Chapter 7: Groping

It has been almost two months since Yang Xue came here, and it has been more than half a month since the last rain. There were also a few rains during this period, but the rain was not very heavy for a long time. But since the last rain, she has been working hard to save things, whether it is food or firewood, she has worked hard to move it into the cave, and now the firewood in the cave accounts for nearly a quarter, and some of it is placed on the ground next to the cave next to the mountain.

I also saved a lot of food, and put it in baskets and set it aside. Probably some eggs, dried mushrooms, dried peaches, dried bracken, etc. But in addition, she also found a clump of yams, which she had never eaten herself in her previous life, but had used it to feed pigs, and she thought that pigs could eat people, and she should be able to eat them, so she dug it back. Later, I burned one to eat it, and it felt good, and there were no problems, so I left them in my stomach. I ate some and now there are not a few left. The place where the food is eaten and the firewood are stacked are opposite, one left and one right, but the relative food seems to be less. But you should be able to eat it for a long time.

In addition, she has been around the cave for more than half a month, and accidentally caught a pheasant, but later did not save it and ate it all due to the weather. But the taste is still very good, although there is no seasoning, but it is quite fresh. Even the place where she woke up before had been looked around, but she didn't find anything special.

On the left side of the cave entrance, she had walked a few miles away and found a steep slope that was close to a cliff. There are also many trees on it, but they are almost not large, and most of them are ordinary small shrubs and wild grasses. The height of the cliff is very high, and the length is also more than 1,000 meters. She was still at the top of the cliff and heard the wolf howl coming from the opposite mountain, but she did not hear or see the voices or figures of large animals around her. But in the area where she woke up, she saw some feces that resembled pig manure, but they had been dry for a long time. And she didn't find anything new, she thought it might have been left behind by a passing boar.

At the top of the cliff before, she could faintly see cooking smoke drifting far down the mountain, but she wasn't sure if it was really cooking smoke or mountain fog. However, she also wanted to slowly grope down the mountain to see if she could find a home or a village or town to live in, and buy some necessities. The most important thing is salt and knives, she hasn't ingested salt for too long, so it's not good for her body's growth. As for knives, with knives you can do many, many things, such as: firewood can be cut off from large roots and burned, and you can make simple shelf beds without sleeping on the ground; There is also the fact that she has seen wild bamboo in the mountains before, although it is not big, it can also be cut to boil some hot water to drink; There are many, many other things that require knives. And the clothes on her body are already very tattered, even though she has been very careful, but still ...... The heels and socks on her feet were broken, and she now tied her shoes to her feet with vines and the like. There were many other things that needed more groceries, so now she really had to go down.

On this day, after a few days of preparation, she finally set off, so she took her previous purse and put everything else in the cave, and prepared some cooked eggs and taro that were easy to carry and cooked, and later made of sturdy rattan baskets. She walked out in the direction of the river, and this time she was ready to walk for several days.

Because she had developed a section of the road two days ago, she walked very fast at first, but she had only walked a short distance before, so slowly her speed slowed down.

Two days later, she finally saw the real people, but because it was getting late and she was still on the mountain, she decided to rest on the mountain tonight and come down tomorrow morning to find it. She found a leeward stone to rest, and there was a little bit of rain protection left by the stone under the stone, but it was very small. Her body could only curl up in it, and if it really rained, it wouldn't stop anything, but fortunately, it didn't rain at night.

The next day, Yang Xue got up at dawn, ate the only egg and taro she had brought, and then carried the empty basket to the place where there was a crowd at the bottom of the mountain. However, it was a long walk to a place that was not very far, and it took her more than half an hour to get to the road at first. But there are a lot of weeds on the road, like no one has walked in years. It took nearly half an hour to get to the place where I could clearly see the crowd.

When she arrived at the place, she saw a lot of people coming and going, and she straightened her clothes and stepped forward. It looked like a town, and then asked an aunt who felt kind when she walked in, "Auntie, may I ask where this is?" Why are there so many people? The aunt heard her question and glanced at her, although she was very surprised, but still replied to her: "Little girl, this is Baihu Town, today is the day of the town to catch the market, so there are so many people, I also came to catch the market." "That's right, then thank you, Auntie, you can go first." After understanding, she thanked her aunt. The aunt didn't say anything more and turned around and walked inside, and Yang Xue also went in with her when she saw this.

After Yang Xue entered the town, she first asked the location of a cheap and well-known cloth store, and she wanted to change her clothes first. After all, in modern times, many clerks also watch people cook, and she doesn't care about you if you don't dress well, let alone in this hierarchical ancient times. And the clothes on her body are indeed too tattered, maybe some beggars are better than her.

When she came to the cloth shop that others said, there were still a few people shopping inside, so she stood at the door a little bit away and waited for a while. She didn't go in until after those people were gone, and the shopkeeper and Xiao Er inside didn't say anything unpleasant or express their expressions when they saw her like this. When Xiao Er saw her enter, he asked, "What do you need?" "I want to buy a set of clothes that I can wear, how much will it cost?" "We have several kinds of fabrics here, and the prices are different." "How much does it cost to make a normal fabric?" "That's right, we have an ordinary set of twenty wen made of linen cloth, and thirty-five wen made of cotton cloth; There are also some that were made last year because they are not very new, so they are cheaper, and the ten wen of linen is twenty wen. These are relatively cost-effective and durable fabrics. "Well, then you can get me two sets of cotton cloth made from last year, and then two sets of linen cloth, by the way, this is money." After speaking, he took out his purse and took a piece of broken silver to the shopkeeper.

She didn't want people to worry that she would have no money to give, so Xiao Er took the money and took it to the shopkeeper and said, "Please wait a moment, I'll go get you clothes, and our shopkeeper will find you money." After that, I went to look for clothes. Yang Xue walked to the counter and waited for the shopkeeper to find money and Xiao Er to find clothes. After a while, the shopkeeper found her two strings and forty texts, one string of one hundred texts, a total of two hundred and forty texts. She thought to herself: It turned out that the piece of silver was almost 300 yuan, that is, three coins of silver, and she had a total of five yuan, which was probably more than one or two yuan, and it seemed that she would save a little.

After finding the money, Xiao Er also came out with clothes, but he took five sets out; I don't know what he said to the shopkeeper, and then the shopkeeper said, "This guest, we only have these five sets of old clothes of about the same size left, or I will give you a cheaper price, and you can buy them all." "This ......" Yang Xue hesitated a little, she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to take it back, and she wanted to save some money. Seeing her hesitant, the shopkeeper continued: "Otherwise, you are adding ten cents, and the most of this set is cotton, and it is also new, but it is sold cheaply after a long time." I only heard Xiao Er say that this is the last set, so I plan to sell it to you cheaply, and you can't usually buy such cheap clothes. And this set is bigger, you can leave it and wear it later. After hesitating, she still bought the extra set of clothes, paid another ten cents, and asked the shopkeeper for a place to change clothes. However, looking at the shoes on his feet that could not be broken again, Xiao Er took two pairs of cloth shoes, which were new and durable thick-soled cloth shoes, and it cost another twenty yuan. It cost 90 wen in the cloth shop, but because there were too many things to take away, I discussed with the shopkeeper for a while to get them, and after the shopkeeper agreed, I asked the salt shop and the iron shop to buy other things.