Shi Dajian's voice did not fall, and Zhao Chengxiao also returned to the courtyard.

Seeing that everyone had gathered, Qiu Yizhi ordered a few people to drive two carriages and a few horses one after the other, and walked unhurriedly towards the direction of the prison of the Criminal Department. The group was specially led by Yelu, like the Fanbang caravan that came to the capital to pay tribute and do business, although it was a little eye-catching, but no one dared to come forward to make trouble, so Shun Shun had arrived at the courtyard that Yelu had just bought.

The house was a large compound with two entrances and two exits, and the open space in the middle was quite large, and two carriages were parked in it, and it was not crowded at all. There are also seven or eight houses in the house, with bedrooms, main halls, dining rooms, kitchens, and toilets, and it is really not a loss to Qiu Yizhi to buy it, and it costs a full 40,000 taels of silver.

So Qiu Yi saw that the time was not early, so he asked someone to carry the digging tools, Bohai blades, saltpeter sulfur and food and clothing supplies in the car, especially the saltpeter and sulfur that had been purchased by all means and put them in the coolest and sunny place in the courtyard to store.

After this round of physical work, everyone was already hungry. Wen Lingjiao was also considerate, so she instructed He'er to make a fire and cook. Unexpectedly, although He'er, this little girl, was rude and willful, her cooking skills were very good, but she put a table of dishes on the table in a moment. Qiu Yizhi picked up the chopsticks and tasted it, and couldn't help but admire: "Miss He'er is really a good craft, these dishes, I'm afraid they are not below the imperial chef in the palace!" ”

After all, He'er is just a little girl who has never been in the world, and when she heard someone praise her like this, she was overjoyed and said, "That's nature." It's just that there are no good ingredients at the moment, and I still have several specialty dishes in my hands that I can't make, so you don't have a good taste! ”

Qiu Yizhi listened to it and thought: The people present are all mavericks, and it seems that they can only praise more and depreciate less, and first prevent infighting to deal with this situation. So he said loudly to everyone: "At present, we are all brothers and sisters, and we don't want to distinguish between high and low." Come on, come on! Let's have dinner together! ”

The people in this courtyard are the noble county lord of the Bohai Kingdom, and the lowly coolies who dig holes and dig pits, and after listening to Qiu Yizhi's words, they all looked at each other, but they refused to go to the table to take the dishes and chopsticks.

Seeing this, Qiu Yi sighed lightly, and thought in his heart: This humble title is determined by heaven, how can it be immediately eliminated because of his own words? I had to pick up the dishes and chopsticks by myself, and pretended to smile heartily: "Since everyone is not hungry, then you're welcome!" ”

Seeing this, everyone also sat down to eat one after another, but although these people were all eating at the same table, they were also in order. In particular, Yelu, Zhao Chengxiao, and He'er are considered to be the people who summoned, and they only waited for Qiu Yi and others to finish eating, and then they all used chopsticks to eat. As for Shi Dajian, he was willing to eat some leftovers at the end.

Although Shi Dajian's identity is the most humble, it is the key to the success of this plan.

Qiu Yizhi waited quietly for him to eat, then walked up to him and asked, "Master Shi, did you eat this meal well?" ”

Shi Dajian actually had tears in his eyes: "Small, in my life, I have never eaten such a delicious meal!" The little one has only met the son for a few days, and it is a reward for money and food...... Alas, Sensei said, if there is anything wrong with the child, just give orders! ”

Qiu Yizhi was a little embarrassed when Shi Dajian said this, scratched his head and said, "Since this is the case." Then please Master Shi to start work. ”

Shi Dajian shouted, "Okay", picked up a shovel from the side, and paced in the open space of the yard. He walked several times before he stopped at the southeast corner of the clearing, shouted, and dug vertically downward, and for a time the courtyard was filled with sand and dust.

After a cup of tea, when the smoke and dust dissipated, everyone saw that Shi Dajian had stripped off his arms, standing in a soil pit that was already half a person deep, and said to Qiu Yizhi with a shovel on his shoulder: "Childe is really a blessing, the soil here is neither soft nor hard, not dry or wet, just let the little big show his skills!" As he spoke, he picked up his spirits again and continued to dig down.

