Chapter 116: Guanting Station at the Junction
Yang's county is not far away, more than 100 miles. And it is located in the plain, there are official roads and straight roads, if there are fast horses, you can catch a round trip a day.
It's a pity that there are no horses now, and the only two horses are brought by Wen Shen and Wang Bao. The landlords and tyrants in Yangshi County also did not have horses, and their horses, like Liu Xian's Liu Mansion, had long been taken away by the Yellow Turban Army or officers and soldiers.
Although the county commander Yang Jie and them have money, they can't buy horses here.
In this way, only Wen Shen rode a horse in the entire team, and even if he picked up the county lieutenant, he could only walk. Fortunately, Suo Qi is also a martial arts practitioner, and walking a hundred miles on foot is just a trivial matter.
In a hurry, they set off early.
From Yangshi County to Julu County, there was no need to pass through Liulin Village, they walked downstream along a tributary river outside Yangshi County, and arrived at a ferry at the confluence of the Qingshui River. This is another big village, Cao Village.
After crossing the river, there is always a large road to go straight south.
Of course, if you don't have a guide and a sense of direction, it's easy to go the wrong way, and on this plain, there is only a village or a passer-by at a long distance. Once you take the wrong path, you will be far away from going back.
However, Wen Shen's group will definitely not go the wrong way. Even if Wen Shen is not familiar with the road, whether it is Suoqi or the officers and soldiers below, there are many people who often go back and forth to these places.
In addition, on the road, in general, the landlords at the main fork in the road, in fact, have built official post stations, usually there will be some officers and soldiers in the post station to organize the post station, for the back and forth government officials or officers and soldiers to provide some food, drink and directions, anyway, what to do is to usher in the work of sending to.
Some post stations that are not too important are not the officers and soldiers of the government, and some people are generally selected by the local villages to take care of the post stations. But basically it will be a relative or relative of an official.
It's just that now those post stations have been abandoned, and there will be no government officers and soldiers taking care of them. It will only be possible to re-establish those stations after the situation in various places improves.
The post station is not built at those intersections, but more in villages and towns, and in cities. The post station in the city is actually equivalent to playing the role of a government-run hotel.
From Yangshi County to Julu County.
About halfway through the walk, there was an intersection. To the east and west, they are the roads to other counties.
At this junction, there is a deserted post station.
This post station is called Guanting Yirang. In fact, there are many villages around, and this intersection is located between several villages, but there is a certain distance.
Once, at this crossroads, many people have moved here to settle down, making this place form a place like a small market. The surrounding villagers have also gradually developed a habit of rushing here to trade some daily necessities on certain days. It also attracted many traders to come here to sell and buy.
It's a pity that now it's not just this Guanting Post Station that is deserted, but the houses around this intersection have been completely deserted, most of them have collapsed, even the houses that have not collapsed, they are also dilapidated, covered with spider silk, and the ground is full of weeds, which are now withered, making this place even more desolate.
When Wen Shen and Suo Qi came to this crossroads, I don't know if it was their arrival that alarmed the jackdaws in these dilapidated houses, and flew away a group of them.
The cold wind was blowing, and the withered blades of grass were whirling and fluttering.
I don't know why, Suo Qi, who was following Wen Shen's horse, suddenly felt a little chill in his heart, and his right eyelid jumped violently, which made him suddenly startled.
The left eye jumps wealth, and the right eye jumps disaster.
How can you feel chills in your heart for no reason? What about the gratuitous jerk of the right eyelid? Could this be a portent?
Suo Qi Huo Di stood still and shouted, "Stop! ”
Wen Shen is the most comfortable, riding a horse all the way, in addition to making the war horse's butt a little painful, his mental head is also the best, along the way, he also appreciates the scenery along the road from time to time. From time to time, he pointed and asked, asking the officers and soldiers below where this was.
Of course, Wen Shen observed all the way, in fact, he wanted to see that Liu Xian said that he would send someone to assassinate Suo Qi, but I don't know where the person sent by Liu Xian is?
Now Wen Shen's desire to kill Suo Qi is even more than Liu Xian.
Without him, when Liu Xian told him that he wanted to send someone to solve Suoqi, the county lieutenant, he then sent someone to investigate Suoqi.
However, a lot of black materials have been investigated and found that this county lieutenant has been sought.
It turns out that he is not only greedy for money, but also extremely lustful.
Before the Yellow Turban riots, he didn't know how many women had been harmed. After the Yellow Turban Uprising, he was stable for a while, but after he took control of Yang County with Yang Jie, there were at least dozens of women who fell into his hands.
Now he is locked up in the underground secret room of the Suo family, and it is estimated that there are not a few women.
At this time, it is equivalent to the end of the world, which family has a woman who is snatched up, no one can do anything, if there is trouble, it is inevitable to be beaten or even killed.
Many of the black materials about the rope were inadvertently said by some people when Wen Shen borrowed Liu Xian's scholars to investigate and understand some of the people's situation.
In fact, Liu Xian also received those materials, but because there were too many, it was impossible to read them all at this moment, but in it, he did see some cases about Suo Qi bullying men and women in Yangshi County.
Now that Yangshi County has restored its government institutions, it is impossible for those people who know that they have been snatched up and robbed of their wives and daughters, and they will not report to the officials. This official himself is a rope, is it useful for them to report to the official? Therefore, they all swallow their own bitterness, put their bitterness in their hearts, and dare not speak out in anger.
Liu Xian made up his mind to kill Suoqi, and there was a little reason for this.
"Suo Qi County Lieutenant. Why stop? ”
Wen Shen stopped his horse and turned around.
"Someone! Check out where you are now and how long it will take to get to Julu County. ”
Suo's eyes were a little sharp, and he stared vigilantly at the dilapidated houses around the intersection where jackdaws flew out. After explaining to the people below, he said to Wen Shen: "Lord Wen, we have been walking for half a day in a row, and all the brothers are a little tired. It looks like it's going to be noon, why don't you rest here, make a fire and make food, and then continue to rush when everyone is full? ”
"Do you want to rest here?" Wen Shen turned his head to look at it, and didn't feel that there was anything wrong, so he nodded and said, "It's okay, then rest first." ”
"Good. A few of you, take your men and search the neighborhood to see if it's safe. The rest of the people quickly picked a better house, cleaned it, and made a fire to cook. ”
Suo asked them to take people to search the houses and the surrounding conditions.