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At this time, it is the golden autumn season, out of the post road to the north of Henan County, is a dirt and stone road for two carriages side by side, on the wasteland next to the road, dark green weeds dance with the wind, there is a unique style.

Situ Yan liked autumn in her previous life, and when she lived in a small mountain village in the northeast, autumn represented harvest. After entering the army, it is not far from the New Year in the autumn, and occasionally you can take an annual leave or something.

At this time, Xingzhi came, so I chatted with Uncle Feng in the same car, and by the way, I inquired about the things of this era.

From Uncle Feng's mouth, I learned that most of the dart masters in this Weiyuan dart game have fought on the side, and they all have kung fu on their bodies, and their families can't survive, so they chose to join the dart bureau and become a dart master, although it is a little dangerous, but fortunately, they can still support their families.

Situ Yan has an inexplicable cordiality to people who have served as soldiers and fought in wars, and they are even closer to each other.

And as soon as Uncle Feng talked about the dart master, he talked a lot. Introduce these people to hard work, and people are also righteous. also introduced these people to Situ Yan one by one. For example: who is called XXX, good at long fists, who is good at using knives, who is first-class marksmanship, especially when it comes to the head of the dart, he used to be a famous chivalrous warrior on the rivers and lakes.

Situ Yan feels like she is listening to a martial arts novel, or a full-voice version, which is interesting and tight.

The place where Uncle Feng fought on the border was the border city of Xuanwu County in Youzhou of Wei State, so he was very familiar with the place where Situ Yan was going. Situ Yan also learned a lot of news outside of Wei, which was adjacent to the Turks, Xiongnu, and Xianbei in the north. Confrontation with Shu in the west (capital Chengdu). It is bordered by the Yellow Sea to the east. The south confronted the state of Wu (Jingcheng Jianye (now Nanjing)).

The locations of the Turks, Xiongnu, Xianbei and other countries are Jilin, Heilongjiang and Inner Mongolia according to modern maps. These people like to live in tents, raise cattle and sheep, ride and shoot, and are brave and good at fighting, but these places are full of grasslands, there is little arable land, and there is a shortage of food.

Although the Wei State in the north of the Three Kingdoms of the Central Plains has the largest land area and the largest population, it has cruel rule, corrupt officials, heavy taxation, indulgence of noble and adulterous women, plundering of assets, and killing all people. For the sake of royal face, he often built water conservancy, built channels, and built reservoirs, so that the people had no surplus wealth, no labor in every household, and life was very difficult. They also imposed draconian decrees to maintain imperial rule. As a result, although the land area of Wu in the south is not as vast as that of Wei, it lives better than the people of Wei.

The Shu Kingdom in the west has the least arable land, mostly barren mountains and mountains, and the further west it is, the more desolate it becomes, the yellow sand in the sky is full of grass, and not even a single grass grows. Therefore, the people of Xishu are fierce and brave.

Wu is the richest of the three countries in the Central Plains, and its population is originally smaller than that of the other two countries, but over the years, Emperor Wu has been taking a break from military service and farming, and its population is almost the same as that of Wei. When Uncle Feng introduced him, he was still a little worried. Situ Yan was also a little uneasy in her heart when she heard this, it seems that the situation of the three kingdoms will not last long.

Uncle Feng also introduced some situations along the way to Situ Yan, and if they went smoothly on the way, they would be able to reach Xinchang County in less than 40 days. And most of the time you can stay in the big car shop at night, which is very safe. There are only three places, because the two counties are too far away, and the surrounding area is desolate, so they have to stay in the wilderness, and there are many "ringing horses" (bandits) along the way.

The two chatted, but they didn't notice that time was flying, and when they saw that it was about to be time, there was a "boom" sound in the distance.

"Uncle Feng, there seems to be a river ahead?" Situ Yan is no stranger to this voice, it should be a voice that can only be found near big rivers.

