Chapter 1034 A Moment of Peace and Tranquility

This is what worries He Lingchuan.

Sun Fuling washed the snails in water, then took out a pair of scissors and cut off the tips of their tails one by one: "You worry all day long, why not get rid of him earlier?"

"That's what I meant." At first, it was Fu Shanlie who led the Xiqie puppet army to fight guerrilla warfare with He Lingchuan, trying to exhaust Yuheng City. Now the situation has reversed. It is He Lingchuan who uses the tactic of delaying, trying to eliminate Fu Shanlie's followers and minions, and wants Yuheng City to pay the least price to eliminate the remnants. Anyway, time is on my side.

Both of them have sufficient reasons to do so, but now He Lingchuan decided to speed up.

There is a large bamboo forest nearby.

He Lingchuan looked around and saw that no one was paying attention, so he turned Master Sun into the dense bamboo forest.

The dazzling sunlight passed through the layers of leaves, leaving only a little mottled color. Master Sun was held in his arms, his back against the hard bamboo, and his eyes just caught that little color, and were completely blocked by He Lingchuan.

This man was as thick and hard as a wall, and she could no longer push him away.

Then, he took away the air from her mouth.

This bright and refreshing spring suddenly became hot and sticky.

Sun Fuling's face was as red as the morning glow in the sky, and she suddenly closed her eyes, as if even the light in the bamboo forest was dazzling.

He Lingchuan took advantage of her intoxication and dizziness to quietly pick her up and turn her around.

In his hands, she was not much heavier than a blade of grass.

At this moment, Sun Fuling seemed to wake up for the first time, opened her eyes and asked curiously: "What are you doing?"

"Go home." Why did they have to stay here to play with a group of children? "It's rare that there is no military duty in the afternoon, let's go and have fun by ourselves?"

Sun Fuling blinked: "Isn't this just an outing?"

"My ears are almost deafened, you call this an outing?" He Lingchuan chuckled, "There is a new store in the city that specializes in playing maze arrays. Haven't you always wanted to try it?"

In Yuandu and Lingxu City, maze arrays are not new things. But here, until the Longchuan trade route was opened, maze arrays and other entertainment facilities were introduced from the outside world to Yuheng City.

Sun Fuling spit at him: "Today we are here for a spring outing, it's work!"

"There are other teachers outside, the children will not get lost, they can find fun on their own, they don't need you." Teacher Sun twisted a few times in his arms, and He Lingchuan immediately locked them tightly.

Twist well, do a few more times!

She laughed and hit his shoulder: "Stop making trouble, put me down!"

Just then, the sound of kicking footsteps came from outside, the steps were fast and the stride was very short.

He Lingchuan and Master Sun heard it.

Which child must be coming over here?

"Little Fatty, it's Little Fatty." Sun Fuling wanted to push him away and go out, but He Lingchuan seized the last chance and pushed her to a clump of bamboo to steal another scent.

"Master Sun, Commander-in-Chief!" Little Fatty walked into the bamboo forest.

Just after walking in from the sunshine, the bamboo forest was a little dark. Little Fatty adjusted for a while before daring to walk in.

Wow, it's empty here, how can it look like there are people?

Erya said that Master Sun and the Commander-in-Chief had entered the bamboo forest. Could she be lying to him?

But the fish basket was thrown on the shore, it seemed to be Master Sun's?

Little Fatty took the courage to move forward more than a hundred steps and called twice more.

The bamboo four feet away suddenly rustled, and he shivered with fear. But then, two figures came out from behind the bamboo, and the commander-in-chief’s voice came slowly:

"Xiao Pang, what's wrong?"

Xiao Pang looked carefully and saw the commander-in-chief walking towards him with a smile, while Master Sun was two steps behind.

"What are you doing?" He shouted for a long time, but the commander and Master Sun didn't respond.

He Lingchuan stretched out his hand and handed him a few black, muddy things:

"I dug some bamboo shoots for soup."

The most delicious food on the ground is bamboo shoots, and the most delicious food in the river is fish. How can a spring picnic be without such delicacies?

"We cast bait four times, but it seems that we can't catch any fish!" Xiao Pang carefully caught the bamboo shoots and forgot his complaints. "Also, Master Liu and the others are back and picked a lot of mushrooms. Fortunately, fortunately, we have a lot of fish in the basket."

Sun Fuling stepped forward and led Xiao Pang to the stream: "Okay, let's go back and cook."

She brushed away the hair on her temples and glared at He Lingchuan.

It was tacitly understood.

After leaving the bamboo forest, the noise was deafening.

He Lingchuan saw fifty figures half a man's height by the stream, and couldn't help but press his eyebrows.

More than fifty divine beasts, wow.

The other two teachers came back with a large army of wild vegetable pickers. At this moment, the adults were busy dealing with the wild delicacies picked by the children.

Wild vegetables were fine, but there were many poisonous mushrooms mixed in with the fungi.

The teachers found the poisonous mushrooms, explained the harm and identification methods, and then distributed them to the children for circulation.

Teaching and entertainment are one of the purposes of spring outings.

Taking advantage of this time, the cooks of Yuheng Academy began to clean up the river food and prepare vegetables for soup.

The children used the temporary low embankment to catch a lot of small white stripes. After scraping the scales and washing them, they were coated with batter and put into the oil pan.

There were also a few big fish. After being fried, they were made into soup with clams, sweet bamboo shoots and mushrooms. The soup was milky white and fragrant.

As for the shrimps and crabs, they were put into the pot and stewed with mustard greens.

The cooks didn't think the children would get so much, and they had prepared a lot of ingredients for hot dishes, so they were busy now.

