Cub Nursery

The years are quiet and good, but that's all.

Yan Xun was tired from playing, and still went to pillow Jing Fengye's thigh.

Jing Fengye still arched his back, looking a little silly, Yan Xun pinched his handsome face into a mess, the dragon scale traces had lost all momentum, but those eyes were full of love.

"Are you saying that we respect each other like guests and raise our eyebrows?" Yan Xun asked with a smile.

The men, brothers and sisters sung in the opera all lived a good life after going through a lot of hardships, lived a harmonious life, had a group of descendants, and had a great family and a great career.

Jing Fengye had eavesdropped on the opera in Washeri, the capital city. The painted-faced brother on the stage sang in a melodious voice, while the richly dressed men in the audience laughed and threw gold and silver up.

"We should be." Jing Fengye said.

The people in the opera are not as smooth as the two of them, and the people in the opera are not as good-looking as Yan Xun.

Yan Xun laughed, "What kind of life do those opera singers live? They can still sing when they are young, but they can't be on stage when they are old. If they are lucky, they can climb into a wealthy family and be a concubine or a concubine. They Those who sing opera have to keep their figure, they dare not eat or drink, they are slender and slender, and they will still be like that when they get older, so they can't conceive a child, what else can they have without a child?"

"The people in the drama are still good." Jing Fengye said hastily.

"Of course I know that the operas sung are all good." Yan Xun suddenly said with a stern face, "Master Jing, do you think we are the actors in the operas, or the people in the operas?"

Seeing Yan Xun's earnest pursuit, Jing Fengye suddenly panicked.

He felt that he should be a person in the drama, but he also thought that he was actually a monster, and Yan Xun was not a god made in heaven, and he didn't have the memory of the demon country, and he was afraid that something would happen in the future.

After thinking about this, he immediately became worried about gains and losses, opened his mouth, and said in a mess, "My lord is only a person in operas, I, I am an opera singer..."

He is just an adult monster, not as powerful as other big monsters, even a little weak.

How can it be a suave and flawless character in the drama?

Only Yan Xun did it. He turned his hands into clouds and changed the border towns; he turned his hands into rain and turned the capital city upside down.

"Pfft." Yan Xun pursed his lips and smiled, "We are who we are, how can there be any in- and out-of-scenes, I'll tease you."

"My lord." Jing Fengye was a little embarrassed, but he took it seriously.

Yan Xun leaned over and pinched his cheeks, pulling hard on both sides, "Does it hurt? People in dramas don't know it hurts, they are not real people, how can we be the same? Besides, we don't sing dramas either."

The two rubbed each other's ears.

Standing on the outer city wall, the territory of the demon country is full of withered grass and loess. Only when the iron claw hyena monster appears will there be slight changes, and experienced Taoist soldiers can see it at a glance.

Now with telescopes, everyone can see farther and monitor more land.

"Ah, what is that?" Suddenly a Taoist soldier shouted.

"What are you panicking about? Is it the iron-clawed hyena monster? There are modified guns here, and they are sure to make their lives worse than death." Another Taoist soldier picked up the binoculars and looked over. step.

"Go to the general!" Dao Bing shouted.

After a while, Yang Qiong, who was resting, came impatiently.

His eyes are so far away that he can't see anything at all.

The Taoist soldiers beside him hurriedly handed over the binoculars, Yang Qiong took it over with a bad face, and looked in that direction.

The scene that can be seen in the telescope is not big, but it makes Yang Qiong gasp.

"Come here, please go to the train station to invite Master Yan." Yang Qiong thought for a while, then said, "Tell Master Yan, let him call those cubs!"

Here at the train station, Yan Xun is leading the cubs to sew clothes.

It was getting hotter and hotter, the cotton cloth produced in the workshop was breathable and cool, and Yan Xun sewed new clothes for the cubs.Now everyone is busy working together to sew clothes for the cubs left behind in the capital.

It’s just that the other cubs are all about the same size. Only the baby is too short, only a little taller than the palm of your hand. Although there are all sizes, the cutting of fabrics and so on has to be done separately.

