The sun was shining and it was a good day!

The long-lost sunshine dispelled the haze in everyone's hearts, warmed, and the mood became happy.

Pack your things and get ready to hit the road.

"Old ginger, how many times did you last night?" Guo Xiaochao caught Jiang Feng and asked a little teasingly.

Jiang Feng's face was embarrassed, he didn't expect that Guo Xiaochao, who was known as a cold-faced super, would have such a strong gossip heart?

"Mr. Guo, are you making fun of me too?"

"I didn't make fun of you, you didn't know I slept next door to you last night, and I heard the crunch this night......"

Jiang Feng's face was so red that he quickly found a crack in the ground and got in.

"Jiang Feng?" The proprietress came out of the room, and the night was moisturized, and the woman became glorious and yellow-haired, but it was different.

"People are looking for you, go and say goodbye." Guo Xiaochao laughed evilly.

"Mr. Guo, I'm going." Jiang Feng smiled and turned to greet him, "Xiaomei, why did you come out, didn't you sleep a little longer?" ”

"Are you leaving?" The woman's eyes were full of reluctance, and she said that she would leave for most of the year, without even a message, and suddenly came back, and she had to leave after staying overnight.

"Didn't I follow my son to run errands?"

"When will you be back?" Xiaomei also knew that Jiang Feng was not a man who could live with her with peace of mind. {

"I don't know, it's probably a month or two." Jiang Feng said.

"Don't lie to me?"

"I don't lie to you!" Jiang Feng said seriously.

"Okay, I'll wait for you, if you don't come back, I'll sell this store and go to you!" Xiaomei said.

"No, where are you going to find me?" Jiang Feng was taken aback.

"Didn't you say you came from the capital? I'm going to look for you in the capital? Xiaomei said.

"Xiaomei, I originally wanted to wait for me to come back next time to tell you, but I'll tell you now, I've already told my son about us, and I said it, let me take you to the capital. It's just that I'm not sure when I'll be able to turn back, so I didn't tell you. ”

"Are you telling the truth?" The woman's tears fell instantly, she was originally worried, although she had a childhood sweetheart, but after all, she was married and had a child, so many years, Jiang Feng was not the same Jiang Feng as before.

She fears that one day, she will be old and decrepit. Jiang Fengfeng abandoned her like a sloppy one and never came again.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Feng actually had plans to live with her, which is undoubtedly the most important thing for a woman.

"Of course, if you weren't worried about a woman with a child, you would go directly to the capital, and I also had a small house in the capital. You two don't have to worry about it in the past! Jiang Feng said.

"Okay, I'll go with you. I'll pack up my things and go with you now! ”

"Xiaomei, not now, I'm following my son's errands, and there are still some dangers along the way, so you two can't follow, besides. Childe won't agree either. Jiang Feng hurriedly pressed the excited woman.

"I'll leave you an address, and if we don't take this road when we come back, you can find it yourself." Jiang Feng said.

"Good, good!"

Jiang Feng left the address of the honeycomb coal workshop to Xiaomei, anyway, as long as he went. As soon as his name is mentioned, naturally some people will know it, not to mention his sister Jiang Xiaodie.

"Wait a minute!" Jiang Feng suddenly thought of something, and ran towards Guo Xiaochao.

"Manager Guo, can I make some money with you?"

"For her?" Guo Xiaochao turned his head and looked towards Xiaomei.

"It's not easy for her all these years, there are always people to harass her at this point, I told my son, go back and take them to the capital." Jiang Feng said embarrassedly.

"Understand, how much silver do you want to pay?" Guo Xiaochao nodded.

"Three hundred taels!"

"Okay, you write a note for advance, and I'll give it to you!"

"Thank you, Mr. Guo!"

"Gongzi still values you very much, do things well, I can't treat you badly." Guo Xiaochao nodded.

After taking three hundred taels of silver tickets, Jiang Feng turned around and ran over.

"This is three hundred taels of silver tickets, you keep it, if this store can't be sold, forget it, with this money, it is enough for you two to enter Beijing, as for the road guide or something, I will go to ask the prince in a while, it should be no problem." Jiang Feng stuffed the three hundred taels of silver tickets directly into Xiaomei's hand.

This time, the woman was sure that Jiang Feng was going to take them away, otherwise she wouldn't have even prepared Lu Yin for them.

"Jiang Feng!"

"Martha...... Elder brother! Jiang Feng turned his head and saw Ma Weiran, and almost called out "Master Ma", but fortunately he reacted quickly.

"Childe asked me to hand it over to you!" Ma Weiran smiled and glanced at Xiaomei, "My brother and sister are good, they have vision." ”

Xiaomei's shy face turned red.

"There's still a quarter of an hour to go, so hurry up." Ma Weiran left with a smile.

"What did Childe give?" Jiang Feng hurriedly unwrapped the baggage and took a look, the two road guides for passage were stamped with the customs defense of the Jinyi Guard Inspection Division, and there were two hundred taels of silver tickets.

The two hundred taels of silver were obviously given by a private person, not his salary in advance.

"Jiang Feng, what does your son-in-law do?" Xiaomei can open an inn, and she is also knowledgeable, this identity guide is not something that anyone can open, and it is still open as soon as it is said.

"Don't ask so much, in short, this thing can't be known to outsiders, and besides, after we leave, don't rush to Beijing, understand?"

