to arrive in Mao County, whether something had happened along the way.

Indeed something did happen; Baye Feng found it odd that Han Land could have so many highway robbers.

He originally imagined the Great Tang would be chaotic only in their Anxi region, with other places laden with gold and everywhere filled with dancing and singing.

Unexpectedly, the journey showed many homeless savages lurking in mountains and forests, raiding travelers.

He initially thought of hastening his journey to Mao County to serve, but plans couldn’t keep up with changes; he spent the entire trip fighting through challenges.

Upon finally arriving in Mao County, and learning about the Lin Mansion, he even found thugs spying outside the mansion.

What was there to hesitate about, Baye Feng drew his sword instantly to set those people straight.

If not for not wanting to be jailed immediately upon arriving in Mao County, Baye Feng would have certainly gathered a couple of names, upholding justice.

This day, because the sky had darkened, the goods he brought were already sent into the warehouse.

Now Baye Feng only wanted to gather his energy well, to follow the household servants tomorrow to meet someone at Lin Family Manor in Wanghai Town.

Hope that the people he intended to serve wouldn’t be too extravagant.

Lin Wanwan had actually been waiting for Baye Feng’s arrival these past days, the calculated dates should match now.

Lin Wanwan believed that the young man from the grasslands will definitely become the sharpest sword in her hand.

The position of guard commander at the base in the mountains is reserved for Baye Feng, as for his sister, surely she would be sent to the academy to study.

Regarding the women with remarkable combat power at Xingluo, Lin Wanwan preferred to keep them by her side. Not only could she monitor their anomalies, but they could also protect her, achieving two purposes at once.

Compared to her own picked younger men, the people at Xingluo definitely weren’t counted as direct lineage.

Tonight, many were curious about the Hu person entering Lin Wanwan’s house at Xiao Creek Town, with various inquiries.

Yet Lin Wanwan was completely unaware of it, relaxedly finishing her dinner, sipping several cups of corn cob wine, and was planning to shut the room’s doors and windows, traveling through time back to the modern era.