Reality.

Centipede Mountain.

Dawn came, and the sky was slightly bright.

Chen Jichuan opened his eyes and saw that Chen Shaohe had woken up in front of him, and he was staring wide-eyed and guarding the surroundings.

"Why don't you sleep more?"

Even at night, even in the Dayan World, Chen Jichuan would come out from time to time to take a look around to make sure there was no movement before continuing to enter Dayan. The last time it came out was half a month ago for Dayan, and it was put into reality, that is, half an hour ago.

At that time, Chen Shaohe had not woken up.

"Sleep well."

"I'll help the fourth brother look outside and be careful of being touched."

Chen Shaohe saw that the fourth brother woke up, his face was vigilant and serious, and he grinned at Chen Jichuan.

Then he stood up and moved his muscles and bones that had been sitting stiffly all night. I was worried about waking up the fourth brother before, but now it's okay.

"Not bad."

"Be careful."

Chen Jichuan nodded.

His consciousness is in Dayan, and in reality, he can sense it as soon as there is a wind and grass, and he doesn't need Chen Shaohe to guard against the wind. But Chen Shaohe has such a cautious mind, and Chen Jichuan appreciates it. Even if it is useless, it will not dampen Chen Shaohe's enthusiasm.

Got a compliment.

Recognized.

Chen Shaohe really smiled and asked, "Fourth brother, are you going to hurry now?" ”

Chen Jichuan looked at the sky.

The sun has not yet risen, the moon has not yet set, but the horizon has already brightened, and there is no longer a delay to look at the road: "Let's go now." ”

Centipede Mountain stretches for forty or fifty miles.

This is the straight-line distance.

People are among them, the mountains are undulating, and the actual distance to be walked is not more than 150 miles?

Yesterday, I first ran thirty or forty miles, then changed my clothes, washed dirt and shaved my hair, and ran for more than thirty miles. After calculating, there is still half the distance, and you can run out of Centipede Mountain.

Seventy or eighty miles.

It is nothing to Chen Jichuan, who practices 'land flying skills' and can run hundreds of miles in one breath. Even if he carried Chen Shaohe on his back and had the source power to recover his strength, Chen Jichuan would not be exhausted.

"Come on."

"Come up."

Chen Jichuan didn't ink, stood up, took the goose wing knife beside him in his hand, squatted in front of Chen Shaohe, and let him go up on his back.

"Oh."

Chen Shaohe also picked up a goose wing knife and lay on the back of the fourth brother.

He knows.

With his physical strength, he is not qualified to worry about whether he will tire the fourth brother. Both brothers knew that between tiredness and death, the former was nothing at all.

……

It's another run.

On the road.

Chen Jichuan used his foot shooting skills to kick out flying stones and kill a wild boar and two hares. After finding the stream and dealing with it briefly, let Chen Shaohe make a fire, and the brothers had a full meal and continued on the road.

From dawn to early morning.

From early morning to noon.

In addition to eating, Chen Jichuan was running wild all the time. By the time it was just after noon, he had already run through seventy or eighty miles of mountainous terrain and reached the edge of Centipede Mountain.

After coming out of the mountain.

To the west is Jianling County, and to the east is Liding County.

"Yangshuo."

Chen Jichuan did not go west or east, but continued to go north.

Gradually, I can touch the scattered villages and scattered villagers. Most of the villages are vacant, and the villagers have fled without a trace.

Yongfeng, Liding and other counties have a relatively hot climate and a developed water system, so there are many kinds of two-season rice. It was not long after the summer harvest, and it stands to reason that so many villagers should not have fled.

Chen Jichuan was puzzled and ran away with Chen Shaohe on his back.

Along.

Or more than a dozen families, or dozens of people from a village, one by one, carrying their bags and rushing to the north with a depressed face.

"Fourth brother."

"I see that many villages on the road are empty, there are many paddy fields, why don't these people stay in the village?"

Chen Shaohe leaned on Chen Jichuan's back and asked curiously.

There are fields and land.

What is running blindly?

"Bandits are like combs, soldiers are like grates, and officials are like shavings."

"Liding County has just experienced a big war, and these people have suffered and can only leave their hometowns."

Chen Jichuan had some guesses in his heart.

Judging by the scenes in the fields along the way, this year's harvest is not bad. In this case, these people still have to abandon their fields and land to flee, and it is likely that they have suffered a military disaster.

In the past, the soldiers of Da Chu were not clean hands and feet.

Now.

How good can the reckless gangs such as Wushengmen and Lishui Gang, and the army formed by a group of mud legs?

"Dog thing!"

"Habit can harm people!"

When Chen Shaohe heard this, he immediately understood, and scolded in his mouth.

As everyone knows.

