After rebirth, the Queen and I are on the run.

Chapter 1177 Don't Be So Lawless

“Master Qin is right, I will write a letter right away.” Commander Fan immediately ordered two clerks to copy down all the information the mountain people had given about the situation inside the mountain, their illnesses, and what they had seen along the way after descending the mountain.

He then wrote a letter to Qi the Angel, asking him to intervene and, if necessary, use his status to pressure Gu Chengyong and Lord Yan to open the city gates and welcome Wei Min into the city to escape the war.

The Wei people mentioned by Fan Qianhu included mountain people.

"I'll make the trip myself." Without stopping, Commander Fan led another troop of cavalry towards the Wei army's defensive positions.

Magistrate Kang and Magistrate Lin breathed a sigh of relief: "Commander Fan is very righteous. With him personally delivering the message, he will definitely be able to get it in."

The truth is, they were civil officials and dared not draw their swords against Zeng Tongzhi and Su Qianhu, but Fan Qianhu did.

Just like how Qin Er could use his tantrum to accuse the Su and Gu families of abusing their power for personal gain.

Master Xun then called out to his men: "Si Pei, Lu Qian, Xu Ji... children, help your master build a shed here. Your master will stay here so that he can discuss rat plague cases with the doctors from Aling Mountain nearby."

Then he asked Qin Xiaomi, "Boss, is this alright?"

He had previously wanted to live with the mountain people, but his employer refused.

The landlord said that we were almost at the city gate and we had to do a good job of preventing the plague, otherwise we would be giving others a handle to use against us, allowing Gu Chengyong and the other people in the city to have an excuse to prevent us from entering the city.

“Okay.” Qin Xiaomi then said to Ye Xifen, Zhu Yiqing and other female martial artists, “Bring the projector and drop some supplies over to A Ling and the others.”

"Yes." Ye Xifen and the others immediately went to the carriage not far away and unloaded boxes from it.

Open the box and take out the wooden items... base, rotating assembly frame, rotating lever arm, pull rope, and spring bag.

Bang! The basin-sized, calf-high base was placed at the very bottom.

Install the rotating assembly frame, which connects the base and the rotating lever arm.

Install the rotating lever arm.

Install the drawstring and elastic bag.

With a buzzing sound, Ye Xifen flicked the pull cord and the pouch, and said to Qin Xiaomi, "Boss, it's assembled."

Magistrate Kang pointed at the tiny projectile, smaller than a basket, his hand trembling, and shouted, "Stop! What do you mean it's assembled already? How can your Qin family manufacture heavy weaponry!"

That's against the law; it could get your whole family beheaded.

You brazenly assembled it right in front of the government troops at the second gate; don't be so lawless!
The clerk hurriedly said, "Sir, please calm down. This is wartime, and wartime military law applies. Besides, what Master Qin made was not a catapult, but just a large slingshot, a child's toy."

Magistrate Kang barely recognizes him anymore... Listen to yourself, are you even speaking human language? A giant slingshot? A child's toy?

Even if the Qin family girl is your niece, you can't be so biased.

However, the most basic rule of wartime military law is that Wei civilians are allowed to manufacture their own weapons to kill the enemy.

Even serious criminals can be credited with military merit for killing the enemy. Wei Min made his own weapons to fight the enemy, which truly shows his dedication to serving the country during wartime.

Zhong Baihu stepped in to smooth things over: "Your Excellency, please rest assured, after we defeat the Eastern Desert people, I will make sure the Qin family hands over this projector."

What could Magistrate Kang say? He could only back down gracefully: "Shen, the clerk, remember this."

"Yes." Shen Du immediately noted down the fact that the Qin family had projectiles, waiting to confiscate them after the battle.

Qin Xiaomi didn't care.

Many craftsmen can make this thing; it's not exactly a secret item. After the war, if everyone is still alive and remembers it, she will hand over the finished product along with the blueprints and get a small reward in return.

Zhu Yiqing and the others packed their food, clothing, medicine, and other items into bags lined with a layer of straw and packed them up.

