Chapter 214: Destination
The reason why Wu Mian was able to tell her this. It's just because she feels that he is in the mountains, once he reaches the depths of a certain mountain, so that the earth and the earth should not be called every day, and no one can save him, she will be trapped in the mountain for the rest of her life.
Therefore, Wu Mian is relatively sure and very confident.
Wu Mian's self-confidence is in stark contrast to Li Jicai's passivity.
One is thinking that the foreign profit is foolproof, and the other is depressed and annoyed.
Li Jicai did not ignore this point from beginning to end, she knew that the place they were in now was in the mountains and forests, remote and inaccessible mountains and forests, if something happened and they died in the mountains, they didn't know where the bones were, whether they could be found.
The mountains are really inconvenient for escaping, and looking at the man's behavior, it is like living in the mountains all year round.
And what about her, and she's a naked layman. It is estimated that he was caught before he ran out.
This made Li Jicai have a lot of headaches, and she had to pretend to be very familiar with the other party every day, and then get more information, but he wanted to know that all of them had been answered, and all that was left was some.
If you deliberately get close to the man in front of you, you will definitely be rejected by people.
When he was almost finished, Wu Mian stood up from the ground, which was very natural.
At this time, Li Jicai really saw the whole picture of this man, and it turned out to be a short and concise man.
When he squatted, Li Jicai felt that he might not be very tall, but in fact, when he stood up, he was still surprised by Li Jicai.
Wu Mian took in her eyes, but he didn't care much about them, because he had accepted such stares more since he was a child.
Most of the people in the same village are tall and strong, and they are also very good at doing farm work, and he is short and concise and can't achieve any big things, so he can only run around blindly outside, turning east and west to make up for it.
Li Jicai just glanced at it, and didn't look at it again. It's as if it's a very normal thing.
A weirdo, really a weirdo.
"Hurry up and eat, and we'll be on our way when we're done." Because Li Jicai did not show obvious signs of wanting to escape, and he has always been indeed following the rules, he also talked eloquently when chatting.
If it weren't for the above reasons, Wu Mian would have really relaxed a lot. But even if he is so uncrowned, he is still very wary of Li Jicai.
The fourth prince, Jiang Xihu, was furious about Li Jicai's disappearance.
He directly dismissed Cheng Cheng's position, and then sent another man to Jinzhou to investigate Li Jicai's whereabouts.
Others don't know, but Jiang Xihu knows in his own heart that Li Jicai may really be able to play an indispensable role in the future political situation of Chu State, even if it is just a little.
But it is enough to prove that the value of this person is far more than that, and this person has many scheming, very many ends. If he can be cultivated in the future, Jiang Xihu feels that Li Jicai is definitely his right-hand man.
Because the court attaches great importance to Li Jicai, Li Jicai's case has been continuously followed up, and the large and small shops in Jinzhou City have been greatly affected, but those officers and soldiers still have to insist on investigating one after another.
Maybe Jiang Xihu didn't dare to sell it, so Li Jicai must be firmly in her hands.
In addition, His Majesty also sent someone, Xi Zien, to investigate the matter. However, no matter who comes to check, it is impossible to shake the feelings between each other.
However, Li Jiye was not worried about Xi Zien's matter, he checked on him, and Jiang Xihu looked for his own.
In Jiang Xihu's eyes, Xi Zien is like a wine bag and a rice bag. usually mixes with Qi Qingchu and is a small follower of others, but he doesn't have any real talent to learn. Jiang Xihu himself didn't disdain such a person, and he also knew that Xi Zien would not be used by him, so he simply gave up in the end.
And back to the point.
The place where Li Jicai disappeared, they have been able to find it, as long as they follow the path of the disappeared place to search all the way to the past, someone will always see it, if no one sees it, he will continue to search outside.
In any case, even if he turned Chu Guo upside down, he had to find out Li Jicai.
