No one had had a good rest for the past few days. Now that Yin Peirong was dead, the space behind him was occupied by Ye Chen. Everyone found a place to rest and a yard was specially vacated for the Silver Armor Army to use.
Ye Chen didn't dare to use the original cook, so Jixiang took on the heavy responsibility, and Lu Chenyuan assigned a few silver-armored soldiers to help her.
There were a total of ten silver-armored soldiers. Lu Chenyuan ordered them to take off their armor, put on aprons, and throw them in front of Jixiang in the kitchen. "Miss Jixiang, these are your helpers. If they don't listen to you, tell me and I will punish them by military law." After saying that, he glanced at the ten people, then turned around and left without looking back.
"Don't look anymore. The prince won't take you back. There are more than 300 of us in total. I can't handle it all by myself. The adults here are worried about the people, so I have to trouble you brothers." Jixiang seemed to see what those people were thinking, but there was nothing he could do. He couldn't die of exhaustion, right?
When the ten people heard Jixiang talking, they all turned to look at Jixiang. There was a little girl holding a big iron spoon half her height in her hand, and looking at them with round eyes. They rarely saw such girls in the military camp, and they felt a little shy when she looked at them, but when they thought about what they were here for, they suddenly became shy.
"Okay, come here," Jixiang pointed at the tallest and best-looking person among the ten people.
"Me?" The man pointed at himself and asked in disbelief.
"Yes, it's you! What's your name?" Jixiang didn't speak shyly like a young lady, but had a generous and cheerful voice.
"Jiang Hua!" He just spat out two words coldly.
"How old are you?" Jixiang asked again. She didn't know why a girl like her would ask someone else's age. It was really too bold. Her hands holding the iron spoon were now covered in cold sweat.
"Why are you, a little girl, asking me my age? Aren't you ashamed?" Jiang Hua snorted coldly and did not answer Jixiang's question.
"Okay, go and clean the two sacks of sweet potatoes over there." Jixiang was choked by Jiang Hua's words and asked him to go to work directly.
"You, go chop wood."
"You and I will separate the bones from the meat of the pig in the house."
"You two, pick all the vegetables and wash them clean. Be careful to only pick the bad ones. Don't waste any of the good ones. Got it?"
"You, come and light the fire."
"Fill the jar with water."
"The remaining three, wash your hands and come help me knead the dough. I can't make steamed buns for more than 300 people." Jixiang immediately began to arrange people and let them do their jobs. This is not a restaurant, but it is also a kitchen. Only with a clear division of labor can things be done faster.
After saying that, Jixiang swung his spoon and turned to go into the kitchen. The ten men outside who were originally wearing silver armor looked at each other, then shrugged their shoulders and said, "Get to work, or you will be punished by military law~" Their voices were deliberately raised, and they glanced at the kitchen door while speaking.
Except for a few generals, the rest of the Silver Armor Army are young men under the age of 20. They have never read military books, but they have a lot of clever ideas. After the generals give orders, they will always use some different clever ideas without delaying the military orders, which can achieve unexpected results, and sometimes even get twice the result with half the effort.
Naturally, several people did not take the auspicious words to heart. Not only did those who were washing sweet potatoes make the yard full of water, but they also broke the sweet potatoes in half. Those who were kneading the dough made the kitchen look like it was snowing.
The whole room was filled with white powder. The young man, Xiao Xin, who was lighting the fire, was about to blow on the tinder when Jixiang hit him with a spoon and said, "Don't worry about your life! You can't light the fire now."
The people playing with flour were stunned by Jixiang's shout, and then they laughed, "Are you stupid? Why can't you light a fire?"
"You can't light it. You have a room full of flour. If you light it now, it will catch fire." Jixiang didn't know why. She only knew that she had seen such a scene when she was in the restaurant. It was just like this. The room was full of white powder, as if it was snowing. However, as soon as the fire was lit, there was a "boom" and the whole sky was filled with fire. No one inside came out.
"Hahaha, this is flour, not kerosene!"
"Okay, if you want to order, then go ahead. I'll go out and you can order later. When you go to the King of Hell, don't say I didn't warn you!" Jixiang said and ran out.
The people inside looked at each other, but finally came out just in case. "Hey, let's give it a try, otherwise we'll be fooled by this little girl."
