Chapter 106: Counting is Counting
I don't know if Xia Rumei's soul will have an impact on her reincarnation after being poisoned by Twilight. Now we can only take one step at a time, but fortunately, Xia Rumei is already with us, and she will no longer be at the mercy of Dusk Wen. I didn't expect that sanctimonious guy, who was full of benevolence and morality in his mouth, was so vicious behind his back.
"Don't worry, I will do my best to get you out, as for your soul......"
"It doesn't matter, as long as I know what kind of talisman Twilight has given you, I have a way to solve it for you. Wuchen followed up, which was a reassurance for her.
I saw that Xia Rumei had changed back to her expressionless appearance, so I knew that it was not good to bother again, so I pulled Wuchen and went out.
"You don't sleep at night, what do you say to me that there is a way to get food, what is the method?" Seeing Wuchen coming to my room with me, I knew that he hadn't let go of his idea of looking for food.
"Brother Mu, to be honest, the rat meat that Brother Bai roasted tonight is really crispy and delicious. Wuchen had an unfinished expression, "What I think is that since someone can drive so many rats to empty the Lu family's granary, I can also drive the rats out to carry the grain, and then lay a net to catch all the rats." Tens of thousands of rats, enough to eat for a while. β
"Where did you get the food?" "If you want to catch mice, you can't solve the problem of bait in the first place.
"Ahh Wuchen said proudly, "I can make a granary." You've seen paper men and paper horses that worship the dead, and it's just a trick to make them move. I can convince rats that the granary I made out of paper paste is real. β
"Is that true?"
"Seriously!"
"Okay, we'll talk to Lord Iron tonight. If you make a big fuss and you can't catch the mouse, you and I will lose our heads. β
"This ...... Actually, Brother Mu, I also theorized it, but I didn't practice it. β
I know that this guy is unreliable.
"Then use your talisman paper to paste a small grain pile, catch a few rats and try it. β
"Makes sense. β
So, I stayed up with this psychotic for most of the night, making papier-mΓ’chΓ© piles there. After it was done, Wuchen took out a bottle from his body, wasn't it the musk bottle used to catch mice?
"This thing is used to increase utility. β
After tinkering for a long time, it was finally ready. Wuchen took a talisman and pasted it on the papier-mΓ’chΓ© grain pile, and used copper coins to lay out four paths on all sides of the "grain pile". The rest was just the two of us sitting stupidly in the small yard waiting.
About fifteen minutes later, just as we were losing our surnames one after another, we suddenly heard the sound of rustling in the courtyard. The sound was small and soft at first, but gradually it became louder again, and after less than three minutes it felt like a gust of wind blowing through the poplar forest.
"Brother Mu, look, rat!"
Wuchen pointed out to me softly, in fact, I also saw a pair of eyes shining red. Although I knew that it was just a mouse, so many mice still felt a tingling in their scalps.
"What to do?" I don't know how to catch these hundreds of rats.
"Oh, I just tried to lure the rats here, but I forgot to catch them. β
"No matter, rush forward, catch as much as you can. β
I greeted Wuchen and rushed into the swarm of rats. You're so easy to catch like a mouse, and as soon as I stood up, the rats started to flee in all directions. As a result, I worked with Wuchen for most of the day, and I didn't catch a single mouse.
The next day, I slept until the third pole of the day, and then I got up and took Wuchen to find Tie Xuan. Tie Xuan seemed to have not closed his eyes all night, his eyes were red, and he was tired.
I told Tie Hyun about Dust-free's strategy, and although Tie Hyun did not reject eating mice, he also expressed his doubts: "It would be good if I could catch so many mice." But to build such a large granary, even if it is papier-mΓ’chΓ©, it takes several days. Moreover, Jinan City is so big, I am afraid that musk alone will not be able to attract all the rats. β
Tie Xuan really wants to kill all the rats in Jinan City.
"If it doesn't work, let them help us gather the rats in the city. β
Now is an extraordinary period, if we make a big show of fake granaries and put up some dust-free formations, what if the people who have driven the rats to steal the grain see it and make a hindrance from it? If the soldiers make dangerous moves, wouldn't it be better to "borrow a knife to kill rats".
