Transmigrated into a female county magistrate during a famine, leading her country to prosperity

Chapter 1355 Tong'an County People's Congress Deception

A third loud bang echoed across the mudflats.

The birds and animals in the surrounding woods all scattered.

Xiahe Village.

The moment the loud explosion occurred, everyone on the dock stopped what they were doing.

Someone looked up at the sky.

"What's going on? Thunder in broad daylight?!"

Some people turned their heads to look towards the mudflats.

"The sound is coming from over there! Could it be a ground subsidence?"

"It sounds like it's coming from over there too!"

"It seems like a few carriages went that way earlier. They looked somewhat like county government carriages, and the driver seemed to be Guard Hua..."

"What?! Why didn't you say so sooner?!"

"Your Excellency was assassinated just a few days ago. How could I dare to announce it loudly when I saw your carriage?"

"Oh dear, you...you're so foolish!"

"No, no... Will the master be alright? Could an assassin have followed us? That sound just now..."

"Stop guessing! Let's go check it out! If there's a thief, protect the master, we'll fight him to the death!"

"Let's give it our all!"

A group of people shouldered carrying poles and hurriedly ran towards the mudflats.

I've only run halfway.

"boom--"

Another loud bang came from the direction of the mudflats.

The villagers were terrified and turned pale.

"Hurry up! The adults are waiting for us!"

Mudflats.

Yu Shizhang held a nearly burnt-out match, his eyes brimming with excitement.

He lit that fourth gunpowder tube himself.

After lighting it, he retreated step by step, but his gaze lingered on it for even a moment.

He watched the flames lick the cotton thread, watched the firelight disappear into the bamboo tube, watched the smoke rise slowly, and then heard a loud bang explode in his ears.

He didn't want to blink, wanting to see clearly how the bamboo tube burst open at the moment of the explosion, but the loud noise was too intense, making him tremble with fear, and he subconsciously blinked.

In the blink of an eye, the bamboo tube flew away from the rock, and when he looked again, the broken pieces of the tube had fallen into the stream and were carried away by the current.

"Xiao Mu, one more!" Even he himself didn't know why he was so excited. "Give me an even bigger one!"

Mu Ruojue subconsciously looked at Shen Zheng.

Shen Zheng nodded: "Let's make another one, but be careful..."

"Who goes there!" Suddenly, the county soldiers on the perimeter became alert and shouted at Lin Dao.

Shen Zheng frowned and turned her head, but her brows relaxed when she saw who it was.

"Commander Su? It really is you!" The villagers, carrying their tools, peered anxiously at the mudflats. "Is the lord here too? How is he? We heard a loud bang at the dock just now, and thought something had happened, so we rushed over..."

"A loud noise?" Su Yan was taken aback. "What loud noise? We didn't hear anything."

"Huh?" The villagers were stunned and scratched their heads. "That shouldn't be the case... Judging from the noise, it came from the mudflats, and it even rang out once more on our way here!"

"Yes, Commander Su, we heard it all!"

There were dozens of them; how could they have misheard?

Su Yan frowned and asked the other county soldiers, "Did you hear anything?"

The villagers all shook their heads: "Reporting to the commander, no!"

"Huh?" The county residents were completely stunned.

With such a commotion, how could the county soldiers not have heard it?

"Soviet Union..."

"Alright, alright, go back now." Su Yan interrupted their inquiry. "The lord and the duke have important matters to discuss, so you should not linger here."

The county residents looked bewildered at the mudflats.

Shen Zheng waved to them: "Go back now."

"Sir!" A county resident stepped forward and asked boldly, "Are you alright? If you are, we will return to the dock!"

Shen Zheng smiled and called out, "It's alright, go back quickly!"

Hearing her powerful shout, the villagers gradually felt relieved.

"Then, Commander Su, we'll head back now." They turned and took a few steps, then, as if still worried, turned back and said, "Please make sure you protect the master well and don't give those villains any more opportunity."

Su Yan's expression turned serious: "Definitely."

The villagers gradually disappeared into the woods.

They came by a shortcut, and they will return by the same shortcut. So, going back and forth like this won't cause any delays.

After a short while, Su Yan pointed to two people: "Go and follow them. Once you've made sure they've all returned to the dock, come back along this forest path."

It wasn't that he didn't trust the county residents, but rather that he feared someone with ulterior motives might infiltrate them and cause harm to the officials.

In the mudflats.

The villagers' interruption made Yu Shizhang less excited and more calm.

He asked Shen Zheng, "Should we still bomb it?"

"Fry, of course we have to fry." Shen Zheng bent down and took out a section of bamboo tube from the box. "Our task today is to fry all these ingredients."

"Finished blowing them up?!" Yu Shizhang looked at the three earthenware jars. "They'll be blowing them up until at least dusk! And the noise is quite loud; the docks can hear it. If anyone else comes running..."

“No one will come again.” Shen Zheng looked in the direction the villagers had left. “They know what to say when they get back.”

Yu Shizhang was taken aback: "You mean...?"

“My people are not confused,” Shen Zheng said with a smile.

After a moment's thought, Yu Shizhang suddenly understood.

For Shen Zheng's safety, the county residents will surely keep quiet about their whereabouts on the mudflats after they return home.

For the county residents, the origin of the loud noise was completely irrelevant.

As long as they see with their own eyes that Shen Zheng is safe, they can selectively pretend to be blind or deaf, and even talk nonsense to deceive outsiders and prevent them from coming.

Having figured this out, Yu Shizhang no longer hesitated: "Keep blowing!"

Bomb them until the sky and earth are dark!

"boom--"

"boom--"

"boom--"

"..."

That afternoon, almost every two quarters of an hour, a sound could be heard from the mudflats to the dock.

The passing merchants were extremely curious and asked the county residents, "Fellow villager, what happened over there?"

The villagers laughed and said, "Thunder! Oh dear, it's been thundering all afternoon!"

"Thunder?" The merchant pointed at himself. "Do I look like a fool to you?"

"Oh, what are you saying! How could we possibly lie to you?"

"But the movement was clearly distinct..."

"It's clearly thunder! Boss, you're new here and don't know yet, right? This is how it is in Tongan County. Every now and then there's thunder in broad daylight. Our leaders say it's a test from God for the county!"

"...This is my fifth time visiting Guixian County."

"Oh my, have you tried the new pear sweet soup that Pei's Bean Soup Shop has just launched? Chief Scholar Pei is in the shop today, would you like to take a look? Let the young masters and ladies of your family absorb some of his literary charm!"

"Pei, the top scholar? Is that the talented scholar who won first place twice in a row?"

"That's right! It's the talented Pei!"

"We have to go, we have to go!"

On this day, countless merchants were tricked by the county residents and ended up with crippled legs, while the Pei family's shop reached an unprecedented peak in business.