As soon as I got on the official road, I immediately had a feeling of enlightenment.

Then she found that they had come around a dilapidated stone bridge.

Because the river crossed the road, there was a bridge there, but it looked like a lot of years, and the stone bricks in many places fell off, and it looked like a dangerous bridge in later generations.

And they crossed the small path, and just went around the bridge, which was a few dozen meters from the stone bridge.

Qian Yan looked left and right, and she didn't know if it was because of noon, but after going to the official road, it was empty, and she didn't see anyone.

Qian Yan was a little puzzled and said to Chouchou: "Chou, what's going on?" It's not an official road at all, it's another way, right? Are we going wrong, didn't the magpie say that there are many people on the official road? It's no one. ”

Chou Chou lazily turned over in his satchel to make himself comfortable, and then replied: "I didn't do anything wrong, this is the official road, and there are people, there is a group of people not far ahead, and there are a few big trees over there, and those people eat dry food there, and take advantage of the cool by the way."

Further on, there was a group of people, like this group, who also found a place with trees to eat, and a few who spread a mat on the ground to take a nap. ”

Qian Yan raised her eyebrows, thinking that those people should not be in a hurry, and wanted to wait for the sun to be so big before leaving, a little envious.

In fact, she has already arrived here, and she is not afraid of whether the Chen family will chase after her, they can also find a place to rest and rest, and wait for it to cool down before leaving.

It's just that she didn't have much time in ancient times, so she arrived in the capital earlier, so she could help Xue Minghua and them settle down earlier, and it was too late to save time.

So they walked in the direction that Ugly Ugly said, and even if Ugly didn't show the way after they got on the official road, in fact, they wouldn't go wrong, as long as they didn't go to the fork in the road, they basically wouldn't go wrong.

After walking a few hundred meters of the road without trees to block it, I saw the person who was sitting under the tree and eating dry food.

It should be a large family, there are men and women, old and young, roughly about two dozen people, the family should be in good condition, there are two ox carts, and a mule cart.

Don't ask Qianyan how she can see that it is a mule, there are horses and donkeys in the Xiangxiang space, she has seen it since she was a child, and the mules look different from donkeys and horses, but they are similar, and you can see at a glance that they are a combination of two species.

She had heard her grandparents say that a mule is stronger than a donkey. Cheaper than horses, it is easy to feed, it is very popular in the countryside, the only drawback is that it cannot reproduce.

She remembered that when she went back to her hometown before, she heard an old lady scolding people for being two chairs, she went back and asked her grandmother, and her grandmother said that it meant mules, which can also be interpreted as neither male nor female, that is, people who will not have offspring.

She hadn't seen a mule before, but this was the first time she had seen it, and she looked at it as she approached the car.

Well, it does look very powerful, bigger than a donkey, and slightly longer than a horse's ears.

The family was eating together, and they all looked over when they saw a car passing by, and when they saw that it was a young woman rushing to the car, they all looked surprised.

Immediately attracted by the shed on the donkey cart, they stopped eating and looked at the cart.

was noticed by others, and Qian Yan didn't feel embarrassed, she was used to this kind of attention, and she could experience it every time she went back to her hometown or went to Hong Kong City, and she was used to it.

Anyway, he didn't plan to stop and communicate with the other party, so he drove the donkey cart past them in a generous manner.

After walking some distance, I heard the sound of discussion coming from behind.

A young man whispered: "Big brother, look at the donkey cart, the shed behind it is very good, it looks simple, but it can block the sun, sit there, even if you are in a hurry now, you can't get sun." ”

Another young man replied: "It's very practical to look at, our three cars are not covered, people sit in the sun to death, and you have to pay attention to things not to fall, worrying about children, it's really not safe." ”

"Well, let's take a mat and make a shed for it, and block the top."

"Yes, yes, let's get a shed too, otherwise we won't get heat stroke if we don't wait for Bianzhou." A middle-aged woman echoed positively.

"Then there is also a piece in front, our ox cart is not as good as other people's donkey carts, slow to death, I sit in front of the car and drive hot to death, if I can also get a kind of shed, I will also be cooler." The young man from before said.

A more mature voice said: "You can do it, it's so easy, we have a mat, but do you know how the skeleton in the house is made?"

The shed sticking out in front of the shed is easy to say, at first glance it is made of grass and wicker, but the curved shape on the shed is so rounded, it is certainly not made of ordinary wooden shelves. ”

Another young man said, "Not ordinary wood? Is it specifically looking for a bend? You don't use iron to make it, do you? I want to know that it is impossible. ”

"Could it be that the mat was bent and tied up like that? Maybe the mat itself is hard, and I will prop myself up. ”

The woman said.

"How is it possible, it's not a bamboo mat, and the reed mat can't hold up." The middle-aged man said.

"Don't we have a bamboo mat, just try it." The woman retorted.

However, the young man was brought to have a thought, and said excitedly: "Daddy, do you think it will be supported by bamboo?" ”

"It's really possible, don't we have a bamboo chair at home, and the armrests of the bamboo chair are bent.

It's just that we're not at home, and we don't know where to find bamboo here, and even if we do, we don't know how to bend it, and people have a knack for it, and this kind of thing won't be passed on......"

Qian Yan pricked up her ears to listen to their conversation as she walked forward, and was a little surprised when she heard this, she really couldn't underestimate anyone, look at people, just look at it, and you can think of what material it is made of.

When I first came here before, I thought that I was from the next generation, and I had studied for nine years, so I should be much more powerful than these ignorant ancients, and later she also had some superiority when she met the people of Yangjiaping.

After in-depth contact, gradually she didn't think so, although people don't know a single big word, but you see that whether it's striking iron or refining salt, as soon as she says it, people will get it out.

