Chapter 482 "Swearing to follow the general to the death!"
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Li Shiyue's words interrupted their thoughts, and Sun Xiaoliu quickly held up a tinderbox and went towards Li Shiyue.
Under the puzzled gazes of the others, Li Shiyue took out a small porcelain bottle from her bosom and poured out a few dark pills.
Do you know what this is?
Li Shiyue held the dark pill in her palm up to the firelight, so that the others could see it more clearly in the firelight.
She not only spoke in a low voice, but also raised her head and scanned the faces of everyone gathered around her.
The crowd looked at each other, speechless.
Sun Xiaoliu and Chen Yong exchanged knowing glances, their eyes conveying unspoken words.
When they were in the Turkic Khaganate, both of them had distributed "Bigu Dan" and "Jian Ti Wan" to the soldiers on behalf of Li Shiyue.
Although the pill in Li Shiyue's hand looked two sizes larger than the other two kinds of pills, and was also much darker in color than the "Bigu Pill";
But the unspoken question between Sun Xiaoliu and Chen Yong as they looked at each other was—this thing is also a magical pill similar to those two kinds of pills, right?
So, holding the tinderbox, Sun Xiaoliu hesitated for a moment before finally speaking first: "General, this is..."
"poison."
Li Shiyue smiled and explained to everyone straightforwardly, "This is poison."
Eat it, and you'll be mine.
If you ever betray me, then I will surely die a gruesome death, your intestines torn apart!
The warehouse became so quiet that you could hardly hear a breath.
Sun Xiaoliu's hands were trembling slightly, and the light from the tinderbox flickered, casting a swaying shadow on Li Shiyue's face.
Sun Xiaoliu swallowed hard, then looked at Li Shiyue with a forced smile and asked, "General, this...this poison is..."
"I have a very important matter to attend to. Only after you have all taken this poison will I feel at ease to proceed with it."
"General..."
"Don't worry, once you've taken the poison, as long as we reach Jian'an Prefecture safely, I will definitely give you the antidote."
After Li Shiyue finished speaking, Hei Zi was the first to step forward and reach out to take the pill that Li Shiyue had poured into his palm: "I'll take the poison if the general gives it to me."
At this moment, Li Shiyue clenched her hands: "Have you thought it through?"
"I've thought it through."
Hei Zi replied without hesitation, "Back in the Turkic era, if it weren't for the general taking that blow for me, I, Old Hei, would have been a pile of dung on the grassland long ago."
My life was destined to be that of a general.
I'm not very bright, but I know the general was willing to risk his life to save me, so he definitely wouldn't harm me.
"It's poison, but I'm not afraid. If the general tells me to eat it, I'll eat it!"
Kuroko picked up a black dumpling, stuffed it into her mouth without even looking at it, and swallowed it whole.
Sun Xiaoliu swallowed again, feeling a pang of regret that he hadn't been faster than Hei Zi, allowing that simpleton to pledge his loyalty to Li Shiyue first!
So he quickly stepped forward and said, "General, I believe you too..."
"Aren't you still thinking of asking a matchmaker to come and take a look?"
Li Shiyue interrupted Sun Xiaoliu, "Have you thought it through? Now that you've come this far, there's no turning back."
Sun Xiaoliu gritted his teeth: "I've thought it through!"
My mother always said that one should be grateful and repay kindness.
"Since I joined the General's service, he has treated us like brothers. I, Sun Xiaoliu, am not an ungrateful person!"
One by one, the eight people except Li Shiyue stepped forward and swallowed the black pills.
The last soldier who hadn't eaten the meatballs was the oldest man in the entire field. He and Chen Yong were from the same hometown.
Since Chen Yong became Li Shiyue's personal guard, he has been thinking about this fellow villager. Over the years, this man has also benefited a lot from following Li Shiyue.
But now, when he heard Li Shiyue say that it was poison, he thought of his young children at home, and his hands trembled so badly that he almost dropped the pills he was holding.
"Scared?"
Li Shiyue raised an eyebrow.
The man shook his head: "No, it's not that I'm afraid of death... it's that I'm afraid... afraid of betraying the general's trust... afraid of my children at home..."
Li Shiyue suddenly smiled, this time a genuine smile.
She stepped forward and patted the man on the shoulder: "Don't worry, this isn't poison."
