Chapter 40: Talented
Ding Yang has to go back to the Great Snow Mountain.
There are a lot of people and places that Yu Zhen said, and it is not only time-consuming and laborious to verify it by himself, but also some ideas will be preconceived, and what he finds may not be true.
The matter of Liyang Town must be resolved first, and the Great Snow Mountain must have a statement that can satisfy the good country, the Snow Festival is approaching, and the grain storage in the Great Snow Mountain can only last for two months at most.
It snows for nine months of the year, and as soon as the summer is over, the snowy mountains become a world of ice and snow again, with crystal clear six-petal snowflakes, like paper kites folded by naughty children in the hinterland, flying crookedly in the air, running out of the hands of the snow god silently, layer after layer on the snowy mountains, the biting cold wind blows, and the dry and cold snow flakes are raised, forming a white and vast snow mist.
Snow is a close relative of all things in the Snow Mountain, and is the most trusted messenger of the Snow God, and the people of the Great Snow Mountain believe that the first snow of each year represents the attitude of the Snow God towards the people.
The Snow Festival is one of the six most important festivals in the Great Snow Mountain, which does not have four distinct seasons like the inland, except for the three months when the snow line rises, it is winter. At the end of summer, the weather in the Great Snow Mountain turns cold, and the first snow arrives as scheduled, spreading the gospel of the snow god.
From the high priest to the common people, they will fast on the day of the first snow of the year in the Great Snow Mountain, and a very spectacular altar will be built near the Cleansing Pond of the Snow God, and the respected elders of the Snow God Sect will lead the sacrifice, sing the praises of the miracles of the Snow God, and pray for the protection of the Snow God. As long as the people of the Snow Mountains are physically able, they will come from thousands of miles to participate in this grand celebration, when the city will be crowded with people and snow tents, and various bazaars will come into being, and it is a rare grand scene to exchange trade and prosperity.
The whole celebration will continue until the end of the first snowfall, the snow in the Great Snow Mountain does not end in a day or two, the history of the Snow God Cult records that the longest first snow fell for twenty-six consecutive days.
The Snow God Sect provided free food to all the people of the Snow Mountain who participated in the event, and a huge amount of food would be consumed every day, and before Ding Yang left the mountain, Ding Yi was anxious about the lack of food in stock.
Grain has always been a shackle on the neck of the Great Snow Mountain, the Snow Mountain is rich in production, but there is no food, in the past when the Qi Dynasty, the grain will be allocated every year, after the Long Kingdom, has been taking the jade, medicinal materials, snow wood, fur and so on of the Snow Mountain to exchange food for the country. But now Muguo has choked the supply of grain, so it can only buy from Chongqing, which is mountainous and does not have much surplus grain, and the grain bought at a high price is only a drop in the bucket.
Even if Muguo is willing to sell grain now, it will take at least one and a half months for the carts and horses of the brigade to be transported from the inland to the six forts of the Snow Mountains on the outskirts of the Great Snow Mountain, and then another month for them to be transferred to the Great Snow Mountain.
It is only a dozen days before the Snow God Festival, and at this moment, my brother Ding Yi should be sleepless all night.
Although he did not receive a reply from An Lan, Pu Cao wrote another letter to Mr. Huo, mainly informing him that under the mediation of Sujiabao, he could finally enter the Snow God Sect Protector Army, and he might stay in Daxue Mountain for a long time in the future.
Pu Cao also mentioned that since he arrived in the Great Meadow, he felt that he didn't need to be suppressed by the Twisted Chief and the Cold Thorn Pill at all, and the meridians in his body were extremely comfortable, and there was no trace of burning. When the three-year period is approaching, he will definitely ask someone to send the Hangan back in advance, so that Mr. Huo will not break his promise.
After a few sentences of business, a page of snow linen paper was only half written, and Pucao stopped writing and didn't know where to ink.
Originally, I planned to leave the Snow Mountain after learning the Ice Waterfall Sutra, but now Sujiabao is Pucao's guarantor, and if Pucao leaves, Sujiabao will be a bad person.
