Even if there are oil shops, wineries, and charcoal shops in the city, the buildings are all made of wood. Burning down a city with just these few people is still a big project, and they have to find as much fire starting materials as possible.
After everyone else left, He Lingchuan turned back to Zhongzhai and jumped into an empty room.
The room is not small, with two beds, one large and one small, two stools, and a dressing table.
Just after Sun Guoshi fired the command arrow, He Lingchuan took advantage of the time he was summoning his companions to walk around the official residence and look around.
He Lingchuan didn't find any useful clues at that time, but after everyone discussed it for a while, he suddenly wanted to take a look again.
Each official residence is small in area and has simple functions, namely a place to eat, live and sleep. So this room should be the bedroom of Zhong Shengguang and his wife.
The bedding on the big bed was clean, the quilts were neatly folded, and a precious sword with a dragon's mouth that swallowed rings hung on the wall above the bed.
Hanging a murderous soldier on the bedside of himself and his wife is probably something only a strong man in charge of the army can do, and the little bed next to it——
It should be their daughter Zhong Wuhan.
Because the small bed is only three feet long, an adult cannot lie down on it even with his legs curled up. There are small wooden horses and wooden soldiers wielding wooden swords at the head of the bed. Opposite them is a somewhat fierce-looking cloth tiger.
No, it's a cloth leopard, made in the image of a sand leopard, with the round spots of a sand leopard.
Once these three are put there, it becomes a story.
He picked it up and saw a few small words embroidered on the leopard's belly:
My son has no regrets.
There is also a small rag doll stuffed at the foot of the bed.
He Lingchuan walked to the big bed. There was a gouache set and a bronze mirror neatly placed on the dressing table.
He picked it up and inspected it, and found that there was a comb stuck on the back of the bronze mirror. It turned out to be a suit.
Is this? His eyes lit up, he picked up the comb, looked at the light, and murmured: "So it's here."
This is a simple wooden comb with a simple form and a single function. Only a small light blue flower is painted on the comb head.
This pigment is derived from a fine powder ground from shellfish and can create a blue color like the sky.
Just by looking at this flower decoration, He Lingchuan could tell that this was the owner's token that the sand leopard took away when Panlong City was destroyed!
It was also the rift between the He family and Da Sima's family.
However, the comb is not half burned yet.
"Zhong Shengguang's wife passed away not long after giving birth to a daughter. Sure enough, he kept this comb as a souvenir." He Lingchuan looked at the small bed and said to himself, "No, Zhong Wuhuang has not yet come into the world at this time. Zhong Shengguang didn't know that his wife would
It’s a boy or a girl, but a crib has been prepared.”
Otherwise, Commander Zhong would not have placed a few boys' toys beside his child's bed, as if they were cut by him himself.
"This is probably the happiest time in his life." He has a promising career, but his beloved wife is about to give birth.
He smoothly opened the hidden compartment of the dressing table. There were several pieces of jewelry inside, all made of very ordinary materials. But He Lingchuan glanced at one of the items and froze.
This is a necklace, a crescent-shaped pendant.
It looked so familiar that He Lingchuan subconsciously pulled out the necklace around his neck.
These are basically the same thing! It's just that one is in fantasy and the other is in reality, and even the appearance has changed.
In other words, before his daughter was born, Zhong Shengguang was the owner of this sacred bone necklace.
If He Lingchuan realized something, he carefully put the comb back in its place and exited the room.
As soon as he walked out of the official residence, he saw someone standing outside.
Mao peach.
He Lingchuan was startled and couldn't help cursing: "You didn't say a word, how could you scare the devil?"
"Young Master, let me go with you. I will do all the work." Mao Tao accompanied her with a smile, "It seems that someone is always spying on me and wants to take advantage of me when I am alone."
"Even if there is, it's not a human being." He Lingchuan didn't refuse. He also felt that thorn in his back. It was indeed safer for the two of them to go together. Mao Tao pointed out, "I remember there is a pretty big restaurant there."
He Lingchuan turned around and glanced at Zhong Zhai: "It's too close here. Leave it to the ordnance at the top of the city. Let's go far away."
Both of them can use some kung fu to get angry and run fast.
Two-quarters of an hour later, the road became narrower and narrower, and the buildings on the roadside became sparse. Large commercial and storage warehouses, post stations, and even grain drying farms appeared.
This kind of place is far away from any city gate. Even if the ordnance at the top of the city can still be obtained, it will not have the effect of igniting a fire.
This depends on manpower.
The two went into a brewery, found the unloading truck and loaded up more than a dozen jars of old wine. They also dismantled two pieces of wood that were pleasing to the eye and used them as torches, and then they took the wine out.
Burn along the way, pouring wine on wood, quilts, thatch or any other combustible materials.
In this way, after walking for several miles and looking back, I saw only flames reaching into the sky.
Mao Tao pointed to the west: "There is black smoke rising into the sky. It seems that the Imperial Master is also working very hard."
He Lingchuan only glanced at it and continued working: "It seems that that's not the point."
Mao Taoqi said: "The key point? What is the key point?"
"We decided to burn down the entire city just because we couldn't find the key point to break the situation, so we could only rely on this kind of stupid technique. Otherwise, a fire crossbow would be enough." He Lingchuan had a clear mind, "On the other hand, burn other places
It's all useless, only by burning to the core can this illusion be lifted."
Maotao waved his hands and sighed: "How long will it take?" He was tired because He Lingchuan asked him to be the donkey pulling the cart.
Even if it were a real donkey, it would be exhausted after pulling a cart full of wine jars for ten miles.
Burning down a city made him feel numb all over just thinking about it.
"You should be happy." He Lingchuan said gloomily, "The breaking point is not in the area we are responsible for. It is a blessing you cultivated in your previous life. Think about Tao Bo's fate and the consequences of the rupture of the illusion. Can you afford it?
"
Tao Bo's final fate was not much better than that of his teammates. There was no trace of his body left. Mao Tao shuddered and said, "Then let's join forces with the National Division as soon as possible."
He Lingchuan chuckled: "Thanks to you, it won't be completed so quickly."
Because Mao Tao Liu came to him, the entire northern part of Panlong City had not been burned yet. "You can tell me now, why did you come to me?"
Mao Tao was stunned: "I, I'm just afraid."
He Lingchuan was too lazy to say more to him: "Go back to the north."
"No, I said! I just haven't thought about it." Mao Tao wiped his sweat with a towel, "Just now, the Imperial Master looked at Tao Bo's letter. He didn't know that I actually lived in Tongcheng of Baling Kingdom before following Boss Situ.
I lived there for twelve years and went to school, until my stepfather was killed while doing business..."
"Stop, get to the point!"
"...Ba Lingwen, I can understand it to a certain extent."
He Lingchuan stopped: "What is the Imperial Master hiding?"
He knew that this old man was hiding something private!