A lazy bum transmigrates and marries a eunuch – it's awesome!

Chapter 122 Preparing for the Trip

Since she was already up, Jiang Xinyu didn't plan to go back to sleep.

Xiao Yuan reluctantly went to work at the East Factory, and Jiang Xinyu also wanted to find something to do after finishing her training.

If you can read 300 Tang poems by heart, you can recite them even if you can't compose them.

As modern girls, who hasn't read a few time-travel novels? We all know a little about the essential skills for a time-traveling woman to show off.

As a lazy bum who just wants to coast through life, she doesn't have any grand ambitions, but the first requirement for surviving is to live and live a quality life.

In order to continue being a lazy bum, it's not unreasonable to occasionally try something new.

She gave Xiao Yuan those timeless poems and then ignored them; she also gave away the money-making recipes and then didn't care anymore.

She'll take what she can get, and if she can't, that's fine too; she doesn't rely on that little bit of money to make a living anyway.

After considering all the remaining time-travel skills, she finally settled on hand-crafted lightning bombs and basic pharmaceutical preparation.

Other drugs don't matter, but a batch of penicillin must be produced for future use.

Deaths from rare and complex diseases are relatively rare; the majority of deaths in this era are caused by infections.

Since people in ancient times had never been exposed to antibiotics, a dose of penicillin would have had an enormous energy content; it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it a panacea.

Coincidentally, in the post-apocalyptic world where medical care and medicine are scarce, hand-rubbing penicillin is considered a popular survival skill.

There happened to be someone in their team who was skilled in this, and she, with her medical background, learned a few techniques from them.

Although the product was crudely made and contained some impurities, it had the highest chance of saving lives in the event of an acute infection.

She didn't care much; she rarely left the inner quarters and didn't have any major enemies.

But Xiao Yuan works in a high-risk industry, and you never know when you might need to use it, so it's good to have some on hand.

Whether you live well or not after traveling to ancient times depends entirely on your social class. If you travel to a farming family, the various inconvenient living conditions can wear you down.

Jiang Xinyu, on the other hand, had a much easier time, as she could mobilize a large amount of manpower and resources with just a few ideas.

"You just want to get rid of penicillin, right? Easy. Just give the order and dozens of people in the whole mansion will cooperate."

Everything that was moldy was placed on a plate and lined up to be inspected by the lady.

If you don't have any, that's fine too. Just describe what kind of mold you want it to get, and someone will immediately go out and look for it on the street.

Money makes the world go round, and with power comes the ability to put a turbocharger on the millstone.

There's no such thing as something that can't be found if it's available on the market.

After finding a suitable strain of bacteria, Jiang Xinyu had a room specially cleaned and the doors and windows sealed.

Soon, stacks of brand-new plate racks were placed inside.

The kitchen was also busy; some were grinding rice into a paste, while others were boiling sweet potato water. Although they didn't know what the lady wanted to do, they just had to cooperate.

Jiang Xinyu is the kind of person who will simply give up if she wants to, and will go all out and concentrate fully if she wants to.

After preparing the basic culture dishes for penicillin, they sealed off the house to prevent anyone from entering, and then found an empty yard to begin researching explosives.

This is also a post-apocalyptic handicraft, but the purification and content of various things in this era are different from those in modern times.

Even if Jiang Xinyu had done it in modern times, the proportions would have to be readjusted at this point.

One part sulfur, two parts saltpeter, three parts charcoal, ten to seventy, fifteen to fifteen—anyone who has read a time-travel novel will remember this general idea.

However, even a slight difference can lead to vastly different results, and to truly succeed, repeated experiments are still necessary.

Even after Xiao Yuan returned in the evening, Jiang Xinyu was still soaking in the courtyard.

They did manage to produce two finished products, but it's still uncertain how powerful they are or whether they can actually explode.

Their house wasn't exactly in a bustling downtown area, but it was still a prosperous place, so it was obviously not a good place to test their thunder and fire bombs.

Jiang Xinyu did not have the habit of not speaking while eating or sleeping; the couple always chatted and laughed during meals.

