Chapter Twenty-Six: The Camel Bell in a Dream
She didn't even feel the cold air of the autumn and winter mornings, until the dazzling sunlight hit her and felt the temperature rise sharply, and she opened her eyes slightly.
Last night really felt like a dream, a midnight terror dream. She sat up and looked around, feeling like she didn't know where she was.
Unexpectedly, after a few turnovers, she was alone again, just like when she first came to this world.
At this time, her heart is very firm, she must personally rehabilitate herself, and let Cai Ye return the pain inflicted on her body to him with interest.
She didn't want to go to Lu Yan and them for the time being, although Cai Ye and the others might really think that she was dead, but she didn't want to rely on others so "incompetently" anymore, she wanted to create a way of life by herself. As for Gongsun Li Zai, she is already desperate!
So, after working hard, Luhui began to hit the road again, and her destination was Beiyi, which is also the location of Danqing Palace.
After descending the mountain along a mountain road on the other side of the cliff top, she followed the only official road forward, and was about to meet someone to ask for the exact direction of the north.
However, after walking for several miles, she found hardly a person, and the more she walked, the more sparsely populated and the land seemed to be barren, because the vegetation on the ground had become more and more sparse, and there were fewer and fewer plants around.
It was almost noon, and the sun was high in the sky. The autumn sun isn't particularly hot and a bit soft. But at this time, Green Hui had not eaten or drunk for several hours, and she was exhausted on the peak, and she was already a little shaky with hunger and thirst.
Lu Hui only now remembered that she had been walking with the sun on her back, but this road should be in the general direction to Beiyi, right, did she enter the Western Regions of the Northwest Region? No matter what it is, she just wants to find a family to beg for some water to drink quickly, otherwise she will really collapse and die from excessive sweating.
However, when Midori climbed over a small hill with a gentle slope that was almost bare, she despaired! A layer of sand waves seems to rise out of thin air from below the horizon, overwhelming the sky and hitting you.
The flat sand is reckless and yellow into the sky, and it is an endless desert!
At the moment, Green Club just wants to sigh at its own insignificance. This boundless desert is adjacent to the sky, and the two are close together, as if they were made of nature. A gust of wind blew, and the ground was full of wind and sand
While sighing, Green Hui became annoyed.
Now she is hungry and thirsty, and in front of her is this vast desert, is the sky going to kill her? By the time she walked out of this desert, she was already a dead corpse!
At this time, Green Hui heard a melodious sound like metal knocking, wafting from the desert in the distance, tinkling.
Green Hui looked up into the distance, and saw a caravan of camels climbing over a small sand dune and gradually coming into her sight. It is the "ship of the desert" - the camel. Then, that melodious sound should be the camel bell!
I don't know why, Luhui felt very excited, and remembered the familiar ballad in his mind: "Climb the peak to look at your hometown, the yellow sand is thousands of miles long, where is the camel bell ringing, the sound knocks on the heart!" ”
As long as there are people, she is saved.
Thinking of this, Green Hui hurriedly greeted it. But when she stepped on the sand on the ground, she realized that it was really difficult to walk in the desert, and her feet would sink into the sand, especially when she climbed a small sand dune, and after just a few steps, the sand slid down and sent you back to the original place, which was even more difficult than climbing a mountain.
I had to sigh "Life dies under the gravel, and the gravel is desolate under life!" ”
It took a great deal of effort for Midori to walk a short distance in the desert, but it was the caravan that was probably much faster than she was because they often walked in the desert.
Soon she saw them appear about ten meters in front of her. This is a caravan camel caravan, each camel has a backpack on its back, bulging, and an iron-like object that can make a sound is hung on the backpack, which should be a camel bell.
The leader is an old man and a young man who are dressed in an exotic style, both of whom are long-sleeved and fat-waisted robes, a bit like the clothing of Tibet. The top of the girl's hair is tied with a gaudy flannel cloth decorated with ornaments such as Huang and beads, commonly known as "braid sets", and on both sides there are several braids with winding wool threads, and the beads made of agate coral hang from the hair, which looks delicate and cute. The old man wore a gromless felt hat and a large earring in one of his ears.
Although the green club is not fainting now, there is already a double vision in front of it. Maybe she felt relieved when she saw the two approaching, and she seemed to be about to fall into the yellow sand.
At this time, the sharp-eyed girl hurriedly rushed over and held the green hui who was about to fall.
"Thank you!" Midori smiled feebly, her lips already dry and cracked a little.
"It's okay, but it looks like you're very weak, has something happened?" The girl smiled heartily, her cheeks were slightly crimson from the scorching sun, and her grape-like eyes were crystal clear, and she was asking about the situation of the green club with concern.
"Well, in fact, it's not a physical problem, it's just that I haven't eaten a drop of water since last night, and I'm just a little prostration!" Green Hui coughed embarrassedly.
"Oh!" The girl's face suddenly realized, and she hurried to the camel's rucksack to fetch water and food for Luhui.