Besides, if he was hit by the finger of God, he couldn't really drug and harm others according to what the strange man who lived in the tomb said. Pu Cao asked Su Zizhong about it, Ding Lao Wei is Ding Xueyun's grandfather, and Zhao Lanxiu is a person of the same age, but younger than Zhao Lanxiu.
After Su Zizhong and Ding Xueyun got married, that was Su Zizhong's grandfather, how could Pucao drug Su Zizhong's grandfather.
The future is uncertain, you can only take one step at a time, if there is really no solution at that time, then blame yourself for your bad life.
After thinking about it, Pu Cao continued to write about his nostalgia for An Lan, slowly wrote four or five sheets of snow linen paper, dried the ink, and sealed the letter.
This time, Pu Cao prepared some gifts with the letter, brought almost snow flame wine to Mr. Huo and Mr. Jin, and brought a few warm skins to the porter Lao Li.
The porter Lao Li doesn't know how to practice, and every winter the old cold legs will attack, and he can't walk at all, so he will definitely be much more comfortable with a few skins.
Pu Cao thought that when Mr. Huo and Mr. Jin drank Snow Flame Wine, would they feel as spicy and choked as when they first drank it, and laughed when they thought about it, and tears rolled down their cheeks with laughter and laughter, dripping on the envelope made of snow cow hide, moistening a large piece.
Pu Cao hurriedly wiped the envelope with his sleeve and wiped his eyes, so that the person who called Liu Jiabao saw the joke.
There is always a soft place, and if you poke it, it will hurt and cry.
Pu Cao locked himself in the house, the Snow Festival is coming, the Snow Mountain Six Castles must send people to watch the ceremony, and they will set off soon, Su Zizhong has already let Pu Cao go to the big snow mountain to be the chief of the Wu Careful Thoughts, Pu Cao has not thought of any good strategies to deal with it.
said that it was to save face for Sujiabao, but it was not that he didn't want the apologists to intervene in an outsider.
The Great Snow Mountain is different from the inland, there is no division of the state capital, the Great Meadow is the territory of the Six Forts of the Snow Mountain, which is equivalent to the first line of defense of the Great Snow Mountain, as long as the Six Forts of the Snow Mountain can be optimistic about the meadow, everything on the meadow is the final say of the Six Castles of the Snow Mountain, the Great Snow Mountain never asks too much, nominally it is the territory of the Long Kingdom, but in fact it is like an independent kingdom.
Passing through hundreds of miles of meadows, it is a world ruled by ice and snow, and the harsh environment is the second line of defense of the Great Snow Mountain, between the meadow and the Great Snow Mountain, there are some large cities scattered around, all of which are managed by the royal family of the Long Kingdom, and all the taxes and production are collected by the royal family and delivered to the Great Snow Mountain, which is distributed by the Great Snow Mountain.
Finally, there are the towns around the Snow Mountain, which are colder than the periphery but have more people, and the followers of the Snow God spontaneously gather here all year round, obeying the instructions of the Snow Mountain, and their beliefs are more devout, which is the foundation of the Snow God Cult.
The Guardian Army is stationed at the foot of the Great Snow Mountain, and after the layers of screening in the Great Snow Mountain, the innocent young male believers will be incorporated into the Guardian Army, and the establishment of the Guardian Army is also different from that of the inland army, according to the structure of the brigade flag capital, the Wu is the lowest-level commander, the commander is ten, the plus Wu has a total of eleven people, ten Wu is a capital, ten is a flag, and so on.
In the Guardian Army, ordinary soldiers can only learn some methods to strengthen their bodies, and after being promoted to the rank of captain by virtue of their military merits and prestige, they can be taught low-level cultivation methods by military officers.
On the battlefield, the survival rate of cultivators and ordinary soldiers is not the same, so the soldiers at the bottom are staring at the position of the captain, hoping to embark on the path of cultivation.
Wu Chang is not a very important position, but the Guardian Army has always been all silver-haired and blue-eyed, Pucao is a newcomer from the inland, without a trace of military merit, and he does not know martial arts, forcibly cutting into the queue will definitely cause dissatisfaction among the low-level soldiers, and it is not easy to knead Pucao together.
