"Why have you waited so long and Xiaodong hasn't come back yet?"
Xiao Han didn't know how many times he had run to the road and looked towards the county seat, but it seemed that every time, he would come back disappointed.
On the dirt road that was twisted by the sun, let alone people, there was not even a shadow of a ghost! This made Xiao Han's already somewhat empty heart even more uneasy.
He has great faith in Xiaodong's ability to do things, and he also knows that Xiaodong will do his best to complete his instructions!
But until now, Xiaodong still hasn't come back, so there may be only one answer left!
He did not collect enough oil for himself in Anping County!
Regarding this point, when Xiao Han thought of the method of fire attack, he actually had some expectations in his mind.
After all, oil is still a scarce commodity in the Tang Dynasty where people are scarce in materials today.
In his previous life, Xiao Han could often see people in costume dramas lighting candles and oil lamps at night, hoping to light up their whole family as bright as day!
Even poor scholars who don't have enough to eat can still read and write by shaking their heads under the candlelight!
He didn't think anything of it at the time. After all, he was already used to the bright lights at night, so he took the light for granted as a very cheap resource.
But since arriving in the Tang Dynasty, Xiao Han suddenly discovered that only some idiotic plots about poor people lighting lamps and candles at night can come up with brains as big as their butts!
In this era, not to mention poor people, even ordinary well-off people will never be willing to spend a few pennies to buy a little precious oil unless there is something urgent! Let alone those extremely expensive candles!
Yes, you read that right, they are really expensive candles!
At dusk, candles were passed around the Han Palace, and light smoke dispersed into the house of the Five Marquises!
This is a sentence described by Han Yu in "Cold Food". The general idea of the poem is that in the Han Dynasty, when fire was prohibited during the Cold Food Festival, as an emperor, he had to reward officials above the marquis with candles!
Only officials above marquis could get candles personally rewarded by the emperor! This shows the important status of candles at that time. Even if you have money, you may not be able to buy them! Let alone if you have no money!
Although it is now the Tang Dynasty.
But the price of this candle is still horribly high! In Chang'an East Market, you can buy one for a hundred cents!
With such a prohibitive price, not to mention the poor and scumbag scholar, even the big landowners have to think carefully when ordering wax!
It is estimated that only the princes and nobles are willing to light candles at night.
"Is it possible that you asked for too much oil and that the small county town couldn't afford it, so Xiaodong went to other places to get it?"
Because Liu Hongji wanted to prepare his troops, he went straight back to the seaside after tricking Niu into entering. At this moment, when he heard Xiao Han muttering in a low voice, he couldn't help but lowered his face and said: "Do you want to send someone to go to the city to have a look?"
Time waits for no one. If we miss tonight, if Goguryeo becomes suspicious, our plan will completely fail!"
Xiao Han knew that Liu Hongji was right.
This place is too close to Goguryeo, and those Goguryeo people are planning to grab one and run away!
If we are delayed for one day because of this, it is inevitable that the people in Bisha City will not be suspicious.
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Things will definitely become difficult to handle!
"Also...good!"
Xiao Han took a deep breath, nodded solemnly, and was about to tell Jiayi to ride back to the city to take a look. Unexpectedly, there was a noise in the distance, which made Xiao Han swallow the words that were already on his lips.
"what happened?"
Hearing the same sound in the distance, Liu Hongji suddenly raised his head! Looking towards the road ahead, his originally lazy eyes were as sharp as a knife at this moment, making people afraid to look directly!
"It seems like it's Xiaodong!"
Xiao Han's reaction was also very fast. He had already taken out the telescope placed on his chest and looked towards the place where the sound came from!
In the somewhat blurry field of view of the telescope, a familiar figure was driving an ox cart, walking in the middle of the road! Behind the ox cart, there were also a huge crowd, and various kinds of people mixed in the crowd.
carriage, donkey cart...
"It's really Xiaodong!"
Liu Hongji carefully identified the person in the bullock cart. After confirming that the arrogant guy was Xiao Han's follower Xiaodong, his sharp eyes returned to normal little by little, and his tense body also gradually returned to normal.
to relax.
"Looking at the arrogance of this kid, he must have collected enough for what you want!" Liu Hongji touched Xiao Han beside him with his shoulder, and returned to his lazy look again and said with a smile.
