It was night, and the faint fragrance of the soft pillow made Xu Ku sleep very steadily.

It was dawning again, and Xu Ku went out of the house to pick up the tools that were piled up haphazardly.

Smash the collapsed remnants of the wall and tear down two more door panels. Out of scattered timber and thatch, he made a straw man and a two-section wooden ladder.

Fixed the straw man in the courtyard, took the jailer's sword, and Xu Ku practiced the knife according to the memory in his head.

The jailers of Daluan are trained in groups, and because of the continuous battles, the summed up moves are extremely practical.

After an hour, Xu Ku was sweating. Just as I was about to wash up, there was a knock on the backyard door.

Xu Ku opened the small window and saw Hu Xiaodao handing in a bag of cakes.

"Brother Ku, I used this month's money and your one or two taels of silver to find a food delivery errand." Hu Xiaodao said.

"You will be discharged from the hospital for half an hour every day, and I will bring it to you if it is short."

Can you go out for half an hour a day?

Xu Ku kept this incident firmly in his heart.

……

Just after noon, Xu Ku took a ladder into the inner courtyard.

"The prime minister has to do these menial jobs every day?"

As soon as he stood firm, he saw Wei Hongluan walking towards this side with a wooden bucket full of water.

Looking at it in the sun, the beauty made him dazzled.

That day, the blue clothes were washed and white, and the size could not completely cover the still developing body. Xu needs to exert force, the waist is straight, and the figure is more exquisite.

Xu hurriedly ran over and took the barrel.

"In the future, these unsupported jobs will be done by the small ones. The prime minister's hand is still good to hold the pen. ”

Just when Xu Ku touched the back of Wei Hongluan's hand, it was faintly rough. It seems that in the past three years, he has suffered a lot of crimes.

"It's noisy outside the courtyard this morning, are you making a ladder?" Wei Hongluan asked knowingly.

"The little one is worried that the prime minister will be infected with the autumn cold, so he specially did it to repair the roof." Xu Ku is a serious way.

Wei Hongluan glanced at him and didn't say anything.

After watering the vegetable garden at the root of the wall, and picking and washing some fresh vegetables, Xu Ku turned around and asked.

"Boiled or fried?"

"It can only be cooked. After the war, Daluan hurt his vitality, and the folk vegetable oil became more and more expensive, how could it still flow into this secret prison. ”

Wei Hongluan was very indifferent to this, he had eaten too much coarse tea and light rice, and he had long been used to it.

Xu Ku said while boiling water: "This is not difficult, in a few days, let the prime minister eat new oil." ”

"Xu Ku, don't be reckless. If you have that money, you might as well exchange it for some rations. ”

I remember that this was the first time that the other party called his name. Xu Ku was stunned, and a smile tugged at the corner of his mouth.

It was also the first time he had a genuine smile since he crossed over.

……

"You say this mountain tung can squeeze oil?"

Wei Hongluan watched Xu Ku put the dried tung seeds in the thatch and weave them into five or six round cakes.

"You've got to match the little ones."

The materials at hand are limited, which is only enough for Xu Ku to make a very small model of ancient oil extraction.

The main body is a round wooden beam from the roof of the previous lower room. The horizontal log was loaded with legs, and the middle was hollowed out into a groove slightly larger than the round cake, and there was a narrow slit under the groove to guide the oil into the bowl.

"Let's start the stove, steam these oil cakes first."

Wei Hongluan had lived in Wangjing for a long time before, and he had never seen these things, and he was a little curious.

It wasn't until Xu Ku nailed the wooden wedges into the groove one by one, and a few drops of reddish-brown oil and water flowed out of the round cake under the squeezing, and Wei Hongluan's novelty turned into a surprise.

Xu Ku's meticulous eyes she had seen in the craftsmen of Qin Tianjian had seen them before, but now they appeared on a jailer.

At this moment, Xu Ku, holding his breath, continued to nail the wooden wedge in.

I saw this in a magazine from a previous life. Seeing that the oil yield was so low, the small half bowl of oil that was squeezed out of a basket of oil cakes frowned.

Wei Hongluan held the oil bowl in the palm of his hand and sniffed it with his nose. The eyebrows and eyes are stretched, and the smile is like a flower.

