"Beisai?" Yan Zike looked at Yan Qi, "No." ”

This has never rejected Yan Qi so neatly.

"Wars, refugees, snowstorms, famines, diseases, everything is beyond human control, and everything is enough to kill. Yan Zike walked to the bookshelf and flipped through it for a while, took a scroll and returned to the table, and spread it out in front of Yan Qi, but it was a map.

"See for yourself. Stretched out a clear finger and pointed to the northern location marked on the map, "Look at the only way to Beisai, wasteland, mountains, lakes and swamps, deserts, and the unimaginable dangerous environment is all on this road, with Xiao Jiu and Xiao Si of the Cui family, this is the journey of death." I don't. ”

"So let's go east. When Yan Qi went back, he said to Young Master Yan Jiu, "What news did you get from Lord Xiao, do you have to go north?"

Young Master Yan Jiu didn't answer his sister's words, he was thinking there with his hands and his eyes down.

Geng Zhi boy Xiao Chen in accordance with the agreement with Young Master Yan Jiu, when he went to relatives during the Chinese New Year, he asked people according to the paper given by Young Master Yan Jiu with questions written on it, with his temperament that he didn't know how to beat around the bush, and made a disturbance, his father could not know? This is the purpose of Young Master Yan Jiu, to startle the snake, of course, it is Xiao Tianhang's snake.

So Xiao Tianhang found the front as Young Master Yan Jiu expected, and after a battle of wits and hearts, Lao Jianghu took the little fritters and loosened his mouth to reveal some things that the little fritters wanted to know.

"Let's go east, then. Young Master Yan Jiu said, obviously this is the only choice, if he insists on going north, Yan Zike may not even be able to let people out of Beijing.

Then it came to the eighteenth day of the first month.

When he got up early in the morning, Yan Qi washed and dressed, his hair was curled into a scholar's bun, he was wearing a navy blue men's cotton robe, a leather belt around his waist, and long black boots on his feet - when he went out, it was naturally more convenient to act by pretending to be a man.

Boiling rain and cooking clouds and a few people wiped their tears while helping Yan Qi clean up, Yan Qi couldn't comfort them after a few comforts, so he had to let them go, and instructed a few more words before going out: "Feed the green carp, Da Liu, Xiao Zhao, and Ziluo robe on time, you usually stay in the yard, don't make trouble, it's not like I won't come back." ”

A few girls knelt down and cried at the same time, sitting in Xia Juli wailing, as if Yan Qi had already laughed at Jiuquan.

Young Master Yan Jiu's snake was entrusted to Xin Guogong to help take care of it by Yan Zike, and a few close servants also carried their luggage to the second gate to load the car while shedding tears, but the sisters and brothers first had to go to the upper room of the Four Seasons House to have breakfast with their families, and a group of elders told the precautions on the road one by one, but Yan Zike only watched from the sidelines and didn't say anything.

The elder sister and brother were going to travel, the old lady, the eldest lady, and the third lady all gave the silver on behalf of their respective rooms, and the old lady privately gave an additional three hundred taels to Young Master Yan Jiu, and Master Yan San gave Young Master Yan Jiu a list of people, the list was the names of officials and civilians in the eastern states, cities, and counties, these people were all his students, and they were now engaged in various industries, and told the sisters and brothers to find someone to help according to the list if they had something.

Master Yan Si also gave Yan Qi a list, and there were more names on it, and quietly pulled Yan Qi aside, and said in a low voice: "These people are either my brothers or my friends, both black and white, don't let the old lady know, you put away this list, and if you need help, take my token to find someone," said and lowered his head and looked for a while among the messy ornaments hanging on his waist, and picked out a swallow made of red copper and gave it to Yan Qi," Draw a circle in front of the name, that is my brother, absolutely trustworthy; draw a triangle, is a friend who is very faithful, can also be trusted; draw black dots, these people have the ability, but not all of the heart, if you have to use them, give some benefits afterwards, don't have to make deep friends, have you written it down?"

"Write it down, thank you, Fourth Uncle. Yan Qidao, "By the way, does the matter of Puji Nunnery have eyebrows?"

