Chapter 12 The Huang Family
The man's thousand-year-old ambition has no end to my life. --Southern song dynasty. Wen Tianxiang
Crossing a mountain pass again, Chen Long and the others no longer had any decent equipment around them, only the Qinglong dagger, delta wings and improvised mountaineering sticks by their side. Chen Long was afraid that there were mountains and deep valleys behind him, so he did not abandon the delta wing, and used it as a temporary tent to shelter from the rain at night.
Along the way, Chen Long used his light brain to record the general direction and route, but because there was no starting point, he could not draw a map of the area he passed through, nor could he find the current clear location on the ancient map. Once the place name is clear, Chen Long believes that the location of Taoyuan Village will be determined immediately. On the way, Long Chen also secretly tried to contact the chip in the back of his head, but there was no movement, and he didn't know if the time-travel device remade by the country could still contact him and Liu Qian.
Putting aside his troubles, Chen Long looked at the big river in front of him, the river was rolling away, roughly from southwest to northeast, and there were some green mountains on the opposite side of the river, but the mountains were relatively low. Chen Long was faced with two choices, one was to continue to climb the mountains and mountains after crossing the river, and the other was to walk along the river, and after crossing the river, he went southeast, and after weighing it, he still felt that it would be easier to walk along the river, and the chance of encountering a village living by the water would be relatively large, so he finally decided to go northeast along the river.
Walking to a relatively gentle area, Chen Long removed the delta wing tarpaulin, threw away the skeleton, and crossed the river with peach blossoms on his back. When I arrived at the other side, I looked back, only to see the peaks and peaks where I came, and the weather was thousands, thinking of the difficulties and hardships along the way, thanks to the peach blossoms, it was rare for her to have the courage to follow all the way. Raised a bunch of small fires, dried their coats, Chen Long and Peach Blossom hugged tightly for a while, and said some intimate words, Peach Blossom's white clothes were already full of holes, so they took this opportunity to take a small bath in disguise. After washing and putting on the baked and dried robe, the dust is swept away for many days, and there is a feeling of reincarnation.
The water is crooked, and the jungle by the river is deep, so it is not easy to walk. Especially with the ups and downs of the mountain, the cliff bank of the river is also high and low, and the strange rocks are dense, and some places are very dangerous. After stumbling like this for a few more days, suddenly Peach Blossom screamed happily and pointed to a small hillside not far away, Chen Long followed Peach Blossom's finger to see that halfway up the mountain actually covered a winding sheep intestine path. Chen Long was overjoyed, hugged the peach blossom and kissed and kissed, the two carried the light gong hand in hand, and rushed all the way to the sheep intestine path, after so many days of hard work, and finally found the traces of people for the first time.
Seeing that there were faint traces of sheep's hooves on the path, and occasionally sheep dung was scattered, the two of them cheered, knowing that they were approaching a nearby mountain village. The trail meandered along the river, also to the southeast, and as the mountain looped, it soon joined a wider dirt road, which ran through the jungle and went northeast along the mountain.
The two of them walked step by step, hoping to meet the crowd as soon as possible, and suddenly a wisp of black smoke rose from the foot of the mountain in front of them, and Chen Long said with joy: "It's cooking smoke!" Peach Blossom, we're out! Peach Blossom was also overjoyed, and the two of them walked through the woods along the way, and saw at the foot of the mountain, a simple thatched hut, standing alone, with black smoke billowing from the chimney, apparently cooking.
Chen Long stepped forward a few steps and knocked on the firewood door, the firewood door was not closed, Chen Long slowly pushed it open, only to see that the small courtyard was still clean, several bundles of firewood were piled up under the eaves, a large water tank at the door, and two bamboo chairs were placed in the middle of the courtyard. Thinking that the master was cooking, Chen Long and Peach Blossom sat on the bamboo chair and rested for a while, the door of the house creaked open, and a gray-haired old man walked out, holding a small table in his hand, obviously put it in the courtyard to prepare for dinner, and saw the two of them couldn't help but be stunned. Chen Long hurriedly got up, respectfully saluted and said: "My husband is polite, I am from Changsha surnamed Chen Minglong, and my family members visited relatives together and unfortunately encountered bandits, although I escaped with my life, but I got lost in this deep mountain, fortunately I met my father-in-law, can I ask you for a way and spend the night?" The old man saw that the two of them were in rags, but their faces were delicate, and they did not look like bad people, and he had already believed eight points, and sighed: "Have you met bandits?" Alas, this year is not good, and bandits are born everywhere. If you come, you will be a guest, please take a seat first. He turned around and pushed open the door, and shouted to the back room, "Old woman, here are the guests!" ”
A white-haired mother-in-law, hearing the call, walked out of the hut with two small bowls, and greeted the two politely, very kindly. After listening to the introduction of the old man, he said sympathetically: "Look at how beautiful your daughter-in-law is, it's really pitiful, I'll take a rest here tonight, and I'll go prepare something to eat." Sit down, sit down! The old man set up a small table, and several people ate the corn in the bowl together, but there were also a few pieces of mutton, Chen Long couldn't help but ask while eating: "Uncle, what year is this?" Where is this place? The old man was stunned by the question, squinted at Chen Long, and thought that Chen Long was lost and had amnesia, so he said slowly: "Now is the first year of Zhongping." This belongs to the boundary of Quanzhou, you can go further southeast, you can go to Quanling County. It's so bustling that you can take a boat back to your hometown. ”
Long Chen was overjoyed, and the light brain in his head had begun to run rapidly. Quanzhou, at the junction of Guangxi Province, Hunan Province and Guizhou Province, is Guilin, Guangxi to the south, Yongzhou, Hunan to the northeast, and Quanling County is the Lingling County system during the Three Kingdoms period. On the ancient map, he also quickly calculated the approximate walking route of himself and Taohua, but he walked out of the depths of the mountains at the junction of Guangxi and Guizhou, and had come to Lingling County. Because the route is determined, the location of one endpoint must be determined in order to determine the location of the other endpoint, and he and Peach Blossom have not yet arrived at Quanling County, I am afraid that I have never seen a map in my life, and I can't let my husband point out the exact location on the map, only when I arrive at Quanling County, can I determine the entire route. In the first year of Zhongping, it was 184 A.D., and the Yellow Turban Rebellion had just begun, so it was true that there were bandits everywhere.
