All the way to the west, through the window curtain Chang'an saw the Hu people opened the wine shop, the architectural style is completely different from the wine shop in the city, it is very eye-catching next to the official road, at this time few people walk around in the morning, only a few cars and horses are parked, a little deserted.

The wine flags in the high places were blazing in the morning breeze, and the flags were carved with incomprehensible patterns.

"That's the pattern of the Hu people, which probably means 'wine shop'." Wang Baochuan explained beside him that it was impossible for a lowly and illiterate girl to know these common senses.

"I see, Mei'er doesn't know, but I think it's very different from the flag we saw in the city."

"Hmm." Wang Baochuan only replied lightly and stopped talking, leaning on the car body to close his eyes and recuperate.

After traveling for a long time, the car suddenly stopped, and there was a commotion outside.

"Third girl, the Weicheng guest house has arrived." Gao Shiji returned outside the carriage.

Although it is a Weicheng guest house, it is far from the real Weicheng, and it is only connected to a Wei River.

There are a lot of people gathered here, walking porters, traveling travelers, relatives and friends seeing off, if the official post card of the west to five miles is the platform, this is undoubtedly the waiting hall.

After a few simple repairs, Gao Shiji went to the post office to change the official documents, and then returned the documents and silver medals to Wang Baochuan, and continued on the road.

Walking to the five mile place, sure enough, there is a checkpoint guarded by officers and soldiers, people line up in turn to wait for the "pass", passing vehicles and pedestrians must be carefully checked one by one before they can be allowed to pass through.

From time to time, some people are dismissed and left in a stupid manner, or those who are suspected of being meticulous are taken down by the officers and soldiers on the side and taken away.

The silver medal in Wang Baochuan's hand showed its special role at this time, and the officers and soldiers stationed there hurriedly went to tell the post officer, and the post officer personally greeted and sent it off smoothly.

Before he was about to continue to move forward, he suddenly heard a disturbance in the crowd, and some people shouted loudly, as if someone wanted to forcibly break through the pass, and was arrested and killed on the spot by the soldiers guarding the pass.

The bloody scene was simple and rude, and the crowd that had doubts about the degree just now instantly quieted down, and people silently handed over their places in turn, waiting for the inspection to pass.

Wang Baochuan's face was pale, and his hands were clenched in the placket, obviously frightened by this scene. Chang'an was a little worried, this is going to the Xiliang front, which is a real battlefield. "Three Girls......"

Wang Baochuan closed his eyes, shook his head and said, "I'm fine, let's go." "Her Xue Lang has been on the battlefield since eighteen years ago, and his life and death are still uncertain, since she has decided to find someone, she must not give up.

Perhaps because of the post ride, this road is very smooth, there is a post every thirty miles, replenish the supply at any time, if you remove the pain of rushing, it is not hard to travel all the way.

Even so, after crossing the boundary of Jingzhou, due to the unsuitable climate of the water and soil, and the continuous running for several days did not stop, Wang Baochuan still fell ill, and the three of them had to postpone the trip and divert to the nearest county town to stay and rest, and asked Wang Baochuan to see a doctor by the way.

Chang'an's [cure] is the most treatable is external injury, but it has little effect on internal cause lesions, but [Liangyi Acupuncture] can be treated, but Wang Baochuan is in a hurry, almost day and night, Chang'an didn't even have a chance to get a needle, and it was finally stopped until now that he could no longer move forward.

I went to the best inn in the county and invited the best doctor in the county medical hall, and finally settled down after seeing a few prescriptions and prescribing a few pairs of medicines.

Chang'an borrowed the fire between the stoves of the inn to decoct the medicine, while thinking, there are still thousands of miles away from Yangguan, and it is nearly a thousand miles from Yangguan to the Xiliang front, and the way is full of bitter cold places, Wang Baochuan's body is probably not able to hold on, alas, it is inevitable that she will secretly find an opportunity to administer a few more needles.

Sometimes, Chang'an thought, shouldn't her training task be to punish the evil and kill the scheming, or tear the green tea and white lotus scheming table? No matter how poor it is, it should be a hero who helps the poor and serves justice, why do you always wander around in people like bodyguards and nannies?

[Okay, Ann, I'll pay attention to it next time I take the task.] Xiao Luo spoke out in time to reassure, but this still can't change the fate of the decoction under the stove now.

Chang'an was about to leave after mixing the medicinal juice, and saw a young man who looked like a small guy in a hurry holding a huge medicine bag in his arms, and it was estimated that he also came to boil medicine in the stove, but looking at the amount of medicine, could it be that it was boiled out to feed the animals?

The cooks in the stove seemed to know him, and after greeting him, he did things by himself, and the little guy really put a big iron pot to prepare to boil medicine, which was really different from the medicine pot used in Chang'an.

