I want to do research even if I have no money

Suburban wind and rain pavilion.

Jing Shen and Gong Juren are standing in front of the Wind and Rain Pavilion. There is only a lonely pavilion here. There are also passers-by who take a rest here on weekdays, but they come and leave in a hurry, and no one will stay here for a long time.

There was a heavy rain two days ago, Jing Shen looked around and realized that it was almost impossible to find the clues left by Situ Meng here.The fact is just as he imagined, the leader Gong Juren searched and checked countless times in the Wind and Rain Pavilion and its surroundings, but did not find any clues.

"Little Lord……"

"Well, I know... let's go back first."

The clues are interrupted here, and the depth of field can no longer find any news about Situ Meng.However, after such a search, it was not completely fruitless. At least he knew that Situ Meng was very likely to be lured away by the fish that slipped through the net in Beiyuan. As for their final destination...

Depth of Field stood on the city wall, looking north——Amon, are you there?

On the other side, Situ Meng woke up in the dark iron prison. The place where the cage was located was on the ground—to be precise, it was inside a military tent. From the cage, he could hear the voices of people talking outside. It was still daytime, and the tent was very bright. Judging from the furnishings inside, the tent was most likely built temporarily. As for whether it was built specifically to imprison him, or for other purposes, he didn't know.

Surrounded by people wearing Beiyuan soldier armor, Beiyuan has been attached to Dazhou for a hundred years, and the people of Beiyuan have used Dazhou Mandarin as their own language. As for the original Beiyuan dialect, it has been forgotten in the baptism of generations.

He listened to the soldiers and learned that he was now in the barracks of the Beiyuan army, and there were hundreds of thousands of Beiyuan soldiers outside.

Because he had been trapped in the box and given a lot of drugs, he didn't know who the person who tied him here was and what was his purpose.

At such a time, Situ Meng would rather someone come in to interrogate him, because at least he could get some useful information from the conversation and give him a chance to escape.

But the fact is just the opposite. He seems to be forgotten, and he is handcuffed and imprisoned in this iron prison. There are only two guards at the door. The person who locked him seems to be sure that he can't escape-but the truth is also true. Indeed, this is the barracks of the Beiyuan Army, and there are all Beiyuan soldiers outside. Even if he is given a pair of wings, he can't fly out.

There was no torture, no interrogation, and no one came to see him. Situ Meng has been trapped in this ghostly place for three whole days. The soldiers guarding him seemed blind and couldn't see him. There was neither water nor blood. The food, it seemed, was trying to starve him to death or dehydrate him to death.

Situ Meng began to think about the purpose of the person who brought him here. That day in the wind and rain pavilion on the outskirts of the city, he didn't see the person who drugged him. He was also confused by the sweat drug along the way, unable to distinguish, and unable to think. Who was the person who drove the carriage to transport him here.

This is Beiyuan Barracks.Situ Meng thought, no matter the identity of the person who brought him here, why bother to bring him here?

Because he is useful?Or because of his identity?Or for some other reason... What is the reason for the person who gave the order?

Just as he was thinking, the curtain of the military tent was lifted, and it was already night outside, but the burning torches and oil lamps illuminated the place brightly, and the outside of the military tent was actually brighter than the inside.

Situ Meng closed his eyes subconsciously, and opened them slowly after his eyes got used to the light outside.Severe dehydration left him in an extremely weak state, but he still raised his head with willpower, wanting to see the dignity of the first guest in this cell.

The visitor was dressed in luxurious attire, and the jewelry was hung wherever he could hang it as if he didn't need money. He was followed by four bodyguards with big arms and round waists. Just looking at this style, Situ Meng thought it was some precious little prince from Beiyuan Kingdom condescending It took him a while to realize that the person wearing the noble costume of Beiyuan was actually his cousin who had been missing for a long time!

Situ Lan made a full gesture, and even ordered someone to move a bench for him. After the guard wiped it carefully with his sleeves, he swung his sleeves. Unfortunately, he seemed to have forgotten that the toga he was wearing in the Central Plains was no longer what he was wearing now. Wide sleeves, such a swing, not only did not show a handsome appearance, but it made the jewels around him jingle.

