Seeing Gao Ling and the others go to the back, Zhang Meng started to find a few broken doors and windows, smashed them, took out the tinder to fight, and made a fire. After a while, the flames burned hotly, and the heating filled the hall.

At this time, Gao Ling, Liu Ying, and Ma San'er came to bake the fire before and after, looked at the fire in front of them, and listened to the sound of rain outside the house.

In this way, the fire was roasted until dark, and everyone remembered to have dinner, but when they walked away from the inn in the morning, they had already eaten up the dry food for lunch at noon, and the heavy rain still did not stop, so they had no choice but to starve for a night.

The next morning, when the rain gradually thinned out, Zhang Meng lay on the grass pile in front of the statue, listening to the sound of torrents everywhere outside the house, and thought about what to do.

I got up and went out to look into the distance, and saw that not far from the bottom of the mountain, that is, at the place of Sanerli Road, there was a house peeking out of the trees.

Zhang Meng saw it and said, "Okay!" Someone's home. So he went into the house and instructed Ma San'er: "Wait a while, the rain will stop, let's go to the village below and get some food." ”

After Zhang Meng finished speaking, he unwrapped the package, took out a handful of silver coins and put them in his arms, and instructed Ma San'er: "Let's go, let's go to the village." Looking back at Gao Ling, they hadn't come out yet, so he asked loudly: "Gao Ling, let's go out and get something to eat, why don't you just wait here, it's okay?" ”

Takamine replied, "Go with yours, we'll be fine." Go out and buy food, just come back early. ”

It turned out that this small mountain village was called Guozigou, and the whole village, that is, more than 30 families, were scattered on the sunny slope of one side, and lived like this for generations.

Zhang Meng and the others came to buy food, and when the villagers saw it, they all looked at it with puzzled eyes, but fortunately, the villagers were good-minded, and they took Zhang Meng, who gave them some food and drink, and never talked about the price. Zhang Meng made it clear to them that he was a businessman who specialized in purchasing traditional Chinese medicine materials: "I was drenched in heavy rain, and the river blocked the way, so I had to live in a broken temple and wait for the river to subside." ”

In this way, Zhang Meng and they lived here for two days.

The mountain village is secluded, since ancient times, there are few people, Zhang Meng and they came, it became a big news, so, on the morning of the third day, some villagers brought dry food and their own collected medicinal materials, came to the broken temple to send food to Zhang Meng and them to eat, and sold their own medicinal materials.

Seeing the honest and honest appearance of the three or four villagers, Zhang Meng instructed Gao Ling: "Accept their medicinal materials, the price is about the same, just promise them, there is no need to argue." In this way, I collected more than 20 catties on the first day.

Early the next morning, forty or fifty villagers came, and according to their own introductions, some of them belonged to this fruit ditch, and some of them belonged to other villages. ”

A group of people just hugged me and crowded the courtyard of the broken temple, Zhang Meng saw it, felt that it was not a good thing to live like this, every day to look at the river behind it, it still did not subside, it turned out that it had been raining upstream for the past few days.

Today, Zhang Meng felt bad and couldn't go on the road, so he had to live like this.

Seeing that it was evening, Gao Ling sent the villagers away. Zhang Meng entered the main hall and took a look, and bought thousands of catties of medicinal materials, and piled up a corner of the main hall.

Zhang Meng saw it and said with a wry smile: "We have really become merchants who buy mountain goods?" ”

After a pause, he thought for a moment and said, "Well, this won't work, there will be no need to carry horses in the future, just these mountain medicinal materials are enough for four horses." So he instructed Gao Ling: "Don't accept it tomorrow, no matter who comes to deliver it, just say we won't accept it." ”

The next day, hundreds of mountain people came to sell their medicinal materials, and a few guys came with donkeys carrying medicinal materials.

Gao Ling finally persuaded the mountain people to leave according to Zhang Meng's instructions, but these people who did not sell the money were all unhappy when they left, and they were still muttering and scolding something.

Zhang Meng and his family live in a place where they are a little satisfied - because the price is good, the villagers of Guozigou are vying to deliver food here.

That night, when Zhang Meng slept until the third watch, he was suddenly awakened by the sound of a war horse tearing, and hurriedly got up to light the fire, lit a torch and went out to check.

Ma San'er ran out of the hall earlier, that is, as soon as he ran to the meditation room, he heard him shout: "Horse thief!" Where to run? ”

Zhang Meng heard this, and hurriedly went out to check.

As soon as Zhang Meng went out, when he looked up, he saw two figures disappearing outside the mountain gate in an instant, Zhang Meng didn't chase after him, so he went to the meditation room to see what was going on with Ma San'er and the horses.

At this time, Ma San'er was there scolding the two thieves, only to see the two thieves nesting in the corner behind the horses, trembling and moaning, Ma San'er stood next to him, pointed at the two of them with the sword in his hand, and forced them to speak.

Zhang Meng saw it and ordered Ma San'er to go back to the main hall and light the torches, and then come over to interrogate the two thieves.

It turned out that these four thieves were from the neighboring village under the mountain, and they heard that the owner of the mountain goods who bought medicinal herbs here had four good horses in his house, so he moved the heart of theft and wanted to come and steal the horses and sell them far away for money.

"I didn't want the horse to be very irritable and not let anyone lean in, so I just leaned over and was about to go forward to untie the horse's reins, but I was unafraid that it would kick me in the thigh with one of its hooves, and I collapsed on the ground. Oops, oops. ”

The other horse thief was not injured by the horse, but was kicked under the ribs by Ma San'er, which hurt his heart and liver, and he was still rolling on the ground at this time.

Zhang Meng saw it, and ordered Ma San'er to drag the two of them to the yard, and then went out of the mountain gate to look around, looking for the two who escaped, but where did they see the figures, and they already didn't know where to flee.

At this time, the sky was already bright, and Gao Ling and Liu Ying also came out to check on the two thieves.

Zhang Meng saw that these two guys had stopped moaning, so he ordered Ma San'er: "Don't make a noise, let them go." Well, such a bear goods, also thinking of coming out to make a windfall, hehe, cast in the wrong way, don't take a good look at who we are! ”

After the thief left, Zhang Meng and the others had some breakfast casually, cleaned up, Zhang Meng instructed Gao Ling and Liu Ying: "Ma San'er and I will go down the mountain to see the river, if it subsides, we will hurry today." ”

So, Zhang Meng took Ma San'er along the path he came to the river.

When I came to the river, I saw that the river had subsided a lot more than before, and when I looked up at the sky upstream of the river, there were no dark clouds, but a clear sky.

Zhang Meng saw it and said to Ma San'er: "It seems that the rain has stopped, the river has subsided, and in the afternoon, we can cross the river." ”