Chapter 42 Again
Naturally, I wouldn't have thought that a small episode of a chance encounter could involve so many things. But that didn't get in the way of my restart journey.
With the help of the construction of the Shengchang Building, you can take a short relay by boat, along the flow of Surabaya, to Sizhou in the south to Xiapi, and then go to land and turn east to return to Zhou, to see if there are any boat merchants who can float to the sea to bypass the blockade on the Huaishui.
But after passing Luliang, although it is still in Xuzhou, the traces of dilapidation along the way are obvious, and a certain prosperity and comfort I saw before are simply two worlds in heaven and earth.
But at least the order or something, there is still a certain range of zài in the center of the town, although the homeless people and thieves, and the women who sell skin and meat, there are inevitably a little more,
In crowded places such as ferries and inns, I at least encountered and stopped more than double-digit pickpockets, or something, and by the way, I quickly cut off a hand that touched my head and squatted on my body, which was very good for other pretenders, which was a little cleaner......
Then enter Sizhou from the old canal in Xuzhou, take a boat to Supre County, and stay in the branch of Shengchang for two more days.
In the words of the local shopkeeper, it is the luck of the guests, there happens to be a team of cars and horses going to Yangzhou, but it is to go to the inland of the west, and it is necessary to make a little more detour.
This time, because there is a big customer, it costs a lot of money to rent cars and horses, so many travelers and foot merchants who get the news are gathered here, waiting to walk together.
In this case, as long as it is not a large-scale rebel or something, ordinary rogues and bandits will not dare to provoke lightly. The rest of the journey can be completed at a small cost and cost.
So, continuing to use my identity as Langzhong, the name of the proprietor of Liu, also played a role again, and gave me a pretty good position in this temporary team.
At least the travel environment has improved a lot, not only have people specially driven for us; During the day, I was invited to sit in a special side-by-side carriage made in the south.
The car was several times wider than a normal horse-drawn carriage, with six large wheels underneath, and I even saw similar simple shock springs and steering mechanisms.
Although the exterior looks a little old and peeling, the interior environment is not bad.
The walls are wrapped in thick cotton cloth, which is both soundproof and warm, the windows are rare to open and close large pieces of water glass instead of traditional paper paste or cloth curtains, and the seats are softly lined sheepskin cushions, and there are short lacquered wood cases that can be folded to display things.
The seat corporal has a fixed pull-out compartment for storing personal belongings and daily utensils.
There are glass lamps and lanterns in the car, and there is also a heating oven, even if you are not afraid of the dark at night, you can also steam tea, which is specially for those who have a little wealth.
So when I got on the long car, Red Tiger III pulled a half-old cart carrying other miscellaneous items, and was driven by a driver sent by the convoy, and slowly followed.
"This is the famous Mercedes-Benz ......"
The original handlebar head was proudly introduced to me
"Mao."
I was messy at the time.
"It is one of the few models that has been handed down in the Qianyuan period, and it is said that it was personally guided and named by Liang Gong......"
"There are only BMW, Porsche, and Dongfeng that still exist, and there are only a few ...... in the world."
Okay, can I spit out this senior's malicious taste. However, this kind of special car is indeed much more comfortable to sit in, at least there is no wind and sun, there is enough space for movement, and there is no need to squeeze the body into a narrow space, and it is easy to have back pain after a long time.
According to my residual memory, because of the war and turmoil, this kind of precision car manufacturing technology is rare in the world, and it is said that there are only a few places in the south or northwest, and there are still remnants, and there are as many as six vehicles here, which are divided into different uses. Although the appearance is not very public, but in the details, it is all a kind of big dog with a lot of money
And this long van is said to be only the most humble one, in the car, including me, squatting with my head in my hands, plus other people and passengers on the way, there are only seven people in the car.
Of course, as a person who is known for dealing with emergencies, while enjoying the convenience of Langzhong's status, I also have to take on the corresponding affairs.
For example, I use this van as a place to see people with all kinds of sudden symptoms, but fortunately, I am currently dealing with some sporadic miscellaneous diseases such as headache and brain fever, water and soil adaptation, or irregular diet.
Every day, when they stopped for dinner, the cars would follow a number of inner and outer circles from the inside to the outer city, and then some people would fetch water, some people would collect firewood, some people would dig earth and set up temporary drainage ditches, and they would look well organized, well-organized and well-trained.
In the convoy, there are also those who specialize in transporting ingredients and charcoal, and wait until the dining car that specializes in cooking stoves to make a large pot of fragrant dried meat, and then use one spoonful per person to spread and wrap on the raw pancakes, and then have a full meal of hot porridge.
For those of us who are on the bus, you can also add some side dishes with flavors, sliced steamed cured meat, or something.
