356. Chapter 356
The situation in Beiyuan City was the same as in the capital, although the war had not yet arrived, but a little unnatural could be seen on the faces of the soldiers and officials. However, the common people do not seem to be affected much, and they are still on the streets when they should be on the streets, and they are buying and selling when they should be trading.
No one cares how many outsiders there are, or how many outsiders are missing.
Yingli, who is also an outsider, is hiding outside Tianluozhuang, although she is still angry, her thinking is still quite clear. Although she didn't know what Kuaiju's purpose was, she knew that her sister would definitely not let her run around, let alone go to Chen Yin, so when Kuaiju closed the courtyard door, she took out the dagger that Chen Yin gave her, poured some strength, and easily carved a big hole in the wall.
She picked up the stone and got out of the hole.
All the previous cooperation allowed her to escape from Tianluozhuang easily, but this was only the first step in the beginning.
Landing on the streets of Beiyuan City, looking at the crowds coming and going, how to return to the Central Plains safely is the most difficult thing, not to mention that she is pregnant now, but fortunately, it is not revealed much. When she left Tianluozhuang, she took a black dress with a hood, which not only covered her silver hair, but also wrapped her whole body in the jumpsuit, which was not much eye-catching in the war.
Yingli's most urgent problem at the moment is that there is not a single penny of entanglement on her body, if she goes on the road alone, she will either starve to death, or die of cold, or be eaten by wild beasts when she sleeps in the wilderness at night. Thinking of this, she was so angry that Chen Yin actually threw her alone in Ma Siguo.
She touched the things around her, but the only things that could be made to wrap around her were the hairpin on her head and this dagger, this small wine pot hairpin was the first thing Chen Yin gave her, so she naturally couldn't move, but if she took the dagger, she would have nothing to defend herself against.
Yingli hid at the entrance of the alley, looking at the crowded crowds, thinking hard about what to do next, she knew that time was running out, if she couldn't get out of Beiyuan City tonight, then don't think about going out again.
After thinking about it, she simply turned her heart sideways, came to the pawnshop, and threw the dagger on the stage: "How much can this be?"
"Wait a minute, the guest officer," the pawnshop's little second read countless things, and at first glance he knew that it was not an ordinary dagger, "If you have a weapon, let me ask the master to come out and identify it." ”
The pawnshop shopkeeper heard the call and came out of the back hall, Xiao Er picked up the dagger and handed it to him, the shopkeeper picked it up and looked at it carefully for a while, he was overjoyed, and immediately wrapped it in a piece of cloth: "This guest officer, can you enter the side room to talk in detail." ”
"What is there to talk about, if you say you can be or not, how much can you be, if it is appropriate, I will give you a dagger, and you give me two pieces of silver. Yingli said unhappily.
"The guest officer is angry, angry," the shopkeeper saw that there was no one in the pawnshop at the moment, so he didn't force it, "Then Rong Xiao's mouth asked, please tell the guest officer truthfully, will the guest officer come to redeem this thing?"
"You pawnshop is so strange, just look at Zhang Dang and do things according to the rules, why do you ask so much?"
"That's not what it means, guest officer," said the shopkeeper cautiously, "pawnshop rules, we don't ask anything and the guest officer, but this thing is of extraordinary value, and the store is not ambiguous with the guest officer, if it is, although the price is not low, but if the guest officer sells, the store is willing to give this amount." ”
With that, the shopkeeper stretched out five fingers.
"Five hundred taels?"
"Fifty thousand taels of silver tickets. ”
Yingli gasped, she knew that this dagger was unusual, but she didn't expect it to be so valuable.
"What if you take it?"
"If it is lost, five thousand taels, three months is the time limit. ”
Five thousand taels is enough for her to go back and forth between the Central Plains and Ma Siguo four or five times, Yingli immediately nodded: "If you lose it, I will redeem it in three months." ”
"Okay, but there is a saying in the front, these three months are the death period, if it is over, no matter how much money the store will not return this thing, then the guest officer is not strange. ”
"Got it, let's open it. ”
Five thousand taels got a treasure, and the pawnshop shopkeeper was very happy, and judging from his countless experience, he felt that most of the masters would not come back to get this thing.
And the entanglement of 5,000 taels is also an unexpected joy for Yingli, now that she has money, the road ahead is suddenly clear, and she can solve the second problem - knowing the way.
Although there were few coachmen willing to take orders to the capital because of the war between the two countries, there must be brave men under the heavy reward, Yingli still spent far more than ten times the usual price to find someone willing to take the deal.
"Girl, you chose me right, now that the war has blocked the official road, we may take some detours, but we can't go far, that road is very remote, only we old runners know. ”
The coachman was an old man over the age of six, with shabby clothes and trousers, almost all patches, and in some places patches on patches.
If it weren't for the fact that no one was willing to respond, and Yingli didn't know the way, he wouldn't have been ruthless enough to let him run so far: "It's okay, I'm not in a hurry, you can do it slowly, it's really not okay, you always lead the way for me, I'll drive." ”
"Girl, this is underestimating the old man," the old coachman rolled up his sleeves and looked competent, "when will we leave?"
"Now. ”
The old coachman was stunned for a moment, and then replied vigorously: "Yes, I will listen to you, girl." But I'll have to go back and tell my family, because it's not a matter of a day or two. ”
"Okay," Yingli paid half of the road money first, and gave him an extra hundred taels of silver tickets, "I have to bother you to prepare some dry food and water along the way, I will go out of the city to wait for you first, and when you are ready, you will come directly to look for me outside the city gate." ”
"Okay, please wait for the girl for an hour. ”
After the two separated, Yingli hurried out of the city and waited outside early.
However, the old coachman did not lose his trust, and in about half an hour, Yingli saw him again.
There was a large package on the back of the carriage, which was full of dry food and water.
Lao Sule changed into a new dress, although it was still patched everywhere. He also specially tidied up the carriage, and spread a peach silk that did not match the style of the carriage, although it was a little old, but it was very well cherished, and it can be seen that it should be regarded as an extremely valuable thing of the old coachman's family.
"This is what the old lady of my family means, I don't know if the girl likes it or not, she said that the girl is a benefactor, and decorating the carriage will make the girl sit more comfortable," the old woman helped Yingli into the carriage, and took out a hundred taels of silver tickets from his arms, "This is returned to the girl, I added the old woman and said that since the girl paid us so much money, then the dry food money for this trip will not need to be paid by the girl again." ”
"Thank you very much," Yingli glanced at Beiyuan City behind her from the car window, "Old man, let's go on the road first." ”