It would have been a long time since I had eaten oil for this to happen.

As soon as Xu Ku had some sympathy in his heart, he heard Wei Hongluan say excitedly:

"Xu Ku, if your method can be spread, you can earn a lot of silver taels. Although my mountains are barren, there are also 10,000 acres of mountain paulownia. ”

At the mention of Yin Liang, Wei Hongluan's eyes seemed to have light, and Xu Ku's heart moved.

"The prime minister is short of silver?"

"Only with silver can we recruit soldiers, and every time new clothes are delivered before, I ask someone to sell them, but I only ......" Wei Hongluan's voice became smaller and smaller.

"Only what?"

"I only saved three taels and three hundred and sixty-two wen."

I see. Xu Ku suddenly felt a little distressed.

Such a character was left in the secret prison and fell to the dust, and Dream Wuwu was really blind. Xu Ku gave a bad comment to the emperor in his heart.

For several days in a row, Xu Ku got up early to practice knives, climbed over the wall at noon, and squeezed oil in the afternoon.

I don't know if I have eaten oily vegetables, Wei Hongluan's face has become more and more shiny. I can also talk to Xu Ku a few more words every day.

At the age of twenty, she is indeed able to get married, but after all, she is still a girl, and she will be happy for some little things for a long time.

Seeing that he had already saved up a jar of oil, Xu Ku put his mind on the half hour of being allowed to be discharged from the hospital every day.

"Let's see if this oil is not to the taste of the people", Xu Ku put the oil into a small bottle half the size of a palm, "As for the circulation, let's talk about it when I can survive." ”

Naturally, he would not forget his identity just because a few days of calm had passed.

The colleague who died tragically before, the Great Xia envoy who has not appeared so far, is always a knife hanging over his head.

"Are you going to ......?" Wei Hongluan saw that Xu Ku's face was worried, and helped seal the bottle.

"Exchange oil for some money, first, to be more comfortable here, and second, to dredge up some relationships, maybe you can escape."

"How much silver does a bottle sell for?"

"These little bottles are tasting and are given away for free. How effective it is, we'll know later. Xu Ku said mysteriously.

"Tasting outfit?" Wei Hongluan was confused.

……

The next day, I still got up early to practice the knife.

Unlike in the past, this time he actually picked up some fierce moves to practice.

The straw man was almost shattered under the bitter chopping.

He didn't tell Wei Hongluan, but when he delivered the meal yesterday, Hu Xiaodao panicked and brought a message: The envoy of Great Xia will come here to inspect in three days.

What should come is never hidden.

Glancing in the direction of the inner courtyard, after ten days of getting along, the shadow has left a mark in his heart. If something really happens, you can only be a passerby.

Accepting the set, he didn't bother to wipe his face, and with a few small oil bottles in his pocket, Xu Ku took the initiative to open the door of the backyard for the first time.

Only half an hour later, he was ready to find some shops with a lot of oil to talk.

But not long after I walked out, I don't know who whistled, and in the alleys on the left and right, the sound of chaotic footsteps sounded at the same time.

In a daze, he was already surrounded by more than a dozen people.

Look at that line, they are all from the Chuzhou Porter Gang. Seeing this, the two street patrol officials in the distance hurriedly slipped aside.

"Let Lao Tzu wait for a while, and I especially think that you, a stinky pawn, will shrink in a secret prison for a lifetime." A gloomy voice came.

The crowd parted a slit, and Chen, who was carrying a cigarette stick, paced his head in front of Xu Ku. He spat out the cigarette from the corner of his mouth, bared his teeth and said:

"Anyway, there's a lot of oil and water on the demon bed. Twenty taels of silver, leave the ground, you live. ”

Secret prison, demon appearance, these words were no longer surprised when Xu Ku saw the cell boss Lao Wang behind Chen Jiaotou, no wonder he didn't see it when he walked through the cell outside just now.

At this time, Lao Wang's eyes were full of malice, and he answered: "No, the little lady of Daxia may not receive any news." Those who were not honest before are still waiting for you below. ”

Framed first, threatened later, Xu Ku frowned, squinted at Lao Wang.

"It's you, an old thing!"