Chapter 1 (04)
The matter of clothes was solved, and new problems came again. When he fought with the wolf's life before, Shang Cheng's pair of slippers tied to his feet with strips of cloth had been completely separated from the footboards, and now the "rescue team" saw him bending over and bending his legs, half squatting and half kneeling to pull the broken strips of cloth, and immediately came over and gestured for him to ride a pack horse. Shang Cheng shook his head and excused himself twice, but he was reluctant to be warm, and everyone also helped the "rescue team members" to speak, so he had to comply with everyone's wishes. But there were already two wolves pressed on the packer, and some loose goods such as cloth, grain, animal skins, etc., and one of his legs was on the horse's back, and the old and thin pack horse kept beating its nose and hoof, and it was obvious that it could not bear so much weight.
After a few discussions, the two wolves were taken off the packer, the young man who gave Shang Cheng the clothes to wear, and the oldest middle-aged man had already carried a knife and was ready to cut down the tree.
How can this work? Shang Cheng immediately stopped them. The wolf and the goods were still carried by the horses, and he went with the group.
This time, no matter what others said, he never nodded again. Anyway, he couldn't understand what the others said, so he ignored the crowd, and tied a piece of cloth to his own knot, and tied the slippers to his feet again.
In the eyes of everyone, he is a monk "monk", and a "rescuer" life-saving benefactor, and also cleaned up two evil wolves with his bare hands, everyone is in awe and admiration for him, seeing that he insisted on refusing to ride a horse, and it is not good to insist too much, so he tied the wolf to the pack frame. A few people packed up and followed the winding mountain road in the valley to the south.
The scenery along the way is still good, the mountain road is surrounded by dense vegetation green hills, a cool gurgling stream looms under the mountain road, the green trees of Cangshan reflect each other as the scenery birds and flowers are like a painting, but Shang Cheng has a thousand things in his heart, where is he still in the mood to appreciate this natural scenery. Moreover, it was not convenient for him to walk the mountain road with the slippers under his feet, and he was afraid of bumps on the road, so he had to pay attention to the condition of the road under his feet at any time, so he walked carefully. No one else came up to urge him, but they all followed him. Only the young man who gave him his shirt was half a step behind him and stayed with him.
This young man looks wooden, his eyebrows drooping, and he always looks like he hasn't woken up. He walked next to Shang Cheng, and talked to him without saying a word, and after only two or three sentences, he could already see that Shang Cheng couldn't understand his native language, so he changed his tone and tone quietly.
At this time, Shang Cheng was finally no longer tormented by the slang of "Shang" and "cloth". He could barely understand the young man's words for six or seven points, and after walking two or three miles, he finally knew some of the situation with even guessing.
Now Shang Cheng already knows that the young man's surname is Gao, and he doesn't have a name, because he is the third in the family, so he is called Gao Xiaosan. At first, Shang Cheng thought that Gao Xiaosan's age was about the same as his own, but after a few inquiries, he realized how outrageous he was wrong: Gao Xiaosan only turned seventeen years old in Layue last year; And the middle-aged man who was considered by Shang Cheng to be a round older than the "ambulance team" was his mother-in-law's father-in-law; His father-in-law is only two years older than the "ambulance crew". The "ambulance team" is surnamed Liu, Mu Mao Liu, and has no name, the countrymen are not particular, "Liu Laozhu Liu Laozhu" is mixed up, and over time this has become his name. Liu Laozhu was a merchant who traveled to the countryside and towns, and used pack horses to transport oil, salt, sauce, tea, needles, threads and brains into the mountains, exchanged them for grain, cloth, wild animals, and furs, and then sold them to the county capital......
Shang Cheng was very concerned, and when he heard him babbling and talking, he didn't speak, just walked with his head down, and when the mountain road in front of him became smoother after turning a bay, he asked, "How do you know that he met a wolf?" ”
Gao Xiaosan frowned slightly, his eyes were full of doubts, and he just looked at him and smiled. It seems that he didn't understand Shang Cheng's words.
Shang Cheng had no choice but to repeat the question again: "How could you think of going into the mountains to find someone?" ”
Gao Xiaosan said that they were not looking for people but wolves when they went into the mountains, and their targets were the two lone wolves killed by Shang Cheng.
Hearing Gao Xiaosan say this, Shang Cheng couldn't help but be a little surprised. He originally thought that these people had specially entered the mountains to find Liu Laozhu, but now it seems that this is not the case.
