Volume 2: A sudden change in the prison, a red-clothed man goes out to find a thief Chapter 203: The small abacus in small places always makes a lot of noise
There were sounds of firecrackers outside the door.
In the hall inside the door, Banjie spat out the melon seeds shells in his mouth and was silent for a while. He put the melon seeds in his hand on the table, clapped his hands and said with a smile.
"Isn't this your home?"
Li Si opened his eyes, looked at him, but did not answer.
Banjiexian raised his eyebrows, as if to show that he understood, then put his hands on his legs to support himself and talked to himself.
"Actually, for me, wherever I live now is my home. After all, if you always think about the past, you won't be able to cherish the things in front of you. And the shopkeepers take such good care of you, but you still treat them as outsiders. Don't you feel a little sorry for them?"
"I don't treat them as outsiders either..." Li Si answered slowly, somewhat helplessly.
"What are those, just ordinary friends?" Banjiexian turned around with a smile, looked at Li Si deeply, and said with a sigh.
"As long as people live under the same roof, they need to support each other to move forward."
Li Si was speechless for a moment and didn't know what to say next.
Banjiexian had already stood up from the table and shook his clothes.
"I'm going to go look for them outside, what about you?"
"I..." Li Si opened his mouth, but finally closed it again.
Banjiexian shrugged his shoulders and did not force Li Si to do anything . Instead, he turned and walked out the door.
At this moment, Xiao He suddenly poked her head out from the door, smiled and waved at Li Si.
"Brother Si, come out and set off firecrackers together. It will be so lively."
Li Si was stunned for a moment, and Banjiexian stopped at the right time, turned around and looked at Li Si with a little smile, and tilted his head.
Outside the door, Zhang Susu and others also looked back. The strange old man was standing there with his arms folded, Lao Luo was still holding a book, Hao Dayou was sitting on the steps at the door, and Xiao Cao stuck out his tongue at Li Si.
They all seemed to be waiting for Li Si to go out. In the lighted streets, in the slightly warm yellow light and shadow, the figures were interspersed with each other.
Li Si looked at them, finally laughed out loud, shook his head, stood up and walked up.
“Here I come.”
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When the last sound of firecrackers faded away, the Tang Dynasty New Year was over. Every household cleaned the messy streets in front of their houses and visited and greeted their neighbors, with smiles on their faces.
Wada Mamoru took care of the puppets for the strange old man and learned how to maintain the puppets. This became his new course in addition to learning Tang language. By the way, the strange old man also taught him some knowledge about controlling and making puppets.
Li Si began his daily busy life again, arranging tables and chairs and greeting guests. After working as a waiter for several months, he had become very proficient in these tasks.
Xiao Cao has been counting the days lately. She said that the head of the police in the city should be coming back soon. Seeing her crazy look, no one can do anything to her.
Xiao He had already cultivated his internal energy the day after the New Year's Eve. This speed was not fast, but considering that he would be fourteen years old after the New Year, it was a rare thing to be able to cultivate his internal energy in one or two months. Li Si taught him the next sentence of the mental formula and told him to come back to him to ask about the follow-up content after he mastered it.
On this side, everyone seemed a little busy after the New Year.
On the other side, a long ship was sailing back to Heben.
Since encountering those puppets in Mingzhou City, the "samurai" who were lucky enough to escape have become half-crazy and half-insane . They evaded the pursuit of the government, returned to the long ship, and asked the crew to take them back to Heben immediately.
The crew members were curious and asked them what happened, but they just said that they encountered ghosts. Among the ghosts were a woman with a cracked mouth, a skinny old man, and a spider man with eight arms.
After hearing their mysterious words, the crew members stopped asking questions. After all, they were just kidnapped here, so whatever the samurai master said was the truth. They just had to do their job.
So the longboat sailed back to Heben. Due to the shortage of food on the way, there were several times when they thought they could not go back.
But who knows, in the end they still landed with Ben.
But the next moment after they docked, a group of real warriors rushed onto the boat and surrounded them with swords in hand.
The situation is not that big compared to our own country, and the hijacking of noble ships will soon spread everywhere and cannot be concealed for long.
So when the long ship docked, the warriors who came to capture him were already waiting on the shore.
All those who participated in the hijacking of the ship were captured by the samurai and brought before the noble lord for interrogation.
After some simple interrogations, the nobles learned that their purpose of hijacking the ships was to rob the Tang State and obtain gold.
Upon learning of this, the nobles all burst into laughter, saying that these people were so stupid that it was no wonder they could only be lowly people.
How could the Tang Kingdom be so easy to rob? Even if it was just the most remote city, not just any unscrupulous person could invade it.
But then, suddenly one of the nobles stopped laughing.
The others asked him what was wrong, and the noble frowned and offered an idea.
Recently, Tang was willing to teach them less and less, but in fact, they still had a lot of technology they wanted to obtain from Tang. But no matter how they requested, the officials of Tang kept silent about some important technologies.
This undoubtedly makes them anxious and annoyed. If they cannot obtain the technologies used for development, they and their country will always be an inferior country. They are unwilling to accept this, so they must seek change.
And these stupid people in front of him just happened to give the noble some inspiration.
Since they cannot learn those technologies from the Tang Dynasty through legitimate means, they might as well just rob them.
The other nobles turned pale with fright after hearing his words, and thought he was crazy. Wasn't he afraid of revenge from the Tang Dynasty?
The noble smiled and said that he didn't mean to rob in their name, what he meant was to rob in the name of these bandits.
The nobles of their own country sent their own warriors to pretend to be bandits to rob the gold and technology of the Tang Dynasty. If the Tang Dynasty held them accountable, they would say that it was their own poor supervision that allowed the bandits to flee, and then they would just execute a few people at random to give the Tang Dynasty an explanation.
But there is no end in sight for things like banditry. They can send new people over at any time. As long as they don't make things too big, the Tang State will never be able to intervene.
When the noble finished telling his plan, all the nobles present and from his own country fell silent.
It has to be admitted that this is a very feasible plan. It will also bring them great benefits.
They were somewhat moved.
