(Happy National Day, readers!May the great motherland prosper and prosper!)

Early the next morning, a team of warriors dressed up came to the inn and picked up Lou Qin and the three of them to set off.

Hua Duxiu and Shen Lijia both changed into strong suits, brought a sword, and even Lou Qin was dressed in a military uniform, with long hair tied up, and a long sword stuck in his waist, the whole person looked quite chic and capable.

Hua Duxiu looked carefully, and the leading guide was an old man, nearly sixty years old, with a thin figure, but he looked energetic and powerful.

The other five people all had a knife in their hands, and they were all sturdy middle-aged men.

They had to drive a total of three carriages, and the old man took the first carriage, he was the groom and the guide who led the way, and Lou Qin was in the first carriage.

Hua Duxiu and Shen Lijia took the second carriage, and the third carriage was the luggage and belongings.

Five warriors with swords either drove or walked, and everyone left Qingjin City in front of the rising sun and headed south.

Shen Lijia sighed: "It's a pity, it would be nice if Sister Lou took a car with us, how happy this journey was." ”

Hua Duxiu said: "What you think is beautiful, Sister Lou is a married woman, how can she share a car with our two men." ”

Shen Lijia said: "I know, isn't this emotional? Alas, feudal thinking kills people, what's wrong with a married woman, we don't have any bad intentions, it's okay to sit together and chat, play cards." ”

Hua Duxiu smiled: "I don't understand your kid's mind yet? I don't have any bad intentions, so you can't make up your mind." ”

Shen Lijia was unconvinced: "I'm a serious person, brother-in-law, don't talk nonsense, how can you smear people's innocence out of thin air?"

While chatting, a person outside shouted: "It's in the wild, pay attention to snake repellent!"

Hua Duxiu and the two immediately shut up, and each lifted the curtains on both sides of the carriage to look out.

At this time, they were already more than ten miles away from the city, and there were fewer and fewer pedestrians on the official road, but there were more and more poisonous snakes crawling on the road.

Before entering the Golden Horn, there were not many snakes in the wild, and there were not even many poisonous snakes in the city.

But now, there are more and more venomous snakes in the wild.

Even many poisonous snakes have climbed onto the official road, crawling back and forth on the loess road, and the colorful appearance is terrifying.

Shen Lijia's face changed slightly, and he turned around and said, "Brother-in-law, why are there so many snakes in this ghost place? What do they eat and drink, don't they have natural enemies?"

Hua Duxiu does not know, and there is no answer.

The samurai guarding the carriage on either side smiled, "Little brother, are you a foreigner?"

Shen Lijia said: "Big brother, you really have a good vision, your surname?"

The guard said, "My surname is Xie." Little brother, are you from Mobei?"

Shen Li Jiaqi said: "Brother Xie, you not only have a good eye, but you can even pinch and calculate?

Xie Huwei said with a smile: "Golden Horn City is located in the northernmost part of the Snake Valley, adjacent to the northern boundary of Mobei, you are a foreigner, and if you want to go south, you must be from Mobei." ”

Shen Lijia said stupidly: "That's right, that's right, there's nothing wrong with this reasoning." ”

Xie Huwei continued: "In the Snake Valley, there are many mountains and valleys, many trees and many waters, and the terrain and climate of the entire Snake Valley are extremely suitable for the breeding and growth of snakes. ”

Shen Lijia swallowed his saliva and said, "Then let's just walk into the snake's den, isn't it dangerous?"

Guard Xie raised his hand and said, "Look at this." ”

Shen Li Jiaqi said: "What is this?"

It was a cloth bag, the size of a kettle, and it smelled weird and pungent inside.

Xie Huwei said: "There is snake repellent powder in it, and the smell it emits is very irritating to snakes. ”

Shen Lijia suddenly realized: "No wonder I smelled a strange smell from the moment I got on the car, is it that we also have this thing on the carriage?"

Xie Huwei said: "That's for sure, there are a lot of these cloth bags tied to the three carriages. ”

Shen Lijia suddenly thought of something and asked, "Brother Xie, you just said that under normal circumstances, snakes will stay away when they smell this smell?"

Xie Huwei nodded: "Yes." ”

Shen Lijia pointed to a few colorful poisonous snakes on the side of the road: "Then why didn't they avoid it?"

