Chapter 66 Suicide Soldiers
66 Suicide Soldiers
‘Book of Hundred Industries?’
The name sounded a little like their ancient book, ‘Heavenly Works’.
Bai Wutong suddenly became interested. She reached out and took the book that Yang Quanzi had wrapped.
Opening the waterproof book cover, she saw Yang Quanzi’s strong and powerful strokes. The neat layout made it obvious at a glance. It looked very comfortable and made her want to read more.
Bai Wutong flipped through it briefly. The entire book contained agriculture, handicrafts, and other production techniques for machinery, bricks, ceramics, sulfur, candles, paper, weapons, gunpowder, textiles, dyeing, salt making, coal mining, and oil refinery.
In addition to the comprehensive introduction, there were also various operation blueprints mixed in. It was equivalent to an ancient comprehensive encyclopedia.
Although most of them were just basic information and the scope of each industry’s information was not very huge, they were very impressive treasures to most commoners who only knew how to bury their heads in farming hard.
As long as they could understand this book, they would be able to directly come into contact with unique skills that others were unwilling to teach them and have the ability to settle down and earn a living.
If the book compiled by Yang Quanzi and his disciple was popularized, it would be very helpful in improving the economic production technology of the entire state.
However, there was one most important technology that the people of this world had yet to master.
Word printing.
If they wanted to publicize the book, it would take at least a few weeks for the thick book to be hand copied without the printing technology. Moreover, the finished product might be inconsistent in quality.
It was already a problem for commoners to buy a ‘Three Character Cla.s.sic’ for their children and grandchildren. How could they afford this expensive book?
At this moment, this book could only be used as a small-scale teaching material.
When Yang Quanzi gave the gift, he had thought about it carefully. With so many villagers following Bai Wutong, the villagers might be interested in the skills inside. If Bai Wutong accepted it, it would definitely make the best use of this book.
Bai Wutong closed the book and said politely, “Old sir, you’re really amazing. You’ve recorded so many valuable skills. This book is too precious for me to accept.” Some of the skills inside were extremely precious and complicated. There were even things that could not be learned even if one spent a lot of money. There were some things in her s.p.a.ce that she could take out, but they were not quite the same as the things in this world. If she used this book as an excuse in the future, she could still pa.s.s it off.
She said she couldn’t accept it, but her hand was holding it firmly.
What did this mean? It meant that the book he and his disciple had compiled had been recognized.
Yang Quanzi was suddenly filled with pride and said seriously, “You’re the benefactor of me and my disciples. The more expensive something is, the more it suits you. If you don’t accept it, I won’t have anything that is worthy for you. I can only go out to the streets to sell my skills and see if I can earn a few copper coins to buy a gift for Madam.”
Bai Wutong was amused by Yang Quanzi’s mischievous words and said cooperatively, “That won’t do. I’ll accept it then.”
At this point, Yang Quanzi also found an opportunity to get to the point. “Madam, it’s a blessing to the people that you can treat the plague. I don’t know if I should say this.”
Bai Wutong knew what he wanted to say. He just wanted her to hand over the prescription to benefit the people.
Although Bai Wutong did not have the great ambitions to save the world, she was still willing to help if she could. She simply said, “I’ve already used the prescription list to exchange for the Life Spirit Pill with Master Cui. I have no objections to what you want to do with the prescription list.” However, he had to forget about asking her to reveal her ident.i.ty. She had money and s.p.a.ce now. She just wanted to find a stable place to bring Chu Tianbao to live her life.
Yang Quanzi said in surprise, “Madam, don’t you want your medical skills to become famous and leave your name in records forever?”
Bai Wutong sighed helplessly. “I’ve already said that I obtained this prescription by accident. Since I’ve given it to you, you can make the decision yourself. Don’t mention my name. Also, let me emphasize that I’m not a doctor. I just know a little. Don’t misunderstand and think that I’m some divine doctor. I am not one.” If someone came to challenge him, or the royal family had a difficult illness and insisted that she treat it, it would be a lot of trouble.
She just happened to know how to treat these basic illnesses.
The moment she said that, everyone, including Qingfeng, revealed a strange look.
Would they really believe that it was someone else’s prescription?
Bai Wutong definitely meant that she did not want anyone to know which expert she served under and did not want anyone to disturb her master.
Yang Quanzi was still worried and asked, “Then I’ll go and offer the prescription?” It was not convenient for Cui Shize to offer the prescription. Yang Quanzi was already so old and did not have the heart to progress further in his path as an official. It was most suitable for him to offer it.
Bai Wutong nodded and said tiredly, “Okay, I thank you on behalf of the people.” As long as he didn’t mention her!
Suddenly, Huang Zhong’s nose twitched. He suddenly frowned and quickly reported the situation to Bai Wutong. “Madam, I smell many people riding towards us at high speed. They are definitely not refugees or bandits. Their scent is very uniform and their speed is faster than a flood. They must be the suicide soldiers that Young Master Qingfeng mentioned.”
Bai Wutong had previously asked Qingfeng who Duke Ping would send if he wanted to capture them. Qingfeng immediately thought of the suicide soldiers that Duke Ping had secretly trained.
Just in case, Bai Wutong specially told Huang Zhong about that the suicide soldiers would make a sound when they arrived.
Now, they were really here.
There were even a lot of them.
Bai Wutong immediately said, “Everyone, let’s go!”
The team quickly got ready and set off. Their movements were smooth and neat like a well-trained army.
Yang Quanzi was stunned.
When Cui Shize saw that Bai Wutong and the others had suddenly sped up, they quickly followed.
After a while, Huang Zhong said anxiously to Bai Wutong, “They’re approaching very close, very close now!”
As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of galloping hooves came from the road behind, as if an army was chasing after them.
Everyone’s hearts were in their throats. Looking back, they saw a large group of well-trained black-clothed people holding steel swords.
Qingfeng had said that the capability of a suicide soldier was about the same as the secret guards of their Dark Guards Team. Duke Ping had sent out 500 people at once, so their team would definitely not be a match for them.
Bai Wutong made a prompt decision and said to Qingfeng, “Throw the explosives!”
There were still some explosive packets in their hands.
Qingfeng and the others moved quickly. They lit the gunpowder string and threw it out with a whoosh.
Unexpectedly, there was an expert with extraordinary martial arts in this group.
The explosive packet that Qingfeng and the others had thrown out was actually flipped over by him with his internal strength.
If it fell, not only would their team suffer casualties, Cui Lingyi and the others would die even more miserably at the back of the team.