Man Tang Huacai
Chapter 118
Chapter 118
In the evening, the cool breeze enters the temple.
When Li Longji woke up, his old eyes were half-opened, and he was lazily leaning there listening to Gao Lishi's story about Chang'an.
"Xue Bai is narrow-minded. During Liu Ji's case, the right minister wronged him once. After that, everything this kid did, he seemed to yell at the right minister, 'resent me again'. Gou', who never gets tired of listening to it?"
"Ah."
Just listening to the results, Li Longji still felt tedious.
There was a "Han Yu" incident before, and it happened again today, he didn't have the patience to listen to the details.
"Wang Zhongsi 'constructed' Xue Bai with an 'unknown origin', but he was willing to attack Shibao City, saying that the weapons given by the saints might be useful, let him figure out a way."
"Are you willing to fight?"
Li Longji raised his hand, and Ren Gaolishi set him up, with an unfathomable expression, making it impossible to know what he was thinking.
Gao Lishi said: "Willing to fight, the whole court said that he 'disobeyed the holy order', 'benevolent to his subordinates' and 'raised his own self-respect', but when he heard that there was a way, he ignored the rules and went directly to the outskirts of the city to build privately. Arms' gone."
"He regards strategy as more important than my will!" Li Longji still cursed.
But the word "strategy" came into his ears, and Gao Lishi knew that the saint's anger towards Wang Zhongsi had subsided a lot.
Not to fight Shibao City from strategic considerations, and not wanting to fight because of some kind of selfishness are completely different things.It is only a matter of the life of the important general on the frontier, and it is only in the sage's thought.
"After all, he is a child raised by a sage. How can a sage not understand his temper?"
"General Gao, you are helping people speak well again."
"The old slave must be the heir of 'Jiaogu' Wang Zhong."
"Hahaha."
Li Longji hadn't fully woken up yet, so he shook his head, wondering if he would invite the imperial concubine to perform in the Liyuan today, or go boating with Concubine Mei, or invite the two nieces of the Zhang family to play cards in the palace?
Zhang Ting's eldest sister, Zhang Si, is also very good at poker.
While waking up, Gao Lishi had already handed over several scrolls.
"Saint, General Chen brought it back."
"Hmm." Li Longji was used to reading stories to refresh himself, and murmured, "We're going to Gao Laozhuang."
As if remembering it, Gao Lishi reminded: "Saint, the right minister is still waiting."
Li Longji seemed to have never heard of it, and at the end, he put away the scroll.
"The rhetoric is too rough, and it has not been polished. Send it back and rewrite it."
"Here."
"Doing things like making a fuss, rushing to report with rough and inferior results, are you fooling me?" Li Longji was slightly dissatisfied, "Let me go back and do my job well."
~~
"Why didn't Grandpa explain clearly to the saint that this matter has nothing to do with Grandpa at all."
"Explanation? The truth is that the prime minister of a country has been humiliated by a prince again and again. Could it be that the sage wants to listen to the prime minister's words, 'Your Majesty, the old minister was tricked by that stinky child, and the old minister is so wronged'. This is what you want me to do." Do you have an explanation?!"
"But this matter, grandpa obviously didn't fall for it..."
"Snapped!"
"How dare you talk too much."
Li Lin Fulin raised his hand and slapped Li Xiu.
"Trash! As a general and the right school supervisor, you don't know how to discipline your subordinates, but you discipline me instead?"
"I don't dare." Li Xiudang fell to his knees, at a loss, "I don't know..."
"check!"
Li Linfu scolded angrily: "If you don't know, why don't you check it out? With this old man, will you feed me for the rest of your life?!"
"Snapped!"
Li Xiu raised her hand and slapped herself, then ran out in a panic.
In fact, this matter has nothing to do with him, it is nothing more than just rushing to Grandpa's anger. There are 2 people including the general supervisor and craftsmen, and he doesn't know Xiao Fangzhi at all...
~~
It's night, the prison of the Ministry of punishment.
As the iron chains rattled, Xiao Fangzhi was tied to the torture rack, with a look of shock and disbelief on his face.
"Gentlemen, did you make a mistake? I was the one who exposed Wang Zhongsi and Xue Bai's private military weapons. They were good at manufacturing heavy artillery in the capital. Charge me?!"
Let him shout for a long time, but no one answered.