He coughed to cover up, and glared at the innocent bystander - Situ Meng, in shame and anger, before sitting on the simple bench with the jingling jewels on his body.

Situ Meng was still dizzy due to dehydration. Seeing him sitting down, he was still thinking dizzily, these jewels look disgusting, and he wonders if his cousin's butt hurts?

At least on the face of it, Situ Lan didn't feel any pain, or he was used to it, and he still had the energy to stare at Situ Meng with such force that the latter was worried about whether his eyeballs would fall out of the frame. out.

Just when Situ Meng wanted to close his eyes and rest his mind, the starer said, "Are you hungry? Are you thirsty?"

Situ Meng thought, isn't this nonsense?Try it for yourself without eating or drinking for three days and three nights to see if you are hungry or thirsty? !

"Back then, I was hunted down by Chen Xiang's country. I fled from the capital to Bingzhou, and then from Bingzhou to Tangmenguan. Even so, they still didn't let me go. I mixed with a caravan and walked halfway through the desert. In a few months, I met a group of horse thieves who burned, looted and looted. None of them let go, and the entire caravan died. Only I hid among the corpses and escaped." Situ Lan spoke very quickly. Slow, I haven't seen him for a few years, he seems to have grown a lot, and he seems to have remained the same.

Situ Meng didn't interrupt. First, his throat was really dry. Second, he really wanted to hear what the person in front of him was trying to say.

"The horse thief walked for a long time, but I didn't dare to move. It was dark, the desert was freezing, and the body on my body was even colder. At a certain moment, I even thought I was dead, dead in an ice cellar... However, I still got up after sunrise the next day, and I collected all the useful items on the caravan corpses, including clothes and fabrics, and kept walking away from the direction the horse thief left."

"...I finished drinking water and eating dry food. I walked in the desert for seven days, and I didn't see the border of Dayuan until the eighth day." Situ Lan said, "You are much luckier than me at that time. There is no wind. Blowing the sun, without the deadly black wind and the cold night that seems to never end, but without water and food, isn’t that what prisoners should be like?”

Situ Lan seemed to see his shadow at that time from Situ Meng's situation in front of him. He was in a daze for a moment. He glared at Situ Meng and kicked Situ Meng hard. Situ Meng said hello.

Situ Meng was already weak, and there was nothing left in his stomach except stomach acid. Being kicked like this, he couldn't help retching. Seeing this, Situ Lan quickly withdrew his feet, as if afraid of being contaminated by Situ Meng's vomit, with fierce eyes Looking at Situ Meng intently.

He sat back on the stool, looked at the top of the tent in a daze for a while, and then went crazy again, "No! Not only this time, you are luckier than me—you have a father who is a scholar of the Hanlin University, and a gentle and virtuous mother, Even though you are the son of a concubine, your grandfather always treats you better... Even the fifth prince's companionship, he favored you from the beginning, but his will was not strong enough, so my mother and grandmother persuaded me with a few words ...Oh! I almost forgot, and the fifth prince! That silly boy started crying and said that he must be his companion, saying that I was an 'imposter'...

"The result? As a result, he became a frequent visitor to the Goulan brothel, suffering from various ailments and drug addiction... The noble concubine of their family is still delusional about becoming the empress dowager! The ending is not as good as his son, Speaking of which, I still want to thank her for the soldiers of Beiyuan! It’s just that she’s still too old to play!”

Hearing this, Situ Meng finally couldn't help but say, "Have you said enough?"

"Huh? You were talking just now?"

"I said... You, to, to the end, said, enough, did you?!" He hadn't touched a drop of water for three days, and the moment he opened his mouth, Situ Meng's throat seemed to be on fire. He couldn't utter it, and he finally uttered it, and he didn't care whether it would cause damage to his body or not, so he yelled out word by word.

Situ Lan let out a "tsk" and covered her ears in a symbolic way. The guards behind her immediately rushed forward, pulling out their shiny scimitars one by one and gesticulating at the captives who were lying on the ground.

"Shhhhhh!" Situ Lan said something to the guards in a low voice, only to see that the tense atmosphere disappeared in vain, and the guards retreated behind him.

