“......”

His eyes were blank, slightly haggard, and his words were slow and a little erratic.

Tang Chuan took the wet towel handed over from the hands of others, wiped his face carefully, and sat down at random with a vacant seat: "I don't know what he wants, but at least I can be sure that there is absolutely no problem with grain and grass." We have all double-checked the beef, sheep, pigs, goose, chicken, duck, rice, and eaten them all to support our stomachs. If it's poisonous, it should reveal a little bit of a condition. ”

"Does poison have an incubation period?" the plain-robed woman suddenly asked.

Tang Chuan shook his head: "Those with an incubation period are not called poison, they are called epidemics." The formation of epidemics is mostly accompanied by violent deaths, deaths and decaying corpses, spreading to the air and water sources, which is extremely bad and difficult to treat. In ancient times, there were generals who used the corpses of rotting and plagued corpses as arrows to attack the city, and then sealed the city gates, so that the corpse plague spread wantonly in the city. After half a month, the city gate was opened, and all the creatures in the city were destroyed, and the people and soldiers were all corpses with abscesses and rotten flesh. ”

"Uh..."

The words were terrifying, and everyone suddenly felt numb when they heard it, and they put down the dishes and chopsticks in their hands one after another.

"It's... Will this Xia Xun let the livestock be infected with the disease, and then let us eat it?" asked the plain-robed woman in a trembling voice.

Tang Chuan shook his head again: "It's unlikely, the epidemic is not poisonous, but it can cause disease." I and Xiaotang checked the animals that were brought back, and we didn't find any illness. Moreover, raising the plague is by no means a one-day thing, it needs to be carrion as a medium, grafted with living animals, and the plague can be transmitted to each other before it can become an epidemic. But the grain and grass have only been looking for hands for four or five hours in the summer, and he has no time to do anything at all. ”

"That's good..."

"You almost scared me to death. ”

With this words, everyone was a little worried.

The man who had been poked by Tang Xiaotang before was very impatient, and shook his arms and shouted, "Hey, you guys are so twisted." According to what I said, let's directly lead people down the mountain to subdue them all! Four thousand battles and twenty, as long as we don't hurt Na Xia Xun and don't let his sky be damaged, it's a sure thing. Scold... I still don't believe he dared to hurt himself. ”

"You're thinking beautifully. ”

The one-eyed man sitting next to the speaker laughed contemptuously.

"Four thousand battles and twenty battles are indeed nine out of ten. But we are not Li Jiancheng, and we can't kill Xia Xun at all. The two armies faced each other, and no one dared to fight to the death, as if they were fighting. Isn't this interesting? Moreover, among the twenty of them, except for Xia Xun, Bai Xiu, and Luo Jue, the weakest solitary ones are all mid-stage cultivators. Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Lei Meng, Tiger Boil, Mo Yan, Wuteng, Wulan, etc. are even better in the world. If they want to escape, who can we catch? If they can't, then they will only be able to scare us, and we can only defend passively. If we attack rashly, we will not be able to steal the chickens in the end, and we will have to eat rice. ”

"Isn't that it?"

The former glared at the one-eyed man angrily: "Since we can't fight and can't run away, what are we still doing here? Could it be that Xia Xun said that the grain and grass are poisonous, so we really don't let the brothers below eat? What the hell are you doing so cautiously?"

“......”

The one-eyed man didn't answer again.

And the people were silent, for the speaker was reasonable.

As soon as Xia Xun arrived at Qu Long, he clearly said that he was here to join the gang, because Tang Xiaotang's matter had to set up a dragon gate array. In the final analysis, this is all the personal grudge between Tang Xiaotang and Xia Xun, and Qu Longzhong's general standing on Tang Xiaotang's side is just a human favor, helping to sweep the array and demonstrate, and it will not be to the point of drawing a knife to see blood.

To put it mildly, except for the Tang Gate, everyone on Qulong Mountain is actually a spectator...

