Chapter 6: On the Road

See the fastest updates

It's really a dead horse running in Wangshan, Huang Shi fanned himself a few times with his long sleeves, how did the city pass not get much closer to the mountain road that turned left and right, turned around and looked at the few children behind him were also a little tired, he waved his hand, "Come, let's rest for a while, and then set off", looking at no one in the direction, Huang Shi took out a few small wooden dens from the light gate from himself, and opened them in a slightly wide place, everyone sat down, and then each picked up the marching pot on their bodies and drank a few sips of water, Then he took the beef jerky handed over by Huang Shi, and narrowed his eyes happily.

Huangshi for this long trip, although it is more than 100 miles of road, and two more days of preparation, and even specially on the sporting goods store to purchase a few travel tents, in ancient times travel is not an easy thing, just say to live, if you encounter a hotel in the mountain village, not to mention the safety problem, that is, the health problem is also terrible, those shops must be bed bugs and fleas everywhere, as for whether there is a first-class guest room is not known to the road, even if there is that the bedding is not cleaned, it is not guaranteed. Yellowstone could have been worn back to the modern day to rest, but the children had just been cleaned, and he didn't want to let them take another risk.

So this time, in addition to the tent, Huangshi also specially went online to learn from those donkey guests who were scurrying around the world, and bought a few bags of bulk beef jerky and raisins 2 large bags, which I heard are good things that can quickly replenish physical strength, and then there are band-aids, Yunnan Baiyao spray, iodine wine, gauze, life guards, cool oil, and specially purchased snake medicine, these things are divided into several parts, except for the life guard to let each child carry around their necks, the others are wrapped in clothes, Then wrap it in a sturdy linen cloth and put it on the body.

Look at the children are also rested, Huangshi motioned for everyone to get up and leave, he packed his things, waved his sleeves as if to take the clouds on the road, today's Huangshi is already a complete dress of the ancients, a completely new blue-edged jade-colored cloth silk shirt tied with a dark belt, wearing a stone blue corrugated hat, covering Huangshi's short hair, Lan shirt inside is a retro short coat, below is a waist treatment of other pants, but did not use the trouser belt, but directly put on a cowhide band, Under the soles of his feet, he wore a pair of Beijing brand mille-feuille shoes, although it looked like a rural showman's outfit, but the clothes in the action room were fluttering, but there was a different kind of free and easy. He feels so good now that he has forgotten all the awkwardness of the first time he tried it on in the morning.

"Children, turn this mountain, the city is near, when you get there, I'll give you some Oreo", "Okay", "Okay", the children suddenly got excited from the state of Yanyan, and now they are far away from the familiar mountain temple and small mountain village, this way up in addition to just out of the nest, occasionally there will be a few ragged farmers on the side of the mountain, and then there is a period of time when we are almost inhabited, it seems that there are only a few of them walking in this world, At first, the children were happily discussing what Chengguan would look like, but then their voices became lower and lower, and Huangshi could only cheer up and drum up from time to time.

Now the two dogs have also changed their names, after all, they are going to live in the city, and it is not good to call them a cheap name. Therefore, Huangshi named Li Ergou Li Guosheng, Li Zhuzi named Li Guozhu, and Zhao Suzi changed his name to Zhao Guoren. Only Erya's surname is no longer testable, she was originally adopted by the old temple Zhu, and she has always been called Erya Erya, but since the old man passed away last year, this small temple has been dilapidated because no one presides over it. Before leaving, Huang Shi also asked Er Ya to take himself and a few of them to the cemetery of the old man in the back mountain, and saw that there was only a simple stone tablet there, with the word "Huangming" on the top, and the upper paragraph on the right was engraved with "Ding Weichun in the sixteenth year of Jiaqing", and there was no text in the next paragraph. After everyone cleaned the old man's tomb, he put three pillars of incense on the old man, placed offerings, and after worshipping one by one, Huang Shi touched Erya's head, "You are called Wang Xiaoya", the old man's surname is Wang, so let Xiaoya remember him, and there will be a thought in the future.

"Jiaqing", when Huang Shi came back, he thought about this problem while walking, a little messy feeling in the wind, because among the 16 emperors of the Ming Dynasty, he had only heard of "Jiajing", and had not heard of "Jiaqing". Forget it, forget it, anyway, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain.

The children are now wearing drum-caps, wearing a pair of guards on the upper body, that is, half-arm short sleeves similar to the modern one, and bloomer trousers with tight cuffs at the bottom, long woolen socks underneath, and a pair of Peking cloth shoes on the outside. It's a little hot, but it's more acceptable than being touched by the grasshoppers on the plants on both sides of the road.

