On the evening of the second day after bidding farewell to Xing Le, the caravan came to the outside of the main city of Hefang County.

Counting up, Xing Le said goodbye to Zhuang Hua when he entered the outer city of Hefang County, that is to say, the caravan walked from the southernmost part of the territory under the jurisdiction of Zhaoguo to the outer city of Hefang County for five or six days.

Of course, the slow speed does not rule out the reason why the caravan stops and stops all the way to gather other caravans of the same trading house, so it is so slow, but it is not difficult to see the gap between the wild territory of Zhaoguo and Yangguo.

There are no counties between the two countries, and the land that does not besiege the city is called the land of wild jurisdiction. This kind of place is not counted in the territory of a country, but it belongs to its respective country, because there is no administrative and military department to manage, so anyone can live here or even settle down, and the people who live here also have a household registration, but no matter what their previous status is, as long as they are registered in the wild land, they will all be called "wild people", and if they are right, people in the country are called "national people".

In fact, the country to which the field belongs can establish new counties in the field and become the official territory of the country, but usually, the land under the field is a place that has been determined to be of no value, so no country has a county in such a place. In short, the wild land is the goods that grandma doesn't love and uncle doesn't love.

However, the strength of a country can be seen from the size of the wild territory it owns, because the wild territory is a reserve land.

When Zhuang Hua chatted with Xing Le two days ago, Xing Le once said that the northern territory of Yangguo is bordered by Ziguo in the east and west, and Shuohai in the east, with a maximum distance of more than 4,000 li, and the north and south are the borders of his own country and the north is under the jurisdiction of Zhaoguo, with a maximum distance of 900 li. The land under the jurisdiction of the south of Zhaoguo is the border of its own country in the east and west, and the longest distance is more than 7,000 li, and the north and south are connected to the Yangguo and Ziguo fields in the north and south are the borders of their own country, and the longest distance is 1,500 li.

Shaolu County is the closest Yangguo city to the land under the jurisdiction of Zhaoguoye, and the straight-line distance is less than four hundred miles, which is why General Qi is reluctant to chase and chooses to shoot down the mountain court, because less than ten miles to the north is the jurisdiction of Zhaoguoye.

It is a well-established rule that if a country's military forces rashly enter the territory of another country, it will be regarded as a provocation and will provoke a war between the two countries. Therefore, in addition to the defense of the county, the army of each county is also responsible for patrolling the nearest wilderness, even if it is found that there is an invasion of his ** team.

Yes, Zhaoguo saved her and Xing Le, and also harmed Shanting.

Zhuang Hua sighed a lot for a while, put down the bamboo slip in his hand that had been used as an ornament, and rubbed his eyebrows.

In the past few days, her physical fitness has declined rapidly, and she estimated that she still had about 90 catties left in the weight of 110 catties, and she was originally tall, and now it really became the "bamboo pole" that Tang Qi said, which caused Zhuang Hua to have an urge to tears when he saw the bamboo slips...... It was originally a family!

The decline in physical fitness is not only reflected in the weight aspect, but also the sleep is not as good as before. You know, as a female programmer, staying up all night is common, and the quality of sleep is not generally good, once she slept at home for a day and a night, and was woken up by Tang Qi, who was notified to 119 to pry the door in, because Tang Qi called her more than 100 calls that day, she didn't answer, Tang Qi thought she was gas poisoned, and deliberately took a taxi back from another city to "save" her.

And now, she doesn't sleep much, not because she can't sleep because she is energetic, sometimes she is very tired, but she still can't sleep. But the miracle is that there is no dark circles under the eyes and a yellow face, but the face is much paler than ordinary people (ask Xing Le to know), she classifies it as the welfare golden finger of the traverser.

Anyway, she wants to change the ...... Zhuang Hua put away the bamboo slips and wanted to take advantage of the sleepiness for a while, but he heard the sound of horses' hooves approaching the carriage, and the voice of the caravan leader Yu Tong came in through the curtain on the side wall of the carriage.

