I am cannon fodder, but I can hug thighs

Lin Jin's ears turned red. She had indeed not seen Song Shiqiu for a long time. Although they had occasionally exchanged letters in the past few months, her longing for him still burst out when they met.

When the end of the world is endless, there is only Acacia endlessly.

"Why isn't Huaining here? Since you're here, Huaining should have been here too." Lin Jin didn't know that Tu Huaining had followed Xi Lilong north, so she quickly changed the subject and started asking her.

Song Shiqiu's gaze fell on Yan Wusheng. This man's face was unfamiliar, he had never seen him before, but he came back with Lin Jin and the others.

"Hmm? Song Shiqiu?" Lin Jin poked his face and asked him to answer her.

"She went with the Yuanyang Army." Song Shiqiu retracted his gaze and explained in a gentle voice, "The Yuanyang Army has very few military doctors, so they let her go with them."

Lin Jin said with some worry: "The Yuanyang Army has already headed north? But I haven't brought alcohol and other things for them, and my nurses."

She was in such a hurry because of this, but when she finally brought the nurses out, the army had already left.

"Then we'll go with Su Cheng'an's army." Song Shiqiu took her hand and frowned slightly, "Why is it so cold? Didn't I send you fox fur gloves? Why don't you wear them?"

Lin Jin groaned twice and gave her gloves to Xunmian and Xing'er. They had to take turns holding the baby and she was afraid that her cold hands would freeze the baby.

Thinking of the child, Lin Jin felt like she was going to die. She did not tell Song Shiqiu about this and ended up bringing the child back.

"My Lord... I... I picked up a child on the road." Lin Jin lowered her head in shame. She originally didn't want to bring the child back, but the child didn't know if it hadn't drunk enough Meng Po soup, so it recognized people and insisted on following her back, otherwise it would cry. "Well... send the child to the Taoist temple later."

"It depends on what you want. If you don't want to send him to a Taoist temple, it's fine for you to keep him by your side as a housewife." Song Shiqiu felt that these were just trivial matters.

Lin Jin heard that he turned the child from an ordinary person into a slave with just one sentence, and she didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Forget it, I plan to find a pair of parents for him and see if there are any who are willing to adopt him and have a good relationship with him."

This was her plan from the beginning, but the people in Taiyuan Prefecture had just suffered a disaster, so no one was willing to raise another child.

But it is impossible for her to raise a child by herself. She doesn't even want to give birth, let alone raise a child.

"Okay, I'll do as you say." Song Shiqiu took the umbrella handed over by the servant, "It's cold outside, let's go back first."

Lin Jin was about to say that there were still people who hadn't been arranged, but Song Shiqiu seemed to know what she was going to say: "You don't need to do these small things. The others are just sitting there to eat and do nothing. You need to do it yourself."

"Just let others do what they can do, you don't need to worry about it." Song Shiqiu dispelled Lin Jin's concerns with just one sentence, "It's because my subordinates are so unreliable that you don't even dare to let go."

Lin Jin: “…”

Did she feel like there was something else behind Song Shiqiu's words?

No, she must be overthinking it.

Because of the snow, the snow on the ground was thick and the carriage was not easy to move. Song Shiqiu came out on horseback, and the road was not far, so the two of them planned to walk back. Liu Zhengqing had already led the others into the city on horseback, leaving only a string of horse hoof prints on the snow.

"By the way, I got the kerosene out when I came back." Lin Jin told him what happened along the way. It was beyond her expectations to discover that kerosene could be refined in the oil field, but it was a happy event anyway.

"What is this kerosene used for? It sounds like it's probably lamp oil." When Song Shiqiu heard the word coal, he guessed that it must not be edible. "Taiyuan Prefecture does have a lot of coal mines."

"No, kerosene is extracted from petroleum and was discovered in Jingzhao County. But it is indeed not edible."

Lin Jin enumerated the uses of kerosene, but it was mostly used to make kerosene lamps. The oil lamps used nowadays are made from animal and plant oils, which are relatively precious and not everyone can afford them.

"How's the winery going?" Lin Jin actually taught Song Shiqiu the method of refining alcohol. He didn't know what level of alcohol could be produced with current technology. "Can you make alcohol and iodine?"

Although the purity of alcohol may not be as high as that of medical alcohol, it should still be possible to make it. It is harder to say about iodine tincture and iodine solution. After all, although iodine can be extracted from kelp, potassium dichromate is also needed, and potassium dichromate has to be extracted from chromite.

"I'll take you to the winery tomorrow." Song Shiqiu tilted the umbrella a little towards Lin Jin to prevent the fine snow from hitting Lin Jin.

Lin Jin noticed his movements and laughed: "To be honest, this is the first time I've seen snow this year. It never snowed in my hometown before."

I have the money to travel to the north but never have the time. I want to see snow but have never seen it in person.

"Like the snow scene?" Song Shiqiu raised his eyebrows slightly.

Lin Jin thought about it and shook her head: "I used to be curious about snow. I didn't know what it looked like. I had only seen it in books and on TV. But now that I see it, I feel that it is just like that. There is nothing special about it."

"I still prefer autumn. When I think of autumn, I think of the harvest season, with lots of fruits and vegetables." Lin Jin is obsessed with winter only because of the snow, but she sincerely yearns for autumn.

Abundant fruits, fragrant golden osmanthus, bumper harvest... Just because she learned a sentence in her childhood that autumn is the season of harvest, she fell in love with autumn. She always felt that as long as autumn came, all her efforts would pay off.

Song Shiqiu was stunned when he heard this, and suddenly he seemed to understand why: "But you have been doing disaster relief this autumn, and you haven't rested."

"But I have already gotten what I wanted." Lin Jin was very satisfied with this autumn. "How was the autumn exam this year?"

"The one named Yin Fushu took the top spot." Song Shiqiu was a little surprised. According to the information he had found, Yin Fushu had been dull for more than ten years, but immediately became smart after hitting his head. He knew everything about astronomy and geography, which was truly amazing.

I'm afraid that something strange happened to Yin Fushu, just like Lin Jin and the others.

Lin Jin smiled absentmindedly. She didn't want to hear Yin Fushu's name right now. She didn't find it strange at all that he was at the top of the list. She would find it strange if he didn't get the top spot.

"Besides her? Is there no one else?"

"There is another one named Feng Yuan, who is quite knowledgeable. However, some parts of her articles are too extreme. She has already taken sides before she even became an official. Although she is knowledgeable, she is not suitable to be a female official." Song Shiqiu shook his head slightly. The literary talents of these two people are outstanding, but there is something wrong with them.

But if he really had to choose between the two, he would still choose the former. Whether in terms of article insights or writing skills, Yin Fushu was much better than Feng Yuan.

However, although the results of the Autumn Examination have been announced, whether one can pass the examination still depends on the Spring Examination. After all, the list of the Autumn Examination is only for Jingzhao County. In recent years, many women's academies have been opened in other prefectures and counties. It is not like three years ago when there was only one women's academy in the capital. If there is no women's academy, a girl can also take the examination if she can get a recommendation from the prefect.

It is not easy to get this letter of recommendation. One must have real talent and knowledge. The essay would be mixed in with the papers of the men's examination for the students of Tongsheng. Women who had passed the examination would claim their own essays and then take them to the prefect. The prefect would then write a letter of recommendation. In this way, even if there was no women's academy, one could still participate in the autumn examination.

However, the prefectures and counties without women's academies did not set up examination halls. Women from remote areas who wanted to take the exam could only travel through mountains and rivers to the nearest place, and would only be eligible to enter if they submitted their recommendation letters one month before the autumn examination.