Until someone outside the torture chamber started a conversation.
"The officials of the Ministry of Punishments also know how to execute punishments? It's still me."
"I have long admired Duke Luo's name."
"Come here, bring my 'Donkey Pout' here."
Xiao Fangzhi looked around, and when he saw a shadowy man in a light green official robe coming in, the hairs all over his body stood on end in an instant.
Because he knew who the person in front of him was, Luo Xishi, Luo Jia.
Standing behind Luo Tong were three purple-robed officials who came to the execution room to watch the execution.
"No, no, you have no crime against me!"
"Xiao Fangzhi, who ordered you to frame the general of Bianzhen?!"
Luo Xishi hasn't started yet, he is still beckoning people to move things.
Xiao Fangzhi couldn't take it any longer, he said tremblingly: "Luo Yushi, my own person, the right minister asked me to do it, it was really the right minister's order..."
"How dare you quibble now?"
"Really! Really! It was the censor like you who ordered me to do it..."
"It doesn't matter." Luo Xixi smiled, "At first I was stubborn, I have plenty of time to ask you slowly."
"..."
There was a scream, and even the torches on the wall shook.
~~
Xue Bai has returned to the courtyard of Changshoufang.
Qing Lan knew that he was afraid of mosquitoes, so he took a lot of wormwood and fumigated the house as soon as he came back, so he slept very soundly that night.
It seemed to be a dream, dreaming that he had inserted a lot of fishing rods on the shore, the first one was empty when pulled up, and an unknown person was hanging on the second hook, it was miserable.
When the third rod was pulled, Princess Xianyi was caught. She cried very sadly and said that she could be punished in any way. Xue Bai took a closer look, but found that she was a mermaid with a human body and a fish tail...
What a strange dream.
"Lang Jun, are you dreaming?"
Xue Bai opened his eyes, only to see Qing Lan squatting beside his couch.
The weather in late April was hot and dry, and her spring shirt was not tied high, making her look very young.
"Ah."
"Are you going to the teacher's house today?"
"Anyway, I got up late, and I will go to the county government to find a teacher later."
Xue Bai turned over, Qing Lan looked at him, and felt that his bed was very comfortable.
After lying on the bed for a while, and waiting for everything to be tidied up, Xue Bai was practicing kung fu in the corridor, only then did he vaguely hear someone knocking on the door from the inner courtyard.
I walked around the bamboo garden and opened the door, only to see Xue Shishilang standing there, sweating profusely as he knocked on the door.
"I'm so tired, Brother Six, why don't you put a knocker on the courtyard gate?"
……
Xue's house, the lobby in the front yard.
Liu Xiangjun and Du Wulang are entertaining guests.
It was a guard soldier under Wang Zhongsi's command named Guan Chongsi.
"Don't worry, the general didn't send the greeting card first, I take the liberty to come to the door, it doesn't hurt to wait a while."
Guan Chongsi was really willing to wait, but Xue Xin was staring at him all the time, which made him a little uncomfortable.
"General Guan, how tall are you?"
"Don't call me General, just call me 'Chongsi'. I respect General Wang, so I changed this name. My height is seven feet two inches."
"It's really tall, has the general ever killed an enemy on the battlefield?"
"There are nine thieves' heads in the account."
"Wow." Xue Xin asked again: "Can I compete with the general?"
Unable to stand this talkative child, Xue Bai came, Guan Chongsi hurriedly stood up, and respectfully said: "I met Xue Lang, General Wang would like to invite you to see him."
This attitude was not for anything else, but because he knew that if the boulder cannon could reduce the number of deaths in the Helong Army, it would be his comrades, or even himself, who would save their lives.
"We have seen that the general and General Wang have been to Fenggu prison and measured the distance of the stone throwing. I remember that the general's name should be Guan Chongsi?"
"It's a great honor for Xue Lang to remember the villain." Guan Chongsi was overjoyed.
"Let's go."
"Please, Xue Lang."
Du Wulang got up early on purpose, combed his hair carefully, and changed into new clothes. He had something to say to Xue Bai, but he didn't expect to meet, but Xue Bai was invited away.
He had no choice but to follow.
~~
Yanshoufang, Wang Zhongsi's residence.
The courtyard is very large and looks quite empty, with arrow stacks erected in the front yard.Two wrestlers were wrestling in sumo with only their trouser pockets on, and a group of military men were yelling and watching.
