Chapter 281: Big Red Fish
I really didn't expect that in just three days, the brand new city wall was completed. This all depends on the hard work of the people of the whole city and the bronze beasts, and of course, it is also inseparable from the wise command of my uncle.
The original earthen part of the wall has been compacted, and the whole has been reinforced with wooden planks. The exterior of the castle wall has also been rebuilt with large stones and plaster, and it is now impregnable. In the city, my uncle also built two watchtowers to observe the enemy situation outside the city. Not only that, but my uncle also taught the people of the Golden City our technology of making barbed wire and obstacles.
With their metallurgical skills, the city's people soon made textiles made of barbed wire. My uncle led the men to dig a deep trench outside the city, and it was covered with sharpened wood. A large number of wooden stakes were nailed to the outside of the trench to hang the newly made barbed wire. It took almost half a day for the entire perimeter defense system to be completely completed.
"It's done, we can finally take a rest, after tonight, let's leave tomorrow." My uncle was also very tired, and he didn't go back to vacation, so he fell asleep lying on the weeds at the construction site. Looking at my uncle's face full of muddy water, I suddenly felt a little heartache. My uncle has done everything since he met me for so long, and I really don't know how to repay him.
"Xiaoyu, what are you looking at, I see that you are also tired, come and lie down and chat together." At this time, my uncle found me standing stupidly next to me and told me to come too.
"Uncle, do you think we can find Xu Fu successfully?" When I asked, my uncle laughed.
"Haha, Xiaoyu, are you thinking about things now? I don't actually know if I can find Xu Fu, in fact, from the beginning, I didn't care about what I was going to do, I just took one step at a time. Some things can't be planned, and if you can think of everything, otherwise no tragedy will happen. "When I said the last sentence, my uncle still looked at my aunt.
Sometimes I'm really curious about my uncle's past, what kind of people they used to be, and what happened in the past. And why did my aunt become a paper figure? Although there are many curious things, I don't dare to mention these things to my uncle, I'm afraid it's all his sadness.
As the sun sets, the night gets darker, and soon it's time for dinner again. The lord of the city knows that we are leaving tomorrow, and he will also give us a farewell banquet tonight. At the banquet, it was very lively, so that everyone quickly forgot the hard fighting and dying struggle of the previous few days.
"Mr. Yu, I'll hold a farewell banquet for you today, and I'll personally send you to the next pass tomorrow, what do you think."
"Very good, very good." My uncle and the city lord drank it all again, which was quite bold. The dinner was sumptuous, the drinks were sweet, and everyone quickly drank to their heart's content. At this moment, suddenly a soldier fainted in front of us.
"Come on, let's go see what's wrong with him." The city lord was very anxious, after all, after the events of the past few days, the city lord's nerves were also tense to the extreme. A soldier next to him immediately ran over to check the situation, and after turning the man over, he ran back in a panic.
"Report to the city lord, it's not good, that person is poisoned." Poisoning, as soon as these two words came out, everyone immediately put down the food and wine in their hands. Not because of the person who was worried about being poisoned, but because he was afraid that his food and wine were also poisonous. We weren't in the mood to eat either, so we ran over to see how the man was doing.
My uncle took off the mask of this three-eyed man, and he was already foaming at the mouth. My uncle gave him a pulse, took out an antidote pill and gave it to the soldier, who opened his eyes after a few minutes.
"City Lord, I'm ......" The soldier was weak and barely opened his eyes.
"Tell me slowly, what did you eat to get poisoned?"
"City Lord, I didn't eat anything, I just drank some water when I was thirsty." Water, is it possible that our water has been poisoned? My uncle also realized the seriousness of the situation and immediately ran to the nearest water storage point. He took out a silver needle and poked it into the water, and the silver needle turned black, and it was really poisonous.
"City Lord, is this water from our newly opened well?" The city lord shook his head.
"Not yet, the new well is not yet finished, and it is still drinking water from the river. It's just that the source of this water is in our city, and there is no way to poison it from the outside. Could it be that there is an inner ghost! "There are internal ghosts, who will it be, only we are outsiders here, and that can only be done by our people here.
"No, city lord, it's hard to say about this matter right now. Even if there is an inner ghost, we won't be able to get out for a while. Let's go to the other side of the river first, maybe we'll find something. "We also had to interrupt the feast, leaving some people to watch the enemy movements outside the city, while the rest followed to the river to search for the poisoner.
After dark, there were no lights by the river, so we had to use my uncle's sun stone to help us illuminate. By the light of the sun stone, we can see the entire riverbank, but the riverbank is empty, and we can't see anyone moving at all.
"Let's split up and look for any of the vials left behind by the enemy's poisoning." Although there are thousands of us, it is not easier for me to find a poisoning vial on the riverbank than to find a needle in a haystack.
In fact, we are really looking for a needle in a haystack, so many of us have been looking for more than an hour, not to mention a medicine bottle, but we haven't even found a footprint. That's right, it's not scientific to have even a footprint.
"Uncle, there isn't even a footprint here, it seems that no one walked in here to poison him." After I said this, my uncle frowned.
"If you don't come in and poison, how can you poison it. We're upstream, and the enemy can't poison us downstream. "At this time, there was a sudden sound of some waves on the water, as if something was beating on the water.
When we looked closely, there was a half-meter-long big red fish rolling on the water. What kind of fish is this, I don't think I've ever seen it.
"City Lord, do you have fish here?"
"There are fish in the river, but they are also in the lower reaches of the river, and it is impossible to have such big fish in this upstream. Someone, catch that strange fish for me. "A few soldiers rowed small boats and pushed nets in less than ten minutes to catch this troublesome strange fish.
This big fish is more than half a meter long and bright red all over, but unfortunately none of the locals know what kind of fish it is. I don't know what this fish is, so it's hard for us to judge.
"Hey, do you know anyone?" When my uncle asked, Xiao Lizi next to him accosted him.
"I know, I know."