Wu Jin didn't talk much, nor was he in a hurry to dig. Instead, he looked for locusts in the branches and grass. The locusts gathered on the grass tops in the early morning to eat the morning dew. Their wings were wet and they couldn't fly, so they were perfect for catching.
He grabbed one in each hand, handed it to Cheng Ting, and asked Cheng Ting to smash it with a stone. Cheng Ting followed behind, shaking his body when he smashed it. From time to time, he turned around and took a deep breath to calm himself down.
Seeing that Wu Jin was proficient in catching insects and seemed to have been getting rid of locusts for a long time, the students from the Prefecture School followed suit, catching and killing the locusts. Those who couldn't find the locusts continued to dig up the eggs as they did yesterday.
The students of Tunan College saw that they were in full swing and no one complained. Although they were sleepy, they had to learn to do it.
Wang Jinghua stood aside, first touching the top of the grass, then rubbing it on the tree branch, and then turning over the stone to look at it, intending to kill the time. Cheng Ting saw it at a glance, and immediately sneered: "Toad spirit, you
Just find a rock and sleep on it."
"Don't fart." Wang Jinghua raised his head, went down with a hoe, and dug through the soil. He didn't find anything, and he didn't think it was hard to dig up insect eggs. "Some people just have a bad mouth, and they can't really do anything."
,Or not."
He said "Hey!" and went down with the hoe again. This time, the soil he turned out was densely packed with insect eggs.
Then the whole mountain heard the sound of his retching.
Cheng Ting laughed loudly: "Jing Ha, what's wrong? You're not pregnant with a baby, are you?"
He was answered by another burst of retching.
Not only Wang Jinghua, but the entire Tunan College students were all filled with butterflies in their stomachs, wishing they could spit out the gall water.
Wu Jin was focused on catching locusts, but when he saw them stop and just stand aside, fanning and covering his nose, he stood up and said seriously: "Everyone should dig them out as soon as possible. If the eggs are left here, they will cause another disaster next year."
Wang Jinghua threw away the hoe and refused to do anything again.
Others in Tunan Academy could not hide their disgust, and slowly Tengteng stopped making any moves and just stood there without moving.
Wu Jin looked at the crowd and sighed: "In Kuanzhou City, two grains are not harvested. Even though the court is providing disaster relief, the price of food has more than quadrupled. This winter is already full of hunger and cold. If there is another locust plague next year, four grains are not harvested.
They must have exchanged their sons for food, and dissected their bodies for cooking."
He picked up the hoe and handed it to Wang Jinghua: "If we really reach the situation like this, there is no need to dig up insect eggs anymore. It's time to go to the roadside to pick up the bones of our relatives. You have read poems and books, and I hope you can calm down and think about it."
His face was full of sadness, his eyebrows were slightly furrowed, his long eyebrows disappeared into his temples, and his calm eyes suddenly became dignified and powerful.
The poorest young people have no wealth, no fame, no official status. At the most pale and weak age, they are like a jade mountain treasure belt, like pearls on the wall, shining brightly.
"Exaggerated words." Wang Jinghua's momentum suddenly weakened, "With the imperial court providing disaster relief, how could it happen that the ground is thousands of miles away?"
He was about to mutter a few words, but Sun Jing quietly pulled his sleeve. When he looked back, he saw that the others were already digging silently.
Although he was not digging well, he was still digging. If Wang Jinghua said anything more, it would be offensive. He closed his mouth, glared at Wu Jin, raised the hoe with difficulty, and gave it a shovel on the ground.
The students sweated profusely as they dug up insect eggs and sent them back to be burned. When the sky brightened, they could no longer work. They sat on the rocks to catch their breath. After taking a breather, they went back to drink water, eat, and rest for a while before returning.
When they are so tired, they can no longer express their poetic nature. Everything they look at looks disgusting, even the stones seem to be so strange just to hit their butts.
Cheng Ting stretched out his hand to pull the hem of his clothes, and flapped his other hand to create wind to relieve the heat. He searched around with his eyes, not letting go of any locusts that slipped through the net. After looking for a long time, he said "Huh" and patted Wu Jin.
: "Soldiers are coming. Is that Zhangjia Fort?"
Wu Jin followed his hand and pointed towards it, and saw at the foot of Hengshan Mountain, a winding mountain road heading northwest, and a small fort about the same size as Hengshan Fort standing on the low mountain range.
The fort is very small and not close to an important pass. It has been abandoned for a long time. However, it was renovated at this time. The collapsed fort head was rebuilt with big stones. In a hurry, two more observation poles were added and erected in front of the fort.
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A group of soldiers rushed over and surrounded Zhangjiabao on three levels inside and three outside. At the same time, a short soldier strode into the fort and looked around.
The autumn wind blew up the embroidered shirts of the soldiers, revealing the armor underneath. Suddenly a silver light shone like a pattern in the water, which was very majestic. Even the war horses were different, with their heads raised and neighing, and their muscles and bones strong.
The students on the mountain seemed to hear the sound of sabers hitting their armors. They all did not move for a long time. After a long time, Cheng Ting suddenly became excited: "The peace talks are on the 20th, can we see it here?"
Hearing this, the students' eyes shone together.
"You can only see outside."
"That's not bad!"
"We won't dig up insect eggs on the 20th. Let's come here to watch the peace talks."
"Wu Jin, what do you think? We can stay one more day to dig up insect eggs and we won't get any more wages."
"Yes, Wu Jin, is that okay?"
Wu Jin nodded and smiled: "I want to see it too."
Cheng Ting immediately said: "When you get back later, you can go and talk to Jiaoyu. If we go and tell him, Jiaoyu won't agree. Maybe he will be afraid of us doing bad things and send us back in advance."
Everyone nodded, feeling deeply that the teaching was partial to Wu Jin.
Wang Jinghua rolled his eyes: "What is there to be afraid of?"
Cheng Ting said to him: "Yes, the teachings are afraid of you. If you make a big toad croak twice, they will have to leave."
Wang Jinghua simply rolled his eyes to the sky, stood up and walked back: "I'm not as knowledgeable as you, an idiot, so let's go eat!"
As soon as they heard about eating, the hunger that had temporarily retreated came back, and everyone got up one after another, carrying the eggs back to have breakfast.
Wu Jin first threw the eggs into the stove, and then told the emperor about watching the peace talks on the 20th.
Sure enough, when the eunuch saw what he said, he immediately agreed. Worried about others disrupting the peace talks, he decided to sit in person and only allow them to see but not speak.
The next day was July 18th. After Wu Jin and others dug up the insect eggs, they took advantage of the setting sun to go to the northwest and take a look.
When he looked at it, he saw that soldiers had been lined up in front of Zhangjiabao. They were in teams of two, with gleaming armor and long swords on their waists, standing opposite each other on both sides of the road.
A large soap-colored flag was fluttered outside the fort, and people were patrolling back and forth, making a great display of authority.
The students on Hengshan were very excited when they saw it, and they all discussed how the oath meeting between the two dynasties would be discussed.
"We will take back the lost land of the Three Strongholds. The cities along the two dynasties will be as usual."
"I have read the previous oath. The gold will support 10,000 good horses every year, and we will support 200,000 silver silk."
"This time, the Jinlu have been beaten to the doorstep. I'm afraid these are not enough."
"I heard that Envoy Mo Jiedu will also be here. I wonder if Miss Mo will be here. I heard that she has built a team of female soldiers and they are capable of success. The men in the army are not as good as her."
"It's all because there are too many silverfish. If I go there, I will definitely be able to gallop on the battlefield and kill the enemy in triumph!"