Chapter 40: The Way to Live
Ji Yang almost fainted on the spot, now food is life! Each one is precious and must not be burned in vain.
"Quick! You take them to the king, and I will bring them to put out the fire. Ji Yang commanded the chief of the guard, ordered someone to open the palace gate, and rushed out with a bunch of people.
Shi Tianbao and Shi Tianbiao are also full of confusion, why is the third child so unreliable. At this time, the granary was burned, that is, the two brothers were burned. It's strange that Ji Dan, who takes food as his life, doesn't dismantle them.
The third child is also full of muddy now, and he did not give the order to burn the granary. How did these monkeys set the granary on fire?
It turned out that the Shi brothers did not have the slightest suspicion of Ji Dan, and they did not expect that Ji Dan, who had always treated their brother as a guest, would arrest them. But the third child accidentally discovered that the guy who fed the monkeys was actually mixing poison into the monkeys' food. This made the third child very angry, and at first he only thought it was just this guy's personal behavior.
But after some torture, this guy actually said that Ji Yang asked them to do this. The three brothers immediately became suspicious, but it was not good to offend Ji Dan in Ji City. I had to think of the eldest and second to go first, and the retinue with a similar figure to the third child pretended to be the third.
Blame the third child for being a little anxious, and first let these monkeys out and ambush them on the top of the granary. But he forgot that the food of these monkeys was poisoned. In the morning, when they had not eaten, the monkeys saw the grain in the granary. Immediately forgetting his mission, he slipped in with the oil and slipped in through the vent at the top of the granary.
One monkey accidentally dropped the fire fold on his back into the grain pile, and the fire fold happened to ignite the fire oil on the other monkey.
The monkey was burned and jumped. The space in the granary is small, and the other monkeys can't avoid it. was affected by this monkey and turned into a fire monkey. One of the fire monkeys, relatively close to the exit. He actually ran into another granary with fire all over his body.
In this way, there are more and more monkeys running around with fire on their bodies. Naturally, the fire became more and more difficult to control, and every monkey jumping around was a qualified arsonist.
When Ji Yang arrived with his people, many of the grain stacks had been burned to black charcoal. The billowing smoke made people unable to open their eyes, and the smell of burnt grain wafted over, making people's hearts hurt like pins and needles. These are life-saving foods! One more bite might be enough to live a person's life.
The monkeys had been wiped out by this time, except for piles of charred corpses still billowing green smoke. Ji Yang really wanted to cry without tears when he looked at such a scene, the Xicheng granary was the largest granary in the city. It contained one-third of the city's grain, and at least half of it was burned.
More than half of this food can be enough for how many people to eat! Ji Yang stomped on the charred monkey brain. The little monkey brain turned into powder in an instant. A puff of black smoke billowed.
The third child is the most clever. When I saw this monkey, I didn't know why I started setting fires. knows that the eldest and second are absolutely immune, and the thirty-six plans are the best ones.
The guards of the West Gate were dividing their troops and sending their men to the granary to put out the fire. The third child took the opportunity to touch the edge of the wooden fence blocking the city gate. If this wooden fence is the eldest and second, it must be unpassable. But the figure of the third child is unbearable.
The little head arched. He got through the gap in the wooden fence. The soldiers around him didn't react. The thin monkey-like body also quickly drilled over.
Except for the third child in the city, he ran desperately. A few feathered arrows shot from behind him. Didn't even shoot this diminutive guy.
After a frenzied run, he finally escaped the range of the crossbow. The third child didn't dare to rest, so he ran a few steps and plunged into the deep trench dug by Yunxiao.
Yun Xiao was at the door of the tent admiring the black smoke rising from the city. Suddenly, the bear came over. The guard behind him carried a guy who looked like a monkey, and his hands were tightly wrapped in wire ropes. Both thumbs were strangled with steel wire, and they were bloodless.
"What is this man doing?" Yun Xiao asked with a frown. If all cats and dogs were pulled in front of him, there would be nearly 300,000 people in the city. I don't have to do anything else, I can be tired of meeting refugees half to death.