Yan Xun didn't do this job, and gave it to Shashan Cubs.

The little cub held the scissors and gestured at the piece of cotton cloth.

The clothes of the cubs are generally the same, only the details are different, like the black and white cubs, the neckline is made of two pieces of fabric of different colors; like the flame cubs, the neckline is a flame shape sewn by fabric; there are also flower trees Cub, with a small tree around the collar; Mountain-Shaker Cub himself, with a little man sitting on top of a hill at the collar.

The neckline of the baby’s clothes is troublesome. Shaking Mountain cub wants to sew an egg, but it feels too monotonous. He also wants to sew a little dragon, but the baby’s identity is still kept secret. Let’s sew a dragon scale mark alone. It can explain that the baby is the child of Lord Jing, but how can it be explained that the baby is the child of Lord Yan?

After struggling for a long time, the Shaking Mountain cub finally sewed an egg with the word "Swallow" embroidered on the neckline of the baby's clothes.

After each piece of clothing is sewn, it needs to be ironed again, without any wrinkles, and then hung on a wooden hanger, so that it can be taken when returning to the capital.

Just as the cubs were ironing their clothes together, the Taoist soldiers came.

Dao Bing stood at the door, watching Yan Xun leading the cubs to iron their clothes. Everyone had their own irons and tables.He felt very weird in his heart, he thought Yan Xun and the cubs were doing research every day, but he didn't expect them to be able to sew clothes.

"My lord, the general asked me to bring you a message." Dao Bing hurriedly said.

After hearing Dao Bing finished speaking, Yan Xun just packed up the clothes in his hands, he said, "Are you done with your work? Let's go to the outer city wall!"

"My lord, take the notebook and advanced binoculars with you too." The black and white cub hurriedly said.

Yan Xun nodded.

So everyone came out of the train station in a mighty way and went all the way to the outer city wall.

The dirt road under my feet has changed, and has become a smooth and clean concrete road. There are weeds moved from other places on both sides of the road. These weeds are the plants in the border town except cotton and mulberry trees.

These changes are not as big as the drastic changes at the train station, but they are slowly changing the border town.

Sometimes I suddenly think back to what the border town looked like before, and when I look at everything in front of me, I can hardly believe that these are all real.

On the outer city wall, Yan Xun still asked the cubs to wait below, and he and Jing Feng went up at night.

"Master Yan!" Yang Qiong didn't care about acting this time, and hurriedly cupped her hands at Yan Xun, "What are those things, take a look..."

"En." Yan Xun had already figured it out, but he was not in a hurry at this time, he calmed down the Taoist soldiers on the city wall, "Everyone, don't panic, those things are within our expectations."

At this time, without a telescope, I could only see small moving black dots. Yan Xun stared at it for a while, still with a calm expression on his face.

Picking up the binoculars and looking over, the small black dots in the distance rapidly enlarged, Yan Xun gasped suddenly: the large black dots were exactly as he guessed, they were all the iron-clawed hyena monsters that crawled away.

With a broken spine, the Iron Claw Hyena can only crawl on its front legs, and can no longer burrow into the soil to hide, so it can only crawl on the ground.

There are still some faint traces around, those are iron claw hyena monsters hiding in the soil.

Without exception, those slowly crawling iron claw hyena demons all have a huge monster, the roots are rooted in the iron claw hyena demon, the branches are green, and there is a green cotton ball at the top that is bigger than a human head.

"Is it a monster?" Yan Xun hurriedly put down the binoculars and asked Jing Fengye.

Jing Fengye picked up the binoculars and looked at it, and said: "There is no evil spirit, it is not a monster. But the evil spirit on those iron claw hyena monsters is absorbed by the cotton. If the cotton is pulled out, the iron claw hyena monster should not live long."

Yan Xun was silent.

He knew that Jing Fengye wanted to ask him what he meant by saying this.

At the beginning, he and the cubs planned to let the iron claw hyena demon take the cotton seeds to other places in the demon country, and then slowly look for opportunities to find those cotton seeds to see if they took root and germinated. This plan may never be possible. There will be a follow-up, maybe three or five years later there will be a follow-up.

