On the sixteenth day of the sixth month of the leap month, Situ Yan drove a mule cart and took the Tibetan mastiff dog "Snow Wolf" to set off for the south overnight.

At the beginning of the 17th, as soon as the Luoyang City Gate opened, he paid 50 Wenmen head tax and 50 Wencha and horse tax, and entered Luoyang City. I first inquired at the Gyeonggi Yamen and made sure that Wu Jin had been escorted to the northwest early on the 15th morning. After getting the exact news, he didn't go to see Li Youzhu and them in the lotus again, but directly spent five taels of silver in the livestock market, replaced the board car with a boxcar, and went to the bookstore to buy the "Regional Chronicles" of the state capitals along the way, and then drove the mule boxcar to the county seat of the Wushi family.

Where would Situ Yan have thought that Li Youzhu and Cui Ping had already followed Wu Jin away, and in order to make Wu Jin suffer less, they also bought him a donkey cart, which delayed the reunion between Situ Yan and Wu Jin for a few months.

In order to get to Shuanghe Village as soon as possible, Situ Yan got up before dawn and hurried, and did not stop until night after nightfall. Except for feeding the mules every hour and hitting a tip, the rest of the time is on the road. In order not to be restricted by the opening and closing of the city gate, she did not dare to enter the county seat to stay, but often stayed in the wilderness, and happened to catch up with the big car shop, so it was good to be able to ask for a room for one night.

Through Guishi County, Guoyangcheng County, and Yangzhai County, it entered Yingchuan County on the border of Yuzhou. Then pass through Yingyang County and Dingling County to enter Runan County. After passing through Yun County, Pingyu County, and Xincai County, he finally entered Yangzhou.

After more than ten days of continuous travel, not only Situ Yan was tired, but the mule pulling the cart was eating fine ingredients all the way, but it also lost a lot of weight, but the snow wolf had fun, and from time to time he would disappear for a few hours to hunt game, which made Situ Yan's ring have a lot of animal fur.

"Carrot, this way is in a hurry, but it's hard for you, wait for Tatexian County, Anfeng County, and Yanlou County, and then walk for 1 day to reach Shuanghe Village in Lu'an County, you hold on a little longer." Situ Yan unloaded the truck while chatting with the mule.

"You need to eat more of this fine fodder, so that you have the strength to hurry. When you arrive in Shuanghe Village, you will definitely have a good rest for two days. "Put the burlap bag with the fine material on the frame. Seeing the mule eating happily, she felt better. Compared with deceitful humans, Situ Yan prefers to get along with animals in both past and present lives.

As for the snow wolf, it is her silent comrade-in-arms. Compared with Wu Jin and Li Dalang, they came closer.

Simply ate a steamed bun, these days, only at night, Situ Yan will cook some vegetables for himself in the stove, and only eat steamed buns during the day to deal with it. But because she was on a journey alone, she didn't have to worry that others would find her ring. In terms of food, it is much better than when they were with Li Dalang.

"Carrot, what do you say your brothers are going to do now? You won't find the capital, will you? I hope nothing happens, otherwise Wu Jin hasn't been rescued yet, and he has to save the four of them again, which is really a lack of skills. He chatted with the carrot for a while, and saw that it had almost eaten, so he set up the car and continued to hurry.

"This snow wolf, I don't know where to go crazy, don't be like yesterday, just bring back a dead wolf." Situ Yan screamed twice. Seeing that the snow wolf did not come back, he did not wait, and drove south first. Anyway, the snow wolf's nose is very smart, no matter how far Situ Yan goes, it can be found. So Situ Yan doesn't stick to it, after all, the snow wolf is not a pet kept in the house since childhood, its wildness is still there, and there will be no danger, so she is happy to let it have fun.

It was not until the last day of leap June that I arrived at the county seat of Lu'an. "It's been fourteen days. I'm tired of it! Situ Yan sighed, and then found a big car shop to live in, planning to wait until night before going to Shuanghe Village. She didn't want the villagers to take her like a thief.

After a good night's sleep, the fatigue in my body finally eased up. Seeing that it was not too late, he turned out the money bag on his body, and calculated carefully, the most spent on this road was the door tax and the carriage and horse tax, originally according to the new policy of the imperial court, the door head tax had to be paid 10 yuan per person when crossing the county. The empty car and horse tax is 10 Wen, but which county is not a clever name, and the tax at the door is less than 20 Wen, and the more is even 50 Wen, and the empty car and horse tax is also doubling up.

Fortunately, Situ Yan had robbed two corrupt officials before, otherwise he fled all the way, and when he arrived in Henan County, he bought land, courtyards and shops, and how could he have any money left in his hand for Wu Guo and Li Dalang. Now that I think about it, I have a little gratitude to the two big corrupt officials who abandoned the city and fled. "It would be nice if there were two more corrupt officials like this along the way! This method is much easier to make money than selling things and farming. After complaining, and getting himself some food, the genius saw that it was dark, and he fed the snow wolf and the carrots, and it was completely dark.

