The next morning, they said goodbye to the old man surnamed Zeng, and several people set out on the road again.

The three women in the carriage were still chattering and discussing, and Wang Quan threw them a poker and left the carriage.

"Can't stand it?"

Pu Wen held the reins in one hand, and the bamboo leaf green that he asked from the old man before leaving, and handed it to the king on the side after taking a sip.

The latter took the drink, took a sip and said:

"This trip made me understand a truth."

"What a reason?"

"The wife must not ask for more, if there are three or four of them in the family, the relationship is not compatible, and the relationship is still looking for guilt."

Park Wen took the wine bag again, smiled and said nothing.

……

From Zhenjian Mansion to Zhongzhou, it will take three days at the earliest, which means that several people have to travel for two days to reach the nearest town.

There are possible villages along the way, but the map is not as detailed, and at most some important towns are indicated.

Wang Quanquan was really bored, so he chatted with Pu Wen about the customs and customs of various parts of the Central Plains.

Park Wen has always longed for the Central Plains, and he has done a lot of homework in advance before coming, but even so, the Central Plains told from the mouth of the king's authority is still very different from what he imagined.

"The Central Plains, the territory is vast, the scenery is different, one side of the water and soil to support the other side of the people, the whole dynasty has a total of 13 provinces, each province has its own customs, the language is not the same, and even within the same province, there will be a certain gap.

The Central Plains saying is to follow the local customs, which reflects this very well. ”

"Then the Zhongzhou we are going to, are there any customs that need to be paid attention to, or any special food?"

Park Wen and Moon Cake are both foodies, and experiencing the customs is secondary, and eating all the world's delicacies is their pursuit in life.

Wang Quan said plainly:

"The customs and taboos in Zhongzhou are not much different from those in the capital, there are not many delicious ones, but there are a few things, such as spicy soup, meat sandwich buns, soup dumplings, etc., but most of these capitals are sold, if you want to eat, the braised carp there is a must, and you may not be able to eat it in other places."

In the past, in Northern Turkistan, due to the constraints of conditions, the most eaten cattle and sheep were cattle and sheep, which were a precious object in the Central Plains, but they were the most common ingredients in Northern Turkistan.

Steaming, roasting, and smoking, it seems that there are many patterns, but if you eat too much, you will be tired.

Just as he was longing, he listened to the king's authority and say thoughtfully:

"But I think of one thing, in recent years, there seem to be a lot of bandits here in Zhongzhou, and before leaving, the old man Zeng also instructed that he must take the avenue, probably because the bandits mostly do business on the forest path."

Naturally, Pu Wen is not afraid of bandits, and he can't wait to meet a few.

There are few mountains in Beitu, so there are few bandits, but there are ringing horses.

Ringing horses usually have a team of at least a dozen people, each with a fast horse, and with the advantage of speed, they raid some small tribes.

Because they came and went freely and acted decisively, every time the officers and soldiers arrived, they had already run away.

However, fortunately, all the people in Northern Turkistan are soldiers, regardless of old and young, they can get on their horses to fight, and dismount to control the strings.

Rabbits bite when they are in a hurry, so the horses do not dare to be too presumptuous, usually only asking for money and trying not to hurt people.

Despite this, the Northern Turkistan court still launched several annual campaigns to clear the ringing horses, and it is said that a single ringing horse head can carry at least twenty sheep, but only those on the list.

Every time it is cleared, the North Turks will participate in the transition from the king's grandson to the common people.

Some slightly larger tribes will even set up a special clearance team, carrying bows and knives, chasing those ringing horses that have never flaunted their might on weekdays like lost dogs.

Under such a brutal blow, those bandits who lived by looting can be said to be only better than beggars.

Under this high-pressure measure, some overwhelmed Xiangma either washed their hands and quit the business, or left the country to plunder neighboring countries such as the dynasty Donghan. This is the reason why banditry has always been rampant in the dynastic frontier.

The trick of Northern Turkistan leads to the east, and the lack of virtue is smoking.

……

On the other hand, on the side of the dynasty, whether it is the mountain bandits in the central or even the southwest, or the water bandits in the southeast, there is no way to use the power of the people to force them into a corner, like the Northern Turkistan.

Mountain bandits live on the mountain, most of them are easy to defend and difficult to attack, and they make a living by robbing roads on weekdays, and some of them are powerful, and they go to the city below the mountain to loot every once in a while.

When you meet money and food, you rob money, you meet women, you rob women. The local peace was disturbed, and the people complained.

The imperial court sends troops to clear the money every year, but it has little effect, and even most of the time, it will end up with a loss of soldiers.

Over time, the imperial court could only come up with an unconventional solution, that is, the local government issued a reward to let those short-handed rangers go to fight the bandits.

At first, this practice was indeed effective, and many medium-sized and even small-sized cottages were disturbed by these groups of people in the rivers and lakes, and some were even directly uprooted.

