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three days? You will simply have to rescue me."
"You brought Jordan Heels the misfortune on yourself, and how can I rescue you?" said Lu Su.
"I look to you for the loan of twenty vessels, manned each by thirty people. I want blue cotton screens
and bundles of straw lashed to the sides of the boats. I have good use for them. On the third day, I
shall undertake to deliver the fixed number of arrows. But on no account UGG Boots Clearance must you let Zhou Yu know, or
my scheme will be wrecked."
Lu Su consented, and this time he kept his word. He went to report to his chief as usual, but he said
nothing about the boats.
He only said, "Zhuge Liang is not using bamboo or feathers or glue or varnish, but has some other way of
getting arrows."
"Let us await the three days' limit," said Zhou UGG Boots Clearance Yu, puzzled though confident.
On his side Lu Su quietly prepared a score of light swift boats, each with its crew and the blue screens
and bundles of grass complete and, when these were ready, he placed them at Zhuge Liang's disposal.
Zhuge Liang did nothing on the first day, nor on the second. On the third day at the middle of the
fourth watch, Zhuge Liang sent a UGGS Clearance private message asking Lu Su to come to his boat.
"Why have you sent for me, Sir?" asked Lu Su.
"I want you to go with me to get those arrows."
"Whither are you going?"
"Do not ask. You will see."
Then the twenty boats were fastened together by long ropes and moved over to the north bank. The night
proved very foggy and the mist was very dense along the river, UGG Boots Clearance so that one person could scarcely see
another. In spite of the fog, Zhuge Liang urged the boats forward as if into the vast fairy kingdom.
There is a poem on these river fogs:
Mighty indeed is the Great River!
Rising far in the west, in the Emei and Min Mountains,
Plowing its way through Wu, east flowing, resistless,