After a few people discussed it, they blew on the tinder and threw it in. Before the tinder hit the ground, they heard a "bang" and then there was a huge fire and billowing black smoke.
"You are finished. All the food for everyone today is in there, and now it's all gone." Jixiang looked at those people who couldn't close their mouths as if they were fools.
"Do you know that everyone is going to starve today? Are you idiots? Is your brain filled with paste or shit? The King of Zhennan has really bad vision. He actually put you in the Silver Armor Army. If you go to the battlefield, won't others be dragged to death by you?" Jixiang yelled and scolded these people. She thought that if they followed her out, she would be fine. Who knew that they were just some fools who actually wanted to give it a try? The King of Zhennan must have sent these people to torture her because he didn't like her. Yes, it must be like this!
"Fire!" Jixiang shouted again. The stunned young men then remembered that they had to put out the fire and quickly put out the fire with water.
"What's wrong? What's wrong? What happened?" Chen Qiu ran into the yard from outside. Jixiang stepped forward and glared at the young men. "They burned all the food for today. We have nothing to eat."
"We all heard it in the main courtyard. With such a big commotion, are you guys cooking? Or what? Don't you want to eat?" Lu Chenyuan came in angrily. Behind him were Ye Chen and Xiao Mu, as well as the Silver-Armored Army who surrounded them. They thought something big had happened, but they didn't expect that it was their own brother who caused the trouble.
"Prince Zhennan, let them help me cook. They blew up the kitchen and all the food for today is in it." Jixiang was afraid of Lu Chenyuan's identity, but his words were still full of resentment.
"How could it explode? There is no kerosene inside?" Ye Chen looked at the huge fire and wondered if there were enemies sneaking in.
"It's not kerosene, it's flour. They threw flour around when they were kneading the dough. When Xiao Xin wanted to light a fire, I told them not to light a fire or it would catch fire. They didn't believe me, but they all came out and threw a fire starter in anyway, just to try if I was right." Jixiang gave a brief account of what happened.
"Flour? Is flour so powerful? The door has fallen down." Everyone looked at the doors and windows that were blown to pieces in disbelief.
"How do you know that if you sprinkle flour on fire it will explode?"
"Something like this happened in my previous restaurant. Flour was scattered everywhere, and when the fire was being lit, it exploded as soon as the tinder was lit. Everyone who was there died. The few who came out alive didn't live for many days." Jixiang recalled what had happened before.
"After putting out the fire, go back and get thirty military sticks." Lu Chenyuan didn't expect that the Silver Armor Army, which he was so proud of, would do such an annoying thing.
"Maybe this is not a bad thing." Ye Chen muttered to himself.
"You mean?" Lu Chenyuan immediately thought of something.
"Well, we just got the news about that batch of kerosene. We have discussed it for so long but couldn't come up with a way to destroy it. Perhaps this is a good idea." Ye Chen said, pointing to the kitchen that was still burning.
Later, when the food for the three hundred men ran out, Lu Chenyuan gave each of the remaining Silver Armored Soldiers one tael of silver and told them to change their clothes and go out to find their own way to eat. "But only ten people can go out at a time. The next ten can go out only after the previous ten come back. If those who go out late don't get to eat, then blame the ten who burned the kitchen."
"You, ten of you, will not have any food today! Wash everyone's armor and the horses' armor. You are not allowed to sleep until you finish washing." Lu Chenyuan said as he followed Ye Chen and the others out, then suddenly returned, "Remember to lead the baton after washing."
Jixiang glanced at those people, shrugged to indicate that there was nothing he could do, and then followed them away.
Fortunately, there is not only one big kitchen in this yard, but also a small kitchen in the inner courtyard, so Jixiang went to get busy again.
After dinner, Lu Chenyuan ordered half of the Silver Armor Army to go towards the north city and the other half to go to the south, and dispersed many of the residents around the courtyard they had designated.
At night, Xiao Mu and Lu Chenyuan each carried a bag of flour, wore night clothes, walked out of the yamen, and went in two different directions.
"There's a fire, there's a fire!" The night watchman shouted in the south of the city while beating the gong in his hand. Soon, all the residents surrounding a courtyard ran out, except for that courtyard where no one came out.
At the same time, the same thing happened on the north side. Even the courtyards were the same.
