Di Zhao opened the door to convenience, and Zhang Zhishu quickly found a team of young and strong pickers.

"Who's the head of the bar?"

There are rules for a line, and in the team that picks up the mountain to transport goods, the leader is called the bar.

"Zhang Niangzi Wanfu, the villain Yan Xing, the picker in Pingnan City, most of them are familiar with the villain, the brothers raised the villain to make this bar, what does the lady say, the villain must do the work beautifully!"

"Yes, lady, please command!"

The pickers spoke in unison, a group of eighteen or nineteen-year-old young men, full of energy.

Zhang Zhishu smiled, her gaze swept over their faces one by one.

"Fang Cai also said, we must pass through the miasma forest when we cross Tiger Mountain on this trip, this is the antidote pill I prepared for all my brothers. Take one tablet a day to protect you from the miasma. ”

"Thank you, Mrs. Zhang."

Yan Xing stepped forward to receive the medicine and distribute it to the brothers, the medical skills of the goddess doctor are trustworthy, not to mention that the journey is not too far, but the remuneration is not three times higher than usual!

The end of the year is approaching, who doesn't want to earn more money and go home for a fat year?

"Let's go back and get ready. Depart early tomorrow morning, and it is expected that you will be able to return to Pingnan and reunite with your families in the beginning of winter ten days later. ”

"Zhang, Mrs. Zhang...... There is also a problem with the small ones. Yan Xing hesitated for a long time, but still cautiously opened his mouth.

Zhang Zhishu motioned for him to go down with her eyes, and Yan Xing dared to speak.

"The two tigers raised by the lady, I wonder if they will accompany her?"

"Of course, but if you are afraid, I will let the Jade Tiger and the Second Tiger follow from a distance and not get close."

Yan Xing hurriedly waved his hands straight: "The lady misunderstood, the brothers all saw it that day, the tiger you raised can dispel the miasma, and the brothers think that the tiger will be safer to follow!" ”

After all, they said that they had never seen tigers hurt people, but it was obvious to everyone that the miasma forest poisoned people.

"Follow, when we came, the Jade Tiger and the Second Tiger ate and lived with us. They are very obedient, you don't have to be afraid. ”

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, we also saw the big tiger playing with the child that day!"

Yan Xing's eyes lit up very excitedly, "A few little girls also climbed on the back of the big tiger together, and the big tiger took them to run in the mountains, and the children were always happy!" ”

It is indeed easier for children to let down their guard, so Zhang Zhishu deliberately asked Han Zhen to take the children nearby to play with the two tigers of the Jade Tiger, which greatly reduced the people's fear of tigers.

In addition, although the Jade Tiger and the two tigers are huge, their round heads are very cute, and when they don't get angry or bare their teeth, they always feel soft and very good, and there are few women who are not so cute that they scream!

However, this trick may not be easy to use when returning to Xiyuan, after all, there have been people who have died in the tiger's mouth for generations, from eighty-year-old people to eight-year-old children, there is no one who is not afraid of tigers.

"Since you big brothers are not afraid, when the time comes, let the Jade Tiger and the Second Tiger eat and live with us, so that everyone will have another layer of protection when they cross the miasma forest."

Zhang Zhishu paid a part of the deposit to Yan Xing in advance, and the silver she brought over was really not spent, except for the payment to the vine garden, and then deducting the flowers for food and accommodation for a while, she was already stretched.

After carefully calculating the remaining movable silver coins, Zhang Zhishu took out another thirty taels and gave them to Gu Changheng.

"Please ask Brother Gu to buy two pots and some rice, noodles and vegetables to come back, there are so many of us, we can make a fire and cook on the way back, and we don't have to eat dry food every meal."

After speaking, it felt that it might not be enough, so Zhang Zhishu took out another ten taels from her purse.

"Let's buy some more meat, some pork belly and some fatty meat, and when the time comes, I will use the fatty meat to practice lard, and the pork belly will be fried and eaten."

The higher Tiger Mountain goes, the thicker the miasma becomes, and the more toxic it becomes, so the plants in the mountain are almost inedible.

Like some wild vegetables and mushrooms, they can only be eaten if they grow at the foot of the mountain near the outskirts of the city.

Gu Changheng took Gu Zhong out to purchase, and Han Zhen stayed at the inn and was bored, so he went with him.

Zhang Zhishu found an excuse to go back to the room to rest, but in fact, she hid in the space of all things to tinker with things.

She drew a lot of designs in her notebook, a giant sword crossbow based on a catapult, with a range of up to 3,000 meters and a hundred arrows in a row.

If it can really be illuminated, only three or four of these giant sword crossbows can create a rain of arrows with a large area of lethality, which is equivalent to a bow and crossbow battalion.

"Legend has it that the people of the south are good at making weapons, and Di Shi also set up an ordnance department for this purpose, and gathered all the skilled craftsmen in the territory ......."

Almost all the weapons forged by the Ordnance Department were sent to the front line in western Liaoning, but Han Yan said that there was a perennial shortage of weapons and armor in the army, and many soldiers went into battle with broken knives and tattered old clothes to kill the enemy.

Weapons and armor will only be rewarded if they win the battle, but often there are still some shoddy and inferior weapons, and the armor will rot when poked, and it cannot protect the body at all.

Zhang Zhishu's eyes were deep, and she said to herself in a daze: "Is it that Di's good weapons are purely in name, or is someone secretly doing something?" ”

What happened to Di Zhao five years ago?

Zhang Zhishu can collect very few clues now, and based on these scattered fragments alone, even if she is from an intelligence background, she can't deduce the whole picture for the time being.

However, she had a strange intuition, and she always felt as if someone was deliberately not letting Liaoxi win the battle.

Or to put it another way, within the Great Wei court, there must be someone who has been helping the Xiyi rebels, otherwise how could it be possible to continue the border war for more than 100 years!

Who exactly?

Zhang Zhishu had a hunch that one day in the future, she and Han Yan would definitely fight that person, and before that, she had to take precautions and be fully prepared.

"Jade Tiger, come here!"

Zhang Zhishu beckoned, and the big tiger who was licking the water and playing on the edge of the Lingquan Pond walked towards her obediently, and when she saw her holding a saddle in her hand, the jade tiger happily bowed down.

Zhang Zhishu buckled the saddle to the tiger's back and tied it, which was specially designed by her, and after tying it, she climbed on the tiger's back and sat firmly.

"Alright, let's run!"

"Ahh......h

The Jade Tiger who got the order raised his head to the sky and roared, and then rushed out like lightning, Zhang Zhishu sat firmly on its back, the speed of the Jade Tiger was ten times faster than Luo Yunfei's black wind, I believe that there is no horse in the world that can outrun it!

"Jade Tiger is awesome! Come, listen to my commands, jump! ”

In addition to the speed of running, Zhang Zishu is also training the Jade Tiger's jumping ability, and now it can almost jump to the top of the city when it jumps!

It was fate to save these two little guys, and it was even more accidental that they accidentally ingested the elixir, Zhang Zhishu only hoped that the training she did would never come in handy......