Chapter 37: The Third Entry into the City
When Kisha returns home, she is stopped by her eldest daughter, Kenla.
"What's the matter, eldest sister?" Kisha asked, confused.
Kenla took her mother's hand, pulled her mother aside, and whispered, "Mom, Abba...... Now that you're angry, you'd better wait a while before you go inside, and sit down with me and Morrow first. ”
Kisha quickly glanced at the main house, then turned her head and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
"It's not because of what happened in the village this afternoon, but the servant who is in charge of the fields at home came back in the evening and said that almost all the remaining fields in our family have been destroyed." Kenla said, wiping tears from the corners of her eyes.
Kisha was distraught, but she chose to go into the house to see Jika, she knew her husband's temper very well, she had gone out to inquire about the situation everywhere, and it would be tantamount to adding fuel to the fire if Jika knew that his wife didn't go to her as soon as she got home.
Sure enough, as soon as Kisha entered the door of the main house, she was scolded by Jika, complaining about why she had come back so late.
After throwing a tantrum at his wife, who had been keeping his head down, Jika gasped and sat down in a chair, and asked sharply, "What did you hear, what happened in the afternoon?" ”
Kisha told Gika everything she and the servants around her had heard.
"Wait, what did you say?" Jika jumped up suddenly, and he asked in a trembling voice, "It's not a sea monster, it's a big ship from the big country in the northwest!" Is this really what Shi Cheng said? ”
Kisha nodded.
"Hahaha! Hahaha! Jika suddenly slapped his thigh and laughed maniacally, "Saved, saved!" The army of heaven is coming, it's the army of heaven is coming! Done with those mud legs! ”
Qisha was still a little confused, "Master, they have destroyed all the remaining fields in our house, what's so good about that?" ”
"Hmph, what do women know?" Jika snorted disdainfully, and then walked happily around the room, his fat body striding lightly on the wooden floor.
After laughing and talking to himself like a madman a few times, Gika walked up to his wife and patted her on the waist proudly, "Kisa, we're going to turn over...... Hey, those mud legs, they're done! When the time comes, you have to settle them well! Ha ha! ”
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Early the next morning, after finishing today's martial arts class, Wu Neng washed his body with the water he had brought back from outside the village, and then sorted out the belongings on his body and hurried to Kawa City.
After turning over the hill, Wu Neng saw the walls of Kawa City at a glance, he looked up at the sun that was still hanging in the eastern sky, and thought to himself: "The time spent on the road today is obviously less than last time, I don't know if it's because the injuries on his body have almost recovered, or because he has been practicing martial arts with Lao Tie these days......"
This thought flashed in Wu Neng's mind, and soon he began to continue to hurry, and there were still a lot of things to be busy today.
"What's going on, how do you feel that something is not quite right in the atmosphere at the city gate......"
At this time, at the gate of Kawa City, from time to time, a group of people or soldiers would pull a wooden cart with a simple shape, panting out of the city gate; Occasionally, a group of men or soldiers would run into the city gates with their belongings.
Everyone had solemn or anxious expressions on their faces, and until Wu Neng walked to the city gate, he hadn't seen a relaxed smile on anyone's face.
"What the hell is going on...... Could it have something to do with the Wei sailors who attacked the coast yesterday? Wu Neng's heart suddenly rose with a sense of ominousness.
Wu Neng's process of entering the city today was not as easy as last time, the soldiers defending the city only let him into the city after repeated and strict checks on his identity documents and other proofs, and Wu Neng could even feel the hostile eyes of the soldiers around him.
After finishing the investigation, Wu Neng hurriedly shrunk his neck, lowered his head and walked quickly towards the city gate.
"That straw shed......
Not long after entering the city, Wu Neng saw a row of straw huts made of long grass and wood in a small clearing next to the road.
Beneath the straw hut were unconscious or groaning in pain, and beside them, soldiers who looked like they had come to heal were walking anxiously around.
The expressions on the faces of those unconscious villagers were exactly the same as those in Xianyou Village who had been poisoned by inhaling the cream.
Wu Neng tried to stop people on the side of the road to ask what was going on, but most of the passers-by who were stopped shook their heads in confusion and panic, indicating that they also had no idea.
A few well-informed passers-by knew a little more, and according to them, it seemed that the villages closest to Kawa had been attacked yesterday.
"Where is the village?" Wu Neng asked.
"It's those villages on the southeast side, where else can they be?"
"Did the big ship from the sea do it?"
"Big ship? I've never heard of that, and there's no boat in that place. Speaking of this, the passer-by leaned towards Wu Neng with a frightened expression, "But it seems to be much more terrifying than any ship." That's what I heard my cousin who just returned to the city last night, don't tell anyone about it, little brother. My cousin said that there were several strange looking birds flying from the sky, and those strange birds threw a few things that looked like iron eggs into the village, and when those things exploded on the ground, the whole village was covered with a blue fog, and then the villagers became like this. ”
Seeing that Wu Neng frowned tightly and didn't speak, the passer-by asked in a low voice: "Little brother, you are a foreigner, people like you have a lot of knowledge, tell me, is it that the new bosses have recently provoked the mountain gods, so the gods and spirits sent these monsters to punish us?" ”
Wu Neng didn't know how to explain all this to the passers-by in front of him, and after he said, "This has nothing to do with them", he hurriedly said goodbye and left.