"I'm still thinking, when will you give me some feedback? I didn't expect you to lose your composure so soon, and I still have a lot of stuff I haven't used yet!" Ordering someone to bring Situ Meng up, Situ Lan Leaning down beside his ear, he said in a deep voice, "Don't die too fast—anger, unwillingness, humiliation, despair...everything I've experienced, one by one, will be multiplied a hundred times, a thousand times, so that you can take care of yourself." Enjoy and enjoy!"

Situ Meng wanted to spit on his arrogant little man's face, but his mouth was too dry, and this idea couldn't be realized, so he lowered his standards and rolled his eyes, but his timing was wrong, the guard just grabbed him The collar threw him back to the corner of the iron cage, and he could only roll his eyes at the tent in the end.

The white-eyed wolf who deserved to be struck by lightning went away as he came, and the dark cell returned to tranquility. Situ Meng closed his eyes and rested in the darkness, and rethought his countermeasures along the way.

Having such a well-know enemy is a disadvantage as well as an advantage. It depends on how to use this poisoned double-edged sword to stab the enemy.

I remember Jing Shen once said that Beiyuan has been suppressed by the Great Zhou for many years. Except for mining and hunting, it is rare to find a person who is proficient in fire mechanism skills among Beiyuan people.It is also because of this that the fire mechanism weapons and armor of the Beiyuan army this time were all exchanged from a certain country in the west that is proficient in fire mechanism techniques.

The fire mechanism technology of western countries is at least decades more advanced than that of Dazhou, but due to geographical reasons, that country cannot produce fire mechanism oil mines by itself, and can only buy them from other countries.However, North China has rich fire engine oil resources, but lacks sufficient technical support.

One side lacks resources, the other lacks technology, and the two hit it off. Sufficient firearms, weapons and armor allow the Beiyuan Army to occupy a favorable position from the very beginning, coupled with the various bad habits of the Great Zhou that have been suffering for many years - arrogance and arrogance , Contempt for other countries... All kinds of reasons were mixed together, which made the Beiyuan army march straight after invading the border of Da Zhou. In a few months, they occupied half of Da Zhou's country and confronted the southern court of Da Zhou.

It can be seen from this that in terms of political strategy, King Beiyuan is not the rough war madness that people stereotyped. Before the war started, he secretly contacted the Western countries and secretly carried out the transaction of firearm weapons and firearm oil. This deliberate act cannot be completed in a month and a half——

Perhaps the Northern Plains King had already made preparations for war long before he became king, and when the time came, he would launch an attack in vain!

"It's better this way." Situ Meng lay in the iron cage with his hands covering his stomach. He retched several times just now, so he could only curl up weakly, dizzy and unable to move.Fortunately, the pain kept him awake and thinking about how to escape.

If King Beiyuan is really a brave and foolish man, then his chance of escaping must be even smaller; however, God still has a glimmer of hope for him—— King Beiyuan is a statesman with far-sightedness. This war has been in ambush for many years, so he must also think of the way after the war is won.

Or in other words, even in this war, he still needs someone like Situ Meng who is proficient in fire mechanism skills-purchasing fire mechanism weapons from Western countries can only quench his thirst for a while, but in the long run, especially as the war drags on. The longer it is, the more unfavorable it is to Beiyuan.

Therefore, Beiyuan is definitely very interested in people who are proficient in fire mechanism skills, and as long as Situ Meng shows the king of Beiyuan that he may work hard for Beiyuan, the king of Beiyuan will treat him like a guest, and Situ Lan, who hates him deeply, It will make him even more jealous.

From now on, it's time for them to bite dogs and become suspicious of each other.

The author has something to say:

New pit for collection~~

"The disciplinary committee is busy today too"

Science Cannot Explain and Fantasy Biology College (hereinafter referred to as "Science Fiction Biology College"), the 186th semester officially starts, please bring the admission notice, race certificate, attribute test report, and practice resume to the Science Fiction Biology College on September 9 Day and September 1nd to go to school for admission.

If you have any inconvenience, please contact Mr. Jiang Ziya, the admission office at the bottom of the admission notice.

Attachment: Disciplinary committee members please stick to their posts and maintain order in the college.

Students who have received the invitation letter from the Disciplinary Committee should go to the Disciplinary Committee's Office for induction training within one week of the start of the semester (postponed on holidays).

Disciplinary committee office telephone: 0000-####-****