It was still the original water truck workshop. When Li Xiu came here again, the scene was very different. He saw that various woods and tools were stacked neatly according to different categories and uses. The shavings and wood chips on the ground had been cleaned, and the garbage generated every day was cleaned by specialists. The entire water truck workshop looked very neat.

The craftsmen are still very busy and are also divided into several groups. However, each group no longer manufactures waterwheels independently. Instead, according to different skills, each group is responsible for manufacturing a certain component. Each component has a unified standard. The parts produced are subject to inspections and the pass rate is calculated every day. When the pass rate is too low, the members of the group will be punished. Similarly, if the pass rate is increased, they will receive corresponding rewards.

With the system of punishment and rewards, coupled with the introduction of assembly line operations, the entire workshop is full of vitality and the clean and tidy environment also makes people feel comfortable. If people who don’t know the details come here, I’m afraid no one can associate the workshop in front of them with the dirty, messy and inefficient workshop ten days ago.

"Boy, you really have two kids. I looked at your charter. This is not a workshop. It's just a way to manage the army. No wonder you dared to say that you wanted to make the workshop look fresh?" Ma Ye and Li Xiu walked side by side in the workshop. Looking at the scene around him, he couldn't help but say in shock.

Originally, Li Xiu just wanted to write a charter for him, but Uncle Ma thought it was too troublesome. In addition, he might not want Li Xiu to be too lazy, so he forced the workshop to him for his management. As a result, he didn't come for ten days, and it was like he had changed a place.

"It's not all my credit. Uncle Ma, you arranged a few of the managers. They will do their best to do everything I ordered. Otherwise, I alone wouldn't be able to make the workshop look like this soon." Li Xiu said helplessly and modestly at this time. If it weren't for Mr. Ma, he wouldn't have taken over this mess. However, Mr. Ma was his elder and his first friend in the true sense after he came to the Tang Dynasty, so sometimes Li Xiu really had no choice but to deal with him.

"That's right, the managers in the mansion were either the old man from Taiyuan in the past or I personally chose it, so they were naturally very capable!" Master Ma praised himself when he heard Li Xiu's words. He was sometimes smart, but he had a kind of blind confidence in the princess's mansion. He liked others to praise Princess Pingyang the most, and he could not tolerate others saying the princess's mansion. It was mainly because Princess Pingyang herself said that she was a bad word.

Just when Li Xiu took Ma Ye to visit the waterwheel workshop, a breathless girl ran out of the gate, which attracted everyone's attention. When Li Xiu saw the other party, he couldn't help but ask strangely: "Liu'er, why are you here? Is there something wrong at home?"

The one who came came was Li Xiu's maid Liu'er. The little girl ran to him and gasped for a few times. Her face was so tired that she was red with crystal sweat on her forehead. Then she said stutteringly: "Old... Master, a female general came to her family... and said she was... saying she wanted to see the master!"

"Female General?" Li Xiu couldn't help but look at Ma Master next to him in surprise and asked, "Are there any other female generals in our Tang Dynasty besides the princess?"

"This... I have never heard of other female generals, but don't worry about it, let's go and have a look?" After Ma said that, he pulled Li Xiu and rushed to his house. This place was only more than one mile from Li Xiu's house, and it was arrived in a moment. Just when they were still a distance from Li Xiu's house, they saw a general riding on a horse in front of the door.

At that moment, Li Xiu and Ma Ye walked a few steps, and finally saw the appearance of the horse man clearly. This made them stunned. The general was actually a woman. The woman was covered with pure black iron armor, melon-shaped face and willow-leaf eyebrows, and her appearance was very beautiful. But what makes people feel a pity is that this woman is not young anymore and looks like a thirty or forty years old. Even though she was wearing armor, she still had a bit of a mature woman's look on her body.

"I wonder if the princess is so heroic after putting on her armor?" When Li Xiu saw the middle-aged female general in front of her house, the first reaction was not to guess the other party's identity, but instead thought with emotion. When he first met Princess Pingyang, the other party was seriously injured in the bed, and he was unable to go to the battlefield since then, so Li Xiu had never been able to see the character of the legendary princess on the battlefield. When he saw the female general opposite today, he suddenly hooked up his regret.

But no matter how regretful it is, when Li Xiu saw the female general opposite, his heart suddenly hangs, because he had already recognized the identity of the middle-aged female general through Li Xiu's memory, and the other party also saw him at this time, which made Li Xiu unable to hide. He had no choice but to go forward and salute, "Greetings to mother!"

Although Li Xiu's biological mother died early, Li Xiu also had a legitimate mother, Li Jing's wife. This wife is also famous in history. She is the legendary Hongfu girl who knew the wise and could tell at a glance that Li Jing was not a thing in the pool. The couple, plus a bearded guest, were later called the "Three Heroes of Fengchen".