"Let's go to that shop street first." Wu Neng thought secretly, "Then I will inquire if there are any foreign chambers of commerce in the city." ”
The scene of the shop street was still the same as usual, but in Wu Neng's eyes, everyone's faces were wrapped in a thick layer of haze, and he didn't know if this was his own illusion or reality.
After walking around several times, Wu Neng couldn't even collect thirty percent of the materials on the list.
"Ugh." Wu Neng walked aimlessly in the alley with a sad face, and when he came to a junction, the aroma of food came from the alley in front of him.
"Huh...... This is the same tavern where I had lunch the first two times I came to Kawa City. Wu Neng walked to the vicinity of the restaurant, "I have a lot of fate with this place." ”
"Let's go get something to eat." The tired Wu Neng took a step forward and walked into the restaurant.
"Among the guests...... Ah, Childe, it's you again. ”
Wu Neng raised his head, and the person in front of him was still the familiar shopkeeper.
He smiled and nodded, lined up a few copper plates on the table, and said, "Here are three piles of sweet potatoes, one to eat here, and the other two to wrap up and take away." ”
Speaking of this, Wu Neng paused, thought for a while, and changed his words: "That's it, three may not be enough, how many sweet potato piles do you have here?" ”
The guy calculated and said, "Aside from some guests who have booked in advance, the materials prepared by our store today are enough to make eight servings, and we can only add five more copies to you." ”
"Okay, eight is eight, I want them all."
"Okay!"
After ordering, Wu Neng found a place to sit down, fanning the wind to dispel the dampness around him, and at the same time driving away the mosquitoes that pounced on him.
"Yulin Island is really not a place to live, I really don't know why Lao Shi said that this is a treasure land for raising people." Wu Neng sighed in his heart, "If I knew earlier, I would have asked Lao Shi to see if he still had an ice condensation talisman on his body." ”
Most of the guests in the adjacent seats were peddlers and pawns, and when Wu Neng first entered the house, everyone briefly raised their heads, and quickly lowered their heads after he entered the house and took their seats.
All of them seemed to have mixed expressions on their faces, some were panicked, some were indignant, some were dejected, and some even looked secretly happy.
Except for Wu Neng, all the guests were whispering to each other, while Wu Neng pricked up his ears and listened carefully to the conversation of the guests around him.
The sweet potato pile was quickly served, but Wu Neng no longer had the heart to eat it, and he listened to the discussion of everyone in the restaurant, which made his whole heart gradually rise.
The meal was served, Wu Neng had not eaten a few bites, a panting young man wearing a sweat-soaked short-sleeved shirt ran in, he ran to a table in the south of the room, and said breathlessly to the two middle-aged people sitting there: "Shopkeeper, now the border market in the east has been completely sealed by the Batu people, they forbid our convoy to do business with them, and they also did not allow their people to come, and they also detained all the goods we pulled over, saying that there was a problem with the goods." , they want to check. ”
The more impatient of the two middle-aged people got up and gave the young guy a heavy slap in the face, scolding: "What are you doing with this bitch, you can't get by, you can't even keep the goods in the car." ”
The young man said with a sad face: "The little ones can't help it, those Batu people have knives and bows and arrows in their hands, and they can't keep the car if they want to rob us...... Ouch, ouch! Don't kick me, shopkeeper, it's painful, I'm ...... I'll take another look. ”
After that, the young man who was beaten by the middle-aged man and ran out of the restaurant with a blue nose and swollen face.
"If you can't get the goods back, don't come back!" The middle-aged man shouted hatefully.
"Okay, Ake, you can also dissipate your anger, this is really no choice." Another middle-aged man persuaded.
"What kind of gas? How to degassate? Soda, what do you say we should do in the second half of the year, the entire eastern border has been sealed by the Batu people for the past two days, and there is no way to do business outside, and the foreign chambers of commerce also announced their departure from Kawa City the day before yesterday, what should we eat in the future? As he spoke, the grumpy middle-aged trader kicked away the wooden bench in front of him, "The things raised by the dogs are all to blame on those mud legs, they have nothing to rebel against, and they drove the foreign old men away, who are we going to do business with!" ”
The middle-aged man's voice was so loud that even the whole restaurant could hear it, and the faces of several vendors next to him turned blue, and they hurriedly came up to stop him and told him to stop talking.
"What can't be said!" The middle-aged trader pushed away a person who wanted to come up to comfort, "You have also heard about what happened yesterday afternoon, you can watch it, I dare to pack a ticket, the heavenly soldiers are about to come to save us!" ”