I traveled through time and space to hunt and support my family in ancient times
Chapter 155: Each Going Their Own Way
"I asked numerous doctors but they were helpless. They just told me to prepare for your funeral. What a good brother! How could that be... I didn't give up. Chaxi Village stopped mining. The brothers stayed and brought the two of them to rescue you... Do you think they can be saved?"
"I'm not a doctor, but as you said, the highly toxic gas that often accompanies petroleum is hydrogen sulfide. This kind of toxic gas is not a serious poison, and staying away from the source of the poison can alleviate the problem."
"Hydrogen sulfide?"
"The rotten egg smell in the oil is this poison gas. It is not a large amount of poison gas in a confined space. It will not be fatal."
After Jiang Yue finished explaining, she continued, "I think their condition is not just hydrogen sulfide poisoning. Maybe they were poisoned by something else. Look, it looks like they were bitten by some kind of insect!"
Luo Fang couldn't keep his voice steady: "You mean you were bitten by a poisonous insect?"
After examining the inconspicuous bite marks on the scholar's abdomen, Luo Fang went to look for the skinny monkey and found the same ones.
Jiang Yue nodded and said, "What's so strange about mining the Great Rift Valley?"
The human central nervous system is poisoned, and the acute coma lasts for several weeks before death. The chronic coma can last for several years. This kind of worm cannot have existed originally, but must have appeared along with the mining.
Luo Fang recalled: "I was in Lugu County that day. When I came back, they both fell into a coma. I heard from the soldiers that the scholar and the skinny monkey dug up a lot of small fly-like insects that day. They flew around them for a long time, and then they jumped into the stream, and the insects flew away..."
The more Jiang Youshan listened, the more mysterious it seemed to him. How could there be such a bug?
Jiang Ming seemed to see through his father's thoughts and said, "The world is so big that there are all kinds of strange things."
Jiang Yue said: "In nature, there are often antidotes near poisonous things. I'll go back to Chaxi Village with you to take a look."
After all, she owns half of the oil. Well, even if he can't give her half, General Wen can't refuse to give it to her when she needs it after solving the problems in the development process!
After Jiang Yue finished speaking, she turned around and looked for Jiang Ming: "Brother, I have to go check it out, is there someone you're looking for?"
Jiang Ming unexpectedly did not argue with Luo Fang: "I am familiar with Hedong County, you can leave the matter of finding people to me."
Luo Fang touched his face with his hand and said, "I found the right person. Let's go back now without delay."
"Don't be so hasty—"
Jiang Youshan pushed Luo Fang onto the chair, held down his shoulders as he tried to get up, and said, "Eat first. It won't be too late to leave after eating."
The perceptive A Cui had already gone to the kitchen to cook. The hot water in the kitchen was warm, so she cooked two bowls of egg noodles, which were soon ready.
Seeing that he had settled down, Jiang Youshan asked the two men on the board, "Do you want to feed your two brothers some porridge?"
Luo Fang nodded: "I did this on the way. My brothers have been through life and death with me. How can I let them go until the last moment... Will they stay like this forever? Can they save their lives?"
He asked Jiang Yue these questions. He no longer dared to hope that the two of them could wake up, but Jiang Yue's words gave him a little hope.
Jiang Yue said regretfully: "If we had looked for the herbs nearby at that time, there is a 90% chance that they would have woken up. Now..."
"How is it?" Luo Fang tried his best to keep his voice steady: "Can you save your life?"
Jiang Yue looked at him and said, "Of course, I can protect it."
"That's good, that's good. We agreed to live and die together on the battlefield. How can we let them lose their lives without knowing why? Even if they die on the battlefield, it's better than dying in such an unclear way..."
Jiang Yue shook her head.
Luo Fang was terrified: "What?"
Jiang Yue said regretfully: "If we find an antidote to wake them up, I'm afraid their mental or motor skills will also be affected."
Luo Fang's eyes were filled with excitement: "Really?"
Jiang Yue nodded: "The prerequisite is to find the herbs!"
"Great."
"Eat, eat, and then leave."
Cai took advantage of Jiang Yue's meal to pack her luggage and dry food. Jiang Yue pointed and said, "Wu Da, come with me."
Jiang Yue couldn't bring herself to ask Wu Da to make pancakes for her on the way, but on the previous journey, especially the rapid journey on the boat, they had only eaten military rations, which were too bad.
Of course, we still need to travel by boat quickly, and we will have to stay in Lugu County for some time. Taking Wuda with me is like a mobile kitchen. Hot scallion pancakes are always better than dry and cold mixed pancakes!
Wu Da was stunned, and immediately replied: "I will listen to you, young lady. I will prepare it right away."