The proposals have been sealed, waiting for further research in the future.

He never expected that such an unexpected change would occur in the past few days.

Those slow-moving iron-clawed hyena monsters are not fast, and the huge cotton on their bodies is like a reminder.It can be seen that these iron-clawed hyena monsters can only think simply, and they don't know how terrifying the cotton on their bodies is. They are still persistent in attacking the outer city wall, their eyeballs are still red, and their eyes are still extremely evil.

"Get ready!" Yan Xun said, "Go pick cotton."

Fortunately, the mechanism built last time was thoughtful, and it was able to feed the iron claw hyena demon cotton seeds, and it could also pick cotton.They were all brought in by the cubs now, too, just in case.

Soon, Yang Qiong ordered troops personally, the same people from last time, and followed Yan Xun all the way down the city wall to lead the agency.

The cubs went to a place close to the city wall and temporarily circled a place to put cotton.

The Iron Claw Hyena seemed to be moving slowly, but it never stopped. After the cubs cleaned up the enclosed area, the surrounding Taoist soldiers were also in place, and there were also Iron Claws emerging from the soil under the city wall. Hyena demon.

'boom'!

One shot kills one.

When the Iron Claw Hyena began to retreat, and those with cotton growing on their bodies were still wriggling slowly, Yan Xun rushed out with the people.

Jing Fengye took the lead, holding the mechanism in his hand, and with a light pick, the cotton was picked off.The iron-clawed hyena quickly turned into a puddle of thick water, and even the remaining cotton roots also turned into thick water, but the green cotton on the mechanism was still fine.

"How is it?" Yan Xun asked.

"There's a bit of evil spirit inside, it's okay." Jing Fengye said as he stuffed the huge cotton into his pocket and shook it.

Yan Xun hurriedly turned back to direct the Taoist soldiers.

Picking cotton is not difficult, it is easy for all.

From going out to coming back, it took less than half an hour.

The cloth bags were carried one by one by the Taoist soldiers to the place where the cubs were surrounded, and then all the Taoist soldiers withdrew, and everyone surrounded the outside, on the one hand to protect the cubs inside, and on the other hand to prevent accidents inside.

This temporary place was surrounded from the outside, and there were only a few specially opened gaps for the Taoist soldiers to see clearly inside.

This time, Jing Fengye didn't boil water and hot snacks outside, but followed him in.

Yan Xun opened a cloth bag and looked at the cotton inside, "Take a look to see if this thing is alive or dead, I can't tell." He has no cultivation, is not a monster, can't feel a monster, let alone see it. How about this thing.

The cubs gathered around.

Each cub wears special goggles, thick clothes, and rubber gloves given by the bouncing cubs.

"It's not alive." The flower tree cub said, "Master, can we study it now?"

"En." Yan Xun nodded.

Cotton is not alive, it has no mind, it is just cotton in a different shape.

With Yan Xun's permission, the cubs immediately began to study.

The small tweezers tore a little bit of cotton green fiber, and the magnifying glass and microscope were ready.The flame pup lights a stick and carefully burns the cotton fibers.

The black and white cubs took out a small spring scale and weighed the cotton one by one.

The Shaking Mountain cub followed behind with a small book to record.

Jing Fengye grabbed the cotton and touched it directly with his hands.

Yan Xun stood aside and watched everyone busy.

Apart from the different colors, the green cotton and the cotton in the border town fields seem to be slightly different in other places.The flame cub burned for a long time without burning, and it was he who used his ability to heat up to burn the cotton.

Jing Fengye tore the cotton fiber vigorously and it didn't tear it apart. The knife he usually used scratched it even the fiber.

"The toughness is better, the fire won't rot, and the knife will cut you constantly." Yan Xun murmured, "It seems that the evil spirit inside is completely locked up, and it won't come out and affect people."

"The evil spirit inside is very weak, almost negligible." Jing Fengye said.

"Test the concentration of microorganisms." Yan Xun said.

The cubs are busy again.

The concentration of microorganisms has been measured for several hours, and it is not a specific number, only a rough idea can be measured.

