Chapter Twenty-Six: Ni'er Pass
Early the next morning, Yang Yu woke up, he didn't wake up Shi San, but sat there thinking about the conversation with Jia Xing and Chang Long last night, and slowly felt a little confused in his heart, what should he do?
Now that he has made up his mind, Yang Yu is no longer hesitating, he stood up, picked up the single knife next to the fire, and walked towards the stream behind the dirt slope, this knife has followed him for a few years, and it is also handy, but last night when he saw Chang Long's arm cut, Yang Yu felt that this knife should be sharpened.
On a few big stones next to the stream, Yang Yu squatted down to sharpen the knife, but he didn't sharpen it twice, and then stopped moving, how did it feel strange next to the stream, Yang Yu raised his head, only to find that on the stones by the stream, the bank was actually sprinkled with flower petals!
A faint and tactful fragrance quietly penetrated into the nose, it was a faint floral fragrance!
There were also petals on the stone on which the knife was sharpened, but now they were wet with water, and the petals fell into the stream and drifted downstream.
Yang Yu was a little dazed, he stared at the petal and watched it float into the distance, as if the surrounding scenery was still! In this way, he stood for a long time, his heart was empty, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses, and then he squatted down and continued to sharpen his knife.
The single knife was covered with black stains and oil stains, and after Yang Yu cleaned it carefully, he sharpened the blade on the stone, and he concentrated on doing it until the blade was sharpened!
Yang Yu tried the blade with his thumb, nodded with satisfaction, and sat on the big stone, Yang Yu stretched, looked at the petals all over the ground, and thought about the people in the convoy.
At this time, something by the stream caught his attention, it was shining in the sun, Yang Yu walked over and picked it up!
It was a small sculpture made of metal, black all over, with a faint sheen, in the form of some kind of bird, like a swallow!
The workmanship of this swallow is exquisite, but the appearance is a bit exaggerated, the swallow's wings are contracted, the tail is forked and sticks out very long, and there is a spike in the middle! The head shines with a sharp luster, if you look at it alone, it looks like a woman's hairpin.
Yang Yu played with it for a while, and felt that this thing should be lost by someone who bathed here last night, so it should be a noble person in the team, right?
The convoy had already left in the morning, and Yang Yu knew that he might not see the convoy again, but there were no absolutes in the world, so he picked up his knife and turned to leave.
Shi San was already boiling water on the fire, and when he saw Yang Yu come back, he poured him a bowl of hot soup, which was the leftover mutton bones from yesterday! The two of them drank mutton soup around the fire, the sun in the sky had risen very high, but Liangen was not in a hurry to leave, since he had promised Jia Xing, it was very important to keep his promise.
"He had good intentions, I know, but he delayed our trip," Shi San said.
"Wait a little longer, let's go!" Yang Yu said.
Shi San nodded and continued to drink the mutton soup, their dry food had been eaten, and the mutton from last night was expected to be able to make them eat for a few more days, but now there were only mutton bones left.
"Da Hei, I'm going to trouble you if I can't get it today!" Shi San touched the head of the big black dog, the big black dog opened his mouth and yawned, stood up and shook the black hair on his body, looked up at the sky, and then looked at Yang Yu, so why didn't he set off?
Yang Yu said with a smile: "Didn't that Chang Long leave the silver to sell mutton yesterday? Further along, there should be villages and towns, and we should be able to buy some dry food at that time!" After speaking, he took out a small silver ingot from his arms and threw it to Shi San.
Last night, when Jia Xing and Chang Long were leaving, they offered to buy their remaining mutton, Yang Yu said no, he gave it to them if he liked to eat it, but Jia Xing still insisted on leaving a small silver ingot!
Now Shi San is looking at this silver ingot, he has never seen what silver money looks like when he is so big, but he heard Yang Yu and the old man say that silver can buy a lot of things, and it will be very useful in big cities, but this silver ingot is not the slightest peculiarity except for a little drop in his hand, and after watching it for a long time, Shi San suddenly lost interest in the silver ingot, and threw it to Yang Yu.
Yang Yu knows that money is a good thing, looking at the people in this world, who is poor and who is rich, it is definitely measured by this thing in his hand, and when he goes to Luoyang, the capital of the gods, he obviously can't move an inch without money!
Before leaving, Yang Yu had thought about this matter, and he put some animal fur and herbs in the back basket, just thinking that these things could be exchanged for some money at that time.
"Let Da Hei follow us, I feel that the front is not very peaceful! If you run into a village or town, you can buy dry food, and you don't have to trouble Da Hei!" Yang Yu said.
Shi San had no opinion on this, the two of them stood up and began to pack their luggage, then stood by the fire, pulled down their pants to pee, and extinguished the fire! This is the habit of living in the jungle valley, and after the fire source in the jungle is gone, it must be completely extinguished, otherwise it is easy to cause a mountain fire.
Seeing that it was almost noon, the two of them passed through the forest, walked along the ruts, and soon after, they walked to the official road, and then looked at the sky and horizon in the distance, and the two of them and a dog began to continue on their way!
When it was almost afternoon, there were continuous hills all around, and Chang Long had said last night that less than 30 miles in front of the pipeline was Ni'er Pass! The mountains there were steep, the terrain was complicated, and there were even dense forests! Yang Yu estimated that they should be almost at Ni'er Pass!
Ni'er Pass used to be the throat of the peers of the important pass in the whole reckless mountain area in the south of the Jingshi, but this pass has long been destroyed in the war of I don't know how many years ago, the capital of the capital of the Great Jin Dynasty to the south does not need any important passes, the divine capital Luoyang is the concentration of access to the four seas, the Great Jin Dynasty has been established for five hundred years, and the real enemy has never come from the south!
The enemies of the Great Jin Dynasty have always come from the west and the north! Beyond the small Beihai in the northern part of the Great Jin border is the vast wasteland, where powerful barbarian slaves live! But these barbarians will not easily go south, and the real pressure on the Great Jin comes from the powerful neighbor to the west, the Great Han Dynasty!
The Han Dynasty was the only country that had defeated the northern barbarian slave clan for the only time, and it had always been eyeing the Great Jin Dynasty in the east, but a Zhongnan Mountain Range across the north and south became a trench between the Han and the Great Jin, making the two countries always maintain a strategic balance.
Ni'er Pass is just the old name, there is a canyon here, there are the remains of the stone bricks and other things of the original level on the canyon, the mountains on both sides are steep, and the front and back are densely covered with deep and wide woods, Yang Yu and Shi San got close and suddenly felt a sense of slaughter!
The big black dog smelled something, in fact, not only it, but Yang Yu and Shi San also smelled this smell at the same time, it was a smell of blood!