Chapter 146: Medicinal Incense
That night, when the sun was starting to set, a convoy came to the dam site.
The dam field is a relatively flat place, and on this land a scaffolding was built artificially, not a house, but more like a large pavilion with thick mats.
This scaffolding is generally a temporary resting place for hunters or woodcutters who have no time to hurry. Later, there were more merchants who came and went to collect mountain goods and furs, and this area also became a place for merchants to settle down and rest.
During the day, people in the surrounding miles will still sell something here, but at night, there will be no one here except for those who are temporarily resting. Mainly because there are more beasts here, it is dangerous to open a shop here.
There weren't many people resting at the dam today, except for three people dressed as hunters who lit a bonfire, and when they saw a convoy coming, they got up and gave way to make it easier for the carriage to come in.
"It's just ordinary mountain people, it's fine."
The little steward of the salt farm, who was in charge of transporting the salt, looked at the three hunters and said to the guards.
"Well, but you still have to pay attention, after all, there are so many official salts."
The escort of the salt transport team is a middle-aged lieutenant, who has been in charge of escorting the salt for several years, and is very cautious.
"Haha, Captain Leng is cautious, for so many years, the salt transport team has never encountered anything. Besides, this is table salt, not gold and silver, and no one will worry about it. ”
The little steward was big-hearted, smiled at Captain Leng, and hurriedly organized people to drive the salt cart under the scaffolding, so as not to get wet again when it rained at night. Although the car is covered with oilcloth, it is still necessary to protect it.
It took two quarters of an hour to toss and turn, and a dozen carriages were all settled. Then Captain Leng arranged for people to prepare the cooking.
In the vicinity of the three hunters, five bonfires were lit, and soon the smell of food wafted up.
Although it is already October, the Yunzhou Prefecture area is located in the east of the Tianqi Dynasty, close to the south, so the weather is still relatively warm at this time, and there are still more mosquitoes in the dense vegetation.
"Captain Leng, have you brought ointment, there are too many mosquitoes here, and I have been bitten several times."
As soon as he drank a bowl of hot soup, the little steward couldn't help but pat himself several times. On his arms and neck, he saw several small bags.
"I was in a hurry on the road, so I didn't prepare the ointment. I thought it was already October, as long as I got out of Yunzhou Mansion, there would be no such mosquitoes, who knew that the weather was hot and humid in the past two days, and there were so many mosquitoes. ”
Captain Leng was also bitten a few times, but he was a martial artist, with rough skin and thick flesh, and the feeling of being bitten was not too strong.
"My lord, if you don't mind, I have the scent of mosquitoes here."
Just as the little steward was unwilling to drive away the mosquitoes around him, a voice came from the side, and he turned his head to see that it was the eldest bearded of the three hunters.
"What kind of medicinal incense are you?"
Taking a few black pills handed over by the bearded hunter, Captain Leng sniffed them cautiously and found that they were all scented with wormwood.
"This is the mugwort incense made by the old hunters in our village, which is mainly wormwood, and there are also some other herbs that have the effect of repelling mosquitoes, which is very effective. You see, we also lit this incense by the fire, so we don't have any mosquitoes around. ”
As he spoke, the bearded Orion picked the side of the fire with a branch, so that the little steward and Captain Leng could see that there were several small black balls smoking not far from the fire.
"Hehe, we already lit the medicinal incense before you came, didn't you ask about the scent of wormwood when you came?"
"Yes, when I arrived at this dam site, I smelled the fragrance of wormwood, and at that time I thought they had ordered wormwood, but it turned out to be this medicinal fragrance."
The little steward also picked up a medicinal incense pill and sniffed it, nodding towards Captain Leng.
"Wormwood can indeed smoke mosquitoes, and they lit this medicinal incense before we came, if there was a problem, we would have been tricked a long time ago."
After some inspection, the little steward lowered his voice and said to Captain Leng beside him.
"Well, you have a point."
Captain Leng looked at Orion's fire again, the smell of medicine still slowly smoking, and nodded in agreement.
Immediately, these medicinal incense were lit and placed next to everyone.
After eating and drinking, the little steward felt a little tired, said hello to Captain Leng, and led the coachmen into the scaffolding, spread a thick felt cloth, and soon fell asleep after lying down.
After Captain Leng arranged for the night watchman, he wanted to follow the guard for the first half of the night, but after leaning on the wheel and sitting for a while, the person felt very sleepy and fell asleep unconsciously.
"Almost, you're all asleep, aren't you?"
One of the hunters pushed the beard lying beside him, opened his eyes, and said.
"Be careful, I'll test it."
Pretending to be asleep, he turned over, squinted his eyes at the guards who were sitting asleep not far away, and secretly touched a stone from the side and threw it at one of them.
There was a snap, and the stone hit the guard's leg, and the sound was not light, but the guard didn't react at all, but his head hung lower, and the piercing snoring came over.
"Alright, send the signal quickly."
The beard flipped up and kicked the person next to him.
"Oops, I said Zhang Wu, you can't be lighter, Lao Tzu's ass has been kicked by you."
The man complained and stood up, raised his sleeve and wiped his face, revealing Wu Miao's true face.
When Zhang Wu and the other person went to check whether all the people in the salt transportation team were unconscious, Wu Miao took out a small bamboo tube from his arms and pulled it, and immediately a firework rose into the sky and exploded in the air.
This is a simple firework made by Deng Yueru using gunpowder, which is just used as a signal flare for simultaneous transmission of messages.
"It's okay, everyone should move quickly, and leave quickly after getting the things."
Hiding in the surrounding mountains, after seeing the fireworks, Deng Yueru told the ten special forces around him, and at the same time looked at Situ Junfeng beside him.
"Xiao Junshi, your special identity will inevitably be discovered, you have to bring a black scarf, and don't speak."
"I understand, don't worry."
Knowing that Deng Yueru was afraid that someone who had not fainted would see her appearance, Situ Junfeng nodded, raised his hand and covered the black scarf on his face.
Deng Yueru also covered her face with a black scarf, then waved her hand, and took Situ Junfeng and ten special forces to quickly run down the mountain and enter the dam field.
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