Qiu Yizhi saw that as soon as Shi Dajian started to work, his original humble and sluggish demeanor was swept away, and he was replaced by a heroic spirit that could not be concealed all over his body, and he couldn't help but pull Yu Chi Lianghong and said: "Brother, you see the skills of this Shi master, if it is placed in the martial arts, it can be regarded as a generation of grandmasters!" ”

Yu Chi Lianghong also nodded with a serious face and said: "The appearance of this brother wielding a shovel and shovel seems to be playing a set of extremely clever martial arts in the eyes of the foolish brother, which is really impressive. ”

Qiu Yizhi smiled and said, "Then don't exhaust Master Shi." As he spoke, he called Zhao Chengxiao and said, "You go to Nuanxiang Pavilion and ask your brothers to come here to help." It's your group of brothers who are fierce and vicious, and it's too dazzling to walk on the road, so you let them break into pieces and come in batches, and be cautious along the way, don't show flaws! ”

Zhao Chengxiao nodded hurriedly and said, "I'm just taking a few more trips." ”

Qiu Yizhi was still not at ease, so he asked Yu Chi Lianghong to go with him, and he turned around and asked Ye Ludao: "Brother Ye Lu, the envoy from Bohai, how many people are still living in the Siyi Pavilion now?" ”

Ye Lu crossed his fingers and calculated: "There are eighteen people." ”

"Did you still carry items that you need to take out of the capital?" Qiu Yizhi asked again.

Ye Lu smiled heartily and said: "Those are all things outside the body, and if you throw them away, you will throw them away." However, the sweaty BMW that His Highness Yi handed over to feed him was rare, and it was a pity to lose it. ”

Qiu Yizhi listened, thought about it for a while, but said again: "When I lived in the Siyi Pavilion, I seemed to see a lot of horses raised in the stables, and they all seemed to belong to your Bohai Kingdom. ”

Yelu replied: "His Highness Yi is right. These are all good horses from the Bohai Sea, which we brought to Luoyang and were originally going to pay tribute to the emperor, a total of forty-nine horses. Even for our personal use, there are now nearly sixty good horses in the Siyi Pavilion! ”

Qiu Yizhi was overjoyed when he heard this, and asked, "Then can these horses be called in a hurry?" ”

Before Yelu could answer, the county lord on the side interjected: "Of course, our Bohai warriors grew up on horseback, and they can go out to kill the enemy with a command!" ”

Qiu Yizhi became more and more happy when he heard this, and said, "Good county lord, you have helped a lot again!" ”

Yiran was confused when he heard it, and said angrily: "What nonsense are you talking about? ”

Qiu Yizhi replied with a smile: "You will know then." Oh yes. Master Zhongli instructed us not to go out these days, you can rest in this courtyard, and then rescue my father-in-law, and you will be busy. With that, he turned around and went to the warehouse, found a few Songming candles that he had just bought, lit them, handed one to Yiran, and then said, "If you want to be bored, you can also look at the work of this stone master, which is not seen in Bohai and Guangyang." ”

Yiran's temperament was touched through by Qiu Yizhi. When the lord of the state was told this by him, he really took a pine and squatted on the edge of the newly dug hole, watching it very attentively and seriously.

After a while, the courtyard gate was pushed open, and it turned out that Zhao Chengxiao and Wei Chi Lianghong had brought seven or eight brothers to meet here, and then went out to pick up people again.

Qiu Yizhi saw that there was a new helper, so he asked Shi Dajian to climb out of the cave, and after a little rest, he let the thieves go down to the cave to dig the earth. Unexpectedly, although these thieves looked rough and powerful, they were far from being able to work as well as Shi Dajian, and several people took turns digging for half an hour, which was not as much as Shi Dajian's bag of cigarettes.

Qiu Yizhi saw that this digging method was really half the effort, so he simply let them all rest, and when Zhao Chengxiao brought all the brothers into the courtyard twice, he asked Shi Dajian to be a teacher and teach them the tricks of digging tunnels.

