At this time, Shi Xiu leaned against the shade of the tree to rest and cool, and had already leaned on the pine trunk next to him, but the waist knife straddling his waist was still held in his arms. Most of the dart drivers and coachmen on the side were drenched in sweat and complained about the terrible heat, and only a moment later they heard bursts of snoring, and some of the coachmen had already been sleeping in the cold.

It's been more than half an hour, not to mention a strong man, not a single bird has flown in such a hot weather...... Shi Xiu secretly said in his heart: Could it be that my brother really thought wrongly, and that Chao Gai in Dongxi Village, Jeju would not come to rob the Birth Gang?

It's just that Shi Xiu is also a vigilant person, and he didn't relax his vigilance, he licked his chapped lips, and just picked up the water bladder and was about to quench his thirst, but found that there was not much water left in the water bladder.

There are few shops nearby, and there are no mountain springs and clear streams, although there are shade trees along the way to escape the heat, but in such a difficult weather, if the water is drunk, it is also difficult to endure.

According to Yang Lin, after this Huangnigang, the car and dart team escorting the Shengchengang had to walk for nearly a day before they could reach the nearby Zhuang Town to make fire and rest. Moreover, the scorching sun is extremely hot, and people's intake of water is naturally greater than usual, not to mention that the dart team has just passed through a rugged mountain road, and the physical consumption is extremely great, although there is also a lot of fresh water stored on the van, but according to this travel speed, it cannot solve the problem of two or three hundred people's draft.

Shi Xiu saw that the dart master, coachman and others who escorted the Shengchengang also rested, he made up his mind, and was about to get up to greet the group to continue their journey, but the nurse in the Liang Mansion, Xie Duguan, came to him and said, "I heard that it is Shi Xiushi Sanlang, the head of the Xiao family?" Thanks to Shi Xiu and Mr. Yang and others, although this scorching heat kills individuals, except for the time when they just crossed the mountains and mountains, they didn't see how hard it was along the way, and when they arrived in Tokyo, I would report to Cai's Mansion and have a heavy reward with you. ”

It's just that Xie Duguan seems to be flattering and throwing a blind man, Shi Xiu only treats him as a fart, and just beckons the dart master and the coachman to get up and continue to hurry.

Xie Duguan was slightly stunned, and then an old face sank, and he thought fiercely in his heart: When I was a nurse in the Taishi Mansion in Tokyo, the officials and soldiers under the door all whispered to me when they saw everything. It's just a general under Xiao Tang's command who was killed, not even a general the size of a mustard seed, and he is actually lusting with me!

Yang Lin on the side saw Xie Duguan's face gloomy, after all, he was more tactful, so he walked up to Xie Duguan and thought: "Shi Sanlang took care of the car and dart team all the way, beware of strong people coming to rob everywhere, and it was such a hot day, it was inevitable that he was a little nervous and irritable, but he didn't intend to play with Du Guan to look at it, and I hope to forgive me." ”

Xie Duguan snorted lightly, and after only a moment, he stopped Yang Lin and said with a smile: "Mr. Yang, this... I and those two Yu were thirsty, but the water in the water bladder was all drunk, and I don't know where the head of the dart ......is."

After hearing this, Yang Lin called a cronie to take down the bag of water from the van and handed it to Xie Duguan, at this time he also thought to himself: The lack of water storage is indeed a problem, and it is indeed necessary to speed up the process and rush to the Zhuang town in front of it as soon as possible......

After Shi Xiu, Yang Lin, Xue Yong, and Shi Yong called a group of dart masters and Xiang Yong to get up, and just after reorganizing the chariot battle, they suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves, and Bian Xiang and Fu Xiang, who were wandering around, had also led twenty riders to Huangnigang.

"Brother Bian Xiang, are you still calm around?"

Bian Xiang turned over and dismounted, his fan-like big hand wiped his face indiscriminately, wiped off several beads of sweat the size of beans, and said: "There are no strongmen ambushing around, but just now I saw that there seem to be a few pergolas on the south side of Huangnigang, and there are also some men who come and go, and it seems that they are just businessmen who come and go from the south to the north." ”

Shi Xiu nodded, he pressed Bian Xiang's clothes tightly against his huge and majestic body, his whole body was already soaked with sweat, and the scar-faced tiger Fu Xiang's forehead slid down the beads of sweat, constantly flowing down the slightly raised scar on his face, and he said: "Brother Bian Xiang, Brother Fu Xiang, you have been working very hard along the way, it is better to rest for a while in this yellow mud gang, and you will be fast, and then catch up with us." ”

In such a hot weather, Rao is Bian Xiang, a strong man who looks like iron, couldn't stand it, so he nodded in response, and instructed Fu Xiang and the twenty riders to tie up their horses and find a cool place in the pine forest on the Huangnigang to rest temporarily.

