Chapter 6: Xanadu
From the conversation, Chen Xian learned that this woman's surname is Yang, her mother's family is a big family in Yiyuan Dongzhuangzi, the robbed Lujiazhuang is his husband's family, his husband is the owner of Lujiazhuang, and the two children are also the flesh and blood of the owner of the Lu family.
When the Zhuangzi was broken, the owner of the Lu Zhuang hid the mother and son in the cellar in the back garden to escape the catastrophe, but they were deceived from the cellar by the two worship leaders who were familiar with the situation of the Lu family.
As for the origin of the group of thieves who attacked Lujiazhuang, this lady of the Lu family couldn't say clearly.
From the words of the lady of the Lu family, it is not difficult for Chen Xian to hear that now the world is extremely chaotic, and there are thieves everywhere.
According to the lady of the Lu family, Lu Jiazhuang is full of filial piety to the nearby green forest heroes, and has never neglected anyone's family.
During the conversation, the lady of the Lu family hinted to Chen Xian that his father was the patriarch of the Haoqiang Yang clan in Yiyuan Dongzhuangzi, and as long as he could send the two of them to Dongzhuangzi, his father would be grateful......
Chen Xian quickly took out the era he was in at this time, the six years of Dajin Taehe!
This era name suddenly made Chen Xian lose his interest in talking.
Chen Xian, who fell silent, began to search for information related to this era in his mind.
The sixth year of Dajin Taihe, corresponding to the Southern Song Dynasty, is the second year of Kaixi, that is, 1206 AD.
This historical time is of great significance to ancient war lovers, because in this year, Temujin eliminated all enemies and opponents in the steppe, held a conference at the source of the Troubled River, and proclaimed the establishment of the Great Mongolian State, and the ministers were named "Genghis Khan".
After five years of preparation, the Mongols will wage war against the Jin State, defeated the main force of the Jin State in the Battle of Yehuling, besieged the central capital of the Jin State, which is today's Beijing, and plundered the city after being defeated.
After that, Mongolia attacked Jin several times, the second time, three ways out, the east road attacked Jin's hometown of Liaoxi and Liaodong, the west road attacked Shanxi, and the middle road attacked Hebei.
History records that the Mongol army swept all the way, even dozens of cities, killing extremely heavy, driving the Jin State into the narrow area between the south bank of the Yellow River and the Huai River, and completely disrupting the North China Plain.
According to records, from the beginning of the Mongol invasion of Jin to the complete destruction of the Jin State, the population of the area ruled by the former Jin State dropped from more than 50 million to less than 20 million, and more than 30 million people died in the war and the chaos and plague that followed......
It was a hellish time for peoples outside of Mongolia.
Thinking of the terrible war, Chen Xian suddenly thought that the mountains in central Shandong were a natural refuge for the people of Shandong to avoid military disasters, and no matter how powerful the Mongolian iron cavalry was, they would never kill into the mountains.
Thinking of this, his mind suddenly became active, Yiyuan, the hometown of the Lu family's lady, is located in the depths of the mountain range in central Shandong, and it is simply a place like a peach blossom in this era.
In this era, if you want to survive, the best way is of course to escape to the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty, at least for a few decades, at this time there are still more than 70 years before the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, enough for Chen Xian to live to old age.
However, in this era, letting an unfamiliar outsider pass through half of China and cross the border between the Song and Jin countries to reach the Song realm is no different from sending him to death.
Therefore, even if he wants to flee to the Southern Song Dynasty, he can't be in a hurry, he must first integrate into the society of this era, and then find a way to find a safe escape route to the south, and before that, he needs to find a place to stay.
Yiyuan is clearly a wonderful place.
Thinking of this, Chen Xian became attentive to the mother and son again.
The four of them walked along the path for a while, Chen Xian stopped, and said to the mother and son: "The lady of the Lu family should rest here, a certain family has hidden some luggage in the forest over there, so go and get it." ”
Chen Xian read the Water Margin when he was in college, and there was a little bit of reflection of the dialogue of the characters in it, and at this time he knew that he came to the Song Dynasty, so he parroted his tongue, although the Water Margin was written by the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty was always much closer to the Song Dynasty.
Chen Xian said this, and the lady of the Lu family seemed to be easier to understand.
Listening to Chen Xian's words, the lady of the Lu family stopped talking, and seemed to be a little worried.
Since he wanted to use the other party, Chen Xian naturally had to make a sufficient gesture, handed the big black eagle crossbow in his hand to the other party, and said, "Can this little lady with a crossbow recognize?" Can it be made? ”
When the lady of the Lu family saw Chen Xian handing over the self-defense weapon to her, she was immediately a little moved, and nodded again and again: "I know, and I also make it, but I can't open the bow." ”
Chen Xian said: "This crossbow has been wound, if there is something urgent, just shoot him, you take it for self-defense, and come when you go." ”
After that, he handed the crossbow to the lady of the Lu family, and followed his memory into the woods on the north side of the road.
Chen Xian was going to pick up the box and backpack with plate armor.
