Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Return
Those who wanted to understand had retreated, ready to go back and hurry up to find something to eat, if the nearby wild vegetables were picked they would have to go further away, so it was better not to leave too far at this time.
There were a few faceless and skinless people who didn't want to leave, Jiang Lao Liu didn't care at all, and motioned to the few people who were watching the entrance of the cave to wipe the long knife in their hands back into the cave.
"Jiang is still old and spicy, and Jiang is a good means to manage things." Shang Yuzhang saw that Jiang Lao Liu had a few words, and he said that the person who had been making trouble early in the morning was gone, and praised it heartily.
Jiang Lao Liu waved his hand modestly, "Young Master Zhang praised it falsely, I also have a little more experience in the things I have encountered, in the final analysis, it is better for His Majesty to educate the people of the Holy Ming, and these people dare not offend the Holy Inheritance." ”
"What Steward Jiang said is that His Majesty has the prosperity and peace of today." Shang Yuzhang agreed very much with Jiang Laoliu's words. As a child of the royal family, even if they can't write anything, they will have a sense of pride in their bones, and they will have the same blood as the emperor. Praise the emperor and they will also be honored.
Shang Yujue has an impulsive temperament and is easy to speak, and his aunt and Shang Yuzhang have warned him since he was a child that when he said about the emperor's majesty, the harem lady and the prince, he should not talk and be dumb, because he caused trouble to the family because of a wrong sentence. Shang Yujue didn't feel that there was any big problem with his mind talking without thinking, but since he was a child, a good companion said, "Of course the world is my family!" He never heard anything about his friends again. From then on, he followed the teachings of his aunt and brother, and did not dare to use the word of praise at the mention of the saint.
Hearing his brother and Jiang Lao Liu say, Emperor Shang Yujue closed his ears and said that he went to sleep for a while and went to make up for sleep.
Shang Yuzhang and the two talked for a while, and then they brought something to see Master Xile, the master brought a few children, and the children were delicate, so it was better to send some over.
Yuzhang, the merchant who took this trip, felt extremely unlucky, and he didn't know how long he would stay in this ghost place, but fortunately, there was an unexpected joy of Master Joy.
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Listening to the commotion over there over Jiang Lao Liu, needless to say, he knew why, Master Xile didn't have the intention of going to make peace, and the commanders Qingsong Qingfeng and Du Liu went out with hats to find food.
Master Xile only knew from Jiang Laoliu's memory that there was such a place, and Jiang Laoliu and they were also here for the first time. Qingsong: They go out early, and it's best to look around before anyone else. Since it is a bandit's den and a place to live, it will definitely plant a fruit tree and order vegetables. Even if a few years pass, there will be nothing left. Qingsong, they found a few people who could still eat as much as they wanted, and they couldn't eat anything if they were really driven away by others.
"Excuse me, the kid Shang Yuzhang and his younger brother Shang Yujue came to visit Master Xile, I don't know if it's convenient?" Shang Yuzhang asked politely to Xiao Rou, who was drying branches at the entrance of the cave.
Xiao Rou looked up and saw the two of them suddenly, and looked at the joyful master who had stopped chanting. Nodding his head, he said, "Master, please come in." ”
Shang Yuzhang and Shang Yujue look very similar, but a son of a family is full of aura, and a fledgling hairy young man.
"Boy Yu, Brother Yu Jue of the Zhang family visits Master Xile."
The greeting master of joy had already fast-forwarded to the little movie of the two brothers' lives, and said with a kind smile: "I don't know what the two donors are talking about? "You apprentices of this age don't match!
A legend about the Master of Joy is that Shang Yuzhang is told by others. Unsure of the temperament of the Joy Master, Shang Yuzhang decided to start with the almighty climate.
"I heard that the master knows astronomy and geography, and I don't know how long this rain will take, if we can't stop it immediately, we can also make some preparations in advance."
Master Joy nodded: "It's better to prepare more things, this rain won't stop for a day and a half." Don't worry, don't worry, we'll be able to leave safely. ”
The two of them discussed the issue of the weather, and Shang Yuzhang wanted to mention his identity many times, but Master Xile skillfully said back to the weather. Knowing that Master Xile didn't want to talk about it, Shang Yuzhang took his puffy younger brother back to the big hole he had locked.
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Qingfeng and Du Liuhe came back quickly, and the two of them only looked for it nearby. Bringing back half a bag of ripe pears, Du Liu touched a few big fish in the river again, and came back when he saw that there were more fishers.
"It's really convenient to have a pot, or Master Huaiming is smart." Xiao Rou threw the wild onions and pears she picked into the pot and rolled them, thinking that it would be inconvenient for so many people outside to eat some hot food, and praised and praised the prescient Huaiming.
