Chapter 11: The White World
As soon as I got out of Chang'an City, the outside immediately became a white world, with white snow covering the entire land, and the mountains were covered with a layer of white clothing, which made people dizzy.
Originally, the road leading to Lam Tin had long been covered with snow, and if it weren't for the footprints of horses passing in the snow, it would have been difficult to find the right direction in the snow.
The wind was raging, and the bone-chilling wind was like a knife that scraped the bones, drilling into the body along the gaps in the robe, and in such a cold, even the thick cotton robe became an ornament.
Zhao Chen's whole person was curled up in the climbing plow, and his whole body was tightly wrapped in tiger skin, and the four generals sent to him by Lao Qin were also three layers inside and three layers outside, and they were tightly wrapped, although they looked a little nondescript, but they were much better than others.
On the other hand, the others, whose faces were blue from the cold at this time, rode on horseback one by one, shrunk their shoulders vigorously, and the hot breath exhaled from their mouths formed a layer of ice slag on their beards and hair.
Wei Hui seemed to have frozen, his head hung weakly on his chest, his body was draped in a wide cloak, and his body swayed with the horse he sat on, as if he would fall from the horse at any moment.
Zhao Chen saw Wei Hui's tragic situation through the gap in the tiger skin, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, I really don't understand, why is Wei Hui so hard! A good Chang'an didn't wait, he had to run to this ice and snow to suffer this crime, so he also suffered with him.
But he didn't plan to let Wei Hui Lao'er climb the plow, this old man hurt others and himself, and didn't let him suffer more, I don't know what kind of moth will come out next time!
Even so, I still admired Wei Hui a little in my heart, when I encountered such a thing, if it was Lao Qin or another general, I am afraid that he would have squeezed into the climbing plow with a dead face, but Wei Hui never glanced at the climbing plow.
Zhao Chenjue said that as long as Wei Hui offered to climb the plow with him, he would happily agree to call Wei Hui up, but unfortunately Wei Hui never mentioned it, so he didn't bother to take the initiative to mention it.
Pulled the tiger skin tight, opened his mouth and yawned, he drank with Cheng Chu for half the night last night, and he didn't wake up at all, there is still a long way to go to Lantian Zhao Chen decided to be a little confused for a while.
In the vast white world, a group of more than 200 people struggled to move forward against the wind, looking like a huge piece of rice paper from a distance, accidentally dropping a few drops of ink, and people seemed so small in it.
"Little grandfather! Little grandpa! ”
Sleeping in a daze, Zhao Chen heard Qin Ming keep calling him in his ear, and opened his eyes sleepily, and the first thing that caught his eye was Qin Ming's unshaven face, with a layer of ice slag hanging on the stubble.
As soon as Qin Ming saw Zhao Chen wake up, he immediately grinned, but as a result of this smile, the smell of smoky wine spurted out of his nostrils, and the smoked Zhao Chen couldn't help frowning.
When he set off, Zhao Chen stuffed a leather bag of liquor into Qin Ming's arms for each of them, just to warm them up on the road, and now smelling the rich smell of wine in this bastard's mouth, Zhao Chen even doubted whether there was any wine in Qin Ming's wine bag.
The plough had stopped, and Zhao Chen thought that he had arrived in Lantian, but when he stretched out his head from the tightly covered hot nest and looked around, he found that they were still in the wilderness at this time, and the world was still snowy in sight.
"Why did you stop?" After finding that he was still in the wilderness, Zhao Chen suddenly looked at Qin Ming strangely and asked suspiciously.
"That!" When Qin Ming heard this, he looked at Zhao Chen with a little embarrassed face, and said embarrassedly: "Can you ask Wei Zhanshi to squeeze together with the little grandfather?" ”
Wei Zhan's business? When Zhao Chen heard this, he was immediately shocked, listening to Qin Ming's tone, it seemed that something had happened to Wei Hui, couldn't he be frozen!
Before he could open his mouth to ask Wei Hui what was wrong, he saw Wei Hui Lao Er walking towards him with the support of two soldiers. His face was cold, his beard and hair were all covered with a layer of ice slag, and his legs were dragging on the ground, looking completely numb from the cold.
Zhao Chen was startled, and hurriedly with the help of Qin Ming, he turned over from the climbing plow, and hurriedly helped Wei Hui to lie down on the climbing plow.
"Why didn't you wake me up sooner?" Wei Hui's whole body was like an ice lump, and his limbs were a little stiff, Zhao Chen hurriedly covered Wei Hui with a tiger skin, turned up the temperature of the stove, and stuffed it into Wei Hui's arms, then turned around and looked at Qin Ming and the others, and complained.
"It's... It's Wei... Reluctant to let ... They say it! Wei Hui, who was covered tightly by the tiger's skin, heard Zhao Chen blame Qin Ming, and without waiting for Qin Ming to speak, he struggled to stick his head out from under the tiger's skin and stammered.