When everyone in the cart shop was asleep, Situ Yan drove the mule cart and the snow wolf directly into Shuanghe Village. Although it was dark, the traces of the flood could still be clearly seen.

The whole Shuanghe Village is pitch black, only a few houses are intact, and there are still faint lights, which are thought to be newly renovated. Situ Yan held a torch and did not take a car, but led the mule cart to Zhuangzi in the east of the village with the snow wolf in front of him.

In the whole village, only here is the earthen courtyard wall, and there are still traces of brick houses. Although the courtyard walls and houses have collapsed after the flood, Situ Yan can still be sure that this must be Wu Jin's grange.

Climbed over the collapsed earthen wall and entered the front yard of the second courtyard, the entire front yard of the house had collapsed, Situ Yan did not dare to be careless, fortunately there was no wind tonight, and the light of the torches could shine farther. Carefully pay attention to your feet, and carefully touch the inner courtyard, the main house of the inner courtyard has collapsed, but there is a room in the east and west compartments that has been preserved.

Situ Yan saw that the door of the house was open, and she didn't go in to take a closer look, even if there was something, I was afraid that it would have already been let people go, and it was useless to look. Thinking back to the letter he wrote to Wu Jin and Li Youzhu, he thought that the cellar where the silver was stored should be in the main room of the inner courtyard. Although there was a lot of water, and the grain was afraid that it had been soaked and moldy, the silver should not be damaged. With a plan in mind, the action is faster.

After digging with her bare hands for more than an hour, she saw several beams stacked together, and carefully looked after them with torches, and there was a collapsed bed under the beams, and it seemed that she had found the right one. It's just that the beam is too heavy and dirty to be carried in the ring. I had to go outside the courtyard to unload the boxcar and use a mule to pull the collapsed beams aside. It took more than two hours to clean up.

Li Youzhu wrote clearly in the letter to her that the things were hidden in the cellar under the bed. Why can't I find it? Situ Yan fumbled for a long time but couldn't find the entrance to the cellar.

She summoned the snow wolf who gave her the wind at the door, and let it smell and search for a while before finally finding the entrance to the cellar. "Snow wolf, thank you!" Situ Yan opened the cellar mouth, and then patted the snow wolf's head and thanked him with a smile.

Told the snow wolf to continue to give her the wind outside, then poked her head into the cellar, the cellar is not big, but the musty smell is very strong, she didn't dare to go down directly, first threw the torch in, the torch fell to the ground, and it was extinguished directly, it can be seen that the oxygen inside is insufficient, and people can't go down at all.

Then he took out a fan from the ring, fanned it violently against the cellar, helped to speed up the ventilation, and after nearly an hour, the torch that finally fell into the cellar was no longer extinguished, and then he climbed down the ladder.

When people stand in the cellar, the musty smell is even stronger, and it is even difficult to breathe, but there is no stagnant water left. The cellar is not large, a little more than a square meter (3 or 4 square meters), and there are only five boxes, all of which have become moldy and rotten, but there are no stored grain bales. Situ Yan opened the boxes one by one, there were 1,850 taels of silver in it, one box of porcelain and one box of jade, two boxes of cloth, silver, porcelain and jade were well preserved, but the cloth was blistered, it was moldy and damaged and could no longer be used, Situ Yan did not bother to take it, but directly put the silver, porcelain and jade into the ring, and then came out of the cellar.

"Big brother must have a hard time this day, otherwise the sister-in-law of a fourth-grade official will only save such a small thing." Situ Yan felt a little pity, after all, Wu Jin's deposit was only a drop in the bucket compared to the two corrupt officials. In fact, Situ Yan is really wrong to blame Wu Jin, even if he is a child of an official family in the capital, it is not a small amount to be able to save so many belongings in the past two years.

After looking around again, I made sure that I couldn't find anything, so I put on the boxcar and headed in the direction of Bo'an County.

"Snow wolf, we will be able to go to Bo'an County at dawn, carrot, I will let you rest for a day, don't be angry, it's not that I don't want you to rest more, but my eldest brother is still living in dire straits, and I really can't rest assured." If someone walks on Situ Yan's side at this time, I'm afraid that it would be strange if I don't treat her as a nervous illness, and I can chat happily with the two animals, I'm afraid that she Situ Yan is also the first person in history.

After dawn, I rushed to Bo'an County, found an inn to live in, and took a hot bath for myself first, and then slept beautifully. Of course, her two companions were settled in the morning, so that she could sleep peacefully. Anyway, there is a snow wolf guarding the door of the house, even if it is a black shop, she Situ Yan is not afraid.

I slept until it was almost dark, then I got up, fed the carrots and snow wolves first, and then went to see the two shops that Li Youzhu said, and saw that the doors were locked and full of dust, but fortunately, the doors and windows were intact and no one forcibly occupied them.

Picking the lock open, I went inside and looked around, put everything we could use into the ring, and then I withdrew, locked the lock and went back to the inn.

Dinner called a dizzy and a vegetarian two dishes, but also eat fragrant, although I slept during the day, but the body still felt tired, as soon as it was dark, I lay on the bed again, and continued to play chess with Zhou Gong. (To be continued.) )