Wu Dalang's luggage was very simple, consisting of only a worn wooden basin, a frying pan, and half a bag of flour.
Even though the young lady didn't say anything, he could see that she had lost a lot of weight the last time she went out. He had no special skills except for his ability to bake delicious pancakes, so he would definitely have to put those skills to good use if he went out with her.
Wu Da grinned: "Miss, I can give you pancakes to eat along the way."
Luo Fang came driving a horse-drawn carriage. He mounted the horse swiftly and then carefully moved Wu Dalang and Jiang Yue into the carriage.
Wu Dalang followed Jiang Yue's instructions and went into the carriage to take care of the two patients, while Luo Fang and Jiang Yue sat on the left and right of the carriage.
The whole family came out to watch them see her off. Cai's eyes were filled with reluctance. When she could no longer hold back her tears, she quietly turned her face away.
Luo Fang whipped the horse whip and the carriage started moving forward. The sound of the wheels rolling was particularly clear in the silence of the early morning.
After a while, the sun rose from the east, and the golden sunlight sprinkled on the earth, illuminating the road ahead.
The carriage galloped towards the rising sun, raising a cloud of dust.
Afterwards, Jiang Xue also returned to Qingzhou County. Before Jiang Ming went to Hedong County with the list, he arranged for the whole family to live in the mountains.
Chen Wang and Li Qiao are already familiar with the traps in the mountains, and together with Jiang Lei's Wanfubao, they are enough to resist ordinary bandits.
Home is their rear base, and if he wants to go out, he must make arrangements in advance.
On the land east of the doorstep, Meng Dazhuang and his workers were still building a house. Jiang Yue's initial plan was to have five townhouses, four rows in total, with exactly twenty rooms, enough to accommodate the families of ten servants.
Jizui Mountain still needs more talents, and the remaining small houses will be used as backup homes for the talents we find.
After Jiang Yue went east, Jiang Xue also hurried to Qingzhou. Guarding Qingzhou Muchuan would keep it safe, and she also had new weapons to share with Princess Lingshu.
After experiencing several battles, these two young girls have become qualified female warriors.
But neither of them gained much benefit from this trip.
The two practiced the use of hidden arrows, and after a while Princess Lingshu became absent-minded: "Fourth brother just came back, he still has a long way to go, I don't have the heart to ask him for people or food, what do you think we should do next?"
Jiang Xue thought hard: "The border has been handed over to Lord Jin. Without good weapons, our plan of going deep into the desert to rob the barbarians with only a thousand people is unlikely to work. However, we can recruit the bandits in the territory..."
"Will they surrender obediently?"
"Those who agree to surrender can rush into our camp to expand our strength. Those who don't agree, we will kill them and steal their food! Those bandits and horse thieves are too evil."
"Yes, let's give it a try!"
The two of them did what they said, and they went to the mountain to inquire about various issues. They finally came to a small mountain village, which was called Fengkou Village locally.
People in the village say that Fengkou Village prefers to rob rich people but not poor people.
It is said that the bandits had a good reputation in the nearby villages, and both sides were lucky, as there were many farmers who had just climbed the mountain.
Most of these farmers were too hungry to walk, so they robbed the wealthy local gentry in the town and hid in the mountains with their money.
Princess Lingshu and Jiang Xue didn't take any detours. They found their lair and went straight in with their spears.
With a large number of people and horses, once his name was made known, he subdued most of the bandits.
But what are these bandits? They are all selfish people.
Without the boss's order, no one would think their life is too long and take the initiative to dig a hoe, in case they get chopped down by the boss.
The boss of Fengkou Mountain was a long-faced man. He raised his eyebrows with a look of disdain on his face:
"You useless guys, you're scared to death by two little girls. You might as well go home and hug your children! Listen to me, rush down with me and kill them!"
When the younger brothers heard the boss's order, although they were helpless, they did not dare to disobey and had to bite the bullet and pick up their knives to fight.
Some of them shrank their necks, some pursed their lips, and it was obvious that they had no confidence in this battle.
Jiang Xue looked at the bandits in front of her and couldn't help but feel amused.
These people looked weak and powerless. I hit them lightly and they lay on the ground and couldn't get up. If I didn't know, I would have thought they were extorting money.
Are they so weak because they don't have enough food to eat?
However, she did not dare to be careless, after all, the other side had a large number of people.
In comparison, Princess Lingshu's situation is much more difficult.
After the long-faced leader and several of his cronies saw through Princess Lingshu's extraordinary identity, they adopted the tactic of capturing the leader first and concentrated their firepower to launch a fierce attack on her.
