The cook placed the rice in Zhou Qing's hand, saying, "General, look! This is rice that Lord Snake Immortal put in our granary."
Zhou Qing smiled as he looked at the white rice. "This general will also go and take a look." With that, he strode towards the granary with the rice in his hand.
Their granary was improved based on Liu Sisi's suggestions, hence the name "granary"; it used to be called a grain warehouse.
Hearing the commotion outside, Liu Siping and Liu Si'an picked up their clothes, put them on, and went outside.
They knew that the snake spirit was attached to their sister, and since she had said so, she must be. Nevertheless, they still came to join in the fun.
When Zhou Qing arrived at the grain depot, he was shocked to see that it was overflowing with rice.
However, he still tried to remain calm and said, "Someone, quickly clean up this overflowing rice and cook it. We can't let it go to waste."
It was still difficult to preserve the rice if it was just left like that, so he sent some people to a nearby city to buy rice bags and pack the rice into neat stacks.
In no time, the granary was surrounded by people, who were discussing how the granary had indeed been filled overnight, just as Princess Anning had said.
"Princess Anning is amazing! How did she know that the Snake Fairy would help us?"
"I heard that Princess Anning is a snake fairy who descended to earth to help our Heavenly Dragon Kingdom."
"Yes, I've heard stories about the Snake Immortal helping the people back in my hometown. Maybe it was the princess who helped them!"
Amidst the murmurs of the crowd, Liu Sisi appeared behind them.
"Aren't you all hungry yet? We have rice, why aren't you cooking? What's with the chatter?"
The cooks snapped out of their excitement upon hearing Liu Sisi's voice, and then several of them grabbed large basins and went to cook rice.
Zhou Qing then pulled Wang Zheng and a group of generals to the altar where the Liu Siping brothers had knelt the day before, and knelt down as well.
"Thank you, Lord Serpent Immortal. With this food, we will surely be able to hold out until we drive out the Jin Liao Kingdom."
After he finished speaking, everyone kowtowed, showing the utmost sincerity.
Immediately afterwards, although the soldiers couldn't squeeze to the front of the offering table, they knelt down and kowtowed to express their gratitude and respect to the Serpent Immortal.
After everyone had finished their greetings, they all bowed to Liu Sisi again.
To make things easier for them in the future, Liu Sisi told Zhou Qing that she had encountered the Snake Immortal before, so she had some special abilities, and that they should not be surprised by anything that happened in the future.
Zhou Qing nodded to indicate that she understood, and then they all prepared to eat.
Everyone ate their fill at the meal, because there was plenty of food, and they wouldn't have to worry about food anymore.
With the food issue resolved, Liu Sisi inquired about the current battle situation.
After several days of fighting, the Jin-Liao Kingdom had only 170,000 people left, while the Tianlong Kingdom still had 156,000.
"Hmph, you want to burn their grain, huh! Anyone can do that!" Liu Sisi planned to sneak into their granary tonight and burn all their grain as well.
Now that everyone is well-fed, they should also get some exercise, right?
This time, Zhou Qing led Liu Siping and Liu Si'an out to launch a proactive attack. (Because Liu Sisi gave Liu Siping water from the Bagua River, Liu Siping's injuries healed quickly.) They killed many soldiers of the Jin-Liao Kingdom, and their general was almost captured by Liu Si'an.
However, he still managed to escape and was rescued by Jin Hen and brought back to the military camp.
At midnight, Liu Sisi, dressed in black, quietly crept to the vicinity of the Jin-Liao Kingdom's military camp. Because she did not know the exact location of their granary, she could not go directly to the granary to burn the grain.
She first knocked one of them unconscious and changed into their soldiers' clothes, then took out a jar of poisonous insects from her spatial storage and placed it on the ground.
She took out several packets of sleeping powder and secretly sprinkled them on the people guarding outside several tents. She moved extremely fast, and many people collapsed to the ground before they could even react.
Within the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, someone screamed inside the tent. When they came out, they found so many people had fainted.
Jiang Ping immediately sensed something was wrong. He quickly led a few people to check the granary. When they arrived and found that the grain was fine, they were relieved and went to deal with the poisonous insects.
Little did he know that his actions inadvertently provided Liu Sisi with a location, as she was just wondering where the granary was! She then saw him leading his men in a hurried manner in one direction.
After Liu Sisi followed behind and spotted the location of the granary, she hid behind a tent, quickly drew a circle, and slipped inside.
Seeing the full granary, Liu Sisi decided not to burn it. She raised her hand and put it all back into her spatial storage. If she ran out, she could leave it for her soldiers. Burning it would be such a waste!
They then went to the nearby hay storage area and collected all the hay there, ensuring the warhorses had enough to eat.
After succeeding, Liu Sisi went back to her room and fell fast asleep.
Almost no one in the Jin-Liao Kingdom was able to sleep tonight.
Those poisonous insects are truly terrifying. People lying unconscious on the ground will soon be bitten by them, their bodies turning purple and turning black, and they will die from poisoning.
Those poisonous insects are very small, and some people die from being bitten without realizing it.
However, if they bite people too many times, they will die themselves.
Liu Sisi didn't expect them to kill all the Jin-Liao soldiers, since there weren't many of these poisonous insects, and they were difficult to cultivate.
It took Luo Bin several years to achieve this effect.
At this point, many of them were in complete chaos. In the end, it was Jin Hen who took action and killed many poisonous insects, which stabilized the situation.
Jin Hen knew a little about poison making, but not much. He only managed to kill some of the poisonous insects by using the poison darts in his spear.
The rest died from biting too much.
The following day, Liu Sisi suggested to Zhou Qing that they launch another offensive and annihilate the Jin-Liao Kingdom in one fell swoop.
Zhou Qing looked at Liu Sisi in surprise. Annihilate? He had never dared to think that way. He had only thought that if they drove the Jin-Liao Kingdom away, they would have won a victory.
Is annihilation really that simple?
"Princess, it will be very difficult to annihilate them. We can drive them away as soon as possible."
Only Liu Sisi knew that they were out of food and wouldn't last much longer. But if they went back and rested for a while, they would come back to attack Tianlong Kingdom again.
The only solution is to annihilate their entire army, to give them a shock, and to eliminate any future threat.
"General, I am willing to personally lead troops to the battlefield to kill the enemy. Give me some time and I will definitely annihilate the barbarians of the Jin-Liao Kingdom."
Liu Sisi's voice reached everyone's ears, and everyone looked at her with a variety of emotions.
Some people thought she was overestimating herself, while others thought her voice was very inspiring.
Zhou Qing wanted to say something like, "The battlefield is too dangerous for the princess to go to."
But considering Liu Sisi's past achievements, he ultimately couldn't bring himself to ask.
He used to subconsciously think that women were inferior to men and needed protection, but what did their Princess Anning do that they, these self-righteous men, couldn't do?
In the end, he only said, "Your Majesty, I await the arrival of the soldiers to sound the horn of victory."
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