Chapter 3: To the South
After Li Zheng came down from Guzang Mountain, it was day and night, and he walked out of the sphere of influence of the Li family in Guzang by walking and stopping, he relied on his excellent survival skills in the wild, and he survived tenaciously, not only a skin injury healed, but also his physical fitness has been greatly improved, after all, Li Zheng can hit a few small beasts such as hares from the wild, can this have meat to eat, and the physical fitness can not be improved?
"Blackwater River?? Hehehe, isn't this the legendary weak water? Standing on the bank of the legendary "weak water" river, Li Zheng looked at the opposite bank, "As long as you cross this black water river, you can enter Jincheng........ At that time, no matter how strong your Li family is, what can you do to me? ”
In fact, the Heishui River is not really a "weak water", let alone a "feather does not float, can not be crossed", in fact, because the people who live next to the Heishui River are not used to building boats and do not use boats, only use leather rafts to cross, in the eyes of those boring literati, the water is weak and cannot carry boats, which is why it has the title of "weak water", others don't know about this but Li Zheng knows, in his previous life, he crossed this Heishui River many times, so he will not be frightened by the name of this "weak water".
However, Li Zheng did not rush to cross the river, not because he didn't want to cross the river, but because he found that his physical strength had dropped badly in the past few days, his legs were weak, and he knew that this was the result of not replenishing salt for three days.
Li Zheng looked around and found that except for this quietly flowing Heishui River, there was no longer a single figure here, "The sky is vast, the wilderness is vast, and the sky is like a dome covering the four wilderness." He couldn't help but sigh, "The northwest in the seventh century was really desolate and wild enough!! ”
Li Zheng looked around, and found that quietly, only a group of yellow sheep under the leadership of an old sheep drank the river water, this group of yellow sheep under the leadership of the head sheep, walked to a rock wall, seeing this, Li Zheng's immature little face bloomed with a look of ecstasy, "Hahahaha, sure enough, the sky will not die for me......" Li Zheng saw the yellow sheep and saw hope, because he knew how to survive in the wild He clearly knew that it was not difficult to find salt in the wild to follow the activities of wild animals.......
Li Zheng, who was proficient in the way of survival in the wilderness, soon got what he wanted, and after getting enough rock salt, he continued his journey, and as he roamed the wasteland, his eyes were fixed on a wild boar, which he recognized as his perfect breakfast. Li Zheng drew a horizontal knife that he had come from a Sogdian caravan passing by, and wanted to attack the wild boar, but the wild boar saw his actions at this time and attacked Li Zheng in turn!
He dodged the boar's attack, but the boar did not want to give up and attacked again, he dodged again, but this time he jumped behind the boar and reached out and grabbed one of the boar's fangs. It tried to break free, but he clung to it for his life. At this time, he stabbed it with the horizontal knife in his hand, and the blade stabbed deeply into the boar's body, and blood gushed out at once. In order to make sure that the boar was really dead, he stabbed down one knife after another until the boar was really dead. The boar died, and Li Zheng carried the pig on his shoulder, and then found his way back to the temporary nest he had built.
He went back to the nest, peeled off the boar with a knife, and then went to the poplar tree not far away, took a few leaves, and returned to the nest. A bamboo pipe was used to scoop some water into the spring and wash the wild boar. When the boar had been washed, he took out his knife and cut down a poplar tree. Then cut the trunk into finer chopping wood, carried it back to the nest, put it on the fire with a flint, he began to roast wild boar as his own meal, barbecue wild boar, only need to sprinkle a little salt, the meat smell is fragrant, this taste alone makes the hungry Li Zheng full for three points, as soon as the meat is roasted, it was stuffed into his mouth by Li Zheng, no way, he is too hungry.
Li Zheng wolfed down the roast pork, burped comfortably, and secretly congratulated himself that the time of his escape was early summer, if he caught up with the harsh winter, it is estimated that he would have frozen to death, Li Zheng has not yet walked out of the Hexi Corridor, the summer of the Hexi Corridor, the weather is very sunny, the ground is dry and hot, and the traffic in the Hexi Corridor at this time is very underdeveloped, only a Silk Road stepped out by the merchants who came and went silently told this prosperity, but on this Silk Road, it is difficult to encounter horse-drawn carriages or ox carts, Under normal circumstances, as long as you see camels, you see caravans running on the Silk Road, and if you have a heart, you will have a lot of gains.
The landforms of the Hexi Corridor can be divided into three types: the Gobi Desert, the sandy sandy land, and the saline-alkali land with surface salinity. The size of the area varies, ranging from tens or hundreds of square meters to tens or hundreds of square kilometers. Before leaving, Li Zheng prepared some homemade roast pork jerky and other foods, brought some water and set off on the road.
According to Li Zheng's idea, as long as you find the general direction, there will be no big problem. After walking all day, people did not feel much tired, but the sun had already set in the west, and the sky was getting darker and darker. At some point, the moon hung in the sky, and then the sky was full of stars, and the earth was shrouded in night. Because Li Zheng has experienced several years of tempering in a difficult environment, he was a soldier in his previous life, and it was commonplace to practice in the wild, plus he lived in the Hexi Corridor in this life, and he was used to the night in the corridor, and he was not afraid of night activities in the wild.
At this time, the sky is full of stars, the bright moon is in the sky, but the vast Gobi in the Northwest Corridor is a different scenery. Li Zheng sat quietly on the Gobi, looking at the starry sky from afar, and his reverie was infinite.
If it is winter and spring, if there is wind and sand, it will be dusty, flying sand and rocks, forming sandstorms. Even when there is no wind, there will be a small tornado blowing from time to time, like a yellow dragon soaring into the air, speeding past people and then quickly moving away. But it is small and does not cause harm to humans or nature.
Generally speaking, the wind is continuous in the Hexi Corridor in all seasons, and it is the most common in winter and spring, almost every day, and it is also the most intense, so there is a saying that "the wind blows the stones and runs" in the local area. The temperature difference between day and night is very large, the temperature can reach 40 °C at noon in summer, and the lowest temperature at night can be close to 0 °C, and the quilt is inseparable all year round, so here, the phenomenon of "wearing a leather jacket in the morning and wearing yarn in the afternoon, holding the stove and eating watermelon" is not a new thing, Li Zheng has long been accustomed to this, in order to deal with the cold at night, Li Zheng specially made the wild boar skin into a leather jacket, if it were not for this leather jacket, Li Zheng was afraid that he would freeze half to death.
After crossing the weak water and walking southeast for a few more days, he entered the scope of Jincheng, which was the sphere of influence of the Xue family, as long as he got there, the influence of the Guzang Li family would not be good, and he would be able to take a breath when the time came.........