It wasn't until he encountered it more times later that Chang'an knew how outrageous his guess was, and people boiled so many decoctions neither for feeding livestock nor for drinking, but only for medicinal baths.

It is said that the master of his family has been weak and sick since he was a child, and he has been looking for famous doctors all over the world for many years, but none of them can be cured. After so many years, he has survived, and his master originally looked like he was fine, but unfortunately these days the journey was hard, causing the old disease to attack, and he had to temporarily come to this Mengyuan County to raise for a few days.

"Since you are sick and not at home to recuperate, why do you have to work so hard to go all the way to the bitter cold land in the northwest?" Chang'an wanted to ask this rhetorically, but looking at the medicine cup in her hand, she smiled at fifty steps and a hundred steps, isn't her "master" also "asking for hardships".

Wang Baochuan's body, which had been raised for a few days, had recovered, but when he was leaving, he was stopped by the innkeeper and pulled to a secluded place behind the hall, before he asked in a low voice, "Dare to ask the guest officer if he wants to go west?" But do you want to travel through Wushaoling? ”

"Exactly, but what's wrong?"

"It's not proper, it's inappropriate! The guest officer also saw that the guests who came to stay in the county in the past few days are better than a day, and there are only three or four lodging hotels in the county. ……”

The shopkeeper first looked around, and then began to talk about the horror rumors of these days, Wushaoling was an inconspicuous mountain range in the Qilian Mountains, but because it is located in the boundary between the Loess Plateau and Hexi, it is the only place to go west.

But a few days ago, I don't know where a group of thugs came from to occupy the Wushao Ridge, robbing the past business travelers, not only robbing people of money but also killing people's lives, most of the guests who came to stay in the county fled from there, and some of the timid people even stopped coming here to avoid disasters.

"If you have bandits, have you ever reported to the official?" Wang Baochuan asked.

Who knew that the shopkeeper listened, looked left and right, and said in a low voice, "If this kind of thing happens, it is natural to report to the official, and the county has also ordered someone to investigate, but in the end there is no result, and then the announcement posted by the county said that if someone spreads rumors about Wushaoling in the county, he will be severely punished." Many people have been criticized for this, although there are still many people staying overnight, but no one dares to spread it anymore. ”

Chang'an saw that Wang Baochuan was silent, and hurriedly stuffed a few Tongbao to the shopkeeper and thanked him, but the shopkeeper did not shirk, accepted the money and said repeatedly, "When I saw a few good faces, I kindly reminded me, and don't give my life in vain." ”

"Third girl, are we leaving?" When the shopkeeper left, Chang'an asked in a low voice, she is a servant girl and has to listen to her master.

"Go, of course. The words of this shopkeeper are full of loopholes and cannot be trusted, if there are really thieves robbing the road, the martial arts of the Gaofu Academy will protect us well. Wushaoling is located on the main road, the northwest post road and the southeast post road all pass through here, the imperial court will not sit idly by, if the post post is blocked, there are already post soldiers out to clear it. ”

"But the shopkeeper doesn't seem to be lying, is he deliberately deceiving us in order to earn a few more days of accommodation? However, these days, there are indeed a lot more people who come to stay overnight. ”

"Mei'er, no matter what happens, I must go to Xiliang." Wang Baochuan suddenly looked up at Chang'an and said solemnly.

"Yes, third girl, Mei'er knows, Mei'er won't say anything more frustrating in the future." There is no doubt that Wang Baochuan is determined, but Chang'an is too worried.

Out of Mengyuan County, Gao Shiji parked the carriage on the side of the road, and then came back and forth with a heavy face.

Similar to what the shopkeeper said, the Northwest Post Road seems to have really gone wrong, blocked by land and water, and the messenger is blocked, which is something that has never happened in the harsh post system.

Someone once used the phrase "ten miles to walk a horse, five miles to a whip." One post after another, the post ride is like a stream of stars. To describe the well-developed post system of the Holy Dynasty, seven routes run through the whole country, and everything can be reached throughout the country within two months.

These days, Gao Shiji took a silver medal to invite a nearby post officer, but he repeatedly shirked it, refusing to see him on the grounds that he was seriously ill and inconvenient, which is a bit unusual.

The war on the Xiliang front line has not stopped, and the military situation and trends are all undertaken by the Northwest Post Road, and it is very important to ensure the smoothness of this line, how can there be the current situation? What really happened in Wushaoling? What did the announcement of the Mengyuan County Order want to conceal?

"Third girl, we're just passing by, no matter what happens, it's none of our business, if there is really any big thing, where can a weak woman of ours manage it?" Chang'an interrupted Wang Baochuan's musings and said. She doesn't want to go back to Mengyuan County again, and keeping the main quest unwavering is the right way.