Xie Weiwei carefully unwrapped the cloth bag, sprinkled the powder inside a little bit, and said:

"If you encounter a poisonous snake that is not too sensitive, then sprinkle the snake repellent powder over it!"

Sure enough, the beige snake repellent powder was blown by the wind and poured near the poisonous snakes, and they immediately turned around and burrowed into the grass nest.

Hua Duxiu asked, "Brother, is this thing made of realgar powder?"

Xie Huwei said: "The main ingredient is realgar, and the auxiliary material is Houttuynia cordata, lobelia, lime, etc., in short, what the snake is most afraid of, what is in it." ”

As the convoy moved forward, the poisonous snakes on the official road avoided one after another, and the scene was thrilling and exciting.

Of course, the amount of snake repellent powder loaded by the convoy is limited, and it is impossible to sprinkle it everywhere, and many times if the poisonous snakes are not left on the road, the warriors will draw their knives and directly cut them into two pieces.

I didn't even bother to drive it away, so I cut it in two.

Because there were too many poisonous snakes on the road, and the official road was winding with the undulations of the terrain, the convoy traveled very slowly, and it only walked more than 50 miles in the evening.

It's going to be dark.

The old guide, the guide, stopped the first carriage and shouted, "Let's set up camp here tonight, everyone get out of the car, and get ready!"

The guards quickly grabbed the horse's head, gathered the three wagons together, then cut firewood, cleared the grass, and drew a large circle with snake repellent powder to surround the people.

There is not a single snake in the circle except for the carriage or people, and the poisonous snakes outside the circle normally do not dare to challenge the power of snake repellent powder, so they are far away.

Everyone unloaded the pots, stoves, sleeping bags, etc., from the third carriage, lit the bonfire and prepared dinner, with skillful and neat movements.

Hua Duxiu said: "Jiajia, you see, there is still a set of camping in the wild, and our previous routine of sleeping wherever we go and ignoring it at all is afraid that it will not work in Snake Valley." ”

Shen Lijia nodded: "Yes, I really live to learn all the time, and we have seen a lot of things." ”

"Brother-in-law, do you say that the people of Snake Valley eat snakes? In our Trapped Demon Valley, the vegetables made of snake meat are too expensive, and ordinary people can't eat them if they want to. ”

Hua Duxiu looked around, let alone looking, his ears were filled with the "hissing" of snakes: "There are so many snakes here, if you really want to eat them, I'm afraid you will never be able to eat them." ”

Lou Qin walked over and asked with a smile, "What are you two muttering?"

Shen Lijia responded with a big smile: "We are discussing, should we catch a few snakes to make snake soup?"

Lou Qin was taken aback: "You still dare to eat snakes?"

Shen Lijia said: "Why, don't the people of Snake Valley dare to eat snakes? Do you believe in any 'snake god'?

Lou Qin said: "That's not true. It's just that these snakes eat everything, frogs, mice, lizards, sparrows, everything, and even many huge snakes will eat people, their meat is very dirty, and we locals don't want to eat snake meat. ”

Shen Lijia said: "That's a pity, snake meat is actually quite delicious when cooking." ”

Lou Qin said: "When you see the terrifying scene of countless poisonous snakes madly entwined together, you can't eat even the most delicious snake meat." ”

Shen Lijia thought about it, countless poisonous snakes were crazy entangled?

What are you doing, drunk and nonsense?

It's better to be happy alone than to be happy together?

Having said that, even the poisonous snakes crawling around outside the yellow powder at this moment looked quite crazy in Shen Lijia's eyes, not to mention that they were still entangled with each other?

I had a chill on my body.

He had no interest in eating snake meat at all.

Soon, it was completely dark.

The bonfires lit up by the guards lit up the surroundings, they boiled hot water, boiled a large pot of porridge, and everyone gathered around the bonfire, one holding an aluminum box and eating.

This porridge should be called meat soup, which is boiled with a mixture of ground beef, vegetables and rice, and served as both rice and vegetables.

Guard Xie took out a gourd and said with a smile: "Little brother, do you want to have a bite?"

Shen Lijia asked, "What is this?"

Xie Huwei pulled out the mouth of the gourd, and immediately a rich aroma of wine wafted out.

Shen Lijia was taken aback: ", wine?"

Xie Huwei said: "When you go out, the only way to relieve your fatigue is to drink some wine!"

