Chapter 18 A safe journey

Wei Shuisheng and Li Erhuai circled around the car, Wei Shuisheng stretched out his hand to lift the curtain, looked inside, looked back at the stunned Li Zongliang, and sighed: "I see, our little family not only has the ability to make money has risen greatly, but the ability to spend money is also very powerful. ”

Li Erhuai stood beside Li Zongliang, looked at Li Zongliang with a calm face, and then looked at Li Xiaoqi who was stared at by Li Zongliang and dodged all the way to the side, holding a cooking cake in his hand, I don't know whether it is better to hand it to Li Zongliang or not to hand it for the time being. Li Xiaoqi smiled, and didn't dare to go directly to Li Zongliang's side, so he carefully moved to Li Erhuai's side first, took the cooking cake from Li Erhuai's hand, and handed it to Li Zongliang flatteringly: "Big brother, try this cooking cake, it's better than what is made in the Hu Cake Workshop in Taiping Mansion." ”

Li Zongliang didn't take the cake, only stared at Li Xiaoxiao with a calm face, Li Erhuai squeezed his eyebrows and gestured to Wei Shuisheng, Li Xiaoqi held the cake in both hands and handed it to Li Zongliang, and said pitifully: "Big brother ate a steamed bun last night, he must be hungry, eat the cake first, and only when he is full can he have the strength to teach Xiao Mi a lesson, big brother, you eat first." ”

Wei Shuisheng took the cooking cake in Li Xiaoqi's hand and stuffed it into Li Zongliang's hand, laughing so much that he couldn't speak, only pushed Li Zongliang, laughed for a while, and then persuaded: "It's also thoughtful and thoughtful, so it's okay, with this car, we can also suffer less along the way, in case you can't avoid people along the way, you can also hide in the car, it's not all bad, last night I also thought that it would be nice to have a car, but I didn't expect these two small ones, but they also have the ability, five taels of silver to buy an old donkey and bring a car, if this is in Taiping Mansion, I can't buy ten taels of silver, this car and this donkey, let's use it all the way, and sell it in Nanjiang City, maybe we can sell a few more taels of silver. ”

"That's it! Aquatic is right! Li Erhuai hurriedly said good things, Li Zongliang took the cake with one hand, knocked on Li Xiaoqi's forehead with the other hand and reprimanded: "Forget it this time, if you have any plans next time, you have to discuss it with everyone first, and then make such a self-assertion, I will •••••• it and ••••••" Li Zongliang couldn't think of how to deal with Li Xiaoqi for a while, Li Xiaoqi hurriedly took it for him: "Just punish me for not eating for a day!" ”

"Xiao Qi and I only remembered this on the way, and I'm afraid it's too late to come back to discuss." Li Zonggui finally interjected to explain, Wei Shuisheng glanced at him, stretched out his hand and rubbed Li Xiaoyi's head and explained: "You can't do this next time, you had this idea last night, right?" ”

Li Xiaoyi's eyes dodged, and he simply pointed to the car and diverted the topic: "It's not too early now, it's time for us to get on the road, let's go quickly, it's easy to have an accident if you stay here for too long." ”

Wei Shuisheng shook his head with a smile, took a cooking cake from Li Erhuai's arms, bit it, and looked at Li Zonggui and asked, "Did you ask about the road to South Vietnam?" ”

"Well, say hello carefully, go all the way to the west and north, first go to Xinyang, then to Zhengcheng, after Zhengcheng, and then walk for a day or two, it will be Nanyue."

"Let's go, let's get on the road first, and talk as we go." Li Zongliang stepped forward and grabbed the reins of the old green donkey and said.

"Big brother, let's get in the car, it's too close to Hexian County, and there are many people on the road, so if people see it, it's a big trouble." Li Zonggui hurriedly stepped forward to take the reins and said, Li Zongliang agreed, and Wei Shuisheng and Li Erhuai squeezed into the car, Li Xiaoqi was afraid of tiring the seventy and eighty old young donkey, so he didn't dare to sit in the car again, and together with Li Zonggui, he led the donkey, bit the cooking cake, and went all the way to Xinyang.

After walking for half an hour, there were so few pedestrians on the road that there was no one to be seen from afar, Li Zongliang and the three got out of the car, Li Erhuai led the donkey, and Li Xiaoqi sat at the door of the carriage, shaking his legs, listening to a few people talking.

"Is there any other way? It's best not to go to Zhengcheng. Wei Shuisheng discussed with Li Zongliang with a worried face, Li Zonggui turned his head to look at Li Zongliang and explained: "Now we can only go like this, it turns out that all the way to the southwest, to the south of Vietnam is the most convenient, but now there is a war in the south, and all the way from Qianzhou to the north is separated by mountains, and when we arrive just when the snow covers the mountain, we can't pass, we can only go north, from Zhengcheng." ”

"Zheng Cheng is next to Nanyue, Liang and Beiping, at this time Beiping and Liang have already fought, and in another month or two, I don't know what the chaos will be!" Wei Shuisheng frowned and worried.

"Even the Taiping Mansion is not peaceful, how can there be a peaceful place! It's okay if it's messy, take advantage of the chaos, let's sneak over, anyway, big brother and aquatic brother are good at kung fu, we're not afraid of fighting! Li Xiaoqi said with a smile.

