While he was talking, Xu Zizhen had already stepped on the ground, but he was injured after all. His feet gave way and he almost fell. Su San hurriedly held him up and said angrily: "Can't you lie down for a few days before going to see him? Besides, you can't
No matter what time it is, the city gate is not open."
"Then I'll wait at the city gate." Xu Zizhen was stubborn for a rare moment.
Lu Ying and Su San looked at each other and suddenly discovered a characteristic of Xu Zizhen. He usually seemed unruly and unruly, but when something happened he was extremely serious.
Su San couldn't defeat him in the end, so she had to help him dress up. When he was almost done, he took out a gouache box, which shocked Xu Zizhen: "What are you doing? Even if your face looks bad, you don't need to put on rouge, right?"
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Lu Ying smiled and said: "Brother Xu misunderstood. You are a newly deceased person. It would be a big deal if you were discovered by the golden dog at the city gate."
Only then did Xu Zizhen understand, but when he saw Su San giving him makeup to disguise himself, he couldn't accept it. In the end, he had no choice but to hold his nose and let her do what she wanted.
Not long after putting on makeup, Xu Zizhen went to the mirror and took a look. He had turned into a middle-aged man with a yellow face. It would be difficult to see the flaws unless he looked carefully. He couldn't help but look at Su San with admiration: "You can actually do that too."
Disguise? I didn’t see it!”
Su San chuckled: "Ever since I was a child, I've always pretended to be a man and sneaked out to play, but I'm just not as clever as Uncle Du."
"Doesn't your father allow you to go out to play?"
"No, my father is an old-fashioned man..."
At this point, Su San's words stopped abruptly, and a trace of sadness appeared on her face. Xu Zizhen noticed something was wrong, and quickly persuaded her with a forced smile: "Don't worry, your father will be fine. After this is over, I will take care of you."
You go play everywhere."
Su San's eyes suddenly lit up: "Okay, okay, you can't be a scumbag."
Xu Zizhen smiled evilly: "It's your turn to stop being a scumbag. You will be my personal maid by then."
Su Sanyi was startled and gritted his teeth: "What I said will certainly count!"
Xu Zizhen laughed and rubbed her head: "I'm teasing you. Your temperament makes me worry even if you are a nursing home... Let's go and wait until the door opens."
Lu Ying on the side couldn't help laughing. He and Su San were childhood sweethearts who grew up together. He knew this girl's temper better than anyone else. She was frizzy and hot-tempered. Being a maid? She could tear down Xu Zizhen's house in less than half a day.
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When we arrived at the gate of the city, the sky was already turning pale. The Jin soldiers on duty at the gate yawned and looked impatiently at the people gathered inside. These were miserable low-class Song people who had to get up early and work late at night in order to make a living.
So they couldn't take a nap for a while.
Xu Zizhen and others mingled in the crowd, and after waiting for a short time, the city gate finally opened. He endured the pain and lined up with Su Sanluying to leave the city without revealing any flaws, and managed to get out of the city safely.
"Phew! Fortunately, I wasn't noticed. I'm lucky." Su San was still a little nervous, but he breathed a sigh of relief when he was quite far away from the city gate.
Lu Ying looked solemnly and said: "The guards at the city gate are lax, and it seems that Brother Wanyan Zongwang is much less wary. Doesn't it mean that His Highness Prince Kang will be able to return to Bianjing soon?"
Su San had told Lu Ying in detail Xu Zizhen's plan a long time ago. Lu Ying was a smart man and thought of this connection immediately.
Xu Zizhen shook his head: "No, these two boys are very suspicious, especially Wu Shu. They are as cautious as a rat. Even if they torture me to death, they will not be completely relieved so quickly. I guess I have to put Qi into it."
I will stay for a few days to weaken his spirit."
Lu Yingqi said: "Brother Xu is indeed a master. He has already understood Wushu so well in just a few days after joining Jinying. I admire him!"