But this time, because she was so focused on her thoughts, she neglected her clingy husband. Chief Supervisor Xiao was immediately unhappy and complained, demanding some perks.

I heard that Madam is testing weapons. Chief Supervisor Xiao doesn't quite understand. In his opinion, Madam should just enjoy her life.

With so many guards around her, both overt and covert, couldn't they protect her? Why did it have to come to the point where the lady had to take matters into her own hands?

However, he could only keep these thoughts to himself, as his wife was not one to listen to advice, and saying too much would only provoke her into biting him.

Jiang Xinyu suddenly remembered that she had several estates in the suburbs. Since it was inconvenient to conduct the experiment in the city, she could go to the estates instead. The land was vast and sparsely populated, so it wouldn't matter if there was some noise.

Xiao Yuan wasn't particularly interested in experimenting with new weapons, but he hadn't been on a trip with his wife since they got married, so he was intrigued when Jiang Xinyu mentioned it.

I'm not too busy lately, so it would be nice to take a day off the day after tomorrow and go to the estate for a visit.

Jiang Xinyu was still a little confused when she heard about the day off.

"I thought the Eastern Depot was open all year round. So you do have holidays too."

"What kind of talk is this? All officials in the Great Jin Dynasty have days off, so why doesn't the Eastern Depot?"

Xiao Yuan chuckled and beckoned to his wife's finger.

"Didn't you notice that I come back every few days to have lunch with you?"

I always have days off, but the Eastern Depot is busy and you sleep all morning, so I also handle some official business during my days off, and I return to the mansion after I estimate you've woken up.

Since you want to go to the estate, I'll come back early tomorrow night and we'll set off directly. We can have a good time the day after tomorrow.

Jiang Xinyu's eyes lit up immediately, "Can we ride horses on the estate?"

I want to learn!

Learning to ride a horse was no problem, but Xiao Yuan had a feeling that something bad was going to happen.

Sure enough, once the topic started, it was hard to stop. The lady wanted to learn to ride a horse, shoot an arrow, use a crossbow, and drive a chariot.

In short, she doesn't want to come back from this trip to the estate for at least ten days to half a month.

Zhuangzi usually lived in the suburbs of the capital, and the nearest one took two hours to travel back and forth.

In other words, if Xiao Yuan still wanted to sleep with his wife at night, he would have to ride his horse for two hours after get off work to get to the manor.

They had to get up early the next morning and ride a horse for two hours back to the East Factory to work.

This is assuming the weather is good and the Eastern Depot has no miscellaneous tasks and leaves on time. If they are even slightly delayed, they will arrive at the manor in the middle of the night, and they will not get any sleep for more than an hour before having to get up again, which is not enough to keep them busy.

He could tolerate the long commute and the poor transportation, but the problem was that the nature of his job didn't allow him to be so capricious.

As the head of intelligence, he could be summoned by the emperor at any time. He couldn't be on call 24 hours a day, but he certainly couldn't leave the capital every night.

At this moment, Supervisor Xiao deeply empathized with all working people.

That lousy boss likes to call people in to find out what's going on after get off work. Are you fucking not going to live to see me when I start work?

Unfortunately, his boss was not only his boss but also the biggest boss in the country.

At least a working-class person can stand up and say "I quit," but if he dares to say he quits, it's more like he doesn't want to live.

His damn job is either do it or die, or do it to death!

Resigning is out of the question; he's not even eligible to retire and return to his hometown.

The best outcome for the head of the Eastern Depot was that the prince he invested in ascended the throne, and his filial adopted son took over.

Unfortunately, he was getting old and had a lot of injuries that prevented him from playing, which is why he was able to retire safely.

His adoptive father had climbed to this position, but after retiring, he only enjoyed a peaceful life for a little over three years before passing away.

At his current age, he shouldn't even think about it. Even if a new emperor ascends the throne, he will have to wait until he has selected a trusted successor before he dares to step down.

One of the reasons he chose the crown prince was that the crown prince had few trusted confidants and could only rely on him.