Chapter 63 – Improving the Invalid’s Condition for Brother Yong

He wanted to protect her, just like he did when he was a kid.

He helped her drive away the little fat man who bullied him at the entrance of the village, saying that his sister could be bullied by no one.

He helps her to pick dates from the tree, saying that dangerous things should be left to his brother.

He fights with the village kids because they tease her about being a wild child that no one wants, and he says she has a family and she’s his sister.

Mother Xu came back to her senses and suddenly said to her son, “Alright, I’m not going to stop you, you go and become a soldier, as long as you have it in your heart that you’re going to be picking up the young lady and bringing her home in the future, then my mother also believes that you won’t be messing around, and that you’ll keep the rules properly.”

“Mother?” Xu Zhengyong snapped his head back and looked at Mother Xu in surprise.

“Say yes, and remember, you didn’t just join the army to protect your country, not just for the meritocracy, but for us as a family. You have a mother who is worried about you, and you have a sister who is waiting for you to pick her up and bring her home after you build some success.” Mother Xu admonished.

“Mother, don’t worry, I’ll keep it in mind! I’ll keep it all firmly in my heart!” Xu Zhengyong firmly assured.

Then Xu Zhengyong looked at his father.

Xu Zhushan originally did not have any opinion, as long as his wife did not have an opinion then he did not have an opinion.

And it was a good idea for his son, and he supported it.

Wei Ruo silently averted her eyes, not wanting the Nurse and the others to see her red fallen eyes.

Really, I thought she didn’t cry much, why did she have red eyes.

It’s times like this when you should be happy and laughing, what kind of red eyes are causing a scene!

Damn, just can’t help myself a little ……

Returning from the Four Treasures, Wei Ruo pulled Xiu Mei into her small storehouse.

“Miss, what are you looking for?” Xiu Mei wanted to help but didn’t know where to start.

“I don’t know exactly what materials I’ll need, I’ll just have to see what will come in handy, Isamu is going to be in the army, I’ll have to make him something he can use for defense.”

Although she was supportive of Isamu’s ambition in her attitude, she would still be worried about his safety in her private heart.

That’s why she wanted to prepare something that would come in handy for Isamu before he left for the army.

“Right oh! Then I’ll help Miss look for something hard!” Xiu Mei understood Wei Ruo’s meaning and immediately joined in the search for materials.

As she searched, Wei Ruo suddenly stopped.

Xiu Mei: “Miss, what’s wrong with you again?”

Wei Ruo: “I thought of the incompetent one.”

Xiu Mei: “Invalid?”

Wei Ruo: “Little Yong is now enlisted in the army, joining the team that defends the city against the Japanese invaders. If I can update some of the weapons in the army, isn’t it also protecting Little Yong in disguise?”

Xiu Mei: “That’s for sure!”

Wei Ruo: “You continue to help me look for anything hard inside the things I brought, I’ll go back to my room first.”

After returning to his room, Wei Ruo took out a paper and pen and began to experimentally draw a drawing.

If you make a detachable quiver, the same as a bullet clip, and mount it directly to the worn-out, and replace it with another quiver after shooting one, you could theoretically increase the frequency of the worn-out firing.

Xiu Mei didn’t find anything useful in the storehouse, and when she returned to her room she saw the drawings Wei Ruo was working on.

“Miss, what is this? Is it a crossbow?”

“Well. It’s a crossbow, I played with it in my hand when I went to the schoolyard last time, but it didn’t work too well, and at that time I thought that if it could be improved, it would be more powerful, but I didn’t have much interest in caring about the Wei family’s affairs, so I didn’t act on it. Now that Brother Xiaoyong is going to be a soldier, I thought of this thing, if there are no conditions to make an effective defense for the time being, then make some more powerful weapons out of it, offense is the best defense.”

“That’s best, as long as our side is powerful enough, the enemy won’t be able to harm Brother Xiao Yong!” Xiu Mei said happily.

“Well, I’m also going to have Isamu take credit for the final drawings.”

When he first entered the barracks, Little Brother Yong could only be a junior soldier at the bottom of the hierarchy. If he had a small merit in his body, even if he couldn’t get a promotion, he could still make an impression on his officers.

“Miss, although this method is good, Brother Xiaoyong doesn’t look like someone who would set up something so subtle, and a little questioning from others would put the lie to it.”

“Fool Meimei, I didn’t let him say that he designed it himself, just say that it was drawn by a high person, he begged for it not on the line? As for what the high man where the high man, so many deep mountains and old forests, or else it is said to be an old man who walks the river, the kind of residence, leaving drawings after also do not know where to go.”

“Still, Miss is smart!”

“Meimei, I need to find a great carpenter, to help me practice, I can’t quite get it right just by drawing, I need to practice while I’m drawing.”

“Then Uncle Xu might be able to, I remember Uncle Xu used to be a carpenter.” Xiu Mei reminded.

“Well, then I’ll go ask Uncle Xu after I’ve drawn this draft.”

Wei Ruo was very attached to this matter and locked herself in her room until the evening when Yun sent someone to urge her to go and have her meal, and only then did she come out of her room.

When he came out, he handed the drawings to Xiu Mei and asked her to immediately send them to Sibaozhai for Uncle Xu.

Now the situation is special, once Isamu has gone to register for the draft, he may enter the barracks at any time, she has no time to delay.

Xiu Mei came back with Xu Zhushan’s response, Xu Zhushan had not tried to do something similar before so he could not make a promise, but he will try overnight in accordance with the drawings Wei Ruo gave, no matter whether it can be done or not, tomorrow morning will be through the carrier pigeon to Wei Ruo response.

Early the next morning, the carrier pigeon arrived as expected, Xu Zhushan has made a prototype out according to what Wei Ruo said, but there are a few detail points Xu Zhushan based on their own experience in woodworking to propose improvements.

Wei Ruo began to draw the manuscript paper for the second version based on the improvements.

It went back and forth and back and forth like this for three days, and when I got Uncle Xu’s reply on the fourth day, I finally got the perfect answer.

The kind of crossbow Wei Ruo wanted was made.

Wei Ruo was satisfied with this, but Wei Ruo didn’t rest there either, she still had to seize the time to prepare medicine for Xu Zhengyong who was about to enter the military camp.

Wei Ruo’s busyness could be felt by everyone around her, and the people of Welcome Bamboo Court were no exception.

It just so happened that Wei Ruo came to welcome Bamboo Court again today to dabble in food and drink, and Wei Jin also said, “You seem to be extraordinarily busy lately.”

“Yes, busy making medicine.” Wei Ruo answered half hiding half.

It couldn’t be helped, she still didn’t want too many people to know about the matter on the nanny’s side, even Wei Jin Yi, it still had to be kept secret for now.

“By the way, I’ll second brother in a while, do you have a way to help me get Angelica dahurica as a medicine in a short period of time?” Wei Ruo asked.

Angelica dahurica is one of the herbs used to make the Golden Sore Pill, and because of the war in Xingshan County, Angelica dahurica has also become very scarce, and the drugstores in the city are all short of this medicine.

Wei Jin Yi: “It’s urgent?”

Wei Ruo: “Making some spare medicine for a friend who’s about to leave and is really in a bit of a hurry.”

Wei Jin Yi: “A friend?”

For some reason, Wei Jin also felt that Wei Ruo’s friend was a man.