Chapter 12: Escape
Facing the words of "Zheng Ye", the "Fifth Master" smiled awkwardly. He does have the consciousness of competing with "Zheng Ye", and over the years, Shangfeng has paid more and more attention to "Zheng Ye", which makes the senior "Fifth Master" very unconvinced. However, judging from today's performance, the "Fifth Master" also really admires "Zheng Ye", and the analysis of everything is clearly organized, although it is not far away, this skill is not far away. The "Fifth Master" who has fought in the war knows very well how important such an ability is to a soldier, so now "Zheng Ye" has made his words clear, although the "Fifth Master" feels embarrassed, he still replied sincerely, and said: "Thank you for mentioning it, a certain family should do its best." ”
Zhang Wenyi walked out of the shantytown and saw a large forest not far ahead. Although I don't know how deep it is, I can tell that the width of this forest is at least eleven or two kilometers or more just by not seeing the end from the left and right.
As soon as she staggered into the woods, Zhang Wenyi was relieved, and fell to the ground unwilling to move again. It was the first time she had rested since last night, and tiredness came like a tidal wave. Zhang Wenyi knew in her heart that she was not out of danger, but her eyelids seemed to be like a 10,000-pound iron gate that couldn't stop closing.
Zhang Wenyi's back disappeared into the woods, and someone at the edge of the shantytown probed his head to the side. For a long time, someone tentatively took a few steps in this direction, and then immediately retreated. After a while, another man came out, carrying knives or sticks in their hands, and took a few tentative steps towards the meeting. Then he boldly approached the edge of the woods.
These people who struggle to stay alive are very sensitive to human exhaustion, and they can see that this child, although vicious, has reached the extreme of exhaustion. In such a situation, he is likely to faint when he enters the woods, and many people are already secretly drooling at the thought of the child's fine skin and tender flesh.
They walked out of the shantytown in a group and slowly approached the woods, and when they approached the edge of the woods less than thirty meters, the other side of the shantytown was full of people and neighing. The men didn't know what was going on, so they all stopped. Someone looked at the height of the sun, and it was possible that the big families in the city came to give soup at this time.
So some people hesitated, and they looked towards the shantytown, and saw that there were many people there, as if someone was walking inside. Although it is unclear what happened, most of those people chose to return to their homes first.
One of the remaining ones took a few steps forward, and wanted to go into the woods to explore, but when he saw that the others were not moving, he retreated. Thinking of the powerful weapons in the hands of children, these people look at me, I look at you, and in the end they still don't have the courage to go into the woods.
Unaware that he had inadvertently saved Zhang Wenyi's life in the process of chasing her, "Zheng Ye" came to the shantytown and forced those who were about to go into the woods to kill Zhang Wenyi to retreat.
Knowing that Zhang Wenyi was in a dangerous situation, she woke up after sleeping for about a stick of incense, but when she got up, she felt that there was pain in the bones of Zhou's body, and she was weak and slowly stood up with a tree. Here you can barely see the scene outside the woods, and seeing that there are no pursuers entering the woods, Zhang Wenyi's mood eased and almost fainted again.
Struggling to wake herself up, she realized that it should be difficult to find food in the vicinity as she watched the trees around her peel to varying degrees. Now all she has to do is stay away from the place, on the one hand because of safety concerns and on the other hand because she needs food.
I don't know how long I walked along the edge of the woods, and the surrounding situation gradually returned to a state of lack of human tracks. Zhang Wenyi began to carefully observe the surrounding situation, hoping to find the footprints of edible plants or animals.
There are basically no edible plants in the woods in winter, and the earliest is to find one or two traces of wild boars, but this behemoth does not say that she is now small, even when she is an adult, wild boars are not easy targets for her.
However, Zhang Wenyi soon found traces of rabbits, she used a dagger to peel off some of the bark and rub them into thin ropes, and then sharpened a small wooden stick, and used the palm of her hand to cut the wooden stick to the ideal length. A ferrule was made with string and a wooden stick, and finally the firmness of the ferrule was tested, and Zhang Wenyi left here to look for dry firewood elsewhere.
It was easy to find enough dry firewood in the woods in winter, so Zhang Wenyi hurriedly returned to the vicinity of the ring to observe. Because there are not enough tools and not enough strength, the ring made by Zhang Wenyi is easy to be bitten off by the prey, resulting in the escape of the prey. Therefore, she needs to always pay attention to whether her prey has fallen into the trap so that she can hunt them in time.
In between observations, Zhang Wenyi also found a water source and dug a flue in case of a fire so that he would not be exposed by the smoke. It took her a lot of effort to do these things, and Zhang Wenyi felt even weaker.
The fourth time I went to the place where the ring was lowered, I found that a rabbit had fallen into a trap. Probably due to running too fast, the rabbit's neck was directly broken. When Zhang Wenyi arrived, the rabbit was already dead. She quickly slit the rabbit's throat and bled it, and drank several mouthfuls of bloody blood with her mouth.