But those large-scale cottages, a few rangers alone are completely unshakable, and the people in the rivers and lakes have always been alone, their hearts are higher than the sky, and they are unwilling to ask for help, even if someone tries it, most of them will die on the spot.

In some places where the hills are forested, there are even cottages that have just been slaughtered on the front foot, and someone on the back foot has occupied the territory and set up a cottage, or it will be swallowed up by other large enterprises to expand the momentum.

As a result, the government that originally funded the reward also became a wedding dress for others, and it went back and forth, but it lost money in vain.

Some people with bad intentions even took the opportunity to join some cottages, charging a lot of protection fees to act as thugs for bandits.

In the end, this plan became a virtual reality, and most local governments no longer implemented it.

……

The carriage had been driving for another half a day, and seeing that the sun was in the middle of it, Park Wen reined in the carriage and planned to continue after lunch.

When a few people were eating, they saw a figure at the end of the official road walking towards this side, and the figure swayed as he walked, as if he was drunk.

After they could fully see each other's appearance, several people realized that the person who came was a young man of fifteen or sixteen, and the reason why he looked swaying was because he was not good at walking, jumping while walking, and from time to time he would go to the side of the road to break a branch or pick a fruit.

Contrary to the harmless appearance of humans and animals, there is a scimitar hanging from its waist.

The scabbard was bright red and shiny, and it looked new, like freshly painted lacquer.

The few people didn't plan to deal with this strange boy, but they didn't think that he would come up on his own.

"A few people, let me ask, is there a girl mountain near here?"

Wang Quanquan glanced at the young man and said, "We are not locals, so we don't know very well. ”

The boy let out an "oh", didn't ask anything more, and turned to leave.

Looking at the back of the other party leaving, Park asked and whispered:

"What a strange guy."

"How?" Wang Quanquan asked curiously.

"Look at the pace, I've practiced some kung fu, looking at his young age, it's undoubtedly a child's skill, but if he's so gullible about others, he should be a young man who has just walked the rivers and lakes."

"Can you still tell if it's a chick?"

"Of course."

Park Wen said proudly, not noticing that there was something in the king's words.

After hearing these meaty and fishy words, the three women on the side had different expressions.

……

About ten miles to the southwest, there is a steep mountain called Girl's Mountain.

The west side of Niangniang Mountain is a cliff, and the east side is a steep slope, so it stands to reason that nothing can reach the top of the mountain except for apes and birds.

But there is a magnificent building on the top of this mountain, which occupies the only flat place of the entire mountain.

This building is a famous local cottage, called Wangshi Village, there are fifty or sixty people in the village, all of whom are bandits who make a living by robbing houses and houses.

The owner of the village is surnamed Bai, it is said that he used to be a general, and he has studied for a few years, as for why he let the general not be a bandit, but no one knows, even his precious daughter doesn't know.

The daughter of the owner of the white village is named Bai Yuniang, who is twenty years old, and is slim and generous.

If anyone in the entire girl mountain is better at talking than the owner of the white village, it must be this white girl.

As one of the few girls in Girl's Mountain, Bai Yuniang has always been the object of young people in the village, but Bai Yuniang, who has lived in the bandit pile since she was a child, looks down on them at all.

Compared with the bandits who are five big and three rough, who only know how to rob houses and houses, and don't understand the wind and snow, she likes those young scholars who can chant poems to the moon.

People in the stockade often laughed at the lack of strength of the scholars, and even made up a bastard joke that a scholar went to a brothel in the city and didn't even survive a round.

As a result, Bai Yuniang ridiculed, in her opinion, these bandits who chewed the root of their tongues were not even as good as the girls.

Although she is a woman, she grew up in a bandit's den, and under the influence of her ears and eyes, she has not developed a pampered and domineering atmosphere, which is a blessing, but if you want her to be like other women from good families, gentle and virtuous, it is tantamount to a fool's dream.

Thanks to the gentleman who taught her to read, Bai Yuniang has always had a good impression of readers, and whenever she encounters bandits who make fun of readers after dinner, she will not hesitate to stab them with words.

In terms of the ability to scold people, these bandits who can't make up a basket of words are naturally not as good as this girl who has been familiar with poetry and books since she was a child.

She casually said a few curses without swearing, compared with those living bandits who did not leave nine and a half out of ten sentences, one in the sky and the other in the dung pit.

For example, now, this group of guys probably didn't like the handsome boy who came last night, and made fun of others early in the morning.

A thin black man was the first to mention the conversation: "Did you see that kid in the mountains last night?" ”

A sturdy man next to him answered:

"See, I have a girl's face, neither male nor female."

The little black thin man smiled when he heard this, and said:

"Looking at him like that, it is estimated that he will be tossed by the sao woman in the kiln under the mountain once, and he will be so tired that he can't straighten his waist."

