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- Lin Li and his party climbed up to Fancheng and stood on the tower, looking at the devastation outside the city. It still felt unreal!
At this time, a military commander came forward, stood in front of Yin Mei, cupped his fists and said, "I, Fancheng Guards Qiudi, pay homage to the Imperial Envoy!"
Yin Mei looked at the military general Qiu Di and frowned: "General Qiu, I remember that the lord of Fan City is Li Wei. Mr. Li, where are the others?"
Qiu Di apologized: "Master Li has been appeasing the people in the inner city!"
Yin Mei snorted coldly: "To appease the people, I think you are greedy for life and afraid of death, so hide in the inner city!"
Qiu Di was a little embarrassed and didn¡¯t know how to reply, because Yin Mei was right!
Since the first day of the beast disaster, Li Wei, the lord of Fancheng, handed over all military power to Qiu Di and hid in the lord's palace.
If Li Wei hadn¡¯t been too timid and afraid of encountering wild beasts when he left the city, he would have abandoned the city and fled!
In the past few days, it was all up to Qiu Di to dispatch troops and generals to organize the people's rebel army in the city to fight against the gophers, and finally waited for the support of the "Shen Ax Sect".
Yin Mei is an old man in the world. He can see the reality of Fancheng at a glance, and highly affirms Qiu Di's dedication to his duties.
But I can¡¯t stand the city lord Li Wei¡¯s greed for life and fear of death, and his shirk of responsibility.
If it weren¡¯t for the beast disaster, Yin Mei would have killed Li Wei immediately.
"Speak to Cao Cao, and Cao Cao will arrive."
I saw a thin scholar, wearing a Zhou official uniform, running up to the tower. When he saw Yin Mei, he immediately fell to his knees!
"I am lowering my official rank to the Grand Administrator of Fancheng, Li Wei, to pay my respects to the Prince Consort!"
Yin Mei snorted angrily and said: "I don't dare to kneel down like Master Li. You and I are colleagues in the same dynasty as officials. Yin doesn't dare to accept Master Li's gift!"
Lin Li saw that Li Wei's forehead was covered with cold sweat, but his official robe was as clean as new. It seemed that he had been living well these days.
In contrast, Qiu Di looked much more embarrassed, his armor was stained with bad stains, and his body was even covered in gopher blood stains!
"Prince-in-law! Prince-in-law!" Li Wei hugged Yin Mei's thigh and cried: "I, Li Wei, am a scholar with no power to tie a chicken. I have never seen such a battle. You let me go into battle to kill the enemy. , instead of sending the lives of the people in the city into the mouths of wild beasts!"
Yin Mei gritted her teeth angrily, wishing to kill the shameless Li Wei with one palm, but he didn't do that!
Because he knows that there are many people like Li Wei in the officialdom. It is human nature to be greedy and afraid of death. You can't make everyone's consciousness as high as Qiu Di!
"Grandpa Yin, although this person is afraid of death, he is self-aware. It's good that he didn't hinder Qiu Di from defending the city!" Lin Li spoke up to say good things for Li Wei.
Lin Li had been the regent in the Ming Dynasty for decades and had seen many officials in the officialdom, so he was naturally not surprised.
In fact, people like Li Wei are not hateful. At least he did not give random orders and handed over military power to those who really knew what he was doing!
Yin Mei¡¯s expression softened a little, she pulled Li Wei up and said, ¡°What¡¯s the situation in Fan City now? The people can be comforted!¡±
Li Wei wiped the sweat from his forehead, glanced at Lin Li gratefully, and then replied to Yin Mei:
"Reporting to Prince Consort, the people of Fancheng are now in panic, but fortunately they are still relatively stable, and many young men have volunteered to join the rebel army to resist the wild beasts, but there is not much food in Fancheng!"
Yin Mei sat on the floor, listening to Li Wei's report and eating some dry food to satisfy her hunger.
After several hours of killing gophers, a ninth-level master is also hungry!
Qiu Di ordered his men to bring a lot of dry food to Lin Li and the others. However, when Lu Mingtao saw the hard food in his hand, which was as hard as a rock, he did not eat it with disdain!
"The desolate beast came suddenly. There is insufficient food reserves in the city. Most of the granaries are outside the city. I don't know if they were destroyed by the desolate beast!"