Uncle Feng didn't look closely, he often walked this road, "In front of you is the Yellow River, the river is wide, the current is rapid, and there are undercurrents, which are dangerous, but don't be afraid, the head of the dart should hire a big boat to cross the river." ”

The two chatted a few more words, Situ Yan could already see the Yellow River, and it is not an exaggeration to describe the ancient Yellow River as "nine curves of the Yellow River for thousands of miles of sand, and the waves and winds from the end of the world". In the face of such a miraculous skill in nature, the residual parting wounds in her heart were also erased.

Situ Yan sighed, spit out all the suppressed worries and uneasiness in her chest, and the calmness in her heart made her face calm.

There is a wharf by the river, with countless boats of all sizes tethered, and there are two small shops on the wharf and some vendors carrying burdens.

Situ Yan didn't care much about the wharf, she focused on the boats on the river, there are single boats, boats, sailboats, rafts, etc., it seems that this ancient boat style is still very complete, and some boats have "heavy buildings", thinking that such boats should be used to carry people. Although there are complete styles, there are not many of them.

Uncle Feng drove the car to the car of the chief dartman, and Situ Yan noticed that the chief dart head was talking to a middle-aged man in cloth, watching the movements of the two, as if they were discussing the price of crossing the river.

"Uncle Feng, is that person from the government?"

"No, this is the private ferry wharf, that is the head of the Cao Gang, more than a mile downstream there is the Guandu wharf, that is a place where people eat people and don't spit out bones, if we want to cross the river, it is appropriate to use their boats. In fact, along the way, the government, gangs, and mountains demanded it, accounting for half of the dart silver, we lived a life of adding blood to the knife, and people had money to collect when they moved their mouths, and the road was not easy to walk, even if the day of this person eating people was even more sad! Uncle Feng was a little unhappy, but he didn't dare to speak out loud at this time, if he offended someone, he would cause trouble for the dart game.

Situ Yan knew that no matter ancient or modern, it was not easy to do anything, and the little unhappiness in her heart was quickly attracted by the word "Cao Gang". This is the first time she has heard of ancient gangs, which only appeared in novels in her previous life, and now she sees them as just some water men, but she doesn't feel any mystery.

After another quarter of an hour, the chief dart came back and called for people to follow the man in cloth and begin to unload and load the ship. It seems that the price has been negotiated. Situ Yan waited for more than an hour, stood aside and counted carefully, and there were 5 large and small ships combined.

After the goods were loaded, the chief dart head asked Situ Yan to sit on a big boat with him, the weather is good today, although the river is turbulent, but there is no strong wind, there should be no danger in crossing the river.

There are female walls on both sides of the ship, with "falling holes", the sailor is used for paddling, the stern is used to support the rudder, and the boat on which Situ Yan sits has a winch, which seems to be used to start the anchorage. There were water holes on the deck, which were used to release water. The wisdom of the ancients was no worse than that of the modern people.

As someone shouted, "Kai Kai! The two men were shirtless and rocking the winch, and the stone pier was slowly put away, and the boat began to shake. This wharf in Henan County is the only way to the northeast border, and the river is about 3,000 meters wide. Although the hull of the boat was a little shaky, it was quite stable, and the head of the dart untied the burden on his body, took out a bud grain cake and handed it to Situ Yan, "Boy, first cushion your stomach, let's get on the boat from the dock of the boat, and we can only get off the boat when we reach the dock at the Yumen Gate of Gong County, Hanoi County on the other side." ”

Situ Yan didn't postpone it, hugged her fists and thanked her, took the cake and ate it, she was still used to eating this bud grain cake. The boat goes down the river, and from a distance it looks like it is crossing, but sitting on it feels like it is going down the river and crossing, which is also to save time and money. After traveling for nearly five hours, I saw that the sky was going to be dark, and then I arrived at the downstream Yumen wharf.

got off the ship and unloaded the car, and reloaded the car, the first day passed, except for a rest when he was on the boat, this way really didn't stop much, this first day, Situ Yan didn't even dare to drink more water, for fear that someone would see through his identity when it was convenient. After a day of observation, Mr. Cai and Uncle Feng had a better impression of Situ Yan, this little baby is not noisy or noisy, and he still listens to the command, so he doesn't have to worry about it at all.