"Understood, I listen to you." Jiang Feng knew that this was Meng Yan's trust in him, otherwise he would not lead the way out to Xiaomei now.

Once the trail is exposed, then their whereabouts are also exposed.

"Jiang Feng, let's go!"

"It's coming!" Jiang Feng grabbed Xiaomei's hand, "Remember, even if you want to go to the capital to find me, it will be a month later, understand?" ”

"Got it!"

"Mother, will my uncle come back?" A little boy asked, rubbing his eyes, hugging the woman's thigh.

"Yes, we will be together as a family of three in the future." The woman turned around and hugged the child, tears streaming down her face.

"Thank you, Childe!" Jiang Feng got on the horse, caught up with Meng Yan, and said gratefully.

"Although you and I are our servants and are no different from brothers. I can't watch you grow old all your life, can I? Meng Yan said with a smile.

"Jiang Feng, this woman is good, cherish it!"

"Mrs. Xie Yue appreciates!"

"Let's go, pay attention, our journey may not be smooth." Meng Yan said, "There is." Let's change the route, I want to go to the border to see it in person. ”

"Aren't we going directly to Datong?"

"Even if we get rid of the surveillance, people can still guess the route we are taking, so let's not take that route, go west, and take a look at the Yellow River?" Meng Yan Road.

"In this way, won't it take us half a month more?"

"It's okay, something. It's the same if we go late or early. Meng Yan Huanghe said with a smile.

"You are Lord Chincha, you can go wherever you go!"

"Then it's decided, after Lingqiu City, let's go all the way to the west!" Meng Yan is arrogant and dry.

"Drive!"

The environment of 600 years ago is different from that of 600 years later, even in the remote areas of the northwest, you can see green mountains and green waters. There are also wildflowers and grasses growing on the roadside.

A qiē is full of vitality.

It is that the road cannot be compared with the future generations, for pedestrians passing by. At least it will take several times or even more than ten times the time.

There is no shop in front of the village, this is not the hinterland of the Central Plains, and the further north you go, the more you feel a kind of backwardness and primitiveness.

No way, although this place belongs to the Ming Dynasty, it is already a border pass. The Tatar and Warat cavalry often plundered deep into the hinterland, and the common people who lived here did not feel safe, so they naturally had to move out of the area.

Lingqiu City is the gateway to Bauhinia Pass, and it is also the only place to pass through on this trip to Datong. If you don't go to this city, you'll have a long way to go.

In the evening of the next day, the rammed earth walls of Lingqiu City were vividly visible.

"Son, shall we go into the city?"

"Come in, go into the city and have a good night's rest, replenish the supplies, and set off early tomorrow morning." Meng Yan nodded.

The conditions will be tough, so you have to relax one last time before you endure it again.

Although Lingqiu City does not belong to the first line of defense against the Tatar cavalry, its geographical location is important, and the imperial court built the city here to protect the safety of Bauhinia Pass and the Beijing Division.

"Where did it come from?"

"Beijing?"

"Where to go, what to do, see that there are quite a lot of you, and you have brought a lot of things, get off the horse and check."

"Official, we have already checked it when we were at Bauhinia Pass, this is our guide and clearance certificate."

"I've checked it, and I'm going to check it again!" The goalkeeper always spoke very horizontally.

"Official, it's a little meaning, you and your brothers have tea!"

"It's just a little bit, why do you send Hanako?"

"Is that enough?" Ma Weiran endured his anger and added another ingot of silver.

"That's pretty much it, let's go over it." The boss took the silver and waved his hand to let Meng Yan and the others enter the city.

"I didn't expect these people to eat the court's money, and they were so greedy, setting up cards to exploit the people and merchants in the past." Guo Xiaochao said angrily.

"This is considered good, if you give money, you will be released, even if you are given money, you will not be released." Ma Weiran said with a wry smile.

"Isn't that much different from banditry?"

"This soldier is a bandit, a bandit is a soldier, haven't you heard of the officers and soldiers disguised as Tatar cavalry to rob our people?"

"And such a thing?"

"Who knows, no matter how bold the Tatars are, they won't dare to enter our hinterland to burn and loot?"

"It's not uncommon to harm your own people and kill the good and take the risk!" Meng Yan Road.

"It seems that the prince knows it in his heart!"

"They kill even their own people, let alone the unarmed people?" Meng Yan sneered.

Speaking of this, everyone's mood became heavy, and the cruelty of the border pass can only be considered true if you see it with your own eyes.

Meng Yan knew that the Tatars would line up small groups of cavalry to raid south every year, and every time there was a lot of gains, among which it was conceivable that he had not participated in such a raid, but he still knew some inside information.

The Tatars colluded with the guards of the border passes, and let small groups of Tatar cavalry enter the interior to plunder, kill their own people, and loot food and property, and then the border guards would take the corpses of these people in exchange for rewards from the imperial court.

On the one hand, he got benefits, and on the other hand, he was rewarded by the court, and he was promoted to a knighthood, but he didn't kill himself, and he didn't feel guilty.

It's not a lot, but it's not unusual.

The Tatars generally go south to plunder in the autumn and winter, and have the meaning of going back to spend the winter, but in the spring, they are generally not the same as the soldiers, and they need to graze at this time, which is related to the harvest of the year.

It's not okay to always think about getting by, and if you don't think about production, you can't resist the risk at all. (To be continued......) R1292