The Chen family, who was feared like a tiger at the beginning, was no different from these 'bandits', 'soldiers' and 'officials'.

Chen Jichuan knows it.

Shake your head.

Avoid these people and move on.

"Fourth brother."

"Why don't you ask them about the situation outside?"

Chen Shaohe held back silently for a while, and finally couldn't help asking.

It's rare to meet people.

Just inquired about the changes outside the black prison over the years, why did you avoid it?

"It's too eye-catching."

"These people look like a family, and most of them are from a village, and they are all familiar with each other. The two of us ran over and asked questions, but they wouldn't care, and maybe they would drive us away. ”

What Chen Shaohe can think of, Chen Jichuan can naturally think of.

It's just that he thinks more.

In the black prison, isolated from the world for six years, it is necessary to find someone to inquire and familiarize yourself with the outside world. But if you find someone to understand, you will be particular.

In addition to paying attention to the question of 'new faces', it is also good to ask some well-informed people.

I'm afraid these villagers don't know much.

It is best to find people in the county, even those who are literate, so that you can get a lot of real and effective information.

Chen Jichuan is light and simple.

Even with Chen Shaohe on his back, the speed is very fast.

All the way more than a lot of refugees.

In the evening, I finally met a group of refugees scattered in one place. After observing for a while, I found that these people were either in twos and threes, or in groups of five or six, and they were a little alienated from each other, and they obviously didn't know each other.

"That's it!"

Chen Jichuan put down Chen Shaohe, and the two brothers pretended not to know each other and mixed in one after another.

……

"Brother Zhang."

"Come over for a bite to eat?"

Bao Zhongliang looked at 'Zhang Liao' not far away and greeted him.

Not compassionate.

But because his family left in a hurry, the rations were sufficient, but the birds faded out of his mouth. Seeing that 'Zhang Liao', who had just joined the team later, was carrying two pheasants that he got out of nowhere, he drooled greedily. Seeing him looking left and right, quite cramped, his eyes rolled, and he waved at 'Zhang Liao'.

"Ahh

"Well, thank you so much."

Chen Jichuan pretended to be happy, ran to Bao Zhongliang's family, scratched his head and smirked: "The fire fold was thrown on the road, I hunted pheasants, and I couldn't get it cooked." ”

said.

He raised the two pheasants in his hand.

"Hey."

"What is this, it is fate to meet. Come on, add a pair of dishes and chopsticks to Brother Zhang. ”

Bao Zhongliang beckoned a key woman to bring Chen Jichuan a bowl of chopsticks, and added a bowl full of rice, covered with a few pieces of salted meat, and said ashamedly: "In the wilderness, only salted meat is enough, Brother Zhang, don't dislike it." ”

"No, no, no."

Chen Jichuan waved his hand busily, thinking about it and feeling a little embarrassed, he hurriedly took out the two pheasants in his hand and said, "Brother Bao stewed these two chickens too." ”

"Oops."

"What's so embarrassing?"

Bao Zhongliang said that he was embarrassed, and quietly gave the servant woman at home a look.

"It's a hot day."

"This pheasant stinks if you don't eat it, it's a pity."

The servant woman laughed, took the two pheasants, and said, "Brother Zhang, wait a minute, I'll go boil water to help you stew this." ”

"Okay, okay."

"Thank you, Auntie."

Chen Jichuan laughed in his heart, still pretending to be stupid on his face. He took the bowl of rice and shyly put it in his mouth.

Gobbling it up.

On the other hand, he was observing this Bao Zhongliang family.

Said to be a family.

In fact, Bao Zhongliang is alone. In addition to him, there are two key women, two powerful men, the former is a servant woman in the house, and the latter is a nurse in the house.

Bao Zhongliang is relatively rich, and although he wears an average dress, it can be seen that he is deliberately covering up.

Wealth is not exposed.

"Where is Brother Zhang from, and he is going to the north?"

Seeing Chen Jichuan eating with his head bored, Bao Zhongliang had nothing to say.

"yes."

"My family was originally in Yongfeng and moved to Jianling a few years ago. My father and mother have passed away, and I am the only one left. Now that Jianling is fighting, I am afraid of death, so I want to go to the north to hide. ”

Chen Jichuan looked scheming.

Whatever Bao Zhongliang asked, he said.

"Jianling."

"It's really messy there, it's better to leave early."

Bao Zhongliang smiled at Chen Jichuan and said proudly: "Not long ago, as soon as the fight broke out in Liding County, I moved all my family members to Yangshuo. If it weren't for the two houses in the city, I wouldn't be able to delay it now. ”

"Liding County is also at war?"

Chen Jichuan asked.

"It's over."

"The Lishui Gang can't defeat Wushengmen, so they withdrew a few days ago."