Seeing that he was confused, Gao Xiaosan started the matter from the beginning. This male and female two wolves wandering in this area of a few ditches is not a matter of one or two days, it used to be better, just a sheep to drive a pig, but since the beginning of winter last year, these two beasts began to harm people, since the beginning of the spring, it has intensified, while it is dark to dare to make trouble in Zhuangbian Village, so that the four villages and eight towns are not peaceful. In order to eradicate this scourge, seven or eight Zhuangzi in the front mountain and back ditch gathered together to pool money and offered them a consistent reward. However, these two beasts were very cunning, and the common methods of setting traps under the set did not work, and three or four hunters went into the mountains to look for them, but they did not even catch a wolf hair. Not only did the hunter fail to catch the wolf, but a few days ago a single hunter who boasted of his skill and courage had lost his life for it, and when people were looking for him by a mountain stream, the corpse had been gnawed by the wolf. Now the bounty has risen to the usual five, but the two ferocious wolves are still at ease in the mountains. Yesterday was the 34th birthday of the father of the third father-in-law, he specially took a few days of annual leave from the store of the helper in the county to congratulate the father-in-law on his birthday. Everyone hated the two beasts that plagued the place, and they were both greedy for money, so they simply took advantage of the leisure of the past few days to go into the mountains to try their luck......
“…… As a result, not long after entering the mountain, I met Uncle Zhuzi's horse. When they saw the horses and didn't see the people, everyone knew that something bad was wrong, so they rushed all the way along the mountain road. Gao Xiaosan glanced at Shang Cheng again, shook his head with his tongue and exclaimed, "It's still a great monk, you can overturn two wolves with your bare hands!" One by one, he turned around and swung the wolf towards the courtyard of the Sun family, and the reward of the usual five could not be run away. As he spoke, there was already a look of admiration and envy on his face.
The corners of Shang Cheng's mouth twitched, trying to make a smile appear on his face. Consistent five rewards! Consistent five! Pass through...... The word was both piercing and heart-wrenching, like a thunderbolt exploding in his ears! The events he had experienced in the past half a day and the things he had witnessed had forced him to face up to his current situation, and he already knew that he had crossed the barriers of time and space to another world. But intellectual cognition does not mean emotional acceptance. Even though he knew that everything in front of him was real, he still refused to admit the unbelievable encounter. He subconsciously told himself thousands of times in his heart that everything in front of him is an ethereal illusion, you must be calm, calm and calm, as long as there is a suitable opportunity, you can return to the world that belongs to you. Listening to Gao Xiaosan's vivid words, he couldn't help but feel fear and horror in his heart. In an instant, his face was so pale that it was impossible to force his eyes, his whole body trembled as if he was in an ice cellar, and his legs were as soft as two balls of cotton......
"Monk!" Gao Xiaosan's hands quickly grabbed one of his arms, and he staggered two steps before he didn't sit on the ground on the spot.
"......" Shang Cheng opened his mouth to speak, but found that he couldn't even spit out a word. He only felt dizzy, his heart was empty and dazed, and there was a breath in his chest that said that it would not be smooth, and he was about to burst. He struggled a few steps, grabbed a small tree on the side of the mountain road, and sat down on a rock under the tree.
The people behind also sensed that the situation was not quite right, and hurried up to ask with concern.
Shang Cheng sat on the stone and gasped for a long time before he felt a panicked heart finally return to his chest. He sighed and let himself settle down, and then said slowly without hesitation: "...... It's okay. It may be that he fought with the wolf fiercely before, and his legs and feet are ...... There is some detachment in the legs and feet. ”
Everyone didn't understand his words, and they all turned their faces to Gao Xiaosan. Gao Xiaosan repeated his words again, and several people breathed a sigh of relief as if they were relieved.
"That'...... Just take a break? Gao Xiaosan hesitated to ask for Shang Cheng's opinion.
Of course, it was a good idea to rest for a while, but seeing that the sun was already setting in the west, the golden sunset was across half the sky from the western horizon, and the light gauzy twilight mist between the mountains on the opposite side was quietly rising, Shang Cheng was a little hesitant. He stroked and rubbed his two long legs, thought for a moment, and asked, "...... Leave ......," he was a little speechless. Until now, he still didn't know what to call that "cloth", so he had to say vaguely, "...... How far is it going? ”
"Turn the mountain in front of you is the Li family Zhuangzi, cross the river and go to the official road, and walk along the official road for half an hour."
Li Family Zhuangzi, Guandao ...... Shang Cheng swallowed his saliva, sighed, smacked his lips and asked again, "How far is it?" ”
"More than six miles, less than seven miles."
