When I arrived at the herdsman's grandmother's house, I didn't want to mention how cordial it was, because his family had a good impression of us before, and the yaks we put back came back safely, and the grandmother's family often talked about our good, this time we didn't see each other for a year, I grabbed my grandmother's hand around the brazier, and began to chatter without a sigh, and Shangguan Jielong didn't know what to do outside.

When he came back in the evening, he called back a lot of hares, and quietly handed them to Grandma without saying anything, Grandma thought that his tongue was broken, and he didn't care too much, just like that, we ate rabbit meat at night, and talked about a lot of things outside, including the form of the whole country, but most of them were hearsay from outside, and I didn't dare to say whether it was true or false, anyway, we didn't have anything else to talk about, and they were all talking about it, and finally when my mouth was about to cramp, Shangguan Jielong came to pull me, Only two words were spoken.

"Sleep."

The next day, I reluctantly said goodbye to my grandmother's family, and we rushed to Sichuan according to the route, and there was a train in Sichuan, so that we could walk again in our province.

As soon as they arrived in Sichuan, there were more and more people bustling, although it was said that Japan surrendered and withdrew its troops, but 1947 was also the 36th year of the Republic of China, and the whole country was not yet unified, like some horns and villages and towns, there will be some land snakes, so those who do business generally do not open stores, mainly for fear of being robbed, they are driving donkey carts and carriages or carrying baskets out of the streets, and when they see that the limelight is not right, they get into the alleys or hide in the pre-dug firewood stacks.

I also have straight hair in my heart, and I say that the gun is the right to speak in this kind of place, the bullet casing is ejected, and the bullet does not have eyes.

Fortunately, we didn't dress very well, and we hadn't washed our hair for a long time, and we really looked a bit like Hanako, but obviously Shangguan Jielong was not afraid, he just put on a hood and pretended to be low-key, because the previous railroad tracks were blown up, so I couldn't find a train station for a while, so we found a family and rested.

This family used to do silk business, the boss is a middle-aged woman in her thirties, I saw so many people here, she still seems to be dressed cleanly, now the people's consumption power can not keep up, they have a lot of good silk can only be secretly hidden in the cellar, and then don't make a move is about to rot, at first she thought we were a distant businessman, so she kept talking about her goods.

Far merchants, to put it bluntly, are foot merchants from afar, who generally lead a team of horses to buy some inventory that cannot be sold locally, and then transport it back to the big city to sell.

Shangguan Jielong didn't want to grind with her, so he directly gave her a piece of golden beans, "We are not what you said, we are just passing by here, this golden bean is enough for you to earn in a year, I want to hear about the local situation and the situation of the country now!" ”

The boss bit a bite with his teeth, saw the sunken tooth marks, his eyes lit up, and he said excitedly in a Sichuan accent: "If you want it, there is a snake mountain here, so this place is called Qinglong Town, it is the name of the local overlord temporarily, it used to be called Eighteen Ditch, the situation here is not good, how to say it, it is too mixed, a few days ago, there were a few Japanese women who fled here, and were arrested by some mountain bandits, those mountain bandits used to be the subordinates of an old warlord, and I am out of season, Otherwise, I would have been arrested a long time ago, but the day before yesterday I heard that the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party had broken down and that there was another war, and that an army was going to come over to suppress the mountain bandits, so it also made people panic, and it was inevitable that there would be a rain of bullets. "Hot Spot Library

Speaking of this, she rolled her eyes, "It stands to reason that I don't accept outsiders, but seeing that you are not very familiar with this place, for the time being, I will hide in the cellar with my family first, and I will send you three meals a day, and you give me another golden bean, even if it is two clear." ”

I couldn't make up my mind, I glanced at Shangguan Jielong, and said that although he didn't speak, he lived too long than me, and it was better to leave this kind of thing to him to deal with, listening to the words of the female boss, Shangguan Jielong got angry for the first time after going down the mountain, he snorted coldly, "Greed is not enough to swallow elephants, and the most poisonous is a woman's heart!" ”

As he spoke, he suddenly stretched out his hand and pinched the female boss's neck, but before the female boss could react, the whites of her eyes had rolled over and fell to the ground, and the golden beans were also on the ground, I was dumbfounded, "Hey! Why did you make her stunned? I have to eat some hot stuff to fill my stomach, what, do you want to show me a hand? I don't see you knowing! ”

He picked up the long leather bag wrapped in a golden sword and put it on his back, and said coldly: "Do you dare to eat the food she cooks?" I don't know how many of them I have seen in her eyes, it's not a good thing, doesn't she just want to lock us up in the cellar and suffocate to death, and then she will sit and collect our golden beans! This kind of little abacus, I have already done it for her, let's go! ”

I made a bitter gourd face, and said that my chest was attached to my back, why should I drink saliva before leaving, I lowered my head to pick up the golden beans, but he stopped me and said: "Put it down, a gentleman loves money and takes it in a good way, and there is a way to use it, and if you give it to her, you will give it to her." ”

"No, this snake didn't want to slaughter us just now, you are now a bodhisattva, what kind of mercy do you have with her!" As I spoke, I picked it up and put it in my hand and checked it, "I didn't expect you to have golden beans, and the private money is hidden quite deeply!" ”

Shangguan Jielong squinted his eyes and looked at me, and sighed, "I'm not merciful to her, but let her eat enough, she will harm a lot of people, starvation abounds in these years, people cannibalism is not uncommon, you took this golden bean today, there may be several lives to go into the cellar, in the past, many inns also had cellars in the backyard, if you can't pay for food and accommodation, you have to be locked up to write family letters, and those who have no money at home can end up being wrapped in human meat buns!" ”

Hearing him say this, I suddenly threw away the golden beans in my hand with a trembling hand, and said obediently, I thought that the Cloud Pattern Temple was enough to burn brain cells, but I didn't expect the outside world to be even more people's hearts, and I didn't expect that a golden bean could save a lot of lives! The heart said that the aura of this female boss seems to be the pillar of the family, and she is also forced, so she can't help but sigh.

We went out of Qinglong Town, along the avenue to the east, met some landlubbers who rushed to the car, landlubbers in this year, is the common name of the delivery man of the long-distance porter in some places in Sichuan, and there are some derogatory meanings, because there is basically no long-distance delivery, but there are still people who can walk, indicating that the things pulled on the carriage are not clean, and sometimes it may be some firearms sold on the battlefield of World War II, and they are generally bought by bandits who occupy the mountain to strengthen the team.

In other cases, it may be to grab a new daughter-in-law and a little girl in the field, pull them to various places and sell them to landowners, and some times, they will take on some work to pull dead bodies, but to put it bluntly, landlubbers are also bad hooligan stubble, I didn't want to ask these people for directions, looking at the sickles hanging on their cars are not easy to mess with!

But Shangguan Jielong's palm stretched out, but it blocked their way.