Shen Mo and his entourage of 50 people, 87 horses, and 6 carts set off from Hangzhou on November 24, and arrived in Huzhou two days later, and then to Suzhou in two days.

After another three days, he finally arrived at the city of Yangzhou, and he was a little unbearable for more than ten days in a row, so Zhu Shisan proposed to rest in the city for two days before going on the road, and Shen Mo naturally couldn't ask for it. I wanted to live a good life in the city, but when I rested, I slept like a dead pig in the post house for two days, and when I recovered my spirits, it was time to go on the road again.

Until he went out of the city, Shen Mo kept shaking his head and sighing, everyone thought that he was sorry for missing the 'Twenty-four Bridge Bright Moon Night', but Xie Yuanlang remembered Tang Jieyuan and Wang Jieyuan's two predecessors, presumably Brother Bohu and Dong Shao have experienced the ** of 'where does the jade teach'...... As soon as I thought of this, I really couldn't reach it, and my heart yearned for it.

At the same time, he also secretly made a grand wish, and he must not let the two predecessors be beautiful in front of him, hum, one day, Lao Tzu is developed, and he will also wrap 100,000 yuan around his waist and ride a crane down to Yangzhou!

But this good mood did not last long, because from Yangzhou to the north, after crossing the Huai River, the road became more and more bumpy and difficult to navigate, and the horse-drawn carriage that used to travel quite smoothly south of the Huai River has become jumpy and jumping, which can break people's intestines.

Since then, the warm and comfortable cart can only be loaded with one thing, and it is not possible to sit on people. Shen Mo had no choice but to get out of the car with his second daughter and ride a horse instead...... Putting a soft cushion on the cold saddle, he silently helped Ruohan onto the horse, and turned over on the horse himself and sat on her back. Feeling that his waist was hugged by him, Ruohan blushed, secretly pinched him, and whispered: "It's broad daylight, go down quickly......"

Shen Mo said with an innocent face: "You can ride a horse?" ”

Ruohan shook her head helplessly, and said with a smile: "You go and help Rou Niang, I learn quickly, I will definitely be able to keep up." ”

"But people don't have to learn ...... Rou Niang" Shen Mo pointed behind him, Ruohan poked his little head, and saw that Rou Niang was already sitting on the back of another horse, holding the reins of the horse with a calm demeanor, obviously having practiced.

"I'm just a fool......" Ruohan hung her head helplessly.

"Not stupid, not stupid." Shen Mo laughed, clamped his legs between the horse's belly, and hugged the beauty forward...... Ruohan was a little shy at first, but after a long time, he got used to it, leaning on the silent and warm embrace, feeling extremely comfortable, so he opened his eyes cautiously and saw Rou Niang holding a horse, not far from the left side without hurrying, looking heroic and cool, very enviable.

She asked curiously in a whisper, "How can Rou Niang ride a horse?" ”

"I think I learned it when I was a kid." Shen Mo said softly: "But she doesn't want to mention the past, so it's hard for us to ask." ”

"Oh......" Ruohan nodded obediently and stopped talking.

When everyone got on the horse, the speed of travel finally increased, and Huai'an passed on the sixth day of the lunar month. After another five days, when I arrived in Xuzhou, the sky became gloomy. Soon fine snowflakes began to fall here and there. Ruohan and Rou Niang grew up in the south of the Yangtze River, and they rarely saw snow, so they were a little excited, and they stretched out their little hands to catch the snowflakes to play.

But the men frowned, Zhu Shisan cursed in a low voice, and said, "I said that this day has been unusually warm, it turns out that it is going to snow." ”

Looking at the gloomy dark clouds in the sky, he nodded silently and said, "Yes, it seems that this snow is not small." ”

"It's snowing, and it's even harder to walk." Zhu Shisan whipped his horse whip fiercely and said, "I can't go back years ago!" "He is from Kyoto, so he naturally wants to go back before the Spring Festival so that the whole family can be reunited.

Shen Mo asked, "By the way, are we halfway there?" ”

"Where?" Zhu Shisan shook his head and said: "It's just over a third, if it's normal, it will take more than twenty days, but if it is windy or snowy, it is not uncommon to delay for many more days." ”

"The snow is not cold, let's hurry up." Shen Mo smiled: "Maybe I won't go down when I get to Xuzhou." ”

"Hmmm! I hope so! Although he knew that this snowfall might cover several provinces, Zhu Shisan still took luck and said: "It must be a sunny day when I arrive in Xuzhou." ”

But God wanted to oppose them this time, and the scattered snowflakes soon became large pieces of goose feathers that were rolling and falling all over the sky. Mountains, rivers, roads, and cottages near and far have become a chaotic place.