"Master Hou, this guy calls himself the third elder of the Shi family. It is said that there is an ancestral beast taming craft to be dedicated to the Hou Ye. Little Bear smiled and reported to Yun Xiao.
"The third elder of the Shi family? Is it the third member of the Shi family who can tame beasts? Yun Xiao couldn't help but look at the unattractive guy in front of him. This is one of the murderers who drove the beast to help Ji Dan kill Xiaohu. He really should tell him the allusion of throwing himself into the net.
"Yes, I am the third child of the Shi family. The beast taming craft passed down by the villain's family, the villain is especially good at domesticating monkeys. The granary in the city was burned down by monkeys domesticated by villains. "Contrary to Yun Xiao's expectations, this guy actually knows Chinese. This saves a lot of trouble.
"Oh, as far as I know, you still have the eldest and the second in your family. Where did the two brothers go? ”
"Back to the words of the Hou Ye, Ji Dan and they lost their conscience. If you want to kill our brothers, the villain's two brothers are afraid that they have been poisoned at this time. The villain was furious, and set fire to the granary of Xicheng. For the sake of the villain's size, take in the villain! The villain wants to avenge his two brothers. ”
"I've heard about the people who attacked my house some time ago. Your brothers have played a great role in this. Why should I take you in? ”
"Master Hou, you can't listen to those people's nonsense. We were all forced to do it by Ji Dan, and his meticulous work found out that there are many ploughing cattle in your house. He started the idea of ploughing these cattle, and our brother was really forced by Ji Dan to be the enemy of the Han army. Ask the Hou Ye to learn from it! ”
The third child knelt on the ground, and the wet kowtow was a little funny.
"Little Bear, take it down. Feed him something to eat, and shackle him too. There are many such people who have strange skills, and there is no harm in adding insurance. It is believed that it will not be long before he will meet his two older brothers. When the time comes, let them explain to Xiaohu by themselves. ”
Yun Xiao's mind quickly linked the third child with the swallow Li San. I'm afraid that this kid will be able to shrink his bones and put on the kind of shackles he saw in prison in later generations. These shackles have a bar in the middle that can be caught in the prisoner's ankle bone. Even if Yanzi Li San is reborn, I am afraid he will not be able to break free from such shackles.
"No" Xiaoxiong glanced at the third child happily, and was about to leave.
"Little Bear, I'm going to keep him alive. Why don't you care about him and me, don't let him die, don't hear it? ”
"No, Master Hou. Rest assured, it's not that easy to die of a great cripple. If you don't cut out his heart and dig out his liver, how can you be worthy of my dead brother. ”
After Xiao Xiong finished speaking, he carried the third child into a camp tent, and after a while, a terrible scream sounded in the camp.
Ji Yang returned to the palace in a huff, and Ji Dan sat on the throne silently. In just a few days, there were already gray hairs on his temples.
"I know everything, take the Shi brothers and those relics of the Han army to ask Yunhou to surrender! Sue him, I, Ji Dan, want to kill and dispose of him. It's just that the people of Jicheng are innocent, and I hope he will let the people in the city go. When I die, my brother will be king. Remember, don't avenge me. This qiē is all my own fault. Ji Dan's tone seemed to be preparing for the future.
"The king ......" Ji Yang knelt down in front of Ji Dan and wept bitterly. He knew that in fact, Ji Dan forcibly seized these cultivated cattle so that the people of Jicheng could have more cultivated cattle to use. Increasing grain production unexpectedly led to a monstrous disaster.
"Go ahead! Now that the granary of Xicheng has been burned, this Jicheng will be even more difficult to defend. In fact, the Han army could have attacked the city a long time ago, and the gates of Jicheng were opened on all sides. Those wooden fences were a joke in front of something that would explode. I know what the Han Hou has in mind, he wants to trap us here alive.
I knew from the time he drove the Benhan people into the city that he was going to run out of food and watch us starve to death trapped in the city. My brother, think of the people who are starving and cold. Go ahead! Go and please come down. I hope he can be merciful and give these people a way to live. (To be continued......)