"Haha, it should be!"
Xiao Han looked through the telescope and carefully counted the large wooden logs stacked on the oxcart. A smile slowly appeared on his face. Then he put down the telescope in his hand and breathed a sigh of relief: "I am relieved that he is doing things! However, no
Are you just asking him to collect some oil? Why are there so many people following you? What are they doing?"
"What are you doing?" Liu Hongji rolled his eyes: "I think they are here to collect debts. Could it be that Xiaodong saw that he could not receive the oil, so he offered a high price to buy it, and then asked someone to come to you to settle the account?"
"Ah?" After hearing this, the smile on Xiao Han's face suddenly froze. He looked at the dark crowd in the distance and swallowed hard: "No...it can't be right?"
"Hey, it's hard to say!"
Liu Hongji liked to see Xiao Han deflated the most! Seeing his stupid look, he immediately smiled happily and said: "Let's talk about it first! You are not allowed to use my gold to pay debts. If you want to use it, use your own!"
What?" Although Xiao Han is no longer as enthusiastic about gold as he was when he first came to the Tang Dynasty, when he heard that his gold was going to be used to pay off debts, he was still furious on the spot! He jumped on his feet and said angrily: "Why?
What! This oil is not for me alone!"
However, Liu Hongji was not in a hurry. He still shook his head and said, "I don't care about that. Anyway, Xiaodong is your subordinate, not mine. It's not my turn to pay back the things he borrowed!"
"you……"
"What are you? My dear brother, I have to settle the score. This is not what you said? At most, I will give you two taels of gold when the time comes. Don't thank me, I am such a broad-minded person, hahaha..."
"I'm really grateful to your eight generations of ancestors..."
Looking at the arrogant and laughing Liu Hongji, Xiao Han had the urge to jump up and slap him in the mouth with the sole of his shoe!
However, after carefully comparing the strength of the two men, Xiao Han decisively put away this "unwise" idea.
Doing something you know you can't do is a fool!
We can't be like those gangsters who rush to kill people when their brains get hot! "Why have you waited so long and Xiaodong hasn't come back yet?"
Xiao Han didn't know how many times he had run to the road and looked towards the county seat, but it seemed that every time, he would come back disappointed.
On the dirt road that was twisted by the sun, let alone people, there was not even a shadow of a ghost! This made Xiao Han's already somewhat empty heart even more uneasy.
He has great faith in Xiaodong's ability to do things, and he also knows that Xiaodong will do his best to complete his instructions!
But until now, Xiaodong still hasn't come back, so there may be only one answer left!
He did not collect enough oil for himself in Anping County!
Regarding this point, when Xiao Han thought of the method of fire attack, he actually had some expectations in his mind.
After all, oil is still a scarce commodity in the Tang Dynasty where people are scarce in materials today.
In his previous life, Xiao Han could often see people in costume dramas lighting candles and oil lamps at night, hoping to light up their whole family as bright as day!
Even poor scholars who don't have enough to eat can still read and write by shaking their heads under the candlelight!
He didn't think anything of it at the time. After all, he was already used to the bright lights at night, so he took the light for granted as a very cheap resource.
But since arriving in the Tang Dynasty, Xiao Han suddenly discovered that only some idiotic plots about poor people lighting lamps and candles at night can come up with brains as big as their butts!
In this era, not to mention poor people, even ordinary well-off people will never be willing to spend a few pennies to buy a little precious oil unless there is something urgent! Let alone those extremely expensive candles!
Yes, you read that right, they are really expensive candles!
At dusk, candles were passed around the Han Palace, and light smoke dispersed into the house of the Five Marquises!
This is a sentence described by Han Yu in "Cold Food". The general idea of the poem is that in the Han Dynasty, when fire was prohibited during the Cold Food Festival, as an emperor, he had to reward officials above the marquis with candles!
Only officials above marquis could get candles personally rewarded by the emperor! This shows the important status of candles at that time. Even if you have money, you may not be able to buy them! Let alone if you have no money!
Although it is now the Tang Dynasty.
But the price of this candle is still horribly high! In Chang'an East Market, you can buy one for a hundred cents!
