As we talked and walked, in less than an hour, the village we saw yesterday appeared in front of us. I wanted to say something to Qinghua, but thinking that Liujiao was beside me, I didn’t ask her.
Yesterday, Qinghua and I had seen this village. Qinghua clearly said it was not here, so she and I crossed here and went to the place where we spent the night before.
I looked at Qinghua. She lowered her head, as if someone had read her mind, and didn't say a word.
Qinghua met her family. There was only one old man in her family, who was hunched over and drying grass in front of the house. There were four or five fat and strong horses tied in the shed next to them, eating grass in the trough.
He was a little surprised by the appearance of his daughter. There was no fancy dress as he had imagined. Qinghua only had an incomplete miniskirt, but joy immediately appeared on his face.
Liujiao and I said goodbye to the father and daughter and went out, standing on the dirt road outside the village in a daze.
"Honey, where are we going?" she asked me. There were two roads in front of us. One was to go to the south, find Tian Wang, and join our large group of people. The other was to return to Rohatz City and continue with Bai.
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"Let's go south"
The matter is obvious. The matter between Rokkaku and I in Rohatz City got serious. Baijing’s palace was burned down. Baijing must have stepped up his guard. He was still debating whether he could get in or not. Rokkajia immediately agreed with my decision.
"Going to the south, I want to see what the south is like, and I also miss Xiaoyue and the other sisters."
We walked south again along the road. The legendary south is unknown how far away it is. The mountain road is vast and green, submerged in the pale white mountains in the distance.
Just as we set out on the road, we heard the clatter of horse hooves coming from the south road. We could tell it was a team of horses. After a while, the excitement at the end of the road was dispersed by the team of horses. There was a car following behind, and the driver sat on the shaft of the car and kept stopping.
whip waving
I pulled the hexagon and we hid behind the bushes
What came was a dozen cavalrymen from White Wattle. Each of their faces looked tired after running for a long time. The horses were also covered in dirt. The driver was a local. The horses were dripping with sweat and their muscles were trembling.
They saw the village in front of them on a high slope. One person said, "Boss, I'm so tired. There's a village in front of me. Why don't we go find someone's house to drink water and take a rest?"
A man riding a red horse thought for a while, "That's fine, but this place is far away from the royal city, and the people are fierce. We have to be careful." He pointed to the car, "This escort is no small matter, we can't take it lightly."
Everyone responded, protected the carriage, and rumbled towards the village.
Liujiao was lying behind the bushes, and she hugged me with her shoulders, "Husband, what did you say..." her eyes were bright
"Do you need to say more? Go back to the village!"
The visitor happened to like Qinghua's home because her home was located at the head of the village, close to the main road.
Several people shouted, "Old man, hey! Bring some water, get some food, brush our horses and have a drink."
Qinghua's father quickly followed their instructions. At this time, the leader saw Qinghua. She had already put on a complete skirt.
"Isn't this the blue and white girl? Why are you here?"
"Oh, I asked for leave from General Bai and went home to see my dad," Qinghua said lightly.
"Why didn't you tell me earlier!" The attitude of the leader immediately changed, and he yelled at the people in charge, "Are you all uncles? I can't see the blue and white girl here! The horse will run by itself, and the food will be done by yourself, don't ask for anything
Everything is troublesome to the old lady!"
Qinghua is a well-known maid in Bai Jing's harem. She is said to be a maid, but in fact she is no different from the empress. It is already difficult for these people in front of them to see Qinghua, so how can they dare to bother her?
The leader said, "Miss Qinghua, otherwise we would be embarrassed to find another one."
Qinghua did not comment, but said, "No need, now that we are at home, there is no need to trouble others."
There are still a few houses in Qinghua's family. Because they are in Qinghua's house, these people drove their cars into the yard and went to the house to enjoy the coolness. They drank water and fanned themselves. Qinghua's father took care of them on both sides.
Qinghua said, "Dad, you are here, I will get some wine for the military masters." He picked up a big wine gourd and walked out.
The leader said, "No need to bother," but did not stop him.
"Why are you back?" Qinghua asked us outside.
I pointed to the cars in the yard, and she understood, "Here are the adult sea spiders. They are collected once every May and transported back to Rochaz City in special iron boxes. They are carefully guarded."
This discovery suited me just fine. "Find a way to introduce us to them," I said.
When we came back, Liujiao and I became Qinghua's cousin and cousin-in-law. We met at the entrance of the village.
While the sergeants were drinking, they looked at Liujiao out of the corner of their eyes. Some of them simply looked at her body, wanting to take off her clothes with their eyes. I pretended not to see it and talked to them.
"Sir, if you mobilize troops like this, don't you know what valuable things you are transporting? Are they pearls?"
"Brother, to be honest... you are not considered an outsider. This is the lifeblood of our General Bai. Miss Qinghua knows that. You can ask Miss Qinghua to explain it to you."
Qinghua said, "General, you are looking up to me. I am just a maid serving General Bai. How can I know so much? My cousin is very curious, so just tell him."
The man in the lead just had an opportunity to win over Qinghua, the popular person next to Baijing, and he was drinking at the right time, so he started talking to me while drinking.
No need to torture, no coercion or inducement, just tell them all
The sea spider looks like a spider or a crab. It has the cunning and viciousness of a spider and the strong and domineering nature of a crab. The small ones are almost invisible and only the size of a mung bean. There are such large sea spiders in every window of the White Wattle Palace.
, they have a habit of immediately weaving cobwebs into any empty space they see. Their habit is perfect for the defense of the palace.
The leader said that such a window made of cobwebs could not be seen from anywhere, and uninformed people would think that there was nothing in the window frame.
Sometimes even birds are deceived and fly into the window. When they break the net, the bird is quickly poisoned and dies, but the spider web is quickly repaired by the sea spider.
I have already tested the poison of spider webs. That time I saw with my own eyes a faint poisonous blue spreading rapidly downwards from the point where the tip of the gun contacted the spider webs like water. I have no doubt about the consequences of a bird touching the spider webs.
The larger the sea spiders are, the size of corn kernels, their ability to release poison will be greater, and the webs they weave will no longer be colorless, but will emit fluorescence at night. I learned from his mouth,
The copper bead tables throughout the palace are not luminous pearls at all, but round spider webs made by sea spiders.
"This is the first time I've heard of using spider webs to make lamps. This kind of lamp should not go out?" I tried to trick him because in the palace, I clearly saw that sometimes the lamps would go out.
"Brother, you don't understand. This kind of lamp will automatically attract small insects flying in the air and fly towards the glowing spherical spider web, so that they can eat and drink!" He took a sip of wine and grabbed one.
He stuffed a chicken leg into his mouth and gnawed on it, "Adult sea spiders are just like humans. When the time comes, the spider ball will no longer glow, but the poison is still there!"
"This must be the largest sea spider?" I asked
"Let me tell you, the biggest one is this big." He raised a fist at me. "When it grows to this size, it has a layer of hard skin like a crab shell, and it's fine even if you step on it... Hehe, you
Dare to step on it!"
"Such a harmful thing, I don't know what General Bai is using him for." I seemed to be talking to myself, hoping that the other party would explain it to me.
"I won't say much more about this. This is a big plan of our General Bai."
What big plan? I don’t know what the big plan is, but I think it won’t be a good thing.
I smiled humbly at him, "General, if I can get your permission, I am ignorant and want to see General Bai's treasure. I wonder if the general is willing to open my eyes."
He looked at the blue and white flowers and thought for a moment, "It's not impossible, just for the sake of the blue and white flowers."
He waved and called out someone, stood up and walked staggering towards the carriage in the courtyard.