Although Li Wei did not dare to go up to the tower to resist the gophers, he had been coordinating from the rear and was fairly familiar with the situation in Fancheng.
"There is not enough food in the city to feed the entire city for three days!"
Yin Mei frowned and said: "We must find a way to adjust the food supply!"
Qiu Di took out a map around Fancheng and said: "The nearest granary to Fancheng is in Shijiagou, three miles away. However, since the animal disaster, we have lost contact with the granary and we don't know if there is food in it! "
Li Wei also had a dark expression on his face and said: "Even if there is food, it is impossible to transport it to Fancheng overnight. At dawn tomorrow, the gopher rats will attack the city again!"
Song Xinyan wondered: "Does this gopher-eating rat come to attack the city every day? It comes at sunrise and leaves at sunset!"
Qi Changtian sighed and said, "Yes! It's been like this every day during this period. What's even more troublesome is that the number has not decreased at all, but is increasing!"
Qiu Di clasped his fists at Qi Changtian and said, "If it weren't for the righteousness of the God Ax SectHelp, Fancheng has long been in ruins! "
Qi Changtian shook his head and said: "It's a pity that my personal power is limited and I still can't kill all the gopher rats!"
The fear of gopher rats is not their strength, but their endless numbers.
It is not difficult for a ninth-level master to kill a hundred, a thousand, or ten thousand gopher rats!
The difficulty lies in the fact that there are more than tens of millions of gopher-eating rats.
What¡¯s even worse is that in addition to the gopher-eating rats, there are also blood-eyed crows in the sky!
Qi Changtian was trapped by a group of blood-eyed crows today. If Lin Li and the others hadn't arrived in time, Fancheng would have fallen!
"We must find out the origin of the gopher rat and why he wants to attack the city? Otherwise we will be too passive!" Song Xinyan said.
Yin Mei frowned and said: "Our top priority is to solve the food crisis in Fancheng first!"
There are hundreds of thousands of people in Fan City, which means hundreds of thousands of mouths. The daily consumption of food and grass is astronomical. Once there is no food, I am afraid that before the gopher-eating rats attack the city, the city itself will be in chaos!
Lin Li said: "Why don't I take a team of people out of the city to adjust food at night? If I don't have time to return to the city before dawn tomorrow, I can delay it for a while by taking the rear!"
Yin Mei looked at Song Xinyan and the others and said, "We have to keep people in Fan City. We have to divide our troops into two groups and some of them stay in the city to defend the city!"
In the end, Yin Mei decided that Lin Li would lead the team, Song Xinyan, Hu Yanzhuoxin, and Yu Gongfeng would look for food, while Yin Mei, Lu Mingtao, and Qi Changtian would guard Fancheng.
Qiu Di also sent an elite force of a hundred people, with his adjutant Sha Pingjing leading the way for Lin Li and the others.
In order to save time, Lin Li and the others set off immediately, taking advantage of the moonlight to leave the city and head for the granary in Shijiagou!
Because they were worried about being attacked by gopher rats outside the city, Lin Li and the others did not march very fast. They walked three miles and took a full hour to arrive!
Along the way, Lin Li didn't find a single gopher rat, not even the corpse of the gopher rat he killed originally.
Shijiagou is located three miles north of Fancheng. It is usually guarded by imperial grain officials, but when Lin Li arrived at Shijiagou, he saw no one, only a messy village!
There is no one in the village for a long time, not even a corpse of a villager, only the blood stains on the ground have turned black.
Sha Pingjing sent someone to see the granary, and was surprised to find that the grain in the granary was still there.
Lin Li quickly sent someone to load the bags of grain into the truck.
Song Xinyan and Huyan Zhuoxin have been studying the blood stains on the ground since they came to Shijiagou, and even scraped some blood stains to take back for study!
"Old woman!" Huyan Zhuoxin suddenly screamed strangely, pointing to a dry well in front of him and said: "There are survivors!"
Lin Li came over after hearing the sound and saw the dry well pointed by Huyan Zhuoxin.
That was a well near the granary. It had been abandoned for a long time, and a pile of hay covered the mouth of the well.
Lin Li pulled away the hay and saw a thin figure lying at the bottom of the well.
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