8. Journey
Arriving at Xiaobang Village, the young man took Geng Qiu and them to the middle-aged man's house, asked the middle-aged man's wife to entertain them well, and told everyone that this was their life-saving benefactor. Then he gathered six or seven young men from the village and went up the mountain overnight.
The next day, before dawn, Geng Qiu asked two young adults in the village to carry wild boars to the market to sell, but he didn't follow him, but just let him bring back ten catties of salt and two catties of polished rice. Geng Qiu and they enjoyed the VIP treatment in Xiaobang Village, and Ah Niu also had women who brought it over to breastfeed, and also put on clean swaddling clothes and clothes for Xiao Ah Niu, because they saw that Ah Niu did not have many clothes, everyone together made two jackets for Ah Niu, a new swaddling clothes, which were all prepared for their little baby. Although the fabric is not good, it is soft. Ah Hao and Geng Qiu did not refuse.
The two people who sold the pig came back quickly, and the two of them told Geng Qiu with excitement: "Brother Qiu, this pig sold for more than three taels of silver, we are lucky, as soon as we go, we met a big family to do a happy event, and bought the whole head back, we sent it over, and they also rewarded two packs of dim sew." Then the elder took out his small purse, and took out a piece of silver and a handful of loose coins, while the other took out salt, rice, and snacks. They both thought that Geng Qiu had asked them to help sell the pig, and the young man had already told everyone when he came back, without Geng Qiu and Ah Hao, everyone else would have died, and this pig was a small thank you gift to them.
Geng Qiu and Ah Hao glanced at each other a few times, and Geng Qiu said: "You have taken this salt to everyone to distribute, and the other people who went to carry the wild boar should also come back, the salt is for you to marinate meat." Take the snacks and give them to the children, we don't want this silver, I will take this loose money. Take these three taels of silver first, and then divide them when the village chief returns. ”
"Well, the money is yours. Salt we can accept. The two of them excused themselves again and again, put down their things and left.
"Alas, don't go, take this snack and share it with the children, neither of us likes to eat it." Ah Hao grabbed a handful of snacks and gave them the rest, while the silver was put aside and waited for the village chief to come back and deal with it. This is a poor village, the whole village is low yellow mud grass huts, the villagers are all dressed in tatters, it is good to be able to eat half full, otherwise, they would not risk their lives to hunt. Three taels of silver is a huge amount of money for these people.
Sure enough, as soon as Ah Hao finished eating a piece of dim sum, the village chief and his party came back with a few other wild boars, and the village was lively like the New Year, and everyone gathered together, waiting for the meat to be divided. Because the weather is warmer, the meat has been left for a few more days, so it must be quickly divided and each of them taken back to marinate, otherwise it will spoil. Geng Qiu thought of this problem, so he asked him to buy back ten catties of salt first, he knew that it was impossible for every family in this poor village to have excess salt stored at home.
Geng Qiu and Ah Hao took Ah Niu to recuperate in Xiaobang Village for a total of ten days, because they refused to ask for the three taels of silver, so the village chief made the decision and distributed the silver to everyone, and asked everyone to give Geng Qiu something to them.
After discussing with Ah Hao, Geng Qiu asked the villagers to make a few pairs of shoes for each of them, because there was no slightly better cloth in the village that could make their clothes, and everyone used home-woven coarse linen cloth, which the two couldn't accept at all, so they changed the old clothes.
Geng Qiu wore the previous clothes and pants of Ah Qiu, and Ah Hao lost a lot of weight because of production, so his clothes were too big. They put a few pieces of clothes together, and several women who were good at work worked together and sewed two sets of jackets and one single coat for Geng Qiu and A Hao. It's hot at noon, so I just wear a jacket. In a few days, you will have to wear single clothes. They also made two pairs of shoes for each of them.
When they left, they brought with them thirty catties of pickled meat, a few catties of brown rice, some grains and pickles, and a few large pieces of soap made by the peasant family. This soap is homemade, pure and natural, and although it looks ugly, it is still useful. It takes a lot of washing and washing along the way.
However, when they left the village in the morning, they returned two of you and three of them, and stuffed them with twenty cooked multigrain cakes and more than ten hard-boiled eggs, just so that they could eat them on the road, which were the best things everyone could come up with.