The bats in the mountains and forests wander in the clouds and moon at night, and the clouds cover the faint starlight, but they can't stop the lights floating under the clouds. It was a star that had been plucked down by ingenuity. As the night wore on, the smoke from the cooking on Qulong Mountain gradually dissipated, and the fires on the mountainside were extinguished one after another. The candidates in charge of stir-frying packed up their kitchen utensils and left one after another. The candidates who kept vigil stood alone in various parts of the cliff, quietly looking at the desolate wilderness...

After thinking about it for a long time, Tang Xiaotang silently ate the vegetables and meat on the table, and then drank half a bowl of sake to digest the greasy in his mouth.

"How long will we be able to sustain us with the grain and grass we have hoarded before?"

The woman dressed in plain clothes replied: "At most, if you boil rice porridge for one day, you can barely last three or four days." ”

Tang Chuan may have guessed Tang Xiaotang's thoughts, and then persuaded at the end of the sentence: "Xiaotang, lack of food and strength, unstable military morale, and poor combat strength are taboo for soldiers." If we don't dare to eat this ration, it won't be a few days before the morale of the army will collapse. At that time, Xia Xun will have 3,000 soldiers and horses in Anta Mountain, and if he takes Qu Long, he will definitely get twice the result with half the effort. I'm afraid this is the result that Xia Xun wants to see the most. ”

Xiu's eyebrows were furrowed, and he hesitated.

Tang Xiaotang must understand what Tang Chuan said, but she always felt in her heart that the batch of grain and grass that she was plundering now was the key to Xia Xun's victory, and if she ate it in her stomach, she was afraid that she would really lose.

Seeing Tang Xiaotang's hesitation, the one-eyed man took over and helped persuade him: "Tang Chuan is reasonable, but the grain and grass that Xia Xun worked so hard to grab were given away in the blink of an eye, which imperceptibly made us afraid and suspicious. But if you think about it backwards, Xia Xun is only 20 men and horses, can they keep the grain? Since they can't hold it, it is futile for them to resist, so it is better to give it away, and then tell us that this grain and grass are poisonous, so that we don't even dare to eat the food we have in hand. In this way, we will be hungry for days, and our soldiers will be exhausted. When someone from Anta Mountain came, he raised an army to attack again, and the goal was completely achieved. Don't be fooled. ”

Tang Xiaotang raised his head slightly and glanced at the few people who spoke, and his expression was quite unconfident: "But I always feel that there is something wrong with this grain and grass." ”

"Tsk..."The one-eyed man was already quite impatient: "Then have you found out the problem?"

Tang Xiaotang pouted dejectedly: "No." ”

The one-eyed man shrugged: "Isn't that enough?" You have studied various poison techniques since you were a child, and you can solve all the poisons in the world, and there are no poison masters in Xia Xun's camp. Since you can't even find out the problem, then it proves that there is no problem. Take a step back and say, even if the grain and grass are poisonous, but Xia Xun is not malicious and will definitely not poison people, if we lose, it is also our skills are inferior. In that case, why not obey him?"

"No, I can't. ”

After the man finished talking, Tang Xiaotang suddenly became angry, and said angrily: "I Tang Xiaotang has never served anyone since I was a child, which green onion is he looking for in Xia?!"

A Tang Sect disciple said cautiously: "But you also said that he can be a hero." ”

Tang Xiaotang suddenly turned his head and glared: "That's not good!"

“......”

The one-eyed man didn't say anything more, and the Tang Sect disciple glanced at the side without temper.

They actually wondered in their hearts, in the past, this Tang Xiaotang was well-behaved and clever like a rabbit, why was she so arrogant once the matter involved Xia Xun? But everyone has never heard of any intersection between Tang Xiaotang and Xia Xun...

After the former was speechless for a moment, Tang Chuan saw that it was already late, so he asked Tang Xiaotang softly: "Xiaotang, it's not early." Whether to eat this food, whether to eat it or not, and how to eat it, we also have to have an explanation. ”

Tang Xiaotang sank down slightly, but didn't answer immediately. He turned his eyes to look at the several Kong Ming lanterns floating in the sky in the distance, and pondered for a long time...

It wasn't until the clouds and the north wind blew far away that she said quietly, "Eat." ”

“......”