Keep moving forward in silence.

After the carriage left the small town, it ran onto a wide official road, according to the dart master who drove the car, as long as you walked along the official road for about ten days, after arriving at a small town, then turned to the waterway to go south, about seven or eight days after the waterway, and then changed to the land route to cross Lingnan, enter Guangxi, and then walk south for about a month to reach the border of Nanmian.

So, I ran smoothly on the road along the originally planned route for ten days. On the tenth day, the carriage arrived at the town that the dart master had spoken of. The slowed carriage ran along the town's main road, but it didn't take long for the carriage to come to a stop.

Dong Invincible probe looked out and asked, "What's going on?" ”

The master replied, "It is said that there is about to be a procession to greet the relatives here, so the road ahead is blocked by people watching the excitement, and the carriage cannot pass it." Depending on the situation, we can only wait for the greeting procession to pass before we can continue to move forward. ”

Dong Wushu said, "Then let's stop and wait." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a gong from a distance rushed into the carriage with an unreal sound. That sound made Bei Jueshi, who was originally staring out the window blankly, wake up. He poked his head out of the window to find out the direction from which the sound was coming from, and after looking for a while, he finally saw a procession of greetings slowly approaching from a distance in this direction.

Filled with joyful dazzling red, exuding festive noisy gongs and drums, it came over lively. The bridegroom, dressed in a bright red wedding dress and a big red silk flower ball on his chest, had a happy smile on his face that was so bright that even the sun could compare to it, and rode his horse high in front of the wedding procession.

That happy smile was like a heavy hammer hitting Bei Juese's heart. Something dark in my heart fell in that moment.

The procession of greetings came slowly, slowly past the front of the carriage, and finally disappeared into the distance at the other end. Bei Juese looked at the direction in which the team disappeared, and did not retract his head for a long time.

Dong Wushu said to the dart master, "Let's continue on our way." ”

At the moment when the carriage was about to start, Bei Juese retracted his head and shouted, "Wait! He shouted and jumped out of the carriage with a swift movement.

Dong Wushu hurriedly jumped out of the car, and saw that Bei Juese was pulling a crowd of onlookers to greet relatives and asked: "Where is there a cloth village and a place to sell embroidery thread near here?" ”

The crowd pointed to the road ahead and said, "There is one over there." ”

"Thank you!" Bei Juese let go of the man and walked quickly in the direction that the crowd was pointing to.

He walked very fast, and Dong Wuving, who did not know the truth, had to follow him closely.

Bei Juese went to the cloth village to pick up a fine red satin, and bought a lot of needles of different sizes and a large pile of embroidery thread of various colors in the embroidery thread shop next to the cloth village. After buying everything, he walked back contentedly with the cloth and the bag of thread.

After getting into the carriage, Dong Wushu finally couldn't help but ask: "Senior brother, why did you suddenly think of buying cloth and thread?" ”

Bei Juese touched the cloth in his arms, and said with a smile: "Because, when I saw the welcoming team, I suddenly remembered that I had promised Jing'er to help her embroider a set of flower wedding dresses. It's a little late to embroider, but it's better than doing nothing. A man can't break his word, big brother, are you right? ”

Looking at the heartfelt smile on his face, Dong Wushu nodded and said, "Yes." ”

As long as you can face reality and feel happy, anything can be right. Dong Wushu said secretly in his heart.

After ten days of overland, he changed to a boat and drifted on the waterway for eight days, and then returned to land again and continued to drive forward in a horse-drawn carriage.

After running the official road, they had to climb the high mountains and valleys, cross the deep river and wade through the muddy water, along the way over a few bandit dens, picked a few bandit villages, cut down more than a hundred trees blocking the way, and killed thousands of flies that stopped the car, and the carriage finally drove out of the border of the Ming Dynasty without danger.

After a long journey, I don't know how many days and nights, the carriage ran resolutely south, and finally arrived at the border of Nanmian after leaving the border of the Ming Dynasty for more than a month.

Exhausted by the long journey, the East Invincible and the North Invincible, who were languishing and occupying a corner of the carriage, did not react at once when they heard the dart master stick his head in and say, "We have arrived at the border of the Southern Cotton Country", and after a while, the two of them jumped up and cheered loudly.

The never-ending, depressing journey that seemed to be going crazy came to a halt for a moment. Although it is said that there are still three days away from the destination, Nanmian City, the capital of Nanmian Country, this three days is insignificant compared to the long journey before.

Therefore, the East Invincible and the North Invincible, who were liberated from the pain of the long journey, were not knocked down by the journey in the next three days, and the two of them were more concerned about whether the inn where they stayed today had good bathing equipment. After entering Guangxi after Lingnan, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, the more you go south, the more you feel that the temperature is gradually rising, after arriving in Nanmian, you feel like you have walked into a stove, sitting in the carriage is like being put into the oven with a fierce fire, it is so hot that you sweat profusely, and it is even hotter to make people restless and irritable.

A few people who had never been entertained by such a high temperature immediately reached a unanimous decision as soon as they entered the South Cotton Country: to rest during the day and rush at night.

After making a decision, the non-Jianghu friend who was proficient in Nanmian and surnamed Chen Ming immediately found a local to lead them and took them to the nearest inn to stay overnight.

After getting into the guest room of the inn, taking a cold bath to wash away the dust and fatigue of the journey, and changing into a set of dry summer clothes, Bei Juese suddenly felt a lot more comfortable. At this time, he realized that the inn he was in was different from the inn in the Central Plains, the walls of this inn were not made of mud or bricks, but made of leaves, in addition to the walls, the roof was also made of rows of leaves, that kind of leaf was not something like thatch, it was a kind of leaf that he had never seen before, and the shape was a little strange.

With curiosity, Bei Juese pushed open the window, which was also made of leaves, and looked out.

Outside the window was a crowded street with many small stalls sandwiched between the bustling crowds, and on either side of the street was a large cluster of buildings with the same leaves as walls and roofs.

Just as Bei Jue looked intently at the crowd on the street, something floated in front of his eyes, and when he came back to his senses, he saw that it was a wisp of white fluttering like cotton. A gust of wind blew, bringing with it more of these flutters, some of which carried a black, seed-like thing. The fluttering flocculents danced high and low in the air with the hot summer wind, and in the blink of an eye, they were blown away by the wind.