Chapter 205 Attacking Treasure Island
Wei Haohan remained unmoved.
He had sent people to investigate the Lu family's background eight hundred years ago. He didn't believe that there was any news that he hadn't found out.
If you want to negotiate with him, you must offer some tangible benefits.
"This secret is also related to the Ying family." Ying Zong said, "Don't you want to know what's going on with the recent rumor about the Wong Tai Sin apparition?"
"Is your secret related to this?" Wei Haohan sat up straight unconsciously. The mysterious disappearance of items from the Xiang Song family's warehouse had always worried him, and he was terrified that the disaster would befall him in the next moment.
Recently, in addition to asking his men to strengthen patrols of the warehouse, he even secretly went to the temple to burn incense and donated some money to the temple.
Now that he heard that the secret was related to the mysterious disappearance of several treasure houses, the way he looked at Ying Zong was different.
Ying Zong didn't miss his expression and immediately swore to the heavens, "If I dare to lie to you, I will die a miserable death!"
Wei Haohan had actually been planning to deal with Lu Shiyan for a long time. Now that he had the upper hand, he looked reluctant. "I can send a team to go with you to the island to capture the women and children of the Lu family. Now, tell me the secrets you know first."
"Lu Shiyan led his troops to fight the enemy at Shandao Pass and was always short of rations. But a while ago, the rations problem was suddenly solved. Rumor has it that he found the secret vault of my Ying family. Has the Grand Protector heard about this?"
Speaking of Lu Shiyan, Ying Zong's face once again showed a ferocious look. He didn't care about Wei Haohan's intentional use of Qiao. He just wanted to use all means to destroy the Lu family.
"Isn't that secret vault your Ying family's?" Wei Haohan looked serious.
"Of course it's not from my Ying family." Ying Zong said, "Then where does the food come from? The Grand Protector should know, right?"
Wei Haohan had thought that the batch of food that solved Lu Shiyan’s military food crisis in time came from Xiang Mansion, but he sent people to investigate carefully and found no trace of any food being transported from Xiang Mansion.
Seeing Wei Haohan's frown and long silence, Ying Cang said, "The Lu family must have some special means, otherwise, Yazhou wouldn't have been taken over so easily. As long as we capture the Lu family and torture them severely, we will definitely find out the truth."
Wei Haohan finally sent 5,000 people and more than ten warships, led by Ying Cang, to attack the treasure island.
Jiang Tangtang didn't know at this time that the location of the treasure island had been revealed. She was heading to the thorn forest with her three children to pick wild fruits.
Also going with them were Doctor Xue and Dou Xianer.
Although the two of them still bickered with each other like before, Jiang Tangtang felt that the atmosphere between them had changed a little.
Looking at the smiles that could not be hidden between Dou Xian'er and Doctor Xue's eyebrows when they were bickering, Jiang Tangtang couldn't help but have a bold idea in her mind.
Were they a couple before?
I just don’t know what Doctor Xue did in the past that made one of them chase him desperately while the other had to hide desperately.
Jiang Tangtang was thinking when Xue Banxian suddenly turned around and quickly grabbed a snake from the branch next to her. "You're not careful when walking on the mountain road!"
Jiang Tangtang looked at the big black and brown snake in his hand and shuddered. She was most afraid of snakes, such terrible creatures.
She suppressed her fear and asked, "Is this snake poisonous?"
"Guoshanfeng, do you think it's poisonous?" Xue Banxian said it was poisonous, but he skillfully coiled the snake into a ball and put it into a bamboo tube.
Isn’t the mountain breeze the king cobra?
Jiang Tangtang barely managed to control herself and spoke without trembling, "Why are you pretending to be such a poisonous snake?"
This time it was Douxian'er who answered her, "I recently developed a new poison that uses snake venom."
So the two of them came to this forest several times just to catch poisonous snakes?
Jiang Tangtang couldn't help but look at the children.
Every time the two elders come, they always bring several children with them. If such young children are not careful...
Just as I was thinking about it, I saw Lu Jingcheng calmly take out a bottle and sprinkle some powder on the ground. The centipede on the ground stopped moving instantly.
Then, Lu Jingheng grabbed the centipede on the ground and put it into the bamboo tube. The two of them moved with practiced movements and their seamless coordination clearly showed that this was not their first time doing this.
Jiang Tangtang felt like she was struck by lightning!
Where's her cute little baby?
What happened?
Lu Jingheng was completely unaware of Jiang Tangtang's collapse. After putting the centipede away, he reached out and took her hand, saying, "Mom, I'll hold your hand and walk with you. I'll protect you!"
Looking at the chubby little hand holding hers that had just caught a centipede, Jiang Tangtang felt like crying. This cute little kid was so adorable!
"Mom, are you scared?" Lu Tiantian came over and took Jiang Tangtang's other hand. She patted her hand comfortingly and said, "Don't be afraid. The powder Auntie Xian gave you is very powerful. It can instantly make the poisonous insects in the forest faint."
Jiang Tangtang didn't have the nerve to say she was scared in front of the kids, so she said stubbornly, "Mom's not scared! I'm just curious why there are so many snakes and insects here."
Fortunately, there were not so many poisonous snakes and insects in the forest where she was hiding, otherwise she would have been scared to death.
"But your face looks so pale, and your hands are so cold. Daddy said that this is because you are scared!" Lu Jingheng obviously didn't know how to save her face, and he exposed her right away.
Jiang Tangtang: “…”
Fortunately, after a while, they left this relatively humid and stuffy forest, and after walking for a quarter of an hour through a wasteland full of rocks, they finally arrived at the thorn forest that the children had mentioned.
Just as Jiang Tangtang thought, this was a cactus forest, and she was lucky enough to find cochineal on several cacti.
Jiang Tangtang took out the thick gloves he had prepared earlier and began to put the cactus into the backpack.
She also took advantage of everyone's inattention and quietly placed a few cacti with cochineal insects into the space.
I plan to try planting them in space. If successful, I will cultivate more and transport these cacti back to Yazhou for large-scale planting.
Take these from your backpack and plant them under the courtyard wall! They can both raise cochineal insects and deter theft.
Not long after the group returned to their residence, a soldier came to report, "Madam, we found something suspicious with our clairvoyance. Can we go and take a look?"
The observation towers on the island had been repaired under the leadership of Xie Xin long ago. A telescope that can rotate 360 degrees was installed on the tallest one.
This telescope was modified from the telescope in Jiang Tangtang's space. It imitated a tripod and made an iron frame to fix the telescope on it.
In addition to ordinary soldiers standing guard on the watchtower, there are also soldiers who sit in front of telescopes to check the safety situation around the island.
This position is the soldiers' favorite. In order to be able to go to the highest lookout tower and serve as a guard from thousands of miles away, the soldiers even fought and caused chaos.
Later, Jiang Tangtang made an eye chart based on modern ones to test vision. Through the test, he selected the soldiers with the best eyesight to take turns guarding, thus resolving the dispute.
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