So everyone was busy for several hours. When it was dark, bright oil lamps were lit around, and everyone continued.Yan Xun became more and more energetic, and stepped forward to measure with the cubs.

Sophisticated and complex instruments were slowly being fiddled with, and glass boxes changed one by one.

It was dark and bright, and finally, the results came out.

"My lord, the concentration of microorganisms was similar to that of the soil in the demon country at the beginning, but now it has leveled off, and it is the same as the soil in our border town." The flower tree cub said, "The microorganisms will flow and will not gather in a certain place. a place."

This principle is the same as when a drop of ink is dropped into water, the ink spreads out instead of gathering together.

Yan Xun nodded, "This green cotton is very useful."

"Yes." The cubs all thought of something and nodded at the same time.

All the Taoist soldiers who had been guarding outside could hear the voices inside, and could even see what the cubs were doing through the gap, but they could understand some words, but they couldn't understand some words at all.

The Daqin official dialect spoken by the cubs was very standard, but when put together, the Taoist soldiers were confused.

When Yan Xun led the cubs away, the place had already been tidied up, all the cotton was put in bags, and those sophisticated instruments were also put into iron boxes, and the outside was locked.

The Taoist soldiers came to the door to have a look, but they didn't see anything, they all looked at each other.When they returned to the city wall, Yang Qiong naturally wanted to intervene.

"General, we heard what they said, but we don't understand."

"That's what the cubs say..."

Several Taoist soldiers wrote down what the cubs said, and now you are talking about each other.

Yang Qiong frowned more and more as he listened, he was different from the Taoist soldiers, although he only spoke a few words, he still vaguely noticed something.

"I see." Yang Qiong said so, but her mind was heavy.

Here Yan Xun and the cubs hadn't rested for a long time, and now they finally finished their work. After returning home, they simply washed up, climbed onto the kang, and fell asleep for a long time.

After sleeping for a full day, Yan Xun finally woke up.

He said enthusiastically: "I've figured out how to use the cotton. Don't we still have manual spinning machines and looms? Take them out, use those cottons to spin and weave, and sew the clothes like that, I think It's no worse than the armor worn by Taoist soldiers now!"

Now the armor worn by Taoist soldiers is rarely issued by the court, and most of them are made by themselves.

Some of the new recruits who had just left home either wore armor passed down from their families or improvised ones themselves.

Every year when the soldiers are recruited, all the men or buddies, some wear full armor and look majestic, some only have leather armor on the chest, shoulders, etc., and some are simply naked with a piece of rags on their bodies Here we go.

Slowly, the new recruits went to the battlefield a few times, and some of them might be lost immediately, and the armor on their bodies became that of their colleagues. Some recruits were lucky and succeeded in killing monsters. After taking credit, they could exchange some armor to wear.

Therefore, veterans seldom have complete sets of armor, and most of them are patched together by themselves.

Yan Xun said happily: "That thing is really useful, at least it can allow Taoist soldiers to protect themselves. The iron-clawed hyena monster is very difficult to deal with, and we can't fight forever, and the bloodthirsty fish monster doesn't have so many teeth to give it to us." Let's grind."

Jing Fengye looked at the happy Yan Xun, opened his mouth, and said nothing.

The cubs got up early, ran outside to tidy up, and then came back to look for Yan Xun.

After hearing Yan Xun's words, the Shanshan cub hurriedly said: "My lord is right. Every year, Taoist soldiers are bitten through by monsters because of their weak armor. If they had strong armor, so many people would not die."

He used to secretly live in the border town, even if one of them hid in the soil, he still knew the tragedy of the border town.

There are often brothers who become widows, and the men of their family are lost on the battlefield, not because they lost to monsters, but because the armor on their bodies was bitten through by monsters, and they are powerless to fight back.

With good armor...

Cub Shaking Mountain felt the deepest. He looked at Yan Xun gratefully, thinking in his heart that he was really lucky. Not only did he meet Yan Xun, but he was able to see such a miraculous cotton.

"Let's go, let's find tools." Yan Xun said.

In order to build a large-scale combined textile machine, Yan Xun bought all the spinning machines and looms from all over Daqin, and let the cubs disassemble and study them, and the cubs even imitated them.

