Before it was dawn, Huang Si left the small mountain village with people.

Compared with the terrain in the depths of Taihang Mountain before, these hills are much easier to walk, Huang Si and the others only spent most of the day, and in the afternoon, they came to a flat area, and a fairly spacious road lay in front of them.

According to what was said before, the four of them parted ways, and the two combined, Huang Si and Eleven turned to the southeast and headed in the direction of Jingshi.

I don't know if it's because it's close to the border of the empire, there are not many pedestrians on the road, Huang Si and Eleven didn't show a trace and some people talked a few words, and found that there were still more refugees, most of them escaped from Datong Mansion in western Jinxi, and a very few were after the Yellow River froze, crossed the river from the northernmost point of northern Shaanxi, and then ran all the way here.

Since they are fleeing, they don't know more about the surrounding situations than Huang Si and Eleven, and the remaining locals ask about similar things to the old man.

They didn't pass by any village or town fairs until dark, so their desire to find out more information was frustrated, and they had to spend the night with other refugees.

The two slept all night, and the next day and the third day continued eastward, and it was still the same situation.

Finally came from behind a caravan, Huang Si and Eleven shy faces over to climb the friendship, got the message from Xuanfu to Jingshi this way, the number of Baozhou around the mountains is the most dangerous, but the bandits have never heard of it, on one side is the military town, on the other side is the Beijing Division, who ate the bear's heart leopard gall, dare to set up a village here.

Huang Si had to be patient, and after the two people who went to Xuanfu caught up with nothing, he took the three of them out of the official road and went to the surrounding villages to find out the news.

He always felt that the neighborhood would not be as peaceful as it had been in the past few days, not to mention anything else, just out of the small village where Taihang was passing by, listening to Eleven's tone, the old man was still a little wary of him, and it seemed that he still had to find these real locals.

Three days later, a few people returned to the official road in disgrace, but still found nothing, but they finally heard that there was a market town not far ahead, and in a few days there would be a market, and the mountain people within a radius of dozens of miles would gather here to exchange some things with each other, which was barely good news.

There were a lot of people coming, and there were people from all directions, so it was a good time to inquire about the news, so Huang Si took the three of them out of the mountain and rushed towards the market.

When they arrived at the market in a hurry, it was already full of bustling crowds, and it was a lively appearance, but it was said that this market would take several days, and Huang Si and the others were not in a hurry, and began to wander around slowly.

Most of the mountain goods sold here are walnuts, chestnuts and other mountain goods, and the mountain people are counting on these things to exchange for some food, but these years ordinary people are short of food, who is willing to use it for snacks.

Therefore, the hope of the mountain people is all on those outsiders, of course, refugees are not counted, mainly those merchants who travel to Xuanfu Jingshi.

Among the refugees, there are also people with flexible minds, some of whom take out the bottles and cans that they carry with them and which are no longer of much use, and some who do not hesitate to sell their most precious goods in order to exchange them for stuttering.

For example, from northern Shaanxi, there are people selling their sheepskin jackets, don't look at this thing fishy, although Zhiwen and they, including Huang Si himself, don't like to wear it very much, if it weren't for the news, a few of them would have reluctantly put on felt clothes, otherwise they would definitely wear sweaters, but ordinary people are still very rare about this thing, as long as the price is right, even if it is an old thing.

"Yo! It turned out to be the steward of Fang. Huang Si saw an acquaintance, and hurriedly pulled Eleven and the other two people, and the four of them saluted together, "I didn't expect to meet you here, it's a blessing for a few small people." ”

This person is the business manager of the team he and Eleven met on the official road a few days ago, Huang Si thought that his few people were a little sluggish when walking, and then they also entered the mountain, this caravan must have gone far away, who knew that they could meet here again.

"It's you." Steward Fang nodded reservedly, did not return the courtesy, and also turned a blind eye to the two new faces behind Huang Si, and continued to bargain with a mountain man.

He took a fancy to a load of walnuts, thought they were in good condition, and wanted to bring them back to Jingshi for his family to try.

Huang Si didn't seem to feel embarrassed at all, and then smiled: "You're busy, you're busy!" ”

Then with Eleven they left.

After walking a few steps, I saw an acquaintance in the caravan again, this time it was eleven dozen greetings, "Brother Du!" Look at the back and you'll know it's you! ”

After that, he walked up and patted the man's shoulder, who was holding a sheepskin jacket and touching it carefully, and was a little unhappy to be interrupted like this, but when he turned around, he saw that it was Huang Si and Eleven, and he smiled again.

"It's you, why don't you rush to Jingshi as soon as possible, and you're still here?"

This Brother Du is a porter in the caravan, Huang Si and Eleven helped him a lot that day in order to talk, so he felt good about Huang Si and Eleven.

"We just walk on two legs, and we are hungry, how fast can we walk?" Eleven said, "Brother Du, want to buy a sheepskin jacket?" ”

"Yes, I want to buy one more for the kid in the family, I can't afford it anywhere else, and I just happened to have a cheap one here."

After that, he handed a large blanket in his hand to the person who was obviously a refugee on the other side, Huang Si glanced at it, it should be food, no more than five catties, and couldn't help sighing, these people were forced to eat a mouthful, and a sheepskin jacket and five catties of grain were changed!

"Brother Du, why are you so slow and not in a hurry to go home?" Eleven waited until he was done before he asked again.

"When things are done, it is inevitable that you will be a little slack, and it is customary to go back slower." Brother Du wrapped his sheepskin jacket and said with a smile, "Besides, the big guys know that there is a market here recently, and they all want to pick up some bargains, so they deliberately waited until this time to get here." ”

"Brother Du, you are all here to gather, what about the sheep?" Huang Siting asked enthusiastically.

What exactly is the business of this caravan, neither of them found out clearly that day, and they can't judge it by the sack on the car alone, they only know that they often run to the front line of Xuanfu in Beijing, and this time when they came back from Xuanfu, Steward Fang specially bought dozens of sheep, saying that it was for everyone's New Year's welfare.

"Don't worry, outside the market, someone is guarding, and I'm going to go out to help after I buy it now." Brother Du put the wrapped leather jacket on his shoulder, hugged his fists and said, "I'm sorry, I won't talk to you anymore, several!" Leave. ”

Huang Si and the others also hugged their fists in return, "It's okay, it's okay, I'll stay for a few days, and I'll see you again when I have the chance." ”

The four of them then wandered around, staying in front of the various mountain stalls for the longest time, mainly trying to find a few mountain people to find out about the situation in the vicinity.

As for the bottles, cans, and leather jackets that the refugees sell on their stalls, they don't like them, and they can't get any information from them.