The ventilation in the cave is not bad, nor is it good, and there should be water flowing under the cave, and a steady stream of cold air is sent upwards. The four walls of the cave are stacked with saltpeter sulfur, some of which have been ground into crushed grains, mixed with charcoal and packed in batches in thick bamboo tubes the size of bowls.

A few sick gunsmiths rested on the upside, and today because everyone was free, there were two or three people on the side to take care of them, and if they were busy, they would have to fend for themselves.

"Old village doctor, you are good to give them treatment, we all accept your love!" The soldier left the strange man in the gunsmith's pile, walked to the door of another small hole and negotiated with the guard's soldier, because he wanted to knock on the side, his voice became high-pitched: "If you are restless" gestured to the neck with pleasure and determination.

"Village doctor, am I still alive?"

The pale-faced gunsmith was weak to ask questions, since the old village doctor entered the cave and sat in front of him, his posture was very similar to that of a doctor sitting in the museum, but he only took the pulse, and did not ask anything.

Noting down the placement of sulfur saltpeter everywhere, Xu Yuan withdrew the hand on the gunsmith's wrist and untied the basket made of palm leaves hanging on his waist, "There are phoenix tails and plantains, fry them well, and they will take effect quickly." ”

People who often walk around in the mountains know the usefulness of anchovy and plantain, and they listen to the old village doctor talk like a broken water wheel, guessing that he picked it in front of the car to cure the throat, and can't help but be embarrassed and say: "These are the medicinal materials of the village doctor, and they have eaten ...... for us."

"Can't I beg you to eat, your illness can't be cured, I'll explain it here!"

The gunners looked at each other, and they all saw the embarrassment on each other's faces, the old village doctor was old, and he was still rolling around like a child.

As the hours passed, the light gradually diffused through the low hole, and the gunsmith who was leaning against the wall to recuperate grinned and took the initiative to talk to Xu Yuan.

"We work in the cave all year round, we haven't seen the buffalo in the field, and the pear blossoms in the next village are beautiful in the spring, like snow-white fat dolls, and now it's summer, and the children like to go to the stream to swim. The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, and I'm not at home this year, so I can go home for the New Year......"

The others also chattered endlessly, with no preface to the end, and chattering about the trivial things in their own village.

Xu Yuan didn't listen carefully, his eyes continued to search around the cave, and when they were exhausted, he asked, "I see that this place is narrow and not very ventilated, in case of a fire, where are you going?" ”

"There are twelve caves here, and each cave is connected to each other, and if one of them catches fire, we can run out of the other caves." A boy who was only twelve years old introduced Xu Yuan very proudly.

After hearing this, Xu Yuan didn't show surprise, "What if the twelve holes are on fire?" ”

An older gunsmith said in his cigarette voice: "I heard the adults say when they touched the cards, and the hole we are in has an extra skylight than someone else's. ”

This is called the endless road of heaven and man, Xu Yuan leaned back, grabbed the bamboo cane and jumped up on the ground, his body was neat and sassy, and he saw that the gunners were stupid, and he had forgotten that his legs and feet were inconvenient.

The little soldiers guarding outside the small cave heard the fierce wind of "huhu", and rushed in with a big knife, only to see the old village doctor in blue and gray cloth supporting the hat, the bamboo cane in his hand cracked like a thunderbolt, and a red tassel spear in the middle broke through the air and attacked their life.

The head of the gun approached the little soldier, Xu Yuan slid forward with the barrel of the gun, grabbed the tail of the gun in time, and the red cherry blossom under the gun shook when his wrist shook and interfered with the soldier's sight.

"Poof!"

All of them are choked with one shot.

The gunsmiths returned to their places, the faces of the sick were even paler, and the people who were not sick were also frightened out of their hearts after this experience, and seeing a few small soldiers spurting blood and falling to the ground, they didn't dare to shout loudly, and hugged together to beg Xu Yuan to spare their lives.

"Find what you call the skylight, and run for your life." Xu Yuan picked up the bamboo cane, put the red tassel gun back on, pressed the eaves of the hat lower, and walked to another hole.

……

Qiu Daqian couldn't hold back, the strange man had been in the cave for an hour, and he could only go home if he waited.

"Madam, my subordinates are invited to go into the cave to find out!"

Princess Baozhen's eyes were like lightning, and she had made up her mind in an instant, and said to Li Qingping and Qin Can: "Remember to mask yourself, let's solve the people outside and open the way for Daqian." ”

At this point, Li Qingping knew that there would be a fight to the death, listening to his aunt's tone, he no longer planned to leave a way for the people of the Shenji Battalion, and the essence in his eyes suddenly gathered like a cloud.

Qin Can was already eager to try, and said with his hands in his hands: "Princess, take a good look, I'll take that adult's head in a while!" ”

Without further ado, the three of them put on copper masks and jumped out of the cave with their feet on bamboo.

Qiu Daqian touched the mud on his face indiscriminately, waited for an opportunity, and did not distract himself to watch Princess Baozhen and their fight, focusing only on the situation at the entrance of the cave.

Sudden changes, but the people of the Shenji Camp are not chaotic at all, Princess Baozhen is surprised, a row of archers has rushed out of the slope, full of bows, and arrows are ready to fly!

"Auntie, they're not from the Divine Machine Battalion!" Li Qingping cut down one person and protected behind Princess Baozhen.

Princess Baozhen caught a glimpse of Qin Can's kung fu of the three-legged cat and knocked out the three people, but fortunately she was unharmed, and her heart was slightly relieved, "I can see it, I'm afraid they have already laid an ambush." ”

She was about to give Qiu Daqian a secret signal to "retreat", when she suddenly saw the archers on the slope turn around, and in the blink of an eye, they rolled down the hill, looking frightened.

"Bang!"

The ground shook beneath his feet.

Qin Can was closest to the entrance of the cave, and shouted: "The hole is blown up, it is blown up!" ”

When she was distracted, a knife came out of her hand and shot straight at Qin Can, Princess Baozhen didn't have time to think about it, she forced the soft sword away from the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion with one hand, and threw out the leather whip on her waist with the other.

The leather whip was like an electric snake biting the big knife, and the tip of the knife was only a fist away from Qin Can's face.

Qin Can was dumbfounded, his eyes were in a trance, and at this time, the second loud bang hit, and he turned around and hurriedly jumped back to Princess Baozhen's side.

"It's the weirdo!" Li Qingping's long sword was pointed at the hillside, and more than half of the archers were killed and wounded.

Qin Can saw a touch of red floating up and down in the air, and looked closely, it turned out that the strange man was using a red tassel gun to take the archer's life, kicked away the last little one, and chirped: "It's strange that I have always looked at his bamboo cane unpleasantly, it turned out to be a ruined gold and jade, so insidious!" ”

Li Qingping only saw him make one or two moves, and knew that he was not his opponent, if he had made a move in the forest before, he and Qin Can would be at most one, maybe not one.

The red tassel spear stabbed into the throat of the last archer, and the blood splattered and soaked the red cherry blossoms again, and the blood fell low on the blades of grass and rolled down to the mud.

Xu Yuan turned his wrist around, pulled out the head of the gun, and glanced at Princess Baozhen and the others under the slope.