Guan Chongsi led Xue Bai and Du Wulang all the way in, passed through the square and simple layout of the double courtyard, and went straight to the lobby.
"General, Xue Lang is here."
Wang Zhongsi was standing in front of a simple sand table, when he saw the visitor, he just nodded his head as a signal, and went straight to the business.
"Let's take a look at the terrain of Stone Castle City. Let's talk about how to use the boulder cannon."
Xue Bai stepped forward and saw that the sand table was made of mud embryos, and it was more intuitive than the map to see the steepness of Shibao City.
There is also a large map next to it, which shows the surrounding terrain. There is also a poem inscribed on the map, "Whoever opens the gate of the stone city will make it worse when the wind falls. The white mountain in Jietian wins the golden soup, and suppresses the half wall of the southwestern sky."
Wang Zhongsi picked up a few small wooden frames and placed them in front of the sand table.
"If you can't throw two or three hundred catties of boulders onto Shibao City, can you do it with twenty or thirty catties?"
Throwing something of this weight would not be powerful enough, Xue Bai thought for a while and asked, "General, do you want to attack with fire?"
Wang Zhongsi didn't answer, but asked instead: "What do you think?"
"I've read in books that when the people of Qin cultivated the five-foot road, there was a method of 'accumulating firewood and burning rocks', which could make the rocks burn red and burst when cold. But I don't know what the terrain of Shibao City is like?"
The reason why Xue Bai built the giant stone cannon was because he had a little understanding of the history of the Song and Yuan Dynasties. He knew that the Mongolian army liked to throw fireballs from artillery carts and burn the city walls with corpse oil.
Wang Zhongsi nodded, and replied: "It's called 'Stone Fort City', so it must be fortified."
"What does the general want to use to make a fireball?"
"Fat, what about you? What do you think?"
Xue Bai muttered: "The burning of rocks requires a strong fire for a long time. You can use stone resin water, also called stone varnish. I have seen it in Xishi. It is used for lighting lamps and making inkstones."
Wang Zhongsi ordered Guan Chongsi to buy stone paint and come back.
He demonstrated on the sand table and told Xue Bai what kind of gun car he needed.
When Guan Chongsi came back from buying the stone grease, Xue Bai sniffed it, and a pungent smell hit his nostrils.
Wang Zhongsi actually moved a stone directly into the courtyard, poured stone paint on it, tapped the fire, and a raging fire ignited on the ground with a "boom".
Du Wulang was startled, he felt the hot air rushing towards his face, he saw that black smoke had smoked the yard into a mess, and the scene was very frightening.
"Ah... this is my home..."
Wang Zhongsi didn't seem to notice, let the fire rage, and continued talking with Xue Bai.
"This time Xue Lang took action to save me. I understand it and remember it in my heart. It's a pity that the military situation is urgent and I can't stay in Chang'an for a long time. I will look for repayment after taking Shibao City."
"General Wang is too polite." Xue Bai did not politely say anything to him, "It is my honor to be able to contribute, and I also have selfish intentions. I only hope that General Wang will not forget my request when he repays his credit."
"Okay, be frank." Wang Zhongsi said: "If you can't be a Jinshi, you can practice under my curtain, and I will recommend you as an official."
"Thank you, General. If Chun Wei can't ascend to the throne, he will go to the General's family."
Wang Zhongsi has been in the border town for a long time, and he is used to speaking freely, but he is not without restraint, he said with a smile: "Of course, with Xue Lang's talent, he must be able to reach the top."
"Thank you General for your kind words." Xue Bai said, "By the way, there is one more matter. I wonder if I can invite General..."
"But it doesn't matter."
"Xiao Fangzhi, the chief supervisor, reported us for privately manufacturing weapons. Regardless of the purpose, he did not really hurt us. I heard that he has been sent to the prison of the Ministry of Punishment, but his family is innocent, and his son once had an affair with his sister-in-law. engagement……"
"Okay!" Wang Zhongsi waved his hands and said, "I will protect the Xiao family."
"Thank you."
"You don't have to thank me. You are magnificent and have a broad layout. Is it possible for me to be petty? There is a fighting cock in the imperial court. In recent years, I can't get used to it."
For Xue Bai, this is not a big deal.