"Mr. Shanting, not far ahead is the main city of Hefang County, you need to check your identity documents when you enter the city, please prepare them in advance."

Since the caravan met the army of Hefang County patrolling the field at noon, and when inspecting the caravan, it was found that Zhuang Hua was a scholar, and Yutong's name for Zhuang Hua changed from "Little Brother Shan" to "Mr. Shanting", and he also ordered everyone in the caravan to call him that.

Zhuang Hua didn't refute either, and let it be called whatever he wanted. Zhuang Hua doesn't care what others call her, as long as she knows that she is calling her, as for the distance caused by the change of title, she can't do anything. In a hierarchical world, shouting that everyone is equal, either brain-dead or Tom Mary Sue, but unfortunately she is neither, all she can do is keep her true heart, not pampered, not humble.

Zhuang Hua lifted the curtain and said to the fish: "I know." Team Leader Xie Yu reminded. ”

Yutong waved his hand and said, "This is worth thanking, Mr. Shanting is polite." ”

Zhuang Hua chatted with Yu Tong for a few more nonsense, and suddenly remembered one thing and asked, "I don't know what I asked the fish leader to find today, but there is a place?" ”

Obviously, the small talk with Zhuang Hua made the team leader feel good, and Yu Tong replied with a smile: "It is true that Mr. asked for gloves, but there is good leather in this shipment, which has made the slave girl who is good at weaving and sewing sewing." ”

There is a finger missing from his left hand, Zhuang Hua is not used to it, he can always evoke bad memories, so he simply can't see it out of sight and don't bother, find a pair of gloves to wear and cover it.

Zhuang Hua lowered his eyes and thanked him: "I'm tired of the fish leader." ”

"It is an honor for Mr. Shan Ting to have a tendency to do something, and Mr. is so polite."

After a few more conversations, Yutong left the vicinity of the carriage to mobilize the caravan.

As soon as Zhuang Hua lowered the curtain, the whole person collapsed on the inner wall of the carriage like a deflated balloon, took a few deep breaths fiercely, and sighed in his heart.

If she only knew that the status of women in this world was low before, then following the caravan these days, she had seen with her own eyes how low the status of women here was.

The caravan of Yutong's trading house is really not small, and the caravans that have converged one after another have almost brought together commodities from all over the world, making her a "soil bun" on the earth.

However, the "goods" brought by the last group of caravans that converged made Zhuang Hua's mood slightly happier because of seeing this specialty from all over the world, and instantly fell to the bottom.

Person.

That's right, there are men and women among the people, people from all countries, and Zhuang Hua learned through Yutong that some of these women are not lowly, but commoners, and even ordinary people. The tradeable of lowly slaves is written in the laws of all countries in the world, although Zhuang Hua strongly disagrees, but people are protected by the law, she can only stare dryly.

She is not a savior, she is just an ordinary person who accidentally strayed into another world, and if she wants to change this phenomenon, she must first change the world, and she thinks she does not have this ability.

For those women who were not lowly but were bought and sold, Zhuang Hua couldn't help but ask, "Doesn't the government care?" ”

This question made Yu Tong more convinced that Zhuang Hua was the son of a family who was raised in a high pavilion and did not know the world, and patiently explained to her: "It's not that the government doesn't care, but as long as the father and brother of these women sign a deed to sever relations with them, the women who have no household registration will naturally become lowly, and once they become lowly, the government will naturally not interfere with the sale." ”

Being born without being able to do so is the fate of women in this world.

After sighing, Zhuang Hua couldn't help but rejoice for herself, fortunately she was Zhuang Hua, a disciple of the hermit, fortunately, she was a scholar in the mountain court, and fortunately, she was now a man.

Suddenly, the carriage stopped, Zhuang Hua put away his emotion, opened the curtain in front of the carriage, and picked up a crack.

