Chapter 53: Be a Flying
Shen Yuexi hadn't expected Xiao Zhuo to do this. The cool touch of his sleeve gently touched her face. Her heart was pounding. The distance between them was so close that they could hear each other's breathing.
She didn't know if it was because of the hot weather or the other person's gentle heat on her face, but she suddenly felt like her face was burning and didn't dare to look at Xiao Zhuo in front of her.
The two had been separated for some time and when they met again, Shen Yuexi was still a little nervous.
Xiao Zhuo glanced at the blushing Shen Yuexi with a dark look and asked her softly, "What are you going to do with all this linen?"
The voice is still as clear as before, but it makes people feel like a spring breeze bathing in it, making them feel slightly invigorated.
When Shen Yuexi was asked this question by Xiao Zhuo, she remembered that she still had a lot of things to do. She immediately stood up and said to Xiao Zhuo:
"I'm going to make a big balloon. We can ride it out of the city. If we're lucky, we might even reach the borderland."
"What's a balloon?"
A rare look of doubt appeared on Xiao Zhuo's face. Perhaps in his understanding, the strange things that came out of Shen Yuexi's mouth were unprecedented.
Shen Yuexi's eyebrows curved, and she smiled and said, "It's something that can fly into the sky, just like a wishing lantern, but it's much bigger than that."
She even gestured with her hands.
There were no balloons in ancient times, but there were wishing lanterns similar to Kongming lanterns.
After Shen Yuexi said this, Xiao Zhuo nodded in understanding. He seemed quite interested in Shen Yuexi's unexpected idea.
Xiao Zhuo's gaze towards Shen Yuexi became increasingly tender. Shen Yuexi curved her eyebrows at him and said with a smile, "But I still need some things to make the balloons I want. I'll go to the market to buy some later. We'll go our separate ways. You go buy some paper, and I'll buy a bamboo basket. Oh, and buy plenty, preferably a whole bunch."
Xiao Zhuo just listened to Shen Yuexi quietly, taking a sip of tea from time to time, without interrupting her at all, appearing extremely elegant.
Shen Yuexi took out thirty taels of silver and gave it to Xiao Zhuo. Paper was very expensive in ancient times, so she tried to give Xiao Zhuo as much silver as possible.
Xiao Zhuo glanced at the silver stuffed into his hand, without any movement, but walked to the table and poured a cup of tea for Shen Yuexi.
"Rest for a while, there's no rush," Xiao Zhuo pulled her to sit down, "Have some tea before you go out."
The sun outside was not too hot. They were already walking towards the west. The weather was much cooler than in Daliang Village.
Shen Yuexi took the tea, drank a few sips, but still couldn't sit still, so she ran to the street.
She wanted to buy the things quickly and ask Daxiong to finish them before Xiao Zhuo came back.
She soon found a bamboo basket for the hot air balloon, somewhere with plenty of bamboo. Big Bear quickly finished making it, but it was rather large, and would have stood out on the street. She had no other options but to find someone to pay her two taels of silver to have the basket delivered back to the inn.
When she passed by a winery, she went in and bought dozens of jars of wine to make ethanol.
The boss of the wine shop almost popped his eyes out when he saw that Shen Yuexi, a girl, wanted to buy more than a dozen jars of wine at once.
In the past, it was always the rough men who came to buy wine, and even if they bought a lot, they would only buy two or three jars. But when Shen Yuexi came, he just asked the price and bought more than ten jars in one go.
This actually scared the shopkeeper, so he asked again: "Miss, do you really want to buy these?"
Seeing his strange look, Shen Yuexi understood what he was thinking, but she couldn't use this to make ethanol fuel, so she could only laugh dryly.
"There's a wedding to be held at home, and this might not be enough."
Shen Yuexi was telling the truth. Even if Daxiong finished refining all the wine, there wouldn't be much fuel left, but it would be enough to cope with it. It should be enough for her and Xiao Zhuo to escape from Liangzhou.
When the shopkeeper heard this, he smiled in understanding: "So that's how it is."
After paying the silver, Shen Yuexi began to worry again as she looked at the dozen or so jars of wine on the table. She only thought about buying them and didn't think about how to transport them back.
After the shopkeeper collected the silver, he looked at Shen Yuexi, who was in a dilemma, and offered: "I have someone in my shop. I'll have someone deliver the wine to you. What do you think?"
The shopkeeper, who had made a lot of money, was in a very good mood at the moment. This little favor seemed insignificant to him, so he quickly called the servants in the backyard to help.
After Shen Yuexi thanked the shopkeeper again and again, she returned to the inn with the servant who had delivered the wine.
Fortunately, Xiao Zhuo hasn't come back yet.
Shen Yuexi hurriedly contacted the universal manufacturing machine.
"Call Big Bear, make me a hot air balloon."
She could do the rest herself so as not to arouse Xiao Zhuo's suspicion. Although sometimes she had vaguely guessed that Xiao Zhuo might have some suspicions, as long as he didn't ask, she pretended not to know.
A huge sphere appeared in front of her, the size of a house, and the power should be enough.
She looked at the air inlet of the hot air balloon and asked the universal machine to extract ethanol from the wine she bought.
Not bad, there are four bottles in total, which is enough.
Just connect the basket and the balloon together and you have a simple hot air balloon.
Of course, we have to wait for Xiao Zhuo to come back and paste the paper on.
The time when Xiao Zhuo went out this time was a little beyond Shen Yuexi's expectations. She thought he would be back soon, but when she connected the hanging basket and the balloon, she still didn't see Xiao Zhuo.
After finishing all this, she stood up, opened the window in the house and looked out at the street.
The streets were still crowded with people and cars. Shen Yuexi frowned, feeling a little worried.
I looked for a long time but still couldn't see the person.
Could it be that Xiao Zhuo had an accident? Was his identity discovered?
She paced back and forth in the room restlessly. As the sky gradually darkened, Xiao Zhuo still hadn't returned.
She decided not to wait any longer and wanted to go outside and look for the person herself.
Big Bear had already refined the ethanol, put it into four jars, and placed them in the hanging basket.
Shen Yuexi rolled up the hot air balloon and put it together with the hanging basket, preparing to leave the inn late at night and go outside to look for Xiao Zhuo.
After quickly eating a few mouthfuls of food, everyone in the inn went to rest, and then Shen Yuexi walked out carrying the hanging basket.
The hanging basket is really not light.
Shen Yuexi walked with great difficulty, her thin shoulders struggling to carry the huge hot air balloon.
But when she just stepped out of the inn, she ran into Xiao Zhuo, who looked exhausted.
Shen Yuexi looked in surprise at Xiao Zhuo who was walking towards her. He was carrying a large bundle of papers on his back.
"Why did you take so long? I thought something happened to you and was about to go look for you." Shen Yuexi put down the hanging basket and rubbed his shoulders.
Xiao Zhuo came slowly, his deep eyes fell on her face and took a look. Seeing that she was okay, he put the paper down. His expression relaxed a little, and he said in a deep voice: "Someone is chasing us. We need to leave quickly."
When Shen Yuexi heard that they had been targeted, her heart suddenly tightened.
The hot air balloon is not yet completed, only the last step is left, and this matter cannot be delayed.
As she unfolded the paper, she said to Xiao Zhuo, "Give me half an hour, and I will definitely make this thing."
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