That night, Chen Long and Peach Blossom stayed at the old man's house, and the old woman also took out some of her own coarse cloth clothes and changed them for Peach Blossom, and Peach Blossom took it with great gratitude. There was nothing to say for a night, and the next morning, the peach blossoms freshened up, changed into clean clothes, and the old woman handed Chen Long a burden, and when Chen Long opened it, it was a greasy leg of mutton. Chen Long said no, and the old woman solemnly held Chen Long's hand and said: "You need this on the road, my uncle and I have no children, and we raise a few sheep for a living, and there is no shortage of meat to eat." Peach Blossom was already in tears, knelt down and kowtowed to the old woman, and followed Long Chen step by step.
I can't say the benefits of the old man all the way, and I don't know if we can see each other again in this life, both of them are embarrassed, and they unconsciously embarked on a wider dirt road, and there are ruts hidden on the road, and the two know that they have embarked on the road to Quanling, and they can't help but speed up their pace. In the middle of the line, Chen Long suddenly pulled the peach blossom, pointed to the rut mark and said: "Look at this rut, the dirt road is not walking, but it has turned into the jungle." Peach Blossom looked down, and sure enough, two rutted marks went deep into the roadside forest, surrounded by a pile of scattered footprints. Chen Long suddenly said badly, looked at the direction in which the rut mark entered, and muttered, "Could it be that someone has encountered a bandit?" ”
Pulling out the green dragon dagger, Long Chen pulled the peach blossom into the jungle and searched all the way along the rut prints. Suddenly, there were several cries for help from the jungle not far away. Chen Long hurriedly asked the peach blossoms to hide behind the tree and not come out, and his luck was light and he arrived at the scene like a fly. I saw a clearing in the forest, with a carriage in the middle, surrounded by several small men in Tsing Yi, resisting a group of bandits. Chen Long looked at the few bandits standing behind him, who seemed to be the boss, commanding left and right there, looking at a gap, taking a gap by surprise, cutting one of the throats with a knife, several bandits around him had not woken up, seeing the boss falling, he didn't know why, suddenly his throat hurt, and he was cut by Chen Long in the blink of an eye. As an elite master in later generations, Chen Long's killing efficiency was never low, at this time, the bandits had just reacted, and quickly divided their hands to pounce, but their skills were too poor, and they were all knocked to the ground by Chen Long's ups and downs. The group of thieves and dragons were leaderless, and seeing that Chen Long was so brave, they let out a shout and fled to the woods. Chen Long still wanted to pursue, but suddenly a gentle middle-aged female voice sounded in the carriage: "This hero, they are also ordinary people who can't eat, let them go." Chen Long just gave up. A dignified and wealthy middle-aged woman slowly got out of the car, saluted, and said to Chen Long: "I am the Wang family, the wife of the Huang family in Quanling, thank you for saving your life." Dare to ask who is the hero's surname? Where are we going? ”
Chen Long hurriedly returned the salute respectfully, and said: "Madam, my surname is Chen Minglong, the word Wenlong, Changsha people's clan, I took my wife to pass by here and wanted to go to Quanling County, but fortunately I came in time." The woman said happily: "In this case, I will wait by the way, can I ask Wenlong to follow my carriage and horse to the little woman's house to sit, and also let my Quanling Huang family do a little bit of the friendship of the landlord, and thank the grace of the father for saving his life." Then he told the servant to clean up the corpses and look for the scattered horses. Chen Long called Peach Blossom over, saw Wang's family, and did not refuse, rode with Peach Blossom, and walked slowly towards Quanling with the carriage and horse.
Chen Long rode on a horse, only a small saddle, but no stirrups, no feet to rest, seeing that others were the same, knowing that in this era, stirrups had not yet been invented. Chatting with the little guy along the way, it turned out that the Huang family was a large family in Quanling, the lord was a minor official in the county government, and the lady went out of the city today to burn incense in the Buddhist temple to make a vow, and unfortunately met a bandit.
As the time approached the end of the afternoon, the group finally came to the city of Quanling. As the county system of Lingling County, the city wall is very majestic, and there are groups of soldiers at the city gate. The Huang family is obviously very familiar with the guards, successfully passed through the city gate, Quli turned a corner into a compound, everyone got off the horse, only to see that behind the courtyard is a few into the green tile platform, Zhang warmly greeted the two into the living room of the inner courtyard, beckoned people to serve tea, and asked the servants to clean up a clean house. Chen Long and Peach Blossom glanced at each other, this Lingling Huang family was very enthusiastic, and the two of them had nowhere to live, so it was not bad to live here temporarily. In Chen Long's mind, since he knew that he had arrived at Lingling, he had already consulted some information about Lingling in his light brain, and he had a general understanding of the heroes here, and he was looking forward to it.