Xu Zizhen smiled and said nothing. As the saying goes, if you know yourself and the enemy, you will be able to fight a hundred battles. The famous Jin Wushu was the most important and most difficult enemy to deal with in the next few decades of the Song Dynasty. He was also a well-known villain in later novels. It would be strange if you didn't know about it.
The three of them chatted and walked around before arriving at the abandoned workshop of the Lu family. From the outside, they saw that the door was closed and lifeless, with nothing out of the ordinary. Lu Ying looked around cautiously, and then gently knocked a few times in a rhythmic manner.
The glottis door opened quickly, and a boy poked his head out and whispered: "The boss is here? Master Wen happened to be finishing work."
Lu Ying nodded and walked in with Xu Zizhen. The yard was still the same, overgrown with weeds and dilapidated, and the rockery garden was still the same, but Xu Zizhen always felt that something was wrong, and he couldn't tell what it was specifically.
"The entrance is at the back, let's go and take a look." Lu Ying knew what Xu Zizhen was wondering about, so he smiled and continued to lead the way.
The backyard is not small, and there are a lot of things piled here and there. There is a large water tank in the corner. This was used in the old yard to store water and prevent fires. It looks like it has been there for many years, and there are several holes in the mouth of the tank.
The boy stepped over first, holding the vat with one hand and stepping on it somewhere. The vat, which was as tall as a man, slid to the side more than half a foot wide, revealing a dark hole in the ground.
Xu Zizhen first praised it: "What a good method. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would never have thought there was such an institution here."
Lu Ying's eyes were full of admiration: "This is the masterpiece of Brother Xu. This kind of mechanism technique is almost unheard of by me."
Xu Zizhen secretly laughed, he was an expert in Sanjuetang Gongshu, and he was definitely an expert at this game.
He took a closer look at the cave and stepped down. There was a slope going down from the entrance of the cave. There were no steps to facilitate the transportation of the soil dug out of the tunnel. After walking down a few feet, which was half-sliding and half-sliding, he reached the bottom.
It became a horizontal line, and the cave was almost half a person tall and as wide as two people side by side. It was much easier to climb than Xu Zizhen had imagined before.
Xu Zizhen bent down and walked forward slowly. After walking about a hundred steps, he saw a faint light in front of him. He hurried over a few steps and saw that Wen Baer was still busy, concentrating on holding a handful of unknown things.
Tools, digging out mud carefully.
This tool is almost as big as an armful. At the front is a steel drill about two feet long, which is curved in a spiral shape. At the back is a handle, and on the right is a crank. Xu Zizhen understood it after just looking at it for a while. Wen Baer
Put the drill bit against the soil wall in front of you, hold the handle with your left hand and shake the handle with the right hand. Several gears in the middle of the tool engage and bite, and the drill bit in front starts to move quickly. The solid soil quickly loosens and falls.
After the two-foot drill bit reached the bottom, Wen Baer pulled out the drill bit, then replaced it with a hoe, and easily dug out another section. After three or two strokes, it was almost half a foot deep in no time.
The distance was opened.
Although Xu Zizhen knew that Gongshu Hall was powerful, it was the first time for him to see Baer's tunnel-digging skills, and he blurted out: "Damn, if I stay here for a few more months, I can play tunnel fighting in Zhending Mansion."
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Wen Baer turned around when he heard the voice and said with a smile: "I can make you a complete set of siege engines in a few months, why bother with this?"
Xu Zizhen laughed: "That's true, when the time comes, we will go directly to the bolide to blow up her."
"Flying Fire Star" was the powerful petroleum bomb in Lanzhou during the First World War. Xu Zizhen changed the name to a post-modern one because he didn't like it.
Wen Baer smiled and continued digging in the mud, saying, "I will close the stall in a while. Master, please go out first. It's very stuffy here."
Xu Zizhen nodded and turned around to leave, but suddenly thought of something: "By the way, where did you throw all the mud you dug? Are you young or old?"
Wen Baer turned back and smiled: "Didn't you notice that the terrain in the yard was high when you entered?"
Xu Zizhen slapped his thigh: "From now on, you will be the engineer company commander in my Shenji Battalion!"