However, when Fang Shaoze and his party bypassed the hills and were about to arrive in Liuxian, they encountered big trouble again.

"Childe, the official road ahead was flooded by floods and sand and gravel last night, and you can't get through at all, if you want to go to Kyoto to take the exam, you have to leave quickly..."

Due to the flooding of the official road, the local yamen built a straw hut in front of the official road, and also arranged a special messenger to dredge the way.

At this time, the messenger was explaining to Fang Shaoze, but a thin man under fifty suddenly came in outside the grass shed. Looking at the man's dress, he is about a hundred elders who specialize in managing the people.

As soon as the hundred chiefs came, they complained to the messenger with an unkind expression: "What nonsense are you talking here! The roof of this grass hut is full of water, so don't you hurry up and clean it up! ”

Seeing his attitude, even if he took the benefits of Fang Shaoze, he didn't dare to stay longer, apologized and hurried out.

Although this person is gone, he still has to ask! Fang Shaoze held back the helplessness in his heart, and stuffed a silver ingot into Baichang's hand and said, "I'm still bothering you to take care of one or two." ”

Bai Chang quickly hid the silver in his sleeve with a hook of the corner of his mouth, but seeing that Fang Shaoze was dressed ordinarily, he said contemptuously: "Try your best, but there are too many people coming and going recently, and we are also very busy." ”

Fang Shaoze didn't care, but said with concern: "I just heard the messenger mention the exam, and said that you should hurry up ......."

Bai Chang listened and glanced at Fang Shaoze condescendingly, and said: "Oh, it's just that a few months ago, the emperor posted the emperor's list, and set the examination for selecting talents on the third day of the eighth month, that is, eight days later, you may have time to move faster." ”

How did he get so much ahead of him? Fang Shaoze was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "Then since the official road can't be walked, do you have any other way?" ”

"Over there!" Bai Chang said, a gleam flashed in his eyes: "Go east from here, and then go north after passing through the Seven Sages Ridge, you can also reach Kyoto, but the road is not easy to walk, you have to hurry!" ”

Luo Qinghe didn't know why when he saw this person, he felt that he was hypocritical and dirty, so he asked with some anxiety: "Then there are gangsters who rob the road on this road?" Is it safe? ”

Bai Chang said disdainfully: "What do you little girl think of today's saints?" The saint is so powerful and sage, how can anyone dare to do anything wrong? If you don't like to go, you can stay here until the official road is cleared before you set off! ”

After Bai Chang finished speaking, he flicked his sleeves and walked away by himself.

Seeing that the other three didn't speak, Granny Wen said in a heart: "Let's go!" We have been running for several months to take the exam in Beijing, and this journey is not bad! And since there are many people in Beijing, we must not be isolated along the way. ”

But Fang Shaoze was a little worried: after all, he entered Beijing for the future, so naturally he couldn't delay; But Luo Qinghe is looking for relatives, it doesn't matter if it's early or late, so there's no need to suffer with himself.

"Otherwise, I will go with Langmo first, and you and Granny Wen will find a place to live here until the official road is dredged, and then go to Beijing steadily." Fang Shaoze thought about it and gave a suggestion.

"It's okay, let's go together!" Luo Qinghe didn't want to be a person who was afraid of difficulties, so he didn't want to hide here and wait.

Several people discussed this matter for a while, and finally decided to go together.

Looking at the backs of these people who were busy hurrying, Fang Cai took a long breath and said helplessly in his heart: This is clearly a faster and better way, how can Baichang be so harmful?

Here, Bai Chang was hiding behind the grass shed and looked at Fang Shaoze and his party with a gloomy face, and sneered: "A hairy boy, if he doesn't have a background in his family, how can he dare to go to Beijing to take the exam?" Is there a great power in the family? Why should someone like me only be a hundred leaders! Worry about the trivial things of these poor ghosts all day long?! Hmph, I'd like to see how you get to the capital! ”

The sky was getting dark, and Fang Shaoze and the others hurried into the Seven Sages Ridge.

But this Qixian Ridge didn't seem to be inhabited, and if you wanted to go over, you could only climb several mountains, Fang Shaoze looked around again, and found that there was really no other way, so he could only grit his teeth and announce that they were going to climb the mountain today.

Luo Qinghe looked at it and felt a little uncertain, but he heard Fang Shaoze say: "It would be nice if there was a paper kite in this world that could hang people, and we would suffer step by step on this land." ”

Luo Qinghe was very helpless when he heard this, so he stood briskly and got off the carriage, grabbed the reins of the dust shadow, and turned over to get on the horse.

Although the terrain of Qixian Ridge is not precipitous, it is extremely complicated, and it is extremely difficult to think about it.

In order to reduce the burden on Yinjun, Fang Shaoze and the other two had to get out of the car to push the carriage for it when going up the mountain, and down to hold the reins of Yinjun when coming down the mountain, so as not to slip and fall.

In contrast, Luo Qinghe was much more relaxed. No matter what the terrain was, the Dust Shadow carried her safely, and sometimes she could even rest in the shade of the trees, waiting for the sweaty trio behind her.

Granny Wen saw Luo Qinghe so leisurely, and then saw that her young master was so tired and out of breath, and her heart was so anxious that she couldn't do it, and she wanted Luo Qinghe to come down several times to give up the dust shadow to Fang Shaoze.