He knew that Donggong must be the one who would silence Xiao Fang, so he asked Wang Zhongsi to protect his innocence, to see if he and Li Heng were of the same mind in everything.
……
The fire wrapped around the stone and made a "crackling" sound. Wang Zhongsi himself carried a bucket of water and stood aside waiting. He was like a stone.
When the time was almost up, he poured a bucket of water down, and the heated stone suddenly caught cold and exploded with a "bang".
"Stone lacquer can be used." Wang Zhongsi said, "Stone Fort City is hot in the day and cold in the night, this method may be feasible."
After discussing it well, he invited the craftsman Anbo Boy to make military weapons according to this method, and Xue Bai just left.
~~
After leaving the palace, Du Wulang breathed a sigh of relief, feeling suffocated by the pressure of killing.
He was a little regretful that he couldn't speak to Wang Zhongsi, not even to see him.
But if you want to come to the four towns and envoys to be busy with important border affairs, how can you have the leisure to think of yourself as a young man?Instead, he felt that the other party was amazing.
"The general is indeed a general, and he is different from the people in Chang'an City."
"Ah."
"By the way, you also know about me, right?" Du Wulang said, "Sanniang and I...that..."
Xue Bai said: "Look at Sanniang's wishes, if she is willing to marry you, we can discuss marriage after you are appointed by Chunwei."
"real?!"
"It doesn't matter what I say, ask your grandfather, ask Liu Niang."
"Hey, why do you keep calling your aunt 'Liu Niang'? What a blessing." Du Wulang said: "I have to coax her for you every time, so that she doesn't get bored in her heart."
Xue Bai was too lazy to talk to Du Wulang.
Now that his talent and reputation are gradually accumulating, even Li Linfu dare not frame him easily again. Then when he is appointed as an official and his contacts are spread out... In short, with enough strength, he may become Xue Pingzhao and seek for Hedong County. Duke's title.
He doesn't care if it's true or not, anyway, it's impossible to respect someone as a real father and mother.The important thing is whether you can accept this identity.
It's still a long way off, but I have an idea.
~~
After leaving Yanshoufang, it was already afternoon.
The two drove their horses back to Xue's house in Changshoufang, when they saw a luxurious carriage parked at the door, it was Mrs. Guo who wanted to see Xue Bai.
Xue Bai had expected it a long time ago, and this time he brought Qing Lan with him.
……
"This is your personal maid?" Yang Yuyao likes beauties, and when she saw Qing Lan, she looked at her carefully for a while, and said in surprise, "Haven't you opened your face yet?"
"Yes."
After Qinglan heard this, she wished she could bury her face in her collar. Yang Yuyao felt it was funny, and said to Xue Bai, "Don't say it's because of me if you don't touch her."
"In order to concentrate on my studies." Xue Bai said: "She is the granddaughter of Huangfu Deyi's natal family, so some people accused her and me of being Li Ying's remnants and colluding with each other."
"Yes, yes, it's amazing to devote yourself to an official career." Yang Yuyao covered her mouth and smiled, and spat: "You monster, you want to use me again."
"It's not about taking advantage of her. I want to give her some credit so that she can be redeemed. I've entrusted Wang Zhongsi with this matter. I'm worried that someone will make a fuss about it in the future, so I'll just tell you first."
"This little maid, Sansheng is lucky to meet such a master... Mingzhu, you take her to play, eat some pastries, and cut some new clothes."
"Yes."
When the maidservants retreated, Yang Yuyao picked up a cherry, threw it gently on Xue Bai's neck, and spat: "I haven't come for many days, so I climbed up to Princess Yuzhen, and I won't be needed in the future." .”
"Want to know why I am like this?"
"Come here." Yang Yuyao raised her foot and hooked Xue Bai.
"Princess Xianyi pointed out that I am Xue Ruo's concubine. I don't know if it is true or not, but if I am framed again, I will definitely die. Prepare more means of self-protection..."
"Don't be afraid, sister will protect you."
After hearing this, Yang Yuyao bowed her head and bit off the cherry she just threw from Xue Bai's neck.
"I want to subdue the demon."
"Can you hold it down?"
Xue Bai made a move, forcing Yang Yuyao, with a look of mocking her for not being strong enough in his eyes.
Not to be outdone, she snorted softly.
"I have a magic spell to hold you tight..."