When the pear water was boiled, I filled the whole pot with the bamboo knots shaved from the green pine, and divided the whole pot of weird soup.
The population of the Great Shang was large, and it was immediately sealed down when a plague broke out in one place, and it was not uncommon for Yan zhòng to set fire to it.
More than ten years ago, the first bloom of Master Xile was in a plague in Nanling, and in the blockaded Xiushui City, he proposed a series of effective measures against the plague, such as rodent extermination, isolation, incineration, drinking boiling water, and liquor cooling. The mortality rate of the previous high ** percent was reduced to two or three percent, and most of the people in a city were saved. It also created the beginning of the legendary path of the Joy Master.
After the spread of the anti-plague measures of the Joy Master, these methods proved to be extremely effective and soon spread among the people.
Master Joy once said, 'Onions, ginger and garlic can prevent many diseases.' The brain-dead fans quickly implemented it. I like the onion, ginger and garlic that I love to do everything.
In the past few days, they can only find some food in the wild, and it is even more important to pay attention to it, Aunt Xiaorou saw that Du Liu grabbed a large handful of wild onions and came back, so she simply stewed them in a pot with pears, which cleared the lungs and suppressed cough and prevented wind and cold, and the double effect was guaranteed.
Du Xiaoxi took out the boiled half-ripe pears and ate some. Drink the sweet green onion soup, point to your chin and watch Qingqing Feng talk about grilled fish.
"Yesterday, a lot of people didn't want to come, but they wanted to find a place to nest nearby for a day on the side of the road, but they still said the name of the master alone, and these people followed. Seeing that there were many caves here, those people thanked the master. ”
"I heard that this seems to be a foothold for bandits, and there are many of these holes. But there are not many kang and rotten wood inside. Today, when I went to collect firewood again, I couldn't find it, so I had to go outside and pull the branches back to bake them first. ”
"The master said that in this kind of environment where it is easy to get sick, urine and urine must be dealt with well, and the owner of the boat we are on Jiang Steward directly asked people not to move a hole over there for everyone to go to the toilet, and when you want to go to the toilet, you must say that I will take you there."
Du Xiaoxi and Liu Yao couldn't do anything, it was the biggest credit that they couldn't run around in this kind of weather, and the two of them had nothing to do but sit under the cover and listen to Qingfeng talk about things outside.
Qingfeng finished his mouth and patted the mud on his buttocks and said, "I'll go and drag more branches to cool down, if this rain doesn't stop, these won't be enough." After saying that, he took the hat and went out again.
Even if it was still cool in the Tianshan cave in June, now it was raining outside for a day and a night, and the day in the cave was also a cold air to the bone. Du Liu and the others have been running outside, so they are afraid of the cold, so they light a small fire all day, and they can roast it immediately when they come back.
Rainfall is extremely abundant throughout the year, and floods are the most frequent disasters. Heavy rain for several days during rainy seasons is also common. Afraid that this rainstorm would last for a while, their half bag of rice would not last, so Xiaorou put a little rice and cooked it with half a pot of wild vegetables every time she cooked rice soup.
After a few days, wild vegetables, fruits, and grilled fish were full of sundries in their stomachs, and they begged in their hearts to stop the rain soon, they had enough of the wild vegetables here.
When Du Xiaoxi and his party were trapped in the cave, they survived. The Liu family and the Du family in Shanshui County have fallen out because of their disappearance.
Mrs. Liu received the news that her second son was going home a few days ago. As a result, it rained, and I didn't wait until the evening for my son's good grandson to come back.
Seeing that it was raining heavily, everyone agreed that they should switch to the land route.
Two days later, there was still no one to see and no letter to be received, and Mrs. Liu couldn't sit still.
When the son arrived in the mountain town, he asked people to carry a letter saying that he would be home immediately, even if it suddenly rained and he would not take the boat. It is also past the backing town, and you can get there by land for two days. If the son and grandson don't come back, could it be a matter of origin? Thinking of this possibility, Old Madam Liu's eyes rolled and she was dizzy.
Mrs. Liu has two precious sons, and the eldest son has been studying abroad since he was a child, so he naturally can't stay by his side every day to coax him with good words, and he often gets close to the younger son who brings good food. What's more, the youngest son also gave birth to his only grandson, so he naturally has to be pampered.
If the two of them and the missing Liu family become extinct, he will be sorry for the ancestors and the ancestors, and he will be sorry for the father-in-law.