Although Princess Lingshu is an expert in martial arts, she gradually becomes incapable of facing such a fierce and powerful enemy.
Fortunately, while Jiang Xue was fighting, she had been paying attention to what was happening on Princess Lingshu's side. When she saw that the situation was not right, she immediately made a decisive move and led the soldiers to rush over quickly.
The soldiers were fighting with the long-faced leader's cronies.
Jiang Xue drew her bow and arrow, waiting for the long-faced bandit to turn sideways to face her.
With a "whoosh" sound, the arrow flew out from the bow and rushed straight towards the long-faced bandit. Unexpectedly, the long-faced bandit had an extremely sharp hearing and dodged when he heard the sound. He just slightly turned his head and avoided the sharp arrow shot by Jiang Xue.
However, at this moment, Princess Lingshu's sleeve arrow was fired unexpectedly. As the two were too close, the long-faced bandit had no time to dodge and could only watch as the sleeve arrow hit his arm.
Then his body began to shake, and finally he collapsed to the ground weakly.
You should know that this sleeve arrow is coated with a highly poisonous substance. Once it hits the target, the poison will spread rapidly, causing the person to lose the ability to resist instantly.
Seeing their boss fall, the other trusted bandits suddenly panicked and were quickly subdued in a panic.
Seeing that the situation was hopeless, the bandits dropped their weapons and surrendered.
"We surrender, Princess Lingshu, please spare our lives!"
“Clatter, clatter…”
The weapons were thrown on the ground, making a series of crisp collision sounds, as if playing a song of victory.
These bandits seemed to have discussed it long ago, and fearing that they would suffer losses if they surrendered late, they all rushed to express their submission.
Princess Lingshu and Jiang Xue high-fived and smiled at each other.
"Would you like to write a letter?"
"Would you like to write a letter?"
"Take credit from your brother?"
"Take credit from your sister?"
The two guessed each other's thoughts and couldn't help laughing. Then Jiang Xue said, "I won't write anymore. This is just the beginning. I'll make greater contributions in the future. We'll talk about it then..."
Princess Lingshu nodded, and the two of them thought the same thing again.
……
At this time, Jiang Ming and Chen Wang had arrived in Hedong County.
The scene before their eyes was heartbreaking: the entire Hedong County Main Street was almost empty. The once prosperous and bustling street had now become extremely deserted and depressed.
It turned out that the Fourth Prince had already led his army northward. The people, having lost their backbone, were terrified and chose to hide in their homes, avoiding going out as much as possible.
Jiang Ming knew very well that it would not be easy to find the relatives of the slaves, but he resolutely decided to try his luck in Yaxing first.
But it is regrettable that most of the slaves have already been sold to others and their whereabouts are unknown.
Fortunately, after some inquiries and explorations, Jiang Ming learned that the new buyers of these slaves were not far away.
So, he embarked on a search without hesitation. Every time he arrived at a house, Jiang Ming would visit it sincerely, and even offered a higher ransom in order to persuade the original owners to release the slaves.
God helps those who work hard. After Jiang Ming's unremitting efforts, he finally succeeded in redeeming all 18 family members.
Jiang Lei studied the notes left by Jiang Yue every day, carefully reading every step and precaution.
Follow the instructions in the notes, experiment and modify, experiment again and modify again.
First, he needed to build a furnace.
This was done by the slaves in the mountains. They first found some bricks and soil, and built a simple but sturdy stove structure.
He then secured the stove with wire to ensure it could withstand the high temperatures.
Next, Jiang Lei went to look for suitable fine sand.
He panned for sand in several nearby streams and finally determined that the fine and pure sand by a small stream was most suitable for use.
He brought the fine sand back to the mountain and carefully washed it to remove the impurities.
After everything was ready, Jiang Lei lit the stove. The flames burned fiercely, licking the stove wall and making crackling sounds.
He waited patiently until the furnace reached the appropriate temperature.
When the furnace temperature rises to a certain level, Jiang Lei carefully pours the washed fine sand into the furnace.
The fine sand gradually melted under the high temperature and turned into molten liquid.
He stared wide-eyed, staring closely at the changes in the furnace, looking forward to witnessing the miracle.
After waiting for a while, Jiang Lei finally saw the scene he had dreamed of—a crystal clear world appeared before his eyes!
It emits a faint light, like a precious work of art.
Jiang Lei was so excited that he almost shouted out loud, he succeeded!
This is the glass that the elder sister talked about!
This small achievement made Jiang Lei feel extremely satisfied and proud.
He knew that this was just the beginning and that his method of burning paper needed a lot of improvement.
But at this moment, he was enjoying the joy of success and felt extremely gratified with his efforts.
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