After noon, I heard that I arrived at the prefect's yamen again, looking lost and depressed. I pretended not to know and comforted him. After a while, a herald came in and reported that he had found a granary in the city of Jinan.
"What?, the food was found?" Tie Hyun got up from his chair excitedly.
I don't believe where the food came from at this time. But I couldn't help but believe it, and soon four more Confederate soldiers came over carrying two heavy bags. When I opened it, it was full of yellow grain.
"It's food. β
"My lord, when I was patrolling the north of the city, I accidentally found a dilapidated mansion with several thousand catties of grain hidden under the rubble. β
"Great, take me now, I'm going to see for myself. Tie Xuan had already started to walk out, "Oh, by the way, let General Luo send troops to guard it." By the way, they were bagged and moved to the prefect's yamen. β
When the herald received the order, he rode away from the smoke on his horse.
"Mr. Twilight, let's take a look. I smiled at Twilight, "I finally have food to eat, and I don't panic when I have food in my stomach." β
"This ...... It's okay...... "Twilight heard that it was a little distracted, and I wasn't very happy.
It may be that Xia Rumei has not found it yet, and she can't care about anything else.
We had to walk a lot slower, and by the time we got there, Luo Shicheng was already directing the soldiers to start loading bags of grain into the car. Seeing us coming, Luo Shicheng reported the food situation to Tie Xuan. Tie Hyun also opened a few bags, took out the rice inside and smelled it, sure enough, he was a quartermaster, and he also knew how to check the rice for mildew.
"Okay, good, this food is enough for the people of the whole city for half a month. Tie Xuan said that it was half a month and half a month, and that's what he did, "It's just a pity that there are hundreds of war horses." But in the future, we don't have to risk going out to attack the northern army, less horses, and less forage. β
Watching the last carriage leave the mansion in the north of the city, we laughed and walked towards the prefect's yamen. The haze of rebellion yesterday has long since dissipated, but in the final analysis, there is still no food to make trouble. Now that there is food, the contradiction will naturally be solved.
Walking to the gate of the prefect's yamen, Dusk Wen went home under the pretext. Tie Xuan also felt that he didn't help find Xia Rumei, so he didn't want to go. He sent a team of soldiers to Duwen's house, and sent several patrolling soldiers to continue to look for Xia Rumei in Jinan City.
Twilight refuses to live or die, insisting that no soldiers guard his house.
"If you don't keep it, you won't keep it, just an extra team of soldiers will come to look for Madame. "I'm playing haha on the sidelines so that the atmosphere doesn't become awkward.
I didn't have anything to eat at night, so I thought I would go to the barracks to rub some more meat, but because of my face, I didn't go in the end. There is a proverb in the Sichuan dialect that says, "Only if you have thick skin can you eat meat." This is a living example.
At night, when the lights are in the hands, I sit in the courtyard to cool off. By this season, the heavy clothes are no longer worn. And in this environment, you can't afford to change your clothes in spring, summer, autumn and winter. So it doesn't look silly to come out at night to cool off. Many people took refuge in the prefect's yamen, including the soldiers standing guard during the day.
There are only five days left before the third day of the fourth month, and Jinan City will definitely not be lost in these five days, and Daoyan's Tiangang Array will definitely be launched at that time. How are they going to find Xia Rumei to collect those lonely ghosts? I'm afraid that Ma Junwu's story is wrong, and Twilight Wen will not use Xia Rumei to do such a thing. It seems that history never follows a predetermined pattern, even if you are familiar with this history in the future.
"If you don't eat something, can you bear it?" Thinking about things in my heart, I didn't see Lu Jia walking next to me.
I was taken aback by her words, looked at her and said, "I'm not very hungry, I actually ate the mouse from last night." β
"Okay. What are you thinking?" Lu Jia sat next to me and said with a smile, "Are you thinking about those messes?" or which woman?"
I'm really thinking about women, but not what she thinks. Looking at Bao'er's face, I really easily felt that I was a little sorry for Lu Jia, even though I knew that Lu Jia's soul was indulging Bao'er's body.
Or is this face wrong.
In the time I was struggling, the prefect's yamen was already in chaos. When I calmed down, I heard the same rustling sound as last night, but if last night was a small forest, then tonight it was the Amazon jungle......
"Ah Wu, what's wrong?"
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