In addition, he also has to find out who is the person who paid someone to hire someone to kidnap Li Jicai again? The deal should not have been successful, as the kidnapped man had already escaped from the city with Li Jicai.
The world is unpredictable, and everyone thinks that Li Jicai should return to the capital at this moment and accept His Majesty's reward.
But the people are gone, and where are they rewarded?
All the people in Li Jicai can't help but pray for her in their hearts, hoping that she can be well.
At this moment, Li Jicai is following Wu Mian over the mountains and mountains.
Step into the unknown.
Li Jicai didn't think much about it at this moment, all he wanted to do at the moment was to let this Wu Mian stabilize, and then not kill him, and then snatch food from the tiger's mouth, get some food from his mouth, and barely survive.
No matter what, life is meant to move on. Won't be miserable because of anyone, won't it be because of anyone, pathetic? And pause.
Chagouzi Village is in the mountains and is one of the poorest and poorest places in the Chu State.
In normal times, it is almost inaccessible, and even the merchants who wash their feet are reluctant to walk into the mountains.
Go to that Chagouzi village.
Because first of all, the road is not easy to walk, not to mention, and the people there are self-sufficient, and there is nothing to spend on it.
They also earn less, sometimes they can't even get their money back, and the businessman is the first point, so for a long time, because he can't make any money, the businessman doesn't go.
If you don't go, although the people are self-sufficient, and they can live with food, vegetables, melons and fruits, there are still some things that need to be done after leaving the mountains and buying them outside.
And most of these people who go out to run errands are often young people, young men.
Sometimes some young men are not willing to take the poverty of their village to other places and break through.
Wu Mian is one of them.
Although he went out and became a thief. But when he comes back, as long as he has money and all kinds of things with him, then he is a big hero in the village and a person who honors his ancestors.
It's just that this time Wu Mian, who is empty-handed, is afraid that he will be laughed at when he goes back.
Chagouzi Village, the folk customs are simple and very primitive, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, but there is no dispute with the world.
Because the environment to which it belongs is at the foot of the mountain, it is relatively remote, and there are no outsiders to intervene, people from generation to generation have lived here, and for a long time, they are either married to the Zhou family or the Zhao family, so there are more than 100 families.
The first thing that each generation of young men learned was to grow mulberry, fish and hunt, and survive in the mountains. A wide variety of practical skills.
These have been passed down from generation to generation.
And there is a very peculiar phenomenon in Shagouzi Village, that is, the height of the villagers is generally not very high.
A short, short and sturdy person like Wu Mian is actually of a medium level in Fork Gongzi Village.
Therefore, after people like Chagouzi Village go out, it is inevitable that they will not be ridiculed for various reasons such as their rustic dress, their unsightly appearance, and their shortness and conciseness.
I can't raise my head in front of everyone, after all, the environment they are in, the mountains and the city are two places, two environments.
However, when the young men of Chagouzi Village who are working hard outside, no one will return to the village to talk about how they were bullied outside, how they were looked down upon, how they were treated coldly, how they had a hard time, and they would say that they were living very well outside in their own sensitivity, dignity and face.
This point, Wu Mian is no exception.
There is a village chief in Chagouzi who is 98 years old. surnamed Zhou, on weekdays, the people call him Old Zhou, the village head
The eyebrows, beard, and beard are all snow-white, and the face is full of wrinkles and spots, and there is often a very happy smile.
Being honest and selfless, working hard for the villagers, and contacting the feelings of each family, it can be said that the most respected person in Chagouzi Village is the old village chief.
Almost all the villagers listened to the old chief. If there is a quarrel or dispute, the village chief will also be asked to mediate.
However, this is often rare, because the people get along very well.
If you can't keep your door closed at night and don't leave the road behind, maybe it can only be achieved in a place like Chagouzi Village.
Of course, it is not that everything is perfect, after all, people's hearts are selfish, and there are many people like Wu Mian.
They follow the law that people do not destroy heaven and earth for themselves, and do some deviant things, even great rebellion, and even things that hurt nature and reason.
