Qian's mother couldn't hold back her laughter and said, "Don't tell me, in-laws. You are pretending to be real. You are more powerful than the real rich old ladies in our town."
Ye Sanni also said: "Mom, you don't know, I'm a little scared when I look at you. I really feel like I'm meeting a lady from some family."
Different from the lively commotion in the carriage, the topics that Old Man Qi and Qi Baoer talked about outside the carriage were a bit heavy.
Old man Qi suddenly remembered what Piaozai said last night. The more he thought about it, the heavier his heart sank, and out of habit he started chatting with Qi Baoer.
"What do you think that mysterious weapon is? Can the soldiers of the imperial court withstand it?"
"Normally, if there is a god in our court, no matter how good his weapons are, it shouldn't matter, right?"
"But there are few gods after all, and there are more soldiers than ordinary people. If those weapons are really powerful, how many people will die?"
"And the iron mine. King Xuan is really rebelling. How could he not tell the court when he discovered the iron mine? King Xuan is still the emperor's son."
"That's right. He has already rebelled. The imperial soldiers have surrounded the entire Yingzhou. Piao Zai even heard the county magistrate say that several passes outside the acropolis were also surrounded by imperial soldiers."
"Hey, dear, can we really get out of the Acropolis now? Several passes are surrounded, and King Xuan's soldiers are also blocking it. Could it be another General Liu?"
Qi Baoer did not reply directly, but asked: "Sir, do you still remember the map drawn by your fourth uncle?"
"I can almost draw by myself with my eyes closed." Tian Tian looked at it, but how could he not remember that he had abstractions in his paintings, but he couldn't quite understand them.
"On the map of Fourth Uncle, it is shown that there are four official roads leading from the Acropolis to Pingcheng in Yuzhou, and there are also many mountain roads. It is possible that all four official roads have been blocked, but it is unlikely that all the mountain roads can be blocked.
We can live there, but if we can’t, we’ll go over the mountain.”
Anyway, we can’t stay in Yingzhou any longer. How can a medicine man be used as a secret weapon to treat the people?
Don't think that this has nothing to do with them, ordinary people. In her previous life, before her colleagues were captured by the Xiaomi people for genetic experiments, she also felt that it had nothing to do with them because the little foreigner was torturing his own people.
Old Man Qi sighed silently in his heart, "This is the only way to go if it really doesn't work out."
Judging from the map, the mountains near Pingcheng near the Acropolis are not as densely packed with mountains as the mountains on their side. They are all clustered here and there. It should not be as reminiscent of their side in the mountains.
It's just creepy.
"It's said that there is a drought in the whole city, but we couldn't get a few water bags in Beiyang Town."
Water bladders are mostly made of pigs, cows, sheepskins or bladders, but cows cannot be slaughtered at will. As for sheep, everyone dislikes the smell of mutton. No one in Canaan City raises sheep at all, so the water bladders they use are made of pigskin or
It's a pig bladder.
It seems that the materials are not difficult to find, but that does not mean that there will be plenty of them. Making water bladders is also a skill, and not everyone knows it. There is only one company in the entire town of Peifeng that can make water bladders.
The reason why Lao Qi's family was able to have one person was because the old man lost money. His adopted son married the daughter of the family who made the water bag.
Old man Qi had inquired in Beiyang Town and found that there were no people in Beiyang Town who knew how to make water bladders. I wanted to buy a few buckets that could be sealed, but I couldn't buy them.
Qi Bao'er was silent this time. She couldn't answer. It was going to be a drought. She could still call the old man to make it rain. After they passed Tongcheng, could there be no drought again?
The road from Beiyang Town to Hefeng Town is much smoother. Although it is longer than the mountain road they took from Sanyang Town, there will be caves or man-made open spaces for people to pass in about half a day.
People rest.
It can be seen from this that the mountain road they came from was a wild road without a father or a mother, while this is a biological road with biological parents taking care of them.
I wonder if the other one of the three roads of the same size drawn by Qi Kangtai on the map is the mountain road leading to Canaan City. Is it a natural road or a wild road?
Blind men feel like elephants. They, the ordinary people at the grassroots level, face everything unknown. They rely solely on guessing and verifying one step forward, and they can only take one step at a time.
The next evening, they stopped at an open space on the roadside. Next to the open space was a small river flowing down.
Qi Kang'an grabbed Da Lang and pointed to the slope beside him and started teaching him.
"It seems that there is no danger on our journey, but not all the dangers in this mountain can be seen in advance.
Just look at where we are now. There is water here and the hillside is sloping. Wild animals in the mountains may come here to drink water. We are not afraid of small ones and can pick up some meat to eat. There are many tigers and leopards among us.
I can barely deal with it, but the one I’m most afraid of is the wolf.”
"Why?" Tigers are not afraid of wolves?
"Wolves live in packs, and wolves hold grudges and are united. If you hurt or kill one of them, the whole pack will chase you."
Qi Baoer listened with his head raised, "Dad, what do you want to say?"
Yes, what did he want to say?
He thought about it for a full minute before he remembered and slapped his forehead, "Oh, what I want to say is that we still have to patrol, especially at night. You boys also have to join in, and the big guys take it in turn."
Their team is really funny now, there are 396 people, and there are exactly 96 men between fifteen and forty.
The other three hundred are either children under the age of fifteen, women and the elderly.
He looked upset.
The only thing that comforted him now was that Bao'er taught him how to set a knife, and he got Bao'er's permission to let all the men follow.
Fortunately, every one of them was living a good life, and the men, like him, had not stopped training themselves using wood as knives. Although they were not qualified to go to the battlefield or anything like that, they were no match for ordinary people.
"Okay, Dad, I'm going to find someone now." Da Lang's chest puffed up and he ran to find his little friend excitedly.
Qi Kang'an was so happy, but who would have thought that when he turned around, his daughter would look at her with a look that said, "Don't your conscience hurt?"
Ninety-six men, why do children also need to participate in night patrols?
Qi Kangan touched his chest, but it didn't hurt.
"Bao, dad is training your elder brother and the others."
He now understands that no one is as capable as himself.
After coming out of Beiyang Town, he had been thinking about a question. If something happens to the adults, what should the children do?
He is the least worried about Bao'er and the most worried at the same time.
This child has abilities of her own. If all the adults are gone, she might be able to relax even more.
What I'm worried about is that this child used to be cold-hearted, but now she's showing more and more affection unintentionally, even though her affection is only for her family.
But the damn thing is that his father values the family, while his mother and daughter-in-law are sometimes too soft-hearted. Da Lang values righteousness, and San Lang looks at Han Han, but he is the kindest one in the big house.
On a normal day, if his daughter could become affectionate, he would be so happy that he would not be able to sleep for several days.
But now, he would rather his daughter remain as cold and cold as before.
Otherwise, when that day comes, how heavy the responsibility will be on his baby?
It's too much to think so, but he is just a daughter and he doesn't think about her. How many people in this world can only think about her?