"Your second brother Huai's kung fu is also very good!" Li Erhuai saw that Li Xiaoqi didn't mention him, so he hurriedly turned around and reminded Li Zongliang that Li Zongliang raised his hand and knocked on Li Xiaoyi's head: "Still sneaking, look at you, this escape is the same as You Chun!" ”

Li Xiaoqi shrank his head, and he didn't dare to say much with a smile.

After walking for two or three days, out of He County, when they arrived at the county seat of Ying County, Li Zongliang unloaded the car and found a hidden place to hide, Li Xiaoqi and Li Zonggui led the old green donkey into Ying County, the two cautiously checked the four gates of Ying County, and did not see the five picture notices, Li Xiaoqi and the old guard of the door looked for words and asked, it turned out that this Ying County, there was no notice that someone killed the officers and soldiers of the Taiping Mansion, and the old man had never heard of this at all!

Li Xiaoqi and Li Zonggui breathed a long sigh of relief, it turned out that the notice was only sent to He County, it seems that the government really didn't take their idea of this thing in their eyes, just send a notice to deal with it, and the two of them were in a good mood to walk around Yingxian, bought pickles, and bought a bag of charcoal, close to the city gate, the red braised pig's head meat just out of the pot in the braised meat shop next to it exudes an extremely attractive fragrance, Li Zonggui' Gudong swallowed his saliva, these days, they are pickled flatbread every day, and the smell of this pork makes people want to bite their tongues off.

Li Xiaoqi also swallowed his saliva, stretched his neck to look at the steaming pot of steaming and fragrant pig's head meat, stabbed Li Zonggui, and suggested in a low voice: "Let's get here, it's the one that came out, and even the notice is gone, otherwise, buy two catties of pig's head meat and go back, we must always celebrate and celebrate!" ”

Li Zonggui paused, swallowed his saliva, looked at Li Xiaoyi, grinned and nodded: "That's it, you're right, don't sell more, just taste it!" ”

"Two pounds! No matter how little Brother Erhuai is, he can't even taste the taste! As he spoke, Li Xiaoqi had already stood in front of the braised meat pot, taking money from the blanket on Li Zonggui's back with one hand, and picking and picking with one finger and asking the shopkeeper to cut the pig's head.

After eating meat without notice, the five of them were in a good mood, although they were still cautious along the way, but in the end they were much more relaxed, and they could sleep peacefully at night.

Walked for more than half a month, this way passed, even half a notice has not been seen again, a few people are more relaxed and happy, meet the town, but also began to take turns into the city to buy things, inquire about the news, easily walked for more than a month, the road is far away, see more and more times when the army in action, at first is occasionally seen one or two times, and then almost every day can be seen, a few people are frightened, dare not take the road again, and then walked back to the country road.

Walked for two months, just after Tang County, from midnight, it snowed heavily, when passing through a town, Wei Shuisheng and Li Zonggui went to buy two bags of charcoal, and bought a bag of bean cakes for the old green donkey, carried them to the car, Li Xiaoqi nested in the car, guarding the red clay stove, and the rest of the people took turns to get on the car to rest, and continued to move forward in the heavy snow with difficulty.

It's already the end of November, close to the wax moon, in such a snowy day, there are almost no pedestrians on the road, and the group is relaxed, on the road, Li Zonggui happened to hit a stupid roe deer, a few people even found a broken ancestral hall that night, Li Erhuai found a leeward corner for the old green donkey to lie down, fed the hay soaked with bean cakes, Li Zongliang carried a gun, and inspected the surroundings, Li Zonggui roasted roe deer meat with great interest, Wei Shuisheng helped Li Xiaoqi set up an iron pot and cooked rice porridge.

A few people had a lively meal, roasted the fire, talked for a while, calculated the itinerary, and in a dozen days, they would be able to enter the territory of South Vietnam, and they only felt more and more relaxed in their hearts.

Rest overnight, the next day, although the snow is a lot smaller, but still sprinkled without stopping, the road accumulates more than a foot of thick snow, almost can't see where the road is, a few people have breakfast, wait for half an hour, only out of the broken ancestral hall, drive the car on the road, the road really walked a few groups of pedestrians, stepped out of the footprints, car prints, a few people along the footprints, car prints, all the way to Zhengcheng direction.

At noon, I didn't find a place to rest, a few people except stopped to feed the old green donkey a few times, simply did not rest again, from the afternoon to the evening, there were almost no people on the way, near the evening, the snow gradually stopped, and the distant red round sun showed half of its face on the horizon, indifferently peeking at the world.

Not far ahead, a car rolled over in the ditch on the side of the road, a wheel was left in the middle of the road, next to the car, a middle-aged man who looked like a middle-aged worker was helplessly circling the car, a boy about ten years old wearing a fur hat and a thick cotton robe, standing on the wheel in the middle of the road, leading a big green mule, his face was red from the cold, and he looked anxiously at the middle-aged worker and the car that fell in the ditch.

Wei Shuisheng and Li Zongliang stopped, the car also stopped, Li Xiaoqi hurriedly leaned out of the car, followed Li Zongliang's gaze and looked ahead, Li Zongliang signaled Li Zonggui to lead the old green donkey, he and Wei Shuisheng, Li Erhuai walked over, Li Xiaoqi hurriedly put on his shoes, jumped out of the car, and followed to see the excitement.