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Early in the morning, after the rooster crows three times, everyone gets up one after another. At this time, a round of red sun slowly climbed from the east, a few rays of sunlight sprinkled on the moist earth appeared extraordinarily warm, the air was filled with the fragrance of the earth after the rain, and a few small birds were chirping in the trees.

When I opened the door, I realized that it had rained last night, but I didn't feel it at all. Aunt Mei came over and saw my puzzled expression, and said with a smile: "You just fell asleep last night, and it began to rain heavily until the early hours of the morning, do you see how fresh the air is now?" ”

I smiled, yesterday's foul air and the smell of killing were all washed away by this heavy rain, and I couldn't help but sigh, the things in the world are exactly like this, how can they not withstand the consumption of the world, how can they not stop the washing of nature.

Aunt Mei has already prepared for the morning and is waiting for us to pass.

Following Aunt Mei's footsteps and coming to the main hall, I ate some indiscriminately. At this time, Uncle Wu had already ordered the carriage and horses, ready to set off at any time. I couldn't help but peek at the back of Aunt Mei and Uncle Wu talking, after two thrilling days of getting along, I was about to part with Aunt Mei, and I had an inexplicable sense of intimacy with the woman in front of me who was the same as my mother, and suddenly I was a little reluctant to leave.

Aunt Mei turned around, changed her past pungency, and said sadly: "Child, no one will cook for you when you go out in the future, you have to eat and drink well, don't treat yourself badly!" ”

Aunt Mei's words, I was almost moved to tears, I have no mother since I was a child, and seeing Aunt Mei is as kind as seeing my mother.

I went over and quietly hugged Aunt Mei and whispered, "I lost my mother since I was a child, and you will be my mother from now on!" ”

Aunt Mei burst into tears after hearing this, and when she spoke just now, she had already seen her eyes red, as if she had secretly cried. I comforted Aunt Mei, and then asked Uncle Wu and them to go first, and Aunt Mei told me again, so I reluctantly went on the road.

At this moment, Uncle Wu and the beggar led the convoy one after the other, and I walked a hundred meters away, always feeling as if I had forgotten something, looking back at Aunt Mei, I suddenly realized.

I rode to Aunt Mei and whispered to Aunt Mei: "In this fight in the Plum Garden, paper can't contain the fire, maybe something similar will happen in the future." Father is in Mujia Village now, after we leave, you go to inform your father, let your father sell this place, and find you a place to live in Wubao County from now on, it is no longer safe here, remember to remember! ”

With tears in her eyes, Aunt Mei nodded and agreed. I couldn't help but laugh when I looked at Aunt Mei, but the road ahead was still very long, and I still needed to continue walking, and I rode away without looking back. I could feel Aunt May standing behind for a long, long time until I disappeared from her sight......

It is about 60 kilometers from Wubao County to Suide County, during which it is full of mountain roads, out of Wubao County, out of our family's sphere of influence, although this short dozens of kilometers is not far, but the mountain roads are extremely rugged, and there are often bandit activities, and it is quite troublesome to meet bandits and horse thieves.

I soared all the way and finally caught up with Uncle Wu.

"Uncle Wu, why don't we start directly from Wubao County and take the waterway all the way south to Huayin. Instead, do you want to go west to Suide by land and then turn south to Xi'an? Wouldn't it be even more dangerous to take such a route that is close to the near and far, and to take this dangerous road in the mountains and rivers where bandits are rampant? I asked Uncle Wu.

"Tiancheng, you don't know anything! In the first ten years, the Yellow River was still navigable. However, in the past ten years, there has been a lot of construction in various places, trees and forests have been decreasing, the water level of the Yellow River has been decreasing, there are silt reefs everywhere, and there are still interruptions from time to time, the water flow is getting smaller and smaller, and various reefs and waterfalls are more and more exposed.

For example, if you look at it from a distance, there is still a wide and flat water in front of you, but you may not be able to say a few hundred meters below, either there are reefs or rivers running underground, and the river is dry. The ship can only sink on the reef, or run aground on the river, with steep cliffs on both sides, and it is a dilemma.

Therefore, in recent years, no one has taken the waterway anymore, and everyone would rather go around the mountain pipeline than take the Yellow River waterway, the so-called "natural disasters cannot be violated, but man-made disasters can be turned into waterways" is this truth! Uncle Wu said with a long sigh.

I can't help but sigh, it turns out that the reason is that this is the case, now the world is hot and cold, and people's hearts are not ancient, and even nature has begun to take revenge on human ignorance! Uncle Wu looked at me and shook his head helplessly.

"This way to Suide County, how many bandits and horse thieves are there in the middle?" I then asked.

"This area is mostly the Loess Plateau, the mountains are poor, the population is sparse, and the bandits are also a relatively small force. The main strength is the Yihui Gang led by Guo Qinghui who is entrenched on Mogu Mountain, but this Guo Qinghui is still a good man in the green forest, and ordinary poor people will not rob it. This righteous gang specializes in robbing wealthy landlords and businessmen, and I still have some old friendships with this Guo Qinghui, so I don't have to worry too much. Uncle Wu thought for a while and said.

