Chapter 1908: Rapid Development (23)

Su Qin's eyes went wide.

"Wow, really 13,500 tons? Selling that much this time — you've got enough food left for yourself, right?"

He paused, then continued in a low voice: "Tang Ruan and the others eat so much, you should remember to set aside more food."

Zhao Chi smiled. "I'll pass that line along to Tang Ruan for you."

Su Qin wasn't afraid in the slightest.

"Pfft — tell her all you want, I'm not scared of her. She keeps saying my chest is small, but it's not that small, right? More than enough for you, right?"

That was quite the swerve.

How did the topic end up here?

Zhao Chi looked at the perfect curve her outfit made of her soft C-cup, then nodded anyway. "Very perfect. Visually it's not as jaw-dropping as Tang Ruan's, but it's definitely very well-proportioned — full marks for aesthetics."

"Hehe, exactly! But my legs are longer than hers — I call her Shorty."

Shorty?

Zhao Chi recalled Tang Ruan's legs.

Fair, slender, and not short at all.

It's just that Tang Ruan is the most petite — she really is the shortest among these women, so relatively speaking, her legs naturally aren't as long as Su Qin's.

But by Tang Ruan's own proportions, her legs are still very long.

Still, Su Qin and Tang Ruan get along great and usually like to horse around together.

So there's no need to take those words seriously.

Wait.

This isn't the time to be thinking about that sort of thing.

Zhao Chi immediately pulled the topic back.

"Don't worry — I've even set aside food for your side. We've all got enough to eat."

"Oh, hehe, so this time you collected over 10,000 gold coins in total?"

"Right, 10,395 gold coins."

"Got it! I'll contact Third Brother right now."

"Mm, bring your big wooden cart over too so we can haul it together."

"Got it, I'm on my way."

Su Qin hugged Zhao Chi once, then vanished at once.

The grain he'd promised Zhao Cang could be handed over to him today.

That way, the large number of captives the Zhao family had taken in this battle could be fed more grain and wouldn't have to be sold, further boosting the Zhao family's overall combat strength.

The Experience Fruits couldn't be harvested in bulk until tomorrow, so tomorrow he'd give them to Li Ruanyu along with the food and let her sell them.

Then now…

It was time to improve those ultra-heavy steel equipment pieces.

Zhuang Ya woke from training and, seeing Zhao Chi at the door, was a little dazed.

Hadn't the two of them just parted?

"Looking for me?" Zhuang Ya sat up.

"Yeah, I need to improve the steel equipment, and I need your help."

"Oh~ let's go."

Zhuang Ya, pale and soft, stepped out, grabbed the outfit beside her, and covered her dazzling headlights and fair, moist body.

She was fully dressed in no time.

"Let's go — are you coming in?"

"Mm."

Light flared, and Zhao Chi slipped inside Zhuang Ya.

The two arrived at the military factory.

The factory interior was very noisy, full of the sound of hammering iron everywhere.

Hammers struck out sparks that flew in all directions, mingled with the sizzling hiss of quenching.

The air was thick with the miscellaneous fumes of heated metal, but mixed with the women's body fragrance, it didn't feel sharp at all — instead it blended into a peculiar scent.

This scent of extreme desire really was potent, strong enough to mask even the smell of waste gas.

But compared to before, these female blacksmiths seemed to have something on their minds?

What was going on?

Zhao Chi immediately piloted Zhuang Ya and found Ding Dang, the forging captain, drenched in sweat.

"Ding Dang, what's wrong with you all? Something seems off?"

Ding Dang set down the red-hot refined iron ingot in her hands. "Nothing, my lord, you don't need to worry about us."

"No, if something's wrong, just say it."

Ding Dang glanced at the blacksmiths beside her, then said softly: "My lord, will you not need us anymore in the future?"

"Huh?" Zhao Chi said, surprised. "Why would you say that?"

Ding Dang pointed at the pile of steel equipment beside her.

"I heard from Sister Gu Qing that from now on there'll be a steady stream of steel equipment shipped to you from that… Sister Li Ruanyu's territory? Then what do we… do? We're afraid you won't have any use for us."

Zhao Chi suddenly understood.

It turned out Ding Dang and the hundred-plus master blacksmiths beside her were unhappy because of this.