After hearing this, everyone couldn't help but be amazed, and Cao Chuan followed closely to mend the knife: "Although it is the first time to come to the poor road, but this place is in the south of the Yangtze River, and there is a big city in Hangzhou that I still know, and I don't know if it has been renamed now." ”

Master Zhou hurriedly replied: "So that the real person knows, the big city is still called Hangzhou, and it is one hundred and fifty miles east of here." ”

Zhou Tong exchanged a few glances with Chen Er's family as he spoke, Chen Huoding hurriedly poured Cao Chuan full of wine, and asked, "I don't know what the immortal chief plans to do in the future, can it be used for the brothers in the village?" ”

Cao Chuan poured down half a bowl of local brew, somewhat relaxed, and pulled up much more freely: "At present, I am a human and a land, and I will still have to bother in Guizhai for a while, and I will always travel in the future. ”

As soon as everyone heard that there was good fortune in this accommodation, they immediately persuaded Cao Zhenren to live for a few more days, saying that the scenery of Tianmu Mountain is beautiful, and there are a lot of fat sheep under the mountain.

Cao Chuan naturally nodded with a smile, seeing that it was not too early, he felt that the cold sweat on his back was almost dry, so he proposed to go around the village. Zhou Tong immediately shouted, and the younger brothers began to withdraw, and Cao Zhenren, accompanied by several masters, inspected the screen village.

There is only one steep road out of the mountain in Pingfeng Village, which is the one that Cao Chuan walked when he came, the terrain is steep, and there is no change after hundreds of years.

The walled wall is tied with two layers of logs, rammed earth in the middle, and covered with yellow mud on the outside, which is about three meters high, enclosing the flat land in the middle of the mountain. There is also a wooden path more than one meter high behind the wall, and people can just throw stones out when they stand on it.

Entering the gate is a small square, that is, where they drink, there is a row of weapon racks by the square, there are knives, guns and axes on it, very shabby, wooden poles, iron guns, knives also have several styles.

There are three stone houses in the square, the largest in the middle, with an open door, and the inside is empty, and the villagers are moving the chairs and tables they have just used to it, presumably this is the legendary Juyi Hall, and there is not even a sign, Cao Chuan is thundered by the simple style of this gang of bandits.

Starting from the middle of the mountain, layers of bamboo houses are hidden in the green forest, and you can see the spring water flowing down the forest.

Zhou Tong seemed to be a little unreliable in his heart, and said as he walked, as if he was explaining something: "This screen village passed to Zhou, and there are several village owners, and there are fights and trades on weekdays, most of which fall on the mountain lords near the left and west. ”

Cao Chuanqi said: "I see that there are deep mountains and dense forests on all sides, and there are many merchants? ”

The old man surnamed Lu, who had a goat's beard and claimed to be in the tent when he was introduced, smiled and said: "The real person doesn't know, so go down the mountain, half a day's journey, and it is the official road." The traffic here is Hui and Hangzhou, the trade road is luxuriant, the silk salt tea and rice are constantly transferred, and we also have some mountain goods on weekdays, and the mule and horse teams that come and go are familiar with the village. ”

Cao Chuan nodded, he had already understood that the official road in the old man's mouth was probably the way he crossed the middle bus before.

Zhou Tong continued to add: "There are also some village households behind the mountain, most of whom have fled into the mountains due to the heavy taxes of the imperial court over the years. The left and right were from the villages, and I waited for the brothers to drive out the tax collectors, and then sold some illicit salt from the bottom of the mountain, and the mountain households picked up some rice and mountain goods in exchange, and the two were cheap. ”

Cao Chuan thought to himself that this is because you are not living in the afterlife, otherwise you would have been suppressed by the tax collectors a long time ago.

Walking to the door of the stone house while speaking, Lu Jiaofang introduced: "This is the public treasury. ”

Although someone said that he was a mixed costume crew, today is the first time to know that this mountain bandit still has a public treasury, but since it is a warehouse, he is not embarrassed to go in, and the other stone room is loaded with salt and rice mountain goods.

Tour guide Zhou proudly explained to Cao Chuan along the way the history of the struggle of the screen village: there was more than one village in this group of mountains, after several generations of leaders of the screen village for decades of unremitting fire and, overcoming thorns and thorns to chase and cut, in recent years, it has finally achieved positive results, and it is also considered to have started a signboard on this Huihang Road.

In the most fierce years of struggle, there were more than 200 heroes in the village who specialized in fighting, and after the situation gradually stabilized in the past two years, the older ones were sent back to the mountains to plow the fields and give birth, and now the new people left on the mountains are selected from the villages.

Cao Chuan hummed and sighed about everyone's burning years, and finally waited until it was dark, and then asked where the standard room of the village was.

Lu Shufang smiled, and said while leading the way: "There are guest rooms, and the mountain households who come to exchange salt and rice on weekdays have to spend the night, but the guest room is simple, and no one is sprinkling and cleaning, how can it be that the guests live, if the real person does not dislike it, I will give the real person a rest today, and the house is also neat, and I will clean a quiet room tomorrow." ”

Cao Chuan gave in a little and no longer shirked, and in the middle of this, Chen Er also said that the real person was young and funny, and he was invited to go to him to drink all night to tell the story of the fairy world. Lu Shufang scolded with a smile: "You rough man, there are either knives and axes or wine and meat in the room, and there is no elegance in the room, my old man can smoke half his life for one night, don't poison real people!" A few people talked about it, and it didn't take long to come to the door of Lu's bookkeeper.

Open the door and go in, well, this cultural person's room is different, bamboo table and bamboo chairs, there are four treasures of the study on the table, some account books and paper, a bamboo bed, and a small room behind the room, which is a water tank and urine bucket.

At the base of the wall is a small bookshelf, on which are placed some thread-bound books, as well as a few pieces of porcelain and bamboo carvings, it can be seen that Lu Jifang is obviously a person who has detached himself from low-level interests.

Cao Chuan hurriedly thanked him, and finally Lu Shufang lit the oil lamp on the table, and said goodbye with the two masters.

After latching the door and checking the window, Cao Chuan sat on the bamboo chair, covered his forehead with his hands, and breathed a few breaths, and he didn't slow down for a long time.

What he experienced today made him, who had always been quite nervous, scared to death. If it weren't for his quick reaction at the time, where would he be able to get into the standard room in the bandits' den, I am afraid that he would have been locked up in a small black house by these people as a meat ticket from heaven.

As soon as he thought that he had been thrown into the legendary parallel world, he remembered that the culprit had not yet been disposed of, so he turned around and put the back of his hand under the oil lamp to observe it carefully.