When Uncle Wu said this, I felt very strange in my heart, how could Uncle Wu have a relationship with the leader of the bandits?

"We are businessmen in this area all the year round, and they are more tacit understanding, from time to time to send some money to calm people's hearts, it can be regarded as a kind of "protection fee", presumably they will not embarrass us, other two or three people in a share of bandits and horse thieves, this can not be counted, but we are not afraid of them! Uncle Wu explained with some surprise when he saw me.

I heard Uncle Wu say this, so I was a lot more relieved, after all, in this Jianghu, relying on relationships is commonplace.

Along the way, we talked and laughed, and the time soon came to noon. We also came to Suide County after all the hardships, and everyone was tired all the way, and we were already hungry. I asked Uncle Wu to quickly find a better place for the brothers to rest their feet, eat something, and fill their stomachs first.

Uncle Wu thought for a while and said: "The mutton noodles here in Suide are more famous, I know that there is an old shop in the city that does very well, let's go directly!" ”

I nodded my head again and again, thinking about the hot noodle soup, the large pieces of mutton, and the somersault noodles, my mouth watered, and I hurriedly beckoned everyone to go immediately.

Uncle Wu took everyone and his party into the group, and after a while, he came to a store.

This store is okay, a two-story small building, the door plaque reads "Forty miles of mutton noodles", look at the past, a group of people lined up at the door, I didn't expect the business to be so good!

We were a group of more than a dozen people, Uncle Wu and a few guys went to the backyard to settle the carriage in person, and the shopkeeper beckoned us to go to the store first.

Entering the store, I looked around, this shop looks very grand from the outside, I didn't expect the inside to be even brighter, we randomly found two empty tables to sit down, who knows that before we can sit down, there is a big man in line there shouting that the table is empty.

We saw that there were things like packages under the table, but we changed two empty tables, but before we could get to the front, we heard a middle-aged woman with a thick waist and fat ears, pulling a broken gong voice, shouting and saying that there were people, if we changed three or four empty tables, everyone dragged their tired bodies and watched these six or seven empty tables, but they couldn't sit down and eat a full meal, and they were very angry.

"Shopkeeper, what's going on, seeing so many empty tables in the store, but you can't sit?" The beggar shouted in a rage.

The shopkeeper hurriedly ran over, and said apologetically: "Several, I'm really sorry, the boss has launched a new sauce to explode beef in the last half month, and no one cares about it on weekdays, this is not to win over customers, it is sold at half price for the past two days, I didn't expect the effect to be so good, you see that the long queue over there is queuing up to buy beef." ”

"If you buy beef, you buy beef, what is the reason for occupying a table? It's been a long time and I haven't seen a queue over there, you let us who want to eat a bowl of mutton noodles, just look at the empty table and wait? The beggar said angrily.

The shopkeeper said helplessly: "I can't help it, it's like this now, people don't care about anything else, occupy a table first, and then go to line up to buy beef for dinner, so that many customers come and don't have a table to sit." And our beef is a by-product, the output is very small, these days many guests look at the empty table and wait really don't want to wait, are angry to leave, the boss is so determined, we are also looking at the dry anxious! ”

"Alright, you go down first, let's wait a minute!" I said to Xiao Er.

After the shopkeeper left, we waited for about a stick of incense, and there was still no one to sit at the empty table to buy beef.

"What kind of reason is this, obviously occupying the pit and not, we have already eaten and left these times, today I will rectify their crooked atmosphere!" The beggar said angrily.

Anyway, the beggar told us to step back so that we wouldn't be implicated. We retreated to the counter, and the beggar flashed his electric steps, and in an instant swept away the things that occupied the empty table, which was so fast that I could see it intermittently, and the people who stood there staring at the beef window did not notice it at all, and the beggar instantly moved to the front of the store, smiled at me, and instantly returned all the things to the street, and returned to us in a flash.

The group of people still stood there numbly waiting, and the beggar pointed to the door and shouted: "There are thieves stealing things, there are thieves stealing things, chase after you, chase after you!" ”

The group subconsciously turned their heads to look at their things, but found that their things were gone, and they suddenly made a mess. Hurriedly ran out of the door to look for it, and in an instant the dense crowd that was standing there suddenly became empty, and the beggar hurriedly beckoned everyone to occupy all the empty tables and sit down, I smiled helplessly at the beggar and sat down on the table.

The beggar came to the window where the beef was sold, and the beef was ready, and the beggar bought all the beef in one go and put it on our table.

After the noise, the crowd of people who had picked up their things from outside returned to the store, only to find that the table was no longer there, and the word "sold out" had been hung on the window of the beef seller, and they all scolded angrily.

At this time, they saw our table and the beef on the table, rushing over and surrounding a dozen of us, the big man who was shouting just now said that this table was his, and the middle-aged woman crossed her hands on her hips and pointed to the table of the caravan and said that it was hers, and everyone kept talking.

Seeing this, the beggar shouted, "Quiet! Stop! The table is yours, what proof do you have? ”

"We just put everything here......"