Chapter 16: The Belle Époque
The distance between Huangzhu Mountain and Huangzhu Mountain, which everyone goes, is fifty miles, even if it is a strong man walking through the mountains and forests, it will take a day or two, not to mention that there are still a large number of old and weak women and children among Li Xuan's people, and they still carry a lot of belongings on their shoulders.
It's not going to go fast at all.
Fortunately, however, there were no officers and soldiers following them along the way, and there were no fierce beasts encountered on the way.
They walked for three days before they arrived at what they called Huangzhu Mountain.
Huangzhu Mountain, this is not a mountain range that stretches for thousands of miles, nor is it a giant peak as high as a thousand zhang, this is just a low mountain, hidden in the deep mountains is not conspicuous.
But what is quite peculiar is that this hill is covered with yellow bamboo.
The bamboo forest is as neat and dense as the crops in the field from the flat land at the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, and the bamboo forest gently shakes with the majesty of the mountain, making a sound of Xiao Xiao bamboo.
"This is Huangzhu Mountain, there is a flat valley at the foot of the mountain, we used to live here, and we only moved to the valley outside five years ago!"
"But although we moved most of the people, there are still many people left here to take care of the fields!"
At this time, Qian Mengjiu introduced the situation of Huangzhu Mountain in front of Li Xuan: "The bamboo forest on the mountain is full of bamboo shoots all over the mountains in winter and spring, digging it and stir-frying it, which is quite crisp and delicious."
Li Xuan didn't dare to be interested in the verdant bamboo forest, nor was he interested in whether the bamboo shoots were delicious or not, he was more concerned about whether the officers and soldiers in this place would come over.
If it would not take long for the officers and men to find and raise troops to attack, then he would have to make other plans as early as possible, such as planning to flee again, and he had fled in the last few days.
Yes, until now, Li Xuan still has no intention of parting ways with Liu Bagou and them!
Because he knows that staying with them will be a dead word sooner or later.
It's just that Fang Dongquan and the others have obviously been on guard against themselves, which can be seen from the fact that the few bandits he sent follow Li Xuan every day and never leave three zhang away, these bandits are called to protect him, but in fact they are surveillance.
Therefore, it is not so easy to escape from this place, and you have to take it calmly.
After walking for about an hour, everyone bypassed the foot of the mountain and arrived at the southern foot of Huangzhu Mountain, where Li Xuan found that this place was really suitable for living.
First of all, the flat land at the foot of the mountain is not large, but it is extremely flat, it looks like a small plain, and there are several small streams running through it, which make the place very suitable for rice cultivation, and those small streams flow into a river in the distance.
Even though the river in the distance cannot be compared with any big river, it is seven or eight meters wide, but I don't know how deep it is.
The river flows all the way to the south, and it is not known where it is going.
There were quite a few wooden houses built at the foot of the mountain, some of them were still intact, while some of them were dilapidated, apparently some of them were deserted after Fang Dongquan and most of them left.
After arriving here, a group of mountain people who stayed here also quickly greeted them, and Liu Bagou, Qian Mengjiu and others began to direct people to clean up the houses and settle down.
And these things were naturally not Li Xuan's turn, and he, Mrs. Bai, Dong Yunyun and a few others were taken to a wooden house with a large area to rest.
After entering the house, Li Xuan was not in the mood to deal with Liu Bagou and what they were doing, but looked at Dong Yunyun first.
At this time, Dong Yunyun's state was quite bad, although she was carried by several old mothers in turn in the past two days, and she also took the medicine prepared by Qian Mengjiu, but the disease has not been cured, but it looks more serious.
After Jean Zhu'er touched her forehead, Zhu'er said with an anxious look: "Miss's forehead is still as hot as yesterday!" ”
Dong Yunyun, who was already lying on the bed, turned pale, and reluctantly showed a smile at Li Xuan: "The concubine is fine, it's already a lot!" ”
Li Xuan looked at her like this, and saw that her face, which was still beautiful two days ago, had already lost weight, and he couldn't help but feel pity.
Although strictly speaking, he and Dong Yunyun have not known each other for a long time, and they have only been six or seven days before and after, and they have no feelings for each other.
But when I saw a beautiful woman who was originally in good health, I saw Youling fall ill in front of me, and the situation was not so optimistic, even if it was just an ordinary person, the mood would not be much better.
It's all to blame Liu Bagou and Fang Dongquan, if it weren't for them messing around, they wouldn't have looted Dong Yunyun, and there would have been no escape that would have made Dong Yunyun sick.
It's all to blame for this damn era, there is no cold medicine to take even if you have a fever and a cold!
It has been more than ten days since he came to this era, and Li Xuan has never had any good feelings about this era, let alone a good impression, he even deeply hates this era.
In his previous life, he also read a lot of novels in which the protagonist traveled to the Ming Dynasty, and nine times out of ten of those novels depicted the Ming Dynasty as a beautiful era that has never been seen in the ages.
But after Li Xuan came to this era, he didn't feel any beauty, and in his opinion, this era has no merit.
This is an era when countless peasants do not have enough to eat, and many poor people either fall into the grass in order to survive, or can only hide in the mountains and forests to survive.
This is an era when even a minor illness such as a cold can become a strong man's life.
This is an era when most people don't know how to brush their teeth, or they can't brush their teeth, and the stench when they open their mouths can smoke people to death.
He hates this era!
If he was Pangu and had a giant axe in his hand that could open the world, he would not hesitate to split the entire world into pieces, and then slowly piece it together into a new world.
If he were a great man like Taizu and Napoleon, he would break the shackles of the world and bring the glory of civilization to the world.
It's just a pity that he is just an ordinary person, just a ravine emperor who Liu Bagou and Fang Dongquan forcibly helped up.
He couldn't even escape from this place on his own terms, out of his current predicament.
He felt pity for Dong Yunyun, and he felt even more sad for himself!
Looking at the look of pity on Li Xuan's face, Dong Yunyun didn't know why the man in front of him had such an expression, could it be that he was worried about himself?
But why does he care so much about himself? Although he has visited him in church, hasn't he said it all, it's just acting, is he serious and regards himself as his wife, so he is worried?
But if you look closer, this Li Xuanchang is quite handsome, if ...... If......
Thinking about the mess of all kinds of ifs and possibilities, Dong Yunyun's pale face slowly showed a hint of redness, and then closed her eyes and stopped looking at Li Xuan beside the bed, but all kinds of possible or impossible things still appeared in her mind.