Seeing him sitting still, Gao Xiaosan knew that Shang Cheng had acquiesced in his proposal to rest, he beckoned everyone to rest too, he squatted down by the stone, grabbed an unknown weed, put the white and tender grass roots into his mouth and sucked the grass juice, and only after a while did he say: "There are still three miles of land from here to Lijia Zhuangzi, and there are more than three miles of land on the official road, which is almost seven miles." Maybe less than seven miles. ”
Shang Cheng instigated his lips and smiled. Gao Xiaosan is looking for something to say. He thought about it, because he asked: "You just said that you asked for leave in the warehouse in the county town to pay homage to your father-in-law, and you work in the warehouse?" ”
"What?" Gao Xiaosan raised his head in confusion.
As soon as he raised his head and blinked, Shang Cheng saw that his eyes were shining, and it was obvious that this was a witty and awake young man, but he was just smart and not exposed. Shang Cheng smiled and changed his words: "Are you a helper in the warehouse?" ”
Gao Xiaosan dug up another grass, and said while tearing the blades of grass: "Liu Ji Warehouse, a century-old brand that came down during the Chengzhi period of the previous dynasty, has been bought and sold from our Yanshanwei to Shangjing Plain Mansion. I entered the warehouse as an apprentice at the age of nine, apprenticeship for three years, helper for three years, and three years for man, and I will be able to become a big man this summer......" He said happily, and brought out the local accent without paying attention, and the difficult dialect and local language made Shang Cheng dizzy when he heard it. Although he couldn't understand the words, looking at Gao Xiaosan's longing eyes, Shang Cheng could roughly guess how many points one by one, most of the guys were middle-level management cadres in the warehouse, and if they were placed in the field branch, they might be a spitting and smashing a pit. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly, if he didn't run to take the graduate exam, it would be time for him to be a small cadre in the paper mill now; If I hadn't taken any graduate school exams, I probably wouldn't have had the opportunity to sit here and listen to the junior talk about the bright future of the guys in the warehouse......
"Monk, where are you from?"
Gao Xiaosan's words pulled him back to reality from his distraction.
"Me?" Shang Cheng's mouth snorted. How should he introduce himself? Say you're a graduate student from another world, and you came to this world for some reason? Who will believe his words? Who can trust him? Not to mention that others can't believe him, even he himself is still ignorant as if in a dream...... He opened his mouth to eat Ai Ai, and he didn't know what to say for a long time.
Fortunately, Gao Xiaosan did not intend to delve into this issue, and said: "Listening to the monk's accent, it doesn't look like we are from Yanshan." One by one, it is a bit like the ...... of the Shangjing Plains Mansion," he frowned and thought for a moment, and immediately denied his own opinion. "There was a Jiazhou guest in the inn the year before last, and his accent and expression were a little similar to yours." As he spoke, he glanced at Shang Cheng again, and said with a smile, "The monk is from Jiazhou, right?" The Buddha statue you have there is famous all over the world, and it is a good big Buddha by the mountains and rivers......"
Jiazhou Buddha statue? Backed by mountains and water? Hearing him describe it like this, Shang Cheng immediately thought of the Leshan Giant Buddha in Sichuan. Last summer, he and two classmates went to visit and vaguely remembered that the ancient place name of Leshan, Sichuan Province was Jiazhou. He thought wildly in his heart, but said: "I'm not from Jiazhou. Actually, I'm not a ...... either" He wanted to say that he wasn't a monk either, but he swallowed back when the words came to his lips. In the current complicated situation where it is difficult to distinguish between good and evil, he feels that it is better for him to keep some secrets. Respond to change with the same! Maybe he will have to do this for a long time in the future, after all, the thing of "traveling through time and space" is too sensational, in case the news leaks out, others can put a big hat on him at any time to bewitch and bewitch people, and then his fate can only be a catastrophe.
"The monk is not from Shangjing Plain Mansion?" Gao Xiaosan was a little surprised when he heard that he was only half of what he said. He glanced at Shang Cheng's basketball shorts that had been dragged to his knees, opened his mouth, but didn't ask anything and say nothing.
Shang Cheng followed his gaze and saw his cotton basketball pants. The white shorts are the standard product of the large production line of the machine, on both sides of the shorts, from the waistband along the seam to the hem of the pants pull out an inverted triangle black logo, and there is a layer of sweat-absorbing and waterproof high-tech synthetic fabric inside, which is light, soft and soft, like a second skin. Look at the basketball pants, and then compare the old homespun straight shirt jacket worn on the body, whether in texture or workmanship, the gap between the two is simply a heaven and an underground. He grinned wryly. It's no wonder that Gao Xiaosan's eyes always look at his pants intentionally or unintentionally along the way, it turns out that the big guy in this warehouse has seen the strangeness in it.