Although Wu Mian has not personally killed anyone so far, the crimes he has committed are no worse than these.
It's just that he himself can't see it.
Wu Mian thought about it, after returning to Chagouzi Village this time, the first thing he would go to see was his wife, and then he would go to see the village chief and send some gifts to the village chief or something, he hadn't gone back for a while, and he didn't know how the village chief's health was, and he didn't know if he was still alive and well.
After all the people who should be visited were finished, Wu Mian planned to look for and see which family in the village lacked a daughter-in-law, and he sent the woman named Li Jicai who he had robbed over to exchange for some money to survive the winter.
The ratio of men and women in Chagouzi Village is not too far apart, but everyone is very familiar with each other, and some of them do not look at each other, there are always some omissions, and the rest.
Concepts like this were instilled in him by Wu Mian's wife, because Wu Mian's wife very much wanted to see Wu Mian get married as soon as possible, so she kept conveying the village's trends in this regard to Wu Mian.
And this time, Wu Mian stole a woman, which can be used for this purpose, as long as he doesn't take this woman out of the mountain, there will be no problem.
The villagers are the most united, and if the external daughter-in-law shows signs of escaping, she will definitely be locked up and imprisoned for a while.
It's just that there are very few foreign women in the village, and everyone thinks that the people outside are not good and too evil. It's still in Chagouzi Village, uh, it's good for the people to produce and sell themselves.
Wu Mian observed Li Jicai, in fact, what he said was quite passable, plus he and she already knew how to cook, cook, pick and wash, and know all kinds of things, so even if she was sent to a ready-made daughter-in-law, she should be able to take responsibility, and she was very calm and calm, and she was not panicked in doing things, and she was very steady.
Speaking from the heart, Wu Mian's evaluation of Li Jicai is still very high.
When he just woke up, he was not afraid of danger, Wu Mian felt that this woman was really unusual. It's like someone who has seen the world.
Perhaps outsiders are inherently more confident, braver, and more generous than those who are stuck in the corners of the mountains
Of course, if not, Wu Mian felt that he was still a little bit behind her, maybe he would get Li Jicai back and be his daughter-in-law by default.
Yuelao is also particular about pulling the red line, not for everyone.
Wu Mian thought very well, if he sent Li Jicai out and exchanged a little money, then he would use this money to marry his daughter-in-law, and find a woman in the village who was pleasing to the eye, and the woman married back to be a good wife and mother.
If he hadn't given Li Jicai out and didn't get the money, then he would have used Li Jicai as his daughter-in-law, after all, this person was stolen by him, and if he stayed in Chagouzi Village now, he couldn't escape it, and the whole village was his eyes.
But poor Li Jicai didn't expect that Wu Mian would have such an idea.
If it were left in modern times, what difference would this be from the abduction and trafficking of women and children into mountainous areas?
Li Jicai just had this faint worry in her heart, but she didn't dare to show it, lest she let Wu Mian think so much that she would harm herself.
There is very little she can do at this moment, but for Li Jicai, she still has the insight to go through so many ups and downs.
The most important thing for her now is to stay calm, then watch for a suitable opportunity, and then take the opportunity to escape.
She couldn't think of any way except to escape, and the man named Wu Mian looked at her so closely that she had no chance to breathe at all, and she had no chance to escape at all.
So Li Jicai can only follow him temporarily, maybe when he returns to the village, maybe there will be such an opportunity to let Li Jicai leave.
Of course, Li Jicai also imagined that maybe those who were soldiers could follow the footsteps of their feet, chase her all the way, and then rescue her from the hands of the gangsters.
The imagination is very beautiful, the reality is very skinny, although Li Jicai no longer has to be dragged forward by Wu Mian, but the speed of the slander action is extremely fast, and he can only keep up with him by trotting out immediately.
Soon, soon they will be at their destination......
Li Jicai comforted himself bitterly.