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    【Khan Chapter 3】A sister-in-law is like a mother

    Chu Jiao’s glare was actually not intimidating, but Huluoyan still stopped.

    He regretted it when he stopped.

    He is the king of the grassland in Mobei with the most cruel methods!Whoever met him would be frightened and abandon his armor!How could I be frightened by a yellow-haired girl??

    Huluoyan raised the kettle, not intending to listen to Chu Jiao.

    Not to mention that this little princess is not his daughter-in-law, even if she really gets married, he, Xianbei Khan Hulayan, will never be a rake with his wife riding on his head!

    “Big Bearded,” the woman’s voice was in his ear, and Hulayan knew it was calling him, “Do you know there is a saying in our Central Plains…”

    Hulayan said nothing.But he pricked up his ears.

    “It’s called ‘A sister-in-law is like a mother’,” Chu Jiao said quietly, “You are the younger brother of my future husband, and I will not harm you. You have to be obedient.”

    Hulayan spurted out a mouthful of water.

    Damn it, “A sister-in-law is like a mother”!God damn “obey”!

    The personal guards around Huluoyan who knew his true identity all took two steps back.

    They were afraid that their Khan would break the neck of this talkative princess on impulse.

    However, their khan did not break the princess’s neck, but only crushed the lid of the water bag.

    “Then what kind of water does the princess want to drink?” He gritted his teeth, “This place in the wilderness is no bigger than your palace.”

    “Don’t worry, I can’t force myself to do anything.” Chu Jiao was not angered by the man’s ridicule and said slowly, “The water in this stream is drinkable, but it needs to be treated first.”

    Chu Jiao turned to Hongxiu and asked her to get something. Although Hongxiu didn’t understand what the princess wanted those ordinary small items, she didn’t ask any more questions and nodded in agreement.

    After a while, Hongxiu brought everything over.

    Chu Jiao sat on the mat, spread out the things, then spread her hands in front of Huluoyan, “Big Bearded, give me the water bag.”

    The tone was natural and intimate, as if the two of them had known each other for a long time.

    Huluoyan also wanted to know what kind of medicine was sold in Chujiao’s gourd. He ignored the strange feeling in his heart towards her attitude and handed over the water bag.

    The soldiers who were eating dry food and resting around gradually gathered around, curious to see what this aloof princess wanted to do.

    Most of these soldiers are Xianbei people who have lived on the grassland since they were young. Although they have long since separated from the primitive life of eating hair and drinking blood, in terms of diet, they only know how to cook cattle and sheep, and stir-fry wild vegetables. The products in Mobei are not rich, so it is enough for them to satisfy their hunger.

    As for water, of course, it should be taken from nature, such as streams and springs, as long as it looks clean and drinkable.

    Chu Jiao couldn’t explain to the ancient people what bacteria and infections were, so she could only use a common sense of life that everyone knew in modern times to show them how dirty the stream was.

    That is a very simple physical filtering method.

    In front of Chu Jiao were some daily necessities: a rice-white silk handkerchief, a handful of fine sand, a little charcoal, a pair of scissors, some gravel, and two fine clear glasses.

    Among these things, only the two glasses were the most valuable, and everyone’s eyes were fixed on them.

    Chu Jiao first poured Hulayan’s water bag filled with water into a glass. After a while, the water glass was filled with water.

    She raised the cup. Different from the clearness of the stream that could be seen in the water bag, under the sunlight, all the impurities in the stream in the transparent glass were invisible. Everyone could see that in the seemingly clear water, there were countless grains of sand, debris of aquatic plants, and floating catkins of unknown substances visible to the naked eye.

    “What’s wrong? We all drink water like this, so it’s okay!”

    Some in the crowd were disapproving, but most agreed with him.

    “This princess is so squeamish. She is so particular about even drinking water, and she uses such a precious vessel!”

    Someone started whispering.

    “What are you talking about?!” Hongxiu wanted to argue for her master, but was stopped by Chu Jiao.

    “Princess, you are the daughter of a rich man. You shouldn’t drink these streams.” Bi Luo looked at the doubtful looks on everyone’s faces towards the princess. She felt that the depression from being admonished in the morning had finally dissipated a little, and she began to work hard to save her master. However, she inadvertently made Chu Jiao hate her again. “I will go and find for you whether there is any Tianshan spring water brought from the palace!”

    “Did I say I wanted to drink Tianshan spring water?” Chu Jiao didn’t pay attention to the doubts around her, and warned the heroine once again, “Biluo, shut up. I don’t want to repeat what I said in the morning.”

    This is the benefit of identity.Managing a heroine doesn’t need to be too strenuous.

    Bi Luo lowered her eyes in grievance and said no more.

    What she was thinking about was that she had tried to persuade her, but if the princess herself made a fool of herself, she would not be blamed.

    Huluoyan glanced at the master and servant, but this time he did not say anything casually to help the maid out.

    Although he is not sensitive to matters in the backyard of the inner house, he is also the master, and the maid just now did exceed the rules.

    Thinking of the way he broke into the tent and made his own rescue in the morning, Hulayan rubbed his nose and felt that he might have misunderstood the little princess.

