Chapter 4: Daoxiang Village
The carriage was bumpy all the way, and he stopped for a while because he wanted to feed the horses with water, and Yuyi was tied with ropes and could not sit normally, so he could only sit on his side next to the coachman in a semi-lying position, and he felt very uncomfortable, and wanted to vomit but could not vomit. In ancient times, there were no concrete roads, and it was all too common to bump into a stone once in a while, and horse-drawn carriages had no shock-absorbing effect.
Yu Yi thought, no wonder the ancients lived so shortly, it is estimated that this carriage is too much, even if it is sitting in the most comfortable position, that is, in the carriage, it is not necessarily comfortable, this kind of long-distance journey, plus high-frequency bumps, if the passenger is an old man with poor physical fitness, he should be able to die on the spot.
To the evening, the carriage finally stopped, the parking place is a small village, a gate can be very gloomy to see "Daoxiang Village" three big characters, these words are written in the book, fortunately when Yuyi went to elementary school, because he felt that the writing of big characters was tall, he went to report an interest class to study it, and now it just came in handy.
As soon as you enter the gate, the houses begin to increase, there are no rows of high-rise buildings here, they are all bungalows, the roof is made of straw, it does not look very strong, occasionally there are some pedestals built with rammed earth, but the content of rammed earth is also very small, the whole street still looks very clean, called the street, but it is just a mud path, compared with the road outside, that is, it is flat, there are fewer stones, most of the villagers are simple and robust, if it is placed in modern times, it should be the focus of help.
Not long after, Yuyi followed the woman and the coachman to the west of the village, the buildings here are more magnificent than those seen before, the overall feeling is like a courtyard, the surrounding walls are made of rammed earth, the middle is a gate, after entering is a chic small courtyard, there is a stone table and 4 benches, there is a small pond on the side, the center of the pond is a lotus pavilion, the water is not particularly clear, but there are many lotus leaves in the water, and the surrounding willow trees contrast with each other, after entering the inner room, you can see a high sitting furniture, There are two armchairs in the center, where sit a middle-aged man and a woman, about thirty years old, with a dignified body and a dignified appearance. A pair of eyes shot cold stars, and the two curved eyebrows were like paint. The chest is broad, there is the majesty of ten thousand invincibles, the middle-aged woman is wearing a pink pomegranate skirt, a pale yellow cotton dress, the skirt has a pink ribbon, beautiful hair with a small purple hairpin plate, with a pink belt, the ribbon also has the fragrance of plum blossoms, with a jade bracelet and a white jade pendant, the body also exudes a faint rouge fragrance, at a glance, the girl and the middle-aged woman are somewhat similar, it can be determined that it is the girl's parents who are seated.
After seeing the middle-aged man and woman, the girl laughed and hurriedly stepped forward to hold the middle-aged woman's hand, while the coachman stood aside respectfully, leaving Yuyi standing alone in the middle, looking very embarrassed. Thinking that everyone is looking at themselves, Yu Yi can't help but think of his own dress, this Donghua immortal is too pitiful, he didn't even give a set of decent clothes to get himself to ancient times, and now his upper body is an open-collared shirt, and his lower body is a jeans, no wonder the coachman is so impulsive, and when he encounters something beyond his own cognition, even he will be hostile.
Or the girl helped explain, the middle-aged man kept nodding in the girl's words, but his eyes were on himself, from the beginning of the hostility to the later slightly kind, at this time Yuyi's hanging heart finally let go, at least his life was saved.
The middle-aged man motioned to the coachman to untie the rope, and at the same time called another person, said something, and the man left with Yuyi.
"I don't know who you are or what your intentions are, but thank you."
Before leaving, Yuyi turned around and said something, and at the same time cast a grateful glance at the girl.
Or was startled by Yu Yi's sudden voice, the middle-aged man frowned slightly, or waved his hand, and let the man take Yu Yi away, Yu Yi followed the man quietly, and found that he didn't seem to be able to speak, but his sign language was good, it turned out that the middle-aged man also realized that Yu Yi was unusual, and when the language was incomprehensible, he called a mute, intending to let the mute communicate with Yu Yi in sign language first, and the others would be solved slowly.
After a while, the mute took Yuyi to a bedroom at the side door, he skillfully lit the candles in the room, and then hurried out, and after a while, he took some food over, made a gesture to eat, and then went out again, the mute was an old man with a pale face, rickety, and a little weak, giving people the feeling that a gust of wind could blow him to, let such a person take care of himself, bring tea and water to himself, Yuyi felt very unaccustomed, this unaccustomed is more sympathy for the toiling masses.
The room has a window, a door can see a round table, with 4 round stools, near the inside is a wooden bed, in addition to the bed with a few leaning, there are also hidden sacs and circle curved tables for leaning on the waist cushion, the top is also surrounded by a detachable low screen, the lower part is decorated with a pot door, the advantage of this design is that you can sit on the bed, you can also sit on the edge of the bed, and these quaint furniture have some decorative patterns, some like lotus flowers, some like tangled branch flowers, etc., the rain quickly finished sweeping the meal, The taste of the food here is very light, but the rice fragrance is very strong, with a kind of pulp, in fact, it is a kind of water, after doing these, Yuyi hurriedly went to experiment with the performance of some beds, naturally not as comfortable as Simmons, it is more uncomfortable to rely on, a little bit of a feeling of not going up or down, because there is no clock, and it is impossible to judge the time, only to know that it is dark.
Yuyi leaned on the pillow, the first time to sleep in this kind of bed in ancient times, it was naturally a little unaccustomed, although the dress was more alternative, fortunately, the wave of people I met for the first time did not have any malice towards him, especially the beautiful woman without makeup, if it weren't for her, then she might have been in the wilderness long ago, this kind of life-saving grace can not be solved by reciprocating from the spring.
And then the middle-aged man, from the specifications of his residence and the majesty of his body can be inferred to be the core of this village, from the geographical location, this Daoxiang Village should also be located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Plain, this plain is suitable for planting rice, this is a plain with better water conditions and light and heat, the special fragrance of the rice eaten that night is an example, all this is just the beginning of their own adaptation to the environment, in order to truly integrate into this environment, but also need to find a way to completely solve the problem of communication.