(End of this chapter)
In the evening, the cool breeze enters the temple.
When Li Longji woke up, his old eyes were half-opened, and he was lazily leaning there listening to Gao Lishi's story about Chang'an.
"Xue Bai is narrow-minded. During Liu Ji's case, the right minister wronged him once. After that, everything this kid did, he seemed to yell at the right minister, 'resent me again'. Gou', who never gets tired of listening to it?"
"Ah."
Just listening to the results, Li Longji still felt tedious.
There was a "Han Yu" incident before, and it happened again today, he didn't have the patience to listen to the details.
"Wang Zhongsi 'constructed' Xue Bai with an 'unknown origin', but he was willing to attack Shibao City, saying that the weapons given by the saints might be useful, let him figure out a way."
"Are you willing to fight?"
Li Longji raised his hand, and Ren Gaolishi set him up, with an unfathomable expression, making it impossible to know what he was thinking.
Gao Lishi said: "Willing to fight, the whole court said that he 'disobeyed the holy order', 'benevolent to his subordinates' and 'raised his own self-respect', but when he heard that there was a way, he ignored the rules and went directly to the outskirts of the city to build privately. Arms' gone."
"He regards strategy as more important than my will!" Li Longji still cursed.
But the word "strategy" came into his ears, and Gao Lishi knew that the saint's anger towards Wang Zhongsi had subsided a lot.
Not to fight Shibao City from strategic considerations, and not wanting to fight because of some kind of selfishness are completely different things.It is only a matter of the life of the important general on the frontier, and it is only in the sage's thought.
"After all, he is a child raised by a sage. How can a sage not understand his temper?"
"General Gao, you are helping people speak well again."
"The old slave must be the heir of 'Jiaogu' Wang Zhong."
"Hahaha."
Li Longji hadn't fully woken up yet, so he shook his head, wondering if he would invite the imperial concubine to perform in the Liyuan today, or go boating with Concubine Mei, or invite the two nieces of the Zhang family to play cards in the palace?
Zhang Ting's eldest sister, Zhang Si, is also very good at poker.
While waking up, Gao Lishi had already handed over several scrolls.
"Saint, General Chen brought it back."
"Hmm." Li Longji was used to reading stories to refresh himself, and murmured, "We're going to Gao Laozhuang."
As if remembering it, Gao Lishi reminded: "Saint, the right minister is still waiting."
Li Longji seemed to have never heard of it, and at the end, he put away the scroll.
"The rhetoric is too rough, and it has not been polished. Send it back and rewrite it."
"Here."
"Doing things like making a fuss, rushing to report with rough and inferior results, are you fooling me?" Li Longji was slightly dissatisfied, "Let me go back and do my job well."
~~
"Why didn't Grandpa explain clearly to the saint that this matter has nothing to do with Grandpa at all."
"Explanation? The truth is that the prime minister of a country has been humiliated by a prince again and again. Could it be that the sage wants to listen to the prime minister's words, 'Your Majesty, the old minister was tricked by that stinky child, and the old minister is so wronged'. This is what you want me to do." Do you have an explanation?!"
"But this matter, grandpa obviously didn't fall for it..."
"Snapped!"
"How dare you talk too much."
Li Lin Fulin raised his hand and slapped Li Xiu.
"Trash! As a general and the right school supervisor, you don't know how to discipline your subordinates, but you discipline me instead?"
"I don't dare." Li Xiudang fell to his knees, at a loss, "I don't know..."
"check!"
Li Linfu scolded angrily: "If you don't know, why don't you check it out? With this old man, will you feed me for the rest of your life?!"
"Snapped!"
Li Xiu raised her hand and slapped herself, then ran out in a panic.
In fact, this matter has nothing to do with him, it is nothing more than just rushing to Grandpa's anger. There are 2 people including the general supervisor and craftsmen, and he doesn't know Xiao Fangzhi at all...
~~
It's night, the prison of the Ministry of punishment.
As the iron chains rattled, Xiao Fangzhi was tied to the torture rack, with a look of shock and disbelief on his face.
"Gentlemen, did you make a mistake? I was the one who exposed Wang Zhongsi and Xue Bai's private military weapons. They were good at manufacturing heavy artillery in the capital. Charge me?!"
Let him shout for a long time, but no one answered.