"Hey, do you remember," Yan Si took Yan Qi out of the upper room directly, and the uncle and nephew hid in the rockery in the courtyard and whispered, "My brother who raised the monkey really got the job done, and the monkey directly stole the plate of vegetarian food, and my brother who opened the wine shop tasted it carefully, and sure enough, he tasted the mystery! It turned out that there was a spice in the vegetarian food of the Puji Nunnery, and this spice had the effect of making people addicted to food! Guess what this seasoning was?"

"I'll go, it won't be poppy husks. "Yan Qidao.

"How do you know?!" Old Master Yan stared at Yan Qi in surprise.

"It looks like it in the book, but I don't know if we have such a thing as poppy in the Central Plains. "Yan Qidao.

"My brother said that this thing is rare in the Central Plains, and it is mostly produced in small countries in the Western Regions. Master Yan Si snorted when he said this, "I don't know where the nuns in Puji Nunnery got this thing, I called a group of brothers and friends to look for a long time near Puji Nunnery that day and didn't find a place to plant this thing, but maybe it was because Puji Nunnery lost the dish, and maybe we didn't pay attention to being noticed by the nuns when we were looking for something, I heard that Puji Nunnery has stopped providing vegetarian food in recent days - doesn't this prove that they have ghosts in vegetarian food?!" Hmph, that's fine, if they stop fasting, no one will steal business with my brother, and it won't be in vain. ”

"Fourth uncle, that's definitely not a good thing, please pay more attention to your brother at ordinary times, if they resume providing vegetarian food, go and tell the uncle." Yan Qi told her fourth uncle.

The opium poppy is also a kind of medicinal material, whether it is used in medicine or seasoning, a small amount of ingestion should not cause any adverse consequences, Puji'an may just use this thing as a means of profiteering...... Hopefully, that's all.

After breakfast, it was time to hit the road, Fourth Young Master Yan Tenth Young Master was very reluctant to give up the seventh sister and brother of Yan, and kept sending the carriage of the two out of the alley, "You must remember to write back often, seventh sister and ninth brother!" Fourth Young Master Yan rode on his horse and shouted.

"Okay, go back, fourth brother, perform well in the comprehensive martial arts team!" Yan Qi poked his head out of the car window and waved at him.

If the child wants to travel far away, of course, the elders must be sent out of the city, and Yan Zike rode on a horse wearing a black coat and walked in front of the car of the sisters and brothers. The carriage went to Cui's mansion first, and there was no need to enter the door, so someone went in to make a report, but after a while, Cui Chun and his family sent Cui Xi out of it.

Mrs. Cui was about to faint from crying, scolding Lei Yu while crying, obviously Cui Xi's plan worked, and the two had to let Cui Xi go out of the city for a while.

"Si'er, I live with your uncle, and after this limelight, my mother will personally pick you up!" Mrs. Cui took Cui Xi's hand and refused to let go, going to her uncle's house was about Cui Xi coaxing her, and no one could care about it when she got on the road.

Delayed at the gate of Cui's mansion for more than half an hour, it was easy to end with Mrs. Cui fainting crying, Cui Xi got into his own carriage, Cui Xuan rode a horse with the car, the carriage of the two families went straight to the Cui family wooden shop where the RV was parked, and when they arrived at the place, they each moved their luggage into the RV, and put two horses and four tall horses and mules on their heads - no matter how many horses they were, they could only be replaced by horses and mules, which were born of a combination of male donkeys and mares, which could bear weight, had strong endurance and lively character, and were the most common domestic livestock in civilian homes.

The carriage put luggage on the car, this carriage swallow Ke curious like a baby around this strange carriage, see that this carriage is wide, high and long, other carriages are four wheels, this carriage actually has six wheels, the carriage is not a pure wooden carriage, but on the outside of the wood wrapped in a layer of iron, painted with jujube red paint, do not touch it, look at it and the wooden carriage is no different.

"Do you want to come in and have a look?" Yan Qi poked his head out of the carriage door and asked him, who had not spoken to her since the morning, and looked unwilling to accept the reality.