……

After turning a few more hills, the city pass finally became clearly visible, and the mood became pleasant, and the more you went down the mountain along the mountain road, everything around it began to appear thick, and the flowers on both sides of the mountain road were in full bloom in the scorching sun, one petal, one by one, and the brake was beautiful.

Not far away, several mountain roads converge into an official road, and some of the further ones have a straw shed tea shop located next to the official road, and when you look closer, there is a table in front of which a few local farmers are chatting, while another table sits a few traveling merchants carrying burdens. When they saw the approaching Huangshi, they were dressed in new clothes, like scholars, and they were a little in awe, and even their voices were much lower, and occasionally they secretly obliquely watched.

Huang Shi has also experienced N years in society, and he has long turned a blind eye to this kind of gaze, with a smile on his face, "Shopkeeper, how far is this from Chengguan?" ”

"Ten miles away is the city pass, the son is slow, you can also arrive before noon."

"What do you have to eat in this store? Tell me about it? ”

"Childe, there are only green onion cakes in the store, I wonder if Childe is willing?"

"Then you here, you can find broken silver", Huang Shi wanted to buy something to eat, not to eat itself, but to find a change, because he spent a sum of money in modern time and space to buy some industrial silver, and then bought tools such as gold-melting furnace crucible pliers, so he melted all those silver bars, poured them into the mold and generated some silver cakes and silver bars, which was the fund he was going to start a business in this Ming Dynasty.

"Childe said with a smile, where can we find a small business here", seeing that he couldn't find it, Huangshi was not disappointed, after all, this was just a small tea shed that he asked casually before, and now it seems that he can only continue to hurry, fortunately, the children just came down from the mountain and ate a few pieces of Oreo who were hungry.

Further on, there will often be mountain roads on both sides of the official road, and occasionally scattered villages will be seen, but there are almost no common single-family scattered houses in modern rural areas, all of which are forts with earthen walls, and it is estimated that there are no fewer beasts and bandits in this era.

There are now a lot of farmers in those paddy fields who are hunched on their backs and wearing shabby coarse cloth clothes are working hard, and this scene falls in the eyes of Huangshi, and there is no longer a little green mountains and clear waters, and the poetry of Tian Mo is longitudinal and horizontal, only the template of the life of the poor and laborious in ancient times.

Sometimes there would be a group or two of bare-bottomed children chasing and beating them to the official road to play, and only one or two older children in the middle were wearing clothes, but those hanging on their bodies were not so much clothes as rotten strips of cloth, and when they saw this group of brightly dressed people walking in front of them, they were all very envious. Obviously, when they saw this scene, they couldn't help but be happy and proud, and they raised their heads shyly and didn't squint, but Huangshi often looked at them and felt a little pity, but unfortunately these children were all family people, and they couldn't take them away even if they took a fancy to them.

……

Stop-and-go, finally arrived at Chengguan before noon, this is the most lull all the way, their combination is more eye-catching, so these pedestrians will look at them a few times, and then rush by, a few of them are slow, after all, there are 4 children, some pedestrians are walking together, Huangshi listens to their accent in addition to their own is not like their own, even with Xiaoya their accent is different, no wonder everyone says that the mountains and rivers of Fujian are ten miles silent.

More than 500 meters away from the front of the city wall, Huangshi stopped, he pulled a few children to a tree on the side of the road, wiped their sweat with a towel, and replenished their water, Huangshi saw that there was no one else around at this time, so he took out a telescope to observe.

There were only a few soldiers guarding the gates, with red tassel spears in their hands, and those soldiers were not very well dressed, and the so-called battle robes had old patches, and the current sun also made them feel bad, and they ignored the pedestrians entering the city, but they checked the goods of some merchants, apparently preparing to collect the city fee.

There are not many people coming in and out of the city gate in Huangshi, but there are people who carry firewood, vegetables, carts, ox carts, and people who are similar to themselves. After looking at it for a while, it was determined that these soldiers only collected taxes on larger goods, and did not interrogate and inspect individuals, and that a few of them were scholars and servants in this world at first glance, and would not attract their special attention, so it was obviously not a problem to enter the city gate.

After resting for a while, looking at the children, they looked at the city pass, obviously more excited, this is the farthest place they have come in their lives, Huang Shi patted them on the back, re-walked on the official road, and walked towards the city gate with the pedestrians who caught up behind. This city wall is actually not very high when you look closely, that is, 5 or 6 meters, and there are some notices posted on the left side of the city gate, but Huang Shi is not interested in looking at it, so he follows the flow of people through the dark doorway and enters the city gate.