When Shi Xiu, Yang Lin and others led a group of chariots and darts to drive down Huangnigang, and walked for a while, they saw the pergolas that Bian Xiang said, and saw that the shopkeeper who seemed to be selling tea had clear eyebrows, white face and long beard, and his face did not seem to be a villain.

The tea shopkeeper saw a large number of convoys coming from the Huangnigang side, and he couldn't help but say in surprise: "In the past, I only saw vendors walking back and forth as small brokers, but I rarely saw such a big battle!" How about eating some tea to cool off? ”

Shi Xiu looked at the tea shopkeeper with calm eyes, and Yang Lin paid attention to the situation around him, he stepped forward and paced a few steps, only to find that there were several Taiping cars next to a pergola, and next to the Taiping car, there were also a few men who were hiding under the pergola to enjoy the cool, the man led by the gang poked his head out, glanced in the direction of the dart team, and then smiled, and said: "I have heard many people say that there are often thieves robbing merchants on the Huangnigang here, and we are just a small base camp for selling dates to Tokyo. There is no other wealth, originally saw the gang down the brigade of people and horses are afraid of being gangsters, see the dart flag turned out to be a dart shop to make a living, since you have nothing to do all the way, what are we afraid of doing small brokers? ”

The man who spoke had thick eyebrows and big eyes, a thick black hair under his chin, and a dignified appearance. However, Yang Lin's attention was focused on the man sitting next to the man, because the man was hot and irritable, and he was naked and took a cool ......

And the most conspicuous thing is that his sideburns have the boss and cinnabar.

Yang Lin's mind moved, but before he had time to signal to Shi Xiu, he saw a man with a roe deer head and a rat from the back of the pergola carrying a deputy bucket, but the bucket he picked was more chic, it was imitated by the bamboo weaving style, the production was exquisite, the shape was a large mouth and a small bottom, the appearance was like a bucket, the lead leaf was inlayed, and there were small holes for draining water at the bottom, and the structure was similar to a wooden barrel.

Although he rested on the Huangnigang pine forest for more than half an hour, Shi Yong still felt both hot and dry, he licked his chapped lips, and said in an urn voice: "Shopkeeper, what kind of tea do you have?" We were on the way, but we couldn't eat or drink! ”

Shaw's darts never eat alcohol when they walk darts, and I know this for a long time...... The tea shopkeeper said in his heart, and smiled at Shi Xiu, Shi Yong and others: "How else do you say that you are also coincidental?" In such a hot weather, it is refreshing to use this thing to dispel the heat. ”

At this time, I saw that the roe deer man opened the bucket and opened the compartment, and suddenly a cold air rose in the air like a steamer, and it turned out that in the bucket, each of them was carrying most of the ice that had been broken by the chisel.

In the scorching summer, the ancients usually relied on fans, cool houses, porcelain pillows, ice and other utensils to escape the heat and dispel heat, and in the Song Dynasty, every year in the cold winter wax moon, thick ice cubes were formed in the river water, and people were also accustomed to chiseling down the ice cubes, transporting them to the underground ice cellar that specially stored the ice cubes, sealing them tightly, and then transporting them out piece by piece in the summer of the next year.

In the dog days, in the hot season, there will also be cold drinks sold on both sides of the streets of the state capital in the Great Song Dynasty, and the cold drink stalls hold green cloth umbrellas, and mahogany tables and chairs are placed under the umbrellas, selling cold drinks such as "Ice and Snow Licorice Soup", "Ice and Snow Cold Yuanzi", "Raw Flooded Papaya", "Cold Water Lychee Paste", "Chilled Sour Plum Soup" and so on.

Although this method of dissipating the heat is more common in the more prosperous state capitals, it is not uncommon for large families in the countryside to store ice cubes and sell them as ice drinks in the summer.

In this kind of weather that is about to be cooked and roasted, Xie Duguan of Liang Mansion, the two Yu Hou and many dart masters and coachmen who escorted the birthday gang looked at the cold big bowl of tea in the pergola and immediately looked straight, and a few men who sold dates in the pergola over there poured tea and shouted refreshed, but the people of the dart team felt that their throats seemed to be smoking and on fire again, and their throats were rolling up and down rapidly, looking at the big bowl of tea in front of them and the ice cubes in the bucket, as if they were staring at a beautiful girl who was as beautiful as a flower and stripped naked.

The tea shopkeeper looked at the looks of those people in the dart team, and the light in his eyes was a little gone, and at this time he secretly said in his heart: You have a lot of people, and you don't drink according to your rules, but it is precisely because you have a lot of people, consumption is also large, and there are few shops nearby, can you stay up without drinking tea after being thirsty all the way?