With such a prohibitive price, not to mention the poor and scumbag scholar, even the big landowners have to think carefully when ordering wax!
It is estimated that only the princes and nobles are willing to light candles at night.
"Is it possible that you asked for too much oil and that the small county town couldn't afford it, so Xiaodong went to other places to get it?"
Because Liu Hongji wanted to prepare his troops, he went straight back to the seaside after tricking Niu into entering. At this moment, when he heard Xiao Han muttering in a low voice, he couldn't help but lowered his face and said: "Do you want to send someone to go to the city to have a look?"
Time waits for no one. If we miss tonight, if Goguryeo becomes suspicious, our plan will completely fail!"
Xiao Han knew that Liu Hongji was right.
This place is too close to Goguryeo, and those Goguryeo people are planning to grab one and run away!
If we are delayed for one day because of this, it is inevitable that the people in Bisha City will not be suspicious.
#Every time verification appears, please do not use incognito mode!
Things will definitely become difficult to handle!
"Also...good!"
Xiao Han took a deep breath, nodded solemnly, and was about to tell Jiayi to ride back to the city to take a look. Unexpectedly, there was a noise in the distance, which made Xiao Han swallow the words that were already on his lips.
"what happened?"
Hearing the same sound in the distance, Liu Hongji suddenly raised his head! Looking towards the road ahead, his originally lazy eyes were as sharp as a knife at this moment, making people afraid to look directly!
"It seems like it's Xiaodong!"
Xiao Han's reaction was also very fast. He had already taken out the telescope placed on his chest and looked towards the place where the sound came from!
In the somewhat blurry field of view of the telescope, a familiar figure was driving an ox cart, walking in the middle of the road! Behind the ox cart, there were also a huge crowd, and various kinds of people mixed in the crowd.
carriage, donkey cart...
"It's really Xiaodong!"
Liu Hongji carefully identified the person in the bullock cart. After confirming that the arrogant guy was Xiao Han's follower Xiaodong, his sharp eyes returned to normal little by little, and his tense body also gradually returned to normal.
to relax.
"Looking at the arrogance of this kid, he must have collected enough for what you want!" Liu Hongji touched Xiao Han beside him with his shoulder, and returned to his lazy look again and said with a smile.
"Haha, it should be!"
Xiao Han looked through the telescope and carefully counted the large wooden logs stacked on the oxcart. A smile slowly appeared on his face. Then he put down the telescope in his hand and breathed a sigh of relief: "I am relieved that he is doing things! However, no
Are you just asking him to collect some oil? Why are there so many people following you? What are they doing?"
"What are you doing?" Liu Hongji rolled his eyes: "I think they are here to collect debts. Could it be that Xiaodong saw that he could not receive the oil, so he offered a high price to buy it, and then asked someone to come to you to settle the account?"
"Ah?" After hearing this, the smile on Xiao Han's face suddenly froze. He looked at the dark crowd in the distance and swallowed hard: "No...it can't be right?"
"Hey, it's hard to say!"
Liu Hongji liked to see Xiao Han deflated the most! Seeing his stupid look, he immediately smiled happily and said: "Let's talk about it first! You are not allowed to use my gold to pay debts. If you want to use it, use your own!"
What?" Although Xiao Han is no longer as enthusiastic about gold as he was when he first came to the Tang Dynasty, when he heard that his gold was going to be used to pay off debts, he was still furious on the spot! He jumped on his feet and said angrily: "Why?
What! This oil is not for me alone!"
However, Liu Hongji was not in a hurry. He still shook his head and said, "I don't care about that. Anyway, Xiaodong is your subordinate, not mine. It's not my turn to pay back the things he borrowed!"
"you……"
"What are you? My dear brother, I have to settle the score. This is not what you said? At most, I will give you two taels of gold when the time comes. Don't thank me, I am such a broad-minded person, hahaha..."
"I'm really grateful to your eight generations of ancestors..."
Looking at the arrogant and laughing Liu Hongji, Xiao Han had the urge to jump up and slap him in the mouth with the sole of his shoe!
However, after carefully comparing the strength of the two men, Xiao Han decisively put away this "unwise" idea.
Doing something you know you can't do is a fool!
We can't be like those gangsters who rush to kill people when their brains get hot!
