That night, Yuan Ying told Si Hongjing that there would be ten tons of vegetables coming tomorrow.
Si Hongjing thanked her profusely again.
This time, he brought a pile of calligraphy and paintings.
“These are all I’ve collected, I don’t know if you’ll like them.”
His eyes were calm, but he secretly glanced at the pile of calligraphy and paintings a few times.
Yuan Ying inexplicably saw some reluctance in them.
These… were probably his collections!
Yuan Ying opened several scrolls of calligraphy and paintings and looked at them, finally picking up one of the beauty paintings, and said:
“This one is enough for me.”
Si Hongjing naturally wanted to persuade Yuan Ying to take them all.
But Yuan Ying didn’t like taking what others loved.
Anyway, many things from the Great Qian Dynasty were collectible for her.
Early the next morning, Si Hongjing went to the barracks and told the soldiers to build a larger warehouse, and it must be completed today.
“Isn’t the imperial court not giving us grain…”
“The general specifically told us to install a door on the warehouse, how strange.”
“Maybe the gods are going to give us food again!”
“You don’t know that! The gods send things to the general’s mansion!”
The soldiers discussed in a low voice while working.
Zhong Yi was lying in the camp listening to the banging and clanging outside all afternoon. He couldn’t resist his curiosity and limped out, and heard the soldiers’ words.
To this day, Zhong Yi still didn’t believe in any gods.
He went directly to Si Hongjing’s camp and asked him why he was building a new warehouse again, and if he had come up with any clever tricks.
“The grain will be delivered at Xu Shi tonight, if you don’t believe it, guard it yourself.”
“Deliver grain? Who’s delivering? Don’t tell me it’s that god!”
Si Hongjing raised his eyes indifferently, as if asking him ‘otherwise?’
Seeing this, Zhong Yi simply asked someone to move his small couch out and lie down next to the warehouse.
He wanted to see how the grain was delivered!
Si Hongjing was busy all the time. It wasn’t until You Shi (5-7 PM) that the people below reported that the warehouse had been built, that he went out to take a look.
“Where’s the grain?” Zhong Yi asked.
“Is it Xu Shi yet?” Si Hongjing asked back.
“Does it have to be Xu Shi? Does it make a difference of an hour or two?”
“It makes a difference.”
“…”
Zhong Yi was even more speechless.
This time, he didn’t even go to the toilet, and just stayed next to the warehouse waiting to see the grain delivery.
Even the soldiers in the barracks who knew about the grain delivery news, the soldiers who didn’t have to patrol and guard, all rushed over and surrounded the warehouse, staring at it in unison.
Xu Shi (7-9 PM).
Zhong Yi waited for a few breaths.
There was no movement in the warehouse, he looked at Si Hongjing, as if asking him for an explanation.
Si Hongjing didn’t even give him a look.
He didn’t know if she was doing well on her side.
If she would encounter any difficulties.
Just as Si Hongjing was hesitating whether to go to Yuan Ying’s house to take a look, there was a sudden sound in the warehouse.
Boom—
Sounds like muffled thunder rang out one after another.
“Aren’t you curious? Go open the door and take a look!” Si Hongjing said to Zhong Yi.
“My… my legs aren’t feeling well! You go for me! I’m watching.” Zhong Yi said.
Si Hongjing just twitched his lips and didn’t speak.
Zhong Yi: …
Seeing that Si Hongjing had no intention of opening the door, he could only hop over on one foot.
He took a deep breath and nervously opened the door of the warehouse.
The soldiers behind him stretched their necks and looked over.
They saw that the warehouse, which was originally empty, was now full of vegetables.
Not only that, but vegetables were still constantly appearing out of thin air near the warehouse door.
“Ah!” Zhong Yi cried out in pain.
It turned out that a large cabbage that appeared out of thin air had hit his one foot.
The soldiers instantly laughed.
“General, these vegetables were bestowed on us by the gods, right!” a soldier asked excitedly.
“Yes.” Si Hongjing gave the soldiers a reassurance, and said: “For the next period of time, the gods will deliver food every day.”
“That’s great, we won’t starve to death!”
“The vegetables given by the gods are so fresh! I remembered the taste after eating one last time…”
“I told you! With the blessing of the gods, the matter of reinforcements and grain will definitely be resolved!”
The entire camp was filled with a joyful atmosphere.
Si Hongjing seriously told everyone that they couldn’t blindly rely on the gods, they had to cultivate the land and take advantage of the time when the gods were helping to achieve self-sufficiency.
Everyone agreed.
And Zhong Yi was stunned after seeing the warehouse automatically conjuring up vegetables.
It wasn’t until the soldiers watching the excitement had dispersed, leaving only a team to sort out the vegetables and ask him to make way, that he recovered.
“Si Hongjing! What exactly is going on?”
“Are there really gods?”
“Did you really give my hairpins to the gods as gifts!?”
Zhong Yi walked quickly to Si Hongjing’s side and asked a series of questions.
Si Hongjing silently pointed his finger downwards.
“I’m talking to you about serious matters, you… ah!”
Zhong Yi looked in the direction Si Hongjing was pointing.
He saw that he was actually walking on two feet.
The wounds on his feet and legs had burst open, but he only felt the pain at this time.
“Go find a medical officer to treat the wounds quickly.”
“You haven’t answered me yet!”
“They were given to her, and she liked them very much.” Si Hongjing replied.
Hearing this, Zhong Yi’s eyebrows were dyed with a bit of smugness:
“It seems that my vision is recognized even by the gods! When I get better, I’ll go and collect more for the gods!”
He completely didn’t notice that Si Hongjing completely avoided answering the question about the gods.
So that one day in the future, he would be heartbroken and beat his chest for this.
After Si Hongjing handed over the matter of sorting out the vegetables to the officer on duty, he left the barracks and returned to the general’s mansion.
On the other side, an hour ago.
The truck that came to transport the vegetables suspiciously dumped everything in the truck bed onto the ‘sheet metal slide’ customized by Yuan Ying.
They had all warned her that dumping it like this would definitely block the door.
The owner insisted on dumping it directly, and had to wait until after seven o’clock for her to open the door before dumping.
For the sake of her being generous with money, they had already prepared to get out of the car to help her clear the blockage, but she kept telling them to dump, dump, dump, and it didn’t block.
“What a weirdo, dressed like a weirdo, and her behavior is even weirder!”
“I don’t know if her ‘sheet metal slide’ has some special structure, how can it not block when dumping directly, it’s too strange.”
“Hiss, the night wind is blowing, it’s a bit creepy. This remote mountain, we haven’t encountered a ghost, have we!”
The driver was chatting with the person who delivered the goods with him.
Suddenly, a person popped out of the field next to him.
It was an old man, holding a hoe as if he was going to smash their car, and said:
“You are the weirdo, you are the ghost! She’s such a good person, why are you talking about her behind her back?”
The driver quickly stepped on the gas and left.
Not just that employer.
He saw that this village was full of weirdos!
And the old man was the watermelon-selling old man who was ‘lost’ by Yuan Ying before.
The next day, the old man was still afraid that Yuan Ying would be wronged.
He specially came to the door to ask Yuan Ying if she had been bullied yesterday, and if there was anything that everyone needed to help with, which made Yuan Ying laugh and cry, and her heart was inexplicably warm.