Chapter 175 Iron Age?

"My father has been busy with alchemy and research. Uncle Lu taught me my knowledge of refining weapons and formations."

"Auntie Xiao Xiao taught me alchemy, and she made jelly beans for me with a kind of sweet grass. It is sweeter than ordinary candy, and if you eat too much, it won't cause tooth decay.

When I was young, whenever I was in a bad mood, I liked to go to Aunt Xiao Xiao to ask for jelly beans. She always has a lot there, as long as I want it, there is never a shortage.

Oh...Only once, when I ate a little too much, Aunt Xiao Xiao actually abandoned a furnace of Ji-Building Pills to make jelly beans for me. That time, Aunt Xiao Xiao was scolded by my father. "

"Uncle Li also died in this battle. Uncle Li likes to raise pigeons. He even cooked pigeon eggs for me..."

While speaking, Zhou Xueyao's shoulders began to twitch, but there were no tears, and a breath of grief and anger echoed in the small carriage.

Great sorrow without tears!

A sneak attack shattered a girl's warm world and her dreamy life!

The first time I saw her, she was a fairy admired by everyone, a fairy who saved lives and healed the wounded. Heal the wounded on the battlefield of the Kingdom of Jinyang. But this time, the Kingdom of Jinyang responded in such a way that it wanted to take her as a hostage.

Zhang Hao suddenly stretched out his hand and hugged Zhou Xueyao's weak shoulder: "Cry, if those uncles and aunts were alive in heaven, they wouldn't want you to be so sad.

But we will definitely settle this account with the Kingdom of Jinyang! "

Zhou Xueyao lay in Zhang Hao's arms and wept bitterly, the tears soon soaked Zhang Hao's chest.

Under the lonely night, the team moved forward silently, only Zhou Xueyao's cry echoed and spread in the night, alarming some crows in the distance.

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The sky gradually brightened, and the team finally stopped slowly and returned to Zhang's house safely all the way. Zhang Hao looked back at the team that had no shortage of people. While he was a little fortunate, his mood was extraordinarily complicated.

Zhou Xueyao had already fallen asleep in Zhang Hao's arms, and she fell asleep so deeply in a Jindan period. Zhang Hao straightened out Zhou Xueyao's messy hair with some pity, and gently hugged Zhou Xueyao off the carriage, motioning everyone to keep their voices down, and hugged Zhou Xueyao in the room.

This is the room Zhou Xueyao lived in last time, and everything in the room remains the same and has not been touched.

Putting Zhou Xueyao on the bed, she grabbed Zhang Hao's sleeve and refused to let go, with a struggling look on her face.

Zhang Hao signaled the maid to move a chair, and sat beside the bed, quietly.

"Go out." Zhang Hao said softly to the maid.

The maid Yingying bowed down, stepped out carefully, and closed the door gently.

Zhou Xueyao curled up on the bed, clutching Zhang Hao's sleeves with both hands, her brows were tightly knitted, her eyes were red and swollen, which made people feel distressed.

Zhang Hao just sat quietly like this. It was not until noon that Zhou Xueyao gently opened her tearful eyes. First, she looked around in a daze.

"I'm awake...it's okay, it's okay." Zhang Hao comforted softly, slowly pulled down the quilt, and covered Zhou Xueyao. "Are you hungry? I'll ask someone to prepare something for you?"

"Yeah." Zhou Xueyao faced in, her voice low and inaudible.

"I didn't hear what you said."

"Um."

"louder……"

"You're deaf!" Zhou Xueyao erupted suddenly, turned around abruptly, stared at Zhang Hao's hateful smiling face, and pouted her red lips angrily.

Looking at Zhou Xueyao, Zhang Hao suddenly had an indescribable impulse in his heart, and slowly lowered his head...

"Go aside!" Zhou Xueyao stretched out her slender hand, and turned Zhang Hao's head aside; her eyes were a little shy.

"I'll get you something to eat."

"Um."

When Zhang Hao left, Zhou Xueyao suddenly blushed, covered her head with the quilt again, and covered her face with her hands.

As soon as Zhang Hao came outside the house, he saw Huang Mingshan standing outside waiting.

"what's the matter?"

"Master, what should we do with the books brought back from Xinglintang?"

"Oh... Find a separate yard for storage. It should be relatively spacious and have a good view. In the future, this place will be developed into an 'Explosives Research Center'. Prepare carefully. For the time being, Zhou Xueyao will be the main force in explosives research. "

"Understood, young master, I'll go get ready first."

"Go."

Zhang Hao came to the kitchen, asked the cook to prepare something light, and brought it to Zhou Xueyao's room. Unexpectedly, Zhou Xueyao had turned back into a goddess who should not enter. Zhang Hao.

You are becoming too fast. Zhang Hao put down the dinner plate, sat opposite Zhou Xueyao, and watched quietly.

After a long while, Zhou Xueyao finally lowered her head, her face blushing; but suddenly she raised her head and stared at it, and said 'viciously': "What are you looking at, I want to eat!"

"I don't feel relieved until you are full."

"Go out, I won't eat if you don't go out."

Zhang Hao smiled: "Okay, I'll go out."

Before going out, she turned her head to look, but saw Zhou Xueyao was looking at her with her mouth pouted, her eyes were 'vicious'.

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Zhang Hao left Zhou Xueyao's place and went to his father's side first. At this time, Dugu Junjie had explained everything clearly, and Zhang Shengde looked very serious.

Seeing Zhang Hao, Zhang Shengde asked directly: "Xiao Hao, what are your thoughts now?"

Zhang Hao said slowly: "Father, I think that since the Kingdom of Jinyang dared to attack, it must have been planned for a long time. I think that there may have been a war on the front line, but the news has not yet come.

And what I'm most worried about is: What if the Kingdom of Jinyang doesn't fight alone? I think that if the country of Jinyang dares to make a move, it must have allies. Otherwise, no matter how arrogant the Kingdom of Jinyang is, it would not dare to fight against the Five Kingdoms in one go.

However, there was a deviation in the first step of the Jinyang Kingdom's plan, but it allowed us to grasp some initiative and opportunities. But how long this opportunity will last is uncertain.

And my idea is to support the country's war at any cost. "

Zhang Shengde nodded: "Then what do we provide for the country?"

"For the time being, we can provide more and better black iron. Dad, we are going to fully upgrade all of our black iron smelting production lines. All those with a purity below 95% will stop production, and we will concentrate all production capacity to more than 96% of."

The Zhang family's technology can directly produce more than 96% black iron; those whose purity is below 95% are "deliberately added impurities".

Now that the country is facing a crisis, Zhang Hao is not prepared to do these small tricks.

Zhang Shengde nodded slowly: "It should be. Only in this way, we are standing on the cusp of the storm!"

Zhang Hao's posture suddenly became somewhat proud: "Then let the wind and rain come more violently! What we will provide in the future is not only high-purity black iron, but also...steel!

Perhaps this war will be an opportunity. After this war, Xuantie will withdraw from the stage of history, and steel will be presented to the world!

Dad, I'm going to find my adoptive father first. There are some things I need to discuss with my adoptive father. I want to use Zhang's steel to build a real steel army for my adoptive father. "