In the farmland, the pepper seedlings are growing very well. Originally, Cheng Dalei was worried that the weather would be too hot, so he specially built a pergola with tree trunks and thatch to shade the seedlings. Now it seems that the hard work was not in vain, the seedlings are all green, and there are one or two more
It will be harvested in a month.
Cheng Dalei felt an inexplicable sense of accomplishment in his heart. He recalled the conversation he had just had with Huang Sanyuan and asked, "What news did you find out?"
"The team escorting birthday gifts will pass by Qingniu Mountain in the next ten days. According to the news from other villages, Xue Banchuan should send Lu Heng to escort this time."
"Lu Humph? How much do you know about this person?" Cheng Dalei knew that Huang Sanyuan was in Black Rock City at the time, and he knew the situation of the personnel in Black Rock City better than anyone else.
"Lu Heng, he is almost thirty years old this year. He is good at wielding a big stick. He is an orphan. Xue Banchuan took him in and took care of him. He has no father, no mother, no relatives, and no one in the world recognizes him. He only recognizes Xue Banchuan. He is a
A powerful person." Huang Sanyuan said.
"Of course he is a powerful person. If he is not powerful, Xue Banchuan will not let him go on this mission." Cheng Dalei looked at the pepper seedlings in front of him and asked: "How are other copycats going to rob them?"
"It's nothing more than a night attack, poisoning, and setting up an ambush on the road." Huang Sanyuan said: "After all, cats have cat lanes, dogs have dog lanes, and they are in charge, so why don't we intervene?"
Cheng Dalei thought for a while and sighed: "The dogs are fighting for meat. With the few pieces of material we have in Toad Village, if we want to compete, we must be qualified to compete with others."
Standing on a high place and looking down, you can faintly smell the smell of gunpowder in the dense forest. Of course, there is no smell of gunpowder in Qingniu Mountain, but that restless smell has permeated everywhere.
…
"Wan'er, Wan'er, come here and show you something good!" Li Xingzai strode into the room and waved to Li Waner.
"Brother, can you stop looking so lewd and make me feel like you stole the maid's clothes again?" Li Waner.
"This... can you please stop mentioning the past and go away? I'll show you something."
"What on earth is it?" Li Waner followed Li Xingzai out of the earthen house extremely reluctantly.
Climbing up the terrain of Toad Village, Li Waner finally saw a pond covered with thatch.
"Brother, what is this, for bathing in the open air?" Li Waner asked.
"No, the key is what's inside the pool." Li Xingzai looked very excited: "The spring water comes down from the mountain and is led into the pool. It is covered with thatch, so flying insects and dust cannot get in. There are also gravels and charcoal in the pool...
"
"Charcoal, can you drink water with charcoal?" Li Waner.
"It's drinkable. They say the charcoal can hold the bugs in the water."
"Will there be bugs in the water?" Li Waner asked.
"This... I don't understand very well. But after all the hard work of digging such a pond, it may be of some use." Li Xingzai said: "Come on, I will show you something else."
Li Xingzai dragged Li Waner down. Li Waner frowned and said, "Brother, why did you take me to the hut? Don't you mind the smell?"
"Go, go in and take a look." Li Xingzai said.
"I don't!"
"Okay, if you don't want to go, don't go. I'll talk to you." Li Xingzai said: "The bottom of this hut is connected to the horse pen and pig pen, and there is a big pit under the ground. They said that there are also small insects in the hut, which fly out and enter.
If a person's body is damaged, they will get sick. Later they can be dug out to fertilize the fields."
"Brother, what's the use of this?" Li Waner was confused.
"I... don't know what the use is, but I always feel that it is of great use." Li Xingzai was very interested, clapped his hands and said: "Traveling a thousand miles, knowing a thousand miles, Wan'er, you still think this cottage is simple
Well."
"There are six people in total, so what if it's not simple?"
"Yes, there are six people in total, why go to such trouble..." Li Xingzai's eyes flashed with a strange light: "The owner of this cottage has a big conspiracy."
"Brother, can you stop staring at the latrine with such a leering look?" Li Waner covered her nose: "Besides, you are too..."
"Shh, be silent!" Li Xingzai looked stern and his voice lowered.
At night, candles are lit in the earthen house, and the candlelight shines through the window paper.
"How's your writing going?" Cheng Dalei walked into the earthen house at this time.
"I've been writing." Li Xingzai said, "This is what I saw and heard in Jingzhou."
"Keep writing."
Cheng Dalei grabbed a piece of paper that he had already written, and eagerly obtained information about this world. There were one hundred and eight cities in the thirteen states of the empire. Cheng Dalei knew nothing about the location of each city in each state. Moreover, Cheng Dalei also knew nothing about the history of the empire.
You know, he learned something from Su Ying, but Su Ying's knowledge was obviously not as good as Li Xingzai's.
"Master, what do you know about these things?"
"Write a book." Cheng Dalei said nonsense.
"Write a book!" Li Xingzai and Li Waner both opened their eyes wide.
"You are a poet, I am a writer, and my dream is to write a masterpiece that will be handed down for generations." Cheng Dalei raised his head: "Don't I look like him?"
Li Xingzai and Li Waner were dumbfounded. It was against their will to say that they looked like each other, but they wanted to say that they didn't look like it, but now they were relying on someone else.
"Aren't you a poet?" Cheng Dalei said, "You have written some poetry, let me see it."
"Ha, I actually wrote a few songs, and I asked the master to appreciate them and comment on them with the junior students."
Li Xingzai pulled out a few pages from the pile of paper and handed them to Cheng Dalei.
Cheng Dalei grinned as soon as he saw the big mouth, and let out a strange cry of "tsk, tsk".
"Why, isn't my poem good?" Regarding this point, Li Xingzai was still somewhat confident. In Jingzhou, he was known as an unparalleled poet, and an expert commented that there was a sound of war in his poems.
"This can also be called poetry..." Cheng Dalei almost grinned: "The empire's poetic talents are really worrying."
"Hey, do you understand? My brother's poems are famous throughout Jingzhou." Li Waner said angrily.
"Okay, okay, let me open your eyes and know what writing poetry is." Cheng Dalei picked up the brush and dipped it in thick ink. He raised his head and saw Li Xingzai and Li Waner staring at him: "Hey, I have this sentence
, if word spreads, I am afraid that the entire empire’s talented people will not dare to pick up a pen.”
"Humph, your tone is quite good."
Li Wan'er snorted coldly, her eyes still fell on the tip of Cheng Dalei's pen, she was slightly lost in thought, but she was thinking: This person talks like this, I don't know what's in his stomach.
Cheng Dalei gripped the penholder tightly, and when the pen tip moved on the paper, a few lines of crooked words appeared like ghost drawings. Seeing his handwriting, Li Waner couldn't help but laugh out loud. She was about to say something sarcastic, but when she saw the paper clearly
content, eyes suddenly widened.
Cheng Dalei stopped writing, glanced at the stunned two people, and said, "Okay, it's getting late, let's take a rest early."
"One sentence, why only one sentence?" Li Waner couldn't help but ask.
"One sentence is enough. I'm afraid I'll scare you to death if I bring it out." Cheng Dalei added as he walked to the door.
Li Xingzai had already lost consciousness. He held the crooked handwriting in his hand and said in his mouth: "Not to mention the world's talented people, with this sentence, at least I will never be able to write in my life."