Until someone outside the torture chamber started a conversation.
"The officials of the Ministry of Punishments also know how to execute punishments? It's still me."
"I have long admired Duke Luo's name."
"Come here, bring my 'Donkey Pout' here."
Xiao Fangzhi looked around, and when he saw a shadowy man in a light green official robe coming in, the hairs all over his body stood on end in an instant.
Because he knew who the person in front of him was, Luo Xishi, Luo Jia.
Standing behind Luo Tong were three purple-robed officials who came to the execution room to watch the execution.
"No, no, you have no crime against me!"
"Xiao Fangzhi, who ordered you to frame the general of Bianzhen?!"
Luo Xishi hasn't started yet, he is still beckoning people to move things.
Xiao Fangzhi couldn't take it any longer, he said tremblingly: "Luo Yushi, my own person, the right minister asked me to do it, it was really the right minister's order..."
"How dare you quibble now?"
"Really! Really! It was the censor like you who ordered me to do it..."
"It doesn't matter." Luo Xixi smiled, "At first I was stubborn, I have plenty of time to ask you slowly."
"..."
There was a scream, and even the torches on the wall shook.
~~
Xue Bai has returned to the courtyard of Changshoufang.
Qing Lan knew that he was afraid of mosquitoes, so he took a lot of wormwood and fumigated the house as soon as he came back, so he slept very soundly that night.
It seemed to be a dream, dreaming that he had inserted a lot of fishing rods on the shore, the first one was empty when pulled up, and an unknown person was hanging on the second hook, it was miserable.
When the third rod was pulled, Princess Xianyi was caught. She cried very sadly and said that she could be punished in any way. Xue Bai took a closer look, but found that she was a mermaid with a human body and a fish tail...
What a strange dream.
"Lang Jun, are you dreaming?"
Xue Bai opened his eyes, only to see Qing Lan squatting beside his couch.
The weather in late April was hot and dry, and her spring shirt was not tied high, making her look very young.
"Ah."
"Are you going to the teacher's house today?"
"Anyway, I got up late, and I will go to the county government to find a teacher later."
Xue Bai turned over, Qing Lan looked at him, and felt that his bed was very comfortable.
After lying on the bed for a while, and waiting for everything to be tidied up, Xue Bai was practicing kung fu in the corridor, only then did he vaguely hear someone knocking on the door from the inner courtyard.
I walked around the bamboo garden and opened the door, only to see Xue Shishilang standing there, sweating profusely as he knocked on the door.
"I'm so tired, Brother Six, why don't you put a knocker on the courtyard gate?"
……
Xue's house, the lobby in the front yard.
Liu Xiangjun and Du Wulang are entertaining guests.
It was a guard soldier under Wang Zhongsi's command named Guan Chongsi.
"Don't worry, the general didn't send the greeting card first, I take the liberty to come to the door, it doesn't hurt to wait a while."
Guan Chongsi was really willing to wait, but Xue Xin was staring at him all the time, which made him a little uncomfortable.
"General Guan, how tall are you?"
"Don't call me General, just call me 'Chongsi'. I respect General Wang, so I changed this name. My height is seven feet two inches."
"It's really tall, has the general ever killed an enemy on the battlefield?"
"There are nine thieves' heads in the account."
"Wow." Xue Xin asked again: "Can I compete with the general?"
Unable to stand this talkative child, Xue Bai came, Guan Chongsi hurriedly stood up, and respectfully said: "I met Xue Lang, General Wang would like to invite you to see him."
This attitude was not for anything else, but because he knew that if the boulder cannon could reduce the number of deaths in the Helong Army, it would be his comrades, or even himself, who would save their lives.
"We have seen that the general and General Wang have been to Fenggu prison and measured the distance of the stone throwing. I remember that the general's name should be Guan Chongsi?"
"It's a great honor for Xue Lang to remember the villain." Guan Chongsi was overjoyed.
"Let's go."
"Please, Xue Lang."
Du Wulang got up early on purpose, combed his hair carefully, and changed into new clothes. He had something to say to Xue Bai, but he didn't expect to meet, but Xue Bai was invited away.
He had no choice but to follow.
~~
Yanshoufang, Wang Zhongsi's residence.
The courtyard is very large and looks quite empty, with arrow stacks erected in the front yard.Two wrestlers were wrestling in sumo with only their trouser pockets on, and a group of military men were yelling and watching.