In Mrs. Liu's opinion, Liu Ziping, the eldest son of the Liu family, has so many eldest sons, and the girl has given birth to dozens of them, and at this age, the son will definitely not be born. Naturally, the task of passing on the lineage was left to the younger son and grandson, who were now nowhere to be found. Mrs. Liu couldn't accept it, and shouted to Mama Rong and Mama Gui to hire someone to find it quickly.
After two days of heavy rain, seeing that the water level at the wharf was rising, another shop of the Du family was closed directly. The family returned to Dujia Village and waited for the rain to stop and start work again.
When Mama Gui came over in the rain with Second Master Liu's letter, the sensation caused was no less than the disappearance of Second Master Liu's father and son.
Brother Du and Second Brother directly borrowed the carriage that Mama Gui was riding in when she came, and brought some food and went north to find someone.
The experienced boat elder knows whether he can go as soon as he sees the sky, Liu Erye is on the big boat of Jingtai Boat Company, and the possibility of capsizing is extremely low, not to mention that Master Xile is also there, nothing can happen at all. The group must have been stranded at some small ferry crossing, waiting for the rain to stop and then rush home.
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There were nearly 500 passengers on the three ships of Jingtai, and there were also seven or eight hundred people on the ships of other small merchants.
In this aggrieved environment, contradictions are on the verge of erupting.
There had been a death from poisoning by poisonous mushrooms, and after a few skirmishes, everyone fell silent, as if one small thing could detonate the entire camp.
Finally, the rain stopped.
After five days of heavy rain. In the middle of the night, the rain suddenly turned into a sporadic drizzle, and then the wind and rain were quiet.
The rain has stopped! The rain has stopped!
I don't know that the guy who has done too much moral things and doesn't dare to sleep at night found that the rain had stopped, and shouted like crazy. Hearing the voice, more and more people woke up and howled excitedly.
These days are simply not human days. They are finally liberated!
When the rain stopped, they were able to leave.
It's not dawn yet. Jiang Lao Liu asked Erzhuzi to take a few guys to see how their boat was doing, if it was damaged, they couldn't leave if they wanted to.
Erzhuzi soon returned, "The river is so high that the place where the boats are parked is completely flooded, and one of our boats is all underwater, and it can't go at all." "The ship sank. You can only wait for the water to recede and the boat is cleared before it can be used.
But they couldn't wait.
"Let's go through the woods! Take the dry road! ”
Climb a large mountain to the south to reach a small ferry port, and it will be better to take a boat or a dry road than now. A few days ago, they didn't dare to climb the mountain because the rain was too heavy and it was too prone to accidents. Now that the rain has stopped, they will soon be able to go home as long as they can climb over.
Quite a few people are moved, they have had enough here.
The boats would want to reopen for at least five or six days, and they didn't want to endure hunger anymore.
Many people who lived nearby shouted and went home over the mountain together, and Liu Erye looked at Master Xile's good-looking big eyes with burning eyes, revealing a deep expectation.
He doesn't want to sleep in a cave! He doesn't want to squat in the pit en masse! He doesn't want to live with green vegetables and wild vegetables every day!
He wants to eat meat! Chicken, duck, mutton! Home-slaughtered pork!
Master Xile nodded in agreement with the longing eyes of Second Master Liu: "The old man has long wanted to leave when the rain stops, since Lord Liu also wants to do so, then it is better for us to pack up and leave sooner rather than later, and we can reach the other side of the mountain before dark." ”
Since he didn't know if there were any wild beasts on the mountain, Master Joy took a special look at a few of his teammates who were strong and strong, and decided to take care of each other to climb the mountain.
Saying that they would go, except for a little wild fruit, everyone also brought hats and tarpaulins to prevent further rain, and everyone threw pots and pans and quilts, and even suitcases to Jingtai Shipping Company to deliver them to the door, and then set off towards the other side of the mountain.
Many of the mountains on both sides of the North-South Grand Canal do not have names, and this one is no different, and the world only knows that this mountain is very large when viewed from the side.
With the persistence of faith, the group finally climbed through the mountains in the middle of the night to the nearest ferry.
More than 200 savages seem to have it, and many days of cave life have made them fight with the beggars. When they entered the ferry, the dogs began to bark half like crazy, and then converged into a song that disturbed people's dreams.
The ferry port is not big, originally it was just a small village, because of the canal, usually the people in the village take food and run to the ferry to sell, occasionally a strong wind and a rainstorm also have a boat to stop here. It can also add a lot of input to each family.
Finally, the rain stopped and I was able to sleep peacefully, but the dogs howled collectively in the middle of the night! ‘
And let no one sleep! Dead dogs!
(To be continued.) )