And because Ah Niu has professionals to take care of him and has enough breast milk to drink, it is only ten days of hard work, his face has become fat, and the two catties of polished rice bought back are useless at all, just to take on the road. Of course, even Geng Qiu and Ah Hao's bodies have improved a lot. The two of them ate and slept, slept and played, and they didn't have to work, and they ate the best food in the village, and even the children were brought with them. So they also rested for ten days, recuperated enough to recuperate their bodies and prepare for the next journey.
After arriving at the nearest town from Xiaobang Village, they spent another three days, rested in the town for another night, replenished a few catties of polished rice, and followed a caravan all the way north. Because this section of the road is sparsely populated, they don't know the way, and it is much safer to follow the caravan, but they still take care of their own food and accommodation, and they just follow the caravan to walk. After walking for fourteen days, I finally arrived at San'in Castle. At this time, Ah Hao only had the last twenty taels of silver left.
Along the way, no matter how much they saved, it was impossible for them not to spend money, but the following journey required more money. Geng Qiu was even a little skeptical, with this little bit of silver, how could the two of them take Da Ah Niu? Not to mention a small baby, it is very difficult for both of them to fill their stomachs. After leaving the mountains, and not hunting, all the food depends on buying, which is still not saved, and the silver is still getting less and less. Geng Qiu was very anxious, and the journey was not fast enough to walk and ride mules along the way, and it was too tiring for people to go. At first, he didn't know how to ride a mule at all, and both legs were bruised on the inside, and it was a hot pain. It's good now, but it's a really difficult day to sleep all the way.
Whenever this happens, Geng Qiu especially wants to come back to modern times, but the longer he comes to this era, the more he understands that he can't go back. Others are all mixed up, and only he has difficulty even eating a full stomach. The more Geng Qiu thought about it, the more angry he became. This ancient is not as good as modern times, and it is really difficult to make a living when you are away from home. Geng Qiu doesn't know anything, and even hunting depends on Ah Hao.
In Shanyin City, they found a mid-range inn to recuperate for two days, this time Ah Hao and Geng Qiu also bought shoes and ready-to-wear, because the weather became hot, and the shoes they got in Xiaobang Village were not good, so they each bought a set of single clothes and two pairs of shoes, because the ready-to-wear was too expensive, they didn't dare to buy it for Ah Niu, so they bought a piece of medium cotton cloth, Ah Hao said that he wanted to sew Ah Niu's small clothes by himself.
"You can also sew clothes?" Geng Qiu asked in disbelief, although now he understood that most people like Ah Hao were female workers. But along the way, Ah Hao obviously can't cook, can't take care of children, laundry and other work, how can he sew clothes?
But this time Geng Qiu looked down on Ah Hao, in the two days of recuperation in the inn, Ah Hao really sewed two sets of small clothes, obviously he learned to make small clothes, because children's clothes are actually simpler than adults wear, the top is a small hexagram and the bottom is a small pants, and he does not pay attention to embroidery and style, as long as he can wear it. For the rest of the cloth, Ah Hao also sewed a big pair of pants for each of the two adults. It's what people here call underwear. Although the style and handiwork of small clothes and large pants are not very good, it is better to be able to wear them. So Geng Qiu still praised him fiercely under Ah Hao's eyes begging for praise: "Wow, Ah Hao, you are so capable, you can actually make clothes." ”
"Hmph, tell you to underestimate me." Ah Hao's heart was so happy that he didn't even feel pain in the few holes in his hands. However, Geng Qiu guessed correctly, Ah Hao did learn to make clothes, but his level can only make small clothes and big pants. Because this large pants worn on the inside is said to be a basic job that every woman, including the prime minister, must do, and the intention is to do it for the men of her own family. Come to think of it, no woman wants her man to wear underwear made by other women. The panties are a symbol. So Ah Hao has also learned to make clothes since he was a child, but unfortunately under his father's high pressure, he only learned to make pants. As for the little clothes, he learned them after marriage, because everyone said that he had to make some clothes for his baby in order to be a qualified father, so he reluctantly learned it under the high pressure of his mother-in-law. I didn't expect this to come in handy.