Guan Chongsi led Xue Bai and Du Wulang all the way in, passed through the square and simple layout of the double courtyard, and went straight to the lobby.
"General, Xue Lang is here."
Wang Zhongsi was standing in front of a simple sand table, when he saw the visitor, he just nodded his head as a signal, and went straight to the business.
"Let's take a look at the terrain of Stone Castle City. Let's talk about how to use the boulder cannon."
Xue Bai stepped forward and saw that the sand table was made of mud embryos, and it was more intuitive than the map to see the steepness of Shibao City.
There is also a large map next to it, which shows the surrounding terrain. There is also a poem inscribed on the map, "Whoever opens the gate of the stone city will make it worse when the wind falls. The white mountain in Jietian wins the golden soup, and suppresses the half wall of the southwestern sky."
Wang Zhongsi picked up a few small wooden frames and placed them in front of the sand table.
"If you can't throw two or three hundred catties of boulders onto Shibao City, can you do it with twenty or thirty catties?"
Throwing something of this weight would not be powerful enough, Xue Bai thought for a while and asked, "General, do you want to attack with fire?"
Wang Zhongsi didn't answer, but asked instead: "What do you think?"
"I've read in books that when the people of Qin cultivated the five-foot road, there was a method of 'accumulating firewood and burning rocks', which could make the rocks burn red and burst when cold. But I don't know what the terrain of Shibao City is like?"
The reason why Xue Bai built the giant stone cannon was because he had a little understanding of the history of the Song and Yuan Dynasties. He knew that the Mongolian army liked to throw fireballs from artillery carts and burn the city walls with corpse oil.
Wang Zhongsi nodded, and replied: "It's called 'Stone Fort City', so it must be fortified."
"What does the general want to use to make a fireball?"
"Fat, what about you? What do you think?"
Xue Bai muttered: "The burning of rocks requires a strong fire for a long time. You can use stone resin water, also called stone varnish. I have seen it in Xishi. It is used for lighting lamps and making inkstones."
Wang Zhongsi ordered Guan Chongsi to buy stone paint and come back.
He demonstrated on the sand table and told Xue Bai what kind of gun car he needed.
When Guan Chongsi came back from buying the stone grease, Xue Bai sniffed it, and a pungent smell hit his nostrils.
Wang Zhongsi actually moved a stone directly into the courtyard, poured stone paint on it, tapped the fire, and a raging fire ignited on the ground with a "boom".
Du Wulang was startled, he felt the hot air rushing towards his face, he saw that black smoke had smoked the yard into a mess, and the scene was very frightening.
"Ah... this is my home..."
Wang Zhongsi didn't seem to notice, let the fire rage, and continued talking with Xue Bai.
"This time Xue Lang took action to save me. I understand it and remember it in my heart. It's a pity that the military situation is urgent and I can't stay in Chang'an for a long time. I will look for repayment after taking Shibao City."
"General Wang is too polite." Xue Bai did not politely say anything to him, "It is my honor to be able to contribute, and I also have selfish intentions. I only hope that General Wang will not forget my request when he repays his credit."
"Okay, be frank." Wang Zhongsi said: "If you can't be a Jinshi, you can practice under my curtain, and I will recommend you as an official."
"Thank you, General. If Chun Wei can't ascend to the throne, he will go to the General's family."
Wang Zhongsi has been in the border town for a long time, and he is used to speaking freely, but he is not without restraint, he said with a smile: "Of course, with Xue Lang's talent, he must be able to reach the top."
"Thank you General for your kind words." Xue Bai said, "By the way, there is one more matter. I wonder if I can invite General..."
"But it doesn't matter."
"Xiao Fangzhi, the chief supervisor, reported us for privately manufacturing weapons. Regardless of the purpose, he did not really hurt us. I heard that he has been sent to the prison of the Ministry of Punishment, but his family is innocent, and his son once had an affair with his sister-in-law. engagement……"
"Okay!" Wang Zhongsi waved his hands and said, "I will protect the Xiao family."
"Thank you."
"You don't have to thank me. You are magnificent and have a broad layout. Is it possible for me to be petty? There is a fighting cock in the imperial court. In recent years, I can't get used to it."
For Xue Bai, this is not a big deal.