Hongfu girl was originally named Zhang and her name was Chuchen. She was originally a singer in Yang Su's family. Although she was a humble background, she had extraordinary knowledge. Not only did she see Li Jing's extraordinaryness at first glance, but she also had a lot of research on literary and military strategies. In addition, she was influenced by Li Jing, and her attainments in military tactics were not lower than Li Jing's, otherwise she would not have been included in the Three Heroes of Fengchen.

It is precisely because of this that when Li Jing goes to war, he often takes his wife by his side and helps him with advice, so like Li Jing, she is always away from home. Li Xiu naturally knows this legitimate mother. Speaking of which, Hongfu Nu is not bad to him. When his mother was alive, he was also very cared for by the other party, so Li Xiu was very polite to Hongfu Nu, but Hongfu Nu has come, so Li Jing should have come back, right?

When Hongfu Nu saw Li Xiu and Ma Sanbao coming together, she was also a little surprised. She had seen Ma Sanbao in the army before, so both sides were not unfamiliar with her. She turned over and dismounted. She first said to Li Xiu: "No need to be polite!" Then she turned her head and bowed to Ma Sanbao and said, "How could General Ma come with the child?"

"Haha, Mrs. Li doesn't know that the princess's fief is nearby. I happened to be in love with Li Xiu and I was talking about things together just now. When I heard a female general coming from his family, I was curious to follow him, but I didn't expect it to be Mrs. Li!" Master Ma looked at Hong Fun Nu in armor and smiled and said with a smile that although Hong Fun Nu often went to war with Li Jing, he did not accept the official reward from the court, so when he heard about the female general, he did not expect her.

"General Ma is so polite. I can't afford to be the word general!" Hong Funu said humbly when he heard Mr. Ma's words.

Ma Ye and Hong Fu Nu said a few polite words, but Li Xiu couldn't even get into the mouth. In fact, he was curious about what his legitimate mother came to him for. And seeing her helmet and armor-padded, could she want to chop herself up? But it doesn't look like her?

Ma Master also saw that Hong Fu Nu had something to look for Li Xiu, and this was also a reunion between mother and son. It was really inconvenient for him to stay anymore, so he had to say goodbye first. After Ma Master left, Hong Fu Nu suddenly changed into a serious expression and said to Li Xiu: "Come in with me, I have something important to ask you!"

Li Xiu had no choice but to follow Hong Fu Nu into the yard. As soon as he entered the yard, Yue Chan followed from the side and whispered to Li Xiu: "Master, I invited the old lady in just now, but she insisted on waiting for you outside the door, and she looked anxious. It seemed that something important was there?"

"Well, I understand. It's almost noon. Go and prepare some special side dishes. I'll eat and chat with the old lady later!" Li Xiu nodded and told the instructions after hearing this. Yuechan, the little girl, was quite clever, and she actually found out the identity of Hongfu Nu in advance.

Hongfu Nu took Li Xiu in and sat down. Without being polite to him, she took the kettle on the table and drank it in big mouthfuls. Judging from the dust on her body, she probably was in a hurry along the way.

"Xu'er, tell me honestly, what have you done during this period?" After drinking water, Hongfunu suddenly turned around and stared at Li Xiu and asked. She left the army and rushed to the road overnight, and finally arrived in Chang'an a day early in order to figure out some things.

"Ah? What did everything do?" Li Xiu was stunned when he heard this.

"You are pretending to be confused. If you haven't done anything, why did your father and I meet someone sent by the prince and the King of Qin halfway through the way, and we are talking to you in our hearts and out of the way. Pei Ju even went to Jinzhou to intercept us, insisting on deciding the marriage between you and his daughter. Don't tell me that it has nothing to do with you?" Hong Funu asked with a bright look at Li Xiu.

If something goes wrong, it is a monster, and these things are related to Li Xiu. With the wisdom of the couple, they can naturally guess something. In order to figure out the reasons for these things, she returned to Chang'an one step ahead of time and ran to find Li Xiu without even returning home.

"They are moving too fast, and the old man Pei Ju is so old that he runs so far, and he is not afraid of dying halfway?" Li Xiu couldn't help but say in shock when he heard this. What he didn't expect was that even the prince began to pay attention to him.

"Don't be big or small, Pei Ju may still be your father-in-law. Also, tell me quickly what you did, why did the prince and the King of Qin compete to recruit you?" Hong Fu Nu first scolded Li Xiu, and then said anxiously. In fact, after seeing Li Xiu this time, she found that Li Xiu had changed a lot, but now is not the time to care about these things.
Chapter completed!