Those merchants and travelers who are temporarily accompanied by this kind of treatment, but they all have their own small groups, at most they buy some firewood and make their own food.
A large number of coachmen, handymen, slaves, etc., can only eat their own dry food and small packets of dry sauce, beg for some hot water to make miso soup, and make do with a meal.
Worse still, they bring some jicama and roast it in ash charcoal, regardless of whether it is half-cooked or not, and just gnaw it in.
However, as the core of this huge convoy, a certain wealthy merchant has never appeared, and it is said that the other party is ill and cannot see the wind, and all the qiē are a large number of maids and servants to handle the qiē needed.
All kinds of contact and explanation with the outside, such as arranging our position and treatment, is communicated and negotiated through a young steward.
In addition, what we can see is the head of the private nursing home, a burly man with two guns, and a group of hired volunteers.
Although I am curious enough, I know more about the truth that if you don't die, you won't die. I was in my van and actively didn't care about anything other than myself.
Including the people who were in the same car as me, they also nodded their heads in general, but they did not have the desire to talk in depth.
As usual, I collected a stack of old and new copybooks, which can be used to read and relax on the go, and can also be used to solve small problems in life.
I have also accumulated all kinds of daily news, memories, and summaries, and miscellaneous notes, and I have more than half a finger thick.
During this period of time, although the memory of holding her head and squatting has not been restored, I finally found a new use for her, that is, she actually has good traditional brush writing skills.
Compared with me, who can only write hard charcoal or simple words, whether it is regular script or grass and the like, she can write very smoothly and neatly quickly, almost in one go without lag.
I don't know what a girl of this age can do when she learns such high-end and old-fashioned things, so I dictated and she wrote, and it became a norm
The only thing that is not very harmonious is that there are all kinds of road collapses that can be seen everywhere on the avenue, men, women and children, and when they are carried away and pushed to the side of the road, there are still those who are not dead and panting.
There were already a number of suspicious snoopers on the road, but at least in front of the armed guards, they quickly disappeared......
Qingzhou, in the ruins of the sea market in Liangshanbo, Hu Jingshui, a small boat merchant, touched the bruises on his face that had completely subsided, but he was grinning and smirking,
He felt that he had been unlucky for so long, and he had finally been transferred. Because, these fierce and vicious Liangshan people decided to hand over the remaining goods in the sea market to him for distribution.
Although many were burned and looted, the goods left behind by dozens or hundreds of large and small shippers were still quite a large amount of money, not to mention that there were many valuable treasures.
Such a pie-in-the-sky good thing, along with a great sense of happiness, suddenly overwhelmed his sense of shock and fear, and even the previous pain of blue nose and swollen face seemed to be forgotten for the time being.
You know, this is one of the Liangshan thieves in the North, and there may be some taboos for others, but for these small maritime merchants who have to make a living in the wind and waves, and have to make a living in half black and white, they can barely make money, it is nothing.
Although they didn't get involved much, they dealt with all kinds of illegal and forbidden beings, but there were never a lot more.
Besides, being a small maritime merchant who can only work hard everywhere to find a job, who needs to look at other people's faces to eat on the sea and land, and who is exploited by both ends at every turn, and being a big proprietor who sits on the ground and distributes property, are completely different things.
He has seen the dawn of his destiny to become a rich man, beckoning to him. That little frustration and flesh pain became a thing of the past.
That being said, sometimes notoriety is also a good means of propaganda, when the time comes
As long as he took the certificate and the number provided by Yangsan, he went to the Fusang Domain, or the Silla Domain, and like them, he could only rely on the small boat owners who had leaked some residues from the seamen, and they had to come upside down with men and ships.
In this troubled world overseas, there is no shortage of people who exchange their lives for money,
I think that before he was kicked out of the property, he was also the family background of a sea merchant in the south, and finally an opportunity to revive the family business, in front of him, he would never let go.
Although in the end, those who held him hostage by force still failed to find the target they were looking for, so that his expected reward shrunk.
The last place where that person appeared, Xiaoguang County, has become a ruin, and the Hebei soldiers who crossed the border to attack have almost killed everything in the city that could still breathe, and Liangshan, whose strength was greatly damaged because of infighting, was almost beaten down.
But because he led the way, the remaining Liangshan people got a life-saving straw in a sense, and those guys with a lot of background were still willing to establish a long-term relationship with Liangshan, and in the name of a certain Lu domain in Yizhou, they supported Hu Jingshui to take over the management of Haishi.
Therefore, the whole of Liangshan was also extremely enthusiastic about the matter of finding people, and did not hesitate to take the risk and send the last bit of manpower.
It's just that he doesn't understand why these people who are obviously from the Sea Domain are determined to find such a person who has no head or tail.