Then they were placed one by one into the ammunition pouch. "Ready!"

Ye Xifen started pulling the rope, tightening it as much as possible, and then waited.

"put!"

Whoosh-!
A hard-boiled egg, larger than a clay pot and weighing three pounds, was thrown in the direction where Ahei and Aling were.

The supply pack flew past Aling and the others' heads, landed far behind them, and eventually disappeared.

This range?

Zhong Baihu was overjoyed and hurriedly shouted, "Young Chief Ahei, please help us measure the range!"

"Received!" Ahei immediately led his men to pull the rope and measure the firing range.

After a while, the reply came through: "Including the distance from your side, the range is sixteen meters!"

"Sixteen meters!" Zhong Baihu exclaimed with delight. "If the weight is reduced further, the range of this small projector could probably reach over twenty-five meters. What a wonderful thing!"

He pointed to the projector and said to the students, "Can you see this, students? This is what a great talent for the nation should be; one cannot just study books."

Reading is essential, but if you only read books and don't work, you're just a useless person.

Si Pei, Qi Yucong, Xu Ji, and the others felt a burning sensation on their faces, quite ashamed and indignant.

Lu Qian was helping Old Man Xun build a shack not far away when he heard this and lowered his head to hide the hatred in his heart... Heaven is unfair. Qin's daughter is just a worthless woman from a lowly family. How can she repeatedly make things that benefit the country and the people?

These things, these credits, should rightfully belong to them!

Shi Songxin, fearing that he might go astray, whispered to him, "We don't need to eat her heart. She is a woman, she can't be an official, and she can't be our political enemy."

He sneered inwardly, disagreeing with the statement, but he had already stumbled enough along the way and couldn't afford to be foolish again. He smiled and said, "Brother Shi is right. Let's hurry up and build a house for our master, it's getting late."

Zheng Qianjia, who came to help, didn't say a word, but just got to work.

Whoosh-!
Whoosh-!
Whoosh-!
Ye Xifen and the others sent more than a dozen supply packages to A Ling.

Qin Xiaomi called out, "A-Ling, the meat, eggs, rice, noodles, ginseng, and other items are all specially for you and Chief Wen. Eat more, so you can gain weight and stay healthy enough to withstand what's to come. Don't starve yourself and get sick!"

The messenger relayed Qin Xiaomi's words to A Ling.

Aling, Ahei, and the ten mountain people had almost finished eating the three catties of hard-boiled eggs. Hearing this, Aling almost burst into tears and replied, "As expected of my dear sister, she's always thinking of me! Don't worry, we've eaten, so I definitely won't collapse. Let's meet up in the city and kill those beasts from the Eastern Desert together!"

In the end, recalling the tragic fate of those mountain people who contracted the disease, Ah Ling finally shed tears.

Ahei hurriedly said, "Aling, don't cry! Aunt Alan and Brother Jiang will definitely slaughter those beasts from the Eastern Desert! I will also go out of the city to fight the enemy and avenge our mountain people!"

Aling said, "Remember, our mission is to preserve the bloodline of the mountain people. You must not go out of the city to fight the enemy... When the enemy army is at the city gates, we will fire poison arrows from the city walls and kill those beasts!"

The mountains have been ravaged by the Eastern Desert people, and it has become uninhabitable for the past few years. Therefore, when the troops were divided, the villages in the mountains made their own plans.

One group went to join the Wei army and kill the enemy.

A group led by them came to the capital city to escape the war, preserving the bloodline of the mountain people.

Upon hearing this, Ahei looked at Ah Ling's face, which was so thin that there wasn't a single ounce of flesh on it, and felt extremely sorry for her. He advised her, "Ah Ling, I'm not a child. I can handle it. You don't need to spend time teaching me... Take care of yourself first."

Ah Ling was touched, but...

She slapped Ahei's hand away as he tried to touch her cheek: "Stop dawdling, eat quickly, and think quickly about what else you want to say to my sister. Once you've said it, hurry back to camp and tell Grandpa the good news here."