Hua Duxiu's eyes were sharp, and he saw that many guards were carrying wine gourds, but none of them took the initiative to drink. At this time, the old guide spoke:

"Everyone can drink a little, but don't drink too much, be careful to drink too much sleepwalking outside the circle to feed the dragon. ”

Everyone laughed, and then pulled out the wine sieve one after another and took a few sips.

Hua Duxiu asked: "Brother Xie, let's light the fire with such fanfare and joke, it won't attract robbers, right?"

Xie Huwei said, "Brother, don't worry. Mr. Wang is the most experienced guide in our Golden Horn, and the camping spots he chooses are all places where robbers do not leave, and they are very safe. ”

"Besides, as long as you don't meet robbers during the day, you are basically safe at night, and robbers are afraid to feed the dragon. ”

Shenlong refers to those poisonous snakes outside.

Shen Lijia said: "Hey, little white dragon, you are timid, come and thank Brother Xie and I will accompany you to take a whole bite!"

Escort Xie handed over the wine gourd: "Whole!"

Everyone ate and drank, quite lively, Young Master Hua didn't like to drink, thank you for not being sensitive.

After eating, everyone chatted around the bonfire, chatting all over the world.

Hua Duxiu kept an eye on it, listened more and said less, while Shen Lijia bragged with a few guards with a little drunkenness, and talked about what he saw and heard in Mobei.

Of course, the little fat man drank very well, and he didn't get up to it at all, so he knew what to say and what not to say.

A group of old men chatted, and a woman in Louqin was a little embarrassed, so she came to Hua Duxiu and handed him a peach and said:

"Little White Dragon, why don't you speak?

Hua Duxiu moved her ass and gave Lou Qin a place to sit.

Lou Qin smiled and sat down with Hua Duxiu.

Hua Duxiu said: "Homesick? Now that I think about it, I probably haven't seen my dad for a year. ”

Lou Qin said: "It is not easy for you warriors, in order to protect the territory and the people, you have worked hard outside for many years, leaving your family and business." ”

As she spoke, she sighed silently.

Hua Duxiu said secretly, this young lady is afraid that she misses her husband again, right?

Alas, it is not easy for this samurai brother to abandon his family and business, and it is really admirable that he went to a foreign place to guard the peace of a city just after he got married.

Hua Duxiu said: "Sister Lou, why don't you move to Qingjin City to live with your brother-in-law, why do you have to stay in Golden Horn City?"

Lou Qin said: "My father-in-law was stationed in the capital a year ago, and he was transferred to Qingjin City last year, who knows where he will be transferred next year? Qingjin City is no better than Golden Horn City, which is more like a large military fortress, and there will be a war at any time, and it is very unsafe for me to be a woman over there, and he doesn't want me to follow him around." ”

Hua Duxiu sighed: "Harmonious society, harmonious you and me." If the family and country are not at peace, the small family will not be happy, and the empire is responsible for the current chaos in Snake Valley, if Governor Peng does a good job and has no ambition to win the hearts of the people, he should not be transferred according to the rules of death. ”

Lou Qin smiled: "Little White Dragon, are you going to start talking about the big truth again?"

Hua Duxiu said: "What, don't you like to hear it?"

Lou Qin stroked the long hair floating down her forehead, her face was very beautiful in the bonfire, she said:

"I like to listen to it, when my father-in-law used to be there, he also liked to talk to me about family and country affairs, but I don't like to listen to it, I think it's your man's business. But now it's different, and now when someone tells me about it, I feel very familiar and enjoy listening to it. ”

Hua Duxiu smiled: "Are you thinking about things? Although I am also an imperial military attaché, I am different from my brother-in-law, I am not very interested in this kind of thing to protect the territory and the people, I just try my best to do something that I think is valuable, rules and systems have never been able to restrain me." ”

Lou Qin said: "I can see that you must be a military attache with a higher rank and a more special mission, otherwise you wouldn't have gotten such a generous fee for carriages and horses, right?"

Hua Duxiu said: "Sort of!"

"It's not early, Sister Lou, it's cold outside, you go back to the carriage and sleep!"

Lou Qin nodded: "Well, let's rest early." ”

The last sentence was said by Lou Qin to Guide Wang.

The old man nodded and ordered, "Everyone rest, let's continue to hurry early tomorrow morning!"