In the middle of the night, there was no moon, but the snow brought out a silver-gray world, and Goofy stepped on the thick snow alone and walked towards Jia Liu's home.

At this moment, it was already dark in the village, but Jia Liu's house was still lit, which was the time agreed between Jia Liu and Gao Fei.

Yesterday, when Jia Liu went to the county seat for the first time to sell refined salt, because there was only one pound of refined salt, and it was illegal to sell refined salt privately, Jia Liu was timid and did not dare to sell it publicly, so Jia Liu directly found the rich family in the city and sold the refined salt directly at a price of thirty yuan.

Today, Jia Liu went to the county seat again, and he still found the rich family who was familiar with the road, and sold the refined salt at the same price. Therefore, refined salt did not cause an uproar in the county.

When he came back, Jia Liu remembered that Gao Fei asked him to bring a few catties of brine salt, so he went to the salt market to buy three catties of brine salt.

Although the lights in Jia Liu's house were still on, he himself was already sleepy, if it weren't for Gao Fei, he would have fallen asleep in bed. But after thinking about it, he was able to easily earn thirty big bucks in the past two days, and it was all thanks to Gao Fei, so he didn't complain about anything anymore.

"Knock knock!"

The knock on the door came from outside, Jia Liu rubbed his hazy sleepy eyes, picked up the three catties of brine that had been prepared, and walked straight to the gate of the courtyard, while opening the courtyard door, he handed the brine salt to Gao Fei who was standing at the door, and said: "Here, this is the brine you want, in order to wait for you, I am sleepy to death." I wondered, why didn't you let me give it to you when I passed by your door during the day, and had to make an appointment at night? ”

Gao Fei said: "I know it's really embarrassing to keep the sixth uncle waiting for a long time. Uncle Liu, will you go to the county seat tomorrow? ”

"If I don't go, I don't have anything to do in the county!" Jia Liudao.

Gao Fei let out an "oh" and said to Jia Liu: "Uncle Liu, I'm going to go to the county seat tomorrow to get medicine for my mother, but I don't know how to go to the county seat, can you go with me?" ”

Without waiting for Jia Liu to speak, Gao Fei hurriedly added: "Oh, I won't let the sixth uncle go, I'll give money, five big money and six uncles will accompany me to the county seat for a round trip, okay?" ”

Jia Liu wanted to refuse, but as soon as he heard that Gao Fei wanted to give him money, although five big money is not much, no matter how small the mosquito is, it is still meat, in such an era of war and chaos, it is always beneficial to save more money. In case one day the Hu people call from the north, he can also take his wife and children across the Yangtze River to settle down in the south of the Yangtze River, so that he will not be a homeless homeless person.

"Okay, I'll accompany you to the county seat tomorrow, I'll wait for you at home, when you get up, we'll go when you go." Jia Liudao.

Gao Fei nodded and said, "We'll leave early tomorrow morning, go early and return early, and I don't want to delay Liubo too much." By the way, there is one more thing, Uncle Liubo must help me. ”

"What's the matter?"

"My mother is sick, he doesn't let me talk about it, on the surface he has been pretending to be nothing, and because I am too young, she is not worried that I will go to the county seat to get medicine for her. Therefore, when I went to the county seat this time, I secretly hid it from my mother. Tomorrow morning, I secretly came to the sixth uncle, if my mother can't find me, I want to ask my aunt to tell my mother, just say that I went with the sixth uncle, so that my mother can rest assured. ”

Jia Liudao: "You kid is a big ghost, and you think about it quite thoughtfully, you can rest assured, I will do it for you what you let Uncle Liuke do." It's not too early, you go home and go to sleep, I'll go to Lao Wang early tomorrow morning to borrow his donkey cart, and then wait for you at home." ”

"Thank you, Uncle Liu." Gao Fei bowed deeply to Jia Liu, and then turned to leave.

After returning home, Gao Fei still went into the room as he did last night, and then purified the brine salt sent by Jia Liu, and after all this, he went back to sleep in the bed.

Gao Fei did everything carefully, so Gao Yunniang didn't notice it at all.

The next morning, Goofy got up early, he didn't have a watch, he didn't know what time it was, he was afraid of missing the time, so he got up first, and then tiptoed out of the door.

Gao Fei came to the room, wrapped the refined salt prepared last night, found the fifteen big money, stuffed it into his pocket, and then swaggered out of the house and walked towards Jia Liu's house.

At this moment, Jia Liu had just gotten up, and after getting dressed, he confessed to his mother-in-law before leaving, and walked towards the courtyard gate, preparing to go to Lao Wang next door to borrow a donkey cart again.

As soon as Jia Liu opened the courtyard door, he saw Gao Fei standing at the courtyard gate, he was taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "How long have you been standing here?" ”

"It won't be long, maybe half an hour." Goofy replied.

"Half an hour?" Jia Liu was a little confused by the second monk, but he didn't pay much attention to it, after all, Gao Fei was still a child, maybe he was wrong, so he asked, "You're talking about half an hour, right?" ”

Goofy just smiled, touched the back of his head, and said nothing.