It's much stronger than myself, who can only have theoretical knowledge, especially the hands-on ability, which is really amazing.

The ancients were just not popularized in education, and communication was inconvenient, resulting in too little knowledge, as long as they saw it once, just like her shed, as long as they arrived, they could guess the principles and materials in it.

Thinking about future generations, many things have not been passed down from ancient times, so we really can't underestimate the ancients, how many people in later generations are picking up people's teeth.

Qian Yan corrected her mentality again, feeling that she still had a lot to learn, and when she went back, she must study history well.

Turning back to Xue Minghua's mother and son, he said, "Are you hungry now?" If you're hungry, let's find a place to rest in front of us, eat something and then go. ”

She didn't know what the maid ate at noon, but she also knew that they usually had two meals a day, and it was a hot breakfast before, so it wouldn't be too full, but now she should be hungry.

Hearing this, both children looked at their mothers.

Xue Minghua shook his head and said: "It's still early, let's go a little further, I ate an apple before, and my stomach is not very hungry, let's stop and eat when we get to Shen." ”

Qian Yan converted, now this time should be the end of the hour, Shen time is two hours later, that is, four or five o'clock, the sun is still quite big at four or five o'clock in summer, of course.

nodded, and said to them: "There are egg cakes in that basket, if you are hungry, you can eat them directly in your hands, you don't have to wait until you get to the place to eat them." ”

She ate in the morning and at noon, so she was really not hungry, and she was afraid that her mother would be embarrassed, so she still asked her.

Xue Minghua said with a smile: "It's still not good, it's not comfortable to eat like this, it's better to wait for the time, let's find a place to eat steadily." ”

When she heard this, she didn't say anything more.

I talked to them about other things, because I just met, but I didn't talk much, mainly about some things she encountered on the road before, and talked about some things in detail.

After that, Xue Minghua introduced her to the capital, and by the way, let the two children listen to it.

Of course, it was the situation more than ten years ago, in fact, so many years have passed, there will definitely be changes, but the big places should not change too much.

The three of them listened carefully, talking about the prosperity of the city back then, and which city gate they wanted to enter and exit from, where they couldn't shake around, and there was no curfew in the capital before.

It's just that at night, no one hangs outside, after all, everything is closed, and there are no street lamps for later generations, and it is dark outside, and there is no urgency, and no one will wander outside.

It is worth mentioning that the capital they have been talking about is not the imperial city of Luocheng in the Later Tang Dynasty, but Weizhou, the Xingtang Mansion in Tokyo, that is, the Daimyo Mansion of the Later Tang Dynasty, is the place where the emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty called the emperor, so the people here are called the capital, and the place where the emperor is called the imperial city.

The city there is not big, but because of its special significance, coupled with special geographical advantages, it is more prosperous and more valued.

This Qian Yan also knew about it, she was a little vague about the timeline of this era, and many of them didn't match.

From Handcheng to Xingtang Mansion, according to the calculation of later generations, that is, the distance of eighty or ninety kilometers, nearly two hundred miles, at their speed, if they do not rest in the afternoon, they should be able to arrive.

According to the distance that Chou Chou said, Qian Yan calculated the time more accurately, so she felt that Xue Minghua just said that finding a place to rest and eat at four or five o'clock was a good proposal.

They can still travel a little more now, and they are not very far from their destination when they are shining, and they can rest and rest steadily.

Of course, they can't delay too much time, after all, they still have to settle down after they arrive in the capital tonight, and they have to plan well, what if they can't enter the Xue Mansion.

Always set aside time to find an inn to rest.

And she had to go to the money bank and exchange the gold for silver tickets.

Fortunately, there is still a day tomorrow to help settle in, otherwise it would really be too late.

After walking about 200 meters, I met a second wave of people, and this wave of people did not look like a family like before.

These people look a bit like the people in Yangjiaping, acquaintances from a village gathered together to hurry.

The gang had no livestock, only three wheelbarrows, and the rest were carrying baskets with baggage or flat burdens.

The wheelbarrows and the baskets were now poking aside, some were eating, some were tidying up, and a few were resting on straw mats laid on the ground.

The clothes worn by these people are ragged, and they have a fight with the ones that everyone in Yang Jiaping wore before, saying that patches and patches are all good-sounding, and some children are simply hanging two rags on their bodies, covering them front and back.

The smaller ones are simply naked, not even a pair of straw sandals, and run directly on the ground barefoot.

Qian Yan rejoiced again, fortunately, although these can be regarded as fleeing refugees, not fleeing famine, if they really meet that kind of fleeing homeless people, it is estimated that their donkey cart and four women and children who seem to be helpless are likely to become the target of the other party.

Those people, like the previous big family, looked at their donkey carts, and their eyes should have seen the accident of a little girl chasing the car in front, but there was no malice, they were all ordinary villagers.

Tilting smiled and nodded at the women and children who had been staring at her, and reached out to pat the donkey's buttocks, motioning for it to speed up a bit, and soon passed the men.

The little donkey seemed to understand what she meant, and the four little short legs began to speed up and upside down, causing Tianyan to fall back.

Although the road was much smoother, given the wooden wheels of the donkey cart, the bumps were still bumpy, at least not like before, and the bumpy internal organs were still within an acceptable range.

In the past, Qian Yan still listened to the conversations of those people, not that she liked to listen to the corners, but mainly wanted to understand the situation of this era through these passers-by.

Who let her know too little.

As a result, I listened for a while, until I couldn't hear any sound, and I didn't hear any useful information, all of them were discussing her as a young woman walking outside in a car, and then discussing their carport, and there was a thick envy in his tone, and nothing else.