Lu Chenyuan and Xiao Mu had already sneaked in. "So many? This Fu Xia is really ruthless!" Lu Chenyuan was dumbfounded when he entered. The room he entered was made entirely of stone, and half the room was filled with kerosene. It was all on the other side of the window. If you shot an arrow from the outside, unless the arrow had eyes and could turn, it would not hit you at all.
The yard that Xiao Mu went to also had a wooden barrel in it, but when it was opened, it was full of water.
Due to the presence of nearby residents, they were unable to quietly ignite the kerosene in the two courtyards, otherwise the area would be razed to the ground. The houses could be rebuilt, but human lives could not be saved. So while ensuring their own safety, they also had to make sure they bombed the right place.
This kerosene would catch fire if it came in contact with fire, and it would explode at the slightest touch if placed in a bucket. They didn't have a fuse, and it wasn't safe to leave it here. They had to detonate the kerosene while also ensuring everyone's safety. Ye Chen and the others discussed this for a long time but couldn't come to a conclusion.
If it weren’t for what happened in the kitchen today, who knows when we could find the fuse.
Lu Chenyuan poured the flour on the ground, then jumped into the yard and slapped the flour on the ground. The flour on the ground was blown up by the wind from his palm. Lu Chenyuan immediately jumped onto the courtyard wall, pulled out a fire starter from his waist, blew it, and threw it into the house.
When the people in the yard were lured over, Lu Chenyuan's fire starter had just entered the house, but it exploded immediately. Lu Chenyuan did not dare to delay and turned around and ran out, with continuous explosions behind him.
The residents who had already escaped no longer dared to run home after seeing this scene, and no one dared to move after the explosion stopped.
As expected, the yard and the houses within a mile radius were razed to the ground. The Silver-Armored Army that followed Lu Chenyuan settled all the people called out by the night watchman in one place. Although the explosion had a large range, fortunately, the preparations made before were sufficient. Except for the people in the yard, no one died in the explosion.
Ye Chen looted a lot of silver from the county government's treasury, which was enough to rebuild houses for those people.
"After we blew up Fuxia's kerosene, he won't let it go so easily. We can't just sit there and wait for death, so we should get organized and go to Fuze Cave the day after tomorrow." Ye Chen stated his plan.
He didn't want to be so anxious, but he had the impression that something big would happen to Ye Nan after the New Year. If his friends were in trouble at that time, could he and Qiu'er not care?
If things here are not finished soon, I won’t be able to spare time when Ye Nan gets into trouble.
"Why are you in such a hurry? The New Year is coming soon. Fuxia won't even let us celebrate this year, right?" Lu Chenyuan felt that Ye Chen was too anxious.
"We blew up her kerosene, making it difficult for her to have a good New Year. If it were you, would you let your enemy have a good New Year?" Ye Chen asked Lu Chenyuan.
"Of course not, I will retaliate immediately, and I will retaliate double or tenfold?" After Lu Chenyuan said this, he realized how stupid the question he had just asked was.
"We now have control of Fuze Cave's location, so it's best to take the initiative. If we wait for that crazy woman Fuxia to make a move, who knows what unexpected things she will do."
"This woman doesn't act according to common sense. We don't know what she'll do next. She ran away when Guangwu raided the Zhou family. Now we don't know where she's hiding. She's in the dark while we're in the light, which is very disadvantageous to us."
"Sir!" It was Zhu Da's voice outside.
"Come in"
"Sir, this is bad. We have received accurate information that the kerosene we used for frying is only half of the required amount." Zhu Da was still breathing heavily when he came in.
"What?" Lu Chenyuan stood up from the chair, and Ye Chen fell silent. This was something none of them had expected. Such a big scene was only half of it.
"Since you only know half of it, do you know where the other half is?" Ye Chen asked Zhu Da in a deep voice.
"We have already reached Mount Langya."
"It seems that we need to let the brothers prepare now. If Langya is blown up, the villages below will have no chance of escaping. Also, the river below will be flooded by rocks, and who knows how many people will suffer." After Ye Chen finished speaking, Lu Chenyuan asked the Silver Armor Army to prepare, and began to discuss countermeasures and plans for this operation with Ye Chen.
Lu Chenyuan was not familiar with Langya Mountain, but Ye Chen was naturally familiar with it since he had been there once. He put it aside and didn't care about the look Lu Chenyuan gave him. He arranged the task directly and even knew clearly what was at the entrance of Fuze Cave.
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