Chapter 48: Clouds Cover the Sun (Part II)
Half a month has passed since the Shangyuan Festival, and February is just around the corner, but the weather is still generally cold.
Di Xian, who guarded the west gate of Tokyo City, Xinzheng Gate, was not a diligent prison officer, and if he followed his temper in the past, he would probably go around the city and go back to the warm room to roast the fire.
It's just that Di Xian is now standing at the head of the city, facing the wind, holding a longbow. And beside him stood a group of guards, all with bows and crossbows in their hands, ready for battle.
After standing in the wind for a long time, his body was frozen and stiff, but Di Xian's two eyes were like falcons staring at the foreign object floating in the air in front of him.
Just a quarter of an hour earlier, the foreign object had drifted from the west with a gust of wind and staggered past the walls of Xinzhengmen. When Di Xian heard the urgent report of his subordinates to go to the city, the foreign object had already penetrated deep into the city, so he had to immediately send someone to inform Kaifeng Mansion.
But if this matter stops there, it is not to blame him. But I didn't know how many idlers were watching the excitement behind me, and they were all clamoring to go into the city to chase after them. Di Xian tried his best to put the order outside the city gate in order, but he didn't expect that thing to come back, and then there was a commotion outside the city again, and even a group of people poured into the city, not much worse than during the Shangyuan Festival.
But this time, the ball on top of the foreign object had been slightly deflated, not as round as it was at the beginning, and the height had been reduced a lot, and it was clear that hanging under the ball was a large basket containing things.
No matter what it was, Di Xian couldn't let it come and go. With his bow and arrow, he was ready to shoot at the ball. But suddenly, the oncoming wind became violent, and the foreign object approached quickly, and it was about to collide head-on, which immediately frightened the city into chaos.
Di Xian also threw down a loyal subordinate, and then watched as the foreign object slid out of the city with a low glimpse of the pheasant on the top of the city wall, and the height continued to drop, and it actually fell on the stone bridge across the moat.
The onlookers who were originally crowded on the bridge were in fear, and they retreated and scattered desperately, and a few people didn't have time to dodge and even jumped off the moat directly, fortunately, the river is shallow now, and the ice is not thick.
Thousands of people gathered at both ends of the bridge, not daring to step forward for a while, and thousands of eyes were looking at the center of the stone bridge, which had already deflated and covered the entire bridge deck.
Di Xian hurried down the city, and was very pleased to see that his subordinates unconsciously blocked the crowded crowd inside and outside the city gate, and desperately squeezed on both ends of the stone bridge, and then guarded there.
Di Xian approached through the crowd, and finally realized that the ball was nothing more than an airbag with an opening at the lower end, and it was almost as angry as the kick was in the middle of the current juju. But no one can tell what exactly is in the basket hanging underneath. Especially under the cover of the airbags, the floating basket is shaking incessantly, and there are bursts of strange sounds coming out of it, which is even more terrifying.
The prison officer of Xinzheng Gate was also furious, and as soon as he rolled his eyes, he saw his loyal subordinates who had just thrown themselves to the ground, "Zhang Jiusi, you go up and take a look." β
"Ah......?"
A piece of loyalty in exchange for the qualification to play as a striker, Zhang Jiusi was reluctant to be forced by the glaring Di Xian, and cautiously approached the airbag on the bridge. He wanted to turn back several times, but he had to move forward with a sad face under Di Xian's vicious glare.
There was silence inside and outside the city for a while, everyone held their breath, and thousands of pairs of eyes were watching Zhang Jiusi's actions. The guards of Xinzheng Gate also picked up their bows and crossbows, and when a monster popped out, they immediately took action.
When it was floating in the sky, it looked like a basket, Zhang Jiusi walked closer and lifted the silk covering it, it was indeed a basket. Holding the waist knife in his hand, lying on the edge of the basket, looking down and peeking inside, Zhang Jiusi's original psychological preparations for the demons and monsters fell short. Turning around like a dream, he walked back with a deep foot and a shallow foot.
"What the hell is it?!" Di Xian immediately asked.
"Pig ...... Pig ......" Zhang Jiusi's tongue was knotted for a long time in a trance, and a sentence popped out after the last: "Pigs should go to Nanxun Gate......"
With a crisp snap, Di Xian's backhand was a mouth, waking up his subordinates who were talking nonsense. He strode over to the basket, and when he looked down, he saw that it was indeed a hairy black pig. The pigs, who were tied up with a strong rope, snorted and chirped, struggling vigorously, hitting the basket and shaking constantly.
When Di Xian raised his head, there were already three layers inside and three layers outside, and how many people crowded onto the bridge together. Looking at the past, the black pressure was full of people, all looking in with their mouths open, tiptoeing, and hooking their necks. And at some point, even the city was crowded with people. The idlers who were blocked outside shouted and cursed, desperately yearning to squeeze inside. The gatekeepers who were guarding inside to withstand the flow of people were also about to lose their strength, and their faces were flushed.
"What the hell?" Relying on his identity, Guo Zhongxiao and several people climbed the city wall and looked at the pheasant moat.
"Pig ......" He Liu's ears were tipped, and he heard some voices, and was surprised inexplicably: "This is used to transport pigs?!" β
"It's Han Gang...... It must have been done by Han Gang, no wonder it was said that it was to buy a boat. Guo Zhongxiao's thoughtless speech made several companions turn their heads to look at him.
