When Ji Han and his men traveled to the Three Kingdoms crew

Chapter 144 Jia Xu: I do this for myself

"What is Shansao? And why do we light firecrackers?"

After hearing these two questions, the smiles of the three froze. Ma Dai wanted to complain, but he saw Huang Zhong walking slowly towards him, looking at him with a smile on his face, and he immediately retracted the words that were about to come out of his mouth.

Huang Xu wanted to show off in front of Huang Zhong, but no matter how hard he thought about it, even if his face turned red, he could not remember the whole picture. He could only tell the general idea in bits and pieces, "The Book of Supernatural Powers says: There is a man in the deep mountains, his body is more than a foot long, with one foot, and his body is bare."

As for Ma Chao and Ma Dai, they even repeated Huang Xu's words incorrectly.
Sun Qian was not surprised by this result. He sighed and looked at Fa Zheng.

Fa Zheng understood what he meant and said aloud, "The Shen Yi Jing was written by Dongfang Shuo. The Shan Sao recorded in it is also called Shan Xiao or Shan Yao. It is a mountain monster, more than a foot long, and loves shrimps and crabs. It often exposes its body and runs to the creek to catch shrimps and crabs. When night falls, they take advantage of people staying in tents to cook shrimps and crabs on the campfire, and steal salt to dip them in and eat. If people encounter it, they will get a fever. If you roast bamboo on the campfire, it will produce crackling sounds. Shan Sao is afraid of this sound and will be afraid to move forward. Therefore, firecrackers have the effect of dispelling monsters."

Sun Qian nodded with satisfaction.

"it is good!"

Huang Zhong behind him laughed even more. He thought to himself, he is worthy of being the Shangshu Ling! But he left too early. He had finished reading almost everything and his physical strength was also coming up.

For some reason, Fa Zheng always felt that the gaze from Huang Zhong behind him was strange and chilling.

Fa Zheng paused and continued, "It is said in The Exploitation of the Works of Nature that salt is formed when the soil is thin near water, and saltpeter is formed when the soil is thick near mountains. It is called saltpeter because it dissolves as soon as it enters water. After investigation by Hua Changshi and the medical officers, it was found that saltpeter can be stuffed into a bamboo tube and ignited, which not only produces a loud noise, but also emits thick smoke, which has the effect of driving away evil spirits."

"what?"

Ma Dai was stunned after hearing this. He turned his head to look at Huang Xu. Huang Xu had taken out a pen and jute paper and was writing and drawing.

Ma Dai was already used to Huang Xu's eccentric personality, so he ignored it and asked directly, "Fifth brother, do you remember the teachers mentioned these things in class? Saltpeter and the like, it makes me confused just by hearing them."

"No." Huang Xu shook his head. "Fourth brother, the teachers are talking about classics and legends right now. The purpose is to let me read and write later and teach us the principles of being a human being. What Second Brother said was indeed not said."

Ma Dai let out a long sigh, "I have heard of mountain gourds, but I have never heard of saltpeter. After all, he is the Shangshu Ling, so it is normal that he is powerful. Fortunately, he didn't say anything, otherwise if my memory was wrong, how could I fight!"

"Cough cough."

Sun Qian's light cough attracted everyone's attention.

"Now you three know why, right? If you don't even understand the knowledge you are teaching, how can you have the nerve to go out with Xiaozhi? Wait until the get out of class is over!" Sun Qian turned to Fa Zheng, his attitude softened a bit, and said with a smile, "Xiaozhi, go ahead."

Hearing this, Fa Zheng was about to take a step forward and walk towards the county government, but when he looked back, he saw three pitiful gazes. His heart suddenly wavered and his feet stopped immediately. He gritted his teeth and chose to walk towards the county government.

But just as he made up his mind, Huang Zhong smiled and patted Fa Zheng and Sun Qian on the shoulders.

"Hahaha, Mr. Sun, that's enough for today!" "That's enough?!"

Sun Qian's eyes widened, and he said to Huang Zhong, "General Huang, do you know that studying is the most important thing? My lord and I have corresponded, and he often lamented that when he was young, he would go out to play and wear beautiful clothes."

Seeing that Sun Qian was about to talk again, Huang Zhong, a tough guy, couldn't help but froze in his face. He quickly took out the warrant and stuffed it into Sun Qian's arms in the blink of an eye, and his voice was raised several degrees.

"Mr. Sun, this is the Lord's order. All the people listed above are ordered to go to the county government!"

"So that's how it is." Sun Qian closed his mouth, and Huang Zhong also breathed a sigh of relief.

Ma Chao, Ma Dai and Huang Xu jumped up with joy and shouted, "Great!"

Go forward a few minutes in time.

Jia Xu sat at his desk handling government affairs while his wife adjusted the stove for him.

The wife said, "My dear, it's not time yet, why don't you sleep a little longer?"

Since Jia Xu's home was close to the county government, he rarely got up early and had to sleep enough every day. In Jia Xu's words, only by sleeping enough can he have the energy to handle government affairs. However, he became very strange since yesterday. His wife was wondering: What happened to make her husband change so much? He even only practiced the Five Animals Exercises on weekdays. After returning home, he was still thinking about government affairs. Could it be that
Facing his wife's question, Jia Xu didn't even raise his head, "I couldn't sleep, so I thought I'd just finish it. Maybe I can come back early today--"

Halfway through his speech, Jia Xu seemed to be stuck. He opened his mouth but couldn't get out a single word. He didn't even believe what he said, let alone his wife. However, his wife looked at him with gentle eyes, didn't say much, just nodded, and gently put on his coat for him.
Jia Xu clenched the jute paper in his hand. He was not a cold-hearted person. He took a deep breath, trying to inhale the cold winter wind into his lungs to calm his mind. But why was there warmth pouring into his throat?

Unconsciously, Jia Xu looked at the burning flames in the furnace. He slowly lowered his head. It was that person who changed everything.
At this time, his wife hugged Jia Xu from behind, as if giving him silent comfort in his ears.

Jia Xu closed his eyes and said slowly, "My lord, do you know? I have inquired about it. Whether it is the general, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, or Zhao Zilong, they all fainted at the same time. If it was one or two people, it would be fine, but it happened to be four people, and they fainted many times. In addition, these skills are out of thin air. And among those who came to surrender to the general, there were immortals who came to dream and called the general their lord. Therefore, there is only one answer."

"One? What is it?" asked the wife.

Jia Xu paused, and then spoke as if trying to convince himself, "I think the general must have gone to the fairyland with Guan, Zhang, and Zhao. If I help the general with all my strength, I might also go to the fairyland. Yes, yes, yes, it must be for this. I definitely didn't do it for that person, so I don't want to see the general in that state. Yes, that's absolutely true."

The wife smiled with her eyebrows curved. She had been with Jia Xu for a long time, so of course she could hear that these words were not quite true. You know, last night, Jia Xu kept scolding the village miser in his dream, saying that a dog had appeared among the tigers and wolves, and that his rare sincerity was exchanged for betrayal.
But his wife didn't say much, she just hugged Jia Xu quietly.

Until an official shouted outside the door

"Jia Gongcao Jia Gongcao, the general is awake!"

Jia Xu stumbled to his feet.

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