He wrapped the ill-fitting jacket tightly, pointed to the athletic shorts and said to Gao Xiaosan, "Are you thinking about this thing?" ”
Gao Xiaosan, who was seen through his thoughts, scratched his head embarrassedly and laughed, but he still asked with interest: "How is this done?" As he spoke, he stretched out his hand, and when he was about to touch the leg of the shorts, he glanced at Shang Cheng again, and saw that Shang Cheng had no intention of blocking it, so he touched the shorts, rubbed his fingertips along the needle and thread of the trouser hem, and picked up a small piece of fabric and groped it back and forth between his fingers, twisted his brows and thought hard for a long time, and asked, "Which workshop made this?" Craft...... This craft ......" he shook his head and smacked his tongue, not knowing how to express his surprise and emotion for a long time. After a while, he lowered his voice and asked cautiously, "Is this ...... It's from the palace, right? ”
"In the palace?" Shang Cheng repeated it inexplicably. He immediately understood, Gao Xiaosan, who had never seen the machine production line, thought that these shorts were specially tailored for the royal family. "That's ......" He originally wanted to make a joke with Gao Xiaosan, but after thinking about it, he knew that this joke couldn't be made one by one, if Gao Xiaosan was not strict and spread this joke, it might be a disaster. He coughed and smiled, "...... This is something sold from Tianzhu. ”
"It's not a Tianzhu product." Gao Xiaosan said without raising his head, "I have seen a few merchants from Tianzhu in Shangjing Plain Mansion, they have nothing of value except for gems, spices, ivory, and when it comes to clothes and fabrics, they are far inferior to us. If they could make such an object there, it wouldn't be rare for our silk! ”
"Tianzhu...... In fact...... That, this is what the Tianzhu people bought from the Persians......"
Gao Xiaosan shook his head and said, "The Persians don't have this ability either!" There are also Persian Hu merchants in Shangjing Plain Prefecture, and they have never been seen selling such things. If they could do something like that, they wouldn't have to travel back and forth from time to time. He turned the hem of his shorts over and over again, and pondered for a long time before he said, "It's not silk, it's like cotton to the touch!" Maybe it's something else mixed in the cotton...... I have seen a few kinds of clothing from the palace in Shangjing, and after careful comparison, the material may have its own merits, but the handwork is very different. The objects in the palace may not be as good as some ......"
Shang Cheng didn't expect a young man in a warehouse to have such insight, and he continued his previous words for a long time: "This is not done by the Persians themselves, they got it from the country of Mauritius......"
"Cat Li...... ...... What country? ”
“…… Mauritius. ”
"Mao ...... The country of Rietius? Haven't heard of it. ”
Shang Cheng secretly let out a long breath. It's good that you haven't heard of it! "The country of Mauritius is tens of millions of miles away from the ocean, and it takes more than seven or eight years to go back and forth. I heard that even in the country of Mauritius, the production of this thing is not high, and the Mauritians are very secret about the craft, so there is naturally very little trafficking, I am also a coincidence, the year before last in Shangjing met a Tianzhu official, thanks to him for this shorts...... "He finally made up a big lie, and he was already busy with sweat on his face."
“…… Seven or eight years for a round trip? Where is the country of Mauritius? I heard from those merchants who have gone to the sea that it only takes two or three years to go back and forth from Quanzhou to the sea for big food......" Gao Xiaosan put down his trouser legs, rubbed his hands and dragged a few grasses, just frowned and thought, and asked thoughtlessly, "The monk has been to Mauritius?" How do you know they can make such delicate objects there? He didn't wait for Shang Cheng to speak, he leaned over and pulled up his trousers again. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes today, I wouldn't have known that there were such ingenious craftsmen in the world, and the stitches were so fine and even that they didn't seem to be human beings......
What else can Shang Cheng say? He couldn't say anything! He now only regrets why he turned the conversation on basketball shorts! How did he know that the young man in this warehouse had traveled through so many places and had so much insight!
Just when he was afraid that Gao Xiaosan would ask some more questions that he couldn't answer, the pack horse snorted a few times uneasily. Taking advantage of the opportunity for Liu Laozhu, who was squatting in the ground at the foot of the mountain road, to stand up and appease the beasts, Shang Cheng also stood up.
He's rested enough! Let's go! When you go to the "cloth" of Liu Laozhu's house, you don't have to explain the cotton cloth of the country of Mauritius to the warehouse guys!