"Get out of the way!" A tiger roared, like a thunderbolt that shocked the spot, and pulled back a few glances that looked at Guo Zhongxiao.
A strong man with a height of more than six feet and four companions pushed left and right in the crowd below the city. He has a hairy bearded face, a face like the bottom of a pot, eyebrows like a broom, a flat and wide nose, and a fierce appearance. The most special thing is that he doesn't have to stare at it, which already makes people's hearts chill.
"Who is Ernai!?" Di Xian broke off, and several gatekeepers immediately blocked Di Xian with knives.
"The Sprinkle family is from the ordnance superintendent!" The strong man spoke with a thick Kansai accent, reached into his arms with his left hand, took out a waist card as an identity certificate, and threw it to Di Xian.
"Armament Supervisor?" Hearing these three words, Di Xian was stunned, and then he was a little unhappy.
Not because of the weapons supervisor, but because of Han Gang, who was sentenced to the weapons supervisor, and Han Gang, who kicked Zheng Xia out of Beijing. Although Di Xian is a martial artist, and Zheng Xia is a civilian, he is also doing an errand, which can be regarded as a nodding friend. Although the whole thing is that Zheng Xia himself is not long-sighted, his whole family was sent to Enzhou, and Di Xian inevitably felt that some rabbits and foxes were sad.
As for the surroundings, there was an uproar. The words 'Weapons Supervisor, Han Sheren' were quickly passed through the crowd.
Di Xian lowered his head and checked the waist card, the name and identity of the person who came were all on it, it was indeed not a forgery, but this didn't mean anything: "Zhouquan, what's the matter?" β
"What else?" Zhou Quan raised his right arm, no hand, only a hook. There was an iron hook on his right wrist, the tip of the hook was shining with cold light, and he pointed to the center of the stone bridge from afar, "This spaceship is the stuff of the Ordnance Supervisor, it must be recovered immediately!" β
"Spaceship? This is the Armament Superintendent? Di Xian asked stunned.
"Whose house else could it be?" Zhou Quan said with a big grin: "The Sprinkle family was instructed by my housekeeper and is in charge of the errand of building a spaceship. The rope was not tied properly today, and it was blown away by the wind. If it weren't for this, the Sprinkler family would have come out to chase after eating, and they would be as tired as a dog. β
After saying a few words, it seemed that he had woken up and should not say so much. glared, and shouted at Di Xian, "Why don't you hurry up and let people disperse!" Didn't you see so many people blocking the gates of the city? He turned around and yelled impatiently at the crowd of onlookers: "Disperse! Scattered! β
Di Xian looked at Zhou Quan's fingers who didn't put himself in his eyes, and his heart became angry: "What evidence do you have to say that this is yours?!" β
Zhou Quan sneered: "Tell me about who else can build this spaceship except for the Han She people in the Weapons Prison?" β
"Didn't the Han Sheren say they wanted to build an iron ship?" Someone in the crowd shouted loudly, provoking thousands of people to nod their heads together.
"Iron ships, spaceships, all of them are a thing of truth, what's all the fuss?!" Zhou Quan turned around and swept the onlookers above and below the city, tens of thousands and nearly thousands of onlookers, his chin was raised high, and he only pointed two black holes at the people, "I don't have any knowledge at all!" β
Although he was only a Kansai man, the contemptuous eyes he cast around him were exactly the same as the eyes of the residents at the foot of the imperial city when they looked at the hillbillies in other places.
Di Xian was so angry that his head was congested with blood by this man who was hanging in the armory prison, he was an official. But when he thought of the appearance of a foreign object called a spaceship flying in the sky behind him, the fear of Han Gang suddenly came out again, what else could that one not do?
"If you don't hurry up, when my family comes and gets angry, then it's not about the family." Zhou Quan is not in a hurry now, "This spaceship is not worth anything, but if it is stolen by the Liao people's spies, the Sprinkle family can't afford it alone!" β
Hearing the word 'Liaoren', Di Xian was shocked. If he was really stolen by the Liao, the hairy beard in front of him would be punished, and he Di Xian would definitely be charged. And Han Gang must be partial to the people who help him, will he go to Enzhou to be a neighbor with Zheng Xia when the time comes?
But you can't just let people go...... Kaifeng Mansion has already been informed, and someone should come soon. And it must be a crime to enter through the wall without passing through the city gate, but it is a pig, not a person, who flies over! Look around again, there are already a sea of people, and if one is not good, there will be chaos, how do you want him to deal with it?
Di Xian's brain was a mess.
Guo Zhongxiao and the others looked down at the city in a daze at this time, and the name of the spaceship had reached their ears. Fang Cai was still laughing at Han Gang's inferior character and ignoring the righteousness of his teacher. In the blink of an eye, the spaceship was in the sky. This time it was a pig in it, but the next time it might be a human.
It can make people fly!
Deeds that appeared only in legends are now in front of us.
As long as Han Gang said that this was the credit of Gewu Zhizhi, I don't know how many scholars would rush to Guanzhong Hengqu to ask for the qualification of a protΓ©gΓ©.
Laughing Han Gang? It's ridiculous that it's all your own!