The water and food are like an oasis in the desert for Greenhouse.
After eating, the green club finally regained its vitality and said gratefully, "Thank you! It's a real lifesaver for me! ”
"Actually, it's nothing, just some ordinary food, and we don't have high-end food!" After speaking, there was a hint of loss on his face. The old man next to him only bowed slightly.
"By the way, where are you going? Look like you're in business! Green Hui suddenly asked with great interest.
"It's not really, how can a real businessman be so shabby as us!" The girl said a little self-deprecatingly, "We're just doing a little business to make a living and be self-sufficient!" The girl has already regarded Green Hui as a confidant, "We are an ordinary small family in Miaojiang, relying on camel teams to pull some goods from the Central Plains to our Western Regions to sell, and sometimes we also pull our Western Regions things to the Central Plains to sell, and if the price difference is large, we can barely make ends meet!" ”
The girl sighed and continued: "It was a little better a few years ago, but now it is getting worse and worse. There are more and more caravans, especially some of the larger ones, which have almost robbed us of our business. They are usually some large camel teams with dart masters, not only are there many more camels than us, but there are also many more people who take care of the camel teams than us, and their prices are very low, and we can't give such a low price so we have to give up the business, so now life is getting more and more difficult! ”
Green Hui really didn't expect that the caravan camel caravan in this desert was also such a sought-after job. But listening to the girl's words, it seems that the situation has only changed in recent years, is there something that happened in the middle?
"Then do you know what caused the caravan to suddenly increase?" ”
"I also heard that I came back. I heard that there was a master in our dynasty who sailed to the other side of the sea with his fleet, where there was a rain non-country, and they brought a lot of spices, coral, ivory, dyes and other things that we did not have on our side, and some people saw that it was profitable, so they purchased a large number of these things from the Central Plains and sold them at a high price in the Western Regions. ”
I see. Listening to the girl's description, Lu Hui thought of Zheng He's voyage to the West in the Ming Dynasty, but this is not the Ming Dynasty in China, is there also an incident where a fleet went to the West?
True or false, she couldn't figure out how this Chongye Dynasty existed.
"That Yu Feiguo sounds interesting, what kind of place is it?" Green Club wants to know a little more.
The girl's eyes flashed, and she seemed to be full of curiosity about that place, "I heard them say that it is a very mysterious place, and there are many rare beasts. Once they brought with them an animal called 'Kirin', with a long neck and horns on its head, which was fun! ”
"It's a giraffe!" Green Hui thought secretly, and there was a little excitement in his heart.
The more the girl spoke, the more energetic she became: "I also heard that they found a mythical beast there that resembles a dragon on our side, called 'Nitinanka', with shining scales and horns on its head, but they said it very mysteriously, and I don't know if they really saw it with their own eyes!" ”
In this way, Yu Feiguo is really a treasure full of secrets.
However, it is also true that ancient China was more curious about overseas places, and Africa is really a wild land to be developed, and there are countless secrets in it. The people here must be similar to the ancient Chinese people.
The more the two of them talked, the more energetic they became, only to realize that they had stayed in the scorching sun for a while. The silent old man next to him was leisurely soothing his camel.
"You guys are going to Yu Liang's side now!" Look at them in the opposite direction to yourself.
"Well, we call that side the Central Plains!" The girl tilted her head and explained, her eyebrows and eyes always crooked.
"I'm going to Beiyi, it's the opposite of you, I'm sorry to delay you for so long!" Green Hui said sincerely, it was time to part ways.
The girl was a little reluctant, it was rare for someone to talk so closely, "In this way, then you have to go from that side to get out of the desert!" The girl pointed to the north, her eyes shining with sincerity.
Midori took the girl's hand, "Thanks, it's really nice to meet you!" "After that, we have to start our journey.
At this time, the girl grabbed Lu Hui's arm, leaned over her face and said mysteriously: "Sister, what shape do you think the world we live in?" ”
Lu Hui was stunned, why did she suddenly ask about this.
Without waiting for Midori to answer, the girl continued: "I heard people say that it is round, I think it is incredible, I didn't expect that I was standing on a round thing! ”
Is it the "Earth Circle Theory"? Is it just a few of them speculating on their own? Green Hui was even more surprised, it seemed that this Chongye Dynasty was developing faster than she imagined, and many things seemed to appear ahead of her time.
"I don't know what shape it is, but I wish it was a circle, so we could meet again no matter how we walked!" Green Hui did not answer the girl's question directly, she really wanted to meet the little girl again.
"Well, we'll see you again!" The girl let go of the hand that was holding Green Hui's arm, as if she was already looking forward to the next meeting between the two.
In this way, the two separated and went in opposite directions. After walking away, Lu Hui remembered that he didn't even know the girl's name, so he shouted loudly: "What's your name?" ”
"My name is Youngla!" The sound of silver bells pierced through the dust and dust and disappeared into the distant sky.