Bao Zhongliang pouted.

Chen Jichuan was curious when he heard it, and asked again: "Since the battle is over, why does Brother Bao have to leave?" ”

"You don't know."

"I'm reasoning, I was originally in the grain business. Now that it is occupied by Wushengmen, all the grain business is taken over as an official run, and we are not allowed to interfere, if I stay, don't I want to drink the northwest wind? ”

A hint of shrewdness crossed Bao Zhongliang's eyes, and he said to Chen Jichuan: "You just go to the north." There is no shortage of food in the north, unlike in the south, the Jinyang faction sells the grain, and the poor in Wushengmen have to use arrows and spearheads to go to the Jinyang faction to exchange food. If you want to go south, just wait to be hungry! ”

It turned out to be in the grain business.

Chen Jichuan's heart moved, and when he heard Bao Zhongliang's words, he knew a little more about the Jinyang faction, Wushengmen, and the Lishui Gang.

But at the same time.

There are more doubts in my heart.

Wushengmen has extra arrowheads and spear heads to sell out, this Chen Jichuan knows that after all, there is a black prison, and the iron ore is simply inexhaustible.

It costs nothing more than manpower.

And Wushengmen only had three counties before, and if he wanted to feed five thousand Wusheng troops, it was understandable that he was short of food.

But the Jinyang faction only occupied the two counties of Lingui and Quanyi, and before he entered the black prison, he didn't hear that the harvest of these two counties was better than that of Yongfeng and Muhua, where did the grain come from and sell it to Wushengmen?

"Could it be that there is also a cave similar to the Black Prison?"

I have doubts in my heart.

Worry about revealing the stuffing.

Chen Jichuan didn't rush to ask.

Fortunately, Bao Zhongliang was born as a businessman and is very talkative.

In addition, what they talked about did not involve any secrets, so Bao Zhongliang didn't care, and said with a grin: "Brother Zhang, don't look at this Wushengmen is powerful now, according to me, everything that hasn't eaten is bullshit." Wushengmen hugged the iron ore field, and allied with the Jinyang faction, and he could get food in the short term. But you look at it, when Jinyang sends troops to strengthen the horse and doesn't need Wushengmen, give him a trick to cut off food, and this Wushengmen will be blinded immediately. ”

Pheasant stew well.

Fragrance wafts out.

Bao Zhongliang smiled, and talked to Chen Jichuan endlessly while eating: "If you want to talk for a long time, it has to be the Jinyang Sect and the Lishui Gang for a long time." The Jinyang faction has a peach source, that land and that field, and all of them can pinch out oil, and there is absolutely no shortage of food. The Lishui Gang also has a unique secret method, which can make fertilizer, and after use, the yield per mu is seven or eight percent higher than that of the high-quality paddy fields. ”

Shangri-La.

Manure.

Chen Jichuan listened carefully, and muttered in his heart: "The 'Taoyuan' of the Jinyang Sect may be the same as the 'Black Prison' of Wushengmen, all in another space. As for the 'fertilizer' of the Lishui Gang—"

Chen Jichuan doesn't know what the name is for the time being.

Bao Zhongliang feasted on it, his mouth was full of oil, and he sighed: "People are not stupid now. Look at them, every household was robbed of food by Wushengmen, so they simply dragged their families and moved to Yangshuo, and they were hungry in the future. ”

Bao Zhongliang is a rational merchant.

The rest of the people here are also the people of Liding County.

A few days ago, Wushengmen and the Lishui Gang competed for Liding County, which happened to be in time for the summer harvest. The Lishui Gang first levied a summer tax, and not long ago, Liding County changed hands, and Wushengmen came to collect grain again.

Tough means.

Many people have no surplus food at home, and there were rumors in Liding County before that Wushengmen was the most short of food. These people who originally wanted to stay in Liding didn't care about leaving their homeland, and as soon as they gritted their teeth, they all went north.

"Wushengmen."

"Not for long."

Chen Jichuan thought of Bao Zhongliang's words and shook his head in his heart.

In this world now, no matter how much food there is, it is not as hard as a fist. Wushengmen has countless arrows and spears, and there is a shortage of food, so it is necessary to grab it.

As long as the decision is good enough.

It may not be impossible to take down the Lishui Gang and even the Jinyang Faction and unify Shi'an County. When the time comes, there will be both the 'Taoyuan' of the Jinyang Sect and the 'secret recipe' of the Lishui Gang, and Wushengmen may really have the qualifications to win the world.

"Wushengmen."

"Lishui Gang."

"Jinyang faction."

Chen Jichuan listened and thought.

Turning his head and glancing at the inconspicuous Chen Shaohe not far away, when he turned around, the chicken and chicken soup in the pot were all empty.

……