As she said this, Li Shiyue snatched the meatball from the man's hand and stuffed it into her mouth.
Unlike Sun Xiaoliu and the others, she didn't swallow it directly; instead, she chewed it in her mouth before eating it.
"ah?"
Everyone spoke in unison.
"It's a tonic."
Li Shiyue poured out another black pill from the porcelain bottle and threw it to the man, then she put the bottle away.
"I was just kidding, this is a tonic."
Are you scared?
If you chew it, you can taste the herbal flavor.
Li Shiyue ate them all herself, even the one that the man who snatched them from casually took. Sun Xiaoliu and the others naturally understood that what Li Shiyue said was true; these black pills were not poison, but rather a tonic.
"General!"
"You, you, why are you teasing us like this?"
Once Sun Xiaoliu relaxed, he slumped his shoulders, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and complained helplessly to Li Shiyue.
"I need to know who can keep secrets with me."
This is Li Shiyue's reply to Sun Xiaoliu.
Then, as everyone stared at her, she walked step by step to the center of the warehouse, took a deep breath, and said: "What you are about to see, no one can tell anyone."
If there is even the slightest leak...
She turned her head, her eyes suddenly turning sharp, and after scanning everyone, she said, "Then what we'll give you to eat will be real poison!"
Everyone nodded repeatedly, looking at her with a mixture of nervousness and curiosity.
Li Shiyue closed her eyes, seemingly trying to calm herself.
Suddenly, she waved her hands, and the supplies in the warehouse—piles of wool products, dried rabbit meat, paper and ink, and stacks of charcoal—vanished into thin air!
"This...this..."
Sun Xiaoliu opened his mouth and stammered, unable to utter a complete sentence. He almost dropped the tinder he was holding.
Chen Yong's eyes widened even more: "General, is this... magic?"
"It's not magic."
Li Shiyue turned to Chen Yong and smiled mysteriously, "It's... my secret."
She paused, then said, "This secret is unknown even to my own mother."
"You are my comrades-in-arms, sharing life and death experiences. The road ahead in Jian'an will be arduous, which is why I've taken this opportunity to tell you this secret."
Hei Zi knelt down before Li Shiyue with a thud: "General, you are a god descended from heaven!"
“Get up.” Li Shiyue frowned. “I am not some god.”
This ability is innate, just like my innate superhuman strength. This ability is simply the ability to store and store things.
"I have nothing to do with gods. If I were a god, would I be injured and bleed?"
She looked around at everyone, then raised her hand to touch the wound she had sustained in the Turkic lands—the healed scar at the corner of her eye.
She put her hands down and said to the crowd, "Alright, now you are my true confidants."
In the dead of winter, traveling to Jian'an must be no easy task.
But with these supplies, at least we won't freeze or starve to death.
Sun Xiaoliu suddenly knelt on one knee: "I swear to follow the general to the death!"
One person knelt down, and the others followed suit, whispering in unison, "We swear to follow the general to the death!"
Sun Xiaoliu was feeling quite pleased with himself at this moment, finally finding the right opportunity to be the first to pledge his loyalty!
Li Shiyue nodded, satisfied with the performance of Sun Xiaoliu and the others: "Good!"
What happened tonight, only Heaven and Earth know, you know, and I know.
Now, put down the gold you are carrying. Take your share, and I will keep the rest.
After collecting the gold, Li Shiyue led everyone out of the paper mill. Before returning to the Li family home, he once again instructed everyone, "Don't worry, as long as you follow me well, I will not let you down!"
As I left the paper mill, the east was already beginning to lighten with the first hint of dawn.
Li Shiyue looked up at the sky and exhaled a breath of white air.
With these supplies, and having "opened up" to Sun Xiaoliu and his personal guards, the journey to Jian'an shouldn't be so difficult.
As long as she can establish herself in Jian'an, Li Shiyue is very confident about the future!
Although he left Jinzhou, the base he had built up over many years when he first came to Andong;
However, it's not without its advantages;
At least he was far away from the powerful figures like Liu Tan and Jiang Huijun. In Jian'an, Li Shiyue, who had soldiers, was the boss!
First, avoid Liu Tan's suspicions and focus on building your own power. By the time Liu Tan remembers her, her power will likely be deeply rooted and her influence will be strong.
By then, if Liu Tan wanted to take action against Li Shiyue again, he would be too weak to do so.
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