There was something to eat, and Zhang Wenyi felt a lot more down-to-earth. Cut off the head and limbs of the rabbit, cut the rabbit along the anus, remove the internal organs and peel off the fur, take it to the water source to wash the rabbit, and slowly roast the rabbit by raising a fire. Although there is no salt and seasoning, this roast rabbit meat is the best barbecue Zhang Wenyi has ever tasted.
After eating the rabbit, it was already dark. When the flame gradually decreased, Zhang Wenyi slowly cultivated it into a fire, which would prevent the burning from being too fast and cause the fire to go out prematurely, and also reduce the possibility of exposing the light.
Due to the burning for most of the day, the vicinity of the fire has become relatively dry. Zhang Wenyi spread out two extra pieces of clothing and lay down, and covered her body with a few others. I was finally able to get a good night's sleep.
When I woke up in the morning, the fire was just extinguished, and I thought that with food and enough sleep, I would have a good physical strength today. I didn't think about it, but I was still sore all over. I felt that I was having a fever, and after trying my body temperature, I was a little hot. Zhang Wenyi is worried about whether it will evolve into pneumonia, which was a very fatal disease in ancient times when there was a shortage of medical treatment.
After going to the water source to drink some water, and eating the rabbit meat left over from last night, Zhang Wenyi began to look for edible herbs. She finally found the herb she needed, although she couldn't remember the name of the herb, but Zhang Wenyi still remembered what the handsome instructor said, "This herb is easy to find, and the effect is very good." ”
According to the method taught by the instructor, put the leaves of these herbs into his mouth and chewed slowly, and the bitter juice almost made Zhang Wenyi spit out all the rabbit meat he had just eaten in the morning.
No matter how unwell she is, Zhang Wenyi still insists on burying what should be buried and cleaning up what should be cleaned up. She couldn't reveal her whereabouts, and that would really be close to death. This place is very close to Chuzhou City, and she must be careful, careful, and careful.
Due to the lack of necessary equipment, Zhang Wenyi could not enter the depths of the woods. She could only follow the edge of the woods, so it was still a dangerous situation.
At noon, there was a thunder in the abdomen, and after pulling out a pile of smelly excrement, Zhang Wenyi's body relaxed a lot. In the afternoon, Zhang Wenyi saw a village, so she decided to stop. Her health is not good, she doesn't want to spend her limited physical strength on hunting, there is a village where she is relatively more likely to get food, and she can also look for items to carry inside.
So in the afternoon she slept in the woods, and in the middle of the night she sneaked into the village and stole a chicken, got a little salt in someone's kitchen, and took a clay pot to put outside. Because the dogs in the village barked fiercely, Zhang Wenyi was not able to stay in the village for too long.
Back at the station, Zhang Wenyi made a fire and stewed the peeled and washed chicken in a crockpot, and ate a meal of food with salt and soup. Covering up the traces, Zhang Wenyi took advantage of the moonlight to walk forward overnight, after all, her first task now is to leave Chuzhou as far away as possible.
However, now there is a very real question in front of Zhang Wenyi, what is her destination. has been separated from his family, and if the Wen family escapes from the clutches of the sudden accident, he will definitely hide his traces. She didn't know anything else about the family, and Zhang Wenyi didn't know where her father would take the Wen family. As a traverser, she knows the boundaries of this country better than most people in this world, and looking for people in such a land is no different from looking for a needle in a haystack.
However, Zhang Wenyi remembered Yuan Niang, she is now the wife of the prince of Yiguo, and Zhang Wenyi's only way out is to take refuge in her. According to the dialect of Chuzhou, it can be concluded that this should be the Huaibei region, and it is basically a distance of thousands of kilometers from here to Xi'an, and even if you recognize the road, you will have to walk for at least three or four months. In the absence of a map, it is difficult for Zhang Wenyi to estimate when and where she will be able to go.
I looked around myself, and there were boys' clothes on my body, but on my feet were girls' embroidered shoes. This image alone will immediately go out and goof, and it seems that there are still a lot of things to do to go to Chang'an.
After walking for another two days, Zhang Wenyi finally saw a larger market town. At night, she infiltrates what appears to be a large family's inner house, which is a piece of cake for an old spy and does not alarm anyone. With her understanding of the inner house, she quickly found the embroidery room and warehouse of the inner house.
Stealing a few sets of well-fitting men's shirts and shoes, as well as embroidery threads, flower bandages, fabrics, etc., stealing half a jar of salt in the kitchen, and stealing two copper coins in the storeroom, these are all necessary things on the road. Fortunately, it has been more than a year since she crossed over, and she has learned that some of the women's clothes, shoes and socks can be sewn by herself, otherwise the road will be more difficult.
After packing all these things, Zhang Wenyi hurriedly sneaked out of the house and left quickly. After continuing to walk for two days, Zhang Wenyi finally learned the general direction of going to Chang'an by talking with a team of pack horses on the road outside a small town.
However, this does not mean that Zhang Wenyi will be able to go to Chang'an smoothly, with her current age, if she swaggers down the official road, then it won't take long to be caught. was either caught by the enemy or caught by traffickers, and Zhang Wenyi also missed one and was caught by the government. Because at this time, she didn't know that in ancient times, it was necessary to go to the government to issue a guide, and leaving her hometown without permission was a big crime in ancient times.