    “Hongxiu, now use gravel to grind the charcoal.” Chu Jiao stopped talking to Bi Luo and turned to order her other maid.

    Originally, she should have used activated carbon for filtration, but under the current circumstances, she could only use the charcoal used by the cook instead.

    Fortunately, all other materials are complete.

    Hongxiu quickly ground the charcoal into powder, then listened to Chu Jiao’s unhurried instructions, folded the clean handkerchief into four piles, and placed it on the mouth of Hulayan’s empty water bag.

    After tightening the bag cover, Chu Jiao turned the water bag over and used scissors to cut the bottom of the water bag.

    The guards beside Huluoyan took a breath of distress.

    That was a water bag that Khan made from the water rhino he hunted with his own hands. There were only a few of them in the entire Mobei!

    This princess!Just cut it!

    They took two more steps back.

    He was afraid that his Khan would have an impulse and break the princess’s strange hands.

    However, their Khan did not twist the princess’s hand. Instead, he reached out to hold the water bag, which was a bit heavy for the woman in front of him, and watched her pour the fine sand and charcoal into the water bag layer by layer.

    “What are you going to do?”

    Don’t you want to drink water?Why use fine sand and charcoal?

    Hulayan had a guess in his mind, guessing that the princess wanted to make the water cleaner, but felt that it was impossible with the things in front of her.

    “Do something useful for your march and war.”

    Chu Jiao answered like this, Hu Luoyan’s heart moved, but everyone present was dismissive.

    Chu Jiao pursed her lips, not paying attention to the eyes of the people around her. Her delicate oval face was full of seriousness.

    Hulayan originally focused on the water bag, but at some point, he moved his eyes to her face.

    Thick eyelashes, a small nose, and eyes as black as obsidian are full of confident brilliance, making the already beautiful face even more attractive.

    Chu Jiao didn’t pay attention to the man’s gaze.

    She asked Hongxiu to open her own water bag filled with stream water that she had not yet drank from. She suspended a simple water filter made from a Hulayan water bag over another unused glass. She unscrewed the filter bag cover and slowly poured the stream water into it from the opening at the bottom of the bag cut by the filter.

    “What does this princess want to do? It’s sand and charcoal. If you pour water into it, won’t it turn into mud?”

    “Haha, maybe Princess Tianhuang likes to drink muddy water?”

    “Hahaha, hahaha!”

    Everyone began to joke with each other in low voices. They were not from the Central Plains and did not have much respect for the so-called princess.

    Huluoyan frowned, and before turning around to warn them to be quiet, the conversation and laughter just ended abruptly.

    Looking across the crowd, Hulayan saw the disbelief gradually rising in their eyes.

    He turned around and saw that most of the water in Chujiao’s water bag had been poured out.As for the mouth of his water bag, which was filled with sand and stones, the off-white silk was gradually getting wet and began to leak water.

    The water dripped into the transparent glass drop by drop. Surprisingly, what seeped out was not the muddy water that everyone was sure of, but crystal clear and without impurities.

    After all the water was filtered, Chu Jiao placed the two glasses filled with water side by side.

    One cup is water straight from the stream and one cup is filtered water.

    There is no harm without comparison. If there is no filtered glass of water for comparison, the stream water can still be said to be clear, but compared with Chu Jiao’s filtered glass of water, the glass of water that Hulayan planned to drink in the first place can be said to be extremely turbid.

    Hulayan’s face darkened.

    Was he planning to drink something so dirty?

    Why have you never felt that before?!

    cough.

    Fortunately I didn’t drink.

    After giving the filtered water to the imperial chef to boil, Chu Jiao finally held the cup and sipped the water with peace of mind, soaking her thirsty throat.

    The filter that Chu Jiao made casually fell into Huluoyan’s hands at this moment. Several soldiers were surrounding him, doing experiments with bright eyes.

    They deliberately added a lot of weeds and gravel to the water to make it turbid, and once again tested the filtering performance of this vessel. Seeing the clear water droplets seeping out again, and the cloth that was originally clean but now full of impurities, several knowledgeable generals were very happy.

    Seeing that someone understood what she was saying, Chu Jiao did not hide her secrets, and further educated them, “When in the wild, the water you find has foreign objects floating in it or the water is turbid, don’t drink it directly. You can drink it three meters away from the water source.Dig a pit about four feet deep and as wide as one person, and let the water seep out naturally from the gaps in the sand, stones, and soil.Then, gently remove the seeped water without stirring up the sediment at the bottom of the pit, and you will be able to get relatively clean water.”

    Including Hulayan’s personal guards, Xianbei’s soldiers listened attentively. It turned out that what the princess just said, “things useful for marching and fighting”, was actually not a lie!

    Such a simple water purification device can save countless lives when used on battlefields where water sources are tight!

    Their eyes suddenly turned hot when they looked at Chu Jiao.

    Sure enough, Khan is indeed a Khan!

    The married Ke Dun is so powerful!!

    Huluoyan: She is worthy of being the queen chosen by Gu, just like this, she makes her look good!

    Chu Jiao: Haha, who just said not to do ear raking?

    Ketun: Queen in Xianbei language, i.e. Khan’s wife.

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