Although those bandits were recruited, they were wild and untamed, and they originally looked down on this business of eating ashes and drinking pulp. But they saw that they were really not as good as the mud leg in front of them, and they listened to him and reasoned, plus Qiu Yizhi and Zhao Chengxiao were supervising on the side, but they were also very humble, and listened to Shi Dajian's lectures seriously one by one.

After listening to the lecture, the group went down to dig again, and the efficiency was really much higher. Qiu Yizhi was also quite relieved to watch it from the side, so he asked Zhao Chengxiao to wait on the side, and he went back to the house to sleep.

When he woke up early the next morning, Qiu Yizhi listened, but he couldn't hear the sound of digging construction, so he hurriedly put on his shoes, and he didn't even have time to wash, so he pushed the door and walked out. Unexpectedly, a mountain of earth more than one person high has been piled up in this courtyard, and the tunnel under the "mountain" is even deeper.

Qiu Yizhi also saw that there were more than a dozen tired brothers lying on the top and bottom of the mound, and he already knew that these people had not slept all night and the progress of the project had increased greatly, so he shouted loudly into the cave: "Master Shi can be in the cave? Can you come up and talk to you? Before the words fell, an echo echoed in the cave.

Shi Dajian replied in the cave: "It's here!" So he carried a basket of dirt and crawled out of the hole.

Qiu Yizhi took the earthen basket, his hand suddenly sank, and he said: "Master Shi is so strong, this basket of soil is seventy or eighty pounds, and it doesn't show any heaviness on your shoulders." Then he helped pat the dust off his body and asked, "I wonder how long this tunnel has been dug?" ”

Shi Dajian loosened the muscles on his shoulders and said, "This group of brothers brought by Gongzi is all good, we have been digging like this for most of the night, and we have dug for fifty steps. At this rate, the fastest two days, and in less than three days, you can dig under the prison of the Criminal Department! ”

Qiu Yizhi was very satisfied with what he heard, and after soothing himself, he went back to the house to freshen up. After a little bit of the breakfast prepared by He'er, Qiu Yizhi saw that the earth mountain in the courtyard was a little higher, and after thinking about it, he plunged into the hut where the sulfur saltpeter was stored.

Qiu Yizhi carefully separated the saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal items and piled them into three lumps. He squatted on the ground again and carefully recalled the Tianzun Sect books he had read in Guangyang City, and according to the proportions recorded in them, he mixed these things together, wrapped them tightly with cloth, inserted paper twists, and lightly stacked the cloth bags together.

Just as Qiu Yizhi was engrossed in his work, a voice suddenly came to his ears: "Hey! What are you doing! He was so scared that he sat on the ground, and his tailbone was painful.

Qiu Yizhi turned his head to look, but he didn't know when he broke in, so he scolded: "What are you doing here?" It hurts my ass ......."

Yiran didn't buy it, and asked, "I asked you what you're doing?" I called you for dinner outside for a long time, and ignored me. With that, he reached out and went to get the cloth bags.

Qiu Yizhi hurriedly stopped: "These things can't be played around, they can't be blown up!" ”

Yiran showed a little disdain, and said, "Oh, I know, isn't it gunpowder!" It's all for fireworks, and everyone else is busy, and you're playing with these things here. ”

"You know what. That day, it was written in the Zunjiao book that the gunpowder with different proportions would increase its power a lot, and the people of the Western Regions relied on this to attack the city. Qiu Yizhi explained.

Only then did Yi Ran suddenly realize that he said: "I remember, you have told me several times about this in Guangyang City, and you said that you would find a chance to try it." How? Have you tried this thing? ”

Qiu Yizhi replied: "As soon as this thing is used, the sky will fall apart, how dare I try it easily?" ”

"What if it doesn't work then?" Yiran asked again.

Qiu Yizhi stuck out his tongue: "Anyway, even if this thing doesn't work, it's a big firecracker, as long as it can scare the pursuers for half an hour, I have another way." ”