She saw a majestic, simple and solemn city gate. The main city of Hefang County, Hefang City.

Different from the "delicateness" of the county gates of the counties and counties of Yangguo that Zhuang Hua has seen, compared with the city gates of He Fang City, the various city gates of Yangguo can only be described as delicate. The city gate of He Fang City gave Zhuang Hua a kind of pressure and the feeling that this was the battlefield.

Although the guards of the city gate made the advancing team like a turtle, it still did not diminish Zhuang Hua's appreciation of this city gate.

About three minutes later, Zhuang Hua's carriage finally arrived at the city gate.

"The person in the car showed his identification." The guards at the gates repeated the words that they had been saying for years, months, and months.

Zhuang Hua handed out the identity document from the side window, and the guards who inspected the document took it, and after inspecting it, he respectfully handed the identity document back, and ordered it to be released immediately.

By the time the caravan led by Yu Tong had passed the city gate, it was already full of lights.

Four or five hundred people, together with a large number of goods, went straight to the north city gate. This is also a helpless thing, there is no post house in a border city like this that can accommodate such a large group of people, but there is a place in the military camp, and people are not allowed to enter, so they can only go out of the city as soon as possible and camp outside the city to rest.

Yu Tong also asked Zhuang Hua if she wanted to stay in the city and rest for one night, he would leave some warriors to protect her, and wait until tomorrow morning to go out of the city to catch up with them.

Zhuang Hua refused without hesitation. Joke, she is a little in poor health, but she falls down without the wind, and she can't even stand the fatigue of hurrying, and she is in the carriage all the way, unlike the rest of the caravan that is exposed to the wind and sun, let alone special.

So the group entered the city in a great way, and went out of the city in a great way, and at noon before the moon was in the middle of the sky, they met the first village after Hefang City.

The people in the village were obviously very familiar with Yutong's caravan, Yutong only said hello to the village chief, and the caravan landed collectively in the big open space at the entrance of the village with the goods, and the tired people didn't bother to set up camp, so they directly spread mats and bedding on the ground, and fell asleep, leaving only twenty or thirty warriors to keep vigil.

Zhuang Hua also laid out the futon in the carriage and prepared to rest. I can't sleep, but I can close my eyes and refresh myself.

"Mr. Shanting, can you rest?" Yutong's voice came from outside the carriage.

Zhuang Hua sat up and replied, "Not yet." I wonder what happened to the fish leader? "You can't talk to her so late, right? Zhuang Hua's mind flew in the unstoppable direction of human beings.

"So Mr. hasn't slept yet."

Zhuang Hua rolled his eyes silently, just your loud voice, which insomniac patient can still fall asleep when he hears it.

Yu Tong continued: "When I passed by He Fangcheng today, a certain person purchased some snacks and fresh ingredients, so that the women in the village made some supper, I wonder if Mr. can use it?" ”

Zhuang Hua wanted to eat dry food along the way, and it would be good to change the food, so he replied: "Trouble the fish leader." Then he lifted the curtain and let the fish pass in with the plate.

Two plates of snacks, a bowl of meat, and a pot of wine.

Zhuang Huaqiang endured the thought of vomiting, and hurriedly shifted his gaze to Yutong and said, "I'm not eating meat, please remove meat!" ”

Yu Tong was also startled when he saw Zhuang Hua's appearance, and hurriedly took out the bowl of cooked meat, and Zhuang Hua felt better.

"It is a sin for a certain person to take a supper without asking Mr. about his eating habits, please forgive him!" The fish confessed.

Zhuang Hua shook his head and said: "I didn't mention this before, I'm ashamed, ashamed." ”

If Zhuang Hua was unwilling to eat barbecue with the caravan in the wild before, and could use the reason that the barbecue contained carcinogens to prevaricate her resistance to meat, then the bowl of steamed meat just now made her have to face the fact that she had a psychological barrier to meat.