It still seemed that he still didn't want to talk to her, but he still couldn't overcome his curiosity, and he lifted his clothes and boarded the car.

The interior of the carriage is made of pine wood, with a triple board, with lime caulking in the middle, the surface is polished and smooth and coated with pine resin and tung oil for moisture and waterproofing, in fact, the pine tree itself is rich in pine resin, it is not afraid of the tide, there is such an old saying in the carpenter world: thousands of years of sea pine, 10,000 years of dry maple. The bottom pine is talking about the waterproofness of pine wood, which can grow and survive on the bottom of the sea, not to mention some rain and moisture, and there is a natural faint pine fragrance when using pine as a carriage.

The roof of the car is very high, Yan Zike is so tall and straight, there is still a distance from the roof of the car, the width is much wider than the ordinary carriage, the eye can see enough to put down three single couches side by side, and the length is by no means comparable to ordinary carriages, at the back of the carriage is a whole row of cabinets embedded with the wall of the carriage, used to hold the luggage of three people, the height of the cabinet to Yan Zike's chin, the top of the cabinet is covered with a thick mattress, there are pillows and quilts on it, here is obviously the bed of one of them, and a curtain is hung on the roof of the car.

On both sides of the carriage there is a single couch fixed to the floor and the wall of the carriage, and the bottom of the couch is made into a large drawer that can be pulled out, which is also used for storage, and there are bedding pillows in it, and at the end of the two couches are placed a combing rack fixed to the floor and a small stove made of iron clad cement, and the small stove even has a chimney pipe, and a tin pipe protrudes from the corner of the stove to the roof of the car, and then from the roof to the outside of the car.

Looking down closely, I found that there was a hidden grid under the floor of the carriage, and when I lifted the floor, I saw that some of these hidden grids were filled with charcoal, some were filled with water, some were filled with rice, flour, oil and salt, and some were filled with pots and pans and kettles, etc., etc., etc., and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on.

There is a window hole on both sides of the carriage, the window sash has three layers, a layer of glass, a layer of wood, a layer of iron, the door is facing forward, located on the right, the left side is also open with a window hole, looking out from the glass, you can see the road conditions in front clearly, the driver's seat of the driver is outside the glass, there is a wooden board fence around the body to block the wind, and there are even rearview mirrors erected on the fence, which can avoid the situation that the car can not be seen because the body is too wide and too long.

"Which one is in the car?" Cui Xuan hurriedly asked. He had asked Cui Xi before, but Cui Xi only told him that he was taking the ride of the Yan Qi sisters and brothers, and the Yan family would naturally take the car.

Yan Qi looked at Yan Zike, who said that the coachman was provided by him, and even the driver's accommodation was designed on the RV, just under the driver's seat outside the carriage, the floor was lifted, and there was a single couch-wide dark grid below, covered with bedding, and there was a certain degree of breathability, and people could sleep directly when they got into it - Yan Xiaojiu also had a poisonous tongue This dark grid is like a coffin to ...... "coffin" The dark compartment next to it can put the driver's clothes and luggage, and the lower end of the stove in the carriage also stretches out a pipe through the dark compartment where the driver sleeps and then goes back to the compartment, so that the heat can be transmitted to the dark compartment outside, so that the driver will not feel cold when he sleeps, and he can also feel a certain amount of heat when sitting in the driver's seat above the dark compartment during the day.

Yan Zike glanced at the entourage who came with him, and walked out from behind Yizhi, who was about the same age as Yizhi, born white and thin, with a handsome face, carrying his own luggage and baggage behind him, and saluted everyone: "Little Wuzhi, drive the car for the little masters." ”

…… The branch generation has a new face. Yan Qi guessed that Yan Zike had more than these five branches in his hand, and he might not be able to make up enough "branches" for a towering tree.

"Such a young child, can you do it?" Cui Xuan was not at ease, his eyes were aimed at a branch. Yizhi knows kung fu, so he hopes to be accompanied by Yizhi, so there can be a bodyguard on the road, from Kyoto to him and Cui Xi's uncle's house has a three-day trip, although these three days are official roads, but after all, this is the first time his brother has gone out by himself, which makes him feel at ease.