He Lingchuan didn't dare to join the children's group. It happened that the two teachers had just caught four or five bamboo rats, so he simply drew out his dagger and killed them.

The commander-in-chief of Yuheng City personally helped them, and the kitchen workers all nodded and bowed to him and were polite.

Only one person stared directly at him while washing the fish. The other kitchen workers poked her arm and whispered: "Wang Ma, don't stare at the Commander-in-Chief like that, it's rude!"

It's okay if people don't remind me. As soon as these words came out, Wang Ma dropped the bucket and came over. Her companion tried to grab her, but she threw him away.

Then, she stood in front of He Lingchuan: "Commander He!"

She was less than fifty, very thin, and her body was already a bit hunched, and she was not much taller when standing than when He Lingchuan was sitting.

"Wang Ma?"

Wang Ma was stunned for a moment when he revealed her identity. She didn't know that He Lingchuan had very good ears and could listen closely to the discussions of the kitchen workers.

But she calmed down and swallowed: "Can I ask you something?"

He Lingchuan saw that she mustered up the courage to come over, so he said gently: "Please tell me."

"How long do you want to wait before you take Takikawa down?"

He Lingchuan raised his eyebrows: "Why does Wang Ma ask this?"

"My eldest son was a city army patrolman, but he was ambushed by water bandits on the Longchuan Trade Road last year and disappeared." Wang Ma's face was rough and she looked expressionless, "Later, you recruited the Longchuan water bandits and gave them a lot of money."

These two sentences together represent dissatisfaction. He Lingchuan stood up immediately: "That's called road tax. When they collect it, they also have to maintain security on the trade routes. Yuheng City recruits them because they don't want to have unnecessary battles and don't want more good soldiers to die in the battle to suppress bandits."

After years of fighting, the people of Panlong City and Yuheng City paid a huge price.

In the words of General Nan Ke, who doesn’t have warriors who died in battle?

Wang Ma didn't understand this very well, but she knew: "I heard that there are no obstacles in Longchuan. Why don't you take down the puppet troops quickly?"

There is emotion in this sentence.

"There are no obstacles in Takikawa? Who did you listen to?"

"This..." Wang Ma was stuck, "It's been said in the city! They say we can capture the water bandits a long time ago."

He Lingchuan smiled: "Find the person who said this and let's confront him face to face. I really want to know what kind of strategic plan he has to make such a prediction."

Of course, Wang Ma couldn't find this person. She decided not to argue with He Lingchuan about this, and returned to the original point of the question: "Then when are you going to attack Longchuan?"

"Why is Queen Mother so anxious?"

"My eldest son was killed by the Xiqiao puppet army. Now my younger son is clamoring all day long to join the army and avenge his brother." Wang Ma said with a long face, "I don't want him to join the army anymore! I just want to ask the commander-in-chief, When will the murderer of my son be made to pay the price?”

"The puppet army is the biggest obstacle. There are several forces behind them, each of which is more powerful than Yuheng City. Without the puppet army, Longchuan would have been captured by us last year." He Lingchuan said kindly, "Deal with them , I would rather spend more time and spend more money, and I hope to sacrifice less lives. Every patrol soldier is precious to Yuheng City, isn't there an old saying in Yuheng City, I would rather die with money. , and don’t want people to die.”

To treat a commoner like Wang Ma, he can't talk about strategies or policies, it's too macroscopic. He could only lower his perspective and say something she could best understand.

These last two sentences made Wang Ma speechless for a moment.

She was still confused, but she didn't know what to say.

The kitchen worker at the back stepped forward and dragged her back: "I'm sorry, Commander-in-Chief, she just wants to talk nonsense."

He Lingchuan said seriously: "Wang Ma, there is no need to worry, your son's revenge will be avenged soon."

Wang Ma didn't say a word and left with the others.

While others were still wondering how fast "quick" was, the commander had already grabbed the fat bamboo rat and chopped off its head with a knife.

In the past six months, the voices of dissatisfaction with him in Yuheng City have become louder and louder, saying that he uses people's money to support water bandits, and that he is slowing down work and sacrificing performance.

He Lingchuan's method of controlling the banditry in Longchuan is that it takes a long time and is slow to produce results, but the sequelae and losses are small. The power of the system must be used to squeeze the Xiliang puppet army out of Longchuan.

This kind of gentle method was rarely used in Panlong City in the past, and the military and civilians criticized it a lot.

The propaganda work was still not done well, He Lingchuan sighed to the sky.

However, it’s almost time to close the net.

He handed the slaughtered bamboo rats back to the kitchen workers and found that the fish from the stream had also been processed and were waiting to be cooked. The creek grouper he and Master Sun caught was also among them.

He was worried, so he went to pick out the rock grouper and saw that there were indeed seeds in his belly.

Fish roe is usually a good thing. The chef who washes and peels the fish will remove the guts and leave the fish roe behind.

"We can't keep this. The roe of the creek grouper is poisonous."

When Wang Ma heard this, she quickly came over and dug out six or seven more stream groupers in the fish pile. Upon inspection, she found that half of them had seeds.

Remove the seeds quickly.

Soon after, the hot dishes were ready and served.

He Lingchuan worked for a long time and finally had food.

As soon as he squeezed to sit next to Master Sun and took a small fried fish and threw it into his mouth, the sound of rapid horse hooves was heard not far away.

Another horse rides through the peach forest, stepping on the fallen flowers and heading straight to the stream.

This is how He Lingchuan came just now. Master Sun pointed at his chopsticks and said with a smile: "It seems that you have no time to spare in the afternoon."

The visitor was a messenger from the City Health Department. He Lingchuan knew that there was an urgent military situation as soon as he saw his posture.