At the end of the unitary period, the dart team came to the first place to rest, Situ Yan saw the big car shop for the first time, and she was very surprised, carrying a basket on her back, and strolling from place to place.

The big car shop is not far from the wharf, more simple than the inn, generally located between the two county towns or near the wharf, most of the big car shops are enclosed with a fence to make a piece of land, the yard is particularly large, specially for the merchant's storage of goods, three sides are built are adobe houses, there is a shop selling groceries in the south of the big car shop, there is a store that collects mountain goods in the north, but there are only two of them, Xu is the sky has darkened, but it seems desolate very much. These two shops were opened in this place, and I think they were dedicated to the business of these traders, and they sold a variety of things, but they were also low-grade goods, and the prices were very cheap. Looking at this big car shop reminded Situ Yan of a modern motel, maybe this big car shop was the predecessor of the motel, and she couldn't help but feel funny about her boring thoughts.

When the darts were settled down and everyone was ready to rest, Situ Yan was worried, and Mr. Cai arranged for her to sleep in the same room with Uncle Feng, which was nothing to Situ Yan. In her previous life, she slept with her male comrades. But the room where the head of the dart is placed is not a single room, but the kind of big room with two shops in the north and south, this room has to live nearly 20 men, the smell of sweat and the smell of stinky feet, smoked people are sick to their stomachs. Not to mention sleeping, it's hard to even breathe. Situ Yan almost spit out the whole steamed bun she ate at night.

I don't know how long it took, I finally stayed up until dawn in a daze, Mr. Cai called everyone up, ate something, and set off again with a "pull the wheel" (set the car on the road).

Today, Situ Yan lost all the interest in enjoying the scenery yesterday, and nodded sleepily on the mule cart, and said much less. Finally at noon, the convoy stopped to rest, she quickly took out the quilt from the back basket and leaned on the dart for a while, and when she set off again, she felt a little relieved, but she still had no energy.

Uncle Feng looked at Situ Yan like this, he was really afraid that this little baby would get sick all of a sudden, "Boy, what's wrong with you, are you not feeling well, don't bear it, say it early, let's see it earlier." Although Uncle Feng is not from the north, because he has been fighting in the north, he has a somewhat local accent, and Situ Yan sounds like a fellow countryman meeting a fellow countryman.

This Uncle Feng is also kind, Situ Yan hurriedly shook his head, "Uncle Feng, I'm fine, maybe I couldn't sleep well last night, I'm a little sleepy (drowsy) today, and I can sleep early in the dark (at night)." Situ Yan is a native of the Northeast, and this Northeast dialect is more authentic than Uncle Feng, which also makes the people in the dart bureau believe that she is indeed from Xinchang County.

"It's okay if there's nothing (something), this person who goes far away, the most afraid is to get sick, if you have something to tell your uncle early, don't bear it." The two chatted without a word, and Uncle Feng saw that the little baby was really not energetic, so he stopped talking.

When she entered the cart shop at night, Situ Yan hurriedly went to find the chief dart, "Uncle Cai, do you think I can sleep in a room alone if I have some money by myself?" ”

Situ Yan can't help it, she is a dart goods, and those who travel and stay in the hotel must be approved by the chief dart head.

"What's wrong, didn't you sleep well at night?" Mr. Cai thought about it, I'm afraid that this kid has never slept with so many people before, so he will inevitably not get used to it.

"Yes. So I want to live alone, and only when this rest is good can I have spirit, right? Situ Yan is not polite, and her words are straightforward, mainly because she doesn't want to get sick when she is in a hurry, but it will become a drag on them.