The plate armor was designed by Chen Xian according to the improvement of the plate armor process of the Western Renaissance era, the material is made of high-strength hot-rolled steel plate with a thickness of two millimeters, the process is laser cutting and cutting, hand-sheet metal forming, copper nail riveting, hand-polishing and assembly, it takes a lot of thought, although the price is expensive, many HMB (medieval fighting) enthusiasts still flock to it.
This armor is just a craft imitation in modern times, but in the Song Dynasty, it is definitely a treasure.
Anyway, Chen Xian couldn't wear this armor, so when he realized that he was likely to travel to some ancient world, he thought of using this armor as a stepping stone for himself to gain a foothold, so he carried this box with him regardless of his efforts.
Now that he plans to settle in Yiyuan, this armor will come in handy.
Carrying the box on his back, he got out of the woods and returned to the path, the lady of the Lu family handed him back the crossbow, and the four of them hit the road again.
After walking a short distance, the two children were so hungry that they couldn't walk, and the three of them hid in the cellar for a day and a night, because the incident happened suddenly, and when the owner of Lu Zhuang sent the three of them to the cellar, he didn't even prepare food.
The group of thieves ransacked Zhuangzi very thoroughly, and Chen Xian walked around the Zhuangzi and did not find a single grain.
Seeing that the three of them were indeed extremely hungry, Chen Xian had to take out the large half bag of biscuits from his backpack and share them with the three of them to eat.
The mother and son, who had never eaten cookies before, almost swallowed their tongues when they tasted this creamy chocolate-flavored sandwich cookie for the first time. They were also very curious about the wrapping paper of the biscuits, Chen Xian only said that this was a special oil paper used to wrap snacks in the middle capital, and the three of them had only heard of the reputation of the middle capital, and they didn't even know where the middle capital was, but they didn't suspect anything.
Along the way, Chen Xian shot two turtledoves and two unknown birds with a big black eagle and kept them for dinner in the evening.
The mountain road is difficult to walk, and there are two eight or nine-year-old children, and the four of them have walked all the way to rest, and they have only walked less than ten kilometers when they see the sun setting west.
Chen Xian estimated that there were still two hours before dark, so he stopped and let the mother and son rest, he put down the box, pulled out the mountain knife, cut some branches on the side of the road, and began to set up camp.
He had to get everything done before dark, and although he had a flashlight in his backpack, he didn't plan to take it out, because it would be shocking and cause him unnecessary trouble.
As a hunter leader, Chen Xian has learned some survival skills in the wilderness and built a wild campsite, which is just a trivial matter.
He quickly borrowed the terrain of trees and built two simple herringbone houses with tree branches, two herringbone houses opposite each other, with a vacant lot in the middle, and he also built a special rainproof roof above the clearing.
A campfire was lit in the open space between the two sheds, and a campsite was built.
Anyone who has ever been in the mountains knows that most of the roads in the mountains are built along streams.
The mountain path they took was also built along a stream.
Chen Xian lit the bonfire, and while it was still dark, he went to the stream to wash and peel off the four birds he had shot, and he collected all the internal organs of the birds.
Back at the campfire, Chen Xian put the bird on the branch and handed over the task of barbecue to the Lu family's lady, afraid that she wouldn't, and specially told him to keep flipping.
After telling the lady of the Lu family, Chen Xian returned to the stream, came to the side of the deeper pool of the downstream stream, dug a big pit with the head of a gun, and dug a waterway along the big pit towards the waterhole.
Then he cut some tougher artemisia grass on the shore, buried the roots of these artemisia grasses at the outlet of the waterway, and pressed the straw poles inward along the waterway, and gently pressed the overwhelmed straw poles with some small stones.
Finally, he took some of the bird's entrails and sprinkled them in the pool.
It's a way to catch fish in the wild when you don't have any tools.
This method was learned by him in a "Survival in the Wilderness" program, and because of curiosity, he tried it in the river near his village, and it was quite useful.
The principle of this fishing method is that the tough roots of Artemisia grass are buried at the mouth of the waterway, and they are pressed inward along the mouth of the waterway, when the fish is attracted by the bait, enters the waterway, and swims inward, it is equivalent to following the direction of the hair, and it is easy to get in, and when it wants to come out, it becomes the direction of the reverse hair, and the upturned grass branches will block them from leaving, and the bigger the fish, the stronger the blockage.
Chen Xian dug four fishing traps along the way, and saw that it was getting dark, so he returned to the camp.
The lady of the Lu family has already roasted four birds, all of which are browned, obviously turning very carefully and diligently.
The four of them ate bird meat one by one, and the meat of these four birds was only two taels, so naturally it was not enough to eat.
But there is no way to eat enough, this is their only food at this time.
Chen Xian collected the leftover bones of the four people, wrapped them in plastic paper containing biscuits, and put them in his backpack, he saw that the lady of the Lu family and the two children were looking at him strangely, and explained with a smile: "These bones can be used as bait for fishing." ”
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The mother and son of the Lu family have not slept for two days, they are already very sleepy, and today they have walked seventeen or eighteen miles of mountain roads, they are sleepy and tired, and now they have rested, and soon they can no longer support it, first the two children fell asleep on the bed made of branches and thatch in the herringbone house.
The lady of the Lu family seemed to be a little uneasy, and insisted on not sleeping.