If Pucao is interested, where to go back from, there can still be a life, if it is not interesting, the general of the capital will report to the official that he has strayed into the snow pit, and the corpse cannot be recovered, let alone any traces.
Don't look at Pu Cao's usual talk, but An Lan's bearing is engraved on his bones, he can fight, but he will never tolerate provocation.
Daxueshan disagreed, and I returned to Anlan to wait for death, which was my fate. But Daxueshan agreed, but secretly played tricks, and I will knock you to the end.
Pu Cao made up his mind, on the premise of not embarrassing Sujiabao, it was nothing more than a move for soldiers to block the water and land to cover up the move, and whoever didn't leave a way for himself to live, he would never let him have a good time.
The sound of the piano outside the window, like the ironing of the owner of the ready-to-wear store, quickly smoothed the waves in Pu Cao's heart, Pu Cao cleaned up the pen and ink on the table, sat by the window with a low stool, and quietly listened to Ling Zi caressing the qin.
Pu Cao heard the senior sisters of the art department play this song in Anlan, it is very famous "Autumn Frost Farewell", it is said that a talented man who left his hometown saw the autumn frost and felt it, the tune is low and timeless, I think Ling Zi is homesick.
The door was slammed open.
"Su Zizhong!" Pu Cao gritted her teeth with her back to the door, she didn't need to look at it to know that it was Su Zizhong, and only Su Zizhong never knocked on the door and came in.
"Don't express your heart to me so loudly, I know you like me, hey, there's something good to find you."
"What good can you do?" Pu Cao turned around and saw Su Zizhong and Zhu Youzhi drunk, hooking their shoulders and backs, with ambiguous eyes.
"It's not me, it's Zhu Dashao, the Snow God Festival is coming, Zhu Dashao invites you to see the Sleeping Moon Pavilion, and then go to Xi Snow City to wash away your sins." Su Zizhong deliberately accentuated his tone, biting the word evil very slowly and heavily.
"Where did I get some sin?"
"You inland people often say that carnal desire is a great original sin, and you will soon be guilty of it when you go to the Sleeping Moon Pavilion." Zhu Youzhi squeezed his eyebrows, "A few days ago, they rode me, I was unhappy, and I couldn't retaliate against my brother, so I had to go to Mianyue Pavilion to ride someone else, hehehe." ”
"My father said, let's escort the envoys of several inland countries, first go to Snow Eagle City to visit Emperor Long, then go to Xi Snow City to watch the ceremony, and finally send you to the Great Snow Mountain. My dad and they went directly to Syracuse City, which was not the same way as us. Su Zizhong roughly talked about the itinerary.
"Really?" Pu Cao immediately changed her smiling face, this is good, she finally has the opportunity to go with Ling Zi.
How could Su Zizhong and Zhu Youzhi think that Pucao was happy because he wanted to walk with Ling Zi, and only thought that Pucao was happy and excited to complete the transformation from a boy to a man.
"I know that Pucao and I are the same kind of person, how about it, I said it." Zhu Youzhi said proudly to Su Zizhong, "Let's go, drink a few cups for Pucao, who is about to become a man." ”
Pucao was dragged away from the house.
What does it mean to be a man soon? I'm meant to be a man, okay.
Whatever. If you meet Lingzi on the meadow, it's worth getting drunk once.
"Su Zizhong, what does it feel like to like someone?" Pu Cao's eyes were drunk and hazy, and he tugged at Su Zizhong's clothes.
"The feeling of eating a full meal after you are hungry is the feeling of liking. Hahaha, you say, are you in heat. Su Zizhong was not much better, and he couldn't stand steadily on Wang Xiaoyan's body.
"Su Zizhong! You're right, you're so right! Pucao gave a thumbs up in a daze, and snored and fell down diagonally.
Pu Cao remembered the satisfaction of eating a full meal after starving in Sanduoji and Shazhi City, and the satisfaction after seeing Ling Zi now was exactly the same.
"Talented, Su Zizhong, you are really talented!" Pu Cao pillowed on Su Zizhong's body and talked about wine.