This time the train brought large textile machines to the border town, and those imitation hand-spinning machines and looms were also brought in, so that the people in the border town could learn from the hand-loom machine and understand the structure of some parts in the large textile machine. , The cubs will also take the opportunity to train some related technical craftsmen.

At this time, the spinning machines and looms were all used up, and they were sealed inside the train station, and Yan Xun carried them out again when he wanted to use them.

Together with the cubs, Yan Xun took green cotton balls to start the line of defense. The strange thing is that this kind of cotton has no seeds, which saves the step of picking.

The Mountain Shaking cub was busy with the erected shuttle, very earnestly.

The loom was too big for one cub, so the Shaking Mountain cub and the Flower Tree cub weaved a piece of emerald green, soft and tough cloth bit by bit.

It takes a lot of effort to cut, but it's much easier to sew.

Yan Xun specially called Qin Sui.

Qin Sui didn't know why, so he thought there was another can of braised pork, so he came here in a hurry.

As a result, Yan Xun just let him stand still while wearing the armor, and the cubs surrounded him in a circle, with him in the middle, gesticulating with pieces of green cloth in their hands.

The lieutenant general wears decent armor, mainly made of copper and iron, and there are also very few lead pieces, basically less than [-] catties, and heavy ones can weigh more than a hundred catties, which means that a Taoist soldier with cultivation can wear it. Wearing it, not to mention anything else, even if you carry such a heavy armor, you will be exhausted.

"Just sew a few pieces of cotton cloth like this." Yan Xun said while looking at Qin Sui, "Use this kind of cotton cloth for the trousers and boots below, and sew a set."

"En." The black and white cubs threaded the needle quickly.

Qin Sui thought it was weird, he could see that the cubs were sewing clothes, but he couldn't tell what it was like.He wanted to ask Yan Xun, but seeing that Yan Xun was too busy to raise his head, he didn't dare to ask.

He looked at Jing Fengye again, and found that Jing Fengye was holding a small piece of cloth alone, and was also sewing.

He felt even weirder.

The lieutenant generals and Taoist soldiers of the border town camp now don't dislike these cubs, and even welcome them very much.But what people usually say seems to be that the cubs are knowledgeable, can build concrete buildings, and can heal diseases, all of which are very powerful.

As for sewing clothes, ordinary people seem to know how to sew, and the cubs don't need to sew by themselves, right?

Feeling weird in his heart, Qin Sui became a little nervous, and he didn't dare to ask, and his heart became more and more panicked.

The news about the outer city wall was blocked by Yang Qiong. Even if the Taoist soldiers on shift were not his subordinates, no one dared to send the news back to the camp in the border city, which shows Yang Qiong's tactics.

And Qin Sui, as a lieutenant general, couldn't just go to the outer city wall, so naturally he didn't know anything about cotton.

"Okay." Yan Xun said with a sigh of relief after finishing the last stitch.

He picked up the green cotton jacket sewn into armor, walked up to Qin Sui, gestured at him, and said with a smile, "General Qin, please try this dress."

"En?" Qin Sui took the clothes, and couldn't hold back his curiosity, "Master Yan, what kind of clothes are these?"

"You'll know when you put it on," Yan Xun said.

Qin Sui had no choice but to go to the house to change.

Taking off the heavy armor, and putting on the green clothes that can barely feel the weight, Qin Sui felt that he was light and light as if he was not wearing any clothes.

Yan Xun held a sharp steel knife, handed it to Qin Sui, and said, "Try to scratch the hem of your clothes, and I'll see the effect."

Several layers of fabric were used for the hem of the clothes, which was fluffy and very soft to the touch.

Qin Sui was taken aback. He secretly pulled with his hand, but found that it couldn't be pulled apart. Then he took the steel knife and stroked lightly, but there was no response. He tried a little harder, but there was still no response. Strength, still no response.

Looking up again, seeing that Yan Xun was still smiling, obviously knowing what he was thinking, Qin Sui hurriedly used all his strength to stroke down fiercely.

There are no traces on the soft fabric.