Chapter Ninety-Seven: Fueling the Flames
Wu Zheng left, and the old man who was still arguing with a red face just now in the room was quiet.
"Still noisy?" Huang Lao sat back in his chair and asked.
Xia Lao shook his head: "It's boring, but that kid seems to be smarter than you, I'm afraid you won't react until this time and ask him to do that!" β
Huang Lao said proudly: "When did I, Huang Xing, accept disciples, and look away?" But then again, although that kid is familiar with the victims now, he won't be a good scout, you have to find someone to find out the details of these red lotus remnants for you, in fact, I think Cheng Xiaojin's baby is good. β
Xia Lao smiled but said: "That kid is not a good scout, and he will not be a good heir, you only expect him to inherit your mantle, it is better to count on Chai Hu." β
Huang Lao smiled: "You also underestimate my Jiang Shui Yao Wang Clan's heritage, I have studied it all my life until now, but I have only learned a little bit of skin, although Chai Hu is a little Mu Na is the best candidate to be under my mantle, but the inheritance of the Yao Wang Clan needs that kid to inherit, believe it or not, even if he doesn't learn anything, but my Jiang Shui Yao Wang's inheritance will never be cut off in his hands." β
"Believe it or not, that kid will definitely hide the things you left for him like antiques, so that maybe one day one of his descendants will like to study medicine, and he will carry forward the inheritance of your medicine king. It's just that at that time, could the Medicine King Clan still be called the Medicine King Clan? β
Facing Xia Lao's questioning, Huang Lao smiled slightly: "The essence of medical skills is to treat people, as long as it can be carried forward and let many people know, it is a good thing." Huang Xingzu attached too much importance to this name, which caused a lot of thaumaturgy to be lost, and now it is too late to regret it! How can I repeat the mistakes of the past? β
The heavy snow finally stopped on the fifth day, and if it didn't stop, people would really freeze to death outside the city, and Wu Zheng told his grandmother and aunt about the people of the Red Lotus Sect that night.
My aunt was not much older than herself, so she didn't know much about the Red Lotus Sect back then, but when her grandmother heard that the Red Lotus Sect was out of the city, she jumped up from her chair in fright.
She almost didn't frighten the people in the room with this jump, but after her grandmother asked her again if the Red Lotus Sect really appeared again, grandma turned out to be in no hurry.
If nothing else, it is because Wu Zheng, who is old and aware of her old feelings, is lying, the Red Lotus Sect full of evil has long been completely exterminated by the imperial court twenty years ago, how can it still be resurrected, so this incident is an excuse for his grandson to trick himself into going up the mountain.
Grandma didn't want to go, Wu Zheng and Seinfeld had to stay, but whenever Wu Zheng sat bored in the teahouse, looking at the still calm and unspeakable Yuzhou City, I couldn't help but wonder if the Red Lotus Sect would rebel in the end? Could it be that he was scared by the imperial court twenty years ago? Now you just want to scam people and make some money?
But this disaster relief is no joke! Even if you boil porridge for those disasters every day, that's thousands of mouths! How much money do you have to spend every day? If it's just to cheat money, then the upfront investment is too big! When will I get my money back?
Wu Zheng felt that it was impossible to wait like this! Because after thinking about it, the only way to make the Red Lotus Sect quickly return to its original capital is to sack Yuzhou City, and the Red Lotus Sect is not a Kaishan Hall, so why should it do a loss-making business? And what is the faster way in the world than to rob money?
So if you continue to wait like this now, if the Red Lotus Sect suddenly jumps out one day, you won't be able to leave even if you leave.
So Wu Zheng decided to push them, whether it was the Red Lotus Sect or the government, it was good to hurry up and do it, it couldn't just thunder and not rain, it would kill people in a hurry.
In a secluded corner on the side of the street, a little kid with snot on his nose was looking at the osmanthus candy in Wu Zheng's hand and drooling.
"Does the little brother want to eat?" Wu Zheng took out a sticky osmanthus candy full of sesame seeds and shook it in front of the little child's eyes.
The little kid hurriedly pointed the bucket like a chicken pecking rice: "I want to ......"
"If you want to eat, my brother can give it to you! But you have to learn a nursery rhyme from your brother first, and when you learn it, you'll be given candy. β
Seeing that the little kid nodded vigorously, Wu Zheng smiled and said: "The mage is a good mage, the mage's wife laughs every day, both rice and medicine, and a chicken cries every day." It's easy! Learned that this sugar is yours. β
The same thing, Wu Zheng is still playing out in different places in the city today, there are little girls and boys, in addition to osmanthus candy and jujube cake that lure them, anyway, they don't have the same, not only the candy is not the same, but even the children's songs are not the same, the purpose is to spread this rumor once it spreads, if someone traces it, it will not be considered that it was passed on by one person, but by one person.
In this way, two more days passed, and the winter sun dried up the heavy snow that had fallen in the past few days, and an invisible panic spread throughout Yuzhou City with this slowly spreading ballad.
On this day, the grandmother who went out to buy salt at noon heard such a song on the way, and when she didn't buy the salt, she immediately ran back in shock and asked Wu Zheng to move quickly.
Wu Zheng smiled, the things that should have been packed in the past few days have already been packed up by Wu Zheng, and even the carriage for the carriage is ready, just waiting for grandma's words, grandma Yu said that she wanted to go up the mountain to see Zhuangzi, so naturally she would get in the car and leave.
He walked to a leisurely place, but Xia Lao and Huang Ji in the city were very upset, and the two of them and Qin Lei, who were far away in Chengdu Mansion, finally weaved a big net together, waiting to catch all the fish of the Red Lotus Sect, but at this moment, the people on the shore didn't know which immoral ghost threw a stone into the water.
Do frightened schools of fish want to die or scatter and flee? At this time, everyone couldn't figure it out, so they could only quickly inform Qin Ting that he was now the marching master of the Right Guard, and he was the one who brought people over this time.
It is difficult to go to the blue sky, it is easy for Qin Ting to bring people over from Chengdu Mansion three hundred miles away, but it is not so easy to block all the passes around Yuzhou without knowing it.
But now they can't manage so much, they can only be prepared to close the net.
On this night, before Wu Zheng's carriage reached Shenmu Village, Yuzhou City, far away in the mountains, suddenly burst into flames in the middle of the night.
Among the victims who had been brainwashed by the Red Lotus Sect were holding thorny wooden sticks and bamboo sharpened shuttle darts in their hands, and some even simply carried a stone or brick, and with the blessing of their archmage's mana, they shouted invulnerability in their mouths and pounced on Yuzhou City like crazy demons.
The city wall of Yuzhou City is not high, but it is also three zhang three, and now the appearance of the Red Lotus Sect even the gate of the outer city will be locked as soon as it gets dark, so that no amount of silver can be opened, and the soldiers who rarely appear on the city wall are also standing on the wall.
A group of spirits who only hold bamboo and wood want to conquer such a city defense, isn't that the same as sending them to death? But in the end, they really opened the gate to the north of the city and called in.
Do you want to say that the soldiers on the city wall released water? No, the guerrilla general of the Right Guards personally sat on the city wall who dared to release water.
Is that the gate of the city papier-mΓ’chΓ©? That's not it, the gates of Yuzhou City are all made of palm-thick iron and wood, riveted iron bars, fist-sized city gate nails, which are full of nails. The pole at the top door required three sergeants to lift together, because there were three more such poles than an inch of cooked iron sheets.
How could this group of spirits who didn't even have a sledgehammer open such a city gate?