"Five branches of medical skills, and the royal horse is also good. Swallow said.

"That's it!" Cui Xuan immediately clapped. Medical skills alone are enough for him to recognize, in case Cui Xi's child is not feeling well on the road, how much can this "five" respond to an emergency, it's up to him.

After packing all their luggage at one moment, everyone got on their horses and boarded the carriages, and went out of the city gate under the curious gaze of the pedestrians on the street.

"Isn't such an eye-catching carriage too ostentatious?" Cui Xuan was very uneasy, frowning all the way

"It's just a matter of making the normal carriage taller and wider, and we're not the first to do it. Yan Qi poked his head out of the window and said comfortingly, "During the Shangshi Festival last year, many rich families directly turned the carriage into a stage, and invited female dancers to play and sing on it, and let the horse-drawn cart walk through the streets and alleys while performing skills, compared to our car, it is already very low-key." Besides, aren't those cars that run from all over the world to do business and pull goods bigger than ours? I've seen them many times on the streets of Kyoto. ”

"Look at you!" Cui Xuan glared at her, "The materials for your car are from our shop, right?

"How hurtful it is to talk about money, we have known each other for so many years, is this relationship not as good as a carriage?"

"Give my brother this set! The blood you have made me vomit for so many years has been digested cleanly! Let me tell you, Yan Xiaoqi, I will take care of my fourth child on the road, and I will give you a 20% discount on the money for this carriage. ”

"ULI Xiaosi is only worth two discounts? Are you the youngest child?"

"Go, don't provoke, I ask you, do you have enough arrows?"

"It's no problem to burn firewood. ”

"Burn a fart firewood! Be serious! Brother told you, if you encounter a bastard with bad intentions on the road, don't hesitate, go straight to the arrow! If the government asks, you will say that it is legitimate defense, and then mention your uncle's name, nine times out of ten you will not be held accountable - anyway, it is better to kill one person than let people hurt my family, have you written it down?"

"It's a must. ”

"That's interesting! Okay, I'll give you a six-fifty discount on the carriage fare!"

“…… I'm sie, you're here. ”

Relying on nonsense all the way to dilute the parting emotion, after all, he still arrived outside the city gate, and sent out one mile after another, Cui Xuan chattered endlessly by the window to tell Cui Xi, and Yan Zike rode on the horse outside the window and still didn't say a word.

"Okay, don't send it," Cui Xi pushed Cui Xuan's face out of the car window, "I won't be able to find a place to live in Lincheng before sunset." "Even if you have an RV, it's better to stay in a hotel if you can stay in a hotel, which is better than having three people in the car.

Cui Xuan also knew that he couldn't send it anymore, so he had to restrain the horse's head, and the words he wanted to tell had been repeated back and forth many times, and he didn't think it was important enough to say anything at this time, and the important words were nothing more than "you must arrive safely", but how could Cui Xi not know, who doesn't want to be safe, but peace is not something he can say.

was speechless for a while, and Cui Xuan had to frown and stare at his younger brother in the carriage.

At the window on the other side, Yan Qi was also asking her uncle to stay: "Don't send it, you have to separate." ”

"Hmm. Finally snorted.

"Is there anything else you want to instruct?" Yan Qi took the initiative to ask.

"I often write back. ”

"Yes, I'll start writing as soon as I'm on the road. ”

"Let's go. ”

“…… What, uncle, did you forget to give me something?"

"Oh?

"The Road to ......"

"Oh, I forgot to bring it out, it's still at home. ”

"Don't make a fuss, give it to me. ”

"Do you really want to go?"

“…… Don't worry, it'll be fine, trust me. ”

"Let's go. ”

Yan Qi collected the road guide and waved goodbye to Yan Zike, he didn't respond, just rode on the horse and watched lightly, the carriage galloped on the official road, the people who saw off and the people on the road gradually moved away, the sky was silent, the white clouds hung low, a group of wild pigeons flying from nowhere fluttered their wings and swept across the cold branches, and the pale golden sunlight floated in front of him, making the sky and the earth seem so lonely. 166 Reading Network