He knew that Donggong must be the one who would silence Xiao Fang, so he asked Wang Zhongsi to protect his innocence, to see if he and Li Heng were of the same mind in everything.
……
The fire wrapped around the stone and made a "crackling" sound. Wang Zhongsi himself carried a bucket of water and stood aside waiting. He was like a stone.
When the time was almost up, he poured a bucket of water down, and the heated stone suddenly caught cold and exploded with a "bang".
"Stone lacquer can be used." Wang Zhongsi said, "Stone Fort City is hot in the day and cold in the night, this method may be feasible."
After discussing it well, he invited the craftsman Anbo Boy to make military weapons according to this method, and Xue Bai just left.
~~
After leaving the palace, Du Wulang breathed a sigh of relief, feeling suffocated by the pressure of killing.
He was a little regretful that he couldn't speak to Wang Zhongsi, not even to see him.
But if you want to come to the four towns and envoys to be busy with important border affairs, how can you have the leisure to think of yourself as a young man?Instead, he felt that the other party was amazing.
"The general is indeed a general, and he is different from the people in Chang'an City."
"Ah."
"By the way, you also know about me, right?" Du Wulang said, "Sanniang and I...that..."
Xue Bai said: "Look at Sanniang's wishes, if she is willing to marry you, we can discuss marriage after you are appointed by Chunwei."
"real?!"
"It doesn't matter what I say, ask your grandfather, ask Liu Niang."
"Hey, why do you keep calling your aunt 'Liu Niang'? What a blessing." Du Wulang said: "I have to coax her for you every time, so that she doesn't get bored in her heart."
Xue Bai was too lazy to talk to Du Wulang.
Now that his talent and reputation are gradually accumulating, even Li Linfu dare not frame him easily again. Then when he is appointed as an official and his contacts are spread out... In short, with enough strength, he may become Xue Pingzhao and seek for Hedong County. Duke's title.
He doesn't care if it's true or not, anyway, it's impossible to respect someone as a real father and mother.The important thing is whether you can accept this identity.
It's still a long way off, but I have an idea.
~~
After leaving Yanshoufang, it was already afternoon.
The two drove their horses back to Xue's house in Changshoufang, when they saw a luxurious carriage parked at the door, it was Mrs. Guo who wanted to see Xue Bai.
Xue Bai had expected it a long time ago, and this time he brought Qing Lan with him.
……
"This is your personal maid?" Yang Yuyao likes beauties, and when she saw Qing Lan, she looked at her carefully for a while, and said in surprise, "Haven't you opened your face yet?"
"Yes."
After Qinglan heard this, she wished she could bury her face in her collar. Yang Yuyao felt it was funny, and said to Xue Bai, "Don't say it's because of me if you don't touch her."
"In order to concentrate on my studies." Xue Bai said: "She is the granddaughter of Huangfu Deyi's natal family, so some people accused her and me of being Li Ying's remnants and colluding with each other."
"Yes, yes, it's amazing to devote yourself to an official career." Yang Yuyao covered her mouth and smiled, and spat: "You monster, you want to use me again."
"It's not about taking advantage of her. I want to give her some credit so that she can be redeemed. I've entrusted Wang Zhongsi with this matter. I'm worried that someone will make a fuss about it in the future, so I'll just tell you first."
"This little maid, Sansheng is lucky to meet such a master... Mingzhu, you take her to play, eat some pastries, and cut some new clothes."
"Yes."
When the maidservants retreated, Yang Yuyao picked up a cherry, threw it gently on Xue Bai's neck, and spat: "I haven't come for many days, so I climbed up to Princess Yuzhen, and I won't be needed in the future." .”
"Want to know why I am like this?"
"Come here." Yang Yuyao raised her foot and hooked Xue Bai.
"Princess Xianyi pointed out that I am Xue Ruo's concubine. I don't know if it is true or not, but if I am framed again, I will definitely die. Prepare more means of self-protection..."
"Don't be afraid, sister will protect you."
After hearing this, Yang Yuyao bowed her head and bit off the cherry she just threw from Xue Bai's neck.
"I want to subdue the demon."
"Can you hold it down?"
Xue Bai made a move, forcing Yang Yuyao, with a look of mocking her for not being strong enough in his eyes.
Not to be outdone, she snorted softly.
"I have a magic spell to hold you tight..."
(End of this chapter)
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