Ximen Guihai heard the words, walked over, pointed at the old man, and said sharply, "Open!"
The old man frowned, pointed to a few paper lanterns on his back, and said, "General Ximen, my family was engaged in the lantern business, and now we are going out of the city, and I don't want this craftsmanship to be lost. To tell you the truth, there are indeed some paper lanterns in this package." Things, but it’s just the spices used to make the wicks. But the spices are the secret recipe of the lantern shop in the city, and cannot be passed on... So, I really can’t open it!”
"If you don't open it, who knows if it's a spice or a drug! We can't allow any hidden dangers in our army!" The soldiers on the side accused it.
The old man was really helpless.
Ximen returned to the sea and said, "Since Nanning City has abandoned you, why do you keep a secret for this ungrateful city? Why don't you open it and have a look, and you can save your life... Otherwise..."
Before he could finish his sentence, the soldiers beside him had already placed their icy long swords on the old man's neck!
"Ah! I'll open it! I'll open it!" The old man was just a businessman, he was startled immediately, and was thrown off his burden in a hurry.
The burden fell to the ground, and all kinds of flowers and spices were scattered all over the ground.
"Winter plum?" Ximen Guihai squatted down, picked up one of the winter plums, put it on the tip of his nose and sniffed it, and asked with a frown, "It's the midsummer of June, and there are still winter plums in your city of Nanning?"
"General! Not only wintersweet, but also seven lixiang, golden osmanthus, lily...these are all out-of-season flowers in the east of Lingdong!"
"This Nanning city is really a good place! It's summer, and there are all kinds of flowers all year round!"
"..."
The surrounding soldiers were amazed when they saw it.
"No, no!" The old man shook his head again and again, "These flowers are not grown in Nanning City! They are Huajia Mountain Villa fifty miles outside the city! Our lantern merchants in Nanning City all buy flowers from Huajia to make wicks... so , the lanterns in Nanning City are famous far and wide! All year round, they are full of fragrance!"
"Do the wicks in Nanning City use flowers from outside the city?" Ximen Guihai's eyes moved slightly, as if he had thought of something.
"Isn't it?" The old man nodded again and again, "This is the secret of our Lantern City, but now that I have left Nanning City, I can tell the general! The Huajia Villa outside the city supplies all the flowers in our city. ! Dozens of cars, hundreds of cars go to the city to pull flowers every time! It can take ten days and half a month at a time!"
"Use flowers to soak the wick, and then light the wick, will it emit fragrance?" Ximen Guihai asked.
"Exactly!" The old man said again, "Especially at midnight, when all the lanterns in the city are lit, the whole city of Nanning will be enveloped in the fragrance of flowers!"
"The general knows!" Ximen Guihai flashed a hint of cunning on his face, then turned around and said to the soldiers beside him, "Let him enter the barracks!"
"yes!"
Ximen Guihai immediately entered the army tent, and said to the three Patriarchs present, "Everyone, the old man has thought of a way, maybe he can quietly take down the entire Nanning City without a single soldier! It's just that this operation must It is done by someone you can trust, I wonder if everyone is willing to take a gamble with this old man?!"
"Follow to the death! Follow to the death!"
As soon as Ximen Guihai finished speaking, all the cronies of the four major families followed suit!
"Okay! Let's rest for a day. Tomorrow night, I will go to Hua's Villa at night with the old man!"