Jia Liudao: "Since you are here, then come with me, let's go to the old king's place to borrow a donkey cart." ”

Lao Wangtou was still a certain distance from Jia Liu's home, Jia Liu was walking in front, Gao Fei was following behind, and it didn't take long for him to arrive.

Jia Liu asked Gao Fei to wait for him outside, and he went to negotiate with the old king, and after a while, Jia Liu took the donkey out from under the donkey shed, and then put the cart cover on the donkey, and fixed it, which was considered to be the donkey cart in order.

Jia Liu led the donkey cart to the outside of Lao Wangtou's house, waved at Gao Fei, who was waiting for him outside, and shouted, "Come here!" ”

Gao Fei quickly ran to the side of the donkey cart, Jia Liuyi picked Gao Fei up, and then put it on the donkey cart, and at the same time instructed Gao Fei: "There is a quilt in the car, you wrap your body in the quilt, it will be cold when you walk on the road for a while, don't freeze before you arrive at the county seat." ”

"Thank you for your concern." Goofy laughed.

Jia Liu also got on the donkey cart, holding a long whip in his hand, gently touched the donkey's back, and shouted: "Go!" ”

"Eang...... Eang ...... Ang ......"

The donkey made a chirp, opened its hooves, pulled the cart and walked forward. Gao Fei was wrapped in the quilt, only showing his head, he noticed that at this time the east had just revealed the white of the fish's belly, and the whole village was still immersed in silence, the weather in the first month was still a little cold, and most of them were still nested in the quilt and did not wake up.

The village is about forty miles away from the county seat, and the distance of forty miles is only forty miles, and if it is placed in modern times, it is only ten minutes by car, but in ancient times, when the transportation was not very developed, the distance of forty miles seemed relatively far away.

Out of the village, everywhere Goofy's eyes could see, it was covered in snow, and Goofy could vaguely see the topography of the land he was in.

The roads here are uneven, and the village is located in an undulating hill that envelops the village in an environmentally friendly manner, and there is only one road to enter and exit the village, which is about five or six miles long.

Jia Liu drove the donkey along the road out of the village, and walked for a long time before he really left the hill where the village was located.

After leaving the village, I walked about two miles before walking on the main road to the county seat. It is said that it is a big road, but in fact it is only one or two meters wider than the road into the village, but the road surface is much smoother, and donkeys can run slowly on this road.

Now that it is the Chinese New Year, there are no pedestrians on the road at all, and Goofy did not speak all the way, but just observed the world with his eyes.

Because there is snow on the ground, the road is relatively slippery, so the donkey cart is not fast, almost noon, Gao Fei still did not see the county, only feel that the future is long, far away.

Gao Fei finally couldn't help it, although he was sitting on the donkey cart, but the road was so bumpy that his whole body was about to be torn apart, so he asked: "Sixth uncle, how long will it take to get to the county seat?" ”

"Come on, after the forest in front, turn around again, and walk three miles to see the county seat." Jia Liu couldn't be more familiar with this road, he raised his hand, pointed ahead, and gestured to Gao Fei as he spoke.

After Gao Fei listened, he settled down, although there is only such a way, but it also has to walk a stick of incense to get there.

As Goofy expected, about a stick of incense, Goofy, sitting on the donkey cart, really vaguely saw an antique city at the end of the road in front of him.

Approaching again, Gao Fei saw the city clearly, from the outside, this city is not very big, at least not as big as he imagined, the circumference is only about two or three miles, neither majestic nor spectacular, the city wall is not made of stones, but made of earth.

As the donkey cart continued to move forward, Gao Fei got closer and closer to the city wall, and he found that the city wall was so dilapidated, after years of wind and rain, the wall soil peeled off for a long time, he could actually see the traces left by the rammed earth during the construction of the city, in addition, some parts of the city wall were washed out by the rain out of deep gaps.

Two proclamations were posted on the notice board of the city wall, one of which was a little old, and the text was so unreadable from the rain that it was only a black cloud of ink. The other one was obviously posted in the last two or three days, and not only did the paper not only have no traces left by the wind and rain, but also exuded a strong smell of ink.

Goofy looked up along the city wall, which was broken, but it was very high, more than seven meters high. Directly above the city gate, there is a plaque engraved with official script, the four big characters of "Wujiang County" are clearly visible, the plaque is still very new, it seems that it has not been long since it was hung.

There is no blue brick buttress and enemy tower above the city wall, only a wall of loess extends to the north and south, and there is a small gatehouse built of wood above the city gate, the size is no different from the ordinary pavilion, standing alone above the city wall.

On the left and right pillars of the gatehouse stood a soldier in armor, whose helmet and cuirass were black and showed little metallic luster in the sunlight.

In addition, there is also a flagpole standing on the side of the gatehouse, and a big flag with the word "Jin" embroidered with white characters on a black background is hung on the pole, swaying in the cold wind, and making a whirring sound from time to time.

Guarding the gate of the city were four soldiers who were also wearing armor, they stood there straight, each holding a halberd in their hands, motionless, but their eyes were constantly flowing, paying attention to everyone who entered and left the county.

"Yu'er, look, we have arrived, this is Wujiang County!" Jia Liu raised his hand, pointed to the city in front of him, and said to Gao Fei.