Another man with a tattoo on his face happened to pass by, heard their conversation, stopped, and interjected:

"Hehe, don't say that you were tossed by the sao mother, even if you were tossed by Lao Tzu, you have to cry and call your mother."

After saying that, he lifted his pants and made an extremely lewd motion.

The other two laughed when they heard this, and now this is a well-known man and woman in the village.

Every time the silver is distributed, he must go to the kiln at the foot of the mountain as soon as possible, call a man and a woman, and sleep together.

If it weren't for the boy and girl who looked like a boy and a girl last night, he would have been a guest of the owner of the village, I'm afraid he would have been tasted by this guy a long time ago.

When the three of them were chatting happily, Bai Yuniang passed by with a cold face and carried a food box, muttering:

"A group of wastes will be able to talk about it, and when they see the officers and soldiers running faster than anyone else, they can't wait to run on all three legs together."

Her voice was not loud or small, but it was enough for the three of them to hear.

The three bandits, who had been chatting with each other, instantly became extremely embarrassed after hearing this.

The Miss Bai in front of her looks harmless to humans and animals, and even gives people a gentle feeling, but every time she says something, she can kill someone.

This guy has a nickname, called running fast, not because they are good at light work, but because they run very fast.

Once the three of them went to the kiln to "vent the fire", because of the lack of money, the three of them called the two girls, which was shameful enough.

As a result, halfway through the matter, they suddenly heard an official inspection, and the three of them were so frightened that they couldn't put on their clothes, so they jumped out of the window and ran away.

The action was so fast that the two kiln sisters who were not covered were stunned.

The other two were okay, they had some skills, they jumped from the second floor, and the landing was stable, but the black and thin man didn't have this ability, and broke a leg on the spot.

Thanks to the other brothers, they were righteous enough to leave him alone, and set up and continued to run.

In this way, the three of them ran out of the city all the time, and then they dared to stop.

As a result, when I looked back, no one came to chase after me.

Later, I learned that the co-author's official mission was just to collect filial piety money, and it was just a pretext to say that he wanted to check.

Let's not talk about whether this pretense is useful or not, but it shook this brother for a while.

Later, the two kiln sisters spread the news, and the other bandits who often visited also knew about it, and then spread throughout the cottage, and this brother also got a reputation for "running fast".

came out to mix, one was afraid of being said that he was not righteous, and the other was afraid of being said to be afraid of death.

"The head fell off the bowl and the big scar, and after eighteen years, he will be a good man again", any hero will say a few words about this kind of arrogance, but there are a few who can do it.

Even if you can't do it, you have to pretend to be hard, otherwise you will be looked down upon.

This brother can be said to have thrown people to his grandmother's house this time, and he was ridiculed as much as he could on weekdays, and finally said a few bad words about the reader, and he was actually scolded by Bai Yuniang, who was better than the owner of the white village, and was really depressed to the extreme.

Regardless of the constipated expressions of several people, Bai Yuniang walked directly past them as if she was talking to herself, without stopping.

……

Near the side of the cliff, there is an elevator hanging to the foot of the mountain, driven by five or six big men.

The elevator can accommodate 20 people or five or six horses at a time, and people in the village rely on this ladder to go up and down the mountain on weekdays.

It was still so difficult for their own people to go up the mountain, and those officers and soldiers who encircled and suppressed them or the rangers of the rivers and lakes were even more unable to start, plus they never did great evil, so no one was willing to bother to clear them for a long time.

However, there were also one or two rangers who were not afraid of death before, relying on some skills, climbing the cliff, but unfortunately as soon as they arrived at the top of the cliff, they were kicked down by the mountain bandits who had been prepared for a long time, and they fell to pieces, which was extremely aggrieved.

In the eastern part of the girl's mountain, the slope is steep and rapid, and there are many snakes, insects, tigers and leopards among them, because there are very few hunters who come here to hunt, so that more and more people do not enter here.

Although the east is a natural barrier, it is too dangerous for even the people in the cottage to dare to set foot easily, and even in order to prevent tigers and leopards from entering the village and hurting people, they have specially erected a city wall with high wooden stakes in the east.

To the west, directly opposite the elevator, is the entrance to the cottage.

Just enter the door, a large apricot yellow flag stands in front, and it is written with vermilion lacquer "Wangshi Village".

The reason why it is called Wangshi Village is that it has some relationship with this girl mountain.

This mountain is rumored to have been incarnated by a girl who returned from her husband, but most of these rumors are not credible, how can there be such a big girl in the world.

However, since there is a legend of "Wangfu into a stone", this village is naturally named Wangshi Village.

As for why it is not called "Wangfu Village", in the original words of the owner of the village, Bai Zijing:

"If it's really called this name, outsiders still think that the owner of the village is a big girl."

The destination of Bai Yuniang's trip was a house not far from the west gate.

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