By the end of the evening, the snow was still falling, the wind was blowing, and the temperature dropped all at once. The guards had already removed their leather jackets and hats from the cart, and wrapped their necks and faces with thick scarves, revealing only their two eyes, and struggled to discern the direction...... In fact, it is useless to stare your eyes round, because there is a white expanse in all directions, and you can't distinguish between east and west, north and south.

Shen Mo wore a mink coat, wrapped Ruohan in his arms, held his horse in one hand, and pulled the reins of Rou Niang's horse in the other, in this harsh environment, he felt that he had to give the girls a sense of security, even if it was a symbol of the surname.

Tie Zhu came over with difficulty and yelled at him: "My lord, if you can't figure it out, we're already lost!" Silently hearing this, he looked around, and couldn't tell which was the road and which was the ravine...... It was not possible to go on like this, so he said: "Let the team stop first, and then send a few people to explore the way." ”

"Good!" Tie Zhu beckoned the team to stop, and he personally led more than a dozen people to the front to find out the path. Zhu Shisan didn't bother to move, turned over and dismounted, hid behind a sheltered stone, and kept lamenting: "It's over, it's over, this time I have to spend the New Year outside." ”

Shen Mo also put Ruohan down to the ground, turned over and dismounted, looked up at the sky that was getting dark, and said with a long sigh: "I have suffered with me." ”

Ruohan patted the snowflakes on Shen Mo's body while jumping on his sour feet, and said with a smile: "Thousands of miles will be less and less in the coming year, smile." When you laugh, you still have the fragrance of snowflakes. Shouldn't the Northland be good? But he said, this place of peace is my hometown......"

Rou Niang over there blushed with shame and said, "Sister, you are making fun of me again." After half a month's journey, the two have long been like sisters, but they don't have the same kind of life as before.

Shen Mo rubbed his hands, while smiling and looking at the two girls laughing, after a while, the pathfinder came back, to summarize all the situation, Tie Zhu came over with a solemn face: "It's really a dead road, it's probably difficult to find people in front of me for fifty or sixty miles, only a broken temple with broken incense not far away." Please show me if you are going to camp there tonight? ”

Silently said to Zhu Shisan, who came over: "Thirteenth Master, what do you see?" "After all, they are officials who escort themselves into Beijing...... Although everyone seems to have forgotten this stubble, Shen Mo firmly remembers that he has always been careful to keep the sense of 'people respect me for a foot, and I will make people a foot of people', and they all listen to Zhu Shisan's hair and fall along the way.

Zhu Shisan smiled: "Of course, Brother Shen, I won't be happy if you see you like this again." "There is a way that everyone carries a sedan chair, and it is hot for you to come and go.

The group followed the iron pillar and went northwest for two miles, and sure enough, they saw a temple in the wind and snow, which looked very dilapidated.

Looking at the hall in the courtyard, Heipi suddenly smiled: "There has been no one here for a long time, there must be wild birds perched, everyone take out the slingshot, our meal rut has fallen." "For long field trips, slingshots, bows and arrows are a must.

With the idea of 'believing it', everyone took the slingshot from their waists and hung the stones, and saw Heipi pick up two broken tiles, go around in opposite directions, and throw them into the main hall with their hands.

After hearing the sound of 'clicking', he 'whewed' again, and sure enough, a wild bird flew out of the main hall and flew towards everyone. The slingshots of the crowd crackled, and after a burst of chickens and dogs jumped, a field of wild birds of all colors fell on the ground.

The guards picked them up and counted them, and there were eleven of them. Tie Zhu smiled and said: "It's just a little thinner, and it's not enough to stuff your teeth when you roast it." ”

"Let's make soup." He smiled silently: "Add some ginseng slices, wolfberries or something, and make up for everyone." "Then he turned over and dismounted, looked at the environment around, and saw that this temple was quite spacious, and there were things outside the main hall, and I didn't know which way it was the mansion of the gods, and I silently said in my heart, 'Offended!' Then he commanded, "Let us all live in the main hall, and you shall tear down the railings under the porch and the doors and windows of the two side halls and make a fire." ”

Standing silently under the eaves of the porch and waiting, everyone began to clean up busily, and after a while the hall was hastily cleaned up, and a bonfire was made with the collected wood, and then he was invited in.

Shen Mo led the two girls in, and by the light of the raging fire, there was no much damage inside, and the paint on the beams and pillars of the hall was still shining, but the furnishings in the hall had already been looted, leaving only a dusty statue of the god, which could no longer be seen in its original face. There is only a couplet on the pillars on both sides, and I can barely see the handwriting, only to see that the upper couplet is 'The sky is the tabernacle and the ground is felt, and the moon and stars sleep with me in the morning.' "The next link is" dare not stretch out his feet at night, for fear of stepping on mountains and rivers and wearing them. ’

But when he saw this verse, he couldn't help sweating profusely, and said in his heart: 'I have to be that good man, it turns out to be his old man......

(To be continued)