"Yes, little grandpa!" Qin Ming took Wei Hui's words, looked at Zhao Chen and said, "I wanted to wake you up before, but Wei Zhanshi didn't let someone wake you up, that is, when Fang just wanted to wake you up, Wei Zhanshi was still blocking you!" ”
"Lord Wei, this is your fault!" When Zhao Chen heard this, he couldn't help but feel a little annoyed, obviously he couldn't stand the cold, but he still had to hold on to his face, and he couldn't pull his face, could it be that your face was more important than your life?
Zhao Chen unceremoniously accused: "The kid is young and ignorant, how old are you?" Why are you still like a child, what kind of demeanor is pretending to be in front of a child! ”
Wei Hui's face was a little embarrassed by Zhao Chen's words, a slight anger flashed in his eyes, and his mouth opened, as if he wanted to say something, but he finally sighed and closed his mouth.
The climbing plow can't sit anymore, and the climbing plow that could have squeezed two people can be squeezed, but now that Wei Hui is doing this, Zhao Chen doesn't even have room to sit.
Zhao Chen looked at Wei Hui's mount in the distance, and he didn't know who to scold for a while, and he had the heart to scold Wei Hui twice, but he could see Wei Hui's miserable appearance of being frozen, and the words of scolding still couldn't be said after all.
"Little grandfather, why don't you help you get on the horse?" Qin Ming looked guilty, he was originally sent by the head of the family to take care of Zhao Chen, but now Zhao Chen, who was even involved, didn't even have to sit on the plow, so he could only accompany them to ride on the horse and suffer alive.
Hearing this, Zhao Chen raised his head and sighed, nodded, and walked to Wei Hui's mount, and then with the help of Qin Ming and others, he climbed on the back of the horse and sat down, and then the group continued to set off towards Lantian.
Cold! Bitterly cold!
Lying on the plow before, wrapped in tiger skin and bear skin, Zhao Chen didn't feel how cold, at this time, riding on horseback, facing the biting wind, he felt that the blood all over his body was frozen, and the skin on his face was blown by the wind.
"Also... How far is it going? Zhao Chen leaned on the horse's back with his upper body, looking at the snowy world in front of him, shivering from the cold, and asked Qin Ming who followed him in a loud voice.
"Come on, little grandfather, if you hold on for a while, you should see the county seat of Lantian!" When Qin Ming next to him heard this, he hurried close to Zhao Chen, took out the wine bag from his arms and handed it to Zhao Chen, "Little grandfather, why don't you drink wine to warm up!" ”
"Screw... Unscrew it! Zhao Chen straightened up with great difficulty and said tremblingly. When Qin Ming unscrewed the stopper of the wine bag, Zhao Chen took a big sip of the liquor on the mouth of the wine bag.
"Ahem!" After taking a big sip of spirits, Zhao Chen was immediately choked and coughed lightly, this is a serious soju, spicy and pungent.
Zhao Chen felt the sip of liquor go down his throat, and his stomach quickly boiled, and after a while, the frozen stiff blood was rejuvenated under the stimulation of alcohol.
The two hundred soldiers who were sent by Li Er looked at Zhao Chen's embarrassed appearance at this time, and instead of disdain, they looked at Zhao Chen with a little more admiration.
These guys are all people who lick blood on the knife all the year round, and their minds are outrageous, and they saw Zhao Chen shrinking in the plow before, comfortable like an uncle, and they still looked down on Zhao Chen a little.
At this time, seeing that Zhao Chen gave up the climbing plow to Wei Hui without hesitation, but he climbed on the back of the horse to suffer with them, Zhao Chen's image suddenly became a lot taller in their hearts.
"Little grandpa, we're here!" I don't know how long I walked, when Zhao Chen felt that he was about to be frozen into an ice sculpture, Qin Ming's voice suddenly sounded like heaven in his ears.
Quickly straightened up from the horse, and when they looked forward, they saw a ruined city in the middle of the white world, located far away on the snow-capped plain, just stuck in their way.
"Let's go, let's go!" As soon as Zhao Chen saw the city, he immediately seemed to have suddenly come to life, and he kept urging on horseback.
Qin Ming agreed with a loud voice, took the reins of Zhao Chen's mount, slammed his legs between the horse's belly, and quickly rushed to Lantian County, the county seat in his sight.
In fact, at this time, there was no need for Zhao Chen to urge, when everyone saw Lantian County, they all urged the mounts to sit down, and shouted all the way to Lantian and galloped towards the city in sight.
The mount under the crotch was hissing, the hooves were flying in the snow, the wind was 'whirring' in the ears, and the skin on the face of the scraped person was painful. But at this time, there is no longer so much to manage, and everyone's mind is to rush into the city as soon as possible.
The city is getting closer and closer, and the broken gap in the city wall has been seen, this county was built in the former Sui Dynasty, and has experienced the baptism of war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and now it has long become dilapidated.
It's just that as the distance gets closer and closer, the faces of Zhao Chen and the others gradually become solemn, and they can see from a distance that under the dilapidated city wall, there are crowds of people, and they are crowded with people.
Men, women, and children, dragging their families and mouths, crowded at the gate of the city one by one, begging constantly, as if they wanted to enter the city, but unfortunately the gate was closed, and no matter how these people begged below, there was no sign of opening