Of course, it has something to do with the rough cooking techniques of this world, and the smell of flesh makes her can't help but think of the smell of blood, and then she will think of the blood that spurted out at the moment when her finger was broken and the figure of the mountain court kneeling on the ground. It's a very unbearable memory.

As a rotten and homely foodie, what does it mean that you can't eat meat anymore, and you want to vomit even when you smell it?

Will you have to be vegetarian in the future...... Zhuang Hua silently shed lasagna (t^t) in his heart. She found that since she shaved this bald head, bad luck had happened one after another, and she had been pushing her down the road of no return to becoming a monk.

What, what?! Do you want her to accept one, two, three apprentices and a horse, and become a Buddha after going through nine hundred and eighty-one difficulties?

Anyway, she did have a donkey before......

I don't go to hell, whoever loves will go to hell!! A bowl of meat made Zhuang Hua not calm, she didn't want to be cremated out of the relics (q_q) after she died.

If she can go back, she must write an autobiography, and the title of the book has been thought of, which is called "Bald Don't Climb the Mountain, Don't Look Back When You Climb the Mountain". Everyone is looking back and smiling, she is looking back at the earth, there is wood!

Is there a return ticket to Earth??

Yutong naturally didn't know what Zhuang Hua was complaining about, otherwise he was afraid that his eyes and chin would be smashed on the ground and he wouldn't be able to pick it up.

The fish are thinking about another thing.

"Mr. Shanting, there is something that I don't know whether to talk about or not." Yutong said tentatively.

Zhuang Hua withdrew from his resentment, and rolled his eyes in his heart, don't you say that I don't know whether to talk about it or not?

It seems like a dead knot......

Zhuang Hua still had that indifferent expression and said, "Team Leader Yu, please speak."

Yutong got Zhuang Hua's reply, so he said: "Mr. has no one to accompany him, there is a lot of inconvenience, it is better to pick some from the people in a certain caravan this time, Mr. rest assured, these people have been transferred and taught on the road, and they will not cause trouble to Mr., I don't know what Mr. wants?" ”

Zhuang Hua was stunned, maybe she should get some people around to fill the scene. It's not that Zhuang Hua's mentality is wrong, but this world is like this, if a scholar clan has no one to serve, he will be laughed at by other scholars, and when he is in Yangguo with Shanting, he is often despised and ridiculed for this, but in the end, these are all defeated by Shanting's outstanding celebrity demeanor. She doesn't care about this, but what she has to do next requires that she must really be like the gentry of this world, because she wants to integrate into this society, and if she is too maverick, she will become a clown and be watched in the circus like some of the non-mainstream murderers in her previous life.

Past? Zhuang Hua was taken aback by the words that popped up in his mind, he actually called the previous world his previous life.

Yes, she has used her blood to prove that she really exists in this world, that a part of her body, lost forever, in this world.

Zhuang Hua, who was still thinking about it, replied happily to Yutong's proposal after thinking about it: "In this way, it will trouble Captain Yu." ”

"Mr. is polite, tomorrow morning, I will accompany Mr. to pick someone." Yutong smiled heartily.

At the end of the night, in the early morning of summer, the sun is particularly beautiful, Zhuang Hua, who woke up early, is washing his face next to the well at the entrance of the village, and the fish who woke up was a little surprised to see Zhuang Hua, who was about to finish washing, said: "Mr. got up so early!" ”

Zhuang Hua wrung out the towel and said, "I don't sleep much, it's rare to have such a peaceful place, so I came out early." ”

"Sir is good Yaxing, not like such a layman." Yu Tong also made a joke.

"It's just vassal." Zhuang Hua responded lightly to Yu Tong.

"Since Mr. is so early, it is better to go with a certain person now." Fish like-minded.

Zhuang Hua nodded and said truthfully: "Don't hide it from the fish leader, I have never picked anyone, I am very curious, and most of the reason for getting up early is also because of this." ”

Zhuang Hua's honest words made the fish feel close, and said with a smile: "Mr. is refreshing,