But the dust shadow was lent to Luo Qinghe by Shen Li, and Luo Qinghe was not a maid of the Fang Mansion, so naturally she didn't need to abide by the rules of the Fang Mansion, so no matter how anxious Granny Wen was, she was embarrassed to speak after all, she only hoped that Luo Qinghe could let the horse out with some vision.

It's a pity that Luo Qinghe doesn't have the mentality of "pity the fragrance and cherish the jade" at all, but feels that if a dignified man doesn't even have such determination for his own future, then what is there to talk about.

In addition, after tossing in the past few days, Fang Shaoze's handsome little face is still as white as ever, and the tender ones can pinch out the water, this state that is difficult for ordinary women to reach, it is really jealous!

In the evening, Fang Shaoze and his entourage had never even seen a dog in this barren mountain, let alone a family.

"Why is this mountain so deserted, doesn't it mean that many people will go this way after the official road is closed?" Fang Shaoze was a little puzzled, and gasped exhaustively: "Now I'm afraid we can only stay in the wild." ”

"Well, that's all I have to say. I just observed all the way, but I couldn't even see a dilapidated house and temple..."Granny Wen was a little distressed when she saw Fang Shaoze's grizzled face.

Luo Qinghe already had some doubts in his heart, but he pointed to the flat grass at a slightly higher place without moving: "Let's stay there tonight, it's much more comfortable than on the rocks!" ”

But Fang Shaoze was a little reluctant: "There is not even saliva there, it is better to stay by the stream over there, and it is convenient to cook and wash." ”

"This young master, have you forgotten why the official road was sealed? In the middle of summer, it is easy to flood, and if the stream rises when we are asleep, then we don't even have a chance to escape! Luo Qinghe shook his head and said helplessly: "And there are few people in this place, and the water quality is not clear, we must not be careless!" ”

Granny Wen was also displaced when she was fighting, and after listening to Luo Qinghe's words, she echoed: "Yes, in the past, when the war was in chaos, there were people in the whole village who died of inexplicable illness because they drank the river water, and later found out that the source was thrown into many corpses!" ”

Fang Shaoze also felt that this was reasonable when he heard this, so he didn't refute it anymore, and went to the grass honestly according to Luo Qinghe's words.

After traveling outside for so long, Luo Qinghe gradually mastered the skills.

Some time ago, when they passed through villages and towns, they managed to buy a lot of pork from the farmers, and Luo Qinghe marinated the meat with coarse salt and peppercorns, and hung it in a carriage to dry it to make salted meat.

Although this bacon is not as good as fresh pork, as long as it is cooked properly, it also has a unique flavor.

At this time, there was nothing to eat, so Luo Qinghe could only cut off a piece of the salted meat, and after the ink cleaned the rice, Luo Qinghe cut the mushroom salted meat and the carrots of the dust shadow into cubes, steamed them with rice, and added eggs and cabbage when they were about to come out of the pot.

Then, Luo Qinghe cut the white radish into semi-circular slices, killed it with coarse salt, squeezed the water dry, added garlic slices, ginger shreds, red peppers, and then mixed with aged vinegar, soy sauce, sugar and salt, and after the rice was ready, a dish of sour and hot radish pickles was also pickled.

The three members of the Fang family smelled this unique aroma, and they only felt that their saliva was about to flow out, so they didn't speak, and waited by the pot on the pretext of roasting the fire to keep warm.

Finally, Luo Qinghe lifted the lid of the pot with his hands, and hurriedly came over.

The rice is wrapped in salted meat oil, the grains are crystal clear, the potatoes, mushrooms and bacon are mixed together in the pot, and the steamed poached eggs and green cabbage are placed on the top, which can be called full of color and flavor.

Luo Qinghe mixed the salted pork rice with a wooden spoon, and gave each of the three members of the Fang family a bowl, and then put crispy radish slices on the side of the bowl, and handed it to the person who was waiting with a smile.

took out the wooden chopsticks and took a bite of rice, only to see a flash of surprise in Langmo's eyes, but it seemed to remember something, and sighed melancholy.

"What's wrong, isn't it delicious?" Luo Qinghe wondered.

"No, no, no!" Lang Mo hurriedly shook his head and explained: "Miss Luo, I'm just worried that after our appetite is raised by you, we won't be able to endure other people's craftsmanship!" ”

Fang Shaoze heard Langmo complain about food for the first time, so he was curious: "You have always had something to eat before, and I have never heard you say that the food is not delicious, but now what's the matter?" ”

"Young master, there was no difference in the cooking of people in the world in the past, didn't there be a sentence in your book called 'once the sea was difficult to water'... That's how it should be used! ”

Seeing that Langmo could actually recite poetry, Luo Qinghe quipped: "I didn't expect my craft to be so magical, you even used this verse!" If you continue like this, you don't know what new skills you can develop! ”

When Lang Mo heard this, he who had always been honest and unconsciously joked: "For Miss Luo's meal, as long as it doesn't hurt our young master, I'm willing to do anything!" ”

Luo Qinghe couldn't help laughing heartily when he saw Langmo's pretending to be serious.

But Fang Shaoze on the side listened to what he said, but he always felt that something was wrong.