"Okay, this big car shop also has a room for one person, but the price is a bit high, and it costs at least 50 yuan for a day, if you live in a big room, one person can only live for 5 yuan, which is more than ten times worse?" The head of the dart thought that although this kid had some money in his family, how good could he be if he was a slave. So I don't want to watch children waste money.

"It's okay, then please ask me for a room, this is 500 Wen, ten days of accommodation." Situ Yan took out a string of money from the back basket, counted 500 and handed it to the chief darthead.

After this night, Situ Yan can finally have a good rest, this rest is good, people are more energetic, and they talk more.

Out of Gong County, all the way to the north is Hanoi County, and then through Pingao County, Huai County, Wude County, Huojia County, Ji County drove for eight days to Chaoge County at the junction of Sizhou and Jizhou, and the road to rest is quite calm. Occasionally, there was some wind and grass, looking at the dart flag of Weiyuan, and he didn't dare to show his face.

These days, except for the first day when Situ Yan ate white flour steamed buns, the following days are all bud grain (corn) flour cakes. I can only eat some vegetables at night, and there is no oil and water, just some green vegetables. The dart masters sometimes take advantage of the lunch break to hunt two pheasants or catch two rabbits so that they can add vegetables in the evening.

But Situ Yan knew that she had already eaten well, at least she still had bud grain cakes to eat, most of the dart masters ate black flour cakes (cakes with a lot of wheat bran), and only the chief dart head and Feng dart head ate bud grain flour cakes. In fact, Situ Yan can eat white flour steamed buns, but she doesn't want to be too eye-catching, so after the first day, she changed it, and originally wanted to eat the same as the dart master, but the black flour cakes were really unbearable to swallow, so she had to eat bud grain noodles instead. Although it also attracted a whisper of discussion, it quickly subsided.

Situ Yan has not been idle these days, except for chatting with Uncle Feng on the road. is desperately buying daily necessities to put in the ring, and when he has time, he will dig up some herbs. Whenever she passed a place where she could rest, she went into the shop to fill her things. In fact, the people of the dart bureau will also buy some things from the shops or vendors next to the big car shop, some of which are brought to the north to sell. But there are also rules in the dart board that the things that individuals buy can only be carried by themselves, and cannot be put together with the dart goods, so everyone does not buy many things.

is also the only one, who carries people to buy everywhere, anyway, she has space for ancient rings, so she doesn't have to worry about having no place to install it. It's just that I'm afraid of arousing suspicion, so I bought a lot of styles in each store, but the amount was very small, and it didn't attract the attention of outsiders, and it went smoothly along the way.

According to Situ Yan's plan, before arriving in Xinchang County, all the things of daily life should be prepared, such as japonica rice, white wheat noodles, bud grain noodles (corn flour), corn (millet), wheat (barley), yuan wheat (barley), Shu millet (sorghum), miscellaneous beans (mung beans, red beans, black beans, soybeans), black noodles (the last stubble of flour grinding noodles, wheat noodles with a large amount of wheat bran dregs), bran, wheat bran, etc.

There are even more things to buy in the grocery store, such as oil, oil lamps, salt, sugar, soy sauce, vinegar, bowls, chopsticks, basins, jars, commodes, clay pots, buckets, bamboo baskets, sieves, fences, shovels, and vegetable mounds. I also went to the blacksmith shop and bought a big iron pot and a kitchen knife. Cloth, embroidery village also need some, linen, coarse, fine cotton, cotton, needle, thread, cloth head, etc. Miscellaneous, straight piles of space rings are all over the place.

Mr. Cai and Uncle Feng saw that she had to go shopping for a while every time she went to a resting place, thinking that she was still a child, although she was well-behaved on the road, but there were times when she was playing, she didn't care, anyway, every time this kid didn't go far, he could always find it when he raised his eyes, so he went shopping. (My novel "Troubled Times" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! )

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