CHAPTER XXV

25 "Bang Bang, Bang Bang" knocked on the door, the sound was not loud, "Zhou Gongzi Zhou Gongzi" someone whispered outside the door, late at night.

Zhou Dao woke up from the dissociation and sat up suddenly. Since the last time he was set on fire in the middle of the night, as long as he heard a knock on the door at night, he was particularly frightened, which is not a good thing! opened the door, Hanwa stood at the door, "Zhou Gongzi, come and see" "What's wrong?" "I don't know, you come with me." As she spoke, Hanwa led Zhou Dao out of the courtyard.

Zhou Dao was full of suspicion, and as soon as he turned the corner of the courtyard, he saw a red line on the side of the mountain in the distance turning out from behind the mountain, and extending into the distance along the road outside the town. The red thread was made up of countless small red dots, flickering and moving, dense and continuous, meandering and disappearing into the darkness in the distance. "It's over." I don't know who said it, Zhou Dao noticed that there were still a few people standing in the dark around him, and he was also staring at the red in the dark night from a distance.

The next day, at noon, all the people of the town came and gathered in the streets to talk about what had happened last night, which was quite mysterious. Zhou Dao also crowded into the crowd and listened, "I counted last night, I'm afraid there are tens of thousands." It was Huo Zuiliu who spoke, "Do you know how to count?" "Hey, how many soldiers did you say in the morning?" Huo Zuiliu argued. "In previous years, there were times when there were soldiers, but I haven't seen them in the middle of the night. It's really too much of a town! "It was Old Man Qu who spoke. From his words, everyone remembered the war more than ten years ago, and they were speechless for a while. "You're going to Ziyang, right?" Master Qu asked again, "Yes, I guess I went to Chengdu Mansion." "Someone chimed in." I'm afraid it's going to be a war! I don't know who sighed again, everyone was silent, and no one joked. Zhou Dao couldn't hear why, so he decided to ask Xu Wei, and after two days, he took Hanwa to the county seat.

When he arrived in the county seat, he realized that he had been reckless, and the army had just started yesterday after taking a short break in Ziyang County. If he bumps into this chaotic army, it won't be bad if he is pulled into a strong man. Entering Xu Bian's yard, Xu Bian has been busy for two days, and he happens to be at home today. Zhou Dao explained his intentions, and Xu Wei listened to it and told him that he only knew that he was going to Chengdu Mansion, where he was going, and he didn't know what was going on. Unless there is a report from the Ming Fa Di, no such military information is known to them. Zhou Dao couldn't see if Xu Wei really didn't know, and seeing that Mr. Xu didn't want to say more, he said goodbye, and only said that he would come back to visit another day and hurried back.

The next few days were spent in panic like most people, and was there another war and war? This is a very serious question. Prices in the surrounding areas have risen, and the most harmful rise is the price of grain, wheat, and other grains. People have begun to hoard food, regardless of whether it is large or small, and the real big ones are already cleaning up and preparing to leave as soon as the wind is unfavorable.

Fifteen days later, definite news came that the army continued to march after resting in Chengdu Mansion for two days and went north to Lizhou West Road.

The people who heard the news breathed a sigh of relief, this battle is still far away, at least it will not affect here, and food prices will fall slightly from their high levels. Zhou Dao is a beneficiary of rising grain prices, he originally received three to four liters of grain per load of grain as a reward for rice milling, and he still has some grain in his granary that he has not sold. The price of grain has risen, but the wage market has not changed, and in some places, the wages of different industries have fallen, and he has made a lot of profits.